3ABN On the Road

The Last Mile Home

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Participants: C. D. Brooks

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Program Code: OTR000977


01:00 Hello friends and welcome to 3ABN Camp Meeting
01:03 2010, the Lord has been blessing us and we are so
01:07 happy that you have chosen to tune into what I
01:10 considered one of the high points of camp meeting.
01:12 Have you been blessed so far can we say Amen?
01:15 Amen. You are glad that you are going to be
01:18 sitting down and listening because Alder Brookes
01:20 God has called him for such a time as this to
01:23 bless our hearts in an abundant way so sit back
01:27 invite your friends and family members to enjoy
01:29 this message with you if you are at work take a
01:31 break right now, you don't want to miss what God
01:33 has install for you. What a blessing it is all
01:36 weekend long if you are in the Southern Illinois
01:39 area we would like to invite you to come to
01:40 Thompsonville the biggest little city in the Midwest
01:44 where God is being blessing through Alder
01:46 Brookes, David Asscherick, pastor Batchelor is
01:48 going to be here and a number of other dynamic
01:50 speakers as we cover the Pillars of Our Faith on
01:53 this weekend wonderful music from all of our
01:56 guests as well as those who are part of 3ABN
01:59 family but before we go into the message I want
02:01 to invite you to just sit back and relax as we ask
02:05 the Lord to blesses. Let's bow our heads.
02:08 Gracious father thank you for your goodness,
02:11 thank you for your mercy and thank you for your
02:13 grace give to us father what we are in need of,
02:17 this we ask in Jesus name we pray Amen.
02:21 And sometimes it seem himself serving to
02:23 introduce the song but I want to share with you
02:25 today a song that I believe sun raises the
02:27 beauty of Jesus to us. We are not worthy of his
02:31 grace nor his salvation but when you ask the
02:34 question that is addressed in this song.
02:36 We give glory to God that is not who we are?
02:39 But who he is, that makes a difference in
02:41 our salvation listen to the message?
03:01 When I think of how He came so far from glory
03:14 Came and dwell to among the lovely such as I
03:29 To suffer shame and such disgrace
03:36 On Mount Calvary take my place
03:45 Then I ask myself this question Who am I?
03:57 Who am I that The King would bleed and die for?
04:12 Who am I that He would pray not my will,
04:21 Thine Lord? The answer I may never know
04:34 Why He ever loved me so?
04:42 That to an old rugged cross He'd go, for who am I?
05:03 When I'm reminded of those words,
05:10 "I'll leave you never
05:17 If you'll be true, I'll give to you life forever"
05:30 Oh, I wonder what I could have done
05:38 To deserve God's only Son
05:47 Who fight my battles until they're won, for who am I?
06:01 Who am I that the King would bleed and die for
06:15 Who am I that He would pray not my will, Thine
06:26 Lord The answer I may never know
06:36 Just why He ever loved me so?
06:45 That to an old rugged cross He'd go, yes
06:59 That to an old rugged cross He'd go,
07:08 For who am I
07:28 Amen, Amen. I greet you again in the
07:42 name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. My pleasure to
07:46 come back and for myself and all that I represent
07:51 I would like to extend congratulations to God's
07:55 special miracle ministry 3ABN, Amen! And I see
08:01 that you love it as much as I do. It's a privilege
08:05 to be here with my wife again and to worship with
08:09 you. And to see you the fellowship to share hope,
08:18 the promises of God. The title of my simple
08:22 message is the Last Mile Home. Last year I
08:30 remember giving you an allegory this year I offer
08:36 an analogy and ask you follow and see where we
08:42 will go. When I was 14 or 15 years of age I can
08:50 remember very well, being proud to tell folk
08:55 I was a country boy. Oh! I love that life but
09:03 we were picked up each morning of the week and
09:05 carried of to city schools and so as I begin to
09:12 reach those years when socializing became
09:16 important to one. I wanted to stay in town
09:21 as long as possible and friends homes or wherever
09:25 else we went but there was one thing I had to
09:29 keep in mind and that was the last bus that went
09:35 in the direction of my house. Left the town
09:39 square at 11 p.m. Now, I couldn't wish that a way
09:46 or change it. If I'd going to get home on time
09:52 I had better keep that in mind and be there out.
