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00:40 Welcome back to our series titled "Three Cosmic Messages,
00:45 Earth's Final Conflict." 00:47 In this series we're looking 00:48 at the prophetic Book of Revelation 00:51 unfolding the prophecies of Revelation 00:54 but specifically and distinctly Revelation Chapter 14. 00:58 In Revelation Chapter 14, 01:01 God unfolds His last day message. 01:04 He describes that message symbolically 01:07 as being carried by three angels in mid heaven. 01:11 And it's that message that we are unpacking, 01:14 that message that we're studying. 01:16 Now if you've been with us in previous presentations, 01:20 you've noted that in our first presentation, 01:22 we looked at the great controversy 01:24 between good and evil. 01:25 We studied the fact that down through the ages, 01:29 when Christ has been in conflict 01:30 with Satan, 01:32 Jesus has never lost the battle. 01:34 Jesus wins, 01:35 Satan loses and that's the great theme 01:37 of the Book of Revelation, 01:38 that Christ is predominant, 01:40 that He will be victorious over Satan 01:44 in the last days of earth's history, 01:45 because when you look at Revelation, 01:47 it talks about a mark called the mark of the beast. 01:50 It talks about a time when no man can buy or sell. 01:53 It talks about persecution and a death decree. 01:56 And if you allow those images to grip your mind 02:00 and strangle you, you'll lose your hope. 02:03 So the theme of the Book of Revelation 02:05 really is much more 02:07 than the persecution that's coming. 02:09 It's the triumph of Jesus Christ 02:11 in the last days of earth's history. 02:13 In our last presentation, 02:16 we looked at the idea of harvest 02:18 in the Book of Revelation. 02:20 That there'll be two harvests, 02:22 the harvest of golden grain and a harvest of gory grapes, 02:26 righteousness will be fully manifest, 02:28 unrighteousness will be fully manifest. 02:30 And we look there at the Book of Revelation 02:33 very, very carefully. 02:34 And we noted that in those two harvests, 02:37 there will be two eternal choices 02:40 that every human being on a planet called earth 02:43 will make an eternal choice. 02:45 In this presentation, 02:47 we are going to probe more deeply 02:48 into Revelation 14:6, 02:51 the first of those three cosmic 02:54 or three angels' messages. 02:56 So as we launch right into our topic, 02:58 let's pray. 02:59 Father in Heaven, 03:00 we thank You with all of our hearts 03:02 for the great messages 03:04 that You've given in the Book of Revelation. 03:05 We sense that these messages come from Christ. 03:08 And so as we study them more deeply, 03:10 help us to be able to understand them 03:12 more fully. 03:13 And as we understand them more fully, 03:15 may our lives more fully reflect You, 03:18 change us by Your grace, we pray in Christ's name. 03:22 Amen. 03:23 My topic in this presentation is "Hope's Grace-Filled, 03:28 End-Time Message." 03:31 Have you ever noticed 03:32 how corporations have slogans, 03:35 for example, MasterCard slogan 03:38 is "There are some things money can't buy, 03:41 for everything else there's MasterCard." 03:44 Have you noticed Nike slogan, "Just do it?" 03:48 The Nike symbol, Nike, of course, meaning victory. 03:52 Then there is the slogan of Apple computers, 03:56 "Think different." 03:58 Somebody certainly had to be thinking differently 04:01 when they developed the Apple computer. 04:04 And then you go beyond that to the New York Times, 04:07 "All the news that's fit to print." 04:08 When you read that slogan. 04:11 You, if you know anything about news media in America, 04:14 you immediately think of the New York Times. 04:18 L'Oreal, 04:19 the famous cosmetic group in Paris, 04:23 "Because you're worth it." 04:26 Throughout these various corporations, 04:28 there are slogans, these slogans are catchphrases. 04:31 Entrepreneur Magazine puts it this way. 04:35 "The slogan for these businesses 04:36 is a catchphrase or a small group of words 04:39 that are combined in a special way 04:41 to identify a product or company." 04:44 So you may not need even see the product 04:47 or know the company. 04:49 But when you hear the slogan or the catchphrase, 04:51 immediately you identify 04:53 when you see the little swish of Nike, 04:56 immediately you then identify with that product brand. 05:02 When you read MasterCard and you see their slogan, 05:06 those simple circles with red and yellow or orange, 05:10 you immediately identify with that slogan 05:15 for "Some things money can't buy 05:17 but for everything else there's MasterCard." 05:19 You know, you identify with those slogans. 05:23 Israel had a statement of faith 05:27 that identified Israel. 05:30 It set it apart 05:32 from all of the heathen nations. 05:35 Their statement of faith was found in Deuteronomy 6:4, 05:40 written in Hebrew, but translated into English, 05:43 "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord." 05:48 Children from the earliest ages in the Jewish nation 05:53 were taught by their mothers that expression, 05:56 "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord," 06:01 mothers rocking their Jewish babies 06:04 that are three months old, six months old. 06:08 As mama was rocking the baby, mama sang to her, 06:12 this is what they called the Shema, 06:14 "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one." 06:18 Now there was an interesting experience 06:20 that occurred during the Second World War. 06:23 Mothers continued during the war 06:26 to teach their children Deuteronomy 6:4, 06:29 they did not want these Jewish children 06:31 to lose their sense of identity. 06:33 And before the children even learned to speak, 06:37 they were taught this phrase. 06:41 During the war, many Jewish parents 06:45 knowing that the holocaust was present, 06:48 knowing they would be transported 06:50 to prison camps and die, 06:53 put their children in orphanages. 06:56 Some of these orphanages 06:57 were run by Catholic priests and nuns. 07:00 The idea of the Jewish parents was, 07:02 this could save our children and after the war, 07:05 they will be reunited either with us 07:08 if we get out of the prison camp alive 07:09 or if we don't with relatives or other Jewish families. 07:13 When the war ended, 07:16 and thousands of Jews came back 07:19 from these terrible, horrific prison camps, 07:24 many of course died, over 6 million died 07:27 in these prison camps, 07:28 one of the greatest crimes against humanity 07:31 in the history of the world. 07:34 When many of them came back they looked for their children, 07:36 couldn't find them. 07:37 On one occasion, 07:39 two rabbis came to a Catholic orphanage, 07:42 and they said to the priest who was at the orphanage, 07:46 "We would like to look for Jewish children here." 07:51 He said, "There are no Jewish children 07:52 here at all. 07:54 You're mistaken. 