Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000003
|
00:41 I'm so glad to be with you, to open our program
00:44 we're gonna open God's word, we're gonna look 00:47 in the book of Titus, we're gonna go to Titus and 00:51 we're gonna look at Chapter 2 verses 13 and 14. 00:55 If you got your Bible handy join me, verses, 00:58 chapter 2 verses 13 and 14 we read. Looking for 01:03 that blessed hope, wow! What a promise already, 01:07 Looking for that blessed hope, which I hope you are 01:11 today, and the glorious appearing of our great 01:14 God and our Savior Jesus Christ, for he gave himself 01:19 for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, 01:24 and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of 01:29 good works. He has to redeem us, you know so 01:33 many people say they're looking for that Blessed 01:36 hope; they're looking for Christ to come. 01:38 But they neglect that preparation that God 01:41 requires that preparation that walk of sanctification 01:45 that we need to be begin to walk if we're ever 01:48 going to walk into the Kingdom of Heaven, 01:51 and he asked us to daily search, daily search the 01:57 scriptures because all that iniquity that he came to 02:00 purify us from, it has to be gone. All sin has to be 02:05 washed away; it has to be gotten cleaned out 02:09 of our lives. We must be made pure, 02:12 we need to become that peculiar people that 02:15 God's calling us to be and that is a daily process. 02:19 A daily process as we begin to learn to live as 02:24 a witness for Jesus and that's going to be our, 02:27 our subject today "Being a Witness of Faith," 02:30 a witness, what is a witness. A witness you're gonna 02:33 have to know something to be a witness aren't 02:36 you? And you're gonna have to know what Faith 02:38 is all about, to prepare our hearts, we're gonna go 02:41 to the 3ABN worship center and we're gonna listen to 02:45 a beautiful song that is going to be sung by Sandra 02:48 Entermann and it's entitle "All I have to be, 02:52 All I Ever Have To Be" by Sandra Entermann. 03:02 When the weight of all my dreams 03:07 Is resting heavy on my head, 03:13 And the thoughtful words of health and hope 03:19 Have all been nicely said. But I'm still hurting, 03:26 Wondering if I'll ever be The one I think I am. 03:37 I think I am. Then you gently re-remind me 03:49 That you've made me from the first, 03:54 And the more I try to be the best 04:00 The more I get the worst. And I realize the good in me, 04:10 Is only there because of who you are 04:19 Who you are. And all I ever have to be 04:27 Is what you've made me. Any more or less would be 04:32 a step. Out of your plan. As you daily recreate me, 04:39 Help me always keep in mind That I only have to do 04:43 What I can find. And all I ever have to be 04:52 All I have to be All I ever have to be 05:03 Is what you've made me. 05:23 Praise the Lord, thank you for joining us today 05:26 and I'm so very grateful and thankful for that song 05:28 Sandra you know all I even ever have to be and 05:32 that's what we're talking about Jesus today. 05:35 All we ever have to be is just committed to his care 05:38 and to his keeping, so I know that was blessing to 05:40 everyone and by the way we're glad that you've 05:42 joined us wherever you may be around the 05:45 world we're glad you're gonna spend this time 05:47 with us. But as usual as we stay the word of 05:50 God we need to have prayer, so why don't you join 05:53 with me as we pray together. Loving Father in heaven, 05:59 we thank you for the privilege that we have to 06:01 study your word today. We pray for the power 06:04 of thy Holy Spirit, and illuminate these 06:06 beautiful truths that you have for us. 06:08 Open our ears, our minds, our hearts that we may 06:11 understand all that you have, to reveal to us 06:14 today we give you praise and give you 06:16 honor and Glory in Jesus name, Amen. 06:22 Well, but what we always like to do is remind you 06:24 to get your Bible, pencil and paper, if it's possible. 06:27 Jot down some of the things that we will be talking 06:29 about so that you may study to show yourself 06:32 approved unto God. We're gonna talk about a very 06:35 fantastic subject today, "Being a Faithful Witness" 06:39 or "A Witness of Faith," what does that really mean 06:44 to be a witness of Faith. I know some of you will 06:47 have your Bibles out already and I'm gonna have 06:50 you turn right for passage of scripture in the 06:53 book of Acts Chapter 1 verse 8, this is a powerful 06:58 scripture. In fact, there is so much in it you could 07:01 probably spend a long time, but I'm just going to 07:03 read it, have a few comments and I think we'll 07:06 be able to put together by the power of the 07:08 Holy Spirit, what it means to be a witness of 07:11 Faith for Jesus, by the way in your daily devotions 07:17 that you have I pray that you're doing more than 07:19 just reading the Bible that's good. But I'm gonna 07:22 encourage you to study the Bible, take some subject 07:26 and really study them out. Because it's very, 07:28 very important that we understand what truth is. 07:32 Not just what the preacher is telling us or an 07:34 evangelist is telling us, but your relationship with 07:37 Jesus Christ I really wanna encourage you that 07:39 because God's promised very special power. 07:42 In the book of Acts chapter 1 verse 8, I'm gonna 07:45 read this passage. Now, I want you can read it out 07:47 aloud at home too by the way with me, it says: 07:50 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy 07:53 Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be my 07:57 witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and Judea, 08:01 and in Samaria. Now, I want you think about that, 08:04 the Bible has said right here ye shall receive 08:06 power, you are to be my witnesses, so we're 08:10 talking about a witness of Faith today. 08:12 How are we to be witnesses, what is it talking about, 08:15 when you said we receive power. By the way 08:19 when you look up that word power it denotes 08:22 dynamite. We can be explosive in the cause of 08:26 Christ, we are to be his witnesses and being his 08:29 witness we're to be explosive to the world with a 08:32 fantastic message to give. And it's very interesting 08:36 when the Bible talks about my witnesses, 08:38 you know we're to be preaching in this hour of 08:40 world's history. May I said, nice as I can, a simple 08:44 Gospel. Not something that is starling speculations, 08:50 there are a lot of people that's putting things out 08:52 there you know, they go, I call them going into 08:53 the North forty somewhere and they are trying 08:55 to put somethings together to just captivate the 08:57 minds of different people and draw them 08:59 away from presenting present truth. 09:03 We are not to be speculating on anything, 09:05 you know the fact, the disciples by the way were 09:08 somewhat the same way as some people today. 09:11 They were very anxious to know about the time 09:14 of the coming of the Kingdom of God and they 09:17 kept asking Jesus all the time, give us, 09:19 give us a time here we need a time frame. 