Summer Camp Meeting

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

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Series Code: SCM

00:01 The hour is urgent, as darkness is dispelled by the light of
00:06 God's Word.
00:08 A new day begins.
00:10 Jesus, the light of the world is shining.
00:13 Prepare your hearts to proclaim the final cry.
00:17 This is 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting.
00:23 Happy Sabbath and welcome to 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting.
00:29 This is the Divine Worship Hour.
00:30 Were you blessed with the Sabbath School Panel?
00:33 Yes.
00:37 Well, I had a few words during Sabbath School that I don't
00:39 think were words either, so sometimes we just create them
00:42 as we talk.
00:44 But you all are students of the Word and it's a blessing to
00:46 open the Word of God, isn't it?
00:48 And what a blessing to be part of the family of God here.
00:51 You know, we always look forward to Camp Meeting.
00:53 Yes, you're coming here and spending your time.
00:55 And I know you enjoy coming to Camp Meeting.
00:58 But those of us that are here on a daily basis, we are also
01:01 encouraged.
01:01 Isn't that right, Pastor John?
01:03 It's an encouraging time of fellowship, opening God's Word.
01:06 And I know the Divine Worship Hour will be no exception.
01:09 Absolutely.
01:10 We are in the presence of God, so grateful for that.
01:13 You are our 3ABN family.
01:16 You at home, we thank you for tuning in around the world as
01:20 we praise the name of Jesus together.
01:23 We're going to be hearing today from Brother Danny Shelton.
01:28 His message is shockwaves and you're going to have to wait
01:32 and see what that's about.
01:33 Amen.
01:36 welcome each one of you that are here with us today.
01:39 Some of you have traveled from different parts of the world,
01:42 many different states to be here.
01:44 And countries.
01:45 And countries, that's right.
01:46 Pastor Donnie, where are you?
01:48 Right over there.
01:49 And from Illinois, right?
01:51 We have people from Illinois, praise the Lord.
01:52 That's where 3ABN is located.
01:54 All of us here together, praising the Lord today.
01:57 I want to just mention also, we have so many people that wanted
02:02 to be here.
02:07 Some of your Iowa family is here, of course, celebrating
02:10 the Sabbath with us today.
02:11 I'm thinking of Grandma Tina Bames.
02:13 She used to always sit on the front row.
02:15 Remember the little person here that was always used to attend
02:18 camp meetings?
02:22 I think of also Miss June Strong.
02:24 I believe she's going to be 97 years young.
02:27 Yes, 97, yes.
02:29 So, praise God for her and many others.
02:31 Thank you for joining us and being a part of the 3ABN
02:33 family.
02:34 Music, right?
02:35 Should we go to the opening song, Pastor John?
02:37 What's on your heart?
02:38 Yes, I think we should stand for that song.
02:39 Let's all stand together.
02:41 We're going to sing this hymn together.
02:43 All hail the power of Jesus' name.
02:44 The lyrics will be on the screen so you can join us in
02:46 that song.
02:50 Alright, let's raise your voices to the glory of God
02:52 today.
02:57 All hail the power of Jesus' name.
03:03 Let angels prostrate forth.
03:08 Bring forth the royal diadem and crown him Lord of all.
03:18 Bring forth the royal diadem and crown him Lord.
03:31 Deceit of Israel's chosen race, he ransomed of the fall.
03:40 Hail him who saved you.
03:43 What do we do?
03:43 And crown him Lord.
03:51 Hail him who saved you by his grace.
03:56 And crown him Lord of all.
04:01 Everyone together.
04:04 Let every kindred, every tribe, on this terrestrial board, to
04:13 him all majesty.
04:15 What do we do?
04:17 And crown him Lord of all.
04:24 To him all majesty ascribes.
04:29 And crown him Lord of all.
04:43 For though that is yonder sacred throng, we at his feet,
04:50 together, join in the everlasting song and crown him
05:00 Lord of all.
05:04 Together, join in the everlasting song and crown him
05:13 Lord of all.
05:21 Amen.
05:23 Let us pray.
05:25 Loving Father in heaven, we thank you so much for the fact
05:27 that one day we will see you crowned Lord of all.
05:33 Send your holy angels, Father, to fill this place.
05:36 Send your holy spirit to be the surgeon of our hearts today.
05:40 And when the message goes forth and the seeds of truth are
05:43 planted, may we go forth to bear harvest from our lives,
05:47 more souls for your eternal kingdom.
05:50 And this we ask in your glorious and majestic name.
05:54 And everybody said amen.
05:56 You may be seated.
05:57 Amen.
05:57 Yes.
06:00 Good job.
06:01 And Tim.
06:01 And Tim.
06:02 Thank you, Brother Parton.
06:04 And our 3ABN choir.
06:06 You all sounded awesome.
06:08 Jill, we should take them on the road to our next rally,
06:10 shouldn't we?
06:12 Maybe we should go on the road together.
06:14 Thank you for singing at home as well.
06:15 I believe a number of people probably stood up at home and
06:18 joined us for that opening song.
06:20 I tell you what, I'm not a singer, but on that last chorus
06:23 there I had to unbutton my suit because I was getting ready to
06:26 take that last big breath to put out and belt it out.
06:28 And you all did a great job.
06:30 What a blessing to praise the Lord this morning.
06:32 You know, we have a special family member with us this
06:35 morning.
06:39 Sister Larnetta, I'd like to invite you out.
06:41 We first heard from Sister Larnetta via email here, oh, a
06:46 few years ago.
06:48 And this is her first time to camp meeting.
06:50 Let's give her a warm welcome.
06:51 Sister Larnetta, welcome.
06:57 You okay there?
06:58 I'm great.
06:59 Happy Sabbath.
07:01 So tell us how you first stumbled across 3ABN.
07:08 I'd be happy to.
07:09 I've had four reconstructive spine surgeries.
07:12 And this was the second one.
07:14 I was home recuperating and, you know, getting part
07:20 disability.
07:22 And so I lost the ability to, you know, pay cable and phone
07:28 and just all that.
07:29 So I cut things out.
07:30 And cable was one of them.
07:32 So I went rabbit ears.
07:34 And so I started scanning for channels.
07:38 I got two channels, Ion and this channel I've never seen.
07:42 What was the name of that channel you never saw before?
07:46 They said 3ABN.
07:51 And so about three days later, Ion completely went away.
07:57 I've got 3ABN.
07:59 I never heard of you people, never seen your people.
08:03 I had no idea what was going on.
08:05 And then I would listen.
08:07 And then you start talking about revelations.
08:11 I didn't do revelations.
08:12 Not because I didn't believe the Bible, but because I did.
08:16 If 65 books of the Bible was true, so was 66.
08:19 I don't want no scorpions.
08:20 I don't want no bees.
08:21 I didn't want to see nothing.
08:24 So it was a little scary.
08:26 Very scary.
08:27 And 3ABN talks quite a bit about prophecy.
08:30 Yes.
08:33 Well, I'd turn the volume down.
08:38 All right.
08:40 I just wasn't ready.
08:43 But over time, over the years, 3ABN has taught me so
08:48 much.
08:49 Not just prophecy.
08:50 They have just taught me not only what the Bible says, but
08:55 what it means.
08:57 My question is, what are all the other preachers doing?
09:01 I've been in church all my life.
09:02 I left and came back.
09:04 But I've been in church all my life.
09:05 And it's like I was taught what it says.
09:08 But 3ABN is telling me what the words mean.
09:11 You're teaching me how powerful the words are and what they
09:15 mean.
09:16 And 3ABN has just really changed my life.
09:20 And Jill?
09:22 It's all right.
09:25 It was Jill that really brought my heart with her transparency.
09:34 With envy, jealousy, anger.
09:37 And she would just be so transparent and just so real
09:40 with it.
09:46 It's okay to be angry sometimes.
09:48 God's not going to hate me.
09:50 It doesn't mean I'm a bad Christian.
09:53 And so I just want to thank you for that.
09:54 But she also told you what to do about it.
09:57 You guys.
10:01 Jesus.
10:02 Jesus.
10:03 Confess.
10:08 And will cleanse us.
10:10 All unrighteous.
10:11 And you guys are good Bible stars.
10:13 Amen.
10:14 So tell me also about Paula and Curtis Aikens because they had
10:18 a real personal Bible studies with you.
10:21 Talk to us about that.
10:22 Yes.
10:23 So Paula and Curtis.
10:25 I live in a.
10:26 Thank you.
10:26 I knew this was going to happen.
10:28 I knew tears were coming.
10:30 So I live in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee called
10:32 Hermitage.
10:33 But I just say Nashville because everyone knows who that
10:35 is.
10:40 healthy conference in another little suburb called
10:44 Murfreesboro.
10:45 And so I said, they're going to get that close.
10:48 I've got to see them.
10:49 I was in the kitchen one day and I heard this.
10:52 Get all the goodies.
10:53 Get all the goodies.
10:54 And I'm like, who is that?
10:56 And so that's how I first saw Paula.
10:59 So we're doing a cooking program.
11:02 And so Curtis gave his personal number.
11:07 I called the number, let him know I'd like to come to the
11:10 healthy heart conference.
11:11 But I didn't have transportation.
11:13 Paula and Curtis ubered me from Nashville to Murfreesboro,
11:17 which is like 30 minutes.
11:19 And uber is not cheap.
11:21 I came to the conference.
11:22 They paid for me to stay over hotel.
11:26 And so Curtis gave me my Bible studies.
11:29 As busy as they are, they carved out some time for me.
11:34 And then I got baptized in 2019 and to the Seventh-day
11:39 Adventist Church.
11:46 Now, backstage, you mentioned something about you had you
11:51 considered yourself an Adventist.
11:52 Is that right?
11:55 Okay, so I actually was a TV Adventist for four years.
12:02 I'd never heard that.
12:03 She was backstage.
12:04 She says I was a TV Adventist.
12:05 I said, oh, I like that.
12:07 But four years, because of the health challenges and all of
12:12 the rehabs and all of that, I'm the only person in my world
12:16 that's a Seventh-day Adventist.
12:18 And all I had was 3ABN.
12:20 You guys taught me how to do Sabbath and began to teach me
12:25 that revelations with symbols, symbolism and stuff.
12:29 And I was like, all this time, nobody told me that.
12:32 And so I began to learn from 3ABN.
12:35 But it was just me.
12:37 So I did Sabbath with you guys.
12:41 And it was just 3ABN on TV and me for four years.
12:47 I did not meet real live people until Curtis and Paula put me
12:57 with Hillcrest, which is in Nashville, Tennessee.
13:01 And now I attend Riverside.
13:02 So we've just got a couple of minutes left.
13:05 So Sister Larnetta, what would you say to our audience here,
13:08 to those at home, something that's on your heart, some word
13:10 of encouragement?
13:11 What do you want to share?
13:13 Well, I've been here.
13:14 I've been blessed.
13:16 3ABN brought me here this week.
13:17 I've never been to camp meeting before.
13:19 And so I was wondering, what was my mission here?
13:22 God arranged all of this.
13:24 Okay.
13:25 I planned nothing.
13:27 And so I finally found out a couple of days ago.
13:30 And so let them know on those days when it's hard, on those
13:34 days when they feel like, is it worth it?
13:37 It translates well on the other side of that camera.
13:42 Okay.
13:47 camera.
13:48 So I want to say 3ABN, don't stop because you are mending
13:53 broken people like me.
13:59 Let's have a prayer for Sister Larnetta.
14:02 God, we come before you and we're so grateful for her
14:05 journey.
14:07 Larnetta is your daughter and our sister.
14:09 Thank you for leading her out of darkness into this marvelous
14:14 light and the truth in your word you've taught her.
14:17 Thank you for anointing her with your Holy Spirit.
14:20 And we pray for your continued blessing upon her.
14:23 And God, we pray for many other broken people right now who
14:28 watch this ministry, people even now who are listening,
14:33 that by the power of your Holy Spirit, you would convict and
14:37 convert and change and transform into the image of
14:41 Jesus.
14:43 Thank you for the power of your word that goes forward and that
14:47 it never goes forth and returns void.
14:50 In Jesus' name, amen.
14:52 Amen.
14:53 Thank you, 3ABN.
14:55 Amen.
14:59 if your $1, your $5 ever makes a difference, it does.
15:04 All right.
15:05 Amen.
15:05 Amen.
15:08 Melody and Tim, Who Will Be Jesus.
15:24 He came home from work one night to find that she is gone.
15:32 Now he's spending his first week at church sitting in the
15:38 pew alone.
15:40 There are whispers all around him.
15:45 His heart breaks in two.
15:49 He's wondering who will reach out and help him make it
15:55 through.
15:56 Who will be Jesus to him?
16:04 Who will show the love that restores him again?
16:13 He doesn't need a judge.
16:16 He needs a friend who will be Jesus to him.
16:32 She has a reputation like the woman at the well.
16:41 The only love she ever knew is the kind she buys and sells.
16:48 But her thirsty heart is searching for a love that will
16:54 be true.
16:55 The Savior cries for her to see himself in me and you.
17:03 Who will be Jesus to her?
17:10 Who will show the love that's commanded in God's word?
17:19 Will she see in us the mighty God we serve?
17:25 Who will be Jesus to her?
17:35 Wounded people everywhere.
17:40 And when they look at us do they see Jesus there?
17:50 Who will be Jesus to them?
17:59 Who will show the love that restores them again?
18:07 They do not need a judge.
18:10 They need a friend who will be Jesus to them.
18:20 Who will be Jesus to them?
18:43 Amen.
18:44 Thank you so much Melody.
18:45 Thank you Tim.
18:46 Powerful message in song.
18:48 Praise the Lord for that.
18:50 I just love music.
18:51 All right Jill, who do we have with us here?
18:53 More 3bin family.
18:54 That's right.
18:58 Faith Family Media.
19:00 I hope I got that right.
19:01 I know the name just adjusted, but they are a very strong 3ABN
19:06 affiliate covering North Texas and many other places.
19:10 So talk to us Stephen.
19:11 You're the president of Faith Family Media.
19:13 Talk to us just a little bit about the reach of this
19:17 ministry and how far 3ABN is reaching there.
19:20 Sure thing.
19:20 So we're located in North Texas.
19:22 If you think of Dallas Fort Worth area that would be sort
19:24 of the center of where we broadcast.
19:27 And we do both radio, 3ABN radio and 3ABN TV.
19:32 On TV we're on three stations including a channel that covers
19:35 all of Dallas Fort Worth.
19:37 How many people is that?
19:38 Well that station probably covers about 5.6 million people
19:42 and a percentage of those watch with an antenna so they can
19:46 pick it up.
