Participants: Pr. Kenneth Cox
Series Code: GMTB
Program Code: GMTB000034
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00:19 Good evening and welcome to
00:21 Give Me The Bible with Pastor Kenneth Cox. 00:24 We're coming to you live 00:26 from the 3ABN Worship Center 00:28 right here in Thompsonville, Illinois. 00:32 And we're so happy that we could join you tonight 00:35 and that you could join with us. 00:37 And we're going to be looking at a very important subject 00:41 involving Spiritualism and is there life after death. 00:46 When I was a young boy in the third grade, 00:48 my teenage sister was killed 00:51 in an automobile accident. 00:53 And it was at that time that well-meaning relatives 00:58 came to my mother. 00:59 And they said they had been in a séance 01:02 and they had spoken with my sister. 01:04 And that she wanted very much to talk to my mom and to my dad. 01:09 They prayed about that. 01:12 It was a very big temptation 01:13 because they didn't really know truly what the Bible said. 01:16 But as they went to the Bible and looked at it, 01:20 my mother came back with the answer 01:23 that God is the One who knows what happens to the dead 01:28 and the Bible gives the answer. 01:31 And you see, because she knew that answer 01:34 she did not fall into that temptation. 01:36 And tonight Pastor Kenneth Cox 01:38 is going to be sharing with you the very same answer 01:42 that my mother received when her only daughter 01:46 was killed in that horrible, tragic accident. 01:50 Now tonight we're going to have a wonderful time 01:55 studying God's Word with Pastor Cox. 01:58 But just before we do that, the Hinsdale Men's Chorus 02:01 is going to sing for us Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me. 02:15 Rock of Ages, 02:20 cleft for me. 02:24 Let me hide 02:28 myself in Thee; 02:33 Let the water and the blood, 02:39 From Thy wounded side which flowed, 02:45 Be of sin the double cure, 02:51 Saves from wrath 02:54 and made me pure. 03:00 Not the labors of my hands 03:05 can fulfill Thy law's demands; 03:10 Could my zeal no respite know, 03:14 Could my tears forever flow, 03:18 All for sin could not atone; 03:23 Thou must save 03:27 Thou must save 03:32 Thou must save 03:37 and Thou alone. 03:47 Though I draw 03:52 this fleeting breath, 03:56 When my eyes 04:01 shall close in death, 04:05 When I rise to worlds unknown, 04:11 and behold Thee on Thy throne, 04:18 Rock of Ages, 04:23 Rock of Ages, 04:26 Rock of Ages, 04:29 cleft for me, 04:33 Let me hide 04:38 Let me hide 04:44 Let me hide 04:48 myself in Thee. 04:53 Let me hide 04:55 myself in Thee. 04:59 Let me hide 05:06 myself 05:08 in Thee. 05:14 Rock 05:16 of Ages. 05:32 Amen! 05:33 Well, we're very happy to welcome all of you 05:36 again this evening. Glad you're here. 05:39 We hope that you'll be blessed 05:40 in a very, very special way. 05:43 Welcome to Give Me The Bible. 05:45 Give Me The Bible is a series that we are conducting 05:49 that goes all year long. 05:51 And each month we cover a different subject. 05:55 And this month we're taking a look at Life in the Son. 05:59 Life in Jesus Christ. 06:01 We talked about that in the last few presentations 06:05 about Life in Jesus Christ 06:07 and how that you and I, by believing and accepting Him, 06:12 have that privilege 06:13 of receiving life in Jesus Christ. 06:16 So we're glad that you're here. 06:18 We hope it's blessing you. 06:19 Those of you that are watching by television 06:22 or listening by radio 06:23 or you're visiting with us here tonight, 06:25 we hope that these subjects will be clear. 06:28 Help you understand. And that will help you 06:31 in your relationship with Jesus Christ 06:33 and your understanding of God's Word. 06:36 Our next presentation 06:38 and our last one in this particular series is entitled: 06:44 That will be a wonderful day 06:46 when there won't be sin any more. 06:49 It'll be forever gone. 06:51 That's what we're going to look at 06:53 as to how God intends to wrap everything up at the end 06:58 with no more sin. So we hope you'll be sure 07:02 and either watch us by television or tune in by radio 07:05 or be back with us tomorrow evening as we talk about 07:09 No More Sin. 07:10 Tonight we talk about the subject of Spiritualism. 07:16 We're going to see what has happened... 07:18 what the Bible has to say about this idea 07:21 that people have that you can communicate with the dead 07:26 or you can talk to spirits. 07:28 What does the scripture tell us about that? 07:30 And what kind of an influence has it had upon the world? 