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00:39 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Ministries.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton. 00:42 And in just a few moments, 00:44 you'll hear from my husband, Pastor Kenny Shelton. 00:46 You know, back in Scripture, 00:48 back in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, 00:51 you know, we read the words that Jesus spoke 00:53 as it came after Adam and Eve had walked and turn away. 00:58 They had committed a sin 01:01 and Jesus walked through the garden. 01:03 You've realized here, and I hope you guys do at home 01:06 that Jesus probably knew exactly where they were. 01:10 He knew exactly what had happened. 01:12 And yet, as He was walking in the cool of the garden, 01:15 He began to ask, "Where art thou?" 01:18 He was looking for Adam, where art thou? 01:22 You know, we're living in unprecedented times 01:24 in this world. 01:26 And it is my heart's belief 01:28 that God is looking over the vast millions of people 01:33 that have walked away, that have done something 01:35 that they know was not right in the sight of God. 01:38 And He's asking, 01:40 "Where art thou? Where art thou?" 01:44 And I hope after listening to this message today 01:48 that you'll be able to answer God back and say, 01:51 "Here I am, Lord. 01:54 Here I am, cleanse me, make me whole, make me ready. 01:58 So please, I pray that you enjoy that 02:00 you're truly blessed by this message 02:03 entitled Where art thou. 02:06 Praise the Lord. 02:07 It's good to spend some time together, 02:08 again, as you heard the welcome, 02:10 we're going to be talking about and the subject 02:12 is where art thou? 02:14 And you heard we went back to the beginning in Genesis. 02:17 And so we find that 02:19 that also pertains to the day that we are living in. 02:22 I've often said, if you wanna know truth, 02:25 you've got to go back to the beginning. 02:28 Go back to the beginning, see how God set it up. 02:31 Then you'll find out that what He meant 02:33 and what He wants us to do, 02:35 and He'll give us power in which to do that thing. 02:37 Praise God for that. 02:39 So again, you have your Bible, pencil, and paper, 02:41 keep everything, you know, just to... 02:43 I think people need to study 02:44 to show yourself approved unto God. 02:46 It's not just we come to church 02:47 and then we let the pastor speak 02:49 or the elder or somebody speak. 02:50 And then all of a sudden, you know, we just go. 02:52 Study to show yourself approved unto God. 02:54 This is very important that we hide the Word of God where? 02:57 In our hearts and certainly in our minds, 03:00 we need to do that. 03:01 Before we have a prayer, 03:02 as we always do to begin the message, 03:05 as we talk about this. 03:07 To me it's a timely message where art thou, 03:09 which is actually goes along with the... 03:11 I guess it was this month's or the newsletter, 03:14 where art thou. 03:15 And I thought that was such a good question, 03:17 where art thou? 03:19 And so God asks that of you and me today, 03:21 where are we in our relationship with Him? 03:24 Where are we? 03:26 And will the day come when God may say where art thou 03:30 and what has happened? 03:32 Now, I'm gonna kneel and have prayer together 03:34 before we open the Word of God and read it. 03:37 And I just invite you to kneel with me 03:39 and let's seek the Lord in prayer, shall we? 03:42 Merciful Father in heaven, 03:44 again, we thank You for this privilege that we have 03:46 to come before Thee 03:48 and to plead for the power of Thy Holy Spirit. 03:51 How desperately we need to hear from heaven. 03:53 We pray in a special way that You will anoint Your Word. 03:56 We pray that the eyes will not be on man, 03:58 but they will listen to the voice of Jesus Christ. 04:01 As You ask us a question, 04:03 where are we in our relationship with You? 04:06 Bless us we pray with the power of Thy Holy Spirit. 04:08 Ears, hearts, and minds open 04:10 that we may receive what You have, in Jesus' name. 04:13 Amen. 04:16 Let's go back to the Book of Genesis, shall we? 04:18 We'll just read those verses, Genesis Chapter 3, 04:21 we're gonna read several verses. 04:23 We'll go to 8, 9 and 10. 04:25 Genesis 3:8, 9, and 10. 04:28 Now we could spend what? 04:30 All the time that we have, 04:31 and I'm trying to watch the time, 04:34 you know, on these verses, but we're not going to do that, 04:37 but it sure is a real foundation 04:38 as far as I'm concerned, 04:40 starting with verse 8, Genesis Chapter 3. 04:43 It says, "And they heard the voice of," what? 04:47 "They heard the voice of the Lord thy God." 04:49 I don't know whoever, 04:50 how many would like to hear the voice of God? 04:52 Man, I wanna hear the voice of God. 04:55 And then not only hear it, but what? 04:56 To respond to the voice of God. 05:01 And I believe this, 05:03 if our ears are open and our hearts are in tune, 05:05 we will hear that voice speak to us. 05:09 This is the way, walk ye in it. 05:11 And then other times we will hear, 05:13 that's not the way don't walk in it. 05:16 They heard the voice of the Lord of God 05:18 walking in the garden in the cool of, what was it? 05:21 The cool of the day. 05:23 Sounds kinda inviting being in the Garden of Eden, 05:27 which is beyond my mentality 05:29 to think about how beautiful that it was. 05:31 Without sin, everything going on right 05:34 before sin came in. 05:35 What a beautiful place that was, a garden home, 05:38 Adam and Eve lacked nothing. 05:40 Everything was there open for them. 05:43 And now they hear the voice of the Lord 05:45 walking in the garden in the cool of the day. 05:47 Adam and his wife hid themselves. 05:49 Had that been their custom before? 05:52 Before they made a choice? 05:53 No, I think they welcomed Him, don't you? 05:55 As it was His custom to come down 05:57 and to walk with them and talk with them. 05:59 That encourages me to say, 06:00 that's what He wants today in each of our lives, 06:03 He wants to walk with us. 06:05 He wants to talk with us. He wants to lead us. 06:07 He wants to guide us, give us strength. 06:10 But sometimes we maybe hide 06:12 like they did themselves in the presence of the Lord, 06:15 God, among the trees of the garden. 06:18 Just those things that they love 06:19 to walk around in and through and admire the beauty of them. 06:22 They found that they could try to hide from God. 06:25 Verse 9, 06:27 "And the Lord God called unto Adam 06:28 and said unto him," 06:30 sermon title, 06:31 "where art thou?? 06:37 Wouldn't you feel like you needed to answer? 06:40 You hear the voice of God, 06:41 they knew Him well and say where art thou 06:44 and notice Adam said to Him, 06:47 notice that he said, 06:48 I heard thy voice and now Adam speak, 06:50 "I heard thy voice in the garden, 06:51 and I was," what? 06:54 He said, "I was afraid." 06:55 Interesting. 06:57 I wonder why he was afraid. 06:59 You'd say, "Well, because he sinned," 07:01 and naturally it was sin. 07:02 But did you think that 07:03 he remembered Genesis, what is it? 07:05 2:17 where God said to them, 07:07 "If you eat of that tree, you'll surely die." 07:12 He knew that he had eaten, did he not? 07:15 So surely this must have went through his mind, 07:18 I'm gonna die. 07:19 Maybe if I could stay away from God and not look at Him, 07:21 maybe I won't die or something was going, 07:23 he's making excuses, 07:24 but he knew death was knocking at the door. 07:28 'Cause I don't know if it was explained to him 07:30 or if we ever found in Scripture, 07:31 somebody has studied it out 07:33 where God explained to them 07:35 that when you sin, that moment you sin, 07:36 you're not gonna die at that moment. 