19:47 And it's been on the air for a number of years, quite a few
19:50 years.
19:54 covering from Abilene across various places.
19:58 And the new station we're working on this year will be in
20:01 Texarkana.
20:03 Amen.
20:06 their stations are located next to major interstates.
20:09 And as you know, Texas is majorly mountainous.
20:14 I think they got it.
20:16 Okay, Texas to me is majorly flat.
20:18 So Stephen, they can get the signal sometimes for many, many
20:22 miles.
20:25 interstate?
20:29 couple hours drive, you can find one of the stations the
20:32 entire distance and even west of Abilene.
20:34 And the Abilene station covers at least a 60 mile radius of
20:39 Texas.
20:39 Incredible.
20:42 this question.
20:43 Is broadcasting expensive?
20:46 Well, if you remember the price of eggs was expensive recently
20:50 and the price of everything you do is expensive, broadcasting
20:53 is expensive as well.
20:55 But it turns out that God can meet our needs just as he meets
20:59 the needs of 3ABN.
21:01 So when we start a project, I say, how many tacos is this
21:04 going to take?
21:05 Because I'm from Texas.
21:07 And so if you think of a taco as maybe $5, although Rosa can
21:10 make them a lot cheaper than that, I'll give you an example.
21:14 So a few years ago, there was a station that was offered to us
21:18 for sale and I went to the board and I said, you know,
21:21 this station is going to cost $100,000.
21:24 That's a lot of tacos.
21:26 And this is how much money we have and it said zero dollars.
21:29 Our ability to raise money is zero dollars.
21:32 And a board member raises his hand and says, I make the
21:34 motion we buy this station.
21:36 And it's like, well, yeah, now what?
21:39 And then the rest of the board voted unanimously to buy this
21:42 station.
21:48 And if you remember in the Bible it says God owns the
21:51 cattle on a thousand hills.
21:53 So what has to happen is we have to sell one of the cattle,
21:56 right?
21:57 So you may have a cow in your backyard.
21:59 I don't have cows, but my wallet may be made out of a
22:03 cow.
22:04 And in this case, God moved on someone's heart and seven days
22:09 after they voted to buy this station, someone walked up and
22:11 handed me a check for $100,000.
22:14 And we bought that station.
22:16 This is what God can do for us and he can do it for you.
22:20 When God opens the door, you need to run through it.
22:23 That's powerful, I love that.
22:25 Sister Rosa, share with us briefly, I know our time is
22:27 running, but share with us briefly a story of someone
22:29 whose life has been changed and transformed through the
22:33 ministry.
22:34 Yes, let me tell you the story about Jayce.
22:37 Jayce from a very young age became involved in drugs and
22:40 the occult, spiritualism, and he was going down the wrong
22:43 road.
22:44 So he was listening.
22:46 He came across our station, 3 ABN radio, and he heard about
22:51 the Sabbath and prophecy and his mom had mentioned maybe he
22:56 should go to the Adventist church there in town.
22:59 And so he decided, well, let's do it.
23:01 And so he went.
23:03 He began studying with an elder and he got baptized a few
23:09 months later.
23:11 Right away, he went to Wachita Hills College and in Amnesty,
23:15 Arkansas, if you don't know where that is.
23:18 And then he graduated, became a Bible worker, loved doing the
23:25 door -to-door sales, and he went to Idaho where he met his
23:30 future wife.
23:31 And now they're becoming parents and he and his wife are
23:37 serving as pastor in two Texas Conference churches.
23:42 So we're very happy for Jayce and his family and especially
23:46 for 3 ABN for putting that signal out.
23:50 Amen, amen.
23:51 Thank you both so much for the work that you do there with
23:53 Faith Family Media.
23:55 What an encouragement, right?
23:56 Thank you both so much.
23:57 You know, what an encouragement, you think about
23:59 the programming of 3 ABN.
24:00 Sorry, babe, I'll step on this side, okay?
24:02 Think about the programming of 3 ABN.
24:05 Again, the testimony that she just shared is because of you
24:08 and your support for the ministry of 3 ABN.
24:11 They were able to put the signal out and present the
24:14 gospel truth to a lost and dying world.
24:16 You know, there are people, we talk about timing, right?
24:19 God's divine providence and the timing.
24:22 In each person's life that finds Jesus Christ, many people
24:25 tell us it was at that moment that I was searching.
24:28 God knew it was the perfect moment and that's when I found
24:31 3 ABN.
24:33 I'm thinking of, is Mr. Miller here?
24:35 Boy, I may not see your hand.
24:37 I talked to you the other day.
24:38 I think this may be your first or second camp meeting here.
24:40 Anyway, he said that he was a Mormon bishop and 3 ABN was
24:47 instrumental in bringing him into the truth.
24:50 He's here today because of the ministry of 3 ABN.
24:53 And if I were to ask for a raising of hands, I'm sure many
24:56 of you would raise your hand because of the impact of 3 ABN.
25:00 But Jill, it's not the impact of just 3 ABN, right?
25:03 It's the gospel message that is presented across the airwaves
25:07 that we have the privilege of sharing to the world.
25:10 It's a blessing to be alive at this moment in Earth's history,
25:14 isn't it?
25:15 What an opportunity we have to share this gospel.
25:19 I think in my own personal life, I think, God, I don't
25:22 know how many more days I have.
25:24 How many more days does the ministry of 3 ABN have this
25:27 freedom to present the gospel to the world?
25:29 None of us know, right?
25:30 Nothing is guaranteed.
25:32 The breath that we have, our heartbeat that we have is a
25:35 gift from God.
25:36 I believe that our privileges will be taken away.
25:38 I really do.
25:41 message that 3 ABN proclaims.
25:43 So we have to go forward.
25:45 This is the year 3 ABN has a theme every year, and this
25:48 theme this year is the year to go forward.
25:51 And I have to be honest with you, 3 ABN is facing some very
25:56 serious, not serious, but very challenging financial times.
25:58 They're not serious because nothing is serious with God.
26:00 He's got it taken care of, right?
26:02 So I just want to encourage each one of you, as the Holy
26:05 Spirit is impressing you to give, we're going to be taking
26:07 up an offering here shortly, or if you want to put a pledge in
26:10 there, that's fine as well.
26:12 We just thank you in advance for listening to the Holy
26:14 Spirit.
26:20 the lady was saying, she says, you know, all day there's a
26:24 number that's been on my heart that I need to give to 3 ABN.
26:29 She said, what are your needs?
26:31 So I shared some of the needs and she said, okay, here's the
26:33 figure, here's the number, and I know God's going to use that
26:37 and multiply that.
26:38 And we again just thank those of you as you listen to the
26:41 Holy Spirit and you give, you make a massive difference in
26:44 many people's lives for eternity.
26:46 Amen.
26:51 of the brevity of life.
26:54 Have you been reminded of that in your own life?
26:57 Life is really a vapor, is it not?
26:59 We're here today, gone tomorrow, but the truth is we
27:05 have today.
27:06 Every day when I wake up, I want to make my life count for
27:12 Jesus.
27:13 I want to serve Jesus with my whole heart.
27:17 Each one of you here and each one of you at home joining
27:22 hands together.
27:24 It's not us doing any sort of work.
27:27 It's not even you doing work.
27:29 It's the Lord Jesus.
27:31 God is the one through the power of his Holy Spirit who
27:35 touches people just like Larnetta, people broken, people
27:40 searching, people questioning.
27:43 And what happens?
27:44 They flip us channel, they turn on the television or listen to
27:49 radio, and God, by the power of his Holy Spirit, delivers
27:54 truth, delivers Jesus into their lives and into their
27:58 hearts.
28:01 This is specifically for those of you at home.
28:04 If you would like to donate to the ministry of 3ABN, just pick
28:07 up your cell phone and you can scan that QR code and you can
28:12 donate that way.
28:14 Or you can send in your checks, P.O.
28:16 Box 220, West Frankfurt, Illinois, 62896.
28:22 Or you can go to 3ABN.TV.
28:25 That's a good way as well.
28:27 Yeah, and then you can just click the donate button there
28:29 as well.
28:33 Faith Family, also media.
28:35 If you feel impressed to actually support them as well,
28:38 3ABN doesn't send any money to them.
28:39 God provides for them.
28:41 But if you feel impressed also today to give to their
28:44 ministry, you can also just make a little memo line there,
28:47 Faith Family Media, and we'll pass it along to them.
28:50 But again, we thank you.
28:52 So many of you give consistently to the ministry of
28:55 3ABN.
28:56 Some of you give large gifts.
28:58 We appreciate that so very much, but we want to again
29:00 encourage you.
29:02 You are making a huge difference in people's lives
29:06 for eternity.
29:07 And someday soon, we'll be in heaven.
29:11 Can you imagine people that come to you and say, wow, thank
29:13 you so much for your support.
29:15 Because of you, I'm here in heaven.
29:18 So we look forward to that day.
29:19 Again, thank you.
29:23 prayer for the orphan.
29:23 Yes, I see them.
29:28 And then Brother Tim will lead us in some music.
29:30 Holy Father, we come before you in the name of Jesus.
29:33 And we just ask that you would multiply right now the loaves
29:36 and fishes as you did all those years before.
29:39 And Father, that as we give, we would in turn be blessed.
29:43 We thank you and we trust you in Jesus' name.
29:47 Amen.
30:18 Sing this with me.
30:34 Let us be thankful and sing.
30:37 Jesus is coming again.
30:43 Coming again.
30:46 Coming again.
30:48 Jesus is coming again.
30:54 Echo with hilltops, proclaim it he plains.
30:59 Jesus is coming again.
31:04 Coming in glory, the lamb that was slain.
31:10 Jesus is coming again.
31:15 Coming again, coming again.
31:20 Jesus is coming again.
31:25 He beings of earth, tell the vast wandering throng.
31:30 Jesus is coming again.
31:36 Typhus and whirlwinds, the anthem prolonged.
31:41 Jesus is coming again.
31:47 Coming, coming again.
31:52 Jesus is coming again.
31:58 Nations are angry.
31:59 By this we do know.
32:05 Jesus is coming again.
32:10 Knowledge increases.
32:12 Men run to and fro.
32:15 Jesus is coming again.
32:20 Coming again, coming again.
32:26 Jesus is coming again.
32:29 Oh, sing it one more time.
32:31 Oh, he's coming again.
32:35 Coming again.
32:38 Jesus is coming again.
32:49 Wow, amen.
32:50 Praise God.
32:51 Jesus is coming again, isn't he?
32:53 Wow, thank you so much, Tim.
32:56 You all sounded great as well.
32:57 I have the privilege of introducing to you and it
33:01 really requires no introduction Mr. Danny Shelton.
33:04 You know, I think about 40 years ago when he felt
33:08 impressed to build a television station, one that would what?
33:14 Counteract?
33:15 The counterfeit, right?
33:17 To preach an undiluted three angels messages of Revelation
33:21 chapter 14.
33:23 40 years ago, right?
33:25 He had no idea where a three -avian would be, would the Lord
33:28 have come within 40 years.
33:30 But one thing is sure, and that is Mr. Danny has been
33:33 passionate about proclaiming the undiluted three angels
33:38 messages to counteract the counterfeit.
33:42 And today's message I know will be no exception.
33:45 He's a man that loves evangelism.
33:48 But preaching the truth is on his heart always.
33:52 I have to tell you, it is so fun working with Mr. Danny.
33:57 And when we, you know, changed positions, he said, I'm going
34:00 to present your name to the board, you know, and I'm going
34:02 to kind of step back.
34:04 My big concern was, is don't step too far back, Mr. Danny,
34:07 because it's fun working with you.
34:09 And he said, don't worry.
34:11 He said, I'll be close by, just a phone call away.
34:13 And it's a blessing to be in ministry, of course, with my
34:16 wife, but with Mr. Danny Shelton.
34:19 He has such a passion for souls.
34:26 And it comes through loud and clear every day.
34:29 So what a blessing to have the privilege of introducing him to
34:33 you today.
34:37 going to be sharing with us from the Holy Spirit.
34:39 But before he shares, we have a special song brought to us by
34:43 Reggie and Lady Love and Tim Parton softly and
35:03 tenderly Jesus is calling calling for you and for me and
35:20 see on the port of He's waiting and watching, watching for you
35:33 and for me.
35:50 He who are weary, come home
36:03 earnestly, tenderly.
36:08 Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home.
36:34 Tears so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take him at his
36:47 word, just to rest upon his promise, just to know.
36:59 Thus said the Lord, let's sing it, sing it.
37:04 Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I prove him forever.
37:20 Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, oh, for grace to trust him.
37:35 Oh,
37:45 so are you weary and troubled.
37:53 No light in the darkness you see.
38:04 There's light for a look at the saving.
38:14 And life more abundant and free.
38:23 Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
38:34 Look full in his wonderful ways.
38:41 And the things of earth will grow strangely deep.
38:54 In the light of his glory and grace.
39:24 Cause all my life you have been faithful.
39:30 And all my life you have been so, so good.
39:40 With every breath that I am able.
39:46 Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.
39:52 Sing the chorus again, sing it out, all my life.
39:55 Cause all my life you have been faithful.
40:01 And all my life you have been so, so good.
40:10 With every breath that I am able.
40:15 Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God.
40:24 I will sing of the goodness of God.
40:44 Amen, praise the Lord.
40:47 Well, I've got a visitor today.
40:49 Say hi.
40:52 Wave hi.
40:53 Wave hi.
40:53 Can you wave at baby Blair?
40:56 Oh, she wants the microphone.
40:57 You want to talk?
40:58 I wonder where you get that from.
41:01 Probably Gigi.
41:03 Let's take this out a minute.
41:05 Okay, you can hold it.
41:07 You're the boss right now.
41:09 Okay.
41:10 This is baby Blair.
41:11 Last year exactly at this time.
41:16 Yeah.
41:17 Talk.
41:18 You want to talk about it?
41:20 Oh no, you want to eat it.
41:21 Okay.
41:22 We don't want to do that.
41:23 Some of us, we get excited and we do that too.
41:27 Last year this time, Trinity walked out with Palmetta.
41:31 They turned sideways, if you remember.
41:34 This was what was in the tummy.
41:37 Then for the fall camp meeting, we saw them about three months
41:41 old.
41:42 Good girl.
41:43 I preach it.
41:45 I preach it.
41:46 I just wanted to bring her out.
41:48 She's going to be a year at the end of this month.
41:51 She's 11 months old.
41:53 She's a papa's girl.
41:54 Oh, you still want to eat it?
41:56 Okay.
41:58 Anyway, because we're going to talk about this a little bit
42:00 later on.
