Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000032
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00:41 Hello and we welcome you to the
00:43 "Behold the Lamb Presents." 00:44 I am Chris Shelton your host, 00:45 and I'm so thankful and grateful 00:48 that you had chosen to join us today. 00:51 Today's message is the first of a three part series 00:54 that we have entitled "Slay Utterly Old and Young." 00:58 The inspiration for today's message 01:01 is found in the book of Ezekiel Chapters 8 and 9. 01:04 Here we find Ezekiel pointing out the great 01:07 wicked abominations amongst God's people. 01:10 He refers to the consequence of their choices. 01:15 He lets us know that judgment will be poured out 01:18 without mixture of mercy 01:20 and it will begin in the house of God first. 01:24 As I was preparing for this open, 01:26 I was overcome with the realization 01:28 that this is a message that all of us friends, 01:32 all of us, our loved ones, 01:33 our friends, our neighbors need to hear. 01:36 Yet, it is also a message that people 01:39 just don't want to listen to. 01:42 It is a message of warning, a warning that this earth 01:46 is soon to have full destruction. 01:49 A warning that none will escape, 01:52 yet so few want to listen, 01:54 so if you want to learn and to yield 01:56 to this warning with a true change of heart. 02:00 So many of us are continuing and continuing 02:02 to search for peace and happiness in this world 02:06 and yet, friends, the Bible teaches us 02:07 so clearly that this world will soon pass away. 02:11 And those who choose this world over God, 02:14 over His commands will indeed pass away with it. 02:18 So grab your Bibles, let's send up 02:20 a quick prayer to heaven and let's begin today's study 02:23 with Pastor Kenny Shelton, but first as always, 02:26 we're blessed to listen to a song entitled 02:29 "Eternal Life" as played by Brother Ron Woolsey. 02:34 [Music]. 05:12 Thank you for joining us today 05:13 and we do appreciate that special music 05:15 and I know it was a blessing to you. 05:17 Thanks for joining us because we have 05:18 a real study here that I believe that will, 05:22 will just cause you to really 05:23 begin to search your heart and your life. 05:26 To see where our relationship is 05:27 going with God, where it is? 05:29 Or may be some changes that need to be made. 05:31 We're studying a very, very important subject 05:35 and it's found in the book of 05:36 Ezekiel Chapter 8 and Chapter 9. 05:38 Now, our focus gonna be on Chapter 9, 05:40 but you know, in order to, to get the full picture 05:43 of the study of Ezekiel 9, we're going to have 05:45 spend some time in Ezekiel Chapter 8. 05:49 The reason for that is, we have to see 05:51 the condition of things that were going on 05:55 at that time in order for God to make the decision 05:58 that He made concerning His people. 06:01 So, we're gonna have to do some real background, 06:03 we're gonna do some real work 06:04 and so we're gonna pray for the Holy Spirit 06:06 to come into our hearts and in our lives 06:08 and help us with this most important subject. 06:11 Would you pray with me right now, would you? 06:13 Okay, good, let's pray. 06:18 Kind, loving Heavenly Father, 06:19 we thank you for the privilege of prayer. 06:21 We invite now thy Holy Spirit to come near our hearts. 06:24 We pray that you'll open our minds, 06:26 help us to hear Your voice. 06:29 May we be inspired by the power of thy Holy Spirit 06:31 to understand these things that pertain to us today 06:35 and, what you require of your people. 06:38 Thank you for those who are listening, 06:39 those who will be watching and we thank you for 06:42 every precious soul and may our hearts now be 06:44 stayed upon thee, that we may understand 06:47 the message of the hour, in Jesus name 06:49 we pray and for His sake, amen. 06:54 Again, it's always good to be 06:55 able to study together God's word. 06:57 But as we study, remember we might need 06:59 a pencil, paper and so on, and I'll bring that to you 07:02 every time because I want you to jot down 07:04 some things that we will have to hurriedly go over. 07:08 And that means we're gonna scratch the surface 07:11 and then you're gonna spend some time 07:12 in your daily devotion, I hope, of going back 07:15 and studying these things to see whether they be so. 07:18 Now, remember, the message that is given 07:21 misunderstood by many. 07:23 There will be many who'll just, just blatantly 07:26 just, just discard it and say, I really don't care. 07:29 But I'm telling you as I've studied this 07:31 once again, my heart has just been heavy at times 07:35 and I've just asked God to help me to understand 07:37 how it applies to His movement today, 07:39 His people and to me. 07:41 So, as we study Ezekiel 8 and 9, 07:45 I want you to think with me what kind of themes, 07:48 what kind of situation, what was going on 07:51 during the time of Ezekiel. 07:53 And Ezekiel 8 and 9, 07:55 something big had to be going on, 07:57 something that displeased God. 08:00 And it was going to call God into action, 08:03 judgments were going to fall and our title is 08:06 "Slay Utterly Young and Old." 08:10 For God to have that to put into motion 08:13 "Slay Utterly" everybody that, 08:17 you know, that's not doing His, His will. 08:20 There must have been something 08:21 going on that displeased God. 08:23 Something that existed, call for such a judgment 08:27 from, from God to fall upon His people. 08:31 And so in order to understand 08:32 Ezekiel Chapter 9, we must go over 8 also. 08:36 Now, the judgment, you know, a judgment that was 08:38 beginning to fall upon God's people, listen carefully, 08:42 and a judgment that would not be changed. 08:46 You know, many times scripture you read 08:47 that God said such and such was going to happen 08:50 at a time and the people did what? 08:53 Good, heard somebody say it, all right. 08:55 They repented and then what? 08:57 The judgment didn't fall. 08:59 But here it was too late. 09:02 God's people had reached, a time and a place, 09:07 a condition to where God would not repent 09:10 of what He said was going to take place. 09:12 So, this is awesome, now notice it, 09:14 it's going to refer and we'll mention this way. 09:16 This refers not just to Ezekiel, 09:18 if you closed your mind already, 09:20 you're already in trouble because 09:22 this pertains to God's last day 09:25 people of how they will be treated, 09:27 how they will react, their spiritual condition 09:30 just before the coming of Jesus. 09:33 We have a dual application I want you to pay 09:35 special attention as I was studying this. 09:39 Start off with a, with a comment, 09:40 I love a little book called "Early Writings" 09:42 and I know some of you have it, 09:43 maybe most of you don't, 09:45 but I'm gonna read this to you. 09:46 You see how much sense it makes to you. 09:48 Page 279, listen very carefully to this. 09:51 It said "I saw angels hurrying to and fro in heaven. 