Participants: Jim Ayer
Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR001050A
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00:11 some more music... 00:21 more music... 00:40 music continuing... 00:45 Picture of Jim Ayer... 00:47 3ABN On the Road, Australia. 01:01 I've titled this talk, "The Sand Eaters" 01:04 now, I wonder, can anybody guess what that's about? 01:07 The sand eaters... think about it a minute. 01:09 No takers, huh, how about the children of Israel 01:16 led out of Egypt, you remember that story, 01:19 God brings them out of Egypt, they're baptized in the Red Sea 01:23 and so there's an interesting analogy 01:26 led out of sin... justification, 01:30 they're baptized, and then, now it's time for... what? 01:34 what's the second half? Sanctification... 01:37 You can't have justification alone, 01:40 you've got to have them both, 01:42 justification and sanctification. 01:44 Now, it's God's turn to lead them through the wilderness 01:47 through the trials, the tribulations, the problems, 01:50 to build their character, to point them to God, 01:52 to enable Him to say, 01:55 "Look at me, I can take care of all of your situations" 01:58 But, unfortunately, you know, they got to one area 02:03 and said, "There's no water" 02:05 and they got to another area and said, "There's no food" 02:07 and then there was no water again 02:09 and then it was on and on and on and on... 02:11 and God finally said, 02:13 "These ten times, basically, 02:15 you've griped and complained to me" 02:17 God was keeping track, these ten times... 02:19 and you can go through and you can map out... 02:22 and find those ten times 02:24 when the children of Israel complained, 02:25 but then they get up to the borders of the "Promise Land" 02:30 and that's found in Numbers chapter 13, 02:33 if you turn there with me, 02:34 and it's just about time for me to stop today, I think, 02:43 that... 48 hours of being up is... 02:44 I almost forgot where Numbers was... 02:49 but Numbers chapter 13 and chapter 14, 02:53 the children of Israel are there at the borders 02:57 of the promised land, now it's a land God said 02:59 is flowing with milk and honey, so they send in spies, 03:03 spies go in, check out the land 03:05 40 days... they come back and I kind of envision as the 03:08 as a couple of them are coming up over the rise, 03:10 the kids say, "Look, look Mama, 03:12 look, look what they've got, look what they've got," 03:14 and here two guys have got a big pole between them 03:17 and one cluster of grapes, one cluster of grapes... 03:20 you ever thought about that, how big were these grapes? 03:23 I mean, these are monstrous, 03:25 that's kind of like... maybe in heaven we'll say, 03:27 "Hey, come on over to my house, we'll split a grape" 03:29 you know, huge... huge... 03:32 everything God had said about the land was true, 03:35 it was truly a land flowing with milk and honey. 03:39 But then, oh, oh, here's a problem, 03:42 verse 28 of chapter 13, 03:45 these words should never be in the Bible, 03:47 spoken by humans, nevertheless, 03:49 "The people be strong that dwell in the land, 03:51 and the cities are walled, and very great: 03:54 moreover, we saw the children of Anak there" 03:56 and they go on and on and on down to verse 31 03:59 "we be not able to go against the people; 04:01 for they're stronger than we. " 04:04 verse 33, "And we saw the giants, 04:06 the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: 04:09 we were in our own sight as grasshoppers... " 04:11 Oh, man! how sad... 04:15 "we were in our own sight as grasshoppers" 04:18 you see, they had an "eye problem" 04:20 they were looking at themselves 04:22 when they should have been looking at their God, 04:25 they should have been looking at the bigness of God 04:28 how big God was, and they complained so badly... 