Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR000907
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00:00 >> THE TOPIC TODAY IS "TALKING IN TONGUES, SIGNS,
00:06 WONDERS AND MIRACLES." 00:10 A FAMOUS TELEVISION PREACHER WAS HOLDING A SERIES 00:15 OF MEETINGS AND HE WAS HEALING PEOPLE. 00:21 HE WENT AND SAT DOWN ON A SEAT RIGHT DOWN THE VERY FRONT 00:25 AND INVITED THE PEOPLE TO COME FORWARD TO BE SPIRIT FILLED, 00:30 SLAIN IN THE LORD, AND HEALED OF ALL THEIR DISEASES. 00:35 AS THEY CAME FORWARD, HE SAID, IN HIS OWN WORDS, "IT SEEMED AS 00:41 THOUGH ELECTRICITY WAS COURSING THROUGH MY BODY AND FLOWING OUT 00:46 THROUGH MY FINGERS. 00:48 EVERY PERSON," HE SAID, "I TOUCHED FELL DOWN 00:52 ON THE GROUND, SHOUTING 'HALLELUJAH.'" 00:55 HE SAID, "THE PEOPLE STARTED TO SURGE. 00:59 EVERYBODY WAS SHOUTING AND CRYING. 01:02 SOME WERE MOANING. 01:03 SOME WERE LAUGHING." 01:05 AND HE SAID, "OVERCOME BY THE GREATNESS OF THE SITUATION, 01:10 I WAS FORCED TO CRY OUT, "PEOPLE, PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 01:20 AND THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS PEOPLE, IT IS HERE. 01:31 FOR INSTANCE, I HAVE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A VERY DEAR FRIEND 01:36 OF MINE, WHO IS A DOCTOR, WHO IS COMPLETELY RATIONAL, 01:45 INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED. 01:48 "WHAT ABOUT THE RESURRECTION?" 01:50 HE WRITES. 01:53 "I PROBED THE REVEREND B ABOUT THAT OVER LUNCH. 01:57 THE DEAD MAN HAD BEEN SEVERELY INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT. 02:00 HE HAD DIED IN A DOCTOR'S CLINIC AND HIS BODY WAS TAKEN 02:04 TO A MORTUARY. 02:06 BUT AFTER NEARLY 3 DAYS, HE CAME BACK TO LIFE. 02:10 I CHALLENGED B ABOUT THAT. 02:13 MY MEDICAL COLLEAGUES IN LOMA LINDA WOULD 02:15 NEVER BELIEVE IT. 02:17 IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT A HEAD CONCUSSION CAN CAUSE COMA THAT 02:20 LOOKS LIKE DEATH, BUT WHEN THE BRAIN SWELLING SUBSIDES, 02:26 THE VICTIM CAN REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS. 02:28 IT LOOKS LIKE A RESURRECTION. 02:33 B SHOOK HIS HEAD. 02:35 IT WAS LONGER THAN THAT AND THE EXPERIENCED MORTUARY STAFF KNEW 02:39 LIFE FROM DEATH. 02:41 BUT I SAID IT'S POSSIBLE FOR A COMA TO LAST FOR EVEN 3 DAYS 02:46 AND THEN CONSCIOUSNESS CAN RETURN SURPRISINGLY. 02:50 BUT B GENTLY CORRECTED ME. 02:53 'IT WASN'T LIKE THAT,' HE SAID, 'FOR DURING THAT TIME, 02:56 THE MORTUARY STAFF HAD EMBALMED THE MAN. 03:01 AND TODAY HE IS BACK WITH HIS FAMILY, PASTORING 03:04 A SMALL VILLAGE CHURCH. 03:06 HE IS WELL KNOWN IN NIGERIA.'" I AM INCLINED TO ASK THE 03:14 QUESTION, WHY DO THESE THINGS ONLY HAPPEN IN PLACES WHERE 03:21 THEY CAN'T BE CHECKED OUT, SUCH AS THE BACK BLOCKS OF NIGERIA? 03:28 WHY NOT IN LOS ANGELES BEFORE DOCTORS AND TELEVISION CAMERAS? 03:35 BUT IT IS TRUE. 03:37 PEOPLE, IT'S HERE. 03:42 I WANT YOU TO TAKE YOUR BIBLES AND TURN TO REVELATION 11. 03:47 REVELATION 13:11. 03:50 REVELATION, THE LAST BOOK IN THE BIBLE. 03:53 AND EVERYBODY TURN TO THE TEXT. 03:55 WE ARE A BIBLE READING, A BIBLE CARRYING, 03:59 A BIBLE PREACHING CHURCH. 04:03 REVELATION. 04:05 DON'T THINK YOU KNOW THE TEXTS BECAUSE THE ODDS ARE YOU DON'T. 04:09 REVELATION 13:11. 04:15 "THEN I SAW ANOTHER BEAST, COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH. 04:21 HE HAD TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB, AND HE SPOKE LIKE A DRAGON." 04:29 VERSE 13, "AND HE PERFORMED GREAT AND MIRACULOUS SIGNS, 04:35 EVEN CAUSING FIRE TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN IN FULL VIEW 04:40 OF MEN." 04:42 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT A GREAT COUNTERFEIT IN THE LAST DAYS. 04:48 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THE LAMB INVARIABLY REFERS TO WHOM? 04:57 SAY IT. 04:58 JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. 05:01 BUT THIS IS A COUNTERFEIT CHRIST. 05:07 AND THE BIBLE SAYS HE DOES SIGNS AND WONDERS AND HE BRINGS 05:11 DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN. 05:13 I NOTICE IT SAYS HE SPOKE AS A LAMB--AS HE SPOKE NOT AS 05:19 A LAMB, BUT HE SPOKE AS A WHAT? 05:23 A DRAGON. 05:24 WE WOULD THINK HE WOULD SPEAK LIKE A LAMB, BUT HE SPEAKS 05:26 AS A DRAGON. 05:29 EVERY TIME I PREACHED ON THIS TEXT, I HAVE SAID 05:33 THE DRAGON ROARS. 05:36 THIS IS A POWER THAT LOOKS LIKE CHRIST, BUT HE ROARS 05:40 LIKE A DRAGON. 05:42 I WAS QUITE WRONG BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS ME THE DRAGON 05:49 HAS THE CAPACITY TO BE APPARENTLY VERY SWEET. 05:53 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE SERPENT, ANOTHER WORD 05:58 FOR THE DRAGON, WAS SWEET TALKING AND SEDUCTIVE. 06:06 DR. STEFANOVIC, IN HIS BOOK, "REVELATION," PUBLISHED 06:10 BY ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, PAGE 19 SAYS, "THE SEDUCTIVE 06:17 AND DECEITFUL CHARACTER OF THE SERPENT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN." 06:23 SO WHEN THE GREAT COUNTERFEIT CHRIST COMES, DON'T THINK 06:27 HE'S GOING TO BE ROARING LIKE A DRAGON. 06:30 HE'S GOING TO BE SWEET TALKING. 06:34 AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY, "HALLELUJAH, IT'S HERE. 06:39 THIS IS THE POWER OF GOD." 06:42 I WANT YOU TO COME OVER HERE NOW TO ACTS 2:1-4. 06:47 ACTS 2:1-4. 06:51 THAT TALKS ABOUT THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 06:55 ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST. 06:57 ACTS 2:1-4. 