09:56 An angel with a writer's inkhorn by his side 10:01 and he returned from the earth 10:04 and reported to Jesus that his work was done, 10:08 that the saints were numbered," 10:10 and the saints were what? 10:11 "They were sealed and He, Jesus, raised His hands 10:18 and with a loud voice He said, 'It is finished." 10:23 As we read a few moments as some of the chapters, 10:27 some of the verses you'll see 10:29 that there is an angel that's mentioned. 10:32 You'll see also that one of the angels had an inkhorn, 10:36 you notice that, by his, by his side 10:39 and there was some sealing going on 10:40 and there was some marking going on. 10:42 And we find here that the time of the end 10:46 that angels were seen scurrying 10:49 from earth and to heaven 10:50 and then Jesus stands up and says, "It is Done." 10:53 With this in mind to realize that the time 10:56 is approaching us now, that very soon 10:59 Jesus is going to stand up in the Most Holy Place. 11:03 He is going to raise His hand and He say "It's Done." 11:05 What does He mean "It's Done?" 11:07 Listen the plan of salvation "Mercy" it's all over with. 11:12 Every case has been decided and we want to make that 11:14 clear as we're studying, certainly will 11:16 want to repeat it a few times for those who 11:19 may be are not living up to everything 11:21 that you know that you should be. 11:24 Every case, how awesome that is, 11:26 every case decided. 11:28 Either for life or for death, 11:31 Jesus says, it's finished, what happens? 11:34 Let's just go to a scenario, let's go over. 11:36 When Jesus stands up and says 11:37 it's over or that it's finished. 11:39 It's very clear that darkness, 11:41 spiritual darkness covers the earth. 11:45 And there will be people that will be pleading, 11:47 you know, there was a, you know, 11:48 there's a warning to somewhat know a little bit of life 11:51 but remember, they're just wanting to escape 11:53 some of the things that's coming upon this earth. 11:56 So, spiritual darkness is coming on the earth. 12:00 We realize there was no, no mediator between what? 12:03 "God and Man." 12:05 Jesus had finished his work, 12:07 no one will ever come to Him again. 12:10 This is the awesomeness of the message 12:12 that God's messengers should be giving today, 12:15 to wake people out of this ho-hum attitude. 12:20 I don't really, well we don't really care. 12:23 Well, we're really busy, 12:24 well we're going to ball games. 12:25 Well, we're going over here, we're busy doing this, 12:28 we're busy doing that and saying, 12:29 we don't have time for God. 12:31 Friend, we need to really, really think about it 12:35 at this time and it's going to happen and what then? 12:39 He that is righteous will be righteous still, 12:41 he that is filthy, will be filthy still. 12:44 No mediator between God and man. 12:46 Now, when Jesus moves out between us and God, 12:51 what's going to happen? 12:54 Satan will have full control over all the impendent, 12:58 of all those who have not asked forgiveness, 13:01 all of those who have not been covered 13:02 by the "Blood of the Lamb," the devil 13:05 will have complete control over them. 13:09 And that's pretty much what? The Earth. 13:12 So a bunch of devils and demons running around, 13:15 supposedly in control. 13:17 Now think what will happen if Satan is in control 13:20 those who have rejected salvation. 13:23 Who have rejected the blood of Jesus, 13:24 who've been too busy with the cares of this life. 13:29 Hatred, people who hate the "Law of God." 13:33 People who hate the truth, people who hate correction, 13:37 realize there's people that today, 13:39 listen even those who're going to church, 13:43 many people are sitting in the pews, 13:44 and you try to offer them a "Food for Thought." 13:49 It's almost like they look like they almost hate you, 13:53 they don't want to hear anything else, 13:55 you're an oddball, you're a stranger, 13:57 they don't, they don't want to hear it. 13:59 And my they come to the point they don't, 14:01 they don't want to hear truth. 14:03 They think they got enough truth 14:05 to enter the Kingdom of God, but realize we have to 14:08 understand what all truth, love of the truth. 14:12 Now they don't want to hear it, 14:15 and too many are rejecting salvation. 14:18 See the plagues are falling at this time. 14:20 This is all background that we're talking about 14:23 as we come in to get into 8 and to 9 14:26 and if you miss all that's going on. 14:29 Friend, I'm telling you, you're gonna miss out 14:31 on a lesson that God wants to teach you and to teach me. 14:37 There is plagues the Bible talks about 14:40 and these plagues are falling after what? 14:42 Jesus completes His work for us as our mediator. 14:46 And as these plagues are falling, 14:49 some are cursing God and others are denouncing God, 14:54 they want the plagues to be stopped. 14:57 And then you have, listen carefully? 14:59 You have another group of people who are, are, are 15:03 begging, listen, they're begging on 15:05 how to make these plagues stop. 15:10 Well, it seemed like if they were people begging 15:13 on how to, you know, how they might 15:15 escape these things that are going on in the world. 15:18 That it seem like that maybe God in His, 15:21 listen carefully, God in His mercy 15:23 might give them another chance. 15:26 Remember, dear friends, your probationary time 15:29 you have this opportunity and you prove. 15:31 There comes a time when you reject and you reject 15:34 and there comes a time when your probation ends, 15:36 we'll talk more about that. 15:37 Remember this is first of two parts you don't want to miss. 15:41 And as they, they say, oh, I want to be able to 15:44 escape these plagues, will somebody 15:47 teach me, will somebody help me to understand this? 15:49 Listen, it's too late. 15:52 Oh! Well, people say, I can't, I can't get that, 15:56 no, it's gonna be, it's gonna be too late, why? 15:59 Because that sweet voice of the Holy Spirit, 16:03 the sweet voice, merciful voice 16:07 of the Spirit of God no longer 16:10 invites people to come in, 16:12 that's kind of hard to understand isn't it, 16:15 when that Holy Spirit is always working 16:17 and pleading with you all the time. 16:19 But there comes a time that that sweet voice 16:22 is no longer heard, it's too late. 16:25 And these wicked, the ones who refuse salvation, 16:29 they turn upon the righteous and they say, 16:32 the saints, but you know what? 16:34 The saints have nothing to give. 16:37 There's nothing that the saints can do for them, 16:39 there's no more, there's no more tears 16:41 that we can cry for them anymore. 16:44 There's no more prayers that we can 16:46 offer up to God in their behalf. 