09:22 And by the way I find people doing that today, 09:26 I mean they're asking, do we know exactly the 09:28 time and the day and the hour. Oh! Friend, 09:32 I just you know the Bible doesn't say that we've 09:35 to know exact time when Jesus come, but we're 09:37 gonna know when it's near even at the doors. 09:39 So, don't let anyone tell you we know that the 09:41 day and the hour because the Bible doesn't reveal 09:44 that, they said you're gonna receive power. 09:48 See the Father didn't reveal that to them and what's 09:50 not revealed to us, we need not try to speculate on 09:53 that because we have present truth to give by the 09:56 way to the world. Disciples were representatives of 10:00 Jesus Christ or they should have been, we are his 10:02 disciples we have to representatives of Him today 10:06 and by the way we need to represent Him through 10:08 what? Through our character, through our 10:10 lifestyle, the way we communicate with other 10:12 people, the way we talked to other people and our 10:15 lifestyle. You know, we have a wonderful, 10:18 wonderful message to give and we should be giving 10:21 that with I'm talking about with power and so 10:23 when I read this passage of scripture, 10:25 I'm thinking wow! This is wonderful because God 10:28 has promised me power as the message is given, 10:32 he's promised you power. So, you need not to 10:34 worry about well I just wonder what I might say, 10:38 I wonder what I might do, just go in Faith believing, 10:41 understanding the message that is to be given 10:43 and God says I will supply that power or that 10:47 dynamite, I will have you to be explosive 10:49 here in the last days of earth's history. 10:53 And I believe that we have a very wonderful 10:54 message in which to give. By the way the Bible 10:57 also says in the book of Acts chapter 5, 10:59 it says that: And Ye are My witnesses of these 11:02 things, so we're to be his witnesses, 11:06 he said you're gonna receive power then you're 11:08 gonna be my witnesses. He said you're going to 11:10 be a witness to these things, so there is something 11:12 very, very, very exciting to know that when God 11:16 says that we're to be his witnesses that his 11:19 promised special things for us. In fact the book 11:21 of Acts when you read it, it's thrilling to me by 11:25 the way, there's always, there's always fantastic 11:28 miracles going on. There is the power of God being 11:31 seen in the works and so we need to be, 11:35 you may go back in the New Testament and read 11:36 the book of Acts, to see how that New Testament 11:39 Church operated. The power of the things that were 11:42 done in the Church, I know many times in many of 11:45 the Churches today, week after week you go to 11:47 Church and it's the same old, can I say that, 11:50 same old, same old, gonna put the same thing can 11:53 we come we do this, we do that, we just go through 11:55 the rituals and we go through here, we go home 11:57 and we didn't come blessed, we didn't leave blessed. 12:00 I don't believe that's God intention for us, 12:03 he wants us to come before him and if he is 12:05 present something good is going to be happen. 12:09 You know what we need leave blessed, we need 12:10 leave, live, leave differently as we came to Church. 12:13 God say I promise you power, by the way fellows 12:16 you've been studying the book of Revelation, 12:18 Revelation chapter 11. The Bible says in verse 3, 12:22 he said I'm gonna give power to my two witnesses, 12:26 which is not the subject but boy I like to 12:28 challenge to get that book out. He said I'm 12:30 gonna give power to my two witnesses and our 12:33 subject today is being a witness of Faith, 12:35 so he said I'm gonna give you power to my two 12:37 witnesses. By the way a lot of people study this 12:40 subject and they'll say well we understand this 12:41 subject, that there are two witnesses, 12:44 they're Elijah and they're Moses. May I just probe 12:48 a little bit in your study time to say would you go 12:52 little deeper than that. And you said well why 12:55 should I go a little deeper that seems to be very 12:57 obvious. The significance goes beyond Elijah, 13:01 it goes beyond Moses, why? Just give you a few 13:05 tidbits and then you can study for yourself. 13:08 But the Bible goes and talks about there are two 13:11 witnesses, there is two olive trees in connection with 13:14 this subject. There's two candles sticks, there's the 13:17 two the Holy one, the anointed one, do you 13:19 remember that. And as you put that all together 13:22 it has do with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit 13:25 inspired men to write what? Good scripture, 13:30 and so the power is going to be given to the two right, 13:33 the witnesses, which by the way and then you can 13:35 study for yourself is simply the Old and the New 13:38 Testament, wow! Holy Spirit power filled, yes, 13:43 this is what God wants for us, so what does it mean 13:46 to be a witness, because the Bible's full about we 13:49 need to be witnesses for Jesus Christ, we need to 13:51 be a light into the World, so to be a witness what 13:54 does that really mean? witness of Faith. 13:56 What do you think about when you hear the word 13:58 witness, I looked up several of ways and you can 14:01 do the same and it has several meanings will 14:04 cross your mind, it's maybe not going to cross mine. 14:07 But to think about it with me just for a moment a 14:10 witness then would be what? Would be a testimony, 14:12 a witness has to do with evidence and we've talked 14:15 about that before we're gonna always talk about 14:18 the weight of what? Evidence good, we have to 14:22 weigh it out in the scales, we have to if we wanna 14:26 know what truth is, we have to have weight of 14:29 evidence. So we talk about a witness, 14:31 a witness to me is a, oh! He's a witness, 14:34 he saw something, he saw something, 14:38 he's a witness, we're going to call the witness 14:40 to the stand. One who gives a first hand account 14:45 of something that has taken place, we could say 14:48 what, that's a witness and by the way to bear 14:52 witness to another's mission. Interesting the man that 14:55 we're going to talk about and I love to take men and 14:58 women of the Bible and just single them out and study 15:00 a little bit about them. We're going to talk about 15:03 certainly John, John the Baptist, remember he was 15:06 a witness of another's work, he was a representative 15:12 of someone else's work, which was Jesus Christ. 15:15 What a man, think about what a message that 15:19 he gave. What a life that it took off commitment to 15:22 Jesus Christ, willing to be different, willing to have 15:26 a different lifestyle, willing to so commit himself 15:30 to Jesus that it was as Paul said no longer I that 15:32 live but Christ that does what, Christ that lives in 15:35 me, how desperately we need that in our own 15:38 experience, how desperately every morning in my 15:41 life I need to get up and say God take self away. 15:45 You know, who my greatest enemy is some of you 15:49 are gonna say oh! Yeah, well we know that devil is, 15:51 oh! Yes, the devil is the enemy we know that, 15:53 the greatest enemy that I have on this earth is 15:56 myself. Self is all of our greatest enemy, because 16:01 when we get ourselves, ourselves into trouble what 16:03 has happen, because that we want, we want to do. 16:08 So, the fight is always about self and I believe that 16:11 exactly why Jesus said this very first thing he said 16:14 when he call his disciples was what? He said deny 16:17 self, take up the cross and follow me, oh! 16:20 You not gonna take up the cross. You're not gonna 16:22 follow Him unless self is cut to the quick. 