07:55 There are no Jewish children here." 07:56 The rabbis left, 07:58 the priest wouldn't let them come 07:59 into the orphanage to inquire and discover 08:03 whether there were Jewish children. 08:06 They came back in the evening. 08:08 And they said, 08:09 "Could you just at least 08:11 let us walk through the orphanage one time? 08:14 Can you just let us walk through the nursery, 08:17 the sleeping room?" 08:18 When the priest allowed them to do that, 08:21 the rabbi began to sing the Shema, he began to sing, 08:26 "The Lord our God is one Lord." 08:28 And he began to sing it in Hebrew. 08:30 Children woke up from their cribs, 08:33 they began to say, "Mama, mama, mama," 08:37 they recognize that Hebrew, 08:40 they recognize that Shema, it identified them as a people. 08:44 And the rabbi said to the priests, 08:46 "That's one of mine. That's one of mine." 08:49 There was nothing the priests could do. 08:50 He had to give those Jewish children 08:52 back to their rightful place in the Jewish community. 08:57 The Shema identified them. 09:00 Is there a Shema? 09:02 Is there a point of identity for God's people today? 09:05 There is. The Book of Revelation. 09:08 The three angels' messages are our Shema. 09:12 They are our rallying point. 09:14 They identify a community of believers 09:18 that God has raised up in the divine drama of destiny 09:22 to prepare a world 09:24 for the second coming of Christ. 09:26 In the book Evangelism, 09:28 page 119, I read this statement. 09:31 "In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists 09:34 have been set in the world as watchmen and light-bearers. 09:38 To them has been entrusted the last warning 09:41 for a perishing world. 09:43 On them is shining wonderful light 09:45 from the Word of God." 09:47 Now you may be a Seventh-day Adventist 09:49 watching this broadcast, watching this DVD, 09:53 and if you are, 09:55 I want to undergird this reality 09:59 that the message of the three angels 10:02 is not simply something 10:03 that is tacked on to Adventist faith, 10:07 but it's the very foundation. 10:09 If you are not a Seventh-day Adventist, 10:11 I invite you to journey with us. 10:13 I invite you to walk with me 10:16 as we go through these messages. 10:19 And there's only one body in the world 10:23 that's preaching the three angels' messages, 10:25 and that's the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 10:27 God raised up 10:28 the Adventist Church miraculously. 10:30 Seventh-day Adventists believe that there's Christians 10:33 in every denomination. 10:35 Adventists believe that there's loving, 10:37 God fearing people in every religious communion. 10:41 But we also believe 10:42 that in the divine drama of destiny, 10:45 in the providence of God, humbly, 10:48 we believe that God has raised up 10:51 a movement to prepare a world for His soon coming, 10:54 and the identification of that movement 10:58 comes in this Revelation 14:6-12. 11:02 These are some of the most significant verses 11:04 in all the Bible, 11:05 and they clearly identify God's last day people today. 11:09 So let's walk through these verses together. 11:11 Let's study them together and discover what they say. 11:15 In this book Evangelism, 11:17 page 119, that statement goes on, 11:19 "They, Adventist, 11:20 have been given a work of the most solemn import, 11:23 the proclamation of the first, second, 11:25 and third angels' messages, 11:26 these three cosmic messages. 11:28 There is no other work of so great importance. 11:31 They are not to allow anything else 11:34 to absorb their attention, 11:36 there is well nothing else to absorb their attention. 11:40 In the blazing light of eternity, 11:42 in this cosmic battle between good and evil, 11:45 Jesus has sent 11:47 a last day message to the world. 11:50 Jesus has sent a message 11:52 in this message of the three angels. 11:56 Revelation is a grace filled book. 11:59 The Book of Revelation is filled 12:02 with the grace and love of Jesus Christ. 12:05 It's filled with the grace of God. 12:07 Revelation 1:1 says, 12:10 "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, " 12:11 whose Revelation is this? 12:13 It's the Revelation of Jesus Christ. 12:15 Where did He get it? 12:16 "Which God gave Him to show His servants things 12:19 which must shortly take place." 12:22 You know, when you read Revelation 1:1, 12:25 here is a divine chain of truth. 12:28 It says this, it says, "Revelation..." 12:33 It is the Revelation of who? 12:35 Jesus Christ. 12:36 Where did He get it? God gave it to Him. 12:38 What did Jesus do when God gave it to Him? 12:41 He sent and signified it according to Revelation 1:1, 12:45 by His angel, to whom? 12:47 To His servant John. 12:48 So God has a message 12:50 for all mankind just at end time. 12:52 He gives it to Jesus. 12:54 Jesus gives it to the angel. 12:56 The angel flies from heaven, 12:57 impresses John who's in the exile in his 90s, 13:00 on the island of Patmos and John writes it down 13:03 and you and I take that in our hands today. 13:06 This precious message from the Book of Revelation 13:09 is not a human message. 13:10 It doesn't come to us merely through human opinion, 13:14 it comes to us directly from the heart of God, 13:17 directly from the throne room of the universe. 13:20 If there is a message 13:21 that comes from the throne room of the universe, 13:23 that message must be critically important. 13:27 That's why we're spending time looking at this message 13:31 from Revelation particularly, Revelation 14:6-12. 13:34 Now notice, when Revelation 1 sets forth, 13:39 the entire tone of the book, 13:41 it sets forth who this Jesus actually is. 13:46 And it says, "He is the one that loved us 13:48 and washed us from our sins in His own blood." 13:51 So Revelation Chapter 1 13:53 sets forth this magnificent Christ. 13:57 It sets forth this grace filled hope filled book 14:00 in the context of God's love, 14:03 in the context of a God that cares for us 14:06 so deeply that He doesn't want one of us to be lost. 14:11 Revelation indeed is a grace filled book. 14:15 There are some people that have said to me 14:17 as I've studied the Bible with them, 14:19 "I'm hesitant to study the Book of Revelation 14:21 because of the fact 14:23 that I only want to study the gospels about Jesus." 14:27 They have forgotten 14:28 that according to Revelation 1:1, 14:30 this is the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14:33 Other people have said "Revelation is a closed book, " 14:36 but the very name means unfolding. 14:39 The very name means revealing. 14:42 So the Book of Revelation is an unfolding 14:45 or revealing of God's love 14:48 in the context of last day events 14:50 at the end of time. 14:52 Revelation 14:6, 14:54 we begin to study in this presentation, 14:57 this message of the three angels, 14:59 this gospel of God's grace. 