16:49 There's no more warnings that can be given. 16:54 Wow, do you mean there comes a time. Yes. 16:59 When Jesus finally stands up and says what? 17:02 It is finished, there's some things 17:03 that still going to go on. 17:08 And you know this, there's nothing more than 17:10 the saints can do anymore. 17:14 You realize there was a time when all of heaven 17:17 was interested in these people. 17:22 God's people was interested in their neighbors, 17:25 their friends, their family and, 17:26 their loved ones and they were 17:28 interested in their salvation. 17:30 And you call them and you, you text them 17:33 and you beg them, you pleaded with them, 17:36 you cried about it, you, you had, 17:38 you don't know it's almost nightmares over it. 17:41 They were on your mind all the time because 17:43 you wanted them to accept Jesus as their Savior, 17:48 but they had no interest. 17:51 These people will never realize the heart break 17:55 that they cause the saints or the people 17:58 like you or me when you're reaching out to family, 18:00 your friends and your children, 18:02 loved ones and, you know, the extended family, 18:04 when you reach out say, will you accept Jesus 18:06 as your Lord and Savior? 18:07 And they will say, well, I have 18:08 no interest right now. 18:10 I don't really, I don't really 18:11 care about it right now, I've got other things to do. 18:16 But the time that heaven was interested in, 18:18 you were interested in and that time now has passed. 18:23 Now we realize these folks now never made 18:28 an effort to obtain their salvation and it's too late. 18:34 I mean, to me that's just awesome ring 18:37 to it in my ears to say, a day is coming 18:39 when it's gonna be too late 18:41 for the majority of the world. 18:45 Probation closed, an then 18:50 the sound comes in, too late, too late. 18:58 The plan of salvation has been accomplished. 19:04 Only, oh friend, only a few compared to the, 19:11 the world population from beginning to the end, 19:14 only a few has accepted the great plan of salvation 19:18 the blood of Jesus Christ. 19:19 Oh friend, I know somebody say, 19:21 oh no, I've read in the Bible, 19:22 oh I tell you were, oh no, I heard somebody said, 19:25 oh everybody is gonna make it, 19:26 you know, everybody's gonna make to heaven. 19:28 No, everybody is not. 19:30 We might as well get real, oh that's, 19:32 you know, that's, that's, that's tasty, 19:34 that sounds good to the ears. 19:36 But that is a lie, a lie of the devil. 19:40 So, if you put forth no effort, 19:43 only a few of the vast majority the billions 19:46 that's lived on the face of the earth, in comparison? 19:49 Let me read you a passage because somebody say, 19:51 well, he just talk and listen. 19:52 Matthew 7 verse 14, here's what the Bible says. 19:57 You know, this because strait is what? 19:59 "Strait is the gate, "good" 20:01 and narrow is the way," of the what? 20:03 That leads into eternal life and what's the Bible said? 20:07 "And few there be, that find it." 20:11 Few there be that find it, that means 20:14 you got to be looking for it, isn't that right? 20:17 It's not something way out there, 20:18 you've got to be looking for that strait gate. 20:21 You got to be out there doing something, 20:23 not that you work your way into heaven 20:25 but you gotta put forth an effort. 20:27 Too many want to stay home and do everything 20:28 they want to do and how they want to do it, 20:30 and except that God's gonna do 20:31 everything for them, He will not. 20:34 What a time, what a message 20:36 to wake up the people of God today. 20:42 You know, the book I just want to read, 20:43 if you've got it, Early Writings page 282, 20:46 I was gonna bring that book and read a paragraph of that, 20:48 I don't have it, so I'm not gonna do it. 20:50 But it's page 282, because it talks about 20:53 the wicked and some of the things that are, 20:55 will be going on and the stress and the strain, 21:00 even among God's people, after probation closes. 21:05 But I want to emphasize this, as Ezekiel 8 and 9, 21:08 as we begin to study we have to realize 21:10 that's referring to a time 21:11 when God's people have been sealed in. 21:13 He who's righteous be righteous, 21:14 filthy, will be filthy. 21:15 It's a, it's a probationary time is up. 21:20 No one will ever come up to Jesus again, nature, 21:25 nations, cities, when you think about 21:29 all of these things there, you know, it's, there's a 21:32 probationary time, we as individually, 21:36 that has been given to us specifically. 21:39 Now, think about it, 21:40 eve in the world we live in, God is unchangeable. 21:42 So, if He gave a certain amount of time to-- 21:45 as we say towns or cities or nations in the time past, 21:49 and then that time he lapsed and they made 21:51 no changes, they were destroyed. 21:54 All of you realize, yo talk about Babylon, 21:56 Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, 21:58 the Bible said exactly how these nation, 22:00 how long they would last and how they would go down 22:03 and who would be next power, why? 22:05 Because their probation end. 22:08 And so God doesn't change. 22:11 So why would He deal any differently today? 22:14 He's given us certain amount of time for us 22:16 to get right and some of you 22:18 are messing around with that time, 22:21 you're fooling around with, like you're gonna last, 22:23 you know, last forever down here 22:25 or when you get it together, 22:26 then you're gonna give your life to Christ. 22:29 You're laughing at Him, you're heck letting Him. 22:32 We're talking about the God of the Universe, 22:33 and you have the audacity to stand in His, in His face? 22:38 You have the audacity, just to realize, 22:39 look at God say, God, I don't have time for you. 22:43 Oh, surely not. You say, well, I don't do, yes. 22:47 When the invitation is given by the sweet 22:49 Holy Spirit and you say no. What are do you doing? 22:51 You're rejecting God, you're rejecting life, 22:53 you're rejecting truth, as though you, 22:56 you have something within yourself 22:58 that's just gonna last forever. 23:03 Friend, I'm talking about 23:04 something that's very, very important here. 23:07 Because you don't know, you may have one year, 23:10 you may have five years, you may had twenty years, 23:12 some people let's say 70, 80, 90, years older, 23:15 it doesn't mean you will, your time maybe closing now, 23:18 maybe closed today. 23:22 The judgments will fall, 23:24 nothing can stop those and this is part of, 23:26 what we're talking about in our study here. 23:29 In Manuscript 45, 145, 23:32 I want to read this right here, 23:33 says, "God gives nations" talking about cities 23:36 " a, a certain time of probation. 