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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 for joining us. 00:45 Our message for today is entitled 00:47 The Mass Bread and Wine. 00:49 This is part one of a two part series. 00:52 And during today's message, 00:54 Pastor Kenny Shelton plans to cover 00:56 the historical relevancy of the mass bread and wine 01:00 that is so well-known 01:01 and practiced in the Roman Catholic Church. 01:04 Whether or not you are a Catholic by faith, 01:07 millions upon millions of believers 01:10 believe in faithfully practice and attend the mass 01:14 and the communion of the bread and wine 01:15 as understood, taught 01:17 and practiced in the Catholic faith. 01:20 So understanding the history of these practices 01:23 can be very enlightening to the earnest Bible student 01:27 of which we hope that each and every one of you are. 01:31 Therefore, with anticipation 01:33 we're looking forward to hearing 01:34 what the Lord has placed 01:36 upon Pastor Kenny Shelton's heart today 01:38 to share with each and every one of us 01:40 concerning the history of the mass bread and wine. 01:45 But before we join Pastor Kenny, 01:46 let's visit 3ABN 01:48 and listen to a song 01:50 entitled Depth of Mercy 01:51 as sung by Naomi Jackson. 02:09 Depth of mercy, 02:13 can there be Mercy 02:17 Still reserved for me? 02:23 Can my God 02:26 His wrath forbear 02:29 Me the chief 02:32 Of sinners, spare? 02:35 Heaven find me 02:37 On my knees 02:41 Hear my soul 02:43 In passioned pleas 02:48 Depth of mercy, 02:50 Can there be 02:55 Mercy still reserved 03:00 For me? 03:15 Now incline me 03:18 To repent 03:22 Help me now 03:24 My sins lament 03:28 Deeply my revolt deplore 03:34 Weep, believe 03:36 And sin no more 03:39 Heaven find me 03:41 On my knees 03:45 Hear my soul in passioned pleas 03:51 Depth of mercy, 03:53 Can there be 03:59 Mercy still reserved 04:03 For me? 04:15 Heaven find me 04:18 On my knees 04:22 Hear my soul in passioned pleas 04:28 Depth of mercy, 04:30 Can there be 04:36 Mercy still reserved 04:43 Mercy still reserved 04:49 Mercy still reserved 04:53 for me? 05:19 Hello and welcome once again to Behold the Lamb. 05:21 We're so very happy and grateful 05:23 that you have decided to tune in today. 05:25 This is, to me, it's an exciting message. 05:28 It's a two-parter so, 05:30 you know, if you miss one part or you miss a second first, 05:32 it's not going to come together. 05:34 So you're going to need both parts. 05:35 We're going to be talking about, 05:36 notice this, the mass and bread and wine. 05:40 What does that all mean? 05:42 I mean, there's actually, you could say 05:44 billions of people who believe in going to mass, 05:47 they believe in mass. 05:49 And what do they really believe in? 05:51 Has it possibly taken the place 05:53 of a truth that's in the Word of God? 05:55 I'm just throwing it out for us to think. 05:58 Is it possible that the enemy has produced a counterfeit? 06:02 And is it possible that the whole world 06:04 or a majority of the world is saying 06:05 it doesn't really matter, 06:07 and the other part are participating? 06:08 I believe it does matter every... 06:10 Jesus said every word that what? 06:12 That proceeds out of the mouth of God matters. 06:16 It counts. 06:17 And so we need to realize based on the Word of God today 06:21 that we as God's people have a big job to do 06:24 by the grace of God, 06:26 by His grace and His strength. 06:27 Again, thank you for your cards 06:29 and thank you for your letters. 06:30 Thank you for the support. 06:31 Behold the Lamb believes in getting the message 06:33 to the world. 06:35 I don't believe that message should be kept inside walls. 06:37 That's not what it's for. 06:39 It's to go into all the world. 06:41 There's somebody today that will be blessed 06:44 if you're looking for a blessing. 06:46 It's not who the speaker is. It's not who may be a singer. 06:49 It's what the Holy Spirit working on your heart. 06:52 And I'm thrilled day by day as we see letters coming in. 06:55 People were saying, 06:56 "I was praying for truth for years, 06:58 and now I found it." 07:00 You know how awesome that is? 07:02 See, that makes you want to jump up and shout. 07:04 It does me. 07:05 We've been praying for 07:07 just like many of you have for literally years. 07:08 You were walking in darkness 07:10 and now God's called you out of that 07:12 into marvelous light. 07:13 And I'm very grateful and thankful for that. 07:16 Always we pray, 07:18 I didn't open the Word you noticed, 07:19 but I'm going to open it. 07:21 But always pray, and I want you to be praying along with us. 07:23 We need Holy Spirit power. 07:25 I realized I have nothing which to give, 07:27 nothing good, it's not going to effect, 07:28 the Holy Spirit does. 07:30 We're not wasting our time up here. 07:32 And the Holy Spirit says, 07:33 I'm going to take that Word will not return void. 07:35 And I'm going to believe that. 07:37 And I'm going to have faith to believe it. 07:38 And I ask that you would do the same today 07:39 as I kneel and have prayer. 07:42 Merciful God in heaven, 07:44 again, we thank You for Your precious Word 07:46 that You're offering to us today, 07:47 You've offered Yourself on Calvary's cross. 07:50 We accept that today. 07:51 We thank you for that blood that flowed so freely 07:54 that we may have eternal life. 07:56 Oh Lord, thank You for that grace. 07:57 Thank You for Your longsuffering. 07:59 Thank You that You still bear with us. 08:02 And we pray that 08:03 as we behold Jesus today, 08:04 our hearts and life will be changed 08:06 and it may be in a little different way 08:08 than people are used to. 08:09 We liked it to behold with sugar 08:12 and things that are easy to swallow. 08:14 And today we're going to behold Jesus 08:16 as He looks into the hearts and lives 08:19 of each and every one of us today. 08:21 And He's giving us a call to come out of error 08:23 and come into that glorious light of the gospel, 08:25 in Jesus' name. 08:27 Amen. 08:29 Our scripture reading again found is John Chapter 6. 08:31 John Chapter 6, 08:33 you have your Bibles, please turn. 08:35 I always, and I think is good for all of us 08:37 is check the preacher, 08:40 check the evangelist. 08:42 I mean, I love people to do that. 08:44 If I see somebody there is not looking up anything, 08:46 they're just going, well, you now. 08:47 Man, you know, get into the Word, right? 08:49 Check him out. I did. 08:51 I learned to do that as a young person. 08:53 We were taught to check him out 08:55 no matter who he is. 08:57 Well, we have confidence and we love. 08:59 Wonderful, I'm glad you have confidence. 09:01 And I'm glad that you love whoever it is that might be 09:03 teaching or preaching or bringing the Word, 09:05 but check him out. 09:07 He may be telling the best he understands, 09:09 but you know, the Holy Spirit 09:11 is going to lead us and guide us. 09:12 And was it John 16, into all what? 09:15 Into all truth. And that's what we want here. 09:17 Now remember, the whole world is not going to be the ones 09:20 that's going to be saved in the kingdom. 