04:31 saying, "we wish we could go back to bondage" 04:34 we want to go back to sin, 04:36 we don't want to be out here under your protection God, 04:38 you can't protect us because these guys are giants 04:40 apparently, they were huge, 04:42 apparently... found a bedstead of one 04:44 over 13 feet long was the bed, 04:47 that's a pretty good-size guy you know, yeah, 13 feet... 04:51 he was as big as your ceiling, almost, you know, 04:54 but there's a narrative... turn forward with me 04:57 God finally says, 04:58 actually let me just finish up that one thought, 05:00 God finally says, "Go ahead, 05:02 wander around the desert for the next forty years 05:04 eat sand, right, if that's what you want, 05:07 go ahead, eat sand, your wish is fine. " 05:10 And then we find over in Joshua chapter 2, 05:14 the children of Israel again... the next generation, 05:17 they get up to the borders of the Promise Land again 05:20 and this time they send in spies and they go to Rahab's house 05:24 Rahab the prostitute, 05:25 I never could figure out why they picked a prostitute 05:28 except that... well, she's there 05:31 when all the men are going in and out all the time 05:33 a couple more guys aren't going to matter, right? 05:35 So they're undetectable, 05:37 now these two guys are ready to go to bed 05:39 they're on the top of the building, 05:41 and Rahab comes up and says, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, 05:44 wait a minute... before you go to sleep, 05:45 let me share something with you," 05:46 and look what she shares in chapter 2 and verse 9, 05:49 and she said unto the men, 05:51 "I know that the Lord hath given you the land" 05:54 who is this woman? A pagan prostitute. 05:58 "I know that the Lord has given you the land, 06:01 your terror is fallen on us 06:04 and all the inhabitants of the land faint, because of you. " 06:09 Down to verse 11, 06:11 "and as soon as we had heard these things... " what things? 06:13 the waters of the Red Sea drying up, 06:16 the kings being killed, when did that happen? 06:19 Forty years earlier, right? 06:20 "When we heard these things, our hearts did melt" 06:24 now the Hebrew there for melt is liquefied, 06:29 liquefied... these giants... 06:32 because of what they saw of God, their hearts were liquid. 06:36 How many of you... a 13-foot tall giant, 06:39 how many of you think he could fight 06:40 with a heart of liquid? Impossible right, 06:43 everybody agrees to that? it's impossible, 06:46 no matter how big the guy is if he's got a liquid heart 06:49 he can't fight, 06:51 God had already gone into the land and taken care of it, 06:54 if you don't believe me, go back here 06:56 just a verse or so here to chapter 1 verse 3, 07:04 chapter 1 of Joshua verse 3, 07:07 "Everywhere the soul of your feet shall tread... " 07:12 English Majors... what tense is that? 07:15 future tense, right? everywhere you're going to walk 07:22 future... in the future... 07:24 and then God says, "I have given you... " 07:28 what tense is that? Past tense... 07:31 look everybody... I've already been in the land, 07:34 I've already scared them half to death, 07:37 I've melted their hearts... you got the land. 07:40 All you have to do is go in and possess it. 07:44 That's it, in another place, 07:48 and please forgive me 07:50 today I forgot exactly where it is, in my thinking... 07:53 but God sits on the circle of the earth, 07:57 and everybody to him are like grasshoppers. 08:00 So, if everybody on planet earth 08:05 is like grasshoppers to God, 08:07 where does that put all the giants? 08:08 I would submit to you 08:11 that if you are on the shoulders of God, 08:13 there are no giants in the land 08:16 whatever supposed 08:19 "giant situation" 08:23 is occurring in your life... God is bigger, 08:26 whatever is happening in your life, 08:29 whatever is scaring you to death, 08:31 turn your focus and your eyes upon the bigness of God. 08:36 You don't have to be a sand eater 08:40 but it seems like we have been stuck in this rut 08:43 over and over and over, 08:45 it seems like it's a perpetual scenario 08:48 of God's people ad nauseam there is no doubt, 08:53 we know, around 1844, in that timeframe, 08:56 God was ready to come, 08:58 He was looking for His people to go into the Canaan land, 09:01 and then, in 1901, 09:05 He was ready to pour out the latter rain 09:09 looking for His people to go into the Canaan land, 09:12 and here we are, 104 years later, 09:15 and we are still here, 09:17 now, oh some that don't totally believe the Bible, 09:21 they go, "Oh, oh, you can't base anything on that, 09:25 you can't believe that, God comes in His own time 09:28 and His own time may be far into the future... " 09:32 well, it seems like I remember, God also predicts... 