07:41 Yeah. You're not gonna die. 07:43 They may have thought as soon as they ate, 07:45 they are going to die, 07:46 but they found that they hadn't and now God's calling them 07:49 and now they're hiding. 07:53 Thou shall surely die. 07:54 And he said, 07:55 "I was hiding because I was naked and I hid myself." 07:58 Hmm. 08:00 Very interesting. 08:01 The voice that they loved, 08:04 the voice they loved to talk with, 08:06 a voice that they feared. 08:09 All of a sudden things begin to change. 08:12 And it was not because they were so modest, 08:17 it's because they know, 08:18 that they knew that they had done wrong. 08:22 The very first words that they heard from God 08:27 after they sinned was, where art thou. 08:31 And I think it was brought out very plain and clear. 08:34 Think about that question. 08:35 Do you think God didn't know where they was at? 08:38 Surely, He knew where they are. 08:40 I mean, think about where art thou? 08:41 God knew, 08:43 He knew before the foundation of the world 08:45 and He knew what would take place, 08:46 but He asked that question 08:48 and that could go in a lot of different directions, 08:49 could it not? 08:51 Where art thou? 08:52 'Cause I think sometimes God asks us 08:54 when we get off the road just a little bit, 08:55 where art thou? 08:59 What are you doing over here? 09:01 Why are you over here? 09:05 Where art thou? 09:07 Counsels of the Church, page 39, paragraph four says, 09:11 "Soon, the battle will be waged fiercely 09:15 between those who serve God," 09:17 notice this, "and those who serve Him not." 09:21 Now from this pulpit always we will hear, 09:23 I believe what God wants is a warning message, 09:26 a wake up message. 09:28 Remember, there's a battle that's going to be fierce, 09:33 a fierce battle. 09:35 And yet there's like many people thinking 09:37 those that we're talking about in the last day church 09:39 that they say, you know, we love God. 09:40 We want to keep His commandments. 09:42 They don't want this message to be too tough. 09:46 But I'm reading there's gonna be a fierce battle 09:50 that's going to go on, and it is for eternal life. 09:54 We need to be warned 09:55 for those who serve Him and those who serve Him not. 10:00 The article goes on to say 10:01 everything that can be shaken, what? 10:04 Will be shaken, 10:06 and the things that cannot be shaken 10:08 will remain. 10:10 That kind of throws 10:12 a little bit of cog in the wheel of many people 10:13 who they write me all the time or they give a call. 10:15 And they're worried about if there's two in the field 10:17 and one's taken the other remain 10:19 and they're saying, well, now this is the right one. 10:21 And the one that stays is the right one. 10:22 The other would say the one that goes up is the right one. 10:24 It's kind of interesting 10:25 that those things 10:26 that cannot be shaken will remain. 10:30 So at least here I wanna remain. 10:34 Because you can't tell me that the shaking is not going on. 10:37 We realized that was in the 1800s, 10:39 middle 1800s, 10:41 the shaking had already commenced. 10:43 And the shaking commences in your life and my life 10:45 once we turn it over to Jesus Christ, 10:48 there is a shaking going on. 10:52 Anything, the devil will use, 10:53 anything, everything dirty, underhanded, 10:55 it doesn't matter. 10:56 He studies your life day by day. 10:58 He knows you, they say better than you know yourself. 11:01 And he brings all those weaker points 11:03 back to you all the time. 11:05 Hits you where it hurts. 11:06 You ever heard that? Hit him where it hurts. 11:10 Because he's not playing games. 11:11 You may be playing games. 11:13 I'm sure you're not. 11:14 I'm not playing games. 11:16 This is serious business. 11:22 God asks us the same question today, 11:26 where He say Kenny, 11:28 He says, where art thou? 11:31 Maybe when I choose another road 11:33 or I make a decision, 11:35 maybe I shouldn't have made or do something, I say, 11:37 I choose to sin like Adam and Eve 11:40 when they were tempted, they fell short. 11:44 Even though it's interesting 11:46 when you read Spirit of Prophecy on it, 11:47 and I'm sure you all have, as you studied these things. 11:50 The temptation that Adam and Eve had 11:52 was not very tough. 11:55 Is it okay to say that now? 11:57 'Cause some of the temptations that we have as human beings, 11:59 it seems like that, man, it's like life and death issue 12:01 and oh, wow. 12:03 Now what do I mean by that? 12:05 It's not as tough as it could have been. 12:09 The plan of salvation was so arranged 12:12 that it wouldn't be that tough. 12:15 Let me read something to you, 12:16 Signs of the Time, April 4th written in 1900. 12:20 Signs of the Time, April 4th, 1900 says this. 12:24 "The plan of salvation was so arranged 12:26 that when Adam was tested, 12:28 temptation was removed from him as far as possible." 12:33 It seems like today it's just pushed, 12:35 you know, oh my. 12:37 But God does say what? 12:38 I'll not put more on you than you're able to, right? 12:40 Bear without providing what? 12:42 Okay. What is the way of escape? 12:44 When temptation comes against you, 12:46 boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, 12:47 what is the way of escape? 12:49 Christ is, that's exactly it. 12:51 He is the way of escape. 12:53 He doesn't say drop and give me 10. 12:56 Go hide in the closet for a while. 12:58 He said, I am your, right, I am your vehicle, 13:01 I'm gonna help you to escape. 13:04 But notice is almost like with just such love and grace 13:09 as far as possible. 13:11 And you say, well, how was this temptation removed 13:14 as far as possible from him. 13:18 It goes on and says there, April 4th, 1900, 13:20 "When Adam was tempted, he was not hungry." 13:24 Now would there be a difference? 13:27 Who was it about Esau? 13:29 Esau sold his birthright because he was what? 13:33 Wasn't he basically hungry? 13:35 And he wanted his brother 13:36 to make some pottage or porridge, something. 13:42 He was hungry. 13:44 Therefore the temptation was like, 13:45 oh, I just got to get something to eat now make me. 13:48 And so Adam and Eve, Adam was not hungry. 13:53 'Cause to me it's more tempting 13:54 when you're going down the street 13:56 and you're walking in front of a bakery 13:58 in my lands. 13:59 Okay, I'll leave that. 14:02 You know, you shouldn't be going in there, 14:03 stuff not really good, but that smell, 14:06 whoa, and you're hungry. 14:09 And most time we just give in and go in, 14:13 but he wasn't even hungry. 14:15 That was interesting. 14:19 Why did Adam fail the test? 14:22 Why did he fail the test? 14:24 He knew, did he not? Eve was fooled. 14:26 Is that true or was it? 14:30 She was deceived by the beguiled, by the enemy. 14:34 And she failed. 14:36 I think Adam knew what was going on, 14:41 but he ate anyway. 14:42 So that just simply says, 14:43 because he loved Eve more than he loved what? 14:47 He loved Eve his wife more than he loved God. 14:50 See we have people, 14:51 believe it or not in the church today, 14:53 Christians that love their spouse 14:55 more than they love God 14:56 because they do what the spouse wants 14:58 rather than what God wants them to do. 15:00 Is that true? 15:01 It's true. 15:04 And they've told me that sometime, 15:05 I can't come to church 15:07 because my wife or my husband won't let me, 15:11 but I know heaven will be my home. 15:12 We need to rethink that just a little bit. 15:16 Not trying to be judgmental. 