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00:38 Hello and welcome once again to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, 00:43 I'm so thankful that you have tuned in 00:45 and are ready to join us today. 00:48 Our message for today is entitled, 00:50 God spoke out of the fire. 00:52 What was so very important that 00:54 God would call 00:55 all of His people together in Horeb, 00:58 near the mountain as it burned with fire 01:00 in the midst of heaven? 01:02 The Bible tells us in the Book of Deuteronomy 4:12-13, 01:07 "That God spoke to His people 01:09 from the midst of the fire and declared his covenant, 01:13 even the Ten Commandments 01:14 that He wrote upon two tables of stone." 01:19 How amazing to mentally visualize 01:23 that God Himself spoke in such a spectacular, 01:26 supernatural manner to His children 01:29 to get their full attention. 01:31 What He had to say, 01:33 He trusted with no human 01:36 to be His mouthpiece at that time, 01:39 nor did He allow any human being 01:41 to dictate all that is contained 01:44 within His Ten Commandment law. 01:46 We must as truth seekers ask, 01:50 why was giving this covenant so very important that 01:54 God Himself spoke through 01:55 the midst of the fire and wrote out His law on stone 02:00 with his Own finger? 02:03 Will the answer 02:04 to these important questions only pertain to the Israelites 02:08 who were alive at the time to witness these events? 02:11 Or are they so important that 02:13 they are still binding upon God's people today? 02:17 Please stay tuned with us as we join Pastor Kenny Shelton 02:21 for the answers to these questions 02:24 as we discover why God spoke out of the fire. 02:28 But first, let's visit 3ABN, and listen to a song entitled, 02:32 Then They Will Know, 02:34 as sung by Sister Naomi Jackson 02:54 I will speak 02:58 I will wait 03:02 I will send prophets among them 03:08 That they might hear 03:12 That they might see 03:15 And understand how much 03:19 I love them 03:22 Then they will know that 03:26 I am Father 03:29 And they will know 03:32 I am Lord 03:35 They'll walk with me and be my people 03:42 I'll walk with them as their God 03:48 As their God 03:56 I will strike I will scourge 04:02 And carry out 04:04 Vengeance upon them 04:09 But I will heal the wounds I make 04:15 And tenderly take them 04:19 Back to me 04:22 Then they will know that 04:26 I am Father 04:29 And they will know 04:32 I am Lord 04:36 They'll walk with me 04:39 And be my people 04:42 I'll walk with them 04:45 As their God 04:49 This is heaven 04:52 This is salvation 04:55 This is their great hope and mine 05:17 He will come 05:21 My own Son 05:25 A Word faithful hearts 05:27 Can't help hearing 05:31 And by His death 05:35 With His last breath 05:38 A Father's forgiveness 05:41 Comes flowing 05:45 Then they will know 05:48 That I am Savior 05:52 I am Redeemer and Friend 05:58 Immanuel the God 06:02 Who is with them 06:05 The God who gives all 06:08 He can 06:11 He is salvation 06:15 He is the kingdom 06:18 To know Him is paradise 06:25 Then they will know that 06:29 I am Father 06:32 Then they will know 06:35 I am Lord 06:38 I am Lord 06:53 Thank you for joining us once again 06:55 here at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 06:56 We look forward to always being 06:58 able to come into your home to study 07:00 the Word of God with you. 07:02 It is a delight, it is a privilege 07:04 and I count it an honor and blessed of God the day 07:07 that I can spend this time with you. 07:09 You can spend it in the Word of God 07:11 with all the angels of heaven 07:12 with the power of the Holy Spirit. 07:14 We're going to be looking at a subject today 07:15 that I believe will bless your heart 07:17 as it blessed mine as I studied for it. 07:19 God spoke out of the fire, God spoke out of the fire. 07:24 If there was ever a time in this earth's history 07:26 that we need God to speak words of fire 07:30 as it were, it's right now. 07:31 Amen 07:32 It's going to take something that's going to burn 07:34 through some of us Laodicea Christians 07:37 here in this last days and we'll see how God again, 07:40 we're going to be looking at this subject 07:41 which is a message that God 07:43 was reinforcing to the children of Israel 07:46 before they reach the Canaan land. 07:49 I believe it's the same message today 07:51 just before Jesus comes and I believe 07:53 we're in that hour right now. 07:55 I want to get into the Word of God, 07:56 but I can't do it without praying, 07:57 so I'm going to invite you to pray along with me. 07:59 Would you do that please? 08:00 Let's pray. 08:02 Loving Father in heaven 08:03 and we thank You again for the privilege of prayer. 08:05 Thank You that we can call You our Father. 08:07 Oh Lord, for a clear heart, clear mind. 08:09 Oh, to have heaven to speak, 08:11 we pray through Your servant today, 08:12 through it, through your children. 08:14 Ears to hear, eyes that would 08:16 behold the wondrous things 08:17 out of this book called The Bible. 08:19 Bless us, we pray with Holy Spirit, 08:21 power, strength and might. 08:23 And not only to hear, Lord, 08:24 but to say, Lord, we want to do those things 08:26 written there and in Jesus' name, amen. 08:29 Amen. 08:32 I believe this with all my heart, 08:34 that the same message, 08:36 the same message that God had, 08:38 that Moses gave under the direction of heaven 08:41 through the power of the Holy Spirit 08:42 must be given again, just before Jesus comes. 08:46 I'm a believer. 08:48 I live today, I may not be here tomorrow, 08:50 so it may be a shorter for me than it might be for you. 08:53 You know, you never know 08:54 because I know we have friend this, 08:56 in fact, this week. 08:58 Was a good friend that's kind of bothered us, 08:59 he was shot by the police in Carterville this year, 09:02 I think three times in the heart. 09:04 We never expected, he's 52 years old. 09:07 And so you never know when your time may be up, 09:10 we need to be ready under the unction 09:12 of the Holy Spirit that we're going to study. 09:14 I'm going to, if it's all right with you, 09:16 I'm going to read from the Word of God, 09:17 is that all right? 09:19 Going to read some words here and I know it's a lot. 09:20 I didn't bring my glasses that I really need today, 09:23 I'm going to do best I can. 09:24 I see an awful lot of things in here in the Word of God 09:27 and sometimes they look like 09:29 they're more than what's there, 09:30 so you just bear with me, if you will, please. 09:33 Deuteronomy Chapter 5. 09:34 Deuteronomy Chapter 5, 09:36 I'm going to read verses 22 through 28. 09:39 Deuteronomy Chapter what? 09:41 5:22-28. 09:43 Now, you know, usually I don't want to read 09:45 that many verses in row. 09:46 But I think those who are here and those who are watching, 09:49 you know and you're going to pay attention 09:51 and you're going to put it in your heart 09:52 and you're going to put it in your mind. 09:54 Listen to the words because we're going to play 09:56 through these words through this study today 09:59 and see if you still feel the same way 10:01 about what God's message for the last days. 10:04 Verse 22, "These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly 10:09 in at mount out of the midst of fire." 10:12 Sermon title is what? 10:14 God spoke out of the? 10:15 Fire Fire. Good. 10:17 Notice this, "The midst of the fire of the cloud 10:19 and thick darkness, 10:20 with a great voice and he added no more. 10:24 He wrote them in two tables 10:25 of stone delivered them," where? 