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00:39 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, 00:42 I wanna thank you for joining us again. 00:45 Our message for today's entitled 00:47 "Out of Darkness Comes Light" 00:49 part one. 00:50 Have you ever stopped and wondered 00:51 what the world was like 00:53 back when our Lord and Savior 00:55 arrived as a newborn baby in a manger? 00:57 Well, we can certainly glean from reading the scriptures 01:00 that it was not a life of ease, or total peace. 01:03 In fact, it is difficult for most of us 01:06 to even wrap our minds around the fact 01:09 that King Herod would actually come to the point 01:12 of enforcing an official edict 01:15 to have all the baby boys two and under to be slain, 01:18 in order to kill this precious child 01:21 from heaven. 01:23 And we know that His own people as a whole 01:25 would come to ultimately reject Him 01:28 and accused Him of crimes that He had not committed, 01:33 in order to end His life at a very young age 01:36 due to the religious rulers' angry rage of jealousy. 01:41 The people in this very world that He, 01:45 Christ Jesus, gave life to during the creation week, 01:50 cruelly took His life as a common criminal 01:54 in a way that again is difficult for any of us 01:58 to wrap our minds around. 02:01 The world was indeed in darkness, 02:04 spiritual darkness and moral decay. 02:06 Laws were being passed against sanctity of human life itself. 02:11 Today, Pastor Kenny, 02:12 he's going to take us 02:13 through a thorough study of this day and time, 02:16 while comparing it to the moral decay 02:19 and degradation of our world 02:22 that is swiftly sinking into the spiral. 02:26 Could it be that our world will be as bad 02:29 or maybe even worse 02:30 than it was at the time of Christ first coming 02:33 again at His second coming? 02:35 The second coming of which we as Christians 02:38 are all longing to rejoice and to witness over. 02:42 Again, 02:43 "Out Of Darkness Comes Light" 02:45 part one is our message for today 02:47 with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 02:49 But first we are blessed to listen to a song 02:51 sung by one of our friends Stephanie Dawn, 02:54 who will be accompanied by Dan Thornton entitled simply 02:59 "Be." 03:21 Be in my eyes 03:26 So others may see 03:28 The beauty in presence of your love 03:34 And one who was blind 03:36 Would now believes 03:44 Be here in my heart flow 03:48 Through my blood 03:51 Strengthen my soul and wash me clean 03:57 A living example of what your grace has done 04:07 I will walk beside you 04:12 I will give you my life 04:16 And when others seek to find you 04:22 May I be the light that shines 04:31 Be here in my hands 04:35 Give me your touch 04:38 Use me to comfort and to build 04:44 Shelter for those who need your love 05:09 Breathe words to my lips 05:13 So I may speak 05:16 And tell your truth and living words 05:21 Lord make me all that I can be 05:28 I will walk beside you 05:32 Jesus I'll give you my life 05:38 And when others seek to find you 05:43 May I be the light that shines 05:53 Be here in my heart 05:57 Flow through my blood 05:59 Strengthen my soul and wash me clean 06:05 Lord make me all that I can be 06:15 Lord please make me all that I can be 06:49 Thank you and welcome once again to Behold the Lamb, 06:51 we appreciate you very much. 06:53 Thank you for your cards, letters and your support, 06:55 praise God, we couldn't do it without you. 06:57 We believe that the message should go into all the world. 07:00 And so we have that opportunity and privilege 07:03 to be able to reach you, 07:04 wherever you are at in the world. 07:06 Praise God for that. 07:07 And thank you for helping us get this message out. 07:10 Today, we're gonna be looking at a subject that I really like 07:13 "Out of darkness comes light," out of what? 07:16 "Out of darkness comes light." 07:19 And so we'll see how that gels together 07:20 as we look at the Word of God here today. 07:23 This is gonna be the first of two parts 07:25 because there's so much to it. 07:27 And I believe that would be a blessing to those of you 07:29 who are going through very difficult times 07:33 that we're living in. 07:34 We look around the world, all of us have our, 07:36 had difficulties. 07:38 There things that are going on that we just don't appreciate. 07:40 We don't like and we have questions about. 07:43 And so we turn to the Word of God 07:44 to find these answers. 07:46 But always, once again, we pray a lot. 07:48 We should be a praying church, we should be praying people. 07:52 And so we have a lot of prayer before this time. 07:54 But always, I feel like 07:56 I always need an extra prayer 07:58 and I ask that you would pray with me. 07:59 I'm gonna kneel up here, 08:01 you can kneel or at least pray along with me 08:03 today as we seek God's face. 08:05 Loving Father in heaven, 08:06 we thank you again for the privilege of prayer 08:08 we invite Thy Holy Spirit. 08:09 Oh, Lord, come near to us today. 08:11 We need your thoughts, your wisdom, 08:13 your mind and not ours. 08:15 And so we ask forgiveness of sin, 08:17 any things in our heart in life that need not be there. 08:19 Oh, Lord, communicate with us today. 08:21 Teach your children, 08:23 help us to sit at Your feet and be content. 08:25 Lord, help us to stay awake today, 08:26 help us to be and realize we are in Your presence. 08:30 And in Your presence is fullness of joy. 08:32 This is where we want to be. 08:34 This is what we planned all week. 08:35 So, Lord, we thank You for it. 08:37 Lest now we pray open our ears, 08:39 eyes and our hearts and our minds in Jesus' name. 08:41 Amen. 08:47 Like to you have your Bibles, I'd like you to turn with me. 08:49 I'm gonna turn to John Chapter 1. 08:51 We'll read our text a little bit later on. 08:53 But I wanna go to John right now. 08:55 John 1:1-5. 08:58 These are verses that I know 09:00 that we've read many, many times, 09:01 but what encouragement they are to us today. 09:05 I don't know if you're like I am. 09:06 I need encouragement. 09:08 I like encouragement. 09:10 I like people to talk encouragement. 09:13 I like people to talk positive. 09:15 There's enough negative things going on in the world today. 09:18 And these words are very positive 09:20 in John Chapter 1. 09:21 I'm going to read verses 1 through 5. 09:24 Notice what the Bible says. 09:25 Bible says, 09:27 "In the beginning was the," 09:28 what? 09:30 "Was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word," 09:32 what? 09:33 "Was God. 09:35 The same was in the beginning with God." 09:37 You have questions on that 09:39 and it answers them pretty simple, 09:40 right there, doesn't about Jesus? 09:42 "All things were made by Him and without Him," 09:44 was what? 09:46 "Not anything made that was made." 09:48 Tells us who our Creator, right, who created all things. 09:51 Verse 4, 09:53 "In Him was life and the life was it the light." 