07:01 HAVE YOU FOLK GOT THE TEXT? 07:04 I WANT TO WELCOME THE TELEVISION AUDIENCE TODAY 07:07 ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, IN--UP TO THERE INTO CANADA, RIGHT DOWN 07:11 THERE ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN, AND ACROSS THE PACIFIC TO AUSTRALIA 07:16 AND NEW ZEALAND. 07:18 WE WANT TO GIVE A WELCOME TODAY TO OUR VIEWERS IN IRAN, IRAQ, 07:24 AND THE MIDDLE EAST, AND AROUND THE WORLD. 07:26 WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE WITH US. 07:28 GET YOUR BIBLES AND FOLLOW THE TEXT. 07:30 ACTS 2:1-4. 07:34 "WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST CAME, THEY WERE ALL TOGETHER 07:37 IN ONE PLACE. 07:39 SUDDENLY A SOUND LIKE THE BLOWING OF A VIOLENT WIND 07:43 CAME FROM HEAVEN AND FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE WHERE 07:45 THEY WERE SITTING. 07:47 THEY SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE TONGUES OF FIRE THAT SEPARATED 07:51 AND CAME TO REST ON EACH OF THEM. 07:54 ALL OF THEM WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BEGAN 07:56 TO SPEAK IN OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT ENABLED THEM." 08:02 THIS FIRE THAT COMES DOWN FROM GOD IS THE SYMBOL 08:10 OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 08:11 AND WE NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES AND WE NEED 08:15 THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR CHURCH. 08:19 AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THE TONGUES OF FIRE, THE SYMBOL 08:22 OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 08:25 BUT IN REVELATION 13, MY FRIEND, YOU HAVE A FALSE HOLY SPIRIT 08:33 AND YOU HAVE A FALSE PENTECOST. 08:36 AND THIS PENTECOST IS SO POWERFUL THAT MILLIONS 08:40 OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SHOUT IN SPIRITUAL ECSTASY. 08:45 "PEOPLE," THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, "IT'S HERE." 08:49 YOU KNOW THE STORY OF THE PROPHET ELIJAH, THE PROPHET 08:54 OF GOD WHO STOOD ON MT. CARMEL WHEN HE FOUGHT 08:59 THE PRIESTS OF BAAL. 09:02 BY THE POWER OF GOD, ELIJAH BROUGHT DOWN THE FIRE OF GOD. 09:10 THIS WAS THE SYMBOL OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, OF THE PRESENCE 09:14 OF GOD. 09:16 AND IN REVELATION 13, THE FALSE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL IN THE LAST 09:24 DAYS BRINGS DOWN FIRE, SPIRITUAL FIRE, JUST LIKE 09:30 ELIJAH DID. 09:32 AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME THAT THE LAMB-LIKE POWER 09:37 OF REVELATION 13 IS THE FALSE PROPHET OF INIQUITY. 09:44 COME OVER HERE TO REVELATION 19. 09:48 REVELATION 19:20. 09:51 I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE SO MANY HERE. 09:54 I'M DELIGHTED TO SPEAK TO SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AUDIENCE, 09:58 ALL GOOD LOOKING. 09:59 I'M DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU FOLKS TURNING TO THE TEXT 10:02 IN THE BIBLE. 10:04 REVELATION 19. 10:05 WHEN I SAID ALL GOOD LOOKING, I MEANT ESPECIALLY THIS LADY 10:08 HERE AND SOME OTHER ONES WHO ARE SMILING BACK AT ME SO NICELY. 10:12 LIKE YOU, MARY. 10:13 REVELATION 19:20. 10:18 YOU GOT IT? 10:19 "BUT THE BEAST WAS CAPTURED." 10:21 IT'S THE ANTICHRIST. 10:22 "AND WITH HIM," WHO? 10:25 "THE FALSE PROPHET WHO HAD PERFORMED THE MIRACULOUS SIGNS 10:30 ON HIS BEHALF. 10:31 WITH THESE SIGNS HE HAD DELUDED THOSE WHO HAD RECEIVED THE MARK 10:37 OF THE BEAST AND WORSHIPED HIS IMAGE." 10:40 LISTEN TO ME. 10:42 LOOK AT ME. 10:43 IN THE LAST DAYS, GOD IS GOING TO HAVE THE ELIJAH MESSAGE. 10:48 THE BIBLE TELLS ME THAT ELIJAH COMES IN THE LAST DAYS, 10:53 NOT IN PERSON, BUT IN A MESSAGE. 10:56 AND HERE IN REVELATION 13, YOU'VE GOT THE LAMB-LIKE BEAST 11:01 AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME HE IS THE FALSE PROPHET, 11:05 HE IS THE FALSE ELIJAH. 11:08 AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME HE BRINGS DOWN UNHOLY FIRE 11:13 AND MULTITUDES, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO DO NOT 11:18 UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES, ARE GOING TO SCREAM AND SHOUT, 11:22 "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 11:25 THEY'RE GOING TO FEEL ELECTRICITY COURSING THROUGH 11:30 THEIR BODIES. 11:32 LISTEN TO ME. 11:35 THIS IS A GREAT TRUTH. 11:38 EVERYTHING GOD DOES, SATAN COUNTERFEITS. 11:45 EVERYTHING. 11:47 FOR INSTANCE, IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, YOU HAVE--AND I 11:52 DON'T HAVE TIME TO ELABORATE ON THESE POINTS. 11:54 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT TRINITY. 11:58 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE FATHER, THE SON, 12:00 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. 12:01 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, YOU HAVE THE DRAGON, THE BEAST, 12:04 AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 12:06 THE BOOK OF REVELATION TALKS ABOUT THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN. 12:09 REVELATION 13 TALKS ABOUT THE LAMB, THE COUNTERFEIT. 12:14 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT CITY, BABYLON INSTEAD OF JERUSALEM. 12:17 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT SEAL. 12:21 THAT'S THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 12:22 YOU HAVE COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES. 12:25 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT HOLY SPIRIT. 12:28 THAT'S THE UNHOLY FIRE. 12:29 YOU HAVE A COUNTERFEIT RESURRECTION. 12:32 THE BEAST DIES AND HE'S BROUGHT TO LIFE AGAIN. 12:36 AND YOU HAVE, THE BIBLE TELLS ME, IN THE LAST DAYS, 12:40 A COUNTERFEIT PENTECOST. 