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00:01 The hour is urgent, as darkness is dispelled by the light of
00:07 God's Word, a new day begins. 00:10 Jesus, the light of the world is shining. 00:14 Prepare your hearts to proclaim the final cry. 00:17 This is 3ABN Summer Camp Meeting. 00:24 Camp Meeting is almost over. 00:27 Isn't that amazing? 00:27 Thank you guys for hanging in there. 00:30 You know the first time I heard James preach, I was 19 years 00:33 old. 00:35 And I said to myself, I think this guy is the real deal. 00:40 And I tell you that I have, like probably no other, I have 00:44 tested him, I have tried him, and he is the real deal. 00:49 I'm so thankful for James, and I am probably one of his 00:53 greatest fans. 00:57 Spirit is going to bless us through him. 00:59 But first we're going to be having a special music from 01:01 Tim, and then James will be preaching Receiving the Remnant 01:06 into the Fold. 01:20 Far away in the depths of my spirit tonight Rolls a melody 01:31 sweeter than song In celestial -like streams it unceasingly 01:45 flows or my soul like an infinite calm. 01:59 I am resting tonight in this wonderful peace. 02:09 I'm resting sweetly in Jesus' control. 02:19 I'm safe from all danger by my day, and His glory is flooding 02:35 my soul. 02:41 So I sing peace, peace, this wonderful peace. 02:53 Coming down from the Father of sweet, over my spirit forever I 03:13 pray in fathomless billows of love. 03:23 If you know that, sing it with me. 03:26 Why sing peace, peace, that's beautiful, wonderful peace. 03:36 Coming down from the 03:45 Father, sweep over, sweep over my spirit forever I pray in 04:03 fathomless billows of love. 04:26 Thank you, thank you, thank you, Tim. 04:30 Boom! 04:32 Got my box of truth. 04:34 Do you have your box of truth? 04:36 I got my box of truth. 04:37 I hope you got your box of truth. 04:39 We all need the truth. 04:41 Tonight we're going to be talking about the truth. 04:44 The message that God has given me that I've been asked to 04:48 share is entitled to receiving the remnant into the fold. 04:55 Receiving the remnant into the fold. 04:56 Let's pray together. 04:58 Father in heaven, just want to thank you this evening for the 05:01 opportunity that we have to again partake of the message of 05:05 your word that you've given to us and especially in these last 05:07 days. 05:08 Father, this time is yours. 05:10 This desk, this sacred desk is yours. 05:14 These people are yours. 05:17 And we say by faith that our hearts are yours. 05:21 We ask that you'll cleanse us. 05:23 We ask that you will infill us, that your spirit will work on 05:27 us and in us and through us and in spite of us. 05:31 Guide us tonight, Father. 05:33 Give us more of that reign, that truth, we ask. 05:38 In Jesus' name, amen. 05:43 Receiving the remnant into the fold. 05:46 Our scripture reading is going to be in John chapter 4 verse 05:49 23. 05:52 here. 05:57 shall worship the Father in truth. 06:02 For the Father seeks such to worship him. 06:08 What's that? 06:10 Spirit. 06:11 Oh, sorry, I've got the historic Seventh-day Adventist 06:14 version. 06:15 You forgot something. 06:16 You forgot something, Pastor. 06:17 I forgot something? 06:18 Yeah, you forgot something. 06:19 I'm sorry. 06:20 You forgot something. 06:23 Oh, spirit. 06:25 But I've got the truth. 06:28 I've got the truth. 06:33 Hmm. 06:34 Oh, I got the wrong version. 06:36 Here's the version I needed to read. 06:38 But the hour comes and now is when the true worshipers shall 06:41 worship the Father in spirit. 06:43 For the Father seeks such to worship him. 06:47 That's not it either? 06:50 Oh, that's the progressive Seventh-day Adventist version. 06:58 Is it better? 06:59 Which one's better? 07:00 The spirit version or the truth version? 07:05 Well, this is kind of tough. 07:09 You know, whenever Jesus met with tough issues, he always 07:12 spoke in parables. 07:15 I think we need a parable. 07:17 How about the parable of the two boxes? 07:23 The kingdom of heaven is like unto two boxes and one 07:28 pedestal. 07:32 The two boxes were spirit and truth. 07:35 And the Lord gave them to his servants, saying, keep these 07:40 for me and put them on that pedestal for everyone else to 07:44 see. 07:45 And when everyone has seen them, then I will return. 07:50 And some of his servants put one box on the pedestal so that 07:55 people could see as the master had told them. 08:00 But the other box, they left on the floor. 08:06 Then some of the servants, seeing this, took the one box 08:09 off the pedestal and they put it on the floor and they took 08:13 the other neglected box and put it on the pedestal. 08:22 You following me so far? 08:24 Then Jesus asked his disciples, saying, which servant think he 08:31 put the right box on the pedestal? 08:35 And some of the disciples said, they that put the truth on the 08:39 pedestal. 08:44 pedestal. 08:45 And there was a disagreement among the disciples of Christ. 08:51 So then they put one box on top of the other box so that both 08:59 boxes were on the pedestal. 09:01 But the disciples still argued about which box should be above 09:05 the other box on the pedestal. 09:09 Are you following me? 09:13 And they kept moving the boxes back and forth so the people 09:15 looking on saw the disciples moving the boxes and talking 09:18 about which box was more important than the other. 09:21 And in time the attention of the people was on the disciples 09:23 more than on the boxes. 09:28 Then one of the disciples, the youngest one, who some people 09:33 thought looked like he was 12 and even told him so much to 09:37 his vexation, 09:42 this younger disciple, though he was older than he looked, he 09:49 studied the boxes more closely than the other disciples did, 09:53 for this disciple had been to the 3ABN Sod School of 09:56 Discipleship. 09:57 And he had learned how to study so as not to get theologically 10:01 boxed in. 10:03 This Sod graduate who was not boxed in noticed that on the 10:08 back of one of the boxes was written the words Spirit and 10:14 Truth. 