10:28 "Unto me. 10:29 It came to pass when he heard the voice 10:31 out of the midst of the darkness, 10:33 for the mountain did burn," with what? 10:36 "Did burn with fire." 10:37 Many people who write even about you know, 10:40 before the mount, you know, 10:41 where the law was given, 10:43 it's all black up on top because it shows, 10:46 it's been burnt with tremendous heat, 10:48 well, from the presence of God. 10:50 The Bible says right here, 10:51 "The mountain did burn," with what? 10:54 Fire. With Fire. 10:56 "That ye came near unto me, 10:57 even all the heads of your tribes 10:58 and your elders." 11:00 Verse 24, "And ye said, Behold, 11:01 the Lord our God has showed us," His what? 11:05 "His glory and His greatness. 11:07 We have heard His voice midst of the fire. 11:11 We've seen this day that God doth talk 11:13 with man and he liveth. 11:16 Now, therefore, why should we die? 11:18 For this great fire will consume us 11:21 if we hear the voice of our Lord our God anymore," 11:24 notice, "then we shall die." 11:26 Verse 26, "For who is there of all flesh that 11:30 hath heard the voice of the living God, 11:32 speaking out of the midst of the fire 11:35 as we have and lived? 11:38 Go thou near, and hear all the Lord God 11:41 shall say: speak thou unto us all that 11:44 the Lord our God shall speak unto thee, 11:46 and we will," what? 11:48 "We will hear." 11:49 You see the conversations going on here. 11:50 "And we will hear it," 11:52 and then we're going to do what? 11:53 See remember, I was talked about, 11:54 meant that we have a lot of one 11:56 who liked to hear of the word, 11:57 but they don't want to do it. 11:59 This is going to separate the obedient 12:01 and the disobedient today. 12:02 Notice, verse 28, says, 12:04 "And the Lord heard the voice of your words, 12:06 when you spake unto me. 12:08 The Lord said unto me, 12:09 I have heard the voice of the words of," what? 12:11 "This people, which they have spoken unto thee: 12:14 and they have well said all that they have spoken." 12:20 God then approved of what they had just said. 12:23 We're going to hear these words and we're going to, 12:26 by God's grace, we're going to do these things 12:29 because they say we have a voice, 12:31 a great voice that spoke out of the fire. 12:34 I don't know how you would respond today. 12:35 How would I respond today? 12:36 We're not talking about an ordinary voice, 12:38 we're not talking about big box speakers somewhere. 12:41 We're talking about the voice of God spoke that 12:43 probably shook the world. 12:45 Think about it. 12:47 Such a voice that came out of there that's just like, 12:50 "Whoa, who is this speaking?" 12:54 God spoke to them, 12:55 notice in the midst of the cloud and fire 12:58 and He delivered something. 12:59 You notice this, and then while He was doing that, 13:02 it says He wrote something with His fingers. 13:03 What was that? 13:05 It was God's Ten Commandment law 13:07 as we well know. 13:08 God wrote them with His finger 13:09 and I'd be very careful if I were you. 13:11 And I'd be careful, I certainly with me that 13:13 I would say when it's no longer binding, 13:15 we don't have to worry about it anymore. 13:16 God spoke the law first 13:19 and then He wrote it down and then He took the two tables 13:22 and then He gave them to Moses, 13:23 said go down and teach My children these precepts. 13:28 Interesting. Man, that's pretty heavy duty. 13:31 And yet we have the, may I say the audacity today. 13:34 Many, "We don't have to worry about 13:36 that old stuff anymore as we don't do that anymore." 13:38 Is that right? 13:40 Remember the same message here, 13:44 under the direction of the power of the Holy Spirit 13:47 was given to, notice this, to Israel, 13:49 just before they entered into the land of milk 13:53 and honey, remember? 13:54 Of Canaan land. 13:56 Now, realize the law was already 13:57 given on the mount, right? 13:58 It was already there. 14:00 But now we've had to look at the reasons why. 14:01 Why would God 14:03 just before they entered into the new land, 14:06 land of milk and honey, the Promised Land, 14:09 remember relate this to heaven, 14:12 these things we're talking about here. 14:13 Jesus is soon to come, 14:14 we need to get that in our hearts, 14:16 we need to get in our minds. 14:17 We're soon to enter Canaan land. 14:21 Yes. And notice what happened. 14:22 God said before they entered into Canaan land, 14:24 I want you to go over 14:26 with the children of Israel, My law. 14:29 I want it. 14:30 And now why would you say God will... 14:32 Well, I'll give you just one reason. 14:34 Remember the majority, all? 14:36 How many went into the Promised Land by the way? 14:39 Adults? Two. 14:42 All the rest of them died in the wilderness, 14:43 those who had seen and heard 14:45 what God had done 14:47 when He first delivered the Ten Commandments. 14:48 So the rest of them were very young people, 14:51 they had forgotten. 14:52 They weren't sure of what God was talking, 14:55 you know, God was saying 14:56 and they'd forgotten the experience. 14:58 And so God said, I want you to experience this again, 15:02 I want you to hear it, it's how you will enter in 15:04 or how you won't enter in. 15:06 Obedient or disobedient. 15:09 So very few in that congregation, 15:11 we could say, 15:13 were old enough to comprehend the solemn occasion 15:16 of the first time God gave the law. 15:20 Now, they're soon getting ready 15:21 to cross over Jordan and God wanted to 15:24 present these things to them. 15:27 And He was telling them, 15:28 you enter in on condition, did you get it? 15:32 You enter into the Promised Land, 15:33 you make it into heaven, 15:35 there's a condition of your prosperity in this life 15:39 and the life to come and that simply is obedience. 15:44 Did you get it? 15:45 How's that we can proclaim and talk about obedience 15:47 and then say there is no law? 15:49 We don't have to be obedient. 15:52 Let's just think about some of these things as we go. 15:56 The script's reading was found in Deuteronomy 4:11-13. 15:59 We won't read that right now, but keep that down. 16:01 Deuteronomy 4:11-13. 16:04 We're looking at the Book of Deuteronomy quickly today. 16:06 The Book of Deuteronomy 16:09 is the fifth book of Moses. 16:13 The fifth book that Moses wrote is called what? 16:16 Deuteronomy. 16:18 The English word for Deuteronomy here means, 16:21 and listen carefully, it means second. 16:24 It means second, or listen, repeated legislation. 16:29 Deuteronomy means what? 16:31 Repeated legislation, 16:33 because you will find 16:34 that the Book of Deuteronomy that Moses, 16:37 he met with the people over four times 16:39 and all he basically did, 16:41 they covered all of Deuteronomy, 16:43 was what it's going to take to enter into the Promised Land. 16:46 And it's talking about keeping the commandments of God. 16:48 Kind of interesting. 16:50 And then if you look at the Book of Exodus, 16:53 Exodus, a lot of times is referred 16:55 to as the first legislation. 16:58 That makes sense? 17:00 The first legislation 17:01 and then comes along Deuteronomy, 17:02 they're getting ready to enter into the Promised Land, 17:04 we're getting ready to enter 17:05 into that, you know, the heavenly. 17:07 And we need to be ready, 17:08 and listen, the same principles, 17:09 and I'll say it over and over today, 17:11 the same principles apply for us today 17:14 as it did for ancient Israel. 17:16 Principles don't change. 17:17 God's the same yesterday, today and forever. 17:20 We need to be careful about this has changed 17:22 and that has changed. 17:23 By whose authority has the Word of God changed? 