23:39 He sends light and evidence, 23:42 that if received will save them. 23:46 But if refused," notice 23:48 "punishment will fall upon them. 23:51 The fact that His judgments have been long delayed" 23:54 listen carefully, "doesn't make that punishment 23:57 any less severe when it does come." 24:01 Did you get it? Here's part of the problem, 24:03 as people read the Old Testament 24:05 many times God did what? 24:07 Immediately the judgment came when something went wrong. 24:10 When God didn't approve the judgment came 24:13 and people saw it and they, they feared. 24:16 The God in His mercy, 24:17 He's allowing things to be played out 24:20 and in sometime, you know, 24:21 just He delays the punishment. Why? 24:24 In mercy, He try to reach you and some people say huh, 24:27 well, God's not, he doesn't really mean 24:29 what He says, 24:30 because look nothing is happening, we're not. 24:32 Friend, if you can't see 24:33 what is happening today in the world, 24:35 things that are going on. 24:38 The judgments are falling, 24:40 don't say when they begin to fall, 24:42 they are falling and they will increase, 24:45 the closer we get to the coming of Jesus. 24:47 But because He's delayed them, 24:49 because He's had mercy on you and some people do what? 24:52 You laugh in His face. 24:55 Because He's given you more time, 24:57 He begging and pleading to come back 24:59 and then we as the people what? 25:00 We go to and we invite them to come to church, 25:02 you sent them flyers you, again we talk about email 25:05 and we text them and we're on our knees 25:07 and we're praying for them and we're begging 25:09 and they are just like, I don't have time. 25:11 My, my wife doesn't want me to come, 25:14 my husband won't let me come to church, 25:16 when will you break those chains? 25:18 When will you put God first? When will you challenge it? 25:21 When will you say, look God, here's my situation? 25:24 Husband and wife says no, may be there's a, 25:26 we'll talk about a divorce if I do. 25:28 How about trusting God with the issue? 25:31 He said, you put these of all first. 25:33 Put Him first and all these other things will be added. 25:36 Why not trust God to say, no, the marriage can stay? 25:39 Relationships can stay but I'm gonna put God first. 25:42 Let me, one of these days those chains will be broken. 25:45 One of these days conviction will come upon 25:47 those who say, well I can't because of my job. 25:50 I can't because, you know, I want to get along 25:52 with everybody else in the world. 25:54 I want to get along with people in the work place. 25:57 Friend, when will you break those chains, 25:59 when you're more worried about 26:00 what your friends think than what God thinks. 26:02 When you're more worried about pleasing others than 26:04 you're pleasing God, one of these days 26:06 the conviction of the spirit if you don't turn it off, 26:08 you're gonna say, I'm breaking those chains 26:10 and I'm gonna serve God, isn't it time? 26:13 In the pass time that we do that rather than consulting 26:16 our friends whether we are to deserve God or not. 26:20 Friend, talk to God about it. 26:23 This is the most important thing 26:25 and decision you'll ever make in this life 26:27 and I don't know I think sometime even as the pastors, 26:30 I'm praying to God, to help me out, 26:32 tell Him I'm getting frustrated at times. 26:35 And I want to think it's a righteous frustration, 26:37 the hurt inside because your family and friends 26:40 that we've been talking about here they just don't seen 26:43 the necessity of getting spiritual minded. 26:49 You talk to them it's like, my dad always says, 26:51 sometimes sons like, when I talk to you 26:52 is like talking to a rock, like talking to a tree. 26:57 And that seems that way 26:58 sometime when you talk to people 27:00 that you truly love and, you know, probation is closed. 27:02 You, listen you know the world, 27:05 it maybe going kind of smooth right now, 27:07 you're kind of getting along, 27:08 they turn their back on God but that's God in His mercy. 27:11 He didn't turn on you right then and right there and say, 27:14 listen this is what. 27:15 No, He gives you time to get things together, 27:18 time to think it through, 27:19 time to make the right choice. 27:21 You know that as a Christian 27:23 but the other person should have known 27:24 but they might have forgotten it. 27:26 And you try to remind them all the way 27:28 things are going right now, they're gonna change 27:29 because God's gonna get your attention. 27:32 God wants to get your attention 27:34 and your heart aches because you know 27:36 what they're gonna be going through. 27:38 There's gonna be separation, there's gonna be division, 27:40 there's gonna be loss of loved one, 27:41 there's gonna be accidents, 27:42 there will be all kind of things that would say, 27:44 that never should have maybe taken place 27:46 but we turned our back on God, we rejected God, 27:49 we were too busy building a garage, 27:51 we were too busy building buildings, 27:52 we were too busy out here peddling this and doing this, 27:55 and doing all these other things in life. 27:57 We're too busy with the ball games, 27:58 and the soccer, and the basketball, 28:00 and the football but we had no time for God. 28:02 Oh, friend, can't you see? 28:05 The necessity we're talking about probation. 28:09 Ezekiel 8, 9, just stirs my heart. 28:13 My wife mentioned that beginnings, 28:15 she stirred it up. 28:17 As you read these things, Ezekiel Chapter 9, 28:23 dear friends, is a continuation of Chapter 8, 28:28 and the things that we're going on, 28:29 I hope we have some time to really get into this 28:32 and set the first part up. 28:35 But sometime I'm, I'm stirred up inside, 28:38 do you ever get that way? 28:41 When you're reading the word of God 28:42 sometime you just get-- you get so stirred up inside 28:47 and you see your own life 28:48 and you see the life of all those around 28:50 you and maybe in the church where you're going, 28:52 I don't know but you get stirred up inside 28:54 almost to the point of frustration, 28:56 you had to say, oh God, help me not to be frustrated. 29:01 Because who will listen? 29:03 Who will change? Who's interested? 29:09 So many talkers in the world today, 29:11 so many make commitment, that like it's not, 29:13 you know, you make a commitment 29:14 to somebody you're a liar 29:16 if you don't follow through with that. 29:18 Oh, yeah, we go to church, yeah, yeah, wait a minute, 29:20 we'll be there, yeah we'll come to study 29:21 and they never show up, never apologize, 29:24 never make excuse for it. 29:26 You're just used to lie 29:27 and get people off your back-- listen we gotta straiten up. 29:32 You would miss all that social stuff 29:34 out there in the world but boy, 29:35 just we get to spend time with God. 29:37 Something for eternal life. 29:43 Oh, friend, as we study Ezekiel Chapter 8 and 9. 