16:25 Everyday we need to be praying that God will help 16:28 self to be hide behind the cross of Calvary. 16:31 I'm praying that everyday, because he never 16:34 say us can if I lift you up, you're gonna draw all 16:36 men, no that seems like it turns them off. 16:38 But we lift up Jesus it turns people to Him. 16:42 This man's name John the Baptist what an awesome 16:45 thing what was his message, quickly listen, 16:47 we turn, you have your Bible turn with me the 16:48 book of Matthew I'm gonna read that. Book of Matthew 16:51 chapter 3 verse 1, it right quick it just tells about 16:55 John the Baptist, it tells about his work that he 16:58 is to do. In Matthew chapter 3 verse 1, 17:02 the Bible says: In those days came John the Baptist, 17:06 John the Baptist came in those days and he was 17:08 preaching in the wilderness and here's what 17:10 he was saying, let's put it in a nutshell. 17:12 Yeah, I'm one of those people, I like to get down 17:14 to it, like put the, you know let the rubber you 17:17 meet the road. John's message was simply repent 17:22 for the kingdom of Heaven is what, is at hand. 17:26 There was a lot of misconception going on in the 17:28 days of Jesus Christ, to his coming, what is some of 17:31 the reason he was coming. Most people will say, 17:33 well he came to die for our sins, yes, but you know 17:36 what I believe this I want you just really think about 17:38 before you say oh! No, he came to set the record 17:42 straight on a lot of the doctrines and the teachings 17:45 that was prevalent during that day. He was come to set 17:49 the record straight on things that we're being 17:50 taught by their religious leaders. And so you know 17:55 we find that John had a definite message to bear 17:58 and so he had to deal and then Jesus had to deal 18:01 with the Pharisees. He had to deal with the Sadducees, 18:03 we understand there and remember the Pharisees were 18:06 very heaped on the, what? Outward performance. 18:11 In fact we find that they had they love the customs, 18:14 but you know what they were self righteous, 18:17 I wonder today if maybe we might have a little 18:19 problem with that ourselves, really look deep, 18:23 some sit high upon a chair sometime they were looking 18:25 down the end of nose of somebody else rather 18:28 then really asking God to help us to be what we 18:30 need to be. I think it's very important in our religious 18:35 experience, John and Jesus disciples had to deal with 18:38 those Sadducees who denied the resurrection of 18:41 the dead. They denied, most all denied that there 18:48 was even a God, so they were a lot of teaching, 18:52 a lot of things that were going on here that Jesus 18:55 had to come and set straight and before that John 18:58 came to prepare the way and remember he called 19:02 some of these Sadducees and Pharisees, 19:04 he called them vipers and now remember that why 19:08 he call them vipers, we met that they were malignant 19:12 and you would look up that word which says malignant, 19:15 it means that many of these people who professed 19:17 to be Christian, listen carefully they were evildoers. 19:21 That's what John said, he was a forerunner of Jesus 19:23 Christ, he represented, he was a witness of Jesus 19:27 Christ, he said they're evil in nature and these people 19:30 were doing great harm to the cause of Christ, 19:34 you know any people in the Church that maybe is 19:35 causing harm. Causing harm to the calls of Christ, 19:40 do you realize every time that we down trod somebody 19:43 that professes to be a Christian the other people 19:45 are looking around saying ha, if that's what a 19:47 Christian is all about I don't wanna be. You and I 19:50 need to be very careful about what we say about 19:53 another person who professes to be a Christian, 19:55 whether we agree or not because it hurts the 19:57 cause of Christ. Oh! Some of the things that we will 20:00 have to pay for some day God, God, God help us, 20:04 but he didn't call them vipers that we out here, 20:06 because they were what? They were doing great harm, 20:08 they were antagonistic, you ever find anybody that's 20:13 antagonistic or they're an adversary, they're an 20:19 enemy to cause of Christ, they don't profess to be, 20:21 they say I'm a Christian, but they're known to cause 20:23 trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, and everything you 20:26 stand for they take the opposite side. Have you ever 20:29 met anyone like that? I have, I wanted to call 20:35 my friend, many years ago. It doesn't matter what you 20:40 would say it, if you said something like boy I tell you, 20:45 he said well wait a couple of minutes, you say you know 20:47 couple of minutes is a longtime. He would turn 20:50 around respond very quickly, now two minutes is 20:52 not a longtime, if you're hanging by your eyelids, 20:56 think about that. Well, he was right, but again he 21:00 would say you know I say well you know two minutes 21:02 is a longtime. He'd say, now that's all if you just 21:05 had two minutes to live. So, it doesn't matter what 21:08 side you took, he always took the other side and 21:11 then they're developed a discussion. Well, there's 21:14 people like that that call themselves Christian by 21:16 the way we need to be very careful. And so John 21:19 was calling them to forsake their ways, 21:27 forsake their sins to really show that their characters 21:28 had been changed and you know that's what we need 21:30 in hearts, in our lives today. Isaiah said it 21:33 beautifully, in Isaiah 40 verse 3, when he talked 21:36 about John the Baptist, he said he is the voice of 21:38 one in the wilderness, you remember Christ and 21:40 the wilderness. Now, he saying to prepare the 21:43 way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a 21:46 highway for our God. What is, what is our job, 21:53 if John is a representative of those, giving the 21:57 message in the last days, shouldn't our message 21:59 be the same as John the Baptist, should we not be 22:02 preparing the high way, should we not be preparing 22:04 a people to meet Jesus. Oh! Friend I believe so, 22:08 Isaiah understood this concept, you and I hopefully 22:11 will understand this concept of what it meant to 22:14 prepare the highways, they understood it very 22:16 well in the Old Testament time and even in New 22:18 Testament times, because when the King came to 22:20 visit a town or a community or a city whatever 22:23 it might be. That they always did, they always 22:26 straightened out the roads, now think about it 22:29 today when we go down the highway we hit some 22:31 of these we call them potholes, this rough places 22:33 in the road and we don't really like that but you 22:36 know what we don't like all the tax money 22:37 sometime it takes to fix them either. But there's 22:40 holes in the road, there's holes in our what? 22:43 In our characters and so these all had to be fixed, 22:47 filled in, replaced before the King would come and 22:51 what is Jesus telling here's the principle, 22:53 the principle is those rough places in our lives. 