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00:38 Hello, friends, and welcome once again
00:40 to Behold the Lamb Presents. 00:42 I'm Chris Shelton your host, 00:43 I wanna thank you for joining us. 00:46 Today we're gonna begin a two part series 00:48 that we have entitled "The Golden Calf." 00:52 And what a story we find 00:53 in the Book of Exodus Chapter 32. 00:56 A story of a people who had witnessed 00:58 one supernatural miracle after another, 01:01 as the God of heaven had worked in their behalf to free them 01:05 from their torturous bondage in Egypt. 01:08 Yet, shortly after this time of horrifying plagues, 01:11 the parting of the Red Sea and experiencing God's presence 01:15 as they surrounded Mount Sinai. 01:18 This mixed multitudes of people brought out 01:21 from Egypt began to withdraw back to their heathen practices 01:27 that they were all too familiar with, 01:29 that they had experienced back in Egypt. 01:32 They had begun to look to Moses 01:34 for all their spiritual guidance. 01:36 And since God had once again called Moses 01:39 up into Mount Sinai, completely out of their sight, 01:43 their faith in these miraculous miracles began to waver. 01:48 And they called upon Moses' brother, Aaron, 01:50 to make them a God that they could physically see, 01:53 like the ones that they had in Egypt. 01:56 During this message, Pastor Kenny Shelton 01:58 will look at this story, as left in God's Holy Word 02:02 and through God's leading, give us guidance 02:06 from which we may glean from their experience, 02:09 so that we may not fall 02:11 into the same types of grievous sins as they did. 02:14 God's desire is for us by faith and knowledge, 02:19 to remain steadfast in the truth, 02:21 and to stay in favor with Him who desires to rescue us 02:26 from our chains of sin and eternal death. 02:29 But before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton, 02:31 let's listen to Naomi Jackson as she sings, 02:35 "Then They Will Know" from the studios of 3ABN. 02:55 I will speak I will wait 03:03 I will send prophets among them 03:10 That they might hear That they might see 03:17 And understand how much I love them 03:24 Then they will know that I am Father 03:30 Then they will know I am Lord 03:37 They'll walk with Me And be My people 03:43 I'll walk with them as their God 03:49 As their God 03:57 I will strike, I will scourge 04:03 And carry out vengeance upon them 04:10 But I will heal the wounds I make 04:17 And tenderly take them back to Me 04:24 Then they will know that I am Father 04:30 Then they will know 04:33 I am Lord They'll walk with Me 04:40 And be My people 04:44 I'll walk with them as their God 04:50 This is heaven This is salvation 04:57 This is their great hope and Mine 05:18 He will come my own Son 05:26 A word faithful hearts can't help hearing 05:33 And by His death With His last breath 05:39 A Father's forgiveness comes flowing 05:46 Then they will know that I am Savior 05:53 I am Redeemer and Friend I'm 05:59 Immanuel the God who is with them 06:06 The God who gives all He can 06:13 He is salvation He is the kingdom 06:20 To know Him is paradise 06:26 Then they will know that I am Father 06:33 Then they will know I am Lord 06:39 I am Lord 06:52 Thank you for joining us once again here 06:53 at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 06:55 you know what a blessing that you are. 06:57 We're glad that you decided you're gonna tune in, 06:59 you're gonna watch Behold the Lamb Ministry, 07:01 as we present by the grace of God, 07:03 you know, very important subject. 07:04 We realize from time to time, 07:06 what the hour that we're living in 07:07 is so very important that we, 07:10 you know, cover some of these things 07:11 that are going on in the world. 07:13 And certainly Bible prophecy, and certainly studying 07:16 the books of Daniel and Revelation, 07:17 we need not be surprised at what's happening in the world. 07:22 But sad to say even the people that should know better, 07:25 it's gonna be like, "Oh, we're caught." 07:27 It's almost like an overwhelming surprise, 07:29 because we're not ready. 07:31 Maybe because we haven't been studying the Word of God. 07:33 Now, I know that you're not one of those. 07:35 But just in case, 07:36 there are some that's watching or listening. 07:38 If you're one of those, 07:39 I just encourage you to get into the Word of God. 07:41 Again, we're glad that you joined us. 07:42 Thank you for your prayers, thank you for your support 07:45 to get this message around the world. 07:48 I can't tell you how grateful and thankful that I am 07:50 to realize that the messages and what goes on 07:52 this little church doesn't stay here. 07:55 It does not stay here. 07:57 It goes to, you know, every, we call every nation, 07:59 kindred tongue and people. 08:01 We will not know until glory. 08:04 If by the grace of God we get there. 08:07 All that God has done, be able to get into prisons 08:10 and to get into places as 3ABN bring this message out. 08:14 And we have the opportunity to work along with Him. 08:16 We so appreciate that very much. 08:18 As we're gonna be talking about "The Golden Calf." 08:20 We're gonna do it in two parts. 08:22 And they connect together. 08:23 So bless your heart, you won't wanna miss either one of them. 08:26 And I think it's so prevalent 08:27 to today now that we're living in, 08:29 but I always feel the need of prayer. 08:31 We pray several times before this, 08:32 and we're gonna pray right now. 08:34 And those of you who watch Behold the Lamb 08:36 know that we kneel here 08:37 and I just ask that maybe you pray with me. 08:39 If you wanna kneel, fine, if you don't, 08:40 you're driving down the road, you're listening, whatever, 08:42 keep your eyes on the road, and we'll pray. 08:45 Loving Father in heaven, 08:46 we thank You again for the privilege of prayer. 08:48 Lord, we ask now for anointing 08:50 of Thy Holy Spirit upon every mind and every heart. 08:53 Lord, I know I need You, 08:55 my mind's not good, you know that. 08:57 But I know one of the unction of the Holy Spirit, 08:59 You'll put words in my mind and the heart in a tone 09:01 that will come forward. 09:03 And You'll help each and every one of us 09:04 to understand that which is so vital to us 09:07 in the hour that we're living in. 09:08 Bless us now we pray, forgive me of any sin, 09:11 anything in my heart and life that does not need to be there. 09:15 Lord, we realize we're just, 09:16 we're nothing but You're everything. 09:18 Bless us we pray with Your presence in Jesus' name. 09:21 Amen. 09:23 Again we're gonna be talking about "The Golden Calf." 09:25 So take your Bible and turn to the Book of Exodus. 09:28 I think maybe just be good if we read that just to start 09:30 with Exodus Chapter 32. 09:33 Exodus Chapter 32. 09:36 And we're gonna just read about four verses there. 09:38 And this will give us the background 09:41 of what we're gonna be talking about. 09:43 Now again, you'd have to read the whole chapter. 09:44 It's gonna take so long to be able to get all through it. 09:46 That's why I thought maybe we should do in two parts, 09:48 pick out certain things that 09:50 I believe is so very essential to us as God's people. 