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00:38 Hello, friends, and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host. 00:43 I want to thank you for stopping 00:44 and tuning in today to study along with us. 00:47 Our message for today is entitled 00:49 Testing Truths Brought to the Forefront 00:52 with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 00:54 You know, there was a time that I thought 00:56 all one had to do to be saved was to love and believe. 01:00 Just love and believe, nothing else. 01:02 And certainly those are important attributes 01:04 that every Christian should exhibit. 01:07 But then once I began to study 01:09 the scriptures for myself to read them, 01:12 we had a Bible study every Friday night, 01:14 and we began to read and read and read 01:16 different parts of the Bible. 01:18 This word obedience 01:20 would continually pop up before me. 01:23 It popped up to the point that I began to realize 01:26 that most of God's promised blessings, 01:29 now listen, were on condition of obedience. 01:33 What a surprising revelation I had at that time. 01:36 Then the more I studied 01:38 and gain a deeper understanding of the Word of God, 01:41 the more I began to ascertain that God has specific commands. 01:46 Yes, He commands things. 01:48 He is our God 01:49 that He asks us to willingly obey. 01:53 Specific truths that I realized 01:55 I wasn't seeing lived out 01:57 in the lives of most of the Christians 01:58 I associated with at the time. 02:01 And certainly I wasn't living them out either. 02:04 So began the questions like 02:07 just how important are these truths? 02:09 Is God calling me, me to live up to these truths? 02:14 Are His blessings conditional to obedience of these truths? 02:19 Am I to share these truths with others around me? 02:23 Are you, now listen, this is for you. 02:25 Are you being asked of God, 02:28 understandingly to know love 02:31 and to share these wonderful truths as well? 02:35 I believe that we will have all these questions 02:39 and perhaps several many more answered today 02:42 as we study along with Pastor Kenny Shelton, 02:45 as he presents this message again, 02:47 entitled Testing Truths Brought to the Forefront. 02:52 But first let's pause and be lifted up 02:55 in an inspiring song as sung by Alessandra Sorace 03:00 entitled, I am bound for the Promised Land. 03:03 That sounds good, doesn't it? 03:05 I am bound for the Promised Land. 03:27 On Jordan's stormy banks 03:30 I stand and cast a wishful eye 03:36 To Canaan's fair and happy land 03:41 Where my possessions lie 03:48 I am bound for the promised land 03:52 I am bound for the promised land 03:58 Who will come and go with me? 04:02 I am bound for the promised land 04:13 O'er all those wide extended plains 04:18 Shines one eternal day 04:23 There Christ the son forever reigns 04:27 And scatters night away 04:39 When shall I reach that happy place 04:45 And be forever blessed? 04:50 When shall I see my Father's face 04:55 And in His bring them rest? 05:06 I am bound for the promised land 05:11 I am bound for the promised land 05:16 Oh, who will come and go with me? 05:21 I am bound for the promised land 05:26 I am bound for the promised land 05:42 Thank you again for joining us here 05:43 at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 05:45 If you've already heard in the introduction 05:47 we're going to be talking about a fantastic subject, 05:49 at least in my mind, 05:51 and we're going to try to inject a few things 05:52 I believe it would be well for us 05:55 or just at least be reminded of, 05:57 you know, we're going to be talking about testing truths 06:00 that are brought to the forefront. 06:01 Think about testing truths brought to the forefront 06:03 and you know, is that really necessary 06:06 or is that something that needs to take place 06:07 before Jesus comes? 06:09 I believe that it is. 06:10 And I believe that we're being narrowed now 06:13 into just a little cage as it were 06:15 to what we can say 06:17 and how long we're going to be able to say it. 06:19 So we need to make haste as it were 06:21 because night cometh when no man. 06:23 Ain't that right? 06:24 We can't do what we want to do. 06:26 So we need to say it now, there's an urgency about it. 06:29 And I just believe as we study this by, 06:32 you know, by the grace of God, 06:33 that it will enlighten us and help us 06:35 as we push forward to get this gospel out 06:37 in every way that can, we can get it out 06:40 to warn the world of His soon coming. 06:41 I'm going to kneel and have prayer. 06:43 Would you like to pray with me? Please do. 06:46 Loving Father in heaven, again, we thank You that You love us. 06:48 We thank You that You died on Calvary's cross. 06:51 We thank You 06:52 that You promised to be with us. 06:54 And we pray for the anointing of Thy Holy Spirit. 06:56 Lord, help our minds, help our hearts, 06:59 help us to let, oh, my, 07:00 let the things of the world just go by. 07:02 Let's spend this thoughtful hour with you 07:04 that we need heaven to speak to us. 07:06 We need to hear what you have to say to us. 07:09 And we pray that 07:10 each of Your children will only hear 07:11 what they need to hear 07:13 and all the other messages that I make. 07:14 We pray the Holy Spirit will not, 07:16 they don't need to remember that, 07:17 but just remember the truths 07:18 that You impress on their heart and their mind. 07:20 Thank You for hearing and answering prayer. 07:21 Thank You for the power of Thy Spirit, 07:22 in Jesus' name, amen. 07:26 Testing truths brought to the forefront. 07:28 And some of the testing truths 07:30 is going through some of the things 07:31 and then we're in the season of, 07:33 and I'll just put it that way 07:34 of many people are celebrating the Easter time. 07:36 We don't like to date things, 07:38 but I think it's okay to do it 07:39 because it brings in the subject about Easter. 07:43 Now, remember, all people are celebrating it 07:45 for certain reasons 07:47 and they say, this is all Christian, 07:49 and this is what we need to be doing 07:50 at this point in time. 07:52 Children's mind becomes confused, 07:54 you know, people in the church, 07:55 I'll just have to be honest with you 07:57 are feeding our children some lies. 07:59 And what is your obligation, remain silent? 08:01 Absolutely not. 08:03 Adventism is a church 08:04 that stands against paganism 08:06 being brought into the church. 08:07 Is that true? 08:09 Most of them don't want to hear it. 08:11 Even an Adventist we don't want to hear it. 08:14 We have an obligation. 08:15 You're going to have to stand 08:17 in front of your Creator one of these days, 08:18 as it were in the judgment, 08:19 did we tell everything that we knew 08:22 where these things come from. 08:23 In the Bible 08:25 and don't you like to go to the Bible? 08:27 Some people will say, but Easter is in the Bible. 08:30 Well, remember it's used one time in scripture, 08:34 it says Easter, 08:36 that's in Acts 12:4. 08:39 And it was talking about Peter, 08:42 you know, and disciples and so on 08:44 and was in prison and so on and so forth. 