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00:40 Good to see you each and every one.
00:42 We pray God's blessing upon each one of us
00:45 as we study the Word of God together today.
00:48 Now, we've come together
00:50 to talk about two edged sword, right?
00:52 And, you know, a lot of times
00:53 we needed to rightly cut and rightly divide.
00:56 So praise God for today.
00:58 And as usual before we go,
01:01 you know what, we believe it, and church believes in prayer.
01:04 And we believe that we need to pray often.
01:05 And so once again
01:07 before open this beautiful book called
01:09 the Bible,
01:10 I'm going to kneel here and have prayer.
01:12 I'd like you to pray with me please.
01:13 Let's pray.
01:18 Merciful Father, in heaven again we thank You
01:20 for the privilege of prayer.
01:22 We thank You
01:23 that we can call You our Father.
01:25 Thankful that we can be part of the family of God.
01:27 Today Lord, we need You,
01:28 we need the power of Thy Holy Spirit.
01:30 Please send Thy Spirit to illuminate
01:33 these beautiful truths of the hour in which we live,
01:36 help us to realize that Jesus is coming soon,
01:38 and there is a preparation that needs to be made.
01:41 Pray that You'll open hearts, and minds, and ears today.
01:45 We're thankful that these messages stay
01:46 not within these walls but they go into all the world.
01:50 We pray now for the mighty working
01:52 of Thy Spirit upon each one of us
01:53 that we may see Jesus in a very special way.
01:56 In His precious name we pray and for His sake, amen.
02:04 So within harmony with the children story today,
02:08 we pray that you've brought your sword.
02:10 Everybody has their sword, right?
02:11 We need to have the sword
02:13 because a preacher may be lying to you.
02:16 Somebody heard that?
02:17 Preacher may not be telling the truth.
02:19 You know, not every preacher
02:21 in the world can tell the truth.
02:22 Let's be honest, not maybe intentionally
02:24 they would tell something that's not true, truthful.
02:26 But everybody,
02:28 you know, telling lot of different things
02:29 and there's only one truth in the Bible.
02:31 My dad always say,
02:33 "How many ways can you tell the truth?"
02:35 There's only one way.
02:36 And we go to the Word of God today.
02:39 I'm going to entitle this message for today.
02:42 And you may say,
02:43 "Well, we've heard it over and over."
02:46 But we have to realize the hour in which we live.
02:49 We have to realize
02:51 that probation is soon to close,
02:52 and that we as a people have a work to do.
02:56 And I know many times in the pulpit
02:57 you like to hear a lot of good stories
02:59 and have a lot of, they say laughter,
03:01 and good times, and leave.
03:03 But you know we live in a very solemn time.
03:07 We have to realize that probation is closing.
03:09 And if we do not realize these things
03:11 and that we have a job to do
03:13 that we will get sidetracked with all the things
03:16 that are going on in the world.
03:18 And we're going to think that,
03:20 you know, it's just kind of a get together
03:21 and some kind of a,
03:23 you know, country club setting.
03:25 This is not what we're here today.
03:26 We're here to study the Word of God.
03:28 We're going to talk a little bit about
03:30 that third angel, that third angel.
03:33 What is the purpose of that third angel
03:36 or the three angels' message of Revelation 14.
03:40 I thought it was very interesting
03:42 because the third...
03:43 We realized that the power
03:46 of the third angel's message increases
03:49 in its importance near the close of earth's history.
03:53 Now remember, third angel's message,
03:56 as we come nearer to the coming of Jesus,
03:58 it increases in importance.
04:02 And if it increases in importance,
04:03 I need to know this third angel.
04:07 I need to know the purpose of the third angel.
04:10 Why this message God is giving to the church?
04:13 Thought how interesting that is.
04:15 And I like just to read that quickly
04:17 with the Revelation 14.
04:19 This should be
04:20 one of the most familiar passage of Scripture,
04:23 especially to Seventh-day Adventist.
04:26 If they do not know
04:27 where the three angels' messages
04:29 are found, shame.
04:32 Shame on you. Is that okay to say that?
04:34 Shame. Why?
04:35 Because we should be talking about it,
04:37 praying about it, learning.
04:38 These are the most important solemn three messages
04:41 as it were to go into the world before Jesus comes.
04:45 These are testing truths of the hour.
04:48 And certainly in Revelation 14, we'll just read.
04:51 If you read verses 6-12,
04:53 you've got the three angels' message.
04:55 You've got it in a nutshell.
04:58 But we realize it encompasses the gospel of Jesus Christ.
05:02 There's a lot there.
05:04 But we're just going to talk a little bit about
05:05 the third angel's message today, Revelation 14.
05:08 Just going to read verses 9 and 10.
05:11 Now remember,
05:12 there are many Christians today.
05:14 It's not to belittle,
05:15 it's not to try to hurt anybody.
05:17 But if you say,
05:19 "Have you heard about the three angels' messages?"
05:22 Very few people in the world will say,
05:24 "Yeah, I've heard about that, they don't know,
05:26 they've never heard."
05:28 Now that makes me feel bad
05:29 because I look at myself and say,
05:30 "You know what?
05:32 Maybe I haven't done my job."
05:34 I'm not look at somebody else
05:35 trying to criticize someone else,
05:37 but I'm looking deep within and saying,
05:39 "Why haven't they heard?"
05:41 This is the roots.
05:44 This is what, the thing that holds us together
05:47 as a movement.
05:49 It's giving out this message to the world to wake them up
05:52 before Jesus comes.
05:54 The Bible said, Revelation 14:9,
05:56 it says, "The third angel followed them,
05:59 saying with a loud voice, if any man worship," what?
06:02 "The beast and his image,
06:03 and receive his mark in his forehead,
06:06 or in his hand."
06:07 Notice what it says, it says,
06:09 "The same shall drink of the wine
06:12 of the wrath of God, which is," what?
06:14 It's going to be
06:15 "poured out without mixture
06:17 there is no mercy into the cup of his indignation,
06:21 he shall be tormented with," what?
06:23 "Fire and brimstone
06:26 in the presence of the holy angels,
06:28 and in the presence of the Lamb."
06:31 Now this is heavy duty. This is life and death.
06:35 This is not something that you mess with.
06:37 This is not something that you think
06:38 you can take it or leave it.
06:40 This is laid out there for God's last day people.
06:44 It refers to all of us.
06:47 We're not exempt from this.
06:49 It encircles the whole world.
06:53 Why?
06:54 Have you ever asked this question?
06:56 Why are these messages even given?
06:58 What is the purpose of giving three angels' messages?
07:03 I've heard a lot of people stumble
07:04 around on that one.
07:05 I've heard a lot of people don't understand it.
07:07 But, you know, to me
07:09 it's very, very simple when we look at it.
07:11 These messages are given because of the principle.
07:16 The principles of the churches today
07:18 have become corrupted.
07:19 The principle is what?
07:21 The doctrines and the teachings
07:24 of most churches have become corrupted.