09:34 those who say that about the end days, 09:37 but you know around 1844, the Lord had a special Movement 09:46 in Daniel, you find that special Movement, 09:49 the time of the end, the Day of Atonement, 09:52 the day of judgment, but God's people got hung up 09:57 in the same way, as a matter of fact, 09:59 since you're not in the United States, 10:01 but I have a kind of a favor, I don't watch a lot 10:04 but a favorite football team, that's the San Francisco 49ers 10:07 Amen... 10:09 You're not just saying "Amen" Brother, 10:11 but the San Francisco 49ers... why, okay, you know, 10:17 how did they get their name? 10:18 From the Gold Rush... 10:20 From the Gold Rush, the 49er Gold Rush, 10:23 and everybody was rushing for Gold 10:26 and I would submit to you, that's what happened 10:28 to the Seventh-day Adventists in that area, 10:29 they began going after their own gold, 10:31 going after the Gold Rush too, I don't think... 10:34 I don't think it's happenstance in the book of Revelation, 10:38 the final church... 10:40 the final one of earth's history 10:42 happens to be Laodicea and the counsel to Laodicea is... 10:46 God says, "Buy of me, gold tried in the fire" 10:50 buy of God's gold, 10:53 don't look for the gold in the world, 10:54 don't look for the gold here, buy of God's gold, 10:58 but boy! the church just had problem after problem 11:01 and was just so hung up with 11:03 going after wealth and everything else, 11:06 and you know that... this young Movement, 11:09 the Seventh-day Adventist Church... 11:10 it was experiencing growing pains 11:12 we were discovering the situation 11:14 on the state of the dead, and by the way, 11:16 I've just got to share with you quickly, 11:20 I shared with you in another meeting 11:22 about the lady that was raised from the dead, 11:25 unfortunately, when we got home, all of a sudden I said, "Ah!" 11:31 you know we're flying so fast, we're filming so much, 11:32 and I thought, "I never interviewed that woman 11:34 and asked her what it was like to be dead... 11:37 coming back from the dead," 11:38 now, we know as good Seventh-day Adventists 11:41 and from the Bible, she wouldn't have had anything to say 11:43 but it would have been fun to have it on camera, wouldn't it? 11:45 Sometimes you just don't think quite quick enough, 11:50 but the church... the church was struggling with 11:53 some of these things and God was leading them, 11:56 it had growing pains, you think about this, 11:59 around that time in 1881, around that timeframe, 12:03 Wyatt Earp earth had the gun fight at the "O.K. Corral," 12:06 some of these different things were going on 12:09 it's interesting, sometimes, 12:12 when you begin putting all this together, 12:13 what was happening in the history of the world, 12:17 leading up to 1888, we hear a lot about 1888, 12:22 well, 1888 was the time period 12:24 that was in tremendous flux in the church 12:27 we had Jones and Waggoner 12:29 and they came up with the message of 12:31 "righteousness by faith" 12:32 the very message I shared with you this morning... 12:35 on that very message, but that target of 12:38 justification and sanctification and the church leadership 12:42 they were arguing back and forth about it, 12:44 some of the members said, 12:45 "We just got to have justification, that's it" 12:48 and other's said, "No, no, it's the whole package, 12:50 justification... sanctification... " 12:52 and G. I. Butler... Butler was coming up in the church 12:58 as the General Conference President... 12:59 well, he was a strong guy 13:01 and you had Uriah Smith, 13:03 Uriah Smith was writing on Revelation 13:05 and he was writing for the Review and Herald, 13:07 and then Jones and Waggoner, of all things... 