09:58 Usually at that all other crowd had dwindled and
10:04 the bus was never crowded but right on 11
10:09 on the clock the driver would head up North Elm
10:14 street to Battle Ground Avenue that's a strange
10:18 name I guess to sound Battle Ground Avenue.
10:23 In the area where I lived General Nathaniel Greene
10:28 had defeated Lord Cornwallis in the
10:30 Revolutionary world. That's how my town got
10:35 to be called Greensboro. I remember it with a
10:41 great deal of affection of course. About a half
10:46 an hour after we had taken off I might be the
10:50 only passenger on that bus and yet the driver
10:54 had to go all the way out but make no mistake about
10:59 it the driver did not take me home. He took me to a
11:06 nice community called Kirkwood and where he
11:10 made a left turn I disembarked and began
11:14 the last mile and a half to where I lived. It's a
11:23 matter of fact they were only three or four
11:25 blocks of lightened houses and then darkness
11:30 that sometimes seemed palpable. The last mile
11:37 and I have home and there I was 15 at most I
11:45 graduated at 16 and I have got this lonely dark
11:51 dangerous route all to myself. Very settled
11:57 then at that hour would you even see a car on
12:01 the road. Those who wanted to be some way
12:06 out were there. And here I go, I want to tell
12:14 you something however I would come to a
12:19 spot in that road more than ones and that
12:24 would come a moment of decision if I would
12:29 take the footpath there were two forests if
12:35 I would dare and face the unknown in the
12:39 blackness of night along that footpath. I could cut
12:44 off a half mile so it became the last mile home.
12:56 As I stood there all by myself contemplating what
13:00 I should do I would always remember there was
13:06 pretty full little shack where the grass was never
13:11 caught and you never saw the lights on. I would
13:15 come by there in the day light its still gave you
13:19 chance and cause your pose to quicken. But at
13:25 night it was terrifying so l should there wondering
13:33 what should my decision be? I had been told
13:37 clearly over, and over, and over again that the
13:40 little white haired lady that lived in that pretty
13:44 full shack was a bonafide witch.
13:51 The last mile home involves spiritualism if
13:58 you catch my meaning. So, I pondered what I
14:03 should do than I would look at that longer road
14:07 it wasn't much better the forest came right up to
14:10 the edge of it no cars generally I would decide
14:17 to go through the forests by myself at night and
14:25 even when I would do that I would boost to my
14:28 courage with the much old motion that real
14:32 man are not afraid of anything. Amen!
14:40 I was tough I am ready at least that's what I
14:47 would tell myself. Once I have moved passed
14:52 that little shack there was any regular path that
14:58 went almost straight down hill and it wasn't
15:04 easy to negotiate especially when you
15:07 couldn't see very well. At the bottom of that hill
15:12 it was noisy little creek there were no lights
15:17 there. If you miss the stepping stones to the
15:21 other side you would either stand or sit in
15:26 about two feet of cold, cold water. Once you got
15:33 across the creek you had left the grimed little
15:38 shack you are safely on the other side than you
15:44 entered the Pine forest this were those tall
15:49 southern pines. The canopy way up there and
15:52 because of the niggles it caught the wind and
15:57 kept the humming sound all the time and than
16:02 this little nocturnal creatures would torment
16:06 me with that cracking of a lamb or a romantic
16:12 little call to a meet somewhere up there.
16:18 It paid that time to concentrate on objectives
16:21 and the number one objective was to get hold.
16:26 Well, I see you are following me. The number
16:30 one objective was to get home, now the bus ride
16:34 was easy and normal and peaceful no problem
16:39 just riding along but that last mile, that last
16:46 mile it wanted to think about safety and the joy
16:52 of being at home. Where you are securely
16:56 locked in by a parrot who saw to that as the
17:00 last act every night but the most important thing
17:06 was home and when you got there. And only
17:11 then your nerves would settle down.