09:57 Here we go. His life was what? 09:59 "The light of men. 10:02 And the light shineth" where? 10:04 "In darkness," 10:05 notice this, 10:06 "and the darkness comprehended it not." 10:11 How sad? 10:13 Encouraging words, 10:14 but yet, how sad at the very end 10:17 here was the light, right? 10:18 Here He is, our Creator, Redeemer, our Sustainer, 10:20 coming into this world, 10:22 and yet the world what He was the light of the world, 10:24 He's a life of the world and what? 10:26 And the world just didn't know it. 10:28 Right now and what we're living in, 10:30 this is a subject that pertains 10:31 to what's going on in the world today 10:34 that we've been talking about for weeks on end. 10:36 And I pray that you'll put these together. 10:40 You know, at the time of the birth of Christ, 10:43 the nation was struggling. 10:45 If we just go back a little bit 10:46 and think about at the birth of Jesus Christ, 10:48 the nation was struggling just like it is today. 10:54 It had external problems and internal problems. 10:59 The office of the high priest was secured by fraud, 11:04 and bribery, and even murder. 11:08 The priesthood had become corrupt. 11:11 Now, there's some similarities there. 11:13 And we just need to be able to focus 11:14 in on some of those things 11:16 that we're talking about today 11:17 to see if we're in the same time. 11:20 Is it possible? 11:22 Is it possible just in our thinking 11:23 that there's things that are going on? 11:25 You know, we're talking about the high priest here 11:27 with pastors and teachers and preachers, 11:28 that's not what God would have us to be saying, 11:30 doing or teaching? 11:34 The people were heavily taxed by the Romans. 11:39 You feel that today, too, don't you? 11:45 The state of affairs caused widespread discontent, 11:50 outbreaks, 11:52 we would call them protest, riots. 11:57 It was frequent at the time of Christ, 12:00 there was greed, there was violence, 12:02 there was distrust, 12:05 lack of spiritual commitment, lack of interest. 12:10 People were indifferent, does it sound like today? 12:15 It simply caused the nation to simply want to give up. 12:19 I've heard people talking about already 12:21 no longer than we've been in this pandemic. 12:24 They're saying, 12:25 "We've had enough," 12:26 they've cried uncle. 12:28 Well, we don't we know if we can take anymore or not, 12:29 we want it to end. 12:31 We want it, we want to see something, 12:32 we want to see the light at the tunnel. 12:35 And so they're ready to throw in the towel. 12:37 They're ready to give up. 12:38 They're ready to just sign away as it were their life. 12:42 They're willing to give away some more freedoms. 12:45 Because they just want peace and quiet. 12:48 But at the time of Christ at His birth, remember, 12:51 there was all kinds of struggles 12:52 that were going on, 12:53 just like today. 12:57 People were in darkness. 12:59 They were in depression. They were in oppression. 13:04 You had the rulers and the leaders 13:07 were thirsty for power. 13:10 They wanted to set in high positions. 13:13 That was simply the rule of the day. 13:15 We find that today there are people 13:17 who are selling their soul for high position. 13:21 And that's not just in the world, 13:23 that's in the church. 13:26 Finagling going on. 13:29 Shenanigans being pulled. 13:32 Things that are happening 13:33 that sometimes going to blow our mind to say, 13:35 "Surely this cannot happen in the House of God." 13:40 People are thirsty for power. 13:44 Darkness shadowed, 13:47 Satan cast that dark shadow on this world 13:51 and it become again darker and darker and deeper. 13:55 Interesting thought here as the enemy gets involved, 13:59 and he gets involved in everything 14:00 that's going on in the world today. 14:06 The people that God had called as His representatives, 14:11 which were certainly the Jews and I believe today 14:13 it applies to us. 14:14 God has called you out of what? 14:16 Out of darkness into what? 14:18 Into marvelous light. 14:20 Remember, He's called you where? 14:21 Out of darkness into marvelous light, 14:23 you dare not return to that darkness. 14:26 He's called you out of darkness. 14:28 He's called you out of all this falseness, 14:31 false teaching. 14:32 All the stuff that's going on in the churches today. 14:35 All the errors is being taught, all the traditions of men, 14:38 in vain do they worship Me, 14:40 teaching for doctrines the commandments of men, 14:42 and somehow we cling to those things 14:44 when we should be letting go. 14:46 He has called us out to do something special 14:49 as he called the Jews out. 14:52 But notice at the time of Christ's birth, 14:55 that the ones he had called out His representatives, 14:58 and maybe we're His representatives today, 15:01 notice, they became representatives of Satan. 15:04 Not representatives of God, He called them out to what? 15:07 To represent Him, in life and in character. 15:11 But they became representatives of Satan, 15:14 how sad? 15:16 Those are big, thick words. 15:18 Hard to chew on. 15:21 Deception of sin had reached its height. 15:27 Something had to be done. 15:30 Christ was soon to come on this planet. 15:36 The order of the day 15:38 is what it is today in our society 15:41 with all this COVID-19 15:42 and all these riots and this bloodshed 15:45 and all the stuff that's going on right now. 15:47 The order of the day was corrupt and murder, loss. 15:55 The bodies of human beings, 15:59 our bodies were made 16:00 for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. 16:02 Isn't that right? 16:03 That's what the Bible says, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 16:08 Bibles says, we are the what? 16:09 "We are His temple, 16:11 He wants to dwell in this temple," 16:12 because you are bought with a what? 16:15 "You're bought with a price," 16:16 therefore you glorify God, where? 16:18 In your bodies. 16:19 The Holy Spirit wants to dwell in you. 16:23 But He can't just dwell anyplace. 16:27 That temple has to be made ready 16:30 for the indwelling of the Spirit of God. 16:32 Sin needs to go. Has to go. 16:37 But at the days 16:38 that we're talking about in our days, 16:40 today, 16:42 the human body has become the dwelling place of demons. 16:47 Listen carefully, 16:48 it's either going to be a dwelling place 16:50 of the Holy Ghost, right, the Spirit of the Living God, 16:52 or it's going to be a dwelling place of the devil, 16:54 and I'm telling you pass them every day on the road. 16:58 It's scary when you think about, 17:00 thank God for the protection of angels. 