13:09 they come up and say, "Oh the law in Galatians 13:12 is different... it's different," 13:13 and they were now controlling the Signs of the Times magazine 13:17 which was in California, 13:18 and you got Uriah Smith out in the East Coast, 13:21 and so they lobbed salvos at one another 13:24 these theological salvos, 13:26 from both sides, across the Country, 13:28 and Ellen White writes to them, and says, 13:30 "Quit it, stop airing our laundry before the public 13:33 this is not what God wants, God wants us to save souls 13:36 not all this in-fighting," it got so bad, 13:39 in one of the Ministerial Meetings, 13:41 they were also talking about the Huns and the Alemannias 13:44 they'd say... they'd meet him in the hall 13:46 and say, "Are you a Hun or an Alamannia?" 13:47 The ministers were focusing on all this stuff, 13:50 back and forth and back and forth, 13:53 you've got J. Harvey Kellogg of Kellogg's Cornflakes, 13:57 Kellogg... man! he had a huge institution 14:00 growing bigger and bigger, 14:01 Ellen White said, "You shouldn't grow it bigger, 14:03 you should split it up" he didn't want to 14:05 he wanted to get control of the church, 14:07 he had more health workers 14:08 than the entire denomination had pastors, 14:11 and he figured he could gain control, 14:12 so you had a situation where the three most powerful people 14:16 in the church, you've got the General Conference President, 14:19 and J. Harvey Kellogg, and Ellen White. 14:22 And what did they do about this time, 14:24 they sent Ellen White to the other side of the planet, 14:27 right here, "Get rid of the prophet, 14:30 we don't want her anymore, get rid of the prophet 14:32 so we can hassle and we can argue and we can fight... " 14:35 well, it's interesting that Ellen White said 14:43 that God did not want her to come here, 14:45 but, think about this, if you had been Ellen White, 14:50 you're the prophet for planet earth, 14:53 and the church sent you someplace else, 14:55 and you know God doesn't want you to go 14:57 but God will go ahead and let you wander in the desert, 15:00 what would you say? 15:02 I think I'd be tempted to say, 15:06 "Don't you know who I am? I'm God's prophet, 15:09 I'm the voice of God here on planet earth," 15:12 but she didn't say that, why? 15:15 If we would humble ourselves, be kind and courteous, 15:19 tenderhearted, pitiful, there'd be 100 conversions 15:23 to the truth where now there is... but one, 15:25 and she packed up her luggage 15:27 and she got on that six-month voyage to come here, 15:29 and while she was here, she wrote Desire of Ages 15:32 and Steps to Christ and Christ's Object Lessons, 15:36 so many wonderful books, 15:37 God did bless her in a mighty way, 15:39 and then she heads home 15:41 just before the 1901 General Conference Session, 15:45 and at that session still... before that session 15:50 everybody is fighting back and forth, 15:52 G. I. Butler had taken upon himself 15:55 to be the guardian of truth, and he is traveling everywhere 16:00 he's bad-mouthing Jones and Waggoner, 16:02 and Uriah Smith has joined with him, 16:04 and they're having this huge fight everywhere, 16:07 it's just continuum, and things aren't much better 16:11 here for Australia, because Ellen White had Prescott 16:15 and Prescott was making mighty, 16:18 mighty waves here in this country, 16:20 spiritual waves that people were loving Prescott, 16:23 and Ellen White writes to the... 16:25 oh and A. G. Daniells, of course, 16:27 was here as the President at that time, 16:29 he was loving what Prescott was doing too, 16:31 they wrote to the General Conference and said, 16:32 "We would love if you would allow Prescott to be here 16:36 and preach more meetings, 16:37 we don't think there's any reason for Camp Meetings here, 16:39 if he can't preach at these Camp Meetings 16:41 and be the one to raise up the work here," 16:43 the Brethren wrote back and said, "No, no... " 16:48 flat no... wow! 16:52 what do you do in these kinds of situations 16:56 well, she went back, 17:00 she continued to talk and labor with the Brethren 17:03 before the meetings and then 17:04 in the 1901 General Conference Session, 17:07 there was about... a total of 200 17:09 and I think it was 68 people that were there, 17:12 they came to that meeting and all of this turmoil, 17:17 all of this stuff... backbiting... 