10:17 This caused him much rejoicing so that while the other 10:21 disciples were disputing among themselves on their social 10:25 media accounts as to which box was the greatest, the pro-truth 10:29 disciples arguing with a mean spirit and the pro-spirit 10:32 disciples diminishing the truth, while the other 10:35 disciples were disputing, this disciple took the one box 10:39 labeled Spirit and Truth and placed it on this pedestal. 10:44 But he noticed that it was empty. 10:47 Unlike the truth box, which was full of all kinds of amazing 10:50 facts and truth for the day, this Sod disciple noticed that 10:56 the spirit box was empty. 10:57 So he took the lid off both boxes, thus opening them both 11:03 up, and then he took all the amazing truth for the day and 11:07 filled the spirit box. 11:11 And when he was done, he turned the box around to show everyone 11:15 the other side. 11:17 The other side. 11:21 When the other disciples saw what the Sod disciple had done, 11:24 many of them, though not all, for some of them had grown to 11:29 like religious disputing more than anything else. 11:32 And they really didn't want a solution that would quiet their 11:35 arguing. 11:37 Yet many of the disciples, seeing that the Spirit and the 11:39 truth were both lifted up on the pedestal together for all 11:43 to see, laid aside their arguing and their disputing and 11:46 rejoiced in the Spirit and the truth. 11:51 Now, it came to pass that their rejoicing in Spirit and truth 11:56 was so loud and so genuine that it drowned out the voices of 12:02 those disciples that loved to dispute. 12:06 And everyone came to see this wonderful unity of the two 12:09 boxes coming into one box without diminishing either the 12:17 Spirit or the truth. 12:18 And many of those who saw also rejoiced and told others how 12:21 the Spirit and the truth were now united so that the good 12:26 news of the truth in spirit was shared as a witness to all the 12:32 world in spite of the disputes. 12:36 And the rejoicing of the disciples in Spirit and truth 12:41 was so loud that the Lord heard it, and He came near to see if 12:48 in fact the disciples had done as He commanded them before He 12:53 left. 12:55 And upon close investigation, the Lord saw that His truth had 13:00 been combined with His Spirit and put on the pedestal for all 13:05 to see. 13:06 And the Lord also rejoiced. 13:09 Yet the Lord also noted that those who had continued to 13:11 dispute were not happy with the Spirit and truth being united 13:14 because it diminished their arguing which had been made 13:17 into a ministry by which they sustained themselves. 13:20 And the Lord left the disciples who had developed a character 13:23 of loving to dispute to their disputing. 13:26 Then He took with Him those disciples who rejoiced in the 13:28 unity of Spirit and truth so that they could worship Him as 13:33 they now long to do from the very depths of their hearts, 13:39 for they had learned from experience that worshiping God 13:45 in Spirit and truth not only glorified their Creator, but 13:49 that it also satisfied the deepest longing of their own 13:53 hearts. 13:55 And then Jesus would say something like, in closing this 13:59 parable, those who have ears to hear, let them hear. 14:07 So really that's why we came here. 14:09 We came here to not debunk the truth and not diminish the 14:14 Spirit, but to take the Spirit and combine it with the truth, 14:27 to take the box off the Spirit and the box off the truth, the 14:31 truth, the truth. 14:34 You know, some of these books are actually free. 14:36 You can just take them with you and start a ministry, a 14:39 publishing ministry, an outreach ministry in your 14:41 churches and take all this truth and put it in the Spirit 14:45 box. 14:52 Spirit and truth. 15:02 And so Jesus said in John chapter 4, verses 23 and 24, 15:09 John chapter 4, verses 23 and 24, but the hour comes, the 15:17 hour comes. 15:18 He's looking ahead to our time and now is when the true 15:25 worshipers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. 15:32 For the Father is seeking such to worship him. 15:37 God is Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in 15:42 Spirit and in truth. 15:48 When we think about this parable, when we think about 15:51 this truth, we think about the words of Christ, the time is 15:57 now coming. 15:59 We could say that it's, we could call it a long train 16:02 coming. 16:04 Those of you who are older will know, I think I was in high 16:07 school. 16:08 Have you ever been stuck waiting for a long train? 16:12 The lights are flashing at the railroad crossing, you're 16:14 sitting there and the train's going by and it's not going by 16:16 very fast. 16:22 one after another. 16:23 I was at a railroad crossing one time, the train was going 16:26 by, it was going by really slow and then it stopped and then it 16:29 backed up. 16:32 different track and it wants to go forward? 16:35 Long train coming. 16:38 Welcome to God's world. 16:40 Sometimes we say, I wish Jesus would come sooner, why doesn't 16:43 God come? 16:44 And that echoes up to heaven. 16:47 God says, man, I wish I could come sooner. 16:53 So Bob Dylan put out an album, long train coming, in 1979, I 16:58 was in my senior year of high school, graduated in 1980, and 17:02 in it he had a song entitled, God has served somebody. 17:08 It was a long song, there was seven lyrics all together and 17:11 then you go back to the chorus, but here's one that I wanted to 17:14 bring out for you, it says, you may be a preacher with your 17:16 spiritual pride, 17:21 you may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side, you 17:25 may be working in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair, 17:29 you may be somebody's mistress, you may be somebody's heir, but 17:33 you gotta serve, you're gonna have to serve somebody. 17:36 Yes indeed, you're gonna have to serve somebody. 17:40 Well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're 17:45 gonna have to serve somebody. 17:50 It's a long song, and it included every type of person 17:54 so as to leave no one out, making sure that everyone knows 17:57 that no matter who you are, or what your status is, all of us 18:02 are going to have to serve either God or the devil, 18:06 period. 