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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:40 I'm Chris Shelton, your host. 00:42 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:44 Today we will be looking at a sad scenario 00:46 playing out before our eyes in this country 00:49 and that being lawlessness. 00:51 You've probably often heard the phrase, 00:54 we have nothing to fear the future 00:56 unless we forget how God has led us in the past. 00:59 And I'm afraid that as a country 01:01 and as a people, 01:02 we have sadly forgot 01:04 where God's leading in the past, 01:07 and our future certainly looks fearful 01:09 for many as a result. 01:11 Since the first war broke out in heaven, 01:13 there has been a division over God's law. 01:16 Lucifer came to the point in the gates of glory 01:19 that he promoted 01:21 that God's law was no longer necessary 01:23 for the angels of heaven to be good. 01:25 And several thousand years later, 01:27 that same old lie is being propagated 01:30 throughout Christendom and the world. 01:33 Many Christians proclaim 01:34 that God's law was nailed to the cross 01:37 and is no longer binding. 01:39 We are certainly hearing thousands around the world 01:42 shouting defund the police. 01:45 We no longer need police officers 01:47 for law and order. 01:48 We can all be civil on our own accord. 01:51 Well, as far as stability, I wish that were true. 01:55 Our all knowing heavenly Father knows 01:58 that as free moral agents, 02:00 we are growing and learning moment by moment, 02:03 day by day, 02:04 and that we must have a standard of righteousness, 02:07 a moral absolute in order to learn 02:10 and pattern our lives after righteousness. 02:13 Without such a pattern, 02:15 as we're seeing in the world today 02:16 anarchy occurs on every level. 02:20 We are now seeing spiritually 02:21 as never before in our lifetime, 02:24 a great divide between lawlessness 02:26 and right doing, 02:27 a great divide between those who are righteous 02:30 and those who are wicked. 02:31 And we are certainly witnessing God 02:34 as He is giving us exactly 02:36 what we as a whole nation are asking for. 02:41 As we continue to choose lawlessness and sin, 02:44 we are pushing God further and further away, 02:48 and thus His protection is also being pushed 02:52 further and further away, 02:54 making ample room for the enemy to come in 02:56 and to sow those seeds of riotousness, 03:00 destruction, anarchy, and natural disasters. 03:03 Let's go. 03:05 Let's just go now to our study with Pastor Kenny Shelton today 03:08 and discover what the Holy Spirit has laid 03:10 upon his heart to share with us. 03:13 The sermon title again is "Lawlessness." 03:16 But before we do that, 03:18 let's visit 3ABN 03:19 and listen to Brother Tim Parton 03:21 as he plays "Lord, I lift up Your Name on High" 03:25 on the piano. 06:08 Thank you for joining us once again here 06:09 at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 06:11 Again, we say howdy doody, 06:12 we're glad that you are with us. 06:14 And we wouldn't have ministry, 06:15 work wouldn't go forward without people just like you. 06:17 So we're very grateful and thankful, 06:19 prayer, support what you do, your call in prayer requests, 06:22 keep those things coming. 06:23 And we're going to keep you in mind 06:25 as we want you to keep us in mind in prayer every day. 06:27 We live in it. 06:28 I'm talking about exciting time of the earth's history. 06:31 And we should be glad that we are alive, 06:33 you know, in this time, 06:34 because we can go into all the world 06:36 and get that message out. 06:37 We have that privilege of, 06:38 you know, certainly doing these programs 06:40 and airing them on 3ABN 06:41 and going to all the world and so, 06:43 we thank God for that. 06:44 We're going to be talking about lawlessness today. 06:46 You know, it's just one word but my... 06:48 What's taking place in the world today? 06:50 We're seeing these things develop 06:52 that prophecy has revealed to us, 06:54 and we want to bring those out to you. 06:55 Again, we're going to be talking 06:57 about some of the French Revolution, 06:58 we get to the end of the message 07:00 a little bit more. 07:01 Ten points I want to try to make 07:02 by the grace of God, 07:04 that we're going to see that we are doing 07:05 some of the same things that was done back then 07:06 and God have mercy on our souls. 07:09 So this is an important subject. 07:10 So I want you to pray with me. 07:11 We always have to pray again 07:13 that the Holy Spirit will take control, 07:14 charge of our hearts and our minds. 07:15 So I'm going to kneel right here 07:17 and pray once again. 07:18 Please pray with me. 07:20 My gracious Heavenly Father, 07:21 we thank You for the privilege of prayer, 07:23 we thank You we can call You a Father, 07:24 now we invite Thy Holy Spirit. 07:26 Lord, please come into our hearts, 07:27 into our minds, take away all the anxiety, 07:29 all the fears, 07:30 all the things that are happening 07:32 in the world today. 07:33 And today we're going to behold the Lamb 07:34 that was slain 07:36 from the foundation of the world. 07:37 We're going to behold our God who sits upon the throne 07:39 that rules this universe that You are in charge. 07:41 And so, Lord, today, please be in charge. 07:43 Come here, honor us as our guest. 07:45 Thank You for loving us. 07:46 Thank You for the promise, "I will come again." 07:48 Thank you for what we will study today. 07:49 In Jesus' name, make it light, 07:51 make it where we can understand it, 07:53 and put it in our ears, 07:54 our hearts and our minds that will prepare us 07:56 for Your soon coming, 07:57 in Jesus' name, amen. 08:01 Our memory text that we had that we read here today 08:03 in lawlessness, 1 Timothy 1:9-10. 08:06 These are powerful words, 08:08 and I'm going to read them once again, 08:09 because we're going to dwell on them 08:11 just a little bit 08:12 before we get into some other things. 08:13 But I believe this is telling us 08:15 where we're at in the history of the world. 08:16 And I like the way it starts out. 08:17 That's 1 Timothy Chapter 1, 08:19 we're going to read verses 9 and 10. 08:21 1 Timothy 1:9-10. 08:24 I like to say this, this is what the Bible says. 08:27 This is not what the church says. 08:28 This is not what some preacher says. 08:30 This is what the Word of God says. 08:32 We need to pay special attention 08:33 to what the Bible says, 08:35 "Knowing this," that means we need to know it. 08:36 Isn't that right? 08:38 "That the law is not made for the righteous," 08:40 notice that, "but for the lawless 08:43 and disobedient, 08:45 for the ungodly, for the sinners, 08:48 for unholy and profane, 08:50 for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, 08:53 for manslayers." 08:54 Verse 10, "For whoremongers, 08:57 for them that defile themselves with mankind, 08:59 for menstealers," these are big words, notice, 09:01 "for liars, for perjured persons, 09:04 and if there be any other thing 09:06 that is contrary to sound doctrine." 09:09 These verses are loaded. 09:11 I mean, they are powerful and they point to us today. 09:17 I want to talk about something we say lawlessness. 09:18 I just want to bring this to your attention. 09:20 I find something very interesting in Scripture 09:22 when you read in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 09:25 we read it all the time, 09:26 but I believe we need to reread these verses. 09:29 But I'll just try to bring out 09:30 a couple of highlights right here 09:32 because it talks about the man of what? 09:34 Man of sin. 09:36 When you read that, 09:37 you can honestly but think about it 09:38 all the, this is, 09:40 the evil man is behind all of these things 09:42 that are taking place in the world today. 