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Series Code: BTLP
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00:38 Hello, I'm Chris Shelton
00:40 and I want to welcome those of you at home 00:42 and welcome those of you here to Behold the Lamb Ministries. 00:45 I am excited for what the Lord is going to do today. 00:48 Here at Behold the Lamb, we have some special guests. 00:51 We have a speaker 00:54 that many of you know from 3ABN, 00:56 evangelist Ryan Day. 00:58 He is a speaker and a singer. 01:00 I look forward to what he is going to speak, 01:03 is going to be on the Daily. 01:05 The Daily people are looking back to Daniel, 01:07 they're looking back to Revelation. 01:09 And they're trying to figure out 01:10 where we are in the stream of time. 01:12 And I know by God's grace 01:14 that Brother Ryan Day is going to help us 01:17 to understand the Daily even so much more, 01:20 and how it applies to our time as well. 01:23 We're also going to have a special music 01:26 and our special music will be entitled, 01:28 "Lord prepare me" and that is with a young man. 01:32 How old are you now, Ben? 01:34 He said 22. 01:35 He doesn't have a mic, bless his heart. 01:38 But he is 22. 01:39 I have known Ben all of his life. 01:43 And if I remember correctly, Ben, 01:45 you were born during one of our Lake, 01:50 Grassy Lake, 01:51 Grassy Lake camp meetings, weren't you? 01:54 I'm thinking he was... 01:55 He doesn't. 01:56 For some reason he doesn't remember, 01:58 but we were having a camp meeting. 02:00 I think that's when you were born. 02:01 When's your birthday, Ben, isn't it in September? 02:04 He was born during camp meeting. 02:07 So anyway known his mom, his dad for many, many years. 02:12 And Ben, actually, I was his first teacher. 02:15 And he was at our church school for many years. 02:18 And then after he left, 02:20 he went up to Thompsonville Church School. 02:22 And there the teacher was so gifted, bless his heart, 02:25 all he had to do was hear me, hit, maybe hitting, 02:28 we know a key at a time on a piano, 02:30 but he had to listen to our voice to lead out music. 02:32 When he went there, 02:34 she was able to teach all kinds of instruments, 02:37 and it just absolutely triggered 02:40 a God given gift in this young man. 02:42 And so we are so thankful. 02:44 I know you'll be seeing him more here 02:45 at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 02:47 he's going to be coming 02:48 at least every other week to play, 02:51 and I'm sure he'll be doing special music for us. 02:53 He has a singing group. 02:55 Hopefully they'll be coming in 02:56 and worshiping the Lord with us. 02:58 So we're excited to hear his song. 03:00 It's going to be entitled "Lord, prepare me." 03:02 And then right after that, 03:04 we'll be blessed by Brother Ryan Day. 03:06 And once again, I really think, 03:08 I just got to tell you this one quick story. 03:11 A few weeks ago, 03:12 someone was watching 3ABN 03:14 and they were listening to the worship hour service 03:17 that they've been doing. 03:18 And Pastor Kenny had preached 03:20 and then Brother Ryan had preached, 03:22 and someone came to pastor during the week and said, 03:24 "Boy, you two are the Sons of Thunder." 03:28 And then Dakota showed up. 03:30 And we were doing a family worship program together. 03:33 And I looked, I said, 03:34 "Boy, they may be the real Sons of Thunder." 03:37 And then the next week, pastor came and told me, 03:40 he says, "Well, she kicked me out." 03:44 Throw him under the bus. 03:45 He said, "Maybe we can have three Sons of Thunder. 03:47 Can we do that? 03:49 Can we have three rather than two?" 03:50 I'm looking forward to what God has to do 03:53 because I know we'll not see these people, 03:56 but we'll hear God's voice. 06:00 Praise the Lord. 06:01 Praise the Lord for music, 06:03 praise the Lord for dedicated young men like him. 06:06 You know, I don't think 06:08 sometimes we can really wrap our minds 06:09 around how difficult that is to do. 06:12 I've heard many, many guitarists in my lifetime. 06:16 But to play that way is very advanced. 06:18 And so I know when the Lord created Ben, 06:20 I know He decided, He said, 06:21 I know that he's going to be a good man, 06:23 but he's going to be a very good guitarist. 06:27 Praise the Lord for that. 06:29 Amen. Praise God. 06:30 We give God the glory, right? 06:31 We don't uplift ourselves. 06:33 We don't uplift man, 06:34 we uplift God because He is worthy. 06:36 Amen? Praise the Lord. 06:38 I want to jump right into this because I'm on a time, 06:41 pray for that clock. 06:43 Pray for that clock. 06:44 Pray for that clock 06:45 because I knew I was going to be 06:47 on time limit this morning. 06:48 But I have so much to say and little time to say it in, 06:51 so let's go ahead and have a prayer. 06:52 I'm going to get right into this message. 06:54 Very important today. 06:56 Father in heaven, Lord, 06:59 we give this time to You. 07:01 As we have been worshipping You this morning, Lord, 07:04 in spirit, Lord, now we want to worship You, 07:07 as you have told us in Your Word 07:08 in spirit and in truth. 07:11 Lord, as we dive deep into the truth of Your Word, 07:14 may this not just be another sermon, 07:16 may it not just be another message, 07:18 may it not just be scriptures of texts 07:19 that we read from the Bible, 07:21 but may it penetrate our hearts and minds. 07:24 May we walk away from today blessed, renewed, revitalized, 07:28 restored, and may You set us on a path of righteousness, 07:32 set us on a path of revival, 07:34 spark within us a burning heart desire to serve You. 07:38 We thank You, Lord, and we praise You for this Lord 07:40 and I ask again humbly 07:41 that You speak through me this morning, 07:43 not my own words, hide me Lord, 07:45 get Ryan out of the picture, 07:47 and allow Jesus' words to come through, 07:49 we ask in Jesus' name, amen. 07:52 I've said this many, many times, 07:54 and I'll say it again 07:55 as I preached this message this morning. 07:57 I'm preaching this just as much to myself 08:00 as I am to anyone else in here, 08:02 because this is a message 08:03 that each and every one of us need to hear. 08:06 This is probably one of the most important messages 08:09 that a person could hear today from the Word of God. 08:11 It's kind of a... 08:13 It's a little unconventional, I guess you could say, 08:16 it's not as, you don't hear a lot of people do sermons 08:20 or preach sermons or teach messages on the Daily. 08:23 It's just one of those things you read about, 08:25 just kind of go past it, right? 08:27 Because you, we really just don't have, 08:28 for years we haven't really understood it. 08:31 But I'm going to teach something today. 08:33 I'm more of a teacher than I am a preacher. 08:34 I like to preach, I like to teach, 08:36 but I'm more of a teacher than I'm a preacher 08:38 and I'm going to be doing lots of teaching. 