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00:38 Hello, friends, and welcome back
00:40 to Behold the Lamb presents. 00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, I want to encourage you 00:43 to stay tuned with us today. 00:45 Our message is entitled 00:47 "The Majesty of Heaven Wept Our Approaching Destruction" 00:51 with Pastor Kenny Shelton as speaker. 00:54 The title of this message 00:55 was gleaned from reading about the destruction in Jerusalem 00:58 that occurred back in A.D. 70. 01:01 And written in the book entitled The Great Controversy. 01:04 You can find this on page 22, where I'm going to read, 01:08 "Christ saw in Jerusalem 01:11 a symbol of a world hardened in unbelief and rebellion, 01:14 and hastening on to meet 01:16 the retributive judgments of God. 01:19 The woes of a fallen race, pressing upon His soul, 01:23 forced from His lips that exceeding bitter cry. 01:27 He saw the record of sin traced in human misery, 01:31 tears, and blood. 01:33 His heart was moved with infinite pity 01:35 for the afflicted and suffering ones of earth, 01:38 He yearned to relieve them all. 01:40 But even His hand 01:42 might not turn back the tide of human woe, 01:45 few would seek their only Source of help." 01:48 Did you hear that? Few. 01:50 "He was willing to pour out His soul unto death, 01:53 to bring salvation within their reach," 01:56 and here's that word again, 01:57 "but few would come to Him that they might have life. 02:02 The Majesty of heaven in tears! 02:05 the Son of the infinite God troubled in spirit, 02:09 bowed down with anguish! 02:11 The scene filled all of heaven with wonder. 02:14 The scene reveals to us 02:18 the exceeding sinfulness of sin, 02:20 it shows how hard a task it is, 02:23 even for Infinite Power, to save the guilty 02:26 from the consequences of transgressing 02:29 the law of God." 02:31 Once again, today's study will be one of warning. 02:36 It will remind us that 02:37 we all have choices between good and evil 02:40 that we must make on a daily basis. 02:43 It will no doubt 02:45 bring to light what making wrong choices 02:48 will ultimately lead us to corporately as a race, 02:51 as well as what we will lose individually. 02:55 Friends, all of heaven, 02:58 all of heaven was emptied out for us 03:01 and the one gift of Jesus Christ. 03:04 We must become aware 03:06 that we're such inexpressible love 03:09 that our Creator has for each of us, 03:11 that surely it grieves His heart to sadness, 03:14 as He witnesses so many of His children 03:19 refuse His gift of eternal life. 03:22 Pastor Kenny has no doubt been led of the Holy Spirit 03:25 to try to wake us up spiritually once again, 03:28 as we join him 03:30 for this study that is entitled, 03:32 "The Majesty of Heaven Wept 03:35 Our Approaching Destruction." 03:38 But before we join him, let's listen to a song 03:40 sung by Ashley Sabol 03:42 entitled, "God Who Spoke in the Beginning" 03:46 from the 3ABN Studio. 04:03 God who spoke in the beginning 04:09 Forming rock and shaping spar 04:15 Set all life and growth in motion 04:21 Earthly world 04:24 And distant star 04:29 He who calls the earth to order 04:35 Is the ground of what 04:39 We are 04:44 God who spoke through men and nations 04:51 Through events long past and gone 04:57 Showing still today His purpose 05:03 Speaks supremely 05:05 Through His Son 05:10 He who calls the earth to order 05:16 Gives His word 05:18 And it is done 05:31 God whose speech becomes incarnate 05:37 Christ is servant, Christ is Lord 05:43 Calls us to a life of service 05:49 Heart and will 05:52 To action stirred 05:57 He who uses man's obedience 06:03 Has the first 06:05 And final word 06:10 He who calls 06:13 The earth to order 06:17 Is the ground of what 06:22 We are 06:30 Thank you for joining us once again 06:31 here at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 06:33 We do appreciate you folks 06:34 and much more than you'll ever know, ever realize, 06:37 I know we stressed those things, 06:39 you know, program after program. 06:41 But really it is true 06:43 because without you we don't have a ministry, 06:45 without people out there 06:47 that's willing to pray and support 06:48 and to just work along with us. 06:50 I mean, think how difficult would it be 06:52 if you had one people or four or five, six people 06:54 trying to do this, it's an impossibility. 06:57 And so God has you out there, 06:58 which we're very grateful and thankful for. 07:00 And the encouragement that you send in your cards 07:03 and your letters has just been a real joy, 07:05 and a real treat. 07:06 But you know, I'm just going to encourage you 07:07 before we begin today, 07:09 because we're going to be talking 07:10 about the majesty of heaven wept. 07:12 And we think about was He weeping over? 07:14 Oh, there's a lot of things, 07:15 and we'll figure those out as we go along 07:17 because of our approaching destruction. 07:20 Think about the majesty of heaven wept. 07:24 And so, again, 07:25 we as God's people need to stand up like 07:27 we've never stood up before as far as I'm concerned. 07:30 There are people and we've experienced it, 07:33 there are people who are not happy 07:36 for those who are giving warning messages. 07:40 Did somebody get that? 07:42 Think about it with me, they're not happy. 07:44 And so they don't agree. 07:47 And so they'll write letters 07:48 and say, we're not happy with those warning message 07:51 or we're not happy with this, we're not happy with that. 07:54 My, um, that's not a complaint. 07:55 It's simply saying, 07:56 how about God's people 07:59 writing in and saying, thank you. 08:02 How about it? 08:04 If God's people doesn't stand up and say, 08:06 praise God for the messages that are going out, 08:09 I'm going to say that the bad guys are going to win. 08:14 You think about it, if you got, 08:15 well, they think they're going to you know what? 08:17 A lot of interest all they have to do is write in 08:20 and it, you know, people read it, 08:22 oh my, we've got to, 08:23 listen, God's people need to stand up vocally 08:26 and say a card or letter and say 08:28 we appreciate programs that are going out. 08:30 We appreciate the truth in God's Word. 08:33 Because again, if you don't, 08:35 you know, the enemy's going to because remember, 08:38 think about the majority of the world 08:41 do not believe the way you believe. 08:44 I know it's a little bit longer in the opening, 08:45 but they don't believe the way you do. 08:47 And so they realize, 08:48 try to beat have you to be quiet. 08:50 They're gonna write some letters 08:52 and say we, you know, 08:54 get them off the air 08:55 or don't let him preach or teach this kind of stuff. 08:57 So God's people ought to double write back and say, 08:59 "Oh, yeah, we want to hear, 09:01 we believe in this message. 09:02 Keep him on the air." 09:05 Please do that. 09:07 Maybe they'll say I'm not supposed to say that 09:08 but I did it anyway. 09:10 Because I believe it's time for God's people 09:12 to stand up like never before. 09:13 Remember, the majesty of heaven wept 09:17 our approaching destruction. 