17:26 That's what we have to ask ourselves. 17:28 Here we find ourselves in the Book of Deuteronomy, 17:32 it's on the first day of the 11th month 17:35 in the 40th year of their wanderings. 17:39 Now remember, God didn't want it 17:41 to be 40 years, did He? 17:43 He said, right now get ready and go, 17:45 go straight on in a few days journey. 17:47 But because of their murmuring and their unbelief, 17:51 it took 40 years and then what? 17:53 Only two adults made it. 17:55 Come on somebody. And you know what? 17:57 And I'm going to throw this out to you. 17:59 The same reasons that God, 18:01 Jesus has not come right now 18:04 for His last day people, 18:05 it's because we're following in the same footsteps. 18:08 We're dealing with the same sin issues 18:11 that they dealt with then, 18:14 that's why He's not already come back. 18:16 I'm convinced He wants to come back. 18:18 I'm convinced He wants to take us home, 18:20 but He cannot do it. 18:21 He wanted to take all of Israel 18:23 into that Promised Land. 18:24 How sad that must have been for, 18:26 you think about God, Jesus out there, 18:28 40, right, 40 years, leading people, 18:31 leading and guiding and working miracle after miracle, 18:34 talking to them, appearing to them, 18:35 taking care of them, fighting battles for them. 18:38 And then as the end result of 40 years of labor, 18:40 there's only two. 18:42 How would you feel 18:43 if you were an evangelists or pastor 18:44 and you work for 40 years, 18:46 and, you know, I mean, 18:47 one soul we realize is valuable 18:49 and Jesus would have done 18:50 what He would have done for one. 18:51 Amen. 18:53 But in our humanness, let's get the big crowd. 18:56 There's got to be a lot of decisions made, 18:58 I can't waste my time on, you know. 19:02 God doesn't look at it that way. 19:05 Israel was camping. 19:06 They camped for two months 19:08 just before they went over for this land. 19:11 They were just east of Jordan 19:14 and now for those two months preparation 19:16 was being made so that they could cross over. 19:19 And what did Moses do? 19:21 He gathered the people. Yeah. 19:23 And he began to speak the words 19:26 that contain almost the whole Book of Deuteronomy. 19:29 Moses covered again, with the people. 19:32 Remember, Moses was not going to be 19:33 able to get in, he said, Oh, God, 19:35 if I can, you know, can I go in? 19:39 He's wanting to ask again, you know, 19:40 paraphrasing and God said, no, you can't go in. 19:44 He said, but I'll tell what you can do, 19:45 you can get up here on the mountain, 19:47 you can look the East, the West, 19:48 the North and the South 19:49 and that's as close as you're going to get. 19:51 You can look and see the Promised Land, 19:52 but you're not going to enter into it, 19:54 you're going to die. 19:56 And Moses said no more, he was content. 20:00 How maybe we might complain, 20:02 say, "Lord, I put up 40 years of these characters. 20:06 I put up with everything you possibly could think of, 20:08 of what they said and what they did 20:09 and how they connived and how they was backbiting. 20:13 How they had no belief, 20:15 murmured and complain and tried to kill." 20:17 He never said anything. 20:20 What a test for a Christian today. 20:23 Obedience means live, disobedience means death, 20:26 there's no doubt about it. 20:29 And as the name implies, Deuteronomy we see, 20:32 note it, Deuteronomy then is a, listen carefully, is a recap. 20:37 Book of Deuteronomy 20:38 is a recap of the various laws 20:42 given to Israel at Sinai. 20:44 So what was going to happen? 20:46 God said, I'm going to recap all of these things 20:49 just before you enter in, 20:51 so that you know when you make it into, 20:54 this is how you're going to stay in there. 20:57 You know, because they made it 20:58 to the land of Canaan didn't mean also they do 21:00 anything they wanted to do. 21:03 There would still be rules 21:04 and regulations that people don't want to talk about today. 21:08 So Moses then simply wanted to impress the people 21:12 about their observer. 21:13 Observe faithfully. 21:15 Remember, he said, 21:16 I want you to observe faithfully 21:17 all that the Lord has said. 21:19 It's interesting, 21:20 you can take the Word of God right now 21:22 and maybe people in here, I don't know. 21:25 Here's what the Lord has said and some will read it and say, 21:28 "Yeah, I know, but..." 21:29 But. Where's the but coming at? 21:34 Other words, here what I'm saying is, 21:35 I know what it says here, but or this my opinion. 21:40 God never asked you for your opinion, 21:42 He never asked me for mine. 21:43 But He asked me for the weight of evidence 21:45 that I make a decision upon, 21:47 that's what we need, is weight of evidence. 21:48 We need some things here. 21:50 That's what you do as a lawyer 21:51 or that's what you do as a child of God. 21:55 Observe faithfully all that the Lord has said to do. 21:58 And then He said, victory will be certain. 22:01 Victory will be certain 22:03 for Israel of today as it was back then, 22:06 just as certain we realize, 22:08 as God had freed them from the bondage, you know, 22:11 of slavery of bondage in Egypt. 22:15 That's how sure God said. So now we're challenged. 22:20 We're challenged because God said it's possible. 22:24 He said, who you yield yourself to, 22:26 you remember that in Romans 6:16-18? 22:30 "Know ye not", listen carefully, 22:31 this is plain to you and me, 22:33 "That to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, 22:37 his servants are whom ye," what? 22:39 Obey, whether of sin unto death, 22:43 or obedience unto righteousness?" 22:44 Now, did anybody have a problem with that? 22:47 Whoever you choose. 22:49 If you're not choosing 22:50 what is truth written in the Word of God, 22:52 then you're choosing the devil's lies. 22:54 There's no middle ground. 22:56 I mean, heck, come on. 22:58 How many ways can you tell the truth? 23:01 Really? 23:02 You can only tell the truth one way, 23:04 but everybody with all the, 23:06 whatever, 13, 15, 18, 2000 different denominations, 23:09 everybody's got the truth. 23:12 Is that okay to do that? 23:14 Everybody got the truth, everybody got the truth. 23:17 Maybe in certain errors, 23:18 we realize it, but everybody can't. 23:20 You can't talk about what happens when you die 23:22 and you got 25 different people saying it's all different. 23:25 Right. 23:26 There's only one way that it's the truth. 23:29 Amen. It's what the Bible teaches. 23:30 We've got to come off of the high horse 23:33 and I'm talking about ourselves here today. 23:35 I'm looking for the weight of evidence 23:36 from the God's Word. 23:38 Yes. 23:39 I'll not base a belief upon one passage of scripture 23:41 like many pastors and teachers do. 23:43 They get up front and have the audacity to read 23:46 one verse in the Bible and they make an hour sermon 23:49 on that one verse. 23:50 My Bible says, Kenny, you want to know what truth 23:52 is line upon line, precept upon precept, 23:55 here a little and there a little, 23:56 and then you're going to find out 23:58 what truth is? 23:59 What did Jeremiah say about it? Right? 24:00 What did John say about it? What did Luke say about it? 24:04 What did John the Revelator say about it? 24:06 What did Ezekiel say about it? 24:07 What does Isaiah say about this subject? 24:09 If you get all of those guys to agree, you found truth. 24:13 But he goes on with Romans 6:17, 24:16 "But God be thanked, 24:18 that ye were the servants of sin, 24:20 but ye have obeyed from the heart." 24:23 Remember? You were. 24:24 How many today? 