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00:38 Hello, friends, and welcome once again
00:40 to Behold the Lamb Presents. 00:42 I'm Chris Shelton, your host 00:43 and I want to thank you for tuning in. 00:46 "Unless you're prepared to surrender everything, 00:49 don't surrender anything", 00:51 is the title of our message for today. 00:53 As a people 00:55 of the United States of America, 00:56 we realize or we should realize 00:59 that this nation was founded upon freedom 01:02 for its citizens. 01:03 Most importantly for a child of God, 01:06 we have for over 245 years 01:09 been given the freedom to worship our God 01:13 by the dictates of our hearts to the leading 01:15 and the power of the Holy Spirit. 01:17 However, whether due to calamities by air, 01:20 land or sea or the pestilence by night, 01:24 we are witnessing our freedoms 01:26 in all democratic societies around the world 01:30 that are quickly being vanished away. 01:33 As an ordinary citizen outside 01:36 of the political law forming ranks, 01:38 we simply often feel like sheep 01:41 that are being led to a slaughter. 01:43 We, or should I ask, 01:45 "Are we prepared to surrender everything?" 01:49 Often our surrendering of our freedoms 01:51 is flowered by conscious convicting terms like, 01:55 for the good of others. 01:57 But is that really the case most of the time, 02:00 or is it a way to, kind of, 02:02 tag on our sympathies in order to make us 02:04 more willing to comply? 02:06 Have the children of God ever experienced 02:10 life-changing, life-altering experience 02:13 or a loss of religious liberties 02:15 and freedoms of simple everyday choices in the past, 02:19 in all of Biblical past history? 02:23 If so, what lessons may we glean 02:26 from their experience? 02:27 Unless we're prepared to surrender everything, 02:31 brothers and sisters, 02:32 don't surrender anything is our topic for today 02:36 with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 02:38 But before he speaks, 02:39 let's visit the 3ABN Studio and listen to a song 02:42 that is entitled, 02:44 He Knows My Name. 02:45 Does He know your name? 02:47 I hope so as song by Hope Vasquez. 03:05 I have a maker 03:12 He formed my heart 03:19 Before even time begin 03:24 My life was in His hands 03:33 He knows my name 03:40 He knows my every thought 03:46 And He sees each tear that falls 03:53 And He hears me when I call 04:05 I have a Father 04:12 He calls me His own 04:18 And He never leave me 04:24 No matter where I go 04:33 He knows my name 04:40 He knows my every thought 04:46 And He sees each tear that falls 04:53 And He hears me when I call 05:01 He knows my name 05:08 He knows my every thought 05:15 And He sees each tear that falls 05:22 And He hears me when I call 05:28 Yes, He hears me when I call 05:47 Thank you for joining us here once again 05:49 at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 05:50 I don't know about you, but I'm excited once again 05:53 that we have the opportunity 05:54 and privilege to reach the world 05:57 with a message that I believe is timely, 05:59 at least in my opinion. 06:01 Now, as you pray about the Holy Spirit impresses 06:03 what needs to be said 06:04 and the Holy Spirit will take it 06:06 and put it in the ears, in the hearts and the minds 06:08 of those who want to receive it. 06:10 I pray that those who are here came, 06:12 you came hungry. 06:13 You came hungry. 06:15 You want to set the table, you want to eat. 06:17 And I believe those who are watching 06:18 or those who would be listening whatever, 06:20 that you've been praying for truth 06:22 and we pray that it'll hit 06:24 just what you need in your life today. 06:25 Thank you again for your cards, your letter, 06:27 your support your phone calls, 06:29 and I'm thankful for those orders 06:30 that come in all the time, saying, 06:31 "Hey, we want this. 06:33 We want to share it with a neighbor. 06:34 We want to share this message with a friend." 06:36 There's a lot of activity 06:37 that's going on in the world today. 06:39 People are asking questions, and by God's grace, 06:43 we need to have an answer for every man that asketh. 06:46 And so praise God for that. 06:48 We're going to be talking about a subject today. 06:49 It's kind of a long title, but if you'll just forgive me 06:53 it just kind of came out this way. 06:54 It says, "Unless you are prepared 06:57 to surrender everything, 07:00 don't surrender anything." 07:03 Did somebody get that? 07:06 Unless you're prepared to surrender what? 07:08 Everything, don't surrender anything. 07:11 So we pray as we go along... 07:13 That could go in a lot of different 07:15 directions, couldn't it? 07:16 As we go along it will, kind of, answer 07:18 and what we're talking about today. 07:20 But first of all, we want to pray once again. 07:23 We are a believer in prayer. 07:25 We see that God... 07:27 When people pray, God's arm begins to move, 07:30 things begin to happen. 07:32 And I pray today that your ears, your heart, 07:34 your mind is open. 07:35 Let God do something special for you today. 07:39 Let him do it. He wants to do it. 07:41 He wants you to be prepared. 07:42 So I'm going to still kneel up here 07:44 and I pray that at least in your heart, in your mind, 07:45 you're going to kneel with me 07:47 and we're going to pray together. 07:49 Our loving Father in heaven, again we solicit heaven. 07:53 We solicit the Holy Spirit. 07:54 Please, come into our midst. 07:56 Open our hearts and our minds, our lips. 07:58 Help us to only say that 07:59 which would be pleasing in Thy sight, 08:01 something will get someone's attention 08:02 that You can bring conviction of the Holy Spirit 08:04 upon the heart and the life in the time 08:06 that we are living in. 08:08 Oh, Lord, we pray 08:09 that You will help us right now. 08:11 We commit ourselves in Thy care, 08:12 in the keeping and a fresh cleansing 08:15 of Your blood right now in my life. 08:17 I pray, oh Lord, that I may hear heaven's voice 08:19 and may respond and share it with my brothers and sisters 08:22 in Jesus' name. 08:23 Amen. Amen. 08:25 Unless you're prepared to surrender everything, 08:30 don't surrender anything. 08:33 I think most of you are very much 08:35 well aware of the world 08:37 that we're living in today and what is taking place. 08:40 We are asked every day to surrender something 08:46 and usually it's freedoms. 08:49 It's freedoms that are surrendered 08:51 that we probably will not get back in this life. 08:56 Every day somebody, 08:58 the enemy is chiseling at these freedoms, 09:01 especially freedom of conscience, freedom of, 09:04 you know, you talk about religion, 09:07 freedom of speech. 09:09 All of these things are being attacked, 09:11 and I believe there's reason for it. 09:13 The enemy probably will tell you, 09:15 "If I can get all of these things out there, 09:18 then God's messengers will have a difficult time 09:22 in getting the message out." 09:24 If we can almost make every word 09:26 that we utter a hate crime. 09:29 Are you still with me? 09:31 Hate speech, then we can shut it off. 09:34 If we can just take a word 09:36 or maybe out of context and just use it, 09:37 we can take them off of YouTube 09:39 or take them off from a TV channel 09:41 or radio or whatever it might be. 09:43 That by the grace of God things are happening, 09:45 we need to be well aware of it. 09:46 I have in my hand here something very interesting 09:48 and I want to share it. 09:50 Since least here of this group, we are in Illinois. 