15:17 I want us just to think, 15:18 because if you allow that thought to go ahead 15:21 and transfer into the mind of some individuals, 15:24 it's like, well, I can go ahead and do what they want me to do, 15:26 and heaven is going to be my home, 15:28 when Jesus says, oh my! 15:30 What are you putting before Me? 15:33 So it seems that he loved Eve more than God, 15:35 because it comes back to Exodus 20: 3. 15:38 Does it not? 15:39 Word of God says, thou shalt have no what? 15:43 "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." 15:47 Isn't that very interesting 15:49 when you think about what God was saying 15:51 to the people who had been in the situation 15:54 that they had been in, 15:55 when they were surrounded by nations 15:57 who had many gods, 16:00 God was squaring it away with them to say, 16:02 there's only one God, not many gods. 16:10 Polytheism, isn't that what it is? 16:13 Poly means many gods. 16:17 God said, "No, there's only one God." 16:21 Hmm. 16:22 And I thought, that's it. 16:24 That's kind of interesting right there, 16:25 thou shalt not have other gods before Me 16:28 and before Me means 16:30 there shall be no other gods before My face. 16:33 There shall be no other gods, notice that, besides me. 16:38 There shall be no other gods in addition to Me. 16:42 That's pretty plain then, isn't it? 16:44 Thou shalt have no other gods. 16:46 That means that could mean 16:48 in food and drink, and houses and lands, 16:50 and jobs and companions, and children and does it? 16:53 It include anything that we put before God 16:55 or use as an excuse for not serving God. 17:01 Christ Object Lesson, page 299 makes a statement. 17:04 Listen carefully. 17:06 It said, "The people of God are worshiping false gods," 17:10 or the people of the world are worshiping false gods. 17:13 Is that somewhat true? 17:15 People of the world, they're worshiping false gods 17:17 on every hand, you know that. 17:20 "They are to be turned from their false worship. 17:24 Now how are they turned from their false worship? 17:26 If we realize that 17:28 they're putting other things before God, 17:30 somehow they need to turn from that. 17:31 Is that true? 17:33 Notice this, you turn them, it says, 17:36 "Not by hearing denunciation of their idols, 17:40 but beholding something better." 17:44 How do you change idol worshipers? 17:46 Any person that needs to do is what? 17:48 By giving them what? 17:50 Something better. 17:53 Now think about it. 17:54 You can condemn, you can look at the idols 17:56 and tell them you're not supposed to do that. 17:57 The Bible says not do that, 17:59 but most give respect by beholding, by looking, 18:01 by they're watching you, how is your life? 18:03 How's your conduct? How's my conduct? 18:05 Am I offering them something better 18:07 than the world's offering them? 18:10 I've heard people say many times, 18:12 well, so-and-so goes to the church down there. 18:13 I know where they go down there, 18:14 but hey, they go down there. 18:16 But you know what? 18:17 They're not any better than I am. 18:20 They didn't say things I did, may be even worse. 18:23 I mean, it's a legitimate argument. 18:25 We shouldn't do that, absolutely. 18:27 But we shouldn't what? 18:29 Behold man either and look to him. 18:30 We look to Jesus and the author and finisher of our faith, 18:35 because someday He's gonna say where art thou? 18:40 So what is that something better 18:42 that we can offer them? 18:43 Would that not be God's character? 18:46 Absolutely, God's mercy and His long sufferings, 18:48 forgiveness of sin, His goodness and so on, 18:51 which is to be made known. 18:54 Jesus made this statement one time 18:55 it's true where He said, 18:57 ye are therefore My witnesses. 18:59 Ye are what? 19:00 Ye are my witnesses. 19:02 Wow. 19:05 I thought what does that mean, witnesses? 19:06 We always say, well, so-and-so is witnessing for. 19:09 The word translated says they are My witnesses. 19:12 He said, you are my testimony. 19:16 Now what kind of a testimony are we 19:18 in representing Jesus Christ? 19:21 When they look at you, they look at me. 19:24 What kind of a testimony am I? 19:27 Am I lifting up the Lord and Savior, 19:28 or am I doing what? 19:30 Doing the opposite? 19:32 Giving them some reasons 19:34 where they wanna turn loose of the world 19:35 and begin to follow after Christ. 19:38 You are my witnesses. You are my testimony. 19:43 I like one of the words there. 19:44 It said, you are my recorder. 19:49 Come on, church. 19:51 You are my what? 19:52 Recorder. 19:54 Other words you'd record something, right? 19:55 Everything's out there. 20:00 We are to have recorded Christ as it were and played through. 20:03 And they see Christ in me, in you, 20:06 the hope of glory. 20:08 I mean, that's pretty heavy duty, 20:09 that's like everything's going to show up. 20:13 And that work certainly is to testify. 20:15 I've heard people say in a lot of services 20:17 they have gone to, 20:18 we've come tonight for testimonies. 20:20 We're gonna have testimony. We're gonna testify. 20:24 Sometime we say that in the church 20:25 and not a one testified. 20:28 You have to beg and plead and crawl around and beg. 20:33 We shouldn't have to do that. You know what I mean? 20:35 Somebody's gonna testify 20:36 'cause Jesus said, you are my what? 20:38 You are my witnesses. 20:43 Where art thou? 20:46 Could not was God coming down and seeing Adam and Eve, 20:48 and they hid there and so on. 20:49 And He says, "Where art they?" He knew where they were at. 20:50 We understand that. 20:52 But then He might be saying, you know what? 20:53 You know, what's going on? 20:58 What's happened? He knew. 21:00 Yeah, He knew all of those. 21:01 He had all the answers, 21:03 but He was still trying to talk to them. 21:04 God knew where Adam and Eve was. 21:06 There's no doubt about it, 21:08 but it isn't the first three words there 21:11 revealed a separation that had just begun. 21:15 Remember there was no separation before sin, 21:17 after sin there was separation 21:18 that tells us the day 21:20 when there's sin in the life that we know about it, 21:22 we are separated from God. 21:25 Now what the Bible says, we're separate. 21:27 No, we don't want to be separate, we might say, 21:29 but yet, still yet that sin has separated us 21:31 because what is it? 21:32 Isaiah 59:2, it says, 21:35 "Your iniquities have separated between Me and you." 21:37 Isn't that right? Iniquities. 21:39 Our sin has separated us from God. 21:41 We might pretend, we might be singing praises, 21:44 we might be preaching prayer blazes. 21:46 Somebody with me? 21:49 That doesn't mean. 21:53 Power of the Spirit of God 21:54 is what we need in our hearts, our lives, 21:56 because we don't want that separation. 22:03 We can't live with, you know, being separated from God. 22:06 Because as soon as that, 22:07 we began, as soon as the separation come, 22:09 what happened to Adam and Eve? 22:11 They began to do what? 22:12 Somebody say die. 22:14 They begin to die. Did they not? 22:16 Yes, they did. 22:18 The moment they chose another leader, 22:20 the moment you choose a leader, and I choose another leader, 22:23 I'm underneath that leader. 