Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000033
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00:41 Hello, and welcome to "Behold the Lamb" present.
00:44 I am Chris Shelton, your host, 00:46 and we are blessed as always to join you once more 00:49 for an exciting Bible study, 00:51 focused on the Book of Ezekiel in Chapters 8 and 9. 00:55 Today's message is the second in this three part study 00:59 that the Holy Spirit has been impressing 01:01 Pastor Kenny Shelton to share with us 01:04 that we've entitled "Slay Utterly Old and Young." 01:08 So I'm sure that much more wonderful spiritual food 01:11 will be presented before we lead this series. 01:14 And as presented in the first message, 01:17 we're seeing how these chapters prophesy 01:20 an extremely timely message for our day and our time. 01:25 Ezekiel gives us important insight of God's judgment 01:28 of this world and they order some very important events 01:32 now taking place. 01:34 Including the fact, including the fact 01:37 that God will not continue to put up 01:40 with our rebellion and our sin for much longer. 01:44 Friends, I just feel like I need to repeat that. 01:47 God is not going to put up with yours or mine, 01:51 our rebellion and our sin for much longer. 01:54 And I know that it has taken me a long time 01:57 to learn this to get it into my head 02:00 and I hope and I pray that 02:03 it doesn't take you nearly that long. 02:06 You know, this is a timely message indeed. 02:09 It's something you need to understand, 02:10 we need to know. 02:11 But before we join Pastor Kenny 02:13 for today's study, we're blessed to listen 02:16 to "Did They See Jesus in Me" 02:19 by Sandra Entermann from the 3ABN Worship Center. 02:43 Is the face that I see in the mirror 02:51 the one I want others to see? 02:57 Do I show in the way that I walk in my life 03:05 the love that you've given to me? 03:12 My heart's desire is to be 03:15 like you in all that I do, all I am 03:27 Do they see Jesus in me? 03:34 Do they recognize Your face? 03:40 Do I communicate Your love and Your grace? 03:53 Do I reflect who You are in the way I choose to be? 04:06 Do they see Jesus, Jesus in me? 04:30 It's amazing that you'd ever use me 04:37 But use me the way You will 04:42 Help me to hold out a heart of compassionate grace 04:50 A heart that You're spirit fills 04:56 May I show forgiveness and mercy 05:03 The same way You've shown it to me 05:12 Do they see Jesus in me? 05:18 Do they recognize Your face? 05:24 Do I communicate Your love and Your grace? 05:36 Do I reflect who You are in the way I choose to be? 05:49 Do they see Jesus, Jesus in me? 06:02 Now I want to show all the world who You are 06:09 The reason I live and breathe 06:15 So You'll be the One that they see 06:21 When they see me 06:26 Do they see Jesus in me? 06:33 Do they recognize Your face? 06:39 Do I communicate Your love and Your grace? 06:52 Do I reflect who You are in the way I choose to be? 07:07 Do they see Jesus, Jesus in me? 07:41 Thank you, for joining us once again Behold the Lamb. 07:43 And we're so very grateful 07:44 and thankful to that beautiful song. 07:46 You know, I know God has blessed your heart already, 07:48 but boy, do we have an exciting study once again. 07:51 This is going to be part two of our study about 07:55 slay utterly young and old. 07:59 And so it is subject that we need today 08:02 among God's last day people. 08:04 His church needs this, I need this, 08:06 you need this and so I pray the Holy Spirit 08:08 will just consume us today 08:11 and just illuminate this beautiful truce 08:13 that God has in His word. 08:15 But, you know, as always we want to go to, 08:17 you know, God in prayer. 08:18 We want to ask for the power of the Holy Spirit. 08:21 I found this out in my studies that, 08:24 you know, you can sit down read all you want, 08:26 but unless you have the power of the Holy Spirit, 08:28 you know, making the scriptures clear 08:30 and impressing thoughts and the truce. 08:33 You know, we will never be able to comprehend. 08:35 So let's go to the God in prayer, shall we? 08:37 And then as we comeback get your Bible, 08:39 pencil, and paper, because we're gonna do some study. 08:41 But let's pray first, shall you pray with me. 08:46 Merciful Father in heaven, 08:47 we thank You for the privilege of serving You today. 08:49 We ask now as we open the pages of Your word 08:53 that the Holy Spirit will illuminate 08:54 these beautiful truce. 08:56 Words of warning, words of encouragement, 08:58 words of cheer, but yes sometimes words of rebuke. 09:01 And we pray where it's needed 09:02 in our hearts and in our lives, 09:04 we will accept it with great joy 09:07 as a message straight from heaven. 09:08 You are preparing Your people to 09:10 meet You, help us to be ready. 09:12 Pray that You'll bless every viewer, 09:14 every listener where ever they may be, 09:17 we just pray for the Holy Spirit 09:18 of God to consume them. 09:20 That we may be drawn closer to Jesus 09:22 and we thank you for every one of them 09:23 in Jesus' name, amen. 09:27 Well, again be sure you have your Bible, 09:29 because it's very, very important. 09:30 We go through scripture as we are studying 09:32 the Book of Ezekiel. 09:34 We look, you know, our first part Ezekiel Chapter 8. 09:37 We spent a lot of time on it and then Ezekiel 9, 09:40 this is where we are gonna be focusing today, 09:41 but there is still little more foundation principle 09:44 that we need to lay. 09:45 Now, some of you miss, 09:47 shame on you the very first lesson. 09:49 And so you know what, 09:51 I just want to make just a little bit 09:52 of a--what we discussed last time. 09:55 And so-oh, there is about seven points 09:57 I want to bring out and then if it's appealing to you 10:01 and you are interested you may want 10:02 to call us, write us and make sure that 10:04 we send you that first part or the whole series. 10:07 I remember started out as a two part series 10:09 and has continued to stay. 10:11 The Lord impressed my mind, that's not enough time, 10:13 there is a lot of information. 10:15 And even doing three parts so much more information. 10:18 So I pray that the Holy Spirit would just help us 10:20 as we scratch the surface of this beautiful truce. 10:23 That will encourage you to dig deep as, 10:27 you know, the Holy Spirit impressed Ezekiel to do. 10:30 Remember to dig and so we need to be digging. 