09:44 Think about that. 09:45 Going on, the man of sin, 09:47 you can actually read that in Scripture, 09:49 literally says, the man of lawlessness. 09:52 Did you get it? 09:53 The man of lawlessness, 09:56 and then it goes on and it says, 09:57 and that wicked man. 09:59 Notice, it's referring to an individual here, 10:01 that wicked man, 10:03 wicked here simply means once again literally, 10:05 the lawless one. 10:07 So we're dealing in society today 10:09 against those who want to honor the law, 10:12 the laws of the land and the laws of God. 10:14 And you're dealing, 10:15 we're dealing with those who want no law. 10:17 They don't want any rules, no regulation, 10:19 they want to do what they want to do, 10:20 when they want to do it. 10:22 Is that really acceptable in the sight of God? 10:24 And is it causing problems? 10:27 I just want to mention it. 10:28 We've had, really in the last week 10:29 or so we've had two major defeats for us 10:33 as God's last day people. 10:34 I'm going to read one of them to you. 10:36 This comes from the NewYorkTimes.com, 10:38 June the 15th. 10:39 That's just you think about, few days ago, 2020. 10:41 Notice this, civil rights, notice this, 10:44 now civil rights law protects gay 10:46 and transgender workers, 10:48 Supreme Court rules. 10:49 So this case as went as high 10:52 as it can go to the Supreme Court, 10:54 the Supreme Court holds it. 10:55 Now we don't want anyone right here to be, 10:57 you know, well, you know, be discriminated against, 11:00 but at the same token is, 11:02 notice that Supreme Court is making 11:03 a ruling here on this, 11:05 that they're going to protect those in the workplace. 11:08 Now, this simply means whether you didn't know 11:11 when you hired them. 11:13 But later on it came out 11:15 that they maybe were a transgender, 11:17 maybe didn't fit 11:18 into maybe what you were doing in your business, 11:20 but you are not allowed to fire them. 11:24 You have to keep them there in the workplace. 11:28 This is quite a victory for the LGBT community. 11:31 We know that the movement. 11:33 The Supreme Court, and they voted six to three. 11:36 So it's pretty major, you know, ruling, 11:39 six to three vote. 11:41 The case covered 168 pages. 11:44 So was one that's ongoing fight, 11:46 but we have to remember what God says 11:48 about certain things in Scripture? 11:51 Not how will you might feel about it 11:52 or I might feel about it. 11:54 But there are certain things that God says is okay 11:56 and the certain things He says are not okay. 11:58 And we have to use the Word of God, if we do not, 12:00 we become confused in this nation 12:02 because we're not using God as the rule. 12:05 We're deciding us, well, this is a human being, 12:07 this is all right here. 12:09 Well, this must be all right. 12:10 Well, God understands. 12:11 He certainly understands all but He says, 12:13 "This is good, and this is bad." 12:15 And so we have to get that from the Word of God. 12:18 But in this case, it's very interesting. 12:20 I know I spend a little time on it. 12:21 But in this case of 168 pages, 12:23 there were other issues that had to be dealt with. 12:25 Now think about it when you're dealing with, 12:27 now notice this, 12:28 there's a couple of things here, 12:29 when you're dealing with this kind of issue here 12:31 with gay and transgender. 12:32 The first things they want to discuss 12:34 with the transgenders 12:36 is they had to discuss bathroom privileges. 12:42 I don't know if I should go on or not. 12:46 Well, think about it. 12:48 Now see, some of them, 12:49 now don't think in the humanist 12:51 is that, yes, 12:52 God loves everybody, blah, blah. 12:53 But listen, there are certain things 12:55 that God says this is not good. 12:57 And it's causing issues in the world. 12:59 Don't look at old world, well, we understand that. 13:02 But I would just encourage him 13:04 when I think about why bathroom issues, 13:05 you know why? 13:07 Because I just simply say, 13:08 if you're looking for a restroom, 13:10 go to the one that says man 13:11 and then go to the one that says women. 13:13 If you were born a man, then go to the men's bathroom. 13:15 If you were born a woman and go to the... 13:18 Okay, that be the only one, but I'm just... 13:21 We shouldn't have to try to figure out 13:27 or did maybe God make mistakes. 13:30 They want to talk about locker rooms 13:31 and the talk about sports and same sex marriage 13:35 and bottom line 13:37 as I mentioned while ago the employer. 13:39 You can't fire a person 13:40 for being a certain way or turn, 13:42 whether they help your business 13:44 and you hired him for something else 13:45 and maybe they don't fit, you can't, 13:47 because they say, "If you do, you defy the law." 13:51 And I've been hearing an awful lot about, 13:52 no one's above the law. 13:54 How many's heard about that? Right? 13:55 No one's above the law. 13:56 No one's above the law and it seemed like 13:58 there's quite a few evidently that are. 13:59 They're doing what they want to do, 14:01 how they want to do it, 14:02 and you don't see any law being enforced. 14:04 Hmm. 14:06 One man said, "Oh man, 14:07 this is a new error in transgender rights." 14:11 It has arrived. 14:13 Also, we need to be aware of another. 14:16 I call it the leap of the Supreme Court 14:18 just a few days ago in May of 2020 says this, 14:20 it's five-four ruling. 14:22 This chipped away at our freedom of religion. 14:26 We should be aware of these things. 14:28 They're saying 14:29 that the government may restrict 14:31 religious practice. 14:33 They may what? 14:34 Restrict religious practices. 14:36 This was a ruling 14:37 they were having a court case in California, 14:38 where they were bickering 14:40 over how many can attend church services. 14:43 And so that was in, they were saying about there, 14:46 25% of that congregation percent 14:49 could be there at one time 14:50 and the maximum no matter how many hundreds, 14:53 you know, a maximum of 100 in the church. 14:55 Interesting how the government stepping in 14:56 and saying, notice it, 14:58 this will come back to haunt God's people. 15:00 Don't just write it off 15:01 like, well, it doesn't really matter. 15:03 The government says here, 15:04 they can restrict religious practices, 15:08 your religious freedom. 15:10 And so did they prove the point in Chicago, 15:12 they had another little case there 15:14 and attendance, 15:15 they said, "Look in Chicago and Illinois, 15:17 you can only have 10." 15:18 Still yet, this was just a few days ago, 15:20 you still just have 10. 15:23 And they said, "We're doing this 15:24 because we want to make sure 15:26 that we're not spreading the COVID-19." 15:29 It's very interesting. 15:30 But notice this, retail, 15:33 we're talking about business and religious houses of worship 15:37 have what they call a percent cap, 15:40 a percent cap. 15:42 You can only have right so many in there 15:44 according to your membership, 15:46 but on the same token, 15:47 you have all these offices, and manufacturing, 15:50 and food packaging, and even museums, 15:53 and every other sector has no percentage cap. 15:58 Isn't that? 16:00 I mean, don't you count that strange, 16:01 everything else is not. 16:02 But when it comes to religion, there's a cap on it. 16:04 But all this other stuff, there is no cap. 16:07 Has the enemy got some kind of, again, diabolical scheme. 16:09 There's more behind the scenes 16:11 than what sometimes we want to really look at. 16:14 Let's go back and examine 16:15 and we'll do it here in just a second. 16:16 So keep your finger there in your Bible 16:18 in 1 Timothy Chapter 1:8-9 or 9-10, 16:21 and we'll read those in just a moment. 16:24 Well, in, keep this in mind of what's going on in the world 16:27 of the rebellion that's going on in the streets, 16:31 the looting and the burning, 16:33 and the violence and the killing. 