Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000024
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00:41 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents,
00:44 I'm Chris Shelton your host and today 00:47 we have another important message 00:49 for you to consider. This message is the second 00:52 in a five part series that we have entitled 00:54 "Are You Qualified to Receive the Latter Rain?" 00:58 What a mentally heavy question to contemplate? 01:02 Are You Qualified to Receive the Latter Rain?" 01:06 I'm sure most of us certainly hope that 01:08 we are, but how many of us have really taken 01:11 the time to search the scriptures and intently 01:14 study what Christ is calling us to be. 01:17 Sure, He invites us all to come as we are, 01:21 but He doesn't want us to stay that way. 01:23 Our walk with Him is a Spiritual growth 01:26 of sanctification. Think of it this way. 01:30 We come into this world as tiny babies, 01:33 but who do you know that has stayed a 01:35 baby throughout say a long life of 70 years? 01:39 No one, we grow, our appearances change 01:44 throughout the various stages of our lives. 01:47 Our thought patterns mature and deepen. 01:50 Our minds increase and change with, 01:53 with knowledge and wisdom, 01:54 likewise as Christians; Christ is urging us to 01:58 do the very same thing. When we accept Him 02:02 into our lives we're Spiritual babies, 02:05 but we, He implores us to feed on His word, 02:09 to take time with Him in prayer and to grow 02:12 in His grace, grow in His strength, His knowledge, 02:16 grow into His image, His likeness. 02:20 We're closer to Heaven and you'll notice that 02:23 the things of this world will grow strangely dim. 02:28 Therefore today's message on this journey 02:31 of spiritual growth is entitled 02:34 "Fit to Live in the Sight of a Holy God," 02:37 "Fit to Live in the Sight of a Holy God," 02:41 but before we listen to today's message, 02:44 let's visit 3ABN's Worship Center 02:46 and listen to a beautiful song sung by 02:50 Jennifer LaMountain entitled "He Is Able." 03:14 He is able more than able 03:24 To accomplish what concerns me today 03:31 He is able more than able 03:39 To handle anything that comes my way 03:45 He is able more than able 03:53 To do much more than I could ever dream 04:00 He is able more than able 04:08 To make me what He wants me to be 04:15 He is able more than able 04:23 To accomplish what concerns me today 04:29 He is able more than able 04:37 To handle anything that comes my way 04:43 He is able more than able 04:52 To do much more than I could ever dream 04:58 He is able more than able 05:07 To make me what He wants me to be 05:15 And when I think of all his wisdom 05:18 And the scope of His plan 05:22 I can only fall down on my knees 05:26 and realize once again 05:31 That He is able more than able 05:41 To do much more than I could ever dream 05:50 He is able more than able 06:00 To make me what He wants me to be. 06:22 Thank you for joining us here 06:23 Behold the Lamb Ministries, 06:24 we're just so grateful and thankful that you set 06:26 aside this time to spend with us 06:28 in study of God's version. Thank you Jennifer, 06:30 we thank you for that beautiful song 06:32 "He Is Able," and God is able, isn't He? 06:35 We have such a blessing, but before we study the, 06:37 the word of God we always pray. 06:39 So, I'm gonna invite you quickly with me, 06:41 if you can, if you're at home why don't 06:43 you kneel with me? And let's pray together 06:44 and ask for power of the Holy Spirit 06:47 on this most important subject, 06:49 "Fit to Live in the Sight of a Holy God." 06:52 What, without a mediator, well we need some help, 06:55 let's pray for it, shall we? 06:59 Merciful Father in Heaven, we again ask for the 07:02 sweet Holy Spirit to be sent in great measure. 07:04 Oh! How we need to understand this subject, 07:07 we need to understand our Spiritual condition, 07:10 we need power from on high, I pray just right now 07:14 that the Holy Spirit will come upon each 07:16 and every viewer, every listener, 07:18 anyone who comes in contact with this message 07:20 that their heart would be lift it up through 07:21 the throne room of God that we me see, 07:23 may see Jesus today in clearer light 07:26 than ever before, the hour in which we live, 07:28 we need to be ready, probation is soon to close. 07:31 Thank you for this privilege to lift up 07:33 your name Jesus name, amen. 07:37 Again, we always invite you to take 07:39 a pencil and paper and do it because 07:40 there's lot of things that we're going to cover. 07:43 And it, it's very difficult to say, 07:44 oh! I'll remember them if you like I am maybe 07:47 very difficult to remember everything, 07:48 a lot of material to cover today. 07:50 And this question has been asked about 07:53 close of probation, so I'll answer it very quickly. 07:56 And I believe it'll fit into what 07:57 we're discussing today. People say, 07:58 when is probation gonna close I, I need to, 08:00 I like I need to know, so they can get their 08:02 life right with God, but think about this. 08:06 There's three ways in which probation is closer 08:09 three times that it closes. Number one, 08:11 it can close when? Good, at death, that's it, 08:13 some of you are thinking with me, 08:14 at death probation closes because that 08:16 finishes our life. Number two, it can close if 08:19 we commit the unpardonable sin, 08:21 which is the sin against the Holy Ghost, 08:23 rejection of the Spirit of God over 08:25 and over and over not listening to God 08:27 and presume we don't hear Him anymore. 08:28 And third, just to close of the general probation 08:31 of the world just before the seven last plagues 08:35 are poured out. Now, we believe that we're, 08:38 we're nearing that time when probation's door 08:40 is gonna close and now another 08:42 one will come to Jesus. And if we really believe 08:45 that with all of our heart, while this door 08:47 is probation is closing and that we are God's 08:51 last day people, but somehow we've become 08:54 so wrapped up maybe some of us and the things 08:56 of the world and you know, again it could be 08:59 things of this world which it could be cars, 09:01 it could be homes, it could be making money, 09:03 it could be we spend hours watching TV, 09:05 we spend hours on this, and hours on that. 09:08 And we sit back night-after-night 09:11 in the recliner and we're watching TV 09:12 and we're laughing at comedy programs 09:15 that we should never laugh out. 09:17 You know they're, they're silly you know, 09:19 and sometime they're just, may I say 09:22 you were stupid, but yet we just laugh at 09:24 it like there is no tomorrow or there is. 09:27 And we need to be ready for that day, 09:29 where our neighbors are spiritually dying for the, 09:32 the, the lack of truth and we're not out there 09:35 warning the world that Jesus is soon to come. 09:38 Friend, when will we really wake up, 09:40 laughing and having a good time like the, 09:42 the world is going to just go on and on and on 09:44 and on and nonsensical things. 09:47 Friend, we need some help today, we need to be 09:49 crying between the porch and the alter for 09:52 our children, our grandchildren and 09:54 we need to be praying for one another because 09:56 probation's door is fast closing, closing. 