09:53 This pertains to us. 09:55 Some have been looking these things up 09:58 and reading them. 09:59 In case you have not, 10:01 I feel it's my duty to at least share it with you. 10:04 Now, this is an amendment 10:06 and an amendment to the Senate Bill 1169. 10:11 Anybody been reading about that? 10:13 Now remember, you can go on Google 10:15 where you can get it so on and so forth. 10:17 But right now, hurried right on through this amendment 10:21 was passed by the House, 10:22 Illinois House on Wednesday, 10:26 and then it went to Illinois Senate 10:27 and it was passed, I think like 31 to 24. 10:31 In the House, it was 64 to 52. 10:34 And so it was passed 10:36 that some changes must take place, 10:39 they're saying, before... 10:40 Now remember, this is talking about the vaccine. 10:45 Now, before they said in this... 10:47 Again, we're doing an amendment here. 10:49 Before they said, "It prohibits discrimination 10:53 against anyone for the, notice this, 10:55 the contentious refusal to receive, 10:59 notice the words, to obtain, 11:01 accept, perform, assist, counsel..." 11:04 May I tell you, when lawyers get a hold of things, 11:06 look out. 11:08 It says, "To go contrary to his or her conscience." 11:12 So before Illinois was saying right law 11:15 that we can't discriminate 11:17 if it's against your personal conscience, 11:20 if it may be against your religious belief 11:22 that it's going to be okay in the workplace. 11:25 But now, they seem fit to say we need to amend that. 11:29 We need to change it. 11:30 Now remember, all this needs right now 11:32 is the governor signature, 11:34 it is law and it will take place... 11:37 become law in the June of next year. 11:40 And he loves it. 11:41 So he's going to sign it, just count on it. 11:45 Now remember, before the people had a right, 11:48 you know, a right to say no, they had a right to their, 11:51 you know, own opinion and their conscience. 11:54 But now effectively through this Bill Right here 11:58 because of COVID-19, it's taken away. 12:02 You're going to see your freedoms 12:04 taken away one by one. 12:06 We've already seen it. 12:08 It's happening. 12:09 I believe God's people need to be aware of that 12:12 if you are not. 12:13 There are a lot who are not. 12:15 They're too busy with life, 12:17 too busy with things that are going on. 12:18 They don't know what's happening 12:19 in the world. 12:21 We need to know what's happening 12:22 because it will affect us and therefore, 12:25 we need to be prepared. 12:27 And I'm going to read this amendment to you 12:29 if you'll just allow me to do that. 12:31 It's in Section Five. 12:34 Yeah, it's amendment now to the Senate Bill 1169. 12:37 Here's how it reads. 12:38 It's called, notice, The Healthcare Right 12:41 of Conscience Act. 12:47 Section 13.5 says this, 12:50 "Violations related to COVID-19 requires..." 12:54 Notice this, interesting, what it requires, 12:57 "It is not a violation of this act 12:59 for any person or public official, 13:02 or for any public or private association, 13:06 agency or corporation, 13:08 entity, institution or employer 13:12 to take any measures or impose any requirements 13:15 including but not limited to any measures or requirements 13:19 that involve provisions of servers 13:21 by a physician or healthcare personnel, 13:25 intended to prevent..." 13:26 Notice this right, "Or transmit COVID-19, 13:30 any pathogens that result in COVID-19 13:33 or any of the subsequent..." 13:35 Notice that, I thought interesting, 13:36 "The subsequent issues here." 13:39 Now notice, "It is not a violation 13:41 of this act to enforce..." 13:43 Notice the words being used, enforce. 13:47 "It is not a violation of this act to enforce 13:50 such measures or requirements, 13:53 including," listen, "by terminating employment, 13:57 or excluding individuals from a school, 14:01 a place of employment 14:03 or public or private premises 14:08 in response to non-compliance." 14:11 What is it saying? 14:13 It's saying they can terminate you. 14:16 They can keep you out of school 14:18 if they want to because you won't get the vaccine. 14:22 Are you there? 14:24 Public or private even says here premises, 14:28 "This section is a declaration of existing law 14:31 and shall not be construed as a new enactment." 14:34 Very interesting, 14:35 "According this section shall apply to all actions 14:38 commenced or pending 14:40 on after the effective date of this mandatory act." 14:45 So it's just simply saying, "Well, 14:47 we're going to go back now 14:48 because there's so many lawsuits..." 14:50 Isn't that right? 14:51 "So many lawsuit things are in the court, 14:52 so we're going to go back over here 14:54 and say you can't take us to court anymore. 14:56 You can't sue us anymore." 14:59 Now it's unbelievable, isn't it? 15:01 And so now, they say they have a right... 15:02 Now measures in memory, 15:04 excluding individuals from what, 15:05 include school, place of employment, 15:09 public or private because it's simply, 15:12 of non-compliance. 15:14 So again, we're talking about... 15:16 Here we're looking at giving up some of our rights 15:21 and some of our freedoms that God has given us 15:24 to decide what we put into our body 15:26 or what we don't put into it. 15:28 They're being taken away 15:29 and if you don't follow along, you will suffer. 15:32 Now this is Illinois. 15:35 And He should sign that any day and again, 15:36 it'll take place in June. 15:38 I thought, "How interesting." 15:39 Now notice here, I looked at this 15:41 and as I read this, I thought, "Oh, 15:43 I've read you know the Laudato si' and, 15:46 you know, the encyclical of the Pope and so on. 15:48 And he always finishes everything up with, 15:51 "For the common good of all." 15:53 Is somebody still with me? 15:55 For the common good of all, they're saying here, 15:57 you've got to play along with this 15:58 for the common good of all. 16:00 If you don't play along with it, 16:01 then you're going to suffer. 16:03 You may lose your job and then there's a fight. 16:05 Some of you know there that you... 16:07 think, well maybe you can draw on employment for a while. 16:09 It's depending on what group you mess with 16:12 and how they determine what is said 16:15 in their by-laws or their rules and regulations. 16:17 Some will say, "No, you can't because you're non-compliance 16:20 with what we say we want on this job site." 16:23 So we need to be praying because again, 16:26 things are taken away that we didn't think 16:27 we'd ever see happen or take place. 16:31 There's some current problems I just want to go over quickly 16:34 as we go because we're seeing every one of these issues. 16:37 Believe it or not church, every one of these issues 16:39 that I'm going to mention in through here 16:42 has got something that is going to affect your life, 16:46 something that's affecting my life 16:49 and it's going to boil down 16:50 that is going to take away again, 16:51 your freedoms. 16:54 Even, notice here, freedom even to, 16:56 oh boy, think for yourself. 17:00 I'm going to read a quote after while. 