29:47 Let me say this and people will say, 29:48 well, I've been studying that, I've read that before, 29:51 I know you have. 29:53 But the Holy Spirit brings in other things other than 29:56 just going down the line and reading and studying 29:59 exactly what it says, there's references, 30:00 there's things we need to look at closely 30:02 and time will not permit all of those things. 30:05 And sometime I'm overwhelmed with them 30:07 and I may be doing some work over here, 30:09 but my body and my mind is overwhelmed 30:11 because I'm saying, why am I over here 30:13 doing this when I should be doing, 30:14 giving the world of God. It's frustrating. 30:22 Maybe that's part of, you wait it out. 30:28 Maybe that's part of Ezekiel Chapter 9 30:34 when it says that we have to be sighing 30:36 and crying for what? 30:38 The abominations that be done in the church, 30:43 in our family, may be in our own homes. 30:48 Sighing and crying, oh God, have mercy. 30:53 But I realize the first, if I may say, 30:55 the primary reference, Ezekiel 8 and 9 31:00 refers to the destruction of Jerusalem. 31:04 I understand that, dear friends, 31:06 but by Nebuchadnezzar, 31:07 but if that was all that there was to it, 31:09 it would be a good lesson 31:11 but what about for you and for me today? 31:15 This is where it becomes so important in this study. 31:19 It's where my mind can be impressed to go back to this 31:21 and go back to it and finally get it done, 31:24 do a program, couple of programs. 31:29 Why? Because it's going to have another fulfillment, 31:33 just before the world comes to an end. 31:35 It's going to deal with you 31:38 and it's going to be dealing with me 31:39 and what took place then is going to be taking place 31:42 before the coming of Jesus. 31:45 And friend, what test and what trials 31:47 and a connection that we need with Jesus right now. 31:53 In fact Ezekiel Chapter 8 verse 2 it just, 31:56 it tells that, that God and you've your Bible, 31:59 you can turn there, just read a little bit, 32:01 but for time sake we're go boo, boo, 32:03 boom right on down because again, 32:05 this is the background to get right in to this 32:08 writer, this one in a white robe and it's got 32:11 inkhorn and he's sealing the people of God 32:14 and is he sealing the people of God, 32:16 he is only going to seal those who are sighing 32:18 and crying for the abominations that be done. 32:20 Those who care about other people. 32:26 The vision of Chapter 8, 32:31 tells that God is visiting Jerusalem 32:35 or the visions of God to Jerusalem. 32:39 God is visiting Jerusalem because things were taking 32:42 place among His people that He didn't like, 32:45 that He disproved all and then 32:48 He won't gonna remain silent any longer and I tell you, 32:50 God is on the edge of His seat 32:52 right now as far as I'm concerned. 32:54 And things that are going on that, 32:55 He's not going to continue to deal with. 32:58 And many people say, well, you know, 32:59 God is God of love 33:00 and he's not gonna, yes He is, dear friend, 33:02 but He is a God of justice too, isn't He. 33:04 He's a God of His word, He's a God when He says 33:07 something He means it. 33:09 And friend, we have to look today 33:12 that God was looking at Jerusalem, 33:14 His people and He, listen, 33:16 He was provoked to jealousy not like you 33:20 and I think about jealousy. 33:22 There was other Gods that were being worshiped. 33:27 There was a setting up of false Gods 33:30 everywhere among His people. 33:32 How could it be when they were acquainted 33:34 with the real God of heaven, they were taking their false 33:39 Gods into places that had been dedicated 33:43 to the worship of the true God. 33:46 And let me tell you, God's not going to remain 33:48 silent for very long. 33:51 Boy, I see it today don't you? 33:55 See our minds are no bigger than 33:57 we're thinking of statues and idols 33:59 and pictures and things-- oh, 34:00 oh so much deeper 34:01 we've studied that in the previous lessons about idols 34:04 and things that go on. 34:06 God came to Ezekiel, he came to him in vision 34:11 and here's what God said, listen, 34:12 now you read all eight, he said, listen here. 34:15 I want you to know Ezekiel, 34:17 that I'm aware of what my people are doing 34:21 and they think they're doing it in secret, 34:24 but I'm aware of everything that they're doing. 34:28 And God was saying, He's not going to remain, 34:31 you know, just neutral on the issue why? 34:34 Because His people may not use the word dilly 34:37 dallying around with idol worship. 34:42 Worshiping of idols and other Gods and He says, 34:45 He was going to, listen. 34:47 God himself was going to 34:49 search out these abominations. 34:54 You know, as we as people are to search out sin 34:57 in the church in our last series if you remember. 34:59 God said, I'm going to search out, and Ezekiel, 35:01 I want you to be aware of what I'm talking about here, 35:03 I'm getting ready to visit 35:05 and when I visit it's too late, 35:06 no one out, no one will be saved, 35:09 if there's not changes that's going to be made. 35:13 And so Ezekiel then, Ezekiel 8, 35:15 he's taken in vision into, inside of the court. 35:20 He has taken inside the court which would be, 35:22 oh wholly dedicated to the true God 35:26 and he's taken to the place listen, 35:27 where the priests are at, 35:30 the religious leaders, I hope somebody hears me. 35:34 But as He goes in to where the priests are supposedly 35:37 doing work for the true God, 35:40 he finds all kind of abominations among them. Wow! 35:47 And then he doesn't stop here and God says, 35:48 now come on, I want to, I want to show you 35:50 some other things that are going on. 35:53 And he said, come on 35:54 I want you to go to the gate with me, 35:56 to the door, I want you to go there. 36:00 And as Ezekiel gets there in vision, 36:02 he goes into the inside to the gate and door, 36:04 he opens it up and he sees oh, listen, listen, 36:07 he sees all kinds of different rooms 36:10 and he see a chambers, but he can't see 36:15 what's going on in every one of those rooms 36:17 and chambers where nothing should be going on 36:19 but the things holy unto God. 36:23 There were some secrecy going on, 36:25 there were some activities 36:26 going on in there, in that room. 36:29 All of those rooms and you know what? 36:32 But Ezekiel, I can't, I can't, 36:34 I can't see every things that's going on 36:38 and God told Ezekiel, He said, Ezekiel, dig, 36:42 I want you to dig so that you can see. 36:45 I want you to dig and separate, 36:47 get away the rubbish, you get everything aside it, 36:49 I want you to dig deep and I what you to see 36:51 what is going on, it needs to be exposed. Wow! 36:58 That's pretty heavy duty when you think about it. 37:02 God's people can you think about 37:04 had come to such a spiritual low. 37:09 Now, listen to me, not only does it apply then, 37:14 it's going to apply just before the coming of Jesus. 