18:08 And of course, 18:13 this message from Bob Dylan is really a biblical truth. 18:19 Romans chapter 6, 16 and 17 says, Do you not know that to 18:22 whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are those, 18:26 the one slaves whom you obey, whether sin leading you to 18:28 death or obedience leading to righteousness? 18:30 And then he goes on to say, But God be thanked, that though you 18:35 were the slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form 18:39 of doctrine which you were delivered, which was delivered 18:43 to you, or to which you were delivered. 18:46 Now, we may not like hearing the message from Bob Dylan. 18:49 But we might ask, Well, why would God speak through an 18:54 unbeliever, someone like that? 18:57 I think he became actually a born-again Christian at some 19:00 point. 19:04 to face in the garden. 19:05 And after the fall, God kept talking, but only to a few 19:08 people. 19:12 He talked to Moses, He talked to Isaiah, He talked to 19:15 Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, who was greatly beloved. 19:20 And then a day came when God in Jesus Christ came to this 19:24 earth. 19:26 And once again, He talked to us face to face. 19:30 He talked with, according to John chapter 4, an idol 19:36 -worshipping, multiple -divorcee, fornicating woman. 19:42 True or false? 19:43 True. 19:45 Why? 19:47 Why didn't He talk to the Adventists? 19:52 Why is He talking to a Catholic lady who's worshipping idols 19:54 and just going to church and Christmas and Easter? 19:59 Right? 20:00 Why? 20:03 Because this woman, who was not in the truth, who didn't live 20:08 the truth, who didn't love the truth, yet the truth was 20:12 talking to her, this woman 20:17 had a humble, needy, receptive, sharing spirit. 20:25 And Jesus saw that. 20:27 He saw the spirit. 20:30 He saw beyond the outward. 20:33 He saw beyond the failures. 20:36 Jesus exercised faith in this woman. 20:40 He believed in her. 20:42 He believed that if He told her what He could never tell the 20:47 Adventists, that He was the Messiah. 20:51 He couldn't tell that to the Adventists. 20:54 He believed it would set her heart on fire. 21:01 And she would go back to her town, her village, her city, 21:05 her place of abode, and she would witness to everyone. 21:10 He believed that. 21:11 He saw that. 21:12 He had faith, had belief in that woman. 21:16 Some of us are going to go back to our abodes, to our place of 21:21 living. 21:22 Are we going to set our towns and cities and villages on fire 21:24 like this woman did, this fornicator, this divorcee, this 21:28 woman who came to the well when no one else was there? 21:33 Because there are people who will. 21:35 They come into our churches. 21:37 They're baptized. 21:39 And they want to go out door to door. 21:40 They want to have an out great converse. 21:42 They want to light a fire under us. 21:44 And we tell them, you know, we try to throw a bucket of water 21:46 on them and tell them, you know, cool down after a while. 21:49 What in the world? 21:54 So Christ, the way, the truth, and the life, poured truth into 21:57 her receptive, humble, needy, giving spirit. 22:01 The truth. 22:09 And then He told us, the day is coming when true worshipers 22:13 will worship Me in spirit and in truth. 22:15 And it seems to me that Seventh -day Adventists have the truth 22:19 part down really good. 22:21 We've got that. 22:23 Like we can give you all the answers. 22:27 But it seems to me like God's people in Babylon have the 22:32 spirit part down pretty good. 22:37 I know people who have left this church and have found 22:41 Christ in Sunday-keeping churches. 22:46 They found genuine experience. 22:47 I remember one young man. 22:49 He came into the church, you know, and he was surrounded by 22:52 legalism. 22:52 That happens. 22:54 And he went out. 22:55 And he wrote to me and he said, I know you probably think that, 22:58 you know, I'm an apostasy because I've left the Adventist 23:00 church, but I just want you to know that I am a Christian. 23:04 I'm a believer. 23:05 I've accepted Christ as my Savior, and I'm no longer 23:07 addicted to pornography. 23:10 I said, praise God. 23:12 I'm so thankful to hear that. 23:13 I believe that you are having a genuine experience, and I do 23:19 not believe that that experience can only happen in 23:21 this church, because I know, because I was a converted 23:24 Christian before I became a Seventh-day Adventist. 23:29 And I said to him, just don't forget about Revelation 13. 23:40 What if we could just get all the in-truth worshipers and all 23:43 the in-spirit worshipers on the same page? 23:47 Wouldn't that be grand? 23:47 Like we're all just together. 23:52 Enter Revelation chapter 18. 23:57 Let's look there in verse 1. 23:59 Revelation chapter 18. 24:02 Beginning with verse 1. 24:04 We'll read through verse 4. 24:06 All the spirit believers and all the truth believers all in 24:11 one place. 24:11 How's it going to happen? 24:13 Revelation 18 verse 1. 24:14 And after these things, I saw another angel come down from 24:20 heaven. 24:23 Having what? 24:24 Great power. 24:27 And the earth was lightened with his glory. 24:30 And whose glory is that? 24:31 Is it our glory? 24:32 No, it's the glory of the truth. 24:35 It's the glory of the truth and the spirit. 24:41 We're actually told that, you know. 24:43 In the last days, when the crisis hits, we are told that 24:50 the work we've done in missionary efforts, getting the 24:53 truth out, the seed sown, will spring up and bear fruit. 24:57 Those seeds of truth that we've been sowing all this time. 25:01 They will be watered, they'll spring up and bear fruit. 25:03 And we're told our message will not go so much by theological 25:08 argument, but by the spirit of the truth. 25:16 That's what it's going to be. 25:18 And that's why so many people are going to come into this 25:21 church in the last days. 25:24 Because the real test that we're going to face is a test 25:28 of character. 25:29 It's not a test of what day we go to church. 25:33 You follow me? 25:33 It's a test of character. 