24:25 We want to say each one of us here, 24:27 we were servants of sin. 24:29 But because of Jesus Christ, we are not. 24:31 But we obeyed from the heart, the form of doctrine, 24:36 which was believed of you. 24:38 Now notice this, verse 18, "Being made then free from sin, 24:44 you became the servants of righteousness." 24:46 What does it say? 24:47 People can read that 24:49 and just come up with all kinds of stuff. 24:53 The Bible said being made, 24:55 then made free from sin, 24:58 you became the servants of righteousness. 25:02 Now, is that true or is that not true? 25:04 True. Thank you. Yeah. 25:06 I mean, to me, that's just easy to say. 25:07 Now, whether we match up to it, 25:09 whether we're still struggling with it, 25:10 that's not what I'm asking. 25:12 I'm saying, is that true? 25:13 We are free, the Bible said, 25:15 but yeah, most of us look in our life 25:17 and we look in the mirror and we say, boo-boo. 25:19 That means we have things to work out, isn't that right? 25:22 But these verses should cause rejoicing. 25:25 We've got a God that speaks through the fire. 25:28 We've got a God that comes to us 25:29 and when He does, He shakes the world. 25:31 Amen. 25:33 He's capable of it, he will do it 25:34 because he says he will do it. 25:37 This message should 25:39 just excite the socks right off of us. 25:42 Give us some, you know, 25:44 some time to rejoice over this thing 25:46 when you talk about a soul. 25:49 If we ever come to the point, 25:53 we understand the value of a soul. 25:57 If we ever understand 25:58 the value of a soul the way heaven does, 26:00 there's going to be more rejoicing in the church. 26:03 In fact, we're going to have to have 26:04 two or three services, not look around and say, 26:07 "Man, we got a lot of empty seats." 26:08 Well, that's sad. 26:12 I can tell you in advance like I told you in advance, 26:14 the first week I began to study 26:15 the law of God and the importance 26:17 of keeping God's law 26:19 because He is God because He spoke, 26:21 because He wrote it. 26:23 If there's nothing else God did, 26:25 who are you? 26:26 Who am I big enough to say, 26:27 I know He spoke it and I know 26:29 it's a grand special occasion 26:30 and the witnesses and everything to it 26:32 and He smoked it on the rock as you know 26:34 what I'm talking about with His finger. 26:36 And then He brought it down 26:37 and said teach it to the people to do it and the only ones 26:40 who will enter into the Promised Land 26:41 are those who are willing to be obedient 26:43 because look at all the other ones 26:44 that died in the wilderness, they were not obedient. 26:47 Man, we don't need any more than that. 26:49 Now, the devil comes along say, well, things have changed now. 26:52 I'll use a French word, baloney. 26:54 Is that okay? I think somebody told me that. 26:59 The worth of a soul, do you remember Jesus 27:01 talked a little bit about that in Matthew 18:13. 27:04 We don't have time to look through everything, 27:05 but just Matthew 18:13. 27:07 It says, "If he goes out and verily he finds it, 27:10 I say unto you, he rejoices over," that what? 27:14 That one, that sheep. 27:15 Matthew 18:13, "Over then the 90 and 9, 27:19 which went not astray." 27:21 Listen, those who are well need not a physician. 27:25 People say all the time, "Well, you need to do more visiting." 27:27 And absolutely, you can do more 27:28 in visitation than you can from doing 27:30 what I'm doing up here. 27:31 But try to balance it all out, Lord only knows, 27:34 I'm not sure I'm capable. 27:36 But I know it's important to do that, 27:38 but I've also been under the impression 27:39 is those who are well need not a physician, 27:42 those who are studying, those who are praying, 27:44 those who are witnessing, 27:45 those are letting their light shine, 27:47 those who are inviting people to church 27:48 and bringing people to church 27:49 and busy in the church all the time, 27:51 they're not home for me to go visit anyway. 27:54 Is that all right? 27:55 They're doing something for the cause of Christ. 27:58 Yeah, we all need a visit sometime, 27:59 I understand that. 28:02 We rejoice because of the power that God gives us, 28:05 that he can boldly say, 28:07 and offer us He's, Kenny, you can be free from sin. 28:11 I'll give you that power in your life. 28:14 So before we maybe continue on with this study, 28:17 I want to make something very, very clear. 28:19 The Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy, 28:20 I'm a believer in both, 28:23 clearly teaches victory over sin 28:25 is possible in this life. 28:28 Let me give you a couple of reasons. 28:29 Victory over sin is what? 28:31 Now if you don't, you're teaching something 28:33 and you're believing something that is a lie of the devil. 28:36 I might as well just say that 28:37 and then you can get mad if you want to. 28:39 But then we'll go to the Word of God 28:40 and we'll just see 28:42 what the Bible has to say about it. 28:44 One of the main reasons, listen, one of the main reasons 28:47 that Jesus came to this earth was to number one, prove. 28:52 He came to this earth to prove 28:54 or to give a living demonstration 28:58 that it's possible for the human being. 29:01 Notice this, by the grace of God, 29:04 did you get it? 29:05 You can't do it on your own, by the grace of God be 29:08 and be a partaker of divine nature 29:11 to live without sinning. 29:13 Lord, have mercy on my soul. 29:16 Nobody's saying we've reached that here 29:18 and I'm throwing out 29:19 what the Bible has to say, did you notice? 29:21 We can live by the grace of God without sinning. 29:25 Now, who am I dealing with here? 29:28 I'm dealing with Jesus who is my example in all thing. 29:30 I'm dealing with my Lord and Savior 29:32 who came to this earth, right? 29:33 Clothe His divinity, right? 29:35 With humanity, subject to all things just like we are. 29:40 He didn't go and helped for Himself 29:42 that we cannot have. 29:44 He set the example, He's the only one 29:46 in the history of this world 29:47 that defeated the devil, all the rest of us are losers. 29:51 Amen. Is that okay? 29:54 It's the truth. Loser is a sinner. 29:57 We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God. 30:00 Every person who's ever come on this earth lost the battle, 30:04 except for one, that was Jesus, 30:06 the most important one and He offers that to me 30:08 because I'm a failure. 30:10 Man, that's good news. He speaks through the fire. 30:13 Amen. 30:15 He burns back the bushes 30:16 and the messes in our life and reveals His face to us, 30:20 His wisdom to us. 30:23 Oh, I mean, what was the great issue all along? 30:27 What's been the great issue all the time 30:29 in earth's history? 30:31 And the great controversy, 30:33 the great issue between God and Lucifer, Satan was what? 30:36 Somebody say the law of God. 30:38 The law of God, the debate started up there and my we say, 30:42 6000 years later, we're still debating it in the world today. 30:45 How sad that is. 30:47 The devil is not going to let it go. 30:49 You have to let it go, I have to let it go 30:50 because the Word of God becomes very clear. 30:53 It's whether or not we can obey the law of God, 30:56 please, if you've done it before, 30:58 I've done it maybe for years in the past and so on. 31:00 But being raised in the movement, 31:01 you're kind of taught from a child, 31:03 but then you have to get into the Word 31:05 and study to show yourself approved unto God. 31:07 It wasn't what the preacher said, 31:09 it's not what the evangelist says, 31:11 it's not what somebody that you have respect 31:12 for has said. 31:13 I've went to the Word of God, I have respect for Christ. 