10:32 So here is what we discussed in our first lesson. 10:36 And I pray that we learned this, 10:38 those of who have been watching. 10:39 Number one, what, the kind, 10:41 the condition that existed during the call 10:45 for such a judgment from God, 10:47 because as we read that the judgment of God 10:49 was going to fall. 10:50 There was a sword that was coming to slay utterly what? 10:53 Is that here that the young and the old. 10:56 What kind of conditions, what was going on 10:59 that it would come to that point where God would say. 11:02 You know, go and destroy everybody. 11:05 And then number two, the vision. 11:08 Primarily we realize that the vision was for Babylon, 11:12 but also we realized secondarily 11:14 that this is for the God's in time people 11:17 how things will be played out. 11:19 Another fulfillment just before Jesus comes 11:22 that should be an interest to each of us today. 11:25 Three, we studied that God gives nations, 11:30 he people a certain time of probationary time. 11:34 And when that time is up 11:35 we have not heeded the call of God, 11:38 then the judgments begin to fall. 11:40 You realize there's people in world 11:41 that's not heeding the voice of God 11:43 and then all of a sudden disaster one 11:44 after the other begins to hit them, 11:46 because they know to do better, 11:48 but they are rejecting the council of God. 11:50 Point number four, we learned in our part. 11:53 Ezekiel was in vision when he was given 11:55 the--a look inside the temple of God. 12:00 He saw all kind of manner a filthy abominations. 12:05 Now think with me just for a moment. 12:06 As he was viewing and looking at these abominations, 12:11 you know, the spirit of God, 12:12 the angel God said to him, 12:13 I want you to start dig deep 12:16 and I want you to see all the things 12:17 that were going on among God's people. 12:20 Not the world where you would expect it but, 12:23 you know, in among God's people, 12:24 in the very temple supposedly of God. 12:28 And so number five, we find the leaders 12:31 and the priest and the people were warned to change. 12:35 Oh, they didn't want to change. 12:37 They just kind of felt like that 12:38 God would protect the city even though 12:40 there was the prophet said the city would be destroyed, 12:43 the temple would be destroyed and what? 12:46 They wouldn't listen, because they said, 12:47 oh, the temple and God well, you know, 12:49 we're His special chosen people and God's going to 12:52 overlook all these things. 12:54 No, God will not over look sin. 12:56 God will not overlook rebellion 12:58 in your life or in my life. 13:00 Point number six, the greatest abomination 13:03 now there was many abominations. 13:05 But the greatest was is when the man of God 13:08 tuned their back to the temple and they worship what? 13:11 Good, some of you are paying attention. 13:13 They worshiped the sun and God said no, 13:16 you can't be worshiping any other, 13:18 you know, false God's, you can't be worshiping the sun. 13:22 We need to be worshiping the God of creation. 13:24 These were the people who were supposed to be the support, 13:28 the guardians of the truth 13:31 that God had given to His people 13:32 and they turned their back on this truth. 13:35 Last point, it's in our first lesson, 13:37 God is calling a people today, 13:40 you know, and He is saying right now. 13:42 We need not to be following 13:43 all of those abominations 13:45 that were so clear in the Book of Ezekiel. 13:48 And if there be abominations those need to go. 13:51 And so this kind of opens a little bit of our train 13:53 of thought to get into our study for today. 13:56 But, you know, Ezekiel 8, we realize that the--what we, 14:01 what we study there was such insight to Ezekiel Chapter 9. 14:05 So you can't really get a good insight in our study 14:08 until we went to Eden. 14:09 Praise God we spend some time on, 14:10 so I hope you have a little background if not, 14:12 gonna seen for the tapes. 14:14 Now realize that now Ezekiel 9, 14:16 the time had come when the judgments of God 14:19 was about to fall upon the people. 14:21 The warnings and the counsel had been rejected, 14:24 the nation then what? 14:25 Probation had closed, but praise God 14:28 you know was still open for individuals. 14:31 Just deal could be able to come from God, 14:33 but the individuals that came to God, 14:36 there is something very important. 14:37 Now I'm gonna mention this two or three different times 14:38 did I want you to get. 14:40 The individuals that were going to be marked 14:42 or accepted by God had to be sighing and crying. 14:47 That's what Ezekiel 9:4, 14:49 Sighing and crying for the abominations that be done. 14:51 The things that were wrong, 14:53 sin in as they were in the church, 14:55 sin in the individuals life. 14:57 If they were sighing and crying, 14:59 they could not receive of that mark. 15:01 They could not be acceptable to God. 15:04 Friend this is very, very important 15:05 for us to understand. 15:07 This opens our study just a little bit more 15:10 in Ezekiel chapter 9, but let me just encourage you. 15:12 The Bible says this in Psalms 34:15 it says, 15:16 "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, 15:20 and His ears are open," to their what? "To their cry." 15:24 This is a promise that God gives is what? 15:27 His ears are open, I like that, 15:30 His eyes are on the righteous. 15:32 Are you living for God today? 15:34 If you are and you are serving him 15:35 with everything that is within you, 15:38 His eyes on you what? 15:41 Not just to look and see 15:42 what they are doing, these are doing? 15:44 No, he is what He usually can help you, 15:46 so he could be an encouragement to you. 15:48 So we can workout things that need to be 15:50 worked out in your life. 15:51 He is watching you as a parent would 15:54 watch the little child. 15:56 Praise God for that and then His ears 15:58 are open to our cries or to what? 16:00 As we kneel and prayers, as we talk to God. 16:03 Oh, that such a beautiful promise 16:05 and then Psalms 34:17 says, 16:09 "The righteous cry," oh that's good. 16:11 "And the Lord heareth and delivereth them 16:15 out of their troubles." 16:17 So as we cry, or the righteous 16:19 that is important part because God can't, 16:21 he is not going to deal with the unrighteous, 16:23 he just can't work the way He wants to, 16:25 but if you are righteous, He hears your cries. 