09:18 I know we need prayer, 09:20 battles with, the enemy's been fighting all week long. 09:23 He's fighting, he's not going to win, we understand that. 09:25 But you know what? 09:26 He's going to make it as difficult as he can. 09:28 Very difficult until we go to God in prayer 09:30 and are strengthened and touched 09:31 by the angel of God, 09:34 we won't make it. 09:35 But we know that the Angel of God 09:36 is going to touch us, 09:38 we know the Spirit of God 09:39 is going to touch His people here. 09:41 I'm going to kneel and just have a quick prayer. 09:42 If you just please pray with me. 09:43 Let's pray together. 09:46 Loving Father in heaven, 09:47 we thank You that we can call You our Father. 09:49 We're thankful that we can call upon You. 09:52 You promised to hear and You promise to answer. 09:54 Thankful that You said Your word 09:55 would not return void. 09:57 Lord, You have a reason for everything 09:59 that's going on in the world today. 10:01 You have Your voices 10:03 that are as it were crying in the wilderness, 10:05 that also the enemy has his voices 10:07 that are crying pipe it down. 10:09 This is not a time to pipe it down. 10:10 It's time to sound the trumpet. 10:12 And all Your holy mountain sounding alarm, 10:14 we pray that God's people will wake up, 10:17 prays, we hear the Word of God 10:19 that we realize this is a real battle 10:20 that we are in, 10:22 destroy eternal life, 10:23 help us we praise the power of thy Spirit, 10:25 open our hearts and minds in Jesus' name. 10:27 Amen. 10:31 As one morning as a story told about 10:33 because you know, sometimes 10:35 people are very, 10:37 it's difficult for people and change. 10:40 If you're like I am, the older you get 10:41 change is more difficult. 10:44 Is that we believe that? 10:46 Some of you a little bit older say, 10:47 no, it's not, change is difficult, 10:49 older I get the change is little bit more difficult. 10:51 And so we don't like changes. 10:53 And so therefore we kind of hang with what we know 10:55 or maybe we have been taught. 10:57 One morning a troubled mother woke up her son, 11:00 his name was William. 11:01 She said, "Go down in the basement, 11:03 my son and check the water system. 11:05 It's not tasting like it always tastes. 11:07 And I want you to go down the cellar 11:09 and just really check it out for me." 11:11 And he said, "Okay, I'll see if something's wrong." 11:13 This was before the days 11:15 of the modern water system that we have. 11:18 And so the water was coming into the basement, 11:20 and then the trough and so on and so forth. 11:21 But it just didn't taste right. 11:23 Mama sent William downstairs. 11:24 Hey, let's check this all out. 11:26 So naturally to please mama, 11:28 he went down and he began to make his way to the cellar. 11:30 And he lifted the old wooden door, 11:33 you know, and he began to look at the water in there. 11:35 And there was something in there 11:36 that caught his attention. 11:38 Then he said, you know, I, 11:40 something in there, so it got him a net. 11:42 And he began to dip in that nice, cool, clean water 11:45 and look like and whoa, there was a big rat. 11:51 Oh, a big rat. 11:53 Oh, a dead rat. 11:55 Well, William was nauseated. 11:57 Oh, he couldn't stand 11:58 and he said, "I'm just gonna, I take this rat out, 12:00 and I'm gonna bury it, you know, I can't stand it." 12:03 Fifty years came and went. 12:08 Many changes took place. 12:11 Public water came to that little town 12:14 and all the changes are there 12:17 but that little spring of water in still in that old house 12:20 was still the same as it was 50 years ago. 12:23 So you can be thinking along with me. 12:25 And the matter is, you know that the hot summer time, 12:28 the neighbors all would come to this house 12:30 because that spring water was cool and refreshing 12:33 and they loved it. 12:35 Fifty years later, some of them even though were city water 12:38 still came to the house 12:39 and said we want some of that water. 12:43 Man, we want that. 12:45 They said it's the best water in the country. 12:47 William said, "Oh, well, 12:49 you have all the water you want." 12:52 The well, it never runs dry. 12:53 The spring never runs dry. 12:55 Help yourself, drink all you want. 12:57 And so they brought some pails with them 12:58 and the buckets. 13:00 And they took a lot of at home with him. 13:01 And, but you asked William, 13:04 he said, "I've never drink a drop. 13:07 It's been 50 years since I saw that dead rat, 13:10 but I'm not, 13:12 I'm not going to drink a drop of that water right now. 13:16 I remember it floating up there on the surface. 13:18 And that's enough for me." 13:21 This little incident just simply goes to show 13:25 what prejudice will do for an individual. 13:29 That can be in all kinds of different areas. 13:31 So you just people are prejudiced lot there. 13:34 But many people are prejudiced against truth. 13:36 They're against learning something that's new. 13:39 And if they hear something different coming in the church 13:41 or being taught in the church, 13:42 they're prejudice and the wall goes up. 13:46 And years past and they still don't want to hear it. 13:50 Maybe they had a bad taste as it were, 13:53 maybe it was some people that went to that church 13:55 or some kind of experience. 13:58 And so we slow to change our customs 14:01 and slow to change our belief sometime. 14:05 We prefer to follow the path maybe of our parents. 14:09 We were raised this way and this is what we were taught 14:12 and new ideas, oh, I don't know about those things 14:15 and you know, be prejudiced in anything 14:17 is just unacceptable. 14:21 And that's specifically I think you look at it's true 14:23 when it comes to religion, learning new things. 14:28 People hear, people wonder about Seventh-day Adventist, 14:32 they have questions but they're afraid to ask. 14:37 They'd like to visit your church maybe 14:38 but they're afraid to come through the doors. 14:41 Hmm. 14:43 And when you ask them and invite them in, 14:45 they say we have our own church. 14:47 We feel good where we're going. 14:50 We don't sense we need to change. 14:54 And being prejudiced many times in all areas 14:57 can rob us of many, many blessings 14:58 mentally, physically, spiritually. 15:01 Jesus said in Deuteronomy 11:16, 15:03 He said, "Take heed," do you remember this? 15:05 "Take heed to yourselves 15:07 and your heart be not deceived." 15:11 Hmm. 15:13 Scripture reading was in Micah 3:9 and 11. 15:16 It talks about the destruction really of Jerusalem 15:18 the things that were going on. 15:20 It's very heavy duty. 15:22 We won't read all the verses right now. 15:24 But we realize 15:27 that all those who were in office 15:28 were talking about religious, 15:30 they were there because they were getting paid. 15:33 They were there because they, 15:35 you know, they, that the prophets were there 15:38 to say there was a prophecy and get paid for 15:41 when it really wasn't a prophecy, 15:42 wasn't a true one. 15:46 And then they would say, 15:48 isn't the Lord really among us? 15:49 We know He is. 15:51 We're not going to worry about all 15:52 of what has been said in the Bible 15:54 about Jerusalem being destroyed 15:56 because God is with us. 15:58 And I think sometimes that happens, 16:00 even among, can I say Adventist? 16:02 We believe that if things just can't go wrong, 16:05 because we have the message is right on target, 16:08 and we just can't fail. 16:11 Don't fool yourself. 16:13 Don't fool yourself. 16:17 Jesus prophesied it Himself. 16:19 I wish we had time to read 16:21 all those passages of Scripture, 16:22 I know Matthew Chapter 23. 