12:45 YOU READY FOR IT? 12:49 BEFORE THE END, THERE WILL BE A MIGHTY DISPLAY OF SATANIC 12:56 POWER ROBED IN THE GARMENTS OF HEAVEN. 13:03 IT'LL BE BEAUTIFUL, SEDUCTIVE, SWEET TALKING, POWERFUL, AND 13:11 WILL EMBODY THE HEART AND SOUL OF ANTICHRIST. 13:15 AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE GOING 13:20 TO BE DECEIVED. 13:21 WILL YOU BE DECEIVED? 13:23 WILL I BE DECEIVED? 13:26 THE BIBLE SAYS IT IS GOING TO BE AN ALMOST OVERWHELMING 13:33 DELUSION AND VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES 13:38 THE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST ARE GOING TO SCREAM, 13:42 "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 13:46 COME WITH ME TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11. 13:51 I'M GLAD TO SEE SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE SITTING 13:54 THERE, LISTENING TO THE WORD, AND TURNING TO THE TEXT. 13:58 I'M PROUD OF YOU. 14:00 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11. 14:07 I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE HERE AN INTERNATIONAL 14:11 CHURCH. 14:12 WE'VE GOT PEOPLE OF ALL DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES 14:17 AND ALSO QUITE A NICE VARIETY OF COLORS. 14:22 AND THIS IS HOW IT OUGHT TO BE IN THE CHURCH OF GOD. 14:25 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-11, "THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE WILL 14:34 BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORK OF SATAN DISPLAYED IN ALL KINDS 14:38 OF COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND IN EVERY SORT 14:44 OF EVIL THAT DECEIVES THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. 14:48 THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO LOVE THE TRUTH 14:52 AND SO BE SAVED. 14:54 FOR THIS REASON GOD SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DELUSION SO THAT 15:02 THEY WILL BELIEVE THE LIE." 15:08 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT FALSE REVIVAL OF THE LAST DAYS. 15:14 I WANT TO SAY TODAY, "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 15:19 I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THE PHRASES IN 2 THESSALONIANS 15:23 BECAUSE THESE ARE POWERFUL, POTENT WORDS. 15:26 NUMBER ONE, MIRACLES, SIGNS, AND WONDERS. 15:31 I'VE MET SO MANY PEOPLE AND THEY'VE SAID TO ME, 15:33 "PASTOR CARTER, I WENT TO A MEETING AND I SAW 15:36 PEOPLE JUST BOWL OVER. 15:39 I SAW PEOPLE BEING HEALED AND THIS IS THE GREAT SIGN 15:44 THAT GOD HAS COME." 15:45 IT'S NOT THE GREAT SIGN AT ALL. 15:48 IT IS A SIGN THAT THERE IS A SUPERNATURAL FORCE WORKING 15:54 IN THAT MEETING. 15:55 THAT'S ALL IT PROVES. 15:57 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT SIGNS, WONDERS. 16:01 IT TALKS IN THIS TEXT ABOUT A POWERFUL DELUSION. 16:06 IT TALKS NOT ABOUT A LIE, BUT THE LIE. 16:10 IT TALKS ABOUT THE WORK OF SATAN. 16:13 IT TALKS ABOUT DECEPTION. 16:15 IT TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE PERISHING. 16:18 IT TALKS ABOUT REJECTING THE TRUTH. 16:24 THEREFORE, THEREFORE, HOW CAN I TODAY IDENTIFY THE FALSE 16:39 PENTECOST, THE FALSE REVIVAL, THE COUNTERFEIT ELIJAH? 16:47 POINT NUMBER ONE, THE FALSE REVIVAL IS EMOTION OVER TRUTH. 17:02 IS EMOTION IN WORSHIP WRONG? 17:06 NO. 17:08 YOU CAN'T LOVE GOD AND LOVE THE PEOPLE OF GOD AND NOT HAVE 17:12 EMOTION AND STILL BE ALIVE. 17:15 NOT LONG AGO, BY MYSELF, I WENT INTO THE TOMB 17:20 OF PHARAOH TUTANKHAMEN, TAKEN DOWN THERE BY MYSELF 17:24 SO I COULD SPEND A LITTLE TIME WITH THIS MAN WHO'S HELPED ME 17:27 SO MUCH WITH MY EVANGELISTIC ADVERTISING. 17:31 I SAT THIS CLOSE TO HIM. 17:35 A GORGEOUS TOMB, BUT ABSOLUTELY DEAD. 17:43 THERE ARE SOME CHURCHES LIKE KING TUT'S TOMB. 17:47 THERE IS NO POWER AND THERE IS NO LIFE AND PEOPLE 17:51 CALL IT GODLINESS. 17:54 WE NEED TO HAVE LIFE. 17:58 JESUS SAID, "I WANT YOU TO WORSHIP ME IN SPIRIT 18:03 AND IN TRUTH." 18:05 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING. 18:06 LET THIS SINK DOWN INTO YOUR PURE MINDS TODAY. 18:13 EMOTION SHOULD NEVER OVERSHADOW THE TRUTH OF THE WORD. 18:21 AND ONE OF THE SIGNS OF THE FALSE REVIVAL IS EMOTION 18:26 OVER TRUTH. 18:27 I WANT YOU TO COME TO THE WORDS OF OUR BLESSED LORD, 18:31 JOHN 8:31-32. 18:35 AND I'M GLAD TO BE HERE IN CHURCH. 18:38 JOHN 8:31-32, OUR LORD IS TALKING HERE, "TO THE JEWS WHO 18:49 HAD BELIEVED IN HIM, JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU HOLD TO MY 18:53 TEACHINGS, YOU ARE REALLY MY DISCIPLES. 18:57 THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL 19:00 SET YOU FREE.'" JESUS SAID, "THE TRUTH 19:03 WILL SET YOU FREE." 19:04 I SAY TO YOU TODAY THE TRUTH, THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. 19:09 I WAS ATTENDING SOME MEETINGS NOT HERE IN THIS COUNTRY. 19:13 I WAS IN A BIBLE STUDY CLASS AND THE PERSON WHO WAS TAKING 19:17 THE CLASS SAID TO ME, "NO PERSON CAN MAKE A JUDGMENT 19:21 ON ANYTHING BECAUSE EVERYBODY REALLY HAS GOT HIS OWN OPINION 19:27 AND EVERYBODY IS RIGHT." 19:31 THAT'S A PART OF THE BIG LIE. 19:34 JESUS SAID, "YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH." 19:37 WHY DO WE SAY WHEN YOU COME TO THIS CHURCH, 19:39 "OPEN YOUR BIBLES"? 19:42 CHECK OUT THE PREACHER BECAUSE JESUS SAID YOU'LL KNOW 19:44 THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE. 19:50 THIS IS AN ARTICLE SENT TO ME BY WILLIE JORDAN 19:54 OF THE FRED JORDAN MISSION. 19:56 THOUGHT I'D BE INTERESTED. 19:57 I AM. 19:59 THE COMING EVANGELICAL COLLAPSE. 