16:28 Oh this is beautiful, hears their cry 16:30 and then He delivers them out of 16:32 I like this all of their troubles. 16:35 Oh my, is anybody having trouble today? 16:37 Have you been in trouble this week? 16:39 May be you have been encounter some troubles 16:40 that you may be you never expected. 16:44 It could be you know, financial loss, 16:46 it could be spiritual the all kind, 16:48 mainly physically, spiritually and financially? 16:50 But you know, God says it, 16:51 you just turn to me and you pray and you ask 16:54 and God is going to do something 16:56 really be in your life. 16:58 So what? His ears are open 17:00 and he said I am going to deliver you from what? 17:02 All your troubles, so if you have troubles today, 17:06 how about let God deliver you from those signs? 17:09 He is the only one that can do it. 17:11 Okay so there is a couple of passages 17:12 that you can just carry to the bank 17:14 with you better then that even. 17:17 But here is the opposite side of the coin, 17:18 we need to look fairly at. 17:21 And Bible says this in Psalms 34:16 notice this, 17:25 "The face of the Lord is against them that do evil." 17:30 No what is it? The face of the Lord is against 17:33 those who do what? 17:35 Who do evil, so God is saying is not much 17:37 he can do for those who rebel against Him. 17:41 So our study today is going to be 17:43 centered around Ezekiel 9, why? 17:47 Because the Christ is almost upon us. 17:51 When you think in terms of this vision 17:53 given to Ezekiel and you think about this man in, 17:58 in arena and then he you know, 18:00 he has a inkhorn and the err was he has agony, 18:03 he is marking people and then there is a sword 18:06 and there is going to be death. 18:08 Friend this is an awesome thing, 18:10 which pertains to us today. 18:13 Now, remember, the visitation of the Lord 18:16 is just around the corner, 18:18 the things that we're talking about 18:19 now are warnings from God that we need to heed. 18:24 And please keep in mind when you, 18:27 as we are studying this. 18:28 This talking about God does not, 18:32 He doesn't want to punish us. 18:34 In fact the Bible says this punishment 18:36 and judgments of God falls in Isaiah Chapter 28:21. 18:40 It calls in His strange work, His strange act. 18:46 So God doesn't want to do this, 18:48 but He is a God that's fair and just, isn't He? 18:51 But you know, He is going to, 18:53 it is going to take place and it is going to 18:54 take place quickly and where are you going to stand? 18:58 Where am I standing today as a profess Christian? 19:03 Are you doing all the will of God, 19:04 everything that you know? 19:06 We need some spiritual insight 19:08 like never before and if we really believe this 19:11 is just around the corner, 19:12 if we really believe when it says, 19:14 slay utterly old and young, 19:17 both maidens and little children and women. 19:20 But it says, don't come near any man whom is the mark. 19:24 If you don't know what that mark 19:25 and what constitutes that mark. 19:27 Friend, you need to know today. 19:30 That's gonna to be in our third part of this series 19:32 and its so, so very important 19:34 We're gonna spend the whole hour on it. 19:36 As we're leading up to that, this is talking about, 19:38 this is heavy duty. If we believe that 19:42 it's soon to take place, I tell you, we're going, 19:45 we as God's people, we've got to get busy. 19:48 We got to be out winning soul. We got to be out what? 19:50 Giving Bible studies, we got to be warning people 19:52 what soon to take place on this earth 19:55 as an overwhelming surprise 19:58 to the majority, isn't that sad? 20:00 We can't sit ideally by and doing nothing. 20:03 You must be laboring for souls now. 20:06 Same situation can easily be seen today, 20:10 just we need to open our ears 20:12 and open our eyes and just look around 20:15 to see what is going on. 20:17 The law of God is becoming more 20:19 and more disrespected. 20:22 May I use that word? More and more disrespected. 20:27 Morality is at all time low. 20:30 His law is not only despised, 20:33 but it is rejected by the majority of people. 20:37 There is gonna be a line drawn between 20:40 those who serve God and those who serve Him not. 20:44 You see, we need to love that divine pattern. 20:48 We need to love that divine precepts. 20:51 The more we study, the more that we 20:53 read our love will begin to grow, 20:54 but the other people is going 20:55 to despise them more and more. 20:57 So there is two groups and one group 20:59 begins to love Him more and more 21:00 as they study, thank you Lord. 21:02 The other group is despising Him. 21:04 He is pointing out things in their heart in their life. 21:07 You know, I mentioned about it, 21:09 moral decay and you know, 21:12 I think it was the news just this morning, 21:15 my wife mentioned it to me. 21:18 Seen on the news, that they are 21:20 thinking about what they need to do, 21:22 oh what is that the Sesame Street. 21:25 What's the two? You know, 21:26 they are too long their burden, who is it? 21:31 The two little guys, two little men. 21:34 Anyway they are suggesting, listen to this. 21:37 They are suggesting that this is a children's program. 21:40 They are suggesting that these two men, 21:44 little puppets where ever they are, get married. 21:50 What a message sent to our babies, 21:53 to our young people. 21:57 Get married on there. What? 22:00 So, you know, the homosexuality 22:02 in the moment, it looks so bad, 22:04 it will become popular. 22:07 How sad that is? 22:10 Friend that is wrong as wrong can be 22:13 and yet minds are considering. 22:15 What poise in the mind of our children? 22:18 The world is coming close to an end. 22:22 Friends, we need to follow the light that God gives us. 22:27 We need to obey the light just as God gives us 22:30 and do it from the heart. 22:32 The law of God has been challenged today. 22:36 But is it precious to you? 22:38 Are you finding Him more precious, more pleasing. 22:41 You want to spend more time with Him, 22:44 or you the kind that want to put aside 22:46 the laws of God and live your own life 22:48 and do your own thing and thinking that 22:50 it won't catch up to you. 22:52 Oh friend, you better think again. 22:54 In our study in this, in fact Ecclesiastes 22:57 brings out it real important passage Ecclesiastes 8:11. 