07:35 And so we're going to look at the question of Spiritualism 07:37 tonight. We hope that it will help you see clearly 07:41 what God's Word has to say. 07:44 What says the Bible, the blessed Bible? 07:47 This my only question be. 07:51 The teachings of men so often mislead us. 07:55 What says the Word of God to me? 07:58 That's what we want to find out. 07:59 So we hope that you're being blessed. 08:02 I'm being blessed in a marvelous way 08:04 by having the Men's Chorus here. 08:07 The Hinsdale Men's Chorus under the direction 08:11 of Dr. Arnold Hutabarat. 08:13 And we just pray that you have been blessed as much as I have. 08:17 They're going to sing tonight 08:19 a wonderful song entitled You Lift Me Up. 09:07 When I am down, and oh my soul's so weary, 09:14 When troubles come 09:18 and my heart burdened be. 09:22 Then I am still 09:26 and wait here in the silence 09:30 until You come 09:33 and sit a while with me. 09:38 You raise me up 09:41 so I can stand on mountains. 09:46 You raise me up 09:49 to walk on stormy seas. 09:53 I am strong 09:56 when I am on Your shoulders. 10:01 You raise me up 10:04 to more than I can be. 10:37 You raise me up 10:39 so I can stand on mountains. 10:44 You raise me up 10:46 to walk on stormy seas. 10:51 I am strong 10:54 when I am on Your shoulders. 10:58 You raise me up 11:01 to more than I can be. 11:10 You raise me up 11:13 so I can stand on mountains. 11:17 You raise me up 11:20 to walk on stormy seas. 11:25 I am strong 11:28 when I am on Your shoulders. 11:33 You raise me up 11:35 to more than I can be. 11:40 You raise me up 11:43 so I can stand on mountains. 11:48 You raise me up 11:50 to walk on stormy seas. 11:55 I am strong 11:58 when I am on Your shoulders. 12:02 You raise me up 12:05 to more than I can be. 12:16 You raise me up 12:21 to more than I 12:25 can be. 12:38 Amen! 12:58 Our Gracious Father, 13:00 Tonight we come to You 13:05 asking, Lord, that we might understand. 13:10 That we might not be deceived. 13:14 That our hearts may be open to Your Word 13:19 and that we might be focused upon You and You alone 13:24 and that we might understand 13:26 that life is found in You and no one else. 13:31 And that we might not be led astray. 13:35 Because, Lord, there's so many voices out there... 13:39 so many voices that are beckoning for the floor 13:43 wanting our attention. 13:45 May we stay completely and totally with You 13:51 in all that we do. 13:52 Send Your Spirit to be with us tonight. 13:55 Bless us we pray in Your name, Amen. 14:04 I'm going to go back to a text that was in the 14:08 last presentation. And I'm going there because 14:13 God's Word is very emphatic. 14:16 It doesn't make any exception. 14:20 It just states it plainly, 14:22 completely, and it makes it absolutely clear what God says. 14:27 And I want you to look at it. It says this: 14:41 I mean, God is very, very clear here. 14:45 He says the dead don't know anything. 14:57 This emphatic statement by God 15:01 smacks absolutely against 15:05 the whole concept of Spiritualism. 15:08 I mean, it goes directly against that. 15:11 And you need to be very, very clear in your understanding 15:16 of God's Word in your heart and in your soul 15:19 what God's Word says and teaches. 15:22 And then we'll take a look at the counsel God gives us 15:26 concerning that of Spiritualism. 15:29 Listen to what He says here: 15:47 See, He's asking a specific question. 15:49 He said: "If they tell you to go to someone 15:51 who is a medium - who says that they can communicate 15:55 with the dead... " Said: "Should they? 16:00 Should they be seeking the dead on behalf of the living? " 16:04 Listen to His words: 16:20 God said: "The dead KNOW NOTHING. " 16:26 That's the law of the testimony: "THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING. " 16:30 Therefore I don't have to go any farther. 16:34 The scripture says don't go to these people. 16:36 Don't seek them. 16:38 But we live in an age... we live in a day 16:41 in which this has become very, very prevalent. 16:45 I mean, more than many people have any idea 16:49 how prevalent it is. 16:52 And so we're going to try to take a look at it. 16:56 This is what God says... 17:10 God is saying if these people who claim to be able 17:14 to tell the fortune... to tell the future... 17:16 If these people that can tell you what's going to happen, 17:19 if they can help you in any way, He said, "stand up. " 17:24 But they can't. 17:26 There's nothing they can do to help you. 17:31 They can't tell what's going to happen in the future. 17:35 They are not capable of that, folks. 