True Knowledge of Self

Bible Prophecy -part 2

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Participants: Dwayne Lemon, Lance Wilbur

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00:28 Hello, I am Dwayne. And I am Lance.
00:29 And we would like to welcome you
00:31 to another episode of TKS,
00:32 A True Knowledge of Self,
00:34 where we get to know ourselves from a biblical perspective.
00:37 As we begin in this episode continuing our conversation
00:40 in trying to figure out what is the nature of the war
00:44 that we are in.
00:45 We have identified clearly and plainly
00:47 that we are involved in spiritual warfare.
00:50 That's why we are talking about the effects of hip-hop culture,
00:54 pop-culture and all these things,
00:55 because we are involved in a war
00:57 and this war is over our minds who we are to worship
01:01 and it has eternal ramifications,
01:03 so it does matter what we listen to,
01:06 what music we consume.
01:08 It does matter how we worship.
01:09 It does matter what we eat, and how we dress,
01:13 and how we conduct ourselves,
01:14 because every area of our lifestyle speaks
01:17 to whether or not we serve Christ or Satan.
01:20 And Revelation 12 introduced us to this warfare
01:22 and it showed that there is a battle going on
01:25 that started in heaven going on between Michael and the Dragon.
01:29 We know and we looked at verses that highlight
01:31 the fact that Michael is, in fact, Jesus Christ our Lord,
01:34 and that the Dragon is Satan according to Revelation 12:9.
01:39 And we saw the exposure that Satan,
01:41 the influence that Satan had on this earth
01:43 right there in the garden in Genesis 3
01:46 and how sin was introduced.
01:48 And we identified something that was very important.
01:51 Dwayne, when we were looking at Revelation 12,
01:54 we noticed that
01:55 there was a promise in verse 11.
01:58 It says that they, referring to God's people,
02:00 that they overcame him by the blood of the lamb,
02:03 and by the word of their testimony,
02:05 and they love not their lives even unto their death,
02:07 so there is an overcoming that needs to take place.
02:11 We are not left in a situation where God's solution
02:14 for the sin problem is partial.
02:16 It's complete.
02:17 Yes. It's full.
02:19 That is why Jesus had to come and live the life
02:20 and die the death and do what He did
02:23 because sin has cost so much.
02:27 And so Jesus couldn't have come and done a little bit of sin
02:32 and been a perfect sacrifice.
02:35 He had to come and not sin.
02:37 He had to come and be free from sin in order to be
02:40 a legitimate, pure, and acceptable holy sacrifice.
02:43 And He did that so that we don't have to,
02:45 because we can't, we couldn't, we failed,
02:47 all have sinned and fall short.
02:48 And you're gonna help us understand some things,
02:51 but we were shown that the devil in this warfare
02:55 that started in heaven,
02:57 the devil was cast down to the earth.
02:59 And when he was cast down to the earth,
03:01 because he was not restricted as to how he could impact God,
03:06 he directed all of his focus, all of his anger
03:08 and his wrath to God's people,
03:10 because we looked at Isaiah 63,
03:12 and we saw that if God, if God's people are hurt,
03:15 it hurts the very heart of God Himself.
03:17 That's right.
03:18 So Satan now is directing his energy and his efforts
03:20 to hurt those according to Revelation 12:17,
03:24 "Those that keep the commandments of God
03:26 and have the faith of Jesus."
03:28 So if he can hurt them, he knows he can hurt God,
03:30 so this warfare didn't stop.
03:31 That's right.
03:33 This warfare is going to come to an end very soon,
03:34 and we might talk about that, but this war is still going on.
03:37 And the battle now that is waging for the minds
03:41 of all humanity is intense, it's impacting,
03:46 it's getting an access to every area of human existence,
03:51 and we want to go back,
03:52 we talked about it a little bit,
03:53 but we want to talk more about God's solution.
03:57 Even tough all this stuff is happening
03:59 and Satan has real supernatural power,
04:02 but his power has limitations,
04:03 just like there are human limitations.
04:05 All created beings have limitations, God does not.
04:08 So does God have a solution for the problem of sin,
04:12 and does God have even a practical solution that leads
04:16 to and affects humanity, so that we can be overcomers
04:20 as Christ overcame.
