Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000022
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00:41 Hello and welcome to "Behold The Lamb Presents,"
00:45 I'm Chris Shelton your host and we are so 00:47 thankful and so grateful that you have chosen 00:50 to join us today. Today's message is the second 00:54 in a two part series that we have entitled 00:56 "True To Our Calling." "True To Our Calling" 01:01 to begin today's program I'd like to 01:03 read you a quote found in the book Testimonies 01:06 for the Church, it's in Volume 9 and page 19 01:10 it reads, "In a special sense God's people 01:14 have been set in the world as watchmen 01:17 and light bearers. Now, we know that 01:20 the word light here means truth. 01:22 Therefore God's people are to be a people 01:25 watching for err and proclaiming His truth," 01:28 reading on, "To them has been entrusted 01:32 the last warming message for a perishing world." 01:35 The last warning message, did you get those words? 01:39 "For a perishing world. They have been given 01:42 a work of the most solemn import-the proclamation 01:46 of the first, second, and Third Angels Message. 01:50 The most solemn truths ever entrusted 01:53 to mortals have been given us to proclaim 01:56 to the world. The proclamation of 01:58 these truths is to be our work. 02:01 The world is to be warned, and God's 02:04 people are to be true, did you see that? 02:07 True to the trust committed to them." 02:10 As my husband Pastor Kenny warned us 02:13 in the message of this series, our being true 02:17 to God's calling is a matter of eternal life 02:20 or eternal death. Time is of the essence, 02:24 the world is drawing to close and true workers 02:27 of God, true workers of God need to take their 02:30 stands committed to them of heaven and 02:33 share this light of truth, so that other souls may 02:36 come out of spiritual confusion and be 02:39 prepared dist unworthy to meet the Savior. 02:42 So, hold onto your seats as Pastor Kenny shares 02:46 with us this vital message the Lord has laid upon 02:49 His heart, but first we are blessed to visit to 02:52 3ABN Worship Center and listen to a song 02:56 entitled, "God Made Our Hands." 03:11 God made our hands to give 03:16 and receive His blessings 03:20 He made His voice for singing a happy song 03:29 God made our feet to walk on the path of rainbow 03:39 He made a smile for smiling the whole day long. 03:48 God gave us eyes then filled 03:54 all the world with beauty 03:58 Sunshine and trees and stars above 04:06 Wonder of all He gave us a gift so special 04:16 God gave us a heart to share His love 04:23 God made our hands to give 04:31 and receive His blessings 04:37 He made His voice for singing a happy song 04:45 God made our feet to walk on the path of rainbow 04:55 He made a smile for smiling the whole day long. 05:04 God gave us eyes then filled 05:09 all the world with beauty 05:13 Sunshine and trees and stars above 05:22 Wonder of all He gave us a gift so special 05:32 God gave us a heart to share His love 05:40 To share His love. 05:50 Hi, glad you join us today once again. 05:52 We're gonna be studying God's word, 05:54 get your paper, or pencil, get your Bible out. 05:56 We have a lot of material to cover today. 05:59 And by God's grace we're going to try 06:00 to cover it, but before we do 06:02 we always ask for God's blessing. 06:04 We need the power of the Holy Spirit, don't we? 06:06 Let's ask Him right now. Where you can, 06:08 why don't you kneel with me? Where you can just, 06:10 just ask God to help us as we do this program. 06:14 Let's pray, shall we? 06:17 Merciful Father in Heaven, we thank you 06:19 for the privilege of prayer. 06:21 We ask now for the anointing of thy 06:23 Holy Spirit upon every word that spoken. 06:25 As we break the bread of life may it come 06:27 alive to us, may we see Jesus, may we be 06:30 filled with that Spirit, may our ears be 06:32 unstopped, and our minds be unplugged 06:34 that we may see and hear and understand 06:37 Your word today, in the precious name of Jesus, 06:40 as you come near now to each one bless, 06:42 those who watch, those who listen and 06:45 we just pray that there will be a word 06:46 in due season that will lead us closer to Jesus 06:49 is my prayer, in Jesus name, amen. 06:54 Again we're glad you joined us. 06:55 This is a second part of two part series that 06:58 we've been doing and we've been talking 07:01 about True To Our Calling. What does that really 07:03 mean True To Our Calling? God has either 07:07 called us or He has not called us. 07:09 He has either given us the message, 07:11 or maybe He hasn't give us the message, 07:13 if He has it would be clear, wouldn't it? 07:15 And so, let's just go over since some of you say, 07:17 well I'm tune in for the first time, you miss 07:20 the first part. Well, that's available, 07:22 you can hear that as my wife gives you that 07:24 instructions at beginning, at the end of program. 07:26 Be sure you can get that, but if not let me 07:28 just take a couple of minutes and let's go 07:30 over some of the material that we 07:32 covered on the first part. 07:34 We started out with Revelation chapter 14, 07:36 6 through 12 because that is the 07:38 Three Angels Message. Why should we be giving 07:42 the Three Angels Message? I don't know, 07:43 if any other Church around the world is 07:45 giving the Three Angels Message, except 07:47 Seventh-day Adventist to be honest. 07:49 Why are we giving it? Here's, here's what I'm, 07:51 I'm, I'm finding out studying God's word. 07:54 Here's what I understand is 07:57 because the, many of the churches today 07:59 have become corrupt in their principles. 08:02 The doctrines have been changed and God 08:04 is calling a people back to bring us out 08:07 of darkness into that marvelous light. 08:09 We realize today that false religion as 08:12 we read scriptures going to be exalted 08:14 in the end of time. And so, as the false 08:16 religious system is being exalted what should 08:19 we do as God's people? We've got to present 08:21 the truth as it is in Jesus, we must be. 08:25 In our first part we learned that we must 08:27 be about our Father's business, how, what was 08:29 Jesus business? His business was winning 08:32 souls, that's what we need to be doing today. 08:35 We have a heavy responsibility and an 08:38 accountability to God for the light that 08:40 He has given us. We spend sometime on that 08:44 because we are accountable for the 08:46 amount of light that we have received from God. 08:49 Think about that today, if all the light that 08:52 God has given you, you're accountable 08:54 for every ray of that light and are we 08:56 distributing it out to the world the way that 08:59 we should be. We found out that there's no 09:02 other work as great as importance as the 09:05 giving of the Three Angels Message, 09:06 which is a warning to the world that Jesus 09:09 is soon to come. Preparation message, 09:11 and distinguish, we learned that God's 09:14 people will be distinguished by 09:16 keeping the commandments of God that's all ten. 09:19 And then we turned to Exodus 31 and we say, 09:22 well here the Bible says that there is a sign, 09:25 there is a sign between God in His people 09:28 what was that sign? Yeah, some of you bit; 09:30 yeah you remember it's the Seventh-day Sabbath. 