17:01 I hope we get to that. 17:04 Oh boy, some people say, "Oh no, here we go." 17:06 That's right, here I go. 17:08 Now, the Roman Catholic Church that says 17:10 we shouldn't even be able to think on our own. 17:14 And they don't want us to have religious freedom 17:16 and that's been the plan for a long time, 17:20 and now we see it coming. 17:22 There's the fruits of it right now 17:23 that's out there. 17:24 So some of these current problems 17:26 each will restrict some of our freedoms. 17:29 That's what I'm talking about. 17:30 I'm not doing as a political basis, 17:33 or I'm taking this side 17:34 or I'm taking that side about it. 17:35 Open your mind, open your heart, open your eyes 17:38 and see these issues the devil's using 17:40 to cause division and separation in the world, 17:43 and to bring about a little time of trouble 17:45 and then a big time of trouble 17:47 that this world has never seen, Daniel says. 17:51 And remember, he's trying to get a sidetracked 17:55 because I do believe that probation 17:57 could soon close. 17:59 And if he can keep me and you fussing 18:01 and fighting about the color of carpet in the church, 18:04 then we're not getting ready 18:05 to share heaven with Jesus. 18:07 You follow what I mean? 18:08 If we're busy with all this other stuff 18:10 that's going on in the world, 18:11 it may be good within itself 18:14 but we have to realize where we are at. 18:16 I mean, just recently you look and you see education 18:20 becomes a top issue 18:21 all this last couple of weeks, isn't it? 18:23 Teachers union strong, 18:25 unions will bring about a time of trouble 18:27 this world has never seen. 18:29 And we realize all of a sudden, now in the last, 18:31 you know, several months, 18:32 all of a sudden they're coming to the forefront. 18:34 They're running the world almost. 18:37 Now, I realize they've done a lot of good 18:38 but you know the devil do some goods 18:40 in some areas too 18:41 before he pulls the rug out from under you. 18:43 Did you get it? 18:45 If it was totally all opposite and wrong, 18:46 we wouldn't go for it. 18:48 But he'll shine little light here 18:50 and there to get us to go that direction 18:52 and then he tries to get you. 18:54 But notice, I thought the issues 18:56 were very interesting 18:57 and I think we need to look at it. 18:59 Are we really saying anymore all of us? 19:03 Well, you look at your leaders, 19:04 you look what's going on in the world 19:06 and some of the things, 19:07 even somebody simple minded like me, 19:08 I look and say, "That doesn't seem right." 19:10 And then I read the Word of God and I say, "That's not right." 19:15 Unless we're prepared to give everything up, 19:17 you know what I mean? 19:18 We got to be careful here 19:19 because once you start giving things up, 19:21 and we've been doing in this country for years. 19:24 And again, I say that because it's going to come back 19:27 to hurt God's people 19:28 and getting the message out to the world. 19:32 We have a job to do. 19:33 Why do you think we're here? 19:35 I know you understand. 19:36 We have a job to do and the devil says, 19:38 "I'm going to hedge him about 19:40 so they can't do what they need to do." 19:42 Either the world needs to hear what's going on 19:45 in this last day church or it doesn't. 19:49 It's either given of God, it's a warning, 19:51 it's bringing back those old pasts, 19:54 right, bring back these old truths or it's not. 19:56 We're going to have to decide. 19:58 But education was the big issue and you know what? 20:01 It had to do with inappropriate books. 20:06 Parents wanted to be involved 20:08 in what's taught in the schools. 20:11 Interesting, I think I'd like to be too. 20:13 But I think, probably, in the very beginning God says, 20:16 "You need to have homeschool." 20:19 Okay, we had one amen, 20:21 maybe for long we'll get a couple more. 20:23 Yeah, I know that's all right. 20:25 You don't have to agree with me. 20:27 I just believe that that's the way God set it up. 20:30 That's how God wanted it to be 20:32 because we find out where we learn 20:34 all of our meanness, 20:36 bad habits is usually from others 20:40 that doesn't have God in the home. 20:43 And we're around them... 20:44 It's just food for thought. 20:46 But in our schools, 20:49 even in the lower grades and certainly in high school, 20:51 this is going on 20:53 that they have sex education books. 20:58 They're teaching and say, 20:59 "We don't want to teach much history anymore." 21:03 And they're saying, here, this is from New York Post, 21:05 October 27, '21. 21:07 That's just the other day, 21:08 "The National School Board leaders 21:11 told the White House 21:13 that descriptive of parents," notice this. 21:16 It says, "Those who are disruptive parents 21:19 should be treated as domestic terrorist." 21:25 Now that's nothing new those who are watching news. 21:27 They absolutely wrote and said they need to be treated... 21:29 If you come to the school board and you're seeing 21:32 what kind of books that they're presenting 21:33 and what they're presenting to your kids 21:35 that you don't like, 21:36 that you don't appreciate, 21:38 they actually called on the FBI. 21:41 I'm just saying I disagree with it. 21:42 I'm going to do that. 21:46 They absolutely did. 21:48 Of course, they denied it later 21:49 and then they apologized a little bit later 21:50 for and so on so forth. 21:52 They denied it and then some of the mothers 21:53 that were there said, "I've seen them 21:55 with my own eyes." 21:56 But they said to the White House, 21:59 "These people are disrupting, they're domestic terrorist." 22:03 Do you realize what penalties? 22:06 I'm just talking about now. Can we? 22:09 Are we really saying anymore? 22:11 Are things gotten so bad that anything goes 22:13 and we don't understand? 22:14 Most generally, we say nothing and we do nothing. 22:16 That's our problem. 22:18 We just accept it. 22:20 And when you do, the devil will slam bang your head. 22:23 Are you with me? 22:24 He will not let off on you or let off on me. 22:27 I pray as we get into it little more, 22:28 we'll see how we can approach some of these issues. 22:34 In fact, the book... 22:36 I'm not going to go into here. 22:37 But the mother who was protesting 22:39 what was in these books, 22:41 Bruce, was protesting and said, 22:43 "I don't want my kids reading it. 22:45 I don't want it brought up." 22:46 She just had the book 22:48 and she began to read two or three lines in it. 22:51 And they cut her microphone off and said, 22:54 "You can't read that out loud. 22:55 There's kids present." 22:58 That's how bad... 23:00 You see what, yeah... 23:01 I'm just saying what's going on? 23:04 And can we really expect things to really just be like 23:08 they should be based on the Word of God 23:10 or has the world lost its mind? 23:13 Yeah, well, I'm just... 23:15 We have to question these things. 23:18 In the schools, 23:20 they're fighting critical race theory. 23:23 They're fighting the vaccination situation. 23:28 Teachers are throwing up their hands. 23:31 Unions are putting forth... 23:34 flexing their muscles, mask our problem. 23:39 I'm just saying a few words but you know that 23:41 these are problems that the American people, 23:44 the government, United States of America 23:46 and all the other nations are dealing with right now. 23:49 It seemed like dealing with all the issues 23:51 rather than the ones that we should be 23:52 and I know there's some in there we need. 23:54 Do you follow me? 23:55 One of the big issue we should be dealing with 23:57 is how are going to be prepared for the coming of Jesus, 24:01 be focused on that with our life 24:03 being right with Jesus Christ. 