17:16 Now, I ought to tell you that they were dog
17:19 packs in those forests. When you go back to my
17:25 childhood you going back to the great
17:27 depression and there were people who genuinely
17:31 love dogs but they couldn't afford to keep
17:33 them. Let's say that they would drive them to
17:37 the forest edge and simply turn them loose
17:41 and these dogs would get together. Big ones
17:45 and little ones and they would run through the
17:49 night and keep up a real racket. Now, I liked
17:56 it when the noise told me they were far from
18:00 where I was, and you could tell I never really
18:07 had any experience with them but we had a
18:10 neighbor by the name of the Mr. Foster who
18:13 spent a whole night in a tree. Because the dogs
18:19 settle down beneath him and so well may be you
18:26 don't get it. But I will tell you, if you got into
18:34 trouble in those forests you could yell until you
18:38 were blue in the face but nobody is going to
18:42 hear you. You could cry for help with all your
18:47 myth but nobody would respond that was the
18:54 chance you are taking in the Last Mile Home.
19:01 There used to be a spiritual that they would
19:04 saying you got to walk that lonesome valley.
19:09 You got a walk it by yourself no body else can
19:13 walk it for you out. You got to walk it by
19:18 yourself I hope I am impressing you with a
19:23 fact that the Last Mile Home is going to be the
19:29 hottest of the evening the darkest of the evening
19:35 and pertains the most dangerous of all but you
19:40 got to keep concentrate on home and keep
19:44 moving in the right direction there is a
19:48 familiar and favorite text of mine I used to write
19:51 it on every letter I sent to my precious mother.
19:56 God show wipe a way all tears from there eyes
20:00 there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor
20:03 crying. Neither shall there being anymore pain
20:07 for the former things are passed away.
20:13 And those words for her were like fruit from
20:19 the tree of life and for me they represented
20:25 comfort and courage and hope. Jesus said as
20:31 it was in the days of Noah so shall also the
20:34 days of the coming of the son of man being.
20:38 That's what Jesus said well, how was it in the
20:43 days of the Noah? Genesis chapter 6, also
20:48 sink little sentence says that the world was full
20:52 of violence. Ladies and gentlemen we are now
20:57 way out. Amen! 2nd Timothy chapter 3, this
21:02 Noah also that in the last days equivocating
21:06 you don't miss that unless you don't know
21:09 what last means or days means now last days
21:16 perilous time show God, this is what the
21:20 apostles said we are nearing being and it will
21:23 be dangerous just to be alive. I hear it on the
21:31 news almost daily people who hadn't planned to
21:36 die cording cross fires of rival gangs. A little
21:41 girl Nine years old shot in the head two weeks
21:44 ago. It's dangerous just to sit on your steps and
21:50 talk to prayer, it dangerous to be in your
21:54 bedroom. When the bullet start to fly and people
21:59 are struck with in the sanctity of their own
22:03 homes, as we near there, we have got to face
22:09 things that we had never seen before. We are
22:15 living in a world where there is no promising.
22:21 We are living in a world where our freedoms are
22:25 being threatened day by day. We are living in a
22:32 world where we better get acquainted with the
22:35 promises of God and believe him. Amen! Well,
22:39 God has said I will never leave you nor forsake
22:46 you God said that. And there are times when I
22:50 am with in the shadow of death it seems and I
22:55 look up to heaven and repeat his words to him.
22:59 I learn that from Shelly tell God what he said
23:04 already. Let him know that you believe in it and
23:09 that you live by it and then you hear the song his
23:13 eye is on the sparrow. I know he is watching me
23:19 24/7 heaven is open for business and there is a
23:23 living God on our living though there be billions
23:28 of worlds in the Cosmos, he is able to single out
23:32 the planet in rebellion and there are billions
23:35 of people down here but he knows my address.
23:39 Amen! He has counted the hair, that is what the
23:42 Bible said the Bible doesn't say the hairs on
23:45 your head are counted it says they are
23:47 numbered. Which says just was on concerned
23:50 means that God knows that this hair right here
23:53 is number 175 and the one the next to it is 178
23:58 and a couple have dropped out he has numbered
24:01 the hairs on our heads. He knows more about us
24:05 than we could possibly know about him.
24:10 This are the foresight think I always seem to be
24:14 a bit more religious on that Last Mile Home.
24:21 I know I prayed more on that last mile home and
24:27 than after emerging from the Pine Forest I
24:31 was smacked-dab in the middle hatches tobacco
24:34 plantation. A huge tobacco farm and
24:39 Mr. Hatcher was an unusual person he had
24:42 two barns, two tobacco barns and a great big
24:46 house and five crazy dogs. Amen!