16:24 He talks about, there in Jerusalem 16:26 there would not be one stone left upon what? 16:29 The another, not one stone. 16:32 Ellen White goes on to say, you know what? 16:34 As that was at destruction was already there, 16:37 that God sent holy angels to make sure 16:39 there was not a stone left upon the other. 16:43 Even though we realize these, 16:45 the army and the general under Titus and so on, says, 16:48 you know, just like Jeremiah prophesied 16:51 is like a plowed field. 16:54 But God had prophesied it in His Word, 16:56 He had warned over and over and the people didn't listen. 16:59 And I wonder about it today if it's not the same, 17:01 that we're talking about the same things 17:03 over and over and over and over. 17:04 And still yet the people just say, no, I don't. 17:07 See God told Noah. 17:08 We talked about it many times. 17:10 There's going to be a flood and he preached for 120 years. 17:14 Let's put our thinking caps on today, 17:17 120 years, you say, oh, I know. I know. 17:19 But 120 years before it took place. 17:24 We think because we see some things happening today 17:27 that it's going to something's going to happen just tomorrow, 17:30 or two or three weeks it's going to happen. 17:32 Interesting, God's seen fit 17:34 to warn the world for 120 years before the flood. 17:39 Interesting thought, 17:41 the world's going to be destroyed. 17:44 I hope you can see some similarities, 17:46 I do of our message that we are to give today. 17:52 Similarities, yes. 17:54 Manuscript 24, in1891 this was written. 17:58 "In the days of Noah," 17:59 now notice this, 18:01 "overwhelming majority," 18:02 overwhelmingly the majority, 18:04 "was opposed to the truth." 18:06 Now, I'm looking for some similarities. 18:09 What? 18:10 The overwhelming in the majority 18:12 in the days of Noah was opposed to truth. 18:15 Is that same today? 18:18 I believe it is, thank you, it is. 18:20 They don't want really want to hear what is truth. 18:23 They want to hear what's convenient. 18:26 And then they, this goes on the article says 18:28 and enamored with a tissue of falsehood, 18:30 other words, they love lies. 18:33 And they built upon lies. 18:35 And we see that today if it's not the truth, 18:36 you're building on a lie. 18:38 And people would rather, I used to have a friend 18:40 who would rather lie than tell you the truth. 18:42 He could tell you the truth 18:43 it'd be all right he wouldn't do it, he couldn't. 18:46 He lied so much, that was part of his life. 18:48 He even knew if you knew, but he didn't care. 18:51 He looked you right in the eye and just lie. 18:54 Come on now, you can get into the habit 18:55 of doing that, you know. 18:59 This article says, notice this, 19:01 "The land was full of violence. 19:04 War, and crime, murder was the order of the day." 19:08 I have to say similarity again. 19:11 Is that not? Yeah, sure that's what it is. 19:14 And notice this, the article says, 19:15 "So it will be just before Christ's Second Coming." 19:20 So we have to say 19:22 even though you've read it thousands of times, 19:23 you can say that hundreds of times this is it. 19:26 Matthew 24:37, the Bible is stated, 19:29 "But as in the days of," what? 19:31 "Noah so shall the coming of the Son of man be." 19:35 It can't be any plainer, 19:37 yet we just reject it 19:39 or we shovel it out like we don't care. 19:41 We're having a good time maybe in the world, 19:42 we have a good job. 19:44 We don't want anything, anybody to touch it 19:47 or to mess with it. 19:49 But God said, "Don't you realize 19:50 something's going to happen to this world 19:51 in the days of Noah. 19:53 Here's some signs of it so that you can look 19:54 and you can see so you can know. 19:57 I mentioned last message that we have 19:59 to be able to preach smooth and sweet and wonderful, 20:02 do little sweet things. 20:03 Everybody feels good when they go home 20:05 is a crime against humanity. 20:06 And it's a crime against God, 20:08 that we don't fill the pulpit with words of warning 20:11 for what's going on in the world today. 20:13 I say we're wasting our time. 20:16 I know people say, well, we want to calm down. 20:18 We didn't want to. 20:19 I'm just, I don't feel, 20:21 I don't feel like I want to calm down. 20:23 I don't want to calm down 20:24 because I know this is just around the corner. 20:27 If you care for each other, you want to sound the alarm. 20:31 Oh, well, I just want to be 20:33 life is not going to be just that 20:35 that they say a bowl of cherries or whatever. 20:37 It's not going to be just fun and games. 20:40 This is reality. 20:43 And look what happened at the flood, 20:44 only eight souls were saved. 20:47 Wasn't that a disaster? 20:49 Absolutely was a horrible nightmare. 20:51 Can I, I can see it the flood, the majesty of heaven wept 20:57 all of His creation? 21:00 'Cause He created, He loved with an everlasting love. 21:04 They can never be wiped out of His mind. 21:07 What a heavy heart. 21:09 I can't even imagine 21:11 the few people that we have contact 21:12 within our lifespan is enough when we see them passed, 21:15 let alone millions and billions 21:18 that are going out that He knows 21:20 is not going to share eternity with Him. 21:22 How heavy His heart must be. 21:25 Lord, help me understand it better. 21:30 God has given us so much information today 21:34 about the times in which we live 21:38 and how often we've spurned that, 21:41 whether anyone will hear or whether they won't 21:43 or whether they will criticize 21:44 or whether they will condemn and they will do all of it. 21:49 Remember, when these messages go around the world? 21:51 Remember the majority, the billions, can I say that? 21:56 The billions of people do not agree 22:00 with giving three angels' message. 22:03 They do not agree, so naturally 22:06 they can flood somebody with a bunch of love, 22:09 we don't like it. 22:11 God's people need to stand up and fight, you see. 22:14 We love the message. 22:16 We want the truth for the last days. Why? 22:18 Because the perishing world 22:20 because people are dying without Christ. 22:22 Man, this what a day that we live in, 22:25 all this information because remember, 22:27 the more information you have, 22:29 the more and you know this, 22:31 the more accountable that you are that I am to God. 22:36 You're no longer where you're not accountable. 22:38 Well, I didn't know that 10 years ago. 22:40 Well, God didn't hold you accountable. 22:42 Now you know, 22:44 now you know, 22:45 what are you going to do with that? 22:47 Oh, man, when the judgments fall, 22:49 it's going to be a horrible nightmare. 22:52 God doesn't want to happen that way, 22:53 but He has laid it out in His Word. 22:57 Just as we see the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D.70 23:01 as an example, 23:02 I'll use two things now, go back on this 23:04 and then come back to that in just a moment. 23:06 We're going to spend some time on Jerusalem 23:08 because it's a direct parallel 23:12 to the United States of America. 23:14 Somebody needs to wake up if you're, 23:15 if you haven't looked at that way, 23:18 if what's going to happen. 23:22 Why was it so? 23:24 Why was the destruction of Jerusalem 23:26 given the example, why was it so horrible? 23:29 Because of the unparallel ruins, 23:32 what happened? 