15:02 "Then I saw," John says, "I saw it." 15:05 What did you see, John? 15:07 "Another angel flying in the middle of heaven 15:09 having the everlasting gospel 15:11 to preach to those who dwell on the earth, 15:14 to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people." 15:18 So John looked up in heaven, and in prophetic vision, 15:23 he saw an angel messenger 15:25 flying in the middle of heaven having the everlasting gospel. 15:29 Another word for everlasting is the eternal gospel. 15:33 So John saw this eternal gospel. 15:36 What is the gospel? 15:37 The gospel is the very foundation stone 15:40 of the three angel's messages. 15:43 If we study the three angel's messages 15:45 and miss the gospel, 15:47 we've missed the very foundation 15:49 of the three angel's messages. 15:51 We've missed the very foundation stone, 15:54 that is the... 15:56 that enables us to stand solidly 15:58 on everything that comes after that. 16:01 The gospel is that very heart, it's the very pulse, 16:06 it's the very foundation stone of the three angel's messages. 16:10 Now we might ask, "What is the gospel?" 16:13 The gospel has to do with the life, the death, 16:17 the resurrection, the intercession, 16:20 the gospel is a big word 16:22 if we can translate it as good news. 16:25 It's the good news of Jesus. 16:27 You know, when the thief hung on the cross, 16:30 he experienced the gospel. 16:33 And you remember when Jesus was dying, 16:35 there were three crosses on the hill that day. 16:38 There was... 16:39 Christ was in the center cross 16:41 and two thieves died on either side of Jesus. 16:44 One thief mocked Christ. 16:48 One thief said, "If you're the Christ, 16:50 come down from the cross." 16:52 But the other thief looked at Jesus 16:54 dying on that cross. 16:57 The other thief heard Christ's words, 16:59 "Father forgive them, 17:01 for they know not what they do." 17:03 That thief was impressed by the Holy Spirit. 17:07 He accepted the fact of his own guilt 17:10 that he had gone astray. 17:12 He accepted the fact of his sinfulness. 17:15 He accepted that in Christ there was forgiveness. 17:19 That Christ's righteousness could atone for his sin. 17:23 That thief that day asked for salvation. 17:27 He said, "Lord, 17:29 remember me when You come into Your kingdom." 17:32 And Jesus said, "I say unto you, today, 17:35 you will be with Me in paradise." 17:37 I say to you this day, 17:39 this day that I'm dying on the cross, 17:42 this day that it doesn't look like I can save anybody. 17:45 This day with the nails through my hands, 17:47 this day with the crown of thorns 17:49 upon my head, 17:51 this day with the blood running down my cheeks 17:54 from the thorns in my brow, 17:57 this day with the blood running down my wrists. 17:59 This day, I say to you, 18:03 you will be with Me in paradise." 18:05 Jesus while He was dying on the cross, 18:08 gave the thief the assurance 18:10 that one day he would live with Him 18:13 forever and ever and ever in the kingdom of God. 18:16 You see, what is grace? 18:19 Grace has to do 18:21 with the righteousness of God manifest in Christ. 18:27 What is grace? 18:28 It is the salvation 18:30 that God freely offers in Christ. 18:34 When Paul defines the gospel, 18:37 he defines it this way in 1 Corinthians 15:1, 3. 18:41 You know, you can look for a lot of human definitions 18:44 where people write books 18:45 on defining what they believe the gospel is. 18:48 But the Apostle Paul makes it very simple. 18:51 And God often makes simple, things that are complex. 18:54 And the Apostle Paul says this. 18:56 "Moreover, brethren, 18:57 I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, 19:01 which also you received in which you stand." 19:05 Now notice what the text says. 19:08 Paul says, "I declare to you the gospel, " 19:10 so he's going to explain it. 19:11 He says, "He preached the gospel to them. 19:14 They received the gospel. 19:16 They stood in the gospel." 19:18 Well, what was this gospel that he preached? 19:20 What was this gospel that he received? 19:22 "For I delivered to you first, that which I received, 19:26 that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures." 19:30 So what is the gospel? 19:32 It is Christ dying for our sins, 19:35 according to the scripture. 19:36 He continues that he was buried, 19:39 that He rose again the third day, 19:41 and he was seen by Cephas or Peter, 19:43 then by the twelve." 19:44 So what is the gospel? 19:46 It is the perfect life of Christ, 19:48 atoning for our imperfect lives. 19:51 What is the gospel? 19:52 It is the death of Christ, 19:55 burying the guilt and shame of sin 19:56 on Calvary's cross in the place of our death. 20:00 We deserve to die. He gives us the life. 20:03 We deserve to wear a crown of thorns, 20:05 He gives us a crown of glory. 20:06 We deserve to hang on the cross, 20:09 He hangs on the cross and we sit upon a throne. 20:12 We deserve to wear 20:14 the robe of sinfulness and degradation, 20:18 He wears that robe for us 20:19 and gives us a robe of righteousness. 20:21 Christ enters the domain of death, 20:24 dies the second death in our behalf. 20:27 "He who knew no sin," 2 Corinthians 5:21, 20:30 "becomes sin for us. 20:32 Cursed is everyone that hangs upon the tree." 20:34 Galatians 3:13. 20:36 So Jesus takes all the shame. 20:38 He takes all the guilt, 20:40 He takes all the condemnation of sin upon Himself. 20:43 He dies the death we should have died 20:46 so that we can live the life that He should have lived. 20:48 What is the gospel? 20:50 It is more than Christ's death 20:52 because if Jesus died and never resurrected, 20:54 He's just a martyr dying for good cause. 20:57 But Christ goes into the grave, 20:58 He comes out and He's alive, and that's what Paul says. 21:02 Paul says that "Jesus died, 21:05 but Jesus rose again." 21:09 I stood there 21:12 looking at the Mausoleum of Lenin 21:16 at Lenin's tomb in Red Square. 21:18 And I stood there 21:19 thinking that the Russian scientists 21:21 have preserved Lenin, 21:23 and he's in this glass tomb 21:24 and people would come and reverence him, 21:26 they'd stand in long lines during the heyday of communism. 21:29 But Lenin was in his tomb, but thank God, 21:32 Jesus Christ is not in His tomb, 21:34 the tomb of Christ is empty. 21:36 Jesus is alive. 21:37 That's the gospel, and Jesus lives for you and me. 21:40 We can come to Him. 21:42 He gives us His strength and power to live a godly life. 21:46 Jesus delivers us from sin's penalty, 21:49 from the condemnation of sin. 21:51 He delivers us from sin's power, 21:53 and one day finally Jesus will deliver us 21:57 from sin's presence. 21:59 What is the gospel? 22:00 It is Christ delivering us from the penalty of sin, 22:02 its condemnation. 22:03 Christ delivering us from the power of sin, 22:05 the grip of sin, 22:07 and Christ delivering us from the presence of sin. 22:09 What is the gospel? 