25:36 And God has been growing the character of His people all 25:41 over the world in every denomination, every phase of 25:43 life. 25:47 There are people who want nothing to do with God, a God 25:51 who's going to burn people in hell forever. 25:57 We were doing an evangelistic series in Maine, and my wife 26:01 would always do a health talk before the Maine meeting, and 26:04 that would of course attract people, and there was this one 26:07 lady that came just to hear the health talk. 26:08 She didn't stay for my meeting. 26:10 She just health talk, and she was gone. 26:12 But after a while, she started staying for the meetings, and 26:15 she was loving it, loving it, until we got to the meeting on 26:22 hell. 26:24 And you've got to understand when I present the meeting on 26:28 hell as an evangelist, I would do a 10-minute Southern Baptist 26:32 sermon on hell fire. 26:36 You understand? 26:37 And so I got up to do my 10 -minute Southern Baptist. 26:40 You know, we've been going through these truths night by 26:42 night, and you know, you know, you're convicted. 26:45 This is truth. 26:48 you know what's coming. 26:50 And I would quote the verses, you know, burn forever and 26:53 ever, et cetera, et cetera. 26:55 And she just cringed up in her seat, and I was looking at her, 27:00 and she told me later, she said, when you started 27:02 preaching, I was ready to leave. 27:05 She said, I was so thankful for all I'd been learning. 27:08 I was thinking to myself, finally I found the church, 27:10 God's church. 27:12 And then you started preaching that, and she said, oh no, not 27:15 another church that teaches this. 27:17 And she was ready to leave. 27:20 But then she said, you brought that around, and you preached 27:26 the truth about hell. 27:29 And she said, I want to be baptized and join this church. 27:34 As Danny said earlier, you're baptized into Christ, and 27:37 becoming a member of the church. 27:41 It does bother me too when I hear people say, I was baptized 27:44 into the church. 27:45 Oh no, no, you weren't baptized, you joined the 27:47 church. 27:49 Right? 27:52 from being baptized. 27:54 That's the way it is now. 27:56 You're baptized into Jesus, and then we have this little thing 27:58 where you join the church. 28:01 They're separate. 28:05 They're not the same. 28:08 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon, 28:11 the great, is fallen, is fallen, and become the 28:14 habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and 28:17 the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 28:20 For all nations have drunk, verse 3, of the wine of the 28:22 wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have 28:25 committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth 28:27 have waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 28:31 And I heard, verse 4, another voice from heaven saying, come 28:35 out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, 28:41 and that ye receive not of her plagues. 28:44 I think there's about 25 million Adventists worldwide, 28:49 and there are 1.4 billion Catholics. 28:53 That's not including Protestants. 28:55 Probably 2 billion at least, Christians. 28:58 So how, what's the equation 25, is it like 400 times? 29:03 Is that, am I right there? 29:04 400 times 25 million would be 1 .4 billion or somewhere up in 29:09 there. 29:10 Any mathematicians here? 29:12 400 times! 29:16 God has His people in Babylon. 29:21 And I believe quite possibly that there's more of His people 29:26 in Babylon than there is in the Adventist church. 29:29 We should be humble, shouldn't we? 29:32 Because we're going to go through this great exchange 29:33 where company after company is going to go out, and tribe 29:36 after tribe is going to come in. 29:38 All the places made vacant by apostasy will be filled up by 29:41 those coming into the church. 29:43 And God has been developing their characters so that they 29:48 will learn in weeks and months what it's taken others a 29:51 lifetime to learn. 29:53 I mean, how long does it take to learn the 28 fundamentals? 29:56 But how are they going to be able to stand in the time of 30:00 test without character, without the oil, without the spirit to 30:08 combine with the truth? 30:10 And of course, we seven day Adventists, we've been in the 30:14 truth for a long time. 30:15 And we think, because we've been in the truth for a long 30:17 time, you know, we've been in the truth for a long time. 30:20 But man, are we mean, 30:28 arrogant, proud? 30:29 I know that. 30:30 I had a guy tell me that. 30:31 You are so arrogant. 30:33 When you were, I was pretty, you know, wrote this little 30:35 something or other, and he just, a list of about ten 30:37 things, you know, and I was so like, oh, I'm going to just, I 30:42 prayed about, I thought about, I thought, you know what? 30:44 He's right. 30:45 I'm sure I come across that way. 30:46 I'm sure I do because I'm human and I'm me and I'm just like, 30:50 who knows what people, people don't know me. 30:52 My wife will tell you, no, he's a humble guy. 30:58 And so I just said to him, you're right. 31:00 I'm sure I come across that way. 31:04 We need to humble ourselves. 31:05 We have no idea sometimes how we come across. 31:08 We have no idea the people that were hurting and offending. 31:11 James and John didn't know. 31:13 The Samaritans refused. 31:15 The Catholics refused to give them a night's lodging. 31:17 Remember when Jesus was going to Jerusalem? 31:19 The idol worshipers said no. 31:21 And James and John, they were quoting the Bible. 31:24 Remember? 31:25 Elisha. 31:25 He called fire down from heaven. 31:27 Right? 31:27 Elijah. 31:28 Hey, should we call fire down from heaven? 31:30 And what did Jesus say to them? 31:33 You don't know what manner of spirit you are of. 31:37 They had the truth. 31:40 But the spirit wasn't right. 31:43 The spirit wasn't right. 31:45 I think that's one of the greatest dangers of knowing so 31:48 much. 31:49 Me personally, just knowing so much. 31:51 We just naturally tend to get a little bit egotistical, self 31:57 -righteous. 31:58 That's what we need to guard against. 32:01 Seriously. 