09:53 And I know they're essential to me, because you know why? 09:56 I want heaven to be my home and I know that you do too. 09:59 "The Golden Calf." 10:01 Now Exodus 32:1-4. 10:03 Let's begin with verse 1. You have it? 10:05 I hope you have it, if not jot it down 10:07 and you can read a little bit later, 10:08 or just listen right now, starting with verse, 32:1. 10:13 "And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down, " 10:16 did you notice what happened? 10:17 What was the word there? Delayed. 10:19 You know, most people don't like to be delayed. 10:21 I don't want people delay. 10:22 I don't like go to airport and it's delayed, 10:24 look upon there, delay, delay, delayed. 10:26 I like to get with a program and get things. 10:29 Anybody else like that? 10:31 Get things done. I don't like delay. 10:33 And so sometimes when we're delayed, 10:34 we find things to do that we shouldn't be doing. 10:38 "And when the people saw that 10:40 Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, 10:41 the people gathered themselves together, 10:44 and said unto Aaron, said unto him, 10:48 'Up make us gods, which shall go before us, 10:51 and as for this," 10:53 already, do you notice, "as for this, Moses, 10:56 the man that brought us out of the land, 10:59 out of the land of Egypt, we want not want become then, 11:04 we don't know what's come, he's been gone for a few days, 11:06 and we don't know where he's at. 11:08 We need some kind of a god, we need some kind of a leader, 11:10 we need something we can see." 11:12 Notice. 11:13 "And Aaron said unto them, 11:15 'Break off those golden earrings, 11:16 which are in your ears 11:17 and your wives and your sons and your daughters 11:19 and bring them unto me." 11:21 It sounds like a backslidden people to me. 11:24 It's okay to say that? 11:26 Verse 3, "And all the people brake off their golden earrings 11:28 which were in their ears and brought them unto Aaron. 11:31 And he received them at their hand and fashioned it 11:34 with a graving tool, 11:36 after he made it a molten calf: and they said, 11:40 'These be thy god," did you get that? 11:42 "Oh, Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt." 11:46 Man, how they changed their tune. 11:48 They began to sing another song, did they not? 11:51 First of all, it was Moses that led them out. 11:53 And pretty soon, 11:55 "It's this golden calf here that led us out." 11:57 Interesting how fast and sometimes 12:00 that can happen even to us 12:01 when we're going through this COVID thing. 12:03 And the churches are shut down. 12:05 And the doors are locked as it were for a while, 12:08 or you can't have do 12:09 what you wanna do in the church. 12:10 So everybody kind of reserved a little bit. 12:12 And all of a sudden, we lose our inside, 12:14 we lose our spiritual connection 12:18 with our Heavenly Father, we lose it. 12:20 And pretty soon we've forgotten 12:21 what we had experienced before that kept us, 12:24 you know, alive in the cause of Christ. 12:27 And some time, it doesn't take very long. 12:31 It doesn't take very long, sometime a week, 12:33 sometime two for some people or three, 12:35 and you're just out of the habit. 12:37 I'm thankful growing up that our habit was. 12:41 Now somebody listen. 12:43 Our habit was, we went to church. 12:45 There was no such thing getting up on Sabbath morning, 12:49 and mom and dad gonna say, "Honey, 12:50 do any of you feel like going to church?" 12:55 I better be very careful with that one. 12:56 Ben, it was like, "Up, we're going to church." 12:59 Now some of you say, decide society today, 13:02 "Oh, we don't handle things that way." 13:03 Maybe that's why we're in the mess that we're in. 13:08 Now they didn't do it that way, as you say, 13:10 but it was just an automatic. 13:11 There was no such thing unless you were, 13:13 you need to get up and say, "Oh, 13:15 I've kind of got a cold or I'm not feeling very good." 13:17 Get dressed, we're going. 13:20 And so it began to be a habit 13:22 and young people will adjust to that habit. 13:24 That's why we start young. 13:27 They like to go to church 13:28 and they don't know any difference 13:29 till somebody tells them some things of the world. 13:34 But as we look at the Golden Calf experience, 13:38 I think would be a story that's very familiar to us. 13:44 I think in fact, it's so familiar, 13:47 that we tend to overlook some of the valuable points in this. 13:53 And I think extremely important for today. 13:56 Because remember, what affected them, what they went through, 13:59 we'll find out through history that it... 14:02 My mom always said, "Kenny, what goes around comes around." 14:06 I thought, "No, I'll outrun it." 14:11 Did you heard that, didn't you growing up? 14:14 Remember it, be careful what you do, 14:15 what goes around comes around it what's gonna get you. 14:18 No, it won't get me, I'm too quick. 14:20 But it did, it will get you. 14:24 And so that's the way it is with biblical history too 14:26 and the Bible, isn't that right? 14:29 History things that have went on 14:31 come right around again. 14:32 So it's very important. 14:34 Third Selected Messages, I like this, 339 says this, 14:38 "All of the great events, 14:41 the solemn transactions of Old Testament history 14:44 have been and are repeating themselves, " 14:48 notice this, 14:49 "in the church in these last days." 14:53 See, okay, so as soon as I read that, 14:55 it got my attention, 14:57 because it didn't say just in the world, it said, 15:00 "These things that happened back then, the golden calf, 15:04 these things are happening," notice this, 15:06 "in the church in the last days." 15:09 I believe we're in the last days. 15:10 If we had time, we'd go through Bible prophecy 15:12 on that we believe in 1798 began the last days. 15:16 There's a lot of reasoning for that, you know, 15:18 1260 day year prophecy in the Bible, 15:21 starting with 538. 15:23 We won't do that 1260, 1798 that was a deadly wound. 15:26 So we believe spent a lot of time on that, 15:28 probably you can see, it's the end of time. 15:31 You can see that it is. 15:33 And we don't have time to play church anymore. 15:37 We may have had it when, you know, 15:39 30 years ago or whatever, you don't have it right now 15:42 because things are wrapping up I believe rather quickly. 15:45 And some will be with the program 15:47 and many will not be because we won't get out of the rut 15:50 that we have dug so deep. 15:53 Is somebody hearing me? 15:55 No one else dug that. 15:57 You dug it yourself. I dug my own. 16:01 I always say mom and dad a lot, they tell me, 16:03 "You're gonna have to dig yourself out of this one." 16:05 Do you ever hear that one? 16:07 Somewhat you got to dig yourself out. 16:08 You got yourself in, you got to dig yourself out. 16:13 My mother told me that when I broke my neighbor's car window. 16:18 They had a brand new Ford. 16:22 Yeah, somebody say Lord... 16:26 It was I thought for me, my life has come to an end. 16:30 But you couldn't tell me anything 16:31 because I knew how to handle a ball bat. 16:34 I knew that. 16:35 You know, our brother was just pitching to me. 16:37 And all I was doing was burning it back, boom, boom. 16:40 Anybody ever do that when you're younger? 