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With His Own Finger

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00:39 Previously on Law of Love & Liberty:
00:43 Anybody here that came over 500 miles
00:47 to be here? All right. Wow! Look at all the hands.
00:50 There is something special. Thompsonville is maybe a dot
00:54 on the map but we know that God is here.
00:58 We are standing
01:02 in His presence
01:06 on holy ground.
01:10 This gospel is going to the world. Praise God!
01:12 All around the world as we're standing here
01:14 people are being gathered into the kingdom.
01:16 Beautiful name it is:
01:19 the name of Jesus.
01:25 Jesus.
01:29 We are standing on holy ground!
01:31 I think about the children of Israel as they were camped
01:34 outside of Mt. Sinai. But then I think about 3ABN.
01:37 It's not holy ground because we make it holy - that's right -
01:40 because Jesus Christ is the One that makes it holy.
01:43 We are standing
01:46 in His presence
01:50 on holy...
01:53 on holy
01:56 ground.
02:02 We are standing on holy ground.
02:09 Hello and welcome to 3ABN 2019
02:13 Spring Camp Meeting.
02:15 I don't know about you but I am super excited to be here.
02:19 This is the first sermon in our Law of Love & Liberty series
02:23 on the Ten Commandments. And so whether you're here
02:27 in our audience or in our viewing audience at home
02:30 we're blessed to be able to come together
02:32 to receive a special word from the Lord.
02:35 Our speaker this evening is my dear brother and friend
02:39 Pastor James Rafferty.
02:41 Pastor Rafferty, Pastor Ivor Myers,
02:44 my son Jason Bradley and I
02:47 have the privilege of being a part of Salvation in Symbols
02:51 and Signs. It's a study on the book of Revelation
02:54 and one of our most popular programs on 3ABN
02:58 and Dare to Dream. We just recently began
03:02 our latest study on the book of Daniel.
03:04 So make sure that you tune in to that as well.
03:07 We haven't completed it yet, but when we do
03:10 we'll announce it. Pastor James Rafferty
03:13 is also co-director and co-founder of Light Bearers
03:17 ministry and an associate pastor in Fall Creek, Oregon.
03:21 Over 34 years ago he followed God's call
03:25 to leave his secular employment
03:27 and preach the everlasting gospel.
03:30 The Holy Spirit has blessed his work
03:33 leading many people to accept Jesus Christ
03:35 as their personal Savior.
03:37 Pastor Rafferty and his wife Rise have two adult children:
03:42 Jeiel, 26, and Kierra, 21.
03:45 Pastor Rafferty has been gifted with a deep, deep understanding
03:50 of God's Word. Our musical selection
03:53 is going to be brought to us by one of my all-time favorite
03:58 musicians. He is so anointed as a singer and pianist:
04:02 Tim Parton. After he blesses us
04:06 the next voice you will hear
04:07 will be that of Pastor James Rafferty,
04:12 so hear ye him.
04:25 It's an honor to speak
04:29 the name of Jesus,
04:35 a pleasure to proclaim
04:39 His holiness.
04:44 It's no sacrifice to make Him
04:50 Lord of everything...
04:56 an honor just to live
05:00 for my King.
05:08 Jesus is life
05:14 to me.
05:19 Jesus is life
05:24 to me.
05:28 He's the heartbeat inside;
05:34 He's the air that I breathe...
05:41 Jesus
05:43 is life
05:47 to me.
05:52 He's the music
05:55 I can't keep from singing,
06:00 the joy that carries me
06:03 through every storm.
06:08 He's the peace
06:11 that passes all
06:13 understanding.
06:17 He's the grace
06:19 that won't stop holding
06:22 my hand.
06:28 Jesus is life
06:34 to me.
06:39 Jesus is life
06:44 to me.
06:49 He's the heartbeat inside;
06:54 the air that
06:57 I breathe...
07:01 Jesus is life
07:07 to me...
07:14 Jesus
07:17 is life
07:20 to
07:23 me.
07:34 Amen! Amen!
07:36 Thank you, Tim.
07:38 I've really appreciated Tim's musical gifts over the years
07:43 as I've watched him with the Gaithers.
07:45 And it's just a blessing to have him here.
07:48 Good evening 3ABN Camp Meeting people!
07:50 Good evening! How are you this evening?
07:52 Good. It is good to see you all here.
07:55 Praise God! Our topic tonight...
07:58 I get to start our series for our Camp Meeting
08:01 this year on the Ten Commandments.
08:03 And tonight we're going to be talking about
08:05 the finger of God. The title is: With His Own Finger.
08:08 And I was kind of given this topic.
08:11 What I mean by that is I got the list
08:14 for Camp Meeting early and I got to choose what I wanted,
08:17 and I chose the meeting I'll give tomorrow.
08:19 But the person who was supposed to give this meeting,
08:22 Ivor Myers, couldn't make it last minute.
08:24 And last year... I don't know if you know this
08:27 but last year I was supposed to be here and I didn't make it.
08:30 I was flat on my back and so John Bradshaw
08:33 stepped in for me. So I thought: "Well,
08:35 one good turn deserves another
08:36 so I'll step in for Ivor this year. "
08:38 So I've been given this topic in addition to the one I chose.
08:42 And I don't know... I started studying this and I thought
08:45 "Wow, this is a great topic! "
08:47 "This is a powerful topic -
08:48 With His Own Finger - because
08:52 it's talking about the finger of God
08:55 in relation to the Ten Commandments
08:58 but as I started studying this topic I started to realize
09:01 it's much bigger than that.
09:03 So we're going to be looking at some Old Testament verses:
09:05 Exodus 20, Exodus 31 and verse 18.
09:08 That's actually where the phrase "the finger of God"
09:12 comes from. But we're also going to look at a New Testament
09:14 passage in Luke chapter 11.
09:17 So if you want to write those down, take notes there,
09:19 you've got Exodus 20, Exodus 31:18,
09:21 and Luke chapter 11 starting with verse 14 through verse 26.
09:27 And of course, we're going to begin with a word of prayer
09:31 and just ask that the Holy Spirit will be here
09:33 to guide our study together in the Word of God. Let's pray.
09:37 Father in heaven, thank you again this evening
09:39 for the privilege of just being here in Your presence.
09:42 Thank you for this 3ABN Camp Meeting.
09:44 Thank you for the special music from Tim.
09:47 Thank you for each of the people, the staff,
09:50 the production crew, and each of those who come here
09:53 just to lay aside this time and to gather together
09:56 to seek Your blessing, to seek Your guidance,
10:00 to seek Your power, to seek Your Spirit.