08:46 But anyway, they used the term they said Easter, 08:50 but if you look at it, it's a mistranslation, 08:53 it should say Passover. 08:55 Are you still with me? 08:58 So even in the Word of God, King James Version, 09:00 it says Easter 09:02 because some of the translators 09:03 have put it there, 09:04 but it's really is, it was Passover season. 09:07 And after that time, 09:08 they were going to let Peter and disciples, 09:10 you know, they're going to have to meet 09:11 the council and so on and so forth 09:13 and miracles as we well know. 09:15 So number one, 09:16 Easter is not in the Word of God that way. 09:19 Now page 103 of... 09:21 Most of you, somebody who had the book 09:23 and you've heard about it, 09:24 The Two Babylons by his last name is Hislop. 09:28 I believe his last name is Hislop, 09:29 Alexander Hislop. 09:31 Anyway, he really covers some things of the pagan 09:35 that is brought into the church. 09:36 You remember, we've been studying 09:37 a lot of time over and over about certain things 09:40 that were pure pagan that people baptized, 09:44 as they say, and brought it into the church. 09:46 And we say, now that he's Christian. 09:48 If it starts out 09:49 and it had its roots in paganism, 09:51 it stays that way. 09:52 Does that make sense? 09:54 It never changes because man says it changes. 09:56 It's rooted in paganism. 09:58 And we as Adventist Christian 10:00 will say the same thing about Sunday. 10:03 We say Sunday is, where'd it come? 10:07 Paganism. 10:08 And we say it, and we're very stout on that. 10:10 And we take a stand on that. 10:12 But how about the other things? 10:14 Shouldn't we take a stand on everything 10:16 that we find that's not true? 10:18 In page 103 says this. 10:20 What means the term of Easter itself? 10:23 It is not a Christian name. 10:27 It bears this Chaldean origin or it's pagan. 10:30 Notice this, 10:32 Easter is nothing else than Astarte, 10:34 which is one of title of Beltis, 10:37 the queen of heaven. 10:38 Did you get it? 10:40 One of the titles of Beltis, which is the queen of heaven. 10:43 Now, notice this what it says, 10:46 the festival of which we read in his church history 10:49 under the name of Easter 10:52 in the third and fourth century was quite different than now. 10:58 It was Passover in commemoration of the death 11:02 and the resurrection of Christ. 11:04 Even to the third and fourth century generation, 11:06 you know what? 11:07 There was people that were doing the right thing by it. 11:10 But notice page 107 11:12 of The Two Babylons, it says this, 11:14 the popular observance 11:17 that still attends the period of its celebration, Easter 11:21 confirms the testing history 11:24 as to its Babylonian characteristics. 11:27 You want anything to do 11:29 with Babylonian characteristics? 11:30 Absolutely not. 11:32 Drinking the wine of what? Of Babylon. 11:34 You don't want to drink the wine of Babylon, 11:35 just foolishly or don't question it or say, 11:38 well, this is what we think, it's what it means now. 11:42 Where did, for instance, let me say, 11:44 where did the 40 days of Lent come from? 11:48 Where did the 40 days of Lent come? 11:49 In page 105 it says there, 11:51 among the pagans, notice this, 11:54 the Lents seem to have been an indispensable, preliminary, 11:58 notice, to the great annual festival 12:01 in commemoration, 12:02 notice this, listen carefully, 12:04 of the death and the resurrection of Tammuz. 12:08 Did you get it? That's a yes. 12:10 It's a God of fertility. 12:13 Embodying the powers of a new life 12:16 in nature, in the spring. 12:18 So where did it come from? 12:20 My, my, my, we look at it here. 12:21 Remember death, resurrection of Tammuz, 12:24 not God, not Jesus. 12:27 Interesting. 12:29 Now you remember you reading the Bible where it talks about 12:31 the, that he's going to call them about God's people. 12:34 They were weeping for Tammuz. 12:35 Do you remember that? 12:37 Yeah, in the Bible, it says, oh, it was God's people 12:40 turn their back as it were on God 12:42 and they're little weeping and carrying on 12:44 because of the goddess Tammuz, 12:46 these were God's people who should know better. 12:50 That's in Ezekiel 18. 12:52 You can read those verses Ezekiel 18, 12:54 Ezekiel 8:13-16. 12:57 Read about that. 12:58 It says they were weeping for Tammuz. 13:00 It was, remember this was a... 13:02 Listen, this was a 40 day weeping time. 13:05 Did you get it? 13:06 Pagan for the sun deity for the sun God. 13:10 Interesting. 13:11 Today, this mourning period 13:15 when they were mourning and so Paul cried for 40 days. 13:18 Notice that, you know what today it's called? 13:20 Lent. 13:23 And you want to know a whole lot more about it. 13:25 You can go to places like biblehub.com 13:28 You can go to ebible.com 13:30 You can read a lot about Hislop 13:32 you can go to The Two Babylons 13:33 and you can read all of this stuff, 13:35 it's just good historic. 13:36 Now, if you just punch it up 13:38 and just go and do some surface reading, 13:39 most of and the newer, 13:41 just you want, they pass all the, 13:44 how it originated, where it came from. 13:46 And they just say, 13:48 now we do it here in the church because... 13:51 They don't go back and say where it come from, 13:55 how it originated. 13:56 And we need to do that. 13:58 Forty days of Lent was directly balled 14:02 from the worshipers of Babylonian goddess. 14:06 Forty days of Lent. 14:08 Somehow we've baptized it. 14:10 And somehow we think it's Christian today 14:12 and many people celebrate that time. 14:14 They're really weeping 14:16 for the goddess of fertility here or Sun god. 14:20 It come directly from Babylonians. 14:23 How about, interesting, the hot cross buns, 14:26 you ever heard about that? 14:28 People talk about the hot cross buns. 14:29 You say, oh, that's good on Good Friday. 14:31 We have Good Friday all of that. 14:32 Where do you think all this come from? 14:34 The dyed eggs and the Easter Sunday, 14:39 this all figured into the Chaldean rites 14:41 that they had 14:42 just as they do now. 14:44 Interesting. 14:47 The buns, as it were, 14:48 hot cross buns were used to worship 14:50 the queen of heaven. 14:52 Did you get it? 14:53 The goddess of Easter they call it. 14:56 This was 1500 years before the Christian era. 15:00 You see how this came in, many, many years 15:02 before the Christian shows, 15:04 people who came in 1500 years later, 15:06 it was just automatic. 15:07 This is what we do. Well, it must be okay. 15:09 We've got to go back and see the roots 15:12 of how the enemy is dug in. 15:14 In the book, the two Babylons 15:16 there, page 108 says this. 15:18 How about the origin of the eggs? 15:21 It's just as clear. 15:23 It comes from the ancient Druids. 15:25 Druids, which was a pagan bore an egg. 15:30 It was a symbol of their order. 15:33 Do you remember seeing it? 15:34 I want to call it. They call it Easter egg. 15:36 An egg with a snake wrapped around it. 15:38 Have you ever seen that? 15:41 Interesting. Snake, what represents? 