24:54 Now, I got to go passed his house I remember
24:58 coming through there in day light when you
25:00 were not so terrified and those dogs would come
25:04 as those to go rip your part and they would
25:06 make a circle and they would move in and out
25:10 snapping as they did and I remember looking
25:12 and Mr. Hatchers was reading his paper just a
25:15 few yards away and he didn't event look up.
25:20 I had own a pair heavy boots and I hold that
25:23 way and kicked one of those dogs and he went
25:25 up in the air and made an announced when he
25:28 came down he and all the rest took off and I
25:32 looked back again and Mr. Hatcher was still
25:34 reading his paper. I came to the conclusion he
25:38 didn't care about me or his dogs. Now, I got
25:43 to good bye him at night, how best to do it now
25:51 if you lived in the country such as I did you
25:55 had a mixture of sand and clay that was your
25:58 soil. And whenever the rain is came heavily it
26:03 leads the clay from the sand and lift the sand in
26:07 the sand ditches on either side of the road and I
26:10 had learned a secret to get in the sand nobody
26:13 can hear yet. You can run silently, so, when I
26:18 approach Mr. Hatchers home I assumed,
26:22 I presumed that those dogs had enough scene to
26:25 sleep in the back and I would by as best I could.
26:31 As fast as could running in the sand you couldn't
26:36 hear my foot falls at all. And by the time those
26:40 dogs were away up. You see they also have the
26:43 sense of smile I read somewhere out 175 times
26:47 more sensitive they are hearing and smelling
26:51 than in a human being. But eventually whether
26:56 they are sleeping or not that I don't know they
26:59 would discover somebody was passing that
27:02 somebody by that time had passed. Running in
27:08 the sand running in the sand I wanna tell you
27:14 something when you on the Last Mile Home
27:22 and you know it fears to run silently sometimes.
27:29 Ellen White indicates that an ultra sensitive
27:32 person can't be saved because they always
27:35 thinking evil. You know their folk who look at
27:39 you and decide you don't like him or they decide
27:43 you have said something about them. You have
27:46 met him and talked about them. I had that,
27:49 had happened to be once that I remember
27:51 enlightening the poor soul by saying I really
27:55 didn't have you on my mind at all. At the time
27:59 you indicate, I want to tell you something that
28:03 we got to take seriously Bible says that dragon
28:08 Revelation 12, verse 9 tells who that is.
28:11 The dragon was rough angry with the woman
28:15 the church and went to make war not with just
28:19 everybody particularly everybody self us
28:25 because Satan doesn't love anybody as a matter
28:28 of fact Ellen White says the demons in hell
28:30 don't even like each other. But in a special
28:36 sense Satan has made war against a special
28:41 people who are they? Bible tells you the woman
28:47 what is that mean? the final group of those who
28:50 remain well, how do we know who they are
28:56 same verse they keep the commandments of
28:59 God how many all ten. If you don't keep all ten
29:05 you are not keeping any but the Bible says in
29:08 James 2:10 if you keep the whole law and the
29:10 other finding one port you give them all. So it
29:14 narrows down doesn't it? And you keep in mind
29:19 Satan is at war against those who keep the
29:24 commandments of God and here's comes our
29:27 English lesson again they are coordinating
29:30 conjunction connecting words and phrases of
29:33 equal rank and importance. So, that what comes
29:36 after and is just as important as that which
29:39 proceeds and. Now, let's read it together they
29:42 keep the commandments of God and have the
29:46 testimony of Jesus Christ what's that?
29:49 Chapter 19 in verse 10 tells you it is the gift of
29:53 prophecy and I have never seen the Lord's
29:57 servant under attack as she is the devil. Amen!