07:27 And so God is going to bring us back to center.
07:30 He's going to bring us back by testing truth to see
07:34 who are His people.
07:36 So we realized, principles have become what?
07:39 Corrupted.
07:40 In Revelation 14: 9 and 10, that we just read there,
07:44 these angels represent what?
07:46 What do these angels represent?
07:49 You know, as a little child, I heard this read.
07:52 And they say angles flying.
07:53 Well, I always pictured angels flying
07:55 in the midst of heaven giving the message.
07:57 But you realize that's not so farfetched
08:00 because angels and human beings work together.
08:04 But we didn't realize that these angels symbolic
08:07 what of what?
08:09 Of messengers, of us.
08:11 We are those angels.
08:13 We are those individuals that are to give this message.
08:17 And think about how God has entrusted you
08:19 with this responsibility and me,
08:22 to give this message.
08:24 The angels could have done it, God could do it.
08:27 Heaven can do it without us.
08:30 But heaven has chosen
08:31 to let us be a wonderful part of giving
08:35 this salvation message to the world.
08:38 How wonderful that is?
08:40 I look at and say,
08:42 "God must see an awful lot that I don't see."
08:44 And certainly He does.
08:46 You know, 'cause really if you look at yourself,
08:48 do you really trust yourself.
08:50 You know, I look at myself and say,
08:52 "I am untrustworthy."
08:54 And how many would say, you look at yourself,
08:56 are you really trustworthy.
08:58 Are we really trustworthy to give these messages?
09:01 I might add this.
09:02 If we had been trustworthy
09:05 to give these messages ere long,
09:07 He would have come.
09:08 So that says, we haven't been trustworthy.
09:11 That means we've failed in our responsibility.
09:14 Now I realize a lot of people
09:15 don't want to hear about failure.
09:17 But sometimes if we hear about failure,
09:19 it will help us to get our act together.
09:23 And want to make a change
09:25 because it depends on this change
09:27 the coming of Jesus and how soon?
09:30 Isn't that interesting?
09:31 But when this gospel is preached where?
09:33 Into the whole world, Jesus is going to come.
09:37 This I can say for sure that we know.
09:40 This we know.
09:42 God's work is going to be finished
09:45 under the third angel.
09:47 See, I'm interested in that third angel.
09:49 And we can go in to the mark of the beast and so on,
09:52 the image of the beast and so on and so forth.
09:54 That's really not the purpose of this.
09:56 But we need to understand that,
09:58 if this is the life and death issue.
10:00 And I'm so shocked many times
10:03 when you talk to people is that you say
10:05 the mark of the beast, "You know what it is?"
10:08 They'll say, "No, I don't."
10:09 And they really don't care if they hear it or not.
10:13 At least we should want to know.
10:16 If I didn't know, I'd say, "Well, what is it?
10:19 What do you think it is?"
10:23 It's life and death.
10:26 The mark of the enemy or the mark of God,
10:28 you're going to have one or the other.
10:30 Seal of God, the mark of the beast,
10:32 it's just that simple.
10:34 We're either going to follow the enemy
10:35 or we're going to follow Christ.
10:37 But we know the work will be finished under what?
10:39 The third angel.
10:42 I love the book The Great Controversy.
10:45 And, you know, so sad
10:46 that many of us have these books
10:48 and all they do is gather dust.
10:50 We don't read the books.
10:51 We don't spend time underlining, circling,
10:56 looking at every word
10:58 because they've been given to us by God,
11:00 just like this right here.
11:02 This right here is holy men of God,
11:04 as they are inspired by the Holy Spirit.
11:06 They work together.
11:08 Notice what it says,
11:09 and maybe we'll come back and read it again
11:12 after we make a couple more comments.
11:14 The Great Controversy, page 613 says this,
11:18 "When..."notice
11:20 "When the third angel's message closes,
11:23 mercy no longer pleads
11:26 for the guilty inhabitants of the earth."
11:28 Did you notice that it wasn't a certain class,
11:31 it said we're all what?
11:32 Everybody's guilty
11:34 because we've all sinned and come short.
11:36 Notice that The Great Controversy says,
11:39 "No mercy pleads
11:40 for the guilty inhabitants of the earth."
11:42 The people, notice,
11:44 the people of God have accomplished their work.
11:48 God's people are going
11:50 to finish the work by the grace,
11:52 right, and power and strength of God.
11:54 Notice the work is finished.
11:56 I look at it today in my little human eyes
11:58 and I say, and I've said all my life,
12:00 "How can it be?
12:02 How can this work is so vast worldwide,
12:05 how will it be finished?
12:07 Who's going to finish it?"
12:08 And I see this, we're just getting lukewarm
12:11 and little more,
12:12 you know, lukewarm, and lukewarm, and lukewarm.
12:15 We need people on fire for Jesus today.
12:19 What does that tell us?
12:21 It simply tells us under the third angel's message,
12:24 God is going to complete His work,
12:27 its probation is going to close,
12:29 no more mercy in the world.
12:31 He that is righteous will be righteous still.
12:33 He that is filthy will be filthy still.
12:36 Notice, probation comes to a close.
12:39 And this is where you have your Bible,
12:41 turn with me.
12:42 This is where the Book of Daniel
12:44 really comes in very handy for us.
12:47 Daniel 12, I've heard many people read this,
12:50 sometime they relate, sometime they do not.
12:53 This is where Daniel 12:1 comes really into effect here.
12:57 Notice what it says, Daniel 12:1,
12:59 very familiar passage of Scripture.
13:01 Notice, this comes into play.
13:04 It says, "At that time shall," who?
13:08 "Shall Michael stand up,
13:10 the great prince would standeth
13:12 for the children of thy people:..."
13:14 This is some good news here by the way.
13:17 This is shouting news.
13:19 This is getting exciting news
13:21 because Michael is going to standeth for what?
13:24 His people.
13:26 There's going to be a time that God says, "It's enough."
13:29 There's going to be a time He says, "I'm finished with it,
13:31 it's done.
13:32 They've done all they're going to do,
13:34 I give them every opportunity,
13:35 every decision has been made one way or the other."
13:37 And Michael said,
13:39 "Now, I'm going to stand up for my people."
13:41 Oh, how wonderful that is.
13:43 "Their shall be though a time of," what?
13:46 "Trouble, such as never was since there was a nation
13:49 even to the same time."
13:52 This is the time we were talking about
13:54 as probation does what?
13:56 As closes.
13:57 What does that really say to you?
14:00 You know, it says something to me as probation
14:01 that this closes.
14:03 Notice in Daniel 12:1,
14:06 it's always a debate going on in the Christian world today.
14:11 Well, Michael it does, it's not Christ.
14:14 It says, Michael referred,
14:15 you know, and on and on, and on,
14:17 rather than to read it and compare line upon line
14:19 and precept upon precept.
14:21 It's very simple to find out who Michael is.
14:25 It's really, I want to say a crying shame,
14:27 if it's all right.
