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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton your host, 00:42 I want to thank you so much for joining us. 00:44 Today's message is part one of a two part series 00:47 that we have entitled 00:49 "How to survive the time of Jacob's trouble." 00:51 In part one of this series, 00:53 Pastor Kenny is going to spend much of the time 00:55 covering what we believe 00:57 will become the greatest 00:58 and possibly the most difficult test 01:01 of all of our time. 01:02 And that is an understanding 01:04 and keeping God's fourth commandment, 01:06 the only commandment 01:08 that God has asked us not to forget. 01:10 Let's read it together as found in Exodus 20:8-11. 01:16 Reading, 01:17 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 01:20 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. 01:23 But the seventh day is the Sabbath 01:25 of the Lord thy God: 01:26 in it thou shall not do any work, 01:28 thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 01:31 thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, 01:33 nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger 01:35 that is within thy gates. 01:37 For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, 01:40 and all that in them is and rested the seventh day" 01:44 Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 01:47 and He hallowed it." 01:49 Pastor Kenny Shelton 01:51 will address some of the misconceptions 01:53 that people who now claimed to be Sabbath keepers 01:57 have in terms of keeping the Sabbath holy 02:00 as it was meant to be. 02:02 Remember God said, He sanctified it, 02:03 He made it holy. 02:05 But before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton, 02:07 let's visit 3ABN and join singer Jeff Pearls 02:11 as he shares a song 02:13 that refers to the truth of God has given in His Word. 02:17 It is entitled "The Lighthouse." 02:19 Friends, God will have a victorious people 02:23 who will go through the time of Jacob's trouble 02:25 because they are hid behind the cross of Calvary 02:28 and remain steadfast in the light of God's Word. 02:47 There's a lighthouse on the hillside 02:54 That overlooks 02:57 Life's sea 03:00 When I'm tossed 03:04 It sends out a light 03:07 That I might see 03:14 And the light that shines 03:17 In darkness now 03:21 Will safely lead me o'er 03:27 If it wasn't for the lighthouse 03:34 My ship would sail no more 03:44 Everybody that lives around us 03:51 Says tear that lighthouse down 03:58 The big ships don't sail this way anymore 04:04 So there's no use of it standing round 04:11 But then my mind goes back 04:14 To that stormy night 04:18 When just in time I saw the light 04:25 Yes, the light from that old lighthouse 04:32 That stands up there on the hill 04:40 And I thank God 04:44 For the lighthouse 04:48 I owe my life to Him 04:55 For Jesus is the lighthouse 05:02 And from the rocks of sin 05:07 He has shown 05:10 A light around me 05:15 That I might clearly see 05:22 If it wasn't for the lighthouse 05:29 Where would this ship be? 05:34 And I thank God 05:38 For the lighthouse 05:43 I owe my life to Him 05:49 For Jesus is the lighthouse 05:56 And from the rocks of sin 06:02 He has shown 06:04 A light around me 06:10 That I might clearly see 06:16 If it wasn't for the lighthouse 06:23 Where would this ship be? 06:51 Hello and welcome once again to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 06:53 appreciate you so very much. 06:55 And as usual, 06:56 we always thank you for your prayers, 06:58 for your support, for your comments, 07:00 your letters, of emails, 07:01 everything that you send in questions that you have. 07:04 And by the grace of God, if sometime they're overlooked, 07:07 or sometime they get set aside for something, 07:09 don't be ashamed, 07:10 just call in again, or write in again. 07:12 And we'll be glad to get back to you 07:14 with an answer. 07:15 We have many people that are here 07:16 that certainly helped me to get some of those answers. 07:18 And I praise God for that. 07:20 There's a lot going on in this world that we live in. 07:22 And some of the things 07:23 that's going on in the world right now, 07:25 we need to take special note off 07:27 before we have prayer. 07:28 And we realized recently, right, recently, 07:30 the Middle East peace, 07:32 there's a whole lot more to that 07:34 than wants to the eye 07:36 and what the world was thinking about. 07:37 And the part that Israel right will be playing. 07:40 You know, we look at it 07:42 from the eyes of God in prophecy. 07:43 And we don't look quite as, 07:45 you know, strongly over there as the world is. 07:48 But we're going to find out 07:49 if we watch, this is a big event. 07:52 And we need to pay attention to it as it unfolds. 07:55 And then, of course, 07:56 we know the death of one of the Supreme Court justices, 07:59 we realize it's going to be another ones 08:00 that are going to be, you know, appointed to that, 08:02 there's going to be a big battle over that. 08:04 So we realize there's things 08:05 that are in the making that will, 08:07 I think, have a bearing on God's last day church. 08:10 Today, we're gonna be talking about 08:11 how to survive the time of Jacob's trouble, 08:16 how to survive. 08:18 And I believe that God's last day people, 08:21 they will be survivors. 08:23 It's a patience of the saints, 08:25 we will survive by the grace of God. 08:27 But there are things 08:28 that we must and will go through 08:31 before this takes place. 08:33 And I always wanna warn before the prayer here 08:35 is that there are many who say we will not be here. 08:38 But, you know, I'm gonna invite you 08:39 just to read your Bible a little bit closer. 08:41 Realize what God has said in His Word 08:43 that what His people will have to go. 08:45 He said, "You're gonna have to drink," 08:46 He told His disciples. 08:47 You've had to go through what I've went through here, 08:49 so that we can be ready to meet Jesus because you know, 08:52 many of us have a lot of dross left in our life 08:55 that needs to be eliminated, it needs to go. 08:58 And God by His grace and His love He has for us, 09:01 He's lighting the heat to be turned up. 09:04 So all those impurities, 09:05 right, can be taken away 09:07 so that heaven can be our home so that we fit in. 09:09 Let's pray, shall we together? 09:14 Merciful Father in heaven, 09:15 we thank You for the privilege of prayer. 09:17 Thank You that we can call You our Father. 09:19 Oh, Lord, we stand in need. 09:21 Stand in need of a Savior, 09:22 in need of the power of the Holy Spirit. 09:25 Lord, take our hearts and take our minds right now. 09:29 Convert us, convict us. 09:31 Bring us to the point 09:32 that we realize 09:34 that we're in the last hours of earth's history. 09:36 There's a preparation to be made to go through 09:38 what we're gonna be talking about today. 09:40 We're going to go about through the time of Jacob's trouble. 