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00:49 Good evening.
00:51 Welcome to Pathways to Life. My name is Jim Hakes. 00:54 I'm the pastor of the Paradise Valley 00:56 Seventh-day Adventist Church, 00:57 which is the host facility for Pathways to Life 01:01 here in Phoenix with Pastor John Lomacang. 01:04 And I want to tell you, this being meeting number 14 of 15, 01:08 we are not winding down, we are coming to a crescendo. 01:13 And it is our prayer that each and every one, 01:15 whether it is here locally, or whether on 3ABN, 01:19 or watching through streaming video, 01:21 or Good News TV, or YouTube, 01:25 I hope you have been blessed 01:26 by each and every one of the different meetings 01:28 that you will be tonight as well 01:30 as Pastor Lomacang talks to us tonight about 01:34 "The Judgment Hour." 01:37 Before he does that though, our guest musician tonight 01:42 Mr. Lyndon Carriger is going to be leading us in some music 01:47 and we are going to be blessed 01:49 by all of the things that are happening. 01:52 And again we hope and pray 01:53 that you're whether out there on 01:57 watching on the television, 3ABN, or here locally 02:00 that each one receives a blessing from music 02:04 and from opening God's Word together. 02:07 But as our custom, before we invite them to come out 02:09 and to carry on with the things that are happening, 02:13 let's begin by asking God to bless us, shall we? 02:17 Gracious Heavenly Father, 02:19 we thank You for the privilege of 02:22 being able to come together and open our Bibles together. 02:24 And it is our prayer that everything that is said, 02:27 and everything that is sung, and everything that is played 02:32 would be to the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. 02:36 It is our prayer that You would fill this place 02:38 with Your Holy Spirit, with Your holy angels 02:41 and it is our prayer that we would be blessed 02:43 for being here together. 02:45 And we thank You, 02:46 for we ask it in Jesus' name, amen. 03:14 Day in and day out 03:18 Working hard and learning how to 03:24 Play the rules of this game 03:28 We know that while your hearts 03:31 Becomes so cold 03:37 You're selling out your soul 03:42 Reaching for 03:45 A temporary goal 03:51 But when you reach that final sunset 03:57 And you look into his eyes 04:01 Will the filling in your hearts rejoice 04:06 Or will it be your last goodbye 04:11 It would be the greatest tragedy 04:16 If you never realized 04:21 That what you own cannot compare 04:28 To eternal life 04:35 Oh, Lord 04:39 You finally arrived 04:44 Making lots of money 04:47 But there's emptiness inside 04:54 You're spending all your time 05:01 Trying to own very best 05:06 As if somehow the rest will fall in place 05:16 But when you reach the final sunset 05:21 And you look into His eyes 05:24 Will the filling in your hearts rejoice 05:30 Or will it be your last goodbye 05:35 It would be the greatest tragedy 05:40 If you never realized 05:45 That what you own 05:47 Cannot compare 05:53 But when you reach that final sunset 05:59 And the tears will lead your eyes 06:03 Will the filling in your heart rejoice 06:08 Or will be your last Your last goodbye 06:13 It would be the greatest tragedy 06:18 If you never realized 06:23 That what you own cannot compare 06:35 What you own it cannot compare 06:41 To eternal life 06:59 To eternal life 07:14 Can we say amen again? Amen. 07:17 Praise the Lord. Thank you so much, Lyndon. 07:20 That's what we want to avoid 07:23 getting to our final sunset 07:27 and realizing that it is our last goodbye. 07:30 Tonight, I want to invite you to bow your heads with me 07:33 as we unite with our audience from around the world 07:38 and ask for the Lord's presence to be here tonight 07:40 on a very sobering topic, 07:42 "The Judgment Hour." 07:44 Let us pray. 07:46 Loving Father in heaven, we thank You, Lord, 07:48 for the privilege and opportunity tonight 07:50 to open Your Word. 07:52 Send Your Holy Spirit, we ask into this place 07:57 that as we are moved by heavens' directive, 08:02 our hearts would be transformed and changed. 08:05 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 08:10 Tonight's message is The Judgment Hour. 08:14 John the Revelator calls the world to pause 08:19 on the timeline of prophecy, 08:22 as he proclaims to the world 08:24 that the long awaited hour of judgment has come. 08:29 You know whether we recognize it or not, 08:32 the judgment for the entire world 08:35 is soon to come. 08:37 And John from his secluded prison encampment 08:43 on the Island of Patmos 08:46 proclaims to the world these words tonight 08:49 that we read Revelation 14:7. 08:53 Tonight, if we could begin by reading this together. 08:55 The Bible says, "Saying with a..." 08:57 What kind of voice? 08:59 "Loud voice, 'Fear God and give glory to Him, 09:04 for the hour of His judgment has come 09:08 and worship Him and do..." 09:10 What? 09:11 "Worship Him who made heaven and earth, 09:15 the sea and the springs of water.'" 09:18 And then the Apostle Paul inserts into the words of John 09:23 this divine summons recorded in 2 Corinthians 09:28 with the words in 5:10. 09:31 "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, 09:38 that each one may receive the things done in the body, 09:42 according to what he has done, whether good or whether bad." 09:46 You know, so many people say we worship God in spirit. 09:50 But as we have discovered a few nights ago, 09:52 when we talked about health, the abundant life, 09:55 we must come to the realization that 09:57 worship is not just done as a spiritual act, 10:01 but worship is also a physical act. 10:04 And when you look at the way 10:06 the world today has abused the body, 10:09 you must come to the conclusion 10:11 that how we treat our body temple 10:15 is either an act of worship to the true God, 10:18 or a representation of worship to the wrong God. 10:22 And so when the Bible says, the things done in the body, 10:26 it is not saying that we should only worship the Lord 10:28 out of music, and out of singing, 10:31 and out of reading our Bibles, and out of witnessing, 10:34 but how we treat our body temples 10:37 is such a reflection of our relationship 10:41 between us and Jesus. 10:42 Can you say amen? 10:43 Not only that, when we come to the judgment, 10:45 we'll discover that the standard in the judgment 10:47 will not be based on our education, 10:50 our financial status, and neither our possessions, 10:54 but it will be based on the law of God, 10:56 the standard by which 10:58 the entire world will be judged. 