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00:38 Hello, and welcome back to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host. 00:42 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:45 Uninvited Guests is our message for today. 00:49 2 Timothy 3:1-2 states, "This know also, 00:54 that in the last days perilous times shall come. 00:58 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, 01:00 covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, 01:04 disobedient to parents, unthankful, 01:07 unholy and so on the list goes." 01:11 We see very little differentiation 01:14 between that which is holy 01:16 and that which is common anymore. 01:18 Society as a whole treats most anything and everything 01:22 in a very common and laid-back manner. 01:25 But does the Bible depict the difference 01:28 between the holy and the common? 01:30 Does differentiating between the two 01:33 really make a difference with God? 01:35 And just who are these uninvited guests 01:38 anyway? 01:40 And what do they have to do with any of us? 01:42 I believe that we will all discover 01:44 just how important our mindset toward the holy 01:48 and the common really is today 01:50 as we study along with Pastor Kenny Shelton, 01:53 especially since we are facing unprecedented times 01:57 in these last days, 01:59 but first let's visit 3ABN studio 02:02 and listened to Brother Tim Parton 02:04 as he plays Unclouded Day on the piano. 04:26 Thank you for joining us once again here 04:27 at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 04:29 Again we want you to know that we appreciate you 04:31 so very, very much 04:32 as you send in cards and letters and questions 04:35 and the phone calls come in 04:36 and then orders for DVDs and CDs 04:38 and so on and so forth, newsletters. 04:40 Praise God for that. 04:42 It's our way of getting the message 04:43 out to the world. 04:45 Remember, may be a small group here, 04:47 but we have the opportunity and the privilege 04:49 to reach the world from this spot. 04:53 I take that as a real blessing 04:54 that only God can give. 04:56 I'm telling what a blessing it is 04:57 because what did He say, 04:59 what did He tell us to do? 05:00 He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel." 05:03 Here we have that privilege and that opportunity. 05:07 The message should never be kept 05:09 inside these walls. 05:11 We come together, get our batteries charged. 05:13 And then we go out to the highways and byways 05:16 and compel people as it were, 05:17 give them an invitation to come. 05:19 And I see some of you have done that today. 05:21 Praise God. Thank you for that. 05:23 Let's continue to do that. 05:24 And those of you are at home, 05:25 be sure you do that in your local area too. 05:27 Again, we thank you for your cards, 05:29 letters and your support to get this message out 05:33 so that Jesus can come. 05:34 We're going to be talking about today, 05:36 I believe it's an exciting study, 05:38 as far as I am concerned, uninvited guests. 05:41 What does that mean, uninvited guests? 05:44 Usually, if you have someone come in, 05:46 usually they're invited. 05:49 How would you like to have a party 05:51 and a bunch of people would show up uninvited? 05:54 You didn't know they were coming. 05:56 You wasn't ready, you wasn't prepared. 05:59 So we're going to be looking at that 06:00 in the Book of Daniel. 06:01 But first always, we pray quite a bit before this time. 06:07 But I feel always a need because I feel so, 06:10 I feel empty without inviting the Holy Spirit 06:13 of the Living God to come in 06:15 and to fill your heart and my heart, 06:17 where you are at in your Christian walk, 06:20 where I'm at in my Christian walk. 06:22 This is the areas that need to be touched. 06:24 And only the Holy Spirit can do that. 06:26 No one here reads minds. 06:28 No one knows where you are at in your walk. 06:30 And there's some of you probably 06:31 you're not even in your walk. 06:33 And if you're not in your walk, I'm going to pray today 06:35 that you'll get into that walk with Jesus 06:36 before we end this message. 06:38 I'm going to kneel up here 06:40 and I just invite those of at home if you can, 06:41 just pray with me as we once again 06:43 invite the Holy Spirit. 06:46 Merciful Father in heaven, 06:47 again, we invite Thy sweet Holy Spirit, 06:49 Lord, how desperately we need to hear from heaven. 06:52 We don't need to hear from man, 06:53 we don't even need to look at man, 06:55 we don't need to pay attention to man, 06:56 but, Lord, we need to pay attention to the Word. 06:59 We need to pay attention to the message 07:01 that You are sending 07:02 to each one of Your children today. 07:04 Lord, help us to look at this as a love letter. 07:06 That You're sending a love letter to each one of us 07:08 saying, are you ready for My coming? 07:11 If not, why not? 07:12 Bless us now we pray to this end. 07:14 Give our minds our hearts, 07:16 open them so wide that we will not miss 07:19 what you have in store for us today 07:20 as we are going to thank you in advance in Jesus' name. 07:23 Amen. 07:24 Okay, those of you are home and those who are here, 07:26 you have your Bible. 07:27 Now remember what I say? 07:29 You need to check what the preacher 07:31 or the teacher or whoever it is what he has to say. 07:35 All preachers are not telling you the truth. 07:37 Now I want to by the grace of God, 07:39 but I need you to check me out. 07:42 And if it's not right, well, we'll wait till this is over 07:45 and then you can come to me and we'll talk, 07:47 we won't have time maybe to go into it right at this moment. 07:50 But we'll do it, yeah, just soon as we get done here. 07:52 Because you're gonna say, "I don't see that." 07:55 And then we can sit down and talk 07:56 based on the Word of God. 07:58 But what good is it to be able to speak the Word 08:00 or teach the Word or preach the Word 08:02 if it's not the truth? 08:04 How many ways can you tell the truth? 08:06 One. Only one way. 08:08 How is everybody's telling by 1,500 different ways? 08:12 And they all say it's the truth? 08:14 Well, it can't really be, can it, you know? 08:16 Again, I'm not saying we have all the truth. 08:18 I'm just simply saying is I want to line up 08:20 with the Word of God. 08:22 Daniel Chapter 5, we're going to read verses 1-4. 08:25 We'll set the tone and the stage 08:27 for what we're going to be talking about today, 08:29 plus some other things 08:30 that are going on in the world. 08:32 And if you miss these things, 08:34 you know, you might have well stayed home today. 08:36 And I didn't want you to stay home. 08:38 Okay? 08:40 Because it's very, very important. 08:41 Daniel Chapter 5, starting with verse 1, says, 08:44 "Belshazzar the king made a great feast 08:47 to a thousand of his lords, 08:48 and drank wine before the thousands." 08:50 There are people today 08:51 who had rather go to these feasts and parties 08:55 rather than go to church. 08:57 You invite them to church, they don't want to come, 08:59 invite them to a fellowship lunch and free meal 09:02 and the place is full. 09:04 Okay, now you've got it. 09:05 Okay. Enough said. 09:06 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine. 09:09 And here as I read he did more than taste, 09:11 he chug-a-lugged. 09:13 Is anybody with me? 09:14 He was chug-a-lugging, he was taking it down the hatch 09:17 and everybody with him. 09:19 He commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels 09:22 which his father, 09:23 notice it says his father here and then there's a little, 09:25 you know, one by, 09:26 you look into the King James version has down here, 09:28 really it was his grandfather. 