08:40 In fact, I'm going to be going quite fast, okay. 08:42 So get ready to get your Bibles out. 08:44 You're going to get a little bit of practice 08:46 this morning finding all those Bible chapters and verses, 08:49 because we're going to be going to many places. 08:50 I want to start in 1 John 2:18 and 19. 08:55 We're going to start here in the Book of 1 John. 08:57 So right there toward the end of the Bible, 08:59 you have 1, 2, 3 John, the Book of Jude 09:01 and then the Book of Revelation. 09:03 We're going to 1 John Chapter 2. 09:05 And I want to just kind of set a foundation here 09:08 as we get into identifying and looking 09:11 at the significance of this Daily 09:13 and why it's important for us here 09:14 as present truth in our time even. 09:17 The title of the sermon one word, Daily. 09:21 Daily. If you what? 09:23 If you leave today and you don't remember 09:24 what in the world this sermon's about, 09:26 you just remember the word Daily. 09:28 That's what it's about. Okay? 09:29 1 John 2:18 and 19. 09:32 Notice what the Bible says, 09:33 "Little children, it is the last hour." 09:36 Are we living in the last hour? 09:38 We are living in the last hour. 09:40 The Bible says, "And as you have heard, 09:42 that the Antichrist is coming," 09:46 but he goes on to say, "even now many antichrists," 09:50 plural, are in the world or "have come 09:55 by which we know that it is the last hour." 09:59 Speaking of this Antichrist in verse 19. 10:02 He says, they, again, there's the plural, 10:05 went out from, from us. 10:08 Who's us? 10:12 This is it. 10:14 This is where we get deep. 10:16 They, John speaking of the church, he says, 10:20 "They," the Antichrist, "went out from us," the church, 10:24 but then he clarifies, notice, he says, 10:26 "but", and I praise God for that but. 10:28 He says, "but they were not of us, 10:31 for if they had been of us, 10:33 they would have continued with us, 10:35 but they went out 10:36 that they might be made manifest 10:39 that none of them were of us." 10:41 So what we're simply saying here 10:43 through these couple of verses, 10:45 to set the foundation for what we're about to see, 10:47 as John is saying, "Look, I'm speaking to the church. 10:50 I'm talking to you folk here." 10:52 He's saying, "Hey look, 10:54 you have heard that an Antichrist is coming." 10:56 He says, "But I'm telling you that many Antichrists, plural, 10:59 many of them are already in the world, 11:02 they have come." 11:04 They were working in his day nearly 2,000 years ago. 11:08 But you're in 1 John Chapter 2, 11:10 we just read verses 18 and 19. 11:11 I want you to skip down to verse 26. 11:14 Still on the same theme 11:16 talking about this Antichrist spirit. 11:19 Notice what he says here. 11:20 He says, "These things I have written to you 11:23 concerning those who try to," what? 11:26 "Deceive you." 11:28 Are we living in a world today 11:30 where there's lots of deception? 11:32 My friends, probably the biggest plague, 11:34 there's going to be lots of plagues 11:36 in the last days. 11:37 We know that we have seven of them 11:38 mentioned in Revelation Chapter 16. 11:41 But probably the greatest plague 11:43 behind all plagues, 11:45 okay, is definitely a spirit of deception. 11:49 It is among us, it is working among even God's people, 11:53 God's Church. 11:55 Now you're in 1 John, skip over to 2 John Chapter 2. 11:57 Okay, you're right there in 1 John, 11:59 just skip over to the second epistle of John there. 12:01 2 John Chapter 2, 12:03 we're going to be reading verses 7 and 8. 12:05 Again, notice the common theme. 12:06 Notice another word that comes up here 12:08 that we just read. 12:10 2 John 2:7 and 8. 12:12 The Bible says, "For many," what's that next word there? 12:15 "Deceivers have gone out into the world 12:18 who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh." 12:22 And then here it is, again, 12:23 "this is a deceiver 12:26 and an antichrist. 12:29 Look to yourselves, 12:31 that we do not lose those things 12:34 for which we worked," right? 12:36 "But that we may receive a full reward." 12:39 Now we find this common theme all the way through the Bible, 12:43 but more specifically, the New Testament scriptures. 12:46 All the gospels that Jesus, 12:48 obviously the story of Christ's life, 12:50 Jesus Himself saying, "Let no man." 12:52 Matthew 24, Luke 17, Mark 13, He's letting us know, 12:55 "Do not let any man deceive you by any means," right? 12:58 Let no one deceive you by any means. 13:00 We also see Paul. 13:02 In fact, I'm going to have you 13:03 to jump over to 2 Thessalonians right now. 13:05 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2. 13:07 Paul also echoes this same message. 13:09 We see John, right before the closing books of Scripture, 13:13 right before this great Revelation book 13:16 that we are going to read 13:17 about the final events of Bible prophecy. 13:19 John is warning us. 13:20 He's saying, "I'm writing to you 13:22 concerning those who tried to deceive you. 13:23 There was a spirit of Antichrist 13:25 among the church." 13:27 See, many times when we think of Antichrist, 13:29 we think of Roman Catholic Church. 13:32 And we don't want to... 13:33 Let me be very clear this morning. 13:35 The Antichrist to Bible prophecy 13:37 is indeed the Roman papal church state system. 13:40 We don't want to miss that at all. 13:42 And we certainly don't want to miss the fact 13:44 that a leading Antichrist figure 13:46 which we're about to read 13:47 about in 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 13:49 is none other than the leader of this papal system, 13:52 the pope himself, the office of the pope, 13:54 but there is something in the Bible 13:56 that is called the spirit of Antichrist. 13:59 It's a spirit of deception 14:01 and make this very clear, my friends, 14:04 this spirit of deception is everywhere, 14:09 even among God's people in His church. 14:12 Notice John... 14:13 Notice 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 4, 14:15 how we're going to start with verse 3. 14:17 How does John, oh, excuse me, Paul open this up? 14:19 He says, "Let no one," what? 14:22 "Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day," 14:26 which day? 14:28 If you read the context 14:30 and the themes of 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 14:32 you know that Paul often speaks of the second coming of Jesus. 14:36 And when he says, "that day will not come 14:39 unless the falling away comes first." 14:41 He's speaking of the second coming of Jesus. 14:43 In other words, he's speaking prophetically here. 14:45 He's saying prior to the second coming of Jesus 14:48 in the final days of this earth's history. 14:51 Notice what he says here. 14:52 He says there will be a great falling away. 14:57 Now who is Paul's audience here? 15:03 Who is he writing to here? 15:07 Now I want to be very clear, 15:09 we want to make this clear also, 15:10 though all of the Bible is for everyone, right? 