17:39 And therefore we should not be led astray by them. 17:43 We need to be clear what God's Word has to say. 17:48 The children of Israel carried down into Egypt... 17:54 Listen to what it says here: 18:05 So they were carried down to Egypt and they spent 18:08 430 years in Egypt. 18:12 Now folks, you have no concept 18:16 of what happened and what took place there in that 430 years, 18:21 let me tell you. Because they're living 18:23 in a very, very different environment 18:27 than what they had been in. 18:30 Goes on: 18:43 Now it says that they left the land of Egypt after 430 years. 18:47 For 430 years they have been indoctrinated 18:53 into what the Egyptians believed. 18:56 Listen to the counsel God gives them. 18:59 There's a reason for this. 19:03 God's saying of all the children of Israel - 19:06 And do you know how many of them 19:08 came out of the land of Egypt? - 19:11 Well about a million and a half of them. 19:14 So when they came out of the land of Egypt 19:16 He said: 19:24 Are you getting the picture? 19:26 This is things that happened in Egypt. 19:44 He said: "None of these things must be among you. 19:48 They... they're not to be there. " 20:01 Said: "All these people have done this; 20:03 you are not to do this. " 20:06 You see, the Egyptians worshiped the dead. 20:12 That's who they worshiped was the dead. 20:15 This what was called the Book of the Dead. 20:17 I don't know if you can follow it there, 20:19 but if you'll see it... This is a picture 20:23 that shows the progress of this particular Pharaoh. 20:27 And you'll find that it talks about the Pharaoh. 20:30 You can see the man has him by the hand, 20:32 and you see the scales there? 20:34 Those scales are weighing his life... 20:37 whether he has done good or how he has lived and so forth. 20:41 And if he has measured up, 20:44 if he's lived up to what is required of him there, 20:48 then he passes through that veil that you can see there 20:52 and he becomes a god. 20:55 That's what happens. 20:58 So they worshiped them. 20:59 And so when you go down to such places as 21:03 Luxor, Karnak, 21:05 and go down through the Valley of the Kings and the Queens 21:08 and you can see these huge burial places they had for them, 21:13 this is where they worshiped them. 21:17 And the children of Israel not only did that 21:20 they were required to build some of these places. 21:24 And the Egyptian people worshiped the dead. 21:28 That's who they believed in. They worshiped the dead. 21:31 God understood that they had had 430 years of this. 21:37 And therefore He takes definite steps to make sure 21:42 they do not worship the dead. 21:44 And He offers things in scripture that many people 21:48 don't understand. Listen: 21:56 Boy, that's pretty severe. 22:09 God put that requirement there 22:12 because the Egyptians worshiped the dead 22:15 and God didn't want the Israelites in any way 22:18 worshiping the dead. 22:20 And so He made it clear that when somebody died 22:24 that was the end of that person: 22:27 "THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING. " 22:29 And He said it was over there 22:31 and that they couldn't go there and worship them 22:34 or do anything like that. 22:36 This was a requirement that God made. 22:39 But Israel had a hard time with this. 22:41 You remember the time when they got out there 22:43 in the desert and Balaam and Balak... 22:49 You remember Balak was the king of Moab; 22:51 was very concerned about them and all? 22:53 And he hired Balaam to come and bless... curse them, actually. 22:57 And when he tried to curse them 22:59 well he blessed them. 23:01 And that didn't work very well. 23:04 But Balaam told them there was a way to take care of that. 23:07 Listen to what he had them do: 23:14 This was one of their gods, the Moabites' gods. 23:24 I mean, he understood that if he couldn't curse them 23:28 maybe he could get them to go against the Word of God. 23:39 Some 20,000 of them died 23:42 because they went contrary to the Word of God 23:46 worshiping the dead or sacrificing to the dead. 23:51 So the scripture makes it clear that you and I 23:54 are not to do that. If you want to just start 23:56 down through and take a look, 24:00 pagan religions have worshiped the dead. 24:04 This is a picture from Africa 24:07 and their worship of the dead there. 24:11 And I can remember when we held a meeting 24:13 over in Zambia. 24:15 And I can remember preaching one night. 24:19 And as I was preaching, all of a sudden I could hear 24:22 these blood-curdling screams going on behind me. 24:28 I didn't have any idea 24:30 what in the world was going on back there. 