09:22 It's going to be a small group, 09:24 a little remnant, isn't that right? 09:25 Something, people that dare to be different. 09:27 That's what the Bible say. 09:28 I'd love for everyone to be saved, wouldn't you? 09:31 Christ died on the cross, so everyone could be saved, 09:35 but there are conditions 09:37 if you are going to make heaven your home. 09:39 Now think about opening up glory 09:41 and just saying, well, if anybody just want, 09:43 come as you are just said, he says that down here, 09:46 come as you are, 09:47 but you will not remain the same 09:49 as you are in His presence. 09:52 And the reason we stay the same 09:53 many times for years 09:54 is because we're really not in His presence. 09:57 We're just talking a bunch of, woo, bunch of hot air. 10:00 We're just talking it 10:02 rather than doing something about it. 10:03 John Chapter 6, 10:05 this is a passage that is really misunderstood 10:10 by the Roman Church. 10:12 And we want to get into that and probably will not be today 10:15 because they simply take this verse in Rome, 10:17 in John 6:53, 54 and 55. 10:23 "Then Jesus said unto them, 10:25 verily, verily. I say unto you." 10:27 Now, are we on good solid ground so far? 10:30 Why? 10:32 Good. 10:33 See somebody paying attention because Jesus said. 10:37 Notice, Jesus said, 10:38 you can't go wrong with this. 10:39 You can't put up a fight. 10:41 Oh, you can if you want to. But you know what? 10:43 It's a losing battle. 10:44 Jesus said, notice this, except you eat the... 10:48 Somebody say flesh, flesh, I'm going to get happy. 10:51 "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man 10:54 and drink the blood, you have no life in you. 10:58 Whosoever eateth my flesh 10:59 and drinketh my blood hath," what? 11:01 "Eternal life, and I will raise him up 11:04 at the last day." 11:06 You talk about a lot of truths 11:07 and here you could spend a lot of time on. 11:09 Oh, I'm telling they're good. 11:11 Verse 55, notice, it says 11:13 "For my flesh is meat indeed, 11:16 and my blood is drink indeed." 11:20 So there're some millions, maybe billions 11:22 that believe that this becomes what? 11:25 When you're doing this communion, 11:26 whatever it might be that you're doing 11:28 the communion that it is literally right, 11:30 that the wafer and the wine is turned into 11:33 the physical body of God and His blood. 11:38 We're going to spend a lot more time on that 11:40 'cause that's interesting. 11:41 I believe that is a lie of the devil. 11:44 May I just say that? And let you think about it. 11:46 You may never heard it before. So you'll say, well, no. 11:49 Listen, it makes a difference 11:51 if it's not substantiated in the Word of God, 11:54 then it is a lie of the devil. 11:55 So you have to decide, 11:57 well, I'll just take the lie of the devil. 11:58 Well, go ahead. That's your choice. 12:00 I hope you don't 12:02 because remember we're talking about communion service 12:04 and Jesus makes it real plain about that, 12:06 does He not? 12:08 That's right. 12:09 Now, Paul mentions, 12:10 as we begin in 2 Thessalonians 2, 3, 4, and 7. 12:14 We won't look all that up right now, 12:15 but he's talking about, 12:17 you know, the man of sin is going to be what? 12:19 He's going to be revealed in these last days. 12:21 God has a people who dare to be a Daniel. 12:26 God has a people who dare to tell 12:28 what is truth in the last days, 12:30 even though if it will, it's not going to be popular. 12:32 They're going to fight against the man of sin. 12:34 They're going to fight against that, 12:36 you know, that little horn power. 12:39 They're going to put up a fight against err. 12:42 I've often said before, 12:44 we've got a jerk err out by the roots. 12:47 Don't let err get into the church. 12:49 You let it get in and it begins to infiltrate 12:52 and people begin to pick up little bits and pieces. 12:54 You've got a mess. 12:57 Err has to go. 12:58 And only the detector, 13:00 the Word of God can tell us what that is. 13:04 You know, from the very beginning, 13:05 from the early days. 13:07 And again, tracing some history 13:08 as fast as we can go through here 13:09 stages that the enemy has always planned 13:12 to corrupt God's church, 13:14 God's people. 13:15 He had a plan and sad to say, 13:18 he has a plan sometime when we as Christians don't. 13:23 Maybe we don't understand 13:25 what a real Battle Royale this is. 13:27 This is for eternal life. 13:30 Some of you like me, 13:32 we're in the last stages of the life here on this earth. 13:38 And where are we going to spend eternity? 13:39 We're going to dillydally around 13:41 and just say, well, I believe that 13:43 God's going to take me. 13:44 You can be sure from the Word of God 13:46 that your salvation is assured 13:48 if you're willing to follow what He said in His Word. 13:52 Has nothing to do with works. 13:54 But I will say this, 13:55 I believe there won't be anyone in the kingdom 13:57 that doesn't have works 13:59 because it's natural. 14:00 Isn't that right? 14:02 Faith without works is what? 14:03 Oh, I live by faith. I live by faith. 14:05 Wonderful. 14:06 But the Bible says faith without works is dead. 14:10 So what a wonderful combination that just comes across, 14:13 not because you have to, because it's just inside. 14:16 You ever have something inside it just got to come out. 14:19 I feel like sometime 14:20 my head's just going to blow right off of my shoulders. 14:22 You ever feel that way? 14:23 You've got something good, 14:25 God done something good for you for the day. 14:27 And you feel good about it. 14:28 You can't wait to tell somebody, 14:30 and sometime the enemy will put you 14:31 in front of somebody 14:33 that trying to take the air out of your bubble. 14:35 Don't let them do that. 14:37 Errs came creeping in to the church. 14:42 And as err came in, 14:44 the enemy knew this from the beginning, 14:45 to get err into the church, that pretty soon that what? 14:50 It would prepare the way for the papacy. 14:52 Somebody needs to pay attention. 14:54 In the first centuries as you will know, 14:55 a hundred years, everybody, 14:58 I think I can say so everybody went to church on the Sabbath. 15:03 See some of them, some of them don't get that. 15:07 Everybody went to church, 15:09 you a pagan or a Christian, isn't that right? 15:11 You went to church on the Sabbath. 15:13 Well, what happened? 15:15 The enemy understood that. 15:17 So he realized he had to bring something in 15:19 that would begin to change our focus on err 15:22 and how they could what? 15:24 Be the power that they wanted to be. 15:28 The enemy laid his plans 15:31 to war against the government of God as He did, 15:34 we know that by planning his false doctrines 15:37 and false teaching. 