04:22 Absolutely.
04:23 Now, one of the things you stated earlier
04:25 is that you said the controversy continues
04:27 between Christ and Satan
04:29 and it's over the human mind, and you said that.
04:31 I believe that for our viewers' sake
04:33 that would require some biblical substantiation,
04:36 so what I wanted to do was go to 1 Peter 5.
04:38 All right.
04:39 Because we saw in Revelation 12:12,
04:42 "Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea
04:45 because the devil has come down unto you, having great wrath,
04:47 because he knows that he has but a short time."
04:49 So what is God's counsel to us knowing
04:51 that we are in this warfare now?
04:53 It says in 1 Peter 5:8, "Be sober, be vigilant
04:58 because your adversary, the devil,
05:00 as a roaring lion, walketh about,
05:02 seeking whom he may devour."
05:04 So the Bible is very rationale.
05:05 It's letting you know, "Listen we know
05:07 you didn't do anything to start this war,
05:09 but because of the fact that Christ loves you,
05:12 because of the fact that He was willing to die for you,
05:15 because of the fact that you were made
05:17 in the image of God,
05:18 this has merited Satan's hatred,
05:20 and therefore he comes after us,
05:22 not so much that he is satisfied
05:24 when he takes us down, but he's satisfied
05:26 as we mentioned in the previous episode,
05:28 that he is hurting the heart of Christ
05:30 because that's his aim.
05:31 So the Bible says, "Be sober, you know,
05:33 be clear in your mind, be vigilant.
05:34 Don't be lazy, you know, be very forthright,
05:38 in knowing that I have an enemy
05:40 and I have to conduct myself accordingly."
05:42 So the question is, well how?
05:43 How can I be vigilant? How can I be sober?
05:48 And the Bible does not leave us aloof to this question.
05:50 In 1 Peter 1:13, "Wherefore gird up
05:57 the loins of your mind..."
05:59 And then the next two words, "Be sober,
06:02 and hope to the end for the grace
06:04 that is to be brought unto you
06:06 at the Revelation of Jesus Christ."
06:08 So the Bible lets us know that a way
06:10 that we can be sober is that
06:12 we must gird up the loins of our minds,
06:14 or another term would be
06:15 to guard well the avenues of the soul.
06:18 Be careful what you watch, be careful what you taste,
06:21 be careful what you smell, be careful what you listen to,
06:25 and be careful of what you touch.
06:26 These are all the avenues by which things can get access
06:29 to our minds, so God wants us to understand,
06:33 do not just indulge in something
06:35 just because it appeals to senses.
06:37 That's what happened in the beginning.
06:40 Satan appealed to the senses of Eve,
06:42 and as he appealed to her senses,
06:44 he was able to deceive her.
06:45 That was a lesson for us.
06:47 So Satan wants access to our mind
06:49 because whoever has the mind has the man.
06:52 This is why Proverbs 23:7 says, "As a man thinks in his mind,
06:55 his heart, so is he."
06:57 So what does God really want?
06:58 He says, "My son..."
06:59 Proverbs 23:26, He says, "My son,
07:03 give me thine heart or mind
07:05 and let your eyes observe my ways."
07:07 Now we can understand why the Bible is so replete
07:10 about this idea of give me your mind,
07:12 give me your mind.
07:13 What is the reason for this?
07:15 It is because what God wants to do
07:17 is enable us to have victory over the thing
07:23 that broke up the relationship
07:24 between himself and humanity and that is sin.
07:25 Yes.
07:27 Sin is the breaking of God's law.
07:29 So God wants to have our mind
07:31 so that He can enable us to keep His law,
07:35 and this is why Romans 7:25 says,
07:38 "We serve the law of God with our minds."
07:41 Yes.
07:42 So Satan knows this, God knows this.
07:44 Humanity is typically the one that's ignorant,
07:46 and that's the reason why God has to give education.
07:49 The solution that He provided to humanity that could bring
07:52 about this education is called the gospel.
07:55 The gospel is designed to teach
07:58 all of the wonderful blessed truths of God's word,
08:01 so that an individual can know what God requires
08:04 and then know how to access it, and ultimately access it,
08:08 and this is why the gospel is imperative.
08:11 This is why Jesus gave the commission.
