Participants: Kenny & Chris Shelton (Host), John Dinzey, John Lomacang
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY016021A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:07 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:09 I'm Chris Shelton and I'm here with my husband 01:12 Pastor Kenny Shelton. 01:13 And, Pastor Kenny, 01:15 we have a wonderful group of people today 01:17 and we are going to be talking about 01:19 "Truths that Transform." 01:21 Are there truths that transform? 01:24 And on our study panel today we have Pastor John Lomacang 01:27 Of the Thompsonville Seventh-day Adventist Church. 01:29 That's right. Praise the Lord. 01:31 And he is also in charge 01:33 of world evangelism for 3ABN now. 01:35 I love that, the director of world evangelism. 01:38 Yeah, not on that, he is a friend. 01:40 Praise the Lord. That's right. 01:42 And now a neighbor. You know, a brother in Christ. 01:44 A neighbor. That's right. 01:45 I mean, that's so nice to be able to say well, 01:47 we just don't come together and study once in a while, 01:49 that we can be friends in Christ in Jesus. 01:51 And adding a lighthearted part to it 01:54 and a recently tanned neighbor. 01:57 We just went on a short vacation there and got tanned. 02:01 Stayed in the ocean too long. 02:02 Yes. That's okay. 02:03 You know, the Lord has given us 02:05 the chance to get some real vitamin D. 02:07 Yes. Yeah. 02:09 Those of us who live here in Southern Illinois 02:12 and I heard this report that if you don't get enough 02:15 vitamin D all kinds of diseases could begin to manifest. 02:18 So the best form of vitamin D is the ocean on a sunny day. 02:24 Example number one. Thank you, Pastor. 02:25 Can we go with you? May we go with you next time? 02:27 Next time you need to come with us. 02:29 Brother John Dinzey, why didn't he invite us? 02:31 I mean, that's my question now 02:33 as I introduce you with our other Bible panel. 02:36 Well, I'm glad he enjoyed it, him and his wife and daughter. 02:38 Yes. Yes. 02:39 A blessing to know that 02:41 they could take that time to refresh. 02:43 And I'm sure they were blessing to other people. 02:45 But, Brother John Dinzey, 02:47 you are the general manager of 3ABN Latino. 02:50 That's a big job. Mercy. 02:52 Pastor John Dinzey actually pastored here. 02:53 Is it, Pastor John? Yes. 02:54 Well, thank you for letting me know. 02:56 I didn't realize. Thank you. 02:57 He got his degree in pastoral ministry. 02:58 Yeah. Yes. 03:00 All right, well, Pastor John Dinzey, 03:01 I'm glad to know that 03:03 because I call him Brother John. 03:04 Such a good panel of discussing this "Truths that Transform" 03:06 so we are looking forward to that. 03:07 Oh, yes. Absolutely. 03:09 But first we are going to listen to a song 03:11 as sung by Steve Darmody, "What Can Separate You." 03:33 His love reached from the heavens 03:38 To the far ends of the earth 03:42 To give you life forever 03:47 He left no stone unturned 03:51 And before the birth of time 03:55 Jesus had you on His mind 04:00 So you never need to question 04:04 His concern 04:09 So what can separate you 04:12 From the precious love of God? 04:17 Who could ever come against 04:21 His strong and perfect love? 04:26 So when you're in the valley 04:29 And your nights are cold and lonely 04:35 The darkest hour is just 04:40 before the dawn 04:43 Remember nothing can separate you 04:48 From God's Love 05:00 Oh, He numbers each and every star 05:05 And calls them all by name 05:08 He counts them one by one 05:12 And sees that they all stay in place 05:17 So if He cares for every star 05:21 Then He sees right where you are 05:25 You can trust you'll never fall 05:30 From His embrace 05:33 So what can separate you 05:37 From the precious love of God? 05:42 Who could ever come against 05:46 His strong and perfect love? 05:50 So when you're in the valley 05:54 And your nights are cold and lonely 06:02 Remember, nothing absolutely nothing 06:09 Remember nothing Can separate you from 06:16 The love of God 06:21 How rich and pure! 06:26 How measureless and strong! 06:33 It shall forevermore endure 06:42 The saints' and angels' song 06:51 So when you're in the valley 06:55 And your nights Are cold and lonely 07:02 Remember, nothing, Absolutely nothing 07:10 Remember nothing Can separate you 07:15 From God's Love 07:43 Thank you. Praise the Lord. 07:44 That ministered to my heart. 07:46 I'll just tell you right now just I'm thankful 07:48 that nothing can separate us from the love of God. 07:50 And before we get into our study, 07:52 we are going to bow our heads here, 07:53 we are going to have prayer. 07:54 Would you pray along with us? 07:56 I know some of you are there you got pencil and paper, 07:58 I know you are gonna take down some notes, 07:59 you are gonna write down some passages 08:01 but I would like for you to pray with us too. 08:02 Open your heart and open your mind. 08:03 Let's pray. Shall we? 08:05 Loving Father in Heaven, 08:06 what a privilege to be part of the family of God today 08:09 and we thank You for the promise 08:10 where two or three are gathered together, 08:12 You would be in our midst. 08:13 Thank You that we can call upon Your name 08:15 and You said You would hear and You would answer. 08:18 Our prayer today is that You would through 08:20 the power of thy Holy Spirit 08:22 open our hearts, open our minds. 08:24 We pray that we will be able to see Jesus 08:26 in a very special way. 08:27 We will be able to understand truth 08:29 and the importance of truth and we realize You are truth. 08:34 Bless we pray each one who listens, who views. 08:37 We just pray each heart will be touched 08:39 and lifted toward Jesus. 08:41 May we again see you in a special way today. 08:43 May we fall in love with You afresh today. 08:46 We thank You for each one that's here open each heart, 08:48 each mind, each life and may You give us 08:51 what we need today 08:53 and I thank You in Jesus name, amen. 08:54 Amen. 08:57 You know, many years ago I was introduced in school 09:01 to human secularism and human secularism, 09:07 I can't even say the word today. 09:09 Secularism, we were taught that 09:12 there are really no moral absolutes 09:14 and they would always give an example about 09:16 maybe you are in a storm shelter 09:19 and the storm is coming in. 09:20 Everyone outside of the shelter would be destroyed 09:23 but only those inside will be saved. 09:25 And there might be room for only four 09:28 but there maybe five or six outside wanting in. 09:31 So how do you choose who comes in and who doesn't? 09:35 So my question for us for this study time together, 09:41 are there moral absolutes and how can we find out? 09:46 where do we go for moral absolutes? 09:49 And I would like for us to begin our study 09:52 on Truths that Transform 09:54 by reading a verse in Hebrews 4:12. 09:59 Okay. 10:00 Pastor Dinzey, you want to read that one? 10:02 Do you have that one? 10:03 I'm very close to it. Very close to it. 10:05 That sounds good. Blessed his heart. 