20:02 IT'S PRINTED IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 20:05 THAT DOESN'T REFLECT THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. 20:08 IT IS SIMPLY AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY MICHAEL SPENCER. 20:12 YOU MAY NOT, I MAY NOT AGREE WITH EVERYTHING IN IT, BUT IT 20:15 SAYS SOME VERY GOOD THINGS. 20:17 LISTEN. 20:18 "AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN CHAPTER IN WESTERN HISTORY IS ABOUT TO 20:22 BEGIN, BUT OUT OF THE RUINS A NEW VITALITY AND INTEGRITY 20:27 WILL ARISE. 20:30 WE'RE ON THE VERGE WITHIN 10 YEARS OF A MAJOR COLLAPSE 20:33 OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY. 20:37 THIS BREAKDOWN WILL FOLLOW THE DETERIORATION OF THE MAINLINE 20:41 PROTESTANT WORLD AND IT WILL FUNDAMENTALLY ALTER 20:44 THE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE WEST." 20:50 AND THEN HE SAYS, "YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? 20:52 WHY IS THIS GOING TO HAPPEN? 20:54 EVANGELICALS HAVE IDENTIFIED THEIR MOVEMENT WITH 20:57 THE CULTURE WAR AND WITH POLITICS. 21:02 THEREFORE, IT'S NOT GOING TO STAND THE TEST. 21:05 NUMBER TWO, WE EVANGELICALS HAVE FAILED TO PASS ON TO OUR 21:11 OWN YOUNG PEOPLE AN ORTHODOX FORM OF FAITH THAT CAN TAKE 21:15 ROOT AND SURVIVE THE SECULAR ONSLAUGHT. 21:20 IRONICALLY, THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE'VE SPENT ON YOUTH 21:24 MINISTERS, CHRISTIAN MUSIC, PUBLISHING, AND MEDIA HAS 21:31 PRODUCED A CULTURE OF YOUNG CHRISTIANS WHO KNOW NEXT TO 21:35 NOTHING ABOUT THEIR FAITH EXCEPT HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT. 21:44 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE DEEP BELIEFS ABOUT THE CULTURE WAR, 21:49 BUT DO NOT KNOW WHY THEY SHOULD OBEY SCRIPTURE, THE ESSENTIALS 21:54 OF THEOLOGY, OR THE EXPERIENCE OF SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE 21:59 AND COMMUNITY. 22:01 COMING GENERATIONS OF CHRISTIANS ARE GOING TO BE MONUMENTALLY 22:06 IGNORANT AND UNPREPARED." 22:10 I'D SAY RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE, IT'S HERE. 22:15 BECAUSE THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM TODAY, PEOPLE ARE MONUMENTALLY 22:21 IGNORANT OF THE WORD OF GOD. 22:25 HE GOES ON TO SAY, "TO THE BENEFICIARIES OF THIS COLLAPSE 22:34 WILL BE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND ORTHODOX COMMUNIONS. 22:39 EVANGELICALS HAVE BEEN ENTERING THESE CHURCHES IN RECENT 22:42 DECADES AND THAT TREND WILL CONTINUE." 22:46 YOU KNOW WHY THEY'RE GOING INTO THOSE GREAT ORTHODOX CHURCHES, 22:51 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND OTHER GREAT ORTHODOX CHURCHES? 22:53 BECAUSE THOSE CHURCHES, FOR RIGHT OR WRONG, 22:57 STAND FOR SOMETHING. 23:01 BUT FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE TODAY WHO GO TO VAST 23:05 CHURCHES, THEY KNOW NOTHING OF TRUTH. 23:10 JESUS SAID, "YOU'LL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH 23:15 WILL MAKE YOU FREE." 23:16 I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ELSE. 23:18 WE HAVE GOOD MUSIC IN THIS CHURCH, BUT THE MUSIC OF 23:22 THE FALSE REVIVAL PUTS PEOPLE IN A HYPNOTIC STATE. 23:29 I'VE SEEN IT. 23:32 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE WRITHING. 23:35 I'VE SEEN THEM JUST OUT OF THEIR MINDS, WRITHING, NOTHING 23:41 GOING ON INSIDE. 23:42 THEIR MINDS ARE EMPTY. 23:45 PEOPLE, IT'S HERE. 23:49 AND WE DON'T WANT THAT SORT OF MUSIC IN THE CHURCH OF GOD. 23:57 THE SECOND IDENTIFICATION MARK IS A FALSE GOSPEL. 24:02 COME OVER HERE TO GALATIANS 1:6-8. 24:08 GALATIANS 1:6-8, "I AM ASTONISHED THAT YOU ARE SO 24:16 QUICKLY DESERTING THE ONE WHO CALLED YOU BY THE GRACE OF 24:19 CHRIST AND ARE TURNING TO A DIFFERENT GOSPEL, WHICH IS 24:24 REALLY NO GOSPEL AT ALL. 24:26 EVIDENTLY SOME PEOPLE ARE THROWING YOU INTO CONFUSION 24:29 AND ARE TRYING TO PERVERT THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST. 24:33 BUT EVEN IF WE OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN SHOULD PREACH A GOSPEL 24:37 OTHER THAN THE ONE WE PREACHED TO YOU, LET HIM BE ETERNALLY 24:41 CONDEMNED!" 24:43 NOW WHAT IS THIS GOSPEL THAT IS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE? 24:48 THE TRUE GOSPEL SAYS THAT I AM SAVED BECAUSE CHRIST DIED 24:52 FOR ME. 24:57 THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT CHRIST ON THE CROSS DIED FOR MY SINS. 25:05 AND IF I COME AS A PENITENT, IN FAITH, REPENTING OF MY SINS 25:13 AND ACCEPTING CHRIST AS MY LORD AND MY SAVIOR, I PASS FROM DEATH 25:21 UNTO LIFE. 25:25 THAT IS THE TRUE GOSPEL. 25:27 THE TRUE GOSPEL DOES NOT DEPEND ON HOW I FEEL. 25:32 SOME DAYS I'M UP AND SOMETIMES, SOME DAYS I'M DOWN. 25:37 SOME DAYS, I'M ALMOST ON THE GROUND. 25:42 NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I'VE SEEN, THE BLACK SPIRITUAL SAYS. 25:48 BUT MY SALVATION IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON MY HORMONES 25:55 OR MY MOOD SWINGS OR WHAT I'VE EATEN. 26:02 NO, YOU KNOW WHAT IT DEPENDS ON? 26:04 IT DEPENDS ON JESUS. 26:06 MANY HAVE SAID TO ME, AND I'VE HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN 26:09 THIS, THEY SAY, "THE PROOF OF SALVATION IS THAT I HAVE 26:13 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 26:15 AND THE PROOF THAT I HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THAT I TALK 26:18 IN TONGUES." 26:21 AND THEY'LL SAY TO YOU, "YOU GOT TO TALK IN TONGUES." 26:24 WHY DO I HAVE TO TALK IN--"YOU GOT TO TALK IN TONGUES BECAUSE 26:27 WHEN YOU TALK IN TONGUES, YOU GET SAVED." 26:33 NOW LISTEN, I'M GONNA PUT THIS UP ON THE BLACKBOARD. 