23:34 Unparallel ruins of the whole city. 23:35 Just not no stone left upon the other, 23:37 it's like a plowed field, it was all over. 23:39 Millions have lost their lives, it's horrible nightmare. 23:42 And because of unparallel sin. 23:47 What caused the destruction? 23:48 Unparalleled sin. 23:50 A rejection, just like we reject God's law 23:53 and God's mercy, His longsuffering to us today. 23:55 We reject His warning message today. 23:57 You think God's going to always just be still as it were, 24:00 He's getting ready to roar out of Zion. 24:03 He's going to take care of business. 24:05 I'm concerned about that. 24:07 I want to make sure my business is in order. 24:11 I want to make sure I'm doing my business 24:12 and that means God's business. 24:15 Too many of us are doing our own, 24:17 yeah, our own business 24:18 as it were in it rather than God's business. 24:22 Now think about this for just a moment. 24:23 Matthew 24:39, 24:25 are we going to be like this verse? 24:28 And I'm going to challenge this verse. 24:31 Or the thinking of some people on this verse, 24:33 Matthew 24:39, 24:35 the Bible says, "And they knew not 24:37 until the flood came and took them all away, 24:40 so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." 24:43 Notice how it start, and they knew not. 24:48 Here about, you think about if they didn't know 24:50 how they're accountable. 24:52 So somebody's making excuses here. 24:54 Are you making excuses? Am I making excuses? 24:56 It says they knew not until the flood came. 24:58 They knew not, wait a minute. 25:02 Knew not means he said, well, we didn't know. 25:06 How could you say that you don't know 25:08 what was happening? 25:12 Yeah, how could they, listen, how could they not have known? 25:15 There was 120 years. 25:18 You thinking the world that was then 25:20 than the 120 years, 25:21 it had went to every crack and crevice 25:23 in the whole planet, 25:24 you better believe it. 25:26 Everybody had an opportunity, time and time and time again. 25:30 But they're saying now, well, we didn't know. 25:34 How can we say we didn't know? 25:37 God warned them through Noah, we know. 25:41 What that means is they believed not. 25:44 Not that they weren't warned. 25:45 But really, in real translation, 25:46 you go back and said, they just simply said, 25:48 oh, wait, they didn't believe. 25:50 They could have known but what? 25:53 They refused. 25:55 You can know today what's going on in the world 25:57 but people refuse, 25:58 they refuse to come to church, 26:00 they refuse to come to meetings, 26:01 they refuse to listen to what is truth. 26:03 They're just not interested in it. 26:07 They refuse. 26:09 Now, let me join a couple of things together. 26:11 They refused and I'm wondering if their refusal 26:14 had something to do 26:16 what they were eating and drinking. 26:19 There's somebody still with me, and marrying. 26:22 And again, all three of those, 26:24 I can't say anything's wrong with them 26:25 if they're done in accordance with Scripture. 26:28 But I say when they say we knew not, 26:30 it's because they weren't in the right mind 26:32 some of them because they were eating the wrong things 26:35 to excess, we realized, 26:36 they were drinking the hard stuff. 26:38 They were out of their mind. 26:41 And they were fiddling around. 26:43 Is it okay to say that? 26:47 They played hard. 26:50 They played hard. They rose up early. 26:54 And they were playing so hard. 26:56 They had, they didn't think about the coming of the Lord. 27:00 They didn't have time to think about the Lord. 27:03 They didn't have time to think that eternity, 27:05 it was on the brink of a close. 27:09 The world was soon to come to an end. 27:11 Let me tell you, I believe that's when the Majesty, 27:14 the Majesty of heaven wept, 27:17 Majesty of heaven, because He sent, isn't He? 27:20 He sent warning after warning, the prophets of old. 27:25 And I'm saying today, since we know these things, 27:29 since we've been reminded of these things, 27:31 we know that they're surely going to come to pass, 27:34 what must we do, 27:35 what should we be doing right now? 27:37 Oh, there's a lot of things. 27:38 But let me just, 2 Peter 3:11, 27:41 2 Peter 3:11 says this, 27:46 "Seeing then that all these things shall be," 27:50 somebody say dissolved. 27:52 They say good, thank you, "shall be dissolved, 27:55 what manner of person ought ye to be," 27:57 notice 27:58 "in all holy conversations and godliness." 28:01 Since we know, 28:03 based on the Word of God, isn't that right? 28:05 We know these things, 28:07 we know it's getting ready to bust loose, 28:08 we see it signs of the times are everywhere. 28:11 So what kind of person ought we to be, 28:13 in all manner, 28:15 notice this, of holy conversation 28:16 and godliness? 28:18 I think maybe sometime, 28:19 our conversations ought to be more, 28:22 you know, more of God in them 28:23 and the foolishness of the world in them. 28:26 There ought to be less talking in the church 28:28 and more praying in the church. 28:31 Isn't that right? 28:32 I say, come early, but come in the sanctuary 28:34 and start praying instead of talking. 28:38 Talk to the one we need to talk to, 28:39 I'm not trying to scold anybody, 28:41 I don't know who does, who doesn't. 28:42 But I'm saying, if you want the Spirit of God to be here, 28:44 if you want the Spirit of God 28:46 to come into your heart and your life 28:47 and change you, to prepare you for heaven, 28:49 because if you look at your life, 28:51 and I look at my life in mirror, 28:52 I look at us, oh, 28:53 I don't think I'm fruit for heaven just yet, Lord. 28:56 There's some changes that need to be made. 28:58 Oh, God, I need Your mercy. 28:59 And you know what? 29:01 He showed mercy on the world 29:04 that could have been destroyed a lot sooner than 120 years, 29:07 but He didn't do it. 29:09 Because He knew there'd be some that would make a change, 29:11 some that were building the ark. 29:13 Some of those were building the ark where, 29:15 as where they died in the faith 29:16 and they'll come up in the first resurrection. 29:20 Praise God, I'd say that's good news. 29:23 But I look and I said, Noah said, 29:26 "The world is going to be destroyed 29:27 by a flood." 29:30 Well, people listen just for a day or two I think 29:32 and sometime you know like struggle, 29:34 and then all of a sudden they rose up to play. 29:39 Maybe it's like today, 29:41 I don't know if I should or not. 29:44 You know, you think about it. 29:45 I mentioned lot of time people don't want to hear. 29:47 You know, we're living in a world 29:49 that's turning into a socialistic nation. 29:50 We're gonna, socialism is here. 29:53 If you just really realize it. 29:56 And the socialism, 29:57 the government takes care of you. 30:00 That's nothing against scripture, 30:02 don't anybody get all excited about it. 30:03 But we need to realize this. 30:05 Now they're making right, 30:06 it's just today, 30:08 it's all the way to the president now 30:09 that they may want to continue to give you money 30:13 so that you don't go back to work. 30:16 See, and some of the lazy ones out there 30:18 will say, oh, good, wonderful, 30:20 because you know why? 30:22 It gives them more time to rise up and play. 30:24 That's not the way to run God's business. 