09:33 The Sabbath was given for a sign between God 09:35 and men. So, these are, these are, these 09:37 are my people. And then some of you, 09:39 I know you question you said oh! Yeah, 09:41 that's nice, but that was for Israel, some of you 09:43 say oh! I know that was done away with that 09:45 the Old Covenant. I wonder who is the true 09:50 Israel today, not going to spend a whole lot of 09:52 time on it but, but we need to look in the 09:54 scripture and find out these promises. 09:57 If God has given promises in scripture to, 10:00 to Israel gave them to the Jews and then 10:03 the New Testament Church, where do you 10:05 stand, what's your position? Who is the 10:08 Israel today? Now, I want you to just examine 10:11 couple of passages with me, contemplate 10:14 these before you close your ears and say, 10:16 oh! I know, but that that the Seventh-day say, 10:18 it's all back in the Old Testament or listen to 10:20 what Jesus had to say in the New Testament, 10:22 John had to say in John chapter 1 verse 11 10:25 and 12. Bottom line is simply Jesus says, 10:29 "I came unto my own and my own received me not." 10:35 Now, I'm gonna turn that and I want you take 10:37 your Bible and turn too, because this is very 10:39 portent and God would have us to understand it. 10:42 John chapter what? John chapter 1 verses 11 10:46 and 12, John chapter 1 verses 11 and 12. 10:49 He said, "He came unto his own, and his own 10:51 received him not." Now, notice 12, 10:54 "But as many as received him, to them gave 10:58 he power to become the sons of God." 11:01 Let's just leave it there for a moment. 11:03 The first verse He came unto His own, 11:05 He came unto what? The, the Jews, 11:07 He came to His own, but what happened? 11:09 The Jews rejected Him. And so, Jesus said now: 11:12 But as many as received, 'cause 11:15 I hear a lot of times people say, oh! Well, 11:16 the Jews they're, they're still God's 11:18 chosen people and maybe those promises belong to. 11:21 We are the New Testament Church, 11:23 Jesus said, I came unto My own, they rejected Me 11:25 and then the Bible simply says, those 11:28 who receive Him, to them gave He power to 11:30 become the sons and daughter of God. 11:33 You have to what? Receive Him. 11:35 They rejected Him, so please contemplate on 11:37 that passage. Now, let's look at one more, 11:40 shall we just read right here in Acts chapter 13 11:42 verse 46. Jesus was talking to here and Paul, 11:45 Paul was talking and they were coming together 11:47 and they said, you're talking about the Jews, 11:49 they said you judge yourself unworthy 11:52 of everlasting life, lo the Bible says we turn 11:56 to the gentiles. What does all of this mean 12:00 when we're talking about the Israel; 12:03 we're talking about keeping God's Ten Commandment 12:06 law, what does this mean? You know these, 12:09 these truths that we have to, we, that we're 12:11 studying in God's word we need to look 12:14 line-upon-line, precept-upon-precept, 12:16 here a little and there a little. 12:18 Now, this again just a, just a, just a short, 12:21 just in a, a nutshell here, but I want you 12:23 to take your Bibles and turn with me to 12:25 Galatians chapter 3, Galatians chapter 3 12:29 because many people used this as an 12:31 excuse not to obey God's word. 12:34 And we don't want excuses, God doesn't 12:36 want excuses today. We're going to look 12:38 and say, 'cause those promise God said, 12:40 the Seventh-day Sabbath is a sign between Me 12:43 and My people and the only excuse you can 12:45 come up with this simply say, well I am 12:47 His people, but that was for Israel. 12:48 Who is Israel today? Notice what the Bible says 12:52 here in Galatians chapter 3 verse 7, 12:54 just underline it quickly. "Know ye therefore that 12:57 they which are of faith, the same are the 13:01 children of Abraham." What does the Bible say? 13:04 Those of you are faith, as a Christian 13:07 we have to be what? A faith, the Bible says, 13:09 without faith it is what? Good, impossible to 13:12 please God. So, the children, if you are faith, 13:15 the same are the children of Abraham. 13:18 Wow! The promise was given to what? 13:20 Promise was given to, to Abraham. 13:22 Is that promise for you today? Is that for me 13:25 today? Is that just for some other group? 13:26 Bible says here, if you are a faith, spiritual 13:30 iterates us, what this, those who rely on faith, 13:33 the saving merits of Jesus Christ. 13:36 Now, in that same chapters you kept 13:37 to verse 9 with me. The Bible says, 13:39 "So then they which be of faith are blessed 13:43 with faithful Abraham." We are what? 13:46 Blessed with the faithful Abraham, 13:48 if we live by faith. Are you living by faith today? 13:53 Are you receiving the promises of God today 13:55 or are they way back there those promises 13:57 just for the ancients, or not not for us today? 14:00 Something is happen dear friend, let's go on 14:02 little farther. Verse 14, "That the blessings of 14:06 Abraham might come to the gentiles through 14:09 Jesus Christ that we might receive the 14:12 promise of the spirit through faith." 14:15 What is the Bible talking about here? 14:17 Blessings of the what? That that the covenant, 14:20 God said their promise to us today the blessings 14:23 of Abraham might come to the gentiles. 14:26 Oh! Maybe you're gentile, you're not a Jew, 14:28 you're not Israelite, you just what? You, you, 14:30 you say, well I'm, I'm a gentile, I've been 14:33 grafted in. The promises are yours today, 14:36 not for somebody back there, but for you today. 14:39 Jesus Christ said, we might receive the 14:40 promise through the spirit. 14:42 Now, let's get a little bit clear, 14:43 I'm moving quickly we've lot of material 14:45 to cover today, verses 27, 28, 29 in Galatians 3. 14:49 Notice it, how clear this guess. 14:51 Let's start with 26. It says, "For ye are all 14:54 the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ, 14:57 notice. For as many of you as have been 15:00 baptized into Christ have put on Christ." 15:04 Have you been baptized? Do you understand the 15:07 importance of baptism? Have you been baptized, 15:09 baptized, you went down that Watery grave and 15:12 you come back up, the Bible says, you put 15:15 on Christ and if you put on Christ notice this 15:18 in verse 28, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, 15:21 the Bible says, there is neither bond nor free, 15:24 there is neither male nor female: 15:27 for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." 15:30 And here is some, we say some icing for 15:32 the cake here, so that we need, need not 15:34 misunderstand. Verse 29 it says, 15:36 "If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's what? 15:41 Abraham seed, and heirs according to the 15:45 promise." There we are. We're heirs to the, 15:48 to the promise of God. Somebody said, 15:50 well I've not quite God, but I'm starting to 15:51 think a little bit here because we read here 15:54 in John 1:11-12, He came to His own, 15:56 his own rejected Him, the disciples were going 15:59 out, preaching Paul was preaching, 16:01 Barnabas was preaching and they said, 16:03 you the Jews, you, you, you, you just, 16:05 you don't want everlasting life and low 16:07 we're turning to the gentiles with our message. 16:10 We're the gentiles with the New Testament Church. 16:13 Let's just read a couple of more here maybe help 16:15 us to understand little bit still confuse in 16:17 Romans. Romans chapter 11 verses 1, 16:21 Romans what? Romans 11 verse 1 here's 16:23 what the Bible says, "I say then, Hath God cast 16:27 away his people? God forbid. 