10:06 You know, his phrase, I copied that just a minute ago. 10:08 Oh, well, you're ready. It's beautiful passage. 10:10 Amen. Hebrews 4:12? 10:13 Yes, Hebrews 4:12. 10:14 This is what the Word of God says. 10:16 Yes. Amen. 10:17 "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, 10:21 and sharper than any two-edged sword, 10:23 piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, 10:28 and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner 10:31 of the thoughts and intents of the heart." 10:35 The discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 10:39 Are there more absolutes? 10:41 What do you folks think? 10:42 Well, you know, when you read that passage 10:44 as we were preparing for the program 10:46 noticed it says, "sharper than any two-edged sword" 10:50 and the song that Steve Darmody was singing about 10:53 who shall separate us, what shall separate us 10:56 is where it came into my head also. 10:59 And Paul was talking about that to the Romans. 11:02 He said, "Who shall separate us from the love of God?" 11:07 And then he brought out some examples, 11:08 "Shall tribulation, or distress, 11:10 or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, 11:13 or peril, or the sword?" 11:16 Well, the Word of God is sharper 11:18 than any two-edge sword 11:19 and I thought the Word of God the rejection of God's word, 11:25 the absolute truth 11:28 was what open the door to sin in the Garden of Eden. 11:32 The absolute truth 11:35 even when the temptation of Jesus came 11:37 in the wilderness. 11:38 Satan quoted the word 11:41 but left out the absolute truth. 11:43 Yes. 11:45 A portion of it, "he shall give his angels charge over thee" 11:48 he left that out to keep "to keep thee in all thy ways." 11:50 "Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone" 11:53 he just, he left that out conveniently. 11:56 And so if you think about that in the sense 12:02 that the absolute truth is what causes the Word of God 12:07 to be distorted for the truth not to be seen. 12:11 And so when we ask ourselves that very important question 12:16 we understand that as they say in court, 12:20 "Do you solemnly swear to tell the" come on 12:24 "truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." 12:29 The word singular word truth today has been diluted, 12:33 has been deleted, has been delayed, 12:36 has been denied. 12:38 Diluted, deleted, delayed and denied. 12:40 It's been left to the last of the line 12:42 Delayed, it's been diluted that's really, 12:44 that doesn't mean that been deleted what is truth. 12:47 It's been delayed, been denied, 12:49 we don't need the truth. 12:50 So when we talk about truth Jesus first of all 12:53 to put the proper context Jesus made it very clear. 12:56 When you focus on truth you cannot get 12:59 the truth except you get to Jesus. 13:01 He says, "I am the way," that what? 13:04 "The truth and the life." "The truth and the life." 13:06 So you have to begin in John 14:6 13:09 but we have to begin with Jesus. 13:12 But let me just pause and say something. 13:14 People tend to, people tend to use that statement 13:17 almost to make it appear as though, 13:20 and hear me carefully. 13:21 Well. 13:23 As long as you say Jesus that's all that matters. 13:25 That's not what that scripture was saying. 13:27 No. 13:28 Because He said "Thy word is truth." 13:32 Not only am I the way the truth and life 13:34 but sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth. 13:39 I'm the truth, My word is the truth. 13:41 Some people say, "As long as you have Jesus 13:43 that's all that matters" and they put the Word of God 13:46 which is the embodiment of truth aside. 13:48 So, yes, "the truth, the whole truth, 13:50 nothing but the truth." 13:51 Uplifting Jesus but in the very same vein, 13:55 in the very same context exalting His word. 13:57 And, you know, what? Amen. 13:59 He honors His word above His name. 14:02 Glory. 14:04 Well, His word is Him. 14:06 It's a reflection of His character. 14:08 It's who He is. He has given us His word. 14:11 He said, He was the word and the word dwelt among us. 14:14 Yes. So what a blessing. 14:16 To go back truths that transform, 14:19 how important is it to understand truth? 14:22 How important is it to know truth? 14:24 You know, we mentioned it before in a Bible study 14:28 that people come up and they say, 14:29 "oh, but the spirit told me something else." 14:32 The spirit in fact, in fact, 14:35 wasn't it not just a last couple of years 14:37 that there was a major church denomination 14:40 and other people were coming in and saying 14:43 "We're all uniting in the sprit." 14:46 They are all uniting in the spirit. 14:48 Don't worry about the doctrines. 14:50 Don't worry about the different denominations 14:53 or what the Bible teaches. 14:54 We're all uniting in the spirit. 14:56 How important is the truth? 14:58 You know, the one thing that comes in my mind 15:00 when you think about truth, 15:02 oh, it's vital, it's so important. 15:05 It's associated to me with eternal life. 15:08 And so I was thinking of Matthew 19:17. 15:13 Just a couple of verses, need to listen real careful 15:15 because sometime we wonder how does this fit in 15:17 we are talking about truth. 15:18 But notice what it says there, Matthew 19:16, 17. 15:23 Says, "And, behold, one came unto him," 15:25 talking of Jesus "Good Master, 15:27 what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" 15:31 What a question. Yes. 15:32 What must, and we realize it's not of works 15:34 but realize what must I do, 15:35 there's something needs to change, 15:37 something needs to go on. 15:38 And notice how Jesus answers this. 15:39 So for talking about truth, truths that transform, 15:43 we are talking about eternal life. 15:45 So notice what it says, Jesus, "And he said unto him, 15:47 Why callest thou me good? 15:49 For there is none good but one, that is God..." 15:51 But now notice. 15:52 "But if thou wilt enter into life..." Do what? 15:56 "Keep the commandments." "Keep the commandments." 15:57 Right. 15:59 So is truth important and you say what is truth? 16:01 What may I do to, you know, eternal life? 16:04 Jesus said, keep the commandments. 16:05 Keep His sayings. Walk in His footstep. 16:08 Walk in was first, John, as He walked. 16:11 And then I heard people say just quickly, 16:13 they say, "I know the truth." 16:16 You know, some people you talk to, 16:17 they will have all the answers. 16:19 They know what truth is but this has been impressed 16:20 on my heart as well as I'm sure is everyone here and many. 16:23 That's in 2 Thessalonians, 16:26 2 Thessalonians I think it's Chapter 2, 16:28 yeah, verse I'll read 9 and 10 but we will see 16:30 because it's different than saying. 16:32 "Pastor, I know." Right. 16:34 You have people I know, I know, I know. 16:35 But there is a difference than I know and I love. 16:39 There is a difference. 