15:43 Remember, this was a paganism in its fullest, 15:46 but notice this, what did they do? 15:49 We find the Hindu religion. 15:52 They celebrate their mundane aid 15:55 as it were as a golden color. 15:58 Notice what happened to the eggs. 16:00 They begin to color them. 16:01 They begin to paint them. 16:04 Japan makes her sacred egg a bronze or a brazen color. 16:09 China at this time 16:11 and it's talking about time the book was written. 16:13 They dyed and painted eggs. 16:17 And uses them in their, we call pagan sacred festivals 16:21 they call it. 16:22 And again, it says, even as this country does. 16:27 We have to ask ourselves, what does the hot cross buns 16:30 and the Good Friday and Lent and eggs have to do 16:34 with the resurrection of Christ? 16:35 Absolutely nothing. 16:37 It's pagan as pagan can be. 16:40 And we have attached it to a good cause 16:43 the resurrection of Christ, 16:45 but we shouldn't let that we should divide. 16:47 And that's what truth does, divides and what? 16:49 And separates us from that. 16:52 Do you want to go along and advocate a teaching 16:55 that the enemy himself came up through paganism? 16:57 Absolutely not. I know you don't. 17:01 The Egyptian or Egypt, 17:04 the Greeks had these mystic eggs 17:09 that again the teaching came from the Babylonians. 17:13 If you study a lot, 17:14 we ain't going to spend much more time on it. 17:16 The egg is as paganism, 17:18 there's two whole meaning of this egg, 17:20 kind of interesting. 17:21 Paganism says that the egg of wonder size, 17:25 listen, an egg of wonder size, think about it, 17:28 fell from heaven 17:32 into the River Euphrates. 17:34 Did you get it? 17:36 And the fishes rolled it out of the sea, the water. 17:41 And then the doves came 17:43 and they sat on it and hatched it. 17:46 Oh, somebody stay with me. 17:47 My lands of love. 17:49 Dove sort of hatched it and out came Venus. 17:54 You know this... 17:57 Yeah, a goddess they say, Syrian goddess. 18:03 And then the egg, listen 18:04 became the symbol of Easter. 18:10 Now, that's one point of it. 18:11 But notice how there was some truth in kind of this. 18:15 Remember, something came from heaven. 18:18 Something was born on this earth. 18:21 Come on. 18:22 But what did the devil do? 18:23 He counterfeits everything. 18:25 See, this is important 18:29 that we don't let our children participate in things 18:30 that we know came from the devil. 18:36 But they said, there's a Syrian goddess that came now. 18:39 Jesus Christ came from heaven. 18:43 One of the two meanings of it. 18:45 The other pagan origin says this. 18:50 The egg was the one 18:53 where the world was shut up in at the time of the flood. 18:58 The egg represented the ark. 19:01 Somebody still with me? 19:03 The egg was a symbol of the ark 19:05 and there were some people that were saved in that ark. 19:10 After Christian, you see after some thoughts, 19:13 but now it's all different and it's twisted right now. 19:17 What happened? 19:19 The Roman Church, Romanist Church adopted the, 19:23 listen carefully, the egg and they did what? 19:27 They consecrated it. 19:29 Lord have mercy. 19:31 How in this world, is it okay to say that, 19:34 I'm just getting frustrated now, Robert, I can't help it. 19:39 They consecrated the egg. 19:42 What do you say over an egg that's consecrated? 19:47 It's just an egg. 19:49 But now they've got, in other words, they did what? 19:51 Took something pagan 19:52 and they put, said something over it. 19:53 And all of a sudden it's a holy egg. 19:56 They consecrated it. 19:59 They adopted the egg, they consecrated. 20:03 And now they say it is a symbol of Christ's resurrection. 20:08 See, we'll hear that, we'll say that, 20:09 you know, we'll understand it. 20:11 And then we'll just go right on and do things anyway, 20:15 because if we don't, somebody will be angry. 20:18 Somebody is going to be upset 20:19 because they want to be like the world. 20:20 They want to have fun. 20:22 They want to do these things. 20:23 I know it, I was little once too believe it or not. 20:26 Some of you think back this a little while you were too, 20:28 you might have enjoyed it. 20:30 You didn't know any better. 20:31 It's all, you know, 20:32 but now you do what you do with it. 20:34 Bible says, to him that knoweth to do good, 20:35 and doeth it not, to him it is sin. 20:38 These believe it or not. 20:40 You may say these are testing truths 20:41 that's going to be brought to the forefront 20:43 and you're going to have to decide 20:45 and I'm going to have to decide. 20:46 And you'll see as we can move on, 20:48 I have an obligation. 20:49 You have an obligation to me. 20:51 I have an obligation to you. 20:52 Everyone that God brings under this roof 20:55 here in this ministry, I have an obligation 20:57 and I'm going to have to meet it in the judgment. 20:59 So if you think I'm a little too harsh sometime, 21:00 please don't. 21:03 You think about, I'm going to have to meet God 21:05 as it were and give an account for each one of you 21:07 that's come under this roof. 21:09 And there's been a lot that's come and gone 21:10 over the years. 21:12 I've got a lot to answer for. 21:14 Have I done my best for Jesus? 21:16 Remember that song? 21:19 I wonder, have I done my best for Jesus 21:21 when He has done so much for me. 21:23 I look and see a lot of failures 21:27 and maybe a lot more that could have been done 21:29 that wasn't done. 21:32 What do you do? You just quit? 21:33 No, you go on. 21:34 You ask for God's forgiveness, 21:36 try to make things right again and move on. 21:37 But I'm going to have to give an account, 21:39 even in things like this 21:40 that you don't think it's important. 21:42 It's pagan through and through is brought into the church. 21:44 It's baptized as it were. 21:46 And now it's what? 21:47 It's consecrated, so it's okay. 21:49 An egg does not represent 21:51 the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 21:53 It does not. 21:55 And I'm not trying to be ugly about it. 21:56 It's just, I can't believe that we've sunk so far, 22:00 so far away from what the resurrection really means. 22:04 A true testing truths brought to the forefront 22:08 that God's challenging us on. 22:11 Nevertheless, 22:13 the foundation of God does what? 22:15 It stand sure. 22:16 We have to stand on that. 22:19 And then he says the last line, remember, 22:21 was depart from iniquity. 22:25 In the days of the apostle, just like now 22:29 it seems some of the most, may I say foolish, 22:32 some of the most foolish and ridiculous things 22:36 were thrown out as truth. 22:39 Do you tell me that's not happening today? 22:42 Yeah. It's happening. 22:43 Absolutely more and more every day. 22:45 We're getting more lenient as it were. 22:48 More and more just, you don't really have to do. 22:51 You don't have to really, just God's going to do it all. 22:53 And we just go about our business 22:54 and have a good time 22:56 and go ahead and color the eggs, 22:57 and go and have it... 22:58 Now here I go again, go out, go out, hunting them. 23:01 If you did it for some other reason. 