32:02 I know I do. 32:03 And when people point out things or correct us or 32:06 whatever, we just need to say yes. 32:07 Now, I can't tell you that I actually dye my hair because I 32:11 don't dye my hair. 32:15 hair too dark. 32:17 But if it's a reality, if it's true, let's just humble 32:21 ourselves and say, yeah, I'll own that. 32:25 How can we own that? 32:27 Because we have a Savior who's interceding for us and he just 32:31 embraces us and he's growing us. 32:35 I mean, when we see Jesus, we're like Daniel, we're like 32:38 John, we're like Isaiah. 32:39 There's nothing good in us. 32:41 We're undone. 32:42 What? 32:43 It's my mouth, Isaiah said. 32:44 There's been things I've been saying that aren't right. 32:46 And of course, the mouth is just a manifestation of the 32:49 thoughts and thoughts and feelings that make up the 32:51 character. 32:54 Let them have it. 32:55 Don't defend yourself. 32:56 Don't justify yourself. 32:57 Don't point to other people who are worse than you and say, 32:59 well, you know, the reason why I got upset is because look at 33:02 the way she, look at the way he, look at what they did. 33:07 So how do those stay in the church, that remnant from 33:14 Babylon that comes into the fold, how do they stay in the 33:17 church? 33:19 Well, one of the main ways they stay in the church is by seeing 33:24 our spirit, the spirit of the truth. 33:27 Daniel had this spirit. 33:29 Let's look at a couple of verses in the book of Daniel. 33:31 They're so powerful. 33:32 We'll look at Daniel, chapter 4, verses 8 and 9, and then 33:35 verse 15, 18, and then chapter 5, verses 11 and 12 and 14, and 33:40 then chapter 6. 33:40 Daniel 4, 8 and 9. 33:42 Daniel is talking to Nebuchadnezzar. 33:44 Nebuchadnezzar was probably the most arrogant that you could 33:53 find. 33:55 And you know what's really interesting is that Daniel 34:00 loved Nebuchadnezzar. 34:05 But you know who else loved Nebuchadnezzar? 34:07 God loved Nebuchadnezzar. 34:08 God sent Daniel as an evangelist to win 34:12 Nebuchadnezzar. 34:13 Can you imagine? 34:16 Like, got an assignment for you. 34:20 Going to go to China. 34:22 There's a guy over there. 34:24 He's kind of important and big. 34:28 I might even say he's the leader. 34:30 And I want you to, you know, win him the Adventism. 34:33 That was basically what Daniel was doing. 34:36 I mean, seriously, right? 34:37 But it was God. 34:39 It was God that sent him. 34:43 And what was Daniel supposed to do? 34:44 I mean, was he supposed to come up with some kind of plan or 34:47 plant tracks under Nebuchadnezzar's pillow? 34:49 No. 34:50 God says, I'll give him a vision. 34:51 I'll give him a dream. 34:52 And he'll forget it. 34:53 And then I'll bring you in. 34:54 You pray now. 34:55 Pray, Daniel, pray. 34:56 And follow the health message real close. 34:59 I want you to have a clear mind. 35:01 I want you to be praying. 35:03 And I want you to be abiding in me. 35:05 I want you to be in the Spirit. 35:06 And Nebuchadnezzar recognized this. 35:07 When you look here at Daniel chapter 4, Nebuchadnezzar says, 35:14 but at the last, Daniel came in before me. 35:16 This is Nebuchadnezzar's testimony, by the way. 35:18 He's saved. 35:19 But at the last, Daniel came in before me, whose name was 35:22 Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is 35:28 the Spirit of the Holy Gods. 35:31 Isn't that amazing? 35:33 He's got the Spirit of God. 35:34 Did Daniel have the truth, by the way? 35:36 Ha! 35:38 Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Daniel 8, Daniel 11, Daniel 9. 35:42 He had the truth. 35:43 2300 days of prophecy, 70 weeks, he had all the truth. 35:46 But what was he noted for? 35:47 What did Nebuchadnezzar say he was noted for? 35:50 Spirit. 35:51 Verse 9. 35:52 O Belteshazzar, master of the musicians, because I know that 35:58 the Spirit of the Holy Gods is in thee, and no secret trouble 36:02 with thee. 36:02 Tell me. 36:03 Tell me the vision. 36:04 Right? 36:10 11, 12, and 14, chapter 5. 36:14 This is the Queen Mother going to Belteshazzar, who's had 36:17 this, you know, judgment vision, minimini tikul 36:20 yifarsin. 36:22 There is a man living in thy kingdom, in whom is the Spirit 36:25 of the Holy Gods. 36:27 See what Daniel was known for? 36:29 Verse 12. 36:33 understanding, and interpreting of dreams. 36:35 Oh, he's, this guy knows prophecy. 36:39 This guy can understand hard things. 36:41 But what's his number one characteristic? 36:44 Excellent spirit. 36:48 Whereas Adventists know prophecy and understand end 36:51 time events. 36:54 But the spirit part, hmm. 36:59 I'm speaking to you as an evangelist. 37:01 I've done meeting after meeting after meeting. 37:02 People have been convicted. 37:04 Convicted, convicted. 37:05 Two weeks goes by. 37:06 We make an invitation after sharing the Sabbath. 37:08 They come to our church. 37:09 They come to our church. 37:10 They're saying, I'm really sorry. 37:11 I love what you're preaching. 37:13 But your church? 37:14 Uh-uh. 37:15 Can't do it. 37:16 It's dead. 37:17 No spirit in there. 37:21 We come out with our truth box. 37:23 But we leave our spirit box behind. 37:27 And then the spirit box comes out. 37:29 We don't know what to do with it. 37:31 The only way we can think about utilizing the spirit box is to 37:37 take off the truth box. 37:39 That's what we're doing. 37:41 whole spirit. 37:44 But God has the answer for us. 37:46 Daniel has the answer for us. 37:48 We're told when we better understand the books of Daniel 37:51 and Revelation, there'll be seen among us a great revival. 37:56 It'll start into action forces that cannot be repressed. 37:59 We'll be impressed with the character that all must 38:02 develop. 38:05 Testimonies to ministers, 1.14, 1.12, 1.14, 1.12 to 1.18. 38:10 Love those verses. 38:11 So in Daniel 5, 11, and 12, and then in verse 14 of Daniel 38:15 chapter 5, it goes on to say, I have even heard of thee. 38:20 This is Belshazzar who's heard about Daniel. 38:23 I've heard of thee that the spirit of the God is in thee. 38:26 And then light and understanding and all these 38:27 other things are coming too. 38:29 Spirit and truth. 38:30 Spirit and truth. 