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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW200017S
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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 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my word 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:35 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello, and a great big hearty welcome 01:11 to each and every one of you. 01:12 We're so glad you joined us 3ABN Family Worship. 01:15 We're excited today, I believe the Spirit of God, 01:18 we've been praying about it 01:19 would be with us and help us in this study. 01:21 And I really believe the spirit is going to be with us today. 01:23 Because, you know, spirit, 01:25 Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth. 01:26 Amen. 01:27 So we're going to be studying the Word of God. 01:29 And again, this is the fourth part. 01:30 I always said, you know, we're a little bit slow, 01:31 we're all slow. 01:33 But hey, we want to make sure we learn, 01:35 we're learning as we go. 01:36 You can cover a lot of territory. 01:38 I mean, you can just go through it, boom, boom, 01:40 but I always said, you know, as my brain slow like it is. 01:42 I need to take my time. All right. 01:44 Read the passages. 01:46 Let the Holy Spirit speak. 01:47 And then hopefully you got it. 01:49 And so, anyway, 01:50 that's kind of what we're doing here. 01:51 And the title is, "Are You Ready?" 01:53 And so, to me, that's just the big question. 01:56 Are you ready? Are you ready for what? 01:58 Well, we've been looking at the studies. 01:59 And again, we had five questions, 02:01 I believe when we started. 02:02 And we answered the first three, 02:05 took us a program for each question. 02:07 And now we're on number four. 02:08 And we're going to be talking about... 02:10 Well, let's go back and say number one, 02:11 we talked about today is the day of salvation. 02:13 Right. Yes. 02:14 That's very simple but yet it is, 02:16 some are going to make decisions today. 02:17 I believe it's going to be countless 02:18 that's going to make their decision 02:20 for Christ today. 02:21 We talked about preparation, 02:23 and we hear that all the time 02:24 but I can't hear it enough because it just reminds me, 02:26 I need to be prepared 02:28 as we see these things happening in the world today. 02:30 And then we talked about, being a beacon of truth. 02:34 Each one of us is a witness for Jesus Christ, 02:37 and we are to be that witness. 02:38 And, you know, I can remember that lesson, 02:40 we just got all excited about it, 02:41 we're gonna witness for Jesus, being a beacon, 02:43 let that light shine, you know. 02:45 So people don't run into as a, you know, like an ocean 02:48 when they're traveling about and sailing. 02:50 Right. 02:51 Thank God for the lighthouse. Amen. 02:53 And then we're gonna be talking about today. 02:55 To me without spot or wrinkle, 02:57 we're talking about righteousness by faith, really. 02:58 And we get down to this, it's our lesson today. 03:01 So anyway, we pray that you're ready, 03:02 pencil, paper, get everything all ready. 03:04 And we're just going to get right into this study. 03:05 And, of course, 03:07 we want to introduce those who are here. 03:08 And, you know, we can't thank people enough, 03:10 say thank you for coming. 03:12 Some of you might realize, maybe you don't, 03:14 it takes a lot of time and preparation, 03:16 which is all good 03:18 because we study the Word of God. 03:19 But it takes time out of people's busy schedules. 03:22 And that's okay, too. 03:23 But you have to make time when you're offered this. 03:26 And so, 03:27 but we're going to introduce the panel. 03:28 And Sweetie, 03:30 I'm going to introduce you first, 03:31 my lovely wife, Christine. 03:33 I'm glad you're here with me today. 03:34 And anytime I run into a real challenge, 03:37 I look over her and say, Christine... 