26:36 I'M GONNA KEEP WRITING IT UP UNTIL IT IS A PART OF YOUR 26:39 SOUL. 26:40 NUMBER ONE, SOLA SCRIPTURA. 26:47 THAT MEANS ONLY SCRIPTURE. 26:50 SOLA CHRISTUS, ONLY CHRIST. 26:57 ONLY GRATIA, ONLY GRACE. 27:04 SOLA FIDE, ONLY FAITH. 27:11 I AM NOT SAVED OR LOST BECAUSE OF MY FEELINGS. 27:17 I'M SAVED BECAUSE CHRIST DIED FOR ME ON THE CROSS. 27:24 THE FALSE REVIVAL SAYS, "NO, YOU GOT TO HAVE SOME RELIGIOUS 27:28 EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE OR ELSE YOU'RE NOT SAVED." 27:33 PEOPLE SAY, "WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE ATTRACTED TO THIS?" 27:37 IT IS BECAUSE THEY COME OUT OF SPIRITUALLY DEAD CHURCHES 27:42 AND THEY'RE SO EMPTY INSIDE THAT THEY'RE GRASPING 27:46 FOR AN EXPERIENCE WITH GOD. 27:50 THE THIRD IDENTIFICATION MARK OF THE FALSE REVIVAL IS 27:55 AN UNHOLY EMPHASIS ON WEALTH AND MONEY. 28:01 IT'S CALLED THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL. 28:07 IT'S SUMMED UP IN THAT LITTLE EXPRESSION, "GET ALL YOU CAN, 28:10 CAN ALL YOU GET, AND THEN SIT ON THE LID." 28:15 SO GOD WANTS EVERY PERSON TO BE WEALTHY. 28:19 AND IF YOU SEND ME ALL YOUR MONEY, YOU'RE GONNA GET 28:22 A CADILLAC IF GM IS STILL IN BUSINESS. 28:30 YOU DON'T READ ABOUT IT IN THE BIBLE. 28:32 THAT THEOLOGY DOESN'T WORK VERY WELL IN RUSSIA AND IT DOESN'T 28:35 WORK AT ALL, I TELL YOU, IN INDIA. 28:39 THE FOURTH IDENTIFICATION MARK OF THIS UNHOLY FIRE IS 28:43 AN UNHOLY HOSTILITY TO THE LAW OF GOD. 28:49 COME OVER HERE TO ROMANS 8:6-7. 28:52 ROMANS 8:6-7. 28:56 ROMANS 8:6-7. 28:59 AND THE GREAT APOSTLE PAUL SAYS, "THE SINFUL MIND 29:03 IS HOSTILE TO GOD. 29:05 IT DOES NOT SUBMIT TO GOD'S LAW, NOR CAN IT DO SO. 29:09 THOSE CONTROLLED BY THE SINFUL NATURE CANNOT PLEASE GOD." 29:15 MY FRIEND, I'VE HAD A LITTLE EXPERIENCE NOW AROUND 29:19 THE WORLD. 29:22 I'VE HEARD THE CRY. 29:23 I'VE HEARD IT 1000 TIMES. 29:26 "THE LAW OF GOD IS ABOLISHED, NAILED TO THE CROSS. 29:33 ALL YOU NEED IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN YOU AND HE WILL 29:38 TELL YOU WHAT TO DO." 29:43 IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS CALLED 29:49 THE LAWLESS ONE, THE MAN WHO IS OPPOSED TO THE COMMANDMENTS 29:56 OF GOD. 30:00 THE FIFTH IDENTIFICATION MARK IS A FALSE INTERPRETATION 30:05 OF PROPHECY. 30:07 IT IS A COMPLETE REPUDIATION OF THE PROTESTANT SYSTEM 30:12 CALLED HISTORICISM. 30:16 THE FALSE REVIVAL SAYS THE ANTICHRIST IS A POWER STILL TO 30:21 COME AND IT SAYS THAT THERE COMES A GREAT TRIBULATION AFTER 30:30 THE SAINTS ARE RAPTURED HOME TO GLORY. 30:34 THE REST ARE LEFT BEHIND, THEN THE ANTICHRIST RULES 30:38 FOR 3 & 1/2 YEARS. 30:42 IT SOUNDS GOOD, BUT IT'S FALSE. 30:46 THE SIXTH IDENTIFICATION MARK, PHYSICAL HEALINGS ARE USED AS 30:54 THE PROOF OF GOD'S PRESENCE AND BLESSINGS. 30:59 COME OVER HERE TO 2 THESSALONIANS 2 AGAIN, 31:02 VERSES 7 AND ONWARDS. 31:04 2 THESSALONIANS 2:7 AND ONWARDS. 31:11 AND NOTICE AGAIN THE WORDS, WE READ THEM BEFORE. 31:14 WE'RE GOING TO READ THEM AGAIN BECAUSE THE WORDS ARE 31:18 IMPORTANT. 31:19 THE WORDS DESCRIBE THE GREAT DECEPTION OF THE LAST DAYS. 31:25 2 THESSALONIANS 2:7-9, "FOR THE SECRET POWER OF LAWLESSNESS IS 31:31 ALREADY AT WORK; BUT THE ONE WHO HOLDS IT BACK WILL CONTINUE 31:36 TO DO SO TILL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY. 31:40 AND THEN THE LAWLESS ONE WILL BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD 31:43 JESUS WILL OVERTHROW WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH AND DESTROY 31:47 BY THE SPLENDOR OF HIS COMING. 31:48 THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE WILL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 31:51 WORK OF SATAN DISPLAYED IN ALL KINDS OF COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES, 31:55 SIGNS, AND WONDERS, AND IN EVERY SORT OF EVIL THAT DECEIVES 31:59 THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING. 32:01 THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO LOVE THE TRUTH 32:06 AND SO BE SAVED." 32:10 I WANT TO GIVE A WARNING TO MY DEAR FRIENDS WHO MAYBE 32:15 ARE MESMERIZED BY THIS. 32:19 I SAY THIS WITH ALL THE LOVE IN MY HEART. 32:24 MANY OF THE SO-CALLED MIRACLES DON'T LAST. 32:34 THIS HAS BEEN STUDIED. 32:38 MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE HEALED, THE NEXT DAY 32:43 ARE EVEN WORSE. 32:45 AND THEY ARE TOLD, "IT IS YOUR FAULT. 32:48 IT IS YOUR FAULT BECAUSE OF YOUR SIN AND YOUR LACK 32:52 OF FAITH." 32:54 THAT IS NOT SO. 32:58 MIRACLES IN THEMSELVES ARE NOT A PROOF OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 33:06 LISTEN TO THIS. 33:08 BEFORE THE END, SATAN WILL APPEAR AS JESUS. 33:14 THE SICK WILL BE HEALED. 33:17 IT'LL BE ON EVERY TELEVISION SET, ON EVERY CHANNEL. 33:21 YOU'LL GO TO CNN, YOU'LL GO TO FOX, THERE WILL BE A MAN, 33:25 PROBABLY IN WHITE, AND HE'LL BE PREACHING THE SERMON ON 33:29 THE MOUNT AND PEOPLE DYING OF CANCER WILL BE BROUGHT TO HIM. 33:34 AND WITH A HAND, THE TOUCH OF A HAND, THEY WILL BE 33:38 INSTANTLY HEALED. 33:40 AND PEOPLE WILL BE SHOUTING, "GLORY, GLORY, THIS IS 33:45 THE POWER OF GOD." 33:50 YOU MAY SEE IT. 33:54 NOW I BELIEVE THAT GOD CAN HEAL THE SICK. 33:59 I'M NOT A FAITH HEALER, BUT I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE 34:03 DESPERATELY SICK HEALED. 34:05 IN DNEPROPETROVSK, A WOMAN CAME, WAS ANOINTED. 34:09 WE ANOINTED HER BETWEEN THE TWO PROGRAMS IN 34:13 THE GREAT AUDITORIUM. 34:15 SHE WAS DYING OF CANCER. 34:17 WHEN I WENT BACK 6 MONTHS LATER, SHE INTRODUCED ME TO THE CROWD. 34:21 SHE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY HEALED. 