08:13 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
08:15 in all the world for a witness unto all nations
08:17 and then the end shall come."
08:18 Christ knows once My people can receive the gospel,
08:21 He says, "I know that they can be a people
08:24 prepared to meet their God."
08:25 So everything is hinging upon the gospel,
08:28 and this is why we had to put these programs together
08:30 because there is a true gospel
08:33 that leads to the salvation God wants to give,
08:35 but then there is false gospels and we've been studying
08:38 about the so called gospel of hip-hop,
08:41 as termed by KRS-One and many others.
08:43 We've been looking at the gospels of hip-hop
08:45 and we can truly say according to Galatians 1:7,
08:48 it is a perverted gospel.
08:51 It is a false gospel. It is deceptive.
08:53 And this is why we had to go through all these,
08:56 you know, episodes and lessons,
08:57 and going back and forth over the scripture.
09:00 Now in the very last moments of earth's history,
09:05 God knew that prophetically there were going to be events
09:09 that were going to take place and we looked at it in brief
09:12 in the previous episode dealing with the mark of the beast
09:15 and all of these different things, it's real.
09:17 We don't have time in this episode
09:19 to succinctly identify as I would have loved to,
09:23 but I am thankful that there are many, many ways
09:25 that our viewers can come in contact with this information
09:27 as they continue to watch the network,
09:29 but what we can do is we can highlight some points,
09:32 and let's go to Revelation 14 to do it.
09:35 In Revelation 14, it's the last gospel proclamation
09:40 to be given to the world before the Lord comes
09:42 and I can prove that.
09:43 In Revelation 14:6-12, it gives a gospel message
09:50 that is going to go before all the world,
09:52 and I am gonna show you,
09:53 that this is the last gospel message
09:55 that is to be given.
09:56 Here's what it says.
09:57 It says in verse 6, "And I saw another angel
09:59 fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel
10:02 to preach unto them that dwell on the earth,
10:04 to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
10:06 saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give glory to Him,
10:09 for the hour of His judgment has come and worship Him
10:12 that made heaven and earth, and the sea,
10:13 and the fountains of waters.
10:14 And there followed another angel, saying,
10:16 Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city,
10:19 because she made all nations drink of the wine
10:21 of the wrath of her fornication.
10:22 And the third angel followed them,
10:24 saying with a loud voice,
10:25 if any man worship the beast and his image
10:27 and receive his mark in his forehead,
10:29 or in his hand,
10:30 the same shall drink of the wine
10:32 of the wrath of God,
10:33 which is poured out without mixture into the cup
10:35 of His indignation,
10:36 and he shall be tormented with fire
10:38 and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels,
10:40 and in the presence of the Lamb:
10:41 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever,
10:44 and they have no rest day or night who worship the beast
10:46 and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
10:50 Here is the patience of the saints:
10:52 Here are they that keep the commandments of God,
10:55 and the faith of Jesus."
10:56 And so the Bible is revealing
10:58 what is termed the three angels' messages.
11:00 It is the everlasting gospel.
11:02 It is articulated through these three messages,
11:05 and it is through these three angels' messages
11:08 that God wants to bring humanity,
11:10 number one, a message, number two,
11:12 into an experience as a result of that message,
11:15 that will prepare us to stay faithful
11:17 when the rest of the world would become unfaithful.
11:19 So it's a warning?
11:20 It's a warning, but it's also a call,
11:23 because in verses 9-11 of the third angel,
11:26 it warns if you receive the mark of the beast,
11:28 this will happen to you, but in verse 12 it says,
11:31 well, here is the patience of the saints.
11:33 Here are they that keep the commandments of God
11:35 and the faith of Jesus.
11:36 So we need both, we need to pay attention
11:38 to the warning, but we also have to make sure
11:41 that we embrace the experience, the call.
11:44 Well, how do we know that this is the last gospel message
11:47 to be proclaimed before the Lord comes?
11:49 It's in verses 14 and 15
11:52 right after these three angels' messages
11:55 are given to all the world, to every nation,
11:57 kindred, tongue and people, as verse 6 showed,
11:59 notice what happens next.
12:01 In verse 14, it says, "And I looked,
12:03 and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like
12:08 unto the Son of man,
12:10 having on his head a golden crown,
12:12 and in his hand a sharp sickle.