15:12 So we know these first and second letters 15:15 of to Thessalonica, 15:16 of course, is for everyone today, even us. 15:19 But Paul's intended audience for this particular letters 15:22 was to the church at Thessalonica. 15:25 So it's interesting that he's warning, he said, 15:27 let no one deceive you by any means for that day. 15:29 The second coming will not come 15:31 unless the falling away comes first. 15:32 And it's interesting 15:34 that when you look into the original Greek 15:35 at this term falling away, and he's warning the church, 15:39 he says there's going to be a great falling away. 15:41 It's the Greek word, 15:43 tell me if you've heard this before, apostasia. 15:47 Apostasia. 15:49 Apostasy, right? 15:51 And what's interesting 15:52 is when you look up the meaning of this word 15:54 in the original Greek 15:55 and what Paul intended to communicate, 15:57 the word in the Greek apostasia 15:59 means to defect from truth, 16:04 or to turn away from truth. 16:07 Get this, to divorce, 16:13 to divorce. 16:15 In other words, 16:17 what he's trying to say is he's warning the church, 16:19 he's saying, God has already showed me 16:21 that prior to the second coming of Jesus, 16:23 there's going to be a certain spirit 16:27 to creep into the church 16:29 and cause people to turn away from the truth 16:34 and cause them to divorce themselves from Jesus Christ, 16:40 all the while deceived into believing 16:43 that they're still married to Him. 16:45 Now can you marry someone 16:47 whom you were not all or could you, can you divorce. 16:49 Excuse me, let me set it, 16:51 can you divorce yourself from someone 16:52 whom you were not married to? 16:55 In other words, if I have, you know, 16:56 someone has a boyfriend or a girlfriend 16:58 and they come to a point in the relationship 17:00 where they figured out it's not going to work, 17:01 one can't say to the boyfriend or to the girlfriend, 17:03 I want a divorce, right? 17:05 There's not enough, there's not already 17:07 a prior favorable marriage there, right? 17:09 They have to be married, 17:10 there has to be a bond and a vow of marriage there. 17:13 It's interesting to note, my friends, 17:14 many people out there today they believe this, 17:16 "once saved, always saved" theology, 17:18 this concept that you know what? 17:19 We can just do whatever we want to live, 17:21 however we want, 17:22 because somewhere back in 19 whatever, 17:23 when I went down the aisle is just as I am, 17:26 was playing in the background. 17:27 And I said a prayer after another minister 17:29 led me through a prayer and I gave my heart to Jesus, 17:31 I was forever saved. 17:33 And there's no one that can plug me 17:34 from the hands of God. 17:35 And they continue to believe this destructive, 17:38 horrible theology 17:40 that once they were saved back then in one moment 17:43 means they're forever saved. 17:44 In other words, they can't fall out of the hands of God. 17:46 But this is prime, 17:47 this is a prime example that it is possible. 17:49 It is possible for someone to believe 17:52 that they have a relationship with the Lord 17:53 and you know what? 17:55 They might have a relationship with God, 17:56 but don't think for one moment, my friends, 17:58 that you cannot slip or fall away. 18:01 That's what's Paul is warning of here. 18:03 He's saying, "Look, I'm telling you, 18:04 God has shown me prophetically, 18:06 this is going to happen before Jesus comes. 18:08 There's going to be people in the church, 18:09 they're going to fall away from the truth. 18:11 They're going to divorce themselves from the truth." 18:14 What did Jesus call Himself? 18:15 I am the way, the truth and the life. 18:17 He says, 18:18 they're going to divorce themselves from Jesus, 18:20 all the while completely deceived into believing 18:22 that they're still married to Him. 18:24 Have you ever met someone 18:25 who believes they know the truth, 18:27 but yet when they talk and they speak 18:28 and their lifestyle, 18:29 it does not represent something of the truth? 18:32 Have you ever talked to someone who believes 100% in something, 18:35 but you know they're wrong? 18:36 Because evidence, 18:38 biblical evidence clearly shows otherwise. 18:40 That's a deceived person and I heard, 18:42 once heard someone say, it was a minister. 18:43 I think it might have been David Asscherick 18:45 or someone who had said 18:46 that the very essence of deception 18:49 is that you are unaware that you are deceived. 18:52 But there is a cure for deception. 18:56 Notice how he says, 18:57 "The great falling away will come first, 18:59 and then the man of sin is revealed, 19:01 the son of perdition." 19:03 Now he's speaking 19:04 of that leading Antichrist figure, 19:07 "Who opposes and exalts himself above all 19:09 that is called God or that is worshiped, 19:10 so that he as God sits in the temple of God, 19:14 showing himself that he is God." 19:22 Son of perdition, man of sin. 19:24 You know, it's interesting 19:26 when you do a word search in Scripture, 19:28 there's only one other place 19:30 where that phrase or that title, 19:32 son of perdition is mentioned. 19:34 In other words, it's only in the Bible twice. 19:38 And it's used to describe two different people. 19:42 One we just read about the Antichrist 19:45 of Bible prophecy, 19:47 that leading Antichrist figure 19:49 who believes that he is equal with God. 19:51 In fact, in moments he's even above God. 19:54 He exhausted himself 19:55 so that he has got 19:56 a substitutionary figure for God, 19:59 sits in the temple as if he is God. 20:01 But the other place is found in John Chapter 17. 20:05 Jesus is praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, 20:08 moments away from being arrested, 20:10 taken to trial 20:12 in which He will eventually be led away 20:14 to be nailed to a cross. 20:16 But while He's in the Garden of Gethsemane, He's praying, 20:19 and He's given His heart, 20:20 just sharing His heart with His Father, 20:22 and He's praying out 20:23 and He's asking the Lord to keep His people protected, 20:26 keep His faithful few protected. 20:28 But notice what He says here in verse 12, John 17:12, 20:31 He says, "While I was with them in the world," 20:33 speaking of the disciples, He says, 20:35 "I kept them in Your name. 20:38 Those whom You gave Me I have kept, 20:42 and none of them is lost except the son of perdition," 20:47 there it is, 20:48 "that the Scriptures might be fulfilled." 20:50 Who is Jesus talking about? 20:54 Who among His 12 was... 20:57 Okay, Judas Iscariot, right? 20:59 Of all the 12 that were, one, 21:00 there was only one that was lost, Judas Iscariot. 21:03 Now, here's what's interesting. 21:05 Son of perdition, Judas Iscariot, 21:08 son of perdition, Antichrist of Bible prophecy. 21:12 What do the two have in common? 21:18 What? 21:23 Did you heard what Brother Mark said? 21:26 Was Jesus from, did was, excuse me, was Judas, 21:29 did Judas persecute Jesus? 21:33 Did Judas betrayed Jesus 21:36 and deceive the others from outside the inner circle 21:41 or from within the inner circle? 