09:44 What is that all about? Lord, help us, we pray. 09:46 Cleanse our hearts and our minds now. 09:48 Help us to stay up on thee 09:50 and, Lord, speak to us for your servant hears, 09:52 in Jesus' name, amen. 09:56 I like to start out maybe a little bit differently 09:58 on this subject and may not be. 10:00 Because a lot of time when you start you, 10:01 you have kind of a bottom line and, 10:03 you give that bottom line more toward the end. 10:05 I'd like to give you some food for thought. 10:08 Because a lot of the stuff 10:09 that maybe that I'll read to you, 10:11 and it's a quote from Early Writings, 10:12 but as I read it, 10:14 there may be a word or two 10:15 that we may not understand if you haven't been studying. 10:18 Now we realize many of you will. 10:20 And this is just, you know, bring back to remembrance. 10:23 But it's such food for thought 10:25 that it made me absolutely just like shake in my chair, 10:30 as I read it again. 10:32 Because of the time that we're living in, 10:34 how are we going to survive the time of Jacob's trouble? 10:39 From Early Writings, 10:41 I'm going to read something 10:42 but first, I want to read one Bible passage, 10:43 and then we'll go back to the one we read before 10:46 about time of Jacob's trouble. 10:48 I don't think you can have this study 10:49 unless you just read the one in Daniel 12:1. 10:52 Isn't that right, in Daniel 12:1? 10:53 We're talking about this time of trouble, 10:56 Daniel 12:1. 10:58 Regardless how many times you've read it, 11:00 remember, we're talking to people by the thousands 11:04 that have never heard this. 11:06 You admit, 11:07 I want you to have patience and I need to have patience, 11:09 say, "Well, we read it a thousand times." So what? 11:12 It's not right may not be just for you. 11:14 But the message is there, absolutely. 11:16 But you may understand it, but thousands do not. 11:19 And so we must start at ground level here 11:21 and ask the Holy Spirit to lead and guide and direct. 11:24 Bible says in Daniel 12:1, notice this. 11:27 "And at that time shall Michael," do what? 11:30 "Michael is going to stand up," 11:32 notice this, 11:33 "The great prince with standeth for the children of thy people: 11:37 and there shall be a time of," 11:38 what? 11:40 "A time of trouble," 11:41 notice this, 11:42 "as such as ever was, 11:44 since there was a nation even to the same time: 11:48 and at that time," 11:49 the what? 11:51 "The people," here's the good news, 11:52 "The people shall be," 11:54 I like it, 11:55 "delivered, everyone that shall be found 11:57 written in the book." 11:58 See, there's some good news here. 12:00 Because as you look at that, 12:02 again, just, I'm not trying to go over everything and say, 12:04 "Oh, this is." 12:05 I just, I do want to point 12:06 just a couple of quick things here. 12:09 It says at that time, 12:10 and translation really is in that time it talks about, 12:13 refers to the time of the disappearance, 12:16 at least in my opinion, of the power described 12:19 at the end of Chapter 11, the last verse. 12:24 Now it's interesting as the way they work together here, 12:27 Chapter 11. 12:29 Do the last verse there. Thank you. 12:30 She's bringing some glasses. 12:32 I'm not sure these are the right ones. 12:34 Always helps to be able to see, right? 12:39 I brought some with me, that's a little bit better. 12:41 And I'm gonna dig way down here, 12:43 if you don't mind for just a second because, 12:45 you know, when the words all go together, 12:51 it's kind of sad sometime, isn't it? 12:53 Yeah, it's all right, 12:55 by the grace of God, isn't that right? 12:57 Again, we're looking at here the last verse of Chapter 11 13:00 and the first verse of 12:1, 13:05 to me is clearly related in the point, 13:08 end point of time. 13:10 And it talks about Michael and who is Michael? 13:15 Michael is Jesus, 13:16 in the Christ He says He's going to do what? 13:19 He's going to run, 13:21 the situation is in the world has come to a point 13:22 where Christ is going to rise 13:24 because He's doing He's mediating for us. 13:26 Right? 13:27 He's our high priest, and He stands up, it's over. 13:29 We'll be talking more about that 13:30 as we go along in this study, 13:32 but then He has to rise, 13:33 what to protect and to deliver His people 13:36 from the powers, 13:38 you know, of this world 13:39 that's come together against God's people. 13:41 He rises in the time of trouble. 13:44 Remember, God's Spirit is what? 13:47 Is completely withdrawn 13:48 and the demons of hell is running this whole earth. 13:52 Is that clear enough? 13:54 Do you think that demons of hell 13:57 are going to be doing anything that's good? 14:00 No, they're doing the things 14:02 that they've been wanting to do for a long time, 14:04 but God has been holding them back, right? 14:07 The winds, Revelation 7 14:08 holding them back until God says what? 14:10 "Let go." 14:13 There's been times in past of things that I've read, 14:15 and you just study a little more for yourself, 14:17 that the angels were just ready to let go. 14:20 They were loosening their grip and God said, 14:23 "Hold, hold because My people are not all sealed." 14:29 Man, I'm telling you, God is still in control. 14:33 All the winds of strife are blowing. 14:34 We see them right now. 14:36 And things are coming to our mind. 14:38 We're saying, well, 14:39 "God's Spirit here is being, it is withdrawn, is no long. 14:42 Mediation has what? 14:44 It ceases. 14:45 The enemy takes full control 14:47 just and we're talking about 12:1 here. 14:50 And there's a scene of strife 14:54 that no pen can picture. 14:58 No one can write it down. 15:00 You can read that 15:01 in the Great Controversy if you want. 15:03 As things are so bad 15:05 that you can't even write down how bad they're going to get. 15:08 But you know what? God's people will be here. 15:12 They're going to be here and go through it. 15:14 And if we can't take what's going on right now, 15:16 if you can't tell, 15:17 let's take somebody's calling you, 15:19 can I say nitwit. 15:20 Somebody's calling you names. 15:22 If you know what I'm saying, that's an easy one right now. 15:25 If we can't take that right now, 15:27 we can't take them, 15:28 the things that's thrown out to us 15:29 and our skin is not where we're able to stand 15:31 by the grace of God. 15:33 We will never go through this time. 15:35 Sometime lot of people say, 15:37 "Well, they write in, they say this or that." 15:38 Well, we need to get back and tell them 15:39 how the hog ate the cabbage. 15:41 I said, most generally, somebody told me today, 15:43 well, we like it, because you chop with it, 15:45 you know, just lay the axe to the root. 15:47 And there's those chips 15:49 and just let them fall where they fall. 15:51 And I said, "You know, I do that." 15:52 But you know what? 15:53 Every once in a while I go to the chip pile. 15:57 And I pick up those chips, and I look at it, 16:00 to see if it corresponds with the Word of God. 16:03 If it does, I go ahead and let people say 16:05 and do what they're gonna say and do. 16:07 I'm not going to waste my time going off. 16:09 Not going to get off the wall, you see? 16:11 You remember that? Remember off the wall. 16:14 Yeah, we're not gonna get off that wall 16:16 because we're working. 