42:01 Isn't life precious?
42:03 She's 11 months old.
42:06 Here, give papa a kiss.
42:07 Can you give papa a kiss and then go bye-bye?
42:09 Okay, she wants to preach.
42:11 Not this time.
42:12 You're too young.
42:13 All right.
42:14 Mama, you want to come out and get her?
42:16 We'll talk about this a little more later on.
42:19 Here she comes.
42:20 Here's Trin.
42:20 Thank you, Trin.
42:22 Bye-bye, baby, there.
42:23 Papa loves you.
42:25 Papa loves you.
42:27 How many of you have grandkids?
42:32 How many love them like crazy?
42:35 Right?
42:36 Wow.
42:37 There's nothing like them at all.
42:40 We have a bunch of them.
42:41 Yvonne and me.
42:42 Palmetto couldn't be here.
42:44 And Jay with baby Brooke.
42:47 And we have new additions to the Shelton family.
42:50 Noah.
42:51 Used to be baby Noah and Tiny Tots.
42:54 They have little Hudson.
42:55 And then, of course, Jesse and Danae.
42:59 They have little Danny.
43:00 He's three years old or so.
43:02 And what incredible blessings these young people are.
43:07 Well, today, as you can see, preparing to proclaim the final
43:12 cry.
43:13 Now, this has not been an easy subject for me.
43:18 But I said, what if this is my last sermon that I could give?
43:23 What would I hold back?
43:25 Or should I hold back?
43:26 Or should I just do what I feel like the Lord's impressing me
43:29 to do?
43:34 say.
43:35 Though I won't blame everything on the Lord.
43:38 If something's not right, then you can blame me for that.
43:41 Right?
43:42 But I think it's such a privilege to be able to still
43:46 live in a country where we can proclaim the everlasting gospel
43:50 that's not going to last.
43:51 I heard someone say it a while ago.
43:53 Greg said, this is not going to be forever.
43:56 Tough times are coming.
43:58 Tough times are coming and we know that.
44:01 So today the name of my sermon is Shock Waves.
44:07 How many knew that?
44:08 Had you heard about that yet?
44:10 Shock Waves.
44:11 Now, Yvonne said to me, I told her what I was talking about
44:15 and where the Lord was leading me, and she said, you know how
44:18 last year I said I should have the car running and that way
44:22 you could make a quick escape?
44:23 She said, after this, I think you should have a hole cut in
44:27 the roof, have a helicopter, drop a ladder, and that sounded
44:32 good, but then I said no, because as soon as I disappear
44:36 they'll say I'm teaching the rapture.
44:40 So I don't want to do any false teaching.
44:43 I just want to say that the sermon is Shock Waves, and
44:49 today probably I'm going to try to remember to say Shock Wave
44:53 right before I shock you, because you want to be
44:55 prepared.
45:00 being shocked unexpectedly.
45:02 I hate being shocked anytime, but it's really a shock because
45:05 sometimes no matter how hard you try you reach over and you
45:08 hit this and it shocks you, so today I really intend to give
45:14 some Shock Waves, and maybe...
45:16 oh, maybe he's drooled on there?
45:18 Oh, how sweet.
45:23 Oh, that's precious.
45:25 I brought an extra coat just in case I needed it, because I
45:28 said I'm carrying it around, so you never know.
45:31 So it is Shock Waves for a good reason.
45:34 Now, if you're a member of any Christian church, I'm going to
45:36 talk to the folks at home, I've got to remember, we have a
45:39 television, I have a great audience here.
45:41 Thank you all for coming here, and what a blessing it is to
45:45 have you here, and we do these 3ABN camp meetings for
45:48 you, because without you we'd love you being here, because
45:54 it's one thing to talk to you through the television screen,
45:56 and we love when we go to churches and we meet it, but
45:59 when you come here, we have more time.
46:01 It's kind of a reminder, a little bit of what heaven will
46:04 be like, when you're together with brothers and sisters from
46:07 all over the country, and out of the country.
46:10 Very diverse audience we have here, so praise the Lord for
46:14 that.
46:15 So, I'm going to make sure I don't forget my audience at
46:19 home, too.
46:23 you for your love and your prayers and financial support
46:26 of 3ABN.
46:28 Now, you all may want to listen, because many of us
46:31 Christians, especially SDAs, are living in a spiritual
46:35 bubble.
46:36 Now listen closely, and to be upfront, it's my intention to
46:41 burst that spiritual bubble today.
46:44 Alright?
46:47 world as it really is.
46:51 We're really confused.
46:53 Now, we think that we know everything, don't we?
46:55 We as Adventists, we think we know what's coming down, but we
46:58 really don't.
46:59 But many of us think business is usual.
47:02 So, it's not.
47:04 The devil's termites have been continually eating away at the
47:08 pillars of our church for a number of years, yet it seems
47:11 many of us either don't care, or we don't know.
47:15 So, I'm going to show you some numbers today from some
47:18 reputable resources, such as Pew Research Center, that will
47:24 absolutely shock you.
47:25 So, now I'm going to give you, warn you, a shock is coming.
47:30 This shocked me, I'm going to tell you.
47:32 At least, and I'm going to show this to you from the research,
47:35 at least one out of every two Seventh-day Adventists in
47:40 America by their own admission do not believe that it's
47:45 necessary to keep all ten of God's commandments.
47:50 Now, thank you.
47:51 I should hear that.
47:52 I wanted to hear that.
47:53 I was going to be worried if everything was quiet.
47:56 So, when you got shocked, you let me know that, okay?
48:00 I'm going to show that to you.
48:01 I'm also going to give you information today that will
48:04 confirm the Christian church, including the SDA churches, on
48:08 the same downward moral spiral as the rest of the secular
48:12 world.
48:13 Plus, get this, for every ten shockwave, for every ten people
48:20 baptized into the Adventist church, four of them leave.
48:27 Now, folks, this is a wake-up call that our church is in
48:30 deep, deep, well, I better say something, deep, deep trouble.
48:34 I don't want you getting your own thoughts out there.
48:38 We're in deep weeds out standing in a pasture
48:40 somewhere, but it's telling us we're in deep trouble.
48:43 So, let's look at a graphic because I'm all about showing
48:46 you.
48:46 This is from A&N.
48:47 You know who A&N?
48:49 Adventist News Network.
48:50 I want to put this graphic up on the screen.
48:52 I'm going to leave it there for a minute, and then we're going
48:55 to talk about it.
48:57 You see six people there, right?
48:59 On the right, four are walking away, and six are looking at
49:03 us.
49:04 Now, you may not be able to read the fine print, so what I
49:09 want to do now is I want to put up, if they can, put the
49:12 graphic of Dr. Trim.
49:16 Now, Dr. Trim, I'll just start reading them, but as soon as
49:19 they get it on the screen, if they can, I want you to see it
49:22 for yourself.
49:23 Dr. Trim pointed out, you follow with me, 2023 saw the
49:28 highest number of net accessions or baptisms or
49:32 members gaining in the church, in church history, exceeding 1
49:37 .383 million added in 2018.
49:41 Now, the number of accessions is now back on the same level
49:45 as it was prior to the challenging years of 20 and 21,
49:50 during the COVID pandemic.
49:52 Although church members may rejoice over the large number
49:56 of new members added to the fellowship, church growth is a
50:00 function of both accessions and net losses.
50:03 Now, listen to this.
50:04 In 2023,
50:09 836,905 persons who are alive and well decided to leave the
50:13 Adventist Church.
50:15 Folks, Nashville, Tennessee is only about 715,000 people.
50:19 As big as that is, we had 100 plus thousand more people leave
50:23 than the entire Nashville, Tennessee.
50:26 That's how many left the church.
50:29 Now, that was the third highest year for net losses.
50:31 Get this.
50:40 persons leaving our fellowship.
50:44 Yeah, I want to hear some of that.
50:46 That should be shockwave.
50:47 I should have called it out.
50:49 Dr. Trim showed a slide in his displaying membership data that
50:52 we just saw for 59 years since 1965.
50:58 In almost six decades, the church has accepted, get this,
51:02 45,117,980 persons into the Adventist Church membership.
51:10 45 million.
51:12 But in the same period, 19 million, I'm going to say it
51:16 again, 19 ,392,486 people have chosen to leave.
51:26 More than 4 of every 10, it's actually almost 43%, members
51:30 are slipping away, said Trim, while urging both GC executive
51:36 committee members and church members to be their brother's
51:39 keeper and their sisters, too.
51:42 Now, this should be a big shockwave, right, for most of
51:46 us.
51:49 me.
51:54 Now, maybe you're asking, why are so many people leaving the
51:58 church?
52:00 my two cents, all right?
52:02 Well, one reason, let me say this up front, I don't think it
52:06 has near as much to do with false doctrine or the
52:11 teachings.
52:12 Folks, it has to do with me and you.
52:15 We don't always reflect the love of Jesus, the way we
52:19 should.
52:20 So people leaving four out of 10 leave because they see too
52:26 many mean-spirited people.
52:28 Now, I'm going to give you an example.
52:30 I won't give any names.
52:31 I like giving examples.
52:33 I didn't know that this one was going to literally be handed to
52:36 me, but last evening, somebody came and handed me this and
52:40 said, there's a woman here at camp meeting who wants you to
52:42 read this.
52:44 So I said, oh, great praise the Lord.
52:45 That's probably a check, right?
52:48 Some of you feeling guilty you haven't given anything yet.
52:51 So maybe you've written a nice check.
52:54 So let's see, is it $50?
52:55 Who knows?
52:56 It might be $50,000.
52:57 So I open it up and I'm going to paraphrase.
53:01 But the woman says that she wants me to confess of
53:06 something that I did that she knows nothing about.
53:09 She wasn't there, but she's read about on the Internet,
53:12 something that I did 20 years ago, over 20 years ago, a
53:16 situation, and that if I do that, maybe the latter reign,
53:20 the Holy Spirit, because in history, when people confess,
53:23 big things happen.
53:25 Well, if I thought getting the Holy Spirit here, I might
53:27 confess whether I did it or not.
53:28 I mean, I'd be tempted to say yes, because we want to see the
53:33 Holy Spirit.
53:34 But she's telling me that now this is what I'm talking about.
53:38 You have people in the church who knows nothing about the
53:42 situation she's talking about, but she made a judgment call.
53:45 She didn't do anything wrong.
53:47 She didn't do anything wrong.
53:48 Folks, if I were new in the church, I would leave.
53:52 I'd go find a full, a friendly church, somebody that loves
53:56 people.
54:01 sinned, and I've come short of the glory of God.
54:03 I've been wrong about a lot of things, especially in the last
54:06 20 years, but this particular thing, I'm not, so I'm going to
54:09 throw that one away.
54:10 She says
54:14 I could get this burden.
54:16 She says you'll be able to get that burden you've been
54:18 carrying for 20 years.
54:21 And I said, Devon, I said she doesn't know.
54:23 When it comes to that subject, the only burden I've been
54:25 carrying is that extra 10 pounds I've gained.
54:28 So, alright.
54:30 I'm making light of it a little bit, because I really, it's
54:32 very disturbing, and I don't care personally, because when
54:35 you've been in a fish bowl, fish tank for 40 years, you
54:38 have everything in the world said about you, written about
54:42 you, and if I didn't, I'm doing something wrong.
54:46 In other words, I must be button heads with running along
54:50 beside the devil instead of button heads with it.
54:52 We, as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, we should be button
54:56 heads with the devil all the time.
54:57 All who live godly shall suffer persecution.
55:02 So, first of all, it's not biblical, right?
55:06 And I'm going to tell you, oh, here's shockwave, four out of
55:10 ten people we just said are leaving the Adventist Church.
55:15 Four out of ten.
55:17 And I want you to think about this, before you pass judgment
55:20 on me, it's not biblical to baptize people into the church.
55:26 Oh, did you get quiet on that one?
55:29 I didn't get one, amen.
55:30 It's not biblical to baptize people into the church.
55:35 Somebody's saying, what in the world is he talking about?
55:40 We should be baptizing people into Jesus, all right?
55:44 No one is going to make it to heaven through the church.
55:47 We only will make it to heaven through Christ and Christ
55:51 alone.
55:52 There are numerous stories in the Bible of people being
55:55 baptized, and none of them went through the amazing fact school
55:58 of evangelism or 3ABN side, right?
56:02 I myself have baptized a number of people.
56:05 Some have come from out of state and asked me to baptize
56:08 them because the Adventist Church they were visiting and
56:12 going to, the pastors refused to baptize them.
56:16 I had one pastor very upset at me.
56:18 He said, well, you're not an ordained Seventh Adventist
56:21 minister.
56:22 You didn't go to the cemetery.
56:25 You didn't go to the seminary.
56:31 But my answer is, Lord forgive me, I've always been a little
56:36 bit what you see is what you get, and sometimes I need boxed
56:39 around a little bit, and people will do that to you.
56:42 But my answer was, look pastor, if you're not going to do your
56:45 job, somebody needs to.
56:48 All right?
56:49 So please read Acts chapter 8 about Philip and the Ethiopian
56:53 eunuch.
56:58 Bible studies, right?
56:59 I've been so amazed that we SDAs preach Bible and the Bible
57:04 only, yet we insist on doing things our way, somehow making
57:09 excuses in actuality.
57:11 Now, ordination by denominational church, that can
57:14 be good, but it has zero effect on one salvation.
57:18 Now think about it.
57:19 Four out of every people being baptized into this church or
57:22 leaving, so something's not working.
57:27 So, you can't argue with the figures, right?
57:31 Four out of ten leaving the church, this A&N report, we
57:35 have changes.
57:36 To me, we have to change the mindset, because when we
57:41 baptize people into the church, they leave because they look at
57:45 us.
57:46 They look at people for answers, and you know what
57:49 they'll get?
57:52 they'll see our frail human, what frail human agents we are,
57:56 just like themselves.
57:58 But when they're baptized into Jesus Christ, they will see
58:03 God's love.
58:05 They will see the love of God for fallen man.
58:07 Their lost hopes, their lost dreams will be restored.
58:11 I mean, that's, I love this.
58:12 Thank you Jesus for your love for fallen man.
58:16 I also have to say that when we're studying the Bible with
58:18 people, preparing them to join our church, notice how loving
58:22 and kind, and we are, and if they have shortcomings, we
58:26 overlook their failures.
58:28 We stay close to them.
58:29 We tell everybody, I'm praying for somebody.
58:31 He's about to accept the Sabbath, you know, and go
58:34 through, we help them through all the struggles.
58:37 But hey, once they're baptized into the church, we expect them
58:41 to be a mirror-like image of us older members, right?