14:29 It's a pitiful shame
14:31 that we can't find something of this simple
14:33 and put it together just very quickly here today.
14:37 Then at that time the Bible says, at that time.
14:40 And really that's translated at the time of the end,
14:43 at the time of the end, Michael stands for what?
14:47 He stands for His people.
14:48 That means that Michael comes to deliver His people.
14:52 Why? Because they're in trouble.
14:55 Some of us are not getting it. We're in trouble.
14:59 We're in deep trouble.
15:03 We're in mud up to here. Somebody still with me.
15:06 I'll leave it at that.
15:08 And we don't realize it sometime.
15:09 I don't think we realize what's going on here.
15:13 We're almost to here, you see. And that's all she wrote.
15:17 He comes to deliver us, His people.
15:21 Michael, you know,
15:22 the name is like, who is like God.
15:26 Michael means, who is like God.
15:28 Now remember and now we get confused
15:30 because some people said Michael refers to the enemy.
15:32 Why?
15:33 Because the enemy wants to be like God.
15:36 Are you still with me? He's striving to be like God.
15:38 He wants to be like God.
15:40 Isaiah 14 talks about what he wants to do.
15:44 I will sit in the place.
15:49 But there's a real Michael
15:50 and then there's a counterfeit Michael.
15:52 Right.
15:54 For every truth there's, you know, counterfeit.
15:56 We know Michael who's like God.
15:59 In the Bible he's also referred to as the chief Prince,
16:03 you remember that.
16:04 And we just read where he's described
16:07 as Israel's protector.
16:11 Did you get that in Daniel 12:1?
16:13 What is it saying?
16:16 It says, "Shall Michael stand up,
16:17 the great prince which standeth
16:19 before the children of thy people."
16:22 He stands for us.
16:25 Jude 9, he called the archangel.
16:30 Jesus is called the archangel.
16:33 And how that is associated
16:35 with 1 Thessalonians 4:16, isn't it?
16:38 Where it says the dead come out
16:40 of the grave at the voice of, what?
16:42 The archangel.
16:43 Who calls the sleeping saints up?
16:46 Jesus calls them up.
16:48 He's referred to as the archangel.
16:51 And how wonderful that as they hear His voice
16:54 and they come forward everlasting life.
16:57 The saints, they're coming.
16:59 John 5, read more about that verse 28.
17:04 So the name Michael,
17:05 notice this in Scripture it seems always is used
17:10 when there is a direct conflict between Christ and Satan.
17:16 Did you get it?
17:17 When there is a conflict between Christ and Satan,
17:21 Michael is referred
17:22 to kind of interesting many times
17:24 when Michael is used.
17:25 Wow.
17:26 That helps us to understand,
17:28 we have good and then we have bad.
17:30 Interesting. Wow.
17:32 It says the time of trouble.
17:35 When Christ mediation ceases.
17:39 I mean how sobering that is to my mind,
17:44 that the time will come
17:48 when we're no longer have a mediator.
17:51 When we have to stand aside
17:53 of a holy God without a mediator,
17:56 means sin has to go.
18:01 And each one of us may look at our life today.
18:06 And we're going to see things that maybe shouldn't be there.
18:10 It's not going to be tolerated when probation closes.
18:14 We will have that robe of righteousness.
18:17 He's not putting it on us
18:18 to conceal defective character and sin.
18:21 It can only be put upon those
18:23 who have gained the victory by the blood of the lamb.
18:28 But think about it when Christ is finished.
18:33 Now watch my terms here.
18:36 I'll be watchful today because I'm saying.
18:39 I'll tell you everything's going to bust loose.
18:42 Did you get it?
18:44 Everything is going to bust loose
18:46 when Christ stands up and says, "It's finished."
18:49 When there's no mediator anymore,
18:51 that means Satan
18:52 has full control down here, look out.
18:55 He's going to throw everything that he possibly can throw
18:58 at anybody and everybody,
19:00 even the saints
19:01 because there's no such thing as a rapture.
19:04 We'll be raptured away,
19:05 we don't have to worry about it.
19:07 No, you will go through the time of trouble
19:09 if you are alive.
19:10 God's people will go through that time.
19:15 Man, I'll tell you that the devil likes it always,
19:18 if you don't worry about it
19:19 'cause, you know, you won't be here.
19:22 You will be here.
19:23 The Bible is clear that you will be here.
19:26 Name someone in Scripture then, give me some evidence,
19:30 give me some evidence from the Word of God right here
19:32 where when they were God's men and women were challenged
19:35 that he just took them out.
19:37 Is that why they threw Daniel in the lions' den?
19:41 Took him out, huh?
19:43 No, the devil want to take him out,
19:44 but, you know, that lions weren't hungry
19:45 at that time, I guess.
19:49 God closed their mouth, didn't He?
19:52 But just look and think of all the test
19:55 that God's people have been through,
19:57 they weren't taken out,
19:58 they went through them by the grace of God.
20:01 By His mercy, by His strength they made it through
20:03 and they come forth as mighty conquerors.
20:06 That's what the Bible talks about.
20:08 But the enemy now, he lets loose his fury.
20:12 The Great Controversy, we just read it while ago,
20:14 page 613 and 614 says,
20:18 what happens is no pen can write it out,
20:22 make it a picture.
20:23 Did you get the scene of strife such as no pen can picture.
20:28 You can't even write it down.
20:30 You've never seen anything on the airwaves.
20:34 You've seen a lot of junk on there.
20:35 But it's nothing when the enemy turns loose.
20:38 What a time of trouble.
20:41 Remember, every case, talking about the third angel.
20:45 Every case has been what?
20:47 Been decided has it not, life or death.
20:51 Sins have already been atoned for.
20:54 And they've been blotted out.
20:56 Notice, but we find the other class,
20:58 the wicked who have rejected and spurn God's long suffering,
21:02 and mercy, and probation is just closed.
21:07 Can you really accept that?
21:09 Can you really deal with that when you know
21:11 that's going to come someday
21:12 and you think about maybe your husband,
21:14 your wife, your children, your grandchildren,
21:16 they're not in the ark of safety,
21:17 they don't even want to get in.
21:21 They wouldn't want it too
21:22 if you want to throw them out there
21:24 in the water to save them.
21:25 Are you still with me?
21:26 Here's a tube, inner tube, you're drowning here, here,
21:28 I threw the tube out.
21:30 No, we don't want, we're all right.
21:32 And they've already been under two or three times.
21:36 Can you be content with that thought,
21:39 that it's okay that they're lost?
21:41 Can you be content with that thought?
21:43 By the grace of God,
21:44 if you be in that New Jerusalem coming down,
21:47 that you see your sons, and your daughters,
21:49 and your moms, and your dads outside those walls,
21:51 are you going to be happy about that?
21:53 No, you will not be.
21:56 Now it's the time to do
21:57 by the grace of God something about it.
22:00 Now is the time to give them the message.