16:40 Notice "Even him, whose coming is 16:42 after the working of Satan..." 16:43 Verse 9, 2 Thessalonians, notice, "With all power 16:46 and signs and lying wonders." 16:48 We know devil is gonna be working here. 16:49 He has taken the Bible, 16:51 trying to take it off our hands changing it. 16:52 "With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them 16:55 that perish, because" why? 16:57 Receive not. 16:58 "People that will perish are those who have 17:00 not received the love of the truth, 17:03 that they might be saved." 17:05 That's right. 17:06 So we must not say I know it but I love it. 17:09 And when you love, glory. 17:10 When you love something 17:12 you want to spend some time with it. 17:13 Isn't that right? 17:15 You love the wife, you want to spend some time. 17:16 You love the grandchildren, you want to spend time. 17:17 You love cutting the grass. 17:19 You want to go out and cut some grass. 17:20 Love. 17:22 If you don't love the truth 17:24 heaven will still not be your home. 17:27 And Jesus also says, "If you love Me, keep My commandments." 17:31 So how do we develop? How do we develop? 17:33 Then people say I know what it is 17:34 but how do we develop? 17:36 Either love for the truth. 17:38 If we don't, we know it but we are not sure 17:40 we are in love with the truth. 17:41 Is that developable? 17:43 All right, you register first and I'll piggyback. 17:45 I believe, I believe that the words of Jesus 17:50 have to be considered 17:52 and He said there are two great commandments. 17:54 The first one is "Love the Lord your God 17:57 with all your heart and with all your mind, 18:00 with all your strength and with all your soul 18:02 and your neighbor as yourself." 18:05 When you have that love of God in your heart 18:10 that is what moves you through the other steps 18:14 because you can fall in love with the truth about the dead 18:18 but if you don't love the Lord that gave you the truth 18:21 about the dead then that truth 18:23 is not gonna totally transform you. 18:25 That's right. Good. 18:27 So because the Lord is who transforms you 18:30 through the Holy Spirit. 18:32 So we need to be connected with the Lord 18:34 in order for the truth to transform. 18:35 As I do want to read John 17:17, 18, 19, 18:41 "Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth." 18:45 And who is the word as you mentioned? 18:48 In the beginning was the word, Jesus. 18:49 Jesus is the word and He is the one 18:51 that's gonna sanctify us. 18:53 "As thou hast sent me into the world, 18:56 even so have I also sent them into the world. 18:58 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, 19:01 that they also might be sanctified through the truth." 19:06 And so the truth, is the truth important? 19:09 Yes. Thank you. 19:10 The truth is going to sanctify us. 19:13 And so we need the truth. 19:15 And you are touching a little bit 19:17 there also on transformation. 19:19 You know, what does it mean as you are talking, 19:22 Pastor Lomacang, what does that mean 19:24 and why do we need to be transforming? 19:26 What's the problem? Aren't we good enough? 19:28 Let's put that in the context of, 19:30 let's put that in the context of your original question, 19:33 does truth matter? 19:35 Is there an absolute truth? 19:37 Well, yeah, the absolute truth is the Commandments of God 19:40 which is the measurement. 19:42 You know, Psalms 119:151, 19:44 "All your commandments are truth." 19:47 You have to begin with the point of measurement 19:48 in order to know is this of an inch, 19:51 is this of two inches. 19:52 You know, if we have no ruler to measure then you are, 19:56 you become the standard. 19:58 And so a lot of people, what happens in our world today 20:00 the reason why truth is so rejected 20:03 is because everyone wants to establish 20:04 their own standard. 20:06 You see, if you have a different standard 20:07 then, if we each have a different standard 20:10 then none of us is wrong 20:11 because we are measured by our own standard. 20:14 But if there is an absolute truth-- 20:16 Come on. Oh, yes. 20:17 You know, it's like taken a tape measure 20:19 in a seamstress factory. 20:22 Why did you have to introduce the tape measure? 20:24 Now you will know who is wrong and whose measurements are off. 20:27 There you go. 20:28 Why would, look, look, here comes the boss 20:30 again with that tape measure. 20:31 Every time he brings it in, 20:32 okay, now we know Sally and Marcus and James 20:36 and whoever now we know that his garments are off 20:39 but if there is no tape measure 20:41 the Word of God is the tape measure. 20:43 The commandments is the tape measure, the standard. 20:46 Here's the text. Come on. 20:49 He says in Ecclesiastes, matter of fact let's go there. 20:53 Well. 20:54 I think we like to quote them off the top 20:56 but I think if we do, we tell the people to do 20:58 then exactly we will be with them 21:00 and they will be able to follow us. 21:03 Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14. Here we are. 21:08 Listen to this. 21:12 Ecclesiastes 12:13 and right there 21:16 before that little kind of 21:18 gigantic book of Song of Solomon. 21:20 It's a little tiny book. 21:22 Let's hear the conclusion, brother, what is it now? 21:24 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: 21:30 Fear God, and keep his commandments: 21:33 for this is the whole duty of man. 21:37 For God shall bring every work into judgment," 21:40 the measuring line "including every secret thing, 21:44 whether it is good, or whether it be evil." 21:47 So the measurement is God's word, 21:49 His commandments he says, okay, 21:51 let's measure that and I like the way 21:52 that you both brought that out, 21:54 the two measurements, love to God, 21:56 love to our fellow men. 21:57 Well, how do we know we love our fellow men 21:59 unless the Commandments of God 22:00 and specific those Ten Commandments 22:03 become our measuring tool? 22:04 Yes. Amen. 22:05 And so that's what says to me I need to get in line, 22:08 I need to tight up that hem, need to extend it little bit 22:11 because we are not measuring up to God standard. 22:13 And would you not concur also that the whole Bible itself 22:17 is our measuring tape. 22:19 The whole Bible is our moral absolute. 22:21 Yeah. Well, Matthew 4:4. We go back. 22:23 That's our measuring tape. 22:24 That's where we go back and back to the Psalms, 22:27 I want to read one verse in Psalms 119:9 it says, 22:32 no Psalms 119:105. 22:34 "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, 22:38 and a light unto my path." 22:40 Wow. Right. 22:41 Without the Word of God we walk in darkness. 22:43 We don't know what's right or wrong. 22:45 We don't understand and without His love 22:49 we don't understand when we are sinning. 22:51 So the law of God points out what the sin is. 22:55 Just what we were talking about, 22:56 what you were talking about here the tape measure, 22:59 the level, you know, building for years. 