22:57 Those bad rough character flaws that we might have 23:00 whether it's in speech or eyes or ears, they need 23:04 to be fixed before the King comes. The bad places, 23:07 the rough places need to be fixed, the potholes of 23:11 sin needs to be filled with the Glory of God, 23:15 friend there is a real lesson for us in this, can we, 23:18 we can see quickly then the symbolism of the work 23:21 of John that we've talked about that you read I'm 23:24 sure of two points, number one is the demand of 23:28 a character change. He said repent, have a 23:31 change of life. Oh! Friend and the others certainly 23:35 is giving the Gospel message, think about giving 23:38 the Gospel message and we're commissioned to go 23:40 around the world, part of that Gospel message has 23:43 dealing with the sin issue of what? Of going out 23:47 of our life why? Because sin separates us from 23:50 God, I think this make a big statement right now. 23:55 There will some people who will probably disagree 23:58 but I believe with all my heart from what little study. 24:02 Don't know everything, don't claim to and I think 24:06 through the ceaseless ages you know what, 24:07 I still won't know everything, millions and billions of 24:11 years by God's grace, if I make it I'm still gonna be 24:13 a learner in the school of Christ, but I do believe 24:16 this, I do believe that by the power of God that 24:21 every sin is going have to go from our life, 24:24 if not we're going to have to go. Sin does separate 24:27 us from God and you know what we will not make 24:29 it to Heaven with one unconfessed sin. Shocking, 24:38 but think about when sin came to bear fruit in 24:40 Heaven, what happen there was a separation when 24:43 sin bore fruit and came in the open, in the 24:45 Garden of Eden. They were cast out, think about it, 24:51 God's very particular, he's not gonna let Heaven 24:53 all the other universe you see be subject to that 24:59 sin issue again when he comes a second time. 25:02 We had a work to do and God wants us to give 25:04 that work to people. What about the character of 25:07 John? Think about it today, if he's a representative 25:13 of those people that will give the message what 25:15 did he do, what did he say, how did he act? 25:18 Well, the Bible here is given for an example is 25:21 that right. He was a man that dressed differently, 25:24 here was a man that ate differently, here was a 25:26 man that spoke differently, here was a man that 25:27 gave a different message then, then the norm 25:31 and lot of people didn't like that. They couldn't 25:34 really accept that, they thought he was a 25:37 trouble maker, he was a oddball, he was peculiar 25:42 and many I'm sure they will stay away from this 25:44 group, have you ever heard that today, 25:46 somebody say about the Church that you attend. 25:48 Oh! That's a little bit peculiar, that's odd, stay 25:49 away from there. A lot of people rather you 25:51 would be got out there and run the street, rather 25:53 than go to the Church that they don't agree with. 25:59 After all we stay away from John and John the 26:01 Baptist, his mission and what he's proclaiming 26:04 is because he is not with the main group, have you 26:06 ever heard that? Oh! We've got to be with the 26:08 main group, oh! We have got to be, oh! 26:10 It couldn't possible be right because there's such 26:12 a little group. Jesus always referred to the straight 26:15 and the narrow, he referred to just a small 26:18 remnant in the last days. Do you remember that? 26:21 He never talked about the majority making it to 26:23 Heaven. He said the way is prepared praise God 26:26 for anyone who wants to be, I love that song by the 26:29 way. There is room at the cross for you, 26:34 though millions have come there is still room for 26:36 one, yes there is room at the cross for you. 26:39 Oh! The preparation is made, the blood is sufficient, 26:42 but we have to accept that, we have to be willing 26:44 to be obedient to those things that God has for us. 26:50 Yet as he was rejected and yet accepted by a few, 26:54 he was still a representative of God wasn't he? 26:57 He was still God's man, he was God's man from 27:00 the womb if you remember and you study. 27:04 He was preparing the way for Jesus to come up on 27:06 the sin, John was a miracle child you remember, 27:09 Abraham had a miracle child, and Mary had a miracle 27:12 child. Friend one thing I believe is very important 27:15 for us to realize that you and I we can do nothing 27:18 of our own. All we can do the very best effort you 27:25 see is nothing without the power of the Holy Spirit, 27:31 a lot of people try, they work hard at it. 27:34 I feel like the message like this any Pastor, 27:37 if the Holy Spirit is not accompanying what is being 27:39 said. It's not going to get into your ears or anyone 27:42 else's ears or heart or mind. There is nothing that 27:45 I can say, there is times my heart cries out. 27:49 Lord could I say something, do something you know, 27:51 if we get on our knees and we crawl, if we beg, 27:53 will it do, no. the power of the Holy Spirit that can 27:58 take simple words like being spoken here today. 28:01 Can take these little simple words and they can plant 28:03 them in your heart and you know what, you can hear, 28:06 one of my prayers before everything in my private 28:08 prayer. Is Lord I know in myself I'm gonna make a 28:12 mess of it, but I know that you can let the people 28:15 hear exactly what they need to hear and nothing 28:17 else. Something that will change their heart and 28:19 life, I can't say anything, but it doesn't stop us 28:22 from giving the message, we need that what, 28:25 that power after you receive Him, we read what, 28:28 then we receive power of the Holy Ghost, 28:32 Jesus said without me and John 15:5 isn't? 28:35 Without me, you can do nothing, but then he goes 28:39 on and says in Luke 1:32: Nothing shall be 28:42 impossible, right with Jesus Christ nothing is 28:46 impossible, so if you're facing that today there 28:49 everything seems to impossible, life is just 28:51 a mess, you just don't know which way to turn, 28:54 your world is going upside down, you can say your 28:56 marriage is crumbling, your job, your education, 28:59 you don't know what to do. There's some people 29:00 getting laid off from their work, they're in their 29:01 50's or in their 60's and it's like no one wants 29:04 them anymore. Jesus does, he has a way for 29:09 you, he has a map planned out for you, don't get 29:13 despondent, don't get discouraged. Because all 29:16 things are possible through Jesus Christ, cast 29:19 yourself on him, while he cares for you and he 29:23 cares for me. He cares enough, that he's commission 29:25 men and women in the last days, he's commissioned 29:28 them all through his scripture to give a specific 29:30 message, a specific time to warn the people just 29:34 before a big event. Have you notice that before 29:38 Sodom and Gomorrah, before the flood, just to 29:43 give you examples of things that were going to 29:44 happen, when Jerusalem was destroyed, 29:46 there was always warnings that were given. 