31:15 I have respect for His Word and I know you do too. 31:18 Whether or not the law of God could be obeyed. 31:20 Let me read some, 31:22 I love Desire of Ages, do you have that little book? 31:24 Oh, I hope you have the Desire of Ages, 761. 31:27 Now remember, I don't read 31:28 anything from the Spirit of Prophecy 31:30 that I cannot prove from the Word of God. 31:32 Amen. You cannot do it. 31:34 The principles will be there, always will be there 31:37 because we have to be able to detect that 31:39 or we're trying to project 31:41 something that is not in scripture and that's wrong. 31:43 It was in scripture first, 31:45 the great light and our lesser light 31:47 is to the greater. 31:48 Desire of Ages, 761 says, notice this, 31:51 see if it makes sense. 31:52 "When men broke the law of God, 31:55 defiled His will, Satan exalted." 31:58 You look up that word, you know what it says? 32:00 When man sin, it said Satan leaped for joy. 32:04 He leaped for joy, oh boy. 32:07 He said, oh boy it's proof now. 32:09 He declared that the law could not be obeyed. 32:12 Remember, in heaven, what did he say? 32:14 The law of God could not be obeyed. 32:16 Well, is people saying in the Christian world today? 32:18 The law can't be obeyed. 32:19 Who told it first? The Devil told it? 32:22 The law can't be, he said Oh boy, 32:23 oh, it can't be. 32:25 See, I told you that couldn't be. 32:27 Now, he said this is good news 32:28 because man cannot have forgiveness. 32:33 And what was he speaking from? 32:34 He said, I'm speaking from my own experience 32:36 because when I rebelled in heaven, what happened? 32:39 I was banished from heaven. 32:41 I was banished from heaven. 32:44 And so Satan said now, telling God, 32:46 listen now, I was banished from the human race, 32:48 I was banished from there, now, 32:50 the human race is forever 32:52 now shut out from your presence. 32:54 That means if they were shut out 32:56 from God's presence and no way to get back 32:57 that he had them all. 33:00 And he's going to really rule the world, 33:02 the world could not be taken back, 33:04 if that was a fact. 33:08 He said, God cannot be just 33:11 and he urged 33:13 and still yet show mercy to the sinner. 33:16 Remember, the wages of sin is what? 33:18 Death. Is death. 33:20 So he said, they've all sinned and come short of the glory, 33:22 they're worthy of death. 33:23 No, you can't, 33:25 no we can't show them many mercy. 33:26 Notice how clear this become, Desire of Ages, 762, 33:30 this, see if this is not scriptural. 33:34 It all changed because through, notice this, Jesus. 33:39 Through what? Jesus. 33:41 God's mercy was manifested to men. 33:45 Notice, mercy does never sets aside justice. 33:50 Get it? Mercy never sets aside. 33:52 We have mercy sometime 33:54 and we don't follow through with what we should 33:55 we're even correcting the kids 33:57 and different things sometime, but you notice what? 33:59 Mercy does not set aside justice. 34:02 The law reveals the attributes of what? 34:06 Does any of us big enough 34:07 to try to get rid of the attributes of God? 34:09 I don't think you want to challenge God. 34:12 The attributes of God's character. 34:15 And the Bible said not one jot 34:16 or tittle will no wise pass from what? 34:20 The law. The law until all be what? 34:22 I'm going to read that to you, 34:24 some of you is not going to get that, 34:25 you're going to fight me on it. 34:26 Fight the Word of God, this is plain as day. 34:31 Almost as plain as I see you. 34:32 I don't see you too plain, but I'm telling you. 34:36 Matthew Chapter 5. 34:37 The Bible says, Matthew Chapter 5, 34:40 starting with verse 17. 34:42 Here's what the Bible says, 34:43 I love it when you talk about this. 34:44 Well, this is what God's Word says. 34:47 Now notice, people say what? 34:48 "No, no God's law is done away with. 34:49 New Testament we no longer have to keep God's law." 34:51 You'd better be careful that becomes a commandment breaker. 34:55 And notice the life of Jesus Christ. 34:57 Well, I follow the life of Jesus Christ, 34:58 I follow Jesus Christ. 35:00 If you do, then you will want to keep the law. 35:02 I just point that out and then come back 35:03 and do some proving as we go along. 35:05 Verse 17, Jesus said Himself when He was challenged, 35:09 Jesus said Himself, He was challenged about 35:11 keeping the law and so on and so forth. 35:12 And what did He say? 35:14 "Think not that I am come to destroy the..." 35:19 Ooh, think not that I have come to, oh, oh my. 35:24 Think not that I'm come to destroy the law 35:26 or the prophets. 35:28 I am not come to destroy, but to? 35:31 Fulfill. The surface reader. 35:34 I'm going to land on the surface reader, 35:36 is that okay to do that? 35:37 Surface reader will say, 35:39 that right there, that's what I said, 35:40 he came to fulfill it, it's all fulfilled. 35:42 My lands, just get out the Greek. 35:45 Just get out the original writings, 35:47 know what that word means there. 35:48 To fulfill means to fill it full. 35:51 God came to show His law and to fill it full. 35:55 Play-ro'-o is the Greek and it simply means, 35:59 notice this, not to destroy. 36:03 Jesus said I didn't come to destroy it. 36:04 That's exactly what He said beforehand, 36:06 but we take the little word fulfill 36:08 and the devil is fooled millions 36:10 in the world today. 36:11 He said, I came to show you what it's all about. 36:13 This is what it's filled up with. 36:16 The love given gave the true meaning 36:19 of the precepts here that we're reading. 36:22 The law giver, listen carefully, 36:23 the law giver Himself. 36:26 Would that be Jesus? Yes. 36:28 Absolutely, who's on the mount. 36:31 The law giver Himself, notice this, 36:33 reaffirms what He said on Mount Sinai right here. 36:37 He's reaffirming for me 36:38 what He said in the Old Testament, 36:40 He's reaffirming it here in the New Testament. 36:42 They said, "Now, this is binding, 36:46 My law is binding on all subjects 36:49 that's going to be in heaven." 36:51 Oh, God think, it's going to be on 36:54 those who are My subjects and listen. 36:55 And then He says, 36:57 if anyone teaches anything different, 37:00 anyone tries to annul it, somebody tries to change it, 37:03 you're not going to be there. 37:05 Now, who has the audacity? 37:09 Praise God, He's standing up 37:10 for what is right, Jesus is standing for what is right. 37:12 But man is trying to stand up and be in the place of God 37:15 and say, Oh, that's different, that is fulfilled. 37:17 If it came to an end, 37:19 that means that there will be no sin in the world, 37:21 you can do anything you want to do, 37:22 anytime you wanted to do it. 37:23 Romans 3 says, "Where, there is no law, 37:25 there is no sin." 37:27 But notice what he said, 37:28 here's this, if you're saying today, 37:30 we don't worry about it, 37:31 it's all been fulfilled, we're just under Grace. 37:33 Praise God for grace. Man, I can't say it enough. 37:36 I know what Ephesians 2:8-9 talks about, 37:38 "By grace are you saved through faith, 37:40 it is a gift." 37:41 I understand that, it's not by works, 37:43 I hope we have time to get into some of that. 37:45 Not by works at all. 37:47 People can accuse Adventists all they want 37:48 and some of them are works orientated. 37:50 Some of them almost, I almost said makes me sick. 37:53 I don't think I can say that, can I? 37:56 Because it turns people off the way 37:58 in which they do it. 37:59 Rather than simply say it's not by works, 38:02 lest a man should boast. 