16:36 I believe that it started here. 16:37 Now listen, it's been going on for a long time, 16:39 but the start is right here. 16:41 Great Controversy, page 584. 16:44 Great Controversy, page 584 makes this comment. 16:47 See if you can relate to this in Scripture 16:50 and principles of Scripture. 16:52 "Wherever the divine precepts are rejected..." 16:56 Where? 16:57 Wherever what? 16:58 The divine precept or what it be? 17:00 The Ten Commandment law anytime that that's, 17:02 you know, well, we don't, we're no longer in bondage. 17:04 We're no longer under that anymore. 17:06 Really? 17:07 My Lord, have mercy on us, notice that, 17:09 "Are rejected sin ceases to appear sinful." 17:15 Does that make sense? 17:16 I think it does, essentially, or righteousness, 17:20 even desirable. 17:22 See, the bad things are made to look like 17:23 oh, this is what we want to do, 17:25 get the attention of the young people, 17:26 the lights going off flickering. 17:28 Oh, this is what we want to do. 17:29 But now we no longer is righteousness desirable 17:34 when the law of God is said to be done away with. 17:38 We find that spirit of insubordination 17:41 is implanted. 17:43 I think in the heart we find it of our youth 17:45 sometime of our children, 17:46 because, you know, I was naturally impatient. 17:50 I wanted everything and I want it right then. 17:52 How about you right now? 17:54 If I didn't get my way right there, 17:56 man, oh, oh, we're not getting up usually, 17:57 not getting my way, 17:58 I'm getting the weapon. 18:01 Now some of the things that we thrown out anymore, 18:02 shame on us. 18:04 God said in His Word what we should be doing, 18:06 how we should be able to handle it. 18:07 We got a psychology, 18:09 different people come by to say and say, 18:10 well, it's like this now, 18:12 God's Word still doesn't change. 18:15 So go, youth kind of naturally, 18:17 you know, that's impatient, so on so forth. 18:18 But we talked about here, the state of society, 18:21 it's a state of lawlessness, 18:23 and our youth to licentious 18:25 which simply means today, 18:27 that our society today wants to disregard the laws, 18:30 any kind of law that's out there. 18:32 They don't want any rules. 18:34 They don't want any standards. 18:37 Interesting thought, keep that in mind. 18:40 We can see at least two, 18:42 I can see 18:43 that the responsibility of the parents 18:45 is paramount 18:46 of how you raise your children in the home, 18:48 raise them to be obedient, or learn to obey, 18:51 to learn to respect and to love your fellow man 18:54 and love God supremely. 18:56 The rules at home are so very important 18:58 and you can see that 18:59 when they're not taught in the home 19:00 to be obedient to the parents or obedient in school, 19:02 they become disobedient when they grow up in society. 19:05 If you could really get into the group 19:07 that's doing all the damage 19:08 that they're doing all over the United States 19:10 and the world today, you might find that to be true. 19:15 We have a sick society as far as I'm concerned. 19:18 1 Timothy 1:8-10. 19:20 Paul has, notice this, 19:22 Paul is including moral precepts here. 19:24 Notice. 19:27 He summarizes a few principles of the Decalogue 19:30 as we read what we read while ago in... 19:33 You can read more on this in Exodus 20:1-17. 19:37 Just write that down and we can't read all those 19:39 because of our time, we can't do it. 19:41 So it goes over a few principles. 19:43 He says, number one, that the law is good. 19:46 It's lawful for the purpose for which it's designed. 19:51 That makes sense, doesn't it? 19:52 Absolutely it is. Verse 9. 19:54 Notice, The law," 19:55 it says, "is not made for a..." 19:57 It's my shocking. 19:58 "Law is not made for a righteous man." 20:03 It's not. 20:04 Law is made, for the Bible is clear on it. 20:06 What is the law made for? 20:09 The ungodly, the Bible said and sinners. 20:12 Law is made for what? 20:13 The ungodly 20:15 because they're going to act ungodly, 20:17 and they're going to do those things 20:19 that they shouldn't be doing. 20:21 Ah, now stop for just a second and think. 20:23 Let's stop here. 20:25 Paul is not teaching in these verses at all, 20:28 that we are no longer obligated 20:30 to keep the law of God. 20:31 Why? 20:33 Because he simply says there in Romans 3:31, 20:36 very simple scripture. 20:37 Romans 3:31. 20:39 He makes it clear. 20:40 Do we make, boy, the law through what? 20:43 Through faith. 20:44 He said, God forbid we what? 20:47 We established the law. 20:49 We should be establishers of the law. 20:51 That means we should be witnesses of it, 20:53 we should be able to record it as it were. 20:55 It's evidence you see what it is. 20:57 It's a testimony and it deals with judicial things. 21:00 Now this is heavy duty when you think about it, 21:02 so he certainly wouldn't be teaching 21:04 doing away with anything, 21:05 any, oh, almost anybody in their right mind, 21:07 maybe I shouldn't say it like that. 21:09 I'm gonna go ahead and say it, anybody in their right mind, 21:11 you wouldn't want to do away with all of these things. 21:13 What a nasty world we would have. 21:15 And because we're teaching these things, 21:16 we live in a nasty world. 21:17 Do we not? 21:19 We really do because what, 21:20 what's being taught is contrary to Scripture. 21:25 Jesus never released men from keeping the commandments, 21:29 but He showed the possibility. 21:32 Boy, talk about the possibility of being obedient, 21:36 and like making heaven our home, 21:38 and to show the possibility 21:40 of how we can be obedient to Him. 21:42 Victory overseeing the Bible talks about, 21:44 victory over wrong doing, not doing all the wrong things, 21:47 but doing the right things by the grace of God 21:49 for my Bible said. 21:51 Paul wrote in Romans 8:4... 21:54 On 8:4, sorry, 21:56 "That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled," 21:58 who were? 22:00 "In us." 22:01 The righteousness of what? 22:03 How we say, well, it's unrighteous, 22:04 it's not good, it's bondage. 22:06 We're locked up. 22:07 The Bible just said that it was the righteousness 22:10 of the law. 22:11 Wow. 22:13 It might be what? 22:14 Fulfill in us, 22:16 that means victory for you and victory for me, 22:18 who walk, notice, 22:19 it's those who walk not after the flesh, 22:21 but after the Spirit. 22:23 So divided into two crew groups, 22:24 you are walking, 22:26 I am walking after the flesh 22:27 or we're walking after the spirit. 22:29 You decide which it is. 22:30 And I'll tell you by your works, 22:31 you're going to know who, what it is. 22:34 With all what's going on in the world, 22:36 again these things we've seen all week long on. 22:38 We're either walking in the Spirit of God, 22:39 is that the way Jesus conduct Himself, 22:41 is that the way disciples conduct themselves. 22:43 Even though it may be a good cause, 22:45 we're not trying to attack cause 22:46 and so on and so forth. 22:47 But it's what's taking place. 22:49 It's ungodly, 22:50 what's taking place in this country. 22:52 It's against the Word of God. 22:54 Why? 22:55 I've simply read in the Bible and in Romans 7:14, 22:58 the Bible said, "God's law is spiritual." 23:02 Now again, we're kind of getting back 23:03 to the laws of the country 23:04 where they don't cross the laws of God. 23:06 And we're talking about God's Ten Commandment law 23:08 and the necessity to have both. 23:12 Did you get it? 23:14 And yet we're hollering no police. 23:17 No, no police zone. 23:18 We can hang out little things say, 23:20 no police zone. 23:21 Well, who in the world can do that? 23:23 Soon as I hung a sign out there in front, 23:25 no police zone, stay out please, they'll come. 23:30 Wouldn't they? 23:32 They say, "You can't say that." 23:33 Well, somebody's saying it. 23:35 A lot of somebodies are getting away with it, 23:36 but you won't. 23:39 Interesting. We'll see. 23:40 Well, I hope we have plenty of time. 23:41 We'll see why exactly they're getting away with it 23:44 right now. 23:45 We'll see exactly 23:46 because we will study the French Revolution, 23:49 and we will know exactly why. 23:52 God's law is spiritual, Romans 7:14. 