22:25 Right now I choose Jesus Christ. 22:27 You say, I choose Jesus Christ. 22:28 Okay. I'm walking with Jesus. 22:30 Well, I choose to go do this because that's what I wanna do. 22:32 And I should be able to get away with, 22:34 I should be able to, 22:35 I've just... I've walked away from Christ 22:38 and I've chose another, the other leader is the enemy. 22:41 There's only two, ain't that right? 22:44 And there's no such thing 22:45 as walking hand in hand with both of them. 22:48 Jesus is clear about that in the Word, isn't it? 22:53 After sin came in, 22:55 now notice, I like this, 22:57 praise God for when sin came in, 23:00 who was the one that went seeking? 23:06 Isn't that beautiful? 23:08 Even though they've sinned, had chosen another leader, 23:11 God still came down to them 23:15 and He still want to woo them 23:17 into relationship of repentance and to come back to Him. 23:21 He came to them, He went to the garden. 23:25 He could have left them there and say, I told you so. 23:27 That's what some of us would have done maybe. 23:30 I warned you. 23:31 I told you about it. 23:33 I told you about this tree. 23:35 I told you what was gonna be in that tree. 23:37 I told you what it was gonna do. 23:38 And I told you, Eve, 23:40 don't, you stray too far from your husband 23:41 and you didn't look out. 23:48 And God certainly warned Adam. 23:49 He knew, Adam knew what he did. 23:52 And sometimes we know what we're doing. 23:57 That makes it, can I say worse when we know. 24:02 I can't say, I can't beg and say ignorance every time. 24:06 Sometime I plead ignorance 24:08 'cause I didn't know, 24:10 there's other times you can't plead 24:11 you know and I know. 24:17 Bible is very clear. 24:19 It says the wages of sin is what? 24:21 Is death. Romans 6:23. 24:23 We know that and soon as there was sin, 24:25 there was what? 24:26 There was grace. 24:28 You ever hear that a lot of times where grace, 24:30 New Testament Christians were under grace, all grace. 24:33 Grace was instituted 24:35 as soon as there was sin in the garden. 24:38 Come on somebody. 24:39 That rules out that argument 24:40 people say, oh, we're under grace now, 24:42 we can do anything we wanna do. 24:44 Grace was instituted as soon as there was sin. 24:46 The plan of salvation 24:48 was instituted and put into as moment there was sin. 24:52 Plan of redemption went right into action. 24:54 Praise God. 24:55 Clearly Revelation 13:8. 24:57 The Bible is clear on it. 24:58 It says, 25:00 "Here's the Lamb 25:01 slain from the foundation of the world." 25:03 There was the plan that was there. 25:05 God said, I know what's going to happen, 25:06 but what I've been accused of being what? 25:08 I've made a bunch of robots as it were. 25:10 And I'm giving them free choice decisions. 25:13 They can do what they wanna do. 25:15 I'll give Adam and Eve 25:16 everything that they need in there. 25:17 They'll lack for nothing. 25:19 If they choose to do, because they've chosen. 25:21 Could He have stopped them? Yes, He could have. 25:23 But the devil would want to see, 25:25 you're exactly what I said you were. 25:27 You just made, 25:29 you know, some people 25:30 and You've programmed their mind under You, 25:32 not because they love You, they're gonna do it 25:34 because that's the way they're programmed. 25:36 You know what I'm talking about. 25:40 Where art thou? 25:45 The link between heaven and earth, 25:47 between man and God was severed. 25:51 Something had to bring it back together. 25:54 It had to be repaired. 25:56 And it started out, 25:57 the repair work started out immediately, 25:59 where art thou? 26:03 Today, you know, 26:05 Christ is working in the holy of holies 26:08 in the heavenly sanctuary in our behalf. 26:14 We have guidance from the Word of God. 26:17 Guidance from the prophets was inspired to write, 26:23 but they too tell us 26:25 great changes are taking place right now 26:28 and will take place. 26:30 And so it's not just from the garden, 26:32 but from the garden as it were, 26:33 it goes right over to here where we're at today. 26:38 At least to the time of trouble, 26:39 as we will know, 26:41 as never before Daniel 12, 26:42 we understand that 26:44 at least we say we understand it. 26:45 A time of trouble. 26:47 If we understand it, 26:48 would we be preparing the best we know how? 26:51 I feel like a failure sometimes. 26:54 I know the things that we preach and we teach 26:56 and things are going to come to pass, 26:59 I don't doubt at all. 27:01 But then we say, we're awful 27:03 busy doing all the things that we're doing, 27:04 and there's no more time left to make some preparations 27:07 that we can make now. 27:10 Now think about how many people here 27:12 really are prepared. 27:15 Let's say when the power shut off 27:17 or can't get your groceries. 27:19 And you know what I'm talking about? 27:20 Things that sustain life. 27:24 He just showed us not too long ago 27:25 what's happened 27:27 when the economy shuts down a little bit 27:29 or a health, 27:30 you know, pandemic, 27:32 oh, all this just happens, isn't that right? 27:34 About two or three days, the shelves were bare. 27:42 Oh, what are we going to do? 27:44 There's no paper towels. 27:47 I just doubt. 27:48 I shouted that louder than anybody, 27:50 where's the paper towels? 27:54 Where's the tissue? 27:56 Come on somebody. 27:57 It's true. 28:00 But then it's kind of slowly bounced back a little bit 28:02 and it's on the shelf. 28:03 And now we haven't done a thing just like it was before this, 28:07 but God's just showing us 28:08 it can happen and it will happen. 28:10 And how you're going to react, how am I going to react? 28:15 God is calling a people He wants to respond today. 28:17 He says, "Where art thou? Where are you today?" 28:20 Are you desiring and striving 28:22 with all that's in by the power of the Holy Spirit 28:26 to respond to the call when He says, where are you? 28:30 Here I am Lord. 28:32 Lord you know, I'm here. 28:35 I wanna serve You. 28:37 I want that robe of righteousness, 28:40 the robe of righteous, 28:41 which the parents, right? 28:43 Our first parents left in the garden. 28:46 Did we get that? 28:48 What did they have on, what was their clothes? 28:52 Yeah, notice it was that robe of righteousness 28:56 that, yeah, the white light, the glory of God, 29:00 they were covered, were they not? 29:01 And when sin come, boom, it was gone. 29:06 Where's our world headed? 29:11 Are we hiding today 29:14 as Christians, as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 29:16 are we hiding 29:17 from what we should be doing today? 29:19 But doing many other things is keeping us busy, 29:20 but maybe not what God would have us to be doing. 29:24 We've talked about the, 29:25 you know, we've talked about the world economic forum. 29:27 We've talked about the great reset, 29:30 but it seems like people still don't get it. 29:32 You could talk about it every week just like, 29:34 you know, 120 years of the same sermon, 29:38 it's gonna flood, right? 29:39 It's gonna rain. 29:41 Very few made that transition, 29:46 the reset, we say, we're going to start over. 29:47 If you can't see that we're in that phase right now 29:51 that there are a group of people 29:52 who want this world to start over as it were. 29:55 They don't want it like it was, 29:57 they don't like all the history, 29:59 don't like a lot of different things, you know? 30:00 But, and it could be just a small little group 30:02 is changing the world. 