38:05 It's by grace, but that again, grace and justice, mercy, 38:08 doesn't it? 38:10 Let me just keep going. 38:11 Here's what Jesus said anyway, you talk to Jesus about it. 38:14 Surely nobody here but there'll be 38:16 many at sound of my voice, "Whosoever there shall break 38:19 one of these least commandments." 38:21 If you break how many? One. 38:23 Just one of the least of these commandment 38:25 and then you teach other men so, 38:27 he shall be called the least in the kingdom. 38:29 Here we go again, the dirty lying Devil. 38:33 He goes and says to the people and I've had people say it, 38:35 "Oh, well, I know what it says. 38:37 Well, I'm going to be there because well, 38:39 I'm going to be called the least, 38:40 but I'm going to be there." 38:42 No, it means you're call least in heaven, 38:43 and you ain't going to be there. 38:45 That's right. Is that okay? 38:46 Did you get it? 38:47 Don't let someone tell you, 38:49 "Well, I can go ahead and be there, 38:50 I'll just be called the least." 38:51 That's not what it's saying at all. 38:53 If heaven calls you the least as it were, 38:54 you're not going to be there 38:56 and then it gets even clearer as we go. 38:58 Notice what it says, 38:59 "For I say unto you," who's talking? 39:01 Jesus is talking. 39:02 Listen, "That except your righteousness 39:05 exceed the righteousness of the," what? 39:07 "Scribes and the Pharisees, 39:08 ye shall in no case enter the kingdom of heaven." 39:13 That's clear. 39:14 Ye shall not, anybody that's trying to say, 39:16 "Oh well, we can break the least of these command, 39:18 well, we don't have to worry about it. 39:19 We're teaching other men that the law is done away with." 39:22 You better be careful 39:23 because Jesus is speaking to you here. 39:25 Because it either is all is or it's all not. 39:29 That's what it boils down to as we study on, like, 39:31 we'll see that a little bit more. 39:33 Thank God for Jesus. 39:36 Jesus said, "I came to meet man in his fallen condition." 39:41 Isn't He wonderful? 39:42 He came to meet you where? 39:44 In your fallen condition 39:45 because you fell flat on your nose 39:46 just like the rest of everybody has. 39:49 There's no help, we're under the death penalty. 39:52 There's no way we could get out 39:54 except for Jesus willing to come. 39:56 That should bless your heart. 39:57 He's speaking through the fire here for us today. 40:01 I'm going to meet man in his fallen condition. 40:05 Now notice, to meet man in his fallen condition, 40:08 notice this, God did not change His law. 40:13 Remember? 40:14 They said, "Well, the law has been changed now 40:16 and the cross proves it." 40:17 He did not change His law. 40:19 But notice this, God, come on church, 40:22 God sacrificed Himself in Christ for man's redemption. 40:27 Amen. This is heavy duty. 40:30 It'd been easy to say the law's done, 40:32 well, we broke the law here. 40:33 Why crucify Jesus? Why go through this mess? 40:36 Let's just change things a little bit. 40:37 Right. 40:39 It could not be changed, 40:40 it's as eternal as God's throne is. 40:42 It's God's Word, we cannot do it. 40:45 So he didn't attempt to change, 40:46 God didn't, the devil tried to change it. 40:48 Daniel 7:25, "He shall think to change times and laws." 40:52 But God was so involved in the plan of salvation, 40:55 we talk about Jesus all the time. 40:57 Let me just read you one passage, please. 40:59 2 Corinthians 5:19. 41:01 2 Corinthians 5:19, just a quick line or two, 41:04 notice what it says. 41:06 Now what did God do? 41:08 He sacrificed Himself in who? 41:11 In Christ Jesus for man's redemption. 41:14 This tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:19 tells us, 41:17 "God was in Christ," come on, 41:21 "reconciling the world to Himself." 41:24 Bring us back because we were lost, 41:26 we were separated, we were alienated, 41:29 there's no way we could get back to Him. 41:32 God put Himself out there as it were, 41:34 through His Son, Jesus Christ. 41:36 Bring the world back. 41:37 I mean, Romans 3:26, 41:39 just jot it down and read it when you can. 41:41 Why? 41:42 Because God, notice this, "God can be just, 41:45 and the justifier of him 41:48 which believeth in Jesus Christ." 41:50 He's, what is He? 41:53 Can be just and the justifier 41:56 because of the great sacrifice. 41:59 My brothers and sisters, 42:00 it's by His life, it's by His death. 42:05 Jesus proved God's justice, 42:08 notice, did not destroy His mercy. 42:13 But that sin, praise God, listen, where we shout, 42:15 where sin could be forgiven. 42:18 And the law of the Bible said is righteous. 42:23 In Psalms 19:7, 42:24 the Bible said the law is perfect. 42:27 Now, you may not be able to stand that, 42:29 but that's too bad. 42:30 Psalm 19:7, the law is perfect and what does it do? 42:33 It converts the soul. 42:35 What does the law do now? 42:36 Turn around, oh, the law is done away with. 42:37 No, my Bible just said that the law is perfect, 42:39 it converts the soul. 42:41 The Bible says that law is righteous. 42:44 Amen. 42:46 Psalms 1:11:7 says, 42:49 "His words are sure, they're steadfast." 42:52 Isn't that wonderful? 42:54 Verse 8, says, notice this, "They stand fast forever." 42:58 Amen. 43:00 If you really look at the Bible, 43:01 you'll say, my, Romans 7:12, 43:02 "Therefore the law is holy 43:04 and it's just and it's good." 43:06 If it's holy and it's just and it's good and my, 43:09 it's just so wonderful that 43:11 God was willing to lay this out 43:13 so clear for us, we should be shouting. 43:15 Amen. 43:16 The law is holy, it's just and it's good. 43:19 Which man, which woman who has the audacity 43:22 to stand up 43:23 and say that's not what it means? 43:25 Oh, none of us would do that surely. 43:27 Or there's going to be some in the world, 43:28 I know if you understand that, 43:30 but the Bible says, that' what we look at. 43:34 Oh, you'll say, "Well, yeah, but the law, you know it." 43:36 Why is it that people get upset when you mention law? 43:39 Everybody don't get upset. 43:41 Nowadays they're getting upset now 43:42 'cause you mentioned the law and they say, 43:44 "Well, we don't want police anymore. 43:45 We don't want rules, we don't want regulations." 43:48 They're doing that morally too, you realize it. 43:50 But listen, the law that I'm talking about is spiritual. 43:54 How do I know that? 43:55 Now, if it's spiritual, you don't want to change it, 43:57 you don't want to dab with it, you don't want to mess with it 44:00 because the Book of Romans Chapter, what is it? 44:02 7:14. 44:06 The Bible says, "The law is spiritual." 44:09 That just puts an end 44:11 to it right there, it's spiritual. 44:13 That's way beyond us, is it not? 44:15 And the Devil would have me 44:16 and you to have the audacity to say, "Yeah, but." 44:19 No one wants to do that. 44:21 God spoke, God wrote, God revealed it, 44:27 He prepared the hearts 44:28 and the minds of the people to receive it. 44:31 Now, let me just remember, 44:33 if you say that the law has been changed? 44:37 If you say maybe it's been annulled or abolished. 44:41 Let me put this out to you, 44:43 Christ would not have needed to die. 44:46 Is that true? It's simple, all right? 44:48 Listen, if it could have been changed, 44:50 annulled, done away with, 44:51 Christ would not have had to die. 44:52 Why would He go through what He went through? 44:54 It's because it could not be. 44:55 The greatest argument in the world for the, 44:58 you know, the law being valid is the cross of Calvary 45:02 and the Devil turned right around 45:03 and used that same argument to say it's not valid 45:06 because since He died then we're free. 45:09 Right. 