17:20 and everything else was going on... at that time, 17:24 and I'm going to share a video with you today, 17:27 I had a wonderful privilege of being a part of it, 17:30 I'm on the General Conference 17:32 Revival and Reformation Committee, 17:33 it's been a wonderful thing 17:35 we've been going... about five years now, 17:37 Elder Wilson appointed the committee 17:39 right after he was elected the first time, 17:41 and it's been... I think... a tremendous blessing 17:43 for a lot of people in the church, 17:45 and we said, "We want to get away 17:48 and have a weekend retreat, just to pray and study 17:51 and see what God's will is... " well, we did that, 17:53 we went up to... kind of Delaware there 17:56 and had a little hotel and a very quiet area, 18:00 and we invited Ron Clouzet to come up on Sabbath morning 18:05 to preach for us, the rest of the time 18:07 it was kind of more unstructured just pray and study together, 18:10 and Ron spent Friday with us, 18:13 and at the end of Friday, he said, 18:14 "Man, I threw away my sermon 18:17 I know this isn't what God wants me to preach" 18:19 so he spent almost all night, I think, 18:21 on Friday night, working on it, 18:23 Sabbath morning he began delivering that message, 18:25 and as he delivered it, he mentioned 1901, 18:27 I turned over to Jeanine, my wife, and said, 18:30 he's going to talk about "What might have been" 18:32 well, he touched on it briefly but then he continued on 18:35 but I couldn't get it out of my mind, 18:37 and at lunch, 18:39 I'm sitting with the GC Communications 18:41 and I said, "Williams, we need to do a video on this" 18:45 "Yeah," he said, "write a script" 18:46 "well," I said, "I don't want to write a script 18:48 unless Elder Wilson likes the idea, 18:50 I don't want to waste the time" 18:51 but, Elder Wilson was walking past the table 18:53 at that moment, we jumped up and we said, 18:55 "What do you think, what do you think about this?" 18:56 "Okay," he said, "write a script, do it," 18:58 so Saturday night, I went home, 19:00 worked for a couple of hours, 19:02 started writing on Sunday morning, 19:03 about 3:30 in the morning, wrote till 2 in the afternoon, 19:05 and I sent it to Elder Wilson and he wrote back and he said, 19:08 "Do it... get together with GC Communication... " 19:10 I got together with Communications on Monday, 19:12 they said, "We don't have time for that" 19:14 I said, "No problem, we can do it. " 19:15 The real short of all that is 19:19 by Thursday I was flying to California 19:21 when I landed, I had a fully approved budget 19:23 and a green light from the 19:25 General Conference Headquarters to get it done. 19:27 Well, I don't know if you know much about this 19:29 but the church does not work that fast, 19:31 it was totally a "God thing" and we saw miracles 19:37 as God led in the filming of this... 19:39 of this... in many ways 19:41 even... I'll tell you... one fellow, 19:43 a doctor... a friend of mine that was playing one part, 19:46 he was sitting next to an extra from this church that we used, 19:49 he is sitting there and they get to talking a little bit 19:53 and it was the doctor's brother 19:55 who had run this guy out of the church years ago, 19:57 he had been so mean and nasty to him, 19:59 he had run him out of the church and the doctor said, 20:02 "Well, when I apologize to you" he said, 20:05 "I'll be apologizing for my brother too" 20:08 and so, there were real things happening 20:11 while we were filming this, and many of them said, 20:14 we were in tears as we were filming, 20:16 as different parts... and many people... 20:18 you could feel the Holy Spirit moving in such a mighty way 20:21 so, I want to share this video with you now, 20:25 it's about 20 minutes that we're going to share 20:29 and then I want to talk with you just a little bit... 20:30 right afterwards, so... 20:32 we can bring the house lights down 20:34 and we'll share that video with you now. 20:38 Music playing... 20:44 Ellen White is writing on paper... 20:51 Ellen White writing some more... 20:57 Knock on the door... 21:03 Brother Irwin walking in... 21:08 Oh, Brother Irwin, you look troubled, 21:11 what could be weighing on your heart? 