23:04 I've actually worked with people 23:06 that seems like they did not have a tape measure 23:08 and they did not have a level 23:10 and you can go in some houses and you look 23:12 and you put it on the wall it's crooked itself. 23:14 You know what they say, 23:15 "It won't matter We'll cover it all up." 23:18 But you know what, it does matter. 23:19 That's right. 23:20 As truth matter, so does that measuring 23:23 because it may not get you right then and right there 23:26 but eventually I'm gonna say it this way 23:28 it comes back to haunt you. 23:30 Somebody comes in tries to remodel 23:31 you try to fix something that nice, 23:33 the house is not square, it's not been taped out 23:35 everything, its measurement is not the same. 23:36 It will get you. 23:37 So I'm thankful for that tape, the whole tape measure is good 23:40 from the very beginning to the end 23:41 so is the Word of God. 23:42 Amen. 23:45 Go head. Yeah. 23:46 It's important. 23:47 Yes, it is. Absolutely. 23:49 Absolutely. Absolutely. 23:50 Somebody may say, you don't put the level on some 23:51 but they just, they say half above the up, 23:53 half above in four feet, you know, if you go, 23:55 you know 70, 80 feet, you know, 23:57 you are five and six and eight inches of foot off. 24:00 That's right. So we got to get it leveled. 24:01 We got to get it right because truth does transform. 24:05 It will change you. 24:06 Well, you work in a building 24:08 you've used to work in building houses. 24:10 If you don't, if you don't draw those line straight, 24:14 if you don't set up your 24:16 what do you call those wall things? 24:19 What do you call them? 24:21 Trusses. Trusses and all those. 24:22 If you don't put them straight your house is gonna be crooked. 24:25 It's gonna affect the whole house. 24:26 And it can be a good looking project on the surface. 24:31 Think about spiritual what we are talking, 24:32 we're not talking about building things, 24:34 so what, that's all passed away. 24:35 But there are things 24:36 that we can draw from these things. 24:38 For instance say, I was called into, 24:40 several of us called into build a church 24:43 and the church was 40 feet wide, 24:46 80 feet long it had a full basement. 24:50 When you go look at that basement, 24:51 it had 12 inch blocks it was good to look at. 24:54 I mean, you look down those motor joints 24:56 they were just, praise, oh, man, 24:57 this oh, what a good project. 24:59 Floor was done, wonderful. 25:00 Say, man, this is gonna be beautiful. 25:02 For some reason it's like take your tape measure 25:04 and just measure the square first 25:06 and see if the building is square. 25:08 So when I tape from corner to corner I began to-- 25:11 whoa, something is dreadfully wrong. 25:13 Outside appearance looked good. 25:15 Everything was done, seem like right 25:17 and when I measure down 25:19 one side of the wall measured 80 feet 25:21 and the other measured 79. 25:24 Somebody had popped the line they put the 12 inch block 25:27 on the other side of the line. 25:29 Okay, you say, well, that's not a big deal. 25:30 Well, it would be, you have to tear 25:32 the whole basement down, number one to change it. 25:33 So we have problems 25:35 if we are not measuring with truth here 25:36 and getting it right we have problems. 25:37 And then look everything and those who work in the line 25:41 where everything we went to do was ten times the job. 25:46 You could not put plywood on the floor 25:48 because everything was run this way 25:50 instead of line up square like you would 4x8. 25:52 Everything, the rafters even though you put them this way 25:55 you got to cut every sheet 25:56 rather than just lay on them quick and go. 25:58 Nothing was right. 26:01 When it's all said and done again, 26:02 you had it covered it up but it was a nightmare. 26:04 You know, that's a powerful, it's a dynamic illustration. 26:07 When one thing is off it messes up everything. 26:10 Yes. That's right. 26:12 When one truth is out of line it becomes a lie. 26:16 It can't be, it cannot remain a truth. 26:18 You're building upon a lie. 26:19 So when you say a false truth or let me use the example 26:23 of the one pastor wrote me a letter once he said, 26:26 "I have my scriptures to back up what I believe 26:29 You have your scriptures to back up what you believe." 26:31 I said, brother, let me stop you. 26:33 I still have that letter in my file 26:34 till this day. 26:35 See, brother, and that was the young man, 26:37 you know, all excited about it. 26:39 No great hearer just 26:41 full, full, full board for it and I said, 26:44 let me say something, pastor, you don't have any truths 26:47 and neither do I. 26:48 it's God's word 26:50 and it does not contradict itself. 26:51 So somebody in the same sense of truth 26:53 when it lines up, 26:55 if it lines up on this end it's gonna line up on that end. 26:57 Once you follow the formula all the way through 26:59 and not make any exceptions 27:01 it will be true all the way. 27:03 That's why you find, 27:05 Jesus made it clear here in John 8:12, He says, 27:09 "He who follows me will not walk in darkness, 27:12 but have the light of life." 27:14 And He also says, 27:15 "Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you. 27:19 He who walks in darkness 27:21 does not know where he is going." 27:23 So there are people that are teaching 27:25 false doctrines nowadays and they call it, 27:27 "Well, this is, you know, 27:29 this is our denominational belief." 27:30 That's another word. 27:31 When it starts out wrong, we just talk about that. 27:34 When it starts out wrong, it finishes wrong. 27:37 Just like that no matter what you did hide, 27:39 you started wrong, you will end wrong 27:40 that's why we need the truths that transform. 27:43 We need to dig our life, our eternal life. 27:45 Pastor John Dinzey. 27:46 I would like, I would like to share some things, 27:49 I remember calls coming in. 27:51 I'm sure you've had this question before. 27:53 Does the Bible say you can't smoke? 27:55 Does the Bible say you can't smoke marijuana? 27:57 You can't smoke cigarettes, use drugs? 28:00 Well, it doesn't specifically say 28:02 you shall not smoke 28:03 but the Bible has brought principles 28:05 to help us understand how we should live our lives. 28:08 So if you ask me is it wrong to smoke? 28:11 Well, there is, there is information available 28:15 that tells you that it's dangerous for your health. 28:17 For years and years and years 28:19 the cigarettes companies were not allowed, 28:21 would not they would dance around the idea of that 28:23 cigarette smoking was bad for you 28:25 until it was determined and proven 28:28 that it causes cancer and many other diseases. 