34:24 WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF GOD TO HEAL, BUT A HEALING BY 34:30 ITSELF IS NOT A PROOF THAT GOD IS THERE. 34:36 THE SEVENTH IDENTIFICATION MARK OF THE FALSE REVIVAL IS THIS. 34:41 A MISUSE OF THE GIFT OF TONGUES. 34:47 NOW ALL LISTEN UP. 34:49 NOT LOOSEN UP, LISTEN UP. 34:55 THESE WORDS MUST NOT BE TAKEN AS A CRITICISM OF OUR BELOVED 35:01 FRIENDS WHO TALK IN TONGUES. 35:08 BUT I NEED TO SAY SOME THINGS FROM THE BIBLE. 35:11 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THREE TEXTS. 35:14 NUMBER ONE, TONGUES ARE THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF ALL 35:18 THE GIFTS. 35:19 COME OVER HERE TO 1 CORINTHIANS 12:28. 35:22 1 CORINTHIANS 12:28, "AND IN THE CHURCH GOD HAS APPOINTED 35:28 FIRST OF ALL APOSTLES, SECOND PROPHETS, THIRD TEACHERS, THEN 35:31 WORKERS OF MIRACLES, ALSO THOSE HAVING GIFTS OF HEALINGS, THOSE 35:35 ABLE TO HELP OTHERS, THOSE WITH GIFTS OF ADMINISTRATION." 35:38 ADMINISTRATION IS NUMBER SEVEN. 35:40 AND NUMBER EIGHT, "THOSE SPEAKING IN DIFFERENT 35:43 KINDS OF TONGUES." 35:45 SO IF YOU KEEP READING, IT SAYS, "ARE ALL APOSTLES? 35:48 NO. 35:48 ARE ALL PROPHETS? 35:49 NO. 35:50 ARE ALL TEACHERS? 35:51 NO. 35:52 DO ALL WORK MIRACLES? 35:53 NO. 35:53 DO ALL HAVE THE GIFTS OF HEALINGS? 35:55 NO. 35:56 DO ALL SPEAK IN TONGUES?" 35:57 SO HERE IS THE FIRST POINT THAT THE BIBLE TELLS ME AND IT MAKES 36:01 IT AS PLAIN AS THE NOSE ON YOUR FACE. 36:04 TONGUES, WHATEVER TONGUES ARE, THEY ARE THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF 36:14 ALL OF THE GIFTS AND THE BIBLE TELLS ME SOMETHING, 36:19 TO SEEK THE FIRST GIFTS. 36:22 YOU KNOW WHAT THE FIRST GIFT IS? 36:24 THE FIRST GIFT, THE GIFT OF BEING AN APOSTLE. 36:28 AN APOSTLE IS A PERSON, THE GREEK WORD IS APOSTALIS, 36:32 AND IT MEANS A PERSON WHO IS SENT FORTH INTO THE WORLD 36:35 TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. 36:38 BUT THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF ALL THE GIFTS IS SPEAKING 36:40 IN TONGUES. 36:41 NUMBER TWO, TONGUES ARE A SIGN FOR UNBELIEVERS. 36:45 1 CORINTHIANS 14:22. 36:51 THIS IS A HUGE CHAPTER. 36:53 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ONE TEXT OUT OF IT BECAUSE OF LACK OF 36:55 TIME. 36:56 "TONGUES, THEN, ARE A SIGN, NOT FOR BELIEVERS BUT--" FOR WHO? 37:02 "UNBELIEVERS." 37:03 WILL YOU SAY IT WITH ME? 37:04 TONGUES ARE A SIGN FOR WHOM? 37:08 TONGUES, THE BIBLE SAYS, ARE FOR UNBELIEVERS. 37:18 THAT IS WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 37:21 TONGUES ARE A SIGN FOR UNBELIEVERS, BUT AS THEY ARE 37:26 PRACTICED TODAY IN GREAT RALLIES, THEY ARE A SIGN 37:29 FOR BELIEVERS. 37:32 AND THE THIRD TRUTH IS THIS. 37:34 THIS IS IMPORTANT. 37:35 HERE IT COMES. 37:37 TONGUES WERE GIVEN TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR UNBELIEVERS 37:45 TO HEAR THE GOSPEL. 37:48 COME TO THE BOOK OF ACTS 2:4-11. 37:56 ACTS 2:4-11. 38:03 ACTS 2:4 AND ONWARDS, "ALL OF THEM WERE FILLED WITH THE HOLY 38:10 SPIRIT AND BEGAN TO SPEAK IN OTHER TONGUES OR LANGUAGES." 38:13 THE WORD TONGUE IS THE GREEK WORD FOR LANGUAGES. 38:17 "AS THE SPIRIT ENABLED THEM. 38:19 NOW THERE WERE STAYING IN JERUSALEM GOD-FEARING JEWS 38:21 FROM EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN. 38:22 WHEN THEY HEARD THIS SOUND, A CROWD CAME TOGETHER IN 38:25 BEWILDERMENT, BECAUSE EACH ONE HEARD THEM SPEAKING 38:28 HIS OWN LANGUAGE. 38:30 UTTERLY AMAZED, THEY ASKED, 'ARE NOT ALL THESE MEN WHO ARE 38:33 SPEAKING GALILEANS? 38:35 THEN HOW IS IT THAT EACH OF US HEARS THEM IN HIS OWN NATIVE 38:40 LANGUAGE? 38:41 PARTHIANS, MEDES, AND ELAMITES; RESIDENTS OF MESOPOTAMIA, 38:45 JUDEA, AND CAPPADOCIA, PONTUS AND ASIA, PHRYGIA AND 38:50 PAMPHYLIA, EGYPT AND THE PARTS OF LIBYA NEAR CYRENE; VISITORS 38:54 FROM ROME (BOTH JEWS AND CONVERTS TO JUDAISM); 38:58 CRETANS AND ARABS. 38:59 WE HEAR THEM DECLARING THE WONDERS OF GOD IN OUR OWN 39:04 TONGUES!'" LET ME WRITE THIS UP. 39:06 THIS IS TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT. 39:08 I WANT YOU TO HEAR THIS. 39:10 I WANT YOU TO SEE IT, NOT BECAUSE I'M SAYING IT, 39:12 BUT BECAUSE IT'S THE WORD OF GOD. 39:15 THE BIBLE TELLS ME TONGUES WERE GIVEN SO UNBELIEVERS 39:21 COULD HEAR THE WORD OF GOD IN THEIR OWN KNOWN LANGUAGE. 39:31 MY FRIEND, IT IS NOT, IT IS NOT AN ECSTATIC LANGUAGE. 39:39 NOW IN THE CHURCH IN CORINTH, THEY PERVERTED THE GIFT. 39:42 THEY WERE USING IT FOR SELF-EDIFICATION, BUT WHEN GOD 39:46 GAVE TONGUES, HE SAID IT'S NUMBER EIGHT. 39:50 THEN HE SAID IT'S NOT FOR BELIEVERS. 39:53 "DON'T GET THIS MESSED UP," HE SAID. 39:55 "IT'S NOT FOR BELIEVERS." 39:56 AND THAT'S HOW THEY DO IT TODAY. 39:58 IT'S FOR BELIEVERS. 40:00 BUT THE BIBLE SAID IT'S NOT FOR--IT'S NOT FOR BELIEVERS. 40:04 IT'S FOR UNBELIEVERS SO THE UNBELIEVERS CAN HEAR 40:08 THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. 40:17 LISTEN TO ME. 40:18 I WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY. 40:20 GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT I TELL YOU ON THIS BECAUSE I KNOW MORE 40:22 THAN I WANT TO SHARE. 40:25 PEOPLE SAY, "IT'S A WONDERFUL THING. 40:29 THE MIND GOES VACANT. 40:31 THEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD COMES IN AND SOMETIMES THEY TEACH ME 40:36 TO SAY THE SYLLABLES. 40:38 AND AS I'M TAUGHT TO SAY THE SYLLABLES, ALL OF A SUDDEN I'LL 40:42 BREAK OUT IN THIS LANGUAGE. 40:44 I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND IT," THEY SAY. 40:47 I SAY TO SUCH, BEWARE WHEN THE MIND IS VACANT. 