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00:01 The hour is urgent, as darkness is dispelled by the light of
00:06 God's Word, 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. 00:24 Hello and welcome back, and what a privilege it is to have 00:27 you join us today. 00:28 We've been having a great time at 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting. 00:32 We wish you all were here, but for those of you that are not, 00:36 we're glad that we can communicate together back and 00:39 forth and you can watch what's happening here. 00:41 I don't know about you all, I think you'll agree with me here 00:43 in the audience, or folks, that we felt the Holy Spirit, right? 00:48 How many of you have been here since Wednesday? 00:50 Anybody? 00:51 Oh, a lot of you. 00:52 Wow. 00:53 And how about today's your first day? 00:56 All right. 00:57 There are a few. 01:00 We've got a wonderful group of people here, and it's kind of 01:04 like a little bit of heaven on earth. 01:06 So it's my privilege today to introduce our next speaker. 01:10 It's my brother Kenny Shelton, and Kenny is... 01:14 Behold the Lamb Ministries, his ministry, he and Chris, and 01:18 director there for many years. 01:20 And Kenny and I, we grew up together, and we played fast 01:25 pitch softball together, we played basketball together, we 01:28 do any kind of sports that used to be, you could do, I guess we 01:32 did it. 01:37 houses and a few churches. 01:39 And then we both, the Lord called us into ministries, and 01:42 so we've been here ever since. 01:44 And so Kenny is a person who loves the Lord, and he's not 01:48 afraid to tell it like it is. 01:49 And I can promise you, I don't know what his total sermon's 01:52 about, but he's gonna give you Jesus. 01:55 And when it's over, that's what you want, right? 01:57 We want Jesus, so it's a privilege to introduce him 02:01 today, and I'm thankful that he's my brother. 02:04 And before that, though, before Kenny comes out, my daughter 02:08 Melody, that I love very much with all my heart, she's gonna 02:12 be coming out and singing a beautiful song for us. 02:15 You gonna do written in red? 02:17 Okay. 02:29 In letters of crimson God wrote his love On a hillside So long, 02:43 long ago And for you and for me Jesus died and love's greatest 03:00 story was told, It said, 03:11 I love you, love you, that's What Calvary said, 03:30 Love you, love you, I love you, and it's written in red. 03:56 Down through the ages, God wrote his love with the same 04:06 hands that suffered and bled. 04:15 Giving all that he had to give, the message so easily read. 04:40 I love you, that's what Calvary says. 05:03 I love you, 05:10 Precious is the flow that makes me white as snow. 05:29 Other found, I'm nothing but the blood, the blood of Jesus. 05:43 I love you, 05:54 that's what Calvary says. 06:02 I 06:15 love you, and it's written in red. 06:45 Isn't that why you're here? 06:47 Because you responded to the love of God. 06:51 That love that was written in red. 06:54 And the Holy Spirit has been walking in and amongst each and 06:58 every one of us, hasn't he? 07:00 The power that he's given to the speakers. 07:05 If you haven't felt it, then I encourage you to get on your 07:08 knees right now and pray for it. 07:10 Because it has been felt in this room as he has walked in 07:14 and amongst us. 07:15 And this message that you're about to give, and by the way, 07:18 I love you too. 07:20 Well, I love you too, honey, thank you. 07:23 Fearlessly, fearlessly sharing the final cry. 07:27 I think that's a call for all of us, isn't it? 07:30 Are we not at war? 07:31 Yes. 07:32 We're definitely at war. 07:34 And it's almost like each day, you feel it more and more. 07:38 You see it more and more. 07:39 You hear it more and more. 07:40 That there is definitely a spiritual warfare that is going 07:45 on and we need to be ready. 07:47 We need to be preparing. 07:49 We need to be preparing for that final cry. 07:52 So if you don't mind, if you would join us in prayer, we're 07:55 going to pray for Pastor Kenny. 07:57 Pray along with me, okay? 07:58 Because he needs that power too. 08:03 Most gracious Heavenly Father, as we bow before you now, we 08:07 want to lift up Pastor Kenny Shelton. 08:10 We want to lift him up to the throne room of God. 08:14 He's just a weak and vacillating vessel. 08:17 But in your hands, he can be a vessel of honor. 08:22 In your hands, he can be a mouthpiece for you. 08:25 In your hands, you can strengthen him. 08:28 In your hands, we can feel the word coming directly into our 08:32 hearts, into our minds and helping us to say, yes, Lord, 08:36 yes, Lord, I want to do more. 08:38 I want to stand. 08:40 I want to be prepared for this final warning and these final 08:45 days and this final judgment. 08:48 Thank you, Father, for hearing. 08:50 Thank you for answering our prayer. 08:51 We pray in the lovely name of Jesus that we were so reminded 08:57 that he loves us. 08:59 Amen. 09:04 Praise the Lord. 09:05 Isn't God good? 09:07 To have camp meeting, be able to come together, study the 09:10 word. 09:11 You know, sing songs. 09:13 It's all about Jesus and it lifting him up. 09:15 And the more that we lift him up, the more I believe that 09:18 he's telling us I'm getting ready to come back to take my 09:21 children home. 09:22 I have the privilege to talk a little bit about the 09:25 fearlessly, fear. 09:27 That's something that just captivates people sometime. 09:30 But the Bible said perfect love does what? 09:32 Cast out all fear. 09:33 So fearlessly sharing the final cry. 09:36 And how does one do that? 09:38 So we're going to ask a few questions and by God's grace 09:40 answer them as we go along fearlessly in the hour that we 09:44 live in and what's soon to take place in this world. 09:47 How do we give that final cry? 09:50 How do we do that? 09:52 And then who will God use? 09:55 Who's God going to use to give this cry? 09:58 Is he going to just use anyone, everyone, whatever, or is there 10:01 going to be maybe a certain group of people that he's going 10:05 to use? 10:06 Fearlessly sharing that final cry. 10:10 I don't know about you but I studied over this and you 10:13 studied these things before I'm sure. 10:15 I found there was quite a connection between that which 10:19 we call the loud cry and the final cry. 10:23 Interesting, loud cry and the final cry. 10:26 It starts to stir us up just a little bit here. 10:29 But I think this we know three little points quickly. 