23:02 And some people believe this because 23:04 the judgment of God is not just falling down 23:06 immediately boom, boom, boom, boom, boom 23:08 that they are going to get away with it. 23:09 They don't have to really change. 23:11 Is what the Bible says, "Because sentence against 23:15 an evil work is not executed speedily, 23:18 therefore the heart of the sons of man 23:21 is fully set in them to do, what? Evil. 23:26 Bible is clear, God knew what would be 23:29 taking place in the history of this world 23:32 and he said men saying in their mind. 23:33 Well, there is nothing is really changed 23:34 when we go out and we do evil 23:36 and next night evil and more evil here 23:38 and there is no judgment is falling, 23:39 so I must be, must be all right. 23:42 God doesn't know, He doesn't understand 23:44 and so they begin to set their mind on more evil. 23:48 Friend, I pray that you are not doing that today. 23:51 Little manuscript that was written, 23:53 we call "Spirit of Prophecy" writings of Ellen White, 23:57 "The prophet is God, there is no doubt about it." 24:00 This manuscript written in 1897 made this comment. 24:04 It said, "Every offense against God's law. 24:07 Well, how many? Every offense against God's law, 24:11 however minute, or be minute, 24:14 notice this, is set down in the reckonings, 24:18 and when the sword of justice is taken in the hand, 24:23 it will do the work for the impenitent transgressors, 24:27 it's gonna do work, it's going to catch up 24:29 with you that was done 24:32 to the divine Sufferer that fell on Jesus. 24:35 Notice, Justice will strike, you can count on, 24:39 justice will strike for God has a hatred of sin. 24:44 His hatred of sin is intense and overwhelming. 24:48 Wow! God's, think about. 24:54 Sin did God is just is intense, 24:58 He hates sin, what is done to this world to mankind. 25:02 What He is doing today we are in the mess that we're in. 25:06 Yet the sin is, son, His son was 25:08 willing to come here to bail us out of this mess. 25:10 Our only hope was Jesus Christ, 25:13 but God is a hatred is 25:14 overwhelming here this article says. 25:18 How is it to you, is it overwhelming 25:20 or you just accept it everyday as long as 25:22 you know it's not too bad and--each and everyday. 25:26 All of a sudden you says, 25:27 oh, well, it really doesn't matter anymore. 25:29 Oh friend, we have to come to where 25:31 we hate sin as the Holy Spirit lives inside us, 25:35 we don't want to be around it, 25:36 we don't want to deal with it. 25:39 Justice, I want you please, you know, remember. 25:42 As we study about the death of Jesus on the cross. 25:48 What is, what it is just 25:49 really mean the death on this cross? 25:51 The death on the cross was to be convincing 25:55 evidence to you and to me that the law of God 25:59 was unchangeable, because today we are here what? 26:02 You know, no respect for the Law of God. 26:06 But when He died on the cross that was 26:08 supposed to be overwhelming evidence 26:10 that the law of God could not be changed, 26:14 and His throne cannot be changed, 26:17 as His throne, His throne, His position. 26:21 But you know what? 26:23 People don't accept Him to say. 26:25 Very interesting, you know 26:26 in the community you go and talk to most generally, 26:28 most Christians and you talk about 26:30 keeping the Commandments of God. 26:31 Man, they are clapping their hands, 26:32 one moment they all praise God, that's wonderful. 26:35 And then you say you know, we need to be keeping 26:37 all ten by the grace of God and all of the sudden 26:39 they look at you with a blank look, 26:42 because they are raised, basically taught to keep what? 26:45 Nine. They don't want to hear about it. 26:48 It's interesting even their countenance 26:50 changes when you mention the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 26:54 When you mention observing the seventh-day Sabbath, 26:57 you find people who ordinarily pretty kind 26:59 and loving and Christians and so on, 27:01 they did, they change. 27:03 Their disposition changes, their facial features change. 27:08 Why is that? 27:10 Isn't it that one of God's commandments 27:12 in the heart of God's law? 27:16 So there is something here about the mark 27:18 that we're studying about Ezekiel. 27:21 How this is going to make a difference 27:22 as we continue to study it, 27:23 because we find that the world is, 27:26 listen trying to make void the law of God. 27:32 He say well, I don't know about that. 27:35 You remember reading in Psalms 119:126. 27:39 It says they're making void the law of God 27:42 and say they're trying to make void the law of God, 27:44 so it says it's time for to thee to work oh Lord 27:47 for they have made void thy Law." 27:51 And so we see it as we listen today 27:53 as we study together today right this moment. 27:57 They are those who are working in, 27:59 you know, behalf, they are working together 28:00 shouldering up with others to, what? 28:02 To make void the law of God, 28:04 don't have to be all ten of them, does it? 28:06 It could be just one. James 2:10 and 12 talks about. 28:11 We become guilty of all. 28:14 This plays in, what I am talking 28:15 to this place in to the vision that God 28:18 gave to Ezekiel and that how it plays 28:21 a very important part as we come to the end of this world. 28:27 How it's going to touch your life 28:28 and how it's going to be touching my life. 28:32 Are you serious about your Christian experience? 28:36 Do you believe that God has chosen 28:37 you to do a special work for Him? 28:40 Are you committed to do that work by the grace of God? 28:44 Do you have a burden to do that work for Him? 28:49 Oh friend, I'll pray that you do it 28:50 right now while there is still time. 28:53 In your Bible, in Ezekiel Chapter 9:1 28:56 and 2 just allow me to read those verses 28:58 and just see how this takes off, 29:00 and let's talk about it just a little bit. 29:02 Ezekiel, what? Good. Chapter 9, verses 1 and 2. 29:05 Here's what He said "He cried also in mine ears 29:08 with a loud voice," saying what? 29:10 It's urgent, something big is going on, 29:12 He cried saying, "Cause them that 29:16 have charge over the city to draw near, 29:19 every man with his destroying weapon in his hand." 29:23 That sounds like something is going to go on there. 29:26 There is a judgment that is falling. 29:29 Oh a destroying weapon, that means 29:31 they are gonna to be killed. 