21:15 I am troubled, Brother Daniells, 21:22 the 34th session of the General Conference 21:24 begins tomorrow morning in Battle Creek, 21:27 it's 1901, Jesus still has not come, 21:31 I've been researching 21:36 some of the counsels from Sister White... 21:39 I could really be blessed if you'd share that with me. 21:43 It's very hard to believe, 21:45 "For forty years, the unbelief, murmuring and rebellion 21:51 shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. 21:56 In neither case were the promises of God at fault, 22:00 it is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration 22:04 and strife among the Lord's professed people, 22:08 that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow 22:11 for so many years. " 22:12 Well, the servant of the Lord is straightforward 22:16 concerning God's people, 22:17 unbelief, worldliness, unconsecration and strife... 22:24 this delay is our fault, well, my fault. 22:30 It is... let me share something I found that she wrote 22:36 just 36 months ago, 22:38 this one's really kind of shocking... 22:41 especially to me since it's during my term in office, 22:45 "Had the church of Christ done her appointed work 22:49 as the Lord ordained, 22:51 the whole world would have been warned, 22:55 the Lord Jesus would have come to earth 22:59 in power and great glory," 23:01 she wrote that 36 months ago during my term as President. 23:06 It is our fault. 23:09 We have let God down, my brother, 23:14 we as Leaders, have let God down. 23:18 We must humble ourselves, 23:21 we must become living examples of what a leader could be 23:26 when Jesus is in His heart, 23:28 I don't even know how to pray it anymore, 23:33 how can we beg God to shake away 23:39 this Laodicean slumber? 23:42 Oh, I could not agree more 23:45 I have been experiencing 23:48 the same burden of heart, as I perceive... you are, 23:52 let's seek God's help right now... 23:56 Together? Together... oh my Brother! 24:00 Lord of glory, you have been ready to come 24:07 for a very long time, 24:08 and yet you have been waiting for us, 24:13 please forgive us and help us as Leaders 24:18 to surrender all of self to you... 24:22 Yes Lord... 24:23 you know this sin lies at our door, 24:25 change us, help us... die the death of self 24:30 and live in you, 24:32 please take our lives today, amen. 24:38 Two Leaders walking up the stairs... 24:44 Brother Butler, 24:45 I feel that the Lord is going something wonderful among us, 24:49 I'm looking forward to this session 24:51 for months now, He has been speaking to my heart 24:55 through my private sessions of study and prayer. 24:58 I couldn't agree with you more Brother Haskell, 25:01 I sense His leading in my life 25:03 He's been revealing to me that although I believed I was humble 25:09 that's not the case, 25:10 I have been very arrogant, 25:13 He's leading me to die a a greater death to self 25:16 than ever before, 25:17 I cannot explain it but I know 25:20 that I must change dramatically. 25:22 Audience singing... 25:28 Worthy the lamb for He was slain. 25:37 Leader walking up to the pulpit... 25:47 sitting down... 25:51 Please join with me as I read a portion of Psalm 106 25:55 "We have sinned with our fathers, 26:01 we have committed iniquity, 26:03 we have done wickedly. 26:05 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; 26:09 they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; 26:13 but provoked him at the sea, 26:16 even at the Red sea. 26:18 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, 26:23 that he might make his mighty power to be known. 26:27 They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel: 26:34 But murmured in their tents, 26:37 and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. 26:41 Save us, O Lord our God, 26:47 and gather us from among the heathen, 26:50 to give thanks unto thy holy name, 26:53 and to triumph in thy praise. 26:57 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel 27:00 from everlasting to everlasting: 27:04 and let all the people say, Amen. 27:07 Praise ye the Lord. " 27:14 Leader sitting down... 27:19 Fellow believers, 27:24 please join me as we kneel for prayer. 27:27 Audience kneeling... 27:35 kneeling... 