12:15 And another angel came out of the temple,
12:17 crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud,
12:20 thrust in thy sickle, and reap:
12:22 for the time is come for thee to reap,
12:25 for the harvest of the earth is ripe."
12:28 So notice that the three angels' messages,
12:32 when it is faithfully given and faithfully received,
12:36 it prepares a harvest, and whenever you think
12:38 of a harvest, you don't think
12:40 of the beginning of a planting season,
12:41 you think of the end of it.
12:42 Yeah. That was my kind of question.
12:44 What is the harvest?
12:45 Exactly, so then if we think really what is the harvest,
12:47 remember what we stated earlier Matthew 24:14,
12:50 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached
12:52 in all the world for a witness unto all nations,
12:54 and then the end shall come."
12:56 Well, when you look at this term harvest here,
12:59 if you would have compared with Matthew 13:39,
13:02 here's what the Bible says about it.
13:04 It says in Matthew 13:39,
13:07 it tells us exactly what the harvest represents.
13:10 Jesus was unfolding this parabolic language
13:13 that He was teaching His people,
13:15 as He was talking about the wheat and the tares.
13:18 And Jesus got to a point where He was unfolding
13:20 or decoding some of this symbolic language in verse 39
13:24 and here's what He says.
13:25 "The enemy that sowed them is the devil,
13:28 the harvest is the end of the world
13:32 and the reapers are the angels."
13:34 So the Bible shows that the last gospel message
13:39 to be proclaimed before the world comes to an end
13:44 is none other the three angels' messages,
13:46 and this is why God wants us
13:48 to give this message to the people,
13:51 and as you saw in that third angel,
13:52 it's a warning not to receive the mark of the beast.
13:56 Now this is where it's gonna take some serious looking
13:59 at Bible prophecy, and again because of time
14:01 we can only do it in very, very brief,
14:03 but I think we can establish a point.
14:04 Let's go to Revelation 13 and watch this
14:06 because where does hip-hop culture play a role
14:12 and possibly preparing people
14:15 to receive the mark of the beast?
14:16 Let's take a look. All right.
14:18 Matthew, I'm sorry, Revelation 13,
14:20 the Bible says in Revelation 13,
14:22 I'm gonna start at verse 11
14:23 and then we're gonna take it down.
14:25 It says, "And I beheld another beast coming up
14:27 out of the earth,
14:28 and he had two horns like a lamb
14:29 and he spake as a dragon.
14:31 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,
14:33 and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
14:36 the first beast whose deadly wound was healed.
14:39 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire
14:42 come down from heaven on the earth
14:44 in the sight of men, and deceiveth them
14:46 that dwell in the earth by the means of those miracles
14:49 which he had power to do in the sight of the beast..."
14:51 Now watch this, "Saying to them that dwell on the earth,
14:54 that they should make an image to the beast
14:58 which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15:00 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,
15:03 that the image of the beast should both speak,
15:05 and cause that as many as would not worship
15:08 the image of the beast should be killed.
15:11 And he causeth all, both small and great,
15:13 rich and poor, free and bond,
15:15 to receive a mark in their right hand,
15:17 or in their foreheads,
15:19 and that no man might buy or sell,
15:20 save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast,
15:22 or the number of his name."
15:24 Question. Which one takes place first?
15:29 The image of the beast, or the mark of the beast?
15:31 Ah, the image.
15:33 So notice, the image of the beast is set up first,
15:36 and the image of the beast is instrumental
15:39 in getting people to receive the mark of the beast.
15:42 Correct.
15:43 The three angels' messages,
15:44 specifically the third angel warns the people
15:46 not to receive the mark of the beast.
15:49 So if the third angel's message is gonna warn people,
15:51 not to receive the mark, then obviously these message
15:54 also should warn people about the things
15:57 that lead to receiving the mark.
15:58 Is that right? Right.
16:00 So watch this.
16:01 The image of the beast is set up
16:03 and then the image of the beast is used
16:05 to push people to receive the mark of the beast,
16:08 and whoever gets the mark of the beast
16:09 will receive the wrath of God.
16:12 Now if I love you,
16:13 I don't want you to receive that.