09:31 Was not his father, it's his grandfather, 09:33 Nebuchadnezzar was Belshazzar's grandfather. 09:35 So you have to look 09:37 as what the Bible has to say here, remember? 09:39 Now what it says here? And what did he do? 09:41 He brought those golden silver vessels 09:43 which his father, Nebuchadnezzar 09:44 had taken out of the temple, 09:46 which was in Jerusalem. 09:47 So would these things be called holy? 09:49 They were holy utensils 09:51 that were used in the service of God. 09:53 They were dedicated to God like 09:55 you are supposed to be dedicated to God. 09:58 Therefore you are special in God's sight. 10:01 This is interesting. 10:02 You're not common, did you get it? 10:05 It's not things you commonly ordinarily would use. 10:07 These were special things, 10:09 you know, ordained to God for His service. 10:11 And the king had the audacity to say, "Bring them here. 10:14 I'm good enough to drink from these things 10:17 and all my little concubines," and okay let me go on. 10:20 All right. 10:21 Verse 3, "Then they brought the golden vessels 10:24 that were taken out of the temple, 10:25 the house of God, which was at Jerusalem, 10:28 and the king and his princes, his wives, 10:29 his concubines drank from them. 10:31 They drank wine, and praised the gods 10:33 of gold and silver, and brass and iron, 10:36 of wood and stone." 10:37 Listen, people are doing the same thing today. 10:41 What God are you serving? 10:43 What God are you really serving? 10:44 There's many people say, "We serve the god of this 10:46 and the god of that." 10:48 That we serve the God of creation, 10:50 the God of salvation, 10:51 the God of redemption, 10:53 the Creator of the universe. 10:55 Many people go different direction there, 10:57 but we want to look there. 10:59 Many today who believe, they believe that God 11:03 does not take notice of His created beings. 11:06 If I thought that I'd be discouraged today. 11:09 In other words, He just creates us 11:11 and just lets us go and run and pays no attention to us. 11:13 That's not what the Bible says at all, 11:15 his eyes on the sparrow, if His eyes on the sparrow, 11:18 I know He watches you and He watches me. 11:21 Isn't that wonderful? 11:22 He goes into specifics when He says here, 11:24 "I know that the number of hairs 11:26 that you have on your head." 11:28 In other words, I've got such a close eye on you, 11:30 not to condemn you but to help you 11:32 in your time of need. 11:34 God wants to help us. 11:35 He wants to encourage us, 11:37 because we are no match for the enemy without Jesus. 11:40 Does that make sense? 11:42 We are no match. 11:44 Keep that in mind, the enemy, right, 11:47 created force and power in the universe. 11:49 And that's things that you 11:51 and I probably cannot understand. 11:52 I can't. 11:53 It's too big for me but one day by God's grace, okay? 11:58 You know, people say, "Well, we just go about doing 12:00 whatever we want to do, 12:02 and it's going to be all right. 12:03 We don't have to have a conscience today. 12:05 We don't have to worry about what we might say 12:07 or what we might do 12:09 because we're not going to really have to give 12:10 an answer for that." 12:12 But let me tell you, we have to be on guard 12:14 every moment of our life because I believe this. 12:18 There are uninvited guests that are present. 12:22 Certainly, there's invited guests, 12:25 you can invite the Holy Spirit to come in. 12:27 But there are uninvited 12:29 even if you don't invite the spirit in, 12:31 right, Holy Spirit, right? 12:32 The angels. 12:33 They're there to help you, to encourage you, 12:36 but also as it were to take notes of your life, 12:40 the good things or the bad, whatever they might be. 12:42 They're written in the book, the Bible says. 12:45 Does that make sense? 12:47 And so there're angels ever present with us. 12:52 Belshazzar the king of Babylon threw a... 12:55 I want to call it a gigantic party. 12:58 I don't know if I'd have been in Babylon 13:00 or been in that city, 13:01 I might have counted it quite a privilege. 13:03 I would go to somebody like Brother Steven. 13:05 And I say, "Steve, did you get this special invitation? 13:07 I did. 13:11 A thousand of us, a thousand of us 13:14 got this special invitation from the king. 13:16 Did you get one?" 13:18 Oh, my, well, that might be a little bit hurtful. 13:20 So maybe I wouldn't use Steve but, still yeah, 13:22 you know, it was quite something 13:24 they all felt. 13:26 The princes and some of the rulers 13:28 and, you know, Belshazzar 13:30 being the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar. 13:32 I look at Belshazzar as a weak king. 13:36 You can look at him maybe the way you want. 13:39 He was a man that like people to look to him. 13:43 He was an individual who loved pleasure. 13:46 He loved parties. 13:48 He loved drinking. 13:49 He loved self. 13:51 He had the self love, you know, self love, he loved himself. 13:56 He's a kind of want to look at himself 13:57 in a mirror all the time. 13:59 He loves self glorification. 14:01 He loved the power that he had in his hands. 14:05 Now remember, God gives us a lot of these things 14:07 is for God's honor and glory, 14:09 not yours and not mine. 14:11 So he was going backwards at this thing. 14:14 But he loved to have people surround him. 14:17 He loved to have people around him. 14:20 And, you know, and to praise him 14:23 for everything that was going on, 14:24 everything that was taking place. 14:26 The king wanted somebody to praise him. 14:30 But during all this time that he was lifting himself up, 14:33 he lost and sometimes it can happen to us. 14:36 He lost some valuable lessons 14:40 that he should have never forgotten. 14:43 Remember his grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar, 14:46 was banished from society, was he not? 14:50 He was banished from society 14:52 as a man or as I want to call as the king. 14:55 For seven years he was, lived with the animals. 14:58 He ate grass because of his pride. 15:02 Pride can keep you out of heaven. 15:04 You say, "Well, it's a murderer and a rapists 15:05 and now whoever else." 15:07 They are other ones who's not going to be there. 15:08 No. 15:09 Pride can keep you out of heaven. 15:11 Pride as, you know, well, 15:12 I'm learning new truth over here 15:14 but I won't accept it because people think I'm nuts. 15:17 I don't want to change. 15:18 My mom and dad won't accept me if I change. 15:20 Well, maybe God won't accept you 15:22 unless you change toward His direction. 15:24 Now think about it here. 15:25 He's just like, he was thinking. 15:28 Belshazzar knew a lot about his grandfather. 15:33 So it wasn't he didn't know these things. 15:35 He was familiar 15:36 with Nebuchadnezzar's conversion. 15:40 He was familiar with his restoration 15:43 as he came to his senses and came out 15:46 from eating grass with the animals, right? 15:50 The King Nebuchadnezzar, one of the greatest kings, 15:52 I guess, in the history in the Bible touts 15:55 and yet because of his pride, 15:57 he's down on his all fours for seven years 16:00 and all those who held him in such high esteem, 16:04 looked at him, he lost his mind, evidently. 16:08 Belshazzar was a wasted, what he did, 16:11 he wasted opportunities 16:13 and maybe some are doing it today. 16:14 We waste opportunities to learn what is truth. 16:18 Remember, a lie is not going to help you to get to heaven. 16:22 The truth will. 16:24 The Bible says, "Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word. 16:28 Thy word is truth. 16:30 Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word. 16:33 Sanctification is preparation for heaven. 