10:03 Father, You've given us the promise of Your Spirit.
10:05 It's a promise that comes to us with no conditions except
10:09 that we ask. It's a promise that comes to us
10:11 to cleanse us from sin.
10:13 It's a promise that comes to us to comfort our hearts,
10:16 to convict our hearts, to lead us into
10:20 truth and righteousness. It's a promise that comes to us
10:24 to allow us to be Your ambassadors to this world.
10:28 So we claim that promise tonight.
10:30 We claim it not because of our goodness
10:32 or our merit... we don't have any. But we claim it
10:34 in the name of Jesus Christ. And let everyone say: "Amen. "
10:39 Amen! OK! So...
10:41 just to give a little bit of an overview
10:43 before we get into our topic tonight
10:46 Exodus chapter 20 is where God, you know,
10:50 delivers to Moses the Ten Commandments.
10:52 And they're written in these tables of stone
10:54 with God's finger.
10:56 And those Ten Commandments are actually a commemoration
11:01 if you will of God to the people for the deliverance
11:05 that God brought them through delivering them from Egypt.
11:08 In other words, God is saying: "What I've done for you
11:11 in bringing you out of bondage out of the house of Egypt
11:13 is now going to be commem- orated by these Ten Commandments
11:16 that I'm going to etch in stone. "
11:18 And He delivers them to Moses
11:20 and Moses delivers them to the people.
11:22 And the people respond by basically saying:
11:26 "All that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. "
11:30 That's a basic summary of kind of like the Old Covenant
11:33 that God made with His people.
11:36 God actually led them into this covenant.
11:37 It was ratified with the blood of animals, etc.
11:40 That's the first place we really see the finger of God
11:43 being mentioned: writing in those tables of stone
11:46 as a commemoration of God's deliverance out of Egypt.
11:49 We're going to go to the New Testament
11:51 and we're in Luke chapter 11 verses 14 and onward.
11:54 I just want to read a few verses here 'cause they're...
11:56 it's just interesting.
11:58 And we'll get a perspective on this as we go through this.
12:01 Luke chapter 11 verse 14. It's talking about Jesus.
12:04 Now just before verse 14
12:07 Jesus says: "If you then, being evil,
12:10 know how to give good gifts unto your children,
12:13 how much more shall your heavenly Father
12:15 give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him. "
12:18 Do you believe that this evening?
12:20 Do you believe God is willing to give us the Holy Spirit
12:23 if we ask Him? OK, so Jesus is emphasizing
12:26 this as He prepares to share something powerful
12:30 in His ministry. So verse 14, He's casting out
12:33 devils out of someone who is dumb.
12:35 "And it came to pass when the devil was gone out
12:38 that the dumb spake and the people wondered. "
12:40 They were amazed. Here's a person that can't speak
12:42 and Jesus comes to him after promising the gift
12:46 of the Holy Spirit. Casts out the devil, this evil spirit
12:49 out of him and this man begins to speak.
12:51 Now I don't know if you've ever had that experience.
12:53 Probably most of you here tonight can talk...
12:57 but can you talk? Like talking just talk
13:01 is what we naturally do.
13:03 But talking through the Holy Spirit,
13:06 through the power of the Holy Spirit.
13:07 Talking about Jesus; talking about salvation;
13:10 talking about God; talking about spiritual things.
13:12 Not talking about sports or talking about life
13:15 or talking about politics or talking about all the things
13:17 that are happening in the world. But talking about God.
13:22 Can you talk? Are you talkers tonight or are you dumb?
13:26 You communicate when you go by the way,
13:30 when you're about your business when you're outside of 3ABN
13:33 Camp Meeting? You communicate? Or are you dumb?
13:37 Because God is saying to us tonight... He's saying:
13:39 "I don't want to just cast out that evil spirit
13:41 out of this person right here.
13:43 I want to cast out that dumb spirit, I want to cast that out
13:46 of all of you tonight. " He wants to fill us
13:49 with His Spirit so that we are living for Him, talking for Him,
13:52 praising God all of the time.
13:56 Now this is the picture we have of Jesus
13:58 as He begins this ministry, this work with this person
14:03 who couldn't speak, and He intimates
14:06 that that's the work that He wants to do with us tonight.
14:07 Then verse 15 says: "Some of them said... " verse 15
14:12 "He casts out devils through Beelzebub,
14:16 the chief of the devils. "
14:18 Can you imagine that?
14:20 Have you ever had anyone say something to you
14:23 that was disrespectful? That you didn't like?
14:26 Maybe you were witnessing about Jesus;
14:28 maybe you were talking about God.
14:29 Maybe you were just being a Christian
14:31 and someone said something really nasty.
14:34 You know, you come across people who just aren't into Christ
14:38 and they're a little bit offen- ded by Christians let's say.
14:42 Because Jesus Christ is actually the Son of God.
14:45 He's God in the flesh.
14:47 He's perfect; He's holy; He's sinless.
14:50 Everything about Him is good.
14:53 And the religious leaders of His day
14:56 say that He's a devil.
15:00 Have you ever had someone say anything bad about you
15:02 and you're kind of like: "Maybe they're right? "
15:07 I mean, there are times when we can be inpatient.
15:10 There are times when we can be unChristlike.
15:11 There are times when we're not exactly what we should be,
15:14 right? And people may take note of that
15:16 and they may say something about that.
15:19 And we can't always argue with them... but this is Jesus.
15:22 This is Jesus.
15:24 And when I look at this little passage here in Scripture
15:27 and I realize that they called Jesus a devil
15:29 it gives me a lot of comfort... it really does.
15:32 Because it helps me to realize that Wow, if they're going to
15:35 say this about Christ who is perfect
15:38 of course I'm going to have to receive a lot of that myself.
15:42 I'm imperfect... right?
15:44 So just relax... just "chillax. " Don't worry about
15:48 what people are saying about you.
15:50 Some of it may stick... some of it may not.
15:52 But just keep on doing what God wants you to do
15:54 in the spirit. And here it goes. So Jesus responds,
15:59 others are tempting Him. Verse 16:
16:01 "And they sought of Him a sign from heaven
16:03 but He, knowing their very thoughts,
16:07 said unto them: 'Every kingdom divided against itself
16:11 is brought to desolation
16:13 and a house divided against a house falls.
16:16 If Satan also be divided against himself,
16:20 how shall his kingdom stand?
16:22 Because you say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub
16:26 and if I by Beelzebub cast out devils
16:29 by whom do your sons cast them out?
16:32 Therefore they shall be your judges.
16:36 But... ' verse 20... 'If I... ' here it is...
16:41 Are you ready for this?