16:14 So I'm obviously going sound an alarm and warn you, right?
16:16 Yes.
16:18 Well, the Bible gives us a picture of how we can know
16:20 how these things are gonna be played out.
16:22 It's in Daniel 3.
16:24 In Daniel 3, the Bible shows something that prepare
16:28 the people to bow to the image of the beast
16:32 in the days of Daniel.
16:33 And I think we need to pay a good close attention
16:36 to this text of scripture.
16:38 So notice what the Bible says now as we look at Daniel 3,
16:42 and we certainly can't study all the verses,
16:43 but we're gonna take a look at a few verses here
16:45 just for context.
16:47 And here is what the Bible says.
16:48 We're looking at Daniel 3.
16:51 And now we've gonna go ahead and start at Daniel 3,
16:56 and let's go ahead and start at verse 1.
16:58 "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold,
17:02 whose height was threescore cubits,
17:04 and the breadth thereof six cubits:
17:05 He set it up in the plain of Dura,
17:07 in the province of Babylon."
17:09 Well, let's pause right here.
17:11 Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, right?
17:13 Yes.
17:15 In Daniel 2 if you look at verse 38,
17:17 Daniel was speaking to Nebuchadnezzar
17:20 and he said, "Thou art this head of gold."
17:22 Okay?
17:23 So Daniel was letting Nebuchadnezzar know
17:25 that you're at the head of gold,
17:26 you're this nation, this power,
17:28 so Nebuchadnezzar is now making an image of gold.
17:30 This is an image that's in dedication to himself,
17:33 but we would do to well to understand
17:35 what this image is that's being set up.
17:38 In order to do it successfully,
17:40 let's take a real quick look at Daniel 7.
17:42 Real quick.
17:43 Keep your finger on Daniel 3, and viewers you keep
17:45 your fingers on Daniel 3 as well,
17:47 and let's go to Daniel 7.
17:48 Just take a look real quick, and let's notice something
17:51 in Daniel 7.
17:53 In Daniel 7, Daniel had a vision of these beasts,
17:57 you know, all these beasts, he saw a lion, he saw a bear,
18:00 he saw a leopard, then he saw this beast that was so ugly,
18:02 he couldn't even associate it to any animal on earth.
18:05 Well, here it is that when you get to these visions
18:08 that Daniel saw, they were actually in harmony
18:12 with the same visions Daniel saw in Daniel 2.
18:14 You know, Daniel saw these elements,
18:16 now he is seeing beasts,
18:17 but they represent the same thing.
18:18 Well, here it is that in Daniel 7,
18:20 if you look at verse 24,
18:24 here is what, I am sorry verse 17 actually,
18:26 in verse 17, here's what the Bible says,
18:29 "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings,
18:34 which shall arise out of the earth."
18:37 And the first beast representing
18:39 none other than Babylon,
18:40 the second beast was Medo-Persia,
18:42 the third beast was Greece,
18:43 and the fourth beast was none other than Rome.
18:44 Okay, so when you think of Babylon,
18:47 can we associate it to a beast?
18:48 Yes. Yes.
18:50 Who was the king of Babylon? His name was?
18:51 Nebuchadnezzar.
18:53 All right, and Nebuchadnezzar, going back to Daniel 3 now,
18:55 let's look at it again in Daniel 3:1.
18:58 It says, "Nebuchadnezzar, the king,
18:59 made an image of gold,
19:02 whose height was threescore cubits
19:05 and the breadth thereof six cubits,
19:06 he set it up in the plain of Dura,
19:08 in the province of Babylon."
19:09 Nebuchadnezzar made an image that represented himself,
19:12 "Thou art the head of gold."
19:14 Babylon is also referred to as a beast,
19:17 so what Nebuchadnezzar was erecting
19:19 was an image of the beast.
19:21 Yes. You follow?
19:23 So notice this.
19:24 There is an image of the beast that's being set up.
19:25 The goal was to get everybody to bow down
19:28 to the image of the beast,
19:30 but let's notice what was instrumental
19:34 in playing a part to prepare the people to bow down
19:38 to the image of the beast.
19:40 Notice what it says in verse 2 and onward.