27:40 Lord, how desperately we need you, 27:43 we cannot continue as we have 27:46 we must learn humility before you, 27:49 teach us humility, I pray, 27:52 help us die to self and surrender all to thee 27:56 let us be led as little children by thy hand, 28:00 walk among us in these meetings, 28:03 help us put away all strife among us. 28:06 O holy Father, we pray for a manifestation 28:11 of thy power, we ask thee to forgive our sins 28:16 our neglect to follow as we should have... in the past 28:20 Lord, help us to follow in thine opening providence, 28:25 and understand the mind of thy Spirit, 28:27 In Jesus' name... come quickly 28:31 Amen... 28:37 Audience sitting... 28:44 The time has come for the opening 28:47 of the General Conference... the 34th Session of this Body. 28:53 I believe... this Conference will be the most important 28:58 ever held by the Seventh-day Adventist people. 29:02 Amen... 29:04 In light of the Scripture reading, 29:06 I believe that it is essential for each of us 29:11 to call on God for forgiveness 29:15 and to seek for the powerful presence 29:21 of the indwelling Holy Spirit in our lives, 29:27 please, today, seek God with all your being, 29:34 confess sins one to another, 29:38 and may we... during this Conference, 29:43 discover oneness of heart 29:46 may this Conference be a time 29:53 when we can truly be woven together... 29:59 in His grace... 30:02 Walking back to chair... 30:09 The light given me is that this people should stand higher 30:15 than any other people on the face of the earth, 30:19 we should be a loyal people... 30:23 a people who will rightly represent the truth 30:27 the sanctifying power of the truth, 30:32 revealed in our lives 30:35 will distinguish us from the world. 30:40 We should stand in moral dignity 30:44 having such a close connection to heaven 30:48 that the Lord God of Israel can give us a place in the earth 30:54 year after year... the same acknowledgement has been made, 31:03 but the principles which exalt a people 31:08 have not be woven into the work 31:11 God has given us clear light as to what we should do 31:18 and what we should not do 31:22 but we have departed from that light, 31:26 and it is a marvel to me 31:29 that we stand in as much prosperity as we do today 31:33 it is because of the great mercy of our God 31:39 not because of our righteousness but that His name 31:45 should not be dishonored in the world. 31:50 The Word of God should be our guide, 31:54 have you given heed to the Word? 31:59 My writings should in no way take the place of the Bible, 32:05 they are to bring you to that neglected Word, 32:08 that you may eat the words of Christ 32:12 that you might feed upon them 32:14 that by living faith you may be built up 32:19 upon that which you feed, 32:21 if you live in obedience to Christ's Word, 32:26 you are eating the leaves of the tree of life 32:30 that are for the healing of the nations. 32:34 Let us, right here, at this meeting 32:40 see that the converting power of God is essential 32:45 if we take hold of the Master, 32:50 take hold of all the power He has given us, 32:54 the salvation of God will be revealed. 33:00 Amen... 33:05 In the past, in the past... 33:12 I have not been in union with some of you, 33:15 and today I see myself more and more 33:20 as God must see me, for in His Word... 33:24 let's read together, 33:26 "Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods, 33:33 and have need of nothing... " 33:35 Oh my! in my self-sufficiency I have been just like that 33:44 "and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable 33:50 and poor and blind and naked... " 33:52 and I see that this is my condition... 33:58 not someone else's but mine... 34:01 "my eyes... " my eyes are being opened 34:07 my spirit has been harsh, 34:11 it has been unjust 34:14 and I had thought myself righteous... and yet... 34:20 today my heart is breaking 34:22 for I sense that I'm desperately in need 34:26 of the counsel of the one who has searched me 34:29 listen... "I counsel thee to buy of me 34:35 gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; 34:39 and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, 34:44 and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; 34:48 and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, 34:51 that thou mayest see. " 34:52 My Brother, please forgive me 35:02 I have made of your life a living hell! 35:07 Leader getting up... 35:14 I have been arrogant, it is my fault as well 35:19 please forgive me... 35:21 Hugging... 