16:41 Right, just boom, boom. 16:43 Mother looked out the back door and she said, 16:45 "Kenny, be careful, you see that new car right over there, 16:48 it couldn't have been 60 feet from me." 16:50 Said, "Mom, don't worry about this. 16:51 I got under control." 16:52 Man, I know how to do this thing. 16:55 She said, "You better be careful." 16:57 I said, "Yeah, I will." 16:58 So I think it was Danny that pitched me up a ball. 17:00 I just went like ordinate, 17:02 that thing took off like a shot. 17:04 Like I'd swung, I know I didn't do, 17:06 and I thought, oh, the devil. 17:08 It took off like, it really it took off like a shot. 17:10 And all I did was just burn the bat in 10 feet from me. 17:14 Went straight for that car, 17:15 hit the back windows a four door, and boom, 17:18 it just shattered. 17:20 Oh, I wanted to run and hide. 17:22 But you know, you had to come clean. 17:26 It just happened, like, again Mom 17:27 looked out the window again," said "Oh, no. 17:30 Oh, no." I said, "Oh, boy." 17:32 Now well, 17:33 Mom, maybe you should run over there and tell him. 17:37 But you run over there and just tell. 17:39 She said "Son, you dug the hole." 17:41 Come on, somebody. You dug the hole, right? 17:44 Now you're gonna have to dig your way out of it. 17:46 So start while you go over to knock on his door 17:48 and tell him what you just did. 17:50 Oh, man, I felt sneakin. 17:53 I felt low. 17:55 But you know, I knocked on the door. 17:56 His name was Kenneth. 17:58 But we had that in common anyway for a while. 18:00 But after I did that, I don't know that we did. 18:03 Said, "Kenneth, I'm sorry." 18:05 It's man brand spanking new, hadn't had very long. 18:08 I said," I hit the ball and I knocked your window out. 18:11 I'm very sorry." 18:12 So I, first of all, I said, you know what? 18:15 "I was hitting the ball." He said, "Say no more." 18:19 I said, "Huh?" 18:21 Well, I wanna tell you, I," he said, "Don't say anymore. 18:25 I don't want to know how it happened. 18:29 But I do have good insurance. 18:31 And we'll take care of it." You know? 18:34 And so I told him, "I apologize. 18:35 And I'm sorry. 18:37 And I wouldn't let that happen again." 18:39 Sometime we did hold, 18:40 we have to, it takes a while to get out of those things. 18:43 And it took a while a little embarrassment. 18:45 And I wasn't as good as I thought I was 18:48 with the ball bat. 18:52 But you know, as we look at these things we see 18:54 there's problems that's coming to the church. 18:58 And I believe I've always had a burden for this church. 19:03 And I'm talking about the whole church, 19:04 the Advent movement. 19:06 All churches who want to follow 19:07 what the Bible has to say in truth, 19:09 I say I stand and I say amen for what is truth. 19:15 But I've always had a problem with and I'm praying 19:17 all the time, Lord help me. 19:18 And it's like God's always said, 19:20 "You can look in the world 19:21 and you look at all these things 19:22 that are going on, but what about My people?" 19:25 All through Scripture, it was God sending His prophets 19:28 to His church, to His people 19:30 because they were backsliding and interesting, 19:33 the Golden Calf experiences was in the church 19:37 in the last days. 19:38 And so we wanna find out how this could take place? 19:42 Why it took place, and is it taking place again? 19:51 God saw His people Israel in bondage in Egypt. 19:56 And so He raised up Moses. 19:58 Moses was a prophet, was he not? 20:00 He raised up Moses to bring His people out of Egypt. 20:04 We understand that and say, "Oh, how wonderful." 20:08 And then it was, it's told in Scripture, 20:10 God said, "They'd be in bondage for 420 years." 20:14 Isn't that interesting? 20:16 To us 420 years is like, whoa, 20:18 that's a long time to be in bondage, isn't it? 20:23 But they rebelled against God, 20:24 and God was wanting to teach them a lesson. 20:28 And so for 420 years, they were in bondage. 20:32 But interesting, in Exodus Chapter 12, 20:35 just jot it down verses 40 and 41 20:38 talks about this bondage here. 20:41 And the time period, 20:43 and notice the time period ended. 20:45 Imagine it ended exactly 420 years. 20:49 God called Moses to bring them out. 20:52 When the prophecy was given exactly 420 years later, 20:56 here it came past just like the Bible said. 20:58 I mean, that's awesome to me, not only Old Testament, 21:01 but you can read that in Galatians 3:17, 21:04 about the 430 years. 21:06 And you know, you had 215 years 21:09 and then you had another 215 years is 430. 21:12 I wish we had time to do more about it to talk about, 21:14 but we don't. 21:15 It's important that we listen and we try 21:17 by the grace of God to understand this statement. 21:20 I'm gonna read this statement, Five Testimonies 160, 21:23 "Satan's snares are laid for us 21:25 as verily as they were laid for the children of," what? 21:28 "Israel just prior to their entrance 21:31 into the land of," what? 21:34 "Canaan land." Yeah. 21:35 Now what was that that would talk about all 21:37 you hear songs, Canaan land? 21:40 Just before, right? 21:42 They wanted to make it, Israel wanted to make it 21:44 to the Canaan land, the land of milk and honey, 21:47 we refer to that as heaven. 21:49 So just before as it were, they made it to heaven. 21:53 Big things begin to happen. 21:54 We are there right now as a church as a people 21:57 just before right, Jesus comes entering the land of Canaan, 22:01 just before Jesus come, 22:02 there's some big things are going on 22:03 that God wants us to understand 22:05 that the devil is going to lay what? 22:08 He's gonna lay some snares. 22:10 Now some of the snares will be, 22:11 some of you won't hear thing that's being said today, 22:13 I'm not saying to anybody here, 22:15 but let's just be honest about it. 22:16 You want heaven to be your home, 22:18 we need to what? 22:19 Keep people awake and keep our eyes and heart 22:22 and our mind upon Jesus Christ. 22:25 Because we'll leave, we'll say, "Well, 22:26 I don't know what was going on here." 22:28 God's given the chance, what? 22:30 For us to hear, and to understand. 22:32 And it is a warning that He gives, 22:34 and we will be in trouble as it were, if we don't listen. 22:38 Notice you think about it, 22:40 the children of Israel just prior to the entrance. 22:42 So notice this, the last line says this, 22:45 "We are repeating the history of that people." 22:49 Now should we be concerned? 22:51 Should we maybe talk about something else, 22:52 let's talk about COVID. 22:54 Let's talk about the shots that are being given. 22:55 And then the hope that's given a lot of people 22:57 and the rejection that many other people are rejecting 23:01 all the deaths, and all the things 23:02 that's going on right now 23:04 is because it said the golden calf 23:05 right now it's being repeated in the history of God's people. 23:09 So we need to understand what it is so that 23:11 we no longer have anything to do with it. 23:13 So we know this, 23:14 God delivered Israel right at the Red Sea, did He not? 23:18 After that they traveled through the wilderness 23:21 toward Mount Sinai. 23:23 They arrived at Mount Sinai, notice this, 23:26 and God had a special meeting with we call the 70 elders, 23:29 and He made a covenant with Israel. 23:32 I love the covenant, you should love the covenant. 