24:32 But they have a room back there, 24:36 a building where they had prayer... met. 24:40 And there was a woman 24:41 coming to the meeting 24:42 who was a witchdoctor. 24:44 And she had come to the meeting 24:47 night after night 24:49 and wanted to be delivered. 24:51 And they had her back there praying with her 24:53 during the meeting. And you never heard such sounds 24:56 and screams and all going on in your life 25:00 that took place there as the devil 25:02 I mean fought them hand in hand 25:04 refusing to let her go. 25:07 And finally after much prayer she was released. 25:12 And as I walked out that night 25:15 there smoldering in the fire 25:18 was her charms that she had used in witchcraft. 25:24 But Africa-born pagan religions 25:28 are full of worship of the dead. 25:32 This is something that they believed in. 25:34 Something that they followed. 25:35 You got place after place... 25:37 The thing that bothers me, folks, 25:39 is they have taken that and brought it into religion 25:44 and they've mixed it with religion. 25:47 I was shocked when I was in Haiti 25:51 and watched the voodoo priest 25:55 who practiced voodoo would go from the very place 26:01 where he was practicing voodoo 26:03 and walk to the church to worship. 26:06 Mixing the two together. 26:09 No. That isn't the way it is. 26:12 You go to Asia... and it, too, the people there 26:17 worship the dead. 26:18 They sacrifice to the dead. 26:21 This is one of their shrines 26:24 where they worship the dead. 26:26 God just tells you and I 26:28 that we cannot communicate with the dead. 26:31 "THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING. " 26:35 The American Indian. 26:37 I have been to their hogans 26:42 where they worship their ancestors, 26:46 chew their peyote, 26:49 have visions, 26:52 and worship the dead. 26:54 This we find over and over and over throughout pagan religions. 27:01 We do things that we don't even - how should I put it? - 27:05 we don't even realize what's going on. 27:08 Did you realize that cathedrals are graveyards? 27:15 Did you know that? 27:17 That cathedrals are graveyards? 27:18 That's what they are. 27:20 If there isn't people buried in a cathedral, 27:25 it's not a cathedral. 27:26 That's one of the requirements for it to be a cathedral 27:31 is people have to be buried in it. 27:32 And they go there in worship of the dead. 27:38 We... we've taken and brought all those pagan beliefs 27:42 and we've brought them right into our worship. 27:45 And God says: "No, this is an abomination to the Lord. " 27:51 The United States was basically free 27:57 from this influence. It... it just didn't have much 28:03 of this kind of influence in the United States. 28:06 And the reason it didn't is because our forefathers 28:09 that came over and established our country 28:11 were God-fearing men and women. 28:13 And they believed the Word of God 28:16 and they built this country based on the Word of God. 28:20 And it was free from this 28:22 until about the middle of the 1800's. 28:27 1843. 28:31 There were some girls called the Fox sisters... 28:34 Kate, Leah, Margaret. 28:39 Just heard a thumping on the floor. 28:44 Couldn't explain where it came from. 28:48 They listened to it. 28:51 And one night out of a prank 28:56 one of them thumped on the floor 29:00 and it answered. 29:03 And they knocked on the floor twice 29:06 and it knocked back twice. 29:11 Then they began to ask it questions. 29:15 Asked it to tell them how many times 29:18 or to knock on the floor how many times 29:20 Kate snapped her fingers. 29:22 And it responded. 29:25 And then they said: "Knock on the floor and tell me 29:29 how old I am. " 29:30 And it knocked back their age. 29:34 And those girls set up a means of communication 29:38 with that. They called this spirit 29:40 that they communicated with, they called it the split-foot... 29:45 meaning the devil. 29:47 That's who they communicated with. 29:50 And thus you have in our country, in the United States, 29:53 the inroad of Spiritualism in here, and people began 29:57 to experiment with this, folks. 30:00 And you begin... you go back and you read 30:02 and you find that they began to set up séances and all this 30:06 all across the United States. 30:08 And people were going to these séances 30:10 and they were trying to communicate with the dead. 30:13 Very interesting thing was happening at this time. 30:18 There was a magician at this time. 30:23 One of the most famous magicians that the world has ever known. 30:27 A tremendous man with great, great ability. 30:33 His name was Harry Houdini. 30:37 The strange thing about that, folks, is 30:40 Harry Houdini disapproved of what they were doing. 