24:05 But there's mask, 24:06 there's all kinds of ship problems, 24:10 container problems, labor problems, 24:13 shore-men problems, gender ideology, 24:16 come on somebody. 24:19 Teachers, unions, I mean, we look at... 24:21 These things can happen and they are happening 24:24 but I was more or less shocked a little, 24:26 they said it could happen. 24:27 They're going to bring it up 24:28 and I'm not trying to hurt anybody or anything here. 24:31 But the ministration says, "Right now, 24:33 we're going to have to raise some taxes 24:36 on some hard-working people." 24:38 Are you still with me, Church? 24:40 "We're going to have to raise some taxes 24:41 on some hard-working families here 24:43 because, you know, we feel now 24:46 that we need to pay 24:49 illegal immigrant families millions of dollars." 24:53 For what, to break the law? 24:55 They're talking $450-$500,000 24:59 for husband and then same for the wife. 25:02 So if I was over there... 25:05 I'll be bit careful. 25:07 I'll stop. 25:08 I was going to say I think I just went on over 25:11 because I'd be a millionaire. 25:13 Can I say that? 25:15 Brother Mark, can I say that? 25:17 I did say it, didn't I? 25:18 Get myself in trouble. 25:20 Oh, I'm just saying that just comes out 25:21 because you think about if all you do 25:24 is you come here and if they pass it, 25:27 you're automatically going to be a millionaire 25:30 for breaking the law 25:31 when we're teaching that 25:33 we should be keeping God's law 25:34 in the church and, of course, in the world. 25:36 That's part of the issue. 25:38 I'm just saying... 25:39 again, I'm not trying to criticize that they do it 25:41 because the families have been separated 25:42 trying to get them back. 25:44 But I'm just simply saying 25:45 we need to look at this and say, "Why?" 25:48 That means you're going to have to work a little bit longer 25:49 and a little bit harder 25:52 to give more taxes. 25:57 Problems, I'm looking, I'm saying, 25:58 "Look, there's problems on the store shelves. 26:01 They're empty. 26:03 They're getting to be problem with groceries. 26:04 They are all getting together saying 26:05 we're going to raise the price." 26:07 There's labor problems. There are union problems. 26:09 There are inflation problems. 26:11 There's COVID problems. 26:12 There are health crisis, they say, problems. 26:14 There's gas price problems, at the pump, 26:17 natural gas, propane gas, police crisis. 26:23 And one of the top generals are saying right now, 26:25 he said, "We need to watch 26:26 Chinese military aggression right now." 26:28 Well, people say, "We know we don't want to hear that." 26:31 Well, you need to hear it. 26:33 The Bible said, listen, "There'd be wars," and what? 26:35 "And rumors of wars." 26:37 It could happen any time. 26:38 It'll change your world. 26:40 It'll change your freedoms. 26:42 You think COVID can't do it. 26:44 They can keep you off the plane. 26:46 They can keep you not flying anymore. 26:47 We're looking at it right now. 26:48 If they continue to press it right now, 26:50 you will not be able to go anywhere 26:52 unless you have your vaccine. 26:53 You have your little piece of paper 26:55 saying you've had it. 26:56 What will you do? 26:57 Some people say, "I'll just go ahead and get it 26:59 because it's convenient for me to fly." 27:01 I think there's some principle involved here. 27:03 Unless you're willing to sacrifice everything, 27:05 isn't that right? 27:07 Don't sacrifice anything. 27:10 Chinese and Taiwan tension, 27:14 it's caused tension in the world with our allies 27:17 and United States of America, 27:19 much more than what we realize. 27:21 It's not to try to scare anybody and say, 27:23 "Well, this group that group..." 27:24 It's still an issue that we must look at. 27:28 And I say unless my brothers and sister 27:30 you're prepared to surrender everything, 27:32 don't surrender anything. 27:33 And, of course, I want to make this clear is in matters, 27:36 certainly a spiritual position. 27:40 We cannot afford to surrender anything right now. 27:43 To surrender means 27:45 that you've accepted the side of the enemy 27:46 and he's going to take it, 27:48 and he's going to take it all, guaranteed. 27:51 Exodus Chapter 2, if you don't mind, 27:52 I'm going to read that. 27:54 Exodus Chapter 2, 27:55 again, I think maybe it'll fit a little bit better 27:57 as we go along. 27:58 Exodus Chapter 2, you can turn in your Bible with me 28:01 if you will, 23, 24 and 25. 28:04 Notice what the Bible says, 28:05 "And it came to pass in process of time, 28:07 that the king of Egypt died. 28:09 Children of Israel..." 28:10 Notice what the children of Israel did. 28:12 I kind of like to put my feet 28:13 in their shoes a little bit and say, 28:15 "Man, what happened to them, could it happen to us?" 28:19 Because sometime we read Spirit of Prophecy and it said, 28:21 "We are slowly retreating toward Egypt." 28:24 I don't want to go back to Egypt. 28:28 Why would we say we're retreating back there? 28:30 That's not a good place to be if you study the Word of God. 28:33 Isn't that right? 28:37 Notice what they do, "Children of Israel sighed, 28:40 they cried, they carried on," don't blame them, 28:42 "for reason of their bondage." 28:44 Why, "Because they were just like 28:46 people crying and sighing today 28:48 because they were slaves." 28:50 Does that make sense? 28:51 You say in bondage, they were slaves. 28:53 That's almost the worst kind of slavery there could be. 28:55 Your life wasn't worth a penny, wasn't it? 28:59 These were the children of God. 29:02 What happened that they would be 29:04 in such a predicament? 29:06 Could it be that maybe they disobeyed? 29:10 Is God the same today as He was yesterday? 29:13 Does He still deal with us? 29:14 Absolutely, He does. 29:15 Notice, they cried and notice this, 29:17 "And God heard their cry." 29:19 Did He? 29:20 "It came up before God by reason of their bondage." 29:22 God did not want them in bondage. 29:24 He wanted them to be free. 29:25 He wanted to get the message out to the world 29:26 just like us today, 29:28 but some times we are in bondage. 29:29 Some things that we believe in some of the... 29:32 You know what I'm talking about. 29:34 We don't need to be in bondage, we need to be free in Christ. 29:37 Verse 24, "And God heard their groaning 29:39 and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 29:43 God looked," I like this, "looked upon" verse 25, 29:45 "the children of Israel, God had respect for them." 29:51 Oh wow! 29:53 Aren't you glad that God hears today 29:54 when we call upon Him? 29:57 This is something maybe we're not doing. 29:58 We're just taking for granted that God's going to hear us. 30:01 We're part of the family of God. 30:02 People say, "Hey." 30:04 They say to God here today, they say, "Hey, 30:05 how is it going, bro?" 30:06 "I don't know. I'm saved. 30:08 I'm going to make it heaven. 30:09 No matter what happens, I'm going to make it." 30:10 Well, we need to have a positive response 30:13 to our relationship with Christ. 30:15 But while there's life, we need to be careful. 30:19 Changes can happen, isn't that right? 