29:32 Somebody is going to get hurt. 29:36 And then in vision Ezekiel saw 29:39 "Six men came from the way 29:42 of the higher gate, which lieth, 29:45 the Bible says toward the north, 29:47 and every man had a slaughter weapon in his hand, 29:51 one man among them was clothed, 29:52 oh listen, with linen, 29:54 with a writer's inkhorn by his side, and they went in, 29:59 and stood beside the brasen altar." 30:03 We see in these first two verses 30:05 that there is call is made. 30:10 For these individuals, to these men 30:12 to equip themselves with destroying weapons. 30:16 It wasn't just intimidate, it wasn't just, 30:19 you know, get somebody to run scared. 30:22 When they call them, they were going to do a job. 30:26 Friend, we're talking about the end of time here, 30:28 we are talking about what's going to soon take place, 30:31 that people are just trying to get out of their mind 30:33 and not wanting to deal with. 30:36 so there is vision in Chapter 9, 30:39 brings to the forefront and then what? 30:41 Two groups of people, group of people 30:44 we see here who will survive the slaughtering weapons 30:49 and they group them that will be destroyed, 30:51 does that make sense? There is only two groups. 30:55 You find a group that's going to 30:56 survive the slaughter weapons. Wow! 31:03 And the group is going to be destroyed by them. 31:06 That pertains to every man or woman 31:08 that would be living on the face 31:10 of the earth before Jesus comes. 31:12 That's why this message is important, why? 31:14 Because it includes you, and me. 31:17 We'll be living at the time of Jesus, 31:19 that's not so far-fetch as some people say. 31:24 You could be alive and well at the coming of Jesus, 31:27 it's near even at the door. 31:30 And God is warning once again as He did in Ezekiel's day. 31:33 Certainly destruction we realize here. 31:37 Of God's people, then but more 31:38 so today it applies to us as another warning reaching out. 31:42 Will we heed the council? Will we change our life? 31:45 Will we get it right with God, 31:47 or will we just say, oh God is not 31:48 going to get rid of us, because, oh, 31:50 we're His chosen people and He is going to over, 31:53 no, He will not over look, He can't. 31:57 It's impossible for Him to overlook sin. 32:01 But He is willing to give you the power 32:03 to gain the victory over that, that's good news. 32:08 See God's come to the point in this vision 32:11 that judgment is going to fall, 32:13 it's not going to be delayed another minute. 32:16 He is calling together, "now is the blood, 32:18 but to be carried out his orders. 32:21 Friend this is, this is heavy duty. 32:25 Now I repeat people say, remember primarily 32:27 this vision was given what? 32:29 Destruction of Jerusalem by what? By Babylon. 32:32 But now, so much more the fulfillment 32:34 of this is going to be in our time. 32:38 You see the verse, you know, 32:41 verse 2 that we looked at here. 32:43 The first application then applies to what? 32:45 Babylone, the second application 32:48 to the agencies that will execute 32:51 the sentence on the, upon those here in the last days. 32:54 Now remember that will be on first of all 32:57 it's going to be upon those who profess 32:59 to be spiritual guardians of the people. 33:02 You realize pastors I'm talking to you? 33:05 I'm talking to myself, the Elders, 33:07 the Deacons of the church. 33:09 That the judgment begins to fall first upon those 33:12 who clam to be spiritual guardians. 33:17 Friend, that's heavy, heavy duty. 33:20 And church, no, it's naturally the judgment 33:22 fall later on the wicked, we understand that? 33:25 But the first to feel the wrath, 33:27 the sore as those who suppose to know better, oh friend. 33:33 Little book called Testimonies to Ministers page 431, 33:37 notice this just page with me. 33:39 "Already God's angels are at work in judgment, 33:44 and the Spirit of God is being gradually what? 33:47 Withdrawn or leaving the world." 33:50 Do you remember reading about that 33:51 in Genesis Chapter 6, verse 3. 33:54 Even as young person, I thought that was a kind of, 33:57 it was sad, because just 33:58 first few Chapters of the Bible, first Chap. 34:00 It seems everything was going to go great, 34:02 thanks, we're going to be wonderful. 34:05 God had prepared, God and everything 34:06 was perfect and wonderful and good 34:08 and just a few shot six chapters later, 34:11 the Bible said, what Genesis 6:3 34:13 the Spirit of God will not always strive with man, 34:16 it was leaving, how sad? 34:20 And again we're reminded that the judgments 34:22 are following and the Holy Spirit 34:24 is being lifted because of what? 34:25 It's being rejected. 34:29 And here we are, just a few steps away 34:32 from the triumph of God's church, 34:35 of God's people, it's near. 34:39 And then we said, you know, we talk about the reward, 34:42 it's just within our reach and yet notice 34:45 what Testimonies to Ministers said. 34:47 Its just within reach, we are at the finish line, 34:50 we are getting ready to cross the finish line 34:52 and God looks His people one more time 34:55 and here is what He says to His prophet, 34:59 He says yet iniquity is found among those who claimed 35:05 to have the full blaze of heavens light. 35:09 You claim to have the full blaze of heavens light, 35:12 you proclaim they had with the remnant people of God 35:15 and God has shown special light, 35:17 just like He has with His people through the ages. 35:21 God has looked down to the ages 35:23 and He has looked at His last day church. 35:26 And He looks at us and He says, 35:27 ooh iniquity is still found among 35:30 and is going to have to go. 35:35 Oh, friend, think with me for just a moment. 35:38 Do we think that we can hide from God? 35:43 You know, what sin does? 35:44 Sin just blinds you, sin blinds you. 35:50 You can't really see straight to say, 35:52 you can't really think straight. 35:55 You think you got people fool. 36:00 You ever remembered when you was in school 36:02 just as a young person, you thought that 36:05 you could fool people and they could figure you out, 36:11 a grown up could figure you out pretty quickly. 36:16 I can remember one time, we went to school, 36:20 I was in like the second grade. 