17:04 You look at human faces sometime, don't you? 17:07 You look down the road, you just pass somebody, 17:08 you don't know them. 17:10 And you just look at their face 17:11 and they reflect the evil which has possessed them. 17:16 It's written on their face. 17:19 You don't want to be judgmental about it. 17:20 You're not trying to be, 17:22 but there's something that comes out. 17:25 And there's something that comes out 17:26 when you are a child of God too. 17:29 Let's look at it, when you're a child of God, 17:31 there should be something, right, 17:33 the reflection of Christ that comes out 17:35 and touches somebody, 17:36 that heals somebody. 17:40 But on the same token 17:41 if we haven't given our life to Christ 17:42 then the old enemy is coming through. 17:46 My mother used to say all the time 17:48 don't know if it's good, bad or ugly. 17:49 She said, 17:51 "Well, if looks could kill, I'd be dead." 17:52 Okay. 17:56 You may have met someone like that. 17:58 If looks. 17:59 Oh, yeah, most of them say. 18:01 Let's pray that it wasn't us. 18:07 I believe that Satan actually laughs. 18:11 He chuckle sometime as he sees 18:14 how we have debased the image of God. 18:20 Did you get that? 18:22 That's pretty heavy duty because Genesis 1:26. 18:26 What does the Bible say? 18:28 He said, God said, 18:30 "Let us make man in," what? 18:32 "In our image." 18:34 And the devil says, 18:35 "Haha, 18:37 I wanna deface that image then. 18:38 I want them to look and act like me, not you." 18:42 And look what's happening in the world today, 18:43 man, we're seen like what? 18:45 Like devils. 18:51 Surely we can see now 18:52 with what's going on in the world 18:54 that apart from God, humanity can do nothing. 18:59 If we do not have the Spirit of the Living God in us, 19:03 because man by himself is totally out of control. 19:06 Never seen anything like it in my entire life. 19:10 We're all lost without some help from above. 19:15 And I praise God all is not lost. 19:19 All is not lost. 19:21 It seems like it sometimes. 19:23 It seems like it may not change. 19:25 It seems like the devil's hit you with a left 19:27 and he's hit you with a right. 19:29 He's hit below the belt. 19:33 It seem like you'll not be able to bounce back, 19:35 but you will. 19:37 If you're on God's side, 19:38 He's going to do Galatians 4:4-5 19:41 read it when you have the opportunity. 19:42 It simply says, whoo I liked it. 19:44 "When the fullness of time was come," what? 19:48 "When the fullness of time was come. 19:49 God sent forth his Son." 19:52 Man, that's good news. 19:55 When the fullness, when the time was right, 19:58 when the earth was dark 20:00 As dark as it ever been or ever will be. 20:03 God said, 20:04 "I'm going to send," 20:06 Jesus said, 20:07 "I'm going to go down, I'm going to save." 20:08 I'm seeking saved that which was lost. 20:10 The earth was too dark. 20:11 Satan had won. 20:13 Think about he had won every battle 20:15 that he fought before Jesus. 20:17 Somebody talk to me. 20:19 Is that not true? 20:20 Every individual that ever was born 20:22 on the face before Jesus came on, 20:24 the devil had defeated. 20:27 He beat up 20:29 because all have sinned and come short. 20:30 There's only one that wasn't until Jesus came along. 20:33 Praise God. 20:35 God sent forth the Bible said His Son. 20:40 Out of darkness comes what? 20:42 Comes light. 20:44 Turn within your Bibles, Isaiah Chapter 60. 20:47 This was our text for today. 20:49 Isaiah Chapter 60. 20:51 If you don't mind, I'm going to read it again 20:53 for those who just now maybe joining us. 20:55 I love it. 20:57 Because the first thing it says 20:58 the first couple of words I like it 21:00 because it says, do what? 21:04 I know I didn't hear somebody say relax. 21:07 That's not what it said, I said what? 21:09 "Arise," and do what? 21:12 "Rise and shine for thy light is come 21:14 and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." 21:20 Why don't the glory of the Lord is going to rise 21:22 unless we rise. 21:24 It's not gonna just fall on you 21:25 while we're sitting home doing nothing 21:26 and not praying about it, not working, 21:28 you're not doing anything. 21:31 But if we're willing to move out, 21:32 if we're willing to rise up as it were, and shine. 21:37 We should shine because we should be reflecting what? 21:40 The character, the glory of God. 21:43 We'll talk more about that as we go. 21:44 This is what we need to be doing in this age 21:46 that we're living in right now 21:48 where it's sickening to even watch the news anymore. 21:51 On and on and on 21:53 from one corrupt practice to another. 21:55 That mind boggles you and mind boggles me. 21:59 But it tells me also the coming of the Son of Man, 22:01 'cause it's getting darker and darker, 22:04 but out of darkness will come what? 22:06 Will come light. 22:08 God is sending light 22:10 and He's sending it now to us who need it. 22:15 Verse 2, 22:16 "For behold the darkness shall cover," the what? 22:20 "The earth gross darkness," 22:22 ugly darkness, 22:24 darkness you can't see through on. 22:26 On your own you can't see through it. 22:29 We need spiritual eyes. 22:31 Through fleshly eyes you'll never see through 22:33 what the enemy is doing. 22:36 "But the Lord shall arise upon," 22:38 woo, praise God, 22:39 "upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." 22:43 Man, I want this power. 22:45 Notice what it says, 22:46 "The Lord shall arise," 22:47 notice, 22:49 "upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." 22:52 Do you want that in your life? 22:54 See, yeah, we want that, it's going to be seen. 22:57 You don't have to tell somebody, 22:58 look at the glory on me. 23:00 Look at the glory on me. 23:02 You're not going to do that, 23:03 people will see that Jesus lives in your heart 23:05 by the way you act, you talk, 23:07 the way you deal with people, 23:08 whether He's in your heart or not. 23:10 Talk all you want, if you're not living it, 23:11 it's not gonna work. 23:14 We know that because Scripture tells us that. 23:18 Verse 3 simply says, 23:19 "Oh, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light." 23:23 God says you've got good people everywhere. 23:25 And this message goes out in the glory of God 23:27 and the Spirit of Living God comes upon you 23:29 and takes control of your heart, 23:30 your mind and your soul. 23:32 There's other people gonna take notice 23:33 and they're gonna come to the light. 23:35 They're not coming to you, they're coming to the light. 23:38 The key to the brightness of thy rising 23:40 is time God's people rose up 23:43 and did something besides 23:44 sit back in our chairs and do nothings. 23:47 It's way past time. 23:52 You notice when you read the Word of God, 23:54 it simply says, 23:56 Matthew 25 it talks about the coming of the bridegroom, 23:59 you remember? 24:01 It said the coming of the bride groom was at? 24:04 Was it at noon? 24:06 It was at midnight. 24:09 It was at midnight, the darkest hour. 24:14 So will the coming of Christ take place 24:17 in the darkest period of earth history? 24:22 As I said, and I think it bears repeating. 24:25 As we see all around us, there's heartache. 