09:59 And how many, how many friends do you know? 10:01 How many they don't, they don't profess Jesus 10:03 at all, so if you don't profess Jesus and 10:05 you're not living for Him then we're, 10:07 we're none of His and they're gonna be lost. 10:09 We need to get serious with God 10:11 and that's part of this subject that we're talking 10:14 about here. Fit to Live in the Sight of a Holy 10:17 God without a mediator. How, how can we be fit? 10:21 What has to take place in our hearts and our life? 10:24 Because it's either gonna happen or it's not. 10:27 And that just receive the, the latter 10:29 rain experience. What is they're going to take 10:30 from me to receive? And listen, if I don't receive 10:33 of the latter rain I will not make it to heaven. 10:37 This is how important it is. Does God just pour 10:39 it out on anyone and everyone that asked 10:41 for it or are there conditions? 10:43 First John 3 verse 8, and again we're gonna look 10:46 at some passage of scripture and people read 10:48 them and say, well I know it says this, 10:49 but I, I think that God means it this way. 10:52 Listen, God means exactly what He says. 10:54 First John 3 verse 8, the Bible says, 10:55 "He that committed sin is of, what? Is of the devil. 11:00 He that committed sin is of the devil." 11:03 And so, amount of blessings I was reading 11:05 page 91, notice this, it said true godliness, 11:08 true godliness does not begin until all compromise 11:11 with sin has come to an end. 11:17 Boy, did you really, did that soak in? 11:21 True godliness, true Godliness can, can, 11:24 never begin until all compromise with sin 11:28 comes to an end. When you say, 11:30 well we're living a Godly life well, have we, 11:33 are we living a life with, without sin by the 11:36 grace of God. Oh! Friend, we need to think about 11:37 this passage of scripture that we'll be going 11:40 over today. And as we read them I want you 11:42 to contemplate, does God mean what He says 11:45 or are we taking another little turn and saying, 11:48 well he says it, but Proverbs. 11:50 The Bible says Proverbs 25:4 listen this carefully. 11:53 "Take away the dross from the silver, 11:57 and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer." 12:01 Now, finer means refiner, it is also talking about 12:04 a founder, it's talking about a Goldsmith, 12:07 but when you take away the dross, 12:09 you take away the impurities from what? 12:11 The silver, so the silver then must be what? 12:14 Pure, this is referring spiritually to what? 12:17 God's people that all dross, all that's not good 12:21 it has to go from us, from us, so that God 12:24 can continue to use us and prepare us for Heaven. 12:28 You know, I've thought about this word, 12:29 and I thought dross. What is dross? 12:31 And if you look in the Bible it's interesting in, 12:33 in Psalms 119:119 it talks about the dross. 12:37 And it's says, the wicked notice. 12:39 The wicked, you said what? 12:41 What about the wicked? Well the, the wicked of 12:43 the earth are like dross." You don't wanna be the 12:47 dross to be like the wicked. 12:48 So, what does dross really mean? 12:51 Dross has to do in the, in the Hebrew it says, 12:54 dung dross, the dung has to go from our lives. 12:58 So, oh! That's pretty heavy too, yes it is. 13:00 Dung has to do with rejecting that which God 13:04 has ordained for us, it's a, or declining 13:08 to obey God. And then the passage comes 13:11 up that I, that a lot of debate goes on 13:14 and I'm not sure why. Ephesians 5:27 13:17 the Bible says, "That He might present to Himself, 13:19 very familiar passage of scripture, 13:21 a glorious Church." Who is the Church? 13:24 Good, people, people of the Church. 13:27 Now, notice. So, God said, I'm going to present a, 13:29 the Church, a people without what? 13:32 Spot, and what is spot? We're talking in the Greek. 13:36 Without defect, without stain. 13:41 Oh! Without defect that means like must be 13:43 overcoming something, stay with me. 13:45 "Or a wrinkle, a wrinkle is a fold." 13:48 May I just get real personal with you; 13:49 a fold is referring to a fold even in the what? 13:53 In the skin as a, as in a wrinkle. 13:57 Just a, just, just a wrinkle. God said, 13:59 not even, not even a wrinkle or any such thing, 14:02 continuing to reading on, but that it shall be 14:05 holy without blemish. Holy means what? 14:08 A people that will be sacred, 14:10 a people that will be blameless. 14:12 The Bible says, without blemish which means 14:15 faultless unblemished. Now, where can we argue 14:19 this passage? Surely God must be talking 14:22 to our hearts. Today to say, my people are 14:25 going to be without defects, without sin, 14:27 so that I can pour the Spirit out upon them 14:30 that they maybe used and equipped 14:32 to finish the work. Give the loud cry; 14:35 finish the work so Jesus can come. 14:37 But some will say, well that's not really 14:39 what it means. We're gonna study that 14:41 little bit more as we go, so I look at it here, 14:43 God says we are what? Good, we are the vessel, 14:45 the vessel must be what? Clean inside 14:48 and out in order for him to fill us 14:51 with His Holy Spirit. Does that make sense? 14:53 We have to be clean, the Holy Spirit can't just 14:55 you know, come on us and fill us, 14:56 if there's sin in our life. And we're not talking 14:59 about just we're clean today and tomorrow 15:01 we're dirty, and we're clean today. 15:02 God intend for us to live a victorious life 15:05 everyday through Him, not our self, 15:09 so we must overcome what? Entirely first 15:14 and then the latter rain will be given to us, 15:18 then we will become vessels of honor that 15:21 the Bible says in Second Timothy 2 verse 21. 15:24 Do you wanna be a vessel of honor? 15:26 I do, I want to see the latter rain. 15:28 Absolutely I do, but the latter rain can't fall 15:31 on this vessel and let's us clean of every defect. 15:35 Wow! That's challenging to us today. Every defect 15:40 and then let me just add some of these things. 15:42 You know, Jesus said this, Jesus said in 15:45 Matthew 5:48, "Be Ye, what? Therefore Perfect." 15:49 Now, I'm not trying to go into all this, 15:50 but think about, Jesus said be perfect. 15:52 He said, I'm coming after the Church without 15:54 a spot or a wrinkle or any defects, okay. 15:57 We've got that. We've have to believe that. 15:59 And then it goes and John said this in 16:02 John 17:23. He said, "That we may be made perfect." 16:07 Well, did John know what he was talking about? 16:09 Did Jesus know what He was talking about? 16:11 Paul goes on in Hebrews 6 verse 1 and he said, 16:14 "Let us go on to perfection." 16:18 Is that what he really mean or just kind 16:19 of go onto whatever? He said, go on to perfection. 16:23 And then James comes along in James 1 verse 4 16:25 and he says, "We may be perfect and entire, 16:31 and wanting nothing." And I said, what's that 16:34 word you know, entire in the Greek? 16:36 What does that really mean? It means complete 16:40 in every part, entire. All the Bible writers 16:47 and Jesus are saying the same thing here about His, 16:50 His people and how that we should be, 16:52 and how our lives? We should be living our life 16:55 and it's not you know; well when He comes 16:56 He's gonna make up the difference. 