35:31 Brothers and Sisters, 35:33 we have received a great light from the Lord, 35:38 it is time we believe and walk in that light... 35:42 Amen... 35:44 We have something to do, we must repent of our sins 35:52 and humble our hearts before God, 35:56 I have found it difficult, as a Leader, 36:01 to detach from the clutches of the world 36:06 and to get rid of self... 36:14 there are so many eyes upon me 36:17 I know I must... please forgive my angry words 36:25 and my actions against you. 36:27 I do forgive you, but it is not just you 36:35 it has been me, my self-seeking, 36:40 I tried to influence others against you 36:45 can you ever forgive me? 36:48 We are brothers united in Christ, 36:52 the answer is "Yes," yes... 36:56 Amen... 37:03 music... 37:09 I must ask forgiveness of you, I am so very sorry, 37:14 you are my brother, 37:16 but I have not loved you as my own flesh and blood, 37:20 I must ask God to give me the love for you 37:23 that I profess for Christ. 37:25 Amen... 37:30 And I... I must fall in line with God's will and calling 37:36 forgive me my brother, 37:39 for talking behind you in Committee... 37:42 and behind your back 37:44 I cannot love Christ if I don't love you 37:49 I'm so sorry my brother, I'm so sorry... 37:55 Amen... 37:57 Blest be the tie that binds 38:03 our hearts in Christian love; 38:10 the fellowship of kindred minds 38:17 is like to that above. 38:25 Music... 38:34 Ellen, Ellen... 38:40 Where am I? 38:45 You are in a vision, 38:48 the Lord wanted to show you what might have been 38:52 what might have happened at the General Conference Session, 38:57 What I saw... wasn't real? 39:02 I'm afraid not... 39:04 The Father was ready to pour out His Spirit upon the assembly 39:09 and finish the work in this world and cut it short 39:13 in righteousness, 39:14 but the delegates would not humble themselves 39:17 had they... in humility of soul 39:21 led out in the work of confessing and consecration 39:25 giving evidence that they had received the 39:27 counsels and warnings sent by the Lord 39:30 to correct their mistakes, 39:31 there would have been one of the greatest revivals 39:35 that there has been since the day of Pentecost. 39:39 It never happened... 39:48 Ellen is crying... 39:57 Ellen White was heartbroken because I revealed to her 40:00 that within the past history 40:02 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church 40:04 God was ready to return to earth 40:06 and take His children home, 40:07 ending this long night of strife and sadness, 40:11 but like Israel of old, you refuse to enter Canaan, 40:15 you would not follow after God and trust in Him, 40:20 you became a rebellious people 40:23 the Lord's messenger has been witness to the glory of heaven 40:27 and has experienced the joy of walking with Jesus, 40:30 this is why her heart was broken. 40:34 Ellen crying... 40:43 What are the reasons? 40:45 You know, Ellen White said, "I've seen a better world 40:52 and it has spoiled this one for me... " 40:54 where are we looking 40:57 where are our eyes, are we happy? 41:00 Still eating sand in the desert? 41:04 Isn't it time to go home? 41:06 I'd like to invite everyone, if you could... to kneel... 41:10 and when we kneel, 41:12 I'd just like to ask a few people to pray. 41:15 And then, when everybody is done I'll close, 41:17 let's kneel. 41:22 Father, we're tired Lord, 41:30 and we've acted just like your children before, 41:35 we've been happy to just wander around, 41:42 we pray today Father, please, 41:45 make us willing to be made willing 41:47 take our hearts, Lord, for we cannot give them, 41:51 may this church here be a light on the hill, 41:57 Lord, may it spur revival in all of Australia 42:02 because you're shining through each and every person 42:06 because each and everyone here has made a commitment to you 42:09 above all else, please change us 42:15 we want to go home with you, please come quickly 42:19 in Jesus' name. Amen. |
Revised 2016-06-01