24:30 There's suffering, there's pain, 24:32 there's loss of life and property 24:34 and the list goes on and on and on 24:36 until it almost depresses you. 24:42 You didn't have a Savior, if you didn't know Jesus, 24:44 you would be. 24:45 That's why there's so many suicides. 24:47 That's why suicide rates up now. 24:49 That's why, you know, 24:50 the people alcohol and drugs and so on. 24:52 It's all up right now 24:53 because the world has turned upside down 24:55 and they're looking for something 24:57 but they can't hold on to anything. 24:59 Because they're not getting hold of the hand of Jesus. 25:03 Heartaches, many have lost hope. 25:08 Many have lost courage. 25:10 They need the bread of life 25:12 and always said they need it when it's hot. 25:15 You don't need day old bread. 25:16 You don't have to accept day old bread. 25:19 When we were raised up 25:20 and we wanted to go to the bakery 25:23 on Sunday morning. 25:27 Hello now. 25:29 On Sunday morning. 25:31 You could get the day old bread. 25:35 If you want to buy some of you who have day old donuts? 25:44 You could get them for 25 cents a dozen. 25:49 Day old was pretty good to me. 25:55 But you know, there was nothing at that time 25:56 like a real hot fresh one just melt in your mouth. 26:01 God says with His Word. 26:03 Think about it, transform this over spiritual. 26:05 Nothing like good, fresh, 26:08 spiritual filled hot Word of God. 26:12 That's when you get it. 26:13 Oh, that's when you get it on the Sabbath. 26:16 When you get it on Sunday, you get day old bread. 26:23 It's true. 26:25 Because He delivers it fresh on the seventh day 26:29 because that's the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 26:33 That means you're just getting at half price. 26:37 The old stuff, you know, I want the real stuff. 26:42 That's what God says we can do. 26:45 So many have lost this hope and they've lost courage. 26:48 They need this bread. 26:52 There are many precious folks out there 26:53 that needs somebody to tell them, 26:55 "Listen, there is a balm in Gilead, 26:58 there is a balm for the healing of the nations. 27:02 There is a balm, notice that, for your life and for my life. 27:06 There's a mighty physician that we have access to, 27:10 that we can come boldly to the throne of God 27:12 and find grace in our time of need. 27:15 There is a balm in Gilead, 27:16 there's a healing in that for your life. 27:18 When you're going through trouble 27:20 and loss of loved ones 27:21 or things you just can't utterly stand 27:23 even talk about and think about it. 27:25 There's a balm above in Gilead, there's a physician, 27:28 there's a healer of all manner of diseases. 27:32 There is one there awaiting to be of assistance. 27:38 He doesn't force himself on you, 27:39 He's waiting for you just need to ask. 27:42 "Lord, I need assistance. 27:45 Lord, I need help." 27:48 Don't be too proud, 27:49 "Lord, I need some help. 27:52 Lord, I've got pain in my back, I need some help. 27:55 I got a pain in my chest, I need some help." 27:59 There's a balm in Gilead. 28:03 The manna is for you and is for me, 28:05 even in this turmoil that we are in 28:08 when there seems to be no end. 28:09 And it seems to getting worse. 28:12 We start out assuming things are going to get better. 28:15 Now, one fight after 28:17 the other is looking like it's getting worse. 28:21 I don't know about if it's gonna get worse or not. 28:23 But I do know this, 28:24 there is one who sits on the throne 28:26 that understands it very well. 28:27 And He's guiding in the hearts and lives of men. 28:30 I'm not worried about 28:31 who's gonna be the next president. 28:32 I'm not worried about 28:34 who's going to be sitting in the Supreme Court, 28:35 because I have one that sits on the high Supreme Court. 28:38 That's the one. 28:40 That's the one that we have confidence with in God. 28:44 This is encouragement to me, 28:45 because you can get wrapped up in all this political stuff. 28:48 And then you drive yourself crazy, 28:50 because you have one lie after the other. 28:53 Almost said one liar gets up 28:54 and then the other liar gets up, 28:56 but I wouldn't say that. 28:58 Okay. 29:00 Maybe they don't mean to be, not trying to judge you. 29:02 But they're telling two different stories, 29:04 or three different stories, or four different stories. 29:07 And Jesus always tells the same story. 29:11 And all we have to do is look at the days of Lot 29:13 and the days of Noah. 29:15 Tales of the condition of this world 29:18 just before Jesus comes. 29:19 See we're not out in the dark somewhere 29:22 where we don't have the light that's shining through. 29:25 Look at the condition, 29:26 don't think it's going to be all just hunky dory. 29:29 There's gonna be things that will transpire 29:31 and take place that you are gonna understand 29:32 and I'm gonna be able to understand. 29:34 Bible tells that at a time. 29:37 A time that I believe is right now 29:39 that Satan is working with all power, 29:42 with all deceivable of unrighteousness 29:45 in 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10. 29:48 Notice how He's working. 29:49 He's working with all what? 29:51 All the power that he can muster up 29:54 with all deceivableness of unrighteousness 29:57 to them that perish. 30:00 He's giving it everything he can right now. 30:07 As a child of God, 30:08 I don't want to be too brutal about it. 30:11 But as a child of God, when the enemy punches you, 30:13 you might look at him and say, 30:15 "Is that the best you got?" 30:21 Yeah, remember, is that the best he's got? Why? 30:23 Because it can't take you down as you're a child of God. 30:27 You stand fast. 30:32 The enemy's work that we can see right now 30:35 is plainly revealed by the, to me the increase of darkness. 30:41 Things are really looking dark and grim in the world today, 30:45 a spiritual darkness of error, of heresies, 30:49 of apostasy inside and outside the church. 30:53 Delusions, you talk about laziness. 30:56 You talk about the don't care attitudes 30:58 that you see it even in the church pews. 31:01 You know, think about that. 31:04 You know why this darkness is increasing? 31:06 Because my Bible tells me 31:08 as I look it up in John, what is it? 31:12 John 3:19. 31:13 It tells that men love darkness rather than what? 31:16 "Men love darkness rather than light." 31:20 We love light, isn't that right? 31:21 And not darkness. 31:23 But the world loves what? Dark. 31:25 Listen, many churches love darkness 31:27 evidently because, what? 31:28 They haven't got the gospel 31:30 and the truth of God's Word at all. 31:33 And you can challenge it say, well, now, 31:35 all you have to do is today line upon line, 31:37 precept upon precept, 31:38 here a little and there a little, 31:40 and you can find out what truth is, 31:41 if you're not too lazy. 31:44 If you really want to know what it is, I mean to me, 31:46 we ought to boil it down. 31:48 Shouldn't we say that if you really want to know 31:49 you will be able to know 31:51 and then after you know you become accountable 31:53 for and then you must take a stand on it 31:55 and quit dillydallying around 31:56 sitting on the fence and do nothings. 