11:01 Notice the words of Solomon the wise men when he said 11:04 in Ecclesiastes 12:13 and 14, 11:07 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: 11:11 Fear God..." 11:13 The very same words in Revelation 14, "Fear God..." 11:16 That is honor God, 11:17 recognize His sovereignty, fear God, 11:20 "And keep His commandments: 11:23 for this is the whole duty of man." 11:26 Why? 11:27 For God shall bring once again every work into judgment 11:33 with every secret thing, 11:34 whether it be good, or whether it be evil." 11:38 Now, those three passages that we just read, 11:41 when you think about the judgment, 11:44 it could be quite frightening, 11:46 because I don't know if anybody 11:48 that receives a summons from a court with joy. 11:51 Think about it. 11:53 When you get a letter from the IRS 11:55 or you get a summons from the local court, 11:57 if it's not to be on the jury, 11:59 you feel there's a sense of intrepidation? 12:02 What do I do? 12:03 The first thing, I need a lawyer? 12:05 Well, I'm going to tell you, the best lawyer to have 12:08 in light of the coming judgment is Jesus, 12:10 what do you say? 12:11 When we look at ourselves, we will find there's a fear 12:14 in looking forward to the judgment. 12:16 But when you know Jesus... 12:18 Let me say that again. 12:19 When you know Jesus, there is no fear. 12:23 When you look at yourself, you say, "How can I be saved?" 12:26 But when you look at Jesus, you say, 12:28 "How can I not be saved?" 12:31 That's why the writer of Hebrews says these words. 12:33 Isaiah 45:22, as a matter of fact. 12:36 Notice where we should look, the Lord says, look to who? 12:39 "Look to me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! 12:43 For I am God and..." What? 12:45 "There is no other." 12:47 I told you a couple of nights ago, 12:49 if you have any doubt about the existence of God 12:52 on one of your evenings here in Arizona, 12:54 or maybe if you have a dark place 12:56 where you live and around the world, 12:57 go to the desert and look up at the stars 13:00 where there is no doubt. 13:02 The heavens declare the glory of God. 13:04 Amen? 13:05 My wife and I 13:07 are what I might refer to as amateur astronomers. 13:11 But we love even if just through my iPad, 13:14 we love to look at stars. 13:16 One evening, I showed my wife a constellation 13:19 that was like 3522 light years away, 13:22 and she says, "How much is the light year?" 13:24 And I told her 186,000 miles per second 13:27 for an entire year, 365 days, 13:29 you travel that speed all year long, 13:31 that's one light year, 13:33 multiply that by 3520, and then we'll get there. 13:37 She said, "We'll never get there." 13:39 I said, "Oh, no, no, honey, we will get there." 13:41 Come on. Did you get it? 13:43 If in Jesus you receive eternal life, 13:45 we will have access 13:47 to God's playground. 13:52 But we got to look in the right direction. 13:53 I was reading the story once and doing some research about 13:56 the judgment scene in Roman court. 13:58 And I read in Revelation where the Lord says, 14:01 "I will give you a white stone and a new name on it." 14:04 And I thought what does that mean? 14:06 So I decided to look at some of the commentaries 14:08 and discover for myself why a white stone 14:10 and then the Lord reveal to me something beautiful 14:13 which gave me hope and the judgment. 14:15 You see when the jury 14:18 just like ours today, 12 and 12, 14:19 when the jury could not come to a verdict, 14:23 they would take a leather bag with a slit in the top of, 14:26 kind of like the price is right, 14:28 and drop two stones in the bag, 14:30 a white stone and a black stone, 14:33 and then it was up to the accused 14:36 to determine his own fate. 14:38 So standing before the court, 14:39 he would put his hand and the bag 14:42 with tremendous fear, knowing, 14:44 pulling out a white stone, he is exonerated, 14:48 pulling out the black stone, he will be executed. 14:51 Can you imagine the fear that will go through you on that? 14:55 But then his lawyer steps up, 14:57 his advocate steps up and says, "Wait a minute." 15:01 This is a rig court in favor of the saints. 15:03 "Wait a minute, 15:05 I'm going to give you a white stone 15:08 with a new name on it." 15:12 You'll get that on Tuesday. 15:15 He's in essence saying, 15:16 "Don't put your hand in the bag to determine your own fate. 15:20 Your fate is in my hands." 15:23 So he gives the accused a white stone and the accused 15:29 before the prosecutor of humanity says, 15:32 "White stone." 15:33 He's not only exonerated, but his name is changed. 15:37 I'll give you a white stone with a new name on it. 15:39 Meaning, 15:41 when we are forgiven, even our names are changed. 15:48 There's not going to be people in heaven 15:49 with their former criminal names. 15:51 That's why the Lord changed Saul's name to Paul. 15:55 He changed his name, his identity, and his mission. 15:58 That's why tonight I begin this presentation by saying, 16:01 we've got to change our focus in light of the judgment. 16:04 We've got to understand 16:05 where to look and where not to look. 16:07 Don't look in your mirror, look in your Bible. 16:10 Here's the Bible. 16:11 Hebrews 12:2, 16:12 "Looking unto Jesus, the Author, 16:15 He began your story and the Finisher..." 16:18 If you keep your eyes on Him, 16:19 He will end the work He began in us, 16:22 the finisher of our faith. 16:23 "Who for the joy that was set before us..." 16:26 Notice what he did in our behalf. 16:30 "Endured the cross, despising the shame." 16:33 When you pause, what that means is 16:36 He didn't care about the shame, He cared about us. 16:42 Some people will say, "I'm not going to do that. 16:44 That's shameful." 16:45 The Lord says, "No, I will do anything 16:47 regardless of the shame 16:48 because their freedom is more important to Me 16:51 than My shame," 16:52 despising the shame. 16:54 And the Bible says, "And He sat down 16:56 at the right hand of the throne of God." 16:58 He's now sitting in His place of royalty. 17:01 When we stand on the truth of God's Word, 17:03 there is no need to fear. 17:05 When we walk in the light of God's Word, 17:07 there is no need to fear. 17:09 And when we are covered by the righteousness of Jesus, 17:12 there is no need to fear. 17:15 Amen? Amen! 17:16 So there the judgment is coming. 17:18 But the question is, 17:19 is your advocate greater than your adversary? 17:24 Is Jehovah-Nissi greater than your nemesis? 17:28 Is the deliverer in your life greater than your prosecutor? 17:33 The answer to all those questions 17:34 is yes, yes, yes. 17:37 There is nobody greater, 17:39 there is nobody greater than Jehovah-Nissi, Jehovah-Rapha. 17:45 There is nobody greater than Jesus. 17:47 Come on, say amen. Amen. 17:48 Since you can get the Hebrew names, 17:50 there is nobody greater than 17:52 the one who went to the cross and died in our place. 