21:44 And when you get over here to 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2, 21:47 where we read about this man of sin, 21:48 this son of perdition 21:49 and you do a deep study in Scripture 21:51 on this leading Antichrist figure of Bible prophecy, 21:54 the world is deceived into believing 21:55 that it's going to be some type of evil, political, 21:58 single political individual at the end time, 22:00 who is going to rise up 22:02 take over the United Nations and the one world order, 22:04 this one world government and all this stuff. 22:05 And I'm not denying 22:06 that some of those things can definitely happen. 22:08 But nonetheless, 22:09 everyone's looking toward the White House 22:12 for the Antichrist to show up. 22:14 I remember back when Obama was in office, 22:16 I would go out and I would do evangelistic series. 22:18 And I hear all kinds of people, 22:20 you know, I'd give them an opportunity to tell me 22:22 after when we were doing our antichrist study, 22:24 I would give them an opportunity 22:25 to scream out from the crowd 22:28 to tell me who they thought the Antichrist was, 22:30 and I'll never forget the majority of the people, 22:32 Obama, you know. 22:34 And now there's people that's like, Trump, 22:36 Trump's the Antichrist, and then you got the opposite. 22:37 The others are saying, "Oh, no he's a man of God, 22:40 he's going to save the nation." 22:42 You know, all these things. 22:43 We look to political figures to save us, right? 22:47 But guess what? 22:48 The thing that these two individuals have in common 22:50 Judas Iscariot and the Antichrist 22:53 is that they will deceive the world, right? 22:55 They're going to deceive, 22:57 but they deceive not from outside the church, 23:01 but from within. 23:07 Acts Chapter 20. 23:10 You say, Ryan, yeah, 23:12 there's been a lot of deception in the church, 23:17 but not in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 23:21 Well, surely, 23:22 the devil has no power to deceive 23:25 within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 23:28 because we're the remnant, right? 23:32 Acts Chapter 20. 23:33 Notice verses 28 through 31. 23:35 This is Paul speaking to the church at Ephesus. 23:38 This was the church 23:40 that he spent the most time with. 23:43 Notice what he said, 23:45 speaking to the leadership of the church, he said, 23:48 "Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, 23:52 among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, 23:58 to shepherd the church of God 24:00 which He purchased with His own blood. 24:04 For I know this," notice this, 24:06 he's about to speak prophetically again, 24:07 "for I know this that after my departure 24:09 savage wolves will come in among you, 24:11 not sparing the flock." 24:15 Also, don't get this. 24:16 Also from outside of the church, 24:19 is that what it says? 24:21 Also from outside of the church, 24:24 what does it say? 24:25 It says, "Also from among yourselves, 24:29 men will rise up, speaking perverse things, 24:31 to draw away the disciples after themselves. 24:34 Therefore, watch and remember that for three years 24:37 I did not cease to warn everyone 24:40 night and day with tears." 24:43 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up the trumpet, 24:47 show my people their sins. 24:49 No, Brother Ryan, don't do that. 24:51 Don't tell us and preach to us about victory over sin. 24:54 We want you to preach something to us 24:55 that makes us feel good. 24:58 You see, I don't do good with feel good sermons. 25:02 Now I understand, I believe that every hope, 25:03 every sermon should have hope, 25:06 because there's hope in the Bible. 25:08 Jesus brings hope. 25:09 The truth brings hope. 25:11 The Bible says the truth shall make you free, okay? 25:14 That's a beautiful thing. 25:15 But I don't do good with feel good sermons. 25:18 Because when we come to church 25:19 expecting to feel good about ourselves, 25:22 then we are setting ourselves up for deception. 25:25 Now, I'm not talking 25:26 about not having an assurance of salvation, 25:28 we can have an assurance of salvation, 25:30 we should have an assurance 25:31 that we indeed have a relationship with Jesus, 25:34 but don't ever come to the point my friends were, 25:36 "Oh, I don't want to hear that truth. 25:37 That's too hard to hear, because it pierces me, 25:42 it shows me where I need to grow." 25:45 You see, if I come to a person's sermon, 25:47 and I'm listening to a sermon, and it doesn't prick my heart, 25:50 it doesn't stir within me a spirit of revival, 25:55 then that sermon has not served its purpose. 25:58 When Jesus preached, He preached with love. 26:01 When He preached, He preached with power, 26:04 with boldness. 26:05 He did give hope, He did. 26:08 He brought hope, He brought love, 26:10 He brought joy. 26:12 But don't think for one moment 26:13 that much of the sermons that Jesus delivered 26:16 also brought division 26:19 because men's hearts were failing them, 26:23 and He was calling them to repentance. 26:31 You see, I believe that a spirit of Antichrist 26:35 has been at work among us for many years. 26:39 And I know this, 26:41 because Jesus hasn't come back yet. 26:44 I would like for you to turn with me now 26:46 to Daniel Chapter 8. 26:47 And I would like to focus in on a very important aspect 26:51 of the Christian experience 26:54 that many people have been deceived about 26:58 or simply the truth has been withheld. 27:01 And we do not comprehend the importance of this 27:03 in our daily lives. 27:05 Again, what's the title of the sermon? 27:07 Daily, say that with me, the title of the sermon? 27:09 Daily, Daily. 27:10 We're going to talk about Daily. 27:12 What about Daily? 27:13 Daily what? 27:14 We're going to talk about that. 27:16 Daniel Chapter 8, now, it's interesting 27:17 that I started out talking about this, 27:19 this Antichrist power 27:20 because what we're about to read 27:22 about in Bible prophecy 27:23 is this little horn Antichrist figure. 27:26 And we know that in Daniel 8:10-14, 27:29 notice what the Bible says, 27:31 speaking of this little horn power, 27:33 this Antichrist power, it says, 27:35 "And it," that little horn, "grew up to the host of heaven, 27:39 and it cast down some of the host 27:41 and some of the stars to the ground, 27:43 and trampled upon them. 27:46 He even exalted himself 27:48 as high as the Prince of the host." 27:51 Now I'm going to continue reading through this, 27:52 you tell me, there's a couple of words 27:53 that appear here more than any other. 27:56 And after I read through it, 27:57 I want you to tell me what those two words are. 27:59 "Even as high as the Prince of the host, 28:01 and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, 28:05 and the place of His sanctuary was cast down. 28:08 Because of transgression, 28:10 an army was given over to the little horn 28:12 to oppose the daily sacrifices, 28:15 and he cast truth down to the ground. 28:17 He did all this and prospered. 