31:59 Not anybody here for sure. 32:01 But I'm just talking there'll be some out there 32:02 that will or do nothings. 32:07 Because there's always a group. 32:09 Now remember, if you get your feelings hurt, 32:11 it's because you'll do nothing. 32:14 If you'll do some... You're not going to get it, 32:16 if you'll do something 32:17 you're going to say, yeah, I get that. 32:19 Yeah, it's okay. 32:21 My mother always said, 32:22 "Hey, you know the shoe, if the shoe fits, wear it." 32:27 We have to be thick skin Christians nowadays. 32:32 We talked about that before we came out and we had prayer 32:35 thick skin Christians. 32:36 You know how you're able to put up with things 32:38 that you couldn't normally put up with. 32:40 You look at a person's hand, 32:41 you look at the calluses on there. 32:43 He's thick skin, 32:44 he can do things ordinary people cannot do 32:45 because all of a sudden, whoo, it breakout, right, 32:48 blood start coming out, 32:49 but you're getting calluses on your hand. 32:52 We need to be calloused 32:54 as it were with the truth of God's Word 32:56 so that we're not so easily upset. 33:00 And the good news in John 8:12, 33:02 Jesus said, 33:03 "If you follow me," listen, 33:05 "If you follow me, ye shall not walk in darkness." 33:11 See, that's good news. 33:12 If you follow Me, 33:13 if you're walking in darkness 33:15 is because you're not following Him. 33:16 Because he's telling the truth here, 33:17 ain't that right? 33:19 You won't walk in darkness if you follow Me. 33:21 See, that's good news. 33:23 You say, "Yeah, but I'm going through it." 33:24 Well, we might be going through tests and trials. 33:26 Sure. 33:29 Satan is leading the world captive. 33:31 There's no doubt about it. 33:32 Satan has joined, 33:34 I said many times he's joined the church. 33:37 He's bringing in apostasy, right and left. 33:40 He's bringing in darkness. He's bringing in division. 33:44 He's bringing in what he's got separation. 33:47 This group's going over there, 33:49 this group's going over here 33:50 because we can't sit down and study 33:51 the Word of God together. 33:54 And we should be able to do that. 33:58 This darkness is getting deeper, deep as midnight. 34:04 And for God's people, 34:05 listen, this darkness is going to hit us hard. 34:08 It's going to be a night of trial. 34:11 It's going to be a night of persecution. 34:14 It's going to be a night, I'm telling you of separation, 34:17 a night of tears, 34:19 and it's all going to be for the truth sake. 34:21 So we must love truth. Don't you believe that? 34:25 God says to His people, 34:27 "Out of a darkness, God says, light will shine" 34:30 in 2 Corinthians 4:6. 34:34 And the Bible says it like this. 34:35 "He causes the light to shine in darkness." 34:41 What does He do? 34:42 He causes the light to shine in where? 34:44 In dark. 34:45 So we need not stay in darkness 34:47 because He's gonna cause the light to shine 34:48 if you want the light. 34:49 People say, 34:51 "I want the light. I want the light," 34:52 and the light is shown on their pathway. 34:53 We say, "Ooh, I don't want that light." 34:56 The light shone on the seventh day Sabbath. 34:58 Ooh, we don't want that. 34:59 We're just as good going over here on this day, 35:01 that's not what the Bible says. 35:03 That's not what the Bible says 35:05 you choose whatever day you want to choose. 35:07 Well, I'll choose Monday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 35:08 are you God? 35:10 Is it okay if I'm bold? 35:13 To be plain about it, you're not God, 35:15 and I'm not God. 35:17 God specified the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord 35:19 thy God, it's God's day. 35:22 This is a message that should be getting out to the world. 35:25 It's not any day we'll do. 35:26 Isn't that funny 35:27 how people come up any day will do. 35:31 I mean, seriously about 35:32 and that they may be from an honest heart. 35:34 So I'm not trying to hurt somebody. 35:36 I'm just simply saying, isn't that sad? 35:38 That we will say any day will do when God said, 35:40 "No, it won't." 35:42 It doesn't make any difference. 35:44 God said, 35:45 "It did make a difference." 35:46 But I don't know if it makes a difference. 35:48 It makes a difference with God. 35:52 This is heavy duty times. 35:56 He causes the light to shine. 35:58 And, man, I can go back and you can too 36:00 to the Book of Genesis, 36:02 if you'll just want to do that for a second. 36:03 Genesis 1:2-3. 36:06 The Bible says, I love this. 36:08 Genesis Chapter 1, this is creation, isn't it? 36:11 Genesis 1:2-3. 36:12 It says, 36:14 "The earth was without," what? 36:15 "Form and void," 36:17 and notice what the Word says, 36:18 "and darkness was upon," what? 36:20 "Was upon the face of the deep." 36:22 Genesis 1:2-3. 36:25 Notice what happened now. 36:27 See, Holy Spirit was involved in creation. 36:29 For those of you who don't believe 36:31 there is a Holy Spirit. 36:32 You don't believe in a third person 36:34 of the Godhead. 36:35 Shame on you. 36:37 Is it okay to say that? 36:38 I just love to challenge somebody. 36:39 I just love to get somebody all upset, 36:41 says Brother Levi, I can't help it. 36:45 We need to be careful when we oust the Holy Spirit, 36:49 because that's the unpardonable sin. 36:52 Did you get it? 36:54 Is to say there is no Holy Spirit. 36:56 It's the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Jesus. 37:00 Just fill that in, 37:01 so you can think 37:03 and you already know my position on it. 37:04 But I'm gonna go ahead and fight for that 37:06 because I believe it's true. 37:07 The Bible says, 37:09 "The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 37:13 And God said, Let there be light," 37:16 and there was what? 37:17 No light. 37:18 Oh, the Bible said there was light. 37:22 Surely we're in this time right now, 37:26 this time of spiritual darkness. 37:28 It seems to be without form. 37:30 It seems to be like without void. 37:32 There's darkness everywhere 37:34 we look on the face of this planet. 37:36 But God said, 37:38 "Let there be light," and there was light. 37:42 Surely we're in this part here. 37:45 The part where God goes out and says, 37:48 "Let there be light." 37:52 And then He says to us in our verse that we read 37:54 there in Isaiah 60. 37:56 He said, 37:57 "I want you to because of the light, 37:58 I want you to arise," 38:00 and do what? 38:01 "I want you to shine for thy light is come." 38:05 Don't wait for Joe Blow next to you, 38:07 don't wait for the wife. 38:08 Don't wait for the husband. 