16:31 For I also am an Israelite, of the seed 16:35 of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin." 16:39 And then in verse 5 says, "Even so then at this 16:43 present time, notice this, also there is a remnant 16:47 according to the election of grace." 16:50 Friend, the New Testament Church, 16:52 you can be heirs to the promises of God. 16:58 Now, what happened to Israel of old, 17:01 was Israel true and faithful to God? 17:04 No, Israel failed miserably, they were 17:07 rejected of God and then God what? 17:09 He began to seek other people, who was the next? 17:12 The Jews, the priests, the rabies, the religious 17:15 leaders you see, they rejected Jesus, 17:18 they nailed Him onto the Cross, they didn't 17:20 most of them known He believe that He is even, 17:22 He came to this earth and Jesus you know, 17:25 the Bible is very clear there, there was no 17:26 other name given among men, 17:28 whereby we must be save in what? 17:30 The name of, of Jesus. And so, Jesus then had 17:33 to look elsewhere, so where would He go? 17:36 Spiritual Israel, the New Testament Church. 17:39 And so, that covenant that He makes, 17:41 now has been transferred Israel to the Jews, 17:43 to the New Testament Church, which we are 17:45 a part of as gentiles and so that covenant is 17:48 with God's people today. We need to be keeping 17:50 all of God's commandments. 17:52 All ten, that's right exactly all ten. 17:56 You know what, what, what if a man sets 17:58 aside the law of God? What, what if a person 18:01 just take those Ten Commandments 18:02 and just set them aside? Men would have no 18:04 direction; we would know what was right 18:07 and wrong? What we should do, what 18:09 we shouldn't do? How we can please God? 18:12 What if, if we were you know, if, if we look 18:15 at God's law and we say, I am trying to figure 18:17 out God? God's law is a transcript what? 18:19 Of His character, it reveals the, 18:22 the principles of heaven. Do you want to know the 18:25 principles of heaven? If you plan on being 18:28 there surely you do. Because the principles 18:30 of heaven is what you will be living by, 18:32 right, if by God's grace you make it to heaven. 18:35 We need to understand that here. 18:36 If we refuse the principles we place our 18:41 self outside of the blessings of God. 18:44 So, God gives the principles in His word, 18:46 if we refuse those things then how can 18:48 we expect to receive the blessings that 18:51 God wants to give to us. We can't, and so 18:54 the devil has us what? Living outside, 18:56 or they trying to live outside like. 18:58 It's not important, we don't have to anymore. 19:01 Oh! Friend that's the devil's thought. 19:04 God says, if you love me you do what? 19:06 Good, you keep His commandments. 19:08 After reading some of these words we just 19:10 read you know it, it's very clear to me. 19:12 And that, which we look at God's last day 19:15 people because we want to be what? 19:17 True, is the second part, true to our, 19:20 our calling. Has God called you, he's called 19:23 you, He called you with a, with a Holy calling. 19:25 He's called you out of darkness into that 19:28 marvelous light. God is leading, guiding a people, 19:31 preparing the people of this world to meet Jesus. 19:35 So, there must be a specific message that 19:37 that has to be given, there has to be a, a 19:40 separating, distinguishing, different than what 19:43 other churches are giving around the world today. 19:46 You need to be true to your calling and 19:48 I need to be true to my calling, it's not a time 19:50 to be lax, it's not a, a time to be, to lazy, 19:53 is not a time not to show up, we are in a battle, 19:56 we're in a boxing match as it were with the enemy, 19:59 we need Jesus on our side, we need Him 20:01 give the old devil you see knock and knockout 20:03 punch, but we realize as we study God's word. 20:07 Those who keep God's Commandment, 20:09 those who are obedient to His commands, 20:11 they are a denominated people. 20:14 What does that mean? A denominated people 20:17 are those who, are those who are that that, 20:19 that not denominated mean, they're, 20:20 they're named people, they are a, a called 20:24 people, they're people having a, a 20:27 something very specific message to give, 20:30 does that sound familiar? And yet so often we as 20:34 God's last day people we sit on the message, 20:38 we sit on like we have they say, all the time 20:41 in the world, it's running out. 20:44 Bible says, we have to work; well it's what day 20:46 because night come with what? 20:48 Oh! I heard somebody say, but no man can work. 20:51 So, why is that we keep putting it all, 20:53 when souls are dying everyday for lack 20:56 of the truth. And then some of you have the 20:58 truth, but you don't love the truth. 21:00 Oh! Yeah, you know it that does, that doesn't 21:02 matter, that's not going to get you to heaven 21:04 because you say, I know, I know. 21:06 There is too many I knows in the world today, 21:08 but do you love the truth, if you love the 21:10 truth you're going to be willing to do what? 21:12 Good to obey. You know they, they'll talk about 21:16 God's Ten Commandment law, it's binding us as 21:19 long as time shall last, the Sabbath you see 21:23 has lost none of it's meaning at all. 21:27 And I hope it hasn't to you. How is, how are you, 21:33 how are you matching up to, to what God is 21:36 calling you to do today. Are you just sitting back 21:39 and say, we have a lot of time we don't need 21:40 to worry about it. Listen, God said, 21:44 His Sabbath is still, still a sign between Him 21:47 and us today. And if you are His people, 21:50 if you are one of His children today 21:51 we need to march in line, we need to get 21:54 in line, we need to have our whole armor on, 21:57 and we need to say, God here I am. 21:58 Where would you have me to go, what would 22:00 you have me to do? Now, remember this is 22:03 a warning; a warning needs to be given 22:05 from time-to-time. And there's a warning 22:07 because the lot of pastors don't think 22:08 they're quite so accountable as maybe 22:10 other people are, you're much more accountable, 22:12 but some of you are in the pulpit you're, 22:14 you're teaching lies, you're preaching lies 22:16 and you're living a lie. Now, God would have 22:19 us to, to come to up to grips come in front 22:21 line and say, look God here I, here I am. 22:24 You know, we need to be tested and we need 22:25 to be proved. See, our acceptance pastors, 22:29 teachers, church members, our acceptance 22:32 with God is not just, just outward show, 22:36 there are a lot of outward show, 22:37 that's all this world is, it seem like with TV 22:39 and everything goes on, they're just shows, 22:41 all make believe, but our acceptance with 22:44 God does not, doesn't have to do anything 22:46 with outward show, but our faithfulness 22:49 and our discharge of what? Of duty, 22:52 God accepts you not because all of these 22:55 big parade and pomp of all the big church 22:57 and lot of followers and lot of people 22:59 maybe amazed by certain things has 23:01 nothing to do with that, but listen pastor 23:03 are you faithful to your calling? 23:07 Are you faithful? Call to, to duty. 23:11 Let me just give a little illustration here 23:13 some people say, what was Aaron's sin, 23:16 do you remember? Talk a lot about, lot of thing, 23:19 but Aaron sinned; when you talk about Aaron 23:20 sinned, oh! He, he made the golden calf. 23:23 Aaron's sin dear friends boils down 23:26 to the sin of neglect, the sin of neglect. 23:30 Now, think about that one for a moment, what? 23:34 Because he did not stand firm for truth. 