16:42 'with the finger of God cast out devils
16:46 no doubt the kingdom of God is come unto you. ' "
16:50 So our title tonight - our message tonight - is
16:53 With The Finger of God.
16:55 It's the finger of God.
16:57 And I can't think of a more appropriate verse in the entire
17:01 Bible to describe what the finger of God is
17:05 than this verse that we have just read
17:07 in Luke chapter 11
17:11 and verse 20.
17:14 What is the finger of God?
17:16 The finger of God according to this verse
17:18 is the power of God.
17:20 It's the power of God to cast devils out of people.
17:24 It's the power of God to remove sin from our lives!
17:27 It's the power of God to completely eradicate the devil
17:32 and remove every vestige of him from our hearts.
17:36 The finger of God... Jesus said: "If I, by the finger of God
17:41 cast out devils... " By the finger of God!
17:44 In other words, when you look at Exodus chapter 20,
17:47 when you look at Exodus chapter 31 verse 18,
17:50 when you look and compare that with Luke chapter 11...
17:53 especially when you look at Luke chapter 11
17:56 and verse 20 you realize that God is not about
18:01 etching laws in stone
18:05 as much as He's about etching His character
18:09 in our hearts. Amen!
18:10 That's what it's really all about.
18:13 We go back now to the Old Testament.
18:16 Just take a little bit of time to look at this
18:21 because... and I'm just going to share this as a summary...
18:24 the summary for our meeting tonight is to realize that
18:28 the miracle-working power of God is going to deliver us
18:31 from the bondage of slavery and write His law of love
18:35 in our hearts casting out the enemy of souls,
18:40 sweeping the house clean,
18:42 and then filling it with His Holy Spirit, the finger of God,
18:46 the power of God,
18:48 who alone will seal us in the gospel of salvation...
18:52 the salvation that we have in Jesus Christ
18:54 which is the manifestation of God's love.
18:57 That's a summary of what we're going to be talking about
18:58 tonight. Just wanted to put that out there ahead of time
19:01 so that if you get lost you can come back to that.
19:03 And we'll go back to that again.
19:05 Now back to Exodus
19:07 because again, the foundation of our Camp Meeting here -
19:09 3ABN Camp Meeting this year - is the Ten Commandments.
19:12 And this is an introduction to those Ten Commandments.
19:15 And I want us to just look at this in the context
19:17 of what's taking place in the Old Testament.
19:20 God delivers the commandments to Moses: Exodus chapter 20.
19:24 The people are afraid... they all back up.
19:26 Moses comes down and he begins to deliver to them
19:29 everything that God has delivered to him.
19:31 And before the people can even really think about it
19:34 they simply say: "All the Lord has said we will do and be
19:37 obedient. " And God allowed them to enter into that
19:41 "agreement, " that covenant, ratified it by the blood
19:44 of animals, and then some 40 days later
19:48 they're all dancing around the golden calf:
19:51 a clear manifestation that there's no way
19:55 that we can do all that the Lord has said.
20:01 We cannot. We are not able to fulfill
20:05 God's law in and of ourselves.
20:08 We are not promise keepers.
20:10 And so basically what we see here
20:13 is God allowing His Old Testament people
20:16 to enter into this covenant to lead them to something better...
20:20 which is what we call the "New Covenant. "
20:22 And that's found in the book of Hebrews
20:24 chapter 8. We're just going to look there for a second
20:28 and summarize this
20:29 beautiful picture that we have in Hebrews chapter 8.
20:32 Actually there's two places in Hebrews:
20:33 Hebrews 8 and Hebrews 10.
20:35 We're going to look at Hebrews 8 starting with verse 6.
20:37 This is the most magnificent promise in all of Scripture.
20:41 Now let's see if we can grab ahold of this.
20:43 It's so beautiful; so powerful!
20:46 Hebrews chapter 8 beginning with verse 6.
20:50 "But now hath He... " God... "obtained a more excellent
20:55 ministry... " That is, Jesus Christ... "by how much also
20:58 He is the mediator of a better covenant
21:00 which is established upon better promises. "
21:03 Hmm... so the old covenant
21:09 was established on promises
21:14 that were not as good as the covenant
21:19 that is being described here in Hebrews chapter 6.
21:23 This covenant that God is about to describe here
21:25 is established on better promises.
21:27 So there were some bad promises
21:30 that established the Old Covenant.
21:32 You with me so far?
21:34 All right. Continuing reading:
21:36 "For... " verse 7... "if the 1st covenant had been faultless
21:41 there should no place have been sought for the second. "
21:43 OK, so now there's a fault, there's a problem,
21:47 there's some difficulty with the first covenant.
21:51 Got that so far?
21:52 There's some bad promises... or at least they're not as good
21:54 as these promises and there's some fault
21:56 with the Old Covenant. Now verse 8 is the clincher.
22:01 And this is where we really need to make this very very clear.
22:05 Verse 8: "For finding fault with them
22:10 He said: 'Behold the day is coming says the Lord
22:13 when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
22:15 and the house of Judah. Not according... ' verse 9...
22:17 'to the covenant that I made with their fathers
22:19 in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out
22:21 of the land of Egypt because they continued not
22:22 in My covenant and I regarded them not says the Lord. ' "
22:26 What was the problem with the Old Covenant?
22:29 Was it the law? Was the law the problem?
22:31 When Paul says "finding fault with them"
22:33 is he talking about the law? "Finding fault with them... "
22:35 The law? The 10 Commandments?
22:37 Finding fault with the Ten Commandments?
22:38 Like the people couldn't keep the Ten Commandments
22:40 so the Ten Commandments just weren't part of that?
22:42 Like they shouldn't have been there?
22:43 Is that what He's saying? No! What was the fault
22:47 in the Old Covenant? What was the "them? "
22:50 Who was He referring to?
22:51 The people! Us... the people.
22:55 What did we do? What was so faulty about what we did?
22:57 What did we do? We made promises
23:00 that we couldn't keep.
23:02 We made promises: "All the Lord has said
23:04 we will do and be obedient. "
23:05 "We'll do it. God said it; we'll do it.
23:08 That's it. " And so God is saying here: "I can't
23:13 make this kind of a covenant
23:16 with My people in the New Testament. "
23:20 "Because they continued not in My covenant
23:22 I regarded them not says the Lord.
23:24 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house
23:26 of Israel after those days says the Lord... " verse 10...
23:29 "I will put My law into their mind.
23:31 I will write them in their hearts. "
23:34 Now listen to this: "I will... " What?
23:37 What do you need in order to write?
23:40 Well, nowadays with these iPhones you don't need anything,
23:42 right? You can just dictate; just need a voice.