16:58 Oh! I want you to think with me. 16:59 So, I put it together here and I want you to 17:02 put it together too in your studies. 17:04 When we see the word perfect, 17:05 when you see the word perfection? 17:08 It has the meaning, listen carefully. 17:10 It has the meaning of living, what? 17:13 Without sin. Living without what? 17:16 Living without sin 'cause perfect in the Bible 17:19 means perfect. Perfection, living without sinning. 17:25 Oh! The plan of salvation embraces to me 17:28 this thought. Listen to me very carefully. 17:31 The plan of salvation does what? 17:33 Oh! Right there its, its just complete rescue. 17:37 Notice this, complete recovery from the power 17:40 of the enemy. Does that make sense? 17:42 God wants us to came out of the grasp 17:44 of the old devil and he wants us to do what? 17:47 Completely rescue us; he wants to completely 17:50 have us to recover from the power of the enemy, 17:53 that's good news. You say, well what? 17:55 You, are you really getting this from scripture? 17:58 You remember First John 3 verse 8. 18:00 The Bible says that Jesus came, 18:02 listen to destroy the works of whom? 18:06 Of the devil. Exactly, Jesus came to destroy 18:10 the works of the devil. So, what we need today 18:13 is Christ character, we need to take it, 18:17 it needs to be ours, He's offering it to us today. 18:20 He wants us to have it. It's imperative that 18:22 we have it. We cannot continue on the way 18:24 that we're going on and on and on, 18:26 we sin and we ask for forgiveness 18:28 and we go on and we live in the world, 18:29 we talk and we act like the world and, 18:31 Jesus is looking for people to be like Him. 18:34 In this study before that latter rain can fall, 18:36 we'll see it will fall only on those who are be 18:39 like by the grace of God like Jesus. 18:42 Man that's heavy duty. How, how can that 18:44 happen in our life? As I mentioned a while ago 18:47 some people say, well I've read these verses 18:50 that you've just quote and all we're just, 18:52 we're just touching on the edges now of scripture 18:55 that we will be bringing in to this study. 18:57 Way too many passage of scriptures for us 18:59 to ignore the plan that God has for us, 19:03 but some will say, oh! I've, I've read those 19:04 and here's what I think they mean. 19:06 I think that God wants us to be consecrated. 19:08 Praise God He does. I think God wants us 19:11 to be mature, oh! I think He does too. 19:14 I think God wants us to be dedicated. 19:16 Oh! I do too. Our lives should be that way, 19:20 but now think who says that that's all 19:22 there is to it. Who says? The Bible says more 19:26 than that. So, I said well we just kind of 19:29 dedicated and we're consecrated 19:30 and we kind of live. Well, we're gonna have to be 19:32 like Him, we're gonna have to be without 19:33 a spot or a wrinkle or any such thing. 19:38 We still have to deal with so many 19:40 more patches, patches. Let me just give you 19:41 a couple because of our time here. 19:44 Let me give you like Romans 6 verse 18. 19:47 And I'm just I'm gonna read just part of it here. 19:48 It says, "Being made free from sin." 19:54 Paul know what he was talking about because of 19:57 Jesus Christ I have been made what? 19:59 Free from sin. Well, how is that 20:01 we're still sinning? How is that we're still 20:03 you know, get falling into sin and having 20:05 this problem, we're fighting. He said, 20:07 being because of Jesus being made free from sin. 20:10 See I, I'm challenged with this passage; 20:13 there must be something we've been missing 20:15 for a long time maybe in the movement, excuses. 20:20 How about Colossians 4:12. 20:23 He said, "That ye may stand perfect 20:26 and complete in all the will of God." 20:30 That doesn't sound like living for the devil 20:32 part time and living for Jesus being perfect 20:35 in all the will of God. Now, with this in mind, 20:37 if there's been a little bomb that's dropped 20:40 on you right now. How about me giving you a, 20:42 a bigger that is more explosion right now, 20:44 what do you say? Why because sometime 20:45 it's what he's gonna take to get me you up 20:47 and busy and make the corrections that we need 20:50 in our lives. This is found in 20:52 Five Testimonies 2:16. Remember these things 20:55 that I give you with Spirit of prophecy, 20:57 they will harmonize 100% with scripture 20:59 or I would not use them. And you know, 21:02 you feel free to write in and discuss 21:04 it if you would like to. Here's, here's 21:05 what it says, this is heavy duty. 21:07 Now, it's the time to prepare 'cause 21:11 we've been talking about the seal of God. 21:12 Remember you're neither going to have 21:14 the seal of God, this is found in those who 21:16 you may not studied it, Revelation chapter 7 21:19 starting with verse 2. There is the seal of God. 21:22 You will be there, just have the seal of God 21:24 or have what? The mark of the beast, 21:26 that's all there is to it. And so, we have to be 21:29 sealed with God, right? Well, we have to have 21:30 the power of the Holy Spirit inside of the 21:33 latter rain experience, but notice what it says. 21:36 Now, it's the time for prepare. 21:38 This is what most of us are missing 21:39 and have been and may I be so bold to say 21:42 in the advent movement for many, many years 21:43 including myself. We somehow missed it, 21:46 we don't like the word prepare because it, 21:49 it demands something of us, 21:52 we must be prepared. Now, notice what it says, 21:54 "The seal of God can never be placed 21:57 upon the forehead." Quickly, the seal of God, 22:01 if you don't have the seal of God you can't 22:03 go to Heaven. That's as simple as I can put it, 22:06 it's what I understand. 22:07 And I hope you understand it too. 22:10 Now, what did it say? "The seal of God 22:12 can never be placed upon the forehead 22:16 of an impure man or woman." Is that clear? 22:22 Some of you're saying, well the, the seal of God 22:23 can't be put on the forehead of an impure 22:26 man or woman. It will never placed upon the 22:30 forehead of the ambitious, 22:32 world-loving man or woman. What does that mean? 22:35 When you say to ambitious world-loving? 22:38 Seal of God cannot be placed upon the forehead 22:40 of someone in the world just working 22:42 for a gain and things of this world. 22:44 They're working for fame; they're working for power 22:48 and wealth in this world. That's all they have 22:51 in their minds, the seal of God can never be 22:53 placed on the man or a woman. 22:56 If this is what it is. And now reading on, 22:59 "it will never be placed on the forehead of 23:02 men and women of false tongues 23:05 or deceitful hearts." It will never be placed upon 23:09 those who are cheaters, those that are liars, 23:13 that are, those that are deceptive, 23:16 those that are false, dishonest, it can't. 23:20 The seal of God can never be placed, 23:21 so that sin is, it's got, it's got to go. 23:24 All, let's, let's here's, here's the line, 23:26 here give the, give the drum roll, 23:28 somebody make some noise. 23:29 Listen, the seal of God must be what? 23:34 "All who receive the seal of God must be 23:38 without spot before God." 23:43 I can't really hear you. "All who receive the 23:46 seal of must be without spot before God 23:49 and candidates for what?" For heaven. 