15:38 Now don't anyone, please don't even want to say 15:40 it doesn't matter. 15:41 It does matter. 15:43 Remember, it's either the truth of God's Word. 15:45 I can't say it any plainer than that. 15:46 It's the truth of God's Word or it's a lie of the devil. 15:50 Now you choose. 15:51 I can't imagine any Christian saying, 15:53 "Well, I'll just take the lie of the devil." 15:57 No, surely we wouldn't say that. 15:59 But we do in our action sometime 16:01 because we were not willing to follow 16:03 what is truth. 16:05 We just refused to do it 16:06 because it demands a change in our lifestyle. 16:08 And we're too selfish and self-centered many times 16:12 to make any of those changes. 16:14 We want to get to heaven in our own little way, 16:17 it's not going to happen. 16:18 And so the devil comes into the church 16:20 and he's bringing these false doctrines 16:22 and teachings with him. 16:24 In fact, 16:25 he wanted to become a member of the church. 16:30 He wanted to become a member? 16:33 You see his plan is changed now. 16:37 Not like in the very beginning, 16:38 the very beginning what did he do? 16:40 While he imprisoned, 16:42 he killed, oh my, he burned, 16:44 he tortured, yeah, 16:47 people who said they were Christians. 16:50 But seemed like every time a life was taken, 16:52 there'd be two or three more that would jump up. 16:54 So torture, you couldn't get rid of the Christians. 16:58 There was a way to expand it. 16:59 But think about, when the church grew, 17:02 when the church was growing, there was persecution. 17:05 Now, as there's bait, 17:07 there is in some other parts of the country. 17:08 Here it's kind of easy come, easy go. 17:11 Some chose the day, 17:12 well, I'll rather sleep in bed today 17:13 than come in the house of God, you made a wrong choice. 17:18 I'm entitled to my opinion. Am I not? 17:20 You can say, it's not if you want to, 17:23 if it was just a choice, 17:25 if there wasn't anything that was keeping you there, 17:27 maybe sickness or something like that. 17:29 And I'm saying we have to make choices every day 17:32 and to be on the side that God wants us to be on. 17:36 So where one would die, one would be burnt, 17:39 one would be strung up, one would be tortured, 17:42 one would be stretched 17:43 till they pull their joints right out of their arms. 17:45 This is all history. 17:46 Read it all, 17:48 history of the Reformation. 17:49 You can read all kinds of stuff that went on. 17:51 Foxe's Books of Martyrs will make you sick to read it. 17:54 But it's the truth. 17:56 The enemy is trying to get rid of books like that, 17:58 and will try to get rid of some of the history. 18:03 Just a quick comment on John 6:53-55. 18:09 When Jesus claimed to be the bread of life. 18:11 Think with me, 18:12 this will be good for the whole time, 18:14 both the first and second parts here from heaven. 18:17 It upset the Jews. 18:20 The Jews were very upset when Jesus said 18:22 I am the bread of life. I am from heaven. 18:24 Man, they got mad. 18:27 Sometime when you say, 18:29 I know Jesus is my Lord and Savior. 18:31 Sometime people get mad at you. 18:33 They get little bit upset. 18:37 Now they were upset, but then Jesus invites them, 18:39 you remember to eat of His flesh 18:42 because many people put a literal construction 18:46 on His words. 18:48 You say how can we eat his flesh and drink His blood. 18:52 It's bound to be shocking 18:54 if you thought that this was literal, 18:57 which some teach today. 18:59 So it either is truth or it's not truth. 19:03 The Jews knew that the law prohibited 19:06 the use of blood for food, did it not? 19:08 Sure. 19:10 Genesis 9, Deuteronomy Chapter 12, 19:11 just read that when you have the opportunity. 19:13 So to eat the flesh and drink the blood 19:16 is simply to receive Christ as our personal Savior, 19:21 receive what? 19:22 His life, we become complete in Him. 19:27 So we need to be complete in Him, 19:28 we need to continue to eat 19:31 and feed on this bread of life. 19:34 And you know what that yields? Eternal life. 19:37 But we have to be eating. 19:38 You can't go at the table, say I'm not hungry. 19:41 We have to be hungry, so I believe this. 19:43 If you came today to receive a blessing, 19:47 you will. 19:48 If you came to criticize and condemn and find fault, 19:51 that's what you, that's what will happen. 19:54 We need to be in one accord. 19:56 Changes taking place, 19:59 so the devil said, okay, 20:00 well, I'm going to join the church, 20:01 now what gonna do? 20:03 Okay. Persecution, realize the Dark Ages. 20:04 It began to come to right, the Reformation, 20:05 it began to come to an end. 20:08 Persecution somewhat ceased, 20:09 and all of a sudden now there's allurements, 20:13 now there's offers of peace and prosperity, 20:16 and worldly things, and honor and gain. 20:20 See, these were offered now in place of the rack 20:22 and the dungeon, all these things here, 20:24 the devil said, no, I can't kill them 20:25 because they just keep multiplying. 20:27 Now I'm going to offer to them some things of the world. 20:30 You may realize how many people today 20:33 the world has taken them captive. 20:36 They come to the truth of keeping the Sabbath. 20:39 And they say, "Well, I can't do that. 20:40 I need to continue to work on the Sabbath." 20:42 Really? 20:44 He said, no work on that day, did He not? 20:47 Who are we then to say otherwise? 20:49 We have to think this thing over here, 20:52 because He said, 20:54 no work on that day. 20:59 Now, how many are going, 21:00 you know, wanting to go along with that. 21:03 So how did these false doctrines 21:05 and teachings come in 21:07 when the enemy's offering prosperity and peace 21:09 and all these things? 21:11 Well, all of a sudden we have idolaters 21:13 that were coming in. 21:14 That's called the half converted. 21:17 They begin to be accepted in the church. 21:19 And let me just be bold enough to say 21:21 that I believe that many times that happens in churches today. 21:25 The half, come on, somebody. 21:27 The half, sometimes half converted people come in. 21:30 They cause more trouble in the church. 21:33 We love for people to come in. 21:34 Don't get me wrong. 21:36 Praise God. 21:37 But if we're only going to be half converted, 21:39 that means what? 21:40 Half converted means totally lost. 21:42 Is that true? There's no such thing. 21:44 Well, it's, you know, I've heard people say 21:45 many times while growing up. 21:47 Well, it's better than nothing. 21:49 No, it's not. 21:51 It's not Brother Jan. It's not better because what? 21:54 Half means what? 21:56 You're bringing in half of devil as it were, 21:57 you're bringing the whole devil in, 22:00 into the church and all the things 22:01 you think should be all right. 22:05 And so they came in, these half converted idolaters. 22:08 They were accepted into the church 22:10 while they rejected many essentials. 