16:36 That means something has to change inside and out. 16:39 Oh, we'll just make it to heaven. 16:40 We'll do the best we can we're going to be. 16:41 Listen, the very best that you can do 16:43 by yourself is to be totally lost. 16:45 Does that make sense? 16:46 Totally lost if it's just you. 16:49 We need more than that, don't we? 16:51 We need Christ within the hope of glory. 16:54 Powers that God wants to give us 16:56 so we may gain the victory. 16:57 Well that we may defeat the enemy 16:59 day in and day out 17:00 instead of being defeated. 17:02 Sometime when you meet people every day, 17:04 they come up and say, "I tell you 17:05 the devil's knocked me out all week long. 17:07 He just beat me to death. 17:09 Man, he's thrown me down. He's going to." No. 17:11 By the grace of God is what, 17:13 we defeat the enemy, isn't that right? 17:15 Power and Spirit of God within gives that which we need 17:19 to be more than conquerors through Jesus Christ. 17:22 Amen. 17:24 Here this king always pretending, 17:26 always kind of feeling good about himself 17:29 and all of his power. 17:32 He always needed, 17:34 you might have met some people like that, 17:35 he always needed an entourage. 17:39 Do you find that maybe 17:40 and I'm going to say Hollywood today. 17:42 Is it okay to say that? 17:43 They have what? 17:45 They have people, they're surrounded by people. 17:48 And sometimes these people 17:49 are nothing more than yes people. 17:51 They get paid to say yes. 17:52 They get paid to make you feel good. 17:55 They never try to correct you. 17:56 They never try to do anything but gonna make you feel good. 18:00 He loved to be surrounded by yes men and be careful, 18:02 Kenny and yes women. 18:04 Are you still with me? 18:06 Amen. 18:08 So he think let's have another party. 18:10 Let's throw up party. 18:12 And so he arranged the royal, royal banquet. 18:17 All those in power and, you know, anything they needed. 18:22 I will call it, some people call it, 18:24 they say that's wine, 18:26 women and song. 18:27 Is somebody still with me? 18:28 You ever heard that one? 18:30 Wine, women and song soon turned into drunkards, 18:34 wild merry-making. 18:36 Instead of a song there was silence. 18:39 How things can change in a matter of a second. 18:42 You may sit there today or stand there 18:44 and may wherever you're at or people at home, 18:46 very snug, and I'm good and I'm feeling good. 18:49 Everything is good. 18:50 In the matter of one second, 18:52 your life can change for eternity. 18:54 That's how quick your life can change. 18:58 Now I'd like to begin as we skipped over Belshazzar. 19:02 And I think we would be a mess today 19:04 if we didn't begin by giving. 19:07 May I call this a strong warning. 19:09 Is that okay? 19:10 I feel compelled reading the Word of God 19:13 that God is telling us 19:15 there need to be strong warnings giving 19:17 about the events that's taking place 19:19 in our world today. 19:21 These events, surely, surely 19:24 what's going on in the world today is a sign 19:28 that we need to get ready, 19:30 that we need to be preparing for troublous times ahead, 19:34 much more than we have seen. 19:37 See, some people will hear this, 19:39 it will fall on deaf ears. 19:40 They'll go right, 19:41 you know, it doesn't matter, doesn't matter. 19:43 You will be the sorriest one 19:45 if we do not heed that which God 19:48 so beautifully has left in Scripture for us to say. 19:51 I'm going to tell you. 19:53 Remember He said, 19:54 "You don't know the day or the hour 19:56 but you're going to know the leaves 19:57 when they're on the tree." 19:58 Isn't that right? 20:00 "You're going to know it soon to sprout. 20:01 You're going to know 20:02 when My coming is near even at the door." 20:05 But some people look around and say, 20:06 "I don't know it's near even at the door." 20:07 No. 20:09 You'd rather go play cards or you'd rather go to a dance, 20:11 you'd rather go to a movie, 20:12 you'd rather go do whatever else 20:14 rather than get in the house of God 20:15 or open the Word of God instead. 20:17 Is that all right? 20:20 Listen, because there's millions out 20:22 there that's doing that very thing. 20:24 I'm not trying to condemn them, not even trying to judge them 20:27 but they're using that in the place of the Word of God 20:29 and it'll never work. 20:31 It will never ever work. 20:34 So I want to say please by the grace of God 20:37 we are in troublous times right now. 20:41 And I'm going to encourage you, don't put off anything 20:44 that needs to be taken care of right now. 20:47 That could be mentally, that could be spiritually, 20:51 it could be physically, it could be houses and lands, 20:55 it could be a lot of things 20:56 that the enemy tries to tie you down with. 20:59 I'm gonna encourage you to do by the grace of God 21:02 to get rid of those things. 21:04 Put everything on the altar 21:07 because I see these last day conditions. 21:11 Is anybody here seen last day condition? 21:13 Is anybody? Lord, have mercy. 21:15 Is there anybody that's looking? 21:16 Okay. 21:17 There's looking around saying 21:19 this world is not what it used to be. 21:23 Say it as though we may in the last year and a half, 21:25 this world has changed 21:27 more than in my whole lifetime. 21:29 I've never seen anything like it. 21:31 It tells me changes are taking place 21:33 and will continue to take place, 21:35 they're either going to get better 21:37 or they're going to get worse. 21:38 You're going to have to decide based on the Word of God. 21:41 People are saying here 21:42 and they just bury their head in the sand and say, 21:44 "Well, it's going to get better." 21:46 I wish I could say that. 21:48 I wish you could come to church 21:49 and when you left you were just so happy, 21:51 you floated out. 21:52 But now some of you may shuffle when you go out the door, 21:54 "Oh, well I'm all bruised and beat." 21:57 Hey, the Word of God sometime can beat us up a little bit. 22:01 And it's okay. 22:04 For God's trying to get our attention. 22:07 As we look at these last day conditions, 22:09 they seem to be pressing all of us 22:14 to react. 22:15 See, when I see these things here I'm looking, I'm saying, 22:18 I can't just look at them and see 22:19 and say they're nothing. 22:21 It makes me want to do something. 22:22 I need to respond to what I'm reading 22:25 and what I'm seeing here 22:27 because they're crisis 22:28 and they're called disasters in the land, 22:31 there're judgments, 22:32 there're plagues that the Bible talks about. 22:37 And they're falling on those, 22:38 listen, who reject the grace of God. 22:42 They're falling particularly upon those who are rejecting 22:46 the grace of God right now. 22:48 Praise God for grace. 22:51 Praise God for grace. 22:52 Man, we desperately need it. 22:55 We know, we know and I pray that, you know. 22:59 Some of you are too busy with your job. 23:00 Some of you are too busy, 23:02 you know, raising this and doing this and doing 23:04 that you don't have any time for God. 23:05 So I'm speaking to you too today. 23:08 I'm not talking necessarily here. 23:09 But you know that these things go all over. 23:11 So I'm talking to those who are just too busy for God. 23:14 It's time that you get, I'm gonna use the word un-busy. 23:17 Un-busy in things of the world 23:19 and get busy in the things of God. 23:21 The time is at hand. 23:23 I mean, that there will be, 23:25 listen, there's going to be sorrow in the world 23:28 that no human balm can heal. 23:32 Did you get it? 23:33 Sorrow is coming upon. 23:35 Do I like to say that? No. 23:37 But I would be a miss, 23:38 I would not be what God asked me 23:40 to be as a watchman 23:41 on the walls of Zion 23:43 if I didn't at least bring it out to say, 23:44 sorrow is headed our way 23:47 more than we've ever seen it before. 