16:18 You're watchman on the wall, 16:19 but you know, devil wants you to come down from that wall. 16:23 So anyhow, it's good, you're going to be, 16:25 right here it says, if you're written in the book, 16:27 I want to encourage you with that 16:28 before we continue to go on here. 16:30 The Bible talks about this time of trouble here. 16:32 But everyone's going to be delivered. 16:34 Here's the good news. 16:36 So when we talk about 16:37 some of the things that's challenging, 16:39 think about the good news. 16:40 The good news, everyone will be delivered 16:43 whose name is written in the book. 16:47 Revelation 20:15, 16:48 "Written in the book is the Lamb's Book of Life." 16:53 Some people, bless their heart, they'll say, 16:55 "Yeah, well, I know. 16:57 As long as my name is on the church books, 16:59 I'm going to be saved." 17:02 No, this is not talking about the church books at all. 17:04 Have your name written on the church books 17:05 is a roll call. 17:07 That's as far as I'm concerned. Is that okay? 17:10 Really, that's all it is. Why? 17:12 Because you can't prove any other thing from Scripture 17:15 other than, we realize this, 17:17 but here, it's very clear 17:19 that our name must be written in the Lamb's Book of Life, 17:22 and He's going to deliver everyone. 17:24 So regardless of what is before God's people, 17:27 and we need to be aware of it. 17:29 If not, you will never be prepared. 17:31 I will never be prepared, but I want to be. 17:34 Early Writings, 282. 17:36 Again, I want to read this 17:39 because I think it's so very important. 17:42 And then we will try to put it together 17:44 as we continue to study along 17:46 how to survive the time of Jacob's trouble. 17:50 Notice how this passage reads 17:52 and again, I got goose bumps on it 17:54 and fearful, sad, 17:57 and all kinds of emotions with it. 18:00 Because I picture family, 18:02 I picture friends and relatives 18:06 and people who will not make it to heaven. 18:10 I'm not trying to be judgmental here. 18:11 But you know what? 18:13 They're not willing to meet the criteria 18:15 that God says to be part of the family of God. 18:18 Notice these words with me and how, 18:20 notice how some people today want to do the right thing. 18:27 But, boy, I'm telling you, a husband gets in the way, 18:30 a wife gets in the way, 18:32 neighbors and friends get in the way, 18:33 and they don't make that decision. 18:36 But you know what? 18:39 They're gonna turn on those folks 18:40 before it's all over. 18:41 Let's read it, shall we? 18:43 "Many of the wicked were greatly," 18:46 notice this, 18:48 "enraged as they suffered the effects of the plagues." 18:52 And remember, seven last plagues, 18:53 we'll talk more about again as we go, 18:55 be poured out, that's a fearful time. 18:58 That is an awful time. 19:00 But notice, "It was a scene of fearful agony." 19:06 We're talking about time of Jacob's trouble. 19:07 Notice this. 19:09 "Parents were bitterly reproached by their children, 19:13 the children, their parents, brothers, and their sisters, 19:18 and sisters their brothers." 19:21 There was," notice this, 19:22 "Loud, wailing cries were heard in every direction." 19:28 Notice these words. 19:31 "It was you 19:34 who kept me from receiving the truth 19:39 which would have saved me from this awful hour." 19:43 Did you get that? 19:47 People are going to be pointing, 19:48 if we let them now, 19:50 the time will come when they will point and say, 19:52 "It was you that stopped me. 19:53 You said you're going to leave me 19:55 if I joined that church. 19:56 You're going to leave me if I follow the truth. 19:58 And so we choose a partner before we choose God. 20:03 This is going to come back. 20:04 Mom and Dad, 20:05 you wouldn't let me go to church 20:07 when I wanted to go to church. 20:08 You wouldn't let me be baptized when I want to be baptized. 20:11 I want to do the right thing, but you wouldn't let me do it, 20:13 now look at us. 20:16 Fearful time, 20:17 it was you that kept me from receiving the truth. 20:20 You're gonna save me from this awful hour 20:22 but, you know, you didn't. 20:24 Reading on, it says, 20:25 "The people even turn on their ministers 20:29 with bitter hate, and reproach, saying, 20:32 'You have not warned us.'" 20:36 There's many preachers today 20:37 and the pope is not giving any kind of warning message at all. 20:39 They need to be jerked out of there. 20:41 See, I say things and I look around say, 20:43 "Should I say that?" 20:47 If the preachers are not giving a warning message today 20:50 to prepare for the coming of Jesus 20:52 and what's happening in the world, 20:54 they've lost the salt. 20:58 And they're not earning their salt. 21:02 I'm not trying to be ugly about it. 21:04 I'm just simply saying because the time will come 21:06 when the people are going to turn and say, 21:08 "You didn't warn us. 21:10 You didn't tell us about it. 21:11 You told us all about Easter, 21:13 you told us all about Christmas, 21:14 and told us about all the good times 21:15 and socializing. 21:17 But you never warned us what was taking place. 21:21 You didn't warn us. 21:22 Going on, "You told us that all the world was to be," 21:26 listen, 21:27 "You told us all the world was to be converted." 21:30 You know the teaching, right? Oh, the time is coming what? 21:31 Peace and safety 21:33 and the whole world is going to be converted, 21:34 we have another chance to make it right. 21:36 We miss it the first time we're going to make it, 21:37 false teaching. 21:40 You have one hour probation as it were, it's right now. 21:44 This is it. 21:46 But see that 21:47 devil is preaching his messages. 21:48 If you happen not make it the first time, 21:51 don't worry about, you're going to have another opportunity. 21:53 That's a lie from the devil. 21:56 Notice it says, 21:57 all the world was to be converted 21:59 and notice what it says, 22:00 "And you cried peace and peace and peace 22:05 to quiet every fear that was aroused." 22:09 You know every person 22:10 that's studying or listening to truth, 22:13 maybe listening to Radio 3ABN, 22:14 maybe they're watching 3ABN whatever, 22:16 or they're hearing somebody preaching 22:17 what is truth, and you hear it, 22:18 you say, "Oh, wow!" 22:20 And you go, first thing people do 22:21 is go ask their pastor. 22:24 And I'm not saying you shouldn't do that. 22:27 But if you hear a truth about the Sabbath, right? 22:29 Sunday keeper will go to the Sunday pastor and say, 22:32 "What about the Sabbath?" 22:34 And they'll start saying anything and everything 22:36 to smooth it all over, why? 22:38 Because they have not one passage of scripture 22:40 that proves Sunday is the day that we should be keeping. 22:45 Is anybody home? 22:47 Are we awake today? 22:50 Think about it. 22:51 This is serious business. 22:54 Let's not try to be sweetened and, well, let's be careful, 22:57 we don't wound and hurt somebody. 22:58 It's about time that somebody got stuck. 23:02 Nudged a little bit, so that we'll stand up. 23:06 That's exactly. 