28:21 Then I heard a holy one speaking, 28:23 and another holy one saying to that certain one 28:25 who was speaking, 'How long will the vision be, 28:28 concerning the daily sacrifices 28:30 and the transgression of desolation, 28:33 the giving of both the sanctuary 28:35 and the host to be trampled underfoot?' 28:38 And he said to me, 28:39 'For two thousand three hundred days, 28:41 then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.'" 28:46 What couple of words there do you see 28:48 that appears more than any of them? 28:52 The two words there actually there in the original 28:55 that are there more than any is Daily and Sanctuary. 28:58 Now some might say sacrifices, 28:59 but you'll notice in Scripture, 29:01 is the word sacrifice is italicized in your Bible? 29:06 That indicates that it's not in the original manuscripts 29:09 that this was pulled from and from the Hebrew. 29:14 So when you read it, 29:16 you should read it that it says, 29:17 and by him the Daily was taken away. 29:21 That the little horn thought to oppose the Daily. 29:26 And it says, how long would the vision 29:27 be concerning the Daily? 29:29 That's the way it reads in the original, the day, 29:31 the Daily what? 29:35 Notice that this little horn, 29:37 notice this is in the context of the 2,300 year prophecy. 29:40 And what happens at the end of the 2,300 year prophecy? 29:44 Does anyone remember? 29:46 The sanctuary shall be, 29:49 that's the time 29:50 that marks the beginning of the end and judgment, 29:55 the final judgment hour, right? 29:58 And the devil knows, get this, the devil knows, 30:03 that if God's people arrive at the end of this 2,300 years, 30:08 and they fully comprehend the importance of this Daily, 30:13 they're going to be prepared for what is to come 30:16 to be prepared for the second coming of Jesus. 30:19 So he starts attacking. 30:20 Notice again, what is he doing? 30:22 He exalts himself as high as the Prince of the host. 30:24 He thinks he's equal with Jesus. 30:26 He wants to be Jesus. 30:27 He wants to be a substitutionary figure 30:30 for Jesus. 30:32 And it says in by Him the Daily is taken away. 30:35 He's attacking the Daily. 30:37 It says in the place of His sanctuary was cast down. 30:41 This is dealing with the sanctuary message, 30:43 my friends. 30:44 It says, "Because of transgression 30:45 an army was given over to him, 30:47 to the little horn to oppose the Daily." 30:49 Notice how the devil has risen up 30:52 this little horn Antichrist power 30:54 to attack the Daily. 30:56 And I know you're still sitting there 30:57 probably thinking the Daily what. 30:59 What is this Daily? 31:00 What's so important about this Daily? 31:02 That's what we're going to talk about. 31:03 It's not going to take us long the Daily. 31:05 Now I wanna clear something up. 31:07 There's some people out there that believe that this Daily, 31:10 it means that it is, that it is paganism. 31:14 Because there are some books, 31:16 there are some writings out there 31:17 where some have suggested that Daily means paganism. 31:21 But that wouldn't make any sense 31:22 because this little horn power is none other than 31:24 the Roman papal church state power, 31:26 and they're continuing 31:27 the tradition of paganism, right? 31:29 But it says this little horn is opposing the Daily. 31:33 So it wouldn't make any sense for him to oppose paganism, 31:36 because He's all about some paganism, right? 31:40 So there's something about this Daily 31:42 that the devil doesn't want God's people to comprehend. 31:46 Because if they comprehend the Daily, 31:49 then they might just come to know Jesus on a daily basis, 31:53 and he can't have that, right? 31:55 What is the Daily? 31:57 Well, it's interesting 31:58 that when you go into the original Hebrew here, 32:01 the word for Daily is the Hebrew word, Tamid. 32:07 Tamid. 32:09 And it means 32:11 continual perpetual. 32:16 So if you were to actually, 32:17 this actually could be translated even better, 32:21 that by him 32:23 the continual is taken away, 32:29 that he's opposing the perpetual, 32:32 the continual what? 32:34 The perpetual, the continual what? 32:35 Right? 32:37 But there's something about this Daily. 32:38 Now, if you know anything about the sanctuary 32:40 you have to understand this, 32:42 there's two services in the sanctuary, right? 32:46 There's the daily 32:50 and then there's what's called the yearly 32:51 or the Day of Atonement, which is a single day. 32:55 Now the Daily is something 32:57 that was carried out every single day of the year 33:01 for 359 days of the Jewish calendar. 33:06 But only on one single day of the year 33:08 known as the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur is where, 33:12 that was the Day of Judgment, 33:13 that was the holiest day of all. 33:15 But understand, my friends, 33:16 this is what we're getting here. 33:18 Don't miss this. 33:19 You can't approach God on the holiest day of all, 33:25 unless you have first approached him 33:27 through the Daily. 33:30 All right. 33:31 Now I know I'm throwing out some terms here 33:32 that some people like, What? 33:34 I'm still confused. 33:35 Hang with me. We're about to nail this down. 33:38 What is the Daily? 33:39 Now I did a word search. 33:42 I have this Bible software on my computer 33:44 where I can find a word in Scripture, 33:46 and I can click on that word 33:47 and it will pop up 33:48 every single reference in the Scripture 33:52 where that word is used. 33:55 And I wanted to know Lord, 33:56 what are You trying to communicate? 33:58 What is it about this Daily that the devil cannot have? 34:03 What is it about this Daily 34:05 that the enemy seems to be attacking it, 34:08 distorting it, perverting it, skewing it, 34:11 so that people can't quite comprehend its significance? 34:15 So I did a little bit of a word search, 34:17 and I want you to notice something, 34:18 it's a direct connection with the sanctuary. 34:20 And I want to show you a little bit of a... 34:22 I'm going to go through this fast, okay, 34:23 so you may not even be able to, 34:25 to go with me to every scripture, 34:27 but that's okay. 34:28 Write them down. 34:29 And this is, sure, it's going to be made available 34:31 to re-watch over and over and over. 34:32 So you'll get to see it again, 34:34 and I'll make the references clear. 34:36 Did you know, get this, 34:37 that the priesthood's ministry in the holy place 34:42 was in the Bible 34:43 called a continual ministry, right? 34:48 Notice Exodus 28:29 and 30. 34:51 Exodus 28:29 and 30. 34:54 Notice what the Bible says here. 34:55 "So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel 34:58 on the breastplate of judgment over his heart, 35:01 when he goes into the holy place, 35:02 as a memorial before the Lord continually." 35:07 Guess what word that is in the Hebrew? 35:08 Tamid. 