23:52 Friend, are you without spot today or wrinkle 23:56 or any such thing? God can't give us the 23:59 latter rain experience, we can't give the loud cry, 24:03 we can't go through the time of trouble, 24:06 we can't go through the little time of trouble, 24:08 big time of trouble, Sunday law, all these 24:11 things that are coming up. 24:14 In fact, let me just give you another here quickly 24:15 Five Testimonies 2:14, "Not one of us will ever 24:19 receive the seal of the living God while our 24:22 characters have on spot or stain upon them." 24:27 What? None of us will ever be able to receive 24:29 the seal of the living God, if there's one spot 24:32 or one stain upon our characters." 24:35 It is left to us to remedy, by the what? 24:38 By the grace of God. The defects in our character 24:41 take them to him, committed to him 24:44 to cleanse, listen this, to cleanse the soul temple 24:47 of every defilement." Listen, "Then the latter 24:52 rain will fall upon us." When will the 24:55 latter rain fall? It says here when every 24:57 defilement, every defilement is cleansed 25:00 from this temple. When sin is gone then we can 25:04 receive the latter rain, it will fall upon us as it fell 25:08 upon the disciples at the Day of Pentecost. 25:11 See, I want that Pentecost experience, 25:13 how about you? But God's promise greater 25:16 measures of, of power and strength and, 25:18 and victory here in the last days, 25:20 He wants to seal His people, 25:22 He wants us to have that power, 25:23 He wants us to give that loud cry, 25:25 and oh! Friends we're looking right now. 25:27 We're going to, we, we need to give 25:28 a cry right now, the world needs to awake 25:31 to what's going on in this world. I read a little 25:34 book Christ's Object Lesson page 316, 25:37 It says, "Christ righteousness will not 25:40 cover one cherished sin." 25:46 He is right, without His righteousness, 25:48 His robe of righteousness, His victories we can go 25:52 to heaven. You hear me say that on and on, 25:54 but I want you to get that, 25:55 I need to get that in my life. 25:58 He can't, he can't cover one cherished, 26:00 what's that mean? One sin that you won't give up, 26:04 that you won't submit to Him. 26:05 He can never let you have this what? 26:07 Robe of righteousness, His righteous character, 26:10 the victory which is his that He offers to us. 26:12 Oh! Friend, listen to this, we're talking 26:15 latter rain, where does it really begin? 26:17 What is begin in out to me? Listen, give your life 26:19 to Jesus today, this is where it really begins 26:22 without any kind of reserve, no with 26:25 holding back, just commit your life to Him 26:28 right now, right today, why not do it today? 26:30 Hebrews 4:17 says you know, 26:32 today if you will what? If you will hear His voice. 26:37 Why not do it today? This is where it stops. 26:39 Now, I want you to get this truth here 26:40 because of our time and we're moving quickly, 26:43 but we've got to do it. Listen, real dynamite 26:45 in the word of God, in the Spirit of Prophecy 26:47 that we as a people, oh dear friends, most of us, 26:50 and I'm gonna read this, listen to me. 26:51 We are not ready to receive the latter rain 26:56 and there's reasons why? How sad that is? 27:01 Remember in the Bible and, and God sets things 27:04 in order one truth hinges upon another. 27:08 Now, I want you to think with me just a moment. 27:11 One Bible truth, you have a what? 27:12 You have a truth, you have another truth 27:15 hinged to that, hinged, hinged, hinged. 27:18 And we're going to, I want you to follow 27:19 this with me, this is imperative that 27:21 we get this. We cannot afford to reject, what? 27:25 One ray of light. Desire of Ages beautiful book 27:30 on the life of Christ page 322 makes 27:32 the statement, listen. The impressions of the 27:35 Holy Spirit is, if disregarded today, 27:38 did you get that? If you disregard the 27:40 Holy Spirit said, don't do that, this is not the 27:43 best way to walk and you do it anyway, 27:44 if you disregarded today will not 27:46 be strong tomorrow. The heart becomes less 27:51 impressionable as, as it lapses. Notice this into 27:54 a perilous unconsciousness. You ever, you ever have 27:58 that in your brain sometime where it's like a 28:00 smoke stream, if you can't think clearly, 28:03 this is what sin will do that will cloud what? 28:05 It will cloud our thinking. 28:08 And what impresses us today, if we reject it will 28:10 not impress us strong tomorrow because 28:12 we've rejected that. Now, follow with me 28:14 these examples. If you follow this you're going 28:17 to see how it's working? As we're, we're seeking 28:19 for being able to be fit to stand in the sight 28:23 of the Holy God, being fit to receive the 28:25 latter rain. Now, in scripture friends, 28:28 let's go back we go back, listen there are 28:30 passage after passage of prophecy that told 28:33 about the coming of Jesus, that's true, 28:34 isn't it? You know, but He would come that would be, 28:37 that would be a redeemer, He would be, 28:39 He would be born in a manger then we come 28:42 He would live the, the perfect life 28:44 and He would die for our sins and He would rise up, 28:47 up again and, and He's going to come back 28:49 and he take us all to heaven. 28:51 All those things in scripture, but listen 28:53 carefully what happens now. 28:54 This, if these prophecies were rejected. 28:59 The prophecy what? The coming of Jesus Christ, 29:01 if they were rejected, notice this, 29:03 the way it was being prepared. 29:06 Remember one truth what? Hinges upon another. 29:09 So, if we reject these prophecies then we were 29:11 preparing our self to reject the forerunner 29:14 which is who? Was John the Baptist. 29:16 So when John the Baptist began to preach 29:18 about the coming of the Messiah and Jesus Christ 29:20 we didn't accept it before. 29:22 And so we rejected John too. 29:24 One truth hinges on another, we reject it 29:27 then we reject the next light, and we reject 29:29 the next and we continue to rejecting 29:30 and rejecting. And then when you reject John, 29:34 the people oh! Listen, when you reject 29:36 John the Baptist you were preparing to do what? 29:39 Somebody say it. Reject Jesus Christ. 29:43 And then when you, when you prepare to reject 29:46 Jesus Christ did not, people did not realize 29:49 that they, they were preparing themselves 29:52 to reject the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 29:55 Pentecost remember Jesus, that's He wanted 29:59 to pour his Spirit upon them, 30:00 but they rejected Him, His birth and rejected 30:03 John the Baptist, and rejected Jesus, 30:04 rejecting Jesus they rejected the power 30:07 of the Holy Spirit of Pentecost. 30:09 Well, I want to see how these hinge on one 30:11 on the other, it continues on as light 30:14 is given now we're rejected, if we receive it 30:17 or reject it. Early writings says just 30:19 has a good comment here and, and this make 30:21 sense in Adventism, we believe strongly 30:24 in The Three Angels Message. 30:26 This makes sense, if people reject the 30:30 First Angel's Message, listen they're preparing 30:32 the way to do what? To reject the Second 30:35 Angel's Message, if they reject the 30:37 Second Angel's Message, they are preparing 30:39 to self to reject what? 30:41 Good, the Third Angel's Message, 30:42 the Third Angel's Message leads us where? 