23:45 But Old Testament times,
23:48 Bible times and even some of us today
23:51 what do you need to write?
23:53 You need a pen or a pencil in your hands, right?
23:56 And you need to grab it with your fingers so that you can
23:59 write out. See? God here is implying
24:03 that He's going to write with His fingers.
24:05 But where is He going to write this time?
24:07 In stone? In hearts!
24:09 He's going to write with His fingers in our hearts.
24:13 He's going to write His law of love in our heart.
24:16 He's going to cast out the devil and by His finger -
24:19 the power of God - He's going to write in our hearts
24:22 His law of love. That's what we see taking place here.
24:25 This is a promise that we see taking place here
24:27 in Hebrews chapter 8 verses 6 through 10.
24:32 Do you believe in the New Covenant?
24:34 Do you believe that you are a New Covenant Christian
24:40 even though you keep the commandments of God?
24:42 Do you believe you're a New Covenant Christian?
24:45 That's kind of shocking for some people
24:47 'cause there's a lot of people out there that feel like
24:49 if you're keeping the law you're not a New Covenant person.
24:52 They feel like the law is Old Covenant.
24:54 But from what I'm reading here in the New Testament
24:57 in the book of Hebrews it's not the law that was faulty
25:00 it was the people that were faulty.
25:02 And I think that that is a characteristic
25:05 not just of those people but of these people... like us!
25:08 Let's look at this a little bit more closely.
25:10 So God promises: "I'm going to do it.
25:13 I'm going to write My laws in their hearts. "
25:15 How crazy is that?
25:17 "I'm going to do it; I'm the One that's going to do it. "
25:19 Now recently I saw a sign in St. Louis.
25:23 I was here a couple months ago.
25:25 We were doing a shooting for Salvation Symbols & Signs
25:29 and we're getting ready now to do Daniel.
25:32 So we've done Revelation... 72 presentations.
25:35 Ivor, myself, Yvonne and Jason.
25:38 And we started the book of Daniel; we did 23 meetings.
25:41 And it was really fun. It's a great experience
25:44 just sitting at the table just talking about the Bible,
25:46 talking about the prophecies and moving through them
25:49 together. And as I left 3ABN and started driving back
25:54 to the airport I saw this sign.
25:56 Just black and white... just a plain sign.
25:58 And it was lifted high above the houses and businesses
26:02 right next to a busy freeway for all to see.
26:04 And the billboard sign said this:
26:10 Love God. By the way, on my way here
26:13 I saw a similar sign going the other way
26:16 and it said: TRUST JESUS... REPENT.
26:19 LOVE GOD... REPENT; TRUST JESUS... REPENT.
26:22 And as I began thinking about that message on that sign
26:25 I realized: that's Old Covenant.
26:30 That's Old Covenant.
26:32 Isn't it? That's Old Covenant.
26:35 As if our response should be: "All that the sign has said
26:39 we will do and be obedient. "
26:40 Right? Love God and repent. OK!
26:43 Whatever the sign... I'll love God and I'll repent.
26:46 I mean if anything is Old Covenant that is.
26:51 Hello 3ABN Camp Meeting.
26:54 If anything is Old Covenant, that is.
26:56 But here it is sitting on this billboard
27:00 on the side of this busy freeway right in St. Louis
27:03 in southern... in the South, in the Bible belt:
27:07 Love God and repent.
27:11 So I'm suggesting to you that the Old Covenant is alive
27:14 and well today. Right now... right among us...
27:16 it's alive and well today. Now I don't know who put that sign up.
27:19 Some well-meaning Christians... a group or a church...
27:22 and I'm sure that they meant well.
27:25 And then again, so did the Hebrews when they said:
27:28 "All that the Lord has said we will do and be obedient. "
27:30 They meant well! They wanted to do!
27:33 But they proved - as we do today - that we can't
27:38 actually be obedient to God.
27:40 We can't actually repent and love God.
27:43 We need Him to do that in us.
27:47 Come on.. we need Him to do that in us!
27:51 He has to do that work... that's His promise.
27:53 That's His promise here in Hebrews chapter 8.
27:55 He says: "I'm going to put My law
27:57 in their hearts and their minds. "
27:58 "I'm going to write them there. "
28:00 "I'm going to do that. "
28:03 You remember the verse? Let's read it again.
28:06 Hebrews 8 verse 10:
28:07 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house
28:09 of Israel after those days says the Lord:
28:11 'I will put My law into their minds;
28:13 I will write them in their hearts.
28:15 I will be to them a God and they shall be to Me
28:18 a people. ' "
28:19 Isn't that powerful?
28:21 Now back to the billboard.
28:23 It's a revelation really of how we think
28:27 as Christians.
28:29 Love God... something you can't do without Him first loving you.
28:34 And repent. Now who's going to repent without God?
28:42 It's a gift after all... repentance is a gift.
28:46 It means basically to turn around.
28:50 To turn 180 degrees.
28:52 To go in a different direction than the direction you're
28:54 going in. It was 1984 when I repented.
28:58 When God grabbed my heart and turned me completely
29:01 around. And it wasn't something that I did.
29:03 It was something that God did.
29:05 I got on my knees and I asked Jesus to come into my heart
29:08 and He completely changed me from the inside out.
29:12 Turned me completely around.
29:16 We were walking in sin. We were walking in transgression
29:19 of God's law. To repent means to walk in the opposite direction
29:23 to keep God's law.
29:24 Sometimes repentance is nebulous.
29:26 Like repent... what does that mean?
29:28 It means to actually have the law of God written in our hearts
29:31 and that's not something that we can do.
29:33 So the only way that we can actually repent
29:36 is by seeing the goodness of God.
29:38 Romans 2 verse 4 says that.
29:39 It's the goodness of God that does what?
29:42 Leads us to repentance.
29:44 So we don't repent by loving God.
29:48 We repent when we begin to realize
29:52 just how much God loves us.
29:56 Do you know God loves you?
29:58 More than you can even imagine.
30:01 I John chapter 4 verse 19 tells us
30:04 that "we love Him because He first loved us. "
30:10 So I think we should redo the sign.
30:17 I think we should redo the sign.
30:18 Shall we? I mean if we were going to give
30:22 that sign a makeover - a New Covenant makeover -
30:25 a New Covenant 3ABN Camp Meeting makeover -
30:28 OK? how would you change it?
30:32 What would it say?
30:34 Instead of saying "Love God - repent"
30:38 how about "Let God's love turn you around. "
30:45 Let God's love turn you around
30:47 'cause that's what it means to repent, means to turn around.