45:10 See how the enemy will use even truth, 45:11 but try to reverse it 45:13 and most people love to hear that anyway. 45:16 Remember, if the law of God, let me throw this out to you, 45:19 throw it back if you want to. 45:21 Don't throw it on shoes, don't get all excited. 45:24 If the law could have been changed, 45:26 if, and it could now be, 45:28 could have been changed or abolished, 45:31 this world would have forever 45:35 been under Satan's control. 45:37 Amen. Did anybody get it? 45:40 If it could have been changed or annulled, that law, 45:42 see that's why God was standing firm 45:44 and Jesus went and come and die for it 45:46 because He was not going to 45:47 have the Devil to rule this world. 45:49 He said man lost it, 45:51 I gave them everything and they lost it, 45:53 but I'm going to come back, 45:54 you know, I'm going to win it back. 45:55 Praise God, He said, I'm going to win it back. 45:57 Amen. 45:59 So to me, it was 46:00 because the law of God was changeless. 46:05 It's only through the obedience to the precepts 46:09 that Jesus was lifted up on the cross. 46:12 That's Calvary because it couldn't be changed, 46:15 He had to go to the cross. 46:19 Man, that's pretty heavy duty. 46:21 It's something we need to think about 46:23 and we need to be working by the grace of God. 46:26 I mean, who would say here today, 46:30 who would argue with 46:31 what the Bible talks about here? 46:35 When you talk about His voice 46:37 and His finger and He wrote and He gave and He told Moses, 46:39 take all of this now 46:40 and bring it to the people's attention 46:42 and tell them again before then because 46:44 all the others died in the wilderness 46:45 because they didn't obey My laws 46:47 and My saying and what I ask them to do. 46:48 They didn't want to be obedient, 46:49 they didn't make it, they're all dead out there now 46:51 and I don't want this other group to be like that. 46:53 Please go back and rehearse it over them again. 46:56 Who has the audacity to say, 46:57 "Well, the Ten Commandment law is faulty?" 47:01 Faulty? Who wrote it? 47:05 We may not say it, 47:07 but we're saying it when we say that 47:08 it's done away with. 47:10 Who has the audacity to say it needs to be changed? 47:13 I don't think anybody needs to say, why? 47:15 Because God did, everything He does is perfect, 47:16 we understand they need to be changed. 47:20 Who would have the audacity to say to say that 47:21 we don't need it anymore? 47:23 Listen, that's exactly 47:25 what the world is saying out there today. 47:27 Basically, we don't need any law, 47:29 we don't need anyone and look what's happening? 47:32 More killings, more shooting, more drive-by, 47:34 the world's getting worse and worse and worse 47:35 because they want it, right? 47:37 They don't want any laws, they govern themselves. 47:39 They want to govern themselves. 47:42 I mean, didn't God... 47:44 I heard somebody last night, he was a professor 47:49 and that's okay, but listen on what he said. 47:53 I don't care what kind of credentials 47:55 he has, is it okay to be that way? 47:57 The credentials don't make you something. 48:00 Before his name, after his name or whatever it is, 48:01 it really doesn't. 48:03 But basically, brought into the point 48:04 there that God did allow things 48:07 because He basically didn't realize all the changes 48:09 that would take place in this world. 48:12 And He's still teaching in some schools, 48:13 oh, my lands of love. 48:15 I told Chris, "Get him off of there, 48:16 I can't stand no more." 48:18 Is that okay? 48:19 I can't stand no more of those lies. 48:21 You'll never, you can take God by surprise, 48:24 everything is all mapped out. 48:26 God knew the Old Testament, God knew the New Testament. 48:30 He knew the old covenant and knew the new covenant 48:32 and the old covenant and what? 48:34 The new covenant is virtually the same as the old covenant, 48:36 I'm going to put My law, 48:37 you had them on the tables of stone. 48:38 Now, on the new covenant, 48:40 I want you to put them in your heart and your mind 48:41 so that when temptation comes, you're going to say, 48:42 thou shall not kill, okay, I got it. 48:45 Come on, it's so simple. 48:46 Don't make a big deal of it 48:48 like some people try to make a deal. 48:49 Amen. 48:50 Remember, it just takes one precept. 48:53 Oh, the Ten Commandments 48:55 is done away with and you say, "Oh, really?" 48:57 Can you kill? No. 48:58 Can you steal? Can you murder? No, no, no. 49:01 It always boils down to only the fourth Commandment, 49:03 the seventh day Sabbath. 49:05 Amen. It always boils down to that. 49:08 And my Bible talks about here, 49:10 if we disregard in just one point, 49:13 we've lost the battle. 49:15 Remember, the Devil said, the Devil's smarter than that, 49:17 he said, I don't need to get Kenny on all 10, man, 49:19 just get him on one. 49:20 I see he's weak over here, 49:21 look at him, I see his eyes, I see what he's up to. 49:25 He does you that way, 49:26 at least they're on our cases all the time. 49:29 But James 2:10, you know, 49:31 this is just one precept, 49:36 one point that you foul up on, right? 49:38 How many does Satan, you know? 49:40 How many did Adam and Eve? 49:41 One. One mistake. 49:43 Moses? One. 49:45 Disobey. One. 49:47 He was out. 49:48 And don't tell me God doesn't love them 49:50 as much He loves me or you. 49:52 Absolutely, He does. 49:53 He's the same God, yesterday, today and forever, 49:55 please remember that. 49:56 James 2:10 says, notice this, well, we keep all nine, 50:00 but we don't keep the fourth one, really? 50:02 My Bible said, James 2:10, 50:03 "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, 50:05 and yet offend in one point, he's guilty of all." 50:10 He's guilty of all. Who's going to fight that? 50:12 You can't. 50:14 So if a man consents to break one precept, 50:18 he is brought under the bondage of the enemy. 50:21 You've changed leaders, that's what Israel did, 50:24 that what did all through the wilderness, 50:26 they chose another leader. 50:27 You're choosing it and I am too 50:29 if we choose the enemy. 50:32 Satan is going to seek to control the whole world 50:36 by substituting human laws for the law of God, is he not? 50:42 Absolutely, he is. 50:43 We see it all happening right now 50:45 against the Word of God. 50:48 When a person chooses a life of sin, 50:51 he cuts himself off. 50:53 If you choose the life of sin, 50:54 you cut yourself off from eternal life. 50:57 God doesn't have to cut you off, 50:58 you cut yourself off. 51:02 Ephesians 4:8, the Bible says this, 51:05 notice what man has done who would rather sin. 51:08 Notice this, "He is alienated from the life of God." 51:12 Did you get it? 51:13 Sin alienates us from the life of God. 51:16 Proverbs 8:36, "All they that hate me love death." 51:22 Jesus said those who hate Him love death 51:25 because that's what it's going to be 51:27 if we don't choose. 51:28 You can say I choose Jesus all you want 51:30 and then say we don't have to be obedient, 51:32 we kind of live the way we want to live 51:34 and do what we want to do, keep what we want to. 51:36 It's not going to work, the world needs to hear it. 51:38 That's right. 51:39 Keep this in mind, no one needs to be deceived. 51:43 I've said this before, 51:45 God's law is as sacred as His throne. 51:47 Amen. 51:48 By every man that has come 51:50 into this world is going to be judged by it. 51:53 How are we going to be judged by it 51:55 if it's no longer binding? 