22:15 What do you mean, essential truths? 22:17 Here's the main point, quickly two little things. 22:19 Their profession was this. 22:21 In other words you wanted to join the church 22:22 back in the first century, right, you want to come in, 22:25 as paganism was coming in. 22:26 And, you know, idol worshipers and all that was coming in. 22:29 There's two things. 22:31 All you had to do was say, I accept Christ. 22:34 Hmm. 22:35 I believe that His, in His death 22:39 and in His resurrection 22:40 and you were a full-time member. 22:44 Nothing was said about conviction of sin. 22:49 Nothing was said about needed to gain victory, 22:51 needed to repent. 22:53 Nothing was said about having a change of heart. 22:56 That's what we should all be talking about here 22:58 is of change of heart and life. 23:00 Because in this world we have, we're all sinners, right? 23:03 And we need a Savior. 23:04 And somewhere in point in our time in our life, 23:07 we must accept Christ as our Lord and Savior. 23:10 There's no other way into heaven, right, 23:13 than by Jesus. 23:15 We understand that, we have the conviction to say, 23:16 we want to change. 23:18 If you don't want to change, that means you must be happy 23:21 with your life and your lifestyle. 23:23 I found out many years ago, I need some changes. 23:25 Now I need some big ones. 23:30 And the more about God's grace, it begins to make changes, 23:32 the more I see I needed. 23:36 And now all these years later, I find out I still need more, 23:41 because by beholding I found myself even more sinful 23:43 than I even thought. 23:47 Isn't that interesting? 23:48 But beholding, isn't that right? 23:49 By beholding, we become changed into His image. 23:52 If you're beholding the old computer 23:54 and all that junk 23:56 that's on there, 23:57 you're listening to the wrong kind of music, 24:00 eating the wrong kind of stuff 24:02 that affects your mind and decisions that you make. 24:04 There's no doubt about. 24:05 That's a proven fact 24:07 that hasn't come to from a church, 24:09 that comes from people who've studied these things. 24:11 They makes sense 24:15 that we need to, by the grace of God, 24:17 we need to be convicted, 24:18 we need to repent, we need to change. 24:21 But you know what? 24:23 At this point in time in the church, 24:24 when we found out that all these... 24:26 Again, this has to do with false doctrines 24:28 and teachings of how they came in to the church, 24:31 and after a few hundred years, 24:33 the church accepted them 24:34 and nobody knows any difference. 24:37 This is what we've always done. 24:39 This is what we've always believed. 24:40 Let it teach and go for 200 years, 24:42 nobody bring it up. 24:43 How many of us will be around 200 years? 24:47 Nobody's going to be repulsed by it 24:49 and say, we didn't know. 24:50 That's the way I was raised. 24:52 That's why we need to study to show ourselves 24:53 approved unto God. 24:56 So what happened with the church 24:58 and the pagans and the heathen? 25:01 I mean, somebody comes in and, 25:03 oh my lands of love. 25:04 They've never given their life to Christ 25:05 and they come in here and they bring in 25:07 all of these different things with them. 25:09 How many of us just going to sit in our pew 25:11 and say nothing? 25:14 Now you can let your mind go as far as you want to go, 25:16 but we're talking about heathen and pagans here. 25:18 There's somebody comes in through marching and say, 25:20 we love Jesus. 25:21 Oh, praise God, good. 25:24 We believe in His burial and His resurrection, 25:26 praise God. 25:27 And then they, has to be honest with. 25:28 They bring in a big idol 25:30 or something they set it up here 25:31 and they're bowing down, they're praying to it. 25:33 How many of us are going to be silent? 25:35 Well, if any of you are, shame on you. 25:40 Think about it. 25:41 That's what happened in the early church. 25:45 They didn't know what to do, 25:47 and they didn't know what to do. 25:49 So they made compromise and they made concessions. 25:54 Other words, if this side would compromise a little bit, 25:57 this side here would make concessions and compromise. 26:00 Pretty soon, they're going to say, 26:01 oh, okay, we've got an agreement here. 26:04 Now, remember, there's some things 26:05 that we do not agree on. 26:07 And on those, oh, listen, 26:08 on those things that we don't agree on, 26:11 keep silent. 26:13 Is that some what's going on today? 26:14 Remember, 26:16 many churches doing that today. 26:18 They're saying we agree with da-da-da. 26:19 Yeah, but you don't agree. Well, we don't talk about that. 26:21 Really? 26:23 Something's wrong with that picture. 26:27 But they were told, we need to keep silent. 26:28 And then they say, what? 26:31 The only way we can have unity is to do this and compromise. 26:34 Today I hear unity and unity. I love unity. 26:37 Jesus prayed for the unity. 26:39 And I believe in unity. 26:41 I want to see unity. 26:43 I believe God's church, 26:44 His people ought to be unified in the truth, 26:46 and we can't even seem to do that. 26:50 Huh. 26:52 We need unity. 26:53 But when you have a false unity, 26:55 that's wrong, 26:57 that means you've compromised, made concessions. 27:00 And the truth has been watered down, 27:01 that doesn't matter anymore. 27:03 I think it does. 27:06 I love the book Great Controversy. 27:07 How about you? 27:10 Page 566 says this. 27:12 If it's proven wrong from scripture, 27:14 somebody tell me, I'll scratch it out. 27:17 Somebody can prove these things are not true in here, 27:19 I'll burn it up. 27:21 Can I go that far? 27:23 Doesn't mean I can. I understand everything, 27:25 but I've been reading it now for over 50 years. 27:28 You know, I haven't found anything 27:29 that goes against Scripture yet. 27:31 There's a lot into the future, 27:33 but I've also looked in the past 27:35 and I've seen these things 27:36 fulfilled right to the very letter, 27:38 every one of them, 27:39 and so why not the last little bit. 27:42 Oh, I tell you it's good. 27:44 Protestants have trouble. 27:47 Now anybody a Protestant here? 27:51 We've got one. Will there be two? 27:53 If there'll be two, will there be three? 27:55 Come on somebody. Yes. 27:57 Basically if you're not a Catholic, 27:58 you're a Protestant. 28:00 Notice what, "Protestants have made 28:01 compromises and concessions 28:03 which papists themselves are surprised to see 28:07 and fail to understand." 28:09 We have made concessions to the Church of Rome, 28:13 even though this, remember, 28:14 and I'm just going to say it bold, 28:16 because most of their teaching, not people. 28:18 Come on, we understand. 28:19 It's not trying to judge anything, anybody. 28:21 We're looking at what they're teaching 28:22 for truth. 28:24 You cannot find it almost everything 28:26 in the Word of God, 28:27 can you? 28:29 You can't find their doctrines and teachings 28:31 most in the Word of God. 28:32 You just can't. 28:35 It's not. Thank you. 28:36 It's just not there. 