30:27 God doesn't run His business that way. 30:29 He said, 30:31 "Six days you labor and do all your work. 30:32 But the seventh day 30:34 is the Sabbath of the Lord, thy God." 30:36 That's God's way of doing business. 30:39 So when we see these things, 30:41 at that point in time, 30:42 if you were alive just before the flood, 30:44 you should be running around 30:45 like a wall man saying the earth is going to be flood, 30:48 floods coming. 30:50 If you're not prepared for it, 30:51 you're going to die in that flood. 30:53 I say the parallel today goes back to the one 30:55 that we talked about today. 30:57 I'm saying the world is soon to burn up. 31:00 It's going to be destroyed by fire, 31:02 and somebody needs to get ready 31:03 and put on some fire protection clothes. 31:06 Does that make sense? 31:09 The world is soon to be destroyed by fire. 31:12 The whole earth, the whole world, whole planet 31:15 is going to be on fire. 31:16 Oh, how do you know? How do you know? 31:19 2 Peter 3:10. 31:20 The Bible is so very clear. 31:22 2 Peter 3:10, 31:24 "But the day of the Lord will come," as a what? 31:27 "As a thief." 31:28 Use your brain here as the thief. 31:30 Remember, all people say, well, we will, 31:32 like at the flood. 31:33 Well, we didn't know it just came upon. 31:35 No. 31:37 It came as a thief in the night. 31:39 What is it? 31:40 They refused the warning. 31:42 They didn't want to hear what is truth. 31:45 And they didn't believe it. 31:47 And the same thing happened there. 31:48 Notice in the night, 31:50 "...in which the heavens shall pass away with," what? 31:53 Good, good, 31:55 "A great noise and elements 31:56 shall melt with fervent heat, 31:58 the earth also and the works therein shall be burned up. 32:03 "Listen, you don't want to be on this planet. 32:08 You want to be safe as it were in the arms of God 32:10 when that New Jerusalem comes down. 32:12 Boy, I'm telling you talk about the earth and the works there. 32:15 Now, so is it legitimate for you to go around 32:17 and say, look, we need to get it right. 32:19 This earth is soon right to catch on fire, 32:22 and it's going to burn up. 32:24 And if you're still in the world, 32:25 and you haven't yet, 32:26 you know, accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, 32:28 you're going to be one of those. 32:31 Think about be burned up at that point in time 32:33 and then only to be what? 32:35 Maybe resurrected and burn again. 32:38 When Christ comes what does it say? 32:39 The dead in Christ rise first, 32:40 we which are live and remain, right? 32:42 The wicked are struck dead by the brightness 32:45 of His coming. 32:46 Thousand years between the first resurrection 32:48 and the second resurrection. 32:51 Bible says fire comes down from God out of heaven 32:53 and destroys that, doesn't it say in resurrection. 32:55 I don't want to be in that one. 32:57 Man, what a... 32:58 Jan, Brother Jan, what a terrible thought 33:00 that would be. 33:01 You open your eyes after thousand years. 33:03 You look around, my lands, what do you see? 33:05 You don't see the flowers and stuff out here. 33:07 You don't see the world or your house 33:09 that you used to see. 33:10 There's nothing hardly left on this planet. 33:13 It has got completely chaos. 33:16 Isn't that what it says when He comes? 33:18 Right, we're talking about islands moved out in place, 33:20 everything is a mess, right? 33:21 The devil is here for thousand years of dark. 33:23 No, it's a mess. 33:26 And you look around and say, uh-oh, 33:30 you'll spot it immediately you'll understand it. 33:33 But then, of course, the enemy is there trying to 33:34 convince you that you made the right decision. 33:37 Oh, he's a liar from the very beginning, 33:39 you know that. 33:40 Don't trust him. 33:43 Why? 33:45 Why is this world going to burn up? 33:48 Signs of the Times 1-3-1878. 33:51 Notice it says this, 1-3-1878. 33:55 God's purpose in this destruction," 33:58 will be and it includes, 33:59 "all of those who would not receive 34:01 the message of warning," 34:04 and notice this, 34:05 "you receive the message of warning and then," 34:07 by God's grace, you begin what? 34:09 "Purify their souls by obeying the truth." 34:14 I'm telling you, I like that. 34:16 Purification comes by what? 34:18 Taking the truth in, 34:20 by obeying the truth and being, 34:23 listen, and being obedient to the laws of God. 34:26 That's why the ancient world right destroyed by flood before 34:30 and the world today by fire, isn't that right? 34:33 Because the same reasons here. 34:36 They won't take the warning. 34:38 They're not willing to be obedient. 34:41 They're not obeying the truth 34:42 or being obedient to the law of God. 34:44 They're saying we don't need God's law anymore. 34:46 It's all good. It's all grace. 34:47 Praise God for that. 34:49 But there's a place for God's law 34:52 which simply points out what sin is. 34:54 That's all it does. It doesn't save you. 34:57 Oh, I'm an Adventist. 34:58 I believe in keeping all the law of God. 34:59 Well, praise God, that's good. 35:02 But it doesn't save you. 35:03 You're saved by grace through faith 35:05 what the Bible teaches. 35:06 But it has this function, it points out 35:08 what sin is and drives me to Jesus for grace and mercy. 35:13 1 Peter 1:22, 35:14 very familiar passage of scripture, 35:17 "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying," 35:21 again what? 35:22 "Obeying the truth through the Spirit." 35:25 You can obey, I'm going to obey. 35:28 Say it all you want, without the Holy Spirit, 35:30 you're not going to be victorious. 35:33 We can't obey without the Holy Spirit, can we? 35:35 Holy Spirit not at all we can do it 35:37 but through the Spirit of God. 35:39 You purify, you're getting ready for heaven 35:42 by obeying truth and hearing truth. 35:46 So we must then come to the point 35:48 of feeding our souls on truth. 35:52 How do we do that? How? 35:53 How do we just feed our souls on truth? 35:55 Because I know that I need to. 35:57 The passage is telling me clearly, 35:58 Spirit of Prophecy tells me clearly. 36:00 I can read, we could read dozens of those. 36:02 We don't have time to do all that 36:03 but you research it. 36:05 And little Manuscripts 16, 1890 reads it. 36:08 Manuscripts 16, 1890. 36:10 Notice, "It must be," 36:12 notice this talking about how do we feed the soul. 36:15 "It must be nourished," 36:16 we know it, same answer every time, 36:18 "by the word." 36:19 You nourish the soul what? 36:21 Through the, by the word. 36:23 In answering John 14:6, Jesus says what? 36:26 "I am the," what? 36:27 "I'm the way, I'm the truth, and I am the life," 36:30 and notice that, 36:31 "no man cometh to the Father but by Me." 36:34 This rules out all those others 36:35 who are trying to come to the Father 36:37 in their own way or through a preacher 36:39 or through a pope, 36:40 or through a priest or whoever it might be, 36:42 you're not going to make it to God 36:44 through any other than Jesus Christ. 36:47 I mean, it sound like a simple truth 36:48 that you realize that 36:50 maybe I'm staying close to the billions 36:52 of people in this world are trying to as it were 36:54 earn a better life or something hereafter 36:57 by simply, you know, throwing Jesus out 37:00 and just finding another way, it's not going to happen. 37:03 And somebody needs to tell him, it's not going to happen. 37:06 Why? Because you love them, not because right and wrong. 