23:02 But to say in the name of God, in the name of Jesus, 23:05 we better think again, should we not? 23:08 We know that history will be repeated. 23:11 Ain't that right? 23:12 We know that's going to be repeated. 23:13 These things are going to come over and over. 23:15 There's people who will they grasp anything 23:17 that's thrown out there. 23:18 I've never seen any just gullible people 23:20 in my life. 23:22 How about you? 23:24 Brother Jan, I don't care what it is, you throw out, 23:25 there's a group that will accept it 23:28 and say, oh, yeah, they're looking for something 23:29 other than what is real truth. 23:32 They're looking for what we call this, the shadow, 23:36 rather than the substance. 23:38 They'd rather have the shadow, not the substance. 23:41 They don't want that anymore. 23:45 They don't want the real McCoy. 23:49 They want something that is kind of make-believe 23:50 and wish you don't bring that up 23:52 because my son or daughter doesn't want to hear it. 23:58 You have an obligation to train your, 24:00 bring your children up in the admonition of the Lord. 24:02 That's the teachings and do it certainly in there, 24:05 you know, the age that they are in and there, 24:08 you know, their minds. 24:09 But every truth that God has given in His Word 24:11 is not to alienate and not to hurt, 24:13 but to educate and train them in the admonition of the Lord. 24:20 Praise God, there's people 24:22 who want to get this message out. 24:24 They're filled with a real earnest desire 24:27 to teach it and to preach it. 24:30 The beautiful truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 24:33 and then separate from sin 24:36 and sinners is what the Bible says. 24:38 Oh, what an awesome thing. 24:40 And then we're going to look 24:41 when we want to make excuses for it. 24:42 We'll say, well, we're all sinners. 24:44 The Bible still said, we need to separate 24:46 from those kind of things. 24:48 That's what the Bible says. 24:49 Now you can do what you want with it. 24:52 It doesn't mean you don't care. It doesn't mean, you pray for. 24:53 It doesn't mean you work for. 24:55 It means we have to be very careful, 24:56 we don't hang out with. 24:57 Are you still with me? 25:00 There'll be those who will preach a clear, 25:03 decided manner 25:06 the message of Jesus Christ. 25:09 But I believe the time is far spent. 25:12 I believe the beautiful truths of God's Word 25:17 are going to come to the front. 25:19 How are they going to come to the front? 25:21 Are you sure they're going to come to the front. 25:23 They're going to be challenged. 25:25 I know they're going to be challenged, 25:26 but how is it? 25:27 How is Adventism as minute 25:29 as it is going to be 25:30 the cupola right up to the very top 25:32 and all the world is going to be looking at it 25:33 and asking question, 25:35 what's going on here? 25:40 It's no time, brothers and sisters, 25:43 it's no time to allow our minds to be overwhelmed 25:47 with minute things. 25:49 Get it, minor important things. 25:51 And the devil will have you every day just what? 25:55 Just backed into a corner with minute things. 25:58 Did you get it. 26:00 Things that have nothing to do with salvation. 26:02 But he said, she said they did, he did. 26:04 This was in Dao, blah-blah-blah. 26:08 Now is the time 26:09 to do all the power that God gives us, 26:14 that anybody who comes along and trying to as the government 26:17 is today to restrict liberty of conscience, 26:21 free speech, free press, religious freedom. 26:25 We must rise up. 26:30 Well, I guess I'll just say it again. 26:31 There wasn't a one, not a one amen. 26:34 I guess I'll just talk to the wall. 26:37 No, I don't know use, 26:39 somebody starts talking to me 26:41 and I hear them, they say something about 26:42 your religious freedom is going to be suppressed. 26:44 I'm going to say what? 26:46 You have a right, a God given right 26:49 for free speech. 26:50 And they're going to turn into what? 26:52 Hate speech we understand. 26:53 It's going to be very difficult to get this message out. 26:56 We realized we're told... 26:58 Read The Great Controversy about it. 27:00 When the free speech, 27:01 freedom of conscience is challenged, 27:02 God's people need to speak up. 27:05 If you're quiet, 27:07 it will come a whole lot sooner. 27:09 It's going to come. 27:12 Enemy is working in these areas. 27:15 And the work that God has given us to do 27:17 is gonna become more difficult. 27:19 I can see it every day of my life. 27:22 Truth must come to the surface, to the forefront. 27:26 Let me read Five Testimonies 453, says this, 27:29 come on church, listen. 27:32 God means that testing truth shall be brought to the front. 27:36 Sermon title, and be, listen, 27:38 and become a subject of examination, discussion, 27:44 even it is through the, no, 27:47 even if it's through contempt placed upon it. 27:50 He said, God wants this truth to do what? 27:52 Come on church, to cut good. 27:54 Come to the forefront, 27:55 so that people can look at them and discuss them. 27:57 It may be contempt. 27:59 They may hate you for it, but bring them up. 28:00 So that can be a matter of discussion 28:02 rather than a well, I guess it's all right, 28:04 got do what you need to do, and I'll do what I need to do. 28:07 You see what I mean? 28:10 Listen to this. 28:11 The next line says this. Are you still with me? 28:13 Five Testimonies, 453. 28:15 There's many of you who listened to, 28:16 you're not going to look it up anyway. 28:18 You're not going to challenge it anyway. 28:19 But for those who are, and the honest at heart, 28:21 I'm going to read on with it, because it said, 28:23 the minds of the people must be agitated. 28:28 Some of you are old enough 28:32 to remember the old washing machine. 28:38 You know what it was 28:39 when it went into the wash cycle, 28:41 it's called an agitator. 28:45 Okay. 28:48 It agitated the clothes and with a little bit of, ooh, 28:53 power of the Holy Spirit, suds, 28:55 it washed your clothes white and clean. 28:59 So we are to agitate it, you know, in the right way. 29:02 Listen, every controversy, every reproach, 29:07 every slander, will be God's means, notice, 29:12 of provoking inquiry and awakening minds 29:15 that otherwise would slumber. 29:18 Did you get it? 29:19 When they're brought out and you agitate the truth, 29:21 it's going to be brought to the minds of people 29:23 who jut sleep on. 29:26 I say that sometimes we have to wake people up 29:29 before they hear you. 29:31 And when you wake them up, most times they're grouchy 29:34 for the first few minutes. 29:35 If their naps not out. 29:40 Five Testimonies, again, 454 says this, 29:44 the efforts made to retard. 29:46 You can't convince me, I don't think, 29:48 unless you really get from the Word of God, 29:50 I can't ever find it there. 29:52 That the enemy is not trying to retard this work. 29:55 Get it. 29:56 That means, it means what? 29:58 Slow down, ain't that right? Retarded. 29:59 Just anything to slow the thing down. 30:01 He's fighting 30:02 because he realized at the end of the battle, 30:04 what's going to happen to him. 30:06 Is that true, church? 