28:39 Huh. 28:40 And so when they throw these things out 28:42 to the Protestants and we say, 28:43 well, okay, let's try to get along. 28:46 They're surprised they put it in there, right? 28:47 We're surprised 28:49 they're even accepting this without a fight. 28:51 Many of us Protestants, we don't protest anymore, 28:53 we don't fight anymore. 28:56 And we know God is to fight our battles for us, 28:58 but He needs somebody that will stand up. 29:00 We need more spiritual backbone in the church 29:03 than what we have. 29:08 Shame on us if we teach and we preach 29:10 and we try to come before someone else, 29:12 we don't have a backbone to stand for what truth is. 29:15 I always say, go out and get a real job. 29:20 See, many people are closing their eyes 29:22 today of things what? 29:24 The character of Romanism, 29:25 they're just closing their eyes. 29:28 But we have to remember the danger 29:30 that are there for us as a people. 29:34 If they reached this stage of supremacy, 29:36 which they have in the old world, 29:38 which they're still trying to do in this new world, 29:40 as the deadly wound was healed 29:42 and all the world wandered after the beast. 29:44 And they are those whose names are not written 29:46 in the Lamb's Book of Life. 29:47 Man, I'd care about that. 29:50 If I were you, I'd care about 29:51 finding out what that means. 29:57 Great Controversy says, God's people, listen, 30:00 need to be aroused. 30:02 I don't know what it takes for some, 30:04 but some people you just can't arouse. 30:06 We know, and I'm not talking about the Holy Spirit doing it. 30:08 You can get up and you can do, 30:09 as they say sometime the foolishness of preaching. 30:12 Preach your heart out. 30:14 Nobody's going to listen, maybe somebody will. 30:18 But we need to realize here that we need to be aroused. 30:22 Notice this word, to resist 30:25 the advances of the most dangerous 30:29 foe to civil 30:30 and religious liberty. 30:32 Did you get that? 30:34 The Roman Church is the biggest danger, 30:37 biggest threat 30:39 to our civil and religious liberty. 30:43 See, I believe in liberty. 30:44 I believe 30:45 if you want to accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, 30:47 praise God, 30:48 if you don't want to, you don't have to. 30:51 We need to, but you don't have to. 30:53 I believe in freedom of speech, don't you? 30:55 Look, what's been taken away from us. 30:58 All these things are gradually taken away. 31:00 Signs of the time, Bible prophecy. 31:04 May I just project something? 31:05 If you don't like it, I started to say throw it back. 31:08 But that doesn't mean the shoes or anything like that. 31:10 Don't we try it. 31:13 What? I want you to think. 31:16 God's people need to stir it up a little bit. 31:19 It might stink when you do, 31:20 but I'm telling you it's going to get nice after a while, 31:22 stir it up. 31:24 You know why it will stink? 31:25 Because the truth had been left in the bottom too long. 31:27 Let's get it to the top. 31:28 Let's start stirring it up right now. 31:31 I'm going to say that 31:32 the church now is worse shape than it was 31:36 worst peril you can say 31:38 than when there was people put in prison 31:40 and when there was people, 31:42 you know, were burnt by the fire. 31:43 They were tortured, 31:44 they were separated from loved ones. 31:48 I'm going to say it's worse. Why? 31:52 Because Satan now... 31:54 Now, notice this. 31:55 Remember when there's persecution, 31:57 what happened? 31:58 The church grew. 32:04 Yes, oh, yeah. 32:07 Satan now comes to the church 32:11 and he comes through the front doors. 32:14 Somebody lock it. 32:17 He comes through what? 32:19 The front doors. 32:21 He said he don't have to come in the back 32:23 more than likely 32:25 people won't recognize who he is anyway, 32:28 because he decided to maybe come 32:30 in the form of me or you. 32:34 Now, no one did that. 32:36 I know that you prayed before you come into the sanctuary. 32:38 If you didn't shame on you, do it next time. 32:40 Because if we don't have clean hands 32:42 and clean hearts and clean minds, 32:44 that's how the devil gets in here. 32:47 That's how we have to realize that when you are preparing, 32:51 as many of you do in Sabbath school 32:53 and pastoring and so on and so forth. 32:54 When you are preparing your message, 32:56 the enemy stands over your shoulder 32:58 and he reads what you jot down. 33:00 Don't think he doesn't. 33:02 He is a foe. 33:05 So that means those of us who do that, 33:08 we are in contention day in and day out. 33:12 You feel it sometime, you're overwhelmed. 33:15 I'm getting goose bumps now of overwhelmed how the enemy, 33:18 you know that he's there, sometime I'm writing in, 33:21 Lord, have mercy. 33:23 Lord, have mercy. 33:24 The enemy seen, God said, 33:26 "Don't worry about it. I'll take care of him. 33:29 Don't worry about him. I'll take care of him." 33:34 Boy, I'm telling you this... 33:36 I just feel more and more overwhelmed at time. 33:39 We don't need to be because God's in control, 33:42 overwhelmed that I'm not doing what God asked me to do fully. 33:44 I want to do it. I know you want to do it. 33:48 And I don't want him to come in through the front door. 33:53 And he not only walks in the front door, 33:54 but we welcome him. 33:56 Well, come in, so nice to see You. 33:59 Hmm. And we hand him a bulletin. 34:01 So he knows what's going on. 34:03 And I guarantee you he's been up Friday night 34:05 planning. 34:07 Come on, church. 34:09 Then we have, as it were, a deacon, 34:10 then we bring him and try to give him 34:11 the best seat in the house. 34:15 Well, come on in and have seat. 34:17 Hmm. 34:20 And then the choir gets up to sing and lo 34:22 and behold, if you don't join them. 34:27 Please just come on now. 34:31 Then the preacher gets up or Sabbath school teacher 34:33 and the enemy starts corrupting the class, 34:36 causing unusual things to go on. 34:42 He's trying to cause division and separation. 34:46 Hmm. 34:49 So I think maybe we would admit today the church, 34:53 even in her best condition 34:57 is not made up of holy, 35:01 true, pure, sincere, 35:05 born again Christians. 35:07 That's heavy-duty now. Did you get it? 35:11 Even at her best condition, the church has some faults. 35:15 And what is it? It's us. 35:18 We have things that we need to overcome. 35:20 Not trying to be judgmental in your life. 35:22 You know, your own life, 35:26 but we're a church I would call it. 35:27 We've read many times a church that's militant 35:30 that God is calling. 35:34 He's calling us as His people. 35:36 That's anybody and everybody, I must say publicly. 35:40 And I always have, 35:41 and sometime you get in trouble for it, 35:43 but you know what? 35:44 I'm not a stranger to trouble. 35:47 Are you? 35:49 I'm not a stranger for somebody jumping down my throat. 