17:54 That's why when I proclaim this message, 17:56 I lay the foundation. 17:58 I weave the power of Jesus all the way through it, 18:01 including His Word, 18:03 and I end on no other foundation 18:05 than the foundation of Jesus Christ. 18:08 But we are called in this hour, 18:10 not only to proclaim a judgment hour message to the world, 18:14 we are called to proclaim a judgment hour message 18:17 to the people of God. 18:19 Notice what the Bible says in Isaiah 58:1, 18:23 "Cry aloud, and spare not, lift up thy voice like a..." 18:26 What? 18:27 "Trumpet, shew my people there..." 18:29 What?" 18:30 Transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins." 18:34 Now, when you think about this, each one of us by faith, 18:37 each one of us is a member of the household of Jacob, 18:40 we are spiritual Israel. 18:44 So before we get to the sins of the household of Jacob, 18:47 let me introduce you to who Jacob is. 18:49 Jacob is the son of Esau, the brother, 18:52 sorry, the son of Isaac, the brother of Esau. 18:55 You know the story 18:57 he stole his brother's birthright, 19:01 and his greed for the seat of power 19:04 caused him to be on the run for his life. 19:08 And when he was on the run for his life, 19:10 the Lord did not allow Jacob to run anywhere 19:15 that the Lord could not reach him. 19:17 And the plan that God had for Jacob's life 19:22 was going to be fulfilled in spite of Jacob's character. 19:26 But God did not leave Jacob to his own demise. 19:31 He went after him, 19:33 and gave him an opportunity to repent, 19:36 and then he changed his name. 19:37 Notice the narrative 19:39 in the Book of Genesis 32:24 to 28, 19:43 "Then Jacob was left alone, 19:44 and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day." 19:49 Have you ever been on your knees 19:50 and wrestled with the Lord until the breaking of day? 19:54 Until you've done that, 19:55 you have not experienced what Jacob had experienced. 19:58 "Now when he saw that He did not prevail against him, 20:02 He touched the socket of his hip, 20:05 and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint 20:08 as He wrestled with him. 20:10 And He said, 20:12 'Let me go, for the day breaks.' 20:16 But he that is, Jacob said, 20:18 "I will not let you go unless you do..." 20:21 What? 20:23 "Unless you bless me." 20:24 Let me make a point here. 20:26 Some people let the Lord go just before the blessing comes. 20:32 It's on the way, but you can't wait. 20:35 He said, "I'm not going to let you go until." 20:38 You got to have or unless. 20:40 You got to have some untils and some unlesses 20:42 in your prayer life. 20:44 You got to pray and say, 20:46 "I'm not going to stop praying unless." 20:48 And you'll discover God, and His faithfulness, 20:51 and His love for us will take the unless and the until, 20:55 and turn it into a blessing." 20:58 But the Lord continues, so "He said to him, 21:01 'What is your name?'" 21:02 As this the Lord didn't know? 21:05 He said, "Jacob." 21:06 And He said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob." 21:10 You see, when God exonerates and forgives, 21:12 He changes our identity, 21:15 so that Jacob the deceiver is no longer known as a deceiver 21:19 but an overcomer. 21:21 "But Israel, your name shall no longer be called Jacob, 21:23 but Israel, for you have struggle 21:26 with God, and with men, and have done..." 21:29 What? 21:31 "And prevailed." 21:32 So the Lord blessed Jacob, and as time went on, 21:36 and Jacob was married. 21:37 He married Rachel. 21:39 Rachel is the daughter of Laban. 21:40 Laban was a man who was Syrian, he sold idols, and gods, 21:45 and as Rachel, you know the story, 21:47 when some of his gods were missing, 21:48 and Rachel had taken it, 21:51 she hid it, 21:53 and she was on the camel 21:55 and refused to get off the camel to confess to her dad 21:58 that she had stolen his own idols. 22:01 And when she married Jacob, 22:02 she brought the idols that were a part of 22:04 her dad's livelihood into their family. 22:09 But God having blessed Jacob, 22:12 preparing to multiply his seed 22:14 and cause them to be a great nation. 22:17 What kind of nation? A great nation. 22:20 He said to Jacob, "I met you in Bethel, I delivered you. 22:24 Now that you have a family, 22:26 I want to bless your family also. 22:28 But I want you to go to Bethel. 22:30 But there's something I need you to do, 22:32 as you go to Bethel 22:33 because I want your family to be in the place spiritually, 22:37 that they are prepared for the blessing." 22:40 I believe that God doesn't bless us 22:42 just because we want to be blessed. 22:44 But God wants us to be in the right place spiritually. 22:48 So that when the blessing comes, 22:50 our hearts and our minds 22:52 will be in harmony with God's will. 22:54 So the Lord gave instructions to Jacob and his household. 22:58 We read this in Genesis Chapter 35. 23:00 And by the way, as we discover the story, 23:02 we'll see what the sin of the house of Jacob was. 23:05 Notice very carefully. 23:08 "Then God said to Jacob," Genesis 35:1-3, 23:11 "Then God said to Jacob, 23:14 'Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, 23:16 and make an altar there to God, 23:18 who appeared to you when you fled 23:21 from the face of Esau your brother.' 23:24 And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, 23:27 'Put away the foreign gods that are among you..." 23:30 That's what Rachel brought into the marriage. 23:34 And he said, 23:35 "Purify yourselves, and change your garments. 23:39 Then let us arise and go to Bethel, 23:41 the house of God, 23:44 and I will make an altar there to God, 23:46 who answered me in the day of my distress 23:50 and has been with me in the way which I have gone.'" 23:55 So the question is, 23:57 what did Jacob's household understand him to mean? 24:00 What did Jacob's household 24:01 understand God's instructions to mean? 24:04 Remember, in preparation for this great blessing, 24:07 the Lord said, "There needs to be some changes in your life 24:09 before you go to Bethel." 24:11 So what did the family do? 24:12 Look at Genesis 35:4. 24:14 The Bible says, "So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods 24:18 which were in their hands, 24:20 and all the earrings which were in their ears, 24:23 and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree, 24:26 which was by..." 24:27 Where? 24:29 "Which was by Shechem." 24:30 In preparation 24:31 for the coming out of this Syrian household, 24:34 Rachel, a lifestyle she was accustomed to being raised, 24:38 but God is calling Jacob now to establish a new standard. 