30:20 Changes can happen. 30:24 Interesting, I heard another guy say 30:26 this week right here. 30:27 He said, "You know what? 30:29 I kind of feel religion, I feel it. 30:32 That's all I could do to keep quiet." 30:34 I'm telling you, I want to jump up, 30:37 starting in but I knew I shouldn't do it. 30:40 I was just listening. 30:43 He said, "I'm not really interested." 30:45 He's talking to another guy not too far from me. 30:47 He said, "I'm not too..." 30:50 He said, "I don't care about doctrines 30:52 and teachings of the Word of God. 30:54 I don't care about those things. 30:55 I feel it." 30:58 I know but he didn't care about doctrines and teaching, 31:01 which Jesus taught. 31:03 Doctrine, simply teachings of the Word of God, 31:05 isn't that right? 31:06 We must be very careful about those things. 31:09 And I thought bless their heart. 31:12 Time had come for God's people to be delivered from slavery. 31:17 Time had come for them to be delivered from bondage 31:20 just like us. 31:22 Did you get it? Put yourself in the shoes. 31:23 It's time. 31:25 God wants to come back from bondage 31:28 and they cried and they pray. 31:30 I pray that you're crying to God today 31:32 that you're praying to God today, 31:33 "Lord, save me, save my family, 31:35 save the church, save the people." 31:38 I pray that we are praying every day and say, 31:40 "Oh Lord, help us to get sin out of our life 31:43 that we may be like Jesus." 31:46 I wonder how many of us are taking time to do that. 31:49 If we do, God will hear your prayers. 31:51 God's going to answer those prayers. 31:54 He's going to put you where He wants you to be here 31:56 in these last moments of earth's history. 31:58 God will remember the promise, 32:00 God will remember the covenant 32:02 that He's made with His children, 32:04 and He's going to deliver us 32:05 from these difficult situations. 32:07 Man, I wish somehow it could be said, 32:09 "Let the Holy Spirit do it today 32:11 of the difficult times that are just ahead." 32:13 I don't like to talk about them. 32:15 As soon as I sit down, there's somebody saying. 32:18 I'd already hear good testimony what God has done. 32:20 But let me tell you, to be a faithful watchman 32:22 on the walls of Zion 32:24 somebody has to cry out 32:26 and we all should be willing to do that. 32:28 A faithful watchman 32:29 or a fraud that's up on the wall. 32:33 There's too many frauds on the walls of Zion. 32:37 You say, "Yeah, well, frogs too." 32:39 I don't know if somebody said, "Frog." 32:40 I said, "Frauds." 32:43 Some might as well be, 32:45 they're not saying anything, they're just crookened. 32:46 That's right. 32:48 You know what I'm talking about? 32:49 Yes, you do. 32:51 The Bible said, "They have to get that trumpet 32:52 at a certain sound." 32:55 When you see that sword coming, man, somebody sound an alarm, 32:58 wake somebody up and say, "That sword's coming." 33:00 And if you're not ready for it, 33:01 it's going to split you in half and it will. 33:06 Faithful watchmen is what God's looking for today 33:10 that will warn people of what is soon to take place. 33:14 I'm glad today that I serve a God 33:16 that wrote it down, 33:17 written through the power of the Holy Spirit, 33:20 through men, holy men of God as they were, right, 33:23 compelled by the Spirit 33:24 to write in the book of the things 33:27 that are taking place and so on. 33:29 So that's why when I read these things, 33:30 whether the Labor Union, whether there are strikes, 33:32 whether this is going on, I say, "The devil's at work. 33:35 Man, he's at work." 33:38 He's going to try to make us just give up 33:40 and not fight anymore. 33:42 And if I could get him to back away on one, 33:43 I'll get him to back away on something else. 33:45 I back him down here, I'll back him, 33:46 he'll back him until he runs over you. 33:49 Don't let him do it. 33:50 By the grace of God, we serve a God, 33:52 right, who sits on the throne. 33:55 We have power from on high if we just tap into it. 33:58 Isn't that wonderful? 33:59 Man, somebody plug into it, somebody tap into that power. 34:03 There's more power there 34:04 than what you could possibly ever use. 34:06 That's why God said there's really no excuse for us 34:08 sinning and doing wrong 34:10 because I've offered you everything 34:11 to prevent, to help you not to. 34:14 "An empty heaven," He said. 34:15 That's beautiful to think about that. 34:18 God says, "Israel, I want to get you 34:20 out of bondage and slavery 34:22 because I want you to go to the Promised Land." 34:25 When I think about Promised Land, 34:26 I think about heaven, don't you? 34:28 The Promised Land 34:30 but before we get to that Promised Land, 34:31 we have to open our mind and say, 34:33 "What's taking place in the world? 34:34 And how's that going to affect our relationship? 34:36 Do I love Jesus enough? 34:39 Do I have that kind of commitment to Christ 34:41 that when these things come and the bottom falls? 34:44 Yeah, people say, Oh, man, I've got it. 34:45 I've got it." 34:47 Oh, you're the first one who's going to fall. 34:49 Think about it. 34:51 We're saved by God's grace, isn't that right? 34:53 "By God's grace, we shall stand in the midst of tribulation, 34:57 by God's grace." 34:59 But most of the time now, if we miss a paycheck, 35:01 we missed $2 or $3 or this or that, 35:03 we just start crying out to God and say, 35:05 "What's the use?" 35:07 Test and trials will come. 35:11 These things that we're talking about, 35:12 this is what's taking place today. 35:17 Every day we are asked to surrender principles 35:21 and freedoms one after the other. 35:23 How far do we go as Christians? 35:25 How far do I go as a citizen? 35:28 How far do we go as a people? 35:33 Some people think as Christians that you're a doormat 35:35 and they can wipe their feet on you. 35:37 I've got news for you. 35:40 Is that okay to say? 35:42 You to make it... 35:44 Bruce, you've got to make it clear. 35:45 Of course, as Christian, you are not a doormat. 35:48 You're not for people to wipe their feet on you. 35:50 You can be nice about it. 35:51 You can be friendly but you can be bold. 35:54 Jesus said, "Come boldly to the throne, right, 35:56 and find grace and help in our time of need." 35:58 They can be said with such clarity 36:00 that no one needs to miss what you're saying. 36:04 That needs to be... 36:05 in the health work too, it's good. 36:06 When you get helping the people that are here, 36:09 they'll tell you exactly the way that it is. 36:12 Now, if you like it, great, 36:13 if you don't, well, bless your heart. 36:15 This is the way that it is. 36:17 We need that today. 36:19 We need clear thinking and clear sound principle 36:22 of God's Word and stand on it. 36:28 Think about the talk about here this says, "How far do we go?" 36:32 See, I was always taught... 36:33 I don't know about you but I was always taught to obey 36:38 the laws of the land. 36:40 How about you? 36:41 I was always taught in the home, 36:43 "We need to obey the laws of the land." 36:45 I thought, "Well, that's good." 36:47 And then it would always come across 36:49 as long as it doesn't cross over the laws of God, 36:53 as long as it doesn't come in conflict with God's Word. 36:56 But when it comes in conflict with God's Word, 36:58 you have to make a choice. 37:00 I have to make a decision. 