23:09 And they say to the pastor, 23:10 "You have not told us out of this hour, 23:14 and those who warned us," 23:16 notice, 23:17 "of it you declared to be fanatics 23:20 and evil men who would ruin us." 23:24 So if you're out giving the message for today 23:26 that God has given this last day church to give, 23:29 people will say 23:30 don't listen to them, they're fanatics. 23:31 They're going to overdo it. 23:33 These people are no more on target than anything. 23:35 Don't worry about it, 23:36 just come on back here and just let them go. 23:41 But notice this, 23:43 but I saw so a warning is given to the ministers. 23:46 And that's all who claimed to be a minister of God. 23:49 Claim that God has called us in, 23:51 many called themselves in, 23:53 but you need to make sure 23:54 God has called you to be a minister 23:57 and not called yourself. 23:59 "I saw that the ministers did not escape 24:01 the wrath of God," 24:03 because what? 24:04 They weren't telling the truth, number one. 24:05 They didn't warn the people what was coming on the land. 24:07 They were preaching what? 24:09 Free peace and safety. 24:11 That's what they were preaching. 24:13 But notice the preacher 24:15 and I've taken account of this for years and years, 24:16 it said, 24:18 "Their suffering was tenfold greater 24:22 than that of their people." 24:26 Did you get it? 24:28 Those who should be on the walls of Zion, 24:30 those who should be crying and sighing 24:32 for the abomination done within and without. 24:35 If you do not do it, you will, 24:36 it's not just trying to threaten somebody, 24:38 it said, 24:39 "You will suffer as a minister 10 times greater 24:43 than the people in your church." 24:46 And that's going to be quite suffering 24:47 just we could say a member of the church 24:50 10 times 24:52 because we had opportunity after opportunity 24:54 to do what was right and we didn't want to do it 24:56 because it wasn't popular. 25:00 And then the last of the article says, 25:02 "I," 25:03 listen, "I saw the saints, 25:05 leaving the cities and the villages, 25:07 associating together in companies, 25:11 living in the most solitary places." 25:15 You realize what we are headed for. 25:22 We are somewhat 25:25 in our household torn up, 25:30 because we can't get our icebox fixed. 25:33 Okay. 25:39 I didn't say a day or two, 25:40 I was talking about for two months. 25:44 Now, see that makes it a little bit more like, 25:46 okay, it's okay. 25:48 But I'm just talking about it is really minute 25:51 compared to what we're talking about here, 25:52 what's going to happen, but it's almost overwhelming. 25:55 We want to jump somebody. 25:57 We want to talk to somebody in authority. 25:59 It shouldn't take two months to get an ice box to work. 26:02 And yet, for literally centuries, 26:04 there was no ice box. 26:05 And somehow people made it. 26:10 So we couldn't get it fixed. 26:12 Kenny's gonna fix it. 26:13 Somebody's not, 26:15 I just not tell you nothing about it. 26:16 And nobody wants to hear about it. 26:17 Anyway, I went out and bought another small icebox, 26:21 now put it by the one that's broken, 26:23 that we can't get fixed. 26:26 So I can keep things a little bit cold. 26:28 Okay. Yeah. 26:31 I'm just talking about, 26:32 do you see what I'm talking about here? 26:34 We are spoiled, rotten. 26:36 And when the bottom falls out of it, 26:38 Lord, have mercy on our souls. 26:41 I'm still wanting to talk to somebody in authority. 26:47 Oh, they've been out. 26:49 And they brought the parts to fix it. 26:51 Another guy come out and he say, 26:52 "This is what I think it is." 26:54 Then they say, 26:55 "Well, it'd be another week and somebody else will come out 26:58 or the parts will be here." 26:59 And so we call him, say the parts are here, 27:01 it'd be another week before he comes out. 27:03 So he came out, put all the parts together 27:05 and the refrigerator work for less than 24 hours 27:08 and broke again. 27:10 All he was doing was testing it 27:12 with a bottle of water and put it in there, 27:13 and if it froze in about 12 hours, it's working. 27:17 Like I was gonna say, 27:18 "Honey, it's working. Look, I'm rejoicing," 27:21 and we put it back in there. 27:23 And a few hours later we looked at it was stalling. 27:25 Okay. 27:30 So now we go through the process again. 27:34 Saints are gonna leave the cities and the villages 27:36 and are going to sociate together. 27:38 And if you're a loner, you're gonna have issues. 27:46 They're going to be together 27:47 living in the most solitary places. 27:49 God have mercy on us, how to survive. 27:54 How are we gonna survive? 27:58 You know, we had in our scripture reading, 28:00 I think I do because 28:02 we haven't read it on air and I want to read it to you, 28:05 so that you understand where we're coming from 28:07 those of you who have maybe never read it before. 28:11 We'll go to Jeremiah. 28:13 Again, Chapter 30 going to read verses 5-7 28:17 is our scripture reading. 28:19 But notice what the Bible said, 28:20 Jeremiah Chapter 30, 28:22 and we're gonna read verses 5-7. 28:26 As read nicely for our scripture reading, 28:27 I'm going to read it again, says, 28:29 "For thus saith the Lord, 28:30 we have heard a voice of trembling," 28:32 this is King James Version, 28:33 "of fear, and not a piece. 28:36 Ask ye now, 28:37 and see whether a man doth travail with a child? 28:40 Whether do I see," 28:41 notice this, 28:42 "Wherefore do I see every man with his hand on his loins, 28:45 as a woman travail, 28:46 all faces are turned into paleness?" 28:49 Talking about childbirth here, how painful," 28:52 and it says it ever. 28:54 This is what's taking place right now. 28:55 And it says, 7, 28:56 "Alas! For the great day, 28:58 day is great so that none is," what? 29:00 "None is like it: 29:02 It is even the time of Jacob's trouble, 29:05 but he shall be saved out of it." 29:07 Notice this passage also gives us 29:09 hope and encouragement. 29:10 He's going to be what? 29:12 "Saved out of it." 29:13 Now we know as we look 29:15 at this present time of this prophecy. 29:19 It was, you know, 29:21 really distress talking about the stretch of Jerusalem, 29:24 getting ready to be destroyed and Judah by the Babylonians. 29:28 But the second applications about the end of time. 29:31 Notice this, 29:32 "At the time of distress for God's people 29:35 is told us here 29:36 by they must pass through is what I read here, 29:39 a time of intense soul 29:42 searching for a spiritual Israel." 29:46 And we believe in spiritual Israel. 29:48 We're going to have to go through this time, 29:51 God sees fit for us to do it to perfect us for the kingdom. 29:56 How do we survive the time of trouble? 30:00 Maybe it'd be good to go back to a little more of a beginning 30:03 to see what the issues are really all about. 30:06 And then come to the point of how God's going to point out, 30:09 how that we can survive it, how we can make it through? 30:13 And what is the issues really about? 30:18 I'd like for your turn with me if you're holding your Bible 30:19 because it's very familiar. 30:21 But let's just go back to the beginning, 30:22 the Book of Exodus. 