37:18 See this is the interest that I have, 37:20 I don't want to see us come to that point. 37:23 I don't want to come to that point, 37:24 I don't want you to come that point but it's a warning 37:28 oh come on, somebody stay with me? 37:31 Ezekiel 8:12 quickly it says, you know, 37:35 again we're talking about what? 37:36 The house of Israel here, we're not talking about 37:38 some pagans and this group over here, 37:40 we're talking about the house of Israel. 37:42 You know what, the house the Israel, 37:43 you know what the priest said, 37:45 you know what the religious leader said? 37:47 May I say, well let's get it down here, you know, 37:49 what the deacon said? 37:50 You know what the pastor said? 37:51 You know what the religious leader said, 37:53 the evangelist said? 37:55 Here's what they said, they came so, 37:57 they were so low spiritually that they had 37:59 the nerve to say, the Lord seeth us not. 38:05 Could-- are you that spiritually low today 38:11 that you think God doesn't see you 38:13 in the secret chamber? 38:17 That's what these men who're supposed to be 38:19 close to God said, well God, sees us not. 38:24 He says that the Lord had forsaken the Earth. 38:29 What has happened to the people of God. 38:32 They were trying to bring what? 38:34 Bring God down to a level of their Gods of stone 38:40 and their Gods of wood. 38:43 You can't bring God down, you might think you can, 38:46 you can't defeat God. You might reject Him. 38:52 You might place Him out of your mind 38:54 and out of your heart, 38:55 but you will never defeat Him. 38:57 You can never bring Him down to the level. 39:01 Jeremiah even spoke about this. 39:03 In Jeremiah Chapter 23 verse 11, I mean, awesome, 39:08 Jeremiah said this, he said, 39:09 both the prophets and the priest are profaned. 39:15 Ye, he said, in my house 39:18 I have found their wickedness. 39:22 Jeremiah really throws some things out here, 39:25 he said, I know what who's profaned, 39:26 I know who's turned their back upon God. 39:29 And he said, listen to this, 39:30 in my house I found out and let me tell you 39:33 Jeremiah was a man of God when he found out 39:36 something wasn't going right, 39:37 what do you think he did? He squared it away. 39:41 That's what God expects of us. 39:45 You see, prophet Ezekiel was to tell the people, 39:49 he was to warn the people 39:51 that because of their iniquities, 39:53 oh, I want you to see what I'm talking about here 39:55 because it builds and it builds 39:57 and it builds and it applies to us today. 40:00 The warning still comes to us today, 40:03 Ezekiel was to warn 40:04 the people that their iniquities, 40:07 because of their iniquities both the city 40:10 and the temple would be completely destroyed. 40:14 And what do you think the people? 40:17 Why do you think they wanted to hear that? 40:18 No, they rejected the prophet. 40:21 They rejected the message from God 40:23 with all the hooligans 40:25 and all the mess that was going on. 40:30 They rejected God, they rejected the prophet. 40:37 You know what, they had the nerve to say, 40:40 they said, you know, well, you know, 40:42 God's going to protect the temple 40:44 and God's going to protect the, the city, why? 40:49 Well, because we're the chosen, 40:52 hope some of you get that. 40:54 We're the, we're the chosen 40:57 and since we're the chosen God's 40:58 going to overlook all of this mess 41:00 no He will not. 41:02 You might call yourself, if you are the chosen of God, 41:06 then you would choose to serve God in the right way. 41:11 God can't overlook, God's fair and He's just. 41:15 Wow, see the day 41:18 was fast approaching for this destruction. 41:22 It was not going to be delayed much longer. 41:25 God was not going to delay His judgment. 41:28 In fact, Jeremiah 25:29 tells us "He said, 41:33 ye shall not go unpunished." 41:38 This is what we need to, you know, 41:40 get people who just, 41:42 I don't want to be involved with church. 41:45 You know, I'm not talking about church, 41:46 I'm talking about commitment with Jesus Christ, 41:48 I'm gonna talking about some building. 41:51 Well, I, listen my friend, if you do not accept 41:54 Jesus as your Lord and Savior. 41:57 If you're not covered by the blood of the lamb, 41:59 may I say to you today you will not go unpunished. 42:05 Oh, are you gonna be just, 42:07 just like the people in Ezekiel's time? 42:09 Oh, no it's right, God is not going to punish us, 42:12 no city's gonna be all right, 42:13 we're gonna be all right because we're, 42:15 we're pretty good people. 42:17 Listen, dear friend, 42:19 the house of Israel laughed at 42:22 the warnings that God send because what? 42:25 That didn't fit into their little daily lifestyle. 42:28 They didn't really want to change, 42:29 they liked what they were doing in the secret chambers, 42:33 thinking that it was a secret, 42:34 that God doesn't see us anymore. 42:36 In fact they said basically, 42:37 may I paraphrase, he's left town. 42:41 God hasn't left town, 42:43 God sees you in the secret chamber, 42:45 God sees you, you know in the mind, 42:46 you don't have to be going anywhere, 42:48 He knows the mind 42:49 and He's recording every little thought 42:50 and every little action, dear friends. 42:52 Why? Because He's fair. 42:55 Call yourself a Christian, your mind's 42:56 where it shouldn't be all the time, 42:58 you're thinking things you shouldn't be thinking. 43:00 Let God take control of that mind. 43:03 Don't laugh at the warnings, 43:05 people will watch or may be listen to these 43:07 and they will say, oh man, over done. 43:10 Oh, dear friends, God will not let us go, 43:13 He will not gonna let us go unpunished. 43:17 Because the warnings that were given in scripture 43:19 in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, 43:21 warning after warning, after warning, 43:23 till it came down to Jesus time and he said, 43:25 I sent you warning after warning, 43:27 after warning and you killed, and you stoned the prophets. 43:30 Those who gave you the message of repent 43:32 and get right with God, 43:33 when the judgment was going to fall, 43:35 you laughed and scorned. 43:37 But it happened just as God said 43:39 it would happen and it always will. 43:42 Ezekiel 12:22, here's where their mindset was at 43:48 and I think there's many people today, 43:50 we talk of New Testament times. 43:53 They've come to the point 43:54 because we mentioned a while ago 43:56 about the judgments of God we're not just, 43:57 and may be not immediately falling, 44:00 but He's prolonged them in mercy, why? 44:03 Because time is short and it's coming to an end 44:06 and I know some of you right letters 44:08 bless your heart and say, 44:09 oh you shouldn't say time is short 44:10 because we don't know our Father, 44:12 you're just fulfilling prophecy by, 44:13 by the way or maybe you just don't, 44:15 may be understand where I'm coming from here. 44:18 I'm come, trying to come from scripture, 44:20 that everyday we should say, 44:22 it's one day closer to the coming of Jesus. 