30:04 Why? Because we won't do anything about it. 30:06 We won't stand up maybe for our own, 30:09 what we believe is right. 30:12 Yeah. 30:13 It's a tough situation, but we're being challenged. 30:16 And God's saying, where are you right now? 30:18 Do you understand this message? 30:22 Or are we asleep maybe at the wheel? 30:27 We know that the great reset, we understand the great reset. 30:31 That's a global political economic control. 30:36 We see it by the Marxist 30:38 totalitarian regime or socialism. 30:41 If we don't see that it's taken 30:42 and you mention now, people say, 30:44 whoa, lest you know, we can't talk about that. 30:46 You must because it's happening. 30:49 Is it not? 30:51 It's happening and that makes a difference. 30:56 Bible prophecy indicates as the man of sin 31:00 is moving forward and doing all that he can do 31:04 is to simply get rid of God's people. 31:09 We call it the new world order. Do we not? 31:12 Are we ashamed to say that anymore? 31:14 No, we should say it. 31:15 But a lot of people they don't wanna hear 31:17 the new world order 31:19 because they say it's a conspiracy theory, 31:23 but they've been saying that for years. 31:26 And we see it a lot of this stuff, 31:28 we see reading the Bible, 31:29 it's coming to pass before our very eyes. 31:31 But sometime we just don't wanna talk about it. 31:37 God is looking for a people who will live out 31:42 what they understand is truth and righteousness, 31:46 that when He and if He should call 31:48 and say, where art thou? 31:49 What will we say? 31:51 How will we respond? 31:57 People will talk about and say, we shouldn't be talking about, 32:00 you know, vaccines 32:02 or we shouldn't be talking about, 32:04 you know, verifications of vaccine 32:05 or we shouldn't be talking about travel health visas, 32:09 or any of that kind of stuff. 32:11 But it's taking place right now before our very eyes. 32:16 It's not just gossip. 32:18 It's real McCoy. 32:24 Before you, I mean, we've heard it threatened 32:26 time and time again. 32:27 Have we not? 32:29 Before we can work or before we travel, 32:33 before we get on the bus, as it were, 32:35 before we go to school, 32:38 you have to be vaccinated. 32:41 Now say, well, it's not mandatory at all. 32:43 That sounds pretty mandatory to me. 32:47 It wouldn't have to be a law. 32:49 One government officials said one time, 32:50 we don't have to make it 32:52 a law itself has got to be vaccinated 32:53 because it will be such a position 32:55 that every store owner, 32:57 every place of business 32:58 will make it mandatory that you do it, 33:01 or you can't go in. 33:02 Is there some today? 33:05 I went to a store just the other day, 33:07 I didn't get three feet in there. 33:10 Got three feet through the door. 33:11 "Where's your mask?" 33:12 I said, "I don't have one. I didn't brought, bring one." 33:15 They said, that's why we got the box over there 33:17 for people like you. 33:20 So if I wanted to go any farther, 33:21 I need to get me a little mask and put it on. 33:26 Yeah. 33:31 It's kinda like mandatory a little bit in it, I mean. 33:35 But I'm saying that, 33:37 yeah, there's things here that we need to look at. 33:41 Travel. 33:42 Your travel health visas have already begin 33:46 initiated in many countries right now. 33:48 And it seemed like here it's like, 33:49 we're in denial of it, 33:51 but we should not be. 33:53 That simply means that 33:54 a person must pass a COVID test. 33:57 You have to be negative 33:58 and some of you had COVID and taking the test 34:00 and we've had it two or three times at least 34:04 before we're allowed to go into another country. 34:07 But this world is messed up 34:09 because we'd have to have it, 34:11 you know, the test before we go into another country. 34:13 But yet we're letting people in by the thousands 34:15 that have COVID. 34:18 Yeah, I'm not trying to be judgmental 34:20 and condemn it. 34:21 And maybe I don't understand it all, 34:22 but that doesn't sound right. 34:25 Are we really operating as it were, 34:27 you know, with, let's say a full deck 34:32 when you demand it of your own people 34:34 and you can't go anyplace. 34:37 Before we went out of the country 34:38 just about two months ago, six weeks ago, 34:40 we had to have the test, COVID test 34:42 to make sure we were all right to go somewhere else. 34:45 After we got where we were going, 34:46 five days there you went and you took another test. 34:49 Wow. 34:51 Before you could leave after, you know. 34:53 We're witnesses to these things. 34:58 And we even watched 34:59 while we were in the other country, 35:01 we watched the scroll across the news 35:02 that new laws were being discussed. 35:05 New laws were what? 35:07 Being discussed, 35:08 requiring mandatory vaccinations 35:10 before one can leave the country 35:12 in the near future. 35:16 Some people start holding a whole conspiracy. 35:17 Oh, that's not writ. 35:19 Have you not heard all of that? 35:21 They may just be talking, maybe discussion. 35:23 They're throwing out there. 35:25 As the president said, not too long ago, 35:27 he said, let's kind of keep this all together 35:28 because I'd hate to what? 35:30 Shut things down again, 35:32 something like that, what the words? 35:34 Yeah. 35:36 I hate kind of shut down again. 35:38 In other words he's telling us 35:39 if it don't go the way they want it to go, 35:41 he'll shut down again. 35:43 After they said, there'll be a first 35:44 and then there'd be a second and a third wave. 35:46 We're seeing all these things. 35:47 So don't want you to get excited about it. 35:49 You just say, "Hey, let's look at this thing carefully." 35:56 The things that we discussed six, seven, eight months ago 36:00 were said conspiracy theory. 36:02 And much of it it's come to pass already. 36:04 Hmm. 36:06 We could go on and on about talking, 36:08 you know, about things that's going on right now. 36:10 We could talk about the destruction of cities 36:13 because again, God's going to be calling, don't He? 36:15 He's gonna be calling, where art thou? 36:17 Destruction of the churches and the capital buildings 36:20 and police precincts and the monuments 36:23 and the loss of our constitutional rights 36:26 in the name of health lawlessness 36:31 continued speeches to take, 36:33 you know, sitting right here, 36:34 take our right to bear arms away 36:36 from its citizens. 36:40 The talk of, the talk, we're talking about, 36:42 talk of moving away from our currency 36:44 as we now know it. 36:47 Hmm. 36:50 To go to a total digital currency, 36:53 will it happen only God knows, 36:55 but there's going to be something 36:57 where a man will not be able to buy or sell 36:58 say if he had the mark. 37:02 Why not look at these things and just throw them out there. 37:04 If I'm up here saying 37:06 this is exactly what's gonna happen, 37:07 blah, blah. 37:09 I'm suggesting, I'm throwing things out to say 37:11 these are possibilities and they can be used 37:13 and look what they did in two weeks time. 37:16 But what was February and March when it started. 37:19 It sounds exactly like the WEC goals. 37:22 We're all economic 37:24 as they got together and discussed these things 37:26 and they laid them things out and they did it in print. 37:28 And it sounds like it's coming to pass. 37:32 Of course, we're more worried about the spiritual. 