58:44 They need to dress like us, look like us, act like us.
58:48 In fact, if we don't see a reflection of ourselves in
58:50 them, we begin to criticize them.
58:52 Now come on, I'm just telling you the truth.
58:55 If you don't like it, you gotta bear with me a little bit,
58:57 please.
58:58 Please, bear with me.
58:59 Because after all, they're now baptized into the church, so
59:02 I'm gonna move on to a different subject.
59:05 But I just want to tell you, well, I can't totally move on.
59:12 Let me just say, remember, people become what they behold.
59:16 So if we baptize into Jesus, they'll continue to grow
59:21 through the work of the sanctification and reflect the
59:24 character of Jesus instead of other church members.
59:28 Now Jesus says, say this with me, I, if I be lifted up, will
59:35 draw all men.
59:37 How many?
59:38 All right.
59:40 Now all of this talk is leading me into another direction that
59:43 I really didn't plan on originally.
59:46 I didn't intend to go, but after reading these reports,
59:50 I'm showing you today, I'm including a few from Pew
59:54 Research Center, another, these are gonna be some shocks,
59:57 folks.
59:58 Okay.
01:00:04 I'm gonna ask you a question.
01:00:06 Now you don't have to raise your hands if you don't want
01:00:09 to.
01:00:10 But I'm gonna ask you a question.
01:00:11 If I ask you, are you saved?
01:00:15 How many people would raise their hands?
01:00:18 Okay.
01:00:19 A few of you did.
01:00:22 now because we've got a lot of people that aren't saved.
01:00:26 Apparently if you're not saved, you're lost, okay?
01:00:28 So now, so here's the problem.
01:00:30 If you ask ten Adventists that same question, are you saved?
01:00:36 About 80 of them will start squirming around and start
01:00:39 looking fishy.
01:00:42 Anybody know what I'm talking about?
01:00:44 Some of you just did it here.
01:00:45 Why in the world would this make someone uncomfortable?
01:00:52 I don't get it.
01:00:53 For some reason, Christians, including SDAs, we're not the
01:00:56 only ones, struggle with this question.
01:00:58 But sometimes, trying to find answers, we try to dig too
01:01:02 deeply when the answer is right in front of us.
01:01:04 The Bible's very clear on how we are to be saved.
01:01:09 One is to be saved from what and by whom?
01:01:12 Right?
01:01:16 this should give us assurance of salvation.
01:01:20 Which brings great peace to the human heart and mind.
01:01:25 So why the confusion on the subject?
01:01:28 Do you mind if we walk through it just a little bit?
01:01:30 Okay.
01:01:31 Cause you're still really quiet on this.
01:01:33 Some of you can't get over I just said that.
01:01:35 Alright.
01:01:38 more.
01:01:39 Okay.
01:01:40 It's kind of like the gender confusion issue.
01:01:43 No one should be confused when it comes to how many genders
01:01:46 there are.
01:01:48 Right?
01:01:49 The answer is there's only two genders.
01:01:52 So according to the Bible, God created male and female and
01:01:55 that's it.
01:01:56 There's no in-between and there's no such thing as
01:01:59 claiming there are more than two genders.
01:02:02 One young person told me there are 107 genders.
01:02:06 So I asked him if that were the case, why with every gender
01:02:09 surgery are doctors attempting to change, make the transition
01:02:13 from male to female or female to male?
01:02:16 Why not go to the one the other 105 that you think so great?
01:02:22 You with me?
01:02:23 So the answer is simple.
01:02:25 There are no other genders and when it comes to salvation
01:02:28 folks, there's only two options.
01:02:30 So you're either saved or you're lost.
01:02:33 So when someone asks me if I'm saved I say yes, but of course
01:02:37 I give all glory and praise to Jesus Christ as I cannot save
01:02:42 myself no matter how hard I try.
01:02:44 So when someone asks are you saved?
01:02:48 I can't imagine any Christian answering no I'm lost.
01:02:52 Right?
01:02:53 So why the hesitation to say yes?
01:02:55 It's amazing to me that so many SDAs who claim to be people of
01:02:59 the word find themselves in some kind of spiritual limbo
01:03:02 between saved or lost.
01:03:04 That kind of reminds me of some Catholics who are considered in
01:03:07 purgatory.
01:03:08 Right?
01:03:09 Well guess what?
01:03:10 There is no in between.
01:03:11 We are either saved or lost.
01:03:13 This is according to the Bible.
01:03:15 If you don't believe that, please don't ever sing Amazing
01:03:20 Grace.
01:03:20 How sweet the sound that saved.
01:03:24 Oh there's that word that saved.
01:03:27 How many have sang that song before?
01:03:29 Had you didn't raise your hands well ago.
01:03:32 Okay.
01:03:32 All right.
01:03:38 mine.
01:03:39 So you don't have blessed assurance.
01:03:41 Don't be singing that song anymore.
01:03:43 Right?
01:03:43 We got to have blessed assurance.
01:03:45 All right.
01:03:47 Now Christians including cause I'm I realize I'm talking to a
01:03:51 world audience so it's kind of a family talk today but I got
01:03:55 to include you at home.
01:03:56 So when I say Christians including SDA Christians should
01:03:59 indeed have the calm assurance that we are saved.
01:04:03 Otherwise we must be in a lost condition.
01:04:06 As I mentioned there is no spiritual limbo between heaven
01:04:09 and hell.
01:04:13 enough to save the lost sinner or it was not.
01:04:16 But my Bible tells me that it's strong enough.
01:04:19 I'm not even going to put the scripture up on the screen
01:04:23 because I want you to say it with me.
01:04:25 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
01:04:31 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
01:04:38 everlasting life.
01:04:40 Now listen shouldn't that give you some great assurance?
01:04:45 Mercy.
01:04:49 subject.
01:04:53 are searching for truth on how to be saved.
01:04:55 They know your seventh day evidence so they come to you
01:04:58 and say look can you help me?
01:05:00 Can you tell me how to be saved?
01:05:02 And you look a little fishy so they say well are you saved?
01:05:06 And you hum all around.
01:05:08 You're like well you know what I'd do?
01:05:14 Fire them.
01:05:18 because they know how to get you saved in a flash.
01:05:21 You can go from lost to saved in a minute.
01:05:25 Okay I've got your attention at least on that.
01:05:28 Can't you just see the little gossip presses magazines going
01:05:32 on right now already at camp meeting?
01:05:34 Danny Shelton tells people to go join the Baptist church.
01:05:37 That's what you're going to hear.
01:05:39 Well at least those of you hearing those others you'll
01:05:41 have heard the rest of it.
01:05:42 People love to take things out of context.
01:05:45 So folks if you don't have peace about your spiritual
01:05:48 condition right now I'm praying that you will find that peace.
01:05:52 Because I'm on limited time so for the next few minutes I
01:05:56 really want to deal with those who are already called
01:05:58 themselves Christians and Seventh-day Adventist
01:06:01 Christians but don't have the assurance of salvation.
01:06:05 But now all are welcome.
01:06:06 You all at home you're welcome to listen and decide for
01:06:09 yourselves.
01:06:10 Brothers and sisters it's really this simple.
01:06:13 Think about it.
01:06:14 It's simple.
01:06:18 The Bible contains several scriptures that illustrate the
01:06:22 concept that humans are born into a sinful world and inherit
01:06:26 a sinful nature.
01:06:28 Now let's go over a few passages.
01:06:31 I think we should stick with the Bible right?
01:06:33 We're going to stick with the Bible.
01:06:34 If you'll put up on the screen Psalms 51 5 Behold I was
01:06:40 brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother conceived me.
01:06:44 This verse expresses the belief that sin is inherent from the
01:06:48 moment of conception.
01:06:51 Romans maybe have this up too.
01:06:53 I can't see the side screen so hopefully we got it up.
01:06:55 Romans 3 23 say it with me.
01:06:58 For all have sin and come short of the glory of God.
01:07:03 Now this verse emphasizes that every human being is sin.
01:07:07 Now Romans 5 12 let's look at it.
01:07:10 Therefore just as through one man sin entered the world and
01:07:15 death through sin and thus death spread to all men because
01:07:21 all have seen.
01:07:23 Here Paul explains that sin entered the world through Adam
01:07:26 affecting humanity.
01:07:28 Also Ephesians 2 1 to 3 Galatians 5 7 there's so many
01:07:31 scriptures.
01:07:33 Collectively they affirm the belief that we humans are born
01:07:36 into a sinful affected world and we can't help that we're
01:07:42 born there and we inherit a sinful nature.
01:07:45 Right?
01:07:46 Underscoring the need for salvation.
01:07:50 Through who?
01:07:51 Through Jesus Christ.
01:07:53 So we have inherited the sins of our fathers which separates
01:07:56 us from God but the good news is Jesus paid the penalty for
01:08:00 our sins and that reconciles us to God.
01:08:04 Now I'm just giving you Bible.
01:08:05 I don't know what you've been taught or what books you've
01:08:07 been reading.
01:08:08 But here's Romans 5 10.
01:08:12 For if we were enemies we were reconciled to God through this
01:08:16 new King James version through death of his son.
01:08:19 Much more having been reconciled we shall be saved by
01:08:23 his life.
01:08:24 And then Colossians 1 21 22 And you who once were alienated and
01:08:29 enemies in your mind by wicked works yet now he has reconciled
01:08:35 in the body of his flesh through death to present you
01:08:39 holy.
01:08:40 How?
01:08:44 reproach in his sight.
01:08:46 Somebody should be saying praise the Lord.
01:08:49 That is amazing.
01:08:50 From the foundation of the world the Godhead knew that man
01:08:54 would fall into sin and they came up with a plan to redeem
01:08:58 his fallen state.
01:09:00 And reconcile us to God himself.
01:09:03 This we refer to as the again we've been talking about the
01:09:07 plan of salvation.
01:09:09 So in a nutshell the plan of salvation from a biblical
01:09:12 standpoint revolves around the themes of sin redemption and
01:09:17 reconciliation between humanity and God.
01:09:20 Do we understand that?
01:09:21 I want to say today that the Bible is clear on the subject
01:09:24 of salvation.
01:09:26 Now there's a lot of information on social media
01:09:28 accusing Seventh-day Adventists of not really understanding the
01:09:31 gospel and I think sadly to some extent that's true.
01:09:35 Many of us don't.
01:09:36 Now some of you listening to me who disagree with me before you
01:09:41 recommend that I read such and such book please don't.
01:09:45 The Bible is very clear and the Bible is the source that most
01:09:48 people have access to.
01:09:50 So I'm going to stick with that right?
01:09:52 Some of you are like oh my my what's he saying?
01:09:55 I'm saying just what I said.
01:09:56 I'm going to stick with the Bible.
01:09:58 The Bible has the answers for this world's problems today and
01:10:01 that's Jesus Christ.
01:10:03 So I believe that we must do a better job as Seventh-day
01:10:06 Adventists Christians teaching our members the importance of
01:10:10 having the assurance of salvation.
01:10:12 I think that's one of the reasons so many are walking
01:10:14 away.
01:10:15 Leaving the church, four out of ten.
01:10:16 I'm aware there are numerous churches now they go too far
01:10:19 with the assurance of salvation that they believe that you
01:10:23 cannot lose your salvation once they commit their lives to
01:10:26 Christ and you know I'm referring to the one saved
01:10:29 always saved group.
01:10:30 To me this is a misuse of scripture and a misperception
01:10:33 of the devil because it makes people feel they're saved when
01:10:37 maybe they're really not.
01:10:39 So let's never lose focus that the devil is out to here's the
01:10:43 scripture we'll do it several just part of it.
01:10:45 He's out to steal kill and to destroy.
01:10:48 This is going to be very important before we end this
01:10:51 service today.
01:10:52 And because God created us with free choice we can walk away
01:10:57 from his covering.
01:10:58 We can reject the free gift of salvation anytime we want to.
01:11:02 Now think about it like this God is not going to force
01:11:04 anyone to be in heaven that doesn't want to be there.
01:11:08 Wouldn't you hate to be somewhere a billion plus years
01:11:11 and you didn't want to be there?
01:11:13 So God's not going to take you there because you don't want to
01:11:15 be there.
01:11:15 You'd be miserable.
01:11:16 It'd be hell to you.
01:11:17 Right?
01:11:19 Hey that's a good thought.
01:11:20 I should write that down somewhere.
01:11:22 So how better to deceive people than to have them confused
01:11:26 about the plan of salvation.
01:11:28 It's really one more time I'm going to say it.
01:11:30 It's very simple.
01:11:32 Once we take the steps to commit our lives to Christ we
01:11:35 are saved until we...
01:11:37 Uh oh.
01:11:37 Shock.
01:11:38 We are saved until we are not.
01:11:41 Somebody said what?
01:11:43 What in the world is he saying?
01:11:44 Once you submit your life to Christ you're saved until
01:11:48 you're not.
01:11:49 So let me say it again.
01:11:51 Once we come to Jesus and accept his shed blood as an
01:11:55 atonement for our sins.
01:11:56 Listen to me folks at home too.
01:11:58 We are saved.
01:12:00 The only way we can be lost is when we reject.
01:12:04 It's our own decision to reject to follow Christ by rejecting
01:12:08 the plan of salvation.
01:12:10 The devil can't rob us of our salvation.
01:12:13 The people in the church who's offending us, they can't rob us
01:12:16 of our salvation.
01:12:17 We can't blame somebody else for that.
01:12:20 We have salvation until we choose to leave Christ.
01:12:26 Now I know this may sound confusing to some of you but
01:12:29 think about it like this.
01:12:31 Jesus' blood covers my confessed sins but that does
01:12:35 not mean I will never sin again.
01:12:38 But even as a professed Christian I will fall short of
01:12:40 the glory of God from time to time and so will you.
01:12:43 If you don't agree with me on that point then you must think
01:12:46 you're perfect which is a shortcoming in itself, right?
01:12:50 So follow me now.
01:12:52 Let's say as a confessed prayed up Christian I allow someone to
01:12:56 offend me and I really lose my Christianity for a minute and I
01:13:01 tell them off.
01:13:02 My mom used to say, boy he told him how the hog ate the
01:13:05 cabbage.
01:13:06 Now I never knew what that meant but I knew it wasn't
01:13:09 good.
01:13:10 Right?
01:13:10 Okay.
01:13:12 Does God now turn his back on me because I make a mistake?
01:13:17 Absolutely not.
01:13:18 Some people think God is in heaven looking down on humanity
01:13:21 recording every mistake they make so on judgment day he can
01:13:26 burn them up for eternity.