10:33 The work is so, so very important. 10:37 Everything that's going on in our movement is so important 10:40 right now. 10:41 The devil has his eye, right? 10:43 He's watching and he's trying to take notes of who, what, 10:46 where, where he can get away with something and God has his 10:48 watchful eye on us. 10:50 I'm very grateful and thankful for that. 10:52 But we know this message is so important that God is going to 10:56 send as it were the angels of heaven, right? 10:59 Is going to help us to give this as it were the final cry. 11:04 Do we believe that we're in the final cry? 11:07 The last cry. 11:08 It needs to be loud, right? 11:10 It needs to wake people up like myself to really believe that 11:15 Jesus is coming and not just talk about it all the time. 11:20 Two, great power and glory will attend this cry. 11:25 It has to. 11:27 Great things are taking place in our world that we're living 11:30 in. 11:31 It almost makes you shake in your boots. 11:33 If you didn't know Jesus, it would. 11:36 Three, it's the last work of the third angel's message. 11:41 So talking about the final cry, the loud cry, it's the last 11:45 work of the three angels' message. 11:48 And we realize that's a very heavy duty message, isn't it? 11:51 You know, God's people, we've been commissioned to warn the 11:54 world about the mark of the beast and the image of the 11:57 beast. 12:01 faithful until the very end. 12:03 No doubt about that. 12:04 But when you talk about these messages, as I said, we 12:07 fearlessly give these messages. 12:10 I wonder how many of us have that spirit of living God 12:14 inside of us who dare to be a Daniel, who dare to stand for 12:18 what is true, who dare to stand in the commission that God has 12:22 given us to give this message to the world. 12:24 So who will God fearlessly use? 12:27 Who will He give this final cry? 12:30 Well, I read something and I want you to pay attention. 12:33 One testimony, 619, says this. 12:36 It says, the refreshing or the power of God. 12:39 I like it when it talks about the refreshing, the power of 12:42 God that reminds me of what? 12:44 The latter reign, isn't that right? 12:45 Revelation 18 angel. 12:47 God's going to give power to the work because we need more 12:50 power. 12:51 I want more power. 12:52 I desire more power in my heart and in my life. 12:57 And I know you do too, but notice the refreshing and the 13:00 power of God comes only to those who have prepared, notice 13:06 the word, themselves, for, listen, for doing the work 13:11 which God bade them do or told them to do. 13:15 Now it doesn't stop there, but notice I say, oh, praise God! 13:19 Well, we've been preaching every day, right? 13:21 Been teaching the cyberschool lesson every day. 13:23 We've been singing every day. 13:24 We're giving Bible studies every day. 13:26 Maybe we might think that's what it's all about. 13:29 Remember those who the refreshing, the power of God is 13:33 going to be given. 13:34 Those who will give that final cry are those who, notice this, 13:38 who have been doing that which God has asked them to do. 13:42 Now, what might that be? 13:47 Namely, it is by cleansing themselves from all filthiness 13:53 of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 13:59 See, a little interesting last thought there, isn't it? 14:01 We think, oh yeah, we've been doing what God's asked us to 14:03 do, all these things we're doing, doing, doing. 14:06 God says, now, the ones I'm going to use to give this last 14:09 message to the world, they've come to me. 14:14 They've asked for the blood of the Lamb to cleanse them from 14:17 all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit. 14:21 You know, I like that. 14:22 I don't know if you've been praying about that, but I've 14:25 been praying about it and certainly praying a lot about 14:27 what God will do for us as we commit our will to him each and 14:31 every day. 14:32 I pray that you do that every morning. 14:33 Say, Lord, I'm committing my will to you. 14:36 And I just tell him because I don't have enough sense to make 14:38 the right decisions. 14:39 Is that all right? 14:41 Some of you don't want to be honest. 14:44 I recognize I do not. 14:46 I'm not capable of making the right decisions without him. 14:49 And I hope you realize that too. 14:50 We need God, isn't that right? 14:53 So maybe if we must give this message, then my question was, 14:59 what is it? 15:01 What are we supposed to give here? 15:03 What are we supposed to share with the world? 15:07 And then we find out as we move along that the enemy is trying 15:12 to hold this back. 15:14 He's causing confusion in the church, outside the church, in 15:18 the world. 15:20 So this work of warning these people, you, me, all of us, 15:25 who's going to be able to stand the test? 15:28 When the test really comes, who's going to be able to stand 15:30 the test? 15:32 Will the pillars of our faith, will the pillars of our faith 15:35 stand the test? 15:36 There are some that are saying no. 15:38 I'm saying yes. 15:39 I'm saying by God's grace, I'm going to live and die by it, by 15:42 God's grace. 15:43 I hope you're with me. 15:44 They will stand the test and they have stood the test of 15:48 time. 15:49 And so we know then as the enemy says, they're supposed to 15:52 be giving a cry. 15:53 We're going to wake up the world. 15:55 But I'm going to cause division, confusion, everything 15:58 I can. 15:59 I read a little article in testimonies of ministers page 16:01 107 that said this. 16:05 If, if the pillars of our faith will not stand the test of 16:09 investigation, it is time we knew it. 16:14 Yeah, a little too quiet. 16:17 Think about it. 16:18 If the pillars of our faith, right? 16:21 If, it says if starts out, our faith will not stand the test 16:25 of investigation. 16:26 It's time we knew it. 16:29 And when we're challenged by these things, a challenge is 16:33 not always bad. 16:35 It gets some of us on the ball to study to show ourself 16:38 approved unto God. 16:40 Say, well, and I hear this. 16:42 Oh, this happened, that happened. 16:43 Well, what's my position? 16:45 What's your position? 16:46 What has God given to us here? 16:50 Every pillar of our faith is being tested and tried. 