23:35 And it seems that when you make a covenant, 23:37 it's between two parties. 23:38 Isn't that right? 23:40 And both parties have to keep the agreement or it's broken. 23:44 And it seemed like they said all that you say, God, 23:46 we're gonna do so it's all good. 23:49 Now what happened? Moses leaves the camp. 23:52 Because, you know, he's gonna go up on the mount, 23:55 isn't that right, Mount Sinai to get the law of God. 23:58 God's gonna write it with His own finger. 24:00 And notice who was left in charge? 24:01 Who was left in charge? 24:03 Aaron was left in charge. 24:04 Who was Aaron? 24:07 That's his brother, and he was the high priest. 24:10 So he should have been the man that knew what was going on. 24:14 He should have known what was going on. 24:17 Now God knew it to begin with, isn't that right? 24:19 He already knew what was gonna take place. 24:20 Moses was in the dark until God said, 24:23 "You better get back down 24:24 because your brother's lost it." 24:26 I'm paraphrasing. 24:30 "You better go on down." 24:31 Moses, you see, went to the mount 24:33 and Aaron then he was to guide 24:35 and he was to guard the people. 24:38 And then things went haywire. 24:41 I mean, they really went haywire. 24:44 Letter 10 in 1896 says this, 24:46 this is what we're gonna focus on as much time 24:49 as we can today with 30 minutes or so. 24:52 It says, "This neglect, "Letter 10, 1896, 24:57 "This neglect to stand up firmly for the truth 25:00 was the sin of Aaron." 25:03 Somebody listening? 25:05 What was the sin of Aaron? 25:07 This neglect to stand up firmly, for what? 25:10 For the truth was the sin of Aaron. 25:13 You realize what he just said? 25:15 The article just said, 25:17 "It was a sin because Aaron, the high priest," 25:21 that's any of us that didn't stand for what is truth. 25:24 For what you understand is truth. 25:26 We realize that in principle, right? 25:29 If we don't stand for what we know is truth, man, 25:31 we're in trouble. 25:32 That was the sin of Aaron, notice this, had he... 25:36 Whoo, had he spoken the truth plainly, 25:39 that golden calf would have never been made. 25:42 If he spoke the truth, more than half of our problems, 25:46 90% probably in the church 25:48 is because the pastor doesn't have a spine. 25:52 Doesn't have a spiritual backbone to stand up 25:54 when there's issues that go on in the church, 25:57 because he's trying to go against two different parties. 25:59 And they call him like, you know, 26:01 liberals and conservatives. 26:03 That's, remember I said that before. 26:05 That's in politics, that's not in the church. 26:07 It's either right or wrong, is black and white. 26:09 And that's the way it is. 26:10 And it's got to be God's way. Isn't that right? 26:13 It's got to be God's way. 26:14 This is not political. 26:15 I get sick of hearing that is, 26:17 I'm just talking to you about it. 26:19 I get sick about hearing that. 26:20 Well, we are a liberal church. 26:22 No, that means you liberal church, 26:24 that means you're not upholding 26:25 the standard that God has in His Word. 26:28 That's what liberal is, is we look at it and say, 26:29 "Well, we'll do part of this and rest of it we won't do. 26:33 And conservative goes on somewhat the same." 26:36 Well, I know what it said, 26:37 but let's be careful about this. 26:39 Now, let's be careful." 26:41 Never in God's Word 26:42 from beginning to end does He say, 26:44 "Be careful with the truth in that way in that sense." 26:48 We know we have to handle it delicately. 26:49 But notice, it's different than that. 26:52 We have to, notice, it was the what, 26:54 notice this "Had he spoke the truth plainly, 26:58 that golden calf would not have been made." 26:59 Notice this, reading on, 27:01 "The same spirit that led him to shun 27:04 to declare the whole truth 27:06 for fear of offending led him to act a falsehood." 27:12 Notice it. 27:14 Ever get so far gone some time, all of a sudden, oh, 27:16 you can tell us a lie and then another line, 27:18 then another lie, 27:20 "Pointing to the golden calf as a representative of the one 27:22 who brought them out of Egypt. 27:25 Thus, one unfaithfulness leads to another." 27:29 Now that's heavy duty. 27:30 So I think if we examine that today in time that we have, 27:32 it will be covering an awful lot. 27:34 So I may move loud and fast, 27:36 because this is very, very important. 27:38 Why? 27:39 Because this did not have to take place. 27:42 This didn't have to take place. 27:44 But it's taking place right now among us right now. 27:47 And most of us have no idea it's taking place. 27:50 We hear and we just ignore it and it doesn't matter. 27:52 I believe it matters. 27:55 I believe that matters. 27:58 I mean, I look at this, I read this account, 28:01 then I have to check my own heart, my own life is, 28:04 how can a child of God become so spiritually dull, 28:09 to worship something that was made with hands? 28:13 Is somebody home? 28:16 How can we be so spiritually dead? 28:20 But you know what? 28:21 As we look at it we say, "Oh, we've done worse, 28:24 Lord have mercy." 28:27 How could it possibly be? 28:30 Prophets and Kings, I love that book, 28:32 186 makes this statement. 28:34 "So long have men worshiped human opinions?" 28:39 "Oh, we don't lack. We don't lack." 28:42 Wherever we go, everybody has an opinion. 28:45 Wherever I go, we always find everybody's a preacher. 28:53 Everybody knows more than the preacher. 28:58 It's funny, they don't say that about a lot of businesses, 29:00 you know that? 29:02 There are lot of things that go on, they won't say, "Well, 29:03 we know more than a mechanic knows, 29:05 we know more than this." 29:08 It's right when it comes to the Word, 29:09 we know it already. 29:12 Yeah, we know we should all certainly 29:13 come into an agreement of what is truth. 29:16 But human opinion and human institutions 29:19 that almost the whole world is following after idols. 29:24 Why? Because we're doing what? 29:26 We've worshipped human opinion. 29:29 I'll be careful with this. 29:30 "Oh, the professor said. 29:33 Oh, the preacher said," so what? 29:36 "Oh, the evangelist said," so what? 29:39 Are you following the thought? 29:41 It's okay. 29:42 They shouldn't be saying things, I understand it, 29:44 but you tried the spirits to see 29:46 whether they're telling you the truth or not. 29:48 But what we do is what we look at and say, 29:50 "Oh, they've got all this stuff 29:52 in front of or behind their name, 29:54 they must be something." 29:57 My dad said sometimes and this is not everybody. 30:00 He says sometimes they don't have enough sense 30:01 to get out of the rain. 30:04 Now we know that's not everybody, 30:05 there's nothing wrong with that. 30:07 I just want you to think with me. 30:09 And sometimes, all we have is like this. 30:13 My dad always said, 30:15 "Give me guy with just good common sense. 30:17 You don't have to be the smartest guy in the world 30:19 to work with me, just somebody with good common sense, 30:21 and we'll make it." 30:26 Manuscript 106, 1905. 30:28 Notice what it says, 30:29 "The time has come when the Lord would have 30:31 all who will honor Him take their stand for," what? 30:35 "Firmly and decidedly on the side of truth 30:38 and righteousness." 30:39 Notice this, "No longer are we to be a mixed multitude. 