23:54 And notice what God's law is. 23:56 God's law is a detector of sin. 24:00 God's law is what? 24:02 Is the detector of sin. Right? 24:06 You go out hunting, right, you're hunting for money 24:08 or whatever it is. 24:09 What do you have here? 24:12 Somebody said a magnet. 24:14 Well, yes, it is too 24:15 but it's always a metal detector thing. 24:21 Oh, I'm here, right? 24:23 God's law is a detector, oh, thou shalt not. 24:29 See, we know that from the Word of God, 24:30 how's it the detector of sin? 24:32 Because in Romans 3:20 says, 24:33 "By the law is the knowledge of sin." 24:37 Man, that makes sense to me. 24:39 And number three, I think about this, 24:41 the law of God is a mirror as we will know, 24:45 to show man his defects of character. 24:48 We've often said to where the dirt on his face. 24:50 Now, what do I see? 24:51 I see dirt on my face. 24:53 I can throw the mirror away if I want to. 24:55 It's not going to help me. 24:57 I can get mad at the mirror and break it. 25:00 Or I can say, you know what? 25:03 Thank you, Lord, for showing me, right, 25:05 what I need to change in my life. 25:08 And thank You for the grace and the strength 25:11 that I can gain victory. 25:13 If not, heaven's doors will be closed to me. 25:17 You think about it. 25:18 Did you get that? 25:21 These things have got to go, the bad things. 25:25 So we know these laws then that were written here, 25:28 in this world were written. 25:29 Notice this, 25:31 that the laws were written for those who are ungodly 25:34 is what the Bible said, the lawless. 25:38 Those that oppose law and order. 25:41 Those who are disobedient, those who are rebellious. 25:46 In the Bible over and over sin is said to be rebellion, 25:51 rebellion against God's authority. 25:55 In the world, you have the lawless, 25:58 you have the disobedient, you have the rebellious, 26:01 you have the ungodly, you have the profane. 26:05 They're rebelling against the laws of God 26:07 and the laws of the land. 26:10 What does it mean profane, those who are profane? 26:13 That's the people who make no difference 26:15 between that which is holy, and that which is unholy. 26:18 They just can't decide. 26:19 They don't know what's good, what's bad, 26:21 they've lost their senses. 26:23 The enemy has taken their mind. 26:25 They can't make a difference between, remember, sacred, 26:27 holy, secular or common things. 26:30 Notice 1 Timothy 1:10 list transgressions 26:34 such as whoremongers. 26:37 We don't want to know what whoremongers... 26:38 We don't want. 26:40 They're simply fornicators. 26:41 Exodus 20:14, 26:43 write that down simply talking about adultery, 26:45 living the wrong kind of lifestyle here. 26:47 Notice this, if we had time to go in 26:48 and then that defile. 26:50 Do you notice that? 26:51 Maybe I'll be playing with you, is it okay to be playing? 26:55 Well, somebody is excited about it, 26:56 well, let's see, well. 27:00 Listen, if it's in the Word of God, 27:01 I believe we have a right to talk about it. 27:03 Everybody in this world wants to come down 27:05 and talk about it. 27:06 You ever heard it. 27:08 We need to have a conversation about over and over, right, 27:09 we need to have a conversation. 27:11 We need to sit down and talk. 27:12 But when you sit down and talk 27:14 and you're two different opinions, 27:15 they don't want to talk anymore. 27:17 Nobody wants to sit and listen, 27:18 listen to try to weigh the evidence out 27:19 and then make an intelligent decision. 27:21 The Bible says them that defile are homosexuals. 27:24 Did you get it? 27:25 You read Romans 1:26-32, and you'll see what God said. 27:30 He said, "They were given over to vile affections." 27:33 They were dishonored, 27:34 they behaved themselves unseemly 27:35 is what the Bible said, 27:37 they were without natural, 27:38 notice, without the naturals, 27:40 you know, and they changed the truth of God into a lie. 27:46 Oh, it's heavy duty. 27:50 Again, if you don't look at individually, 27:51 we all have friends and relatives 27:53 and so that may be going in that direction, but 27:54 you know what? 27:56 They too must gain a victory. 27:57 You cannot live that lifestyle 27:59 and plan on heaven being your home 28:01 without gaining victory. 28:02 Just like I can't be stealing candy in the store 28:03 and think I'm gonna make it to heaven. 28:05 You can't be stealing from God 28:06 and think you gonna be in the kingdom. 28:09 Now think about, 28:10 we can't break God's commandments, 28:12 we can't do it. 28:13 God said it's vile, it's unseemly, it's unnatural. 28:16 That's what the Bible is talking about here. 28:18 Menstealers, you realize how deep this goes. 28:20 It said, menstealers here, right here. 28:22 Remember these are ones who are going 28:23 against the laws of the land, the laws of God here. 28:25 These are people who do kidnapping. 28:27 These are people, notice this, who are slave traders. 28:32 Menstealers, did you get that? 28:34 That's heavy duty. 28:35 And the liars, 28:36 it talks about here in Exodus 20:16, 28:39 because it says, "You shall not bear false 28:41 witness against your" what? 28:42 "Against your neighbor." 28:44 Further it talks about here 28:45 that they can't even tell the truth 28:47 when they're on the stand. 28:48 Are you seeing that in our government even today? 28:52 I'll probably just leave it there. 28:54 Hmm. 28:56 Bible said anything else 28:57 that's contrary to sound doctrine here. 28:59 Paul points out those who go against God's love, 29:02 God's law, notice, something happens. 29:04 Three areas are affected here. 29:06 There's a deterioration 29:07 when we throw God's law out of the body, 29:10 of the mind and of the soul. 29:12 And so the world then 29:14 has basically thrown out God's law 29:16 because they say what? 29:17 It's no longer binding. 29:19 Isn't that right? 29:20 Oh, you say, man, you say, 29:21 "But it's really no longer binding." 29:23 Well, then we have to be very careful about that 29:24 because it's going to affect our body. 29:26 It's going to affect our mind, the way we respond, 29:28 the way we act and our soul. 29:30 When on the other hand, 29:32 if you're obeying the laws of God, 29:34 it's going to bring peace and happiness 29:36 to the mind and joy, 29:38 and energy and vitality to the body. 29:41 I'm looking whoo, 29:42 I'm looking for a little vitality. 29:44 How about you? 29:45 I'm looking about a little bit excitement here 29:47 in the cause of Christ. 29:48 I'm looking for a mind that has peace. 29:50 I'm looking for be able to lay your head down at night 29:52 and sleep as it were, and not think about, 29:54 oh, I've got this and this is done. 29:55 I did this wrong and all this stuff. 29:57 No, we have peace when we do the right thing 29:59 based upon the Word of God. 30:02 So it differs. 30:04 But you know what? You can have that peace. 30:06 But you know those who are doing 30:07 what they're doing today 30:09 cannot have any peace 30:10 if you don't mind me just say that. 30:11 Those principles that we just talked about 30:13 cannot be applied to those who now are doing what? 30:15 Looting and burning, and beating up and killing, 30:18 and taking over parts of a city, 30:20 shutting businesses down, 30:22 frankly, scaring people to death. 30:27 How can that be love for your neighbor, 30:29 love for God, love for your neighbor. 30:33 See, where, this is, we're talking about a head 30:34 and a heart knowledge here that needs to be changed. 