35:52 I know how to get back up and tangled a little bit 35:54 with the Word of God. 35:55 Come on now, church. Right? 35:57 I know by the Word of God. 36:00 The enemy is going to silence you if he can. 36:03 Hmm. 36:05 The devil doesn't care about pew sleepers. 36:09 Did you get it? 36:10 Huh. 36:16 But the pew sleepers many times 36:18 in the lukewarm become very angry 36:21 when some of their life or their sins are reproved. 36:26 They hate to be disturbed. 36:30 They like it quiet. 36:32 Hmm. 36:35 And when their sins or things in their life, 36:38 no one may know that they're hit upon, 36:41 they begin to turn on 36:42 those who are working in their behalf. 36:47 Remember as long as persecution continued, 36:49 the church did what? 36:51 Remain comparatively pure. 36:55 And it will once again, 36:59 as heart and mind and the world 37:00 begins to turn on the last day church, 37:03 then what? 37:05 Most are going to flee out of it. 37:07 Yeah. 37:14 But think about this. 37:16 That was that, that time at the beginning, 37:18 where church remained comparatively, right? 37:21 Pure because, you know, the persecution was going on 37:24 and people took a stand and they say, 37:25 "I'll die for what is truth." 37:30 But as this ceased, others came into the church, 37:35 and the ones who came into the church 37:37 in the first, second century and third century, 37:39 they were, 37:40 you know, we wanna call them less sincere. 37:43 They were not quite as devoted. 37:47 And then once again, 37:48 the enemy found the door cracked open. 37:50 Now he can come in through the less sincere 37:54 and the less devoted. 37:59 There are those who oppose this union 38:01 between light and darkness. 38:05 They struggle with deception. 38:07 They struggle with abominations that be in the church. 38:12 They should, 38:15 I hear so much all the time about latter rain experience. 38:18 Praise God for that. Man, we need it. 38:21 But when you talk about abominations, right? 38:24 Somebody has to sigh and cry for those abominations 38:26 that be in the church. 38:28 If you're not sighing and crying 38:29 for those abomination, those sins in the church, 38:31 you will not receive of the latter rain. 38:33 Heaven will not be your home. 38:36 God doesn't cover sin, right? 38:38 He takes it by His blood. 38:40 Isn't that wonderful to know 38:42 we're free by the blood of the Lamb? 38:46 Don't give the enemy any kind of foothold. 38:55 Think about this. 38:57 You know, the Bible was not accepted 39:02 in the early stages as the standard of faith. 39:07 Remember the world got into a mess, 39:09 the church got into a mess 39:10 because the people did not accept the Word of God 39:12 as the standard of righteousness, 39:14 and they do not today. 39:16 The majority do not. 39:18 You talk to them a lot. 39:20 They'll say, "Well, I know what it says, but." 39:21 If you're one of those, you're a Billy goat. 39:24 That makes sense? 39:26 'Cause Billy goes through what? 39:28 Thank you, but. 39:31 Think about God called, He said, I called my sheep. 39:33 He said, well, I go, but... 39:39 God doesn't call the Billy goats. 39:40 He calls sheep. 39:44 So we have to keep this in our mind 39:46 the real standard of faith, religious freedom. 39:49 Listen, religious freedom 39:50 back then was termed heresy. 39:55 Wasn't it? 39:56 It was termed heresy. 39:58 That simply means that, 40:00 you notice that their belief, 40:07 it simply means as we look at it... 40:11 Here's what the church, the mother church, 40:13 as it were, was laying out. 40:15 And if you didn't go along with those teachings, 40:21 you were hated, you were rebuked. 40:25 Huh. 40:26 Yeah. Jailed, and then maybe killed. 40:29 I mean, this is heavy-duty stuff. 40:33 So what should the church do? 40:38 What should the church do? 40:39 What should we do as the people, 40:41 the true and faithful? 40:43 What did the true and faithful do now? 40:44 Time's going on quickly. 40:48 If you have this type of situation, 40:50 that's infiltrated the church 40:52 as they did at the time of Christ 40:54 and shortly thereafter, 40:56 first, second, third century, what do you do? 41:00 You blow a trumpet 41:02 and certainly get some truth out there 41:03 and call people to make a decision. 41:05 Remember when you blow it in Zion, 41:06 that means you give it to the church. 41:08 And how often I hear so often is, 41:10 well, you don't want to, 41:11 you don't want to call sin by anything. 41:13 You don't want to deal with the church. Really? 41:17 I feel in my own heart, in my life 41:18 that the Holy Spirit calls me many times to, 41:22 you know, as the heirs of the church. 41:27 Certainly not everybody's get the same call, 41:29 but I have the burden I've said so often 41:31 that regardless of where I start out 41:33 in preparing a message, 41:35 I will inevitably go back 41:38 to giving a call because what? 41:40 Probation is soon to close 41:42 and the time must be spent on God's people 41:45 as the message was, 41:46 you remember it went to the Gentiles. 41:48 Jesus even said what? 41:49 Don't go to the Gentiles 41:51 just before, you remember that 41:52 before the probation close for Calvary. 41:55 Don't go, don't go to Gentiles, go to house of Israel. 41:58 And now it seem like 41:59 we're so close to the end of time, 42:01 go to the house of Israel as it were. 42:02 Give a warning message, cry aloud, spare not, 42:05 lift up the trumpet, 42:06 give the message the way that we should. 42:11 But if we see that it's not happening 42:13 and not really taking place, 42:15 what they did back then. 42:16 And I think it's good food for thought right now, 42:19 they, notice this. 42:20 They dissolved all union with the apostate church. 42:26 Did you get it? 42:27 They dissolved because of what? 42:29 If you're teaching err, 42:31 the Roman Church then was gaining ground 42:33 and claiming more power. 42:38 But the people said simply, oh, what about the church? 42:41 We want to obey God rather than man. 42:44 When we as a people begin to say that 42:47 and really mean it. 42:48 We want to obey God rather than a man. 42:50 Well, yeah, but you have an obligation here. 42:51 You have a, we have an obligation to God 42:53 and God only. 42:55 I hope that makes sense. 42:56 That's where your obligation is to God 42:59 not to what some church says. 43:01 Thank you going to get to church 43:03 because you go on the seventh day Sabbath. 43:04 You better think again. 43:06 It takes more than that. 43:08 Certainly that's important. 43:09 All the commandments are important. 43:11 Funny how the world can cross out 43:13 one and say, nine is good. 43:15 Something's going on here? 43:16 And we see these things taking place 43:19 in the early stages of God's Church. 43:24 Hmm. 43:27 They said, we're not going to believe anything 43:29 unless it's founded in the Word of God. 43:31 If it's fatal to our family and our children and our souls, 43:34 we've got to get out from underneath it. 43:37 We're not going to make any kind of concessions 43:39 they said here 43:42 for unity sake, 43:46 unless it's consistent with the Word of God. 43:48 Does that make sense? 