40:53 BEWARE, LEST ANOTHER SPIRIT COMES IN THAT YOU DON'T WANT. 41:01 NOW I RAN A BIG CAMPAIGN IN THE GREAT CITY OF MELBOURNE, 41:03 ONE OF THE GREATEST CITIES IN THE WORLD, A MARVELOUS CITY. 41:07 ONE NIGHT, I HAD IT ON THE SPIRITS AND SPIRITISM. 41:09 WE HAD A VAST CROWD IN THE DALLAS BROOKS. 41:13 THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST CAMPAIGNS I HAVE EVER BEEN 41:16 ASSOCIATED WITH. 41:17 AND BEFORE I GOT UP TO PREACH, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE CAME IN, WERE 41:21 SHOWN TO THEIR SEATS RIGHT DOWN THE FRONT, DRESSED IN BLACK. 41:25 THE WOMEN HAD LONG, BLACK DRESSES ON. 41:28 THOSE PEOPLE WERE THE LEADERS OF SPIRITISM FOR THE STATE 41:34 OF VICTORIA. 41:36 THAT NIGHT, THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON ME AND I PREACHED THE 41:39 WORD OF GOD, GLORY BE TO GOD, WITH POWER AND WITH CLARITY. 41:43 AND I MADE AN ALTAR CALL TO TURN FROM SPIRITISM 41:46 AND THEY CAME FORWARD. 41:48 AND A FEW WEEKS LATER, I BAPTIZED THE WHOLE LOT OF THEM 41:52 ON THE STAGE OF THE DALLAS BROOKS. 41:55 BUT DURING THAT SAME MEETING, A MAN CAME TO ME 41:58 AND WE BAPTIZED HIM. 42:00 HE HAD BEEN A BOUNCER IN A NIGHTCLUB AND HE GOT--AND I'M 42:05 TELLING YOU WHAT HE TOLD ME. 42:07 HE SAID, "WE GOT INTO-- I GOT INTO SPIRITISM." 42:10 I SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED?" 42:12 HE SAID, "WHEN I GOT INTO SPIRITISM," HE SAID, "I WAS 42:14 TERRIFIED BECAUSE THE SPIRIT CAME AND SPOKE THROUGH ME." 42:21 AND HE SAID, "I WOULD BREAK OUT IN THIS--" I DON'T WANT 42:24 TO OFFEND ANYBODY. 42:25 CAN I NOT BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH? 42:29 HE SAID, "I WOULD BREAK OUT IN THIS UNKNOWN GIBBERISH AND I 42:33 WOULD--I'D FEEL THE FIRE COMING THROUGH ME." 42:37 I SAID, "WHAT DID YOU DO?" 42:38 THIS MAN WE BAPTIZED, HE SAID, "I WENT ALONG TO A GREAT, BIG 42:43 RALLY AND THE PEOPLE SAID TO ME, 'YOU WILL BE RELEASED 42:47 IF YOU TALK IN TONGUES.'" AND THEY LAID HANDS ON HIM 42:51 AND THEY TAUGHT HIM TO TALK IN TONGUES AND HE SAID, "ALL OF 42:55 A SUDDEN, OUT OF HIS MOUTH CAME THESE UNKNOWN WORDS." 43:01 I SAID, "HOW DID YOU FEEL?" 43:02 HE SAID, "MORE TERRIFIED THAN I'VE EVER FELT IN MY LIFE." 43:05 I SAID, "WHY?" 43:07 HE SAID, "THE WORDS THAT I WERE SPEAKING WERE THE SAME WORDS 43:15 WHEN I WAS IN SPIRITISM." 43:19 HE SAID, "MY MIND WAS VACANT." 43:25 JUST BE CAREFUL, MY FRIEND. 43:31 NOW I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. 43:34 BEFORE THE END, THERE WILL BE A MIGHTY OUTPOURING OF 43:38 THE HOLY SPIRIT AS SATAN DECEIVES THE DELUDED MASSES. 43:47 AND IF AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF TEACHING THE GOSPEL IN THIS 43:50 CHURCH AND OF TRYING TO GET YOU TO READ YOUR BIBLES EVERY DAY, 43:54 AND IF YOU STILL ARE NOT DOING IT, I SAY--WHAT CAN I SAY? 44:02 WHAT CAN I SAY? 44:04 WHAT CAN I SAY IF PEOPLE ARE CLOSING THEIR MINDS TO 44:09 THE TRUTH? 44:19 BEFORE THE END, THERE'LL BE A MIGHTY OUTPOURING OF THE 44:22 HOLY SPIRIT AS SATAN DECEIVES THE DELUDED MASSES WITH SIGNS, 44:28 MIRACLES, AND WONDERS. 44:30 HALLELUJAH! 44:32 GOD WILL COUNTERACT THE COUNTERFEIT. 44:41 YOU KNOW WHAT THIS CHURCH HERE IN ARCADIA NEEDS? 44:44 EVERY ONE OF YOU, INCLUDING ME PREACHING TODAY, WHAT WE NEED 44:50 IS AN OUTPOURING OF PENTECOSTAL POWER THAT IS GOING TO DRIVE 44:56 THE COLDNESS OUT OF OUR HEARTS AND THE WORLDLINESS 45:01 OUT OF OUR HEARTS AND OUR LOVE FOR OUR STOMACHS. 45:10 AND LET ME TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING. 45:12 IF YOU DON'T GET THE TRUE REVIVAL, YOU'RE GOING TO GET 45:14 THE FALSE REVIVAL. 45:16 SO MAKE UP YOUR MINDS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET. 45:20 I WANT YOU TO COME TO REVELATION 14:6-12. 45:24 HERE GOD DESCRIBES THE LAST GREAT REVIVAL. 45:29 REVELATION 14:6-12, "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN MIDAIR, 45:34 AND HE HAD THE ETERNAL GOSPEL," NOT A NEW GOSPEL, "THE ETERNAL 45:38 GOSPEL TO PREACH TO THOSE WHO LIVE ON THE EARTH, TO EVERY 45:41 NATION, TRIBE, LANGUAGE, AND PEOPLE. 45:43 HE SAID IN A LOUD VOICE, 'FEAR GOD AND GIVE HIM GLORY, 45:46 BECAUSE THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT HAS COME. 45:48 WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, THE SEA, 45:50 AND THE SPRINGS OF WATER.' A SECOND ANGEL FOLLOWED 45:53 AND SAID, 'FALLEN! 45:54 FALLEN IS BABYLON THE GREAT, WHICH MADE ALL THE NATIONS 45:58 DRINK THE MADDENING WINE OF HER ADULTERIES.' 46:00 A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM AND SAID IN A LOUD VOICE, 'IF 46:03 ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE AND RECEIVES HIS MARK 46:07 ON THE FOREHEAD OR ON THE HAND, HE, TOO, WILL DRINK OF THE WINE 46:10 OF GOD'S FURY.'" THIS IS NOT A SOFT, 46:16 SWEET LITTLE TALK. 46:18 VERSE 12, "THIS CALLS FOR PATIENT ENDURANCE ON THE PART 46:22 OF THE SAINTS WHO OBEY GOD'S COMMANDMENTS AND REMAIN 46:26 FAITHFUL TO JESUS." 46:28 THAT MESSAGE TALKS ABOUT THE ONE TRUE GOSPEL. 46:31 IT TALKS ABOUT GIVING GOD GLORY, NOT GIVING 46:35 THE PREACHER GLORY. 46:36 IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT PROSPERITY GOSPEL. 46:39 IT TALKS ABOUT GLORY TO GOD. 46:41 IT TALKS ABOUT THE JUDGMENT HOUR. 46:44 IT TALKS ABOUT WORSHIPING THE CREATURE AND NOT 46:49 "AMERICAN IDOL" OR SOME OTHER IDOLATRY SHOW THAT MOST PEOPLE 46:55 ARE MESMERIZED WITH. 46:58 WORSHIP THE CREATOR. 46:59 BEWARE OF BABYLON. 47:01 BEWARE THE BEAST, THE IMAGE, THE MARK OF THE BEAST, AND KEEP 47:05 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, WHICH INCLUDES 47:07 THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. 