30:07 The enemy knows and let's say 30:09 if each one of you use the same thing, 30:10 if we're not faithful to God, the end result is look out. 30:14 Let's not Mickey Mouse around with it. 30:16 Let's not Milly Mouse as they say around with it. 30:19 Let's look at the real McCoy is he turned life or hell fire. 30:22 Let's just look at it. 30:25 A lot of it, people don't want to hear that, 30:27 but I think it's just true. 30:29 So, there's going to be efforts 30:30 that's going to be made to retire this work. 30:32 And let me tell you, sometime it comes from within 30:35 and not so much from without right now. 30:38 Did you get it? 30:40 Sometime in some churches, the churches retard the work, 30:43 because they don't want to say, they don't want to do. 30:46 They don't want to give out books. 30:47 They don't want to have Bible study. 30:48 They don't want to have evangelistic series. 30:50 They don't want to have any kind of outreach at all. 30:52 They just want to come to church 30:53 and pretend to be holy. 30:55 Can I say it? 30:58 But you all packed up, if you sit here, 30:59 but pack the pews, having full. 31:01 I like to see, you know, the parking lot full too, 31:04 but you know what? 31:05 I'd rather have a few 31:07 that's dedicated to the cause of Christ than budget. 31:09 Okay. 31:10 How about leave it at that, you know where am going. 31:13 Notice when we try to press this to the gate 31:16 and we try to move forward by the grace of God, 31:20 we must be on guard, 31:24 because every, remember, every time 31:25 somebody puts and said, they're going to try retard, 31:27 or they're going to try to press over, 31:29 try to stop you from doing what you need to do. 31:31 God is going to intervene. 31:35 When they do this, 31:37 God's going to use that as the mean, 31:38 listen to extend the work. 31:41 You may try to stop it. 31:43 You know what I say? You ain't big enough to stop. 31:45 I'm not big enough to stop the work of God. 31:47 We're not big enough. Why would we try? 31:50 But sometime we do 31:51 'cause we don't want to hear ourself. 31:53 We must be on guard. 31:55 Review and Herald, 322 and 87 says this. 32:01 What we've been talking about, the most dangerous snares. 32:04 What is a snare? 32:07 The most, good, I like that, trap. 32:08 The most dangerous trap, 32:11 which Satan has prepared for the church. 32:14 Listen carefully, 32:16 is going to come through its own members. 32:19 You keep an eye on me. 32:21 I'm going to keep an eye on you. 32:24 Really. 32:26 We either believe this or we don't. 32:28 The snares, the trap that the Satan lays 32:31 is going to come through its own members. 32:33 That's why we can say 32:34 we have more to fulfill right now. 32:36 Fear from within than we do without right now. 32:39 It's true. 32:40 And you'll say, well, how can that be? 32:43 How can it come through its own members? 32:44 Let me tell you just a couple little things 32:46 that I thought through here. 32:47 Let's identify this and it might identify you. 32:50 It might identify me. We hope not. 32:52 But if it does, we need to maybe change 32:54 our way of doing things. 32:58 Satan uses those 33:00 who claim to believe present truth. 33:04 Satan, what? 33:06 He uses those who claim to believe present truth. 33:12 He can't use me, I believe present truth. 33:14 He can't me. 33:16 Don't fool yourself. 33:18 I don't fool myself. 33:19 I don't trust myself. 33:24 I don't trust myself. 33:27 But we all should say that, don't you? 33:28 I mean, We look at it because the Bible said 33:30 the heart is deceitful above all things 33:33 who can know it. 33:34 Oh, I'm not going to. 33:35 Peter said, I'll stand right in there. 33:37 Remember, I'll die. 33:40 I'll protect You, Lord. 33:41 No. 33:43 Peter I pray for you. 33:46 Today we should be praying one for another 33:48 because we have a lot of lip service. 33:49 And when the going gets tough, we're out of bounds. 33:51 We're out of sorts. 33:53 When we don't show up. 33:57 People say I've got your back. 33:59 But if you look around, they're about four mile back. 34:03 Do you follow me? Ain't that right? Yeah. 34:05 If you say I've got your back, I want to touch you back here. 34:08 I want to know you're here. 34:10 Give me your hand. You see what I'm saying? 34:11 You're close. 34:13 And we should have, as it were right to walk with 34:15 and to be encouraged by 34:17 those who presenting and telling the truth 34:19 as it is in Jesus Christ. 34:22 So, he's going to use those who believe in, 34:24 you know, the present truth. 34:27 And he's going to use, notice this, 34:28 believe it or not the unconverted, 34:30 because there are unconverted people 34:32 with their names on the church books. 34:35 Does that make sense? 34:37 There are... 34:39 I feel like myself many times I need to be reconverted. 34:42 And I found out I do every day. 34:45 Does that make sense? 34:46 I need to rededicate every day, 34:48 'cause I need to be converted every day. 34:50 Because walking through this world 34:51 it gets a little dust on your feet, 34:53 little dust on the mind sometime 34:55 and a little hasty word sometime 34:57 and things you're not happy and you're not proud of, 34:59 but sometime it comes out. 35:01 You can only come to God and say, God, help me. 35:04 I need help. Why? 35:05 Because you say to God 35:07 as I've said to Him many times before, 35:08 I know this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 35:13 And I want to inherit, how about you? 35:16 And so, to recognize it 35:17 and to bring that before Him our weaknesses, 35:20 bringing him before him, 35:22 He can help you gain that victory. 35:26 Because there are in the church 35:28 that those who do not love God supremely 35:30 and their fellow man as themselves. 35:33 On these two hang all the law. 35:35 And this is what the enemy is going to work with. 35:41 It comes from within these things 35:44 that these testing truths brought to the forefront. 35:48 What are you going to do with them? 35:49 Bible says in Psalms 100:5, I love it. 35:54 Just a couple of words that said, 35:56 "His truth endureth to all generations." 36:00 His truth does what? 36:02 It endureth to all generations. 36:04 But I say that it seems, it just seems 36:07 maybe because I'm, 36:08 you know, I need more 36:10 of Holy Spirit power and more of, 36:11 it seems to the love of the truth is dying out. 36:14 Can I say that? 36:17 See, we're all going to come up with our own thoughts 36:19 as we think about this and pray about it. 36:21 And we've talked to people and members of the church 36:23 and other people, it seems like the love of truth is just, 36:25 it's dying out. 36:28 We know this, we know that we cannot be saved in sin. 36:32 1 John 3:4, 36:34 "Sin is the transgression of God's law." 36:35 We know that. 36:37 Ain't that right? 36:38 So we got that in our mind, 36:40 but it seemed like the truth is just like it's dying out. 36:44 Yet it seems as though we have been so concerned 36:49 about, listen, 36:51 not our connection with Christ necessarily, 36:54 but we've become so concerned over our jobs. 36:58 We've got in and not saying this is all wrong, 37:00 but notice we put them above God. 37:02 We've been concerned. 