29:48 God was speaking through his prophets, 29:50 through his people and he said I'll always do that, 29:53 our problem is we will not listen. May God help us 29:56 to listen today to the words of God, we need it. 30:00 Now, I do believe this, I believe we live 30:02 in a world that's almost fully in Apostasy. 30:07 Doesn't matter what people profess, 30:08 the profession of religion is nothing. 30:10 There is a lot of people oh! Yeah, well yeah I'm a 30:12 Christian, I heard some people say oh! 30:14 I'm a believer, their life doesn't show it. 30:18 We can say that we profess to be a Christian 30:21 and we love Jesus, but we're not willing to be 30:23 obedient to him, we're not his follower. 30:26 Jesus said if you will love me, keep my commandment, 30:28 it's very simple and yeah how we disregard that 30:32 why? Because it demands self denial, we don't 30:36 want that self denial, we don't want any chains 30:39 on, we want to do what we want to do, 30:41 that's that selfish you again. John came to say 30:44 look that all has to go, sin going to have to go, 30:47 selfishness gonna have to go, pride's gonna have 30:49 to go. Let me just say it while I'm on it right now. 30:52 You know I heard a lot of people they'll say, 30:53 well you know so and so was at the, so and so 30:56 you know he is a lair, he is an adulterer, 30:58 he is this, oh! This sin's a lot worse than that sin, 31:01 listen any sin will keep you out of the heaven. 31:04 And the people that are broadcasting these things, 31:06 they know not of, they're just as accountable and 31:10 God will hold them accountable. We cannot 31:13 pick and choose well this sin is this, this is that, 31:16 this is right here, your eyes just it's a sin to lie. 31:20 It's a sin to make a judgment, it's wrong and 31:24 yet sometimes we're talking and condemning this 31:27 person and that person because maybe they've 31:28 done this or we think they have or somebody said 31:30 they have. Friend that has to go in our life, 31:34 look we have to love people enough that we 31:36 would rather die, than say anything bad about 31:39 them, Lord help me. You know how difficult it is 31:44 for you to say anything bad about your child, 31:48 it's very difficult to even be honest when they're, 31:51 well little troublemakers. Well, I'm almost said 31:53 deacons, but I am not going to say that, think 31:56 about it, it's hard for us to say and we won't let 31:59 anybody right, neighbors and family say anything bad 32:02 about our children we stand up in defense man, 32:04 but why is it that we won't do that with our 32:06 fellowman, when Jesus said we have to love Him, 32:11 supremely and our fellowman is ourselves. 32:14 Is there something wrong in our, our relationships. 32:18 There's something really wrong, do we understand 32:20 the message that God has given, see our message 32:23 today has to be just as direct as that of John 32:27 the Baptist and Elijah, just as direct and I have 32:31 tell you what? It upset people, they didn't like it, 32:35 they didn't wanna hear it and what do you do, 32:38 if you don't like something what do you do? 32:41 If you can't shut their mouth up, what do you do? 32:42 Lets get rid of them, just push them out the 32:44 door what do you say, let's shut him up that way. 32:48 Oh! I have seen it happen, I'm sure you have too. 32:52 It doesn't mean if what they were saying was right 32:53 or wrong, that wasn't the issue, the issue was 32:55 we didn't wanna hear it and we wanted to get rid 32:57 of it, wow! Is that way we really do to those 33:01 who we really love, surely not. But our message 33:07 has to be in the Spirit and power of Elijah, 33:12 he rebuke Kings in the midst of their sin, 33:16 he call sin by it's right name. You know, 33:18 you have very few even Pastors today that's willing 33:20 to call sin by his right name. They don't wanna 33:23 do it why? Because sometimes the Church 33:24 members get upset, you ever dealt with that. 33:28 I heard a Pastor say one time, this is not try to 33:31 pad me on the back or anybody else on the back, 33:33 that's not the issue at all. But sometimes he would 33:36 come to visit the Church and come after certain 33:38 message he came up me, he said I wish I could 33:41 present that kind of message. He's been preaching 33:43 for forty years, I wish I could present that kind of 33:47 message in the Church I just can't, I just can't 33:49 seem to do it. I said, why can't, you do it? 33:54 He said well right now I feel like I need to but I've 33:56 got, oh! No, I hate to say this, he said I have got 33:59 two years to retirement. I don't wanna create 34:03 any waves, really. Friend, who are you trying to 34:08 please, I told him don't worry about retirement God 34:12 can take care of your retirement, say what God 34:16 has asked you to say. Have clear conscious at night, 34:20 when someone comes to you with an issue, 34:22 a Church member whatever don't just pad it down 34:25 when it's dead wrong. Tell him it's dead wrong 34:27 based on the word of God, oh! You love them, 34:28 you're gonna pray for them, you're gonna work 34:30 with them, but it's wrong and it will never inherit 34:33 the Kingdom of God. This is what we need to hear, 34:37 I need to hear, I need to know clearly what's right 34:39 and what's wrong, what God accepts and what he 34:41 doesn't. And so John gave the message of repentance 34:45 and calling people to Jesus and to be Baptized and 34:48 let me tell you this, he wasn't just talking about 34:49 rebaptism or Baptism for certain of you. 34:52 He was talking about Christian who professed to 34:53 be that already been Baptize, that they needed to 34:56 change because of their thinking and what they 34:58 were doing, was contrary to the word of God. 35:01 So, he is calling to repent what is our message 35:04 today John had a message before the first coming 35:06 of Jesus we have a message before the second coming 35:09 of Jesus, our message is going to be found in 35:11 Revelation 14, called the three angels message. 35:16 That message is to give Glory to God just going to 35:18 all of the world. That message is a sanctifying 35:22 message, that message is a challenging message, 35:25 that message is a, a word that would be given 35:28 in due season, that will change the hearts and 35:31 life and prepare a people to meet Jesus if you 35:33 accept it. What's wrong with fearing God and 35:36 give the Glory to Him, what's wrong with, 35:38 right, go back to the one who made Heaven 35:39 and earth and the sea and all there 35:41 in, there is nothing wrong with going back to 35:43 the creator, but when you go back to the creator, 35:45 you go back to keeping the commandments, 35:46 people they say we don't wanna get into that 35:48 now, wow! Our message has to do friend with the 35:55 judgment hour we live in the hour of God's 35:59 judgment and Jesus is soon to come, how does 36:03 that sound to you. In the judgment hour and 36:08 have been from many, many years and it won't 36:10 be long that judgment's going to close, 36:13 the Bible is very clear on the issue that smoke 36:17 fills the temple and Jesus stands up and once again 36:19 as his own cavalry says it's done, it's finished. 