38:09 I keep hearing somebody, 38:11 I see him every so often they'll say, 38:12 "Well, when the wife comes I'll come, 38:14 when the husband comes, 38:15 I will come or when the kids come, 38:17 when I retire I'll be." 38:18 Nobody said you're going to be around for any of that. 38:21 You can't wait on that. 38:22 I simply say to them, 38:23 "Oh, is the wife your God? 38:25 Is the husband your God? 38:26 Is your work your God." 38:29 If we don't do what God asks us to do, 38:31 then it is our God. 38:33 See, it's time that we lay it all out and get honest with God 38:36 because He knows your heart. 38:37 He knows my heart. 38:39 Please be honest. 38:42 Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 38:47 Isaiah 62 we read said, 38:49 "Darkness shall cover," what? 38:50 The earth. 38:52 Now listen what He's talking about darkness here. 38:54 "Oh, well, I can't see. 38:56 I can't see there's darkness, I can't see." 38:58 Oh, it goes deeper than that. 39:00 What is this darkness here? 39:04 The darkness is Bible is talking about here 39:06 is a misapprehension of God. 39:11 Yes, it's knowledge of His character. 39:15 His character is to be made known to the world. 39:18 What's His character? 39:19 Of His goodness, His mercy, His long-suffering, right? 39:22 Mercy and truth. 39:25 That message will lighten the world 39:27 when we need it the most right now 39:30 that God sits on the throne. 39:34 Who will represent Him? 39:37 Let me just read a quick passage. 39:39 I didn't even see the things already shut off 39:41 but I'm gonna keep going. 39:42 I don't know what's going on. 39:44 Revelation Chapter 18. 39:45 Will somebody turn with me quickly? 39:46 Revelation. 39:51 Devil thinks you know 39:52 if it gets the screen to go blank 39:54 and I'm gonna quit. 39:55 I'm not. 39:56 Is that okay? 39:59 I've got so many minutes and I'm gonna use them all. 40:04 You know what I'm talking about here. 40:06 I love these passages of Scripture, 40:07 Revelation Chapter 18. 40:09 Because we're saying here this darkness is what? 40:12 The world doesn't understand God. 40:15 His goodness, His mercy, His long-suffering with us, 40:17 they didn't understand His character, 40:19 and that's what we are to give to the world. 40:21 That's what the world needs right now. 40:23 Revelation 18:1, the Bible says, 40:25 I may read two or three if I get started. 40:27 Revelation 18:1, it says, 40:29 "After these things, I saw, " 40:31 what? 40:32 "Another angel come down from, where? 40:35 It can't be all bad. 40:36 This has got to be good. 40:38 An angel came down from where? 40:39 "From heaven, having great power," 40:42 and the oh, 40:43 "and the earth was," what? 40:45 "Lightened with," 40:46 his what? 40:48 "With his glory." 40:49 God said this angel, this is a fourth angel, 40:50 isn't that right that comes down 40:52 and lends power to the third angel, 40:53 the first, second and third angel's message 40:56 to give power to the Word of God, 40:57 to lighten the earth with the glory of God, 41:00 the righteousness of Jesus Christ. 41:02 Man, this is what going on. 41:04 I believe right now, it's going forward right now. 41:07 And the Bible simply says here, I'm going to keep reading here. 41:09 I'm feeling it right now. 41:11 The Bible says here, verse 2, 41:12 "And he cried mightily with a strong voice." 41:14 Who did the crying out? 41:16 Somebody say the angel, this powerful angel. 41:19 He said, Babylon, the great is what? 41:22 All and is fallen 41:23 because it comes to habitation of what? 41:27 "It's become the habitation of devils, 41:30 and the hold of every foul spirit, 41:32 the cage of every unclean and hateful bird, " 41:35 metaphors here we realize, 41:37 and because here, here's the problem, 41:39 "For all nations have done," what? 41:42 "They've got drunk with the wine of the wrath 41:43 of her fornication, 41:45 the kings of the earth have committed," what? 41:48 "Fornication with her, 41:49 and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich 41:52 through the abundance of her delicacies." 41:54 Oh, verse 4, I love it. 41:55 "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 41:58 'Come out of...'" 42:00 Oh, I wonder what that voice might be, 42:02 "Come out of her, my people, God's people, 42:05 Christ, talking to His people, 42:06 you come out of her, My people, 42:08 that ye be not partakers of her sins, 42:11 and they receive not of her plagues." 42:13 God's saying, when you receive the truth of this message, 42:15 right? 42:17 We're talking the three angels' message. 42:18 We're talking the truth on the Sabbath. 42:19 What happens when you die? It all makes a difference. 42:22 That you know, the judgment hour. 42:25 Who's teaching in our churches 42:26 that we're in the judgment hour right now? 42:29 Who's teaching in the sanctuary? 42:30 No, no. 42:32 We're teaching the truth on what happens when you die. 42:33 What happens when you know, Hellfire we talk about. 42:35 Wait, this thing 42:37 how Jesus is going to come in the clouds of glory, 42:39 every eyes will see Him we're teaching secret, right? 42:41 We're teaching everything but what is truth 42:43 and founded in the Word of God. 42:45 And this is time that we need to get back 42:47 to the Word and say right here, 42:49 Jesus says, 42:50 "When you've heard these truth, 42:51 when you hear this truth," 42:53 right, oh, 42:54 what happens when you die? 42:55 Oh, I got it now. 42:57 Okay, you turn away from that say, 42:58 "Whoo, I may be in the wrong place." 43:00 Oh, you're trying another truth over here. 43:01 So you walk in the light 43:02 as it's shining on your pathway, 43:04 and you what? 43:05 Every time there's a call to come out, 43:06 you have to respond for that. 43:08 If you do not respond for that, you are not a child of God. 43:10 Can I say that? Can I say that? 43:12 If you don't respond to thus saith the Lord, 43:15 you're not a child of God, even if you say you are. 43:19 Hope I'm not whistling Dixie up here. 43:25 You get in trouble for whistling Dixie 43:26 this day and time. 43:29 Some of you will get it and some of you... 43:32 You know what I'm talking about here. 43:33 It's not trying to judge people. 43:35 It's not trying to put other people down. 43:36 People just don't know. 43:38 But once the Holy Spirit enlightens you, 43:40 we must follow the Spirit of the Living God 43:43 or just give it up. 43:46 Because He said, Jesus said, 43:47 "Come out of her, " 43:49 that don't mean diddle dallying around with that stuff 43:51 you used to dillydallying around with 43:53 that you thought was truth. That's not truth. 43:56 I think that's what he's talking about here. 43:59 It is not trying to put anything or anybody down. 44:01 It's not talking about your neighbor. 44:02 It's not talking about your mama or your daddy, 44:04 it's talking about you. 44:06 It's talking about me. 44:07 When the light is come. 44:09 Right? 44:11 When it comes the glory of God rest upon you and you hear 44:13 and you understand these things are true. 44:16 "Come out of her," 44:17 the Bible said. 44:19 Remember this angel it comes down 44:20 we're talking about latter rain experience. 