22:11 It is the life, death, burial, 22:14 resurrection of Christ and the promise 22:17 that the Christ that lived, the Christ that died, 22:19 the Christ that resurrected, 22:20 the Christ that's in heaven for us, 22:22 this Christ will come again and save us. 22:25 The crucified Christ 22:27 redeems us from the condemnation 22:29 and guilt of our past. 22:31 The resurrected Christ gives us power for the present, 22:36 and the returning Christ gives us hope for the future. 22:39 This is the big huge picture of the gospel of Christ 22:43 outlined in the Book of Revelation. 22:47 It is this Jesus who Paul speaks about, 22:50 this Jesus that Paul leads us to give our entire lives to, 22:55 this is the Christ of the Book of Revelation, 22:58 this is the cornerstone, 22:59 the foundation of the entire message 23:02 of the three angels. 23:04 The Apostle Paul 23:06 describes the gospel further this way, 23:07 Romans 3:24-26, 23:10 "Being justified freely by His grace 23:13 through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 23:17 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation." 23:21 That is a ransom. 23:22 Now notice, we're justified freely, 23:24 not justified because of what we have done, 23:28 but justified because of what He has done. 23:31 Not justified because of our goodness, 23:33 but justified because of His righteousness. 23:36 Not justified because of the fact 23:41 that we live a perfect life, 23:43 our lives are imperfect and sinful, 23:45 but He is the one that lived the perfect life. 23:47 We are justified 23:48 because we accept His perfect life 23:51 in the place of our imperfection. 23:53 We accept His death in the place of our death. 23:56 We accept His righteousness in the place of our guilt 23:59 and our shame. 24:00 We're justified. What's the next word? 24:02 You got it. 24:03 "Freely by His grace through the redemption 24:05 that is in Christ Jesus and God has set forth, 24:08 He is that propitiation, 24:09 He is the one that paid the ransom price, 24:12 "Through faith in His blood, to declare, " 24:14 whose righteousness, is it ours? 24:16 "To declare His righteousness for the remission of sins 24:19 that are passed through the forbearance of God, 24:23 to declare I say, at this time, His righteousness, 24:26 that He might be just in the justifier of him 24:29 which believes in Jesus." 24:31 When I come to Jesus, 24:33 I have absolutely nothing to give. 24:36 When I come to Jesus, I come with my sinfulness, 24:40 I come with my weakness, I come with my folly. 24:44 But I come, I come, and you can come today. 24:48 You say, "But I'm too much of a sinner." 24:50 That's why you come. 24:52 You say, "But I've fallen in the past." 24:54 That's why you come. 24:55 You say that "I'm not righteous." 24:57 That's why you come. Jesus has come unto me. 25:00 Come unto me all you who are burdened 25:02 and heavy laden, 25:04 and I will give you rest. 25:05 This is the very heart of God's last day message 25:08 for humanity. 25:09 I saw another angel John says, 25:12 flying in the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel, 25:16 to preach to those that dwell on the earth, 25:18 to every nation, kindred, tongue and people, the gospel, 25:22 the good news that you can come. 25:25 Come to the cross, 25:26 and let the drops of blood symbolically fall upon you. 25:30 Let that blood cover your sin and cleanse you from sin. 25:34 Knowing that as you reach out to Christ, 25:37 He's already reaching out to you, 25:39 that desire you have to know Jesus, 25:41 that desire you have to be forgiven 25:43 by Christ, 25:44 that desire you have to be free from guilt, 25:47 that desire you have to live the new life, 25:49 that desire has been implanted in your heart by Jesus, 25:52 He is drawing you to Himself. 25:54 Jesus said in John 12:32, 25:56 "And I, if I be lifted up will draw all men to me." 25:59 The cross is drawing you, 26:01 the love of God is indeed drawing you. 26:04 We are justified freely by grace. 26:06 Grace is a declaration of God's righteousness. 26:10 We are not righteous, He is, we receive that. 26:12 Through grace God justifies those who believe in Jesus. 26:16 What does it mean to be justified? 26:18 Simply saying, it means I stand before God, 26:21 clothed in the robe of righteousness, 26:23 surrounded by God's grace, filled by God's love, 26:27 just as if I had never sinned. 26:29 God accepts me, just as He accepts His own son. 26:34 Now that thought is overwhelming. 26:36 In fact, it's a mind boggling thought, 26:40 that when I come to Christ, I am accepted. 26:44 The Bible says in Ephesians 2, "In the beloved." 26:46 I'm accepted in heaven, 26:49 just as Jesus is accepted in heaven. 26:52 You see, is it that simple? 26:54 It is that simple. 26:56 Reach out by faith to His righteousness. 26:59 Reach out by faith to His goodness. 27:03 Romans 5:6-8 says, 27:05 "For when we were still without strength," 27:07 we were without what? 27:09 Strength. 27:10 "In due time," what's that mean? 27:11 In the right time. 27:13 "Christ died for the ungodly." You and I have been ungodly. 27:16 "For scarcely for a righteous man 27:19 will one die, 27:20 yet perhaps for a good man, 27:22 someone would even dare to die. 27:24 But God demonstrates His own love toward us." 27:27 What does God demonstrate toward us? 27:29 His own what? Love. 27:31 "In that while we were still sinners, 27:33 Christ died for us." 27:35 Here we find that God in love reaches out. 27:39 When Adam and Eve sinned, 27:42 God could have pushed this universe 27:43 to the far reaches of space 27:45 and quarantined it 27:46 and let sin destroy and kill us all. 27:49 When Adam and Eve sinned, 27:50 God could have blotted them out 27:52 like some mosquito and started all over again. 27:55 But God's love was too great for that. 27:58 While we were yet sinners, 27:59 God's love reached out to us to save us, 28:01 and God's love is reaching out to you today, my friend. 28:04 God's grace is unmerited. 28:06 God's grace is undeserved. 28:08 God's grace is unearned, but it is ours in Christ, 28:12 that is the gospel. 28:14 I love the way it's put 28:15 in a book called Desire of Ages, 28:17 one of the most outstanding books 28:18 ever written in the history on the life of Christ. 28:22 It's on page 753, it says, 28:25 "Upon Christ as our substitute and surety 28:28 was laid the iniquity of us all. 28:31 He was counted a transgressor, 28:34 that He might redeem us 28:35 from the condemnation of the law. 28:37 The guilt of every descendant of Adam 28:40 was pressing upon His heart." 28:41 So when Jesus hung on Calvary's cross, 28:45 He was counted a transgressor. 28:48 The judgment bar of God was set up on Calvary's cross, 28:51 and Christ, who had lived a perfect righteous life 28:55 was counted, 28:57 He's adjudged as a sinner. 