30:44 He said: "This isn't right. " 30:47 He made it clear that what he did 30:50 was totally trickery. 30:52 That it was sleight-of-hand; 30:54 that it wasn't anything supernatural about what he did. 30:58 He was just pulling the wool over your eyes. 31:00 That's all he was doing. 31:02 And he made that very, very clear. 31:04 In fact, President Roosevelt back then, 31:07 Teddy, asked him and he said: "No, this is nothing but 31:09 hocus pocus. You're just being fooled. 31:12 There's nothing supernatural about this. " 31:14 And because he didn't believe in it 31:18 and didn't accept it, he would go to their séances 31:21 and would disprove what they had done 31:24 and show that it was trickery. 31:26 And he did that so much 31:29 that they hired a football player. 31:33 And he walked into the hotel where Harry Houdini was 31:37 and he was sitting there in the lobby reading a newspaper 31:41 and this young man walked over and spoke to him, 31:45 and Harry Houdini stood up. 31:47 And when he stood up, that young man hit him 31:50 in the stomach as hard as he could hit him. 31:53 Ruptured his spleen and killed Harry Houdini. 31:59 But Harry Houdini told his wife: 32:01 "There is no such thing as communicating with the dead. 32:07 And if there is, I'll come back. " 32:10 And he hasn't come back, folks. 32:13 See? But this is something that we find that people 32:17 believe and accept to this day by great, great numbers. 32:21 And it spread all across the country. 32:24 One of the men who has written a lot about this 32:26 is a man by the name of Arthur Hill. 32:28 Listen to what he says: 32:52 That is Spiritualism. 32:53 That is what they teach is that you can communicate 32:56 with the dead... that you can talk to them. 32:58 In fact, he went on and said this: 33:08 What I'm trying to tell you tonight 33:10 is that is contrary to this book. 33:13 You know, I don't have to play with that. 33:18 I don't have to deal with that. 33:19 I've got God's Word. 33:21 I've got a clear "Thus saith 33:23 the Lord" and I can stand on that. 33:25 And let me tell you something, 33:27 it won't let you down. 33:29 Won't let you down. 33:33 So we find that Spiritualism had a tremendous rise 33:36 in this country. 33:38 A couple of people that gave great rise to it 33:41 was one by the name of Edgar Cayce. 33:44 As I drive over here each month 33:47 I go by - not through it but by it - Hopkinsville. 33:53 This is where Edgar Cayce lived. 33:58 Taught. And really it was the work of Edgar Cayce 34:03 that brought about what is taught today as channeling. 34:07 And if you don't understand channeling, 34:10 channeling is where a person believes that a spirit - 34:14 a departed spirit - 34:16 comes in and takes possession of you. 34:19 And sometimes they write 34:23 or sometimes they'll type a typewriter. 34:26 Or today a computer. 34:28 They work through that person, that spirit does. 34:31 Now I want to make something clear. 34:34 I'm not trying to say, folks, 34:36 that there's no such things as spirits... 34:40 because I believe there is. 34:43 You see, the Bible talks about spirits. 34:46 And it talks about good ones and it talks about bad ones. 34:50 OK? 34:52 The spirits that you and I are faced with 34:55 are that of fallen angels 34:58 not departed loved ones. 35:00 Understand? 35:02 And therefore these imps, 35:05 these fallen angels, 35:08 they do many things. And people take that as 35:12 believing that that is a departed loved one 35:16 and they hold to that. 35:19 No. Alice Bailey... 35:21 Alice Bailey, a British woman, 35:26 wrote. And it was her writings 35:30 that has brought about what we 35:32 know today as the New Age Movement. 35:36 She wrote this back in 1948. 35:39 And it just continued gaining popularity 35:42 until here a few years ago... 1980's... 35:48 all of a sudden we were immersed in something 35:51 called the Age of Aquarius. 35:54 And this is nothing, folks, but New Age Movement 35:58 and nothing but believing that this is spirits 36:03 that you and I can communicate with and talk with. 36:06 This is what the whole New Age Movement is about. 36:08 Let me tell you something. 36:10 The New Age Movement moved across all lines. 36:15 What I mean by that is the New Age Movement 36:19 went into paganism. 36:22 It went into Islam. 36:26 It went into Christianity. 36:28 It went into all different religions 36:31 and it brings that together. 36:35 But there is one common thread 36:38 that runs all the way through all of those. 