35:12 "And you shall put the breastplate of the judgment 35:14 of the Urim and the Thummim, 35:15 and they shall be over Aaron's heart 35:16 when he goes in before the Lord. 35:18 So Aaron shall bear the judgment 35:19 of the children of Israel over his heart 35:21 before the Lord continually." 35:24 Tamid. 35:26 Did you know that the altar of burnt sacrifices 35:29 was to be a continual offering? 35:33 Exodus 29:38, 39 and 42. 35:37 Get this, love it. 35:38 It says now when it was, excuse me, 35:40 "Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: 35:43 two lambs of the first year, day by day continually." 35:49 Tamid. 35:51 "One lamb you shall offer in the morning, 35:53 and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight." 35:55 I like that, did you get that? 35:57 You shall spend time with the lamb in the morning 36:00 and at twilight. 36:02 Get that, don't miss that. 36:04 And then verse 42, 36:05 "This shall be a continual burnt offering 36:09 throughout your generations 36:10 at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord, 36:12 where I will meet you to speak with you." 36:14 It shall be a what? 36:16 A continual, Tamid. 36:18 Same word used in Daniel 8 to describe the Daily. 36:21 This is powerful. 36:23 Stay with me, we're getting somewhere. 36:24 Did you know that the fire on the altar 36:27 was to burn continually. 36:29 Get this, Leviticus 6:12 and 13. 36:32 "And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, 36:35 it shall not be put out. 36:37 And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, 36:40 and lay the burnt offering in order on it, 36:42 and he shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings." 36:46 And notice, "A fire shall" and it's just interesting, 36:48 the word is, "always be burning on the altar, 36:52 it shall never go out." 36:53 That word always is Tamid. 36:58 The table of showbread. 37:01 Exodus 25:30. 37:03 "And you shall set the showbread on the table 37:06 before Me always." 37:08 Tamid. 37:10 Continual, perpetual, it's ongoing. 37:14 The seven-branched lampstand. 37:17 Here we go, Leviticus 24:1-4. 37:19 It says, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses, 37:20 saying:" "Command the children of Israel 37:22 that they burn to you pure oil 37:25 of pressed olives for the light, 37:27 to make the lamps burn continually." 37:31 Always perpetual. 37:33 "Outside the veil of the Testimony, 37:34 in the tabernacle of meeting, 37:36 Aaron shall be in charge of it from evening until morning 37:38 before the Lord continually, 37:40 Tamid, it shall be a statute forever in your generations. 37:44 He shall be in charge of the lamps 37:45 on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually." 37:49 Tamid. 37:51 The altar of incense, 37:53 all of this and you're probably wondering, 37:55 what does it have to do with anything? 37:57 Oh, just hang with me. 37:58 It's good stuff, man. 38:00 Exodus 30:7 and 8. 38:02 Speaking of the altar of incense, 38:04 "Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning, 38:08 when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. 38:11 And when Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, 38:14 he shall burn incense on it, 38:15 a perpetual incense 38:19 before the Lord throughout your generations." 38:21 Tamid. 38:22 Continual. 38:26 Now what does all this have to do with the Daily 38:29 and with our lives today? 38:32 You see, the Daily was everything done 38:36 in the courtyard 38:38 and in the holy place of the sanctuary. 38:42 Everything that was done there 38:43 and was done on a daily basis, continually. 38:52 So what does that mean for us today? 38:55 Because the sanctuary though here, 38:57 the wilderness sanctuary, they no longer exists. 39:03 But is there still a sanctuary? 39:06 And do we still have a high priest? 39:11 Hebrews 7:23-25, get this. 39:14 "Also, there are many priests," 39:17 speaking of those priests from back in the day, 39:19 but notice this, 39:21 "because they were prevented by death from continuing." 39:25 See, they're all dead. 39:26 They can't continue on in their ministry. 39:28 "But He," who's He? 39:34 Jesus, "because He continues forever, 39:40 has an unchangeable priesthood. 39:42 Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those 39:45 who come to God through Him, 39:47 since He always lives to make intercession for them." 39:50 He want now, 39:51 He always lives to make intercession for them. 39:55 My friends, get this, 39:57 all these aspects of the sanctuary 40:00 represent different elements 40:02 of the daily saving ministry of Jesus Christ. 40:08 When they would sacrifice that lamb 40:10 on the burnt offering, what did it point forward to? 40:13 It point forward to Jesus as the Lamb of God 40:15 who takes away the sin of the world. 40:17 Every time they would walk past that laver 40:19 and they would dip their hands 40:21 and cleanse their feet from the blood of that Lamb. 40:23 What did it point forward to? 40:25 It pointed forward to the working of Jesus Christ 40:27 to cleanse us of our sins. 40:30 When they would walk up to the table of showbread 40:32 in the holy place, 40:33 and they would eat of that showbread 40:35 every single day, what did it represent? 40:37 It pointed forward to Jesus Christ 40:39 as the bread of life. 40:41 And you know what Jesus said? 40:42 Men shall not live by bread alone, 40:44 but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, 40:48 just as Jesus Christ ate of the bread daily, 40:51 just as the priest ate of the bread daily, 40:54 we too are to eat of the bread daily, right? 40:59 Okay, though, every single day those priests had to walk up 41:03 to that seven-branched candlestick, 41:04 and they had to make sure that it was filled full of oil, 41:08 because the fire was not allowed to go out. 41:12 That represents the work of Christ 41:15 through the ministry of the Holy Spirit 41:17 in our lives. 41:19 When we have the Holy Spirit in our lives, 41:20 the fire of God burns within us, not sometimes, 41:24 not moment just from here and there, 41:26 but it's supposed to continually burn within us 41:29 each and every day. 41:30 And then when you walk up to that altar of incense, 41:33 and that incense is burning, 41:34 it represents the intercessory ministry of Jesus Christ 41:38 as our intercessor. 41:40 It represents the aspect of our life 41:42 that when we pray, and we ask God to forgive us, 41:45 and we ask Him to intercede on our behalf, 41:47 He hears those prayers, 41:48 just as that incense would rise, 41:50 and it would go up to the Lord, the Lord would hear it, 41:54 He would receive it 41:55 and He would present them before the Father 41:56 because He is high priest. 41:58 All of this was done how often? 42:01 Daily, daily, 42:03 you cannot go into the Most Holy Place 42:08 until you have had a daily experience. 42:12 That's what we're talking about here, my friends. 42:16 The Daily. 42:18 Now what's interesting, turn with me to Daniel 12. 42:21 Turn with me to Daniel 12. You got to see this. 42:25 Many times, not just a few, 42:26 but many times the word Daily is appearing 42:28 or does appear in the Book of Daniel. 