36:21 I thought I could fool. 36:22 You know we just kind of poor side of town, 36:25 so, you know, we call Christmas time 36:27 and we didn't really get any toys. 36:31 And then when we went back 36:32 right after the Christmas break, 36:33 oh somebody bear with me, don't starting about grit. 36:36 Now let's come on listen to me. 36:40 When we went back there is a thing 36:41 that was called Show and Tell. 36:44 In other words you would bring a toy 36:45 or something that you got and you would, 36:48 you know, explain to children. 36:49 This is what I got here, my grandma got, 36:51 my dad, mother, but whatever it might be, this is a toy. 36:55 Well, I didn't have any toys to take. 36:58 And so what do we do? 37:00 Well, the best thing I could do I thought, 37:02 but I don't have any toys to take, I think it's all, 37:03 what little bit we've got. 37:05 And so I just, I just, I tiptoed across the alley, 37:10 and I go into the garbage can of Mr. Goleol. 37:14 You may hear my brother talk about 37:15 that sometime and it's true. 37:17 And I thought I've got to find a toy, 37:19 because I can't be the only child 37:20 that doesn't have a toy on Show and Tell. 37:23 And so as I was looking through the garbage can, 37:25 I found this green road grader, 37:30 Well, why they throw in the trash because it was junk. 37:33 Somebody is not going to get this, it was junk. 37:36 It was twisted and beat and scratched up and I thought 37:40 this is a perfect thing I will take this. 37:42 They will think I got it for Christmas, 37:43 and I'll Show and Tell. 37:45 I didn't have any idea 37:47 that the teacher could spot me like that. 37:51 You see how we can get sometime in the mind. 37:56 How sad that must have been for the teacher 37:58 to see somebody bring something like that 38:00 and pertaining them, but they got it as a gift. 38:06 Remember we talk to Mr. Goleol 38:08 the man I told-- and you what is, 38:10 oh he is such a precious soul, 38:11 he has got I don't know 85 or 90 now. 38:15 My brother mentioned to him just not too long ago, 38:17 he said, you remember us going in your trash can 38:21 getting some little things you threw away those toys. 38:24 I don't know if you knew that or not, but we did. 38:26 He said, yes I, I did and we threw out 38:29 some extra things at times. Wow! 38:33 We didn't know that he knew it was in the trash, 38:37 but the heart of the man, he had a couple of children 38:39 they would have abundance of things 38:42 and they would just put them in the trash. 38:43 So we could get them and play, 38:45 awesome, that's a sweet spirit. 38:48 You see things in life is sometimes fool our minds 38:52 and we think we are fooling people 38:53 and it's obvious to other people. 38:59 Already the work of judgments following, 39:03 already the spirit of God is gradually being withdrawn. 39:06 Why do you think that people's 39:07 hearts are hardened now. 39:09 People don't want to help. 39:10 They don't want to do anything. 39:11 They don't seem to care about anything or anybody. 39:16 They don't like somebody, just take a gun or knife 39:18 and just kill them, get rid of them. 39:19 They just-there the spirit of God is moving 39:24 and when spirit of God has to move out we rejected, 39:26 the spirit of the enemy comes in, 39:27 and that's why we are seeing all these things. 39:30 Do you think that we can hide our ways from God? 39:33 No! Do you think that He doesn't see you? 39:39 Listen, in this we studied in Chapter 8, 39:43 the spiritual, exactly, how to get this. 39:46 The spiritual leaders said that 39:50 God doesn't see them anymore. 39:54 Could they become so numb of the Holy Spirit, 39:57 that they actually say God is not around anymore, 40:00 He has left the country. 40:02 And He doesn't see me anymore. 40:04 Can we get that spiritual doubt? Yes! 40:10 Do we think that He takes no knowledge of 40:13 what's going on in the world, and in our life? 40:17 Oh, friend, He does to the very minutest thing. 40:23 Friend, I tell you we, we, we, we're living in that 40:26 very end of our history and I think about. 40:32 As I was studying through, my mind went back to 40:35 Belshazzar, you remember Daniel Chapter 5. 40:39 My mind went back there and I think about he was, 40:42 see he was engage in 40:43 Sacrilegious feast, you remember? 40:46 He was using those things that were, listen what? 40:49 That were holy unto God and he was using them for what? 40:55 Common and filthy use. 40:58 Friend, we have to be careful when, 41:00 listen I'm talking about not just material things, 41:03 but I'm talking about our self. 41:07 We commit our body as a vessel, 41:08 a living vessel of God, a temple of God, 41:11 we commit that to Him and sometime we what? 41:14 We're supposed to be dedicated to God 41:16 and yet we let our body what? Filthy use. 41:21 You think that's not for you? 41:24 I told someone that was here, 41:26 it's been a few years ago and this was in my mind, 41:30 because they're wanting to, woo, 41:32 may I just be kind of bold here, but be careful with it. 41:35 But they wanted to use something that belong to 41:38 God for sacred use and I just simply mentioned, 41:44 I'd rather not loan that out because 41:47 it's for God's use only, it's sacred, it's holy, 41:52 it's been dedicated to Him. 41:54 Now, this was a Christian. 42:00 I said there's a difference between the sacred, 42:03 the holy and the common and they laughed in my face. 42:12 They thought it was this excuse, 42:13 because I wouldn't loan them certain things. 42:18 They had no idea that these things that is holy unto God 42:22 and we need not, you know, 42:24 detract take away from that, 42:27 there's the common and the sacred. 42:30 See here in His days if we have dedicated 42:33 our self to God, we need not desecrate. 42:39 Do not use this power that God 42:42 gives us for unholy purposes. 42:47 Friend, you sense that today as there is something 42:49 going on may be in your church 42:51 and may be in your life, that's unholy purpose. 42:56 Remember we just talked about 42:57 Belshazzar, did you get it? 42:59 He was taking that which was what? 43:01 Holy unto God and using it for what? 43:04 Sacrilegious feast and yet how about us? 43:09 If we, if we're using the power that God gives us 43:12 and the things that He has given us for unholy purposes, 43:16 we are, we're more guilty than Belshazzar 43:19 and you know what happened to him, do you not? 43:22 Are we not sacred vessels? 43:25 Are we not, ask yourself that question? 43:28 Is God using you as He is using me 43:30 for holy purposes only. 43:33 And, you know, what I find sometime? 