30:39 Keep this in mind, 30:41 every nation, every nation has laws. 30:46 You know that every nation has laws. 30:48 Think about it. 30:50 A government cannot exist without laws. 30:54 Heaven cannot exist without laws. 30:58 It had laws first, isn't that right? 31:00 Satan blew it. He was cast out of heaven. 31:04 Yet some today are calling, what are they calling for? 31:07 Huh, no police. 31:09 And again, we talked about no, no police zones. 31:11 No rules, do as you please. 31:14 Do whatever you want when you want. 31:15 How long is this going to last? 31:18 Yeah. 31:19 It can't, that's not. 31:21 Remember, these rulings that we just talked about. 31:23 And if I had little time, and I don't, 31:25 I'm getting a pretty picture on the screen, nothing else. 31:28 The Christ article is here. 31:29 The papacy is complaining to bring back, 31:32 bring back the blue laws, bring back Sunday observance, 31:36 and gives you a lot of reasons for it. 31:37 I've underlined here. 31:39 It is amazing 31:40 what they're doing right in your face, 31:42 in my face, 31:43 and we are remaining silent 31:44 like the majority of the world is doing 31:46 with the stuff that's going on right now. 31:47 We're scared to get out. 31:48 We want to report somebody, 31:50 but we're afraid to use our name. 31:51 We don't want to get in trouble. 31:53 I mean, that's understandable, trying to protect yourself. 31:54 Lord have mercy. 31:55 We see that, how long is it going to go on? 31:58 We look at all the police departments. 31:59 They're not trying to take one side or the other 32:01 doing lot of things that are wrong. 32:03 They risked their lives every day for you and me, 32:06 so that we might live in peace. 32:07 We might, you know, 32:08 and yet a lot of them are suffering too. 32:10 You know, they suffer 32:12 because there's some bad ones in there 32:13 and they've done some bad things. 32:15 We understand that. 32:16 How sad, huh. 32:19 United States is becoming, I've said it... 32:23 I mean, a lawless country, there's no doubt about it. 32:26 Why? 32:27 Because we've asked God to leave. 32:29 We've asked Him to leave in so many different areas 32:31 that you can name and I can name, 32:32 we continue to ask, 32:33 you know, whether it's prayer in school, 32:35 whatever it might be, an abortion. 32:36 You just talked about here, 32:38 we've thrown God out 32:39 and yet we want peace and serenity. 32:40 It's never going to happen. 32:42 It will never, I wish it would, but it's not going to happen. 32:45 I believe that there's something has begun right now 32:47 that will not reverse itself. 32:49 You forgive me if I'm wrong. 32:50 I just sense that in my spirit as I read this stuff, 32:53 something's happening right now 32:54 that's never happened in the history of the world 32:56 that you just, you just know will it ever go back, 32:59 will the normal ever come? 33:00 I don't think so. 33:04 We've went beyond the boundary because why? 33:06 Because we're doing things 33:07 that we know we shouldn't be doing 33:09 or some don't even know anymore 33:10 because our minds have been severed 33:11 rather conscience with a hot iron. 33:13 They don't know right and wrong anymore. 33:15 Lawless country. Why? 33:17 Again, because the law of God 33:19 has been cast out by the majority of the world, 33:23 there's no doubt about it, by the churches. 33:26 We have hypocritical churches going on 33:28 proclaiming to be this 33:30 or be that and no, this is not even close. 33:33 We need to get back to the Word of God now. 33:37 The reason I say that 33:38 is because the majority of the different churches says, 33:40 "Oh, no, you know, 33:41 God's Ten Commandments done away with. 33:43 We don't have to do. 33:44 They're done away with it." 33:46 You know, in reality, what are they saying? 33:47 They're saying nine of them is okay, 33:48 but one of them is not. 33:50 James 2:10. 33:51 "If you offend in one point, you're guilty of all." 33:54 I mean, let's look at it the way it is. 33:55 You say, well, but these are good people. 33:56 We're not judge, God will do all the judging, 33:59 but it's by the fruits. 34:00 Oh, nine is good. 34:01 That's all done or it's not. 34:03 They're all done away with or they're not. 34:05 The fourth commandment, God said, 34:07 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." 34:12 So we've thrown it out. 34:13 We've thrown God out of it. 34:16 We no longer can recognize who wrote the Ten Commandments 34:18 because we took God out in the fourth commandment. 34:22 And now 34:23 because we've done these things, 34:25 we are reaping 34:26 what's going on in the world today. 34:28 Did you get it? 34:29 We're reaping what's going on. 34:31 We're reaping the results of this unbelief. 34:35 And I guarantee you this based on the Word of God, 34:38 to sow disobedience is to reap disobedience. 34:41 To sow what? 34:42 To sow disobedience, 34:44 you're going to reap disobedience. 34:46 When we cast aside the divine law, 34:48 very quickly we will see and we're seeing it 34:51 right now that the, 34:53 that the human laws or the government laws 34:55 is disregarded too. 34:57 Did you see how they're disregarded? 34:59 Because we've been throwing God out. 35:00 It's been long process of going, 35:02 throwing the God's law out. 35:05 Think about it with me just for a few minutes. 35:07 If the law of the land 35:09 or the law of God is not binding, 35:11 we say if it's not binding, 35:14 why would anyone fear 35:18 to break any of them? 35:22 You have nothing to fear. 35:23 If law of God is not binding, you have nothing to fear. 35:25 Just do what you want to do. 35:28 For instance, would your property be safe? 35:31 If there were no laws, would your property be safe? 35:33 No, I don't think. 35:35 Not without law, maybe not without police. 35:39 How about if your neighbor likes 35:41 what he sees at your house? 35:43 He likes your tractor. 35:45 He likes your house. 35:46 And then he likes your wife. 35:48 Somebody's not gonna... 35:51 If there was no laws, no penalty, 35:55 the strong will survive. 35:58 The stronger will survive. 36:01 So somewhere along the line 36:02 there's something that's still connected, 36:04 isn't that right? 36:05 Not done away with at all. 36:07 We're seeing the results of trying to throw them away 36:09 and now here, 36:11 all of this going on right now is result of it. 36:14 Wow. 36:18 What would stop them from taking what they want? 36:21 And if God's laws were not binding 36:23 as well as the laws of the land, 36:25 you know what? 36:27 Your life wouldn't be worth very much in your mind. 36:33 I've talked to some who said this. 36:37 I'd like to go steal this or I'd like to go take that, 36:40 but I'm afraid I'll get caught. 36:43 Yeah, I'm afraid I'll get caught. 36:45 This is, listen, this is what stops, 36:46 not a good conscience, 36:48 not law of God, love of God, fellow man in your heart 36:50 is, I'm afraid I'll get caught, and if I'm caught, 36:53 I'll have to pay a price. 36:56 So that stops some from acting up 36:58 because there's consequences. 37:01 If they are done away with, there'd be no consequences. 37:04 Hmm. 37:07 This is what this world has come to 37:09 right now. 37:10 No laws, no police, and then comes anarchy. 37:16 Are we not in that now? 37:18 Absolutely. 37:20 Do as you please. 37:23 How bad are things going to get? 37:25 Remember. 37:26 Remember, it would be easier for a nation 37:32 to abolish their laws 37:35 to permit the people to do what they want to do 37:37 than for God to do away with His law. 37:40 You cannot do it. 37:42 If God would do away with His laws, 37:44 then there would be, it would have nothing, 37:46 would have no standard 37:47 to tell us what is right and wrong. 37:49 Would have nothing to condemn the guilty, 37:51 would have nothing to justify, right, the obedient. 37:56 Oh, Sin, inequity is running rapid. 38:01 Lawlessness, 38:02 corruption that we talked about, 38:04 wastefulness, excessiveness, 38:06 indulgence and pleasure and intemperance. 