28:30 Now they have to put by law, 28:34 know that when you smoke the cigarette 28:36 you may have, you may get cancer of the lungs, 28:38 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 28:39 So in 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Corinthians 6, 28:46 I'm gonna start reading verse 18. 28:48 It says, "Flee fornication. 28:50 Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, 28:53 but he that committeth fornication 28:55 sinneth against his own body." 28:57 Verse 19, 28:58 "What? 29:00 Know ye not that your body 29:01 is the temple of the Holy Ghost" 29:04 the Holy Spirit that is "which is in you, 29:06 which ye have of God, and you are not your own? 29:09 For you are bought with a price: 29:11 therefore glorify God in your body, 29:14 and in your spirit, which are God's." 29:15 So therefore when I read these scriptures 29:18 it helps me to understand, 29:19 wow, my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. 29:23 If I do damage to my body that is wrong. 29:27 And so that is going to be a truth 29:29 that's gonna transform my decision, 29:32 my habits of life so that I can walk 29:35 according to the knowledge the scriptures gives me. 29:39 And so what will happen if I, 29:41 wow, this is, I need to stop smoking. 29:43 I need to stop drinking. 29:44 I need to stop using drugs because it's gonna hurt my body 29:48 and I can serve the Lord better if I give up those things 29:51 and I have clearer mind. 29:52 Exactly that has such an important point 29:55 because as we, 29:57 God shows us the things that are harming our temple. 30:00 You know, those who destroy this temple 30:02 He will destroy. 30:03 But as we, as He gently 30:06 that's what that two-edge sword is all about. 30:08 The two-edge sword to cut and to separate, 30:11 to do a surgery that only He can do 30:13 on our hearts and on our minds. 30:15 But it helps us to hear to understand to know 30:19 who the spirit is speaking to us 30:21 to be able to discern the word properly. 30:23 When our minds are fault, 30:25 say, I with all the food that has been changed 30:28 I believe part of this 30:31 has to do with the GMOs some things 30:33 but I have become very sensitive to certain foods 30:37 and I see that in other people as well. 30:40 Years ago we never heard of such things 30:42 but now with our food being changed 30:44 a lot of people are having these symptoms 30:46 and one of my symptoms is neurological effects 30:50 and it begins to change the mind, 30:52 clog the mind and you can't think. 30:55 There were times that I can remember 30:56 sitting and just thinking don't open your mouth, 31:00 they won't realize that you can't remember 31:01 your name practically, you know. 31:03 Those are the effects. Yes. 31:04 It has such an effect 31:06 and, you know, educational wise 31:09 years ago I was just so studious. 31:12 You know, had I not had children 31:14 I probably would have gone on 31:15 and obtained a doctorate in education. 31:18 I was working on my master's at the time 31:20 but after this it was as if I, you know, 31:24 I couldn't retain, I couldn't recall 31:26 and it still has effects even after all of these years. 31:30 So it's so important as God teaches, 31:32 He throughout the Bible 31:34 He is teaching us about health principles, 31:37 how to live with one another, 31:38 how to love God, how to love each other. 31:41 There is just so many things 31:42 that He is trying to transform us 31:45 back into His image 31:46 because we have fallen so short. 31:49 And let me read just a little bit 31:51 that coincides with some of the things 31:53 that you guys were. 31:54 One of my favorite authors here, 31:56 it says "The truths of the Bible, 31:58 treasured in the heart and mind and obeyed" 32:01 now that's the key word. 32:03 Yes. 32:04 I can remember reading, going to church for years 32:07 and hearing all about love, love, love, love, love 32:10 and then we decided to have a Bible study 32:11 every Friday night 32:13 and we were going through books of the Bible 32:14 and all of a sudden I heard this word, 32:16 I kept reading this word obey, obey, obey 32:19 and pretty soon I realized, you know what, 32:21 these promises are all on condition of obedience. 32:24 Very good. 32:26 You are not gonna obtain better health 32:28 unless you obey the health laws, 32:30 the health principles 32:31 as Pastor John Dinzey pointed out. 32:34 "And obeyed in the life," convince and convert 32:38 "convince and convert the soul," 32:41 we need to be convicted and converted. 32:44 It can't just be, it has a head knowledge 32:47 and it needs to be a heart knowledge. 32:48 "Transform the character, 32:50 and comfort and uplift the heart." 32:53 The Word of God, listen to this. 32:55 "The Word of God makes the proud humble." 33:00 One of the worse sins that God points out 33:02 is the sin of pride. 33:03 The sin of pride can cause a lot of problems 33:06 in this world. 33:07 The sin of pride. 33:09 "The perverse meek and contrite, 33:12 the disobedient obedient." 33:14 I just think that's beautiful. 33:16 Beautiful promises that we find 33:18 that will touch our hearts, our minds 33:21 because naturally 33:22 we have sinful tendency, sinful habits 33:25 and many times we don't realize it's a sin 33:28 until we begin to study God's word 33:30 and He gently begins to point those out. 33:33 Pastor John, talk about there it says perverse. 33:36 You know, I looked at the word thing is perverse is stubborn, 33:40 deviation from the truth. 33:42 Do you find the people they read it, 33:45 they understand it but they are stubborn? 33:46 But, you know, the thing that fights, 33:49 I want to go back 33:50 to a few moments ago when you talk about, 33:53 when we destroy the temple, God will destroy us. 33:56 I want to go back to the cause and affect. 33:58 Okay. 34:00 Because God is not anxious to destroy. 34:01 He said, I have no death in the, 34:03 "I have no pleasure in the death of anyone." 34:05 That's right. That's right. 34:06 Not even in the wicked. 34:07 He says, "Turn, turn that you may live." 34:09 So God is not waiting to destroy people 34:10 nor is His job to destroy people. 34:12 The strange. 34:14 "For God sent not his Son into the world 34:15 to condemn the world, 34:16 but that the world through him might be saved." 34:18 It's a strange act. 34:19 And the reason is let's go back to the, 34:21 let's go back to the off plum basement. 34:23 Okay. Okay. 34:24 Really, if you were to build boxes 34:28 each of the boxes, you know, 34:30 4x6 or 4x4, 4 inches by 4 inches 34:33 and you had to put eight of those in the box 34:35 you just say 4 inches, 4x8=32, 32. 34:38 So this box is 32 inches wide, 32 inches deep, okay. 34:41 I mean, long. 34:43 And you had to put all these boxes. 34:44 Well, you come to one box that was not made correctly 34:46 it can't fit. 34:48 Yes. That box is left out. 34:50 Well, what we're gonna do with that box? 34:51 Well, we can't do anything with it, 34:53 we have to destroy it. 34:56 But the paint is, 34:58 it's got the same letters on it as the other 34:59 but it's not right. 