30:49 Let... let recognizes free will.
30:53 We have a choice in the matter.
30:55 God isn't going to step into our hearts
30:59 without us giving Him permission to do so.
31:02 That's what I did when I got on my knees 35 years ago.
31:05 I said: "God I give You permission to come in. "
31:07 He was outside knocking, knocking, knocking.
31:09 Said: "I want to come in; I want to come in.
31:11 Would you open the door? Would you let Me in? "
31:13 And I gave Him permission to come in. And when He came in
31:16 everything changed. When He came in
31:18 my life was turned around!
31:20 It was a miracle! Only something that God can do.
31:25 Let God's love turn you around.
31:29 So let's recognize this free will. God's love... that's the
31:32 source of the change. It's not us.
31:35 It's not our will; it's not our education;
31:37 it's not our position; it's not our talent.
31:41 It's not us. I don't care if you're a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,
31:45 5th generation Christian, believer.
31:47 I don't care how many pastors you have in your family tree
31:52 you are as lost as anyone else on planet earth
31:57 without Jesus Christ.
31:58 There's no pedigree; there's no inheritance;
32:00 there's nothing good that comes to you outside of Jesus.
32:07 So the source of the change
32:10 is God's unconditional love
32:13 known to us as grace or unmerited favor.
32:19 You heard of that? Unmerited favor?
32:22 And that's going to turn you around.
32:24 God's love is what turns us around.
32:27 And to turn around is the literal meaning of repent.
32:30 The literal meaning of repent is to turn around.
32:37 So here's this billboard in St. Louis
32:40 that we're going to give a New Testament, everlasting gospel
32:44 three angels' messages New Covenant make-over.
32:47 Instead of saying "Love God and repent"
32:51 it's going to say: "Let God's love turn you around. "
32:57 You like that, church? I like that. Don't you like that?
33:00 Let God's love turn you around.
33:02 Let God's love turn you around.
33:04 I think that should be a theme that we have in our brains
33:08 for this entire Camp Meeting.
33:10 Just keep saying that... just keep saying that.
33:14 In fact, I'm indebted... we're indebted
33:16 to that billboard sign because that billboard sign has
33:19 caused us to think: "OK... how does this actually work? "
33:23 "What is it that God is wanting to do with His finger? "
33:26 "What is this power of God that He wants to work in us? "
33:28 "How does He want to transform us? How does He want to write
33:32 His law today? " Not on tables of stone
33:36 but in our hearts. How does He want to do this?
33:38 He wants us to let His love turn us around.
33:45 Praise God! I love that.
33:48 Someone needs to write a song about that.
33:51 Let God's love turn you inside out;
33:52 let God's love turn you all around;
33:54 let God's love turn you upside down.
33:56 Let God's love stop you from where you were going
34:00 and turn you around to the very thing you were
34:03 walking away from. This is just some of the lyric to the song.
34:07 Hope Danny's listening.
34:08 Let the love of God stop you from walking in sin
34:11 and transgression and iniquity.
34:12 Let the love of God turn you around and lead you to walk
34:14 in love, obedience, and commandment keeping.
34:17 Let God's love turn you around.
34:21 So then what do we need?
34:22 If we're actually believing that this is New Covenant truth,
34:26 then what do we need a lot of?
34:29 The love of God... we need a lot of love!
34:32 We need a lot of love 'cause we've got a lot of
34:34 turning around to do.
34:36 We've got some major turning to do...
34:39 some of us more than others.
34:41 I mean, God is leading. God is blessing, right?
34:44 And He's given us a lot of turn around,
34:47 a lot of turn around, a lot of turn around.
34:49 But as we're driving down that road... I don't know if
34:51 you ever use those MapQuest things. You're driving down
34:53 that road and you forget to make that turn.
34:55 You know, God says: "Take that right turn. " You forget.
34:58 The MapQuest says: "Redirecting... redirecting. "
35:01 Right?
35:05 We're doing really good so far. Like our Christian walk
35:08 is really doing well but there's a turn that we've gotta make
35:11 here and another turn we've got to make there.
35:13 There's another idol that God is bringing to our attention;
35:15 there's another direction we need to take.
35:17 Sometimes we just want to stay on the same old road,
35:19 but we've got... we've got... heaven is our destiny - Amen!
35:23 and sometimes we need to make a few turns.
35:25 And some of us old guys... we don't want to make those turns.
35:28 We think we're OK right here.
35:30 We've been OK right here all along
35:31 but no, it's time to make a turn.
35:33 And if you don't make the turn God says: "Redirecting...
35:35 redirecting. Let's turn it around; let's turn it around. "
35:40 And it's hard for us to think that we missed the turn.
35:42 Oh, back before we had MapQuest... oh man!
35:45 I was just like... My wife was like: "Honey,
35:48 can't you just pull over into that gas station and ask
35:50 for directions? Please? "
35:55 "Couldn't you just? " "NO!
35:58 I will find our destination. "
36:03 Three hours later pulls into the Chevron station:
36:07 "Excuse me... I was just kind of wondering... "
36:09 "Oh, that's about two hours down the road. "
36:12 I don't... None of us should be in that position.
36:16 Pride keeps us from following God's directions
36:20 and turning around. We think we're gonna find it
36:23 by ourselves.
36:25 That's our problem... that's the big problem
36:28 of humanity. And Christians? We are not exempt.
36:34 All of us have that same problem.
36:38 So you think God's love can do that?
36:39 Do you think God's love can turn us around?
36:41 God's New Covenant promise says He can.
36:45 He certainly isn't asking us to do it.
36:48 We tried that... we tried that!
36:49 Some of us are still trying it.
36:51 But it doesn't work because we are powerless.
36:55 We can't love God, we can't repent,
36:59 only God can do that in us. That's the finger of God.
37:02 That's the finger of God.
37:05 Repentance is a gift from God,
37:07 and we can let Him lead us to repentance.
37:10 We can stop resisting Him.
37:13 We can open the door of our hearts and ask Him
37:16 to come in. Verse 11 of that New Covenant promise
37:20 in Hebrews chapter 8 verse 11 says:
37:24 "And they shall not teach every man his neighbor
37:26 and every man his brother saying: 'Know the Lord. '
37:28 For all will know Me from the least to the greatest. "
37:31 Did you know that?
37:32 You don't even need me to teach you this.
37:35 I'm not up here to teach you anything.
37:37 I'm just kind of a director of the choir.
37:39 Basically what God is saying in His Word
37:42 is that you all have an anointing of the Holy Spirit.
37:46 All of you do.
37:47 God is anointing you with His Holy Spirit.