16:53 We know that. 16:55 And maybe we have forgotten medical missionary page 96 says 17:00 the church is now engaged in a warfare. 17:04 Do we believe it? 17:06 And it says it will continue to increase in intensity. 17:11 So it's not all over with yet. 17:13 There's a little shaking going on right now and all it takes 17:16 is a little bit of shaking. 17:16 We find people lay it out everywhere. 17:19 It's time to get up and move and say, let the test come. 17:23 If you have truth, it will stand the test. 17:28 We know that. 17:29 The acid test. 17:32 Not, notice this, not one pillar of our faith is to be 17:36 moved. 17:38 Now I don't need much more than that. 17:41 We got one, amen. 17:42 Will there be two? 17:44 What are they doing? 17:45 Not one peg. 17:48 Not one pin is to be removed from that which God has given 17:51 us. 17:54 message that we have to give to the world today. 17:56 I'm confident. 17:57 I'm sure of it. 18:00 And we must be sure of this message. 18:03 There's no doubt about it. 18:04 Remember when you're building something and you're using pegs 18:07 or pins and you're putting them together, you pull the wrong 18:09 pin, everything comes down. 18:11 The devil's trying to pull the pin. 18:14 He's trying to pull the peg out and we cannot let him do it by 18:18 the grace of God. 18:20 Every time he puts his little, almost said, nasty hands on 18:23 those pegs and those pins and the devil's hands are nasty. 18:25 Is that okay? 18:26 You know they are. 18:28 And when he does, we say, oh God, give us grace and give us 18:30 strength, give us knowledge to stand for what is truth. 18:33 Some things I just can't explain, but there's some 18:36 things I just know in my heart. 18:38 Right, when you read in your study, how many of us really 18:40 know everything? 18:40 No. 18:45 And I'm here to advocate that by the grace of God. 18:48 I know men have failed us. 18:50 The armored flesh have failed us. 18:51 We failed each other, but God's word never fails. 18:54 It stands, I mean, it's what a foundation we have. 18:59 In sharing this final cry, we're talking about we must 19:04 know who is going to come to the light or give them a chance 19:08 to make a decision. 19:11 We can think back quickly. 19:12 Remember about Elijah in 1 Kings 18. 19:15 You remember what he said? 19:16 Huh, you remember? 19:18 If what? 19:19 If God be what? 19:21 Oh yeah, if God be God, then what? 19:24 If he's Baal, then follow Baal. 19:26 So the decision today, if we follow Baal, we follow God, 19:29 isn't that right? 19:30 If God is for us, who can really be against us? 19:34 But notice this I found was Evangelism page 224 said this, 19:41 in rejecting the testimonies. 19:45 In rejecting the testimonies, somebody listen. 19:50 It results in moving of the pillars of our faith. 19:58 In rejecting, certainly the word of God. 20:02 Certainly in rejecting the testimonies, it begins, it 20:05 results is moving the pillars of our faith. 20:08 That's what the devil wants to do for testimonies 2.11. 20:11 Read more about that. 20:12 So not one peg, not one pin is to be removed. 20:15 But remember, the devil is saying, I'm gonna cause trouble 20:18 here because I know you people, we're supposed to give that 20:23 warning message, that loud cry to wake up the people. 20:27 Listen, if anybody needs to wake up call, it's Seventh-day 20:30 Adventist. 20:31 Is that okay? 20:32 I am one, and I can say it if I want to. 20:37 You know what I'm saying. 20:39 It's not that we're against him, we are. 20:41 And you know what, I'm happy about it. 20:44 I don't wanna use the word wrongfully, but I'm so happy. 20:48 I'm proud to be a Seventh-day Adventist Christian. 20:53 So any teachings we know, any instructions that's given from 20:57 the Bible, from the spirit of prophecy, right? 21:00 Anything we delve out to the church that we give to one 21:03 another, must come from the word of God. 21:06 It must have a sure foundation. 21:08 And if the church finds out that it's not, then we have to 21:11 do something about it. 21:13 Too long, in my opinion. 21:14 Too long we've let things go in among maybe our local churches. 21:19 We knew they were wrong. 21:21 We knew it shouldn't be going on. 21:24 But brother saw and saw, or sister saw and saw. 21:27 They're high on the totem pole. 21:28 Well, it's time they come down. 21:30 If they're doing the wrong thing, come down. 21:33 The church has an obligation to stand for what is truth and 21:37 what is right. 21:39 Now remember, you know, in 1 John 1, 1 through 4, I won't 21:41 take time to read that, but 1 John 1, 1 through 4, John 21:44 begins his gospel with the words, in the beginning. 21:50 So maybe sometime we start in the beginning, in the 21:53 beginning. 21:54 But in 1 John 1, he begins with this word, these words, from 22:00 the beginning. 22:02 In the beginning, from the beginning, there is a 22:06 difference. 22:07 Think on it for a moment. 22:08 So in the gospel, what is he doing? 22:10 He's looking in the beginning and then he's looking before, 22:14 in the beginning and before. 22:17 And here in the epistle, he looks at something different, 22:19 the beginning and after. 22:21 Man, that pretty well covers it. 22:24 See, what was John dealing with? 22:26 Some of the things that we're dealing with today that we must 22:28 deal with. 22:29 And I think this, before we can give that loud cry or that, you 22:34 know, the last cry or however you want to say it, as we look 22:39 at these things, some issues have to be settled. 22:42 We've got to get them settled in our heart and get them 22:44 settled in our mind. 22:45 There's no doubt about it. 22:47 See, John here, when he was talking, he was dealing with 22:49 some who denied the reality of the incarnation. 22:54 See, how would you deal with that? 22:55 How would I deal with that today? 22:57 In John's day, he's looking, he said, man, they're denying the 22:59 incarnation of Jesus Christ. 23:02 They denied Jesus coming and putting on flesh and blood and 23:06 may I say sinful flesh without the sin. 23:08 Are you still with me? 23:10 Read Romans 8, 3, and 4. 23:14 He was explaining and establishing something which 23:16 maybe we need to be, have a little more hands on ourselves. 23:21 The grounds of his argument, we have to have arguments. 