30:45 Where does it lead? It leads us into the most 30:47 Holy Place and the judgment hour in 1844. 30:51 And all the beautiful truths that surround it. 30:56 And so, we reject the judgment, 30:57 and we reject, so one, one rejection then what? 31:00 Leads us to reject, reject, reject. 31:03 And it goes even deeper; you say well 1844 31:06 you know the judgment, great disappointment. 31:09 Oh! Friend 1888, oh! Listen, 31:12 some people they're just so touchy. 31:16 This was a God given special message called 31:21 righteousness by face, faith that He gave to 31:24 His people in 1888, which is controversy about it, 31:28 but it seems in my study to reject it. 31:31 What was 1888? Righteousness by faith. 31:34 Listen very carefully, this my friend was the 31:37 beginning of 1888, was the beginning of the 31:40 latter rain and the loud cry, which God wanted 31:43 to pour out in 1888. Some of you won't 31:45 understand it, but I know many of the people will. 31:49 It was the beginning point, but what? 31:51 It was rejected. We didn't follow through it. 31:54 Remember, when you reject one time you start 31:56 rejecting another and another righteousness 32:00 by faith, 1888 was the present truth message, 32:03 dealing with victory over sin, completely 32:06 overcoming, the character of God, 32:08 vindicating His character, dealing with 32:10 the nature of Christ. These are things 32:12 that we so desperately need in our life. 32:17 Now, let me just give you a couple of little 32:19 readings here to kind of help you, 32:20 because some people get so bend 32:22 out of shape and say, well you know, 32:23 we didn't reject that message, you did, 32:25 oh friend, there's ample, ample. 32:28 Instructions that we read from Spirit of Prophecy 32:30 10, 12, 14 years later saying, 32:32 what a disappointment? But let me just say this, 32:35 let me read Testimonies to Ministers 393, 32:37 1896 eight years after 1888. It says, 32:42 "The Holy Spirit has been insulted, 32:45 and the light has been rejected." 32:49 See when we reject light, what happens? 32:52 If we begin to reject everything else that's 32:54 associated with it. How can we receive 32:56 the promise, if we reject the message? 32:59 Friend, this is something here General Conference 33:01 Bulletin just get this quickly 1893 says this, 33:05 "If hearts had been ready to receive the message 33:08 which God sent. We would have been in the midst 33:12 of the wonders of the loud cry itself." 33:17 You see, we had to accept the message by faith 33:19 and go proclaim it and the end would have been 33:21 shortly heir we would been what? 33:22 Good in the Kingdom most of you realize that. 33:26 And as we, and we talk about 33:28 completely overcoming, we talk about, 33:30 now remember I'm gonna say this point here, 33:31 I'm gonna make it real clear, 33:33 in the early rain which is what? 33:35 Accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior 33:37 we're talking about the, the, you know, 33:39 born again experience accepting Him. 33:42 It's a part in which we need to gain victory 33:45 in our life. This is where we gain victory 33:48 over sin and then we continue on. 33:50 Most people say, oh! We just you know, 33:51 Holy Spirit good, the early rain experience 33:54 and oh! Friend, we, we have to receive the, 33:56 the early rain and then if we accept the early 33:59 rain by faith and then we're what? 34:01 We're able to receive the latter rain 34:03 as we continue to grow in His grace 34:05 and in His strength and if we receive to get the 34:07 latter rain to given then we receive what? 34:09 Good of the seal of God. The early rain, 34:13 the latter rain and the Seal of God. 34:14 We'll make that little clear now as, 34:16 as, as we go along here. Desire of Ages 323 makes 34:19 the statement it says here, 34:20 it is not only by resistance, 34:23 but neglect that the soul is destroyed. 34:27 How is the soul destroyed? 34:30 Not so much even resistant and fighting by neglect, 34:33 we're unprepared for the time in which we live. 34:36 And what we're about to go through in our 34:38 experience is not what it should be. 34:41 And the devil is keeping us occupied while 34:43 we're not preparing. So, we need to get back 34:46 to what we call, present truth. 34:49 Do you remember Peter talked about that 34:50 in Second Peter 1 verse 12 he said, 34:52 "Wherefore I will not be negligent to put 34:54 you always in remembrance of these 34:57 things, that you know them, and be 34:59 established in what? In present truth." 35:03 There's, there's a message for right now 35:05 for God's people. And we need to be studying 35:08 that message like never before. 35:09 Early Writings page 71 notice this, 35:11 "I saw that many were neglecting the 35:14 preparation so needful, and we're looking 35:17 to the times of what? Refreshing and 35:19 the latter rain." People are doing what? 35:22 Looking for refreshing or looking for what? 35:24 The latter rain is going to be the refreshing 35:26 and equip God's people to go on, 35:27 but they're doing what? They were neglecting 35:30 preparation. I'm gonna talk about that 35:31 preparation, I want to get that before 35:33 we end today I've just, we've just got to do it. 35:35 Because they're neglecting we are 35:36 neglecting this refreshing the latter rain 35:39 Notice this, "To stand and to fit them 35:43 to stand in the day of the Lord." You know, 35:45 the title of the message, yeah we know 35:47 fits to stand in the sight of a Holy God. 35:50 So, we're looking forward to live 35:52 in His sight. "O, how many I saw in the time 35:56 of trouble without a shelter! They had no help, 36:00 they had what? They had neglected 36:03 the needful preparation; therefore listen, 36:06 they could not receive the refreshing, what is it? 36:08 The latter rain, they all must have to fit them 36:11 to live in the sight of a Holy God." 36:16 That's heavy, isn't it? It wasn't that God didn't 36:19 want to give it to them, but we neglected 36:22 our needful, what? Preparation to stand 36:25 in the sight of God and how many was seen 36:28 that with living you know, at the time 36:29 just say, oh! I have no shelter. 36:32 We realize what a shelter we need in the 36:34 arms of God right now? Early Writings 280 36:39 and 1 just says this, it says, 36:41 "In the fearful time after the close of Jesus' 36:44 mediation." Listen carefully, "The saints 36:47 were living in the sight of a holy God 36:50 without an intercessor." I don't think some 36:55 of you got that. What were the saints doing? 36:57 The fearful time after Jesus mediation. 37:00 Now, I wish I had more time, 37:02 but I'll give you his passage. 