43:50 Principles of God's Word. 43:52 Hmm, 43:56 Great Controversy, page 45 says this. 43:59 Please keep this in your heart and in your mind, 44:02 as we go along today, 44:03 about 12 minutes left and anybody get sleepy, 44:05 if you do, stand up, run around, shout, 44:07 do whatever you want. 44:09 I'll get louder than you. 44:14 This must be our position. 44:17 Great Controversy, 45 says, 44:19 if unity, you've read it before. 44:21 "If unity could be secured 44:22 only by compromise of truth and righteousness." 44:27 I mean people got, I hear it all time 44:28 unity, unity, unity, unity 44:30 but they're not given the full message. 44:32 Unity, unity, unity, water it down. 44:34 No. 44:35 Unity, unity, unity. 44:37 Let's make it easy. 44:42 And that way they say the half converted comes in. 44:44 That's why we give Bible studies. 44:45 You realize that in here 44:46 so that we can all be on the same page together. 44:49 Unless two agree, how can they walk together? 44:51 Not because you don't know anything, 44:53 it's because so we can agree 44:54 upon the teachings of God's Word 44:56 and we can have real true unity that way. 44:59 Great Controversy, 45:00 "If unity could be secured only by compromise 45:02 of the truth and righteousness, 45:05 then let there be differences and even war." 45:10 I guess I'm more excited about that. 45:12 I'm ready for war. 45:15 If we have to compromise the truth and say, 45:17 you have to compromise the truth. 45:19 No, let there be war. 45:23 Now what he says, right, and Ephesians talks about 45:25 'cause war you need to put on the whole what? 45:27 The whole armor of God that you're going to stand fast 45:30 because we're in a warfare. 45:32 Eternal lives are at stake right now. 45:34 And some of us are doing nothing. 45:36 We spend more time on Christmas in hunting Easter eggs 45:39 and doing everything else in the world and donkey rides 45:42 and whatever else there is there, 45:44 get kids to go into church 45:45 rather than to teach them about Jesus Christ. 45:47 Yeah. I'm hot about it. 45:50 My uncle always said righteous indignation, 45:52 is that okay? 45:56 Why? 45:57 Not to condemn other people? 45:59 It's just, you hate to see them going down the wrong path. 46:01 That's not the path that leads to heaven. 46:04 Angels are working for unity among God's people. 46:09 Did you get it? 46:10 This was Christ's prayer. I'm a believer in it. 46:14 But this whole ship has some holes in it. 46:19 Those holes going to have to be patched up 46:25 and God wants to do the patching. 46:28 God calls His people to press together, 46:30 press together, 46:32 not gossip about someone, not criticize 46:34 and condemn other people, but press together. 46:37 Unity is essential in God's last day church. 46:41 Why is it essential? 46:44 Because in unity, in union there's strength, 46:48 you can go, there's victory. 46:52 There's no discord. There's no division. 46:55 If you don't have it, there's weakness and defeat. 47:00 The truly converted will press together. 47:04 If you want to be an odd ball way out in there, 47:06 I feel like I they've told me I'm an odd ball lot of times, 47:08 I say, oh man, why aren't you doing 47:10 blah, blah, blah, blah. 47:11 I said, somebody got off the platform of truth 47:13 and it wasn't me. 47:15 Are you still with me? That's it. 47:18 Let them say what they want to say. 47:25 Don't worry about it. 47:29 And when I say unity, that does not mean 47:31 that one mind should control everything. 47:35 I see that a lot. 47:36 Ooh. I almost said ministries. 47:38 I'm not going to say that. 47:44 They think one mind has to rule everything. 47:46 That's not the way God intended for it to be. 47:48 Yeah. Somebody has to be in charge. 47:49 We understand that. 47:51 And we'll never have unity of conformity in everything. 47:57 Huh. 47:59 Remember God does not call for unity 48:02 on wrong practices or principles. 48:05 It must be based on the scripture, 48:08 based on giving of the three angels' message. 48:11 Example, the first angel's message 48:13 was designed to separate the professed people of God 48:17 from the corrupting influence of the world 48:22 to reveal our true condition. 48:25 Really today if you think about it, 48:27 what is your true condition spiritually? 48:30 No one else needs to try to judge that. 48:32 No one's trying to do that. 48:34 That's not our job, 48:36 but a little self-examination here. 48:37 Are you really fit vessel for the kingdom of God? 48:41 Or do you think maybe there's some... 48:43 In my mind there's things that need to change. 48:45 I'm looking and I'm saying, oh, Lord, have mercy. 48:48 Lord have mercy. Does anybody wait? 48:50 Lord have mercy. 48:53 There's need to be some changes. 48:55 And I want you to help me make those changes. 48:57 There's too much corrupting influence all around me 49:00 everywhere I look. 49:03 And God said, you accept this message, 49:05 I'm going to give you power. 49:09 The church will reach the state of unity 49:12 of faith and love 49:14 that existed at Pentecost. 49:17 Man, Acts Chapter, was it 2 and 4. 49:21 Think about a church that's in that position 49:24 because of the spiritualist, 49:26 their heart clinging after God 49:28 that we can experience what Pentecost went through. 49:30 Man, the church needs it. 49:32 I don't think we even have a little taste 49:34 of what it was like. 49:35 You read about it. You say how wonderful it is. 49:38 Why don't we experience it? 49:40 Can we experience it? 49:42 Absolutely. But read all that took place. 49:44 And you'll see maybe that 49:45 we're missing out on some things. 49:49 The spirit and the power 49:50 and the presence of God in the church. 49:56 But here's real simple answer in Great Controversy, 49:59 again page 379. 50:02 Now notice what it says. 50:04 If God's profess people, I like things simple. 50:06 I like it to the point. 50:08 Sometime I may go on and on, 50:10 but I still like a simplicity because I'm simple. 50:14 "If God's professed people 50:17 would receive the light as it shines upon them 50:20 from His word, 50:21 they would reach that unity for which Christ prayed." 50:27 If His professed people would receive the light 50:29 as it shines rather than, oh, I don't like this. 50:33 No, I don't like this. 50:35 If God sees fit to shine it on your pathway, 50:38 praise Him for that. 50:39 Ephesians 4, God said, you know the unity 50:41 because he said, there's one Lord, 50:43 and there's one faith, and there's what? 50:45 There's one baptism. 50:46 That's unity, is it not? 50:48 We need that in the world today. 50:50 There's too many. Remember there's only one... 50:52 Oh, listen somebody, there's only one way 50:53 you can tell the truth. 