38:09 There's problems in the family. 38:11 There's problems in the church. 38:13 There's backbiting, there's gossiping, 38:15 there's strife. 38:16 There's pretending, 38:17 pretending to be something that we're not. 38:19 Preterist, the great pretender. 38:21 Did you get that? 38:23 Betraying sacred trust, lust, huh, lying, 38:27 cheating all out here. 38:29 What's going on? 38:32 Whole system of religious principle 38:34 and government principles seems to be ready to fall. 38:37 It is falling right now, it's falling apart. 38:41 Criminals behind bars are laid out early 38:44 because of this COVID-19. 38:45 And more than half of them, 38:47 a great percentage rearrested again. 38:49 And showing a man on TV the other day, 38:51 oh boy, I'm telling you, right walking down the street. 38:54 The lady's 92 years old with a walker going down there. 38:57 He just walking by there, he just boom like that, 38:59 just knocks her, 39:00 she hits her head on a fire hydrant. 39:03 That man had been in prison out, 39:05 in jail and out, was it? 39:06 One hundred and four times. 39:07 Hundred and four times 39:09 and nobody came pinning for him. 39:10 I'll be pinning him. 39:13 I better get back to preaching. 39:15 That's just sad when you have to watch that, 39:18 92 year old on a walker, 39:20 just walked by for no reason at all, 39:22 and banged her and just knocked her up head. 39:24 My, what's this world coming to? 39:30 Others in rebellion are calling 39:31 to let out other prisoners. 39:34 They want everybody to run free. 39:36 And not only let them all out and run free 39:37 regardless of what kind of character 39:38 they have. 39:40 They want everything free. 39:42 Somebody's not getting that. 39:45 They want to live a life 39:46 and just have somebody just keep giving them, 39:48 they want to live the life free. 39:50 We want free hospitalization. We want free pay rent. 39:52 We want free groceries. 39:53 We want every education free. 39:54 We want everything to be given to them. 39:56 What's taking place now? 40:03 Do you want to know the results 40:05 of what happens when God's laws are made void? 40:08 And the laws of the land we no longer think 40:10 we have to observe them and no police, 40:11 we just live and do what we want to do. 40:14 It's already been tried. 40:17 It's already been tried. 40:18 It's nothing new. 40:20 It's already been tried. Where? 40:21 In France we know that. 40:22 When atheism control the people, 40:26 are you sure you want this? 40:27 Are you sure this is the way you want this country to go? 40:30 Because it's sure to come to an end very quickly. 40:33 Maybe you want to come to an end, 40:34 so Jesus can come. 40:36 We're not standing 40:37 for what we should be standing for. 40:39 We should be standing for religious freedom. 40:40 We should be standing right for freedom of speech, 40:43 freedom of press, freedom of conscience. 40:46 See, these are so very important, 40:48 but sometimes we just say nothing and we do nothing. 40:50 Just like, all right, this latest, right, 40:52 Supreme Court ruling, 40:54 limiting freedoms 40:57 that we should be able to operate on 40:59 in the field of religion. 41:00 Let's take a quick look at what happened in France. 41:02 When it became a lawless, no rules, 41:05 do what you want when you want to do it. 41:07 There's no God, 41:08 there's no price to pay for anything. 41:10 Now it's like here, 41:12 there's no price to pay for burning something down. 41:14 There's no price to pay for destroying 41:15 and tearing down 41:17 the Washington Monument or whatever it might be. 41:19 And they're eyeballing Abraham Lincoln now. 41:25 They're eyeing the White House 41:27 and a lot of things that are around there. 41:31 Tearing down statues, killing people, 41:34 taking over several city blocks. 41:37 Where is law and order right now? 41:41 Is it gone? 41:42 Maybe because we have pushed it out 41:44 for so long, 41:46 we pushed God out. 41:49 In 1793, a decree, a law was passed 41:52 which abolished the Christian religion 41:54 and to set aside the Bible. 41:55 Think about what a time that would be. 41:57 Now remember, when this took place, 41:59 if we don't get anything else out of it, 42:00 I want to hurry right along, 42:01 get something out of this right here. 42:03 When you push God out of something, 42:04 you're asking for trouble. 42:07 We no longer respect and honor God, 42:09 we're asking for trouble. 42:11 And when this French Assembly passed this law, 42:14 get rid of Christianity religion 42:16 and get rid of the Bible they said. 42:18 When this took place, remember, 42:20 the restraining power of the Spirit of God 42:22 which can hold the enemy into check. 42:24 What happened to him? 42:26 Huh, in a great measure, oh, no, it was removed. 42:30 Gold had to pull back 42:32 because the people said this is what we want. 42:33 God pulled back, how sad. 42:36 And when He began to pull back, 42:37 we're seeing all these things that happened, 42:39 in abortion and same sex marriage, gay 42:40 and also unrestricted religious things. 42:43 Transgender, no prayer in school. 42:45 You know, if you don't display the law anymore, 42:48 this is fruit of this. 42:50 You know, we're talking about fruits of rebellion, 42:52 because we kick God out. 42:56 Surely we wouldn't want to do that, 42:57 religion, and law, and state, social order, 43:01 family, the church, 43:03 all of these would suffer, 43:04 notice this, 43:06 as they lifted their hand against the law of God. 43:09 This is very important because we have a message 43:10 to give to the world 43:12 is been obedient to the law of God, 43:13 is that not right? 43:14 Call people's minds and hearts back to the law of God. 43:16 Why? 43:17 Because then we'll have peace in this world. 43:19 It will be peaceful 43:20 if everybody wanted to keep God's law, 43:22 by His grace and certainly by his strength. 43:25 The world is suffering. 43:27 Proverbs 11:5 says, 43:28 "The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness." 43:31 What was that? 43:32 Proverbs 11:5, 43:33 "The wicked is gonna fall by," what? 43:35 "His own wickedness." 43:36 Proverbs 1:29-30, 43:38 "For they hated knowledge, 43:39 and did not choose to fear the Lord." 43:41 You choose not to fear the Lord today, dear friends, 43:43 you will be out doing some of the things 43:44 that's going on in the streets for today. 43:46 Verse 31, 43:47 "Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, 43:50 and be filled with their own devices." 43:53 Man, people feel that way today. 43:54 Psalms 14:1, 43:56 "The fool has said in his," what? 43:58 "In his heart, there is no God." 44:00 Only a fool would say that 44:01 and I'm not trying to hurt anybody or anybody's feeling. 44:04 You may say that, I'll just simply say 44:06 is because you do not know any difference. 44:09 A fool has said in his heart, there is no God. 44:12 There is a God that sits upon the throne. 44:14 He's watching the movements of this world. 44:17 France in their Legislative Hall 44:19 pronounced that there was no God. 44:22 And when they made that announcement that day, 44:24 men and women both went out into the street 44:26 and they danced and they sang, 44:29 'cause they threw God out. 44:31 France produced the same characteristics 44:34 as they did in Sodom and Gomorrah, 44:35 and God acted on that. 44:37 And He acted in time of France, and you know what? 44:39 United States of America is following 44:41 in the same footsteps right now. 44:43 Moral disaster. Huh. 44:46 It resembles Sodom and Gomorrah, 44:48 there's no doubt about it. 44:49 France at this time, 44:51 give you something to think about, 44:52 the ten things we try to go with like eight minutes. 44:54 There's no way, Lord have mercy. 44:55 In France at this time, 44:56 the marriage union was reduced 44:58 to just a piece of paper. 