42:31 But one of the most interesting ones 42:33 is found in the latter verses of Daniel 12. 42:35 Now we're in the last chapter of Daniel, 42:37 the last verses of Daniel. 42:38 And I want to begin reading in verse 11. 42:40 Because this is a prophecy, 42:42 a time prophecy by the way, did you know that? 42:44 These are two-time prophecies 42:45 that many people don't understand. 42:47 And I'm going to unfold them here rather quickly, 42:49 but significantly for this morning 42:51 because it plays a significant role 42:52 in our understanding. 42:53 Notice what he says, speaking of the last days. 42:56 He says, this is Daniel 12:11. 42:59 He says, "And from the time that the daily," 43:03 there it is, "is taken away." 43:04 More the devil really wants to take away this daily, 43:07 doesn't he? 43:08 Why does the devil want to take away the daily? 43:14 What is our goal as Christians? 43:19 What's our ultimate goal as Christian? 43:21 Let's get home, let's get close to home. 43:23 To be saved in the kingdom, we want eternal life. 43:27 We want to be eternally in heaven 43:29 or in the new earth with Jesus, right? 43:32 That's the goal. 43:33 We want to be forever with our Lord and Savior, 43:35 not separate. 43:37 So I love that song, "Never part again. 43:40 No, never part again." 43:42 We won't have to part again, right? 43:44 Because we'll be with Jesus forever. 43:45 That's the goal. That's our goal. 43:47 That's why the Book of Hebrews says that, 43:49 that even Abraham looked far off towards a new city 43:53 and a new earth, a new way of life. 43:55 That's the goal. 43:57 We don't want to be in this life anymore 43:58 with all the death, and the pain, and the sorrow, 44:00 and the horribleness that we're dealing with today. 44:02 The goal is to be with Jesus forever in heaven. 44:04 But here's the thing. 44:05 We cannot be in the presence of our God 44:10 until we have had a daily experience. 44:15 Let's go back to the sanctuary. 44:17 What is the goal? 44:18 What is the ultimate goal of a person 44:22 in relation to the sanctuary message? 44:25 You start at the gate, and you go into the courtyard, 44:28 but do you want to remain in the courtyard? 44:31 You just want to dance around in the courtyard all the times? 44:33 Is that's your place? No, no. 44:34 You should have a courtyard experience, right? 44:37 But then you want to advance into the holy place. 44:41 But do you want to remain in the holy place? 44:46 What is your goal? 44:48 You want to go into the Most Holy. 44:51 Why do you want to be in the Most Holy Place? 44:57 Come on. Think clear here. 44:58 Think clear here. 44:59 Why do you want to be in the Most Holy Place? 45:03 Because that is where 45:05 the presence of God is found. 45:09 But you can't be in the Most Holy Place 45:13 until you have had a daily experience. 45:18 Does the devil know that? 45:20 The devil knows that God wants His people 45:23 to have a Most Holy Place experience. 45:26 He wants them to be in His very presence. 45:31 But the devil knows that that can't happen. 45:34 So what is He attacking? 45:36 He's attacking the daily 45:39 life saving ministry of Jesus. 45:43 Now, how did this happen? Let's continue reading here. 45:45 Daniel 12:11, 45:47 "And from the time that the daily is taken away, 45:52 and the abomination of desolation is set up, 45:56 there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days." 45:59 Now let's just pause there. 46:01 We're going to save verse 12 for the big ending, okay? 46:08 When was the daily taken away 46:12 and when was the abomination of desolation set up? 46:16 And notice this is post 1st century AD. 46:20 We're talking about the little horn doing this. 46:27 When did the little horn take away the Daily 46:29 and what does that mean? 46:31 You see, if the Daily represents 46:33 and I'll go back and read that one more time, 46:35 so it can be very clear. 46:37 With the Daily represents 46:39 the many different elements of Christ's saving ministry. 46:44 In other words, Christ is the bread of life. 46:46 Christ is the light of the world. 46:48 Christ is the intercessor. 46:49 Christ is the cleanser and washer away of sins, 46:52 Christ is the Lamb of God 46:54 who takes away the sin of the world. 46:56 You see, the little horn wants to usurp that power. 47:01 He wants to place himself in the place of Christ. 47:05 When did that happen? 47:09 See, many people aren't aware of this. 47:13 You see, the Catholic priesthood 47:16 was actually formally established 47:20 in 508 AD. 47:23 When the French King Clovis, the king of the Franks, 47:27 which is known as the French, he converted to Catholicism. 47:30 They were the most powerful nation at that time. 47:33 And they helped to bring the Catholic Church 47:36 to world dominant power by the time of 538 AD. 47:40 Notice, 508-538, that was the time period 47:44 in which the Catholic Church was being lifted up, 47:46 up, up, up, up, 47:48 but how were they going to accomplish it? 47:50 They had to make sure 47:51 that they took the attention of men 47:54 off of Jesus to put it on man. 47:59 Why do you think 48:00 the Catholic priesthood was created? 48:04 Because the idea of the Catholic priesthood 48:07 is that you don't pray to Jesus, you pray to men. 48:10 That's why when men and women in the Catholic Church 48:12 go to a priest to confess their sins. 48:16 Only God can forgive sins. 48:18 And notice how they go into this little box 48:20 that's divided by a veil. 48:23 A two-compartment box that's divided by a veil. 48:27 And notice, on one side is the priest, 48:30 and on the other side is the repentant sinner. 48:34 You got that, there's a... 48:35 Was there another place another thing in Scripture 48:37 where there's two compartments divided by a veil? 48:40 The sanctuary, one the Most Holy Place, 48:41 one the... 48:43 So where is that priest placing himself on that veil? 48:46 In the Most Holy Place as a usurper, 48:48 as a substitutionary figure 48:50 for the offices of Jesus Christ. 48:53 When the devil set up the priesthood, 48:55 he completely eclipsed the offices 48:59 and work of Jesus Christ in men and women's lives 49:02 on a daily basis. 49:03 They begin to look to man, 49:04 they've now stopped looking to God. 49:06 This went on and that's why we call it the Dark Ages 49:09 because the bright shining light of Jesus 49:10 was no longer penetrating the church as a whole. 49:14 It was dark. 49:15 The Word of God was taken away. 49:16 The bread was taken away. 49:18 The lamp was taken away. 49:20 The incense was taken away. 49:21 The laver was taken away. 49:23 How was the laver taken away? 49:24 Full baptism, full, fully subversive baptism. 49:27 Now what do they do? 49:29 They sprinkle and they baptize little babies, 49:31 don't even know they exist. 49:34 And they took away the altar of sacrifice by placing a man, 49:38 the pope in the place of the Lamb of God. 49:44 When did this happen? 