28:59 That's why in Hebrews 2:8, 9 29:02 says "He tasted death for every man." 29:04 So He experienced the eternal death 29:07 that you and I should have died on the cross that day. 29:12 He could not see Himself coming through the tomb. 29:16 He only saw the darkness of tomb 29:18 because of the guilt of sin. 29:19 This statement goes on, 29:21 "The wrath of God," Desire of Ages, page 753, 29:24 "against sin, 29:25 the terrible manifestation of His displeasure 29:28 because of iniquity, 29:29 filled the soul of His son with consternation. 29:32 All His life 29:34 Christ had been publishing to a fallen world 29:36 the good news of the Father's mercy 29:38 and pardoning love. 29:40 Salvation for the chief of sinners 29:41 was His theme. 29:43 But now with a terrible weight of guilt He bears, 29:46 He cannot see the Father's reconciling face. 29:49 The withdrawal of the divine countenance 29:51 from the Savior in this hour of supreme anguish 29:54 pierced His heart with a sorrow 29:57 that can never be fully understood by us." 29:59 Can you imagine that? 30:01 Jesus lived with a Father 30:03 from the ceaseless ages of eternity. 30:05 Christ is the eternal Christ. 30:07 He never had a beginning and will never have an ending. 30:11 Do you have a son or a daughter? 30:13 Are you a parent? 30:14 What if you had this sense 30:16 that you would never see your son again? 30:19 You'd never see your daughter again? 30:21 What if you had this sense 30:23 that your son or daughter was going to be eternally lost 30:26 and you'd never see them again? 30:28 What if you have a wonderful relationship 30:29 with a father or mother 30:31 and you sense 30:33 that you were separated with them forever, 30:35 however much you love a son or daughter, 30:38 however much you love a father and mother, 30:40 that cannot reflect one drop in the ocean of God's love 30:44 for His Son and the Son for the Father. 30:46 Their love was unending, undying, 30:48 their love was infinite. 30:51 And as Jesus hung on the cross 30:52 bearing the guilt and shame of sin, 30:54 all He could see was that guilt and shame certainly, 30:57 He said, "You destroy this body, 30:58 in three days I'll raise it up again." 31:00 But at the point of His death on the cross, 31:02 all He saw was the darkness of sin. 31:06 And all He saw was the tomb, 31:08 and He sensed that because of sin, 31:10 He would be separated from the Father forever, 31:11 but he said, if this saves Mark Finley, 31:14 I'm willing to do it. 31:16 If this saves Tom or Harry or Mary or Jane, 31:18 I'm willing to do it. 31:19 Christ was willing to have His heart torn apart, 31:24 and to have the pain of sin 31:27 separate Him from the Father forever, 31:30 if He could save you or me, 31:31 that is a love that is incomprehensible. 31:33 Notice what it says, 31:34 "Hope did not present to His coming forth 31:37 from the grave a conqueror, 31:39 or tell Him of the Father's acceptance 31:40 of the sacrifice. 31:42 He feared." What did Jesus fear? 31:44 What was Jesus' greatest fear on the cross? 31:46 Was it the nails? Was that the greatest pain? 31:48 Was it the crown of thorns? Not at all. 31:49 "He feared that sin was so offensive to God 31:53 that their separation was to be eternal." 31:57 Christ on the cross feared 31:59 that the separation from the Father 32:02 was to be eternal. 32:04 "Christ felt the anguish that the sinner will feel 32:08 when mercy shall no longer plead 32:09 for the guilty race. 32:11 It was the sense of sin, 32:13 bringing the Father's wrath 32:14 upon Him as the sinner's substitute, 32:16 that made the cup He drank so bitter, 32:19 and broke the heart of the Son of God." 32:21 So as Christ hung there, 32:22 the guilt of sin, the shame of sin, 32:24 the condemnation of sin was so great 32:27 that He felt the anguish 32:29 that the sinner will feel when he's lost at the end. 32:35 What is the essence of hell? 32:37 The essence of hell 32:39 is the sense of abandonment by God, 32:43 the sense of no longer having the presence of God. 32:46 It is the pain and mental anguish 32:49 and agony 32:50 where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth. 32:51 Certainly, there will be physical pain in hell, 32:54 but that physical pain of the flames of hell 32:58 when the individual is consumed 32:59 and gone from God's presence forever, 33:01 that is not the deepest pain. 33:04 The deepest pain is this sense of separation from God forever. 33:09 Jesus felt that on the cross. 33:12 And He was willing to experience that forever, 33:17 because He loves you so much. 33:19 That's what this message 33:20 of the first angel was all about. 33:22 I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, 33:25 having the everlasting gospel 33:27 in a generation starve for love. 33:30 The gospel presents love 33:32 beyond what we could ever imagine. 33:35 It presents a Christ that did for us 33:39 what is unimaginable, 33:41 offering His divine life on the cross. 33:45 The story of the cross is the story of boundless, 33:48 it's the story of unfathomable, 33:50 it's the story of incomprehensible, 33:52 it's the story of undying, it's the story of unending, 33:55 it's the story of infinite love of Christ, 33:58 who longs to be with us forever. 34:00 And as Jesus hung His head and died, 34:03 the Father said, "Son, the sacrifice is accepted." 34:07 And all of heaven sang, all of heaven rejoiced. 34:13 Jesus Christ died once 34:18 so that when He comes again the second time, 34:20 He could take you home. 34:22 Were you worth Christ' sacrifice? 34:24 Were you worth Christ' sacrifice? 34:25 Were you worth what Christ gave for you 34:27 that ends the life of the Son of God? 34:29 You say, "Pastor Mark, I'm not worth it." 34:32 If you are not worth 34:34 the sacrifice Christ paid for you, 34:36 Christ got cheated. 34:37 He thinks you're worth it. 34:39 You are more valuable than you can possibly imagine. 34:43 And if Christ looses you, He can never replace you. 34:48 The value of an object 34:51 is dependent on the price paid for the object. 34:56 You are valuable and Christ gave all for you. 35:01 And we give all to Him. 35:03 Sin no longer reigns in our life. 35:05 We may fail 35:07 but sin no longer has dominion 35:09 because the love of Christ breaks the bondage of sin. 35:12 Romans 8:15 says, 35:14 "For you did not receive the spirit of bondage 35:16 again to fear, 35:17 but you received the spirit of adoption 35:19 by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father.'" 35:22 We are no longer in the bondage of sin. 35:24 Since guilt is gone, since condemnation is gone, 35:28 the chains that hold us are gone. 35:31 Why? 35:32 Because love has broken those chains 35:35 and love has broken that bondage. 35:39 The plan of salvation was not an afterthought. 