37:49 You can read that in I John. I John chapter 2 verses 18
37:52 and onward. You have the anointing of the Holy Spirit
37:55 and you know all things 'cause the Holy Spirit knows all things
37:58 and He's anointed you.
37:59 And so when you come to 3ABN Camp Meeting
38:01 and you're listening to these people preach:
38:03 you're listening to James preach and John preach
38:05 and Ty preach and a couple other guys...
38:09 Shelley... when you listen to these guys preach
38:14 what you're hearing is simply confirmation
38:18 of what God has been teaching you in His Word.
38:21 And if there's something new there, what you're going to do
38:23 is you're simply going to go to the Word and say: "Oh,
38:25 yeah, that's right there! "
38:28 We're just choir directors. We're just directing you
38:32 to the truths of God's Word. You don't need us to teach you.
38:35 Not in the sense that the New Covenant is talking about here.
38:41 You're not dependent on us.
38:42 Actually, we're dependent on each other to direct each other
38:45 to the Word of God, through the anointing of the Holy Spirit
38:47 to the Word of God. That's what the New Covenant promise is!
38:50 You won't teach every man his neighbor and every man
38:52 his brother saying: "Know the Lord. " You're all going to
38:53 know Him from to the greatest.
38:55 And this is the problem that we have...
38:56 this is the secondary problem that we have.
38:58 The first problem is this self-sufficiency:
39:00 "I can do it; I've got the power; I've got the strength. "
39:01 The second problem is is that we rely on other people
39:05 to feed us. We rely on the pastor,
39:08 you know, and the elder and 3ABN.
39:11 This is evident... Whenever someone comes to me and says:
39:16 "You know what? I go to church
39:19 but my pastor doesn't feed me. "
39:21 "I don't get fed at church and I'm really struggling.
39:25 My Christian experience is struggling 'cause I'm just not
39:27 getting fed at church. " I'm like: "Well, what does
39:29 a 30-minute sermon once a week have to do with your
39:31 spiritual experience? What is that? "
39:35 The pastor is not responsible for your connection with Jesus!
39:42 You can take him or you can... If he's good, that's great.
39:45 If he ain't... so what? So what?
39:49 God has a message for you in His Word
39:54 every day of every week of every month of every year
39:58 He wants to connect with you personally.
40:00 He wants to write with His finger on your heart.
40:05 He has a verse, He has a promise...
40:07 He has a word of correction for you every single day.
40:11 He wants to speak into your hearts; He wants to talk to you!
40:16 And it may be that the same thing that He shares with you
40:19 is going to be the same thing that He shares with the pastor.
40:21 There might be a coincidence there and you go like: "Wow!
40:23 God is really speaking through the pastor this week!
40:26 Whoo! That's the same thing He showed me! "
40:28 And then other times it might be: "Whoa, the pastor must be
40:30 going through a hard time. I need to pray for him
40:32 'cause his messages are just like empty, like there's nothing
40:35 there. I need to pray for that man.
40:36 I need to pray for God to just touch him.
40:40 And maybe I can touch him too; maybe I can encourage him. "
40:43 Give him a word; give him some encouragement.
40:45 Pastors need encouragement.
40:47 We need to encourage one another.
40:48 But we shouldn't depend on them.
40:50 And then he goes on here and he says in verse 12
40:53 of Hebrews chapter 8:
40:55 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins
40:59 and their iniquities will I remember no more. "
41:03 What do you think about that?
41:05 I love that kind of amnesia that God has.
41:08 I love that.
41:10 Like I think we are more inclined to remember
41:13 our sins and iniquities than God is.
41:14 That's right! You know, like we just overwhelm ourselves.
41:17 Hey! Today is a new day.
41:19 Yesterday is gone.
41:21 Those sins are buried in the sea.
41:23 And some of us want to go deep sea diving, don't we?
41:28 And God is saying: "Don't even go there!
41:30 Don't even think about it... it's gone! "
41:33 What is that? That is beautiful; that is powerful!
41:36 That is what God is promising us in the New Covenant:
41:42 perfect holiness;
41:47 perfect record of Christ's life and death
41:51 given to us as a gift.
41:53 'Cause that's what it's going to take. You know that.
41:55 None of us are getting into heaven any other way.
41:58 Jesus says: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. "
42:00 And sometimes we misunderstand and say:
42:02 "The only way to get to heaven is to be a Christian...
42:04 maybe even an Adventist. "
42:06 No, that's not what it's saying.
42:07 Jesus is saying: "The only way to get to heaven
42:09 is Me 'cause in order to get to heaven
42:11 you've got to have an unblemished perfect record
42:15 and no human being has that.
42:17 I'm the only One that has that. "
42:18 "I lived a perfect life... PERFECT...
42:21 and I died for your sins... every one of them.
42:25 And that is a gift for you.
42:27 That's what qualifies you for heaven.
42:29 That's your title and your fitness to heaven,
42:30 and nothing you ever do is going to replace that gift. "
42:35 Now everything that you do in your life is important because
42:39 it testifies of that gift.
42:42 The works... And by the way, I've been learning recently -
42:45 and you can just do a little study on this...
42:48 Maybe some of you the Holy Spirit's been teaching you this
42:50 already, but if not, just do a little study on this.
42:53 I've been learning recently that one of the greatest works...
42:57 You know, Ephesians chapter 2 says: "For it's by grace
43:00 you've been saved through faith.
43:01 Not of yourselves... it's a gift of God.
43:03 Not of works lest any man should boast.
43:04 We are His workmanship created unto good works. "
43:06 One of the greatest works that God is calling us to do -
43:11 get this - is to praise Him.
43:16 Yet we're so quiet... aren't we?
43:20 We're so quiet!
43:22 Like if we're watching the NBA basketball finals, you know,
43:26 right? "Whoa! Yeah! Three-pointer! Whoo-hoo-hoo! "
43:30 We just get excited. We walk into church and we're like...
43:38 What is that? What IS that?
43:41 It's like the world has paralyzed us.
43:43 You know, like we're excited about the things of the world
43:45 but about God, about salvation, about Jesus, about everything
43:48 else you're so quiet.
43:49 But I'm going to tell you right now
43:51 you can go through the Bible. You to go the end of Hebrews
43:54 chapter 13 says that we are to give "the sacrifice of praise
43:57 continually. " You go to the book of Revelation...
44:00 you move through the book of Revelation... it starts in
44:01 chapter 4. The angels are praising God day and night.
44:04 They're not stopping. But you get to Revelation 19
44:07 you've got: "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
44:09 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! "
44:10 Four times with a praise added in... that's five times!