01:13:29 What a distortion of God's eternal love for fallen men.
01:13:32 Now let me ask a mother and how many mothers we have out here.
01:13:35 Okay.
01:13:36 Let me ask a mom a question.
01:13:38 Many of you have sons.
01:13:39 Let's say that you have a 17 year old son who's a good boy.
01:13:44 He loves you and respects the rules of your house and he
01:13:48 loves Jesus.
01:13:49 You have a wonderful relationship with this son but
01:13:52 on graduation night from high school he goes to celebrate
01:13:56 with his friends and that night he comes home and you smell
01:13:59 alcohol on his breath.
01:14:01 Now he'd never done this before.
01:14:04 At this point is he no longer your son?
01:14:09 Did you kick him out of the house and abandon him from ever
01:14:11 coming back?
01:14:13 You didn't stop loving him?
01:14:15 Okay.
01:14:17 He now sees time goes on how disappointed you are in him and
01:14:22 he's disappointed in himself.
01:14:24 So he says mom I'm so sorry I did wrong.
01:14:29 Can you forgive me?
01:14:31 Now what do you think mom's gonna do?
01:14:33 What's she gonna do?
01:14:35 She's gonna forgive her precious son that she's loved
01:14:38 his entire life.
01:14:40 Am I telling the truth?
01:14:41 Now if the story had a different ending, listen to
01:14:44 this, graduation night was the beginning of a rebellious
01:14:49 relationship with mom because he not only disrespects her and
01:14:52 her house rules but allows the alcohol to destroy his own life
01:14:57 and all those around him and he begins to live a life of crime
01:15:01 and sustains his, to sustain his habits.
01:15:05 So let me ask you mom, even after all of that do you stop
01:15:10 loving him?
01:15:12 No.
01:15:12 No.
01:15:14 I love that.
01:15:18 made a decision that he does not want to be in a
01:15:22 relationship with you.
01:15:23 You can't force him to show his love for you as he has freedom
01:15:27 of choice.
01:15:28 Instead you wait patiently praying daily that he will
01:15:32 surrender his life to Jesus and your relationship will be
01:15:36 restored with him.
01:15:38 Now I said all that to say that Jesus loves you eternally.
01:15:44 Jesus' love for us was written in red.
01:15:47 Isn't that beautiful?
01:15:48 Don't let anyone tell you that Jesus gives up on you and is
01:15:51 ready to judge you unworthy every time you make a mistake.
01:15:56 After we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior of our life our
01:15:59 character is the telltale sign of whether we have accepted him
01:16:03 or not.
01:16:04 Right?
01:16:06 He knows our humanity.
01:16:08 God knows us.
01:16:09 He knows how cunning the devil is.
01:16:11 He's out to deceive us.
01:16:13 Jesus actually, get this, he stands in your defense because
01:16:17 when something like this happens he now becomes your
01:16:20 brother.
01:16:21 He becomes your attorney and he becomes your judge.
01:16:27 Now somebody better say praise the Lord.
01:16:29 If you had to go to court wouldn't you like it if you had
01:16:32 your brother and you had your attorney and the judge all on
01:16:35 your side?
01:16:35 All rooting for you?
01:16:37 All right.
01:16:38 we can be 100% sure of our salvation according to God's
01:16:44 word.
01:16:45 Now I'm going to read again.
01:16:46 I want to stick with the Bible.
01:16:47 1 John 5 11-13.
01:16:50 All right?
01:16:55 And this life is his son.
01:16:57 He who has the son has life.
01:17:00 He who does not has the son of God does not have life.
01:17:04 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of
01:17:08 the Son of God that you may know that ye have eternal life
01:17:12 and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son
01:17:16 of God.
01:17:17 Now the devil wants you doubting your salvation and
01:17:20 robbing you of your peace of mind.
01:17:22 But please trust that Jesus loves you.
01:17:26 Jesus loves me.
01:17:27 This I know.
01:17:28 Remember that right?
01:17:30 For the Bible tells me so.
01:17:34 Little ones to him belong.
01:17:37 They are weak but he is strong.
01:17:42 You see, his supreme sacrifice on Calvary covers the sins of
01:17:46 the world.
01:17:48 And all we have to do is repent of our sins and accept the plan
01:17:50 of salvation, turn from our wicked ways and go forward.
01:17:54 Now some of you may be wanting me to place and you've been for
01:17:57 a long time.
01:17:58 But what about John 14-15?
01:18:00 Here it says, If you love me, keep my commandments.
01:18:04 But to be clear, the gift of salvation, shockwave for some
01:18:08 Adventists.
01:18:09 But to be clear, hold on to your seat, the gift of
01:18:13 salvation has zero to do with the outward sign of obedience.
01:18:18 Oh boy.
01:18:20 Oh boy.
01:18:22 You want to be there by works, right?
01:18:25 It sounds like it.
01:18:26 All right.
01:18:29 Think about it.
01:18:31 What did I say wrong?
01:18:33 It has zero to do with your salvation.
01:18:36 We cannot do anything to save ourselves.
01:18:39 That's the point I'm trying to make.
01:18:40 Salvation through Christ and Christ alone.
01:18:43 Obedience is an outward growth of our love for Christ.
01:18:47 I have found out that through the years that I can do nothing
01:18:51 to save myself.
01:18:52 It is all Jesus.
01:18:53 But I do have the freedom of choice to walk away from the
01:18:57 arms of God.
01:18:58 God is judging my character, not my every move, as I said.
01:19:02 That's why I continue to teach that as a church, we cannot
01:19:06 allow open sin in our churches.
01:19:09 There's a difference in a person stumbling and falling
01:19:11 than to have outright rebellious sin against God.
01:19:16 God cannot bless us and we call ourselves whatever name we want
01:19:20 to as a church.
01:19:21 And we're involved in a lot of open sin.
01:19:23 We're going to talk about it.
01:19:24 We're going to let the stats show us.
01:19:26 But we can call ourselves the remnant church.
01:19:28 We can call ourselves God's church.
01:19:30 Whatever holy name we want to put on it.
01:19:33 But if we affirm open sin against God's commandments, we
01:19:36 are not part of His remnant church.
01:19:40 Do I need to say that again?
01:19:43 We're not part of His remnant church.
01:19:48 If we support open sin in any way.
01:19:52 That's rebellion.
01:19:53 I'm talking about open rebellion that's misleading to
01:19:56 the world.
01:19:58 The church that He's coming back for is going to be those
01:20:02 who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of
01:20:04 Jesus.
01:20:08 We can as a church.
01:20:09 We can reject His grace and atonement on the cross and try
01:20:14 to work it out all by ourselves.
01:20:16 Work our way into heaven.
01:20:17 But again, I'm stressing this over and over.
01:20:20 I can guarantee you, you will never make it to heaven if
01:20:24 you're trying to do it on your own.
01:20:26 So again, I can say salvation has zero to do with me and
01:20:31 everything to do with Christ.
01:20:33 Now, how we go forward, I'll get to that in a minute.
01:20:37 Some of you have been and some have to call 911.
01:20:40 Alright.
01:20:41 I've had to ask myself some hard questions as to why so
01:20:45 many questions, as to why so many SDAs struggle with the
01:20:50 concept of telling people they are saved.
01:20:53 I've come to the conclusion that the devil has a soul
01:20:55 wrapped up oh no, shockwave, has a soul wrapped up in
01:21:00 prophecies such as the predicted National Sunday Law,
01:21:03 the Investigative Judgment, 1844, the Health Message, and
01:21:07 even the Sabbath that many totally have lost a personal
01:21:10 relationship with Jesus Christ or we never had one to begin
01:21:14 with.
01:21:15 Oh, mercy.
01:21:16 None of the above things will save us.
01:21:19 Only the blood of Jesus Christ.
01:21:20 Can we get that through our heads?
01:21:22 Will save us.
01:21:23 To make this as clear as I can, let's read one more main
01:21:27 scripture that emphasizes the inability of humans to save
01:21:31 themselves regardless of their good deeds and the necessity
01:21:35 for salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ.
01:21:38 This one I want to put up on the screen and you read it with
01:21:41 me.
01:21:42 Because it's very, very important.
01:21:43 It's Ephesians 2, 8, and 9.
01:21:46 Here we go.
01:21:47 For by grace you have been saved through faith and that
01:21:53 not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest
01:22:00 anyone should burst.
01:22:03 Burst or boast?
01:22:04 Oh, boast.
01:22:05 There we go.
01:22:06 Burst that bubble we were talking about today.
01:22:08 Remember?
01:22:11 in.
01:22:16 It's not really.
01:22:17 But we get things so confused.
01:22:18 We're supposed to be people of the word and we get things so
01:22:21 confused because this is the way we were taught.
01:22:24 This is what somebody said.
01:22:25 Folks we're going to have to stay to the Bible no matter
01:22:28 what.
01:22:29 No matter who around us, alright?
01:22:31 So the scripture clearly states that salvation is a gift from
01:22:35 God that cannot be earned through human effort or good
01:22:38 works, right?
01:22:39 It underscores the importance of faith and grace in salvation
01:22:43 process affirming that no one can claim credit for their
01:22:47 salvation based on their own merits.
01:22:49 This scripture is foundational.
01:22:51 To me this is foundational of understanding the Christian
01:22:55 doctrine of salvation.
01:22:57 Now, that's why I say salvation is through Christ and Christ
01:23:06 alone.
01:23:06 Say it one more time.
01:23:07 That's why salvation is through Christ and Christ alone.
01:23:13 Okay, now, here we go.
01:23:14 Some of you Adventists are going to feel a little better.
01:23:18 Once a person is saved and finally if we got to that point
01:23:23 I'm scared to ask now how many people are saved because I
01:23:26 don't know if we've made any progress or not or if the Lord
01:23:29 has.
01:23:30 Okay?
01:23:31 So, once we will serve the Lord once we're saved, we'll serve
01:23:36 him out of love.
01:23:38 Not to keep our salvation our salvation is ours until we
01:23:43 break from Christ by our words and our deeds.
01:23:47 So, let me ask you will keeping this Sabbath save you?
01:23:52 No.
01:23:52 No, it will not.
01:23:53 Now, let me ask you another question.
01:23:55 It's not a trick question.
01:23:57 Can not keeping the Sabbath cause us to be lost?
01:24:03 Yes.
01:24:05 Absolutely.
01:24:06 As you can be lost by the rejection of any of God's
01:24:08 commandments.
01:24:12 what in the world?
01:24:13 You think you're saved by the Sabbath?
01:24:14 No, no, no.
01:24:15 We're just putting it in with the rest of the Ten
01:24:17 Commandments, right?
01:24:19 But now, here's the thing we can't judge other human beings
01:24:22 as to where they are in their spiritual walk with Christ.
01:24:25 That's why we don't say oh, he doesn't keep the Sabbath.
01:24:27 Well, he's lost.
01:24:28 No, we don't do that.
01:24:29 Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on
01:24:32 the heart.
01:24:33 Aren't you glad?
01:24:35 Again, it's all about a loving relationship with our Heavenly
01:24:38 Father.
01:24:39 Now, many of us have a checklist that make us feel
01:24:41 like we're saved.
01:24:43 We pay tithe.
01:24:45 We go to church Sabbath.
01:24:46 We eat tofu.
01:24:49 We don't smoke or drink alcohol.
01:24:51 But sadly, the checklist people are likely the ones that Jesus
01:24:55 will say depart from me, you workers of iniquity.
01:24:59 I never knew you.
01:25:00 To which they may answer, but Lord, have I not done great
01:25:04 things?
01:25:05 Maybe the Lord missed it, right?
01:25:06 Have I not done great things in your name?
01:25:09 I've healed the sick.
01:25:10 I fed the poor.
01:25:11 I gave big time finances to the church.
01:25:14 I kept the Sabbath.
01:25:15 I was a strict vegetarian, and I didn't even wear a wedding
01:25:19 ring.
01:25:22 Brothers and sisters, all of these outward works do not open
01:25:25 the doors of Heaven.
01:25:27 Only a heart transformation accomplished through the work
01:25:30 of the Holy Spirit will get us there.
01:25:34 Are these other things important?
01:25:36 Yes, they are.
01:25:37 Now, for my all of us Adventists, we're going to put
01:25:40 up on the screen, because this is going to make us feel much
01:25:43 better.
01:25:44 John 14, 15.
01:25:46 You can repeat it without even seeing it.
01:25:50 If you love me, keep my commandments.
01:25:55 So, commandments are important.
01:25:57 So, all of this talk, I haven't been trying to do away with the
01:25:59 Ten Commandments.
01:26:00 You get it?
01:26:01 But can you see how easy it is to be deceived by Satan?
01:26:07 Salvation is a free gift from God that cannot be earned.
01:26:11 Think of it like this.
01:26:13 It's the same as in a marriage.
01:26:15 For those of you who are married, are you living your
01:26:17 best life by having a checklist to secure your marriage, or
01:26:23 have you...
01:26:24 Wait a minute, men don't say anything to that.
01:26:27 I see people like, oh boy.
01:26:29 No, no, no, no, don't do that.
01:26:31 To secure your marriage, or have you developed a
01:26:34 relationship built on love.
01:26:37 See, hopefully it's built on love.
01:26:39 You will still do the same things that you do for your
01:26:43 beautiful wife.
01:26:44 That you'll do these things not because of the checklist, but
01:26:47 because you love her.
01:26:48 You want to please her.
01:26:50 Because you are motivated by love.
01:26:54 Again, it's not because you have to.
01:26:57 That's the way it should be, and hopefully it is.
01:26:59 It's the same way with our relationship with Jesus.
01:27:02 We serve him now out of love.
01:27:05 Once we're saved, because we're not lost and we're not in
01:27:07 between, so we must be saved, the way I figure it.
01:27:11 So not by trying to fix our own character, but allowing him to
01:27:15 fix our shortcomings and failures.
01:27:17 So once I confess my sins to Jesus, he is faithful and just
01:27:22 to forgive me of my sins and cleanse me from what?
01:27:26 From all unrighteousness.
01:27:28 Christ's blood, you should be getting excited right now,
01:27:31 Christ's blood covers my sin, and I'm saved until I reject
01:27:35 God and disconnect from our relationship.
01:27:38 Alright, now that's the Thus Sayeth Me.
01:27:40 But as I admitted, I didn't go to the cemetery we talked
01:27:43 about.
01:27:48 Bible and reading it for what it says.
01:27:51 Okay, I talked about rejection of God's law.
01:27:55 Now we're going to get into that, because now there's going
01:27:58 to be some shockwaves.
01:27:59 You're not going to like it, many of you.