37:03 Look up when you can, Revelation 15 verse 8, 37:06 you'll see the smoke fills the temple of God 37:08 and, and what, that means it's done. 37:10 Revelation 16 verse 17 he says once again, 37:13 it is finished. That means when He's finished 37:15 working as our mediator He stands up, 37:18 probation has closed, it's all over 37:20 and the saints it said will be living 37:23 in the sight of a Holy God within out 37:25 of intercessor. What does it need? 37:27 What is this needful preparation that 37:29 we are neglecting today? It's very simple, 37:32 but we are neglecting this. 37:34 There is just four little points, let me give them 37:35 to you real, just real quick here. 37:37 In order to receive the outpouring of the 37:39 latter rain to have us body soul this temple 37:41 ready to receive the power of God. 37:45 Number one friend, number one we must daily 37:47 see to be converted by God. 37:50 We need the conversion experience everyday 37:51 of our life. Some of you can't take it once 37:54 a week or once a month maybe you've an 37:55 alter called the Church, everyday of our life. 37:58 We need to be dedicating our life 38:00 to Him, fully converted daily to ask God to 38:05 give us victory complete victory 38:07 over self and over sin, that this vessel can be 38:10 can totally clean without spot or stain upon it, 38:13 that He can fill me with His Spirit because 38:15 if there is one unconfessed sin in our 38:18 whole life, He cannot give me the power 38:20 of the Holy Spirit. He can't do it. 38:24 Isn't that awesome? That's food for thought. 38:27 They say oh! God I'm, I'm fighting with this, 38:29 I give it to him today, quit fighting and give 38:31 it to God. Number three, we have to live up 38:37 to every ray of light, that's our next subject. 38:40 Every ray of light that God shines upon 38:43 our pathway and then begging for more, 38:47 you can't be saying, well I know this is, 38:48 but I'm not doing it, you're not living up 38:50 to every ray of light and there's so many 38:52 today that know what truth is and you just 38:54 refuse to do it, you think you've got all 38:57 you know, I've got years ahead of me, 38:59 you may not have those years, you may not 39:00 have those months. And, and even if you had 39:03 a few years dear friend you're not gaining 39:06 an experience that you need trusting Jesus, 39:09 walking with Jesus, just responding to the call 39:12 of the Holy Spirit even when things doesn't 39:14 just seem right, when God said go, 39:16 just go. When He says stop, just stop. 39:19 Even if it doesn't make sense to us. 39:22 Friend, this is what is talking about is living 39:24 the life of holiness that we can hear God's speak, 39:27 and we respond to Him. Number four, when we do 39:31 these things that's being converted daily 39:34 trying to being complete victory over 39:36 sin in our life, living up to every ray of life 39:38 that we have, number four is seek to win souls. 39:43 When you are truly converted, 39:44 you're gonna be the soul winners for Jesus; 39:46 there is no doubt about it. 39:47 You're living witnesses; you're a living testimony 39:50 for His honor and for His glory. 39:52 Man that's awesome, didn't we think about it? 39:54 Now, let's go back quickly and let's go over 39:56 some things because I'm afraid you're gonna forget. 39:59 What is it? If you've never maybe even studied 40:01 this before, this is gonna be simple, 40:02 but I'm, I think it's going to help you, 40:03 but I must go quickly. Notice what, now what 40:07 is the purpose of the, they were talking about 40:10 the rain, what is the purpose of the rain? 40:11 What does rain mean? Let me make this 40:13 statement quickly, it's a complete difference 40:16 between the early rain and the latter rain 40:18 they're, they're different, okay. 40:21 Now, notice rain represents in the Bible what? 40:25 Good Holy Spirit, very good, okay good. 40:27 And so, we see here the early rain 40:29 and the latter rain is found even 40:32 in the Old Testament. I'd like to be able to 40:35 read all this, I don't know if I'll be 40:36 able to or not, but jot them down. 40:38 Zachariah chapter 10 verse 1, I just simply ask 40:42 of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain. 40:45 And you can read all the rest of it, 40:46 when you get chance, the Bible talks about it. 40:49 Number two, notice Isaiah 44:3 now jot them down. 40:53 He said, "For I will pour water upon him that 40:55 is thirsty, floods upon dry ground: 40:59 I will pour my spirit upon the seed, 41:01 thy seed and blessing upon thine offspring." 41:04 What a blessing. Joel 2:23, it says, 41:08 "Be glad ye children of Zion, 41:10 rejoice in the Lord your God: notice, for he hath 41:13 given you, what? Good, the former rain 41:15 moderately, and he will cause to come down 41:18 for you the rain, notice the former rain 41:21 and the latter rain in the first month." 41:25 Keep this in mind as we look and one of these 41:27 days maybe we'll just get a chart up here, 41:28 which we really need to see what's going on here. 41:30 Remember, the former rain, the early rain, 41:33 we'll continue to work right on through early 41:35 rains when you accept Jesus as your Lord 41:37 and your Savior, right, you give a, 41:38 and He pours his Spirit on you, and you'll continue 41:41 right on into the close, what? When probation 41:43 closes for the end of the world and the latter rain, 41:46 so it will be an ongoing, why? Because there's 41:48 eleventh hour workers that maybe 41:50 never accepting, but they'll set, set Jesus, 41:52 they will get the early rain and they also 41:54 receive what? Good, the latter rain, see a lot of 41:57 material to cover, isn't it? Well we, we need 42:01 this study like never ever before. 42:03 You remember Matthew 13 verse 39. 42:06 Bible talks about there is a harvest. 42:08 And the Bible says, when is the harvest. 42:11 Matthew 13 says there that the harvest is the, 42:14 in the end of what? End of the world. 42:17 So, we have the first or the early rain 42:19 we have you know, the early rain, 42:21 we have the, the latter rain. 42:23 Now, remember one depends upon the other. 42:25 You just can't say, well I've, I've had the 42:26 early rain, I've been born again. 42:29 You know the crop the harvest depends upon 42:33 the early rain and the latter rain. 42:35 Let me try to explain that, one without 42:37 the other what? No, it's not going to work. 42:40 What is the purpose of the early rain? 42:42 Let's put it in a nutshell because of time. 42:44 It is essential, the early rain is essential 42:47 because what does it do? That early rain 42:49 that comes upon us; it softens the soil of what? 42:52 Of the heart. It makes us receptive to, 42:55 to God's word. Number two, after the softening 42:59 you see of the heart, the soil then 43:01 it's able to what? After you till the soil up 43:04 and then you begin to plant and you begin 43:07 to sow which is what? The word of God 43:09 in the heart. Number three, let's look quickly 43:12 we got this, what? There is a softening, 43:14 there is a sowing. Number three, 43:16 there is germination. What does that mean? 43:19 That means a seed begins to sprout, 43:21 it starts developing, it starts growing 43:24 from a seed. That's a process now, 43:27 that's we talk early rain. Now, the purpose 43:29 of the latter rain just quickly here. 43:32 The grain or we're talking about the seed 43:34 cannot ripen fully without the latter rain. 43:38 It just can't come, it just can't ripen. 43:40 Number two; it brings the grain to full maturity, 43:44 that's the latter rain. Number three; 43:47 there could be no harvest without the latter rain. 43:52 Matthew 4 verse 28, it says, Remember, 43:54 first the blade within the ear and then what? 43:57 And then the, then the, the full corn. 43:59 So, we see the purpose of the early rain 44:01 and of the latter rain. Now let's get down 44:04 to this now. Testimonies to Ministers, it's a nice 44:06 little book page 506 makes the statement. 