44:25 Latter rain comes down to revive and strengthen them 44:29 to pass through the time of trouble 44:31 we're talking about here. 44:33 Their faces will be lighted with the glory of the Lord, 44:37 which attends the third angel's message. 44:39 Man, we need that. 44:40 We need some help. 44:42 That message needs to be different 44:43 than it's ever been given before. 44:45 There's no doubt about it. 44:46 It needs more power behind it. 44:49 Then realize we're talking about here, 44:50 I'm not up here just talking about 44:51 some just take it or leave it. 44:53 I think it's a life or death issue. 44:55 I really do. 44:56 And I want to come across that way. 44:57 That's what I feel in my soul. 44:59 Is life and death issue, life and death message, 45:02 you're having the opportunity to hear it. 45:04 And if you cannot prove it wrong, 45:05 you have the obligation to accept it. 45:07 I do. 45:10 Bible teaches that. 45:14 The test are coming 45:15 right and left, they're upon us. 45:18 A loud cry that third angel's message 45:20 is going forth to the world 45:21 we know that and it's doing it 45:23 in a revelation of the character of God. 45:25 Notice that. 45:27 Righteousness of Christ, then who is He? 45:30 He's a sin pardoning Savior. 45:33 He loves us with an everlasting love. 45:35 He's our Redeemer. 45:38 He's the light of the world. 45:43 Man, I love that, when I read those things. 45:48 And why are these messages being given, 45:50 "Come out of her, My people." 45:51 What did God do, you remember? 45:54 Talking about the God 45:55 called the children of Israel out of Egypt. 45:56 So why? 45:58 Why did He call them out of Egypt? 45:59 Why didn't He just leave them in Egypt? 46:01 Didn't they deserve to be in Egypt? 46:02 They were disobedient. 46:04 But God called them out of Egypt to do what? 46:08 He said He called them out of Egypt 46:09 so that they might keep My Sabbath. 46:11 He called them out of what? He called them out of slavery. 46:14 He called them out of the pits of hell. 46:16 Is that okay to say that, Brother Mark? 46:18 It's too late. 46:20 He called them out of a bad situation. 46:24 And He said, I've called you out 46:25 because I want you to keep My Sabbath 46:28 if they weren't allowed to keep it the way 46:29 they should be keeping it. 46:31 And many Adventists today are not keeping it the way 46:33 they should be keeping it either. 46:35 The Bible tells you exactly 46:37 how you should keep the Sabbath. 46:39 Don't ever think for a moment, 46:41 once we learn what truth is on this issue 46:42 that we can do whatever we feel like we want to do. 46:45 Bible says in Isaiah 58, 46:46 "Won't be doing your own pleasure on My holy day." 46:49 It's God's holy day. 46:51 It's not Seventh-day Adventist day. 46:53 It's not Kenny's day. 46:54 It's not your day. It's God's day. 46:56 And He said, 46:58 "Don't be doing your own pleasure." 46:59 Don't be doing those things 47:01 you ordinarily do during the six days. 47:02 This is a different day. 47:03 It's holy, 47:05 it's 24 hour period of time that belongs to God. 47:06 It's His day, 47:08 and we need to do godly things on that day. 47:09 And that's all. 47:13 What a crisis hour that we're living in. 47:16 He said, 47:18 "I call them out so they may keep My Sabbath, " 47:20 just like today, 47:22 He's calling us out of Babylon so that we do not what? 47:26 Huh. 47:27 So we do not worship the beast and his image. 47:31 That's why He's called us out. 47:36 Most people don't even know what the image of the beast is, 47:38 or the mark of the beast in my lands of love. 47:40 Time's almost gone, 47:42 we need to learn what that deals with. 47:44 Man, can we put in 47:46 like little nutshells once in a while 47:47 just bottom line this and that. 47:49 We realized no one right at this moment, 47:52 unless those who know better and you know what truth is, 47:54 and you're backslidden or you're already in trouble. 47:58 But the mark of the beast, 48:01 we have to realize is the time after the Sunday law is passed, 48:06 then we'll all be tested on that. 48:09 And if you don't go along with that if you go along, 48:11 you're going to worship what? 48:12 The pope or you're going to worship God. 48:15 I mean, it's really simple when it's boiled down 48:17 to either serve God or you serve the enemy. 48:21 You have the mark of Christ 48:22 or you have the God or the mark of the beast. 48:27 I mean, this is just coming down to it. 48:29 God's gonna let all things develop 48:31 what's happening in the world today. 48:33 With all the COVID, with all the protests, 48:35 and all the stuff it's going on. 48:37 The devil, I guarantee you 48:38 is behind every move of it right now 48:40 and bring it right into the situation 48:42 with climate change and everything else 48:44 to where we will have a Sunday law before too long. 48:47 And you will have to make a decision 48:49 and if you can't make it right now, 48:50 then you'll have to make it then. 48:52 You'll be either on God's side or you'll be on the enemy side. 48:55 You'll be blessed by the day that God set His blessing 48:58 or you'll be cursed by doing what the enemy said, 49:00 I'll give you a counterfeit. 49:04 Have mercy. 49:09 God called His people out of Egypt for what? 49:11 Come on, I'm repeating it, for what? 49:13 So that they can keep His Sabbath. 49:15 He calls us out today 49:17 so that we do not receive the mark of the beast 49:18 or pay homage to the image of the beast. 49:22 It's very simple. 49:31 People are power hungry today. 49:37 You have rule or ruin on everybody's lips. 49:41 You have war and devastation. 49:46 Mankind is on a destructive course. 49:49 This world is on a destructive course. 49:52 Man, he's angry, his nature. 49:56 It seems is out of control. 49:58 His thoughts are out of control. 50:01 There's new outbreaks happening every day. 50:04 And you know 50:05 because the Bible said in Matthew 24:12, 50:08 the Bible says, 50:09 "Iniquity is going to abound." 50:12 Did you get that? 50:13 Iniquity in the last days what? 50:15 Iniquity sin is going to abound get worse, darkness, right? 50:18 And the love of many will wax cold. 50:22 Did ever seen such a cold ice box world? 50:25 No one seems to care. 50:27 They don't care 50:28 what you're going through seems like. 50:31 Hard hearted. 50:33 Just drive by and shoot people you don't know them. 50:36 You'd have no issue. 50:37 Even if you had an issue, you shouldn't do it. 50:39 This just had no issue little children, babies. 50:43 Their hearts are cold. 50:46 They left Christ. 50:49 They turn their back on Him. 50:53 And there's results. 50:55 Bible prophecy reveals these things, these warnings. 51:00 These warnings are so plain, 51:02 we just have four or five minutes left. 51:03 So somebody hang in there. 51:06 You get sleepy, jump up and shout. 51:08 I'll shout back and we'll all be happy. 