01:28:02 I didn't like it when I'm studying it, but I just said,
01:28:06 okay Lord, if this is the truth, we want to speak it,
01:28:09 right?
01:28:10 So, I want to talk about the open rejection of God's
01:28:13 commandments.
01:28:14 I opened up my eyes, and I determined by making a big
01:28:16 statement that nearly one out of two S.D.A.'s by their own
01:28:21 admission admit they do not believe that all ten
01:28:24 commandments are still valid in today's society, didn't I?
01:28:28 So, if that is a true statement, then it shows that
01:28:31 at least fifty percent, we're going to find that, fifty
01:28:35 percent of Adventists are as steeped, oh, I hate to even say
01:28:39 it, are as steeped in Babylon, which is confusion just as much
01:28:44 as the churches that we point our fingers to.
01:28:46 We've been pointing fingers at other churches for nearly a
01:28:49 hundred and eighty years since our inception.
01:28:52 We as a church have been called to proclaim, right, the three
01:28:56 angels messages of Revelation 14, which is to give the
01:28:59 everlasting gospel to a lost and dying world.
01:29:03 And in 1984, the Lord impressed me to build a television
01:29:06 station to reach the world with an undiluted three angels
01:29:10 messages, undiluted, you get that, messages, one that would
01:29:15 counteract the counterfeit.
01:29:16 Now, I really had no idea at that time what it meant.
01:29:20 It never occurred to me in 1984 that forty years later, we
01:29:26 would have a large percentage of our own members, I'll show
01:29:28 you in a minute, who would carry the name of Seventh-day
01:29:31 Adventists while openly rejecting God's Ten Commandment
01:29:35 laws.
01:29:36 I'm not talking about hiding it or individuals.
01:29:38 In 1984, the only commandment under attack was the fourth
01:29:42 commandment of remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
01:29:45 For as I know, I might have been a bubble myself.
01:29:48 But I'm not suggesting that any of us were perfect back then,
01:29:52 because a lot of you were there too, we know we're not, but I
01:29:54 want to be clear that no Seventh-day Adventists in good
01:29:57 standing in the church would have dared to openly support
01:30:00 the breaking of any of God's commandments, am I right?
01:30:05 Some of you said so.
01:30:07 We wouldn't have, because that's the whole calling that
01:30:10 we have to be a separated people, come out of her my
01:30:13 people, right?
01:30:14 So we SDA stood up against any attempted changes by the
01:30:18 Catholic Church and openly challenged all Protestant
01:30:21 churches to rethink their position on God's law that it
01:30:25 was nailed to the cross.
01:30:26 This made the devil furious.
01:30:28 As he hates God's law, that's why he has rebelled, why he
01:30:33 rebelled in heaven and why he got kicked out, right?
01:30:36 Of heaven.
01:30:37 As prince of this earth, he is out to destroy God's law and
01:30:41 those who lift it up for the world to see, right?
01:30:45 He's against well, we're going to find out.
01:30:48 After all the Ten Commandments is a transcript of God's own
01:30:52 character, but I want to read a scripture and you know this by
01:30:55 heart, so you can say it with me and get it on the screen,
01:30:57 great.
01:30:58 The devil is angry at people who keep the law of God, right?
01:31:01 So here's the scripture, Revelation what?
01:31:04 Is it on the screen?
01:31:05 12, 17.
01:31:07 And the dragon was enraged with the woman and went to make war
01:31:11 with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of
01:31:16 God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
01:31:21 So, hang with me now, so being the only major Christian church
01:31:25 whose teachings affirmed the keeping of all Ten of God's
01:31:29 commandments, we gave ourselves the name of the remnant church.
01:31:34 Nobody else gave it to us.
01:31:35 The Catholics didn't call us the remnant church, the
01:31:37 Baptists don't call us that.
01:31:39 We call ourselves that.
01:31:40 After all, we even had a prophetess named Ellen G.
01:31:43 White.
01:31:48 is the spirit of prophecy.
01:31:50 Combining the keeping of the Ten Commandments along with the
01:31:53 woman who had the gift of prophecy, no one could convince
01:31:57 us that we were not the remnant church called by God in the
01:32:00 closing moments of earth's history.
01:32:02 To uplift the law of God.
01:32:04 We were called to uplift the law of God to the world.
01:32:08 Am I right?
01:32:09 Some of you are getting quiet.
01:32:10 We understood that we were to be a separated people from the
01:32:13 rest of the world.
01:32:14 Separated.
01:32:16 That people would see us and know us by our love for God and
01:32:20 our love for fellow man.
01:32:22 Most Christian churches still claim this is going to get
01:32:25 better.
01:32:28 Most Christian churches still claim the Ten Commandments are
01:32:33 nailed to the cross.
01:32:35 I'll say this kindly.
01:32:37 Now be careful about it.
01:32:39 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that
01:32:45 either all the Ten Commandments were nailed to the cross or
01:32:48 none of them were.
01:32:49 I don't want to talk down to people, but once you read them
01:32:53 it's pretty simple.
01:32:54 We can't separate them, right?
01:32:57 God didn't give any man authority to divide them up as
01:33:02 he sees fit.
01:33:03 You can't have it both ways.
01:33:05 All you have to do is go into your, let me tell you how to
01:33:08 prove it, go into your Christian neighbor's garage,
01:33:12 take his brand new riding lawn mower home without his
01:33:15 permission, and tell him you love it so much you're going to
01:33:17 keep it.
01:33:18 You decide to keep it.
01:33:20 I'll guarantee you he'll instantly have a heart change
01:33:22 about the Eighth Commandment being nailed to the cross.
01:33:26 Right?
01:33:27 That's what happens.
01:33:28 While other churches were running from the books of
01:33:32 Daniel and Revelation, our church was running towards it.
01:33:35 Why?
01:33:40 end.
01:33:41 By doing this we made an enemy of Satan.
01:33:44 Satan doesn't want to be exposed.
01:33:45 Daniel and Revelation exposes him entirely to the world.
01:33:50 So let me ask you, who do you think then is Satan's greatest
01:33:53 enemies?
01:33:54 According to the Bible, they are sold out Christians for the
01:33:57 cause of Christ, those who resemble the remnant church.
01:34:01 Now you know this.
01:34:02 Who is the remnant church?
01:34:03 I don't mean by title.
01:34:04 Let's see what the Bible says.
01:34:06 Revelation we can call ourselves whatever, but let's
01:34:08 see what Revelation 12, 11 says.
01:34:11 If you can get it on the screen, if not you know it.
01:34:14 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the
01:34:18 word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives
01:34:22 to the death.
01:34:24 That's who Jesus is coming back for, folks.
01:34:27 Not people compromising.
01:34:29 People who's willing to love not their lives unto death.
01:34:33 God's end time people should be willing to die defending God
01:34:37 and his character of love.
01:34:38 Not people who've jumped spiritual ships in order to
01:34:42 join forces with current politics and race and culture.
01:34:46 We cannot compromise the law of God not at any one point.
01:34:52 And I never thought I would be preaching to a group of
01:34:55 Adventists and have to put out this text for us to read to get
01:35:00 your attention.
01:35:01 I just never thought I would.
01:35:02 I always thought this for everybody else.
01:35:04 But when I show you some figures and stats in just a
01:35:06 minute you're going to see why.
01:35:09 Brother and sister James 2, 10.
01:35:12 Alright.
01:35:13 I'll read it.
01:35:14 For whoever shall keep the whole law and yet stumble in
01:35:17 one point, he's guilty of all.
01:35:21 For he who said do not commit adultery also said do not what?
01:35:27 Do not what?
01:35:28 Murder.
01:35:29 Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder you
01:35:34 have become a transgressor of the law.
01:35:37 In other words, you will reap the consequences of breaking
01:35:40 God's Ten Commandment Law.
01:35:42 The Bible says, for those who don't know and those watching
01:35:45 my television audience 1 John 3, 4.
01:35:48 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness as sin is
01:35:53 lawlessness.
01:35:54 Okay?
01:35:55 Now that's easy enough to understand.
01:35:57 So what does the Bible say is the wages of sin.
01:36:00 So I'm quickly going through because I'm running out of
01:36:02 time.
01:36:03 Romans 6, 23.
01:36:04 Say it with me.
01:36:05 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
01:36:11 life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
01:36:14 So does everyone understand the Bible process of sin?
01:36:18 Alright?
01:36:19 When we go back to James 2, 10 right now I want to think about
01:36:22 it.
01:36:26 the closing moments of verse history as I look back I never
01:36:29 thought of this scripture before, but it says here James
01:36:32 uses the example of being of murder as a sin.
01:36:37 Hmm.
01:36:41 Anybody heard of Pew research?
01:36:42 Very reputable.
01:36:45 Results that I told you I would show you from the beginning,
01:36:48 right?
01:36:53 keep or they believe in keeping all ten commandments.
01:36:56 Okay.
01:36:58 Let's read it.
01:36:59 Can we put that quote up?
01:37:01 Look at this.
01:37:02 The study by Pew also highlights that while the
01:37:06 majority of SDAs hold more restrictive views than the
01:37:10 general public, there's still a segment 42% who believe
01:37:16 abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
01:37:21 Brothers and sisters, it didn't say you know, let that soak in
01:37:25 a minute.
01:37:30 emergency or rare case.
01:37:32 It's just the opposite.
01:37:33 This poll shows that 42% of church members believe that
01:37:38 abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
01:37:42 That's unacceptable.
01:37:44 Oh, you got quiet now.
01:37:47 According to this research by Pew, nearly one half of our
01:37:50 church members are so deceived they have jumped ships and now
01:37:54 support the work of the devil, which is to steal, kill, and to
01:37:58 destroy.
01:37:58 That's John 10 10.
01:37:59 And while we are at it, let me put up another shock wave.
01:38:03 I forgot to say shock wave.
01:38:05 Put up this one.
01:38:06 This one is hard to believe.
01:38:08 Is it on the screen?
01:38:09 A Pew Research Center study found that about 63% of
01:38:14 Adventists oppose allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry
01:38:18 legally.
01:38:19 However, there's also a minority who are supportive or
01:38:23 have more nuance to whatever that is, more nuanced views.
01:38:26 Folks, if my numbers are correct, 63% from 100 equals
01:38:32 37%.
01:38:38 compromised the biblical view of same-sex marriage and now
01:38:42 support or have a more nuanced view, right, in favor of LGBTQ
01:38:48 lifestyle.
01:38:49 God have mercy on us.
01:38:51 You put those two together and you got more than 50%.
01:38:54 In fact, let me show you what Adventist Health Center just
01:38:59 placed on their Facebook a few days ago.
01:39:02 Just a few days ago.
01:39:04 If we can get it up on the screen, alright, you can go to
01:39:07 Facebook and look it up.
01:39:08 I won't bother to read it.
01:39:10 But it's Pride Month.
01:39:11 They're celebrating Pride Month.
01:39:14 And they put it up so you go there and you read it for
01:39:18 yourself.
01:39:22 putting up celebrating Pride Month?
01:39:24 They don't celebrate Straight Month.
01:39:26 Right?
01:39:28 They don't celebrate Yvonne's so beautiful, I think we should
01:39:31 have to celebrate Yvonne for a month.
01:39:34 They don't do that.
01:39:36 So obviously they're doing it to let the world know they
01:39:39 support gay pride.
01:39:41 Now pride's what got the devil kicked out of heaven.
01:39:43 Of course, complete with the rainbow colors.
01:39:46 Now frankly speaking, our moral values and regard for God's Ten
01:39:50 Commandment Law, folks, are at an all-time low.
01:39:54 The only thing that can save us now is revival and reformation.
01:39:59 And that can only happen how?
01:40:01 When we as a people repent of our wicked ways and cry out for
01:40:05 God to save us from our sins.
01:40:07 God doesn't forgive us in our sins.
01:40:09 He forgives us from our sins, right?
01:40:11 Now this scripture I really want us to read because we need
01:40:15 this scripture.
01:40:15 We need this right now.
01:40:17 Chronicles.
01:40:18 Second Chronicles.
01:40:19 Let's put it on the screen.
01:40:20 7-14.
01:40:21 Let's read it together.
01:40:24 If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves
01:40:30 and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
01:40:35 then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and
01:40:41 heal their lands.
01:40:44 I'm looking at my clock.
01:40:45 I'm hurrying.
01:40:46 Folks, we need to be pleading with God to forgive us not only
01:40:51 corporately as a church, but also individually.
01:40:55 We have the truth, but shamefully, the graphics from
01:40:59 these surveys show many of us are in deep spiritual darkness.
01:41:04 I can tell you how, one thing I can tell you, a little side
01:41:07 story, that I've written a number of books and literally
01:41:12 millions of them.
01:41:13 You have ordered millions because we give them away free.
01:41:15 You just pay the shipping.
01:41:17 The last couple of books we wrote was one of them is The
01:41:21 Truth About Abortion and the other one is The Truth About
01:41:26 Can the Christian Church Affirm LGBTQ?
01:41:29 Most of those couple million are sitting over in a warehouse
01:41:33 because you didn't want them for free.
01:41:35 You didn't want them to pass.
01:41:36 I wouldn't have believed these figures are too high, but I got
01:41:40 thinking about it.
01:41:41 All of these other books literally we've sold several
01:41:43 millions and they reorder, but these two, people in our church
01:41:48 don't want them.
01:41:50 You're either afraid to pass them out or you don't believe
01:41:52 that there's anything wrong with it.
01:41:55 So that's my own little that wasn't a Pew research that was
01:41:59 a Danny.
01:42:00 Brothers and sisters, I'm convinced that the remnant
01:42:03 group of believers will be just that.
01:42:05 It's only going to be a small fraction of Christians,
01:42:08 including SDAs, will be ready and waiting for the soon return
01:42:11 of Jesus Christ.
01:42:13 Now we're being judged by our words and our actions, not only
01:42:16 by God, but those around us.
01:42:23 As the old saying goes, we're so heavenly minded sometimes
01:42:27 that we're no earthly good.
01:42:28 You ever hear that?
01:42:30 Satan has been gaining ground like never before, especially
01:42:33 in the last 10 or 20 years.
01:42:35 Now I'm going to try to make this quick, but I got some
01:42:37 important stuff to say.
01:42:39 Yes Adventists are so confused, they are now supporting many of
01:42:45 those we see, nearly half, the breaking of God's sixth and
01:42:48 seventh commandments of thou shalt not murder and thou shalt
01:42:51 not commit adultery.
01:42:52 God hates compromise.
01:42:55 Matthew let's put it in Matthew 15 9.