44:09 "The Lord employs these operations of nature, 44:12 what we've been talking about, to represent 44:14 the work of the Holy Spirit. 44:16 As the dew or the rain are given first to cause 44:20 the seed, which is the seed, what? 44:22 The word of God good, to germinate what? 44:25 To start to grow and to sprout and to ripen 44:28 for the harvest. So, the Holy Spirit is given 44:32 to carry, notice this, forward from one stage 44:36 to another, the process of spiritual growth." 44:42 You get that, again if you miss it, 44:44 you're gonna be in trouble. 44:45 You're gonna be in trouble if you miss 44:47 it here. We're talking about the Holy Spirit 44:48 is given; latter rain is called what, 44:50 because we're going to develop from 44:51 one stage what? One stage to another called 44:55 spiritual growth. Friend, we're gonna be growing, 44:58 a wonderful thing. Are you ready to grow with Jesus? 45:02 Oh! I'll tell you, I want to grow with Jesus. 45:04 So, we see a two-fold work here quickly 45:06 of the Holy Spirit is to prepare the earth, 45:10 earth is what? The people for the last great 45:13 final harvest, is that not, but is that work 45:16 of the Holy Spirit and what is that the 45:18 harvest of. The harvest of souls, 45:21 this is a great what we're talking about harvest, 45:23 people being ready to meet Jesus, 45:26 so we have the former rain. 45:28 Notice this; the former rain was not limited 45:30 to the early Church. Some people say, 45:32 well the former rain was given to the disciples 45:34 and the early Church, it was not just for 45:37 the early Church, it continues until the 45:39 end of time, does it make sense? 45:41 You have to have what? The early rain 45:44 and the latter rain. Even right up very close 45:47 to the very close of probation, 45:49 there will be people that will be talked about 45:51 will be accepting Jesus they will accept 45:53 Him in their life, they will receive of the early 45:55 rain and they will be, and in the early rain 45:57 experience we're to gain victory over sin, 46:01 not as the latter rain comes in the first stage 46:03 of it we're to gain the victory. 46:05 So, that will be quick for the latter rain. 46:07 See, this is heavy duty. Most of us had that 46:10 backwards or have all over life; 46:11 we don't think it's ever going to happen. 46:14 The latter rain will be poured out on the 46:17 remnant Church, aren't you, praise God for that? 46:19 It's going to be closed out, notice this at the 46:21 close poured out, at the close of its work. 46:26 Before Jesus comes, that's what it's gonna be 46:28 poured out. So, notice it. When we are converted 46:31 we receive what? The former or the early rain, 46:34 which is a Holy Spirit in moderate measure? 46:37 Notice, this former rain leads man to 46:39 overcome what? Good, all sin, to reflect 46:43 Jesus fully, have you ever thought, 46:44 have you thought of that? 46:45 Have you really been digging? 46:48 Or you're looking for some other spiritual high, 46:50 somewhere along the line that are happen, 46:52 it's when you accept Jesus fully into your life 46:55 in the former rain or the early rain 46:57 that we are to reflect Jesus fully. 47:01 The former rain continues through the entire 47:03 Christian experience, leads me into have 47:06 complete victory over sin and as the latter 47:09 time comes, the latter rain we called the time 47:12 of refreshing which we need from God, 47:13 it's a Baptism of the Holy Spirit in great 47:17 abundance. This Baptism of the Holy Spirit 47:19 empowers God's people dear friend to give 47:22 the loud cry. Are you ready to give that? 47:27 Friend, if you receive oh! Friend, 47:29 but well let me warn you here's the time 47:31 that we have, if we put off preparation 47:35 we're going to come to the time of trouble 47:37 unprepared, our characters will be undeveloped, 47:41 there will be no spiritual power, 47:43 there will be no stick to it, there will be 47:45 no experience, our love and our faith is not 47:48 developed and it will not endure unto the end. 47:52 Oh! How heavy duty? Got something concerns here, 47:55 you want to go to heaven, you have to be 47:56 it's more than, oh! I wanna, I wanna, 47:58 I want a mansion, I just wanna spend time 48:00 in eternity with Jesus as a reward, 48:04 it's got to be more than that. 48:06 If we really want to be born again, 48:08 we really want to be out winning souls 48:10 for Jesus right now, we want to warn the 48:12 world of His soon coming right now. 48:15 As we get ready, as we receive His power, 48:18 notice this that God's character then is going 48:21 to be vindicated to the world, His character 48:25 you see it's going to be made known, 48:26 it's going to be glorified. 48:27 Number four, if we really look at it here, 48:29 sin then is going to come to an end, 48:32 aren't you looking forward to that, 48:33 sin is going to be coming to an end. 48:35 And you know what? We won't have to wound 48:37 and Christ will not have to suffer anymore. 48:40 Are you ready for that? There's more concerns 48:43 here, but we must consider and, and written 48:45 a while back, but I've got to get this out 48:47 right now, I've got to get it off of my 48:48 shoulders right now, this prompted part of the 48:51 study as I read from One Testimony 466, 48:54 oh! That's powerful. Notice with me what it says, 48:58 nearly all, nearly all who professed to believe 49:03 present truth, do you believe present truth? 49:05 Oh! Yeah, yeah man, we believe present truth. 49:07 All, nearly all who professed the present 49:10 truth are wholly unfitted to receive 49:13 the latter rain, if that doesn't make you weak? 49:18 All who say we believe in what, present truth. 49:22 We have a message which to get, 49:23 almost all are wholly unfit to receive 49:25 the latter rain, Desire of Ages remember 3:23 said, 49:29 it is not by resistance, we've read before, 49:31 but what? By neglect that the soul is destroyed. 49:35 Desire of Ages 3:22 notice, 49:37 "When one ray of light is disregarded we've been 49:39 talking about this, there is a partial what? 49:42 Benumbing of the spiritual perception 49:45 and the second revealing of this light 49:47 is less clearly discerned." Oh! Friend, 49:50 Five Testimony 6:81 notice this, 49:53 "To disregard light is to reject light." 49:58 Did you get that? To disregard what? 50:01 Light is to reject it. So, those who hear the 50:04 truth and they say we understand it, 50:06 but they won't accept it, they're rejecting 50:08 that light. Oh! We're neutral there is no such 50:10 thing as neutrality in the cause of Christ. 50:14 You either accept it or you don't and if you, 50:16 oh! Friend, if you neglect that light, 50:17 how can we go onto another truth 50:20 and more experience, we can't, one truth 50:22 hinges on the other. Great Controversy 6:23 50:25 says notice, listen, listen this is powerful. 50:28 "Not even by thought could our Savior 50:31 be brought to yield to the power of temptation." 50:34 Not even by, what? Not even by thought 50:37 could ye yield to the power of temptation. 