44:25 One day closer to the coming of Jesus. 44:28 And yeah, is He, could it close today, yes, 44:31 could it close tomorrow, 44:32 that's pretty soon isn't it? That's quick. 44:36 But the people begin to say things like Ezekiel 12:22 44:40 it says, "The days are prolonged 44:42 and every vision faileth." 44:47 I've heard people say, well, you know, 44:49 you folks talk about the coming of Jesus 44:51 and He's coming very soon. 44:54 And I heard one man to say one time, 44:55 been in the church about 10 year, 44:56 put his hand on his hip, he said, I, you know, 45:00 I'm a believer in the coming of Jesus 45:01 and I'm a Christian, I'm born again-- 45:05 My dad, when I was growing up he always said, 45:09 Jesus is coming soon. 45:10 Well, he didn't come in my dad's time. 45:17 And then he went on to say and you know what? 45:20 His dad, my grand, he said all his life, 45:24 Jesus is coming soon you need to be ready. 45:27 And he said, you know kind of the way I, 45:29 He didn't come in any of their days, 45:31 so it may be a long, long time before He come. 45:34 You realize when you die, is all she wrote. 45:39 Accident, health, it's near even at the door 45:45 that's our message, the devil is saying, well, 45:47 yeah but we've heard this before. 45:49 And, you know, what? 45:50 You heard it before and I've heard it before, 45:52 so we will get it right. 45:55 It's a warning, I am glad my mother never stopped 45:58 when I was growing up and just a little child, 46:00 I'm glad she never came to a point. 46:02 When the stove was hot, she finally just, 46:04 you know, every time I got close she said what? 46:07 Good, I heard some, just hot, 46:09 don't touch it, hot, hot, hot. 46:13 She doesn't want me to get hurt, 46:15 she's telling me the truth. 46:18 There's whole world is a, is a hot place now. 46:21 But friend, you haven't seen anything 46:23 how hot it's going to get. 46:28 Even to the King Zedekiah at time supposed to be, 46:31 you know, God's king. 46:35 He was leading a nation to ruin. 46:39 The people saw the king, they saw what he was doing, 46:41 his activities and what the king can do it, 46:43 we should be doing it. Zedekiah the king, 46:47 he rebelled against the prophets, 46:49 when the prophets of God came to the king, 46:50 he said, this is what God has said. 46:55 I'm not a prophet, they say I'm not a son of prophet, 46:57 but boy when I read the Bible, 46:59 we can take it as a sure word of prophecy 47:01 that these things are going to happen. 47:03 Zedekiah, you'll think he, but he apostatized, 47:06 he rebelled against the prophets. 47:08 He rebelled against the covenant that he made 47:10 with God and with man. 47:11 He rebelled against God himself. 47:14 And he will be, 47:15 had the audacity to team up with Egypt, 47:17 when God said no, don't do that. 47:20 And then the question came back, people said, well, 47:22 he's rebelled in all of these areas 47:24 and the Lord asked the question, shall he prosper? 47:28 Wow! What do you mean? 47:30 Ezekiel 17, read it when you've time. Will he prosper? 47:36 And here comes back the answer, 47:38 King Zedekiah, "he shall not escape." 47:46 Friend, I'm telling you that today 47:47 I'm talking to myself today, you shall not escape. 47:54 If you've broken your relationship with God, 47:56 you've broken that covenant with Him. 47:58 If you're rebelling against 47:59 the call of the prophet, the word of God. 48:03 Will you prosper? No, you will not. 48:09 You will not escape your laugh now. 48:14 You act like around your friends 48:16 that you really don't care that you're bigger than God 48:18 and you're stronger than God, you're not afraid of God. 48:23 Talking about in the right sense, dear friend, 48:25 but He's a God to be feared my Bible tells me. 48:29 And I think sometimes people, 48:31 you mean you do that is because, man uses what? 48:33 Because we're ignorant of God. 48:35 If we had any idea of the Majesty of God 48:39 and the Power of God, no man would standup 48:43 in the face of God and just reject Him. 48:45 We would tremble at the very knees 48:47 and fall down and fall straight on our face. 48:52 Thank for the God of the Universe that cares 48:54 about a little piece of dust, so much to give His son. 49:01 We will not go unpunished, the king will not escape, 49:07 and you will not escape and I will not either, 49:10 maybe that's what tears my heart and maybe tears 49:12 your heart today about your family and your friends, 49:15 you're just acting like there is, 49:17 there is no tomorrow, there is no judgment, 49:19 there is no punishment to come. 49:21 There is no everlasting life, there is no hellfire. 49:24 Oh, friend, wake up! 49:29 Ezekiel 8 verses 13 through 15, 49:33 as we're making this trek, this journey, 49:35 we just got a few minutes left but we're, 49:37 remember Ezekiel still going through 49:40 and God is opening the doors 49:41 and just looking all these places and said, 49:42 oh man, this is why, this all sets up for 49:45 what takes place when God says, 49:47 "Slay Utterly Old and Young." 49:49 No one was to live 49:51 when that destroying angel went through, why? 49:54 Because God said to Ezekiel, come Ezekiel, 49:57 I'm not finished yet. This is among God's people, 50:01 look what's happening right in here. 50:03 There's a greater abominations 50:07 and he went in and so called God's people, 50:09 they were worshiping Tammuz, 50:11 you remember that's what the Bible says. 50:15 A Babylonian deity, they were worshiping 50:21 and you realize it was even setup in Palestine. 50:27 They threw out the "God of Heaven" 50:30 and worshiping these false deities 50:32 and God said, wow, it's an abomination. 50:35 And I want you to see what's happening, 50:37 I want you to warn him. 50:39 I don't want have to do this strange act 50:41 but I'm going to do it if they don't change. 50:44 Then He said, I'm gonna show 50:47 you even a greater abomination 50:49 and I will not tolerate it. What could it be? 50:54 The biggest, worst abomination, 50:58 he took him toward the, the religious heads, 51:01 the leaders, the spiritual leaders were, 51:03 the guardians of true religion. 51:07 And these guardians of true religion 51:09 were standing between the altar and the temple. 51:13 What were they doing? 51:14 They were standing between what? 51:16 The altar and the temple. They were what? 51:19 This was the most sacred place in the court, 51:23 these were supposed to be God's men, God's chosen, 51:28 the repository of His law, 51:31 the guardians of true religion. 51:34 And if has application to the God's people 51:37 in the last days, God have mercy on our souls. 