47:09 LOOK AT REVELATION 18:1. 47:11 "AFTER THIS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 47:17 HE HAD GREAT AUTHORITY, AND THE EARTH WAS ILLUMINATED 47:22 BY HIS SPLENDOR." 47:24 POWER AND GLORY ARE GOING TO GO AROUND THIS WORLD. 47:28 I SAY THIS FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT. 47:30 SOME OF US HAVE TASTED THE POWER OF THE WORLD TO COME. 47:36 IN RUSSIA AND IN INDIA AND IN UKRAINE, IN SOME OF THESE 47:43 COUNTRIES, WE HAVE SEEN THE POWER OF GOD. 47:49 WE HAVE SEEN THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 47:53 WE ARE NOT HERE TO TESTIFY LIES TO YOU. 47:56 WE ARE NOT HERE TO TELL YOU MAYBE ONE DAY IT'S GOING 48:00 TO HAPPEN. 48:01 I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY AND I SAY, "PEOPLE, IT'S HERE." 48:08 THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS HERE AND THE TRUE ELIJAH MESSAGE 48:14 IS HERE. 48:18 WHAT SHOULD I DO? 48:20 HERE IT IS. 48:22 LOOK AT ME. 48:23 HERE IS THE PLAIN WORD TO YOU. 48:26 RESIST THE DUMBING DOWN OF THE AMERICAN MIND, 48:32 THE AUSTRALIAN MIND, THE BRITISH MIND, 48:36 THE HISPANIC MIND. 48:38 RESIST, RESIST, RESIST! 48:44 NUMBER TWO, BECOME A STUDENT OF SCRIPTURE. 48:48 READ, THINK, PRAY, MEMORIZE THE BIBLE. 48:53 I SAID TO THE FOLKS LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MEMORIZE 48:55 THE FIRST EIGHT CHAPTERS OF ROMANS FOR A START. 48:59 REFUSE TO BE A RELIGIOUS CONFORMIST. 49:05 RELY UPON SOLA SCRIPTURA, SOLA CHRISTUS, SOLA GRATIA, 49:14 SOLA FIDE, THE GREAT BULWARKS OF THE REFORMATION. 49:24 REJECT THE COUNTERFEIT, EMBRACE THE GENUINE, WORSHIP THE LAMB, 49:32 BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND USE YOUR TONGUE TO PREACH 49:41 THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF 49:46 THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO HELP US GOD, AMEN. 49:53 LET US KNEEL. 50:03 OUR FATHER, HERE WE ARE AS A GREAT CONGREGATION 50:08 ON OUR KNEES. 50:11 OUR FATHER, IT IS HERE. 50:15 THE FALSE REVIVAL IS HERE, BUT GLORY BE TO GOD, YOU ARE HERE. 50:25 AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS HERE. 50:29 THROUGH THE STUDY OF SCRIPTURE, WE KNOW THAT THE FALSE REVIVAL 50:36 IS ONE OF THE LAST GREAT SIGNS, BUT WE THANK YOU THAT GOD 50:42 IS WORKING TO COUNTERACT THE COUNTERFEIT. 50:47 OPEN OUR EYES THAT WE MIGHT UNDERSTAND YOUR WORD. 50:52 WE KNOW, OUR FATHER, THAT THE GREATEST THREAT TO CHRISTIANITY 50:55 TODAY IN THE WESTERN WORLD IS THE DUMBING DOWN 51:02 OF THE AMERICAN MIND, THE AUSTRALIAN MIND, 51:05 THE BRITISH MIND, THE FRENCH MIND, 51:07 THE GERMAN MIND, THE HISPANIC MIND. 51:14 AND WE ARE MESMERIZED AND BRAINWASHED BY THE TRIVIA 51:19 AND WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE IMPORTANT. 51:23 WHEN THE WORLD WORSHIPS THE FALSE LAMB, GOD, 51:27 WE WOULD WORSHIP YOU. 51:30 AND WHEN THE WORLD BABBLES IN AN UNINTELLIGIBLE MUMBO-JUMBO, 51:37 OUR FATHER, WE WOULD USE OUR TONGUES TO PREACH YOUR WORD. 51:42 WE THANK YOU FOR THE GOSPEL, THAT WE'RE NOT SAVED BY 51:46 EMOTIONS, BUT WE'RE SAVED BY CHRIST, WHO DIED FOR US. 51:53 AS WE'RE PRAYING IN OUR CHURCH TODAY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD 51:59 THE HOLY SPIRIT, HOW MANY WILL RAISE A HAND TO HEAVEN AS A 52:06 SUPPLIANT, AS A PENITENT, AND SAY, "LORD, I COME TO YOU TODAY 52:13 CONFESSING AND FORSAKING MY SINS AND CLINGING TO CHRIST 52:19 AS MY SAVIOR"? 52:20 WOULD YOU RAISE YOUR HAND TODAY? 52:23 AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS. 52:25 LIFT YOUR HANDS UP HIGH AND SAY THAT. 52:27 YES, GOD. 52:30 YOU AND I WILL NEVER, NEVER PERISH WHILE WE CLING TO CHRIST. 52:38 BLESS THESE UPRAISED HANDS. 52:42 BLESS THESE UPRAISED HEARTS. 52:45 SEND THE FIRE OF GOD UPON US. 52:49 CONSUME THIS CHURCH WITH PENTECOSTAL POWER. 52:56 BLESS EVERYBODY HERE TODAY. 52:58 I HEARD TODAY ABOUT A LADY, PHIL TOLD ME, SHE GOT 53:02 BRAIN TUMOR. 53:05 HELP HER, TOUCH HER. 53:10 BLESS THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS CHURCH. 53:12 I'M SO GLAD TODAY TO SEE SO MANY FINE, YOUNG PEOPLE 53:15 WITH THEIR BIBLES OPENED, SOAKING IN THE WORD. 53:20 BLESS THEM TODAY. 53:22 BLESS THE PARENTS. 53:24 BLESS EVERY PERSON HERE TODAY WITH SALVATION, NOT BECAUSE OF 53:32 SOME OVERWHELMING EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE, BUT BECAUSE JESUS 53:39 PAID IT ALL. 53:41 AND WE TRUST IN HIM, NOT IN OURSELVES. 53:44 SO OUR FATHER, WE WORSHIP YOU. 53:48 WE PRAISE YOU. 53:49 WE BLESS YOU. 53:51 WE GIVE YOU HONOR. 53:52 WE GIVE YOU GLORY. 53:55 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN AND AMEN. 54:03 [MUSIC] 54:38 ♪ IN THE QUIET ♪ ♪ OF THIS HOUR, ♪ 54:48 ♪ AS I KNEEL ♪ ♪ BEFORE YOU NOW, ♪ 54:57 ♪ I BELIEVE YOUR PROMISE ♪ ♪ TO BE FAITHFUL. ♪ 55:12 ♪ I DON'T ALWAYS ♪ ♪ UNDERSTAND WHAT ♪ 55:22 ♪ YOUR PERFECT WILL DEMANDS, ♪ ♪ BUT I'VE LEARNED ♪ 55:33 ♪ TO TRUST YOU MORE ♪ ♪ IN YOUR PRESENCE, LORD. ♪ 55:48 ♪ IN YOUR PRESENCE ♪ ♪ THERE IS COMFORT. ♪ 56:06 ♪ IN YOUR PRESENCE ♪ ♪ THERE IS PEACE. ♪ 56:25 ♪ WHEN WE SEEK ♪ ♪ TO KNOW YOUR HEART, ♪ 56:34 ♪ WE WOULD FIND ♪ ♪ SUCH BLESSED ASSURANCE ♪ 56:42 ♪ IN YOUR HOLY PRESENCE, ♪ ♪ LORD. ♪ 57:02 ♪ THERE CAN BE SUCH ♪ ♪ SWEET REWARD WHEN WE ♪ 57:12 ♪ WAIT UPON THE LORD. ♪ ♪ AS WE TAKE THE TIME, ♪ 57:25 ♪ HE GIVES HIS PERFECT WISDOM, ♪ 57:36 ♪ TO BE FOUND IN HIM ALONE, ♪ ♪ ALL OUR DEEPEST ♪ 57:48 ♪ SECRETS KNOWN, ♪ ♪ WE'RE SURROUNDED ♪ 57:56 ♪ BY HIS GRACE-- ♪ |
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