50:56 Not saying we have all truth and understanding, 50:57 but what you understand, 50:59 you have searched the scriptures, 51:00 you put line upon line, precept upon precept. 51:02 To the law and the testimony if they speak not according, 51:05 it's because what? 51:06 There is no light in them. 51:08 You begin to put everything together, 51:09 the weight of evidence and you're saying, 51:11 hmm, what did John say about it? 51:12 What did Daniel say about it? Right? 51:14 What did Paul say about it? 51:15 We just go on and say, okay, this is the truth. 51:18 So any other thing said than that would not be true. 51:23 That's the counterfeit that the enemy puts out there. 51:28 Little by little, almost unnoticed. 51:31 The man of sin in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 51:37 the mystery of iniquity. 51:39 2 Thessalonians 2:7, 51:42 the little horn power of Daniel Chapter 7. 51:47 They began to work to bring in the customs of heathenism 51:50 into the church 51:52 and put human theories and traditions 51:55 in the place of truth. 51:57 Have we figured out? 52:00 Can you stand four more minutes? 52:03 Okay. There's one of you. Bless your heart. 52:04 I may give you five then. 52:09 Have we figured out who the man of sin really is? 52:15 The one that Bible, it talks about it hasn't, 52:16 you know, the four revealed a form of antichrist 52:19 and apostasy. 52:21 He would go strong against God's Word. 52:25 There's only one in the Bible 52:26 that's pointed out as the man of sin. 52:29 And I'll say this rather nicely. 52:31 Let's be careful now. Are we careful with it? 52:33 There's one pointed out in the Word of God 52:36 as the man of sin. 52:38 And he is a representative of Satan. 52:44 Now I didn't say it'd be something easy to chew. 52:48 I didn't say it'd be something easy to swallow. 52:50 He's a representative of Satan. 52:54 Why? 52:55 Now notice, he takes the suggestions of Satan. 52:58 He puts them out before the people, 53:01 he puts them out in maybe like a new light, 53:04 a false light, 53:07 and many people are eager 53:09 to follow his teachings. 53:13 This is the same one 53:14 that says the Bible talks about that he exalted himself where? 53:19 Himself above God, he sits what? 53:21 In the temple of God showing himself to be God, 53:25 while what doing what? 53:26 While trampling upon God's memorial of creation, 53:30 the seventh day Sabbath. 53:32 It's easy to figure this out as we go along. 53:38 The seventh day Sabbath. 53:40 Hmm. 53:42 The enemy says, I'm going to put something in his place. 53:45 And so what does he do? 53:46 He puts a common working day, Sunday. 53:49 It's pagan origin. That's where it came from. 53:51 There's no doubt about it. It's a child of the papacy. 53:53 There's no doubt about it. 53:58 And again, we're not talking about individual people 53:59 who have family, good people, all that belong to church. 54:01 That's not it. 54:02 It's what they're teaching for truth. 54:04 And the Bible said, it's not truth. 54:06 And we have an obligation. 54:11 The papacy is Satan's right hand man. 54:15 My, my. 54:20 If we accept this false pagan day 54:24 in the place of God's blessed, 54:25 holy and sanctified day, 54:31 papacy then carries on a work 54:34 that Satan started where? 54:36 In heaven, 54:38 trying to make some changes, 54:40 trying to amend the law of God. 54:44 The pope does claim infallibility. 54:47 He does say he's changed the law of God. 54:49 So I'm not saying anything about them. 54:50 I don't read from their own writing almost verbatim. 54:54 Hmm. 54:56 Instead of seventh day Sabbath, 54:57 it's now the first day of the week, 54:59 Sunday. 55:01 By doing this, he says what? 55:03 I'm above God that God made a mistake on this 55:08 and I need to help him out. 55:10 Hmm. God is fallible. 55:14 That's what the papacy is saying, 55:18 and the Christian world has bought into this lie. 55:22 And does it make a difference? 55:24 That's what we have to figure out today. 55:28 And if we accept it, again, 55:29 many people do not know by the millions. 55:31 We understand that, but it's so easy 55:33 to get into the Word of God and figure this thing out. 55:35 Is it not? 55:36 Information that's all over the place 55:39 and yet why God's people everywhere in every church? 55:42 Why aren't we studying to show ourselves approved unto God? 55:46 The enemy has arrived and what? 55:47 Every truth that God has what? 55:50 Satan has a counterfeit 55:51 and the seventh day Sabbath is no different than that. 55:54 It's no different to all the other commandments. 55:55 If you offend at one point, you're guilty of all, 55:57 James 2:10-12 says, 55:59 oh, friend, I want you to be ready. 56:01 I want to say a quick prayer for you. 56:02 I know it's heavy-duty. 56:04 That's part one, part two doesn't get any easier. 56:05 Bless your heart. 56:06 So if you're looking from the Word of God 56:08 and be willing to be stepped on just a little bit, 56:09 why don't you just kneel with me 56:10 and let us close together in prayer, shall we? 56:12 Loving Father in heaven, 56:14 we thank You for Your precious Word. 56:15 Thank You that You 56:16 revealed Yourself through Your Word, 56:18 that we may hear it and then we may follow 56:19 and we may be part of the family of God. 56:20 We thank You in Jesus' name. 56:22 Amen. 56:24 Hello and welcome back, friends. 56:26 Understanding history can certainly shine a new light 56:30 upon our present circumstances. 56:32 We hope that you have been blessed, 56:34 informed, and empowered by the message you just heard. 56:38 Remember, this is only the history portion 56:40 of this two part series that is entitled 56:43 The Mass Bread and Wine. 56:46 There is yet more to come 56:47 that we hope that you are looking forward 56:50 to studying along with us again. 56:52 And should you desire to have a hard copy of this series, 56:56 we're making it available to you 56:57 for a love gift of just $15 or more. 57:01 We look forward to hearing from you with your order, 57:04 and please never, ever forget 57:06 that we are a listener supported ministry. 57:09 We depend upon your donations 57:11 in order to continue to labor in the Lord's vineyard, 57:14 just as we are here today. 57:17 So won't you prayerfully consider becoming a regular 57:20 Behold the Lamb Ministry supporter? 57:22 You may contact us 57:24 and order this two part series 57:25 for a love gift of just $15 or more 57:28 by calling us here in the United States 57:30 at (618) 942-5044. 57:34 That's Central Time. 57:36 You may also write to us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:39 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:43 And you can visit us on our website 57:46 at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 57:48 We are so thankful that you studied with us today. 57:51 May our precious Lord 57:52 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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