37:08 You just tell them that. 37:09 It says we must constantly feed on the truth. 37:14 And feeding on the truth then connects the soul. 37:18 I love that. 37:20 The soul with Him in whom we live, 37:22 and whom we move, 37:23 and whom we have our being there. 37:25 You've read that in the Book of Acts Chapter17, 37:27 isn't that right? 37:28 Because we live and we move and we have our being 37:30 through none other than Jesus Christ. 37:34 Every day that you live, you owe to Him, 37:36 every breath you take you owe to Him. 37:38 Everything that you think you have in the bank 37:40 belongs to Him. 37:41 Everything that you say, oh, this property is mine, 37:43 this land is mine, it's not yours. 37:46 Is that too, is that too rough? 37:49 Somebody says I'm too rough sometime. 37:51 Lord knows I don't mean to be, 37:52 but I want to stir you enough that you get aggravated 37:55 if you don't agree with it, that's why. 37:57 So you agitate, stir up the pot. 38:00 So you study to show yourself approved unto God. 38:02 Prove that it's a lie 38:04 and if you did them, let me know, 38:05 so I can change my position. 38:07 Everything belongs to Him. 38:09 He said I own the cattle on a thousand hills, 38:12 isn't that right? 38:13 Oh, yeah, but these are all mine. 38:14 No, they're not. 38:16 You can't move, you can't think, 38:17 you can't do anything without me. 38:20 And look what we do. 38:21 Listen, time is of the essence, may I say that? 38:23 I said that about the man said he wanted to build, 38:25 this is not too long ago, 38:27 he wanted to start building a little house, 38:28 so he can retire, blah-blah. 38:31 He's 100 years old. 38:32 And he talked to my brother and he simply says, 38:35 "And I want you to get started on real soon." 38:37 He said "Real soon?" 38:38 He said, "Yeah, time is of the essence." 38:41 Does that make sense? 38:42 Listen, you might be 50 or 40 or 30. 38:44 I'd say today time is of the essence. 38:47 You think you might have, I don't know ask Carson, 38:49 he end up in the ER. 38:51 That could have been deadly. 38:54 Anything could happen 38:55 because we realize 38:57 they're going to be many laid to rest 38:58 because of the time that we are approaching in 38:59 and we don't want to see it. 39:01 But it's going to happen but God in His mercy 39:03 allows it to happen 39:04 but tell us it'd be heartache. 39:09 Back to destruction quickly 39:10 as we go our time is really going down 39:12 destruction of the Jerusalem. 39:14 Just for a few minutes, maybe longer than you want to. 39:17 Jesus wrote this in Matthew 24:35. 39:22 He said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away," but what? 39:25 "But my words shall not pass." 39:29 Now Jesus spoke, now you have to believe that, 39:31 I have, if I want to be what he wants me to 39:33 I have to believe it. 39:34 He said what? 39:36 Heaven and earth is going to pass away 39:37 but what I said my word shall not pass away. 39:40 People say, well, I know God said this 39:41 about the Ten commandment law and this and that, 39:43 but that's done away with now. 39:44 You realize what in this world are you saying? 39:47 You have the audacity to say that in the face of God? 39:51 He said what? 39:52 I change not. 39:54 I not. 39:56 Everything will pass away, but not My words. 39:59 Jerusalem. 40:01 Oh, a beautiful city. 40:04 More I've read about the more, I hope I'm not wrong, 40:07 the more I'd like to have seen it. 40:10 More I'd like to see it in its beauty and the temple. 40:14 It just absolutely mind boggled 40:17 the people of the day the historians right 40:20 before its destruction, 40:22 these big old thick walls on these fortresses and the, 40:25 you know, the towers, 40:28 gold and so, yeah, it just sparkle 40:30 when the sun would come up, you're looking at go, wow. 40:35 It even startled the enemy. 40:38 Titus and so on, saw the beauty of the temple 40:41 and said, oh, don't destroy it. 40:44 Save it, save it. This is the enemy. 40:47 But the soldiers went ahead and you know the outcome, 40:50 but it's so beautiful. 40:51 Oh, kind of like today. 40:55 Because Jerusalem then says, we have these thick walls. 40:58 We have all this food. 40:59 We have all of that, we got God's blessing. 41:01 He hasn't left us at all. 41:05 Written them, think about this in case 41:07 we don't get time to talk about it. 41:08 Jesus talked about until a prophecy, did He not? 41:14 This is almost 40 years before it took place. 41:17 Jesus prophesied of the destruction of Jerusalem 41:22 almost 40 years, isn't right? 41:24 Before it took place. 41:26 So we might say, 41:27 oh, now wait, we're a little ahead of ourselves now. 41:29 Be careful. Don't get too far ahead. 41:30 No, no, we just got blah, blah. 41:34 Forty years before it took place, 41:36 Jesus said beware, 41:37 there's some things going to happen. 41:40 Be careful. 41:41 We said Sunday law for a long time right now, 41:44 be careful because it is going to happen. 41:47 By God's grace, I'm not gonna back down. 41:49 I don't want anybody backing down from that, 41:50 because that's in the Word of God. 41:54 People need to realize what's happening, 41:55 what's taking place, 41:57 but just what if since Jerusalem felt that way 41:59 and the people all felt that way? 42:01 What if somebody in Jerusalem could run out there and said, 42:03 ah, this place is going to be destroyed. 42:06 You know what? Almost all of them would said, 42:09 exactly like they did at Noah, 42:11 the time of the flood, they would have belly laughed. 42:15 That it can't be, 42:16 there's no way that's gonna happen 42:17 because God is still for us. 42:19 And look at all we have right here. 42:20 So you would be called a crazy individual. 42:24 Can I say that? 42:28 Can I say crazy? 42:30 Some people say no. 42:31 And so they'll write letter and say he said crazy. 42:33 I'll say it again, crazy. 42:35 Not in the right mind. 42:37 Listen, we should be able to say it. 42:39 That's not trying to put down, that simply meant that? 42:41 These might be saying to me and others. 42:42 They're gonna say you're crazy 42:44 because you're telling something 42:45 they didn't want to hear. 42:48 Yeah, conspiracy theory. 42:52 Oh, man. 42:54 They say you're unreasonable. 42:55 Man, think about it. 42:57 There's no signs of this happening. 42:58 Just look at the flood, 43:00 there's no signs of it happening. 43:02 The world's getting ready to burn up. 43:04 Oh, there's no signs of that happening here. 43:06 Don't go ahead of yourself. 43:07 Or somebody say one time. 43:09 Well, that's quite a stretch. 43:11 I said to themselves, you need to stretch out 43:12 your own mind just a little bit. 43:15 Stretch, it's quite a stretch. 43:19 Another one said, well, let's just wait and see. 43:21 Oh, my lands of love, 43:23 we've waited and seen long enough. 43:25 And it keeps adding up. 43:27 Yeah, wait and see, listen, 43:29 waiting and see in a time of an emergency. 43:32 Is that what you're going to say 43:34 and your husband or your wife laying right there 43:35 as you choking on a peal or you dying of a heart attack? 43:37 You'll say, oh, let's give it. 43:39 Let's give it another hour and let's see. 43:42 First thing we do, we start calling for help, 43:45 to be neutral. 43:48 And there's a lot of people that I've met that are neutral. 43:54 I don't think there's any such thing. 