51:14 Bible prophecy is telling this, it's given these warning, 51:18 no one can miss them unless they want to miss them. 51:21 You can't do it. 51:24 Because again, God gives these warnings 51:26 and then Revelation 18:4, 51:29 "Come out of her, My people." 51:31 Come out of her. 51:32 What's her in the Bible? 51:35 Yeah, you get church in it. 51:37 False and you have the truth. 51:38 Actually God's calling His true people 51:40 out of other churches 51:42 and calling into His last day church, 51:44 which the second part of this message 51:45 we'll get into more 51:46 as we go along and see 51:48 how it goes down from one to the other, 51:50 the God's last day people 51:51 and what they will be doing before Jesus comes. 51:53 What in the world? 51:54 What kind of excuse can we have today? 51:57 The crisis hour right now. 52:01 And during this crisis hour the light, 52:04 our mission as God's people is brought forward. 52:08 So we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt what we should do. 52:10 We need to rise and shine is what the Bible says. 52:14 What excuse can we possibly have 52:17 if we don't wake up now? 52:23 And give others the good news and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 52:29 What good will it do 52:31 if we do not give the message of the three angels 52:32 of Revelation 14 like God said to do, 52:35 He didn't say give one, give two He said, 52:37 "Give all three." 52:39 Warn the world. 52:43 He asked us to open our eyes. 52:45 He asked us to look around. 52:49 And all you see it seems as we look around, 52:51 we see every form of evil, forces of evil. 52:55 They're loose. They're working. 52:58 They're lurking everywhere. 53:02 We see violence. 53:04 We see terror on faces 53:08 that maybe had never experienced it before. 53:12 But this kind of terror in turn 53:14 makes man's heart 53:17 to fear or to fail. 53:21 'Cause they're looking after those things 53:23 that are coming on this earth, Luke 21:26. 53:28 Right now is a golden opportunity for us 53:31 as a people to witness to somebody. 53:34 Remember, it's the dark hour. 53:37 You may be going through a very dark time. 53:41 But now God asked you 53:43 by His grace and His strength to rise and shine. 53:47 Do something that it seems impossible with man 53:51 that you couldn't do on your own. 53:53 It's hard to praise God, 53:55 when you've lost somebody you love. 53:57 It's hard to praise God, if you've lost your job. 53:59 It's hard to praise God 54:01 when everybody seems against you. 54:04 But that's the challenge 54:06 is to know though the world may be against you, 54:08 Christ is for you, 54:10 rise and shine and do what God has asked us to do. 54:15 The world and the church, 54:17 and I'm going to leave it with this 54:18 and have prayer with you. 54:19 The church and the world is doomed 54:22 if we do not do our part 54:24 and put on the whole armor of God 54:26 and get out the sword. 54:29 Ephesians 6, 54:31 let's pray about that in the last minute 54:32 and so we have. 54:33 Going to pray with those of you who are at home, 54:35 those of you I know are making decision 54:36 because I know the Holy Spirit of God 54:38 speak nothing I've said or done. 54:39 But the Holy Spirit of the Living God's 54:40 touching your mind right now and your heart. 54:43 You're making decisions you never made before. 54:44 You don't know the ins and the outs. 54:46 But you know, you want to follow Jesus, 54:48 let's pray about that, shall we? 54:49 Loving Father in heaven, 54:51 again, we thank You for your precious Word. 54:53 Thankful that You've pointed out these things. 54:55 Thankful for those clear warning signs 54:57 and signals and the call to come out 54:59 and be part of Your people. 55:01 Lord, we thank You 55:03 for what You've left in Your Word. 55:04 We're thankful for what You're revealing 55:05 to each and every one of us right now. 55:07 And we're thankful right now 55:08 for those who are making that decision right now. 55:10 And maybe for the first time and simply saying, 55:12 I want to follow You. 55:14 Lord, take them we pray, 55:15 draw them close to You and to love them 55:17 as You'd love to every one of us 55:19 and the Calvary proves that. 55:20 Thank you for hearing 55:22 and answering prayer in Jesus' name, amen. 55:24 I want to encourage each and every again at home, 55:27 keeping the Word of God every day, 55:29 spend time in prayer, 55:31 spend time studying the Word of God, 55:33 spend time as you hear and look and see 55:35 what's going on in the world. 55:36 I'm telling you, 55:37 it tells you of nearest the coming of Jesus Christ. 55:39 And I know that you wanna be ready. 55:41 If we're not ready, 55:42 we've missed our purpose 55:43 for even being here on this planet. 55:45 We love you, Behold the Lamb loves. 55:46 Thanks for your cards, your letters, your report, 55:47 and we look forward to seeing you next time. 55:51 Hello and welcome back, friends. 55:53 What a wonderful God we serve. 55:55 A God who has promised that 55:57 even though we walk 55:59 through the valley of the shadow of death, 56:00 we need not fear the evil, 56:03 for He will walk with us and protect us 56:05 until our journey is ended in this life. 56:09 "Out of Darkness Comes Light," 56:11 was the title of today's message. 56:13 Oh, to open all of eyes spiritually 56:16 and to pull back the curtain 56:19 on the spiritual warfare 56:20 and witness just how Christ is ever protecting, 56:24 ever guiding and directing us on our paths 56:27 to the kingdom of heaven. 56:28 Someday, someday, 56:30 we will all be shown 56:32 and I believe totally amazed at what God has done 56:35 and is doing and will do 56:37 to save and protect 56:39 and guide us on our journey from here to heaven. 56:44 There is a song that we like to sing, 56:46 this world is not our home. 56:48 It states that we are just a passing through 56:50 that our treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. 56:54 The angels are beckoning us from heaven's opened door 56:58 so we can't feel at home in this world anymore. 57:02 Friends, hold on to this hope. 57:04 Hold on to the promise of this new world to come. 57:07 Hold on to Jesus as never before. 57:10 For we all need to get ready, get ready 57:13 "Out of Darkness." 57:15 It's a two part series 57:16 and we're offering it to you 57:18 for a love gift of just $15 or more. 57:20 All you need to do is 57:22 call us here at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:25 (618) 942-5044, that's Central Time. 57:30 You may also write to us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:33 PO Box 2030, 57:35 Herrin, Illinois 62948 57:38 or visit us on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:43 Friends, we so appreciate you joining us 57:45 and we look forward to seeing you next time. 57:47 May God richly bless each and every one of you. |
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