23:24 Some of you don't like to say we have to have arguments, but 23:26 there's times that you're going to be confronted with the 23:28 devil, things that are not true, and we need to have an 23:34 argument, as it were, a defense. 23:36 And so in nothing different, John was doing the same thing 23:38 right here. 23:39 He said, look, here's my defense. 23:41 I believe that Jesus came in incarnation. 23:43 He was born in this world. 23:44 And he said, what do you mean? 23:45 He said, listen, don't tell me. 23:47 He said, I've seen him. 23:49 Whoo. 23:50 Man, I've heard him. 23:52 I've touched him. 23:54 Wow. 23:59 Son of God? 24:00 Oh, I've examined him closely. 24:05 That's hard to put up an argument against that, isn't 24:07 it? 24:09 Some of us heard, some of us has listened, but have we 24:13 really by faith touched? 24:15 Have we really reached out and touched him by faith to know 24:17 that he really exists? 24:20 I think we need to be doing more of that today. 24:22 I probably clearer words could probably never be spoken than 24:25 these words. 24:28 Because he said, I have a relationship with the Word. 24:33 Mmm. 24:35 He said, I have a relationship with the Word that was made 24:38 what? 24:42 And when you say Word, that concerns what? 24:44 Life. 24:45 Wow. 24:46 The Word gives life, the Bible tells us. 24:49 The Word is life. 24:52 And the Bible said the Word was, I love it, manifested. 24:55 Mmm. 24:56 Or what? 24:56 Or it was made known to us. 24:58 Isn't that right? 24:59 It was made visible for us. 25:01 Yeah, boy. 25:04 Now, it's interesting. 25:06 John wants to share in the knowledge and the blessing. 25:10 So when we come to these, trying to give this last 25:12 warning message to the world, there's going to be challenges 25:16 that we're going to have. 25:17 And I think the main thing John wanted us to know and we need 25:19 to know here is he had the knowledge and he said, I have 25:23 the knowledge and the blessing to know Christ. 25:26 We need to know Christ, don't we? 25:30 I really wonder how many of us really put to the test, really 25:33 know Him. 25:35 Or many of us want to know Him more. 25:37 Isn't that right? 25:38 And better. 25:39 But John's saying here, I know Him. 25:41 I've seen Him. 25:42 I've felt Him. 25:43 I've touched Him. 25:43 I've examined Him. 25:45 I want you to know Christ. 25:47 I want you to have fellowship with Him. 25:49 And the first thing that happens, remember, before we 25:52 can give this loud, this cry we're talking about, the final 25:55 cry, we have to have a knowledge of what's going on in 25:58 other people's minds and what's happening. 26:02 And John is saying here to have fellowship with Christ, to 26:05 reach out and be able to touch Him and have fellowship with 26:07 Him. 26:10 there's something that takes place. 26:14 There's born in the heart. 26:16 There's born in the heart something, a desire to make Him 26:20 known to others. 26:22 You know, when you accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior, 26:25 you'd probably run down the street or rode your bicycle. 26:27 You did something. 26:29 And everybody you saw, you want to talk about Jesus, didn't 26:31 you? 26:33 Why not? 26:35 What's happened? 26:37 Go out and get you a 10 -speeder. 26:38 What do they make now? 26:39 20, 30, 40. 26:40 Get you another bike. 26:42 Get out and we should be doing more. 26:43 Isn't that right? 26:44 We love Him yesterday. 26:45 We need to love Him more today. 26:47 And we want to tell what a precious friend that He is to 26:51 us and what a precious friend He wants to be to them. 26:54 How interesting that is. 26:56 So you can say maybe a purpose of the study is to look at some 26:59 of these things. 27:03 inside and outside the church. 27:06 Now you can talk about battles going on outside the church and 27:09 everybody's fine. 27:10 Soon as you say there's a battle going on inside the 27:12 church. 27:14 Oh, let's be realistic. 27:16 Nobody try to hammer anybody. 27:17 We're just trying to look at it and say, is this a real thing? 27:20 What is the devil really doing? 27:22 He's tried to find a lodging in Seventh-day Adventist Movement. 27:25 Don't you believe it? 27:26 Sure he is. 27:29 And sometimes these things arise in the midst, the middle 27:33 of us and even in the Apostles' Day. 27:39 And you know what they call them? 27:40 They call them doctrines of devils. 27:44 And the Apostle felt as they were led by the Holy Spirit, 27:47 I'm sure, that they had to deal with some of these issues. 27:50 They didn't want to deal with them, didn't want to spend time 27:52 with them, but they did every time. 27:56 It was necessary, 1 Timothy was it, 4.1, the doctrine of 28:00 devils. 28:03 of the devil? 28:06 That can't be good, can it? 28:08 No. 28:09 And sometimes we see doctrines of devils, but we want to push 28:12 them back on the shelf and not say too much about it. 28:15 We want to kind of let it go rather than say, that's a 28:17 doctrine of the devil. 28:20 It's either a doctrine of Jesus Christ, right? 28:22 The Holy Spirit is a doctrine of the devil. 28:24 It's about time we called it that, and then there'd be no 28:26 confusion. 28:30 So I say this, that the Apostles had rather, they'd 28:35 rather went about preaching Jesus Christ. 28:38 They'd went about, you know, preaching the gospel, inviting 28:40 people to come in, but they were confronted day in and day 28:44 out by these doctrine of devils. 28:46 And so they had to deal with them. 28:48 We'll prove that as we go. 28:49 Now, let me ask you a question. 28:51 If you came upon a beautiful garden, walking along, we all 28:55 love a garden, love the flowers, love all the stuff in 28:57 it. 28:59 And we came along and we've seen this beautiful garden. 29:02 And it was just filled with sweet smelling flowers. 29:06 Yum, yum. 29:09 What had you rather do? 29:11 There's a choice. 29:14 Just stop and smell the flowers or you look closely at those 29:20 flowers and you say, I see some cut worms on my flowers. 29:28 Some caterpillars. 29:29 Come on. 29:31 You know, what do you do when you go to your garden or 29:35 whatever and you look out and you see these little 29:37 caterpillar green worms? 29:38 What are you? 29:39 Oh, just just let them have a feast. 29:42 Not on my tomato plants. 29:45 Right? 29:46 You don't. 29:47 What do you do? 29:47 What do you know? 29:48 You know that this cutworm, right? 