22:02 Well, they don't want to hear it.
22:04 Well, pray that their ears will be open.
22:06 Pray that they want to hear you.
22:07 You can't give it if they don't want to hear it.
22:12 But you have to have that peace in your soul
22:16 that by the grace of God you've made
22:17 every effort available.
22:19 Not just because
22:21 they'll get little peeved at you,
22:22 not because they won't talk to you for a week
22:24 because you bring it up.
22:25 That's too bad.
22:27 Somebody still with me?
22:29 Their soul is worth it.
22:33 Their soul is worth it.
22:36 How many people have you heard
22:39 in some kind of disaster to say,
22:41 I think maybe I could have saved my child
22:43 or I could save my wife if I just tried.
22:47 It could be a car accident, it could be a fire.
22:49 If I just try.
22:52 And this is not just some things in this life,
22:55 we're talking about for eternity.
22:58 Well, I didn't want to upset him.
23:00 Upset him.
23:03 It's all right, upset him a little bit.
23:05 If you love them, Jesus said if He loves you,
23:09 you're going to get chastised, right?
23:10 Persecution,
23:11 there's going to be some chastisement go on.
23:14 Oh, they live Godly in Christ, Jesus shall suffer a little.
23:20 We know that God has a purpose for giving
23:25 this third angel's message.
23:26 Now all three of them we understand.
23:28 And all three of them are valid today.
23:30 All three of them must be given today.
23:32 But you know what?
23:34 You hear very little about it in our own churches.
23:36 You don't hear about it
23:37 at all in other churches to be honest.
23:40 And then in Adventism you just hardly ever hear
23:43 because people don't want to hear.
23:45 They want to hear doom and gloom.
23:47 But you know what? I like a warning.
23:51 I like somebody who cares enough for me to say,
23:53 "Hey, be careful when you go cut that tree down.
24:00 Be careful when you drive the car,
24:02 fasten your seat belt."
24:04 Seems so minute,
24:06 but yet you want them to fasten up.
24:08 Put the kids in the car seat, fasten them up.
24:14 Be careful about this. Don't drink this water.
24:16 Don't do...
24:17 You want to hear warnings.
24:19 But when it comes to giving three angel's message,
24:20 well, we don't want to hear because, oh my,
24:22 it's a time of trouble
24:24 that world has never been through.
24:25 We don't want it.
24:31 Paul makes an interesting statement
24:33 in Romans 13:12.
24:37 Romans 13:12.
24:39 Here's how Paul was looking at, he said this, Romans 13:12.
24:43 Notice, it says the night is far, what?
24:47 The night is far spent. She's almost gone.
24:51 It's almost all over. He's talking about in his day.
24:55 He was catching a heavenly view that it was almost over with.
24:59 Even then he said the night is far spent,
25:02 the day is what?
25:04 Is at hand,
25:05 let us therefore cast off the works of darkness.
25:09 Let us put on the armor of light.
25:12 Cast off the old enemy.
25:14 Be gone, you're dirty devil.
25:17 Some of you probably never prayed
25:19 that or have you?
25:22 Go away you dirty devil.
25:25 Every time he attacks,
25:27 we have that right in the name of Jesus to say,
25:30 "Get behind me."
25:31 Jesus did it, did He not,
25:33 when he was approached about it, get behind me.
25:37 I would say, "Get behind me. I don't want to see your face.
25:41 Don't want to hear you.
25:44 Get behind me, Satan,"
25:46 because I guarantee
25:47 if he's out there in front of your face,
25:48 he's going to get you
25:50 because you'll be carrying on a conversation with him.
25:51 You don't want to do that.
25:53 The night's almost gone.
25:55 We need to cast off the works of darkness,
25:57 or the works of the enemy, or the things of this world.
26:00 Let them go, put on the armor of light.
26:04 Reflect Jesus Christ to the world.
26:06 Do what you were meant to do here.
26:10 You came in this movement to give
26:12 the three angels' message.
26:13 And lo and behold, most of us are not doing it,
26:15 should be ashamed.
26:19 Now remember, you know, if you are, you aren't.
26:21 So don't everybody get long faced
26:23 and start carrying on about it.
26:25 You know if you are.
26:27 And you know if you aren't doing,
26:28 if you aren't doing, you need to hear.
26:30 If you are doing it like
26:31 I'm trying to by the grace of God,
26:33 I still need to be more, more dedicated, more sincere,
26:36 more consecrated to the cause of Christ.
26:40 We haven't reached that point.
26:43 So I look at myself here and say,
26:44 "Oh, we must have fallen short."
26:46 Paul talked about it.
26:48 And then John the Revelator,
26:49 he comes up, I love the book of Revelation,
26:52 and what a prophetic book.
26:54 What a book we need to be reading and studying
26:56 in this hour.
26:57 He says it this way, when he's referring to this.
27:00 There's a purpose for giving this message.
27:03 Paul said there was a purpose, why?
27:04 Because time's almost over with.
27:06 Get away from the old devil
27:08 and let's represent Jesus Christ to the world.
27:10 I'm paraphrasing, did you get it?
27:12 Now John comes along and he says in Revelation 1:3.
27:16 He starts out blessed, I like that.
27:19 "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that," what?
27:22 "Hear the words of this prophecy,"
27:25 good "and they keep those things
27:29 which are written therefore, for the time is at hand.
27:35 John said, "The time is at hand.
27:37 Blessed the person who reads, and hears,
27:40 and obeys those things."
27:42 You may be a reader, it's not good enough.
27:45 You may be a listener, it's not good enough.
27:48 You've got to read, and hear,
27:49 and understand and then do by the grace of God
27:53 more than hearers of the word, right?
27:56 More doers of the word, not hearers only,
28:00 we're deceiving our own self.
28:02 Notice that.
28:03 Interesting, Jesus has talked about it.
28:05 Paul is talking about it here.
28:07 John the Revelator comes by and he's talking about it.
28:10 He said, the time is at hand.
28:12 Paul said, put on the armor of light.
28:15 And John goes on in Revelation 22:7.
28:20 You noticed, I always had loved this,
28:21 he said, "Behold I come quickly"
28:25 you notice that,
28:26 "blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy
28:30 of this book."
28:33 The blessing is always pronounced upon those
28:35 who keep the sayings of this book.
28:38 Why is it that most churches are not interested
28:41 in the Book of Revelation or the Book of Daniel?
28:43 Because they are the two books we need right now.
28:46 They are books of prophecy.
28:47 They are the ones that tell us
28:49 what is to take place in this world
28:50 so that we're not surprised.
28:52 So that we don't say, I knew it was going to happen
28:55 but no one should be saying that,
28:58 no one has come in
28:59 and studied himself into this faith.
29:01 No one is going to sit here in this church
29:03 because you're going to hear it over and over, and over
29:06 'cause you need it and I need it.
29:08 I don't want to be surprised.
29:11 There's no need to be surprised.
29:12 You think Jesus wants you to be surprised and say,
29:14 oh, I didn't know.