37:34 Are we not? 37:36 The spiritual aspect of it. 37:37 We know all of these things are going to come about 37:39 because the devil has targeted a small little group of people 37:42 who keep the commandments of God, 37:46 who keep the commandments of God. 37:48 You are targeted. 37:51 No, we don't want, I know we don't wanna hear it. 37:53 I can't help, but say it time and time again, 37:55 so that you know, so that you hear it. 37:57 So you live it and you breathe it. 38:01 I hear it in my ears ringing all the time 38:05 you know, I lose a lot of sleep. 38:10 As soon my eyes open up these thoughts come back in. 38:12 I want to believe the Holy Spirit, 38:14 these are things that need to be brought out. 38:15 These are things, what? 38:17 Continue to warn my people, continue to warn them. 38:19 The things that's coming upon them as what? 38:21 Almost overwhelming surprise. 38:24 And they shouldn't be, 38:25 we should not be surprised at any of this, 38:28 but we're going to be 38:29 if the preachers, the teachers and everybody else 38:30 doesn't bring some of these things up 38:32 from time to time 38:33 and talk about them. 38:37 My! 38:38 If we look at the purpose of, 38:39 they're talking now, tax increases. 38:41 Lord have mercy we don't need any more. 38:44 Is it okay to say it? 38:45 I'm up here begging, I guess, no, please don't. 38:49 Talking about more 38:52 and they're just printing and printing and printing 38:54 and you know why? 38:56 They don't have the answers. 38:57 And then they said, 38:58 well, we're going to rejoin the Paris agreement. 39:00 The green new deal cost trillions of dollars. 39:05 And that's what you will see in there 39:07 it will be easily produced a Sunday law, 39:11 put it down. 39:13 It can easily where God sees fit or whatever. 39:16 That's all in agreement with the pope 39:18 as we well know, Laudato si'. 39:21 Very simple here, 39:22 just one day off and it needs to be Sunday. 39:24 There's no doubt about it. 39:27 I don't mean to just beat and bang, 39:29 but I'm telling you, I just sense it. 39:31 And I see it, I pray you do too. 39:35 Yeah, absolutely. They want us. 39:36 Yeah, absolutely. Who's in charge? 39:40 And after rescinding the Keystone XL pipeline, 39:43 you remember all the thousands of jobs, 39:45 you know, 39:47 but now we're gonna be back to what? 39:49 Our oil, 39:50 we're not going to have oil independence anymore. 39:52 We finally came to that point where the gas prices were down 39:54 and they were going to stay down. 39:56 And in 60 days 39:57 they went up like 90 cents a gallon already. 40:02 You have 20 to 30 gallons think about it, 40:04 that's a lot of money every time you feel up. 40:10 Man. 40:14 Hmm. 40:16 I mean, this is just some of the plan, 40:18 the larger part of it. 40:19 We talk about the new world order. 40:21 Things are changing. 40:22 Why? 40:25 Listen to Matthew 24:32-33. 40:30 Matthew 24:32-33. 40:32 Come on church, let's go here now. 40:34 It says, "Now learn the parable of what? 40:36 The fig tree, 40:38 when his branch is yet tender and putteth forth," what? 40:42 "Putteth forth leaves," 40:43 good, "ye know that summer is," what? 40:46 When the fig leaf does what? 40:47 When the figs, the leaves come out on the tree, 40:49 you know what? 40:51 The summer's nigh. 40:52 When you see what's happening in the world today, 40:54 lift up your head, your redemption draweth nigh. 40:56 When you see what's happening in the world today, 40:58 don't say it can't happen. 41:01 Surely we've seen enough already to realize 41:03 that the most weird things, 41:06 difficult things are going to happen, 41:08 which we say can't happen in this country. 41:09 You've already seen it happened around the world. 41:19 So just don't doubt it, whatever it might be. 41:21 It may not be this right now. 41:22 It may not be that right now, 41:24 but there's gonna be some things 41:25 that's gonna bring this world into upheaval 41:26 that can never be straightened out again 41:28 till the coming of Jesus Christ. 41:31 Know that summer is nigh, verse 33, Matthew 24. 41:35 "So likewise, when you shall see all," 41:38 how many? 41:40 "All of these things know that it is near, 41:43 even at the door." 41:45 What's wrong with preaching 41:46 that it's near, even at the door. 41:50 Do you realize that the people who will not want to hear, 41:52 it's near even at the door. 41:54 They'll think it's too harsh. 41:56 They'll think we should be talking about 41:58 how to make cookies. 42:03 You know what I'm talking about. 42:08 Instead the house is on fire. 42:15 Call for help or get out. 42:21 Notice all these things. 42:23 Know it's near, even at the door. 42:24 This quote, there, 42:26 Counsels of the Church, page 37, paragraph one. 42:30 We know this. We've read it many times. 42:32 Let's read it again because it makes sense. 42:34 We are living in the time of the end. 42:36 Now remember when this was written, 42:38 that's 150 years ago. 42:41 Are we not closer to the end now 42:42 than we were then? 42:43 Absolutely we are. 42:45 It's like, we can't understand it. 42:48 God in His mercy is allowing it to play out a little bit longer 42:52 because this message has to go where? 42:54 To all the world, 42:55 and you have to go in 42:57 and you have to expose the wine of Babylon. 43:00 You've got to expose all of those things, 43:04 but man of sin is going to be revealed. 43:06 Do you remember that? That's what the Bible says. 43:07 And when you go to reveal the man of sin, 43:09 all of a sudden, oh, it's a little bit too hurtful. 43:11 Hmm. 43:14 Boy. 43:17 We're living at the time of the end. 43:18 The fast fulfilling signs of the time 43:20 declare the coming of Christ is near at hand. 43:22 That makes sense. 43:24 We just read it in Matthew 24. Did we not? 43:27 "The days in which we live are solemn and important." 43:31 We don't have time to be dallying around. 43:33 We don't have plenty of time. 43:35 It's probably just like will we have anything else? 43:36 These are solemn and important time. 43:39 And the enemy is trying to get us to waste our time 43:42 on something that doesn't matter. 43:43 It may not be bad within itself, 43:45 but it's just a waste of time. 43:47 That's why the Bible says sometime, 43:49 remember he said, let your yes be yes 43:50 and nays nay. 43:52 We can get in conversation sometimes 43:53 that lasts one or two and three hours 43:55 and we don't get anywhere with it. 43:57 Everybody's just dead set the way they were 43:59 when they started the conversation, 44:00 wherein they say, yeah, okay, well, and move on. 44:04 Because you only have so many hours. 44:05 I only have so many hours. 44:08 Solemn and important. 44:09 Notice, we know that 44:11 the Spirit of God has been gradually, what? 44:13 Withdrawn from the earth, plagues and judgments 44:16 are already falling 44:17 in the despisers of the grace of God. 44:20 And we know this over and over, 44:21 calamities by land and sea and air, 44:23 isn't that right? 44:25 Did we see those things happen? 44:26 Notice the unsettled state of society. 44:29 I put that in red, the unsettled state of what? 44:32 If the society was anymore unsettled, 44:33 I'll tell you. 44:35 I've never seen it. 44:36 It's really unsettled right now. 44:38 It's really unsettled right now. 44:39 It's really unsettled right now. 44:42 It's falling apart 44:44 and we're trying to use band-aids. 44:46 We're trying to print more money. 