36:41 You know what that is? 36:43 Immortality of the soul. 36:46 That you can talk to the dead. 36:50 All of them hold to that. 36:52 But we live in a time where the New Age Movement 36:56 has come in, and people have read it 36:59 and many people follow and believe it. 37:02 It has affected Hollywood 37:04 in a very, very definite way. 37:08 Probably one of the foremost advocates of it 37:12 is Shirley MacLaine. 37:15 She claims that she channels. 37:19 That the spirits come into her 37:22 and that she writes as they guide and direct her. 37:25 She's a very, very strong advocate of this. 37:30 Listen to what she says: 37:48 Nobody ever dies, 37:50 they just change form. 37:53 There's things happening today, folks. 37:57 Don't be fooled. 37:59 Right now there is a DVD 38:02 that's being circulated across the United States. 38:06 Thousands and thousands of people are listening to it 38:09 and being duped. 38:11 It's been given emphasis by Tom Cruise 38:15 and by Oprah Winfrey. 38:17 They are the ones that have given emphasis to it, 38:21 and it strictly teaches - if you want to look at it, 38:26 and I don't advise it - 38:27 but it teaches Scientology. 38:31 Now let me tell you something about Scientology. 38:34 Scientology is idolatry. 38:40 Let me explain. 38:42 Scientology is idolatry. 38:46 And the reason it is the highest form of idolatry 38:51 there is is because it teaches self-worship. 38:55 It teaches that you are a god. 39:02 This is what is happening today, 39:04 and that is being circulated all across the country 39:08 and millions of people are watching them 39:10 and being told that they are a god 39:15 and that they need to don't pay any attention 39:19 to anything but themselves. 39:22 You have motion pictures. You have books. 39:25 The Harry Potter series has gone across this world. 39:29 And the terrible thing about it, folks, 39:32 is this is books that our young people read. 39:37 Movies that they watch. 39:38 And so we're bringing up a whole generation, 39:42 I mean a whole generation, 39:44 that has been taught that this is something they can do. 39:47 That they can communicate and talk with the dead. 39:51 This is the kind of thing that we're faced today. 39:55 Doesn't make any difference. 39:58 If you go over to India... 40:00 India, they just teach a very simple thing 40:05 called reincarnation. 40:08 You cannot believe in reincarnation 40:13 unless you believe in the immortality of the soul. 40:18 You have to believe that in order for reincarnation 40:22 to make any sense. It won't work. 40:24 Let me show you a painting. 40:26 This is a painting of reincarnation. 40:29 If you can see what's happening here, 40:32 people are being born 40:36 coming out there on the left-hand side of that screen 40:38 and they're dying... and they're going down in there. 40:44 And then they're going across this river 40:46 and they're coming out on the other side 40:48 as cows and horses and different animals. 40:54 They're being reincarnated into an animal. 41:01 You know... That's the reason, folks, 41:05 that you have the poverty that you have in India. 41:11 Because of this. 41:12 They worship animals; they worship cows. 41:17 And the reason it brings about the poverty 41:21 and the degradation is there... 41:23 is because it doesn't lift up man, 41:25 it tears them down. 41:29 Never forget... I walked into one of their places of worship 41:35 here in the United States... one of their buildings. 41:38 And we were standing there 41:39 and this gentleman came over 41:41 and started talking to us 41:43 and trying to explain to us 41:45 reincarnation. 41:48 And I listened to him 41:50 and I said: "Well, I don't understand 41:54 why you... you worship the animals and cows 42:00 and so forth. I don't understand that because you're telling me 42:03 that if I don't live a good enough life 42:06 and I die, I might become a bug. " 42:11 You know. "If I was bad enough, I might be 42:15 turned into an insect. 42:17 And if I was, wouldn't it be helpful to me 42:21 if you just stepped on me 42:22 and that way I might become something better? " 42:26 Well he didn't want to accept that type of reasoning, 42:29 but, you know... This is the thing that we find 42:34 so prevalent in the world today. 42:37 The assumption of Mary. 42:41 Now folks, before I talk about the assumption of Mary 42:45 I want to make it clear that I believe 42:49 that Mary was a very special woman. 42:54 I believe that she was the mother of my Lord 42:58 and so I will always consider her a very, very special woman. 43:04 But I also must recognize 43:08 that she was human 43:11 and that she had faults just like the rest of us have. 43:17 I cannot take her - as has been done - 43:21 and put her in a position 43:24 where she never should have been. 43:29 At the assumption of Mary in which they believe... 