43:35 I find even in this work that, that, you know, 43:39 man they, you know, they, they accept praise and 43:44 adulation, you know, they just, 43:45 oh, they like to hear their name mentioned, 43:47 they like to see it up in lights, they want, 43:49 they want somebody pad him on the head all time, 43:51 oh you're doing a work that nobody else can do. 43:56 There's people like that in the world today, 43:58 but you know, we're supposed to be a holy people. 44:01 Want to let Jesus shine through, isn't that right? 44:05 But they accept the praise and adulation to only what? 44:08 That only belongs to God. 44:11 Are you accepting any of that today? 44:15 And if so isn't this not idol worship of the worse kind? 44:25 Men praising men, men and women praising each other, 44:30 expressing thoughts that may be and things 44:32 that we shouldn't be expressing to one another. 44:36 Things that should never escape 44:37 the lips of a child of God. 44:40 After all God takes into count 44:41 every word, right, deed, action. 44:46 Let me just give you a little example some of you 44:48 won't get it, may be some of you will. 44:51 Hope you get the point. 44:52 I make your ears stand up, because some people get 44:53 little aggravated when I say that, 44:54 but at least I got your attention. 44:58 I'm gonna read this, here's a very, very interesting 45:00 Testimonies to Ministers 434 and 5 and condensed down. 45:04 Because we don't, we don't think in terms of when 45:07 we're speaking to some body or we're saying something 45:10 that we shouldn't be saying, there's a problem there. 45:14 Problem with the one who is doing the talking and 45:16 problem with the one who is doing the listening. 45:20 And how God views it 45:21 is what's important to me, how about you? 45:26 Now, some of you say boy, you're picking on the women, 45:27 I'll just say woman and men that it applies 45:30 both cases here but notice says, 45:32 "Any woman who will allow the addresses of another 45:38 man other than her husband, 45:41 who will listen to his advances" 45:44 didn't say participate just said you're gonna listen 45:47 "whose ears would be pleased with the outpouring of 45:51 lavish words of affection, of adoration, 45:56 of endearment" listen "is" already 46:00 "is an adulteress and a harlot." 46:04 That's harsh words, didn't have to go through 46:07 all these things that we consider what is an 46:09 adultery or a harlot, but if it godly woman 46:13 just listens to what she should not be listening to 46:16 or man listen to what he shouldn't, 46:18 any kind of address that's given. 46:23 God says already and looked down does it there, 46:26 that's already adultery, that's already a harlot. 46:31 Man that's heavy duty, it makes us think today. 46:33 We've been listening to the wrong things 46:34 that we're allowing things to go, 46:35 that should not be going, 46:37 open up doors that should be shut. 46:41 You think, you know, listen Belshazzar 46:44 had every opportunity to know the God of heaven 46:48 and yet look what he was doing? 46:50 Seem like the worst possible thing, 46:52 the things that were going on at that feast, 46:54 we don't have to go into detail, you already know. 47:00 Almost unspeakable, yet he had every opportunity 47:03 to know the God of Heaven. 47:06 To know the power of God, about being obedient to God, 47:10 see He knew it because Belshazzar, 47:14 like his grandfather, who was his grandfather? 47:16 Good, Nebuchadnezzar, that's exactly right. 47:20 He had been warned about, 47:22 about forgetting God, don't forget God. 47:26 God has a way about getting your attention. 47:30 Wow! Belshazzar knew 47:34 what happened to his grandfather. 47:36 Yeah, but he repeated the same sins 47:40 of Nebuchadnezzar, and then judgment failed, 47:43 his life was taken that very night. 47:46 It's kind of like some of us in the home today. 47:50 They sit nervous. May I just be real blind? 47:53 Why not, you know, hey, said they are smoking those 47:56 nasty old cigarettes and drinking all that bad stuff 47:59 and same time your puff and drinking 48:01 telling your children don't do this. 48:06 You know, what they're gonna do, 48:07 more likely the same thing that mom and dad 48:09 that you're doing that they see. 48:11 Belshazzar did it, scripture, 48:15 certainly the principle is always there. 48:18 They behold it, they grow up with it, 48:20 it becomes normal and they repeat 48:23 the same sins, but what happened? 48:24 Same sin, judgment will fall eventually. 48:29 Let me ask you a question, 48:30 some of you here don't want to listen. 48:33 Will God, think, think yourself don't answer 48:36 so quick, you think you have all the answers, 48:39 don't answer this real quick, 48:40 I want you to think about it. 48:41 Will God in the judgment, when God condemn 48:43 any in the judgment because 48:45 they honestly believed a lie on error. 48:50 In the judgment will God condemn anyone? 48:56 Because they honestly, this throws people, 48:58 honestly believed a lie or an error? 49:03 Think about it. 49:06 Dear friends, I will tell you this, 49:08 they will be condemned because what, what? 49:13 Because they neglected 49:15 the opportunity to know what truth is? 49:19 See, we try to mince words just a little bit, 49:21 well, well, we do it because, well honestly believe 49:23 that's what it is, no it's because they 49:26 could be condemned because they didn't search out, 49:28 they neglected to find out what truth, what truth is? 49:33 Let's go a little bit deeper, 49:35 the infidel, the atheist, 49:38 the unbeliever, well we don't believe. 49:43 What's going to happen? 49:45 Will he be condemned in the judgment? 49:49 May be, listen? 49:51 May be but no, because he was an infidel. 49:56 But because he didn't use what God placed around him 50:01 to enable him to become a Christian. 50:04 It's pretty heavy, isn't it? 50:06 Not just condemning because he didn't believe, 50:09 but because he rejected all the things 50:11 that God put around him to lead him 50:15 to the Cross of Calvary, 50:16 he rejected that, our only hope. 50:22 Man and woman, dear friends, 50:23 going to be judged according to the, you know, 50:26 this the light that's given them by God. 50:29 And John 12:36 says, "Well you have the light do what?" 50:33 yeah, believe in the light 50:34 and walk in the light, while you have it. 50:37 Some of you have it but you're not wanting to 50:39 walk in the light anymore, you rebel it to. 50:41 You want to go do your own thing, 50:43 judgments gonna fall, you won't get away with it, 50:45 I won't get away with it. Why not make that change? 