37:01 I'm either going to follow the rules of the world 37:03 or what's happening or laws, or what? 37:06 Or follow what God has said when it looks bleak. 37:09 It looks like maybe we're not going to make it if we do. 37:11 But you know God says every time, "You will. 37:14 You're going to come out better than ever." 37:16 Man, that's beautiful. 37:17 You're going to come out better than ever before. 37:19 I've got something better in store for you. 37:21 But you know what? 37:22 If our faith is a little bit weak, 37:23 you know what he might say to us, Cletus? 37:25 He might say you're going to have to wait 37:26 just a little bit longer 37:27 before I answer that prayer. 37:29 He will answer that prayer if you stand for what is truth. 37:31 And like some of you have been fired 37:33 because you refuse to follow along 37:34 with man's rules. 37:36 God said, "I've got something better 37:38 My eyes on you. 37:40 My eye is on you 37:41 and I'm not going to take it off of you. 37:43 But I'm going to leave it on just a little bit longer 37:45 because I want you ready. 37:47 I need you to be ready 37:49 because things are going to get even worse." 37:52 Not that we want to talk about it but it's true. 37:54 The Bible said in Exodus 20:3, 37:57 "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." 37:59 You remember that? 38:02 And we need to check that a little bit closer. 38:04 I found the paragraph in the Great... 38:07 Where is it, The Great Controversy 452. 38:10 It starts out with this and that's Isaiah 8:20, 38:14 but he said, "To the law and to the testimony." 38:16 See, I'm gonna have to check out 38:18 what people laws they're passing. 38:19 I'm going to have to gauge it, 38:21 whether it's in the world or not. 38:22 I've got to gauge it with this. 38:24 This is a gauge right here. Isn't that right? 38:26 This is what we gauge everything to. 38:29 It has all the answers 38:32 if we just look to it rather than look to man. 38:35 Man is just going to lead you astray. 38:37 Man's going to let you down. 38:38 Man's going to hurt you. 38:40 They may not mean to, 38:41 but they're going to disappoint you at times. 38:43 But you look to Jesus, right, 38:44 the author and finisher of our faith. 38:46 He will never ever, ever let you down. 38:49 Stay close to Him, to the law and to the testimony, 38:53 The Great Controversy, 452. 38:56 Notice this, it says, 38:58 "While there's conflicting doctrines..." 38:59 Is there conflicting doctrines in the world today, 39:01 in the churches? 39:03 Oh, my lands of love, 39:04 the devil's had his hand in things, 39:06 theories, all kinds of people saying, 39:08 "I'm not sure I think this is a theory." 39:12 "The law of God is one of the unerring rule 39:17 by which, you'd have to say all opinions, 39:20 all doctrines, all theories are to be tested." 39:25 Because why? 39:26 Because the prophet said, Isaiah 8:20, 39:28 "To the law and the testimony, 39:29 if they speak not according to this is 39:31 because there is no light in them." 39:35 "Oh, there's a little bit of light." 39:36 I listen and said, 39:37 "No light in it is what the Bible says." 39:39 I'm not trying to be judgmental about it. 39:40 You're not trying to be judgmental. 39:42 That's what the Bible said 39:43 wouldn't want controversies with God, isn't it? 39:45 God said there's no light in them. 39:48 You have people today to say that, 39:50 "Let's just get it out. 39:52 Just get it out there. 39:53 We don't have to worry about 39:54 keeping God's Ten Commandment law anymore. 39:56 There's no light in them." 39:58 Why, because to the law and to the testimony, 40:01 if they speak not according to this 40:03 is because there is no light in them. 40:07 That's pretty straight. 40:08 That's the way that it should be right now. 40:10 It doesn't mean they don't have some good things 40:11 that are good or whatever. 40:13 He just said the light of the Holy Spirit 40:14 is not in them 40:15 because the Holy Spirit in John 16 40:17 will lead you into all truth, 40:20 not partial, but all if you want it. 40:22 But do people really want that truth today? 40:25 You've got to want it. 40:26 You got to strive for it. 40:27 You got to work for it. 40:29 You got to put forth an effort, I believe with all my heart. 40:32 I hope we're starting to see right now 40:34 with what's taking place in the world today. 40:36 Then listen that conscientious obedience 40:40 to the Word of God, 40:43 to our conscience will be treated as rebellion. 40:47 Did anybody get that? 40:50 You read the Word of God and your conscience says it 40:52 and you apply that by the grace of God. 40:55 It's going to be treated in this world 40:57 because of the situations that are going on as rebellion. 41:01 Now, did you not see that? 41:05 Just talking about the school board 41:09 because they rejected what was going on there. 41:12 They didn't want these nasty books, 41:15 can I say in there. 41:18 They were so rotten 41:20 that they wouldn't let him read it out loud 41:22 to a bunch of adults. 41:23 Well, they're gonna tell you something. 41:25 You know what they said it would do? 41:26 "Oh my, you made a point here. 41:28 Oh, you made a point here. 41:29 We're going to take them off the shelf 41:30 for a few days and examine them." 41:32 Why didn't you examine them 41:35 before you put them on the shelf? 41:36 Now, am I telling you the truth or not? 41:38 I'm either lying to you or I'm telling you the truth. 41:40 Examine it before you put it out there. 41:42 Examine it before you put it in your home. 41:45 Examine it before it ends up in your children's hands 41:48 and in the room at night, 41:49 reading stuff they shouldn't be reading. 41:51 Oh, boy. 41:53 You see what I mean? 41:55 It, kind of, gets to me 41:56 because I see this is how the devil is working 41:58 and many will be lost 41:59 because no one wants to just say it plain 42:03 because people don't want to hear it. 42:05 "Oh, I don't want to hear it. I don't want it." 42:06 it's too bad. 42:08 Yeah, I've had my toes stepped on a lot. 42:10 I've had lot of spankings. 42:12 The Holy Spirit spanked me a lot of times 42:14 and I thank God for every one of those spankings. 42:17 Isn't that right? 42:18 Because he said he's going to... 42:19 He said He chastised those whom He what, 42:21 that He loves. 42:23 Yeah. 42:25 Okay, I'll bring you back 42:26 on the right path here, yeah, all of us. 42:31 There's moral issues at stake. 42:34 And when those moral issues are at stake, 42:37 if we don't stand for them, 42:39 we're going to give them all up. 42:41 We've got to stand for them. 42:42 There's ways in which it can be done. 42:44 Let me give you a quick example about the Hebrews. 42:47 You remember the Hebrews on the plain of Dura. 42:49 Here is it you have this golden image 42:51 on the plain, isn't that right? 42:52 The king says, "Oh, this is wonderful. 42:54 When you hear that sound of the flute, 42:56 everybody bow down and worship it." 42:58 Here's three sore thumbs. 43:02 They wouldn't bow down, would they? 43:05 Remember listen, use this here. 43:09 This was the law of the land. 43:13 You're going to be seeing some of those things 43:15 if we live a little longer here. 43:17 I think we're going to see the law of the land will be, 43:20 you have to do it or else... 43:22 Then your conscience is going to have to kick in. 43:25 A thus saith the Lord is going to kick in. 43:27 We have to be willing to die rather than knowingly do wrong. 