36:24 He puts on his Kingly attire, he comes back we're 36:28 in that hour that our names are coming up in 36:31 the judgment. People say well you know I don't 36:35 believe that listen he said I will bring my reward 36:37 with me, think about it I bring it with me, 36:40 so that means it's settled before he comes does 36:43 that make sense. And have you chosen a 36:48 representative, have you chosen Jesus as 36:51 your Lord and Savior, if not why not, we have 36:56 message to bear but we also have a life to 36:58 get ready. Because in the judgment hour, 37:01 dear friends we need Jesus standing in our 37:03 defense. We all say as Christian he is our advocate, 37:06 oh! My, he is my representative, 37:09 if he is that means he is going to stand for 37:11 you but he cannot stand for you, if you don't 37:12 stand for Him today. If you're not his witness of 37:16 Faith today then he can't be your witness before 37:18 the Father. I tell you when my name comes up in 37:23 the judgment, but you know what this is scary. 37:26 The Bible said the judgment begins in the house 37:28 of God with those who have passed, but you know 37:30 what then it goes onto the living. Could it 37:32 possibly be that we are in the judgment of the 37:34 living right now and after that it's over he is 37:37 going to come, that's a scary thought when my 37:40 name comes up, I need Jesus, how about you. 37:43 I need Him to stand up between me and the 37:45 Father, I can't stand in the Father, I will tell you 37:47 I've sinned and come short of the Glory of God, 37:49 I need Jesus to stand for me and I often said 37:53 there as he stretch forth those precious hands. 37:54 Oh! Precious hands and what do you think you're 37:58 gonna see, what does the Father see when he 38:00 stretches forth those hands. He is reminded once 38:03 again two of those nail prints and Jesus is going 38:06 to say, Kenny Shelton, the Father, my name will 38:11 come as just Kenny Shelton. Then the Father 38:15 looks at his son and Jesus says my blood, oh! 38:21 Yeah if Jesus wanted to go in too he'd say oh 38:23 boy he was a rascal. There are a lot of things, 38:26 all of them not good, it was just, he doesn't, 38:28 he says my blood and you know what the beautiful 38:31 thing about that the books in Heaven. 38:33 Because that blood it covers us, think about it, 38:36 it covers us, it washes away all sin. Father, 38:40 my blood and Jesus and God says oh! That's 38:42 sufficient, my son came down, he lived the perfect 38:45 life and oh know can he by Faith accepted that 38:48 life come on in you're part of the family of God. 38:52 Oh! Man I need that, I need that encouragement 38:54 how about you today, that I can be part of the 38:57 family of God. You and I we need to quit worrying 39:00 about other people's life and how they get this 39:03 right or they're getting that right, get it right 39:05 yourself and I need to get it right myself, 39:07 I need to focus on it, so that I could be better 39:09 witness for Jesus Christ. John was focusing on His 39:14 mission, Elijah focused on His mission by the way 39:18 we need to be focusing on our mission today. 39:21 The Spirit and power of Elijah, this message must 39:25 be given, we had to be ready for that and such 39:28 an our as we think not what? the Bible says the 39:30 son of man is going to come, but do you have 39:35 Jesus Christ right now to stand in your place, 39:39 if not why not? What's holding you back, 39:42 some of you; you know what it is some what it's 39:43 the lust of the eye, think about it. It could be, 39:50 what we hear, I heard some people say well I 39:54 just can't look quit looking at this, I just can't quit 39:57 doing this. Do you realize whatever that might be, 40:01 if it's wrong, it's going to keep us out of Heaven. 40:06 Is that all Heaven means to you or is it a time 40:09 of a little self sacrifice, denying of self say God help 40:14 me, I can't control this but you can and I'm 40:17 going to commit it to you and your care and your 40:19 keeping. God called John to the greatest work that's 40:22 ever been committed to man and he's called his 40:24 last day people to that same type of work. 40:28 And that is warning the people to meet Jesus 40:30 now it doesn't matter how many times you've 40:31 heard me say that because I'm gonna continue to 40:33 say that and I pray that the God will help me in 40:36 all messages to always lift up the name of Jesus. 40:39 And always reminds you that probation is closing, 40:42 always reminds you that sin is going to have to go, 40:44 always remind that you need a savior, always 40:47 reminds you things are getting way to happen in 40:48 the world dear friends they are not going remind 40:50 the way they are, they will not get better they 40:52 will wax worse and worse, that's what the Bible 40:55 says, and I need that shelter, you need that 40:58 shelter. People say well that's wonderful because 41:02 I have read in the word that you know Elijah is 41:05 going to come, you remember that in Malachi 4:5, 41:09 he say oh! Yeah: Behold I will send you what? 41:12 Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great 41:15 and dreadful day of the God, oh! Some say well 41:19 Elijah is going to come back, oh! Friend just spend 41:21 time, we don't have time to go into a today, 41:23 but Elijah is not going to comeback, it has to do 41:27 with the message that Elijah gave, it had to do 41:29 with the message that John was giving or the 41:32 messages that we should be giving today is to 41:35 prepare to meet thy God, prepare to meet thy 41:39 God, notice the word prepare to meet God. 41:44 A preparation work we're in a shaking time right now, 41:47 everything that's not fasten down, will be 41:48 shaken out, some of us will be shaken out for 41:52 just a little handful, little thirty pieces of silver. 41:59 Oh! Friend, don't let that happened in your life, 42:01 please don't let that happened in your life, 42:03 quickly let's look at John's message that he was 42:06 giving and the last day people will be giving. 