35:42 It was not something that Christ said, 35:43 "Hey, we got an emergency, we better deal with it." 35:45 Not at all. 35:47 1 Peter 1:18-20, "For you know," 35:50 not you think, not you guess, 35:51 not maybe, not perhaps you know, 35:53 "that it was not with perishable things 35:55 such as silver or gold that you were redeemed 35:57 from the empty way of life 36:00 handed down to you from your father's, 36:02 but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ, 36:05 a lamb without blemish or defect, 36:08 He was chosen..." 36:09 Now don't miss this. This is what we need to get. 36:11 "He was chosen 36:12 before the creation of the world 36:14 but was revealed 36:15 in these last times for your sake." 36:17 So before the world was created, 36:20 the Father and Son, 36:22 knowing that if they gave the human race, 36:24 the freedom of choice, or the capacity of choice, 36:27 that Adam and Eve could make the wrong choice, 36:29 but God did not want robot creatures, 36:32 He did not want mere puppets. 36:35 God gave the freedom of choice, knowing full well, 36:39 the situation that of Adam and Eve, 36:41 that God would come, 36:43 He would give them every reason 36:44 to make the right choice. 36:45 But the point of salvation was put into effect 36:49 even before Adam and Eve fell. 36:53 God loved the human race so much 36:55 that He wanted to ensure 36:58 the salvation of the human race 37:00 and that plan was put into action in heaven. 37:04 It is the everlasting gospel. 37:06 What is Revelation 14:6 say? 37:09 "I saw another angel flying in the middle of heaven 37:10 having the," what? 37:12 "The everlasting gospel." 37:13 Why is the gospel everlasting? 37:16 It's everlasting, number one, 37:18 because it was put into motion in heaven, 37:21 in the ceaseless ages of eternity. 37:22 It's everlasting, number two, 37:24 because it speaks to every generation, 37:27 it speaks to every culture, 37:29 it speaks to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. 37:32 It's everlasting, number three, 37:33 because it'll never get old. 37:35 The story of the cross, the story of Christ, 37:38 the story of His love, the story of His grace, 37:40 the story of His mercy will indeed never get old. 37:44 It is love that breaks our hearts. 37:46 It's love that changes our lives. 37:49 Forced allegiance is contrary to God's very nature. 37:52 The beast uses force. 37:54 The beast in the last days of earth's history says 37:57 that "Unless you follow me, 37:58 no man can buy, no man can sell. 38:01 You'll be imprisoned, you'll be beaten, 38:03 you'll be ridiculed, you'll be mocked, 38:04 and you'll be put to death." 38:06 That's what the beast says. 38:07 The beast tries to use forced allegiance. 38:09 But Christ appeals to us with love. 38:11 And when we see the love of God 38:13 it breaks our hearts, we were made to love, 38:16 our hearts are starved for love. 38:19 And it is God's love revealed on Calvary 38:22 that does change our lives. 38:24 In Desire of Ages, page 22, it says, 38:26 "The plan for our redemption was not," a what? 38:29 We read it in 1 Peter, didn't we? 38:31 "An afterthought, 38:32 a plan formulated after the fall of Adam. 38:35 It was a revelation of the mystery 38:38 which has been kept in silence through times eternal." 38:41 What is that mystery 38:43 that has been kept in silence from times eternal? 38:47 It is the mystery of God's love, 38:49 it is the mystery of God's grace, 38:51 and it is that mystery of His love and grace 38:54 that is to be proclaimed to the end of the earth 38:56 in a generation starved for love. 38:58 In this era, in the generation, 39:00 the earth has to be lightened with the glory of God 39:03 and what is God's glory? 39:04 It is His love, it's His character, 39:06 and that love changes people's heart. 39:09 Desire of Ages, page 22 again, 39:11 "It was the unfolding of the principles 39:13 that from eternal ages 39:14 have been the foundation of God's throne." 39:17 And what are those principles? 39:18 To love God supremely 39:20 and to love one another in relationship. 39:24 To a generation starved for genuine love, 39:27 longing for meaningful relationships, 39:30 the gospel speaks of acceptance, forgiveness, 39:32 belonging, and life changing power." 39:35 There is an old country western song 39:37 that said 39:38 "Only if somebody knew who I was. 39:41 Only if somebody loved me." 39:43 For a generation starved with love, 39:45 young people looking for love, 39:47 looking to fill that aching void within. 39:52 Husbands, wives, looking for love. 39:54 Have you ever noticed 39:56 that however much your parents love you, 39:57 you still feel love deficit 39:59 However much a husband or wife loves you, 40:02 there's still that love deficit in your life. 40:04 Have you ever noticed 40:06 that you can never get enough of love? 40:08 The reason for that 40:10 is because God has made us to love Him. 40:14 God has placed a divine vacuum within our hearts, 40:17 a divine hole, if you please, 40:19 within our hearts that can only be filled up 40:22 with His love. 40:24 And to a generation starved for love, 40:26 to a generation longing for meaningful relationships, 40:30 to a generation 40:31 that spends more time with technology 40:34 than it does with open communication 40:36 one with another, 40:38 sharing our heart needs, sharing our burdens. 40:41 Some time ago, 40:43 my wife and I were at a meeting 40:44 and we were walking 40:46 to a speaking appointment that I had, 40:47 and I saw a group of five young people 40:49 sitting on the wall, they were teenagers, 40:51 and they had their cell phones out 40:52 and they were texting and I didn't think much of it 40:54 until I stopped and said, 40:56 "Hey, that's kind of interesting. 40:59 You guys are all sitting here texting, everybody's texting. 41:01 Who you're texting? One another. 41:03 They're sitting on a wall 41:04 and they're not communicating verbally, 41:06 eye to eye, face to face, they're texting one another. 41:10 Could it be any question 41:12 why we're starved for human relationships? 41:15 Has technology actually taken the place 41:19 at times of relationships, 41:21 sharing, opening our hearts to one another? 41:24 God can fill that relationship void 41:26 in your heart. 41:27 He can fill your heart with love, 41:29 so that you can reach out in love and kindness 41:31 to others around you. 41:33 And one day when Jesus Christ comes 41:35 and He returns, 41:36 we are ushered into eternity to see Him face to face 41:39 and experience the joy of His love 41:41 forever and ever and ever. 41:43 The Christ that died on the cross 41:45 is coming again to take us home. 41:48 Now some time ago, 41:50 Ellen White was asked the question 41:53 "Is this message of the three angels 41:56 the message of justification by faith 41:59 that you've been talking about? 42:00 Is it that message of justification by faith 42:02 in the Bible?" 42:04 In the Review and Herald, April 1, 1890, she wrote, 42:06 "Several have written to me, 42:08 inquiring if the message of justification by faith 42:11 is the third angel's message, 42:13 and I have answered, 42:14 'It's the third angel's message in verity.'" 