43:32 When was it? 1914? Somewhere like that? 43:36 that she was taken to heaven. 43:37 And they believe that she was taken to heaven 43:41 and that she's up in heaven now. 43:44 And then in 1950, 43:49 they had the coronation of Mary. 43:52 They made her the Queen of Heaven. 43:57 They at that time said that she was taken to heaven 44:01 without seeing death. 44:04 She was taken to heaven without seeing death 44:08 and now she is the Queen of Heaven. 44:11 I want you to listen to this, folks, because this is 44:14 statements that they believe and they teach. 44:19 I don't think you can read that print at the bottom. 44:23 But since you can't read it, I'll read it to you. 44:27 It says: Mary, our Redeemer. 44:31 OK? Says: Mary, our Redeemer. 44:36 That's what it's talking about. 44:38 It also says that she is 44:41 the provider of all grace. 44:47 That Mary's the one who provides all grace. 44:51 And then it also says that she is our advocate. 44:55 That we have to come to her before we can come to Christ 44:59 or to God 45:00 and that she is our Redeemer. 45:03 No! 45:06 That's not in line with scripture at all, folks. 45:09 How prevalent is this? 45:12 Fatima. 45:15 Do you understand 45:17 that 15 to 20 million people 45:22 every year go to Guadalupe, Mexico, 45:26 to Fatima? 45:28 That's just one place in the world. 45:32 There's other places where they go by 5, 6, 7, 45:36 8 million people that go there 45:40 hoping that there will be some aspiration of Mary 45:43 that they can see or that they can be involved in 45:47 in the worship of Mary. 45:50 I'm sorry. 45:53 The scripture says that Mary died. 45:58 It says that all of us die. 46:02 She was a human being; we all die. 46:05 And she had to find in her son, Jesus Christ, 46:11 salvation... 46:12 just like you and I must find salvation in Him. 46:17 That's the way it has to come; no other way. 46:20 We can't take her and make her 46:25 into our Redeemer. 46:27 Or we can't take her and make her into the one 46:30 who provides grace 46:32 for us. NO! 46:34 She was a very, very special person... will always be that 46:40 without any question that she was a human being 46:45 like the rest of us. 46:59 70 million in this country 47:03 believe it's possible to communicate with the dead. 47:08 No wonder you have such a rise of this in the world today. 47:13 Time after time I have people refer to the question 47:17 of King Saul and the witch of Endor. 47:20 And they want to bring this up as a sign 47:24 that you can communicate with the dead. 47:26 I'm going to share these scriptures with you. 47:28 I want you to listen carefully, because if you don't 47:31 you won't catch what it has to say. 47:35 You've got to read it carefully. And this is what it says: 47:38 King Saul you remember went to her, 47:41 the witch of Endor, and asked that she might 47:46 call up Samuel so he could talk to him. 48:05 OK. She said: "I saw a spirit ascending out of the earth. " 48:18 Said: "What did you see? What's his form? " 48:22 Said: "Well, he's an old man. He's coming up out of the earth. 48:24 He's got a mantle on. " 48:33 It does not say he saw Samuel. 48:37 She saw an old man with a mantle, 48:42 and Saul thought this was Samuel. 48:46 He perceived it was Samuel. 48:52 No. He wasn't communicating with Samuel. 48:56 Samuel was asleep, folks. 48:59 "The dead know not anything. " 49:03 You see, when you run onto things like that 49:05 you come back and you stand solidly on God's Word. 49:09 And the scripture is clear. 49:11 He perceived that he saw Samuel. 49:14 He didn't see Samuel... 49:16 he just thought that was Samuel. 49:19 So we find that it is not possible for us 49:23 to communicate with the dead. 49:34 What now? 49:36 Departed from him; doesn't answer him... 49:44 Said: "God won't talk to me. 49:47 God won't answer me; He won't communicate with me. " 49:50 Well what makes him think now He would? 49:53 No, He's not going to. 49:55 He was deceived is what happened. 50:08 Now it says clearly that what you and I have to face 50:12 is in the last days there's going to be false Christs. 50:17 False prophets arise, and they're going to show signs. 50:21 Now folks, you can't always believe 50:27 what you see. 50:30 Put it down. 50:32 And you can't always believe 50:34 what you hear. 50:36 What you can always believe 50:40 is the Word of God. 50:41 And that's where I must base my faith. 50:46 I must base it on the Word of God. 50:48 I can't depart from that. 51:03 I hope that you won't be deceived. 