19:42 "Then Nebuchadnezzar, the king, sent to gather together
19:45 the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges,
19:48 the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs,
19:50 and all the rulers of the provinces,
19:52 to come to the dedication of the image
19:55 which Nebuchadnezzar the king, had set up."
19:56 So notice, he is trying to bring everybody
19:58 in from all over.
19:59 "Then the princes, the governors, and captains,
20:02 the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs,
20:04 and all the rulers of the provinces,
20:06 were gathered together unto the dedication of the image
20:09 that Nebuchadnezzar the king, had set up and they stood
20:12 before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up."
20:15 Now watch verses 4 and 5.
20:17 "Then an herald cried aloud, 'To you it is commanded,
20:22 O people, nations, and languages,
20:25 that at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute,
20:30 harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer,
20:34 and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship
20:39 the golden image
20:40 that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath setup.
20:43 And whoso falleth not down and worship shall the same hour
20:49 be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."'
20:52 Notice, whoever did not bow down
20:55 to the image of the beast would be killed.
20:56 Yes.
20:58 The Bible said in Revelation 13,
20:59 whosoever would not take or acknowledge or pay homage
21:02 to the image of the beast should be killed.
21:05 What was it that medicated the mind of the people
21:08 and prepared their mind to bow down?
21:09 It was music, and the same way that Satan used music
21:16 to prepare the people's minds to bow down
21:18 to the image of the beast.
21:20 So it is that Satan is going to use music
21:22 to prepare people's minds to bow down
21:25 to the image of the beasts in these last days.
21:27 It is in this context that we can see that
21:30 hip-hop culture and hip-hop music
21:32 can play a role in preparing people
21:36 to bow down to the image of the beast shall be set up
21:40 because hip-hop culture is a culture of lawlessness.
21:44 Yes. We've studied that.
21:45 We've looked at that.
21:47 It's a culture that promotes and advocates
21:48 and makes look good sin.
21:51 It is for these reasons that God wanted us
21:53 to prophetically deal with this issue.
21:55 It is not that hip-hop solely is encased in prophecy,
21:59 but it fits as one of the tools that the devil will use
22:03 in Bible prophecy to prepare the people
22:06 to turn their backs on God
22:07 and to bow down to the image of the beast.
22:10 So what we are not saying
22:11 is that hip-hop is the image of the beast.
22:14 Definitely not.
22:15 But it does play a role and is going to continue
22:17 to play role as we near the close.
22:19 That's right.
22:20 And we've to understand as we associated
22:22 all these things historically that hip-hop is not isolated.
22:25 It's not something, you know, any secular music,
22:30 whether it's hip-hop, or whether it's jazz,
22:32 or whether it's rock 'n' roll, or whether, whatever it is
22:34 Even classical.
22:35 Classical, if it is not holding up to the standard
22:39 that God outlines, and if it is exalting
22:42 the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes,
22:44 the pride of life,
22:45 if it is exalting self or exalting anything above God,
22:49 it is going to be used as a medium,
22:54 it is going to be used as a tool as you stated,
22:57 to gather people from every nation
22:59 because, you know, there are so many statements,
23:02 and we don't have time to put up these video clips,
23:05 but people can go out and research,
23:07 that principle of unity that exists in hip-hop culture.
23:10 There is a belief that hip-hop culture rising up
23:16 was a divine institution that was brought
23:18 about cosmically to bring this universal unity,
23:24 this idea of out of many one university,
23:27 and so they look at it as a solution
23:30 to the world's problems where, you know,
23:33 hip-hop is the only place where you can have people
23:35 from every nation, kindred, ethnicity,
23:37 people, tongue come together
23:39 in an environment of nonviolence
23:42 and sharing this expression and all this,
23:44 so they see it as something more than it is, however,
23:47 there is a little bit of truth to what they are saying
23:49 because it is going to feed in,
23:51 and it is going to be used as a tool,
23:53 to gather together people from every nation, kindred,
23:55 tongue, and people to instead of worshipping the true God,
24:00 they're going to be worshipping the beast and his image.
24:02 That's right.
24:04 And it's because of this that we need the call.
24:06 You see in the three angels' messages,
24:08 you don't just see warnings, but you see a call.
24:10 There is an institute called Babylon,
24:12 that people need to come out of
24:14 because it's a place of confusion.