24:42 Follow me very carefully, 24:43 because this is the very same Jacob 24:46 who's going to eventually have 12 sons. 24:49 And by the way, 24:50 if he had only been patient, 24:52 God would have given him sons the way that God intended. 24:55 Amen? 24:57 Got to be patient, 24:58 because God will bring us to the place 25:00 where His plan will be fulfilled. 25:02 So God is establishing in Jacob's life 25:06 and for his people 25:07 that are yet to populate the earth a standard by which 25:11 they will be seen as a people connected to the Almighty God. 25:15 So now, 25:17 if God required Jacob and his family 25:20 to change the way that they presented themselves 25:22 before the Lord in order for them to be blessed. 25:25 Do you think that God will call His people in the last days, 25:29 spiritual Israel to present themselves 25:31 before the Lord the very same way? 25:34 Amen? Amen. 25:36 And so, so these stories are included in the Bible. 25:38 These accounts are included there, 25:40 so that the people of God who are getting ready 25:44 to inherit spiritual New Jerusalem, 25:49 we're getting ready to go in 25:51 and God is calling us out of the practices of the past. 25:55 So allow me to introduce you to 25:57 one of the most ignored commandments of all time, 26:01 the third commandment. 26:02 The Bible says in Exodus 20:3, 26:05 together, "You shall have..." 26:07 What? "No other gods before Me." 26:11 A few nights ago when we talked about the Sabbath commandment, 26:13 the fourth commandment, 26:14 notice the parallels in the scripture. 26:16 And there are some parallels. 26:17 When you study the scriptures, you begin to see them come out. 26:20 They just... The Lord allows them to glow. 26:23 One of those is the Sabbath command 26:25 or the fourth commandment answers the question, 26:28 "Who is your God?" 26:30 Follow me carefully? 26:31 Not what day do you want to worship on? 26:35 You follow? 26:36 If God is your God, 26:37 then the Bible says in Exodus 20:10, 26:41 "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord, your God." 26:46 So the Lord has already picked a day 26:47 so when you answer the question, 26:49 "Who is your God?" 26:50 Then the day is already clearly established. 26:53 Am I right? 26:54 But the third commandment answers the question. 26:58 Follow carefully, 26:59 "Who is your God about the Sabbath?" 27:01 The third commandment asks us the question, 27:02 "What is your God?" 27:06 Did you get that? 27:09 Who is your God? 27:11 What is your God? 27:12 And when you follow 27:14 the history of the nation's that surrounded Israel, 27:17 you had the Amalekites, the Hittites, the Jebusites, 27:19 the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Midianites, 27:23 the Ishmaelites. 27:24 The life that the nations that surrounded Israel 27:27 lived was quite different 27:30 than the nations that worship to the true God. 27:33 And by the way, 27:34 as the Sabbath was violated thousands of years ago, 27:39 God is calling us people today to restore the Sabbath. 27:42 Amen? Amen. 27:43 But in the very same way 27:45 as the nations that surrounded the people of God years ago 27:48 did not acknowledged the true God, 27:50 they worshiped the sun, the moon, the stars, 27:52 and that's still happening today. 27:54 My wife and I were in India not too long ago. 27:56 And as I mentioned, a few nights ago, 27:58 we had to take our shoes off 28:00 as we walked into a Buddhist temple. 28:04 And then when I went to church on Sabbath, 28:06 they said to me, "Take off your shoes." 28:08 I said, "Well, do we take our shoes off 28:11 in our church, too?" 28:12 And listen what they said, 28:14 if just in case you were not here. 28:16 They said, "If the Buddhists require you 28:19 to take off your shoes to a false god, 28:23 how much more should we remove our sandals 28:26 in the presence of a true God?" 28:27 Amen everybody? 28:28 Thus the Lord said to Moses, 28:30 "Take your shoes off your feet, 28:31 for the ground upon which you stand is what? 28:33 Holy ground. 28:35 And so in the very same way, when we talked about 28:37 a few nights ago about abundant health. 28:40 Now, I mentioned to you, 28:41 you saw that picture of the little mouse. 28:42 Remember the little mouse, nobody would want. 28:45 Nobody wants a mouse for dinner. 28:49 But in some countries, a mouse is a delicacy. 28:56 God calls us not to a little pork, 28:59 but no pork, right? 29:01 Not a little bit of shrimp, but no shrimp. 29:04 Not a little bit of alcohol, but no alcohol. 29:07 It was not about moderation, it was about abstinence. 29:11 And when you study the history of the nations 29:13 from antiquity to the very day in which we live, 29:16 you'll discover that the practices of adornment 29:18 was very prevalent in Jacob's day 29:21 and it's prevalent in our day. 29:23 I was in Wisconsin at Camp Wokanda 29:25 a number of years ago. 29:27 And I met a young lady 29:29 who came to the camp meeting with her friend, 29:31 was an Adventist young lady, and she said after the sermon. 29:34 She said, "I want to meet you. I want to talk to you." 29:37 And then she said, "Well, maybe she does or maybe she doesn't." 29:40 Well, let me see if she does. Well, I'm not sure. 29:43 And I said, 29:44 "What's the vacillation all about?" 29:46 She said, "Well, you know, 29:47 I don't know if she has on her protection." 29:50 I said, "Protection against me. 29:54 I'm just the preacher." 29:55 She said, "No, no, she's Wiccan. 29:58 And she has to wear her protection 29:59 because she has her allegiance to other gods. 30:03 So these gods that she has with her will protect her 30:06 if there's anything about this camp meeting 30:09 that's not in harmony with her beliefs." 30:10 And I thought that's unusual. 30:12 And then I began to study years ago, and notice these, 30:15 these are the practices of the gods 30:17 of other nations and other people 30:18 that do not honor the true God. 30:21 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 30:22 Here you have 30:24 a rainbow moonstone triple goddess necklace. 30:26 This is what the Wiccan wear today. 30:28 They still wear this today 30:30 because they honor the planets, the stars, 30:33 they honor those things 30:34 that are not connected to the true God. 30:37 You find further, 30:39 this is the angelic chain for healing and protection. 30:42 Once again, a form of Wiccan jewelry, 30:43 and if you go to their website, 30:45 it's hundreds of different styles, 30:48 all fashioned for the worship to the gods that they honor. 30:52 Let's go further. 30:53 This is another Wiccan jewelry, 30:54 the solar cross of essence pendant. 30:56 Notice, it draws energy from the sun, really? 31:01 Which gives you power and drive 31:04 while the runes provide you 31:07 with wisdom, clarity, and focus. 