03:41 And she can respond 03:43 and after she responds for five or ten minutes 03:44 and I say, hey, Christine. 03:46 So we get... 03:48 Praise God for He's got us together both now. 03:51 Why don't you have the privilege 03:52 of introducing our guests for today? 03:54 Oh, I would love too. Absolutely. 03:56 I'm gonna start over here with my precious sister-in-law, 03:58 Yvonne Shelton 04:00 and she is also my neighbor and friend 04:04 and I don't know you could just give, 04:06 we could write a book on everything that she is. 04:09 She's such a precious, precious person. 04:11 What you see on TV is really who she is. 04:15 And it's in front of the camera, 04:17 behind the camera, it is the same, 04:19 you just seek Jesus exuding from her heart. 04:23 And we appreciate her very much. 04:25 And right next to her is a miracle son, 04:27 our nephew, Jason Bradley. 04:30 I tell you what, sometimes I get jealous 04:32 because of Jason because I want to see, 04:34 I want to see what happened to Jason 04:36 happened in every one of my children. 04:38 I want to see what happened in Jason's heart 04:40 to have in my grandchildren's heart. 04:43 So we're so thankful 04:44 that the Lord has called you, Jason, 04:46 you're doing a mighty work for Him 04:48 and we just continue to see you grow. 04:51 Amen. 04:52 As and I can, I can kind of segue 04:54 seeing people grow over here to the Sons of Thunder. 05:00 The Day boys, Dakota and Ryan. 05:04 I call them evangelists. 05:05 I hope it's okay to say you guys came to Behold the Lamb 05:09 and we put on the bulletin evangelists, 05:12 because that's what they're doing, 05:13 whether it's on camera, in the church, 05:16 wherever they travel, 05:17 they are evangelists for the Lord Jesus Christ. 05:20 And I don't know if I said this on air before 05:23 but somebody had been watching the 3ABN worship services, 05:28 and they saw Pastor Kenny, then they saw Ryan come on, 05:31 they said, you two are the Sons of Thunder. 05:33 And then we came here 05:35 and I started hearing Dakota speaking again 05:38 and I said, well, they're the Sons of Thunder. 05:40 Then he got jealous. 05:44 We're one in the bus, man. 05:45 That's what I said before. 05:47 Is this time for say, Christine? 05:49 Is this time to say that? 05:50 Well, let me say, we're gonna edit, 05:53 we're gonna edit the Sons of Thunder. 05:54 We're gonna make it three, you know. 05:57 And if Danny was here, we would have to make it four. 05:59 Actually Jay's here, we may need to make it five. 06:01 I didn't say. 06:03 But really you guys... 06:04 She makes a lot of thunder sometimes too 06:05 'cause she loves Jesus. 06:07 All right. But you know what? 06:08 I do appreciate it, they brought me to tears 06:12 when they were at the church, because I just realized, 06:15 you know, we were talking before we came on air 06:17 how old we are, 06:19 even though you didn't know exactly how old we are. 06:24 But you know, 06:26 when I see what God is doing in all these young people, 06:30 I realized they're the ones 06:31 that are gonna wrap this world up. 06:33 Amen. Good. 06:34 God is calling men and women. 06:37 Thank you. 06:38 And I can see it happening 'cause there was a time, 06:40 Sister Yvonne, I thought, who's gonna carry this forward 06:44 because it just seemed like there wasn't any bright light. 06:48 And now I am experiencing bright lights 06:50 by the grace of God. 06:52 I see it, I feel it, and I believe it 06:55 and we need to keep praying one for another. 06:57 Amen. Amen. 06:58 Awesome. Thank you so much. 07:00 And may I add that today's a very special day 07:04 for you guys, today is your anniversary. 07:06 Yes. 07:11 Amen. 07:13 All of you who are watching 07:14 continue to pray for this wonderful couple... 