38:32 And of course, Daniel 6, 3, that's where he got in real 38:35 trouble, right? 38:36 Then Daniel was preferred above the presidents and the princes 38:39 because he was really good in accounting. 38:42 He could make the king a lot of money and he was trustworthy. 38:45 Why was he preferred above all the presidents and princes? 38:50 An excellent spirit was in him. 38:58 Now have you noticed that all of these verses are found in 39:03 the context of non-adventists and even judgment and politics? 39:10 I mean talk about a place where we fail to have the spirit of 39:15 God. 39:15 Have you noticed? 39:17 If you want to see how much of God's Holy Spirit you have, 39:19 just bring up the subject of politics in the church. 39:28 Don't ever, ever, ever tell anyone who you voted for. 39:37 In fact, don't tell anyone you voted. 39:39 I mean just, whoo! 39:42 Mom's the word. 39:45 But we believe in religious liberty and freedom and choice 39:49 and we're not going to condemn you because you voted for that 39:53 person. 39:54 Did you hear? 39:57 No, seriously. 39:58 Someone told me just a couple days ago, they said there was a 40:01 pastor who was doing evangelism and he made a call to the 40:06 church for everyone who voted for Donald Trump to repent. 40:13 And I said, that has nothing, that has no place in the 40:17 church. 40:18 That has no place in the church. 40:23 You know what we're told? 40:26 When a pastor gets in the pulpit and starts talking about 40:30 politics, he should be removed from office. 40:34 He's disqualified. 40:35 It's like the high priest ripping his robe. 40:39 He's disqualified. 40:42 Because we are not of this world. 40:47 We're not of this world. 40:52 Daniel was immersed in politics, yet he's described as 40:55 having this excellent spirit. 40:58 And Daniel is bringing this judgment to Nebuchadnezzar. 41:02 Nebuchadnezzar's like, just tell me the truth, Daniel. 41:05 I know you've got the truth. 41:07 Can you imagine having that kind of a relationship? 41:10 How can we have that excellent spirit? 41:13 I believe one of the ways is understanding the investigative 41:15 judgment. 41:16 Seriously. 41:17 The reason why we're so mean -spirited is because we think 41:20 we have to judge people. 41:22 Right? 41:23 God says, no, no, no. 41:25 Well, yeah, but they're hypocrites and they're getting 41:26 away with stuff. 41:27 No, no, no. 41:27 I've got that figured out. 41:29 Just read Romans chapter 14, verses 10 through 13, and 41:32 Matthew 7, 21 to 23. 41:37 Daniel understood about judgment. 41:39 He left it in God's hands. 41:42 Daniel's name means, anyone know? 41:45 God is judge. 41:46 Dan means to judge. 41:47 That's why the tribe of Dan is not in Revelation 7. 41:50 Not there. 41:51 They're one of the originals. 41:52 They're not sealed. 41:53 Who replaces it? 41:54 Who replaces the tribe of Dan? 41:55 Anyone know? 41:57 Manasseh. 41:57 Joseph's first son. 41:59 Why? 42:04 Because Joseph, God had caused Joseph to forget all the things 42:08 that his brothers had done to him. 42:11 And so he named his first son Manasseh. 42:13 Those of us who cannot forgive and forget, who are judgmental 42:18 and critical and backbiting, that's what Dan's described as 42:22 in Genesis 49, 16, and 17, will not be sealed with the seal of 42:26 God. 42:29 And Joseph said, you know, it doesn't matter what my brothers 42:31 did to me. 42:32 Doesn't matter what Potiphar's wife did to me or what Potiphar 42:34 did to me. 42:34 Doesn't matter. 42:35 You know why? 42:36 Because God's in control of my life. 42:39 God's in control of my life. 42:41 Say, I'm leaving the church. 42:43 Look what they're doing. 42:44 Look what they're connected with. 42:45 Well, look what's going on. 42:47 So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 42:48 Whose church is this? 42:51 It's God's church. 42:52 This is God's church. 42:54 Israel was God's denomination. 42:57 Daniel didn't say he was going to leave, did he? 43:01 But look at all the things that happened to him because of 43:03 their apostasy. 43:04 He was made a eunuch. 43:05 Never going to have kids. 43:06 Never going to have a posterity. 43:07 Taken captive to Babylon. 43:08 Never seen his family again. 43:10 I mean, talk about a reason to leave the church. 43:17 But God was looking at Daniel and Daniel was looking at God. 43:21 And Daniel was like, I'm sticking with you, God. 43:23 This is your denomination. 43:26 This is your denomination. 43:27 I'm sticking with you. 43:28 And you know, all the promises that God made to Israel were 43:30 all fulfilled in Daniel. 43:32 You'll be the head and not the tail. 43:35 You'll be ruling the world. 43:38 God's promises don't fail just because of their apostasy. 43:43 Stay faithful to God. 43:46 Stay faithful to God. 43:49 I mean, this ministry is a testimony of that, isn't it? 43:53 Some of you may have no idea of the history of 3ABN and all of 43:57 the opposition that came against this ministry from the 44:01 brethren. 44:02 And they just said, no, we're going to be faithful to God. 44:12 So, the accuser, the 24-7-365 guy, is trying to fill us with 44:19 his spirit. 44:21 God wants to fill us with his spirit. 44:23 The accuser, if you let him fill you with his spirit, he 44:28 won't stop with the church or with the world or with 44:31 everything else. 44:33 start accusing yourself. 44:35 You're going to be overwhelmed with guilt. 44:37 It's one of his devices, Seps to Christ 70-72, one of his 44:41 devices, to get you to look at the pleasures of the world, the 44:44 life's cares and perplexities and sorrows, or the faults of 44:47 others, or your own faults and failures. 44:49 To any or all of these, he will get you to look, to divert your 44:53 attention. 44:55 Keep your focus on. 44:57 That's the instruction in Revelation 14, verse 4. 45:01 When the crisis hits, when the mark of the beast comes down, 45:06 God's people are seen standing on Mount Zion with the Lamb. 45:11 And they are following the Lamb wherever he goes. 45:15 I think we follow the Lamb most places he goes right now. 45:20 I mean, I can't speak for you. 45:22 I can only speak for myself. 45:23 Most places. 