30:43 We cannot afford to trifle with our soul salvation. 30:47 There's a lot of mixed multitude things 30:50 that are going on in the church today." 30:52 God says plainly, not a mixed multitude, 30:55 we need to be very careful. 30:57 People wanna know why we wanna study 30:58 the Word of God together. 31:00 Somebody is interested in the movement. 31:01 We sat down, we wanna look over the Word of God 31:03 and try to study it. 31:04 What? 31:06 You know, how can two agree? 31:07 How can they walk together if they don't agree? 31:09 How can you have peace in the church 31:12 when everybody's saying we know something 31:13 that we believe something different, 31:14 blah-blah, blah-blah. 31:16 It's very, it's difficult. 31:18 It's impossible. Absolutely. 31:21 The Lord would have all to honor Him 31:23 and take their stand firmly 31:25 and decidedly on the side of truth. 31:28 You might say, "Well, I don't understand at all." 31:30 But what you understand 31:31 God requires you to take that stand 31:33 just like me, on His side. 31:37 Now, I'm gonna answer that question in a moment, 31:39 a little clear, who's the mixed multitude? 31:41 Remember right when the Moses' group left Egypt, 31:45 what happened? 31:46 There was a lot of people that did what? 31:48 That were not God's people as it were, 31:50 Egyptians that left what? 31:52 They left and went with him. 31:54 Because they wanted to change, 31:56 they seen some things that were happening, 31:58 and they liked those things. 31:59 And some as it when Christ time 32:01 they went for the loaves and the fishes. 32:04 You know, there's people that way today, 32:05 they go to church for the loaves and the fishes. 32:07 There's some people go to the biggest churches 32:08 in the town because they run a business, 32:10 and they want people to know they go to that church 32:12 and they get more business. 32:14 I've talked to people like that. 32:17 Yeah, I know people and done business with them for years. 32:22 Brother Mark would know some of them we used to do business 32:24 years ago with in West Frankfort. 32:27 "Why do you go to certain and certain church?" 32:28 He said, "Because they have the biggest church. 32:30 That's why. 32:32 And I sell lumber." 32:35 Okay, I better let that one go. 32:40 God says for us, as His people, "Stand firm, " 32:42 so you may think you're standing firm, 32:44 I may think I'm standing firm, but the test will come 32:47 that it may cost you your life to stand for what is truth. 32:51 We have to be careful about the mixed multitude. 32:54 You know, what kind of influence 32:55 are you around all the time? 32:57 What kind of people are you talking to all the time? 32:59 Who are these mixed multitudes? 33:02 Before we answer this, I'm gonna read 33:04 from Five Testimonies 477, it says this. 33:07 Five T 477. 33:09 "Do not forget that the most dangerous snare, 33:11 listen church, 33:12 which Satan has prepared for the church?" 33:15 All right. 33:17 Should I be interested in or should I just sit down 33:18 and be quiet? 33:20 See this is why I'm interested in it 33:21 because I see it's a snare 33:23 that might take you or might take me. 33:26 And if you said you know that somebody says, 33:27 "Be careful about that board. 33:29 Don't get on that board. 33:30 It's gonna break if you get 33:32 upon scaffolding on that board." 33:33 I'm gonna listen to him say, "What do you mean here? 33:36 I don't wanna fall, I don't wanna get hurt." 33:38 That dangerous snare, 33:39 which Satan has prepared for the church 33:41 will come through its own members." 33:44 Oh, it's gonna be through this church over, 33:45 it's gonna be through this group over here. 33:47 It's gonna be through her. 33:48 It's gonna come through his own members. 33:50 So I have to be prepared for that. 33:54 You remember ever reading 33:55 in the First Selected Messages of 122, 33:58 it says, "We have more to fear from," where? 34:01 "From within than we do without." 34:05 But see, it's like we're not getting it. 34:08 We have more to fear from within than we do 34:11 from without because of the mix multitude 34:13 that's come in 34:15 and causing confusion and division in the church. 34:19 That's why the church needs to be united together. 34:22 The Golden calf came about because they were not united. 34:26 They did not have good leadership. 34:28 Didn't have the spiritual backbone 34:31 to be able to stand for what is truth. 34:35 In our world that we live in today, I'm a believer, 34:38 you know, you see false religion 34:41 is prevailing like never before. 34:45 It's getting a lot of coverage. 34:48 And the Bible says that iniquity will abound, 34:51 and the love of many will, what? 34:54 "It will, notice it, "wax cold." 34:57 Matthew 24:12, 34:58 if you wanna read that look it up later. 35:01 I thought how interesting it is when we see in the world, 35:03 and even in the church, the church is growing cold. 35:07 They're no longer concerned about people, our duty to God, 35:11 our duty to our fellow man, and we're supposed to be last. 35:14 But now it's I, me, mine. 35:18 The Bible says it's gonna wax cold, 35:21 that means there's gonna be a reduction in temperature. 35:25 God said, "I want you to be," what? 35:26 "Hot, cold, not lukewarm." 35:31 There's gonna be a reduction in temperature here. 35:33 There's gonna be chill in the air. 35:35 I don't wanna go to church if there's a chill. 35:38 I wanna go to church where there's love. 35:39 I want to go where you feel good 35:42 that you know that the Spirit of God is gonna be there. 35:46 I don't want that chill. 35:47 I don't want that like I don't belong here or whatever. 35:50 There's gonna be an evaporation process. 35:53 You know, firstly, if the water is over here, 35:55 and all of a sudden the sun comes out and there's what? 35:57 Evaporation, that means it disappears, 35:59 many of the members will disappear. 36:02 They disappear because there's a coolness in the church. 36:07 People are afraid to say amen. 36:08 They're afraid to stand up and shout, 36:10 they're afraid to lift up their hands 36:12 and we shouldn't be. 36:14 You see, I'm not talking about overdoing it. 36:16 I'm talking about if your heart says do it, why not do it. 36:19 If you get out of control, surely somebody will say, 36:21 "You're out of control, sit down." 36:24 Oh, I'm sure somebody will do that. 36:28 If I see it, I'm able to join in with them. 36:32 Nothing more exciting than the Word of God 36:34 because we realize I don't want that evaporation. 36:37 I don't want that chill in the air. 36:39 I want the warmth and love of Jesus Christ in our church. 36:42 I want the power of the Holy Spirit 36:44 to convict and convert. 36:46 This is what it's all about, 36:48 to bring us to the foot of the cross 36:49 and ask for forgiveness of sin. 36:51 And that will cleanse us from all unrighteousness, 36:53 I want that, I need that. 36:55 But you know, before that, 36:57 before the world comes to an end, 36:58 the world is gonna turn against those who want to honor Christ. 