44:59 Anyway, any two people 45:01 that showed up could get married 45:02 and you know what I'm talking about? 45:05 Is that not happening in our country today? 45:08 Any two that shows up, it's okay. 45:12 Yeah. 45:14 Number two, 45:15 Jesus Christ was declared to be an imposter. 45:19 Many are saying the same thing today. 45:21 The cry of people in France at the time was, 45:24 you know what they said about Jesus? 45:25 They said, "Crush the wretch." 45:27 That was Jesus. 45:28 Can you imagine anybody with kind of boldness, 45:30 may I say stupidity, stand in the face of God. 45:33 How merciful and good that He is. 45:35 He could strike us dead at any moment if He wanted to. 45:37 He can cause an end just like that if He wants to. 45:39 He created you, He created me. 45:40 He created the world. 45:42 He spoke them into existence by his word. 45:44 Crush the wretch, they said, men in Christ. 45:45 Lord have mercy. 45:47 Three, Bibles were collected and they were burned. 45:49 You say, "Well, they're not doing that today, 45:51 but they're changing the Word of God 45:52 and all these different versions 45:53 you have of the Bible." 45:55 It's not saying the same thing that God left for His people. 45:57 It's being changed like nobody's business 45:59 or man is reading and say, 46:01 "Well, I know what it says 46:02 but I think God's changed now. 46:04 Well, this is 2020." 46:06 God's word never changed that's what the Bible says. 46:09 Number four, notice this, 46:10 the weekly rest day was set aside. 46:14 And every 10th day was given to, 46:16 devoted to reveling and blasphemy. 46:20 Ah, did you get that? 46:21 What are they doing today? 46:23 They're working so hard that look, bringing the book, 46:24 they're changing what? 46:26 Want to change what? 46:27 The seventh day of the week to Sunday, 46:28 the first day of the week, a Sunday law. 46:30 The same thing, they we want to change it 46:31 just like they were doing in France. 46:34 Man, we should stand up against that kind of stuff. 46:37 We can't sit silently by. 46:40 Oh. 46:42 Number five, the spirit of liberty went out 46:45 with the Bible. 46:47 When the Bible went, 46:48 spirit of liberty no more, anymore. 46:50 The rulers could not have seen this 46:52 coming all of it. 46:53 They couldn't see it coming, they couldn't do it. 46:56 The results of their decisions because notices this, 46:59 when you take the Bible away from you or for me 47:02 or from the people, we lose the principles, 47:06 we lose all principles of justice, 47:08 and temperance, and truth. 47:12 Quality, equality. 47:14 Everybody's, right, created equal. 47:15 We've lost that. See, we've lost that. 47:17 We can't figure out 47:18 what we're fighting over black and white 47:19 and yellow and pink. 47:21 I'll say, why? 47:22 Because we've thrown the Word of God out, 47:23 that's why. 47:25 If the Word was in effect, 47:26 and we've held up what truth is right now we'd see. 47:28 We forget that, we're not giving anymore. 47:31 We're not wanting to share anymore. 47:32 We don't know how to love anymore. 47:37 And these just are few things I mentioned here 47:39 is the foundation, 47:40 notice, the foundation of every nation's prosperity. 47:44 We've thrown away those principles 47:46 that make a nation great. 47:48 You can say, President say, 47:49 we're going to make it great again. 47:50 He's going to do this again. He's going to do that again. 47:52 He needs to be very careful when he stands up and say I, 47:55 look at this thing that I have created. 47:56 Look at this thing that I have done. 47:58 I did it once, I can do it again. 47:59 Nebuchadnezzar said that 48:00 and he ate grass for seven years. 48:03 Please give God the praise. 48:06 Give God the praise for what He's doing. 48:08 Can He bring things back? 48:09 Yes, if God sees fit. 48:11 If not, we're on a downhill. 48:14 Oh, listen to this. 48:16 Please listen, this is, to me it's very interesting. 48:19 Person who obeys the divine law 48:23 will respect and obey 48:25 the laws of the country where they can. 48:28 Did you get it? 48:31 He who fears God will honor the king. 48:37 Righteousness, the Bible said, 48:39 exalteth a nation in Proverbs 14:34. 48:43 Proverbs 14:34 said, 48:46 "Righteousness exalteth a nation." 48:48 Isaiah 32:17, 48:50 "And the work of righteousness shall be: what? 48:53 "Peace, the effect of righteousness 48:56 quietness and assurance for ever." 48:59 Man, do we realize today, 49:01 it's not what all is going on in the world, 49:02 what we need is just simply the gospel 49:04 to go into the world, 49:06 that would bring the solution to the political agenda, 49:09 to the social problems of the world today 49:11 that seems to be escaping our leaders of our country. 49:15 It's a very simple fix right here, 49:17 quite as here. 49:19 It's the Gospel of Jesus Christ, 49:20 heart changes. 49:22 You can't do what you do and love your fellow man. 49:24 You can't do what's being done today 49:26 and love God supremely. 49:27 In the French Revolution, people were heavily taxed. 49:31 Number six, what? 49:32 Heavily taxed, and you know whom it fell upon? 49:34 It fell upon the middle class and the poor. 49:37 Just exactly what is happening today 49:39 and the rich get away with it. 49:42 Here's the key, 49:43 three minutes or something left. 49:45 Listen, here is the key right now. 49:47 Number seven, 49:48 at the opening of the Revolution, 49:50 at the opening of the Revolution, 49:52 the king and his leaders 49:53 gave the people an abundance of power. 49:56 Somebody put it together. 49:58 They were getting in the French Revolution, 49:59 the people were given power they had not had before. 50:02 And notice it. 50:03 It was in their hands, 50:05 but they were not prepared how to use it wisely. 50:09 They had no wisdom, they had no moderation, 50:12 that they were excited with the thought, 50:14 listen to this, now, 50:15 now we can get back at those who had 50:18 what they've done to us, we can do it back to them. 50:21 Now, they were determined 50:24 to undertake the reconstruction of society. 50:28 Did you get that? 50:29 Somebody think it. 50:31 There's been a lot of brutal things 50:33 going on in this world. 50:34 There's no doubt about it. 50:35 But now as the power seems to be switching 50:37 and those who are uprising, 50:38 they say, look, this was done to us. 50:40 And they were under a tyrannical leadership. 50:44 They learned all these things that may be not too good, 50:46 but they said, now, this was done to us. 50:48 Now we're going to be in that position, 50:49 and now we're going to do it to the others. 50:51 Sound like the devil to me, doesn't to you? 50:54 Great Controversy, 282 says this. 50:55 It says, notice, 50:57 "The oppressed wrought out the lesson 51:00 they had learned under tyranny, 51:02 they became now the oppressors 51:05 of those who had oppressed them." 51:07 If we're not seeing that today, 51:08 Lord, have mercy on us, 51:10 trying to turn the table of thing. 51:12 We're not saying good, bad or ugly, 51:13 something we have to consider. 51:15 When God's laws are cast aside, 51:18 men's laws are not able to hold them 51:20 together anymore. 51:21 Human passion is strong. 51:24 We want our own way. 51:25 What happens next? You know what happened next? 51:27 And here number eight, quickly, 51:29 the nation's swept into revolt and anarchy, 51:32 just where we're at right now. 51:33 We've already passed the others. 51:34 It's anarchy and revolt right now. 51:36 And the other thing 51:37 and this was written down in history 51:38 as the reign of terror. 51:40 Do you want that in your country, 51:41 the reign of terror? 51:43 And to add it to the problems each one, 51:44 the nation became involved, France did in a war in Europe, 51:48 and the country was going bankrupt. 