45:25 By the time it's coming, we're going to get over that hump. 45:28 Right? 45:29 These things aren't going to work anymore. 45:31 Can't buy or sell. 45:32 Can't go to work. 45:33 Can't get a paycheck. 45:34 Can't pay the mortgage. 45:35 No reason to mow the lawn. 45:38 Or even possibly pay the bills. 45:41 We're done. 45:42 Jesus is coming. 45:43 The Sunday Law is here. 45:45 The mark of the beast is being enforced. 45:47 What's the one thing we're going to do? 45:50 Share the truth with anyone and everyone we can because our 45:55 message is going to have a power that it could not have 45:57 had hitherto. 45:59 People are going to go, wow, you guys were right. 46:02 You've been preaching this. 46:05 180 years. 46:06 I mean, you know. 46:09 Hasn't happened. 46:12 But someday... 46:13 Soon? 46:17 Wow, you guys have been preaching this for 180 years 46:20 and it's happening. 46:22 Can you imagine, see the difference? 46:24 The message itself is going to carry itself. 46:28 All we have to do is be willing to just kind of open our 46:30 mouths. 46:31 Pray with people and kind of just kind of direct them. 46:34 They'll learn in weeks and months. 46:36 What has taken others a lifetime to learn? 46:37 And their characters have already been preparing. 46:40 We know, we meet them all over the place. 46:41 Kind, good people. 46:44 They're struggling with different things, but if you 46:47 want to prepare... 46:50 Did I lose my mic? 46:51 Oh, I lost my mic. 46:54 Help! 46:55 Oh, there it goes. 46:56 Woo! 47:06 Praise God. 47:08 Praise God. 47:10 If you want to prepare to bring people into the Remnant Church, 47:15 stop your mouths, turn off your TVs, silence your smarter-than 47:21 -you phones that are controlling your life, dump all 47:25 of your social media apps, and stop spending hours watching 47:29 the news, because the news is reprogramming you. 47:36 Philippians 4, verse 8, whatsoever things are of good 47:39 report. 47:40 Think on these things. 47:41 2 Corinthians 3, 18, by beholding we become change. 47:44 Great Controversy, 555. 47:45 It's a law of our spiritual and physical nature. 47:50 How do those stay in the church who come in from Babylon start 47:55 a prayer ministry in your church, start praying for them, 47:57 start a literature ministry in your church. 47:59 You've got free literature coming right from this 48:01 ministry. 48:02 All of this literature that's here is in the racks in our 48:04 church, in our foyer. 48:05 It's all there. 48:07 When I come out here, I bring another box. 48:09 People take it, they hand it out. 48:13 Evening, morning, and at noon will I pray and cry aloud, and 48:16 he will hear my voice. 48:17 You know, Pastor Jim Simbala shares how the Holy Spirit led 48:22 him to grow the Brooklyn Tabernacle Church. 48:25 He talks about two principles. 48:27 One is they started a 24-7, 365 prayer ministry. 48:31 That is, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, 48:35 they are praying for their members. 48:37 If Satan's accusing us 24-7, 365, we need to counter that 48:41 because we're told when we pray Satan's whole host trembles 48:44 because he knows he's going to suffer loss. 48:46 He's been suffering too many victories in our churches, in 48:49 our lives. 48:50 He needs to suffer loss. 48:52 Let's start praying. 48:56 He said, and he's talking to new believers right now, and I 48:59 think we have the reference up on the screen for you. 49:02 He said, I said something impromptu while receiving new 49:04 members into the church that has stuck with us ever since. 49:09 People who were standing in a row across the front before me 49:12 as I spoke, people were standing in a row across before 49:14 me, and as I spoke, the Holy Spirit seemed to prompt me to 49:18 add. 49:24 hear another member speak an unkind word of criticism or 49:29 slander against anyone, myself, another pastor, the usher, a 49:34 choir member, anyone else, you have the authority to stop that 49:38 person in mid-sentence and say, excuse me, who hurt you? 49:44 Who ignored you? 49:46 Who slighted you? 49:48 Was it Pastor Simbala? 49:50 Let's go to his office right now. 49:51 He'll get on his knees and apologize to you, and then 49:53 we'll go to his office so that God can restore peace to this 49:57 body. 50:02 people who are not present to defend themselves. 50:05 New members, please understand that I am entirely serious 50:08 about this. 50:10 I want to help resolve this kind of thing immediately. 50:13 And meanwhile, know this, if you are ever the one doing the 50:17 loose talking, we will confront you. 50:21 He says to this very day, every time you receive new members, I 50:24 say much the same thing. 50:26 It is always a solemn moment. 50:28 That is because I know what most easily destroys churches. 50:31 It is not crack cocaine, it is not government oppression, it 50:34 is not like a funds rather, it is gossip and slander that 50:38 grieves the Holy Spirit. 50:40 And that church grew from 18 members to thousands of members 50:45 because people came there and they knew they had a safe place 50:50 from the refuge, a refuge from the accuser. 50:56 We need to get the accuser out of our churches. 51:00 We need to be praying, not condemning. 51:02 John chapter 8, verse 11. 51:04 We need to follow the evangelism blueprint that is 51:07 given to us in the book of Revelation. 51:11 Did you know that Revelation has an evangelism blueprint? 51:15 See, when I was trained in evangelism on the third night 51:17 in Maine, I preached Revelation 13 and the Beast. 51:23 The church had been full the first night because they had a 51:25 Daniel statue out front and they were on a Maine highway 51:28 and people were like, wow, what is that? 51:30 So they came and they loved it. 51:32 Second night, signs of times, yes, that's all happening, 51:34 boom! 51:36 Third night, Catholic community, the Beast power. 51:40 Third night, next night, church was half empty. 51:45 It had been full, it was half empty. 51:49 I didn't follow the blueprint. 51:52 What chapter is the Beast identified in in the book of 51:55 Revelation? 51:56 Chapter what? 51:57 One? 51:58 Two? 51:58 What? 51:59 Chapter what? 52:01 Thirteen! 