37:02 Those who stand for Him. 37:03 See, most people don't get this. 37:06 Even if you come in and you've never heard 37:08 or you've not been or you're babe in Christ, 37:10 and it's okay to be a babe in Christ, 37:12 be able to come and you're drinking of the milk 37:14 and so on. 37:15 Right now where we're at 37:16 so close to the coming of Jesus, 37:18 we need some more meat. 37:20 We've got to have more meat. And certainly we need the milk. 37:22 Certainly we need that. 37:23 And Sabbath schools, it's good time. 37:25 It's not because it's any less than what it is here. 37:27 But it's time that you can ask questions, 37:30 and you can get involved. 37:31 And you can make it understand some of these things 37:33 that maybe we don't understand. 37:35 Heavy duty things are taking place. 37:38 So if you don't know the Word of God, 37:39 you're talking Sunday law, you're talking about this, 37:41 you're talking about the mark of the beast, 37:43 the image to the beast and da-da-da. 37:44 It's just almost overwhelming to a person 37:47 who's not been around that or heard that or studied it. 37:50 And I don't wanna be overwhelming to anyone. 37:54 Not because we know so much 37:55 is because we've been around time. 37:56 And you've heard some of these things, you say, 37:58 "Oh, I see it taking place." 38:02 The world is in peril right now. 38:04 But I can tell you this, that God of Elijah, 38:08 the God of Israel, Jacob, 38:14 He's going to rise to the occasion, 38:16 He's going to rise up, He's going to use human voices 38:19 to proclaim a message to the world. 38:22 And they will not be silenced, they will not be bought, 38:25 they will not be sold as it were. 38:27 This is what God's looking forward today. 38:30 They dare to be bold of the cause of Christ. 38:34 They do because God has appointed them 38:37 to denounce sin 38:38 inside the church and outside the church. 38:43 And some people can't get that because 38:44 maybe God hasn't spoken to your heart, 38:46 this is what you need to do, you need to do something else. 38:50 And there's work for every one of us. 38:52 And God knows that to make the complete hole, 38:54 we need that. 38:58 He's raised people to denounce all forms of ungodliness, 39:04 including the church with not only the state, 39:07 but with the world. 39:10 This church, I've seen it over the years 39:12 come so close to wanna bring the church, 39:14 the world into the church. 39:17 We don't need the world in the church. 39:19 We don't need what's going on outside in the world 39:21 to bring it in here. 39:22 This is supposed to be holy ground, isn't that right? 39:25 This is a bit different. 39:27 I want something different. 39:28 I've had enough of that stuff during the week. 39:30 How about you? 39:32 Enough of the stuff goes on out there, we had enough. 39:33 I wanna come in and feel that we're wrapped 39:35 in the arms of God that loves us 39:37 and a God that's gonna answer our prayers. 39:39 A God that writes, He's gonna, we send our petition to Him, 39:42 He's going to hear us. 39:43 We don't receive half of what God wants to do for us, 39:46 maybe not even a portion of it, 39:48 because we're not getting ourselves right with God 39:51 the way that we need to because He wants to help us. 39:54 God said, "We live in an ungodly, 39:57 you know, godly world that we live in." 40:00 And that needs to go out when you say, 40:01 "Well, you know, the other churches do this or that," 40:03 you know, the world does this or that thought out. 40:09 But you know what? 40:10 It takes people with a little bit of courage 40:12 and love for Jesus to say nah da-da, da-da... 40:15 Isn't not true? 40:16 See, most time we don't do that you'll see these things 40:18 if we just, "Oh, Lord, help me to go on." 40:21 Get with these things. 40:23 There has to be a line, Brother Mark, 40:26 drawn in the sand. 40:27 There's got to be a line. 40:29 And most of us don't even know their sand there. 40:31 And most of those are not gonna draw any line. 40:33 But we need to be drawing the line right now, 40:37 between those who keep the commandments of God 40:39 and those who decide they don't have to keep them, 40:42 who worship false gods. 40:44 All through Scripture I read in 1 Kings, 40:46 I read 18:21, "If the Lord be God," do what? 40:52 "Follow Him. If Baal, then follow him." 40:54 Today, I'm inviting you to draw a line 40:56 in the sand if God's God, follow Him, 40:59 if he's Baal, then don't do it. 41:01 Follow him if that's the way that it is. 41:04 But there can't be, I draw a line 41:05 and then you're stepping back 41:06 and forth all the time with "Oh, boy," 41:08 you know, what I'm saying, oh, I'm over the line, 41:10 well, you better get back over here. 41:11 God's looking for someone to be consistent 41:13 in their faith, 41:15 in their love for Him. 41:16 Somebody else can look at and say, 41:18 "Whoo, they're following Jesus Christ? 41:19 Oh, I see Christ in them. 41:21 I see their life has changed." 41:24 Oh, if He's God, Lord be God, follow Him. 41:29 To me that's simple, is that not? 41:34 Again, we're spending time on this but, you know, 41:36 14 Review and Herald says this, notice this 25, 41:39 14 Review and Herald 25. 41:41 "Our dangers are not less, but greater, 41:47 than those of the Hebrews." 41:48 Oh, somebody help me. 41:50 I don't wanna keep going over but what do you do? 41:52 What do you do to make this really focus in on it, 41:56 remember what the dangers are not less, 41:59 but greater than that of the Hebrews. 42:01 There will be, notice this, here for you and for me, 42:04 there will be temptations, temptations to beat, 42:07 notice, jealousies, there's gonna be murmurings. 42:10 There will be outspoken rebellion, 42:13 as in ancient Israel. 42:15 That's talking about a God's last day people. 42:17 We don't need rebellion with God's last day people. 42:20 We don't need murmuring 42:21 and complaining as God's people. 42:23 We don't need to be jealous either. 42:25 You know temptations, there are enough 42:27 and God said I'll help you with that. 42:29 In fact, this lesson is so important as we go, 42:32 Testimonies to Ministers 101 says this, gives us a warning. 42:36 "As a people we are to," notice, 42:38 "study the golden calf apostasy at least once a week." 42:45 And then let's dig a little deeper, shall we? 42:46 Notice what it says here, 42:48 Testimonies to Ministers 98 and 99. 42:50 Notice what it says. 42:52 "I urge" you know, talking about there 42:54 in Exodus 32, 42:55 it says, "I urge that these chapters be read 42:58 at least once every week." 43:01 So again it backs it up. Why? 43:03 Because God doesn't want you fool. 43:06 He doesn't want you lost. 43:07 He doesn't want me lost. 43:09 It's so very, very important. 43:10 Again, who's the mixed multitude? 43:12 God says there has to come a time 43:13 that we find out you know, 43:15 there's gonna be mixed multitude. 43:16 But you know what? 43:18 There's gonna have to be a change take place, 43:19 we're gonna have to draw a line. 43:22 You know, sometimes we don't draw a line, 43:23 we just raise anything, 43:25 it's like, well, I'm a Christian. 43:30 Thank you, who said so? 43:32 Yeah, so. 43:34 Proverbs said, by their fruits you know. 43:35 Everybody crying out, "Oh, we are too, 43:37 we are too, we're all Christians." 43:39 A Christian is to be Christ like 43:41 and follow Christ example. 43:43 Why is it when every time you give, 43:44 here's what Christ did, here's what Christ taught. 43:46 This is the way He walked. 