42:09 Now remember where you're affiliated, where you're 42:12 working, what you're doing, if they're not giving 42:14 the Elijah and John the Baptist message is it 42:18 possible that God has a little something in store for 42:20 you. We have to give this message, because it 42:26 purifies and perfects a people to get ready for his 42:29 appearing. John by the way was preaching a 42:35 message that God gave him, a direct calling of 42:41 God, he was God's messenger remember that 42:45 now John was what? God's messenger in the last 42:48 days we just talked about it, God said my messages 42:51 will be what? The three angles messages, 42:54 they will deliver what? Messages, they will deliver 42:58 what God is going to require of the last day people 43:01 living on the earth. Don't worry about what 43:03 happened before and grandma and grandpa and 43:05 all the other people, they did this, they were good 43:07 people. He's requiring for you today right now, 43:11 not yesterday, not tomorrow, but right now 43:13 what he requires of you. John was the messenger, 43:16 God's last day people going to have a message to 43:18 bear to the world that's preparing for the 43:20 coming of Jesus, number two. John was to bring 43:24 the light of truth, now think about it his message 43:28 was to bring the light of truth. Now, what is part 43:30 of our message, what? Give Glory to him right for 43:35 always judgment is come. Bible says John 17:17: 43:38 Sanctify them through what? Thy truth; 43:41 thy word is truth. We're to be sanctified by 43:46 knowing what truth is, not a fable, we're not 43:49 going to get to Heaven by believing some kind of 43:51 a fable, some kind of a tradition, some kind of 43:54 oh! It doesn't matter business. Truth is the only 43:57 thing that we will change your mind and your heart 43:59 and you life, mind truth, but that truth has to be 44:02 loved, it is not knowledge, I dealt with knowledgeable 44:05 people and sometimes I'm going be honest with 44:08 and it doesn't mean everybody, but I get tired 44:10 of it, oh! Boy, why because they have all the 44:13 answers, but you know their life doesn't show. 44:17 You don't have to be judgmental about it, 44:18 it's just what's out there for you to view. 44:23 First Thessalonians says: That we have to develop, 44:25 listen carefully a love for the truth, do you love 44:29 the truth. That's all it did, not knowing, 44:33 do you love it, after all Jesus is truth isn't he, 44:36 is the light, he is the way. John's message was 44:38 do what, he was to bring home the light of truth 44:42 and God's last day people will bringing home the truth 44:44 about what happens when you die, burning in hell fire, 44:48 about Heaven, about keeping all the commandments 44:50 of God. You're going to be bringing home some 44:53 of this, we call new truth. Now, remember by the way 44:57 they are not new truths they have always been, 44:59 when Jesus came what was he doing, 45:01 he was taking the dust as it were off of those 45:04 truths that had been hidden by tradition for many, 45:08 many years and he was uncovering them, he is 45:09 bringing them back to life, some people say oh! 45:12 That's man, that's new truth, no that, remember 45:15 Solomon said there is nothing new what? 45:18 Under the sun. It's new for maybe me and you 45:21 because we maybe hadn't see it before. 45:24 John the Baptist message was to give what? Give a 45:27 new direction, God's last day people was going 45:30 give a new direction in our Christian living. 45:34 In the way that we are to conduct ourselves before 45:36 the coming of Jesus and the things that need to 45:39 take place, that's new direction because we've 45:42 always had the other maybe it was the wrong 45:43 direction we need to really consider that point, 45:47 now think about new direction to new thinking is 45:49 someone to say. We are in the judgment hour, 45:51 oh! That's new, we need to keep the commandments 45:54 of God by his grace, remember it's not keeping, 45:57 it's not doing, it's not earning, it's by grace that 46:01 we're saved through faith, but because we love him 46:02 what? We want be obedient, makes sense. 46:10 And so John came along, he want to impress the 46:12 people with Holy living, God's last day people will be 46:16 impressing the what? Holy living that we can 46:18 gain victory over sin, through the power of Jesus 46:23 Christ, by committing that thing to him and trusting 46:27 and believing that he can give us that total victory. 46:31 Perfecting a righteous character, have you ever 46:34 heard about message righteous by Faith? 46:37 God's last day people will be proclaiming that by 46:39 the way, John proclaimed what? A Holy temple that 46:42 we need to have, so that Christ can dwell in us, 46:44 we have a health message to give. Friends, 46:46 this is wonderful, Spirit of God dwelling inside of 46:49 us, that's a message by the way can only be given 46:52 by those who what, have a relationship with Jesus, 46:56 a Holy relationship, a Holy message. Oh! Lord, 47:00 I need some help, how about you, oh! Today we 47:03 need help, only the Holy Spirit can help us to be 47:05 involved, give Glory to God is to do what, is to we 47:10 let Him reveal his character through us, 47:13 that gives him Glory. Are you willing today? 47:17 Do you want to give him glory, then let him come in 47:21 and let people see it's no longer I but Christ that 47:24 lives in me. That is Jesus that comes out, 47:27 oh! Lord I need some help and I know that you do too, 47:30 he's going to give you that help. I know he's going 47:32 to give you that help all you have to do is ask 47:34 for it. John realized the necessity of controlling 47:39 appetite and controlling passion. The things that 47:42 he said, the way he acted, what he did, 47:46 I've often said John had this commitment that I 47:49 really like and it was you know written in a song, 47:52 which said I shall not be what? I shall not be moved, 47:56 just like a tree, that's planted by the water, Lord, 47:59 I shall not be moved. You know it takes that kind of 48:02 determination, it takes that commitment, divinity 48:05 and humanity working together to make a 48:07 commitment to say God, regardless of the test, 48:09 regardless of the try, you know I just sensed 48:11 you know there's people in the world and maybe 48:13 you're having it today that you're being drawn 48:15 and pulled in so many different directions, 48:18 it could be by someone else, someone else's attention. 48:21 It could be it could be a thousand different things. 48:25 But you have to commit to God, you know what is 48:27 right to say I shall not be moved, when that 48:29 temptation comes, when that test come. 48:32 God come close to me, let it be your mind, 48:37 let it be your voice speak to me, be your strength 48:39 and your power, because I don't have any. 48:42 Bible is very clear when I'm weak with him I become 48:47 strong. Oh! Friend he's our all in all is he not. 48:54 John realized the importance of preparing 48:56 that way for Jesus to come and I want you, 48:58 John saw the people by the way he saw them being 49:02 deceived, he saw the self satisfying, as they were, 49:08 they were asleep in their sins and God said to 49:11 him you've got to wake the people up, I believe that 49:13 God's people need to be awakened here in the last 49:15 days, how about you. It doesn't matter how many 49:19 times that you hear, are you really awake for 49:21 Jesus Christ, oh! I'm working for a ministry over 49:24 here, oh! I'm doing this over here, so what, 49:29 though you give everything that you have and you 49:32 have not love, it useless. Oh! I'm preaching over here 49:36 and I'm giving and I'm doing though you give your 49:39 body, the Bible says to be burned and yet you 49:42 have not love for your fellowman, it counts nothing. 