23:38 Some of you say, well there is no wells today, 23:41 that's just a big hole in the ground, isn't it? 23:43 But we're talking about here that sin of neglect 23:46 and if it was not but if he stood for truth there 23:49 would have been no golden calf, but there 23:52 was. How many of us, how many us have failed, 23:58 how many us we've neglected to do that 24:00 which God has asked us to do. 24:03 See, the world's becoming more and more 24:05 and more lawless, there is tension between 24:08 nations now, are you sensing it? 24:10 And a little threatenings here, and little 24:12 threatenings over there, Jesus said, 24:13 there be wars and rumors of war, you know 24:15 from Iran to Iraq and South Korea, 24:17 and North Korea, United States, you name it, 24:19 and China, just to name a few, there is tension, 24:22 there is war, there is poverty. 24:25 The science tell us that it's, that we need to be 24:28 giving this message of warning. 24:30 In fact, let me say you this we should have 24:32 already been home, we should have already 24:35 been in the Kingdom, we've been here a long 24:38 time. Why are we've been here so long? 24:40 What's the problem, when we should have 24:42 already been in home, somebody say, 24:44 well I don't know how you come up just, 24:46 just fasten your seat belts a little bit, 24:48 we're gonna discuss that. It's very, very 24:50 important, see it's not always everybody else, 24:53 I know it's in the church, it's always 24:55 the pastor did wrong or, some of the church 24:57 members or the elders, somebody did something 24:59 wrong, we're always trying to blame somebody else. 25:02 How about look at yourself today? 25:03 We need to look closely at our self, 25:06 the Bible is very clear in Psalms chapter 26 25:09 verse 2 it said, "Examine me O Lord, 25:13 and prove me." "Examine me, O Lord 25:17 and prove me." How many can really say 25:19 that from the bottom of their heart today is to, 25:22 and faith look up to God and say, God examine me, 25:25 the God that knows everything in the mind, 25:27 God that knows everything has been 25:28 going on in their life, every secret thought, 25:30 everything just going on, and say prove me. 25:33 How many of us could really do that today 25:35 with confidence and assurance that God 25:37 would say, well done, thou good and faithful 25:40 servant. How many of us could do that today? 25:43 Second Corinthians 13:5, the Bible says 25:48 we need to examine our self to see whether 25:51 that you be where, that you be in the faith, 25:53 or could be true to what? To our calling. 25:57 Are you true to your calling? Examine yourself 25:59 not somebody else. Too many of you got this look 26:02 Roman eye, you're looking everybody else, 26:03 you need to be looking at yourself, 26:05 I need to be looking at myself. 26:07 Beautiful book Education page 264 makes 26:10 this comment, listen carefully. 26:12 It said, "He has put it in our power, 26:14 through cooperation with Him, to bring this 26:18 scene of misery to an end." What does that mean? 26:22 He's put it where? In our power, the 26:24 cooperation of what? Divinity? To bring the 26:28 scene of misery. This is what His life is, 26:30 do you get it? As we end the year, 26:33 begin a New Year people say, oh! I said, 26:35 Lord we're gonna have a good time, 26:36 everything is gonna be great, everything 26:38 is gonna be wonderful, we're just thinking 26:39 about a good time, we're just thinking about 26:41 parting, we cooperate with the Holy Spirit 26:45 and say, we bring this scene of misery 26:47 to an end. Does it that harmonized with scripture? 26:50 You better believe it. Second Peter chapter 3 26:53 verse 12 the Bible says, looking for and do what? 26:56 Good, hastening unto the coming of the Lord. 27:00 He said, I've told that we can hasten the 27:01 coming of the Lord. When our characters, right? 27:04 Character, there's character work that 27:06 needs to be done and God is working on you 27:09 and He is working on me, He is begun a work, 27:10 He's going to finish. Let's read two statements 27:13 those of you be familiar with this and those 27:15 you won't, I want you just to think, 27:16 let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart, 27:19 see whether to, don't just put up that wall 27:21 everytime you hear something that maybe 27:22 you don't understand. And just start to say, 27:24 oh! I don't want to hear it, let me tell you, 27:26 that's the sin of ages; the sin today dear 27:29 friend is the sin of neglect, the sin of 27:31 putting up a wall, when God doesn't put up 27:33 the wall. It's when God gives the light and 27:35 you refuse that light and you say, 27:37 well that's not what my church teaches, 27:39 that's not what the pastor told me. 27:40 Listen friends, go to the Bible and see what 27:42 God's told you? See, how God speaking to 27:44 your heart today? It's not was some denomination 27:47 says, not was some preacher says, study 27:49 to show by self approve is what, is what the 27:52 Bible says today. I want you to sense 27:54 the urgency what I am talking about today, 27:56 don't rely on somebody else for your salvation. 27:58 Desire of Ages page 6:33 and 34, we read those 28:03 there. This book you everyone want to read 28:05 about the life of Jesus Christ. 28:06 Get your hands on it, you can't get your hands, 28:09 how about given us a call, we can try to help you. 28:11 This is so important. Had the church, 28:15 listen to this quote. "Had the church of Christ 28:18 done her appointed work as the Lord ordained, 28:22 the whole world would before this have been 28:24 warned, and the Lord Jesus would have come 28:28 to our earth in power and great glory." 28:31 We have disappointed our Lord. 28:33 You have to appoint a friend, oh! He did it 28:35 and she did, we have disappointed our Lord 28:38 because we have sinned because 28:40 we nailed Him on the cross. 28:41 He could have come here a long time ago; 28:44 we could have been in heaven right now. 28:46 In other word we'll quickly moving on 28:48 Evangelism 695 and 6. I hope you have, 28:52 that's a good book by the way Evangelism 695 28:55 and 6 says, this is written in 1901. 28:57 It says, "We may have to remain here 28:59 in this world because of what? 29:01 Insubordination many more years, 29:04 as did the children of Israel, how sad? 29:07 But for Christ's sake, His people should not 29:10 add sin to sin by charging God with the 29:14 consequences of their own wrong course of action." 29:21 Did you get that? Are you getting it today? 29:24 Am I really getting this? We could have already 29:26 been there, we can hastened the coming of God, 29:29 we could have done that, but we're not there 29:30 because what? We're in subordination, 29:32 we're disobeying God. Quit blaming God for 29:39 everything dear friend, and it's your course 29:41 of action. Now, here that all and all the time. 29:43 Well, it somebody did the, somebody, listen 29:45 it's always bottom line your choice, 29:47 life is made up of, of choices and decisions 29:51 that you have to make, we need to be make them 29:55 and every choice, every decision that you make, 29:58 dear friends can count for something positive 29:59 or something negative, negative. 30:01 When the Bible speaks as far as I'm concerned, 30:03 when the Bible speaks it's clear. 