43:48 This is what He ate. This is where He acted. 43:50 Here's the way He reacted. 43:51 We just say well, it doesn't matter. 43:54 See, we know better 43:55 and how can we say those things? 43:59 We either are or we aren't. 44:02 Patriarchs and Prophets 3:24 says this, 44:05 talking about the mixed multitude, 44:06 you may be involved in the mixed multitude. 44:08 I may be. 44:10 We're gonna have to examine to see, 44:11 the mixed multitude and we're talking about 44:13 mixed multitude did what? 44:14 They went with God's people out of Egypt. 44:22 And they were an influence on the people. 44:27 You know, think about your friends, 44:30 they know Jesus, they don't know Him. 44:32 They're an atheist, agnostic, 44:33 you say, "Well, it doesn't matter." 44:34 Yeah, it does matter, 44:36 because their influence. 44:40 They are heavy influence, 44:42 "But a large company mostly the mixed multitude 44:45 that instigated the making of the calf. 44:50 "You see, the golden calf was made by those who, what? 44:53 Who wish they may have left Egypt 44:55 they may be Egyptians but what? 44:57 Egypt had left them still in their heart 45:01 and the first thing they begin to cry out, 45:03 "Let's make the calf." 45:04 Everybody said, "Well, why not?" 45:06 Or that could be an ox there too, 45:08 you know that's what was worshipped there in Egypt, 45:11 the ox. 45:16 They were the mixed multitude were the ring leaders. 45:21 They were the leaders in apostasy. 45:24 They were the first to murmur and complain. 45:28 Now really in the church 45:29 the murmuring and complaining needs to stop if that goes on. 45:33 Get together in little groups and murmur and complaints, 45:35 you don't like the pastor, you don't like the elder, 45:37 you don't like blah-blah-blah. 45:38 If you don't like something, go to the one you don't like 45:40 and talk to him about it. 45:41 Isn't that right? 45:43 You talk to anybody else about it, 45:44 you're doing the devil's work if I ever seen it or not. 45:47 Go to thee alone what the Bible said 45:49 and talk it over, pray, get it over with and move on. 45:53 You're not gonna avoid that person in heaven. 45:55 One of you won't be there, probably both of you. 45:59 Hello. 46:01 Yeah, we do that here. 46:03 We do not, I'm not saying necessarily in this church. 46:05 I'm talking about do we do it, claiming we love Jesus 46:08 and we're Christians and we're gonna make it to heaven. 46:10 But we walk on the other side of the aisle 46:12 when somebody else comes in. 46:13 We don't even talk to him. 46:15 We don't wanna sit on the board with him. 46:16 We don't want it. 46:17 How are we gonna make it to heaven? 46:19 We're not. 46:20 Let's just be honest about and look at it. 46:22 Heaven's not gonna be that way, I'm convinced. 46:28 Oh... 46:30 they had a disposition, the mixed multitude, 46:33 they had a disposition to rebel. 46:36 They wanted to rebel. 46:37 It was in their blood, it was in their system. 46:40 And they became careless. 46:43 You see a church member becoming careless, 46:45 I don't think that really makes him different. 46:46 Why is he wasting his time? 46:47 Why they're talking about this for? 46:49 Look out. 46:50 They become lawless. 46:51 There's really no laws, not really anything set. 46:54 They become inattentive. 46:56 That means they're not interested in listening anymore 46:58 because they know it all. 47:02 Yeah. 47:03 More on this later as we go on, but keep this in mind. 47:05 There was only a few. 47:08 Can anybody else make it nine minutes? 47:11 We've only got nine minutes left, 47:13 my lands of love. 47:15 Can we make it nine more minutes? 47:17 Brother Jen, I'll make it nine more or should I sit down? 47:20 Go ahead for nine, bless your heart. 47:25 Keep this in mind. 47:27 There was only a few. 47:30 I wanna say remnant, if it's okay to say that, 47:33 that rebelled this up against the making of the calf. 47:36 There were few that withstood for what was truth. 47:40 Hmm. 47:42 They said, "No, we don't wanna make it an image." 47:45 Because they realize you know, the God was said, 47:48 "You can't make any graven image 47:50 or bow down and worship them." 47:52 Remember that in Exodus 20:4-5, God says, 47:54 "Don't do these kind of things." 47:56 They knew that. 48:00 And yet, what were they doing? 48:04 "Don't bow down, don't worship them." 48:09 What do you think happened to these people? 48:12 Everybody patted him on the head, say, 48:13 "Oh, this is beautiful." 48:15 Those who stood for truth were denounced. 48:19 They were treated roughly. 48:22 And the majority almost every, listen to me, 48:24 almost every one of them was killed by the mob. 48:29 They were killed because they stood for what is truth. 48:33 We're headed for that. 48:34 Again, if you're not been studying, you won't see it. 48:36 All through Scripture you see these things in principle 48:39 of those that led. 48:41 What happened to Jesus? 48:44 He stood for what? 48:47 What happened to Paul? 48:49 Did he stand for truth? 48:50 Peter, let's look at all the disciples, you see, 48:52 let's look down at every one of them that stood for truth, 48:55 what happened to them? 48:56 Here was no difference. 48:58 And that's why we had to be very careful. 49:00 This was supposedly God's people that killed them. 49:04 And I tell you, people are doing awful 49:06 lot that in the church, but they're doing it 49:07 with their tongue rather than a gun. 49:09 Is that okay to say that? 49:14 There's times you'd almost rather be shot... 49:18 than to be beat to death with a tongue, 49:20 if you know what I'm talking about. 49:25 Bible says, "Thou shalt not bow down 49:27 and worship these things." 49:32 The law of God, 49:34 you realize the law of God existed 49:36 before man was created. 49:40 Most people say, "Well, it's just a sign out 49:41 that's where we got it." 49:43 We know existed before, right? 49:44 That man was created. 49:47 It was adapted for the condition 49:49 of holy angels. 49:52 Remember, you have a tree, you have a choice. 49:55 That's the way God operates. 49:56 He doesn't make all the angels, all the universe and said, 49:58 "Do what you wanna do." 50:01 They were tested. 50:02 Adam and Eve were tested by that tree. 50:08 But after the fall of man, what does that mean? 50:11 Oh, man fell, man sinned, so things have changed. 50:13 Nothing was taken from the law of God. 50:17 Not one of His holy principles, which is holy, just and good. 50:23 Not one could be improved upon. 50:27 And I submit to you since it existed from the beginning, 50:33 it will exist to the ceaseless ages. 50:37 Just one passage, Psalms 119:152. 50:41 Psalms 119:152. 50:44 See, it says, "Concerning thy testimonies, " 50:46 says the psalmist. 50:48 "Concerning thy," what? 50:49 "Their testimonies, the law, I have known of old that thou 50:54 hast founded them for ever." 50:57 Wow. 50:59 Love of God founded what? 51:01 For ever, not something 51:02 that exists and has done away with, 51:03 you don't have to worry about it. 51:05 The Bible said in Romans 4, "If there was no law, 51:07 there is no sin." 51:10 So in this first part, we're looking to study, 51:12 is well for us to lay the foundation of the calf, 51:16 how it came about. 