31:09 Can I make a point? 31:11 Only God can provide you 31:12 with wisdom, clarity, and focus. 31:15 If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God. 31:18 But this is what the Lord was preventing 31:21 Jacob and his household, 31:22 the line that he was choosing them not to go down. 31:25 Follow me carefully. 31:26 Let's go on. 31:28 Today, you have body piercing, 31:30 the same practices that were planted in Jacob's day 31:33 and there are plethora of scriptures in the Bible. 31:35 For example, the Midianites, 31:37 when the Midianites were overrun by the Israelites 31:40 the request was 31:41 bring all the plunder of the Midianites. 31:43 And the Bible said, 31:44 "The Midianite men wore earrings 31:46 because they were Midianites, 31:47 but the Israelite men did not." 31:50 What about male body piercing? 31:52 I tried to be conservative 31:55 because I tell you, 31:56 you've seen the extreme cases, haven't you? 31:59 But why is this not in harmony with God's Word? 32:02 Because the body is God's temple. 32:04 Amen somebody? Amen! 32:06 Not just the inside but also the outside. 32:11 Let's go on. 32:13 You find in the Egyptian jewelry, 32:15 Egyptian goddess of magic, fertility, 32:17 and motherhood necklace. 32:18 You wear that, that's what you're supposed to get. 32:20 Fertility and magic. 32:22 And they believe that to this very day, 32:24 this is being sold today. 32:26 Also the Egyptian Eye of Horus necklace, 32:28 Eye of Ra goddess necklace, 32:30 these are purchasable today 32:32 because they don't recognize the true God. 32:35 So whenever the children of Israel 32:36 participated in the practices of the surrounding nations, 32:40 the Lord always said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, 32:42 your body is My temple." 32:43 What fellowship Paul says 32:45 does the temple of God have with idols? 32:50 Not only Old Testament but the New Testament. 32:51 Let's look at a quotation from this very one of organizations, 32:56 "Protecting and power amulets, symbols 32:58 meaning inherited from pagans. 33:00 Pagans believed in more than one god. 33:03 Paganism exploded monotheism, worshiping of one God. 33:07 Paganism used many symbols, slavic runes 33:10 to reveal their relation to natural and divine powers, 33:14 to the exterior world, to other people, and animals." 33:18 They communicate with animals. 33:22 Symbols were an essential part of pagan culture and rituals. 33:27 Ancient pagans used symbols 33:28 not only in religion and rituals, 33:31 the symbols were widely used in pagan's 33:33 jewelry representing spiritual connection 33:37 of physical body, human soul, and external spirits. 33:43 Continuing, 33:44 pagans worshiped various gods, 33:47 nature power, and wore protection amulets 33:50 to get safeguarded by divine and nature forces." 33:56 When I found this only then that I understand 33:59 what this young lady meant in Wisconsin, when she said, 34:02 "The young lady that wants to meet you is not sure 34:05 because she needs to have her protection." 34:08 When you think about God leading His children 34:10 out of Egypt. 34:13 After Jacob had all of his sons, 34:16 and they went into the land of Egypt 34:18 and were slaves there 400 years, 34:21 if you count when Joseph went there, 430. 34:25 Once again, when we talked about diet, 34:28 the Israelites took on the diet of the Egyptians, 34:30 and God called them and before they got to Sinai 34:33 to receive the commandments. 34:35 One of the first things he did was 34:36 he changed their diet, remember that. 34:39 He gave them... What did He give them to eat? 34:41 Manna. 34:43 And those who adjusted to God's way of eating, 34:47 continued healthfully in the journey. 34:48 But those who didn't, the Bible says, 34:50 they died with the flesh in their teeth. 34:52 God wants us to be healthy. Amen? 34:54 I mean, look at me, I'm 93 years old, 34:55 don't I look good at for my age? 34:58 Honesty, I'm really not, 34:59 but you keep asking how old I am, 35:00 I'm not going to tell you. 35:03 But when the Israelites came out of the Egypt, 35:04 notice what happened, 35:06 as Moses is in the mountain receiving the commandments, 35:08 and he stays there for 40 days, Aaron, 35:12 under the urging of the mixed multitude 35:15 that came out of Egypt with Israel, 35:17 notice what they encouraged him to do, 35:19 and he acquiesced. 35:21 Exodus 32:2 to 4. 35:23 "And Aaron said to them, 'Break off the golden earrings 35:25 which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, 35:28 and your daughters, and bring them to me.'" 35:30 So it's not unusual today for men and boys to wear it 35:32 because it's a common practice. 35:34 It may be new in America by a couple of decades, 35:37 but it's not unusual. 35:39 Verse 3. 35:40 "So all the people broke off the golden earrings 35:42 which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron." 35:44 And what did he do? 35:46 "And he received the gold from their hand, 35:49 and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, 35:52 and made a..." 35:53 What? "Molded calf. 35:56 And then he said, 35:58 'This is your god, O Israel, 35:59 that brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" 36:04 Now get this, 36:06 they were crying for God to bring them out. 36:10 He brought them out with a mighty hand. 36:14 Amen. 36:16 They are in the wilderness, 36:18 but the challenge was not just 36:22 getting Israel out of Egypt 36:25 but getting Egypt out of Israel. 36:31 Do you see that? 36:32 I know that because when I started coming to church, 36:35 when I was a teenager, my wife can attest to this, 36:38 when I finally gave up my music 36:40 or when I said, "Lord, forgive me. 36:43 Lord, I'm not going to do that anymore in the music world." 36:46 I come to church and somebody say, 36:50 "I have a party tonight, 36:51 would you disc jockey for my party?" 36:53 And I said, "Okay, just one more time." 36:55 No, really. Hear me carefully. 36:57 And it took me a while 36:58 before I broke away from the Egypt, 37:01 I was in Israel 37:02 but in my mind I was still in Egypt, 37:05 until one day my wife and I as we were dating 37:08 almost lost our lives in a car accident 37:10 and that was the dividing line between me 37:12 getting rid of the life I lived 37:15 and beginning the life the Lord wanted me to live. 37:17 And God has a sense of humor because the very first, 37:19 I got rid of all my 400 records, 37:21 all my albums, my pool stick, my boom box, 37:24 all the things of the world. 37:26 And the very first album that I got that was Christian 37:29 was a Heritage Singers album. 37:32 God has a sense of humor, don't He? 37:34 Because I ended up becoming a Heritage Singer. 