30:05 I don't have to understand everything about it, 30:08 but when God's word is so clear that you can 30:10 just reach in and there is no debate 30:12 what it says, Jesus said, if you love me, 30:14 you keep them and people say, yeah 30:16 but you don't have to, what's wrong with you? 30:18 What's wrong with me? You say, man he is 30:22 getting all to that, you better believe it, why? 30:25 Because your life, your soul is in jeopardy 30:29 because that want you maybe, you've been told 30:31 because you're not been reading for yourself. 30:33 You realize that, as you, as you study the Bible, 30:37 as you notice that nations there is a time 30:39 of probation ins for nations and another 30:42 nation comes, you remember Babylon, 30:44 Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. 30:46 Let me read you a couple of quotes about 30:47 these things and then it gets very personal, 30:49 it comes down to us. What if you knew, 30:52 what if you knew today that you just had 30:54 a certain amount of time? The probation 30:56 was going to close for you. How would you act? 30:59 What would you do? What would you do differently 31:01 that you're doing right now. Five Testimonies 31:04 page 208, notice this, this by here is a sobering 31:08 thought, "With unerring accuracy the Infinite 31:12 One still keeps an account of all nations." 31:15 There is what makes me feel good in the 31:16 world that live, and live in today that God is 31:19 still on the throne, nothing happens less 31:21 God gives approval, he is keeping accurate 31:24 account of what? Of all nations, 31:26 "While His mercy is tendered, notice He 31:29 is tendered, right? With the calls of repentance, 31:32 this account will remain open." 31:35 As long as there is people responding 31:38 what to the Holy Spirit the account will remain 31:41 open, "But when the figures, listen, when the 31:45 figures have reach a certain amount which 31:48 God has fixed, the ministry of His wrath 31:52 commences." God has given a certain time, 31:57 had you seen that in, in prophecy? Oh! Absolutely, 31:59 and that's for us today. When it reached, 32:03 when people you know, no longer wanna listen 32:05 to God and we no longer want to be obedient 32:07 to God, there is a time here, he count, 32:10 but the figures reach a certain amount you 32:12 notice that that God has fixed and then what? 32:15 His wrath begins to be poured out. 32:17 I wish to had a lot of more time today because I, 32:19 I, you, you, you don't, you some of you say, 32:21 well I don't know about you know, 32:22 God loves us so much, there's not going to be 32:24 His wrath, is not going to be poured out. 32:26 Let me just give you a just a few passages, 32:28 let's just use to me looking them up, 32:29 you can do it for yourself. 32:31 You can do a little homework, just start out, 32:33 just in a Book of Revelation it's all over 32:35 the Bible, but Revelation chapter 6 32:37 you can read verse 17. You can read Revelation 32:40 chapter 15, read the whole thing, 32:42 especially verses 1 and verses 7 32:44 because it talks about there is a time 32:46 when of the wrath of God is going to be poured 32:49 out and it's going to be without mixtures, 32:51 it's gonna be no mercy, where approaching 32:54 that time, time is running out on this nation 32:57 that we live in today, on this world that 32:59 we live in, and when it runs out you see, 33:02 then what? Bible says, disaster begins to strike, 33:06 wrath commences. How about Revelation 16, 33:08 we're talking about plagues being poured out, 33:10 how about Revelation 19:15, read those 33:13 passage of scripture. How about Revelation 19 33:16 verses 4 through 6? Read these verses 33:19 you'll be convinced just a few it here that 33:22 God's wrath is being poured out and it will 33:24 continue to get worse right because we're 33:27 disobeying a direct command that God has 33:29 given us. Prophets and Kings another beautiful 33:33 book page 417 says, "There is a limit, notice, 33:36 which the judgments of Jehovah can no longer 33:40 delayed." I don't think some of you got there. 33:43 "There is a limit beyond which the judgments 33:46 of Jehovah can no longer, what can no 33:49 longer delayed." Otherwise there is a time, 33:51 there is a time span and once that's been reached 33:54 that's it. Prophets and Kings 276 says, 33:58 "God allows men a period of probation; 34:01 and gets closer to home, we've been talking 34:02 about nations. Now, gets closer to home it says, 34:05 God allows man a period of probation, 34:08 but there is a point upon which the divine 34:11 patience is exhausted, and the judgments of 34:15 God are sure to follow." You think you're getting 34:18 away with some things today. 34:19 You think oh well, out this happen and 34:21 I'm doing this and nothing is happen 34:23 to six months, a year, two years, five years, 34:25 eight years, down the road, I'm going to get 34:27 away with it, be sure your sins will find 34:29 you out that's what the Bible tells us. 34:31 God's keeping an accurate record; 34:34 there is a point beyond which diving patience 34:39 is exhausted. Let's do a a little closer to 34:42 home about this country maybe, 34:44 so we did United States of America, 34:45 listen to first one Testimony 363 says, 34:50 "The wrath of God, which has so long slumbered." 34:53 See because this in Old Testament times you see, 34:56 many time God acted just like that boy 34:58 and I tell you judgment fail, but because it's 35:00 slumbered, in other words God's not reacting 35:01 immediately like He did in Old Testament times. 35:04 Notice, "The wrath of God, which has so long 35:07 slumbered will, will awake and the land of light 35:11 will drink the cup of His unmingled wrath." 35:15 Oh! Friend, are we listening to that today? 35:18 The land of light United States of America will 35:22 drink the cup of the unmingled wrath, why? 35:25 Because we thrown him out of everything 35:27 and trying to throwing now what's, maybe 35:29 still and we tried throw him out of that. 35:30 How do we think a nation can prosper? 35:34 It only prospers as we're obedient to God 35:37 and that we rely upon God. 35:39 Time is running out, see we're not saved 35:44 today unless we're waiting and watching. 35:47 Are you watching, are you signs of the times 35:49 of the things that are going on? 35:51 May I just be bold today; there is only 35:53 one group of people, only one group of 35:55 people, to my knowledge in the world, 35:57 who is lifting up the law of God. 35:59 All Ten Commandments, are you still there? 36:02 Only one group of people. 36:04 Lot of people say, well I'm lifting up 36:06 eight of them, nine of them, that's not good 36:08 enough all ten, only one group of people, 36:11 there's only one group of people in the world 36:14 that's presenting Jesus, that spotless Lamb 36:17 of God that takes away the sins of the world 36:20 or the preaching the message like this victory 36:23 over sin. Victory over sin, righteousness by 36:27 faith, health message. Friend you realize, 36:30 there is only one group of people in the world 36:32 that's doing presenting the Three Angels Message 36:34 to go into all the world and then Jesus is 36:37 going to come, it's deals with our, our character, 36:40 a being like Jesus, power of the Holy Spirit, 36:42 there is only one group of people. 36:46 Listen, I'm warning you to be true to your 36:48 calling. And some of you know exactly what 36:50 I'm talking about, others would be back or bind, 36:52 some will be discourage, I don't want to do that 36:54 here, but I want you to see the urgency 36:56 true to your calling today. 