43:56 Being in neutral is a crime against humanity 43:59 and against God in a time of emergency. 44:01 We know that, you've read it. 44:03 Why? 44:04 Because of her sins, 44:06 the Word of God 44:07 declared over and over of the destruction 44:09 of Jerusalem, 44:11 maybe read a couple of quick things right quick. 44:13 Under Titus, Jeremiah 26:18 says this, 44:16 "Where the holy house hath stood, 44:19 it was plowed like a field." 44:21 Jeremiah said this, a prophet of God. 44:23 Isaiah talked about. Micah talked about it. 44:26 Isaiah talked about all this is going to happen 44:28 if it's still yet no one would listen. 44:30 They were crazy men. 44:31 Hosea talked about it. Hosea 13:9. 44:35 You know what bottom line it says, 44:36 they begin to blame everybody for it. 44:40 And Hosea said, 13:9, 44:42 "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself." 44:46 Thou has destroyed thyself. 44:48 Hosea 14:1 just a few verses down. 44:50 It says, "For thou hast fallen by thine own iniquity." 44:54 Can't blame God for. 44:55 You've fallen because of choices that you make. 44:57 Well, I don't want to go down to the Adventist church 44:59 because we're gonna be laughed at in the community. 45:01 Ha-ha, so what? 45:04 They did a whole lot more to Jesus, did they not? 45:06 They did more than laugh. 45:08 We have to be by the grace of God 45:10 be able to take it 45:12 and we can only do it 45:13 as the Spirit of the Living God lives inside of us. 45:15 Jesus weeps, the majesty of heaven weep over this thing 45:18 of the approaching destruction that's coming our way. 45:21 Great Controversy 25 says, 45:23 listen, "While foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem," 45:27 say with me church, 45:28 "While foreshadowing the destruction of Jerusalem, 45:32 it prefigured also the terrors of the last day." 45:37 Does that make sense? It prefigures what? 45:40 The terrors, that's how bad 45:42 it's going to get worse than that 45:44 because there was just we say a few million. 45:46 We're talking billions on the earth, on the world. 45:50 Matthew 24:3 simply says, notice this, disciples ask, 45:54 "What's the sign of Your coming?" 45:56 Notices this, "And the end of the world." 45:58 And the end of the world. 46:00 And He begins to answer those things, isn't that right? 46:02 And the end of the world talking about the timeframe 46:04 in which we are living. 46:06 We need to wake up before it's ever too late. 46:10 What will we change? Will we change anything? 46:12 Will anything change in our life 46:14 or should it change? 46:16 Revelation 13 simply represents the United States of America 46:20 without going into, this is not the topic, 46:22 you know, our topic today. 46:23 But you know, 46:24 it's so interesting that God uses this great country, 46:27 United States of America 46:29 and tells exactly 46:30 what United States is going to be doing, 46:32 and how they will be responsible 46:34 as it were for reaching. 46:35 And again, we look at the Roman Catholic Church 46:37 day in and day out, they did this, they did that. 46:39 You better keep your eye on Protestants. 46:42 Yes. 46:43 Is that a fair statement? 46:45 Absolutely, because that's where it begins. 46:46 And then Catholicism joins in with that. 46:48 I know it's a little bit too much for the mind 46:50 who hasn't studied. 46:51 But hey, the Bible declares that the lamb like beast 46:54 with the two horns, 46:55 Revelation 13 represents United States, 46:57 no doubt about it. 47:00 In that lamb that begin to speak as a... 47:02 Good. 47:05 Think about it. 47:06 And speaking like a dragon, 47:08 and we're now turning our back on God. 47:11 We're taking God out of everything. 47:13 We've already taken Him out of everything. 47:15 We're taking Him out of our schools 47:16 and out of our court system 47:17 and creation anymore in public office, 47:19 you name it, you know, abortions in our country. 47:22 God, get out what we're saying the church God get out. 47:25 We can handle it better than You can. 47:28 No, we can't at all. 47:31 But listen, when we thrown Him out of everything possible, 47:33 then we ask Him to bless the nation. 47:36 It's not going to happen. 47:38 Israel threw Him out of everything 47:40 and they crucified the majesty. 47:43 They crucified Him 47:44 and still claimed to be His chosen people, 47:46 and that God was going to bless them, 47:47 nothing bad would happen. 47:49 They were fooled. 47:51 Parallel days. 47:53 Doom. 47:55 I say this as nice as I can, 47:56 doom has been pronounced 47:58 on the United States of America. 48:01 People want to get around it. 48:03 They don't want to talk about it. 48:04 The Bible is clear. Prophecy is clear. 48:07 Because of her sins, they've reached high, 48:10 you know, at the throne room of God. 48:13 The sins we don't want to because of our hard heads, 48:16 we don't want to change because of our stubbornness 48:19 and our stiff neck. 48:22 God help us. 48:24 Listen, if any time in the history of the world, 48:27 God's people need to be weeping 48:29 between the porch and the altar, 48:31 it's right now. 48:33 Read that Joel 2:17 that just get you started. 48:36 We need to be weeping, not celebrating, 48:39 not partying all the time, 48:41 running around like we had nothing 48:42 but like chickens with our head off. 48:46 We need to have a purpose in mind. 48:48 Let God use us to the winning of souls, 48:52 weeping between the porch and the altar. 48:54 Oh, God, save the people, save the people. 48:58 Why? Because of their sins. 49:00 If there ever was a time we need to be 49:02 sighing and crying for the abominations 49:04 that be done. 49:06 Ezekiel Chapter 9. 49:07 We've done many studies on that, 49:08 still learning from it, but, man, 49:10 you talk about heavy duty 49:13 for the abominations that be done 49:15 and you look around and God would show 49:17 greater and greater and greater abominations 49:19 and they were done in the church. 49:22 They were done in the church. 49:23 We don't like that. But this seems pretty simple. 49:26 Those people who study said 49:27 that's exactly what he's talking about. 49:29 But when you go to talk about it, 49:30 people don't want to hear it. 49:32 What's wrong? 49:34 Apostasy in the land and in the church. 49:38 Just like the prophets of old they wept. 49:41 Was that Jeremiah that said, 49:42 I kind of wish my eyes were like, 49:43 I don't know water fountain or something like that. 49:45 Just want to cry and cry and cry. 49:48 Many of the prophets, 49:50 they looked at the apostasy in the church, 49:51 God's people, they're just booed. 49:54 And we look at it today and we go, huh, well. 49:58 When's the last time you felt like weeping 50:00 of what soon to take place in this country, 50:02 when you look around at your children 50:04 or your grandchildren 50:05 and those who can't take care of themselves 50:07 as it were, even if you can't think 50:08 you can take care of yourself, 50:09 the boom is getting ready, 50:11 boom, it's getting ready to be lowered, 50:12 that it just should break your heart. 50:15 But again, Jesus was prophesying this 40 years 50:19 after His death, He said this is going to happen. 50:22 And what did they did to messenger? 50:24 What did, people mocked at the messengers, 50:26 they despised the Word, they misused the prophet. 