44:13 The whole point, the summation of the whole Bible,
44:16 is to praise God. And it's not just for us.
44:21 It's not just for us.
44:24 God's throne is established upon the praise of His creation.
44:30 His throne is established upon our praise.
44:32 It's POWERFUL to praise God!
44:36 It destroys the enemy to praise God.
44:38 "You're not having anything of mine...
44:40 I'm praising God right now. "
44:42 You remember when Paul and Silas were beaten
44:44 and thrown into the inner prison you know? And they're shackled
44:46 in there. And they're just bleeding and they're in pain
44:49 and they're suffering in this uncomfortable position.
44:52 What do they start doing?
44:53 PRAISING THE LORD!
44:55 And that wasn't something they thought: "Well how?
44:57 We should praise God. Maybe we should praise God right now. "
44:59 NO! This was something they were habitually used to doing
45:02 and they just naturally tended to do that.
45:04 Naturally tended to just praise God.
45:06 I know some of us don't naturally tend to do that
45:08 because, you know, maybe it's not our culture,
45:10 it's not our background. But we need to learn to do that!
45:13 We need to learn to do that. Yes!
45:15 Because it's powerful. Don't be looking over there.
45:17 WE need to praise God, right?
45:20 Who's that over there praising God?
45:22 No... we need to praise God right here!
45:25 Us!
45:35 It is about time because when we get on the other side
45:40 of this whole great controversy
45:42 we're going to be spending a lot of time praising God.
45:44 Amen! Let's get in shape.
45:48 Let's get ready... let's do this.
45:54 So Hebrews chapter 8 verse 13:
45:58 "In that He saith a New Covenant
46:00 He's made the first old.
46:03 Now that which decays and waxes old
46:08 is ready to vanish away. "
46:11 Is it? Is it ready to vanish away
46:15 or are we still like "Love God and repent? "
46:18 "Trust Jesus and repent. "
46:20 Is the Old Covenant ready to vanish away or not?
46:29 Vanish away in our experience.
46:31 That's what we're talking about here.
46:33 To vanish away from our lives. We need to talk New Covenant.
46:37 We need to think New Covenant.
46:38 We need to toss the Old Covenant.
46:40 We need to throw out all of those actions and all those
46:43 feelings that betray us.
46:45 We need to know what the New Covenant looks like.
46:47 God's law written in our hearts; written with the finger of God.
46:49 Just like it was written on those tables of stone
46:51 but now it's written in our hearts.
46:54 This time God's the One doing the work... not us.
47:01 God is the One doing the work.
47:03 He's writing it with His finger on our hearts
47:05 so that we will not want to covet, lie, deceive,
47:09 practice sexual immorality,
47:11 kill, steal, dishonor our parents,
47:13 take God's name in vain, worship idols,
47:15 put other gods before Him, forget the Sabbath.
47:18 Do our own thing... live our own lives.
47:21 God is causing us to hate what we once loved
47:25 and to love what we once hated.
47:29 He puts enmity in our hearts: Genesis 3:15.
47:31 He's putting enmity in our hearts towards sin.
47:33 That's what God does. That's what God promises to do.
47:37 This is the New Covenant promise.
47:38 We let Jesus in. He writes God's law in our hearts
47:42 with His own finger. He cleans the house.
47:44 He sweeps it out. He gets rid of one idol
47:47 after another after another after another.
47:50 There's another idol He's getting rid of right now:
47:53 that idol that causes us to be
47:59 too embarrassed to praise God.
48:02 That's an idol... that's an idol He wants to get rid of.
48:06 I was walking through Denver airport today.
48:10 You know, had a little time. My plane was delayed
48:13 so I'm walking laps, walking laps, walking laps,
48:16 walking laps. This one lady says: "Yeah, you've been
48:18 walking laps. Good for you! "
48:19 And in all of that walking and looking and looking and looking
48:22 and looking I saw one guy with a Jesus T-shirt on.
48:26 Just one guy... older guy.
48:28 Maybe in his 60's, 70's... one guy.
48:30 That was it. I'm thinking: "There's gotta be more
48:33 Christians in this place than just him and me. "
48:37 There's gotta be...
48:40 but I'm not sure we're ready to praise God.
48:47 Kind of embarrassing sometimes, isn't it?
48:51 But the point is is that the praise of God
48:55 is where the power of God is. Amen!
48:58 You know, there's a Bible verse in the Old Testament.
49:03 It's in...
49:08 it's in Isaiah 53.
49:12 No, it's not Isaiah 53.
49:15 I'll deliver it to you tomorrow.
49:16 I'll find it... I'll look it up.
49:20 But basically what it says is
49:23 those who praise God prepare the way for God
49:28 to show them His salvation.
49:32 Because the salvation of God is in praising God.
49:36 And this is what happens as we move into
49:40 Exodus chapter 20.
49:42 Before we get to Exodus chapter 20
49:44 we have the deliverance of God's people from Egypt
49:46 which culminates in a final deliverance through the Red Sea
49:49 where all of Pharaoh's army is drowned.
49:53 And in Exodus chapter 15
49:55 Miriam leads out in the psalm of praise.
49:58 We call it the song of Moses and the Lamb.
50:01 Song of Moses. And she gets this timbrel
50:04 and the people get together and they start dancing.
50:08 Whoops! I'm just quoting the Bible.
50:10 They start dancing...
50:12 I think Satan has counterfeited all that. You know what I mean?
50:16 I think Satan's counterfeited music and he's counterfeiting
50:18 praise and he's counterfeit- ing... So when you're in sports
50:21 and when you're looking at the groupies with their music
50:25 and when you're looking at movies or whatever it is
50:27 and we're all: "Yeah! Wow! " We're all excited.
50:30 That's a counterfeit.
50:32 But it doesn't mean God doesn't want us to get excited
50:34 about what He's doing in our lives.
50:36 About His salvation; about His work; about His blessings.
50:41 And so Miriam led the children of Israel
50:45 and they got excited. They were excited about
50:47 what they just saw God do.
50:48 And I think that's one of the reasons why we're so quiet
50:51 and we sit so still and we just don't move
50:53 because we're not excited about anything.
50:55 Like God hasn't really parted any Red Seas in our lives.
50:57 He hasn't really destroyed any armies.
50:59 Like He hasn't really decimated any enemies.
51:01 We're just kind of doing this drudgery, this round,
51:04 this kind of formalism, you know?
51:09 But we are told when the church is awake
51:12 there's going to be powerful amens and praising
51:16 of God when His Word is spoken.
51:18 You don't need to praise the preacher,
51:20 but the Word of God and the truth of God...
51:24 that's what we need to praise.