44:47 We're trying to put everybody else in debt 44:48 and tell you you're not going to be able to, 44:50 it's gonna demand something happened 44:52 because we're not gonna pay 44:53 even the interest on our national debt. 44:56 Something has to be done. Come on, church. 44:58 You see what I'm saying? 44:59 I'm not trying to say, well now there's not much. 45:00 No something's big is about to happen. 45:03 That's how you and I should be living 45:05 in these last hours of earth history. 45:07 Something big is about to break loose. 45:10 And where are you going to fit? 45:11 Where am I going to fit, 45:13 where God would have me to fit 45:14 the unsettled state of what? 45:16 Society. 45:17 Notice it and the alarm of war, 45:19 people are still talking about wars, 45:21 still waging, who's going to do what, 45:22 if somebody happened to attack 45:24 much more than you and I, 45:25 much more than they're letting out right now. 45:28 There's heavy duty talk. 45:31 The Bible said there would be wars 45:32 and rumors of war, 45:33 there's wars going on right now, 45:35 as we well know, 45:36 there has been for umpteen years. 45:41 The forecast, it says of approaching events 45:44 of the greatest magnitude. 45:47 Now, what if you don't talk about them? 45:49 What if I don't talk about them? 45:53 At least say these things are going to happen 45:55 that we may put our house in order. 45:59 Church, that we might put our what? 46:02 Our house in order. 46:03 You say, "Well, I don't know if I need to do that," 46:05 you know. 46:06 We need to put our house in order. 46:09 We need to find out 46:11 why, because, Brother Mark, I believe 46:13 we've been warned over and over and over. 46:15 And I've said it a thousand, 46:16 it seemed like thousands of time 46:18 over and over and over. 46:19 But yet what is it really driven me to do? 46:26 It's just words. 46:27 If we don't do something about it, 46:29 is that true? 46:30 It's just talk. 46:32 We're praying about it. 46:34 We say well, maybe that's an excuse. 46:36 Well, we've been praying about, 46:37 it's been on the altar for a long time. 46:38 Well, we really mean it. 46:40 A lot of people may be really mean it, 46:41 but they're no closer 46:44 than they were a long time ago, 46:45 but we need to prepare 46:50 for what's happening now, what's taking place. 46:53 Counsel for the Church, 37, paragraph two, 46:55 "The agency of evil are combining their forces 46:57 and consolidating." 47:00 What's the enemy doing? 47:02 Thank you. 47:03 They're combining their forces. 47:05 Even the enemy knows he can do more damage 47:07 as they consolidate and work shoulder to shoulder. 47:10 We as a church hasn't figured that out yet. 47:13 Think about it. 47:14 We haven't really figured it out yet 47:17 that we need to be unified 47:19 in the truth of God's Word 47:21 and stand shoulder to shoulder. 47:23 And don't let a small little group of people say, 47:25 well, this is not right. 47:26 Or we don't want to hear that. 47:27 You realize, 47:29 I said, just the other day on the program, 47:30 we are a minority. 47:32 You'll say, well, your skin doesn't show. 47:34 You are a minority. 47:35 I have been a minority 47:37 ever since I can remember at this age. 47:39 And why? 47:41 Because I belong 47:42 to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 47:43 that is a minority. 47:45 Thirty million Seventh-day Adventist around the world 47:48 compared to about 7 billion that's not. 47:51 Have I made a point? 47:52 Maybe I actually have made the point. 47:55 It's a minority. 48:00 History proves what happens to minorities 48:03 in a lot of cases, 48:05 as we well know, especially at the end of time. 48:08 For Jesus they looked at Him 48:09 and said, man, 48:11 He's really preaching a message. 48:12 He's gathering a group of people, 48:13 they're following Him. 48:15 And the high priest said what? 48:16 Notice, the church said, 48:20 I, maybe I should get panel, but just sit down. 48:25 The high priest, see, it's not trying to be ugly. 48:27 It's just said the high priest 48:28 was he not, as he say, speaking for the church 48:30 as it were back then, yes. 48:34 He said, we need to basically get rid of Him, don't we? 48:37 He said, it's better for one to perish, right? 48:41 Than the whole. 48:42 So other words, get rid of the... 48:43 If it's just a small group here 48:45 and they're causing problem, 48:46 better to get rid of a little group, 48:48 than for all of us to suffer. 48:49 That's coming. 48:50 It happened before it's gonna happen again. 48:55 They're strengthening for the last great crisis. 48:58 Great changes are soon to take place. 49:00 And we know the final movements will be what? 49:02 Rapid ones. 49:04 I want you to hear that so many times 49:05 that you hear in your sleep, 49:07 when you wake up, 49:08 I'm gonna be praying when you wake up at night, 49:09 you hear these last moments that are gonna be rapid ones, 49:11 these movements will be so rapid 49:13 and they're happening so quick, 49:15 things that we see everyday happen. 49:16 That's prophecy being fulfilled before our very eyes. 49:20 It seems like to me, how much time do we have? 49:22 I forgot to look when I started. 49:24 Oh my. 49:26 That's what I thought just got started. 49:30 I really forgot to look at the clock. 49:31 If I didn't, my mind fail me, but somebody helped me. 49:35 Tell me it's not, it's not offensive, 49:36 but just don't want to wear the same shawl. 49:41 But it seems like the world that we live in, 49:44 we've talked about it before, but more and more 49:46 people seem like they're demon possessed. 49:49 Is it okay to say that? 49:51 No, really. 49:54 Remember the demons here we're talking about here. 49:56 Agencies of evil are combining their forces. 49:59 And they're looking at Brother Will 50:01 and say, we don't want Him. 50:03 We got to get rid of Him. 50:04 He's inviting people to church. 50:06 He's getting them by the arm. 50:07 He's almost carrying them. 50:09 He'll goes by and picks them up and puts him in his vehicle. 50:11 I don't think he ties them in, but they come. 50:15 The enemy said, I can't stand it. 50:18 You put your name there just. 50:21 The enemy said... 50:22 When the enemy looks at you, he doesn't see you, 50:25 he sees Jesus in you and he hates Jesus. 50:28 Does he not? 50:31 Think about it? 50:33 You know his side down, 50:35 I don't want him, I want to do what? 50:38 Demon possessed. 50:40 The Bible says Isaiah 59:14, maybe 5 or 10 more minutes. 50:43 Come on now church. 50:44 Isaiah 59:14. 50:47 The Bible said "Justice standeth." what? 50:50 "Afar off." 50:51 Are we living in that time 50:53 where you look around, you said, 50:54 surely people can see how simple this is. 50:56 There's no justice here. 50:58 In the last days, justice standeth what? 51:01 Justice here is translated righteousness. 51:04 Righteousness standeth afar off for truth is fallen where? 51:09 It's fallen in the street. 51:12 Equity has been what? 51:13 Or cannot enter. 51:15 Think it's what it says. 51:16 Yeah. 51:18 You know what it says about the truth 51:19 that we're talking about truth is falling in the street. 51:22 Notice what it says, 51:23 translation is that truth has been attacked. 51:27 Truth has been attacked, Brother Jan. 51:29 Truth has been attacked 51:32 and God's people need to rise to the occasion. 51:36 We need to rise to the occasion and stand for Jesus Christ. 51:40 We are His witnesses. 51:42 We're His recorder. 51:46 We're to stand for truth. 