30:24 Book of Exodus 20:8-11. 30:29 Exodus Chapter 20. 30:31 You know what we're headed here, don't you? 30:33 Exodus Chapter what? 30:35 20. We're gonna read 8-11. 30:37 Remember, we'll read this in just a moment, 30:39 we'll establish it by the grace of God, 30:42 the whole issue in these last days 30:44 is going to be over the seventh day Sabbath. 30:48 And God's people who believe in the seventh day Sabbath 30:51 need to be blowing a horn. 30:53 They need to be sounding an alarm 30:55 about this subject. 30:57 But yet, a lot of times you don't hear it anymore, 30:59 and I'm trying to figure out why? 31:01 I'm in a dilemma sometimes. 31:06 People say something they used to years ago, 31:07 let's say, oh, Pastor Kenny is going to preach today. 31:10 Well, more doom and gloom. 31:12 Well, if that's what you call it, 31:13 go ahead and call it. 31:15 I call it warning. 31:18 There's a difference in doom and gloom. 31:19 It's a warning. 31:21 What God has said in His Word, He's given us that warning, 31:23 we're not making it up, 31:25 because He wants us to be prepared. 31:28 So since we're gonna take the principle thing here, 31:32 the seventh day issue 31:33 which everything is going to stamp go, built around, 31:37 and we're gonna look at and read it 31:38 in Exodus 20:8-11. 31:42 Notice, the Bible said, "Remember," the what? 31:45 "Sabbath day to keep it holy. 31:48 Six days shalt thou labor and do," 31:51 how much work? 31:52 "All thy work. 31:53 But the seventh day is the Sabbath 31:55 of the Lord thy God: 31:56 in it thou shalt," what? 31:58 "Not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 32:03 nor thy, good, manservant, nor thy maidservant, 32:07 nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger 32:09 that is within thy gate." 32:11 And then it tells you why. 32:13 "For in six days the Lord did," what? 32:16 "He made heaven and earth, 32:17 the sea and all that in them is, and He rested." 32:19 Notice that. 32:21 This is so simple, 32:22 "He rested on the seventh day: 32:24 wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day 32:27 and hallowed it." 32:29 I mean, there's nothing in Scripture 32:32 to me that's any clearer. 32:35 This is so simple. 32:38 And yet the enemy has so fogged the minds of many people 32:41 that they completely eliminate some of this. 32:44 The only way they can eliminate, 32:45 say, well, we don't believe in the Old Testament. 32:47 Really, Bible said. 32:48 "All scripture is given by God," 32:50 isn't that right? 32:51 All of it. 32:53 Who are we to think we can tear out certain pages 32:55 and leave certain pages and, 32:57 you know, do what we want to do 32:58 and what fits our lifestyle 32:59 and, you know, 33:01 that God never point those things out to me, 33:03 He just said, I want you to keep. 33:06 Reminded as just those few precious verses right there 33:10 that the seventh day is God's appointed rest day. 33:15 Does that make sense? 33:17 He's establish that because, remember, 33:19 there's people who are listening 33:20 that haven't come to that point yet. 33:22 They're still God's people. 33:24 They still love Him with their whole heart, 33:25 but they've not been involved. 33:27 They've not really had the opportunity, 33:29 or maybe they spurned it. 33:30 And now, that's in their spirit 33:31 they're awakened 33:33 by the power of the Holy Spirit, 33:34 that they need to question. 33:38 And so we realize 33:39 it's God's appointed rest for man. 33:41 And that was from the beginning of creation in Genesis 2, 33:44 isn't that right 1-3? 33:46 So that's what God gave us in the very beginning. 33:48 The Bible said the Sabbath was made for man or mankind, 33:51 isn't that right? 33:53 We did that, Mark 2:27. 33:56 It's a reminder that we are not to forget God. 34:02 Isn't that sad that we need a reminder, 34:04 if you think about it in the sense? 34:06 He didn't want us to forget Him. 34:10 And, you know what? 34:11 If it's just, oh, it's a rest day. 34:13 So we just lay down and knock it out, 34:15 you know, for the whole Sabbath. 34:20 It's just to rest from physical labor, 34:23 does not really constitute real Sabbath observance. 34:29 Certainly part of, 34:30 but if there's more to it than that. 34:33 We must enter into the spirit or the spiritual rest, 34:37 and enter into a spiritual rest. 34:40 We want to become more acquainted with God. 34:44 Spiritual rest, we want to go to church. 34:49 We want to study the Word of God. 34:51 We want to pray more. 34:53 We want to come together as a group. 34:55 We want to learn who God really is. 34:59 And learn more about His mercy and learn about His love 35:02 and how He cares for us 35:04 and wants us to be saved in the kingdom. 35:08 And I've often thought about it. 35:09 If Sabbath rest was desirable 35:14 for my first parents, 35:17 Adam and Eve. Is somebody with me? 35:19 Our first parents. 35:22 Remember, if you think about it like that, 35:25 and I know many have, some have. 35:28 Listen, this means that down the line, 35:32 every one of us here can. 35:35 Brother Ben, you may want to accept me as your kin vote. 35:40 You know... 35:44 Is that true, Herbt? 35:46 See, I'm just, listen, 35:48 we, surely we will see through different eyes, 35:51 because we're so human sometime more than we should be 35:54 that we look about, I, me, mine, 35:57 and that's who we pray for and work for 35:58 just a little group over here. 36:00 We're all brothers and sisters. 36:03 We're kin somewhere down the line, 36:06 because we came from our first parents. 36:08 Wow! 36:11 To me, that just makes me think a little bit differently 36:13 when I see people. 36:17 And so we need this spiritual. 36:20 So if, you know if it was desirable 36:21 for Adam and Eve before sin, 36:25 how much more desirable for us who have sinful, 36:29 we're sinful mortals. 36:31 We need it. 36:33 I've always looked forward to the Sabbath. 36:35 A time I can put all the rest of the world aside 36:37 and not worry about it anymore. 36:39 I'm not challenged 36:40 that I'm gonna put my nail labor 36:42 and as it were back on, 36:43 I'm not challenged, I have to go to work. 36:45 I can let all this stuff go, I can look at it and laugh. 36:48 During the week I can't look at work 36:50 and staring me in the face and laugh at, 36:51 I've got to dig in do something. 36:53 On Sabbath I don't do that. 36:55 Bible says, six days that you labor, 36:59 six days work is to be done is what the Bible said. 37:03 So the first six days of the week, think about it. 37:09 We work and do everything that needs to be done. 37:11 But on the seventh day, 37:12 we're free to worship and certainly go to church, 37:17 or services for God, do things for God. 37:22 The seventh day, the Bible says is the Sabbath of the Lord. 37:27 Just a little point of difference here 37:28 we see in the world 37:30 between difference between Sunday keepers 37:33 and Sabbath keepers. 37:36 It's really not over whether a Christian should rest 37:40 or not do any work. 37:42 Stay with me. 37:45 One day in the week. 37:48 The question is, 37:50 which day of the week should it be? 37:54 Does that makes sense? 