01:42:58 Again, I never thought I'd need to give this to an Adventist
01:43:01 audience.
01:43:02 And in vain, read it with me, and in vain they worship me,
01:43:06 teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
01:43:11 Now this is pretty straightforward, isn't it?
01:43:13 A counterfeit Christian group teaching doctrines of men
01:43:17 rather than the Bible doctrines.
01:43:19 Could this be a religious people who insert their own
01:43:22 personal opinions into God's commandments to fit their own
01:43:26 personal narrative of political or cultural or racial views?
01:43:31 Oh yeah, now you're quiet.
01:43:32 It's alright.
01:43:33 So we see here that one of the identifying marks of a
01:43:37 counterfeit church are those people who add to or take away
01:43:41 from God's Ten Commandment Law.
01:43:42 Do you agree with that?
01:43:44 We say that about everybody else.
01:43:46 So please follow me now.
01:43:48 Speaking of a counterfeit religious group, history tells
01:43:51 us that during the Dark Ages, 50 to 70 million people were
01:43:55 persecuted at the hands of the I'm just going to say the
01:43:58 church.
01:43:59 Now all in the name of religion, right?
01:44:02 So guess what?
01:44:03 Since 1973, the United States government has legislated laws
01:44:09 murdering over 65 million babies in what many call a
01:44:14 Christian nation.
01:44:16 So let me ask you, since God, now this is very simple, since
01:44:20 God is the creator of life, do you believe these millions of
01:44:24 murders were of the Lord or the devil?
01:44:28 It has to be either God killing the people or the devil.
01:44:32 There's no in between.
01:44:34 It's like these other things, folks.
01:44:35 This is just down home common sense.
01:44:38 There's no in between.
01:44:40 All right.
01:44:43 on yet.
01:44:45 We've said it several times, but let's put John 10 10 up
01:44:48 there because the beautiful parts, the last part, it says
01:44:52 the thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to
01:44:57 destroy.
01:45:03 more abundantly.
01:45:06 people, right?
01:45:07 So to the 42% of S.D.A.s who support abortion, in all or
01:45:12 most cases, do you feel you're supporting the work of the
01:45:15 Lord?
01:45:17 Oh, that's a tough one.
01:45:19 Or do you feel you're supporting the work of the
01:45:22 devil?
01:45:23 Again, you're either on God's side, right, in all this
01:45:27 shedding of innocent blood, or you're on the devil's side.
01:45:32 I'm letting you think about it a bit, soak in a minute.
01:45:36 Just as many babies have been killed in America as were
01:45:39 killed during all the religious wars during the Dark Ages, but
01:45:43 there's one big difference.
01:45:45 Satan got a bad historical rap for that, murdering millions of
01:45:50 people during the Dark Ages, so history has not been good to
01:45:53 him on that one.
01:45:54 So even Satan can learn from his mistakes, since he
01:45:58 accomplished the same amount of murders just since 1973 as
01:46:02 during the entire 1200 years or so of the Dark Ages, he's
01:46:07 changed his tactics.
01:46:09 He's changed his tactics.
01:46:11 This time he not only has support from the federal
01:46:15 government, but the support of many, many Christians.
01:46:19 Over 45 percent of Christians support murdering of innocent
01:46:23 babies in the womb.
01:46:26 Now they didn't get this from New Light on the subject.
01:46:29 There's no New Bible scriptures on that.
01:46:32 But from gaining support of millions and millions of
01:46:35 Christians by joining them to race, culture, and politics.
01:46:40 Satan himself learned a big lesson.
01:46:43 He learned that he can work side by side with Christians in
01:46:48 the name of God-given freedom of choice.
01:46:53 It was a slam dunk for him.
01:46:55 Slam dunk.
01:46:56 This has worked so beautifully in the Christian church that he
01:47:00 now is able to get a front row seat or get a job as the choir
01:47:03 director almost undetected.
01:47:06 Almost in any church in America and quite possibly yours.
01:47:11 So while we may be getting weary of hearing, you may be
01:47:14 getting weary of hearing this kind of message, and I may be
01:47:17 getting tired of preaching it, I have to do what God's asked
01:47:20 me to do.
01:47:23 worse.
01:47:24 So if we've lost 19,300,000 members since 1965, whatever we
01:47:31 have done, I think we ought to do something different.
01:47:35 We need to do an about face because we couldn't lose that
01:47:38 many members if we tried.
01:47:40 If you started a church and wanted to lose that many
01:47:42 members, you couldn't.
01:47:43 I don't think, right?
01:47:45 So brothers and sisters, this is a problem that's not going
01:47:48 to go away on itself.
01:47:50 People are looking for truth like never before.
01:47:53 We as a church need to be there like a beacon on a hill calling
01:47:57 all people to come and worship God in the spirit of holiness
01:48:01 and righteousness that God can pour out in abundant blessings
01:48:04 to those in need.
01:48:06 Folks, we don't have the right to judge individuals, but we do
01:48:10 as a church have the responsibility to judge bad
01:48:13 fruit and be protectors on the walls.
01:48:16 Open sin is bad fruit.
01:48:18 So when a church affirms the open degenerate actions of the
01:48:22 LGBTQ movement and the promotion of abortion as
01:48:25 exemption to God's Ten Commandment Law leading them
01:48:29 out of sin, right?
01:48:30 They're taking it out of the sin category.
01:48:33 God will remove his covering of blessings on that church.
01:48:37 And the problem for many church members is sometimes the pastor
01:48:40 and the elders and the deacons are the ones in support of open
01:48:44 sin against God.
01:48:47 Wow.
01:48:48 So pastors, elders, and deacons, members claiming to be
01:48:52 God's agents representing God's remnant church, but instead are
01:48:56 joining hands with Satan and his followers, trampling the
01:48:59 law of God.
01:49:00 Now let me give you an example.
01:49:02 While SDAs teach that God's Ten Commandment Law was given for
01:49:05 mankind and not just for the Jews and were not nailed to the
01:49:09 cross and are very much valid today, including the keeping of
01:49:14 the Fourth Commandment of Remember the Sabbath Day to
01:49:17 Keep it Holy, the quote from Pew Research Center shows
01:49:20 something different.
01:49:21 Forty-two percent of Seventh -day Adventists support
01:49:24 abortion in all or most cases.
01:49:27 This gives the world a totally different view of Seventh-day
01:49:30 Adventists than they used to have.
01:49:32 In fact, it shows us who support same-sex marriage.
01:49:35 I'm going to say those because I don't.
01:49:37 Those who support same-sex marriage and abortion as
01:49:40 hypocrites.
01:49:42 I'm sorry.
01:49:43 I mean, that's what the facts show.
01:49:45 Please let this soak in.
01:49:48 This should be a shockwave big enough to wake up the worldwide
01:49:52 church.
01:49:58 defend the law of God against the attacks of the devil, now
01:50:01 has forty-two percent of its members openly supporting the
01:50:05 breaking of the Sixth Commandment of Thou Shall Not
01:50:08 Murder.
01:50:09 Stay with me, please, and for whatever reasons many have also
01:50:12 compromised the biblical view of the Seventh Commandment and
01:50:16 now support same-sex marriage.
01:50:18 So the devil is cunning.
01:50:20 Now watch this, please.
01:50:21 I love this part.
01:50:22 Watch this.
01:50:25 Thank you.
01:50:25 Somebody said shockwaves.
01:50:28 Thank you, sir.
01:50:30 Somebody's listening.
01:50:31 Our leaders, our deceived leaders and members in the
01:50:35 Church, get this, teach the Fourth Commandment from God as
01:50:39 a command.
01:50:41 But they teach the Sixth and Seventh Commandment as a
01:50:44 choice.
01:50:46 Come on, somebody.
01:50:47 Somebody ought to be responding to that.
01:50:50 We teach the Fourth Commandment as a command, but we teach the
01:50:55 Sixth and Seventh Commandments as a choice.
01:50:58 So please somebody tell me you got it.
01:51:00 Did you get it?
01:51:01 Alright.
01:51:05 Commandments, not the Ten Choices?
01:51:08 Amen!
01:51:11 Now it's hard for me to fathom that approximately fifty
01:51:14 percent of Adventists are now joining Babylon by negating the
01:51:18 Six and Seventh Commandments, and we are.
01:51:20 If you, if you turn away from God's law and break His law,
01:51:26 openly reject it.
01:51:28 That's what we teach everybody else is.
01:51:30 But we want to make exceptions.
01:51:32 No, we're the remnant Church.
01:51:33 Well think about it like this.
01:51:35 When the Catholic Church
01:51:40 tried to change the Fourth Commandment by instituting the
01:51:44 First Day of the Week as the new Christian Sabbath, we
01:51:47 Adventists point the fingers at them and call them the Beast
01:51:50 Power.
01:51:51 When the Protestant Churches follow the change of the
01:51:54 Seventh Day Bible Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, we call
01:51:58 them apostate Protestants.
01:52:01 But when we SDAs, half of us at least, affirm adding the
01:52:05 exceptions of rape and incest to the Sixth Commandment of
01:52:09 Thou Shall Not Murder, taking it out of the sin basket, and
01:52:12 adding the exception of LGBTQ lifestyle to the Seventh
01:52:16 Commandment of Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery, we call
01:52:19 ourselves the remnant Church.
01:52:23 That's why I said earlier we gave ourselves that name.
01:52:26 God have mercy on us.
01:52:28 Talk about deceptions.
01:52:30 I'm just about ready to close here, so hang with me again
01:52:33 please.
01:52:33 Let me ask you a question.
01:52:35 Why would so many SDA pastors and members suddenly affirm the
01:52:39 breaking of the Sixth and Seventh Commandments when for
01:52:42 two thousand years the New Testament writers and the early
01:52:46 Christian Church never accepted the breaking of these
01:52:49 commandments?
01:52:54 third century AD, they've never affirmed abortion and same-sex
01:52:57 marriage and neither did Martin Luther, I don't think Martin
01:53:01 Luther King either, and the early Protestant reformers
01:53:04 including the newly formed Seventh-day Adventist Church in
01:53:07 the middle 1800s, Christians never espoused, affirmed, or
01:53:11 promoted the breaking of the Sixth and Seventh Commandments
01:53:14 until recently.
01:53:17 This about face came about Roe versus Wade in 1973.
01:53:22 That's when it really started on abortion and Christians
01:53:25 really weighed in on affirming LGBTQ lifestyle after then
01:53:30 President Obama fulfilled his pledge to the homosexual
01:53:33 community and to the rest of America that if elected he
01:53:36 would champion same-sex marriage all the way to the
01:53:39 Supreme Court, and he did, and same-sex marriage became law of
01:53:44 the land in 2015.
01:53:46 Folks, I'm just giving you the truth, I'm just telling you
01:53:48 what the truth says, and yet many of us, I hate to say it,
01:53:53 but nearly half of us voted for him knowing he was going to
01:53:56 pass a law that would be breaking God's commandments.
01:54:00 That would be like me voting for Donald Trump if he's
01:54:02 running for a National Sunday Law.
01:54:04 Are we going to be voting for him for that?
01:54:06 No, we wouldn't.
01:54:07 Absolutely.
01:54:10 alright?
01:54:14 about the second time when he openly said, I'm going to
01:54:17 trample and take America to the Supreme Court and let it slap
01:54:22 God in the face.
01:54:23 So it's not just him, and people think I'm getting into
01:54:25 color or race, it has nothing to do with race.
01:54:28 I don't care if he's black, red, yellow, white, whatever
01:54:31 color he was, it's just the fact that that's what happened.
01:54:34 SDA supporting the sixth and seventh commandments, did you
01:54:38 notice there is no new theological evidence?
01:54:40 That's what I'm trying to say, supporting abortion, nothing
01:54:43 from the Bible, and without the Bible basis, many Christians
01:54:47 march with, uh oh, if you're in this deep, Danny, go ahead,
01:54:51 they march with lawless groups and LGBTQ groups and they march
01:54:57 with my body, my choice groups, and in doing so, they seem to
01:55:01 forget God's law says the shedding of innocent blood of
01:55:05 babies and same sex marriage, LGBTQ transgender, are a direct
01:55:09 attack on God, justified by some in the name of fairness,
01:55:15 equity, and inclusion.
01:55:17 Now many good intentioned Christians usurp God's
01:55:20 authority by promoting open sin.
01:55:23 Now let me explain it like this.
01:55:24 They're looking at the physical instead of the spiritual.
01:55:28 In the physical, they oppose the United States government
01:55:32 legislating laws taking away a person's free choice.
01:55:36 But Christians have no right to take those two commandments and
01:55:40 remove them from the sin basket.
01:55:42 God placed them in there, we didn't.
01:55:44 Can you see the problem?
01:55:46 Brothers and sisters, I don't know how I can say it any
01:55:49 plainer, but I'm going to try here.
01:55:50 The Bible is clear on this subject.
01:55:53 In other words, SDAs, pastors, deacons, elders, members don't
01:55:58 get up in the pulpit and preach sermons affirming the breaking
01:56:01 of these two commandments in the name of free choice.
01:56:06 Some of them are doing it.
01:56:07 Listen closely, please.
01:56:08 No matter what laws any government in the world
01:56:11 legislates, it does not negate or change God's Ten Commandment
01:56:15 Law written in stone by his own fingers.
01:56:18 And furthermore, you have no right to play God and insert
01:56:21 the false doctrines of what you believe may be exceptions to
01:56:25 the commandments.
01:56:26 If God says murder is the sin, don't get up and try to make
01:56:30 excuses as to your human thinking of what fits your
01:56:33 political or cultural narrative.
01:56:36 I've even heard SDA pastors get up and preach that abortion is
01:56:39 the sin except in cases of rape, or incest, or Down
01:56:43 syndrome, or any number of other ones.
01:56:48 Somebody said it.
01:56:50 It's still murder.
01:56:51 Folks, teaching from the Bible it's not there.
01:56:55 You can't do it.
01:56:55 It's not there.
01:56:56 Now listen closely, please.
01:56:59 I'm not talking to the mother right now who's had an
01:57:02 abortion.
01:57:04 We love that mother.
01:57:05 God loves that mother and God's forgiving.
01:57:08 I'm talking to the SDAs including all the way up to our
01:57:12 pastors that are adding to the Bible by making exceptions that
01:57:16 God did not make.
01:57:18 In other words, preachers, stop adding unscriptural personal
01:57:21 opinions.
01:57:22 We tell everybody else not to, usurping the authority of God.
01:57:27 And this is shameful.
01:57:28 You have no right to play God and add to the fourth, the
01:57:31 sixth, the seventh, or any other commandment.