35:01 We can't use it. It doesn't fit. 35:03 And so, when you think about 35:05 what the Lord is, His approach to what is not, 35:08 He said, nothing that defiles 35:10 will be allowed to come into the kingdom. 35:11 It doesn't fit. 35:13 This is a perfect place 35:15 but the life is imperfect because it refuses to adhere. 35:18 It becomes perverse. 35:20 It rejects what is right 35:22 because it refuse to be transformed. 35:24 And how do we get transformed? 35:25 When the Word of God is entered into our mind 35:28 be not conformed to this world. 35:30 The world says do this 35:32 but when we are transformed by the renewing of our mind 35:36 only then can we prove what is that good 35:39 and acceptable and perfect will of God. 35:42 Why perfect will? 35:43 Because God's will is never imperfect. 35:44 That's right. His word is not imperfect. 35:46 So when we talk about 35:48 letting the Word of God transform us, 35:50 we are in essence saying, summarizing, 35:53 whatever is not being transformed 35:55 cannot be allowed into the kingdom of God. 35:58 Nothing that's not transformed will be allowed. 36:01 Nothing that defiles will be allowed. 36:02 It will be destroyed. 36:03 Because we are natural man, 36:05 the fleshly man all has to be changed. 36:07 You were reading John, Romans 12, weren't you? 36:10 Romans 12:2 and 1 just simply says, quickly, 36:13 I know Pastor Dinzey has something 36:14 really going in his mind, see it's working, it's good. 36:16 If you're reasonable God's not unreasonable. 36:20 He is very- Which is a reasonable service. 36:22 And in some of the translations actually in the Greek it says, 36:26 "Not only your reasonable service 36:27 but your spiritual act of worship." 36:29 And you talked about the sinful lesson 36:30 and the two-edged sword 36:33 and I think we all agree 36:34 that's why it's so important to study God's word 36:36 to understand, to allow it 36:38 to begin to cut a way at these things. 36:40 There's too many of us that are swordsmen. 36:43 The word that transformed. 36:44 We go around. Yeah. 36:45 We're going to chop off thing we don't want 36:47 and somebody else. 36:48 The word, let the word-- 36:50 Let the words become the sword to us. 36:52 Not us using the sword but the sword shaping us. 36:55 Amen. Beautiful. 36:57 Well, I wanted to share because, you know, 36:59 we are living in days, 37:01 you can drive down the street in Southern Illinois 37:04 I've even seen it 37:06 in other states and cities as well. 37:07 You drive on the streets 37:09 and people having front of their houses, 37:11 "I support the Ten Commandments." 37:13 Yes. It's little white placards. 37:16 Yes. Yes. 37:17 "I support the Ten Commandments." 37:19 And so, you see these things you say, well, praise the Lord. 37:22 But when you look at the nation as a whole, 37:25 this is not taking place. 37:26 As a matter of fact, you know, 37:27 that's why Danny wrote the book with Shelley Quinn 37:30 the "Ten Commandments Twice Removed" 37:32 because one, the churches have removed the Ten Commandments. 37:35 Two, the judicial system, the law they say, no, 37:38 take them out of the schools, take them out of the courts. 37:42 And this nation that claims to say "In God We Trust" 37:45 is departing from that way and we need to, 37:48 we need to bring them back to God's word. 37:50 And so we are called 37:51 to proclaim the Word of the Lord. 37:53 So in Psalms 19, notice these words, beautiful. 37:57 I'll begin reading in verse 7, it says, 37:59 "The law of the Lord is perfect," 38:03 what does it mean? 38:04 What is the meaning, the law of the Lord is perfect? 38:06 You can't improve. You cannot improve on it. 38:08 It says, "Converting the soul." That's right. 38:10 If it's perfect and it's gonna convert the soul 38:12 why do we need to take it away? 38:14 Why do we need to do anything to dilute it or change it? 38:18 And so "The law of the Lord is perfect, 38:20 converting the soul: 38:21 the testimony of the Lord is sure, 38:23 making wise the simple. 38:25 The statutes of the Lord are right, 38:27 rejoicing the heart: 38:29 the commandment of the Lord is pure, 38:30 enlightening the eyes. 38:32 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: 38:35 the judgments of the Lord are true 38:37 and righteous altogether." 38:40 And now, "More to be desired are they than gold, 38:44 yea, than much fine gold: 38:46 sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." 38:49 Amen. Amen. 38:51 Praise the Lord. 38:52 And, you know, 38:53 you look at the commandments and you ask yourself, 38:55 what it says there they can convert the soul? 38:59 Well, if I have the habit of killing people 39:03 and I read thou shall not murder, 39:06 well, wait a minute 39:07 it says that I shouldn't be murdering people. 39:09 And so, it can transform you, move you away, 39:12 convert you from that habit of life. 39:15 And there, you know, 39:17 I remember one person that called 3ABN and he said, 39:20 "Could you please join me in prayer 39:22 because I sinned. 39:24 I sinned." 39:25 And well, we tried to encourage him 39:26 to call upon the Lord and ask Him 39:28 because if you confess your sins, 39:30 you're supposed to do with the Lord. 39:31 He says, well, I really want someone to pray with me. 39:34 Now he said this, he said, 39:35 "The Lord has given me permission 39:37 to do it once 39:38 but I have done it more than once 39:41 so please join me in prayer." 39:44 And so I said, 39:45 "Well, how did the Lord give you permission 39:47 to do it once? 39:48 Because the Bible, one sin is sin 39:52 and the wages of sin is death. 39:54 So how is that you get permission?" 39:56 Imagine if you were given permission 39:58 to kill one person a week, 40:00 is that, you won't be able to go to heaven 40:02 with that type of habit. 40:03 So by the grace of the Lord 40:05 we have victory through Jesus Christ. 40:08 What you mentioned a while ago 40:10 well, I'm gonna tell quick story, 40:11 Pastor, I know you have somewhat. 40:13 What you said is exactly the truth 40:15 about these little signs commandments, 40:19 keep all the commandments. 40:20 We had him go past the ministry building, 40:22 a man came up to me one time I was building outside. 40:24 He said, "I've got a sign here 40:26 and everybody should be keeping the commandments of God 40:29 do you agree?" 40:30 I said, "Oh, praise God. Yes, I do." 40:32 He said, "I got a sign here of 40:33 keep the commandments of God, commandments." 40:35 He said, "Can I put it out here in the front here?" 40:37 You know, I said, "Oh, absolutely. 40:38 Put as many as you want out there 40:39 because I'm a believer in it." 40:41 And he said, "Oh, so nice to find somebody 40:43 that wants to work along 40:45 and believe in keeping the commandments of God." 40:46 So he nailed a couple of signs, put them in the ground. 40:48 He was so happy. 40:50 I happened to have many years ago 40:51 I had little shirt in which 3ABN you has some now, 40:54 "Put them back where they belong." 