37:55 The first or the seventh? 37:58 Such an easy answer. 37:59 The Bible says the seventh. 38:01 That's an easy, 38:02 but somehow it's not easy for some 38:04 because they do not want to change their life 38:07 or their lifestyle. 38:08 They want to continue to do 38:09 what they do when they want to do it. 38:12 There's a day of reckoning. 38:15 This command that God gives, 38:17 we can divide it then in just a two points here, 38:19 quickly two points. 38:21 "Six days shalt thou," what? 38:23 "Labor and do all your work." 38:24 Point two, 38:26 "The seventh day, 38:27 thou shalt not do any work." 38:31 Why not work on the seventh day? 38:36 Because it is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 38:40 That makes sense. 38:41 It's the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 38:43 It's not seventh day Adventist day, 38:45 it's not seventh day Baptist, seventh day Pentecostal. 38:48 It's not that at all, 38:49 it has to do 38:50 the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 38:54 It's God's day, 38:55 and only godly things should be done on that day. 38:58 I was not a Seventh-day Adventist, 39:00 I'd be a worker seven days a week. 39:04 I just always work. 39:06 That's just what's in me. 39:08 But I'm thankful that God set aside a day 39:10 because, you know, what He said, 39:11 "Kenny, you need to remember, you would forgotten me." 39:14 If I didn't set aside this day, 39:16 and you decided it by the grace of God, 39:17 you want to honor it. 39:19 You'd be so busy in things of the world 39:20 that you would forget Me 39:22 and I don't want you to forget Me. 39:23 And I'm thankful because I don't want to forget Him. 39:29 "God rested on the seventh day." 39:31 Just trying to make some points here and bring it out 39:33 because we're going to see 39:34 how all this is just twisted in the minds of mankind 39:37 and how it's going to be so twisted 39:39 so, you know, far in the very near future, 39:42 it's going to come back to hurt God's people. 39:45 We have to be established in this. 39:48 But you know what? I'm gonna say this. 39:50 The majority of Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath keepers 39:55 will turn in their faith when it starts getting tough. 39:59 Now do I like to say that? No. Am I trying to be critical? 40:01 No. Does that hurt me? Yeah, it does. 40:05 When the pressure is applied, 40:07 the majority or the Sunday law is passed, 40:10 the majority will leave the faith. 40:15 That's sad. You know why? 40:17 Maybe because we're not talking about it 40:19 like we are right now 40:20 to try to bring it out 40:21 and to establish how important it is 40:23 in God's sight. 40:24 It's one of the identifying marks of God's last day people. 40:29 Until then, you know, when the pressure is applied, 40:30 we're going to start making excuses for it. 40:36 I just might bring out too 40:38 I think it's very, very important here, 40:41 because I know some people fight it sometime, 40:44 they think it's okay to buy and sale and carry on, 40:47 on the Sabbath day. 40:50 That's not what the Bible teaches at all. 40:52 And I know it's taking time to do this, 40:54 but I think it's worth the time. 40:55 That's why I said we're gonna take two parts, 40:57 because we need to look at. 40:58 I'm gonna look at Jeremiah 17. 41:01 People are out buying and selling and doing whatever, 41:05 they are calling themselves Seventh-day Adventist, 41:07 they're breaking God's fourth commandment. 41:10 Here I'm not trying to be judgmental, 41:12 not trying to be hurtful. 41:14 People think they can just come right up 41:15 and just do what they want to do, 41:17 go out and buy whatever 41:18 and then come to church, 41:20 and they're a good Seventh-day Adventist, 41:21 not at all. 41:23 And I'll just give one illustration. 41:25 You know where that's at, in Jeremiah Chapter 17. 41:28 You remember what took place in Jeremiah 17? 41:32 God's promised a blessing 41:34 on those who would keep the Sabbath, right? 41:36 But He also said, 41:37 "If you don't keep it the way He said to keep it," 41:39 and I'll read it in a moment, He said, 41:41 "He's going to set a fire in the gates, 41:43 and nobody's going to put it out." 41:47 You don't want God saying, 41:48 "This is what I'm going to do." 41:50 He warned and I'll read it starting with verse 21. 41:52 Notice here, quickly as I can, 41:54 "Thus saith the Lord, 41:56 take heed to yourselves and bear no," what? 41:59 "No burden," 42:01 somebody help me 42:02 at least in my King James Version, 42:04 "No burden on the Sabbath day, 42:06 or bring it into by the gates of Jerusalem." 42:10 If I could just stop there and say quickly, 42:12 what was this all about? 42:15 Simply no buying and selling on the Sabbath. 42:18 Burdens here we translate it, 42:19 "Don't be bringing your grains or your fish or your vegetables 42:23 or those things that you want to sell." 42:25 People were going to church, 42:27 they were going to church, right, going into the temple. 42:29 They were bringing all the stuff 42:30 that they sold that they raised, 42:32 and they brought it right into the gates 42:33 and they did business, 42:35 they bought and they sold and then they turn around like 42:37 I go to church services. 42:40 Are you listening to me? 42:43 God said, "It's terrible." 42:45 That's loose, loose Sabbath keeping. 42:49 God doesn't accept that at all. 42:51 That's exactly what they were doing, 42:52 they were buying and selling. 42:55 Imagine taking your goods with you 42:57 as you went to church. 42:58 That's why it said don't carry them with you, 43:00 bringing them with you and set them outside the gate 43:01 just before you went into the temple 43:03 and did all your, you know, how the people get inside. 43:07 There's a lot of bickering going on over price, 43:09 you know it, 43:10 you know how they do sometimes with those markets, 43:12 oh, come on, you know. 43:14 But they did all of this sin and then go right in 43:17 and say we're keeping the Sabbath. 43:18 God was making it clear through Jeremiah 43:20 and Jeremiah laid it out. 43:24 This is loose Sabbath observance. 43:27 It's breaking the fourth commandment. 43:30 And I can certainly read Isaiah 58:13-14. 43:33 I won't do it. 43:35 "But God said don't do your own pleasure 43:36 on my holy day." 43:38 People say, 43:39 "Well, I'm just bringing it on out, I don't." 43:44 Some people say my, I loved, it's okay to get personal. 43:48 I don't know anybody here it does. 43:50 Oh, I love fishing, I love to fish. 43:54 And then they'll say, 43:56 "What are you doing? "Well, I'm going fishing." 43:57 "On the Sabbath?" 43:59 He said don't do your pleasure on My holy day. 44:01 Pleasure is fishing. 44:03 Pleasure for me growing up was playing basketball 44:05 or football or baseball or something that I knew 44:08 that I shouldn't do because it was my pleasure. 44:13 People try to make excuses for it, 44:14 but there's no excuse. 44:16 God said, "No." 44:17 He said, "Don't speak your own words on My holy day." 44:19 If we're speaking our own words, 44:21 talking about our job, 44:22 talking about how we did all week long 44:24 and all the other stuff rather than things about God, 44:26 we have broken the Sabbath. 