30:01 That peaceful soul that did so much made so
30:06 many sacrifices oh I got to talk about her
30:09 tomorrow but they despise her and I will tell
30:13 you why people are down on putting her up
30:16 on and many who criticized have never read
30:22 a page of her council. I have never met a soul
30:27 not one soul who was made worse by reading
30:32 and believing the spirit of prophecy. I have
30:36 talked to those who love to false and I don't and
30:40 if you want to talk after I make statement go
30:42 ahead. But I say that to them I have never met a
30:47 soul now I have met a few fanatics who took
30:49 things out of context, Amen! I have met a few
30:53 racists who took things out of context as in
30:58 volume 9 for which the gift and the Lord servant
31:03 are not responsible I tempted to give you an
31:09 illustration. When I was a boy I read statement
31:14 that I am worship on my faith. Ellen White says
31:19 blacks or colors should not seek to be equal with
31:22 white's period will that. But I remember
31:28 something that I am going to tell you tomorrow
31:29 night. And I had blessing enough to differ
31:37 judgment and then one day a wonderful minister
31:44 pulled a little book out of his draw called as
31:47 southern work and read the statement in context.
31:50 Now, listen color shouldn't seek to be
31:53 equal with whites because they are not his
31:57 example. Well, I can live that, Christ is the
32:03 model if you want to copy a live copy he is.
32:10 Amen for the gift of prophecy, Amen, Amen,
32:13 and I have thank God many of time that I didn't
32:16 jump to a conclusion because had I done that I
32:19 would have been in jeopardy my own
32:23 personality he is to understand truth and
32:25 stand on it that if I had call that what she said
32:29 I would have had a problem for my own.
32:33 What, thank God I didn't do that. Amen.
32:39 The dragon is wroth with the woman.
32:41 That's right. He has picked out the remnant.
32:44 His attack is against them. What do they do
32:48 that makes him so upset? They teach and
32:51 believe and lay them obedience to all the
32:55 commandments of God, does that make them
32:58 legalists absolutely not. Legalism is when you
33:04 think you can earn heaven by obeying the
33:06 commandments nor you can't. Ellen White says
33:10 not one whipped of what a man does. You know
33:14 as you read you find such interesting words
33:18 from the Lord servant. Not one whipped I was
33:23 reading another area she said I wouldn't give a
33:26 straw, like that what is this wonderfully it sound
33:30 like me. Not one whipped of what a man does
33:34 can earn him salvation. It's all Jesus but once
33:38 we allow him to claim us and we will to do his
33:42 will and what is his will? The Bible says his will
33:47 is to keep his commandments you are
33:50 my friends if you do whatever I command you.
33:54 And the people who love to forsake but wait a
33:56 minute their works involved in obedience.
34:00 No, no, no, obedience is a lifestyle it's a way
34:04 you live if you being a liar you stop lying when
34:07 Jesus comes in if you have been Palendriai you
34:10 stay home with your wife when Jesus comes in.
34:13 That is the lifestyle of the Christian you are not
34:16 trying to earn anything not one whipped oh what
34:21 a man does can earned him salvation. And I
34:26 believe that with whole my heart but folk it
34:30 would be wise to remember that in the Last Mile
34:35 Home people you counted on will let you down.
34:41 People in the church will stir up problems they
34:44 already got banks of people put preparing for
34:47 Atlanta, Already got there signs presented
34:52 already supporting sight on there that warning to
34:56 rare up against the church that must teach
35:00 and preach the word of God. They cannot
35:05 succeed and that's not our battle. We have a
35:10 positive message to obey out we will do well to
35:13 bare it and we need to be, we need to understand
35:17 that souls are not one I am talking as one whom
35:21 got call to do evangelism. By his grace I have
35:26 baptized thousands but not a one is brought into
35:30 the church through a personality like mine.
35:34 Every soul that is converted to the truth
35:37 is one but a Holly Ghost would you say Amen
35:40 out there. And we better keep that in mind it
35:45 surely helps in many ways when you understand
35:49 that it takes the whole of members Ellen White
35:52 says one soul is worth more than the whole
35:54 world. Try to digest that and you will not
35:58 baptized three or just to get a big number.
36:02 That's not my business my business is to tell the
36:05 truth. The Holy Ghost is working where the
36:08 truth is told and the Holy ghost will whisper to a
36:12 man or a woman which is the way will eve in it.