36:58 Only one group of people who are standing 37:00 in the breach, there is only one group of 37:02 people making up the hedge, building up the 37:05 old waste places, as Isaiah 58:12 and 37:08 13 talks about. Friend, are you one of those 37:13 today? There's only one group of people 37:16 that's doing it in the world today, 37:18 but this is the message of truth, 37:21 we must be careful. Some of you are 37:24 backbiting among the movement, 37:26 some of you trying to camouflage certain 37:28 things in the movement today, you'll be 37:30 careful because you're fighting against God 37:32 that you will not win. We need to be careful. 37:35 How we deal with the only people in the world 37:39 that's fulfilling the description given in 37:41 the Bible found in Revelation chapter 12 37:44 verse 17, a remnant people who what? 37:47 Keep the commandments of God and have the 37:48 testimony of Jesus Christ. 37:50 And we fight among ourselves shame on us, 37:53 be careful how we treat these people? 37:57 Five Testimonies 381, listen the Lord has made 38:04 us depositories of His law. He's entrusted 38:08 His Ten Commandment law to a people, 38:10 like He did Israel, like He did the Jews, 38:12 they were unfaithful and He passed it on the 38:15 New Testament Church. And they're identified by 38:18 keeping all of God's command, 38:19 all ten including the Seventh-day Sabbath, 38:22 by His grace naturally in His strength 38:24 we can't do it on our own, but he's entrusted 38:27 these to, things He wrote with His own 38:29 finger, He's committed to us sacred 38:33 and eternal truths, which we are to give, 38:38 to give others faithful, faithful warnings 38:41 and reproves and encouragement. 38:44 He is entrusted as to give these and when 38:47 you give a warning, friend you're not up 38:49 here and saying, well I tell you I think some, 38:50 look and say, look it's going to happen, 38:52 it's happening right now, the bottom is about 38:54 to fall off, fall out of thing, I tell you, 38:57 you're going to put yourself in trouble. 39:01 It's a warning which most people don't want 39:03 to hear because it kind of wakes them 39:04 up a little bit, they don't want to hear it. 39:08 You talk about the Three Angels Message, 39:11 you realize what, what, what encompass 39:13 you're talking about Three Angels Message? 39:14 In Letters 17, 9, 1900, I just read part of it 39:18 right here it says, the Angels, there is Angels 39:20 flying where? In the midst of heaven, 39:22 there's Three Angels flying, the Three 39:23 Messages, notice here it says, those 39:25 Three Angels represent those who what? 39:28 Those who receive the true and that with 39:31 power give what? The Gospel to the world, 39:35 it's the people the Angels that represent what? 39:37 They're giving a message to the world with power. 39:40 The message we have to give today dear friends 39:43 has be a powerful message that's given 39:46 by the Holy Spirit of God to wake us up 39:49 because we're so sleepy. 39:50 You realize there's the importance of 39:53 giving this message, you're right, 39:54 message is so important that we, we have to, 39:57 to give the world today, if you just allow me, 39:59 just indulge me a little bit here. 40:01 Some times I'm going to say, this is not the 40:03 topic for today because we have 40:04 to be true to our calling, part of true 40:07 to our calling you simply this dear friends, 40:08 we have to give the Three Angels Message, 40:11 we have to give them all three, and the promises, 40:16 or the power to accompany these message 40:18 dear friend is promise to us, you have your Bible 40:21 you turn to Revelation 13, give you just a 40:23 little example. Revelation chapter 13, 40:26 now as we read verses 7 and 8, why the urgency, 40:29 why the importance? Well, somebody said, 40:32 well I've read it many times before, 40:33 why don't want to read it again? 40:35 Revelation 13 verses 7 and 8. Bible says, 40:39 "It was given unto him to make war with the 40:41 saints, talking about the beast power, 40:44 do you get it? It was given to him to, 40:46 to make war with the saints, to overcome 40:48 them: persecute and to kill them, 40:50 power was given to him over all kindreds, 40:53 and tongues, and nations." 40:55 And here's what happened verse 8, 40:56 "And all that dwell on the earth shall worship 40:59 him." The beast then the Third Angels Message 41:02 had to do with worshiping, what the 41:04 beast and Mark of the Beast, the image to 41:05 the beast and they shall worship Him, 41:07 to get this stuff out of our heads about 41:10 something implanted here, something 41:12 implanted over here, something is gonna 41:14 identify, it has to do with our allegiance 41:16 to God, who were going to give our allegiance to, 41:18 is it going to be the devil, is it going to be 41:20 God? And dear friends you can tell us, 41:22 what is going to be? One of them has to deal 41:24 with man made stuff, the other head deal 41:26 with what? With God. Who is the Creator of 41:28 heaven and earth? All because simple 41:32 when you say, who is gonna all the world 41:34 wanted after the beast, notice the worshiped Him. 41:36 "Whose names are not in the book of the life 41:39 of the Lamb slain from thee foundation of 41:42 the world?" Majority of the world almost all 41:45 the world and praise God, He goes on, 41:47 He tells us to, in the Bible that there is a 41:50 group that doesn't follow the beast. 41:52 There are those who keep the commandments 41:55 of God. And yet we're, we're detesting those 41:59 things today, we're saying, no we don't 42:00 have to, we're repelled by some other things, 42:02 we're truth in God's word because it might 42:05 somehow affect our lifestyle. 42:07 The Bible is clear, if you do not know, 42:10 you have to know who the beast is, 42:12 you have to know what the Mark of the Beast is? 42:14 Because the world will worship the beast 42:15 or the devil and we realize as we study 42:18 scripture there is no doubt about it, 42:20 the beast is a papacy, there is no doubt 42:22 about it, we don't have time to go into, 42:24 that's not the study, but I want to do, 42:26 if it jars you so be it, that is the beast power, 42:29 it's very simple. The Mark of the Beast is 42:32 simply what? The papacy claim to change Sabbath 42:35 or seventh day of the week, the Sunday the 42:37 first day of the week. Let me just tell you 42:39 very clearly today, and the anointing of the 42:41 Holy Spirit of God that Sunday is no better, 42:44 it's a common working day that's all that it is. 42:48 You say, wow! I don't know. 42:49 Prove it differently, prove it differently. 42:58 The reason we're still in this world because 42:59 you know what? We've not been telling it, 43:01 enough to agitate the real believer in 43:04 Jesus Christ. And most of us are nominal, 43:05 not going to get excited when we're there, 43:07 oh, well that's just what somebody think. 43:08 You need to, you'll study to show why 43:10 this is proved, I've had it happen. 43:12 I've had people calling it over the years 43:14 you know, videos and different things going 43:16 out all the time, they're calling in 43:17 and say, you agitated me to know in, 43:20 I almost hated this as a Christian. 43:22 We, we hated it, but we could not resist 43:26 tuning in to see what you had to say. 43:29 And then we wanted to study to show how 43:31 off the wall that you were, but we had to end 43:34 up accepting it, there was no other way, 43:35 they were honest heart. So, if you want to get 43:38 mad for, well go ahead, but if you study 43:40 scripture you're gonna get happy. 