51:42 And if don't have a real relationship 51:43 for our eyes, they're not open, 51:44 our ears are not open to the plea of God, 51:46 if we're not studying the word of God, 51:48 we may be worshiping these false deities 51:50 maybe who you are now. 51:53 Here these leaders stood in the court 51:55 and they, they turned, 51:57 they turned their backs to the temple 51:59 and they worshiped the Sun, 52:01 did you get it? 52:03 Oh, friends, did you find that today? 52:05 They worship the sun, 52:06 this was the greatest abomination, 52:08 this was a direct insult to God. 52:14 Second Chronicles 36:15 addresses it, 52:17 it says, "Moreover all the chief of the priests, 52:21 and the people, transgressed very much 52:24 of all the abominations of the heathen." 52:27 After, they followed after the abominations 52:30 of the heathen, 52:32 they "polluted the house of the Lord 52:34 which he had hallowed in Jerusalem." 52:37 Friend, you see it today, 52:38 oh, let me just step out on the limb. 52:41 Let me just get so far out there, 52:42 I hope I don't fall off somebody chop it off. 52:47 God said, the greatest abomination 52:49 is the worship of the Sun. 52:52 And I just challenge some of you at least 52:54 to think about it today and oh, 52:55 I just can't be quiet about it. 52:58 I hear people say, boy, I tell you 53:00 what it's just wonderful, Easter Sunday, 53:02 Easter sunrise services. 53:04 And they go to places in Southern Illinois 53:06 like Bald Knob, the great big old cross 53:10 that are there, but the people 53:12 have the tendency of what? 53:14 To put the cross behind them 53:16 and they face the rising of the sun. 53:21 These people here in Ezekiel's time 53:22 put the Cross of Calvary as it were, 53:25 you know, by faith behind them 53:27 and they worship the sun and God said, 53:28 that's enough. 53:33 One Testimony 276, my last one before 53:36 we have prayer and an appeal, 53:39 "Those who profess to be Christians 53:41 amid the perils of the last days, 53:44 do not imitate," 53:46 if you do not imitate the humble 53:48 "self-denying pattern place themselves 53:52 in the enemy's ranks." 53:55 Friend, are you gonna place yourself 53:56 in the enemy's ranks today? 54:00 God is giving us warnings, He's pleading, 54:04 we plead with you here today, you've got to give it right, 54:07 I've got to give it right, 54:09 God has to be a priority in my life. 54:11 Now, remember this is the first part 54:13 and this is setting it right up 54:14 for when the judgments are put into action 54:17 and what takes place 54:18 because of what was going on. 54:20 Could it be some of those same things 54:21 are going on today? 54:23 And if so, God help us. 54:26 The change must take place, make that decision, 54:31 make that choice right now while there's still time, 54:33 why don't you do that? 54:34 Making the priority, forget about running here, 54:37 forget about going shopping, forget about this, 54:39 forget about that and make God a priority in your life, 54:42 things will change. 54:43 For those who are making that decision right now, 54:45 I want to close with a quick prayer right now 54:47 that God will help you. 54:48 This is the day of new beginnings 54:50 for you and for me. Let's pray, shall we, 54:51 Merciful Father in Heaven, 54:54 thank you for your precious word today. 54:55 Thank you for the warnings once again 54:56 that you love us. 54:58 Probation door is still open, there's time to come in, 55:00 there's time to make changes, 55:01 regardless of how faraway 55:03 we've gone from you we can come back. 55:05 The day will come 55:06 when that's gonna be impossible. 55:07 Help us, Lord, I pray those who made that decision 55:09 in the name of Jesus right now. 55:11 Thank you, in precious name of Jesus, amen. 55:15 Don't forget, some of you have comments, 55:17 so you have questions and I'm sure some of you will, 55:19 may about this study. 55:20 This is one of the first part, 55:21 second part is coming up. 55:22 And boy, I tell you, it gets really heavy duty. 55:24 Comments, questions anything 55:26 that you might want to do, 55:27 you can call us, you know how to get a hold of us, 55:28 my wife brings it up there for you. 55:30 Please do, we love to hear your comments 55:32 and please pray for us and we appreciate so much, 55:36 those of you who are praying for us 55:37 and the free will offerings of God's people, 55:40 to help us to continue 55:41 to get these programs of truth out to you. 55:43 Jesus is coming, the world is coming to an end, 55:46 we need to be ready, I love you, 55:48 see you next time. 55:51 Hello, again, this was certainly 55:53 a message from heaven to stir our hearts into action. 55:57 God is calling His people to a closer walk with Him 56:01 day by day, moment by moment. 56:05 Yet so often, friends, we have failed, 56:07 heat is calling, daily obligations 56:10 and worldly desires continue to creep in 56:13 and to steal our time away from God. 56:17 Friends, changes need to be made 56:19 if we are to have a part, 56:21 a part in the heavenly kingdom to come. 56:24 Our lives must be reordered to include 56:27 precious time to spend in study, 56:30 precious time to spend in prayer. 56:32 God will work in our hearts if we just do this. 56:36 And of course as always we are here, 56:38 Behold the Lamb Ministries, to help you. 56:41 We're making this series available, 56:43 it's a series of three DVDs 56:46 for a suggested donation of just $23 or more, 56:50 that's right just $23 or more. 56:53 Don't miss out on this opportunity 56:56 to receive your very own copy. 56:58 So that you can listen to this message 57:00 again and again in the privacy of your own home. 57:04 And please why don't you prayerfully consider 57:06 supporting this ministry, 57:08 support it with your daily prayers, 57:09 supported with your offerings, 57:11 and support is greatly needed, 57:14 I want you to understand this, 57:15 if we're to continue our work here for the Lord. 57:18 And as a reminder, Pastor Kenny and I, 57:21 we do travel the various churches 57:23 for weekend meetings or evangelistic crusades. 57:26 So if your congregation would appreciate having us 57:28 attend your special event in person, 57:31 the contact information is all the same 57:34 and here it is. 57:35 You may call us at area code 618-942-5044, 57:41 Central Standard Time here in the United States. 57:44 Or you may write to us, 57:47 to Behold the Lamb Ministries at PO Box 2030, 57:50 Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:54 Contact us through an email 57:55 at beholdthelambministries @yahoo.com 57:59 or visit us online at www.beholdthelambministries.com 58:05 Friends, until next time, 58:07 may our precious Lord 58:08 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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