23:50 Allow me to go over just a few points here. 23:51 You say, well, you're talking about Belshazzar. 23:54 But I'm putting him on the back 23:56 burner for a minute, 23:57 then we'll get to him in a little bit. 24:00 Just a few things that happened 24:02 just in 15 minutes of sitting down 24:04 looking at the news. 24:05 And it's not just news. 24:07 Don't anybody write. 24:08 Please don't and say, 24:10 "Well, you're giving us a news report." 24:12 I'm giving you a prophetic view of the Bible 24:14 in Book of Daniel and Revelation. 24:16 That's what I'm giving you 24:17 because I see these things taking place. 24:20 You see, this is what it's all about. 24:22 And God said, "I'm going to put it out there 24:24 so you can see it. 24:25 So that you can weigh it out. 24:27 So you can say what's going to happen here? 24:31 Is there any hope for this country? 24:32 Is there any hope for this world? 24:34 Is there any hope for me?" 24:36 Surely we're asking those questions. 24:38 Please ask those questions. 24:41 Here's just a few of the... 24:43 I want to call them the sorrows issues if you will, 24:49 that could bring about troublous times 24:52 and is bringing troublous times to us right now 24:55 and troublous laws that are passed 24:58 and are being passed. 25:00 And eventually they will go against those 25:02 who want to be the true followers of God. 25:04 That can be anybody that wants to be. 25:08 So bold for several years, 25:10 you know, each country is careful what they say, 25:13 you know, about each other for fear 25:15 that they might cause a little uproar. 25:18 But the Bible says in Matthew 20, 25:20 "There'll be wars and rumors of wars. 25:22 There are going to be talk about war." 25:23 There skirmishes going on, 25:25 at least 30 or 40 in the world today, right now. 25:29 But the interesting one, 25:30 the most powerful countries in the world is China, 25:32 as we well know. 25:35 They come out publicly, 25:37 and they warn United States not to interfere with Taiwan. 25:43 They said, "If you do it will bring about the death 25:46 of US soldiers." 25:47 That's pretty bold. 25:49 It's not just they're talking about well, we might, 25:51 you know, be careful how we say these things. 25:54 They said, "It's going to bring about the death 25:56 of some US soldiers." 25:57 Should it be something we take serious? 25:59 The Bible does say there will be wars 26:01 and rumors of wars. 26:02 And what would that do 26:04 if just a little transfer took place? 26:09 If it will, it will not be some little shot here 26:12 and there. 26:14 It's going to be brutal what goes on. 26:16 What is exchanged? 26:18 Who has the good defense? 26:19 I'm just simply saying 26:20 we need to be prepared just in case. 26:22 I'm not predicting anything. 26:25 These things could bring about a time of trouble 26:27 that we've never seen. 26:28 How about inflation? 26:30 This is all happened like in 15 minutes 26:32 I just turn the news on watching. 26:33 I said, "Oh my." 26:35 No wonder the country is going insane. 26:37 No wonder they're just making up things 26:39 and people just seem to be lying, 26:41 one lie after the other. 26:43 I don't know how else to explain it 26:44 because how are you going to fix all of these things? 26:48 Are they fixable? 26:50 Have they gone too far? 26:52 Have we entered a time 26:53 that we will not be able to back away from it, 26:55 but we're going to have to go by God's grace 26:57 through some of these things? 26:59 Inflation? 27:00 Wow. 27:02 I mean after all and what is it last 18 months, 27:05 the United States of America 27:07 has put 11 trillion dollars into the economy. 27:12 Man, that is sure calls for inflation, 27:15 did you get it? 27:17 Just out of nowhere, as it were, let's just print. 27:21 And put it out there. 27:22 Man, that's an awful lot 27:24 and some of the brains are saying, "Boy, that's. 27:25 Whoa." 27:27 What causes inflation? 27:29 Rising prices. 27:30 Do we see prices rising? 27:32 What brings about inflation? 27:34 It's due to increase of product 27:37 after we come out of this COVID, 27:39 everybody's wanting to buy something right now. 27:41 There's a shortage, you get that? 27:43 It's inflation, it's talking about 27:45 a demand for products 27:47 and more products 27:49 and then they're willing to pay for it. 27:51 And so therefore, the prices all go up. 27:54 Do we see that? 27:56 Is everything going up? Absolutely. 27:59 And they're saying not just inflation 28:00 but it could cause hyperinflation. 28:02 That's brutal. 28:05 It just says it could, just hang in there. 28:07 Other words, all these things are in operation 28:09 and they're floating right now 28:10 and the Bible talks about a time of that. 28:14 About the rich man they're going in, right, 28:16 howl and cry, right? 28:17 Your riches are gone. 28:20 How about the economy? 28:22 It's faltering right now. 28:23 They're not sure how to get it back going. 28:25 They're trying everything 28:27 that they possibly can at the gas pump 28:29 is, you know, the seven year high right now. 28:32 And for your home to heat it with gas 28:34 is talking 30 to 50% more. 28:37 Some of us cannot afford to pay, 28:39 you know, 50% more for gas to heat your home. 28:42 They said it's going up. 28:43 It could be even more. 28:45 Here's a few more things that just quick, 28:46 I don't want to talk too much about, 28:48 but we need to look at these things 28:49 because these are causing a crisis. 28:51 These are, the Bible said 28:53 there's going to be crisis in the land. 28:54 There's going to be troublous times. 28:56 There's going to be famine and pestilence 28:58 and things in the world, 28:59 the economy collapsing. 29:01 These things are all right here on us right now. 29:03 Listen, think about a crisis, 29:06 all the drugs that are coming into this country. 29:10 Is there a crisis? Yeah. 29:12 Half the Americans say it's not really a crisis. 29:14 Well, maybe they're wanting the drugs to come in. 29:16 Surely you'd say no, it can't be, 29:18 we don't, that's a crisis point. 29:20 How about human trafficking? 29:23 It's a crisis point right now what they're doing. 29:27 It's sad that two little girls that were laid over the wall 29:29 and left out and got somebody, 29:31 they said we're thankful that somebody else 29:32 didn't pick them up and start using them at what, 29:34 eight or nine or 10 years old. 29:37 Human trade, it's a crisis. 29:39 How about cargo shortage? 29:41 It's in a crisis point. 29:42 Ships need unloading. 29:44 You can't get workers to unload them. 29:46 Right? 29:47 There's dozens is what they're saying. 29:50 Some said 60 and 70 ships out there in California. 29:53 Dozens of them are out there loaded 29:56 with thousands of these trailers 29:57 and can't get anybody to work 30:00 because they get paid more to stay home. 30:03 Labor shortage, crisis point, power shortage. 30:09 Now look, there's a power shortage. 30:11 What's going on here? 30:13 In some places in China, 30:15 they have their power shut off for two days a week. 30:19 If it's not there, they're going to try to, okay. 30:22 They're going to try to create it 30:26 because usually what goes out there 30:27 comes back around. 30:30 And how you're going to feel 30:31 when your power shut off 30:33 for one full day or two full day? 30:34 We're not going to like it. 30:36 But you know what, you better prepare for it. 30:38 Herb, you better prepare for it. 30:40 You know it can happen? 