51:57 If it's no longer in the world, 51:58 isn't that what we're talking about? 52:00 Every man will be judged by it. Why? 52:02 Because God's law is the standard 52:05 by which every character is to be measured. 52:09 See they have too many people 52:11 with too many different measuring sticks out there. 52:12 We may... It's not at all. 52:18 James 2:12, the Bible said, "So speak ye, and so do, 52:23 as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." 52:27 Oh, that old binding law, oh my law. 52:31 My Bible calls this the law of liberty. 52:33 You lay your head down at night and you can go to sleep 52:35 because you know you haven't willfully broken 52:37 any of God's commandments. 52:39 You see? 52:40 Instead of this, oh, that's old bondage business. 52:42 Somebody needs to wake up 52:44 and start studying the Word of God. 52:45 Now, I want to be honest with you, 52:47 I want to be open with you and we're near not enough time, 52:49 my land, somebody pray. 52:50 Law of liberty. 52:53 And the Bible's very clear, Isaiah 8:20, if they what? 52:56 If they speak not what? 52:58 "Speak not according to this word, 52:59 it's because there is no light in, 53:01 to the law and to the testimony. 53:04 To the law and to the testimony. 53:07 Testimony of Jesus Christ. 53:08 Jesus kept the law, 53:10 Jesus went to church on Sabbath, 53:11 well, He was a Jew. 53:12 Oh, such a sad argument. 53:14 Everything He did in the Word of God 53:17 when they were doing wrong, 53:18 He straightened it out, did He not? 53:19 It cost Him His life, absolutely. 53:21 He always straightened it out 53:23 and He never straightened this issue out. 53:24 He prophesized what? 53:26 Almost 40 years in the future, the destruction of Jerusalem. 53:31 He said, "Pray that your flight be not on the winter 53:34 or the Sabbath day." 53:36 Interesting. 53:38 He was telling it right on the Sabbath day, 53:39 He was still calling to Sabbath day, 53:40 He was still calling it His day. 53:42 "I have kept my Father's Commandments." 53:44 Man, how wonderful that is? 53:46 It's straight, the message is straight and to the point. 53:49 The watchmen on the walls of Zion need to be 53:51 what God would have them to do today. 53:53 We're not to be joining 53:54 with all those who are making a non effect, 53:57 you know, the truth as it is in Jesus. 53:59 We mingle around too much, we're mingling with infidelity, 54:02 we're mingling with popery, 54:03 we're mingling around with Protestantism, 54:06 we're exalting tradition above the laws of God. 54:09 That's exactly what you, 54:11 when you substitute Sabbath for any other day, 54:13 especially Sunday, let's be honest about it. 54:16 Saturday is the day that's holy blessed by God, 54:19 isn't that right in the very beginning? 54:22 Man's come along and said, no, but now it's changed right now. 54:25 We have to come to grips, 54:26 whether we've done it all of our lives 54:27 or whether we haven't done it all of our life. 54:30 We've got to come to grips with it. 54:31 What will we do when God makes it? 54:34 Because we're putting human revelation 54:36 above the law of God. 54:39 Influence, we're losing vital godliness, 54:42 God of the Sabbath. 54:45 If anybody's tightening up a little bit, well, untighten. 54:47 Amen. 54:50 Because we need, if you think I'm saying 54:54 works, works, works, 54:55 that's what you're going to weigh into heaven. 54:56 No, it's not at all. 54:58 You missed the whole point, 54:59 I know it's by grace always that we're saved. 55:03 And I want to encourage you as we close out, 55:06 we need to keep our eyes on Jesus, 55:07 God is speaking through the fire. 55:09 He's speaking to His people, He's doing it in such a way 55:11 that He's shaking us up right now. 55:14 Won't you listen to His voice? 55:16 Remember, you're challenged 55:18 when you might come up against something that 55:20 may be never been in your mind like that before. 55:23 And so you're challenged by weight of evidence. 55:25 We just scratched the surface here. 55:30 So I'm praying by the grace of God 55:31 that you will accept and say, 55:32 God if this is true and this is right, 55:34 I'm going to study and show myself approved 55:36 and I'm going to accept it. 55:38 Amen. 55:39 I'm going to accept it because You set the example. 55:41 Amen. 55:43 You're the God that I'm to follow 55:45 and to walk as He walked. 55:47 Let's pray, shall we? 55:50 Loving Father in heaven, 55:51 we thank You for Your love and Your mercy. 55:53 We thank You. 55:55 Thank You so much, Your Word is so clear. 55:57 The enemy is coming, 55:59 he's deceived us in so, so many ways. 56:02 To be able to go every vital point 56:04 that the enemy has thrown out, 56:06 he just throws them out and throws them out 56:08 and throws them, but people become more confused 56:10 because they simply won't go to the Word of God and say, 56:12 "Well, Jesus is my example, 56:13 this is what He did, what He taught." 56:16 He didn't just do what He did 56:17 because He was born in a Jewish race. 56:21 He came in here, 56:22 He emptied Himself of self and was filled with the Father. 56:25 So thankful that 56:27 He showed the way, thankful, Lord, 56:28 that You loved us enough that You went to Calvary, 56:29 You'd rather die than knowing we sin. 56:32 You said Your law could not be changed 56:34 and the wages of sin is death. 56:35 You went to the cross 56:37 and You died for someone like me 56:39 and for the whole world if they would receive it. 56:41 Help us to be open Lord to Your Word 56:44 and as the weight of evidence is given, 56:46 may we not do anything but just praise You for it. 56:48 In Jesus' name we thank You. 56:50 Amen. 56:52 Hello and welcome back. 56:54 It's always amazing to discover how far reaching God 56:57 is with what He has left us in His Word. 57:00 Today's message was entitled, God spoke out of the fire. 57:04 And I'm sure that you will never read about this 57:09 miraculous incident in the same manner ever again. 57:12 In fact, I certainly hope that you don't. 57:16 I hope that you now see yourself in this story 57:20 and why understanding what God has left 57:22 in His Word about it applies to you 57:25 as well as the Israelite nation 57:27 who were physically present when God spoke. 57:31 I hope you heard Him speaking 57:33 to your heart during this message 57:35 as it was being presented. 57:37 If you did, please, please don't turn a deaf ear, 57:41 rather plant the Word deep into your heart 57:44 so that you will no longer sin 57:47 against the one who loves you with such an everlasting love. 57:52 And should you desire to have this message to listen 57:55 to it time and time again 57:57 or just have it in your study library 58:00 so that you may share it with a friend. 58:02 We as always are offering it 58:04 to you for a love gift of just $8 or more. 58:08 All you have to do is to call in 58:10 and get your copy today. 58:13 Our phone number here 58:14 in the United States is (618) 942-5044 58:19 or you may also mail in your request 58:21 to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 58:24 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948 58:30 or you may email us 58:32 at contact- @beholdthelambministries.com 58:35 or visit us on our website at beholdthelambministries.com 58:39 And don't forget to subscribe and share important messages 58:43 that we release weekly on our YouTube channel. 58:47 So, friends, until next time, 58:48 may our precious Lord continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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