50:30 2 Chronicles 13, read it when you have time. 50:34 Jesus did everything He could to warn the world 50:37 then and now, 50:38 but notice what happened then. 50:42 All that was left was for Jesus to come here. 50:46 They wouldn't listen to His messengers. 50:49 They wouldn't listen to the prophets. 50:51 And Jesus said, I'm going to try one last thing. 50:54 I'm going to try one last thing. 50:56 I'm willing to go down there 50:59 and talk to them face to face to plead with them, 51:02 to make the changes, we believe, I believe, 51:06 based on God's Word, 51:08 when Jesus came down to this earth, 51:10 it was a risk 51:12 that He would not return to heaven. 51:15 If it wasn't, He can't be my Savior. 51:18 Did you get that? That's heavy duty. 51:21 If He sinned, He cannot be my Savior. 51:25 And He did no sin. 51:26 But people are saying, making excuses for their life 51:28 and saying, well, no, no, 51:30 you know, we used to watch your program all the time, 51:32 da-da, da-da now, and once you said this, 51:34 oh, boy, I just, I can't agree with you anymore, 51:36 and give a bunch of foolishness. 51:42 Sometime I just have to get it off my chest, you know? 51:46 He's my Savior, He's my Lord. 51:50 When all failed 51:51 in last couple of minutes, Jesus came. 51:55 He pled with the priest and the rulers, did He not? 51:58 Please listen. 52:01 And finally Isaiah says that, the prophet says it so well. 52:04 Isaiah 5:4 said, Jesus simply says, 52:07 "What more could I have done to my vineyard 52:10 that I have not done?" 52:13 When all comes in, it's your choice. 52:16 There's nothing more that He can do 52:18 to save you or to save me. 52:20 He will have done everything possible 52:23 to save you and to save Me. 52:27 It's basically our choice. 52:30 And that's why Luke 19:41 says, 52:33 "And when Jesus came near the city, 52:35 and he looked down Jerusalem," 52:38 says, "He wept over it." 52:41 Forty years before it's taken place, 52:43 Jesus looks down, He sees all of the thing, 52:45 the majesty of heaven wept. 52:48 Looking down the last generation, 52:50 as it were, right now this world, 52:53 He sees the world is involved right now 52:55 in deception similar to that, 52:57 which is destruction of Jerusalem 52:58 He said it's going to happen. 52:59 Why? 53:01 Because they rejected My law, 53:02 they rejected the foundation of My government 53:04 of heaven and earth. 53:07 What kind of decision are you going to make today? 53:09 What am I going to, 53:10 decision I'm going to make today? 53:15 It needs to be a positive decision 53:17 as we close today. 53:20 This says it all, the majesty of heaven wept 53:23 over our approaching destruction, 53:24 He weeps today. 53:27 It couldn't be any clearer. 53:28 He saw it all. 53:31 And He said it's going to happen again. 53:33 He saw Jerusalem as a symbol of the world 53:36 hardened by unbelief 53:38 and soon to be destroyed. 53:40 You can say that safely, 53:42 you can tell your friends, your neighbors, 53:43 and so on so forth. 53:45 That's why we're spending time on this prophecy. 53:49 The world is coming to an end. 53:52 We have a work to do. 53:56 Jesus wept. 53:58 Shall we pray together? 53:59 I'm gonna kneel here and just pray, 54:01 shall we as we close out? 54:02 Loving Father in heaven, again, we thank You for Your love. 54:04 We thank You for Your mercy. 54:06 We thank You for Your longsuffering. 54:07 What an awesome thought 54:09 that our King of kings and Lord of lords, 54:11 majesty of heaven shed tears as He looked down 54:15 in this old world. 54:16 He saw us going every direction 54:17 maybe almost in the right direction. 54:20 It broke His heart. 54:21 Lord, may we not be one of those 54:23 who pierces His heart. 54:25 May we give our heart to Him today. 54:27 We thank You, Lord, for the hearing. 54:29 Thank You for answering. 54:30 Thank You for these warnings. 54:31 We need not reject these warnings, 54:34 because we've seen what's happened in past history 54:36 and what's going to happen again. 54:37 We want to follow You all the way 54:39 to that New Jerusalem. 54:40 We thank You in Jesus' name. Amen. 54:43 Hello, and welcome back again. 54:45 A time of great trouble and destruction 54:48 will draw our world to a close 54:51 from what we now know it to be. 54:53 Signs foretold in the Word of God 54:55 are all around us. 54:58 The only way of obtaining eternal life 55:01 is through a deep abiding connection 55:04 with our Lord Jesus Christ. 55:06 In the Book of John 8:31-32, 55:10 Jesus is recorded here speaking to His disciples, 55:14 and urging them that, and I quote, 55:16 "If ye continue in My word, 55:19 then ye are My disciples indeed. 55:21 And ye shall know the truth, 55:24 and the truth shall make you free." 55:26 Christ goes on to explain that 55:28 knowing the truth will set them free from sin. 55:32 Sin is what separates all of us from God. 55:35 Sin is the transgression of His law. 55:38 Sin is what will bring about our destruction 55:41 in the final battle between Christ and His angels, 55:45 and Satan and His angels. 55:47 Our hope is in Christ, and studying daily His Word, 55:52 He offers us an escape from eternal damnation 55:57 with freedom and joy in living with Him 56:00 for all eternity. 56:02 The choice is ours. 56:03 The decision to learn 56:05 and to call sin by its right name 56:07 is ours. 56:09 We pray that you will make the choice 56:11 to be on the side of Christ today, 56:14 and for all eternity. 56:16 And to help you in your studies 56:18 we are offering the message 56:19 that you just heard today entitled, 56:22 "The Majesty of Heaven Wept 56:24 Our Approaching Destruction" 56:26 for a love gift of just $8 or more. 56:29 And, friends, I want to encourage you, 56:31 that your support, your prayers and your financial support 56:35 is what continues to keep Behold the Lamb Ministries, 56:38 Behold the Lamb presents on the air and moving forward. 56:42 We also want to offer you this free gift. 56:45 And it is a book that I quoted 56:47 from in the beginning of our program 56:48 that is entitled The Great Controversy. 56:51 So you may have either one or both 56:54 by simply contacting us here in the United States 56:57 at (618) 942-5044. 57:01 That's Central Time and ask for either the DVD, 57:04 The Majesty of Heaven Wept Our Approaching Destruction 57:08 for a love gift of just $8 or more, 57:12 or ask for the free book The Great Controversy. 57:15 If you remember, 57:16 you can ask for both of them if you'd like. 57:18 You may also write to us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:22 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:26 You may also email us 57:28 at Contact @BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 57:31 or visit us on our website 57:32 at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com 57:35 And I also want to encourage you to visit our 57:38 Behold the Lamb Ministries YouTube channel 57:40 and hit the subscribe button for important messages 57:43 that we try to update on a weekly basis. 57:46 And share these messages with your friends 57:49 and your families 57:50 to help get them ready for the Lord's soon return 57:53 and also you're invited to join us 57:55 on Behold the Lamb's Facebook page. 57:57 Until next time, friends, 57:59 may our precious and wonderful Lord 58:02 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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