29:50 Caterpillar is destroying that young tender plant by what, you 29:54 know, what it's doing. 29:56 We have to realize that the battle that goes on sometime in 29:59 the church. 30:01 Man, cut worm, caterpillars. 30:06 Now remember, the cutworm is named a cutworm because it cuts 30:09 down. 30:11 And remember, mainly it feeds on young plants. 30:16 Your job and my job as older is to watch the young plants 30:22 because a cutworm can run them rather quickly. 30:30 This demands now notice a physical removal. 30:37 Something has to give. 30:38 It can't stay the same. 30:42 A physical removal then is an effective way to save the 30:46 plant. 30:49 cutworm. 30:50 Is that all right? 30:53 Yeah. 30:54 I'm thinking about the ones maybe in my garden. 30:57 Now you start thinking about the ones in your garden and 31:00 make you want to go out and get them, isn't that right? 31:02 Physically remove them, pull them off of that vine. 31:04 They're trying, they're killing it. 31:06 We call them bloodsuckers. 31:07 Can I say that? 31:11 Spiritual bloodsuckers, okay. 31:15 So in order then for the sweet smell of truth to continue, 31:23 these cutworms that are destroying the truth must be 31:27 exposed and destroyed. 31:32 Nobody said it would be pleasant. 31:35 I'd rather sit there and smell the flowers myself or the 31:38 plant, whatever it might be instead of pulling off those 31:40 old worms. 31:42 But somebody has to do it. 31:45 The apostles all knew they had to do it. 31:47 Jesus knew he had to do it. 31:50 And how do we do that? 31:51 You talk about exposed and destroyed. 31:53 You expose and destroy them by simply presenting what is 31:56 truth. 31:58 There's a way in which to do that. 31:59 Keep the truth going. 32:02 That would be part of fearlessly sharing the final 32:06 cry. 32:07 We've got to get those worms, those cutworms off of the vine 32:12 because I know there's several worms of false doctrine that 32:16 are going every which way now. 32:17 They always have been. 32:20 They were growing in the day of Christ. 32:22 Such as we talked about in 1 John 1, 1 through 4, in 1 John 32:27 4, 2 and 3. 32:30 Heresies were developing and you know one of the big ones in 32:34 Christ's day was they said no, Christ is not real. 32:38 He's an apparition. 32:41 That means he's a ghost. 32:44 He's an illusion. 32:45 He's a phantom. 32:46 Now how would you combat something like that? 32:49 How would you deal with that today? 32:52 They had to deal with it. 32:53 Just leave it alone, say nothing. 32:55 Well, no. 33:00 If we ever forget that the enemy is working in the garden 33:04 of God, we are in trouble because he's always there 33:08 trying to plant dangerous, poisonous doctrines, always 33:14 error among God's people. 33:17 And I'm really encouraging you by the grace of God, get 33:20 settled in your faith. 33:22 Don't let every wind of doctrine, everybody pull a 33:24 little of this or that and you're gone. 33:27 Know what you believe and hang on to it. 33:29 It's essential to your salvation and for heaven. 33:35 John warned the Christians in the early church against some 33:39 of these ideas, bad ideas because they were saying that a 33:44 Christian is beyond sin. 33:46 Look out now. 33:47 And they were teaching other things like you don't have to 33:50 keep the commandments of God. 33:52 It's not important. 33:55 We know better, don't we? 33:57 They were teaching it and some people were listening and they 34:01 were responding just like others are saying we don't need 34:06 the spirit of prophecy anymore. 34:07 Get real somebody. 34:09 Is that all right? 34:11 See, we have to be headstrong on these things to know that 34:15 you studied enough that you feel content and it's right and 34:18 that God gave it. 34:19 You have to know in your heart that is a gift that God has 34:22 given in the last days to anybody that wants it. 34:26 Especially his last day church. 34:30 And then others are saying it doesn't matter about the two 34:32 identifying marks anymore. 34:34 One is enough. 34:35 It's not. 34:36 It said two. 34:38 Isn't that what it said? 34:39 See, we have to know those things by the grace of God and 34:42 do some studying. 34:44 We're going to find that people will arise and we find this 34:47 here over and over and over. 34:49 They're going to have dreams and they're going to have all 34:50 kind of false visions. 34:52 They're going to have some truth. 34:53 They're going to mix it with air. 34:55 It's going to confuse you. 34:56 If you're not careful, it's going to confuse me. 34:58 And I'm so thankful that God has given us this rule always 35:02 that you know so well, especially the Seventh Day. 35:04 Can I say Seventh Day more? 35:05 I want to say it more. 35:08 Seventh Day Adventist Christian. 35:10 Seventh Day Adventist Christian. 35:12 You can dislike me if you want to. 35:14 I'd rather you not I'd rather love, but hey, sometimes you 35:17 just want to say it, not be embarrassed by it. 35:22 God gave, I believe with all my heart, Isaiah 820. 35:26 He said, Kenny, here's the test to the law, right? 35:30 And to what? 35:31 The testimony. 35:34 little bit of light in them. 35:36 No light in them. 35:37 Rule them out. 35:38 Find anybody that's degrading and taking out and say God's 35:41 law. 35:43 You know, if they don't pay heed to what God has said, 35:48 they're not paying heed to the testimonies that have been 35:51 revealed. 35:52 You know what? 35:53 They're deceiving themselves. 35:55 Now remember, we've got to get past these things in order to 35:58 give that final cry to the world. 36:00 We have to meet these things head on. 36:03 It's important. 36:04 You may not have approached this subject the way that I 36:06 felt and led to do it, but I understand that we have a road 36:09 that we've got to cross. 36:10 We've got a road. 36:13 These things are going to be happening and by God's grace. 36:17 And you can talk to some people and say, oh yeah, well, we know 36:19 we, we kind of believe in feelings and emotions and all 36:24 kind of things right now. 36:25 And you present scripture to them. 36:27 That's not good. 36:28 They say we have, we have something better now. 36:32 Really? 36:33 Who has the audacity? 36:35 Is that right too? 36:36 Audacity to say we have something better than what God 36:38 has given. 36:40 Do you realize what that takes? 36:47 We have something better. 