24:15 When I looked at all these several churches
24:17 that were up there,
24:19 and they are actually from the leadership,
24:21 from the heads of the church, encouraging people
24:23 to participate in a culture and in a form of music
24:27 and lifestyle that is totally adverse
24:30 to the Word of God.
24:31 This clearly is something that can be applicable
24:33 to the idea of Babylon, a place of confusion,
24:36 where there is not the truth being lifted up,
24:38 but it is the points and the characteristics
24:40 and even the very music
24:42 that is inspired of satanic origin.
24:44 It's for these reasons that that second angel's message
24:47 has to be given with the clarion cry
24:49 to let the people know come out of that,
24:50 you got to come out of that confusion,
24:52 but you have to enter into a place, a remnant,
24:55 a church, an environment, a group and body of people,
24:58 that are preaching the truth as it is in Jesus,
25:01 and letting the Word of God get the final say
25:03 rather than our own feelings.
25:04 And this is why the call of the third angel,
25:07 here is the patience of the saints,
25:09 here are they that keep the commandments of God
25:13 and the faith of Jesus.
25:15 Well, the commandments of the God is clear.
25:17 We've been looking all throughout the Bible
25:18 and we see the sin problem started
25:20 when mankind violated the very commandments of God,
25:23 the Ten Commandments, and when that was violated,
25:26 this is how sin came into the world,
25:28 and it is only those who are empowered
25:30 through the indwelling Christ
25:32 that as they keep God's commandments,
25:34 they can get sin out of this world,
25:36 out of their lives,
25:38 and they can be reunited with the Lord.
25:40 But they need something called the faith of Jesus,
25:42 and the question is what is it?
25:44 And it says in Galatians 2:16 "Knowing that a man
25:48 is not justified by the works of the law,
25:50 but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
25:53 even we have believed in Jesus Christ,
25:55 that we might be justified by the faith of Christ,
25:58 and not by the works of the law:
26:00 for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
26:03 God wants to make it clear, it is not our understanding
26:07 of right doing that can make us right.
26:09 We are saved by grace through faith.
26:11 But what happens when a man and when a woman is saved
26:14 by grace through faith?
26:16 The Bible goes on to tell us in Ephesians 2,
26:18 "Unto good works."
26:20 So it is not that I work to merit salvation,
26:23 which is the false theology.
26:25 The true theology is, is that I recognize
26:28 there is something that I need
26:30 that I can't do in and of myself,
26:31 that only God can do in me, for me, and through me.
26:35 And it is through this concept that when I receive
26:38 Christ my righteousness, I can be justified,
26:41 and I can be empowered now to live a sanctified life,
26:44 the holy life that Christ Himself lived.
26:46 And this is what is available to you,
26:48 to me and to our viewers,
26:51 My brothers and my sisters, my hope and my prayer is that
26:54 we will take heed, that you will study
26:56 those blessed heralds of the first, second,
26:58 and third angel's message.
26:59 That you will look at it carefully,
27:01 decode the symbols and understand
27:03 what God requires of us and may our lives be found
27:06 to be in harmony with these truths.
27:09 Because the gospel that is not practical
27:12 is a worthless gospel.
27:14 You don't want lip service, the world is filled with that.
27:17 What we want is power, real power, gospel power,
27:21 the kind of power that ultimately brings salvation
27:23 as the Apostle Paul says in Romans 1:16,
27:26 "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,
27:28 for it is the power of God unto salvation."
27:32 And with Jesus, you can have victory over anything
27:35 that is holding you down.
27:37 You can have victory over the most debasing sins,
27:40 and God can do it because it's no longer
27:42 you seeking to do it of yourself,
27:44 but now it is Christ in you.
27:46 The hope of glory that it not only bids you,
27:48 but he also enables you to do it
27:51 whatever he has called you to do.
27:52 My hope and my prayer is that you will find the blessings
27:55 that the Lord has given unto us today
27:56 through deeper study and prayer.
27:58 And until the next time we meet,
28:00 remember Proverbs 2:6 that says,
28:02 "It is the Lord that gives wisdom,
28:04 and out of His mouth comes knowledge
28:06 and understanding."
28:07 God bless you.


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