42:17 Let me summarize that very, very quickly for you. 42:20 The gospel is the message 42:23 that righteousness is in Christ, 42:24 not in ourselves. 42:26 That's the first angel's message. 42:28 First angel's message leads us to open our hearts to Christ, 42:33 to commit our lives to Christ, 42:34 to accept Christ as the only one 42:36 who can stand for us in the judgment. 42:38 Second angel's message, 42:39 which we'll study more deeply in another presentation, 42:41 is Babylon is fallen is fallen. 42:43 What's Babylon all about? 42:44 It's self-centered, 42:46 self-inflated importance 42:48 that substitutes human opinion and human ideas 42:51 for the grace of Christ. 42:53 It substitutes human traditions 42:55 and teachings for the Word of Christ. 42:57 It is human centered. 42:59 What about the message on the mark of the beast? 43:00 What is that? 43:02 The essence of the mark of the beast is egotistical, 43:05 man's thinking he has the authority 43:08 to change the very Word of God. 43:10 So what is righteousness by faith? 43:12 Righteousness by faith 43:13 is trusting Jesus for my salvation. 43:15 Righteousness by faith is trusting Jesus' power 43:18 so that I can live a godly life. 43:20 Righteousness by faith is accepting Christ' Word 43:23 as He has spoken it. 43:25 Righteousness by faith 43:26 is putting my confidence in Jesus, in His Word, 43:29 and living in harmony with that. 43:31 Jesus saves us not because we are good 43:34 but because He is good. 43:36 All of our good works are motivated by His love 43:39 and empowered by His grace. 43:41 We come to Christ just as we are, 43:44 but we do not remain as we are, 43:46 we are changed by His grace. 43:48 Righteousness by faith is God's unending love. 43:51 It's His abounding grace 43:53 there at the very heart of these three angels' messages 43:56 that we're studying 43:57 that we're going to unfold 43:59 more and more and more 44:00 each presentation in this series. 44:04 2 Corinthians 5:14 tells us 44:07 that if we're motivated by Christ's love, 44:10 changed by Christ's love, 44:11 that the love of Christ compels us. 44:14 What is it that causes men and women 44:17 to go to the ends of the earth, 44:19 leave family and friends, leave for missions, 44:22 it is because they've been charmed 44:24 by His love, changed by His grace, 44:26 redeemed by His power. 44:29 The three angels' message 44:30 according to Revelation 14:6 is to go to all the world. 44:36 The message of the three angels leads us 44:39 from the preoccupation with our own self-interest 44:42 to a passion for Christ' service. 44:45 You cannot come to the cross and remain silent. 44:48 The cross changes you, the cross makes you over again. 44:52 Matthew 19:20 says, 44:54 "All authority has been given to me 44:56 in heaven and on earth. 44:57 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations." 45:00 Jesus' last words were 45:02 "Go, go to the ends of the earth 45:04 and make disciples to all nations." 45:06 Revelation 14:6 says 45:08 "I saw another angel flying in the middle of heaven 45:10 with the everlasting gospel to preach," to who? 45:14 "To every nation, tribe, tongue, and people." 45:17 This message will not die out in some whimper. 45:20 This message will not go out like some candle in the wind 45:24 blown out into insignificance. 45:26 This message of the three angels 45:28 will rise to its destiny. 45:30 It will leap across geographical boundaries, 45:33 it will go, penetrate language groups, 45:36 the message of Jesus Christ, people, men and women, 45:41 boys and girls, committed to Christ, 45:44 changed by Christ 45:46 will go to the ends of the earth 45:47 proclaiming His message 45:49 in the last day of earth's history. 45:51 There's an interesting book called The Quest for More, 45:54 Living for Something Bigger Than You by Paul David Tripp 45:57 that has a statement that really stunned me 46:00 when I read it. 46:01 "Human beings were created to be part of something bigger 46:04 than their own lives. 46:05 Sin causes us to shrink our lives 46:07 down to the size of our lives. 46:10 The grace of Christ is given to rescue us 46:14 from the claustrophobic confines 46:17 of our own little self-focused kingdom 46:20 and frees us to live for the eternal purposes 46:23 and satisfying delights of the Kingdom of God. 46:26 We live in a culture 46:28 that has institutionalized self-focus 46:31 and personal entitlement. 46:33 If you look around, 46:34 it's very clear that we need to be rescued 46:36 from ourselves. 46:38 Things like debt, addiction, obesity, divorce, 46:42 are the fruits of a culture of self-focus, 46:44 where we look for meaning where meaning cannot be found. 46:48 There is freedom to be found in living 46:51 for something bigger than yourself... 46:53 Ultimately it means living for the glory of God 46:56 and the success of His agenda for the world He made." 46:59 If you want to be part of something big for God, 47:02 you want to be a part of something great for God, 47:04 you're a young person 47:05 looking for meaning in your life. 47:07 You have been maybe playing church, 47:09 you are an adult 47:11 and you've been simply coming and sitting in the pew, 47:13 there's something bigger and grander 47:15 than the self-occupation and self-focus. 47:19 That is a life committed to sharing His love. 47:22 A life committed to taking the Word of God. 47:26 Dear friends and neighbors, 47:27 this message of the three angels, 47:29 this message of God's grace 47:31 is to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. 47:34 God is inviting you to something big and grand 47:37 and large to be part of something 47:40 that is spanning the earth and lightening it 47:42 with His very glory. 47:45 God is inviting you 47:46 not simply to take a stand for Christ 47:49 and sit in the pew, 47:51 God is inviting you 47:52 to something big, something grand, 47:54 something great for His eternal kingdom. 47:57 This gospel of the kingdom," Matthew 24:14, 48:01 "shall be preached," not it might be preached, 48:03 "in all the world as a witness to all nations 48:05 then shall the end come." 48:06 You can be part of something big for God, 48:08 you can be part of something grand for God, 48:11 you can be part of something that is much larger, 48:13 it will go to the world as a witness to all nations, 48:17 not going to die out in a whimper, not at all. 48:20 Abraham La Rue was a shepherd, a wood cutter from California. 48:27 He became a Christian, 48:29 and a committed Adventist Christian. 48:31 When he was in his 60s, 48:34 he was 65 years old 48:35 and the Lord laid a burden on his heart. 48:38 Take the gospel message to China. 48:41 Abraham La Rue wrote a letter and he wrote it 48:44 to the Seventh-day Adventists headquarters. 