36:48 No, you don't. 36:50 They're in reality following their imagination and that 36:55 which is inspired by Satan. 36:58 It's okay because it either is of God or it's not. 37:02 So what once we come to that is be so easy for us to be able to 37:05 stay on track. 37:06 It's either God or it's of the enemy and we don't want nothing 37:09 to do with the enemy. 37:10 Let me say something here. 37:11 Manuscript 27, 1894. 37:14 This, it starts out like this. 37:16 Bear in mind that trials of this character are to come upon 37:21 us. 37:24 Not only from without, but from within our own ranks. 37:31 You see, we have to know that and not just be so, you know, 37:35 torn up about we lay down and we die. 37:37 This is when we stand. 37:39 We stand in defense of the faith, once delivered to the 37:43 saints. 37:46 about it. 37:47 Seventh-day Adventism is raised to me. 37:50 We have distinct doctrines that no one else has. 37:54 That doesn't mean you're any better. 37:55 Doesn't mean I'm any better. 37:56 We know more. 37:57 But do we not have distinct doctrines? 38:00 They're different from most all the other doctrines of other 38:04 churches. 38:05 Some are very different from the teachings of maybe other 38:09 Christians or churches. 38:12 We have always insisted upon it, Thus saith the Lord. 38:16 I love that. 38:18 Thus saith the Lord. 38:22 And because of this, because we, Thus saith the Lord. 38:25 Just because of this, right, we found it necessary then to 38:29 defend our position. 38:31 Does that make sense? 38:33 Thus saith the Lord. 38:34 We have to defend our position. 38:35 If you can't defend your position, you have no position. 38:39 Is that all right? 38:40 I think that's true. 38:45 And we defend that position against those who are trying to 38:49 change Scripture to suit their own way of life and maybe the 38:54 way they think. 38:56 I just say, my brothers and sisters, we cannot be silent at 39:01 this time. 39:03 That's treason against God. 39:06 He doesn't have neutral in His transmission. 39:12 And you don't have neutral in yours. 39:14 And I don't have it in mine by the grace of God, right? 39:17 No, by the grace of God. 39:21 From the beginning, our teachings have been built. 39:25 And I can say this for what I know. 39:28 I don't know that much. 39:29 I'm just saying I'm smart. 39:30 But from the very beginning, for a mile of years in this 39:32 movement, I know from the very beginning, our teachings have 39:36 been built upon that solid rock, which is Jesus Christ. 39:39 Isn't that right, Matthew 16, 18? 39:41 Built upon that rock. 39:44 You can be sure of it. 39:47 Bible said the foundation of God's stand is sure. 39:50 Isn't that beautiful? 39:51 2 Timothy 2, 19. 39:54 And so I do submit once again, every attack and much more is 39:59 going to happen in the near future. 40:00 Will we be ready? 40:04 The pillars of our faith are being attacked. 40:07 But I say this, just a little small argument in defense of 40:11 that platform, that foundation that we are. 40:13 I say it's sure. 40:14 And I say it's sure because from all, you know, the 40:18 doctoral positions, because after all these years, it's 40:21 still there. 40:22 It's still there. 40:23 What you have, it's still there. 40:25 It hasn't changed. 40:26 And it won't change. 40:30 Well, praise God for that. 40:32 We're called upon to wage a war in defense of the faith. 40:37 See, people don't like to talk about it. 40:38 A war. 40:41 This is a battle royale. 40:42 You know that. 40:45 We're called upon to wage a war in defense of the faith. 40:49 Keep this in mind, Review and Herald 1, 1, 18, 89. 40:53 It says, there is today prospect before us, you read 40:56 this many times, of waging a continuous war. 41:00 Are we there? 41:01 At the risk of imprisonment, of losing property, even life 41:06 itself, to defend the law of God. 41:09 How many of you love the law of God enough you're willing to 41:12 defend it, give your life for it, property, whatever it 41:15 takes. 41:16 You know what I'm saying? 41:19 are you going to say then? 41:21 You know, know by the grace of God, which is being made void 41:26 by the laws of men. 41:27 We know that. 41:29 So the Bible puts forth strong arguments against error and we 41:35 are encouraged to do the very same. 41:37 Let me give you several examples quickly of our time. 41:41 Paul, Paul liked to meet him head-on. 41:42 Did you like that? 41:43 I love to read about Paul. 41:47 Some of you will go, huh, that's okay. 41:52 I'll find out sometime you need to lead with a left and give 41:54 them the right and that's it. 41:59 Some people need it. 42:02 Other people may be a little different way, but notice 1st 42:04 Corinthians 15 12. 42:06 Paul said he was dealing with this thing going, there's no 42:09 resurrection. 42:12 If you die, you just die. 42:13 That's it. 42:13 He went boy. 42:14 He went to scripture. 42:15 He met it head-on and man, he gained a lot of people 42:18 followers because of that and he just said this simply. 42:21 He encouraged others. 42:22 He said fight with me. 42:24 He said it like this. 42:26 First Timothy 6 12. 42:27 He said fight the good fight of faith. 42:30 Fight do what? 42:32 Fight the good fight of faith. 42:33 Stand in there. 42:36 Then he said hold fast to the form of sound words. 42:40 Oh, I like that. 42:42 He said which you have heard from me. 42:44 What are people hearing from you? 42:46 What are they hearing from me? 42:47 Are they really sound words? 42:49 Things that they can as we're sink their teeth into and say 42:51 man, this is this is something. 42:55 There has to be something that's going on. 42:58 God is moving in a marvelous way with his people right now. 43:02 Don't miss it. 43:03 Don't miss it. 43:05 You don't have to be real special. 43:07 I've seen a young man just yesterday. 43:10 I mean, I've seen him two or three different times and went 43:12 in there and he brought me something and did something. 43:15 He said sir, yeah, I hope one of these days I have some time. 43:24 I'm going what? 43:26 He said I'd just love to sit down and just talk with you. 43:30 There's something that's telling me to talk to you. 43:34 Don't know his name. 43:36 That's nothing good. 43:37 Remember, they must see Jesus. 43:39 They must see something that's different from the world. 43:42 He sees all kind of people, but he said there's something. 