44:29 We all need corrected, 44:30 myself, I'm talking about we need to really think about, 44:33 remember not speaking your own words 44:35 that you can do six days. 44:39 That means we need a real change on His day 44:41 to become more like Him 44:43 to really find, 44:44 that's a spiritual rest of finding Christ. 44:47 Finding out what He's all about. 44:50 And keeping it rather than just say we keep it, 44:53 we go to church on Sabbath. 44:54 We must keep it the way God said. 44:56 He will help us to do that. 44:58 Verse 22, 45:00 "Neither carry forth a burden of your house 45:02 on the Sabbath day, 45:03 neither do any work, but hallow My Sabbath." 45:07 Verse 23, 45:08 "But they obeyed what?" 45:10 They obeyed not. Good, notice what it said. 45:12 "No, they not neither inclined their ear 45:14 but made their neck stiff." 45:16 Many Adventists today have stiff necks. 45:20 They know what the truth is, but they refuse to do it. 45:23 And they try to hamper you and try to hamper me 45:26 to say it's all right to do these things 45:27 when God said it's not okay. 45:29 Now remember, you don't have to do anything. 45:32 You don't have to do it if you don't want to. 45:34 By the grace of God, you fall in love with Jesus. 45:36 He said, 45:37 "This is what you'll be doing if you are my follower." 45:41 You see in the church, 45:42 the preachers won't speak on it either 45:44 because they know some of the members 45:45 are doing likewise, 45:47 making excuses for working on the Sabbath. 45:50 There's no excuse for working on the Sabbath. 45:52 Not once you understand the truth of the issue. 45:56 Well, I have to, I have to make a living. 45:59 God never said that in His Word. 46:01 He said, "No work." 46:03 And that, that's it, it's a lie. 46:04 The devil, it's a lie of the devil. 46:07 And yes, it takes faith 46:08 and yes, it takes love for Christ. 46:12 If Sabbath is not a day to mow the lawn 46:13 and rake the leaves. 46:18 We need to be careful 46:19 that we observe it the way God said to do. 46:21 But remember, 46:23 if we do not, and it's because, oh, boy, 46:26 it's because we are not 46:29 that we're going to have to go 46:30 through the time of Jacob's trouble. 46:33 Because of the way God said, 46:35 I'm not gonna read more of the verse 46:36 except for the last one down, I want to read verse 27. 46:39 Can we do that? 46:40 Jeremiah 17:27, Jesus says, notice God says, 46:44 "But if you will not hearken unto me to hallow," what? 46:49 "The Sabbath, hallow the Sabbath day," 46:51 if you're not going to listen, he says, 46:53 "Not to bear a burden, 46:55 even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem 46:57 on the Sabbath day, 46:59 then will I kindle," what? 47:01 "A fire in the gates thereof, 47:04 and it shall devour the palace of Jerusalem 47:07 and it shall not be quenched." 47:10 What did God say? 47:11 If Jerusalem, notices this, if Jerusalem, 47:13 if the people of God would do the right thing, 47:16 He says in the passage of scripture that He said, 47:18 "Jerusalem will never cease, it will always be." 47:21 But you know, it wasn't always, it's not continued on, 47:24 destroyed because they were not listening. 47:27 And today we will not listen and God said, 47:29 "I'm going to kindle a fire 47:31 and devour the palaces of Jerusalem. 47:34 Lord, have mercy on us. 47:38 What issues we face? 47:42 Of course, quickly, I want to put in acts of mercy. 47:47 Don't you think it's okay, acts of mercy. 47:49 Work is essential 47:51 to the preservation of life and health. 47:53 That's okay. 47:54 That cannot be done on other days, is forbidden. 47:58 Matthew Chapter 12, the Bible says 48:00 verses 1 through 14, won't read them all. 48:02 It just simply, bottom line, notice this. 48:04 The Bible said it is lawful to do what? 48:07 Good on the Sabbath days. 48:10 It also mentioned, notice it, 48:11 the stranger and I hear this every once in a while 48:13 from people who write in or they call in, 48:15 they'll say I have an older person, 48:17 maybe a daughter or son has moved back into the home. 48:20 But they're what? 48:22 We call a strict Seventh-day Adventist. 48:23 They want to follow what God has said in His Word. 48:26 But the child who moves back in doesn't want to observe it. 48:31 They want to be watching television. 48:33 They want to be listening to their music 48:35 and carrying on and so on and forth. 48:36 You know what? 48:38 The Bible is very clear about the stranger 48:39 or the one who comes in 48:41 that doesn't observe the Sabbath 48:43 the way you believe it should be observed. 48:47 Think about it. 48:48 My dad said in a different way, 48:50 you know, as long as you're under this roof, 48:53 you'll do as I tell you to do. 48:55 Come on. 48:56 Does anybody ever heard that before? 48:58 Yeah, that's it. 48:59 Listen, you used to hear it in the home. 49:01 You don't hear that anymore. 49:04 People love their children. 49:05 They love what they're doing more than they love God. 49:08 If they love God, they would say, 49:10 "This is the rules, say however you want to do it. 49:13 This is what we do in this house. 49:15 God said no work to be done. 49:17 Not any pleasure on My day. 49:19 They say well, 49:20 "We hate so bad because they fire up the lawnmower 49:23 and they're cutting grass on the Sabbath. 49:24 Listen to the wrong kind of music 49:26 and I don't know what to do." 49:27 You know what I've said to them, 49:29 "Kick them out." 49:30 I know that's brutal. 49:31 Some of you don't want to hear it. 49:34 You can do it easier than that. 49:36 Well, show him the door. 49:38 That's still kind of ugly, isn't it? 49:41 No, you have to 49:43 because you are accountable 49:45 for what they do under your roof. 49:49 Did you get that one? 49:50 You are accountable, 49:52 I am accountable for what that stranger 49:54 or your family does under your roof. 49:56 If they're not observing what God has said, 49:58 you are going to be accountable. 50:02 You know what we'll do? 50:03 Well, I just love them too much. 50:05 That means you love them more than you love God. 50:09 Oh, I know it's difficult. I know you don't want to hear. 50:11 Some people don't want to hear but to me, that's the truth. 50:14 You're choosing. 50:16 God has said, "Not to," the stranger. 50:22 You remember in Israel's time, 50:23 the one who chose to remain with the Israelites 50:27 were to conform to God's requirements 50:31 just like today. 50:36 We know the law of God existed before the creation of man. 50:42 Now there's a lot on plate, 50:44 again I don't have time to go in all of that, 50:45 is so simple to go back and say, 50:47 "Well, how do we know about 50:48 Cain and Abel and murder and so on? 50:50 We can go back about the man and so on and so forth 50:52 the law was given on Sinai." 50:53 But notice it, 50:55 how else could Adam have sinned if there wasn't a law? 51:00 That makes sense? 51:02 If there wasn't a law in existence, 51:04 how could Adam have sinned, Adam and Eve? 51:07 Signs of the Times, 4-15-1886 says this, 51:12 "The law of God existed before man was created." 