52:02 Chapter thirteen! 52:03 I did it on the third night! 52:05 But it's in Chapter thirteen! 52:07 What's in Chapter one? 52:08 Who's in Chapter one? 52:09 Who's introduced in Chapter one? 52:11 Jesus! 52:12 Jesus is introduced in Chapter one. 52:15 The one who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own 52:18 blood. 52:20 He's seen among the candlesticks. 52:21 That's the first vision that John sees, the vision of Jesus. 52:23 You know, when you introduce people to Jesus, the words of 52:27 the hymn go like this, Anywhere with Jesus, I can safely go. 52:34 Anywhere? 52:35 Anywhere. 52:35 Fear I cannot know. 52:36 People are scared. 52:38 Nebuchadnezzar was scared. 52:38 That's why he made an image all of gold. 52:39 He was scared! 52:41 And when he saw those three young men who didn't bow to 52:42 that image, he was like, he was upset. 52:44 He's like, what do they got that I don't have? 52:46 I'm the king, I should have that. 52:47 I don't have that. 52:48 What do they got? 52:49 He tested them and they were, man, it was bothering him. 52:55 He didn't have, he had this, but he didn't have this yet. 52:58 Not until he got to Chapter four. 53:00 And what led him to this was the witness of those three 53:03 young men. 53:04 Our witness. 53:06 Right? 53:10 So I went back to Maine some years later and I did a full 53:13 series and I started in Revelation Chapter one and just 53:16 moved through the Book of Revelation. 53:18 And we were 14 meetings in before we got to the Beast and 53:21 the Mark of the Beast. 53:24 Because you know what we do. 53:25 We advertise Revelation but we deliver our doctrines. 53:31 We circle the world to make one proslet and we make him twice 53:34 the child of hell. 53:35 That's what the Bible says. 53:36 That's what Jesus said. 53:37 What is the child of hell? 53:39 The devils believe. 53:41 Don't they? 53:41 What do the devils believe? 53:43 Do they believe the seventh day is the Sabbath? 53:44 Absolutely. 53:45 20, 20-day prophecy? 53:46 For sure. 53:47 State of the dead? 53:47 They believe it. 53:49 What do they do with all that belief? 53:51 They tremble. 53:52 They tremble. 53:53 The devils believe and tremble. 53:57 Jesus. 53:58 They don't have a personal savior. 54:00 And that's what we're doing. 54:02 Twofold more the child of hell. 54:04 We're telling people all these truths but we're not 54:06 introducing them to Jesus. 54:07 Every single truth needs to be saturated in Christ. 54:10 That's why I'm so excited about this investigative judgment 54:13 book because it is the gospel. 54:16 It doesn't leave the gospel out. 54:17 It doesn't leave the spirit backstage. 54:20 That's what we need. 54:22 A plumber and his wife were coming. 54:24 His family were coming. 54:26 Night by night they were coming to the second series we were 54:28 giving there and as they were coming to the meetings they 54:31 wanted to share a story with me and first of all they told me 54:33 they said, you know, we're members so we were just going 54:36 to come the first couple of nights because that's what 54:38 members do. 54:40 out. 54:43 this before. 54:45 I really feel like we need to follow the blueprint, the 54:47 revelation blueprint. 54:49 And they said, well, let me tell you a story. 54:50 They said, we have a neighbor that we invited. 54:52 He's an atheist and we invited him to come and he didn't come 54:55 but a few days into this maybe even a week or so he called us 55:00 because he had a plumbing issue so we went to his house. 55:03 I went to his house to help him with this plumbing issue and I 55:06 invited him to the meetings again. 55:07 He said, oh, what do you Adventists believe that's so 55:10 different from what everyone else believes? 55:13 Have you ever been asked that question? 55:14 What's different about you Adventists? 55:16 How do you answer it? 55:18 Well, we believe the seventh day is the Sabbath, not Sunday. 55:21 We believe when you die you don't go to hell or you go, 55:24 right? 55:26 That's what we do. 55:26 We tell them what's different. 55:28 You know we're counseled not to do that, right? 55:30 Meet people on points you have in common. 55:33 So this plumber said to the guy, well, we believe that 55:39 Jesus died for everyone. 55:44 He's the Savior of all people. 55:48 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 5. 55:50 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 10. 55:52 So what did he say? 55:54 You're not my Savior. 55:56 I don't want anything to do with Jesus. 55:59 What did you say then? 56:00 Well, he wants everything to do with you. 56:03 He died for you on Calvary. 56:06 You said that to him? 56:06 Yeah, I said that to him. 56:08 He died for you on Calvary. 56:09 What did he say to that? 56:10 He said it was quiet. 56:12 He didn't say anything. 56:12 It was quiet. 56:15 And then a few minutes later he said, so, he suffered a lot on 56:19 Calvary, huh? 56:20 And they started talking about the cross. 56:22 You know Jesus says, if I be lifted up will drop all men 56:26 unto me. 56:29 I remember going to a, I'm going to try to tell the story 56:33 quickly as we close, going to a Seventh-day Adventist Church 56:36 where I was filling in for the pastor. 56:38 We didn't have a pastor. 56:39 And there were a group of pastors there because we're 56:40 counseled to meet with our local pastors, you know, and 56:42 just connect with them. 56:43 They were all there. 56:44 A book had been mailed out. 56:46 You know, that book that goes out to all the communities that 56:49 tells about... 56:51 No, not that book. 56:54 The Sunday Law, right? 56:57 And the pastors were in there before I got there and when I 56:59 got in there they were talking about this book that had been 57:01 mailed out to them. 57:03 And I had to do some damage control. 57:06 But one of the pastors was really uppity. 57:08 You think we've got the mark of the beast? 57:10 That's what you think. 57:12 Right? 57:13 You think we've all got the mark of the beast? 57:15 You pastors, this is what this church is teaching. 57:18 And he got up and he walked out. 57:21 And he expected... |
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