30:42 You seen the world shut down 30:43 in a year and a half, is that right? 30:45 In the COVID, I mean, yeah, in two weeks, 30:50 the world was shut down, the world. 30:55 So don't say this can't happen and happen quickly 30:57 because the things are piled up here. 31:01 Labor shortages, power shortages, 31:03 supply chain crisis 31:05 they're calling about right now. 31:06 Schools are struggling to get food to feed the children. 31:10 Vaccine mandates crisis. 31:13 It's affecting the military. 31:16 It's affecting sports, it's affecting schools. 31:18 It's affecting hospitals, air travel, 31:21 rail travel, any kind of travel. 31:23 It's affecting the police. 31:24 It's affecting businesses all over the world. 31:28 And through it all, 31:29 it's taking away your free choice. 31:32 It's taking away free, your free conscience. 31:35 You can't have it anymore 31:36 because government's going to make decisions for you. 31:39 It's even taken away your free speech. 31:43 See, if we sit by alibi now 31:45 and don't talk about 31:47 any of this kind of stuff, that's a shame 31:48 because you will wake up 31:50 one of these days and you're not. 31:51 You can't say anything about anything or anybody anymore. 31:55 Can you? 31:56 You can't. 31:58 You can say it but you will be, you'll be held responsible. 32:02 You'll have to pay the piper, as you say. 32:04 A lot of stuff doesn't need to be said I understand, 32:06 but I like free speech. 32:08 I like free conscience. 32:09 I like to worship God 32:11 accordingly dictates to my conscience 32:12 and not be told by some power that you can't do it 32:15 or some power says close the doors and lock them. 32:17 You can't have church. 32:19 Since when? 32:20 Is there not a separation between church and state? 32:23 Come on now church. Come on. 32:25 Think about it. No, most certainly not. 32:27 We're still joining together. 32:29 There's a trucking shortage. 32:31 They can't find enough people to buy it. 32:33 I mean, man, they can make more money sitting 32:35 in the recliner drinking a beer. 32:37 Can I say that here? 32:39 Drinking orange juice. 32:44 You know what I'm talking about here? 32:47 How about the border crisis? 32:49 I'm just mentioning these things, 32:50 just a few simple. 32:52 Is it a crisis there? 32:53 Yes. It's a crisis. 32:54 And half of Americans say there's no crisis there. 32:57 No, it is. 33:00 Colorado, Colorado State University warns 33:03 that they're going to arrest the students, 33:06 if they don't follow the COVID rules. 33:08 They're going to arrest them, put them in handcuffs, 33:10 take them to jail. 33:11 I'm telling, this is the beginning of things 33:13 that could happen. 33:15 Just keep it in mind. 33:18 When the doors are bolted out here, 33:19 you try to get in see what might happen. 33:22 You think everything's going to go on 33:24 just smooth and simple. 33:25 And to top it all off with, may I just top it off? 33:27 And almost two weeks ago, it was October the 4th. 33:32 There was a real important meeting at the Vatican. 33:36 Do you remember that? 33:38 Now, it was called faith and science. 33:41 Faith and science talk that would... 33:45 This was held ahead 33:48 of the United Nations Climate Summit? 33:50 Why did they do it? 33:53 They wanted to raise the stakes. 33:54 They wanted to have some time 33:56 that they could talk to some of their main leaders 33:58 before the UN met, 33:59 because they've got a plan to shut this world down. 34:02 Somebody needs to get with the program. 34:04 The Bible predicts these things that we need to look at. 34:08 It's not just news. 34:09 It's how the enemy is going to get his way. 34:12 And he tries to rule you through fear and threats, 34:16 and punishment and loss. 34:19 Now, let's just talk about that just, 34:20 according to Wikipedia. 34:22 In November, that's next month, is it not? 34:26 No, next month, 34:27 they're going to have 34:29 the UN Climate Change Conference. 34:31 Now they call that the COP26. 34:35 Same thing as climate change or you know, summit. 34:40 When you see COP26, 34:43 it means Conference of the Parties 26, 34:47 means this is their 26th meeting. 34:50 Okay, that makes sense? 34:52 Now, what they're doing here, is they, here's what they said, 34:55 "If we get together now, 34:56 we're going to get together first," 34:58 and they have already done that with religious leaders 35:01 and the pope getting together saying, 35:03 "This is what we need to do 35:04 at this big meeting with the UN." 35:06 Getting everybody all excited 35:07 so that we get this thing passed 35:09 and getting this thing passed 35:10 means your whole world will change. 35:12 It already is right now 35:13 but man with this power, look out. 35:16 So what they said, "Here's what we need to do, 35:18 we need to get together and take it." 35:20 Notice this, the pope says, 35:21 "We need to take a common stand." 35:24 Notice this, at the key moment 35:27 in the history of humanity. 35:30 He says, "This is the key. 35:32 Right now, this moment in time is a key point in history. 35:36 And we got to take advantage of it." 35:38 Remember, when the people are not knowing 35:40 what to do and where to go? 35:42 They're just looking for somebody 35:43 to step up and be a leader, 35:44 something that can give them hope and encouragement. 35:47 This is not what it's going to be all about, friend. 35:49 We need to stand up and say, "Hey, wait a minute." 35:52 There's 40 leaders, 40 religious leaders, 35:56 world major religions around the world 36:00 handpicked by the papacy. 36:03 Let's just talk, we're not talking bad about 36:05 anybody here. 36:06 Papacy, 40 world religious tops 36:12 and they brought them together for this meeting. 36:15 And then they brought 10 scientists. 36:19 Some of the scientists don't notice 36:20 seven day week cycle. 36:23 They can't get to seven. 36:25 They may be brilliant in a lot of other ways, 36:27 not trying to downtrod that but you see what I mean? 36:31 When you have some, "Well, we want some scientific proof." 36:35 Some of the science says man came from monkey, 36:37 I don't believe that either. 36:39 Are you? Can you believe? 36:41 Are you believing it? No. 36:43 So because you use scientists, all of a sudden, 36:45 we are going to give respect. 36:47 I'm going to check him out. 36:48 How about you? 36:52 When they say this earth is billions of years old 36:55 and so on and so forth, 36:56 we realize from based on the Word of God, 36:58 6000 years. 37:00 You still with me? 37:01 Oh yeah, they're way off in a lot of different things 37:04 when it comes to the Word of God. 37:05 The Word of God has to weigh over the scientist. 37:08 Now what these 40 religious leaders 37:11 and we're talking Hindu and Buddhist 37:12 and this god and that god 37:15 that we read there in Daniel of gold and wood, 37:18 and stone and bump, bumb, 37:19 which I wouldn't give anything for. 37:23 Would you? 37:24 Come on church, I know. 37:26 I want to live in powerful God, 37:28 One on the right that redeem us to save us. 37:30 That said, "I'm coming back after to take care of you." 37:32 I'm not getting down praying to something of gold and silver 37:35 and that piano. 37:36 That piano can't do me a lick of good. 37:39 They said if we get these 40 leaders 37:41 and these 10 scientists together, 37:42 their contribution will be to raise, notice this. 37:46 I like the words they tried to, have not really but listen, 37:48 I like, it says, "The ambition of our political leaders." 37:53 They're going to raise what? 37:55 The ambition of political leaders 37:57 to see the issue 37:58 and make courageous decisions. 