37:37 So God was given me a glimpse, and get this, 37:40 when you are willing, when you are what? 37:42 When you're willing, 37:43 God gives you a glimpse of what you can have, 37:47 compared to what you think you have. 37:53 When Aaron led the Israelites and the mix multitudes 37:56 into worshiping the wrong God, 37:58 Moses receive instruction from God. 38:01 God said to Moses, "Something's going on." 38:04 And the Lord said to Moses, Exodus 32:7. 38:06 "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Go, get down! For your people 38:09 whom you brought out.'" 38:11 He said, "I don't know who they are." 38:13 Whom you brought out. 38:14 You ever do that when your kids are bad, 38:16 "Go get your son." 38:18 That's the inference here. 38:19 "Whom you brought out of the land of Egypt 38:21 have corrupted themselves." 38:24 And Moses returned to the Lord and said, 38:25 'Oh, these people have committed a great sin," 38:28 Exodus 32:31, 38:29 "and have made for themselves a god of gold!'" 38:33 Let me tell you, brothers, 38:34 the closer we get to the promised land, 38:36 the more of these practices 38:37 will be repeated in the last days, 38:39 but they should not be named among the people of God. 38:42 Amen? 38:43 So what did the Lord tell Moses to do? 38:46 Exodus 33:5 and 6. 38:48 "For the Lord had said to Moses, 38:50 'Say to the children of Israel, you are a stiff-necked people. 38:54 I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. 38:58 Now therefore,' God's instruction, 39:01 'take off your ornaments, 39:02 that I may know what to do to you.'" 39:05 Until they did that they had no identity, 39:07 they lost their identity in the wilderness. 39:11 You couldn't tell the difference between 39:12 an Israelite and a Midianite. 39:15 "I can't do anything until you revert to ways 39:19 to the way of life that is in harmony with My will." 39:23 And so what did they do? 39:24 So the children of Israel did what? 39:27 They did what? 39:28 When you strip something, 39:30 it doesn't mean you took up just a little bit up, 39:32 they strip themselves of their ornaments 39:35 bound by Mount Horeb. 39:37 They took it all off. 39:39 But what spirit did they have? 39:42 Follow me carefully because, you know what? 39:44 I learned this very carefully. 39:46 You can take leaves off a tree 39:51 but if the tree does not change its nature, 39:54 those leaves are going to grow back. 39:56 Are you following me? 39:58 Somebody could say, 39:59 "Take off your earrings, take off your jewels," 40:01 but, you know what? 40:02 If your heart is not changed, it doesn't make a difference 40:06 because there are some people without it that are corrupt, 40:08 there are some people with it that are not corrupt 40:11 but when you are lining your life up 40:13 with God's standard, 40:16 there's a heart change that God is looking for 40:19 rather than a garment change alone 40:23 because some people don't dress that way, 40:24 but they're corrupt, 40:26 and some people dress that way, 40:27 but they don't even know the difference. 40:29 So what God is in essence saying here, 40:31 "The thing that matters before the change happens 40:34 is the condition of the heart." 40:36 Notice how the scriptures emphasize this. 40:38 Exodus 33:22. 40:40 "They came, both men and women, 40:44 as many as had a..." 40:46 What kind of heart? 40:48 "Willing heart." 40:51 Praise God for willing hearts. 40:53 And what did they do? 40:55 "And brought earrings and nose rings, 40:58 rings and necklaces, 41:01 all jewelry of gold, that is, 41:04 every man who made an offering of gold to the Lord." 41:07 And this happened during the time, 41:09 when they made an appeal 41:11 because they were getting ready to build the temple of God. 41:14 So they made the appeals 41:16 first in the categories of what they needed 41:18 so they started with gold, and then with silver, 41:20 and then with wood, and then with stone. 41:22 And so whoever had these articles, 41:24 all of them that had it that brought it out of Egypt 41:28 came and gave it as the temple preparation, 41:31 the portable tabernacle, that was being built, 41:34 all the articles of furniture. 41:36 When you study the Bible very carefully, 41:37 you discover that when the Israelites left Egypt, 41:41 they were slaves in Egypt. 41:43 The first thing the Lord did was 41:44 He gave them all the wealth of Egypt, 41:48 when they left Egypt, Egypt was broke 41:51 because God said, "Take all the articles of gold, 41:54 all the articles of silver, 41:56 all the change of clothing, 41:59 leave Egypt broke." 42:02 But the Lord never told them to wear it. 42:06 He said, "I need this for the building of my temple." 42:09 But they said, 42:11 "I like that." 42:13 And before along, they began to... 42:16 Remember the song years ago, 42:17 they began to walk like an Egyptian. 42:23 I know, I was there. 42:25 That's why the Bible says these words 42:27 in the writings of the Apostle Paul. 42:30 Romans 12:1 to 2. 42:31 "I beseech you." 42:33 You know what the word beseech means, 42:34 I beg you. 42:36 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the..." 42:38 What? "Mercies." 42:40 Notice, not by the fear or anger of God 42:43 but, "By the mercies of God, that you..." 42:47 Do what? 42:48 "Present your bodies as a..." What? 42:50 "Living sacrifice..." How? 42:54 "Holy, acceptable to God, 42:57 which is your reasonable service." 42:59 I love the way the NIV says it, it says, 43:02 "Which is your spiritual act of worship? 43:05 And verse 2. 43:07 Very important because the world today will mold you, 43:10 the world today is like a crooked river, 43:12 just get into your raft, 43:13 and it will take you wherever it wants you to go. 43:16 But you got to think differently. 43:17 Notice the Bible says this, verse 2 of Romans 12. 43:20 "And do not be conformed to..." What world? 43:23 "This world, but be transformed by..." 43:26 How? "The renewing..." 43:28 You got to think differently, the renewing of your mind, 43:32 in your entertainment, in your music, 43:35 in the way you choose to dress 43:40 because the world today... 43:43 I said a few nights ago, sometimes... 43:45 And one young man told me, 43:47 I don't want to tell you where it was, 43:48 but one young man told me, I was down in Miami, Florida. 43:51 And he came to me... 43:52 Let me finish this text, and I'll tell you the story. 43:56 "By the renewing of your mind, that you may prove 43:58 what is that good and acceptable 44:01 and perfect will of God." 44:04 Only when your mind is renewed 44:06 and you do not conform to the ways of the world. 