40:55 Right. 40:56 Referring to the commandment, in our hearts and in our minds. 40:59 I said, "Oh, brother, man, we're in harmony with this. 41:01 How wonderful." 41:02 So I got him one of those sweatshirts, 41:04 "Put them back where they belong." 41:05 He told, "Oh, this is wonderful." 41:07 He took it and he left. 41:08 About 10 minutes later he came in 41:10 turned his truck almost sideways. 41:13 He looked and he said, "Look, what you've done here?" 41:14 And I said, "What?" 41:15 It says, "Commandments, 41:17 put them back where they belong 41:18 on the back in our hearts and in our minds. 41:21 I know exactly what you are doing. 41:22 All you are doing is advocating the Seventh-day Sabbath 41:25 and now the rest of them but you can have your shirt." 41:28 And he took his signs and left. 41:32 It's almost shocking, isn't it? 41:33 Right, he is advocating the commandments 41:35 but not that one. 41:36 But when he went down the road he looked at them, 41:39 I believe the Holy Spirit impressed him 41:42 "There is nine of them, my friend, that you are keeping 41:44 there is one of them you are not. 41:46 And this shirt advocates keeping all 41:47 put them in our hearts and minds 41:49 where they belong." 41:50 He didn't like that. 41:52 He took it as rebuke 41:53 rather than just what God has said in His word 41:54 so he came back to throw that shirt at me 41:56 and say you can keep this business 41:57 and I'll take my signs and go else where. 41:59 You know what he did? 42:01 He did not receive it as it is in fact the Word of God, 42:04 as it is in truth the Word of God. 42:06 You know, the world is right now 42:08 locked into something. 42:09 Now this is, I want to read a scripture 42:10 and then I'm gonna show you how this is being classify, 42:12 how the Bible is being torn down in America. 42:14 How the Bible is-- 42:16 that's why the Christian church today 42:17 needs to say, 42:18 "If it's not in God's word we are not gonna support it." 42:21 2 Timothy 3:15 42:22 and look at where the devil starts. 42:24 That's why Paul the apostle included this 42:26 to his young understudied Timothy. 42:28 Yes. 42:30 He said, "And from childhood 42:31 you have known the Holy Scriptures, 42:34 which are able to make you wise 42:35 and to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." 42:38 From childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, 42:41 Listen to this now. 42:43 This is an article, this is on, I saw this on CNN 42:47 and then I saw it on our local news channel. 42:50 They talked about the fight against, 42:52 you know, prayers in schools, the Bibles in schools, 42:54 the commandments all these things. 42:56 This is Florida Satanic Church, this is the Huffington Post 43:01 "Florida Satanic Church To Pass Out 43:03 Children's Coloring Books In Public Schools." 43:06 No. No. Well, no. 43:07 And so they said, 43:09 "Well, if Christians have the freedom 43:10 to pass out Christian literature, 43:11 we should have the freedom 43:13 to pass out satanic literature." 43:14 So they are passing 43:15 a satanic children's big book of activities. 43:19 Satanic connect the dots 43:21 so you could bring up the pentagram, 43:24 the goats head in the center. 43:26 And Hipster or Homeless, 43:28 you know all these, I Tolerate You. 43:30 And they put, this is in a satanic book, 43:32 I Tolerate You. 43:33 Now notice that, you notice 43:35 the hidden message, intolerance. 43:38 They are saying that 43:39 anything that is against the Bible 43:41 where Christians are intolerant. 43:43 So they put a bunch of hearts in the satanic book to say, 43:46 no matter how you live I'll tolerate you. 43:49 Tolerate, wow. 43:50 So that's why the Bible says, 43:52 do not be conformed to this world. 43:55 Amen. That's right. 43:56 It's tearing down the very standard 43:59 as you said the moral absolute which is in fact God's word. 44:02 Hey, what a good point. 44:03 So we don't, we don't follow that. 44:05 And that follows the human, humanism again. 44:09 Here it is. Right there and see it's things like these 44:12 that are bringing about laws and taking our freedoms away 44:16 because you understand 44:19 what kind of practices these people do. 44:21 I mean, I can remember years ago 44:23 even around Halloween being taught as a teacher 44:26 that we need to be careful 44:28 for the children and the animals 44:29 because that was a big time 44:31 for the Satanists to do their sacrificing. 44:35 And children and animals even in Southern Illinois 44:38 were disappearing. 44:39 And so it was, it was something that is very dangerous. 44:44 Just like in our airports as we see these people 44:47 smuggling and doing these crimes, 44:49 we are losing our religious freedom 44:51 and how sad, how sad that they can stand up and say 44:55 we are going to tolerate you. 44:56 So does truth matter. 44:57 Truth does matter. And truth transforms. 44:59 A lot of issues we have to face today 45:01 we would never have to face them 45:02 if we just would get in the word, 45:04 let the Holy Spirit do the leading and the guiding. 45:06 Our minds would be open, we would read it 45:09 and if it's plain and simple as it's written we believe it. 45:12 If there are symbols 45:13 then we will look up those symbolism 45:15 and the Bible will still explain itself. 45:17 But it can be very simple 45:18 and everything that's needed for salvation is there 45:21 and made so simple, so clear that we can't miss it. 45:24 That's right. That's right. Beautiful. 45:26 You know, what we need, we need God's people 45:29 to preach the truth of God's work. 45:31 Yes, to stand up. 45:33 Yes, we need God's people 45:34 to preach the truth of God's word. 45:36 You know, it talks about it in Matthew 24 45:39 that the issues are gonna be such 45:42 that if they were possible 45:44 they will deceive the very elect. 45:45 In other words, we need to be grounded 45:47 in God's word. 45:48 Yes. 45:50 I almost hesitate to talk about this. 45:51 I don't want the person to identify. 45:52 I was in a city some place in the US 45:57 visiting, I was gonna visit one of the local churches 45:59 and I was listening to the news and there were no news. 46:03 I couldn't find news. 46:05 So I said, well, maybe there is a Christian radio station 46:08 that I could listen to. 46:09 Maybe there is music that I can listen to 46:10 and I searched for one and there was a very, 46:14 there were about three radio stations, 46:16 Christian radio stations 46:17 and I selected one 46:21 that was supposed to be Christian 46:23 but it was under the genre entertainment. 46:27 And I said, well, let me listen to this person 46:29 because he is very famous. 46:31 Written books, I don't want to identify the person. 46:34 It might not even be-- 46:36 but anyway I started listening to a few minutes 46:40 for few minutes as I was on my way and I said, 46:44 well, this person is just talking about you can do this, 46:47 you can do that, you can do this. 46:49 Oh, mercy. 