51:48 Well, they want to hear it if I tell them the truth, 51:49 they believe this. 51:51 And they say, well, they don't mind 51:52 to tell you their lies. 51:54 They may not know it, but they don't mind 51:55 to tell you what they believe. 51:57 And we should be glad to tell them 51:58 what the Word of God says. 52:00 Truth fallen in the street. 52:01 Notice this, this is the result what's happened. 52:04 Truth is fall in the street. 52:05 Even in this country, we well know. 52:08 And the reason it's fallen in the streets 52:09 is a nation turns its back on God. 52:13 When a nation turns what? 52:14 When a people turn their back on God 52:17 and His divine law, 52:19 even the righteous are in danger. 52:22 Somebody listen, 52:23 oh, we're not gonna be. 52:25 I hear this all the time. 52:27 We know we're a child of God. 52:28 We haven't got anything to worry about. 52:30 Well, we are a child of God and we are in His hand 52:32 and He is there and He's our protector 52:34 and so on so forth. 52:35 But we better wake up. 52:38 Look at all the righteous as it were 52:39 through all the Old Testament and all the times that suffered 52:42 and burn at the stake, 52:44 tortured and tore apart and crucified, 52:47 Jesus Christ, the righteous 52:50 nailed to the cross. 52:53 So just standing back and say, well God's going to. 52:57 Certainly claim those promises, they're good. 53:00 But also realize too, 53:02 you know, sometime 53:03 the just suffers with the unjust. 53:05 God knows what's best. 53:08 Nine testimonies 11 says this, 53:10 "Daily the papers are full of indication 53:12 of a terrible conflict in the near future." 53:15 Notice. 53:17 See if it's not. 53:18 "Bold robberies 53:19 are of frequent occurrences strikes," 53:22 hmm, like the school, "are common." 53:28 I mean what's keeping the kids from going back to school. 53:32 They need to be in school. 53:33 Can I say that it's not political? Is it? 53:36 Not trying to be political about, 53:38 they need to be in school. 53:39 It's proven they can be in school. 53:42 But the union said no for a long time, 53:44 until they started working out a lot, 53:46 the union said no, Ellen White says what? 53:48 Spirit of Prophecy said, 53:50 "The union would cause a time of trouble 53:51 that the world has not seen before Jesus comes." 53:55 They're strengthening. 53:57 They shut the world down. 54:00 Oh, nobody wants to talk about them 54:01 'cause they might get hurt if you talk about the unions. 54:05 Bold robberies are of frequent occurrences 54:07 strikes are common." 54:08 Notice this, 54:09 "Thefts and murders 54:11 are committed on every hand." 54:15 Does that sound like maybe today's paper? 54:19 Counsels of Church, 37 just quickly bring on 54:21 with the same kind of same thought here. 54:23 It said, 54:25 "The condition of things in the world shows that 54:26 troublous times are right upon us. 54:29 Men possessed of demons 54:30 are taking the lives of men, women and little children. 54:33 Is that not true? 54:34 Still drive by shootings as it were. 54:36 Still going into places we see this week here 54:38 and shooting people here 54:39 and go to another place, shooting them here 54:41 because they didn't like the place or what. 54:42 If you don't like the place, stay out of it. 54:47 You know what I'm talking about? 54:49 And I'm gonna encourage anybody on there. 54:50 If we can't get it right, 54:52 and you have this demon speaking to you, 54:54 don't go out and be killing people. 54:56 If you need to get rid of something, 54:57 think about yourself. 54:59 I went ahead and said it. 55:01 Not that you should. 55:02 We say you all know what I'm talking about, 55:05 but the enemy always said what? 55:06 Take as many as you can, and then take yourself. 55:10 That's the way it always works. 55:14 That's heavy duty. 55:17 Some won't like it. 55:18 Troublous times, men possessed with demons. 55:21 Notice it, they become infatuated. 55:23 Notice this last guy here 55:25 this week that done some shooting. 55:27 "They'd been infatuated with vice, 55:30 and every species of evil prevails." 55:34 Vice, evil conduct. 55:37 Men's mind are on evil what? 55:40 Continually like, 55:41 remember God said, he gonna destroy the world 55:42 because their mind evil 55:44 because the enemy has turned over to the enemy 55:47 and that's all he does is evil things as you well know. 55:50 Corruption is what it means and certainly moral. 55:54 Now, I don't like to read this 55:56 and I'm gonna read it anyway before I close. 56:00 It says the enemy, 56:01 come on church, are you with me? 56:03 Who are we talking about? The enemy. 56:05 It says, 56:06 "The enemy has succeeded. 56:09 The enemy has succeeded in perverting justice 56:14 in the filling men's heart 56:15 with the desire for selfish gain." 56:18 The enemy has succeeded 56:20 perverting justice for judgment. 56:22 Can't you see it today? 56:24 People look at something, 56:26 this is white as it can be and they call it black 56:27 and they look up something black 56:28 as they can be and they call it white. 56:31 You follow what I'm talking about? 56:34 It's like, it's so obvious what it is. 56:35 And people are looking at it and say it's different. 56:38 Wow. Hmm. 56:42 People in authority are looking for answers. 56:48 People in authority are looking for answers. 56:50 They just can't find what's going on. 56:53 But there's answers to every situation, 56:54 can I ask this question before we close. 56:57 But if we're looking for answers 56:59 to what's happening in the world 57:00 and God can certainly overrule anything, can He not? 57:02 He can change anything that He wants to change, 57:04 but He's looking for a people who's willing to change 57:06 or people who's willing to say what? 57:08 When He looks at you and says, where art thou? 57:12 Here am I? That's it? 57:14 Because He knows where you're at. 57:15 He knows what's going through your mind. 57:17 He knows your willingness or unwillingness. 57:23 Counsels for Church, 38 paragraph three says, 57:25 "There are not many 57:27 even among educators and statesmen, 57:30 who comprehend the causes 57:32 that underlie the present state of society." 57:35 What? 57:36 Does that make sense? 57:38 There's not too many people that you see as it were 57:40 and the new different people getting on there, 57:41 that's running our country 57:43 that really know what to do with this going on. 57:46 They can't comprehend the cause 57:48 that underlies the present state of things. 57:51 "Those who hold the reigns of the government," 57:54 come on, church. 57:55 "Those who hold the reins of the government 57:57 are not able to solve the problems 57:59 of the moral corruption, 58:00 poverty, pauperism and increasing crime. 58:04 They are struggling in vain to place business operations," 58:07 did you get it, "on a more secure line?" 58:09 Are they doing that? Oh, absolutely basis. 58:12 "If men would give more heed," here is the answer. 58:15 "If men would give more heed to the teaching of God's Word, 58:18 they would find a solution 58:20 to the problems that perplex them." 58:23 It's simply, the answer is always the same. 58:26 Somebody comes up with different answers, 58:27 don't believe them. 58:28 The answers go back to God, right? 58:30 Go back to His Word. 58:33 The enemy has taken us so far from the Word of God. 58:38 Men can't find answers anymore. 58:41 We need it. 58:43 The end of the world is on us, we've gone astray. 58:47 Today is the day the Lord is going to call. |
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