37:03 Have over concerned maybe about our houses. 37:05 We have concerned about our businesses, 37:08 concerned about the way we dress and what we eat 37:11 and am not saying any of these things are wrong, 37:13 but notice this. 37:14 Some of us are more concerned 37:16 of what we're going to have for lunch or dinner 37:17 than we are in the cause of Christ. 37:21 We're concerned about all of these different things 37:23 and put more effort into them 37:24 than we are in the saving of souls. 37:27 That's why you're here. 37:30 That's why I'm here. 37:31 It's about right, 37:33 by the grace of God, saving souls, 37:36 planting some seed, not necessarily, 37:39 remember the Bible said, 37:40 don't, don't take no thought about the marble, 37:41 think about what you're going to eat. 37:43 Don't think about what you're going to wear. 37:44 Don't think about all these all going to be added unto you 37:47 if you put Him first, all these other things. 37:51 I mentioned just a while ago, 37:53 that the souls of men and women 37:55 we're going to have to meet them 37:56 as it were in the judgment. 37:59 Did you think about the judgment? 38:02 You're going to appear in the judgment. 38:04 2 Corinthians 5:10 tells us 38:07 that we must all appear 38:08 before the judgment seat of Christ. 38:12 We must all appear. 38:13 And I say many times not, you can say, I don't want to. 38:17 It's too bad. 38:19 Not trying to be ugly about it. 38:20 If you don't, you say I don't want to, 38:22 I never signed up for it, too bad. 38:26 I said, I didn't want Lord as my, 38:28 you know, as my Lord and my Savior, 38:30 I didn't want Jesus in my life. 38:31 And I bowed out of this a long time ago. 38:33 You two must appear 38:35 before the judgment seat of Christ. 38:37 You're going to have to give an account of the deeds 38:38 that's done in this body. 38:40 That's what the Bible says. 38:43 We're going to have to give an account 38:45 for the effort that we put forth 38:49 to try to lead someone to Christ. 38:52 What kind of effort are we putting forth today 38:54 to win them to Jesus Christ? 38:57 Hebrews points it out in Hebrews 10:27, 39:00 just really points it out. 39:02 It starts out something like, 39:03 "But a certain fearful looking for the judgment 39:08 and the fiery indignation, 39:10 which shall devour the adversaries." 39:13 And what kind of a looking? 39:15 A fearful looking for the judgment. 39:19 Shouldn't we be fearful in the right way 39:21 when we talk about the judgment? 39:24 The judgment, about our names coming up in the judgment, 39:27 should we not? 39:28 Do you realize we live in such an hour? 39:30 And many times Adventist don't know. 39:31 If anybody should know in the world, 39:33 we should know it, my lands. 39:37 I want everybody to know it. 39:38 You see that's the frustration. 39:40 And to accept it, 39:43 that is, we don't know that it hasn't already, 39:45 or it's time that the names of the living 39:47 will come up in the judgment. 39:51 The judgment of the house of God, 39:52 remember, started with the dead righteous. 39:55 That's the only one that's going to appear 39:57 in the judgment right now. 39:58 Isn't that right? 40:00 Because the ones who said, I love Jesus. 40:02 Then there's going to be an Investigation 40:03 if you love Jesus. 40:05 Everything you said, everything's you've done 40:06 has been written in a book 40:07 and had it there and your life was there. 40:09 You can't deny it. 40:11 It's an open book. 40:13 But when that finishes, 40:16 then what, the living righteous. 40:19 Remember if you're not trying to live 40:21 and not made it a profession, 40:22 your name's not even going to come up at this time 40:24 because why, why bring it up to investigate you? 40:26 Because you've already said no. 40:28 Does that make sense? 40:30 Yeah, it's a choice. 40:33 But when it comes out, we can be in that time. 40:37 And when the last name comes up, 40:39 that's going to be it. 40:41 And whatever your name, if it comes up now, 40:43 if it comes up next week, next month, 40:44 if that be the time that we're framed, that we're in 40:47 and could very well be in that position right now, 40:50 when your name comes up before Jesus, 40:52 there's going to be a pronouncement 40:54 that you're either going to make it to heaven 40:56 or you're not. 40:58 And if it's even 10 years down the road 41:00 or 20 years down the road, you follow me. 41:02 It's not going to change because God knows you. 41:04 Because He knows me and exactly what would happen 41:06 If we continue to live, He knows. 41:09 So, what if your name come up tomorrow? 41:12 What's going to be stamped on it as it were? 41:14 Are you going to have the seal of the living God? 41:16 Am I going to have the seal of the living God? 41:18 These truths are going to be coming to the forefront. 41:21 We need to know them. 41:25 And what about you think about, 41:29 is it okay if I say laziness, 41:31 stupidity of us sometimes 41:35 when we believe 41:37 that we are near the end of time. 41:40 We are near the end of time. 41:41 People are going to say, yeah, yeah, yeah. 41:43 But you know what you do? 41:45 You stay home most of the time. 41:49 Hebrews Chapter 10 doesn't say that. 41:52 Hebrews 10:25 said, 41:54 "Don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together 41:58 as the manner of some is." 42:01 And you say, well, that could be. 42:03 No, as it goes on so much more, as you see the day approaching. 42:08 Did you? 42:10 I mean, we either believe that and we incorporate it in 42:12 or we don't or we're just going to be all right by ourself. 42:15 We don't need anybody else. 42:20 These are the truths that's going to be coming up 42:22 to the forefront. 42:24 And we're going to have to decide 42:25 whether we think 42:27 that we need the warmth of others, 42:32 the counsel of others, 42:34 or are we as it were a God unto ourself. 42:37 We don't need to counsel with anyone. 42:39 We don't need to talk with anyone. 42:41 We've got all the answers. 42:43 The Bible said, we're going to be coming 42:44 because we see the day approaching. 42:47 You believe that Christ is coming. 42:49 And I know that you do. 42:51 And I believe that Christ is coming very soon. 42:54 We must heed the warning. 42:56 Meet together, assemble together, 43:00 come together. 43:03 Why? To share God's blessing. 43:05 To pray together. 43:07 Glory, to sing together. 43:09 Shout maybe together. 43:11 Study the Word of God together. 43:15 Keep us on fire. 43:18 Keep us on fire. 43:20 But there's many who advocate 43:21 though I do just as well if I stay home. 43:27 What if you choose to pull away 43:28 and you just want to stay by yourself? 43:31 Now, there may be a reason 43:32 because the churches you go to maybe teaching untruths 43:37 and I'm talking about any church. 