46:50 And you are gonna enter into an era of prosperity. 46:52 You are gonna enter into a time of 46:54 increase health, increase finances. 46:57 And I said, well, that sounds good 46:58 but it was all on you, you, you. 47:00 Yes. Yes. 47:01 And after a few minutes of that I turned it off 47:03 and another time I turned it on again 47:06 and again another sermon by the same person 47:09 the same type of message. 47:11 I said, man, this person is so famous 47:14 why is he, where is the meat. 47:15 As it say, where is the meat of the God's word there. 47:19 I listened to three to four minutes 47:21 in about four of those sermons different times during that, 47:24 during the time I was there those three or four days 47:27 and I came to the conclusion 47:29 that this, this person is preaching whip cream. 47:33 I said, if you are hungry, if you are starving, 47:35 you haven't eaten for days you don't want-- 47:37 Hey, I'm really hungry give me something to eat. 47:39 Here is a plate of whip cream for you. 47:41 You may take the first bite and say, oh, that good 47:43 but do you have food that will fill. 47:46 Thank you. 47:47 Well, that was, to me that was just whip cream 47:49 and we need people to preach the Word of God and-- 47:53 Meat. Meat of the work. Meat of the work. 47:55 But, Pastor Dinzey, see right there 47:57 they have already laid the wrong foundation. 47:59 We are, our very best works are as filthy rags. 48:03 We can do nothing without Christ. 48:05 Without this word to come and to transform, 48:07 our hearts remain the same. 48:09 Our sinful acts remain the same. 48:11 We don't know what's right and wrong. 48:13 We can do nothing. 48:14 We are not gonna have prosperity without Him. 48:16 We will never even have real happiness, 48:19 we'll never really have peace. 48:20 And so many people 48:22 throughout this world, this country 48:23 they are searching for something better. 48:26 They realize there is something more than themselves 48:29 and it's to God, to God be the glory. 48:32 They need to be looking for His strength, 48:34 for his power, for His transformation 48:37 in our heart and our mind through His work. 48:39 Jesus made that clear, I mean, we talk about discipleship, 48:42 you know, our church have discipleship programs 48:45 but John 8:31, 32 48:49 Jesus makes it clear where this freedom comes from. 48:52 Now the end result is freedom 48:54 but notice how you will get there. 48:56 "Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, 49:01 'If you abide in My word, 49:04 you are My disciples indeed. 49:07 You shall know the truth, 49:09 and the truth shall make you free.'" 49:11 Amen. Praise God. 49:13 Now people often say, set you free. 49:15 I got it, I got to try to hopefully make a point here. 49:19 The truths doesn't set you free, it makes you free. 49:23 Now let me tell you what the difference is. 49:24 All right. 49:25 People often that served their prison sentence 49:27 or their jail sentence or their time in county jail 49:29 they get set free 49:31 but unless they are made free by the change of their life, 49:34 by the change of their heart, 49:35 they'd become a victim of the recidivism raid. 49:38 They return back to the same place. 49:40 The pig goes back to wallowing in mire, 49:42 the dog goes back to its own vomit. 49:44 They go back because they were set free, 49:47 they were not made free. 49:48 And how they are made free? 49:50 By the renewing of their minds. 49:52 The Word of God enters in and brings light. 49:54 See "the entrance of God's word brings light" 49:58 as David the Psalmist says. 49:59 So when the truth of God's word 50:01 is not a part of your daily life 50:03 you don't have any guide there. 50:05 You walk in the darkness. 50:06 And so when you walk in the darkness, 50:08 you end up back to that place where darkness is. 50:10 So people that have lived in darkness, 50:12 that reject the truth of God's word, 50:15 really you can't say you are a disciple 50:18 if you don't abide in God's word 50:20 and if you don't treasure the truth. 50:21 And once you say, once you agree 50:23 that this transformation is the walk of sanctification 50:26 or going right through, 50:28 going right through the sanctuary message. 50:31 You know, you just give me three days, 50:33 three days without God's word and all of a sudden 50:37 songs that I haven't thought of in years-- 50:39 Had mercy on us, Honey. 50:41 See what I'm saying? You are right. 50:42 Because the mind has been transformed. 50:45 We become what we feed upon. 50:47 Yes. That's right. 50:48 If we are feeding upon those things 50:50 that produce unrighteous acts 50:53 you know we face it. 50:54 Let's face it. 50:56 The enemy has us under a spell he can use hypnosis, 50:59 he can use all these television programs 51:02 that are showing us how to do acts. 51:05 It's not uncommon to break the commandment 51:07 and think that that is right. 51:09 Yeah. You know. 51:10 Well, you think on TV to have us 51:12 and we'll praise God, God is working 51:14 on all of our hearts and all of our lives 51:15 but, you know, it's been indelibly 51:18 put upon our hearts and minds. 51:19 We cannot behold that which is of the world. 51:21 No, we become like the world. 51:23 They even rate and they will say "PG." 51:25 PG means parental guidance. 51:26 PG 13, I mean, 51:27 you get some horrible things going on 51:29 and we allow our kids, our self to sit 51:30 where they are using foul language 51:31 and you indulge in some things that should not be 51:34 and we are feeding on that we become like that. 51:36 But, you know, we always say the kids that I was looking, 51:37 I was trying to search for the correct words 51:40 without just making it real explicit 51:42 what I'm trying to point out. 51:44 But even if you are watching a program 51:46 you think well, this is all good, 51:47 I haven't heard anything. 51:49 Even if they say one or two curse words 51:51 all of the sudden something happened 51:53 you hit your finger with the hammer 51:54 and you think what you heard. 51:57 We become what we feed upon. 52:00 So if we are feeding upon God's word 52:02 we're gonna be transformed into His image. 52:05 And it just takes, 52:07 I know as a young person if you see one thing 52:10 that you are not supposed to see 52:12 when you are growing up, 52:13 it can still years later indelibly upon your mind. 52:16 One wrong act, one wrong word, 52:18 one thing you see, you can look at scripture 52:21 and try to memorize and memorize 52:22 and you have a difficult time. 52:23 People say, I just can't but you can remember vividly 52:26 that thing what you saw 52:27 that maybe you shouldn't have seen. 52:30 We need the spirit of the living God. 52:31 We are gonna take a small newsbreak 52:33 and come back with us, we will back in just a minute. |
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