43:44 I mean it's hard to imagine say we, 43:46 we don't understand the, the image to the 43:48 beast because God's wrath is going to be 43:50 poured out. The whole world is going in that 43:51 direction, but we don't want to know about it, 43:53 United States sets up the image to the beast 43:56 and Sunday laws. And yet just people who 44:01 want to hear, they say, oh! No, why are men not 44:06 interested to know what makes up the 44:08 Mark of the Beast or the image to the beast? 44:10 Revelation 13:14 through 18, if I just read this 44:14 here any conviction at all. That when the 44:20 Bible says there in verse 15, Revelation 13 44:23 there he said, talk about. "He had power 44:25 to give life unto the image of the beast, 44:27 that the image of the beast should both speak, 44:30 and cause as many as would not worship 44:33 the image of the beast should be killed." 44:35 You say, I don't want to worship the image of 44:37 the beast because it just said in the Bible there, 44:39 there in all the world worship after the beast, 44:41 they're gonna lose eternal life, they're not 44:43 written in the Lambs, Book of Life, but yet 44:45 we don't want to find out about this, 44:46 it has to do with keeping God's commandment, 44:49 it's very simple, the Seventh-day Sabbath 44:51 that's gonna be the great test, 44:53 some of you don't want to hear that, 44:54 but let me just say it, you just say, oh well, 44:57 I've never heard it before probation closes 45:00 dear friend, before it closes, the great tests 45:04 are still just before the people of God. 45:06 This test must be given Sabbath Sunday, be sure. 45:12 That you're gonna have to decide who side that 45:15 you were on; this test must be given before 45:18 God can seal His people for eternity. 45:21 And it's gonna have to what, it start to, 45:24 "He causes, verse 16, all small, rich, poor, 45:27 bond and free to receive a mark in their 45:29 right hand, or in their foreheads." 45:30 Some of the books that you see on the Mark 45:32 today, some of the pastors on these TV shows, 45:34 I tell you they ought to be without a job. 45:36 The horrible mess which you're making about, 45:40 it has to do with worship, who you're 45:43 gonna give your allegiance to. 45:45 You're gonna give to the Creator of heaven 45:47 and earth, you're gonna give it to men, 45:49 the 666 little horn power. 45:52 There's gonna be a legislation image 45:55 to the beast, you're gonna have to 45:57 decide those you to keeping the commandments 45:59 of God, you think it's difficult now you're 46:01 still going to have to decide. 46:04 Great test, I'm saying right now let not the 46:10 commandment keeping people of God be 46:12 silent at this time. All we have to realize 46:17 what's just before us right now is waging a 46:20 continuous war against the enemy 46:23 and it will be, let me just say, at the 46:25 risk of imprisonment, it will be at the risk 46:28 of paying fines, losing property, 46:33 even life itself to defend the law of God. 46:37 Somebody say, oh! Somebody is off of the 46:39 deep end, oh! Friend, get your Bible out 46:41 and ask for the power of the Holy Spirit 46:42 to understand what the issues of the day. 46:45 Well, there are all with the land they can, 46:47 they can just say, well you know, you and 46:49 now we're gonna be worshiping on Sunday 46:50 and Seventh-day, you can worship on anybody, 46:52 listen Psalms talks about it, look what 46:55 Psalms 119 verse 126 said, "It is time for thee 47:00 to work, O God for they had made void thy law." 47:03 It's time for God to work, God will work 47:06 when they make it void of keeping the 47:09 Seventh-day Sabbath. Substituting it, 47:12 you see with the first day of the week. 47:14 See God's people are to stand firm, 47:18 we're to show that He is God, we're to believe 47:21 and we're to trust Him, we're to stand on the 47:23 platform of truth. And you know what we're 47:25 to be true to our calling. This is what 47:27 we're talking about; true to our calling, 47:29 why you're here, what prospect is before us, 47:33 what could happen? The Bible is clear, 47:36 a death decree, they should be killed 47:38 if they don't worship the beast and his image. 47:42 You think you've got it tough, if you think 47:44 it's bad now, most people it's hard to 47:46 even show up, just to show up for church, 47:48 if you don't do anything. Friends we've got to 47:50 come out that laziness, we've got to get serious 47:52 with God, we've got to be praying for the 47:53 power of the Holy Spirit, but now some 47:57 of you've never seen or heard this and so, 47:59 it's gonna shocked you 'cause you really 48:02 haven't done a study and making some 48:03 big statements walk and boy, I can back them up 48:06 with scripture. How about those who have 48:10 not have the light on what we've been talk about? 48:12 They never had this subject, how is, how is 48:14 God viewing it? I read this in Letters 7, 1895. 48:19 "So, the Lord is working with them; 48:21 He has not left them to their own ways, 48:24 notice there, He has not left them to their own 48:27 ways. Until, until they shall be convicted 48:31 of the truth, and then, then they trample upon 48:34 it and the evidence given to enlighten them, 48:37 the Lord will not withdraw His grace from them." 48:40 So, He gives us the truth and He continues 48:43 to work with us until we begin to walk, 48:45 trample on the truth or deny the truth, 48:48 reject the truth, we don't need to keep the 48:50 truth what some people are saying. 48:52 It doesn't make any difference right now, 48:54 and then what is God do? Oh! Dear friends, 48:56 He has to withdraw His grace. 48:58 When the warning is given and they understand it. 49:03 Other words what, grace until we reject the light 49:06 or the evidence of truth. We need 49:09 evidence of truth, but you know what? 49:11 It is so difficult to get anyway somebody to say, 49:16 I want to study the Bible. We have people show up 49:21 at church one week and, wow! We're on fire 49:23 everyone, study the word of God, you don't 49:25 see them for six months, you don't know where 49:27 they're at? What's happened? 49:28 The devil make sure you don't see them anymore, 49:31 they get occupied with things of the world, 49:33 people don't want to study the word anymore. 49:36 Friend, how we need some power of the Holy Spirit. 49:40 Truth is truth is what I'm reading in the Bible 49:44 here, whether we say, we're convict, 49:46 I heard people say, well until I'm convinced 49:49 about this thing, I'm not going to even though 49:51 it's a very plain thus saith the Lord. 49:54 See, some people will say, Bible says, 49:56 Thou shalt not steal; some people look and say, 49:58 well until I'm convinced of it, I'm not going 50:00 to do it. Whether you're convinced 50:02 or whether you're not convinced of it, 50:03 it's still the truth of God's word, God said, 50:06 Thou shalt not steal, it's gonna take faith, 50:08 you're gonna have to really understood, 50:09 we're gonna have to just take Him at His, 50:11 His word. He expects us to obey His word even 50:15 if we're not really convinced that it is. 50:18 Holy Spirit brings conviction absolutely. 50:20 And they'll say, well sometime well when 50:23 I feel well, sometime maybe I'll, I'll, I'll, 50:26 I'll feel it and then I'll do it. 50:27 Your faith has nothing do with your feelings. 50:30 Too many people in life that's what it is all 50:32 about feeling and all about me and I 50:34 and circumstances and so on so forth. 50:39 Our salvation depends dear friend of us 50:42 from acting from what? Good, from principle. 