36:18 Amen! There would be attacks of one nature
36:22 and another against God's people and some that
36:26 you really counted on will seem that let you
36:29 down. The Bible talks about accuser of the
36:33 brotherhood, accuser of the brotherhood he
36:37 loves to stir up trouble and accuse you even the
36:41 things you are guilty of some of the things we
36:44 are guilty of. When God buried Moses up there
36:49 that devil came, it forgive my imagination
36:53 but I have seen the devil coming when he knew
36:56 Christ was coming at the Moses. He went up
36:59 there and planted his foot right on the grave
37:02 of Moses and declared he had a right to him.
37:06 And he began to tell God all the faults of Moses
37:09 he was impatient he would let him go into the
37:11 promise land because he disobeyed John and the
37:16 Bible simply says when he did that Christ did
37:20 not bring against Moses railing acquisition but
37:24 he simply said the Lord rebuke the Satan.
37:27 That's right! In other words this man and all
37:29 these out here today who are truly converted to
37:33 Jesus you have made a decision he has claimed
37:38 you as his own and when the devil accuses you
37:42 and you might have been guilty. Because the
37:45 devil knows he can't lie to God. He accuses you
37:51 and the Lord says to him I rebuke you Satan.
37:55 What you mean by that? I am taking away his
37:58 unrighteousness and I am covering him with my
38:01 light. Now if you can accuse me go ahead.
38:08 The Lord rebuking I imagine further the Satan
38:11 saying but in order reedmen you got to come
38:14 and you have down that yet. So, you have not
38:18 taken him out of my power and out of my
38:20 prison house that I couldn't imagine the Lord
38:23 saying charge him to me. And when in the
38:29 fullness of time I come down to this earth if I
38:32 don't pay up you can have him back.
38:35 Yeh! What your Satan, Moses, and Elijah were
38:37 talking about on Mount of Transfiguration.
38:40 The Bible says they were talking about his
38:42 disease which should be accomplished shortly at
38:45 Jerusalem, that's what they were talking about.
38:48 They had a wasted interest in Christ going to the
38:51 cross. Otherwise Enoch, Moses and Elijah
38:57 would have to come back down here. Oh! Bless
39:02 God for the gospel, aren't you glad for gospel.
39:06 Well, finally you get passed Hatchers place and
39:15 there was one more forest I had to get
39:17 through a small one. That equally as terrifying it
39:22 seemed to trees almost enveloped here.
39:26 Now, I want to follow what I am about to say,
39:30 my older brother had recently brought a dog to
39:37 our place that was a strange dog he had
39:45 nothing he would brought in as a guest.
39:50 My father had tenderly got for old dome animals
39:54 he would tell me son a horse can ask for what
39:57 he needs. You must anticipate his need and
40:00 take care of it that was my dads philosophy so
40:04 it is dog he has brought in and what's pretty I
40:07 think it was a child somebody say they all
40:10 mean, that dog was so mean that when I feed
40:14 him I had to put the food in his tray and get
40:17 a long pole and push it up the way it can reach
40:20 it. He had no understanding at all
40:27 well on this night he did home that's my last
40:30 big obstacle that dog knew my voice. That dog
40:36 knew the smell of me didn't bother him at all
40:39 he would raise hand. And he had such a big
40:44 mouth when he started raise his hand dogs
40:46 allover the neighborhood joined him. And they
40:51 all began to carry on and I can't see him because
40:55 its dark and I began the wonder I have nothing
40:58 with which to depend on myself and that two
41:02 dogs that knew me along side of him they
41:06 were led by him and they were barking at me.
41:14 Oh! It was terrible that devil bog would come
41:20 tarring at me that some how I could shout at him
41:24 and intimidating. And he would back down a
41:28 little and grudgingly give me some space then
41:32 I would be able to make it home. Now, who
41:35 would him I have thought that a dog with now
41:39 member, member of the family. I am talking
41:44 about this one day in the family. Ellen White
41:49 says that many will be disaffected and become
41:53 bitterest enemies' folk we taught you in the
41:57 Sabbath school lesson God forbid. Even those
42:02 who preach sometimes God forbid, one great
42:09 television evangelist poured into a whole block
42:11 of people they said they all former seventh-day
42:14 Adventist I have baptized them. He said
42:16 now ask them why did you live that wonderful
42:20 church with such high standards and they said
42:23 because there is no love in that church.