38:01 Huh! 38:03 Make courageous decisions. 38:05 Now who said that? 38:06 Well, that was the Archbishop Gallagher 38:08 said that, I mean, he said, "Yeah, we're here. 38:10 That's what we're going to do." 38:11 But you realize what happened? 38:13 You have the state and then you have what? 38:16 Church. 38:18 Church and state will do what before it's over? 38:21 Yeah, there's supposed to be a separation 38:22 between church and state. 38:25 And whoever that guy is, bless your heart on there 38:27 that you just hate when I say that. 38:28 I'm saying it again. 38:30 You know, we hear from different people. 38:31 You know what I mean, they said, 38:33 "Oh, you shouldn't say separation of church." 38:34 Yes, I have to. 38:36 There should be separation of church and state. 38:39 The Bible is clear, your Constitution is clear. 38:42 Your Bill of Rights is clear. 38:43 These things here may be earthly, 38:45 but they're supposed to be a separation here. 38:48 But now the church says if we get 40 religious leaders, 38:52 we can put pressure on, notice this, 38:55 the representatives of Congress 38:59 and we can change things, 39:01 church and state coming together. 39:02 This is a sign of the time. Oh, somebody come on. 39:06 If you just look at these 40 leaders, 39:08 just these 40 Christian leaders around the world, 39:11 they represent, listen, 39:13 three quarters of the world's population. 39:17 They represent what? 39:19 Three quarters of the world's population, 39:22 which would be what would that be? 39:23 Five billion. How much is there? 39:26 Is it 7 billion or whatever is now 39:27 somebody do better with math. 39:28 There's no use of me to try to pinpoint 39:30 by one or two numbers. 39:32 Now, Pope Francis said this, 39:34 now I need to move on that 39:35 this was perhaps, he says this, "This is perhaps." 39:39 He's talking to the young people. 39:41 In this last meeting he said, "Perhaps, 39:42 this may be perhaps the last generation 39:45 to save the planet." 39:48 So therefore, they're going to have to put out, 39:50 pull out all stops, 39:53 if they want to accomplish their goal 39:55 or most of it in 2030, 39:57 or during a seven year period of time. 40:01 And so they realize the importance of this meeting 40:05 in just a matter of a couple of weeks, 40:07 remember, prior. 40:08 That's kind of like, kind of like hook and crook. 40:11 We're going to have a meeting over here, 40:12 but we're going to get over here first. 40:14 We're going to iron out all the problems 40:15 and when we get to the meeting 40:16 we're going to seem like those things 40:19 should have been ironed out among everybody, 40:20 isn't that right? 40:22 Maybe that's just me. 40:24 But I see these crisis and these calamities 40:27 everywhere we talked about it. 40:29 Just few things we mentioned there, 40:30 everything was in a crisis state. 40:34 That your world leader said this, 40:36 "We don't want to do with it." 40:38 Crisis and calamities, these shortages." 40:42 I see demon forces at work, I don't know about you. 40:47 But listen, good news, 40:48 God's going to use the bad things 40:52 to wake up America and wake up this world 40:55 to their danger, 40:58 that His coming is near even at the door. 41:01 Little magazine, I want to read something 41:03 from little magazine here 41:04 in Review and Herald, September 10, 1903. 41:08 This is written, notice this, it says, 41:10 "Soon grievous troubles will arise among the nation's, 41:15 trouble, listen, trouble that will not cease 41:20 until Jesus comes. 41:23 As never before, we need to press together." 41:26 Just once we need to press together. 41:28 Those of the like beliefs you go can, 41:30 you know, can two walk together unless they agree? 41:32 No, if you can, you're fussing and fighting all the time. 41:34 That's why we say we study to show yourself 41:36 approved unto God. 41:37 Get into the Bible, find out the truth of God's Word 41:39 and then take a stand. 41:41 Just take a bold stand for what is truth, right? 41:43 What is truth? 41:44 This is truth, by God's grace, I'm going to walk what? 41:46 I'm going to walk in that truth. 41:48 I'm not going to be blown by every wind of doctrine 41:50 that goes on here. 41:52 I'm not going to be swayed by everything everybody says. 41:54 I'm going to take it to the Lord in prayer. 41:55 I'm going to take it to the Word of God 41:57 and then what? 41:58 Continue to walk in the truth. 41:59 This is imperative this time. 42:01 This is the time there needs to be good watchmen 42:04 on the walls of Zion and not these little... 42:07 It gets me worked up and I tell you why. 42:08 Because the majority of the world is deceived 42:11 because the Bible said they would be, 42:13 that doesn't mean that we're not. 42:14 We don't want to be, I understand it. 42:16 So no, oh, well, we all want... 42:19 And the enemy is going to deceive and what was it? 42:21 He said, "And the whole world was deceived." 42:24 But then you had a group over here that wasn't deceived. 42:26 And He said, "They're the ones that 42:28 keep the commandments of God and have a testimony of Jesus." 42:31 So there's a little group over there that's not deceived 42:33 because they have help, 42:36 the Spirit of the Living God. 42:38 Oh, boy. 42:42 Listen, good news. 42:43 God has not forsaken His people. 42:46 You may think so and we've seen nothing yet. 42:48 God hasn't forsaken His people. 42:50 Here's what we need 42:51 to maybe focus really on right now. 42:56 We have to know where our strength lies. 43:00 And it must be that we don't forsake Him. 43:04 He will never forsake us. 43:07 That He may not be able to help you 43:09 because you won't let Him 43:10 or some of you may be being here today 43:12 you won't let Him do 43:13 what He wants to do in your life 43:15 because you like your life. 43:16 You like your drug, you like your alcohol, 43:18 you like your carousing around, 43:20 you're running around doing this and that, 43:22 lying and thieving and tell you, 43:24 that will not inherit the kingdom of God. 43:25 That's what the Bible says. 43:27 Should we not be bold with it right now? 43:29 We don't want some thief 43:31 to think it's okay to thieve and so on so forth 43:33 and they're going to make it to heaven. 43:34 No, they're not. 43:35 The Bible said that, 43:37 thieves and liars are outside the walls, isn't that right? 43:38 Revelation, we know that. 43:40 It's not trying to condemn anyone. 43:41 Let's just look at it realistically, 43:42 if you choose that, that's your choice. 43:45 That's all we're saying today with vaccines, 43:47 whatever it is, it's my choice! 43:50 I believe with all my heart, it's my choice. 43:53 Not trying to hurt anybody. 43:55 I'm not trying to do anything but it's my choice. 43:57 Don't let somebody 43:58 take your free choice away from you, 44:02 because listen, because it won't end there. 44:05 Sister Molly, it won't end there. 44:07 It's just another step, Brother Will. 44:10 It's just another step in their plan that they have 44:13 if they can get that far. 44:14 They're doing everything they can to test you 44:16 first to see how far you will go with them. 44:19 As... 44:21 I use the word malarkey a couple times. 44:22 I'm not sure what that means. 44:26 You know what malarkey means? 44:29 Hmm? 44:30 She said baloney, that's good enough. 44:34 I'm just saying that, that's not true. 44:37 They created a couple of months ago 44:39 what they call a coin shortage. 44:43 There was no coin shortage. 44:45 Everybody, his brother had a ten gallon can 44:48 in their house filled. 44:49 No. 44:50 And they were still all kind of, 44:52 they're seeing how far they could go 44:54 with the people before you raise a stink. 