49:46 Do we really have that concept in our mind? 49:49 That we have to love God supremely and our fellowman, 49:52 that we're willing to work in his behalf, we're willing 49:54 to give a message that we realize that we will not 49:56 be popular, it will not be accepted by the majority of 49:59 the world. The world is going to turn their back on you 50:02 and you will have no one but Jesus Christ, 50:06 do you love him that much, do you trust him that 50:07 much. John's message friend is our message, 50:13 we must warn the world. He called him to repent, 50:17 he called him to be Baptized, why he said 50:20 because you're defiled with sin, we're defiled with 50:22 sin. You know everywhere I walk in this world today. 50:25 It seems like there is sin, there's a temptation, 50:27 it's something out there, catches your attention, 50:29 gets you off track. You're caught unaware at 50:31 sometime, listen I need to be clothed and shield by 50:34 the angles of Heaven everyday, I just say God, 50:36 take this my, shield me. Because I'll fold without the 50:43 power of the Holy Spirit maybe you have might feel 50:46 that way today, the Faith of every soul is soon to be 50:51 decided. Oh! Can I just talk to you for a minute 50:53 please? Now, don't be answering the phone, don't 50:57 be texting, don't be worrying about the Kid's crying 51:00 the other room and carrying on, the devil has a way 51:02 to get side tracked. But please listen very carefully; 51:09 the Faith of every soul is soon to be decided for life 51:14 or death. You have to make a decision, you have to 51:16 make a choice. Church it's time right now to rise 51:23 and shine this is the best time in earth's history to 51:25 be living by the way. God's going to work marvelously 51:29 for his last day children, I mean marvelously, 51:33 but we have to be on his side, but I've sensed this, 51:38 many have lost courage. You've lost heart. 51:43 You've got weary in well doing. Oh! Friends I 51:46 understand that feeling. You've been may be 51:49 neglected, you've not know ones, you know, 51:52 maybe grabbed you and put their arms around you 51:55 and kind of loved you and padded you on the back side 51:57 and said keep up the good work and sometimes you know 51:59 we need encouragement. But those who have lost 52:03 courage put your arm around them. Oh! Just put 52:05 your arm around them and love them. You can do 52:07 that, many said that we will can't read the word 52:10 we don't have the time. Try to get in their home, 52:12 read the word of God to them. But many souls are 52:16 just sin sick. Oh! Friend, there is no earthly healing. 52:23 There is no earthly physician, there is no magic pill 52:27 that we can take. Oh! It's seemed like the world was 52:29 just so developed, we just take a pill and 52:31 everything is good. There is no surgery, there is no 52:36 earthly doctor, there is no friend, there is no amount 52:38 of money, there is no specialist that can cure what 52:42 ills us. There is only one answer you know that, 52:49 I gonna pray for you, I want you to be praying for me. 52:51 There is only one that we can offer and that's Jesus 52:53 Christ. We offer him to you today; take him as your 52:58 friend. The Bible says in Jeremiah 46:11, 53:03 I love this, he said, there is a balm in Gilead 53:07 to heal. The song says that sin sick soul, 53:11 there is a balm, there is a healing and God's trying 53:16 to heal his people and to get us to stand on behalf 53:19 of him, to be his witnesses of Faith. 53:22 Will you do that today, will you take that challenge 53:24 from God, will you say I have all these things going 53:28 on in my life, but I know that Jesus is good for 53:31 whatever ills me. He is the only answer, accept him 53:36 today, be his witnesses, he is soon to come. 53:40 Let's pray about that decision right now, shall we 53:42 as we close. Merciful Father in Heaven, 53:46 we thank you for your precious word, thank you for 53:48 those words of power. That you promised to your 53:51 children just before you come back, you're gonna 53:53 work mightily in their behalf. Sin needs to go, the 53:56 savior needs to come in, we need be filled with 53:59 Holy Spirit power. Thank you for those decisions 54:01 that were made right now in Jesus name. 54:04 Amen. Well, friends until next time, God bless you, 54:08 keep studying the word everyday, keep praying 54:11 and we look forward to seeing you next time. 54:15 Welcome back once again I'm your host Chris 54:18 Shelton and I have pray that this message is truly, 54:22 truly been a blessing, I've got a question for you. 54:24 If you were the only Christian, the only 54:28 representative of Christ, that your children and 54:30 your friends were ever acquitted with, what would 54:34 the witness of your Faith be telling them right now. 54:37 Oh! This is such vital question, vital question 54:41 because you're a witness maybe the deciding factor 54:45 as to whether or not those people in your life 54:49 will make it to the Kingdom of God and I know that 54:52 you want everyone that you love to be there 54:54 along with you. Ask yourself is your witness one 54:58 that will encourage others, would draw them to the 55:01 Heavenly Father or does your witness of Faith does 55:05 it need a little tweaking, does it need to be refined 55:08 a bit, do you need more time with Jesus. 55:11 You probably heard the old saying does is I say and 55:15 not as I do. I'm here to tell you life doesn't work 55:19 that way, your children, your friend, and your family 55:23 members they tend to emulate what you are and 55:27 who you are and how you act. So, if you are one that 55:31 you're come in home every night, you're the couch 55:33 potato, you're grabbing things to drink that you 55:35 shouldn't be drinking and you're putting things in 55:37 your body that you shouldn't be putting in. 55:39 I guarantee you, those looking on, they are gonna 55:42 wanna emulate that and I pray that this message 55:45 has been one to encourage a change, encourage 55:48 a change of heart, encourage a change of 55:51 attitude and to began to believe and walk by 55:55 Faith, they say you know what I can't just tell 55:58 others to do as I say, they need to see that I'm 56:01 doing what I believe as well, we need a better 56:04 walk and we can find that walk in God's word, 56:08 spend time with him won't you, you know I used 56:10 to teach school constantly every day for years 56:13 and I tell my children don't even, don't do anything. 56:18 Until you have prayer first and until you have Bible 56:21 study, don't turn on the radio, don't turn on the 56:23 television set, 'cause the devil will get you. 56:26 Make God first and foremost in your life and 56:28 of course as always we wanna hear from you, 56:31 our address is on the screen please contact us, 56:34 it's Behold the Lamb Ministries, P O Box 2030, 56:37 Herrin, IL 62948 or call us central standard 56:42 time, 618-942-5044, email us 56:46 beholdthelambministries @yahoo.com or come visit us 56:52 on our website www.behold thelambministries.com, 56:57 we wanna see, hear from you, we wanna visit with 57:00 you, we wanna know how God is using you as a witness 57:04 of Faith for Him, and may the Lord continue, 57:08 continue to richly bless you and yours 57:12 always. Until next time, we look 57:14 forward to seeing you God Bless. |
Revised 2014-12-17