51:16 But notice, 51:18 "It was adapted 51:19 to the condition of holy beings." 51:23 Listen, we need to realize 51:25 especially as Seventh-day Adventist 51:26 you have the Spirit of Prophecy, 51:27 you need to praise God, 51:29 rest of you don't understand that, 51:30 please study so that you can say, 51:31 look, I want that. 51:33 Because the gift of prophecy will be in the church 51:35 and operating until Jesus comes. 51:37 All we have to figure out is, 51:39 does it coincide with what Scripture says. 51:41 That makes sense? 51:43 It's always been, 51:45 God has always had His prophets in the world 51:47 to warn us of things before they come to pass. 51:50 Instead of tearing it apart, we should be praising God, 51:53 say now I know. 51:54 Now I know. 51:56 And I can decide whether I want to or I don't want to. 52:01 The condition so the law of God 52:03 before it was written on Sinai was geared to the holy beings. 52:07 But you know what? 52:09 You read little more Spirit of Prophecy, 52:10 you'll find out that 52:12 other worlds were seen in vision. 52:13 And you know what? 52:14 There was tree in it too, in every, right? 52:19 Just like the Garden of Eden, did you get it? 52:23 There was a tree and there's one tree there's, 52:26 you don't touch and you don't eat. 52:29 She asked one of the angels in vision, 52:31 one or one of the people were their angels. 52:34 Well, they said, 52:36 "You don't eat from that. If you do, you will fall." 52:39 And the rest of the universe has seen 52:41 what's going on down here and they've chosen 52:43 not to participate. 52:45 They've seen what happened to Adam and Eve. 52:47 They want nothing to do with it. 52:49 The day will come 52:50 when we make it by the grace of God 52:52 to portals of the kingdom. 52:54 We'll still have that choice. 52:55 But you know, it's not going to happen 52:57 sin will not rise up again the second time. 52:59 You won't want any more of it. 53:00 I don't want any more of it. 53:06 But after the fall, 53:08 okay, we just had about three minutes left, 53:09 stay with me. 53:11 Remember, the angels were governed by this law. 53:14 After the fall, 53:16 the principles of righteousness were unchanged. 53:20 Nothing was added to it as it were from the law. 53:23 Nothing taken away from the law. 53:25 Nothing added to His holy precepts 53:27 could be improved. 53:28 There's no way you could improve it. 53:32 And as it has existed from the beginning, 53:36 so continue to exist throughout the ceaseless ages. 53:41 Psalmist says in Psalms 119:152, 53:44 "Concerning thy testimonies," 53:46 he said, "I have known of," what? 53:48 "Of old that thou hast founded them for ever." 53:57 Isn't that wonderful God gave us something 53:59 that we can look into that call sin 54:01 by its right name. 54:02 Ten little precepts. 54:07 We wouldn't know what sin is if it was not for the law. 54:10 There would be no sin if there was no law. 54:15 By the law is that knowledge of sin, 54:17 Romans tells us. 54:18 Great Controversy quickly, 6:22 says this, 54:21 "The time of trouble such as never was 54:24 is soon to open up before us." 54:27 So what is this one thing 54:29 that God's people will be doing at this time 54:32 concerning the Sabbath truth? 54:36 It starts opening up for us right now. 54:37 What will God's people really be doing? 54:40 Notice this what it says here 54:41 and this is in the Early Writings 33, 54:43 "I saw that God had children 54:44 who do not see and keep the Sabbath. 54:48 They have not rejected the light upon it." 54:51 And you've to notice, 54:53 "At the commencement of the time of trouble, 54:56 we were filled with the Holy Ghost," 54:58 praise God, we need to be filled with the Holy Ghost. 55:00 "And we went forth proclaiming the Sabbath more fully. 55:05 This enraged the churches 55:07 and nominal Adventists 55:09 as they could not refute the Sabbath truth." 55:11 That's why you receive a lot of problems 55:13 from different people 55:14 is because they have no biblical, 55:15 you know, they can't go and show you some passages 55:17 like you can them about keeping the Sabbath. 55:21 Nominal Adventist, by the way, 55:22 was way back when people accepted the first 55:24 and the second angel's message, 55:26 but they refused the third one. 55:28 But you cannot separate from the third angel's message, 55:31 the seventh day Sabbath, 55:32 you cannot, that's what the devil is trying to do. 55:39 It's time for God's people to find and hold our position, 55:43 as we'll look next time as we come together, 55:45 and we will be identifying these things 55:47 that will by the grace of God, 55:49 we'll be able to make it through the time of trouble. 55:51 Remember, the seventh day Sabbath 55:53 is one of the main issues. 55:54 That's why we wanted to spend some time on that, 55:56 because God's people are going to what? 55:59 Proclaim this message more fully than ever before. 56:02 Our time has run out. 56:03 Let's pray real quick, shall we, 56:04 for those who are making decisions right now. 56:06 Our Father in heaven, 56:07 thank You for Your precious Spirit. 56:08 Bless those now 56:10 maybe heard for the first time that they hear clearly. 56:11 May they take their stand right now on Your side. 56:13 We thank You in Jesus' name. 56:14 Amen. God bless you. 56:16 And we'll see you next time. 56:19 Hello and welcome back. 56:21 We certainly pray that the Lord was speaking to your heart 56:24 during today's first message of this two part series 56:27 that we have entitled, 56:29 "How to survive the time of Jacob's trouble." 56:31 Proper Sabbath keeping is certainly a marker 56:34 of those who will stand victorious 56:36 during this last great struggle 56:38 between good and evil 56:40 right before Christ's Second Coming. 56:42 You may be wondering, 56:44 how do you know this to be a fact? 56:46 Well, one simple reason is found in Revelation 12:17, 56:50 where we read, 56:51 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman 56:53 and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, 56:56 which keep the commandments of God 56:59 and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." 57:02 Notice that the verse states which keep the commandments. 57:06 Friends, this would include 57:08 keeping the fourth commandment as well. 57:11 We hope that you will join us again here next time 57:14 for part two of 57:15 "How to survive the time of Jacob's trouble." 57:18 And should you wish to order this DVD set 57:21 to view and to share with others. 57:23 We are making it available to you 57:25 for a love gift of just $15 or more. 57:28 Please call us here in the United States at (618) 942-5044 57:34 Central Time. 57:35 Or you may write to us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:38 PO Box 2030 Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:42 You may email us at 57:44 BeholdTheLambMinistries @yahoo.com 57:46 or visit our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:50 Friends, until next time, may the Lord richly bless you. |
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