42:27 Somebody heard it came into me and I asked
42:29 one question where in the Bible doesn't says
42:33 somebody has to love you. Oh! It says you have
42:37 to love somebody including your enemy but
42:42 it is not written that somebody has to love you.
42:49 So, what I want account all of that too is
42:53 deception say that word with me. Deception,
42:58 that's got to be Satan's prime tool the last mile
43:03 home, he is going in a lie and expect you to
43:07 believe it deception is going to cause many to
43:11 become like shifting sand. I am reading from
43:15 Ellen White and she said thousands were lived
43:20 but when they live other thousands will come in
43:24 and the ranks of the Lord's army will not be
43:27 the diminished so, this thing is not about the
43:30 crowd not about the group it's about you.
43:35 You got to walk this lonesome valley, you got
43:38 to walk it all by yourself. You got to walk it and
43:44 make decisions and make have a will to do
43:49 God's will and learn how to pray you got to
43:52 have a speaking acquaintance with God
43:54 himself you got to do it you have no other
43:59 choice. Ladies and gentlemen we will not
44:03 surprise to hear me say I am about to make a
44:07 statement to you Jesus said there will be wars
44:13 and roamers of war but you never see wars like
44:17 this. First place I have read that other day that
44:21 28 wars going on right now we are involved in
44:24 two in a very specific way Afghanistan and Iraq.
44:30 But listen Satan delights in war I am cording
44:33 right forward excites the worst passions of the
44:36 soul. Let me ask you a practical question how
44:40 do you fight a war when people don't mind
44:42 dying. They quite willing the brought
44:45 themselves out you never saw war like that
44:49 people it makes you think perhaps its an endless
44:55 war. Wars and rumors of war and when Jesus
45:01 said there will be earthquakes and divorce,
45:05 divorce simply means divorce are different.
45:08 Earthquakes, when I would hear of earthquake
45:10 I thought of California when I hear about a
45:14 flood I was awake of Midwestern and all
45:17 through here. And then you drought this cruse
45:23 but now you think of earthquakes you got to
45:27 think of Haiti, China, Chile and others yes,
45:36 when you think of floods you no longer just
45:41 think of the middle of our country but you got
45:45 to think of France and Great Britain and take
45:48 into consideration the Tsunami that killed
45:52 250,000 people you know when they were
45:57 collecting the bodies someone noticed
46:01 something rather strange the water has retired
46:05 and dead are everywhere and destruction is
46:09 everywhere but in that country they depend on
46:15 agriculture and lumbering. So, they had many
46:22 animals strayed and especially elephants and
46:27 yet as they are collecting the dead they didn't
46:30 see any elephants or ox in. And we did a little
46:37 reading into it and we were told that animals
46:41 have an instinct and when an earthquake is
46:47 about to occur they are usually some soft shivers
46:51 before the main strike and the minute the
46:55 elephant feels at those great padded feet they
47:00 head a higher ground somebody ought to say
47:03 amen now. So, the dumb animals lived and that
47:13 human's died tragically do you know that when
47:21 the Titanic went down they had received
47:25 warning message one after another God has told
47:31 us when you see this things no that the coming
47:35 of the Lord go draw at night. Its time to seek
47:40 higher ground a closure relationship with the
47:43 Lord. Ellen White suggest pray at three times a
47:47 day is not enough you got to meditate, you got
47:50 to carry this word in your heart you got to talk
47:52 it over with him all through the day.
47:55 The Bible says pray without ceasing and
48:00 then when you think of these last days you got
48:04 to think of an oil spill that's out of hand and
48:10 please don't forget the immorality of Sodom.
48:14 Well, the Bible spoke of that now I want to
48:18 come back in just a moment to and talk
48:20 about spiritualism just superficially. But their
48:24 was a woman I think an Adventist she and her
48:28 husband loss their little five-year-old daughter
48:32 and you can imagine the grief and you can
48:34 imagine the heartache and one day when the
48:37 wife was home herself she heard that child
48:41 screamed mommy, mommy, now they are
48:44 five section my mom taught me that before I
48:47 went to school. You got seeing and hearing,
48:49 smelling and tasting and feeling you follow me
48:52 don't you. So, the first sense appeal to was
48:55 hearing she heard the child and then the child
48:58 runs into the corner with her arms out stretch
49:00 and she saw the child and then she reached
49:04 down and picked her up and she felt the child.