43:40 Okay? 43:41 I am not, 43:43 you might I'm not trying to be ugly about it. 43:44 I'm not going to go to a church 43:46 that's not preaching what I understand at least 43:48 at this point in time, what the truth. 43:50 And they water them down, 43:51 that's still an untruth, that's still a lie. 43:53 And I'm not going to go listen to that either. 43:56 The radio if I listen 43:57 to a religious station as it were. 43:59 And I can't even do that anymore 44:01 because the first thing I hear 44:02 something I don't believe is truth. 44:06 Remember, to him that knoweth to do good. 44:07 So, my decision, I can't listen to that 44:08 because I don't believe, 44:10 I believe that's a lie of the devil. 44:13 Be careful what you listen to, 44:14 be careful who you support, okay? 44:18 You think you can be a Christian 44:19 and stay away. 44:22 The time may come 44:24 but is it now, 44:26 or is there a place that you believe 44:27 that you might hear a truth 44:29 and you can discuss truth and grow. 44:35 That situation happened, you've heard the story. 44:37 I'm sure I'll just relate it as quick as I can. 44:39 Only nine minutes left. 44:41 What's, who's monkeying with the clock. 44:44 To you It may seem a long time, 44:46 to me I'm serious about five, ten minutes. 44:48 I can't help it, well, it's just the way it is. 44:52 I don't need any oxygen. I'm fine. 44:53 I'm going for a long time. 44:59 A man and a member of the church 45:01 and an elder had a discussion. 45:02 You remember hearing this one? 45:04 They had a discussion that member of the church said, 45:08 I can be a good Christian. 45:09 I can stay at home by myself and study the Word of God 45:12 and I can be whatever God wants me to be. 45:14 The elder said, well, I'm a... 45:15 I believe a little different than that. 45:17 And the man said, 45:18 "Well, good, well, why don't we have 45:20 a discussion over that." 45:21 The elder said, 45:23 "Fine, come to my house this cold winter day." 45:24 And so, the man showed up and then said, 45:26 hello, good evening greetings and so on. 45:28 And the elder had a big fireplace 45:30 and had it was rip-roaring. 45:32 There were some coals 45:33 that were in the bottom of it was red hot. 45:35 He didn't say anything, 45:37 but the greetings and they come in 45:38 and he said, oh stand, elder said, 45:39 "Stand by the fire brother, 45:41 warm yourself up just a little bit." 45:44 And he said, okay. 45:46 So very little exchange at this point, see, 45:48 warm up first and feel good. 45:49 And then we'll sit down and discuss. 45:51 So nothing was said, 45:52 both of the men went to the fireplace. 45:54 Usually, we do like this. 45:57 I don't know what that mean. You know what I mean? 46:02 So, they stayed at the fireplace 46:03 and not a word was said. 46:07 The elder reached over 46:09 and got some tongs, a big, long tong. 46:11 He reached in and he got one of those 46:13 hot, glowing coals. 46:16 He pulled it out of the fire 46:18 and he set it over here by itself. 46:22 Not a word was said, they dissed. 46:24 Both men just looked, never a word exchanged. 46:28 They looked at it. 46:30 Two or three or four minutes, they looked at it again. 46:32 It was going out, another minute it was out. 46:37 The member of the church looked at it. 46:39 He looked at the elder. 46:42 Remember not a word was, 46:44 then the discussion they were going to have 46:45 not a word was said. 46:47 The member of the church looked at the elder and said, 46:49 I see exactly what you mean. 46:50 I'll see you at church next week. 46:55 isn't that wonderful? You think about it. 46:57 You will go out. 46:58 We need the one. The day is coming. 47:00 We need to gain warmth from the coldness 47:02 even of others, 47:04 Sister White says. 47:06 I need your testimony. 47:09 I need your miracles that God does in your life. 47:12 I need to hear them. 47:15 It's encouragement to me that God will never leave us, 47:17 He'll never forsake us. 47:19 These old truths of God to come up and out. 47:23 They're going to be challenged on every hand. 47:26 I always say, 47:28 as I get in the middle of some of this stuff, 47:29 said, man, it should have been two or three parter. 47:32 I'll never have enough sense to get it right. 47:34 And only Holy Spirit can do that, 47:36 I need to be praying more. 47:41 We think about this. 47:45 We need the Lord. 47:48 We need each other. 47:50 We need these truths 47:52 to be proclaimed high and low, 47:56 but we need to do this. 47:57 And there's six minute or so, listen, 47:58 Hebrews 13:17 says this, 48:01 this is a word even an Adventist 48:03 we don't like and we hear obey. 48:07 We realize that we have to think, 48:09 and we say, be obedient. 48:11 "Obey them that have the rule over you." 48:15 What does it say? 48:16 Hebrews 13:17, see, we're not getting it. 48:19 You ain't going to take it home with you. 48:20 You're not even going to consider it 48:22 after this point here, possibly. 48:24 Obey them that have rule over you. 48:27 This passage is referring to, 48:29 notice, a rule is the guide, 48:31 rule is the leaders of the church in this passage, 48:35 notice this, 48:37 and submit yourself to them, 48:40 for they, notice this, for they watch for your souls. 48:44 As they must, we talked about, as they must give a what? 48:47 An account that they may do it with joy 48:52 and not with grief, 48:54 for this is unprofitable for you. 48:58 Yeah. 49:00 Here in this passage, 49:03 God's people are encouraged 49:05 to obey as submit 49:07 to the appointed leaders. 49:09 Interesting thought. 49:11 And I'm going to put an if in there 49:12 if it's okay with you. 49:14 Agree, submit to them 49:16 if the leaders themselves are obeying the master. 49:21 Okay, now, come on. 49:24 If they're preaching one thing and doing another thing, 49:26 then why should you obey them? 49:28 I don't care what their position is, 49:29 is that all right? 49:30 Your position doesn't make you, the man. 49:32 Your position doesn't make you anything with God. 49:35 If they're doing the right thing, 49:37 then we should by the grace of God. 49:41 Why? 49:43 Because the leaders are going to have to give an answer 49:46 to God for you, 49:50 Lord, have I done the best? 49:54 See, a stewart is accountable to his maker 49:59 for any goods and trusted to his care. 50:05 And he knows he has to give an answer 50:08 for his stewardship. 50:10 I don't forget that 50:11 when people come through those doors. 50:13 They may not always come across as that way. 50:15 But I realized, and especially the heartache 50:18 when someone leaves 50:20 and you can't figure out why, they won't tell you why, 50:23 other than they want to do their own thing, I don't know. 50:27 What's going on in the world today, 50:28 my brothers and sisters? 50:31 We'll see God's people coming to the forefront 50:34 like never before. 50:35 We need to be to contending. 50:37 Jude 3 says, 50:38 contending for the faith once delivered to the saints. 50:41 That means we need to come back to the very beginning. 50:43 Jude verse 3 wants his readers. 50:46 Jude was saying here, first of all, 50:47 you know, go back to the original, 50:50 go back to the beginning form of Christian doctrine 50:53 that was delivered by Christ and by the apostles. 