43:45 I want there to be time. 43:47 Can we just sit anytime you want my brother. 43:50 Probably 22, 23 years of what? 43:52 That's awesome. 43:54 God is opening doors and avenues right now. 43:59 You know, Peter warns the church of false teachers among 44:03 you. 44:04 You remember this? 44:05 He said they're bringing in damnable heresies. 44:07 You remember that? 44:08 Soul destroying. 44:09 If we believe they're soul destroying, we've got to do 44:11 something about it by God's grace. 44:13 2 Peter 2, 1. 44:15 And so then what does he do? 44:16 He tells, he warns the church. 44:18 And so we said, well, I've warned them. 44:19 That's enough. 44:22 doing that. 44:22 No, no, no. 44:22 What he did. 44:24 He began to examine and to show his disapproval of their heirs 44:28 and their heresies. 44:30 See, he began to show them where they were in error. 44:36 How about you? 44:37 How about me? 44:38 How about giving that faith once delivered to the saints? 44:40 You remember that? 44:42 In Jude chapter 3. 44:43 I mean, what a thought. 44:45 How about the time of the reformation? 44:47 What I'm saying, we're living in the last hours of verse 44:49 history and we look at a lot of things that have been started 44:52 years ago and yet they're continuing on right now and 44:54 they're going to be brought to completion. 44:56 So instead of just smelling the flowers, the roses, these men 45:00 had to fight to present what is truth. 45:04 The faith once delivered to the saints. 45:05 Now think about it. 45:07 The time of the reformation, when the reformers had to do 45:12 much, much more, imagine, than focus on righteousness by 45:16 faith. 45:17 Okay, I've got a job. 45:18 Righteous by faith. 45:18 Righteous by faith. 45:19 Oh, it's all good. 45:20 No, I'm not saying it's not good. 45:23 But as soon as they began to proclaim righteousness by 45:24 faith, they were challenged. 45:26 And so what did they have to do? 45:31 They had to be prepared to meet these arguments. 45:36 And they had to meet some of the most intelligent, smartest 45:40 minds of Rome. 45:42 Wow. 45:44 And we have to meet, as it were, the mind of the enemy 45:47 through others, if you know what I'm talking about. 45:51 How about William Miller and his associates in the early 45:55 1840s, you remember? 45:57 See, they were not just permitted. 46:00 They believed in the coming of Jesus. 46:03 Oh, Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming. 46:05 And they wanted to just keep telling people and telling 46:07 people, but the people wouldn't let them continue to do what 46:09 they were supposed to be doing. 46:12 They had to spend time on refuting. 46:17 All the arguments of many of the ministers who tried to 46:21 prove from Scripture that the world conversion came before 46:25 Jesus comes back. 46:28 Some of the stuff you might be hearing today. 46:32 And all you have to do is examine some of the writings of 46:35 the 1844 movement to see there were some very heavy-duty 46:40 meetings that occurred when air was exposed and somebody was 46:45 dismissed. 46:46 Interesting. 46:48 So, let me take it quick. 46:49 What about the Seventh-day Adventist Movement? 46:51 What about the Seventh-day Adventist Movement? 46:55 As it first began, we began, a lot of time was spent by voice 47:00 and by pen, any which way, to put up an argument that Sunday, 47:06 as they say, and not Saturday, was taught in Scripture. 47:10 That was put right, it's Sunday, it's Sunday! 47:12 And we said, no, it's Saturday, it's Saturday, the seventh day. 47:16 It'd be nice to go ahead and just proclaim, proclaim, 47:18 proclaim, but then there had to be some, you know, papers 47:20 printed and books printed and different things going on to, 47:23 you know, fight the good fight of faith. 47:28 Tried to explain one of the errors of the soul that never 47:33 dies. 47:36 So, in doing what they were compelled to do or supposed to 47:39 do by God, there's a lot of other things that had to take 47:41 place because they had to give a warning message to the world 47:45 that Jesus was soon to come. 47:50 Now, I think beyond a shadow of a doubt, there's movements 47:55 today that's going forward. 48:00 And some of them are as false as false can be, and we have to 48:03 be ready and we have to recognize it. 48:07 But when we see there's two things we might need to be 48:09 doing as we see a lot of these false doctors and teachers and 48:11 things going on, we need to put together evidence in behalf, 48:18 right, of that belief. 48:20 We have to be ready for it. 48:23 Number two, be able to answer any argument about that belief. 48:28 Well, that means we have to get into the word, right? 48:30 We're going to have to study it. 48:32 If a church wants to maintain its own identity and even 48:37 separate from other churches who play down some of maybe 48:41 your theology or mine, they say, let's just come together. 48:45 It doesn't matter what you believe. 48:46 Don't believe them. 48:51 You have been chosen and called by God to give something very 48:55 special. 48:56 And if you find a group who just minimizes your importance 49:00 of doctrine, it says minimum, it's just, don't worry about 49:03 it, then we need to be very careful, wouldn't you think? 49:08 Because I hear this, nothing matters, but just get along. 49:13 Just have peace. 49:15 We're all trying to get to the same place. 49:16 Sometimes you heard that. 49:20 A man once said there's danger when a person tries to buy 49:24 peace with the currency of compromise. 49:29 The world would have you to compromise these beautiful 49:33 truths that God has given us. 49:34 I encourage you, don't compromise. 49:36 Be careful about trying to doubt. 49:38 It's good to ask questions. 49:39 Don't doubt what God has already given, made clear in 49:43 Scripture and Spirit of Prophecy. 49:46 Greatcontroversy 45 says, if unity could be secured only by 49:49 compromise of truth and righteousness, let there be 49:52 differences and let there even be war. 49:55 Man, that's pretty solid, isn't it? 49:57 But how many of us will do it? 49:59 Most times we sit by idly, we say nothing, we do nothing, 50:01 we're not defending the cause of Christ. 50:05 The world at large, if we look around, the enemy pretty much 50:09 controls it. 50:11 I know God allows him to do it, but think what you're dealing 50:14 with every day. 50:17 Please don't miss this point. 