07:16 Oh, thank you. Thank you. 07:17 That the Lord will continue to guide them. 07:19 Amen. Yeah. 07:21 I appreciate that. Yes. 07:22 And we'll say the same thing, we noticed people always say, 07:24 well, how long has it been? 07:25 And I just said, 07:27 no matter how many years I have with her in this life, 07:29 it's not enough. 07:31 Aw. It's not enough. 07:33 I'm writing that down, that's huge. 07:39 It works. 07:41 But that's the truthful. Absolutely. Thank you. 07:44 That's sweet of you. Amen. 07:45 Okay, honey, we're gonna do, 07:47 I think maybe we want to have a song 07:48 and then we'll have prayer. 07:49 Okay. 07:51 Okay, would be good time for that. 07:52 And, Brother Ryan, 07:54 we just have to turn it over to you because I love, 07:55 I love this song you've taught, you've taught us this song. 07:56 This song and I think I've told it a couple times 07:58 when we were at AFCO, 08:00 The Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism 08:01 back in 2013. 08:03 This seemed to be one of our theme songs 08:05 that we had a few picked out that we sang as a class 08:07 and it was just such a blessing. 08:08 I've never heard this before. 08:10 So I learned it then, I sing it often 08:12 and then when I brought it here, 08:13 some of you had never heard of it. 08:14 So, it's actually in the hymnal, 08:16 I forget which number it is now but it's entitled, 08:18 "O when shall I see Jesus." 08:20 And it's kind of got like a little bit 08:22 of a marching battle cry type, you know. 08:24 Yeah. 08:26 It's perfect 'cause we're in that battle, 08:28 battle's becoming more and more fierce, 08:30 so I just think this is a perfect theme song. 08:34 Are you ready? Amen. 08:35 And we're gonna do it a cappella. 08:36 And that's just fine. 08:38 So Miss Yvonne, get a key here. 08:41 O, when shall I see Jesus 08:44 And reign with Him above 08:47 And shall hear The trumpet sound 08:49 In that morning? 08:52 And from the flowing fountain Drink everlasting love 08:58 And shall hear The trumpet sound 09:00 In that morning 09:03 O, shout, glory! 09:05 For I shall mount Above the skies 09:08 When I hear The trumpet sound 09:11 In that morning 09:15 Gird On the gospel armor of faith 09:19 And hope and love 09:20 And you'll hear The trumpet sound 09:23 In that morning 09:25 And when the combat's ended 09:28 He'll carry you above 09:31 And you'll hear The trumpet sound 09:33 In that morning 09:36 O, shout, glory! 09:38 For I shall mount Above the skies 09:41 When I hear the trumpet sound 09:44 In that morning 09:47 Our ears shall hear With gladness 09:50 The host of heaven sing 09:53 And shall hear The trumpet sound 09:55 In that morning 09:58 Our tongues shall speak The glories 10:01 Of our immortal King 10:03 And shall hear The trumpet sound 10:06 In that morning 10:08 O, shout, glory! 10:11 For I shall mount Above the skies 10:14 When I hear the trumpet sound 10:16 In that morning. 10:19 Hallelujah. Glory. 10:21 Hallelujah. 10:22 Beautiful song. 10:23 I just don't tire of that song. 10:25 Oh, beautiful. 10:26 Oh, but we need to go on 10:28 and we need to go to the Lord in prayer. 10:29 Amen. That's good. 10:30 Because you know what, I want to hear 10:32 that trumpet sound. 10:33 I want to see, when shall I see Jesus 10:35 and that trumpet sounds 10:36 and the dead in Christ rise first, 10:38 we which alive remain 10:39 and be caught up to meet Him in the air. 10:41 Oh, what a glorious time. Yes. 10:43 That's one of the reason we're sitting around the table 10:45 studying the Word of God 10:46 because we want to be ready as our title is. 10:48 Are you ready? 10:50 Right. 10:51 Brother Dakota, how about you, 10:52 would you offer a prayer for us? 10:54 Absolutely. 10:55 Our Father in heaven, Lord, we want to thank You so much 10:57 this morning, Lord, for giving us Your Spirit. 10:59 And we ask that Your Spirit 11:01 will continue to lead and guide us 11:02 as we study Your Word. 11:03 Amen. 11:05 We thank You for Your Word, Lord, because of Your Word, 11:06 we can be ready. 