44:10 The Lord says, "Ah, now you can show the world 44:12 what is that good and acceptable 44:14 and perfect will of God." 44:16 But my wife and I had been to more than 61 countries, 44:18 and we have seen the church going through a metamorphosis, 44:22 the Adventist church going through a metamorphosis, 44:25 and I thought to myself, "This is very ironic, 44:28 this is really... 44:29 Are you ready? 44:30 Open your ears, here we go. 44:33 When people become Adventists, 44:34 they say, "You know, in my church, 44:35 I never hear about the Fourth Commandment." 44:37 That's those who come out of the First Day Church. 44:39 They say, "I never heard about the Fourth Commandment." 44:41 And I thought we have our own irony 44:44 in the Adventists church 44:45 you don't hear about the Third Commandment. 44:48 "Thou shall have no other gods before Me." 44:51 Isn't it ironic? 44:53 There's nothing wrong with the Ten Commandments of God. 44:56 We leave the third one out, 44:58 First Day pastors leave the fourth one out. 45:00 Ironic? 45:02 No because James knows 45:04 that he that violates it in one point 45:07 is guilty of how much of it? 45:09 All! 45:10 And you've got to remember, guilty of it all, 45:12 and you have to remember, we're living in the last days, 45:14 if the devil wants nothing more, 45:16 he wants to lead us down a path of mediocrity. 45:21 But let's determine not to meander 45:23 in the maze of mediocrity, 45:25 or ponder at the pool of popularity, 45:27 or negotiate at the table of the enemy. 45:29 Come on somebody say amen. Amen. 45:31 You got to be willing. 45:33 The Bible says, Isaiah 1:19 and 20. 45:35 Notice the blessing of willingness. 45:37 "If you are willing and..." What? "Obedient..." 45:40 Things that are often overlooked. 45:42 "You shall eat the good of the land." 45:44 How many of you look forward 45:46 to eating of the good of the land one day? 45:48 I sure do. You'll eat of the good of land. 45:50 "But if you refuse and rebel, 45:51 you shall be devoured by the sword.' 45:53 For the mouth of the Lord has..." What? 45:55 "He has spoken." 45:57 So what the Lord told Moses to tell pharaoh? 46:02 Today, 46:04 pharaoh of Egypt is Satan today. 46:09 The devil doesn't want to let us go, 46:10 you know why? 46:11 Because until he lets us go, we cannot serve God. 46:16 "Tell pharaoh." 46:18 Exodus 8:1. 46:20 "And the Lord spoke to Moses, 'Go to pharaoh and say to him, 46:23 'Thus says the Lord: 46:24 'Let My people go, that they may do...What? 46:28 "That they serve Me.'" Let me make a point. 46:30 Until the world no longer holds us, 46:34 we cannot really effectively serve God. 46:37 When our hearts are divided between, 46:39 "Should I live this way? Should I dress this way? 46:43 Should this be my entertainment? 46:44 Should this be my music? Should I watch that? 46:47 Should I go to these places?" 46:50 And then we live that way during the week, 46:52 and we try to come to church on Sabbath morning 46:53 and find spiritual interest, and what happens? 46:56 Laodicea. 46:58 And we wonder why the church is dying. 47:00 Let me tell you something. 47:01 Don't take your adversary for granted. 47:05 What the Bible says, Joshua 24:15. 47:08 We've got to think logically. 47:10 I chose what I call a smart looking gentleman 47:12 to put in this picture, you know why? 47:14 Because you have to be smart 47:15 to make a decision about eternity. 47:18 Don't leave your decision in somebody else's hand, 47:20 it has to be your decision. 47:21 And I love what Joshua 24:15 says. 47:23 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord... 47:26 Can you imagine that? 47:28 Evil, 47:30 that's why we should never ask the question, 47:32 "What do I have to give up to join your church?" 47:34 "What do you have to give up, you've got to give up hell." 47:38 Amen. 47:40 You've got to give up the lake of fire. 47:42 The way some people live, they need fire insurance... 47:49 Because they think it's evil to serve God, why? 47:51 Because the heart is messed up, this world has messed us up. 47:56 We live in it, we operate in it, 47:57 we go to the malls, 47:59 we see stuff that messes us up for the next two days, 48:02 just in the mall. 48:05 "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, 48:07 choose for yourselves..." When? 48:09 "This day whom you will serve..." 48:11 And look at the comparison. 48:13 "Whether the gods 48:16 which your fathers served 48:17 that were on the other side of the River." 48:20 Brethren, it's too late 48:21 to go back to the other side of the river, 48:22 what do you say? 48:24 We're on this side, we're on the Canaan side. 48:27 "Or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell." 48:31 Together. 48:32 "But as for me and my house, we will..." 48:36 Do what? "Serve the Lord." 48:38 That's got to be your decision. Nobody else's. 48:41 In this closing hour, 48:42 in this judgment hour, we don't... 48:44 You know, I could tell you the dates of 48:46 when the judgment began, 48:47 and how it happened in 1844 48:49 but that's the least of your issue, 48:51 the issue is how do we live in light of the judgment? 48:55 How should we stand before a holy God 48:57 in an unholy and corrupt world? 49:00 We got to examine ourselves and say, "Lord, help me." 49:03 "He that has this hope in himself, purifies himself, 49:07 even as he has is pure." 49:09 That's why Deuteronomy makes this statement. 49:11 Deuteronomy 30:19. 49:13 "I call, I call heaven and earth 49:14 as witnesses today against you, 49:17 that I have set before you..." What? 49:19 "Life and death, blessing and cursing, 49:21 therefore," together, "choose life, 49:25 that both you and your descendants may live." 49:27 I want to live. Anybody else? 49:31 And some people say, "Well, it doesn't matter." 49:32 Let me tell you something. 49:33 When you're on your hospital bed, 49:35 I don't know of anybody that says, "I'd like to die sooner." 49:38 Now think about it. 49:40 It's not even a point of the hilarity, 49:42 nobody wants to die. 49:43 But the way some of us live is like 49:46 we don't think about death 49:47 until it's knocking on our doors. 49:51 Let's think about living for God 49:52 and giving Him the best of our lives, 49:54 not just giving Him what's left. 50:00 That's why no matter where you stand with the Lord, 50:03 if you turn your heart to God, 50:05 He will accept you and love you 50:07 and bring you to the point of redemption, 50:09 and He will change you and cover your sin 50:11 and make you a son and daughter of eternity 50:13 and forgive you and get you ready for golden streets. 50:17 Think about it. 50:18 You want the gold here or here? 50:23 God ain't taking anybody to heaven 50:24 with a chisel and an axe 50:25 to start chopping up heaven to wear it. 50:28 Think about it. 50:29 Walk through the gates of pearl, 50:31 I'd like those. 