29:16 Absolutely not. Oh, I didn't know.
29:19 You didn't know
29:20 because you were watching the news
29:22 rather than reading the Bible.
29:25 Messing around rather than reading the Word.
29:27 Let's just be honest about these things.
29:29 Something's going to take our time.
29:31 And whatever that might be,
29:32 we all have the same amount of time,
29:34 and we have to make choices
29:36 of where we're going to spend that time.
29:37 Behold I come quickly.
29:40 To me those sounds like warnings.
29:43 Is that not a warning? Sure.
29:46 And, of course, we realized Spirit of Prophecy
29:47 'cause lot of warning, Manuscript 95,
29:50 this was written in 1906.
29:53 Manuscript 95, in 1906.
29:56 Notice this little warning it says,
29:58 when probation ends...
30:00 Somebody help me now.
30:02 When probation ends, it will come suddenly.
30:08 It will come how? Suddenly.
30:10 Unexpectedly at a time
30:12 when we are least expecting it.
30:17 So what is going on that we're not expecting it?
30:24 Because we should expect it.
30:26 Jesus said what, you're going to know.
30:28 You're going to know, right?
30:30 You're going to know the signs of the time.
30:31 You're going to know
30:32 when the leaves are on the trees.
30:34 You're going to know the season.
30:35 You're going to know what's going on
30:37 if you're in the Word.
30:38 But now it says,
30:39 a similar comes to most of the world as what?
30:41 As a overwhelming surprise.
30:44 We didn't know.
30:48 Preacher's not worth two cents that doesn't warn his people.
30:52 He's not.
30:53 He needs to get him another job.
30:55 He needs to do something else.
30:57 It's about warning.
30:58 It's about going over the message
30:59 that maybe you know and that you've come to love.
31:02 But it's still going over to remind us
31:05 that we have Brother John,
31:06 we have a job to do and it's not just on Sabbath.
31:11 We have a message to give. God has appointed you.
31:14 Listen, you chose to come in.
31:17 Nobody made you.
31:20 Did you not join the movement?
31:22 You knew the message.
31:24 You studied the message. I've studied the message.
31:28 I'm learning all the time.
31:31 Again, God has a purpose for giving of this message,
31:35 the third angel's message.
31:36 This is going to be a little bit a reading here,
31:38 found in First Selected Messages,
31:40 page 67 and 68.
31:43 It's quite a lengthy paragraph.
31:44 But listen anybody goes to sleep,
31:46 I will catch you, all right.
31:49 I'll scream and holler and I'll quick out.
31:51 I'll make noise, I'll do something.
31:52 You know why?
31:54 Because your life is on the line,
31:55 you're worth it.
31:57 My life is on the line.
32:01 It's worth waking up for Word.
32:04 It's worth being excited about.
32:07 And it just goes over First Selected Message 67 and 68.
32:10 It goes over the responsibility that I have chosen
32:15 by accepting Jesus Christ, by hooking up with Jesus.
32:19 Divinity and humanity working together.
32:22 I have said, okay, by God's grace.
32:25 God said this is what I want you to do.
32:27 I mean, how many would turn that down today.
32:29 If you heard that voice say this is what I want you do,
32:32 how many of you will say, well, no, I don't have time.
32:36 Notice what it says, very interesting.
32:39 God had committed to His people
32:41 a work to be accomplished on this earth.
32:45 What has God done?
32:47 He's given us a work to do.
32:49 You remember,
32:50 He talks about laborers all the time.
32:53 He talks about activity.
32:55 He talks about going into, going forth,
32:59 getting up and going, showing up, doing something.
33:02 It's always about doing, not as a means of salvation,
33:06 but you're active.
33:08 You can't bear just to sit all the time
33:10 and do nothing for the cause of Christ.
33:12 He's committed.
33:14 He has a work for us to do, notice, to accomplish
33:17 and it will be on this earth with or without us.
33:20 And then it goes on and says,
33:22 the third angel's message was to be given.
33:25 The minds of the believers were be,
33:28 were to be directed to the heavenly sanctuary
33:31 where Christ had entered
33:32 to make atonement for His people.
33:36 When you give the three angels' message,
33:37 what do you do?
33:38 You have to get into the judgment hour.
33:40 You have to get into Sabbath reform.
33:42 You've got to get into these areas
33:44 and that's what it is about.
33:45 God said, I want to wake the people up.
33:48 I'm getting ready to make a move.
33:50 So this is exciting.
33:52 I'm getting ready to make a move.
33:54 See, people can't even figure out where He's at.
33:57 As you look at it, they'll say, oh, I know it.
33:59 The majority of Christian believers think
34:01 that He's still in the holy place.
34:05 When He first went back to heaven,
34:06 what did John talks about it, what did he say?
34:09 He said he looked around, what did he see up there
34:12 where Jesus was...?
34:13 Did he see the candlestick?
34:15 Table of showbread? Altar of incense?
34:18 This is what he saw.
34:19 This is where Jesus was there, the work that he was doing.
34:24 For many years he was doing it.
34:26 Now a change was getting ready to be made.
34:29 We're talking 1844, aren't we?
34:31 Jesus move from the holy to the most holy place.
34:36 Think about it,
34:37 making that move to the most holy place.
34:39 When Jesus move, we have to move.
34:43 We are to follow the lamb wherever He goes.
34:46 And if we want His mediation for us,
34:49 we have to show up
34:50 in the most holy place by faith.
34:52 Are you there?
34:54 If you do not,
34:55 you cannot be benefited by His work.
34:58 And the majority of the world
35:00 does not even understand the sanctuary, or that message.
35:03 And they have not followed Him into the most holy place.
35:07 And the enemy has...
35:08 when He left the enemy came in. I wish somebody would listen.
35:17 How disturbing Brother Mark,
35:19 how disturbing that is to think about.
35:21 Remember when Jesus is present, the devil can't do anything.
35:26 Are you with me?
35:27 He couldn't come in the holy place
35:28 or he couldn't go to the most holy place.
35:30 He couldn't go anywhere until he's told to.
35:32 But soon as Christ left the holy place, 1844,
35:36 he move what?
35:37 Read Daniel 8:14, 2300 days,
35:40 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
35:42 It's a simple Bible prophecy.
35:44 Man, it just nails it down just like that.
35:47 Jesus stepped in the most holy place,
35:49 His very last stop until He comes.
35:51 This is it.
35:53 He's made His last stop
35:54 before He comes back to this world.
35:56 And He's the mediator, right.
35:57 He's standing in between me and God right now.
36:00 We're in the hour of God's judgment.
36:02 Our names are coming up.
36:03 And when our names come up,
36:05 He must say, "Father, My blood."
36:08 He must say, "Father, My blood."
36:09 They have accepted Me and My life, why?
36:11 Because my life was rotten, that's why.
36:14 I'm a sinner. I'm under death decree.
36:16 I'm no good, there's none good, no, not one.