44:56 That's what I believe. 44:58 You might be able to prove it wrong. 44:59 Hey, go ahead. 45:01 But I noticed everything that takes place. 45:02 There's always feelers out there, 45:04 things that are transpiring to see 45:07 how the people will deal with it. 45:09 So when it comes to liberty of conscience, 45:12 freedom of religion, 45:13 God's people need to sound off with a loud voice 45:18 we stand for it. 45:19 If you don't, you will lose it. 45:21 We are losing it. 45:23 We have lost it to a certain extent. 45:26 Because you will be, hey, you don't think so? 45:29 Just go out and say a few different things 45:31 and see if they don't, they don't shut you up. 45:33 They're doing it 45:35 with big multi-billion dollar companies. 45:38 Everybody says anything. 45:40 There's a football coach that had to retire. 45:42 Do you see what it was, I'd seen on the news? 45:43 I forget what his name was. 45:45 Because he made a couple of comments 45:46 10 years ago about something maybe shouldn't 45:48 or maybe it's a joke time 45:50 or maybe it's because he's not really that type of person, 45:53 his close friends say, 45:54 but it just kind of something funny 45:56 or something being said. 45:57 But when somebody found out, people found out. 45:59 They put the pressure on man, 46:00 lost millions of dollars and had to apologize. 46:03 When people tried to get you down 46:05 and make you apologize for the way 46:06 in which you were born, 46:08 something's wrong. 46:10 Are you with me? 46:12 We've seen that. 46:14 Apologize. 46:16 Why apologize? 46:18 I had nothing to do with it. 46:20 Okay, some of you not. All right, don't worry. 46:23 This little magazine article, 46:24 many, time's going already and nothing got started. 46:28 You could ask my wife and she'd say 46:30 "Yeah, I knew you would." 46:31 Review and Herald, September the 10th, 46:33 1903 said it, 46:35 "Soon grievous troubles will not cease 46:38 until Jesus comes. 46:40 As never before we need to press together." 46:41 But remember this, 46:43 "God's not forsaken His people." 46:45 Remember, wars, rumors of wars, destructions by fire and flood. 46:51 See these things are in Scripture, 46:52 these things here. 46:54 There's going to be destruction by fire and flood. 46:56 What do you think when we see all these 46:57 billions and trillions of dollars 46:59 homes wasted flooded out? 47:01 You know, this tornado natural disasters going wild. 47:04 The devil calls himself 47:05 the prince of the air, does he not? 47:07 God lets him do a certain amount. 47:09 He could stop him, 47:10 but He lets him do a certain amount. 47:14 Man, these are signs of the times, 47:18 say clearly the time of trouble, 47:21 which is to increase until the very end. 47:24 Remember 2 Timothy 3:12, isn't it, 13. 47:28 It says the world will what? It will wax. 47:30 "Things will wax worse and worse 47:32 until the coming of Jesus." 47:34 I'd like to say it's going to get better. 47:36 Man, how wonderful that would be 47:38 that we could just celebrate and say let's go, 47:40 let's get a feast going. 47:43 Yeah, let's go. 47:45 I'm going to make it just a little bit clearer 47:47 in a few minutes that we have. 47:49 In the book Nine Testimonies 11, 47:51 it says this. 47:53 See if this is not something, this is written 150 years ago. 47:58 See if it doesn't fit for today. 48:01 It has to fit in prophecy. I'm not going to use it. 48:04 Said the daily papers are full of indications 48:06 of the terrible conflict in the near future. 48:11 Bold robberies are frequent occurrence. 48:15 Strikes are common. 48:18 Theft and murders are committed on every hand. 48:22 Men possessed of demons are taking the lives of men, 48:26 women and little children. 48:28 They become infatuated with vice. 48:32 Every species of evil prevails. 48:35 I submit to you just like at the time of the flood. 48:39 Evil was on man's heart continually. 48:42 Man, if we're not there, we may never get there 48:44 and this only started to light up right now. 48:48 We must prepare while there's opportunity. 48:51 I come to you begging that we prepare 48:53 while there's still opportunity. 48:55 The day will come there's not going to be an opportunity. 48:57 Your life can change just like that. 49:01 Those who had surgery and different thing, 49:04 Brother Jan is shaking his head, we know that. 49:06 Feeling real good, right Brother Jan? 49:07 That's feeling really good, one minute, 49:09 one second later is on death row. 49:13 Second later, didn't know, 49:15 whole life could have changed weren't from a miracle of God. 49:21 Medical Missionary, little magazine in November 49:24 and December says this. 49:27 It says, notice this, 49:28 as religious aggression subverts. 49:31 That means it's just destroyed and is corrupted. 49:35 The liberties of our nation, 49:38 those who would stand for the freedom of conscience, 49:41 come on church, will be placed in unfavorable positions. 49:46 See, don't you see 49:47 what they're making everything right now 49:49 that if you stand opposite of what some want 49:52 those in leadership, 49:53 you're going to be put in an unfavorable position. 49:56 If you don't take the shot, you're going to lose your job. 49:58 If you don't do this, you can't have this. 49:59 If you don't do this, you can't buy that. 50:01 The time will come, the Bible said Revelation 13, 50:03 you will not be able to buy or sell say you have the mark. 50:06 If you don't know what the mark or the mark of the beast is, 50:08 bless your heart, time is running out. 50:11 You've got to know that, it's spiritual. 50:14 We've got to know what it is. 50:15 I wish we had more time maybe next week 50:17 I'll speak more on the seal of God. 50:19 Did you get it? The seal of God. 50:22 No one will enter the kingdom 50:23 unless they have the seal of the Living God. 50:26 If you don't know what the seal of the Living God is, 50:28 that means you maybe you're not headed in the right direction, 50:30 maybe I'm not. 50:32 The Bible is clear on that 50:33 because you talk about a mark of the beast. 50:36 The devil has his mark and God has His mark. 50:39 Isn't that beautiful? 50:40 For every truth that God has the enemy has what? 50:42 A counterfeit for. 50:44 We need to know what it's all about. 50:47 The devil is fighting for your mind, 50:48 my brothers and sisters. 50:50 He's fighting for my mind. 50:52 You must commit that mind to Jesus Christ 50:55 when He said in Philippians, "Let this mind be in you," 50:57 which was also where? 50:59 "In Christ Jesus." 51:01 Man, we need to know what's going on. 51:03 Why? 51:04 Because doors are soon to be closed 51:06 that never will be opened again for the winning of souls. 51:10 Every day and some of you will be on your knees, 51:12 some may be weeping at nighttime to say, 51:14 "Why didn't I do when I know 51:16 I should have done a long time ago. 51:18 Now it's too late. I can't do it." 51:21 The doors have closed. 51:22 Don't do that, forever closed, man. 51:25 Carry the message now by the grace of God 51:28 as far and wide as you possibly can. 51:30 Now's the time for holy boldness, 51:32 now's the time to really get down plain 51:34 and simple right now. 51:36 Well somebody is not going to like me. 51:38 I don't plan on being liked in this world. 51:40 I don't plan on being loved in this world. 51:42 Are you still with me? 51:43 I want to be loved of heaven. 51:44 I want to be approved of God. 51:46 I want heaven to be my home. 51:47 I don't want people mad at me. 51:49 I don't want to be a cause a troublemaker 51:51 every time you go, "Here comes the troublemaker. 