48:46 And he said, "God has laid a burden on my heart 48:48 to take the gospel to China." 48:49 Now remind you, he didn't know Chinese, 48:51 remind you, he didn't have any money. 48:53 He was 65 at the time, 48:55 General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 48:56 wrote back and they said 48:58 "Brother, La Rue, 48:59 you're a little old for this assignment. 49:02 You know, there are no believers 49:03 that we have in China 49:05 and we don't have the money to send you. 49:06 But you know what? 49:08 Hawaii, that's out in the Pacific someplace 49:10 if you could happen to get there 49:12 and maybe you could sell Christian literature." 49:15 So La Rue got a lot of books together, 49:17 Christian books, and he raised this money, 49:21 went out to Hawaii. 49:23 But then after he sold a few books there, 49:25 the next boat, he could find, 49:28 La Rue on his own money went to China, 49:32 and there began selling books. 49:34 And there this man now in his late 60s, 49:38 labored year after year after year, 49:41 and after years of labor, there were six people baptized. 49:45 But today, because of the roots, 49:48 that the seeds that man sowed, 49:50 and the roots that sprouted up and the fruits, 49:53 today, there are hundreds of thousands 49:56 of Adventist Christians all over China. 49:59 Who would have thought 50:00 that God could use a 65 year old layperson 50:05 to open the doors for the gospel to go to China? 50:09 He got a sense of the bigness, the grandness, 50:13 the greatness of this message called the three angels. 50:17 And here he caught 50:18 the significance of Revelation 14:6, 50:21 "I saw another agent fly in the midst of heaven, 50:23 having the everlasting gospel of God's grace 50:25 to preach to them that dwell on the earth, 50:27 and to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people." 50:29 God is calling you into your neighborhood. 50:31 God is calling you into your community. 50:33 God maybe lay a burden on you for mission service. 50:36 The everlasting gospel 50:38 is to go to the ends of the earth. 50:41 Great Controversy, page 612 says, 50:43 "Servants of God, 50:45 with their faces lighted up 50:46 and shining with holy consecration, 50:49 will hasten from place to place 50:50 to proclaim the message from heaven. 50:53 By thousands of voices, all over the earth, 50:56 the warning will be given." 50:57 The earth is going to be lightened 50:59 with the glory of God. 51:00 The message of the three angels 51:01 is going to go to the ends of the earth, 51:03 the message of the gospel of Christ 51:05 is going to be carried. 51:06 You can be part of something big for God. 51:09 It is almost time for the Lord to come. 51:12 Do you sense the moving of God's Spirit? 51:14 Do you sense in the conditions of our world, 51:17 that it's time to move out for Christ? 51:20 It's time to make a decision for Christ. 51:23 It's time to share the Word of God with others. 51:26 It's time to give Bible studies, 51:28 it's time to pass out literature. 51:30 Time to invite people 51:31 to watch godly television programs. 51:33 It's time to get involved for Christ 51:36 and be part of something big and grand for God. 51:38 It's almost time for the Lord to come. 51:39 Do you believe it? 51:41 Listen as Charles sings, 51:42 catch the spirit of this Advent movement 51:46 of every nation, kindred, tongue, 51:47 and people proclaiming God's grace, 51:49 Charles. 51:54 Tis almost time for the Lord To come 51:59 I hear the people say 52:04 The stars of heaven Are growing dim 52:10 It must be The breaking of the day 52:15 O it must be The breaking of the day 52:19 O it must be The breaking of the day 52:25 The night is almost gone The day is coming on 52:31 O it must be The breaking of the day 52:36 The signs foretold In the sun and moon 52:41 And earth and sea and sky 52:45 Aloud proclaim to all mankind 52:51 The coming Of the Master draweth nigh 52:56 O it must be The breaking of the day 53:01 O it must be The breaking of the day 53:06 The night is almost gone The day is coming on 53:12 O it must be The breaking of the day 53:17 O it must be time For the waiting church 53:22 To cast her pride away 53:27 With girded loins And burning lamps 53:33 To look For the breaking of the day 53:38 O it must be The breaking of the day 53:42 O it must be The breaking of the day 53:48 The night is almost gone The day is coming on 53:54 O it must be The breaking of the day 53:58 So go quickly out In the streets and the lanes 54:04 And in the broad highway 54:08 And call the maimed The halt, 54:12 And the blind 54:14 To be ready For the breaking of the day 54:19 O it must be The breaking of the day 54:24 O it must be The breaking of the day 54:30 The night is almost gone The day is coming on 54:36 O it must be The breaking of the day 54:41 O it must be 54:43 The breaking 54:46 Of the day. 54:58 God is leading you 55:02 to know Him more deeply, 55:04 to trust Him more fully, 55:08 to be committed to Him 55:12 in a way that you've never been committed before. 55:16 We're living on the knife edge of eternity. 55:20 We're living in a crisis hour of this earth's history. 55:24 We're living with uncertainty all around us. 55:29 We sense it in our hearts. 55:32 We feel it deep within. 55:35 And God is leading each one of us 55:39 to step out from comfortable convenience. 55:44 As the song says, go out into the lanes, 55:48 the highways, 55:50 go knock on your neighbor's door, 55:52 develop a loving relationship with them and share Christ. 55:56 Share Christ with the people in your workplace. 56:00 Share Christ there in your community. 56:06 Share Christ 56:08 as He opens doors of opportunity for you. 56:13 Would you like to make a commitment right now 56:15 as I pray, 56:17 that for you it's no more business as usual, 56:20 no more pleasures as usual, no more life as usual, 56:25 that you have a great desire, 56:27 as God opens doors of opportunity 56:29 to share His love with others, 56:31 to share this great message of Bible truth, 56:34 the message of the three angels. 56:36 Let's pray, Father in heaven, 56:38 we thank You with all of our hearts, 56:40 that we can live 56:41 for something bigger than ourselves, 56:43 something greater than self-focus, 56:45 something greater than the preoccupation 56:48 with our own needs and desires. 56:50 The gospel breaks our hearts, 56:52 the love of Christ sends us out into the world, 56:55 and that love leads us to be committed 56:58 to share Your love with others. 57:00 Thank You, in Jesus name, amen. 57:02 Friend of mine, Jesus Himself is calling you. 57:07 Stay with us through this entire series. 57:11 Next presentation 57:14 we're going to talk about Revelation 14:7 57:17 and the judgment bar of God. 57:20 What is the judgment? 57:22 And how can you have confidence 57:23 to pass the judgment? 57:25 And God bless you in this room. |
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