36:20 And so God doesn't need to see me.
36:21 I'm in a world of hurt if He sees me.
36:24 He sees His son. His son says, "He's mine.
36:27 Look at Him, He's mine."
36:28 Look at those nail pierced, mine.
36:30 God says that's good enough.
36:32 How wonderful that is. What good news.
36:35 The world doesn't know that.
36:38 We haven't done our job.
36:40 Evidently, something's wrong here.
36:44 Something is wrong.
36:47 The most holy place.
36:48 And so when He leaves,
36:50 the enemy comes into the holy place as it were.
36:53 And he looks around
36:54 and majority of the Christian world
36:56 as it were,
36:57 their thought and their mind is in the holy place.
36:59 Some of you will get that sometime.
37:01 You get it? That's worked out.
37:04 Well, he's still here, he's still working here.
37:08 The Spirit of Prophecy says what?
37:09 The enemy just,
37:11 he just breathes
37:12 as it were his power upon those.
37:14 And they're actually following the enemy and not Jesus Christ
37:16 because He's left.
37:18 He's no longer there. That's a test.
37:20 Do we move with Him or do we stay.
37:25 I mean, do we really realize what that really means
37:28 if we're under the leadership of the enemy
37:30 and we think we're under the leadership of God.
37:36 Yeah.
37:38 We're drunk a little wine, you see.
37:42 How real this is when you think about it.
37:46 The article goes on, we can go on.
37:48 But it said the Sabbath reform was to be carried forward,
37:52 the breach in the law of God must be made up.
37:56 Somebody's got to tell people about the seventh day Sabbath.
38:00 Somebody's got to preach the message.
38:03 Somebody's got to give Bible studies.
38:05 Somebody's got to have
38:06 spiritual backbone enough to say the seventh day
38:10 is the Sabbath of the Lord, thy God.
38:13 Sunday is no more than a work day.
38:15 There's not one iota of any kind of a blessing
38:17 put upon Sunday, but it's a work day.
38:19 That's what we have to be saying right now.
38:22 It will agitate people who do not know any better,
38:24 I understand that.
38:25 But better to agitate them
38:27 and get them to looking in the Word of God to see
38:29 whether be so.
38:31 If it's not the truth, then don't worry about it.
38:33 But if it's the truth, you better worry about it,
38:36 better do something about it.
38:40 See this is where I believe
38:41 that we are at in the period of earth's history.
38:45 We have to say when somebody say,
38:47 "Well, this is a blessed day over."
38:48 There's only one day that's been blessed,
38:49 that's the seventh day Sabbath."
38:51 There's only one day,
38:52 the other days have not been blessed.
38:54 There's not, there's only one the seventh day.
38:57 And anybody can figure out,
38:58 third grader can figure out which day is the seventh day.
39:03 And somebody...
39:08 Some people say,
39:09 "Oh well, he's frustrated about him and..."
39:11 No, it hurts inside to realize the majority of the world
39:15 that the devil has deceived them.
39:17 And there's no reason to be deceived
39:19 by the enemy
39:20 because these truths are so plain
39:22 in the Word of God.
39:23 There is no reason for us to be deceived and to be lost.
39:28 And there has to, yeah, we have to study,
39:30 we have to get back in the Word of God.
39:32 We've got to put it out there for somebody.
39:35 Somebody will say, "Well, you're an agitator,"
39:36 you better believe it.
39:38 Call me an agitator if you want, I don't care.
39:43 Sister Wallace will remember the wash machine years ago.
39:47 You know what it was called? Agitator.
39:51 The washing machine, you remember the agitator,
39:53 that's what it did, it just kind of went down,
39:55 I'd say, that's how I washed the clothes.
39:56 Now they spin and do all kind of things, you know.
39:59 But it was actually called, I'm getting serious,
40:01 had anyone called the agitator.
40:03 God's people need to be agitators
40:05 in the world, in the sin.
40:06 Remember we read Spirit of Prophecy say,
40:08 agitate, agitate.
40:09 It don't mean try to make somebody mad.
40:11 It simply says present the truth as it is.
40:14 Don't be apologetic about it.
40:17 Don't be embarrassed about it. Why?
40:19 Because you're on the majority side in heaven.
40:22 You're doing what God has asked you to do
40:24 by advocating that, by standing for that.
40:27 Don't be ashamed about the gospel of Jesus Christ.
40:31 All the inhabitants of the earth
40:33 might receive this warning.
40:34 The people of God must purify their souls, notice,
40:37 through obedience to the truth and be able to stand,
40:43 notice this, without fault before Him at His coming.
40:49 Even in Adventism we can't figure it out
40:50 that we have to gain victory over sin.
40:52 Mine, mine, mine!
40:55 I don't mean to harp about it.
40:56 And I'm not trying to harp about it,
40:57 but I don't want somebody to believe a lie.
41:04 And what good would be the example of Jesus be
41:07 if we weren't supposed to be like Him.
41:09 If He come down here
41:10 He's was fully human and fully divine,
41:12 so we'll separate the two.
41:14 That He had nothing that we can't have,
41:16 but He gained the victory over the enemy without that.
41:19 And why can't we have the same power.
41:21 We can.
41:22 We can if we so desire
41:25 where we're spending our time you see,
41:26 where we're putting our effort,
41:28 well, we spend some time on our knees.
41:29 Oh, this is...
41:30 Why hasn't Jesus come?
41:34 You know the work will be finished
41:35 under the third angel
41:36 and we're just getting a good warm up,
41:38 I've talk about again Brother Mark,
41:39 I'm just sorry next time I'm just a way.
41:41 That's the way it is. It's the way it is.
41:44 Because there's so much to it
41:46 and there's so much that we've missed.
41:50 But I'm convinced
41:51 that we need as it increases close
41:53 to the end the power of the third angel
41:56 we need to understand more.
41:57 We need to understand
41:58 what our role is and why we are here.
42:04 But for 40 years Israel was not allowed
42:07 or didn't go into the land of Canaan, why?
42:10 Could they have just marched through in a few days?
42:13 Come on, church, could they?
42:15 Yeah, there was no reason.
42:17 Josh, there was no reason for them
42:18 to spend 40 years out in that mess.
42:22 Now some of you don't get
42:24 what 40 years is we better wake up.
42:26 Forty years is a long time to be in the desert.
42:29 And is not marching around in a place
42:33 and then turn around marching back,
42:35 and marching back again, and marching again,
42:39 until basically they just refuse,
42:41 and they rebelled, and they murmur,
42:42 and they complain
42:44 until lot of them was dead
42:47 but too, isn't that right?
42:52 Now tell me God doesn't want obedience.
42:56 Those were His people, were they not?
42:58 Man, He worked miracles to get them out of bondages,
43:01 Avery, come on somebody,
43:03 to lead them into the Promised Land,
43:05 representing heaven for us today.
43:07 But no, they didn't do it,
43:09 they murmured, and they complained,
43:11 and they were backbiting, and they were gossiping.