50:44 Serving God from principle, not from feeling, 50:48 not from impulse, have you ever done that? 50:50 Do you ever like feelings, do I think 50:52 ever since time people we let feelings do the, 50:54 oh! Yeah, well I say. God says, no. 50:58 Once real clear, see we need to study the Bible 51:02 and we need to, to, to believe it and we need 51:04 to, to obey it, the instructions is given 51:07 in scripture whether and always say, 51:10 you know, it doesn't. Well you know, 51:12 we're not just friends and what the Bible says 51:13 you know, in fact, all scriptures given by 51:15 inspiration of God. Then the Bible says what? 51:19 How much? All, all scripture is given by 51:24 inspiration, then some people Christians have 51:27 the audacity to say that doesn't mean all. 51:32 I hope you, I want you be little a agitated, 51:35 I want you get your Bible out, what does, 51:36 what does all mean? All scripture, 51:41 but we use those things as excuses not 51:44 to be obedient to God, friend, it's gonna cost 51:46 us at the end. Rather than say, okay Lord, 51:48 that what it says by your grace, by your 51:51 strength, help me, I'll be obedient. 51:53 Our faith has to be based on evidences 51:59 of God's word. What is it? Our faith has to be 52:03 based upon what? Evidences of God's word. 52:07 Oh! Let me, I think that's good, evidence 52:08 of God's word and that would be what? 52:10 Isaiah 20 line-upon-line, precept-up-precept, 52:13 here a little, and there a little for the truth. 52:15 We have so many people come up and give 52:17 you one line; you give them 35 texts on this, 52:20 on a given subject. And what happens? 52:25 They try to give you one that's not even 52:29 talking about the subject in hand. 52:31 And they will go with that one and, 52:33 and rule out the other 35 that are very clear, 52:35 Friend, there is something wrong, 52:37 is the spiritual things are spiritually discern, 52:38 what's going on? It's our privilege; 52:42 it's our duty as men and women of God, 52:43 to take God at His word, to believe 52:47 Jesus as our, our personal Savior, 52:50 to respond immediately to His calling and 52:53 His promises. See, God's promised over-and-over 52:57 power to those who obey Him. 52:59 We need to act faith, we need to talk faith, 53:02 we need to, we need to pray faith, 53:04 we need to respond to faith, we need to 53:07 respond to, to God's word. May I just say this, 53:11 there is no, no encouragement 53:15 in scripture for unbelief and doubt or distrust. 53:21 Not one word in scripture, that all 53:24 comes from what? The enemy. 53:26 We need to be true to our calling. 53:28 We need to know that we've been, 53:30 we've been, we've been called by God to do a, 53:32 a tremendous work here in the last days, 53:34 His power will do it, but you need to show up 53:36 and I need to show up. Friend you know I, 53:39 I mentioned this at the beginning 53:41 I'm gonna do it right now before we have 53:42 our closing prayer in last couple of minutes. 53:44 The sin of the age, Oh I can hear some of 53:47 you going into detail, all the sin, it's this 53:50 and it's this and right here, Three Testimonies 53:52 483 says this, see if doesn't really make 53:54 sense a lot, principle here. 53:56 "The sin of the age is to disregard, 54:01 disregarding of God's express commands." 54:04 The sin of the age is what? To disregard, 54:07 disregarding God's expressed will, 54:09 when He makes it clear and we understand, 54:12 that's the sin of the age. 54:17 Once, one selected messages 142 and 3 says 54:21 the sin for which Christ disapproves, 54:23 notice this, is the sin of rejecting evidence, 54:27 they would have convinced them of the truth. 54:30 The sin of the age, the one that Christ says, 54:33 all I've to, I disapprove this, I've no, I can't 54:37 approve of it is when I give them all this 54:38 evidence that will convince them what truth is 54:41 and they're throwing it out, be true to 54:42 your calling. God says that many are called, 54:47 but few are chosen in Matthew 22. 54:50 Have you been called by God? Is God giving you 54:54 that specific message here in these last 54:56 days to, to warn the world of His, 54:58 His soon coming, to warn about the beast 55:01 and His image and the first and second 55:03 and Third Angel, fear God go back, 55:04 go back to the Sabbath, go back to keeping 55:06 all the God's commandments having 55:08 that that character like Jesus and when His 55:10 character is fully reproduced in us what? 55:12 He will come back, we need some character 55:14 adjustment I know, but God help us. 55:16 You want to pray about being true to your calling? 55:18 I do, I want to pray with you before the program 55:20 closes 'cause some of you are shocked 55:23 and we need to go the throne of God and say, 55:24 God help us if this be true, help me to, 55:27 help me to understand. 55:28 Let's pray about this, shall be together? 55:32 Kind loving Heavenly Father, we thank you 55:34 for Your word today, we pray to your Holy Spirit, 55:37 now will encourage those who have heard 55:39 and those who respond to truth and majority 55:41 of the people will won't care, but they'll be 55:43 those who are searching the truth, 55:44 help them to find it, we pray in 55:45 the lovely name of Jesus, amen. 55:49 Friend, my challenge today is that you be 55:50 true to your, to your calling. 55:52 And while you're at it you know, you can call us, 55:55 if you would like and write us and my wife 55:57 gives that information I'm sure at the end 55:58 of the program. Why not do that. 56:00 Somebody of you never call, somebody of you 56:01 never respond when you hear truth, right now 56:03 it's the time to do it. And I'm encouraging 56:05 you try it, sit down write out your, you know, 56:08 support this 3ABN, support this network 56:10 and support "Behold The Lamb Ministries," 56:12 so we can bring more of these programs to you, 56:14 we love you, glad to spend this time 56:16 with you, we'll see you next time. 56:20 Welcome back friends, we pray that the Holy 56:23 Spirit has touched and motivate your heart 56:25 in a special way today. We must be roused 56:29 to action of this work ever to be completed. 56:32 The Bible states that the harvest is ready, 56:36 but it also asks us. Where are the workers, 56:40 we pray that you are determined in your heart 56:43 to be a worker for God, that you will act 56:46 on the prompting of the spirit to first put 56:48 your own house in order. And then second do all 56:52 that you can to share these messages of 56:54 truths with others. So, that they too will be 56:58 prepared to meet Jesus in the clouds of 57:00 glory at His second coming. 57:02 And to help you do this we are making 57:05 this special, special series available to you. 57:09 Remember the title it is "True To Our Calling," 57:12 but if you shouldn't call and you don't 57:14 remember the title, you can always ask 57:16 for programs 21 and 22. 57:19 We're making this available to you for 57:21 just a, a simple gift of $15 or more. 57:25 So, won't you write us today. 57:27 You may write and ask for your request at 57:30 Behold the Lamb Ministries, Po Box 2030, 57:34 Herrin, IL 62948, or you can always call and 57:39 request at Central Standard Time here in 57:42 the United States 618-942-5044. 57:48 Give us an email, send us an email to 57:51 BeholdTheLamb Ministries@yahoo.com 57:55 or visit us on the web at 57:56 www.BeholdThe LambMinistries.com. 57:59 Until next time, may our precious 58:02 Lord richly bless you and yours. |
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