50:49 Why not do it now? Why not do the God's way. 50:54 Colossians 3:17 says "Whatsoever you do 50:57 in word and" what "in word and deed, 51:00 do all in the name of the Lord Jesus." 51:07 Scripture tells us in I Samuel 2 verse 3, 51:09 it says here, "The Lord is a God of knowledge 51:12 and by Him" notice this "by him actions are weighed." 51:18 You remember who was weighed 51:19 in the balances and found wanting? 51:24 Our words and our actions, actions here is our, 51:27 our opportunities are going to be 51:29 weighed in the balances. 51:31 Our deeds are going to be weighed in the balances. 51:33 Our doings are going to be weighed in the balances. 51:36 Our performance is going to be weighed in the balances. 51:38 Our works are going to be weighed in the balances, 51:41 nothing goes undetected. 51:48 Bible says, Proverbs 16:2, it says, 51:51 "The ways of a man are clean in his own eyes" 51:55 but listen "but the Lord weigheth the spirit." 52:00 The Lord does what? 52:02 He weighs the words that we hear, 52:04 and hears in Hebrew is, He not just weighs what? 52:07 He measures the spirit which is the life, 52:11 your life, my life in a sensible way. 52:17 So we're weighed in the balances and found wanting, 52:21 listen to this, if we're living in known sin. 52:28 This is what this vision in Ezekiel 9 52:31 is talking about here, sin was prevailing, 52:34 people were living they knew better 52:38 and they were weighed in the balances 52:39 and they were found wanting and the men with the swords 52:43 were arriving on the scene and they are going to be 52:45 slay utterly young, old and young and kids and maidens 52:47 and everybody and we realize that took place 52:50 didn't they, it's going to take place again. 52:53 Well, that's heavy duty and we live in any known sin? 52:59 Testimonies to Ministers 439, 53:01 our time is running out here but so we're gonna 53:03 continue on in our third part but notice this, 53:05 "God's claim is placed in one scale" 53:09 come on help me out " God's claim is placed 53:12 in one scale and man's character is in the other, 53:16 by the balances of the heavenly sanctuary 53:19 every man's doom is fixed for eternity." 53:23 Every man's doom is fixed for eternity weighed in the scale. 53:31 Will we hear today, will we make the changes 53:34 that need to be made, will we listen to the council, 53:37 will we listen to the prophet of God, 53:38 will we read the word and say oh God help us. 53:41 Will we hear or will we hear that pronounced upon us 53:44 that weight in the balances and you're found what? 53:47 Warning. 53:49 Daniel 5:27, listen carefully dear friends, 53:54 and we're gonna pick up right here 53:55 in our next lesson because I want to get this, 53:58 I don't want anybody to be deceived in the matter 54:00 that we're gonna talk about here. 54:04 The things that we will discuss, 54:06 we'll show whether you have the mind of Christ 54:07 or the mind of Satan and boy do they get on some-- 54:11 I'm telling you some, some just 54:12 mind shattering things here, that may be you have 54:16 in your life and you think you're child of God, 54:18 but if there's in our mind we cannot be a child of God, 54:22 you won't want to miss those things. 54:24 Are you ready to make that decision for Jesus today? 54:26 Why don't we pray about it right now? 54:29 We got, we've got to get right with God, 54:31 let's do it, let's start on our knees right now, 54:32 let's pray for those who are making that decision, 54:34 shall we do that right now? 54:35 Heavenly Father, we thank you 54:36 for your precious word today. 54:38 We thank you for the warning that you've given 54:39 to your people, help us to heed 54:42 that council before it's too late, 54:43 I give you praise, give you honor 54:45 and give you glory. Thank you for those 54:46 who have heeded, those who are listening 54:48 and they've committed yourself to you right now 54:50 in the precious name of Jesus we pray amen. 54:55 You see how these lessons are going and how intense, 54:58 at least in my heart they be calm 55:00 because they referred to me and what, 55:03 our children and grandchildren 55:04 and the world and your church family and, 55:06 you know, it's coming to an end 55:08 and we need to be ready for the coming of Jesus. 55:11 And we need to make those choices and decisions right now. 55:15 And those of you who have made up, 55:16 I want you to give us a call, let us know that you made 55:18 that decision for Jesus. And, you know, 55:21 the way that we continue these programs 55:23 by your free will offerings. 55:24 We thank you for doing that, 55:26 have any comments or questions give us a call, 55:28 we love you, we'll see you next time. 55:34 Welcome back. Friends, I sure hope 55:36 that this message has stirred you into action. 55:39 It's time that we simply face the fact that 55:42 there are no excuses for sin none. 55:46 We just need to allow God to come in 55:49 and make the necessary changes in our lives, 55:52 to rid ourselves of sin, truly this is a matter listen, 55:56 this is truly a matter of the eternal life or eternal death. 56:01 We're in the judgment hour and none of us know 56:06 when our name, your name, my name will appear 56:09 before God and our record book of deeds 56:13 will be opened for sentencing. 56:17 What is your choice? Where would you like 56:20 to spend eternity? Here "Behold the Lamb Ministries" 56:24 we're praying that your decision will be and is to put Christ 56:31 and His leading first and foremost in your life. 56:35 You know, let Him become the driver, 56:37 put Him in the driver seat and then believe 56:40 and have faith that He will lead you safe to glory. 56:44 And don't forget for your continued studies, 56:48 we're making this series available. 56:50 It's a series of three DVDs for suggested 56:54 donation of just $23 or more. 56:56 That's right just $23 or more and while you're helping 57:01 yourself by ordering this set, please keep in mind 57:04 that you're helping "Behold the Lamb Ministries" 57:06 to continue to bring these timely messages into your home 57:10 and around the world each week. 57:13 We also want to remind you that Pastor Kenny and I, 57:15 we do travel to various churches for weekend meetings 57:18 or evangelistic crusades. 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