43:17 The Great Controversy says notice that,
43:19 you say, well, that's not us today.
43:21 Wake up.
43:23 Wake up, children, wake up.
43:25 Notice what the article says,
43:27 "The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel
43:32 into the heavenly Canaan."
43:34 All we have to do back is look what Israel,
43:37 what they murmur and they complained about.
43:39 And were doing the very same thing today,
43:41 no doubt and more of it.
43:45 That just means we need to make a change.
43:48 This is good news.
43:49 The good news is the door probation
43:51 is still open just a little bit.
43:53 There's still room at the cross for you.
43:55 That's the good news for us today.
43:58 There's time to repent.
43:59 There's time to make changes right now.
44:02 Just don't be caught up in this miserable
44:04 forsaken world.
44:08 We live in a world were God,
44:10 the Holy Spirit
44:11 is ever had been almost thrown completely out.
44:16 Think about it.
44:17 We're thrown Him out of this country and say,
44:19 "God we trust."
44:21 Come on.
44:23 This is so sad.
44:26 Well, you know He's going to take me.
44:28 There is going to be a place for me.
44:30 We're so confused.
44:34 We're so confused.
44:36 One businessman told me years ago working construction.
44:39 He belonged to another church.
44:41 And he was a kind of high up there in the church,
44:43 but he also had a lumber yard.
44:46 And he knew about Seventh-day Adventist.
44:49 And so he always wanted to talk a little bit
44:51 and you know gouge a little bit.
44:53 When he could not, I gouged him back.
44:55 Nicely and lovingly.
44:58 You have to have an answer for every man that I ask.
45:02 He said, "I'm going to heaven. I know I'm going to heaven."
45:04 I said, "Boy, that's nice."
45:06 By the grace of God I'm going to make it.
45:08 But, boy, I don't know just by the grace of God,
45:10 you know I'm...
45:12 Oh, I know what you think about me already.
45:14 I said, "Well, Gary, what is that I think about you?"
45:18 "You know I smoke."
45:20 Come on, I'm just going to lay it out.
45:21 Worthy, come on.
45:22 "You know I smoke."
45:24 I said, "Yeah, I do know that you do,
45:25 but that's not my judgment on that.
45:26 You know it's not good for you, you know you shouldn't do it.
45:28 But I'm saying
45:30 whether you're going to heaven or you're not."
45:31 "No, you think I'm not going to heaven
45:33 because I smoke."
45:35 He said, "I'll tell you one thing, said,
45:37 you don't realize this," he said.
45:38 I said, "Well, what is that, I'd like to know what it is."
45:41 He said, "I believe this.
45:42 I believe that God will take me,
45:44 I still smoke.
45:46 And I believe He's got smoking rooms there
45:48 in heaven for me."
45:49 I said, "You got to be kidding."
45:54 In other words there's a place somewhere in heaven,
45:57 if you don't gain the victor here,
45:58 you can go there and light one up.
46:00 I said, "Gary, come on. I said, that's it Gary.
46:03 I was a good friend of his from lot of year,
46:04 so you could talk to him.
46:07 So here some people you can't really talk to,
46:08 you know, they're not going to let you,
46:10 you don't know him that well.
46:11 I know him very well for years,
46:13 so I could say what I want to say,
46:14 he could say whatever he want to say.
46:15 I said, "Gary, you're fooling yourself."
46:17 That is not going to be that kind of...
46:20 I won't say malarkey.
46:21 I don't even know what that is.
46:23 Better get a dictionary before I say that.
46:28 They're not going to be that stuff in heaven.
46:29 Are you still with me?
46:35 You know why? I know that, you know why?
46:38 Because the Bible say so.
46:40 I'm not trying to be a judge.
46:41 I might have lot worse problems than the smoking.
46:43 Are you still with me?
46:44 I'm not trying to be judgmental here.
46:45 I'm just looking around and saying,
46:47 here's what the Bible says.
46:48 And if it's for me and it's for you,
46:49 we're going to close with this because of the time.
46:51 And then we're going to pick it up
46:52 and go on
46:54 because this is heavy duty stuff.
46:56 Revelation 21:27. the Bible says.
47:01 Revelation 21:27.
47:04 And the Bible says,
47:05 "And there shall no wise enter into it," what?
47:10 That Holy City, none of us going to enter into,
47:12 "that defileth,
47:13 neither of whatsoever worketh an abomination,
47:17 or maketh a lie."
47:19 Did you get it?
47:21 There are some people
47:22 who'd rather lie than tell the truth.
47:24 The Bible said
47:26 there is nothing going to enter
47:27 into that defileth, nothing.
47:32 I'm not an exception and you're not either.
47:34 And I'm not trying to be ugly about it.
47:36 I'm just saying,
47:37 I just hear people all the time saying,
47:39 "Well, God's going to make an exception for me
47:41 and that breaks my heart
47:42 because I know that God doesn't make exceptions."
47:45 He gives you the strength and the power
47:46 to gain that victory
47:49 so that you can be there, He wants you there.
47:52 He's made every preparation so that you can be there.
47:54 It's your choice.
47:56 But my Bible says right here and there nothing that defileth
47:59 or whatsoever that maketh an abomination or maketh a lie.
48:04 Any of this stretching the truth they say,
48:06 the little white lie.
48:08 A lie is a lie.
48:12 The only ones that will be there
48:14 as that passage continues on.
48:16 It says they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
48:20 I like that book after that we get done.
48:23 None of this stuff's going to be up there.
48:24 But only ones that will be there
48:26 is their names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
48:29 If your name is not written in the Lamb's Book of Life,
48:31 you will not be there, I will not be there.
48:36 Won't be there. Why? Because the Bible says though.
48:39 Only ones that is going to be there
48:41 if their name was written in Lamb's Book of Life.
48:45 And here's how simple it is today
48:46 as we close.
48:48 It's simply all we have to do
48:50 by the grace of God is to accept Jesus Christ.
48:53 This where it starts.
48:54 Because the Holy Spirit has already been working on you
48:57 and already working on me.
48:58 We couldn't even come to Christ without the Holy Spirit,
49:00 we know that.
49:01 It's not just one day you get up and say,
49:03 "Oh, I'm going to give my life to Jesus."
49:05 Wait a minute, I'll come up with that on my own.
49:06 No, you didn't.
49:08 We need to get that self out of...
49:10 Remember one who said,
49:11 Holy Spirit is already been working with you,
49:12 pleading and begging to come to Jesus.
49:16 If you want your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life,
49:19 just come to Jesus and accept Him
49:22 as your Lord and as your Savior.
49:26 And then while as you do that and confess your sins
49:29 and you lay everything at the feet of Jesus,
49:31 your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
49:35 Isn't that wonderful?
49:39 There that name remains written
49:43 until the investigative judgment
49:45 which no one talks about.
49:50 It remains until the investigative judgment.
49:54 Every name will pass in review of the one
49:58 who says in Revelation 3:1.