49:45 Look it up, look up your history, 508 AD. 49:51 Now here's what's amazing. What did it say? 49:53 When all this happens, there shall be 1290 days. 49:57 You know what's interesting. 49:58 When you count 1290 years 50:01 because we're talking about a day for a year principle. 50:03 When you count 1290 years from 508 AD, 50:06 guess what year you come to? 50:11 1798. 50:14 What happened in 1798? 50:18 The power that was set up was momentarily taken down, 50:22 he was given as Revelation 13 says, a deadly wound. 50:26 But notice, I love verse 12, verse 12. 50:29 Hey, you know, I'm not Pentecostal, 50:31 but this makes me about, want to shout. 50:33 I'm just telling you. 50:34 Revelation, excuse me, Daniel 12:12. 50:38 He says, "Blessed is he who waits." 50:41 Lord, what are we waiting on? 50:43 1798, okay, the Catholic Church is taken down momentarily. 50:47 They're the ones that usurped themselves 50:48 in the place of Christ. 50:50 Okay, but he says, "Blessed are those who wait, 50:52 and comes to the 1,335 days." 50:57 Now, the 1,335 days begins 51:00 at the same time of the 1290 days, 51:03 508 AD when Jesus Christ was eclipsed. 51:08 But when you count 1,335 years forward, 51:12 you come to the time of 1843, 51:16 1844 when God was rising up a people 51:21 who would begin to put back together 51:24 all of God's sanctuary message. 51:28 You see, the devil can't have us 51:30 having a daily experience. 51:31 Because if you begin to have a daily experience, 51:33 where you begin to place yourself humbly 51:36 at the altar of sacrifice 51:37 and at the foot of the cross of the Lamb, 51:39 what's going to happen? 51:41 You're going to have a heart change. 51:43 You're going to start experiencing 51:44 as my brother Ivor Myers would say heartburn, 51:47 because you can't behold the Lamb. 51:51 You can't behold the Lamb without feeling something. 51:55 You just got to, you can't help it. 51:57 When you behold Jesus 51:58 hanging on a cross for your sins, 52:00 you can't help but feel something there. 52:04 You want to be cleansed. 52:07 And so Jesus says, "My death wasn't in vain. 52:10 Let me lead you over here to another daily experience. 52:12 I want to cleanse you every single day 52:15 of your dirty sins. 52:17 I'm gonna sanctify you from every one of those sins." 52:20 That's what we lead to the laver 52:22 where those priests every day would cleanse themselves 52:25 their hands and their feet before entering the most... 52:26 Excuse me, entering the holy place. 52:30 And when you find out that Christ has died for you 52:31 and that you have been cleansed. 52:40 Jesus says, "Come with me to the next level. 52:44 I want to take you 52:46 to eat some fresh bread." 52:50 Not that, now understand me. 52:52 Not that like processed and refined junk. 52:56 We're talking about that like 52:57 non hybridized whole wheat bread, right? 53:01 It's got the grains and the seeds and the nuts, 53:03 and all that good stuff in it that some people go, 53:06 you know about. 53:07 I love it. I've come to love it. 53:08 Hey Dave's healthy bread Dave's Killer bread, 53:10 I like Dave's Killer bread. 53:11 I like their bread. That's my bread, right? 53:14 But not just any kind of bread, it's the bread of life. 53:17 God says you know what? 53:19 Spend time with me every day in My Word. 53:22 You see, if you're not spending daily time 53:23 in God's Word, 53:26 you become spiritually malnourished. 53:30 Oh, would the devil 53:31 love to have you spiritually malnourished. 53:37 And the devil doesn't want you to walk around in light. 53:43 He wants you to walk around in darkness. 53:45 So what does he do? 53:47 He wants to go over to that seven-branched lampstand 53:49 and he wants to, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. 53:58 But Jesus says, "I'm the light of the world. 54:02 Because I'm the light of the world, 54:06 when I abide in you, 54:08 you become a light of the world. 54:11 A bright shining light burns in you, 54:14 because I am in you." 54:17 And it causes us to fall on our knees 54:22 every single day. 54:24 God, I'm not worthy. 54:28 I'm not worthy to be called Your servant. 54:31 I'm not worthy to be Your child. 54:35 It humbles you and brings humility in your life. 54:39 See, the devil can't have you humble, 54:42 because you know what 2 Chronicles 7:14 says? 54:46 "If my people who are called by my name 54:48 will humble themselves and pray and seek My face, 54:53 then I will forgive their sins and heal their land." 54:56 He can't have you humble. 55:01 See when you're having a daily experience 55:03 with the Lord, 55:07 He takes you through a cleansing process. 55:10 Malachi Chapter 3, this is our verse of the day. 55:15 Malachi 3:2 and 3, 55:19 "But who can endure," 55:21 this is verse 2 and 3 of Malachi Chapter 3, 55:23 "But who can endure the day of His coming? 55:27 And who can stand when He appears? 55:29 For He is like a refiner's fire, 55:31 like launderers' soap." 55:33 And it's so good to be cleaned. 55:36 Me and my brother has been doing 55:37 a lot of fishing lately. 55:39 When you handle worms and slimy fish, 55:43 and you've been sweating in the hot sun all day long. 55:46 You wants to come home and just be clean. 55:48 Feels good. 55:52 Verse 3 says, 55:54 "He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver, 55:59 He will purify the sons of Levi, 56:01 he will purge them as gold and silver, 56:03 That they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness." 56:10 What's the purpose of the Daily? 56:13 The purpose of the Daily, my friends, 56:17 is a sanctifying, cleansing process 56:21 that must occur every single day in one's life. 56:26 And the devil can't have that. 56:27 So why is he opposing the Daily? 56:30 Why is he attacking the Daily? 56:31 Why is it seem that he's eclipsing the daily ministerial 56:35 and intercessory work of Christ? 56:39 Because he's trying to eclipse 56:41 the light of Jesus in your life. 56:44 Don't allow that to happen. 56:47 Have a courtyard experience, 56:49 have a holy place experience 56:51 because when you go through a proper courtyard experience, 56:55 and it leads you to a proper holy place experience, 56:57 there's going to come a day 57:01 when Jesus is going to pull back that veil, 57:03 and He's going to say, "Come on in." 57:07 Because you'll be able to stand flawless 57:11 in His presence. 57:12 Isn't that awesome? 57:14 Not because of a work you've done, 57:15 but because of a work that He has done. 57:18 Let's have a prayer. Father, we praise You, God. 57:22 We thank You so much for all that You have done. 57:27 We thank You so much for the cleansing, 57:31 launderers' soap, 57:33 the refining fires in our life 57:35 that You allow to occur to cleanse us every single day 57:38 to prepare us for heaven. 57:40 Father, let us have a daily experience with You. 57:45 Let us Behold the Lamb of God 57:48 who takes away the sin of the world. 57:51 Cleanse us, oh, God, I pray. 57:53 In Jesus' name I pray, amen. 57:56 Amen. Amen. |
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