51:07 That you won't be led astray 51:10 by all these things that are out there today 51:13 telling us that this is what is happening, what's taking place. 51:17 No dear friend, when I see things that seem impossible 51:22 to me and I hear things, 51:26 I'm going to stand on the Word of God. 51:30 I'm going to say "This is what I believe. 51:32 Even though I can't explain it, 51:36 or even though it doesn't seem that I can 51:41 see any other thing, I'm going to stand on the Word of God. 51:46 Why? 51:59 In other words, it's telling you 52:01 that in the very last days, right down at the end, 52:04 one of the things the devil's going to do 52:06 is he's going to send out his spirits 52:08 and he's going to use the very medium that we've talked about 52:11 tonight to deceive the world. 52:14 And that is happening today. 52:17 The Bible says: 52:30 What are you and I to do? 52:33 Dear friends, this is what we're to do: 52:46 That's what you need to do. 52:48 I don't need anything else 52:51 but God's Word to base my faith on. 52:58 My soul is resting 53:03 on the Word, 53:05 the living Word of God. 53:11 Salvation in 53:15 my Savior's name; 53:19 Salvation through His blood. 53:25 I need no other 53:29 evidence, 53:32 I need no other 53:36 plea. 53:39 It is enough 53:42 that Jesus died 53:45 and rose again 53:49 for me. 53:54 Let us pray. 53:55 Father in Heaven, 53:59 as we see the influence 54:01 the inroads 54:04 of Spiritualism in this world, 54:06 we see how in so many places 54:10 it's being taught. 54:14 Lord, help us to stand firmly 54:16 on the Word of God. 54:19 That we will accept what You say 54:23 as our authority. 54:26 Even, Lord, when the time comes 54:29 that we can't explain it. 54:32 That as far as our eyes are concerned 54:36 it doesn't seem possible. 54:39 As far as what we hear 54:43 it seems to be so true... 54:46 and yet it doesn't line up with Your Word. 54:51 May our faith be strong. 54:54 May we stand with You. 54:58 May we be willing to follow Your Word. 55:02 Bless each one here. 55:04 May they take hold of the Word of God 55:08 and may all of us walk with You, follow You, 55:13 in all that we do. 55:15 For this we ask in Christ's name, Amen. 55:20 Well, we have one more presentation left: 55:26 No More Sin. 55:28 Now we've gone through a lot of things here 55:31 in the last four presentations 55:33 that is happening and taking place and being taught. 55:36 There is coming a day, folks, 55:38 when this is all going to be over 55:41 and there won't be sin any more. 55:43 And that's what you and I want to belong to, right? 55:46 So good night. God bless you. 55:48 We'll see you in the next presentation. 55:52 You can find them everywhere. 55:54 In every city, town, out-of-the-way place. 55:58 In some areas, they're more plentiful than gas stations. 56:02 Small and large. Modern, old-fashioned. 56:05 Millions of them exist all over the world. 56:08 We're talking about churches, of course. 56:10 Houses of worship. 56:12 They stand as a testament to the hunger for truth 56:16 that's built into the heart of every man, woman, and child. 56:20 But truth cannot be found in a building. 56:23 In fact, churches are homes to millions 56:26 who still don't know Jesus. 56:29 And that means they don't know the truth. 56:32 In John 17:17 56:35 Jesus prayed to His Father asking that His followers 56:38 not be taken out of the world 56:40 but that the Father protect them and sanctify them 56:44 by the truth. 56:45 Then Jesus said: "Your Word is truth. " 56:50 Think about it. 56:52 "Your Word is truth. " 56:54 But friends, just reading the Bible is not enough. 56:57 Knowing the truth without a relationship 57:00 is like an empty church building 57:02 without people to give it life. 57:04 It's knowledge of God's law 57:06 without power to live up to it. 57:09 To be a true Christian 57:11 we must have a relationship with the author of truth. 57:15 By beholding the One to whom the Bible points 57:18 we are changed into His likeness. 57:21 In John 14:6 Jesus says: 57:25 "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. 57:28 No one comes to the Father except through Me. " 57:32 That's why we're doing this series: 57:34 so you can develop a wonderful relationship 57:37 with the author of truth, Jesus Christ. 57:40 With your help, we can bring the truth to the world. 57:44 Please consider what you can do 57:46 for those who still don't know about Jesus. 57:49 As the Holy Spirit impresses, 57:51 you may send your tax-deductible gifts to: 58:05 Thank you for helping us to bring the Blessed Hope 58:08 to millions all around the world. |
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