49:08 And she pealing a kiss on her chick and she
49:12 tasted that child all of her senses were
49:16 assaulted and she was enjoying it as some kind
49:22 of gift from heaven when she suddenly
49:25 remembered the truth. But than no not it is in,
49:30 they returned no more to their houses and that's
49:35 those truths broke up on her heart she dropped
49:40 down and prayed forgiveness and asked
49:43 God to remove this operation whatever it was
49:48 and rebuke the devil for having brought it and it
49:51 was not only soul but her grief was also swaged
49:55 from that very hour that she didn't spend her
49:58 time mourning and mourning the great loss
50:07 of her family. Ladies and Gentlemen we are
50:11 nearing home we are in the last mile see the
50:17 splendor gleaming through the gates of joy.
50:21 See the glorious streaming from the domes afar
50:24 we are nearing home John come out and sing
50:29 this song please. Amen, Amen!
50:36 Just over the mountains in the Promised Land,
50:43 Lies the holy city built by God's own hand;
50:51 As our weary footsteps gain the mountain's crest,
50:57 We can view our homeland of eternal rest.
51:05 We are nearing home! We are nearing home!
51:16 See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
51:23 See the glory streaming from the gates ajar!
51:29 There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,
51:37 Hear the angels singing! We are nearing home!
51:43 We are nearing home! My brother, my sister,
51:53 will you meet me there, In that land of sunshine
51:59 where there'll be no care? Accept of God's
52:06 message and to Him be true, Then when Jesus
52:13 cometh, He will call for you!
52:17 Let's sing with him. Together.
52:19 We are nearing home! We are nearing home!
52:29 See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
52:35 See the glory streaming from the gates ajar!
52:42 There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,
52:50 Hear the angels singing! We are nearing home!
53:00 We are nearing home! I would like to sing that
53:11 chorus one more time that if your heart is
53:14 strangely move by the spirit of God today and
53:17 you want to close our relationship with him I
53:20 want to stand and sing that chorus with John,
53:23 right now. Everybody sing
53:26 We are nearing home! We are nearing home!
53:34 See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
53:40 See the glory streaming from the gates ajar!
53:47 There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,
53:55 Hear the angels singing! We are nearing home!
54:05 We are nearing home! I want to say something
54:15 to you before prayer you are not ordinary people
54:22 now don't think for a moment I promoting
54:23 arrogant in pride no, no far the other way.
54:28 But those who have been privilege to know to
54:30 truth will not like the average guy walking on
54:34 the street and come down for to how much has
54:37 given much as required and if God has given
54:42 much and you fail for or I fail we will be beaten
54:48 with many stripes a Bible says and so I think of
54:54 the man who ran through the streets of
54:56 Jerusalem just before its destruction crying ooh!
55:01 ooh! to Jerusalem he was the preacher of such
55:06 ooh! To Jerusalem ooh! to the temple but when
55:10 you read it great controversy Ellen White
55:13 said that man died in the sewage oh! Lord had
55:18 mercy. I don't want to know what I know and
55:21 preach what I preach and here we preach by
55:24 God's servant and come up short. Do you feel
55:28 that way? Amen! I mean you are not kidding
55:31 today we are just here standing because
55:33 everybody else stood we are nearing home.
55:38 And we can make a difference don't denigrate
55:42 yourself in the sight of God. Your soul was
55:45 worth him going to the cross, Amen! And he
55:48 loves you that much and if you want that
55:52 experience bow your head and pray with me
55:55 now. Oh! Heavenly father, we are so grateful,
56:02 so grateful for the truth but we are not to hold it
56:08 we have to share it, we are to reach out to those
56:11 who don't know it, oh Lord please convert us
56:16 make us what we ought to be, keep us everyday
56:21 until that day when thou shalt appear riding
56:25 down the skies and chariots of flaming fire.
56:30 Let it be Lord that everyone here and its
56:34 possible through Jesus. Everyone here can meet
56:38 some where in globe, amen, having overcome
56:41 by the blood of the lamb that's what we request
56:44 as we stand in and everything we ask,
56:48 we ask in Jesus his name and because of him,
56:52 that's right, let everyone save. Amen. Amen.


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