50:38 Listen, there was no sin in Him, 50:42 this just got me. As I studied and I read it, 50:44 I closed the book, I closed the book and said, 50:47 oh! God help me, why? Because of it, 50:51 there was no sin in Him. "This is the condition 50:55 in which those must be found who shall stand 50:59 in the time of trouble." 51:03 Some of you didn't get it. 51:08 Please think with me. 51:11 "This is the condition in which those must be 51:15 found who shall stand in the time of trouble." 51:18 Are you going to be standing in the 51:19 time of trouble, are you? You said, 51:23 then we have to be like Jesus, this is a condition, 51:27 not even by a thought. Five Testimonies 1:36, 51:30 "God's people will be tested by fiery trials, 51:34 and the greater portion of those who now 51:36 appear to be genuine and true will prove 51:39 to be base metal." We talking Sunday Law here 51:43 aren't we? We're talking about when laws 51:44 are passed, when the test comes people saying, 51:46 yeah we love Jesus, we want Jesus to come, 51:49 but we're making no preparation for it, 51:51 God help us, God's people will be tested 51:54 by fiery trials, we need an experience, 51:57 we cannot make it, we're gonna be burned up 51:59 by these trials, did you get it? 52:01 Unless we have an experience with Jesus. 52:04 And then the sad part is present truth believers, 52:07 a greater portion then we now appear to be, 52:10 they're genuine and true, they're going to be 52:12 base metal. Here's a test general, 52:15 Great Controversy page 257, 1891 says this, 52:19 "When the law of God is made void, 52:21 the Church will be sifted by fiery trials, 52:24 and a larger portion than we now anticipate, 52:27 listen, will give heed to seducing spirits 52:31 and doctrines of devils." You mean God's people, 52:34 people is supposed to know what truth is here. 52:36 When the fiery trials come, a larger portion 52:39 than we now anticipate, they're gonna be 52:42 give heed to seducing spirits, you mean you, 52:44 you're gonna fill out all the things that 52:46 you want thought was truth and what is right, 52:48 doctrines of devils and you wondered how 52:52 Israel could do the things that that they did 52:54 back then. Anyway we, we may do worse. 52:58 Have you forgotten our purpose here? 53:01 Actually Apostle Page 48, it says the ambition 53:03 talking about the, of the believers on the 53:05 Day of Pentecost, oh! How we need this was 53:08 to reveal the likeness of Christ character. 53:10 This is what they were set on fire with here 53:12 to labor for the enlargement of 53:14 His Kingdom. Friend, are you wanting to, 53:16 you wanting to represent Jesus, 53:18 the likeness of His character, 53:19 you want to be a soul winner for Him, 53:21 this is what it's all about, but I'm praying 53:23 God help me. In Acts, Acts chapter 4 verse 33 53:26 it says, "Great grace was upon them." 53:28 Oh! Friend, do we need God's grace, 53:30 oh! Friend I do, I could tell you right now, 53:32 I need that. And you know the importance 53:35 of this subject just cannot be expressed enough. 53:39 It just can't be our, our salvation depends 53:42 upon it, of our accepting the early 53:45 and the latter rain with its conditions, 53:49 we have to be without what spot or wrinkle, 53:52 not a stain, not a blemish in our character, 53:55 in our life, before we can receive the latter rain, 53:58 we can't make it without it, we can't go 54:00 through the time of trouble, our character 54:02 has to be purified now by what? Test and trials. 54:07 God thank you for those little workmen 54:10 that you have through test and trials. 54:14 To be able to, to stand in the Sight of 54:18 the Holy God. Friend are you getting 54:22 a stand in the Sight of Holy God without Jesus 54:24 standing for us right now we'll be consumed 54:26 in a moment, but the time will come that 54:28 God's people have perfected His character. 54:31 Well, by beholding Him, by living friend 54:33 no longer their thought, no longer their mind, 54:34 but the mind of Jesus, oh! Don't you sense 54:38 that I need to change, oh I do. 54:40 Oh! It's heavy duty, oh! Lord help us. 54:43 As we study the next time that we've come 54:45 together only those who are living up to the 54:49 light that they have will receive greater light. 54:52 Friends, you don't wanna miss it, 54:53 not one portion, we need to pray right 54:54 now because we're gonna be standing 54:56 in the sight of the Holy God, sin has to go 54:58 or would you pray with me in the closing 54:59 moment that we have? Kneel with me if, 55:02 if, if you can, if not pray that we'll let the 55:05 Holy Spirit consume us, let's pray. 55:08 Merciful Father in Heaven, 55:09 we thank you for your precious work, 55:11 thank you for reminding us, thank you for 55:13 giving us scripture like you said you know, 55:15 we're to be free from sin, we're to be 55:18 perfect as our Father which art in heaven is, 55:20 we're to gain victory over every defilement, 55:23 everything in our life, it doesn't need to be 55:25 there over the, the enemy. Can't do it on 55:27 our own, oh how we, how much we need your 55:29 strength and your power. We must receive 55:31 the early rain and be prepared, 55:33 be perfect before God and receive the latter 55:36 rain and have the seal of God, pray in a special 55:39 way that you anoint this word as it goes out, 55:41 may it bring conviction upon the hearts 55:42 and lives of the people. And I thank you 55:44 for it right now, in Jesus name, amen. 55:48 Man, aren't you glad today? That we have 55:50 a savior who cares for us, well I do, 55:52 I praise God for that, what? If this is not a 55:54 heavy message, friend you need to get on 55:56 your knees and say, God make it heavy 55:57 to me because this is life and death issue. 55:59 And God is not playing with His Church, 56:01 He means business, we need to be prepared 56:03 for His soon coming. And I want to be when 56:05 I'm talking about it, Lord give me victory 56:07 over sin, the old devil is going to come against 56:09 like never before, may God help us. 56:11 Remember by the way, pray for the ministry 56:13 here Behold the Lamb, pray for the station 56:15 and may God bless each and everyone you. 56:17 And you know we'll see you next time. 56:22 Welcome back friends, I know that the journey 56:25 through these series of messages entitled, 56:27 are you qualified to receive the latter rain 56:30 is certainly deep and examining, 56:33 but have a vital importance to the time 56:36 in which we live. Today's message was entitled 56:39 "Fit to Live in the Sight of the Holy God." 56:41 And we pray that it stirred your heart to allow 56:44 God to make the necessary changes in your lives 56:47 to do just that. The good news, 56:51 we're not finished with this series just yet, 56:53 there are three more sermons to go. 56:56 The next message is entitled, 56:58 "Those Living Up to the Light that They Have 57:01 Will Receive Greater Light." 57:03 Followed by "Our Characters Must Reach 57:05 Full Maturity Before Probation Closes," 57:08 and closing with "How to Remedy the Defects 57:12 of Our Characters." You don't wanna miss a single 57:15 message in this series. Therefore we're offering 57:18 this beautifully package five part series 57:21 to you for suggest to donation of 57:23 just $35 or more. 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