50:33 No, that's God's asphalt, 50:35 leave it alone. 50:37 That's why the Bible says today 50:38 here is what He's calling us to do 50:39 on these closing hours of the judgment. 50:41 1 John 1:9 together. 50:43 "If we..." What? 50:44 "Confess our sins, 50:45 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to... 50:48 Do what? "Cleanse us from..." How much? 50:51 "All unrighteousness." 50:52 But you got to come to the place 50:54 where you realize that this is not an edict, 50:57 but this is for our best good. 51:02 I don't want to miss out on that party. 51:06 As I said, I don't care where I... 51:07 I don't care if I have a mansion in heaven, 51:09 give me a sleeping bag, I'll be just fine. 51:13 Anybody else? Amen. 51:14 The mission of Jesus hasn't changed. 51:16 Matthew 1:21 hasn't changed. 51:19 "And she will bring forth a Son, 51:20 and you shall call His name Jesus..." 51:23 What will He do for us? 51:25 "For He will save His people 51:30 from their sins." 51:32 Jeremiah says it so beautifully. 51:35 I love the words of Jeremiah 33:16. 51:38 "In those days Judah will be saved, 51:40 and Jerusalem will dwell safely. 51:43 And this is the name by which she will be called..." 51:47 Come on, church, together. 51:49 "The Lord our righteousness." 51:52 Let me make a point very clear. 51:53 You can change the way you dress 51:55 and you're still ain't righteous. 51:59 The Lord doesn't just want to change the way you dress, 52:01 He wants to change your heart. 52:04 When the heart is changed, it will follow. 52:07 If I picked the oranges off of an orange tree 52:10 and it's still an orange tree, they're going to come back. 52:13 What God is asking for you tonight 52:14 is ask yourself the question, 52:16 what side of the resurrection do you want to get up on, 52:21 and is your god is more important than your God? 52:28 "Tell me what to give up, Lord, and I'll give it up 52:31 as long as I'm not left out of that final call for eternity." 52:36 Anybody else? 52:38 That's why this is the most potent passage. 52:41 And I'm going to invite Lyndon to come here in a moment. 52:43 Come on, Lyndon, right now 52:44 and begin to play softly this to me, 52:46 it's the most... 52:47 One of the most potent God loving passages in the Bible. 52:51 You know, I thought about this 52:53 and sometimes God takes us to those places 52:55 that we hit a snag in our walk with God. 52:58 Have you hit a snag? 53:00 Have you ever got to the place where you felt, 53:02 "Man, I've been Adventist all my life, 53:04 it just, kind of, seems like 53:05 the other churches are having so much fun, 53:10 and I don't know if this is really 53:12 what God wants me..." 53:13 And so we start church shopping. 53:16 And then the Lord brings a storm in our lives 53:18 to blow us back to sensibility. 53:23 He brings a storm to help us get shaken up 53:26 like He allow the boat to rock 53:28 and for the disciples trying to save themselves, 53:32 He brought a storm to get Peter's attention, 53:35 so that Peter can stop focusing on his fishing abilities 53:38 and simply say, "Lord, save me. 53:41 I cannot do it myself." 53:42 And when the other disciples decided to walk away from God 53:44 because they thought the price was too great. 53:48 The Lord said to Peter, "Are you going to leave too?" 53:50 And I love what he said, "To whom shall I go? 53:54 You have the words of life where we going." 53:59 The world is saying, "Go here and go there." 54:01 The Lord is saying, "No, that's going up in flames, 54:03 that's going up in flames, that's going up in flames, 54:06 let me take you to a fireproof kingdom 54:08 called the New Jerusalem." 54:10 That's why no matter where you are tonight, 54:12 listen to the words of the writer of Hebrews. 54:14 Hebrews 7:25, no matter how far you down, 54:17 no matter how far down you've been, 54:19 the Lord as we said in New York, 54:20 the Lord can save you 54:22 from the gutter most of the uttermost. 54:25 It's not about how bad you are, 54:28 this is about how good He is. 54:30 The God is calling His church to come back up 54:33 and be the Israel of the last days, 54:35 to be a people reflecting the glory of God 54:37 letting your light shine, 54:40 and letting the glory that's being seen in you, and on you, 54:43 be the character of Christ. 54:45 Let's read this final passage together. 54:48 What a passage? 54:49 "Therefore, He is also able to..." 54:50 Do what? 54:52 "Save to the uttermost." 54:55 Doesn't matter what you've done, 54:57 it doesn't matter where you've been, 55:01 it doesn't matter how dark your walk has been, 55:04 He's able to save to the uttermost. 55:07 "Those who come to God through Him, 55:10 since He always live." 55:12 I like the king ever liveth, 55:14 "to make intercession for them." 55:16 Tonight, 55:19 who can take a profane man and make him a prophet? 55:21 Ask Isaiah. 55:23 Who can take a harlot and make her an evangelist? 55:26 Ask Rahab. 55:27 Who can take an adulterer 55:28 and make him the son and the lineage of God? 55:31 Ask David. 55:33 Who can take a prosecutor and make him a sole winner? 55:35 Ask Paul. 55:37 Tonight, 55:39 as Lyndon sings the song, 55:41 if you want to say tonight, "Lord Jesus..." 55:44 If you're watching, "Lord Jesus, 55:46 I want You to come into my life, 55:48 and I want You to do one thing, 55:50 get me ready for eternity." 55:54 Tonight as he plays the song, 55:56 as he plays the song, and as he's singing, 55:57 if the Lord is speaking to your heart tonight, 55:59 just come on down here and let's pray. 56:02 I don't want us to leave Phoenix 56:03 and never see you again, 56:05 I want to leave Phoenix and see you in the kingdom, 56:07 is that all right? 56:09 Tonight as he plays the song, The Savior is Waiting. 56:11 The Savior is waiting 56:17 To enter your heart 56:20 Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord. 56:22 Come on, down. 56:23 Why don't you let Him come in? 56:29 God bless you, God bless you. 56:32 Anybody else tonight? 56:33 There's nothing... 56:35 You just want to be in the kingdom. 56:36 In this world... Whatever God says lay down... 56:38 To keep you apart 56:40 Tonight, you're willing to do that. 56:42 Praise God wherever you are. Come on, down. 56:44 What is your 56:47 Answer to Him? 56:53 It's your chance tonight. 56:55 Time after time 57:00 He has waited before 57:04 Tonight... 57:06 And now 57:08 He is waiting again 57:14 Yes, Lord is waiting tonight. 57:16 To see... 57:18 Come down, come down, come down. 57:19 If you're willing 57:22 To open the door 57:26 That's right, friends. 57:28 Oh, how He wants to... 57:31 God bless you until we see you again. 57:34 That's right. 57:35 Come in |
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