50:18 A few minutes left. 50:21 The Advent movement is distinguished in the belief 50:28 that God raised this movement up to preach the three angels' 50:33 message. 50:34 He raised it up especially to preach the three angels' 50:38 message and to give that final cry, as it were, to get ready 50:42 for His coming, to warn the world of the events that are 50:45 taking place today right underneath our nose. 50:50 The Advent movement right now, still yet, is helping the 50:54 objective of the Reformation of the 16th century. 50:59 It's been part of it, bringing it to completion. 51:05 If the day comes, may I challenge you with this? 51:09 If the day comes that the Adventist movement fails to 51:15 emphasize her doctrines, we will have lost our reason for 51:21 existing. 51:22 Did somebody get it? 51:27 If the day comes that the Advent movement fails to put 51:30 emphasis on doctrines, we have lost our reasons for existing. 51:37 If we minimize these special beliefs, it's going to destroy 51:43 the movement. 51:45 If we want to compromise it away, it's going to destroy the 51:48 movement. 51:49 We can't change one peg or pillar. 51:54 On the other hand, if we just emphasize these testing truths, 51:58 just emphasize them and be prepared for opposition. 52:04 Are you prepared for that opposition? 52:07 That's sure to come, but God will give you what you need in 52:11 that hour. 52:15 Pray that the Holy Spirit just pressures your heart and my 52:18 mind right now. 52:22 going to give this little last warning to the world, a wake-up 52:27 call. 52:30 winds of doctrines blowing around here. 52:32 I must be settled in the truth. 52:35 Settle in the faith that I shall not be moved by the grace 52:38 of God. 52:38 I shall not be. 52:40 I shall not be. 52:41 Just like a tree that's planted by the water. 52:44 Oh, Lord, I shall not be moved only by the grace of God. 52:46 I know that. 52:50 I say to you today in every crisis, and I do believe we're 52:54 in a crisis, we as God's people can confidently declare if God 53:03 be for us, who can be against us? 53:05 Think about it. 53:06 If God be for us, who can be against us? 53:08 It's not going to work. 53:10 If God's for you, you're going to win. 53:13 Oh, I love that. 53:13 Oh, God be for us. 53:15 What's that? 53:15 Romans 8.31. 53:18 Responsive faith in God's Word and His leading today was made 53:23 by Nehemiah that always has impressed my mind. 53:27 Our God shall fight for us. 53:29 And you love it? 53:30 Our God shall fight for us. 53:32 You don't have to think you're out there all alone and always 53:34 all woe is me. 53:35 God's going to fight the battle for you. 53:37 He's going to win every battle. 53:39 God is in the work. 53:41 In Adventism, God is in the work. 53:43 I believe it. 53:47 and no peg and pins to be removed. 53:50 The one who's trying to remove them is going to be removed. 53:55 Too much for you? 54:01 Remember, no man. 54:03 Mommy, are you here? 54:04 Where are you at? 54:05 Oh, sorry. 54:07 It's okay if I call her Mommy? 54:10 Sweetheart. 54:11 Oh, I'm such a lucky guy. 54:15 Remember, no man can prevent the ultimate success of this 54:19 movement. 54:21 No man can do it. 54:22 No group. 54:23 No one can do it. 54:26 We stand firm because God is fighting for us. 54:30 Isn't that wonderful? 54:34 Think about it. 54:35 You're on a winning side. 54:36 You're not a loser. 54:38 You're on a winning side. 54:39 Right? 54:42 It's in Christ that we have our victory. 54:44 You know, you started out with John 1-1. 54:46 Yes. 54:51 with God and the word was God. 54:54 And we need to know, as John knew, Jesus. 54:58 We need to spend time in the word with Jesus. 55:01 We need to, by faith, touch Jesus. 55:03 We need to, by faith, eat of that word each and every day. 55:07 Otherwise, we will not be prepared. 55:11 It's not a once in a week thing. 55:13 It's not every time, you know, just on Wednesday or just on 55:17 Thursday, whenever you have your Bible studies, you need to 55:20 be having and partaking of that spiritual time with Jesus every 55:24 single day. 55:25 Amen. 55:28 What changed my life, what changed His life, is when we 55:31 made the decision that we would partake of the spiritual food 55:34 before we would partake of the physical food. 55:38 And I encourage you, Church, to please join us in that effort 55:42 because as we are putting these things into our minds and our 55:45 hearts, it is Christ that will work in and through us. 55:48 We won't have the power on our own, but we need to put it in 55:52 there so then the Holy Spirit can pull it out. 55:55 He wants, remember some of the passages you've heard over this 55:58 camp meeting, that once Christ's character is fully 56:02 reflected in each and every one of you, what are we told? 56:05 He's going to come. 56:06 Then He will. 56:07 Yes. 56:08 What? 56:08 What's the word? 56:09 Come. 56:09 Yes. 56:10 Then He will come. 56:11 When He sees you, the way that you are developing that 56:16 character, the character of Christ, is through the Word of 56:19 God. 56:19 It's through prayer. 56:21 It is through witnessing. 56:23 It's by way of God is through the sanctuary. 56:26 So we go back and we study the sanctuary to show ourselves 56:29 approved unto God. 56:30 It's by His grace. 56:32 Oh, sweetheart. 56:33 You need to pray for us. 56:33 And it's by His love. 56:34 We've got less than a minute. 56:35 Would you pray for us? 56:36 You can't be long-winded, but go ahead. 56:38 We'll pray. 56:40 We're going to kneel up here. 56:40 Let's pray. 56:42 Heavenly Father, we just thank You. 56:44 We just thank You for this camp meeting. 56:46 We thank You that You love us so much. 56:49 That You are even calling us to be prepared, that we have heard 56:55 Your voice in our hearts and our minds, and that we even 56:58 have Bibles in our country that we can access right now. 57:02 But God, please, urge upon our minds and our hearts to use 57:06 them while we still can, to use that sword, to put on that 57:10 whole armor of God. 57:12 And thank You for being our strength because the enemy is 57:15 all around us. 57:16 But You've promised that You're going to battle for us and 57:19 through us if we just put Your love and Your Word inside of 57:24 our hearts to eat and to drink of Jesus Christ as our prayer 57:28 in Jesus' name. 57:29 Amen. |
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