51:52 He's not going agree with, blah-blah." 51:54 No, but we have to stay with the Word of God 51:58 regardless of what the cost. 52:00 We have to be willing to die. 52:03 Man, can we do only by the grace of God. 52:06 Nine Testimonies says this, 11. You know this well. 52:08 I want you to repeat that last line with me 52:10 when I read this. 52:11 It says, "Great changes are soon 52:13 to take place in our world." 52:15 Great what? Great changes. 52:18 Great changes are soon to take place. 52:19 The Bible says there's going to be great changes. 52:21 There's going to be famine and earthquake and earthquakes 52:24 and you know wars and rumors of wars. 52:26 Everything's out of sort and it is right now 52:29 but notice this and here, 52:31 "The final movements," come on church, 52:34 "will be rapid ones." 52:36 They will happen so quick, it'll make your head swim. 52:38 I don't want anyone here come up and say, 52:40 "You knew all along but you didn't tell me." 52:42 The preacher's going to pay up. Whoa! 52:45 I'm almost said burn in hell fire, 52:47 in a real hot hell fire 52:48 because they refused to give the church the truth 52:51 that they knew that was inspired 52:53 by the Holy Spirit of God 52:54 because they were afraid of losing their job. 52:56 They were afraid about retirement. 52:58 I'm not worried about retirement. 52:59 I'm not worried about losing my job. 53:02 If God says to you, 53:03 you're finished and you're finished 53:04 until then I'm going on. 53:06 How about you? 53:09 Angels of God right now 53:10 my brother and sisters are holding back. 53:12 The winds of strife, in Revelation Chapter 7, 53:16 you remember reading that in Revelation 7:1-3 53:19 The reason this world 53:20 is not just crumble completely already gone right now 53:22 because God is holding back 53:24 until His servants are sealed in their what? 53:27 In their forehead and when He does 53:29 and He lets those angels loose, 53:31 the four angels, you know north, south, east, west. 53:33 You follow me, the four corners of the earth. 53:36 God said, "Enemy you can go this far and no farther." 53:39 Can God do that with the enemy? 53:41 Absolutely He said. 53:42 He told him when he was cast down here, 53:43 He said, "You get up in that little tree there 53:45 in the garden and you stay there." 53:47 I like that, that's control that God has over the enemy. 53:50 You can only place you can be is in that tree. 53:53 Get up there, don't get down till I tell you to. 53:57 Man, that encourages me. 54:00 A storm is gathering we're told. 54:03 Now, ready to burst upon the earth 54:06 when God's bids those angels let loose. 54:09 Oh boy, the winds and then there will be 54:13 such a scene of strife 54:17 that no pen can picture. 54:21 Nope, you can write it all you want, 54:22 you can be the best writer and somebody writes these book, 54:24 blah-blah-blah, but it's not. 54:26 You can't pen it, that's how bad it's going to be 54:29 because the demons of hell will be in charge 54:31 if you know what I'm talking about, too much for you. 54:33 Revelation 7:4 right quick last verse, 54:35 it says, "And I heard the number of them 54:37 which were sealed." 54:38 Notice this, only those 54:40 who received the seal of Living God 54:41 will have the passport to the gates of the Holy City. 54:44 Oh God, I need to be sealed. 54:46 I need to have the seal the Living God in my forehead. 54:49 We'll talk more about that maybe next time because Israel, 54:52 you remember, they had the blood over the doorpost 54:55 and the destroying angel had to what? 54:57 Had to pass through. 54:58 We need the blood in the doorpost. 55:02 Anyone today maybe it needs 55:03 to make that decision for Christ, 55:04 now is the time to do it. 55:06 Now's the time to do it. 55:07 Maybe you faulted, maybe you haven't, 55:09 you know, been living the way you want to 55:10 and you want to change by the grace of God. 55:14 Today is the day. 55:17 Really, today is the day. 55:20 You can't afford to put it off. 55:23 It's not, you know, really, 55:25 it should be frightening in a sense to think 55:26 you know what? 55:28 I might drop over dead. 55:29 I may not make it home. 55:30 I may be in a car accident. 55:32 I may get choked on lunch, someone, somebody. 55:36 It happens, you know. 55:38 I could have a heart attack just like that. 55:40 Oh, he was only 30 years old. 55:41 How can he have that? 55:44 Today is the day of salvation. 55:46 Today is the day to make that decision for Jesus Christ. 55:49 There's anyone would like to do that today to say, 55:51 "You know what? I've wasted a lot of time. 55:52 I don't want to waste any more." 55:54 I believe the signs of the times are here. 55:57 I believe that they're telling a story. 55:59 I believe that the headlines are just screaming out. 56:03 God said, "Please, look at them signs. 56:06 I'm coming and one of these days 56:08 I'm going to cut it." 56:10 Just like He's done through the history of the world. 56:12 There'll come a time, 56:14 there'll come a time for Babylon 56:15 and there'll come a time for Medo-Persia and Greece 56:16 and Rome and pagan Roman 56:18 and there'll come a time of papal Rome. 56:21 The rocks could... Thank you. 56:22 If we don't do, the rocks will cry. 56:25 God will raise somebody else to do it. 56:27 But this is it. 56:28 The message won't change. 56:32 If anybody say like pray for me, 56:33 then I'm going to kneel and have a closing prayer. 56:35 Pray for me, you know that 56:36 I might be faithful until the end. 56:40 I might be faithful. 56:41 That's right. 56:43 Faithful means what? 56:44 We're going to do everything that God asked us to do 56:46 because we realize there's faithful people 56:49 everywhere around the world that love Him. 56:52 But they're going to have to have some testing truths. 56:54 They're going to have test some things 56:56 that maybe just changed their whole life, 56:57 which many of you things that you now believe 57:00 you never even thought of before for many years, 57:03 but now you see, oh my! 57:05 God does have a message. 57:09 Hello, friends, and welcome back. 57:10 Sometimes we're all like the 10 virgins 57:13 who before the midnight cry, all slumbered and slept. 57:17 But as you feed upon messages such as this one today, 57:20 it is our prayer that as you awake 57:23 that your lamp will be trimmed and burning 57:25 just like the five wise virgins' lamps were, 57:29 and that you will rise up 57:31 and make the needed preparations 57:33 or changes to be ready for the bridegroom's return. 57:37 Uninvited Guests was the title of our message today 57:41 and we are making it available to you 57:43 in DVD or CD form 57:46 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 57:49 Simply give us a call here at Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:52 in the United States at (618) 942-5044, 57:57 that's Central Standard Time 57:59 or you may also mail in your request 58:01 or support to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 58:04 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 58:09 You may email us 58:10 at contact@behold -thelambministries.com 58:13 or visit us on our website at beholdthelambministries.com 58:17 And we encourage you to hit that subscribe button 58:21 on our Behold the Lamb Ministries' 58:23 YouTube channel and share timely messages 58:26 with your friends and family on a weekly basis. 58:29 And thank you again for your prayers 58:32 and your financial support of Behold the Lamb Ministry. 58:35 So until next time, may our precious Lord 58:38 continue to richly bless each and every one of you. |
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