51:51 Man, just where we're at right now, 51:52 wars and rumors of wars, 51:53 we're about to enter war with this one, that one 51:55 and we're practically bankrupt as a country. 51:56 My, somebody wake up. 51:59 And this one, no man, number 10. 52:01 No man could greet his neighbor 52:03 or say a prayer without make a statement, 52:06 without the danger of committing a capital crime. 52:10 Spies were behind every tree. 52:12 Is that what's happening today? 52:14 You can't say anything about anybody. 52:16 They can't say they're too tall or too short. 52:18 May I just say too fat, too skinny. 52:19 I'm gonna go ahead and say it. 52:21 You'd be arrested and thrown in jail for it. 52:23 Are we not seeing the same things 52:25 of the French Revolution? 52:26 Absolutely, we are. 52:28 Forty seconds, Great Controversy, 285, 52:30 we'll end with this. 52:31 Notice this, it was a fail. 52:33 Here's what crushed France. 52:34 Here's what's crushing us, 52:35 the United States today and the world, 52:37 "was the ignoring of the great truth, the true, 52:39 notice, freedom lies within the protection 52:42 and the keeping of the law of God." 52:45 That's where it's at. 52:47 And we've gotten away from that. 52:49 May God help us today, 52:50 we started down a path of no return. 52:54 We started down a path of no return. 52:56 God help this country. 52:58 God help you. God help me. 53:00 The only thing could ever call it back, 53:02 you know, is if we confess and repent 53:04 and certainly have a reformation, 53:06 God is able. 53:07 So as we close now, we'll close with prayer 53:09 but I'm telling you, this is heavy duty times. 53:11 If you don't take it serious, 53:13 if you don't take it serious now, 53:15 you may never take it serious. 53:16 If you don't want to get it right with God, 53:18 you may not ever get it right. 53:20 There's too many of us today that's in this, 53:22 what we call in the school, 53:23 ever learning, ever learning, 53:25 but never coming to the knowledge of the truth 53:26 is what the Bible said. 53:28 In the time we came to the knowledge 53:29 of what is truth, 53:30 care enough to spend some time and study of God's Word, 53:33 care enough to come to church, 53:34 care enough to ask for Bible study, 53:36 care enough to say, I take my position 53:38 and my stance on the side of Jesus Christ. 53:40 Let what happens just happens in the world, 53:42 but I stand with Jesus. 53:45 Isn't it time for that? 53:46 We can say all we want, we can agree all we want, 53:48 but action speak louder than words. 53:49 I think it's time for actions what I think. 53:53 Sunday laws are being pushed. 53:55 Bring back the blue laws. 53:58 And they give reasons 54:00 why the country will be better if we do. 54:03 May God help us. 54:05 We have prayer, closing prayer together, 54:07 that you're going to make that choice 54:09 and you're going to make that decision 54:10 regardless of what, 54:11 what happens to you in this life, 54:13 regardless to what happens to me, 54:14 I stand with Christ. 54:16 Let's pray together, shall we? 54:17 Most gracious, kind, considerate, loving, 54:22 gracious Heavenly Father. 54:26 Once again, we've opened the pages of Your Word. 54:30 And what have we found? 54:32 We found You there. 54:34 We've read it, 54:36 some it's hard to understand 54:37 that the Holy Spirit comes 54:38 and give us proper understanding, 54:41 so that we may sound an alarm in your holy mountain. 54:44 We may blow a trumpet before it's too late. 54:47 Even recognizing the majority of people 54:49 will never ever listen. 54:50 They are happy in this mess that we're living in. 54:54 I just sense there's something better. 54:58 There's something better, it's not this law. 55:00 Who wants to live forever in this mess? 55:04 You promised us heaven. 55:06 You promised us that we can be in Your presence. 55:09 You promised glory 55:11 that we can eat from the tree of life. 55:14 You promised us that we'll never grow old. 55:18 Promises where we could sit at Your feet 55:19 and You would speak to us. 55:22 That means you're going to come, 55:24 oh, glory every seventh day, 55:27 even in heaven, the New Jerusalem, 55:32 and our speaker is going to be none other than Jesus Christ. 55:36 Man, what a message. 55:38 What a time long for that right now. 55:40 This world's not my home, I'm passing through. 55:44 My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. 55:48 Lord, today for the decisions have been made in the hearts 55:50 and lives of Your children. 55:52 I pray that You would grant the measure of their faith. 55:56 If their faith has reached into the very kingdom of God, 55:59 so be it. 56:00 If their faith is little bit weak 56:02 and they just can't get out of the ceiling 56:04 here of this room, 56:05 I pray that You'll increase it. 56:08 You said, "Faith cometh by hearing 56:09 and hearing by the Word of God." 56:11 Oh, Lord, grant us that peace. 56:14 Grant us that happiness. 56:16 Grant us that assurance. 56:18 He said, "I'm coming soon. 56:21 And where I am, I want you there with me also." 56:24 You pleaded with Your Father for Your children. 56:28 We're Your children. 56:30 But Your children are noted for being obedient 56:32 to what You've written what You said in Your Word. 56:35 Help us to be obedient to that. Thank you for decisions. 56:37 Thank You for Your love and Your mercy. 56:39 Grant us that peace, eyes, heart, mind, 56:42 everything be open, everything we hear, 56:43 everything we see, 56:44 may we relate it to the very end of time 56:46 that we may be where You would have us to be, 56:48 doing what You would have us to be doing, 56:50 that we might win souls for Thee. 56:52 I thank You for hearing. 56:53 Thank You for answering prayer. 56:55 Thank You for the decisions that are made right now. 56:57 Thank You that we can almost by faith 56:59 hear the angels of heaven singing. 57:02 What a day that will be, when my Jesus, I shall see. 57:07 In His precious lovely name we pray and for His sake, 57:10 amen and amen. 57:12 Hello again. 57:14 We certainly hope and pray 57:15 that your heart has been stirred, 57:17 that your faith has been strengthened 57:19 as you listened to Pastor Kenny 57:21 bring this message on lawlessness today. 57:24 And what we are experiencing God told us, 57:27 as you've seen that it would occur 57:29 right before His Second Coming. 57:31 He allows nothing major in our world to happen 57:34 without warning us first. 57:36 What a love He has for each and every one of us 57:39 that He is willing to give us. 57:41 Let us know about these major events 57:43 before they occur, 57:44 so that we are not deceived, 57:46 so that we don't veer off that straight and narrow path 57:49 that leads to eternal life. 57:52 Should you like to own today's message 57:54 entitled "Lawlessness." 57:56 We are making that available to you 57:58 on DVD today 57:59 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 58:02 We also for those of you who like to get these messages 58:05 and share them to your friends and family, 58:08 we also offer a sharing price 58:09 for any 10 duplicate single messages 58:13 in paper sleeves only, 58:15 we will get, sent you out 10 of those messages 58:18 for a love gift of just $35 or more. 58:21 To order "Lawlessness," 58:23 simply contact us here 58:24 at Behold the Lamb Ministries at 618-942-5044, 58:29 that's Central Time, 58:31 or write to us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 58:33 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 58:37 You may also email your order 58:39 at BeholdTheLambMinistries @yahoo.com 58:42 or feel free to order 58:43 and donate in support of this ministry 58:46 on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 58:50 We hope to see you here again next time. 58:52 But until then, 58:54 may our precious Lord 58:55 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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