43:31 God help us. 43:33 It's going to take a lot, man, 43:35 we need to draw close to Jesus like never before. 43:40 He said, "When you hear the sound, 43:41 you got to bow down." 43:43 They wouldn't do it. 43:44 Now, why wouldn't they? 43:46 Remember, it was a law of the land, 43:47 they would not do it. 43:48 They knew what the penalty was going to be. 43:51 Somebody said to me, "The fiery furnace." 43:52 I'm going to say, "Wow, I'm going to get out of town." 43:56 And that's the first thing, we're going to run for it. 43:57 We're going to hide. They're not going to catch us. 43:59 Yeah, they didn't do that. 44:03 They didn't try to hide it. 44:05 Like some people say today, I hear people say, 44:07 "Well, now if that kind of stuff happens, 44:08 I'll tell you what I'll do. 44:10 I'll just bow down. 44:11 God knows in my heart that I don't mean it." 44:15 God's looking for somebody that will stand up 44:17 and will be the sore thumb. 44:19 Do you get what I'm talking about here? 44:21 Everybody is going to look and say, 44:22 "Why in this world didn't they bowed out?" 44:26 They knew they were going to get thrown 44:28 in the furnace. 44:29 There must be something to this. 44:30 God was showing Himself. 44:32 He wanted to get it out there that there's a God in heaven. 44:36 Wow! 44:39 Why didn't they do it? 44:41 Because God said in His Commandments, 44:43 where is it? 44:45 Exodus 23:3, 4 and 5, 44:48 "Thou shalt not make any graven images 44:51 or bow down and worship them." 44:55 Exodus 20:4-5, please read those verses 44:58 if you haven't read them in a while. 45:00 Please, don't somebody give me the whole old story. 45:02 Well, that's Old Testament. 45:04 Well, too bad. 45:06 I'm going to do my best to agitate you 45:08 so you get mad. 45:11 Now, why would I say something like that? 45:13 Because the New Testament, 2 Timothy, it says what? 45:15 It talks about what? 45:17 "All scripture is given by inspiration of God?" 45:19 How much? 45:20 All and you have no right, I have no right to say, 45:23 "This doesn't apply." 45:26 One man I went to study with one time, 45:27 he said, "We'll study the Bible." 45:29 I said, "Oh praise God, that's good." 45:30 He said, "We'll just study the Book of Acts. 45:31 That's it." I said, "That's not the Bible. 45:33 There are 66 books, that's the only one." 45:37 Well, you see what I mean? 45:38 Maybe honest and hard, so on and so forth 45:42 but still, it's not right. 45:44 "Oh that's Old Testament stuff." 45:45 Really? 45:46 Almost all the New Testament came from the Old Testament. 45:50 Isn't that right? 45:52 Four hundred and some odd verses 45:53 in the book of... 45:54 Can I say Revelation? 45:56 I'm going to say it, in Revelation, 45:57 200 and some of those are just direct quotes, 45:59 or indirect quotes from the Old Testament. 46:02 Man, that's pretty good stuff, isn't it? 46:05 I'm just saying this God inspired. 46:08 He didn't say this and that. 46:09 We got to open our hearts and our minds right now. 46:13 So what should we do when we're faced 46:16 with this kind of situation? 46:20 God's people need some spunk. 46:23 God's people need some, 46:25 now I'll say it in the right way, 46:28 some fight, some fire, that's right, of what? 46:31 Of the Holy Spirit. 46:32 Do we not see that? 46:33 Cloven tongues of fire resting on the people 46:35 and they had holy boldness. 46:36 And they stood up and said, "We will or we won't." 46:40 "Will you guys keep quiet? 46:41 I don't want to hear you preach anymore in the corner. 46:43 You've been in jail boards before. 46:44 We better not put you back in jail again 46:46 because if we do, you we're not going to get out." 46:48 You see what people might do to you, 46:49 all sudden fear, you're running. 46:51 As soon as the disciples got out, 46:52 they went right to the street corner. 46:55 They started preaching Jesus Christ 46:56 and Him crucified, isn't that right? 46:58 They said, "We ought to obey God 47:00 rather than man." 47:01 So when these laws come up and they crossover against God, 47:05 we have to as Christians take a stand 47:07 on these issues and say, "No." 47:11 Remember, when the laws of the land 47:13 go against the laws of God, 47:14 what are we to do? 47:17 Yeah, stay on God's side. 47:20 You may not realize it today, 47:22 most people are sneaky, 47:27 just kind of sneaky. 47:28 Not everybody, do you know what I mean? 47:30 People who accept you 47:32 when you say you're a Christian, 47:33 they really don't like it. 47:35 Have you ever met anybody? 47:36 Secretly, they don't say anything about it. 47:38 Prophets and King says that like this page 512, 47:43 "There are many who are filled with envy 47:47 toward the Christian 47:49 and you see a religious bigotry." 47:54 What lesson can we learn from this? 47:57 After all the kings... Let go back now. 47:59 If I say king, I won't say president. 48:01 Is that okay? 48:04 The king afterward saw how God had saved the Hebrews, 48:08 did He not, 48:09 in the fiery furnace. 48:10 Whoa, there was three went in there, I see four. 48:14 Old story but you know what? 48:15 It's just as exciting to me today 48:17 as it was when I was a child, 48:19 even maybe more so now 48:20 with a little more understanding 48:21 by the grace of God. 48:23 "I see four men in there." 48:25 King Nebuchadnezzar said, "Wow!" 48:27 Do you remember? 48:29 He said, "Before you better bow down 48:30 and worship that image that's of me. 48:31 If you don't, I'll throw you in a fiery furnace." 48:34 But he'd seen what? 48:35 God had turned it around and worked a miracle. 48:37 And then he passed another law to say, 48:39 "You better serve the God of Daniel. 48:41 If you don't, I'm going to have you killed." 48:49 He said, "If you don't worship God," 48:52 he's going to get rid of them. 48:54 Now you see he just turned it upside 48:55 way around again. 48:57 But you know what? 48:58 God doesn't accept that kind of worship. 49:01 It's only true, right, honest? 49:04 So again, the enemy will always use force. 49:06 Anytime you see is forced... 49:08 I read there that we talked about the Illinois Bill there, 49:12 the amendment, force was used. 49:15 We'll force. 49:16 We'll compel or if you don't, we'll fire you. 49:22 Most people are scared to death of being fired. 49:23 Thank God there are some few who just said, "Fire me then." 49:28 That's not easy. 49:30 That's not easy at all 49:34 because I've heard some said that, 49:35 "No better, I'm going to go ahead 49:37 and take the shot because I want to travel." 49:41 You see, I'm just... 49:45 I may not get on the plane but I can probably drive 49:47 so far until they stop that. 49:48 You see what I'm saying? 49:50 It's not going to stop. 49:53 King Nebuchadnezzar overstepped his bounds 49:57 when he made the law against the God of Heaven. 50:05 Remember, God never compels 50:09 the obedience of men. 50:13 He leaves it for us to choose whom we will serve. 50:17 "Choose you this day whom you will," what? 50:19 "Serve." 50:20 Again, I say conscientious 50:23 obedience to the Word of God will be treated as rebellion. 50:28 Listen, in some cases before this is over, 50:31 it's going to be counted as treason 50:33 against the country. 50:37 Listen, how did they end up getting Jesus? 50:39 What did they do with Him? 50:41 They end up accusing Him of what? 50:43 Treason. 