50:56 We've got to go back to that. 50:57 And not some of the stuff that we hear out there today. 51:00 Why? 51:01 Because we're seeing apostasy on every hand. 51:06 We're seeing things happen. 51:09 And with people whom have had our great confidence. 51:12 We've had put confidence in them 51:15 and they've fallen away for some reason. 51:17 We trusted them. 51:19 Read more about that Third Selected Messages, 411, 51:23 the world is coming apart at the seams. 51:25 May I say quickly, 51:26 the world is coming apart at the seams. 51:29 The many leaders of the world today, 51:31 they describe events, they describe laws, 51:34 they describe the national debt, 51:36 they describe our borders, they describe COVID-19, 51:39 they describe our schools. 51:41 They talk about the unions. 51:42 They talk about a lot of Pinocchios 51:44 in the world today. 51:46 If you heard that through the news? 51:47 What do you mean, Pinocchio? 51:48 That was in 1883, 51:50 that this wooden dummy as it were right. 51:52 All of a sudden, supposed to come to life. 51:53 One of the greatest kids' book and teaching lies. 51:57 And every time he lied, his nose grew. 51:59 And now they're saying 52:00 that there's a lot of our leaders are Pinocchios. 52:03 I don't deny that. 52:05 They talk about socialism and communism 52:07 and hate groups and hate words and hate crimes. 52:10 And what you're, what you don't like. 52:12 If you don't like it, just burn it down. 52:15 If you don't like it, tear it down. 52:17 If you don't like it, rename it. 52:19 Are you still with me on that? Come on church. 52:21 If you don't like it, just hit the reset button, 52:23 change the whole thing. 52:24 That's what they're trying to do. 52:26 Get rid of the history of this country 52:27 because you don't like it. 52:28 There's a lot of things I don't like, 52:30 but I don't want to get rid of the history of it. 52:31 Just like we talked about Easter. 52:36 Words as we close, oh, 52:38 I'm not even going to get halfway through. 52:39 Words that we hear all the time on the TV and internet, 52:42 they say, what's going on in the world is horrendous. 52:45 Have you heard it? 52:47 It's unpleasant. 52:48 It's horrifying. 52:50 It's dreadful. 52:51 It's a crisis. 52:52 The other group said, "There's no crises." 52:55 It's terrible. It's shocking. 52:57 You hear this on all the newscasts. 52:59 It's appalling. It's gruesome. 53:01 It's a nightmare. 53:03 It's an atrocity. 53:04 It's sickening. It's nauseated. 53:08 That just, it's a spine chilling. 53:11 This detestable. 53:12 You hear all these things, word like this used to describe 53:14 the world that we live in. 53:18 But we are as God's people is to call sin 53:20 by its right name. 53:21 This is what we need to do right now. 53:23 Well, are you willing to do that? 53:24 Stand in defense of the truth 53:25 because what we're giving right now, 53:27 as the days go by, listen, 53:29 it's going to be tougher and tougher to give it. 53:31 It's going to be almost impossible 53:32 to give this message 53:34 because of all the laws that's happening 53:35 in the land today, 53:36 as you can't say anything anymore 53:38 without them, okay, we got you. 53:41 Lord, have mercy. We need to pray. 53:43 I'm going to close out with prayer here. 53:44 You kneel with me if you will. So, we pray together. 53:46 Loving Father in heaven, 53:48 thank You for your precious Word. 53:49 We know we haven't gotten too far, Lord, 53:51 in our own study, but we got as far as You want us to get, 53:53 and we thank You for it. 53:54 Make these beautiful truths 53:56 real in our hearts and our lives. 53:57 Help us to be ready, help us to do what we need to do 53:59 to prepare for Your coming. 54:01 We thank you in Jesus' name. 54:02 Amen. 54:04 God bless each one of you. 54:05 Thank you again for your cards, your letter, 54:06 your support of the ministry. 54:08 And we look forward to spending some more time with you. 54:09 We'll see you next time. 54:13 Hello and welcome back, friends. 54:14 Wow. 54:16 Worshiping God in spirit and in truth 54:19 are both equally important. 54:21 In fact, let's read this as written in John4:23, 54:26 "But the hour cometh, and now is, 54:29 when the true worshipers shall worship 54:32 the Father in spirit and in truth: 54:36 for the Father seeketh such to worship him." 54:39 Friends, we have our assignments. 54:42 There is a heaven to gain and we have a hell to shun, 54:47 and we must become a soldier in the Lord's army 54:51 to share these testing truths to as many souls around us 54:55 as we possibly can 54:57 and as soon as we possibly can, 55:00 for the time is coming that the Bible refers to 55:03 as night when no man can work. 55:06 So, we must labor while it is yet day 55:08 giving all to the saving of souls. 55:11 In closing I just want to share the chorus to a song 55:14 that I just heard recently while driving down the road. 55:18 This song is entitled the people that God gives you. 55:23 And the chorus goes, 55:24 love the people that God gives you. 55:27 They are a gift that heaven sent. 55:30 Live and laugh and make some memories. 55:33 Treasure every moment spent 55:36 because none of us are here forever. 55:38 That's a proven fact. 55:40 Love the people that God gives you. 55:43 Because one day He'll want them back. 55:46 Friends, we are in a solemn judgment hour, 55:51 the Bible talks about. 55:53 And I'm sure that 55:54 none of us would want to stand before God 55:56 having knowingly shun our duties 55:59 to love and to witness truth 56:01 to those whom God has placed in our lives. 56:05 This is a thought, a solemn thought 56:08 that I hope each and every one of you 56:10 will pray about every day. 56:12 And as always today's message is available on DVD or CD. 56:16 If you like for a love gift of just $8 or more, 56:20 simply contact us here in the United States 56:23 at (618) 942-5044 Central Time. 56:27 And ask for Testing Truths Brought to the Forefront, 56:32 or you may write in your order to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 56:35 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 56:40 You may also email us 56:41 at Contact @BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 56:45 or visit us on our website 56:47 at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 56:50 And I want to encourage you 56:51 as I have been for several weeks now 56:54 to join our Behold the Lamb Ministries' YouTube channel, 56:57 and hit the subscribe button 56:59 so that every time we release a new program 57:02 or older program 57:03 that just has never been online before, 57:06 you will be notified. 57:08 And then share these messages with your family and friends. 57:10 That's one way to share this truth, 57:12 this fantastic truth that God has given us. 57:16 And we also invite you to join us 57:17 on Behold the Lamb Facebook page. 57:20 So, until next time, friends, 57:21 may our precious Lord 57:23 continue to richly bless each and every one of you. |
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