51:17 That's why we're spending our time on it. 51:19 But I'd say this, it looks like that we need to get some axes 51:22 in the church. 51:27 Some of us got it, rest of us scratching their head. 51:30 Didn't wanna use an axe, did you? 51:32 But you realize spiritually you know, thinking spiritually, 51:34 there's a lot of people don't wanna use 51:36 an axe as it were. 51:37 But there are certain things 51:39 that as the church sin going on, 51:40 that they tend to axe to the root of the tree. 51:43 That's what that axe mean, that axe they're talking about 51:46 something that's gonna destroy, 51:48 something that's going to kill it, 51:50 when it needs to be killed. 51:52 Did you get it? 51:53 I'm not sure that there's not some roots growing right now 51:57 in our movement. 51:59 It'd be foolish for us to say there's not. 52:02 It's not trying to be judgmental. 52:04 It's not trying to condemn anyone. 52:06 But there's some roots that are growing that 52:08 unless you take that spiritual axe 52:10 and do some chopping, 52:11 they're gonna keep coming back. 52:13 You know what, when you do your, 52:15 you know whatever, your bushes and all, 52:17 cut them down close to the ground. 52:18 Just cut them down, were gonna be, 52:19 they come in bigger and better. 52:24 Try to deal with sin. 52:25 If you don't deal with it in the right way, 52:26 it'll come back and more people will be involved. 52:29 There's no doubt about it. 52:31 This root problem, Jesus says, "Just lay the axe to it, " 52:34 there in Luke 3:9. 52:36 Put the axe to the problem. 52:41 The hows and the whys. 52:44 Remember as we looked at and read that first part 52:46 there Letter 10, 1896. 52:49 There are six things. 52:50 I don't know what happened at the time. 52:53 Number one... 52:56 there's just six points I wanna make. 52:57 You think I can do that in two minutes? 52:59 You said no. 53:00 I won't even try because I think it'd be wrong. 53:02 It'd be wrong because they're so important. 53:04 Notice this, the first part, remember it would, 53:07 the apostasy would have never happened. 53:09 Israel would not have to go and remember 53:11 there was 3000 souls lost, 53:15 3000 souls that were lost that day. 53:20 And the tribe of Levi had to do that. 53:25 What a terrible camp to be and what a terrible thing 53:27 that would be to see 3000 souls they're just... 53:32 Because of the neglect to stand up firmly 53:35 for truth was the sin of Aaron. 53:37 You remember talking about that. 53:42 2 Chronicles 29:11 says, "My sons, 53:46 be not now negligent: 53:49 for the Lord hath chosen you to stand up before Him, 53:53 to serve Him, and that you should minister unto Him." 53:58 What has God, this has been my sons, 54:00 my daughters, He's saying what? 54:01 Let's stand. 54:03 Let's do what is right. 54:06 He's chosen us. 54:09 We must speak truth and leave the results to God. 54:14 All this Mickey Mouse. Can I say Mickey Mouse? 54:17 Oh, that Mickey Mouse business as well I didn't wanna say it 54:20 because I'll be running somebody off or 54:21 I didn't wanna say because somebody is gonna be offended. 54:24 By and by the Bible said people become offended. 54:26 If you don't love the truth by and by, 54:28 you will become offended. 54:29 And even coming here by and by, 54:31 you will not like what the preacher maybe elder, 54:33 or somebody else says, you'll be offended 54:35 if you don't love truth. 54:36 And you'll find another place to go 54:37 where the temperature is good. 54:40 Don't want you to do that. 54:41 Want you to adjust and say is the truth 54:43 and by the God's grace, this is what I want. 54:46 We must truth speak the truth and leave what? 54:49 The results to God. 54:51 We must stand firm in the defense of truth. 54:55 The Lord recalls all that requires all of us 54:58 to stand for this truth. 55:00 A strict adherence to what is truth. 55:04 Last one 30 seconds to go, 55:07 Patriarchs and Prophets 3:23 said, 55:09 "If Aaron had the courage to stand for right, 55:12 irrespective of consequences, 55:14 he could have prevented that apostasy." 55:18 Concerning Aaron," notice this, 55:20 "And the Lord was very displeased, 55:22 angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him 55:26 if Moses hadn't stepped in and interceded." 55:29 Praise God for intercession, 55:31 praise God. 55:32 Part two, we're gonna go dissect even more and deeper 55:35 into this to see why it was caused 55:37 and why the people of God so willingly followed. 55:42 Welcome back, the Bible states, "And you shall know the truth, 55:46 and the truth shall make you free." 55:48 John 8:32. Had only Aaron stood for the truth, 55:53 no matter the consequences, 3, 000 souls 55:57 would not have perished in their sins. 55:59 And now we need to ask the question, what about us? 56:02 Are we willing to stand for truth, 56:04 the all important truth 56:06 that will make each and every one of us free? 56:10 Could God be calling each of us 56:12 to hold back the winds of apostasy 56:14 and to save souls from perishing 56:16 by daily standing firm upon His Word, 56:20 no matter what is believed or taught of others, 56:23 people are searching for a Savior. 56:25 They wanna know what truth is. 56:27 Will you be willing to stand 56:29 as firm as still upon the Word of God, 56:31 even though the mixed multitudes 56:33 are calling the Bible outdated? 56:36 They're calling it a hate crime book, a racist book. 56:40 Friends, listen, we have a heaven to gain 56:44 and a hell to shun. 56:45 What will be your choice? 56:48 And to help you along and those whom you 56:51 may wanna share this two part series with, 56:54 we are offering it to you today 56:56 for a love gift of just $15 or more. 56:59 Along with this message is two part series 57:03 that we've entitled "The Golden Calf." 57:05 We're also offering a free book. 57:07 And this free book is entitled "Patriarchs and Prophets" 57:11 to anyone who calls and requests one book. 57:16 Shipping for this book, outside of the US 57:19 may incur additional fees, 57:20 but it's free for all of our US viewers. 57:23 In this book Patriarchs and Prophets, 57:26 you will be able to read a wonderful analysis 57:29 of this story concerning "The Golden Calf." 57:33 So for either the two part series 57:35 or this free book, 57:37 simply contact us here in the United States 57:40 at 618-942-5044, that's Central Time, 57:45 or you may write to us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:48 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:52 You may also email us at 57:54 Contact@BeholdThe LambMinistries.com 57:58 or visit us on our website at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 58:02 And before I close out, I wanna encourage you 58:05 to visit our Behold the Lamb Ministries 58:07 YouTube channel for more important messages 58:10 such as the one today 58:12 that we are trying our due diligence 58:15 to weekly update for your benefit. 58:18 And once you subscribe and share these messages 58:20 with your friends and family, 58:22 we also would like to invite you to join us 58:24 on our Facebook page Behold The Lamb Ministries. 58:27 But, friends, until next time 58:29 that we are once again together. 58:30 May our Precious Lord 58:32 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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