50:46 He was nailed to the cross for being... 50:49 He treason against the government. 50:52 He said, "You're going to have to walk the way 50:54 that I walked in." 50:55 Yeah, that's an interesting word. 50:58 You say, "Treason" because when... 51:00 You know, the government's out there just like in COVID. 51:02 Well, if you don't want to do it, 51:04 my lands of love, we've got to do it. 51:05 You're going to ruin the country. 51:06 You've got to go ahead and do this. 51:08 If you don't, it'd be better for a few to suffer... 51:11 You remember that they did. 51:12 It'd be better for a few to suffer 51:14 than the whole world. 51:15 God will not allow that. 51:17 God will be there for us when you do the right thing. 51:20 When test and trials come... 51:22 l believe this, I've only got four some minutes. 51:23 What happened? 51:25 Daniel prayed, do you remember, 51:28 when it was against the law to pray, 51:34 and he didn't mealy-mouths around with it. 51:37 He wasn't a coward about it. 51:39 Open those windows. 51:42 He wasn't trying to agitate anybody. 51:44 He was doing as he always had done 51:46 and law should not permit you, 51:48 where you can't, 51:49 where you can't pray, say you can't. 51:52 And so he just opened a window, he prayed like he always did. 51:55 And they said, "Oh man, the lion's dead. 51:56 Here he goes. We've got him now." 51:59 The Prophet Daniel, boldly, maybe quietly, 52:04 he didn't make a bunch of noise like I do some time. 52:11 He humbly, right, declared that no, 52:14 there was no earthly power 52:18 that had a right to interpose between him and God. 52:22 There is no earthly power 52:24 that's come between you and your God. 52:27 If you let that power do that 52:29 it will be the power of the enemy. 52:31 It will not be God. 52:33 Man, the devil would love to get in that position 52:35 because then you're going to think it's the power of God 52:37 when it's the power of the enemy. 52:40 A little quick lesson from Daniel 52:42 there we need today 52:43 is when test and trials come, and they're coming. 52:45 There's no doubt about it. 52:48 And certainly by God's grace, 52:50 we should be the same when it's going haywire, 52:54 when it backfires in our face 52:55 as it was when everything was going our way. 52:58 Our attitude should be the same 52:59 because we know who's driving this wagon. 53:02 Isn't that right? We know. 53:04 If we don't know who's driving it, 53:05 we'll get all torn up. 53:08 Don't tell God ever, "Hey, get out of the driver's seat, 53:11 I want to drive for a while." 53:12 You'll crash it up. 53:15 Say, "Go ahead and drive for me, Lord." 53:17 He wants to do that for you and me. 53:19 And it says there, the Bible talks about 53:20 a heart and a mind that stayed upon Him, right? 53:26 So we need to maintain our integrity 53:30 in the midst of a storm, 53:31 in the midst of everything that's going wrong. 53:33 It's high time we need to say, "However, oh, it's all well. 53:37 Everything's good. Everything is good." 53:39 Well, if we just stopped to be able to count all the things 53:40 it's going haywire at that time, 53:42 but we're looking beyond the haywire 53:43 because we know God knows how to fix that. 53:46 And all things are good, they're going as He planned, 53:49 if we submit to Him. 53:52 So a person's heart and mind who stayed upon Him, 53:56 He's going to keep them in what? 53:57 Somebody help me in perfect, Isaiah 26, 54:00 He's going to keep them in perfect peace 54:02 whose mind is stayed, what? 54:03 Is stayed upon Him. 54:05 Oh that's beautiful, because he trusteth in Him. 54:10 Do you trust God today, my brothers and sisters? 54:12 If you trust God, you need to look like 54:14 we're looking today at things 54:15 that are going on right now. 54:16 Unless we are prepared to surrender everything, 54:19 don't surrender anything. 54:23 Not near finished, but I know my clock says I am. 54:27 But we have to realize 54:29 we're in that stream of time right now 54:32 that we're going to be challenged 54:33 by our job and our home and things 54:35 that are happening in the world today. 54:38 And they're going to say, "It's the law of the land 54:40 that you do such and such." 54:41 The law of the land is that you keep another day 54:44 rather than the Sabbath day. 54:46 What are you going to do? 54:49 You have to keep the Sabbath day 54:50 because that's what the Bible says. 54:53 That day is just around the corner. 54:54 That's where all this stuff is leading up to. 54:57 The Pope will tell you that, read his encyclical, 54:59 he's already told that over and over and over. 55:01 He shall think to change times and law. 55:03 He can't do it. God sits on the throne today. 55:06 I want to encourage everybody today 55:07 by the grace of God, 55:09 when these restrictions come, 55:10 place your care, place your hand, 55:13 place your body, everything in His hand and care. 55:15 He'll take care of you. 55:17 Let's pray, shall we in our closing seconds 55:18 that we have. 55:19 Loving Father in heaven, thank You for Your Word. 55:21 Thank You, You made it so plain that we need, 55:22 none of us need to misunderstand it. 55:24 Thank you for those who made that decision 55:26 and choice right now 55:27 to follow You regardless of where the world goes, 55:29 in Jesus' name, amen. 55:31 I just want to thank each and every one of you 55:32 for joining us today. 55:33 God bless you. 55:35 Thank you for your cards, your letters and support. 55:36 We'll see you next time. 55:39 Hello, friends and welcome back. 55:41 As a remnant people, 55:43 we have been told for many years now 55:45 that great changes are coming to this great land of ours. 55:49 And we thank God for the men, 55:52 the women who are standing up to the very powerful 55:56 and very influential entities to proclaim 55:59 what truth is in the church as well as in the world, 56:03 as it is affecting the church 56:04 as never before and modern history. 56:08 Unless, you're prepared to surrender everything, 56:11 don't surrender anything was the message presented today 56:14 by Pastor Kenneth Shelton. 56:16 And should you at home, 56:18 should you anyone listening desire to have this message 56:21 as a part of your study library, 56:24 we encourage you to contact us here 56:26 at Behold the Lamb Ministries 56:27 and order your very own copy for a love gift 56:31 of just $8 or more. 56:33 We would be happy to send you either a DVD or a CD version. 56:37 We look forward to getting a call from you. 56:40 Simply just contact us here 56:42 in the United States at 618-942-5044, 56:47 that's Central Time, 56:48 or you may mail in your request to or your support. 56:52 Don't forget the support. 56:53 We need you at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 56:55 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:00 You may also email us 57:02 at contact@beholdthelamb -ministries.com 57:05 or visit us on our website at beholdthelambministries.com 57:09 And we encourage you to hit that subscribe button 57:13 on our Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:14 YouTube channel and watch for the timely messages 57:18 that are being released on a weekly basis. 57:20 Friends, until next time, 57:22 may our precious Heavenly Father 57:24 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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