51:26 God says that that which is old is vanishing away.
51:31 Yes or no? Yes!
51:33 AMEN! God says: "I want to write My law
51:37 in your hearts. " Yes or no? Yes! Amen.
51:42 See, this is the point... this is the point:
51:45 to sit here and say nothing when the Word of God is spoken
51:49 is one of our greatest problems.
51:52 It's one of the reasons why we don't enter into
51:53 a New Covenant. Because what we're doing is we're watching
51:57 somebody else engage with God
52:01 in worship and study
52:04 as though we were just like observers.
52:07 That's not worship. God is calling us to participate.
52:11 That's what happened in the Old Covenant when
52:14 Moses... when the people said: "Moses, you go up there
52:17 and you come back and you tell us
52:18 and we'll just sit here. "
52:20 God says: "No, no, no... I want to engage with all the people. "
52:22 "I want to engage with you. "
52:24 God wants to engage with us.
52:26 So the New Covenant promise says
52:29 that He can. He certainly isn't asking us to do it.
52:31 We've tried that... it doesn't work.
52:33 We can't love God; we can't repent.
52:35 Only God can do that in us, but we need to let Him.
52:37 We need to stop resisting... we need to surrender.
52:40 You know, in war time
52:42 when two armies are fighting
52:44 if one army gains the victory the other army surrenders.
52:48 You know what they do?
52:49 They come out with their hands up.
52:54 Hand up... I surrender.
52:56 See, and that's another thing we've lost as Christians.
52:58 Like: "Well, we don't want to be Pentecostal. "
53:01 Well, do we want to be Biblical?
53:04 Do we want to be Biblical?
53:06 'Cause the Bible says we should lift up our hands
53:09 and praise God in His sanctuary.
53:11 The Bible says that.
53:13 The Bible says that when they were fighting Moses lifted up
53:17 his hands. And when his hands were raised up
53:19 God's people had victory.
53:21 The Bible says we should pray with hands raised up.
53:26 That's New Testament by the way.
53:30 I think that there's something about lifting our hands
53:34 that says to God: "I surrender. "
53:37 "I surrender everything to You. "
53:40 "I give up. You're the victor.
53:42 You're the One that's conquered. I give up; I give it to You. "
53:47 We need to step out a little bit.
53:49 I mean, we baptize by immersion. That doesn't make us Baptists.
53:53 We have a world-wide church... doesn't make us Catholic.
53:55 Catholic means worldwide.
53:58 So we believe in door-to-door witness...
54:01 that doesn't make us Jehovah's Witnesses.
54:04 And we can praise God in His sanctuary
54:08 and raise up our hands in prayer
54:09 without thinking we're Pentecostal! We can do that!
54:12 Amen! It's OK to do that.
54:14 We need more life in the church.
54:18 It's not a cultural thing it's a Biblical thing.
54:21 And this is what God is saying to us.
54:22 God is saying basically: "It's not just about the day;
54:25 it's also about the way. "
54:27 Worship's not just about the day. It's also about the way.
54:30 You have been given the victory.
54:34 God's people in the Old Testa- ment were given the victory.
54:36 It was theirs. They didn't need to say:
54:39 "All the Lord has said we will do. "
54:40 God already did it!
54:41 They just needed to say: "Thank you, Lord. "
54:43 "Praise God! " They lost sight of that.
54:46 And God is saying: "OK, I'm going to re-do this
54:48 with that example in the Old Testament so that
54:50 you guys all know today that's not the way it works.
54:53 I'm going to re-do this; I'm making new promises now.
54:56 New Covenant... better promises.
54:58 I want you to look at that example and say:
55:00 'Op, that's not going to work. '
55:02 Don't misunderstand. I'm not doing away with My law.
55:04 I'm doing away with the promises.
55:05 Not the law... the promises.
55:06 That's not going to work, but here's how it is going to work:
55:10 I'm going to write My law in your hearts and minds.
55:12 I'm going to remember your sins and iniquities no more.
55:15 I'm going to cast them into the sea.
55:17 I'm going to be your God; you're going to be My people.
55:19 I'm going to give you the Holy Spirit.
55:20 You don't need anyone to teach you anything.
55:21 I'm going to teach you all things. "
55:23 And what's our job? PRAISE GOD!
55:26 That's our job.
55:28 Amen! Hallelujah! I believe that! Thank you!
55:31 I accept that, 'cause when you get to the New Testament...
55:33 when you get to the end of the book of Revelation
55:35 it's "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! "
55:39 Let's just look at that for a second... just for a second.
55:41 This is so powerful.
55:43 Revelation chapter 19.
55:47 There's four of them there.
55:49 I don't think you find four Hallelujahs! anywhere else
55:52 in the Bible. You know what Hallelujah! means, don't you?
55:55 Praise the Lord!
55:58 Praise the Lord!
56:00 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
56:02 Here it is... we're going to close with this.
56:03 We're running out of time so we're going to close with this.
56:04 Here it is, Revelation chapter 19 verse 1:
56:08 "And after these things I heard a great voice
56:10 of much people in heaven saying:
56:12 'Hallelujah! ' " I guess that's in heaven
56:16 so it doesn't count for here, right?
56:19 "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and honor
56:21 and power unto the Lord our God.
56:24 For true and righteous are His judgments;
56:26 for He has judged the great whore
56:28 which did corrupt the earth with her fornication
56:30 and avenged the blood of His servants.
56:32 And again they said... " verse 3... "Hallelujah!
56:35 her smoke arose up forever and ever.
56:38 And the four and twenty elders... " verse 4...
56:40 "and the four beasts fell down and worshiped God
56:42 with seven thrones saying: 'Hallelujah! '
56:46 And a voice came out of the throne saying... "
56:49 verse 5... "Praise our God all ye servants
56:52 and ye that fear Him small and great.
56:54 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude,
56:57 the voice of many waters, the voice of mighty thundering,
57:00 saying: 'Hallelujah! For the Lord God omnipotent reigns. ' "
57:05 There it is. See, that's our work.
57:07 God is saying: "I created you for good works
57:10 and here's what it is: it's the sacrifice of praise. "
57:12 I want you to praise God. When you get to the end
57:14 of the book of Revelation past those who keep the commandments
57:16 and have the faith of Jesus, when you get to the end
57:17 of the book of Revelation you've got this call
57:19 to Hallelujah! praise.
57:21 Can we enter into that?
57:24 As SDA Christians can we enter into that?
57:26 'Cause that's New Covenant right there.
57:28 We say Hallelujah! because God has done for us
57:30 what we couldn't do for ourselves. Amen?


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