01:57:33 So let me give you a couple texts to read really quickly if
01:57:36 you're tempted on that.
01:57:38 Deuteronomy 4, 2, let's put it up.
01:57:41 You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take
01:57:46 from it, that you may keep the commandments the Lord your God,
01:57:51 which I command you.
01:57:53 That's pretty straight, isn't it?
01:57:55 Proverbs 30, 5, and 6.
01:57:57 Every word of God is pure.
01:58:00 He is a shield to those who put their trust in him.
01:58:04 Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found
01:58:10 a liar.
01:58:11 And there are more scriptures in the Bible that tell us that
01:58:14 adding to the word is serious business and comes with grave
01:58:18 consequences.
01:58:19 I want to be clear that everyone understands that,
01:58:21 again, I'm not talking about individuals who have had
01:58:25 abortions.
01:58:26 Please don't take that.
01:58:27 All of us sin and come short of the glory of God.
01:58:30 As I said, God is willing to forgive.
01:58:33 So Mom, please don't take that.
01:58:35 This is not a sermon.
01:58:36 This is a sermon for the family we're talking to each other.
01:58:41 So God forgives us, all right?
01:58:43 Aren't you thankful God forgives all of our sins?
01:58:46 So today, again, I'm talking to Adventist members, well,
01:58:50 Christians in general.
01:58:51 You're all our audiences here.
01:58:52 So I'm talking to you too.
01:58:54 So let me please speak plainly.
01:58:56 As to what I'm about to say, I've said a bunch of stuff
01:58:59 already, but what I'm about to say, this part of my sermon,
01:59:04 please listen closely as I'm going to explain why it's a big
01:59:08 deal when an Adventist pastor preaches exceptions to God's
01:59:13 commandment law.
01:59:16 One of the primary reasons for the existence of the Seventh
01:59:19 -day Adventist Church is built on the keeping of all of God's
01:59:23 Ten Commandment Laws, intact, without compromise.
01:59:27 Part of the Three Angels messages that we as a church
01:59:30 have been called to give as a last-day church on earth is to
01:59:34 call people out of Babylon, which is confusion over the
01:59:37 importance of the law of God.
01:59:39 As you know, most of the Christian world has long
01:59:42 compromised the Fourth Commandment.
01:59:44 We've talked about it, and we as a church have been crying
01:59:47 aloud against this compromise since our inception.
01:59:50 Now is not the time to compromise and play God as to
01:59:53 which commandments we want to obey or add to our own
01:59:57 addendum.
02:00:01 commandments, they become part of Babylon.
02:00:04 Why?
02:00:05 Because it's confusing.
02:00:07 It's confusing and misleading as SDAs, it is our
02:00:12 responsibility as a church to call people out of Babylon, not
02:00:16 join them in their confusion.
02:00:18 The Second Angel's message is Babylon has fallen.
02:00:22 Revelation 18-4, I'll read it quickly, and I heard another
02:00:26 voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, lest you
02:00:30 share in her sins, and lest you receive her plagues, for her
02:00:34 sins have reached to the heavens, and God has remembered
02:00:37 her iniquities.
02:00:38 Brothers and sisters, this is a strong warning to every
02:00:41 Christian alive today, and again, especially to Seventh
02:00:45 -day Adventists who've been given truth through prophecy to
02:00:48 cry aloud and spare not, to call people out of Babylon.
02:00:52 So please get this, if we compromise the Sixth and the
02:00:56 Seventh Commandments by joining them to our cultural,
02:00:58 political, race views, whatever, we negate the reasons
02:01:03 for there to be a Seventh-day Adventist Church.
02:01:06 You see it?
02:01:07 You get it?
02:01:12 That's why it's a big deal.
02:01:13 That's why it's a big deal.
02:01:15 We cannot compromise.
02:01:16 Let's just shut the doors down and go join a church down the
02:01:20 street.
02:01:25 present -day culture and politics, but will be willing
02:01:28 to die to defend God's law.
02:01:31 So, Revelation 12, 11, and they overcame him, say it with me,
02:01:34 by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony,
02:01:38 and they did not love their lives to the death.
02:01:42 I'm so glad, I think some of you are getting this.
02:01:44 Please understand where the confusion lies.
02:01:48 As we modern-day Christians, especially SDA Christians, are
02:01:51 trying to correct earthly governments.
02:01:54 That's the whole big deal.
02:01:56 When all these marches, everything we're doing, we're
02:01:58 out there trying to change an earthly government's decisions
02:02:02 concerning the Six and Seven Commandments.
02:02:05 And I get that.
02:02:07 A woman who wants to use her free choice to protest any
02:02:11 government's legislated laws that prohibits her from
02:02:14 choosing to have an abortion at will up to and even right after
02:02:17 birth, I get it.
02:02:19 I also understand the homosexual community protesting
02:02:22 for many, many years to get to use their freedom of choice to
02:02:26 live their lives as they choose.
02:02:28 I get that.
02:02:29 From their perspective, the secular government does not
02:02:33 have any business controlling who they choose as their life
02:02:37 partners.
02:02:38 That's not hard to understand.
02:02:40 Folks, please track with me.
02:02:42 If I were not a Christian, I might be out there with them,
02:02:45 marching with them, to help protect their rights, right?
02:02:48 Their God-given rights.
02:02:50 That's the way they feel about it.
02:02:52 Why should a secular government control what they're saying?
02:02:54 A woman's right to choose to murder the baby in her womb or
02:02:58 to control the morality of homosexuals.
02:03:01 But here's why I cannot support their position.
02:03:04 The key difference is this.
02:03:06 They are fighting against earthly laws, which are not
02:03:11 based on God's laws, which means they are fighting for
02:03:14 freedom of choice in the physical or the earthly realm.
02:03:19 And again, I get that.
02:03:20 But the big deception is this.
02:03:22 We as Christians are to be living in the spiritual realm.
02:03:25 In other words, every decision we make should be made in the
02:03:29 spirit of the Bible.
02:03:30 So the problem is this.
02:03:32 The physical world and the spiritual world do not mix.
02:03:36 So don't try to mix them.
02:03:37 It won't work.
02:03:39 There you have it.
02:03:40 SDAs and especially some of our pastors and leaders who are
02:03:43 openly affirming this sin.
02:03:48 I've said it over and over again, but this lifestyle as a
02:03:51 freedom of choice have now become part of, and I hate to
02:03:55 say this, but if we do that, according to the Bible and
02:03:59 scriptures we've read, if we compromise, we've become part
02:04:02 of Babylon.
02:04:04 It's very confusing for the non -theologian when a pastor or
02:04:09 elder or Adventist member conflates earthly politics and
02:04:13 culture with the Ten Commandment Law of God.
02:04:15 Revelation 14 refers to the wine of her wrath.
02:04:19 I did a little word study on the term and in the context
02:04:23 God's judgment against Babylon.
02:04:26 I hope maybe they can get it on the screen.
02:04:28 It's real short.
02:04:29 It is often interpreted as a symbol of the wine of her wrath
02:04:33 we're talking about, symbol of her corrupt systems, false
02:04:36 religions, or immoral societies.
02:04:39 The imagery of wine typically represents the intoxicating
02:04:43 effects of sin and rebellion against God and it serves as a
02:04:47 warning about the consequences of moral and spiritual failure,
02:04:52 encouraging readers to remain faithful and avoid the pitfalls
02:04:56 of worldly temptations.
02:04:58 So folks, when we conflate or join earthly culture and
02:05:02 politics to override the Law of God, we have become part of
02:05:06 Babylon whether we want to or not.
02:05:10 We forgot that we were to be a separated people uplifting the
02:05:14 Law of God to the world.
02:05:16 I can tell you no one will be caught up together with the
02:05:19 Lord in the air at the second coming who has rejected the
02:05:22 keeping of His Ten Commandments.
02:05:25 I don't care what name we call ourselves.
02:05:27 When you get a chance, I was going to tell you some
02:05:30 scriptures you can read them on your own.
02:05:32 The Lord will give them to you.
02:05:33 But in closing, I've got to close because our time is out.
02:05:36 Our last scripture, Revelation 22, 14.
02:05:38 I love this.
02:05:40 You could say it with me.
02:05:41 Blessed are those who do His commandments that they may have
02:05:45 right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates
02:05:50 of their city.
02:05:52 So remember, any of us embracing open sin or hidden
02:05:55 sins in our life will not be affirmed by God on Judgment
02:05:59 Day.
02:06:03 And I want you to be thinking about this and then we want to
02:06:05 have a short appeal because maybe there's people that
02:06:08 you've not really understood the difference in the earthly,
02:06:12 what people are trying to do in the earthly and the spiritual.
02:06:16 So we as Adventists, Christians, we have to look at
02:06:18 everything in the spiritual realm and not the physical
02:06:22 realm.
02:06:27 I know I have many times, many occasions, and I really want
02:06:31 God to work in my life.
02:06:32 I really want to make Heaven my home.
02:06:35 And I'm going to ask God to create within me a new heart
02:06:39 and a new mind.
02:06:40 Sing.
02:06:45 Worthy is the lamb who was slain.
02:06:52 Holy, holy is he.
02:06:59 Sing a new song to him who sits on Heaven's mercy seat.
02:07:13 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and
02:07:24 is to come.
02:07:29 With all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings.
02:07:36 You are my everything, and I will adore you.
02:07:52 Both in rainbows of living color, flashes of lightning,
02:08:00 rolls of thunder.
02:08:04 Blessing and on a strength and glory and power be.
02:08:11 Sing to you the only wise King.
02:08:18 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and
02:08:27 is to come.
02:08:32 With all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings.
02:08:39 You are my everything, and I will adore you.
02:09:01 Filled with wonder, such awestruck wonder at the mention
02:09:10 of your name.
02:09:16 Jesus, your name is power, breath and living water, such a
02:09:25 marvelous mystery.
02:09:31 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and
02:09:40 is to come.
02:09:41 He is to come.
02:09:45 With all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings.
02:09:52 You are my everything, and I will adore you.
02:10:00 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and
02:10:08 is to come.
02:10:10 He is to come.
02:10:11 Lord, with all creation I sing praise to the King of Kings.
02:10:20 Lord, you are my everything, and I will adore you.
02:10:27 I adore you.
02:10:30 I adore you.
02:10:48 What I'd like to do is ask each and every one of you here
02:10:53 today, maybe you have never felt and I saw from the hands
02:10:58 that if I were guessing I'd say and maybe some of you just
02:11:01 bashful, but look like about one out of every five people
02:11:05 feel like if you have the assurance of salvation, but I'm
02:11:10 hoping and praying that God will impress on your heart.
02:11:13 I can tell you now, I wouldn't be here 40 years if I hadn't
02:11:18 had this assurance.
02:11:20 I mean, I admit I've deserved a lot of things and a lot of
02:11:24 things I bring on myself, but a lot of the things that the
02:11:27 world does, people do within the church, I would have quit
02:11:29 and ran away a long time ago, but I don't have to worry about
02:11:33 that.
02:11:36 mine, and that I know what I had heart surgery seven years
02:11:42 ago, and I was surprised myself pleasantly because you're going
02:11:46 under right then all the families around, your friends
02:11:49 around, you're going under and you know there's a really good
02:11:51 chance you're not going to come out of that.
02:11:54 And I didn't know how I was going to act, and I had a
02:11:56 peace, a peace about it.
02:11:59 I said, man, if I die, the worst thing that's going to
02:12:03 happen, I'll leave my family, a lot of people will be glad, but
02:12:06 as far as my family goes, as far as my family goes, that
02:12:11 would be bad, but if I make it through, I get to see them, but
02:12:16 the worst, this earth, if I die, the next face I'll see is
02:12:20 Jesus.
02:12:22 So I had that assurance, and I said, thank you Lord, I haven't
02:12:25 always had that assurance.
02:12:26 So today, if you want that assurance, if you don't have
02:12:30 it, or if you maybe find yourselves in a position you've
02:12:34 been compromising the commandments of God that we, as
02:12:38 the church, claim to be the one to uphold, and you just want to
02:12:43 ask God for a brand new touch, whatever it is in your life.
02:12:47 I'm going to ask you to stand to your feet, and if you really
02:12:50 want to see God do something great and mighty and marvelous,
02:12:54 and you want to get to the point you can trust God, many
02:12:56 of you have been there for years, some of us are slower
02:12:59 getting there, but right now, I praise God because I'm praying
02:13:04 that this message, not from me, some of it may be, you can
02:13:08 throw it out the window, but what it's there and what is
02:13:11 truth, that you take it in and you're able to share it, you
02:13:14 want to share it, and you want to serve Jesus with all your
02:13:17 heart, soul, and mind.
02:13:18 You see the people standing, God knows the needs of each and
02:13:22 every one, I'm the first, I'm like Paul, I'm a sinner, a
02:13:26 great sinner, maybe chief of sinners, so none of what I said
02:13:29 today is me looking down at anyone else, I'm just thankful
02:13:33 that God cared enough to look down to my frailties, and look
02:13:37 down and forgive me when I've confessed my sins to him, and
02:13:41 he wants to do that to each and every one of you.
02:13:44 You have no past, as of today, this moment, as you pray, you
02:13:48 have no past, the devil can throw nothing up in your face,
02:13:52 and don't allow him, when you leave this building today, to
02:13:55 throw up anything in your past, once you ask Jesus into your
02:14:00 heart in your life, and say, Lord, forgive me for my sins.
02:14:04 I'm going to ask Yvonne to pray in closing.
02:14:09 Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, Lord, we just
02:14:14 thank you for your holiness, and though we are yet sinners,
02:14:18 you've invited us to come into your presence, and as Danny
02:14:22 said, when we commit ourselves to you, we have no past, you
02:14:25 cast our sins into the depths of the sea, thank you, Lord, as
02:14:29 far as the east is from the west, our transgressions are
02:14:33 taken from us, so we thank you, Lord God, that we can come to
02:14:38 you, and we come before you as sinners, saved by grace.
02:14:44 Thank you for your grace.
02:14:45 Thank you, Lord Jesus, for the sacrifice that you made for us,
02:14:49 so that we could be reconciled to God through you.
02:14:52 Thank you, Lord, and so as we each come before you, you know
02:14:56 our challenges, you know our families, the things that are
02:15:00 going on in our lives, we just ask you to please step into
02:15:04 these situations, and draw us closer to you, so that one day
02:15:09 soon, we can see your faith, and be with you forever.
02:15:13 Thank you, Lord, for all that you've done, and for all that
02:15:16 you do for us to save us.
02:15:19 We thank you that we are saved.
02:15:22 In Jesus' name we pray.
02:15:24 Amen.

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