50:01 The Bible says,
50:02 "Jesus said, 'I know thy works.'"
50:05 Did you get it?
50:07 He said the one that
50:08 the name passes in review as it were,
50:10 the character, the whole life, he said, "I know your works.
50:14 I know your works."
50:17 Paul said in Romans 2:6.
50:19 He said that he's going to render
50:21 to every man according to his deeds,
50:25 to his works, to his deeds,
50:28 did you get that.
50:32 And I can say this, if the word if, big letter if,
50:38 in that day all of our sins are not fully repented off,
50:44 our names will be blotted out of the Book of Life.
50:49 Our names will be what?
50:50 Blotted out of the Book of Life.
50:54 How simple it is.
50:55 It can't be any simpler for us to get on our knees
50:58 and ask God to forgive us of our sins,
51:01 repent and turn that's what it says.
51:06 You don't like the term,
51:07 we'll talk about more about blotting out.
51:10 More reason the passage of scripture says,
51:12 God said, "I will blot out.
51:15 I will blot out his name."
51:17 Not some judge, not somebody that pops up
51:20 and says I'm in control, I'm taking over here,
51:23 I'm going to decide
51:24 who's going to make it and who's not.
51:26 God said I will blot his name out.
51:32 Friends, that's heavy duty to me.
51:34 I don't want my name blotted out.
51:36 I'd rather come to Jesus, how about you today?
51:38 I'd rather come to Him today and say, "You know what?
51:43 Anything in my heart and life that needs not be there.
51:45 Oh, Lord, have mercy on me. Please forgive me."
51:50 I'm saying, "Lord, show me things
51:53 that I need to gain victory over."
51:54 We think when we come to Him,
51:55 we ask for forgiveness everything's okay,
51:57 and we've got it made right then.
52:00 You realize how we must look from heaven's standpoint.
52:05 How dirty and filthy.
52:09 And we're supposed to be repopulating heaven.
52:15 Jesus said, "I'll clean you up.
52:20 I'll give you the victory that you need."
52:25 That's so simple that today that we want to pray
52:29 that God will take away,
52:31 you know, we live in that time of we need to repent
52:37 or we're going to be blotted out
52:38 of the Lamb's Book of Life.
52:41 So close, we realize
52:43 we're in the hour of the judgment
52:44 right up of those who have passed.
52:47 But how close we are to the living.
52:50 A lot of debate
52:51 whether we're in that time of the living.
52:55 And what if your name would come up
52:59 in the judgment this week?
53:01 What would be the sentence?
53:04 You don't have to answer that.
53:05 Just think, that's between you and God,
53:07 that's between me and God.
53:10 If my name comes up, and when it does,
53:13 it's not going to be
53:15 what we're going to put this case off
53:16 for two or three years.
53:18 You know, how they do in the court system.
53:19 Men's on death row for 20 or 30 years
53:21 'cause they've got to go through this whole big...
53:23 When your name comes up,
53:25 sentence will be pronounced right then and right there.
53:30 That's it.
53:32 And even though the world will maybe carry on
53:33 for a little bit longer,
53:36 when your name comes up
53:38 that's it
53:39 'cause God knows everything that will happen in the future.
53:42 We need to make sure that it's right.
53:45 We need to make sure everything
53:47 that we know of is taken care of for today.
53:54 What do you say about that today?
53:56 Do we need special prayer on that?
53:58 I do.
54:00 Anybody need special prayer besides me?
54:01 Oh, Lord, I want to make sure everything is taken care of,
54:05 my name should come up.
54:07 I want well done thy good and faithful servant
54:09 in our own end.
54:12 We receive this seal of God, how wonderful.
54:15 And remember, my brothers and sisters,
54:17 if it's not the seal of the living God,
54:18 it's going to be the seal of the enemy.
54:20 I think it's very simple.
54:22 One or the other.
54:25 We can live forever with Jesus.
54:29 But we can miss out on heaven and being with Jesus.
54:31 I know you don't want to do that today.
54:33 How many would like special prayer
54:35 as we close here today with special prayer,
54:38 that the Holy Spirit will convict and convert us
54:41 if there be other changes that need to take place.
54:44 And I'm sure as I look at myself in the mirror,
54:46 there needs to be other changes to take place.
54:48 I may not know what they are for today,
54:50 but I know that there is.
54:52 Why? Because I'm not there yet.
54:55 That says something, isn't it?
54:58 There needs to be some other changes.
54:59 I need to be more like Jesus.
55:01 And so we're going to pray about that today.
55:03 Lift your hands with me. I'm going do a two hander.
55:05 Oh yes, Lord have mercy on me.
55:07 Remember if you leave one hand down,
55:08 the devil's got it.
55:10 Let's pray, shall we together, let's kneel.
55:14 Kind loving heavenly Father, again what a privilege
55:17 we have to be able to just talk to You.
55:20 We're thankful for that grace and for that mercy
55:22 we're unworthy as we are, none good, no, not one.
55:26 And you know the message of the third angel
55:28 and the timeframe
55:30 that it is in and the urgency and sometimes people listen
55:34 and they hear things and they say, oh, boy,
55:36 everybody's talking about such an urgent time.
55:38 It is an urgent time.
55:41 It's slipping past us, right now,
55:43 as we're even praying right now,
55:44 we're seconds closer to the coming of Jesus.
55:48 And, Lord, sometime my heart aches
55:50 as we look around and see our own life
55:52 and the victories that need to be gained in life
55:55 with family and friends and different ones.
55:57 Lord, we want them on that sea of glass.
56:00 We want to be able to spend eternity with Him.
56:03 And what thoughts can go through the human mind
56:07 as we think about heaven, and what it's going to be like,
56:10 and to realize
56:11 it's not going to be like this earth.
56:15 It's just not going to be, praise God for that.
56:18 And we know
56:19 it's going to be worth it all someday when we see Jesus.
56:23 We won't go over all the things that we've been through,
56:27 all the things that have happened.
56:30 We simply want to praise His name.
56:31 We cast our crown at His feet and say,
56:34 "We're here because of Jesus and Jesus only."
56:38 It's not because I was a Seventh-day Adventist.
56:41 It was not because I did all of these works.
56:45 It's not because of, there's only one because of,
56:49 it's Jesus.
56:51 We thank You for accepting us today
56:53 as part of the family of God.
56:54 And, Lord, You've begun the work
56:56 and You've seen the hands today.
56:57 I pray that You would finish that work
56:59 in each and every one of us.
57:00 Instill in each one of us that there is a need.
57:04 We have joined this movement to give this last message.
57:08 We want to be faithful to that calling.
57:10 If not, we will be found unfaithful.
57:12 Bless us as we pray to this
57:14 and give us Holy Spirit's power,
57:15 give us victory every day of our life.
57:18 And, Lord, may have all of us settled,
57:20 all say it all done
57:22 that we may spend eternity with You is my prayers,
57:24 I thank You in Jesus' name, amen.


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