11:08 Amen. 11:09 And You've given us so much truth in Your Word, 11:11 so much revelations 11:12 of Your majesty and Your character. 11:14 And today, Lord, as we study this, 11:16 and, as we, Lord, 11:19 really try to get a better revelation 11:21 of how ourselves should be ready, 11:23 that You would help also those viewers 11:25 that are watching to prepare their hearts 11:27 to be ready as well. 11:28 We thank You so much for loving us unconditionally. 11:30 And we ask You this in Jesus' holy precious name. 11:33 Amen. Amen. 11:35 Well, as we mentioned, 11:36 we'll be getting on question number four. 11:38 And I'm going to read that question 11:40 and then we can start in discussing and seeing 11:42 what the Bible has to say in the Spirit of Prophecy 11:44 on this subject. 11:45 So read the question, just simply number four. 11:47 How may we obtain a wedding garment 11:51 without spot or wrinkle or any such thing? 11:55 To me, that is quite a question number one, 11:59 do we need a wedding garment. 12:01 Number two, what is the wedding garment? 12:04 Can I make it to heaven without one on? 12:07 You know, love Jesus and just go? 12:09 Or is there something about having this garment 12:12 that is without spot or wrinkle? 12:14 Are we talking victory over sin? 12:16 Are we talking, you know, righteousness by faith? 12:18 Are we talking about all these subjects? 12:19 I think maybe we are combined together. 12:22 So who'd like to start with that? 12:24 Who'd like to start with question number four? 12:25 I'll jump in. Just jump. 12:27 Oh, I love it. Good. 12:29 Let me dive in. All right. 12:32 If you open your Bibles to Ephesians Chapter 5. 12:36 We'll start looking at verses 1 and 2. 12:41 First we have to, we have to walk in love. 12:43 So, 5:1 says, 12:47 "Therefore be imitators of God as dear children." 12:51 Verse 2, 12:52 "And walk in love as Christ also has loved us 12:55 and given Himself for us 12:57 an offering and a sacrifice to God 13:00 for a sweet smelling aroma." 13:03 Then we look at how to walk in light. 13:06 So, then we go down to verse 8. 13:09 "For you were once darkness, 13:12 but now you are light in the Lord, 13:15 walk as children of light." 13:17 And verse 9, "For the fruit of the Spirit 13:19 is an all goodness righteousness and truth. 13:23 Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 13:26 Then we walk in wisdom." 13:28 Verse 17, 13:30 "Therefore do not be unwise, 13:32 but understand what the will of the Lord is." 13:36 Now, where does wisdom come from? 13:39 You can turn to Proverbs 1:7. 13:44 Get over there 13:45 to Proverbs 1:7. 13:54 Wow, these chapters go by fast. 13:56 Yes. 13:58 Yes. 14:00 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge 14:03 but fools despise wisdom and instruction." 14:06 And then when you look at 2:6, it says, 14:10 "For the Lord gives wisdom 14:12 from His mouth come knowledge and understanding." 14:15 Yes. Amen. 14:16 So, when you think about Christ 14:19 and the bride as being the church, 14:22 Christ already went to prepare the way, 14:24 He's paid it all for us 14:27 and He's coming back to receive us, 14:30 a purified bride. 14:31 So, when you think about a wedding ceremony, 14:33 and you see, 14:35 you know, you have the husband 14:36 that walks down the aisle first. 14:39 And then the husband standing up there 14:40 waiting on his bride, 14:42 and she's coming and she's walking around 14:45 with all her splendor. 14:46 I don't know when I get married 14:48 I might not be able to wait at the front, 14:50 I might just have to say, all right, I do. 14:53 Come on, come on down. 14:55 Now, but you know, 14:57 He's waiting up there to receive us. 14:59 So really how do we obtain a wedding garment 15:03 without spot or wrinkle or any such thing? 15:06 We have to surrender holy, fully 100% to Christ, 15:11 and allow Him to work on us, in us and through us. 15:14 Then we will be able to obtain that 15:17 because it's only through Christ. 15:18 Perfect. Perfect. 15:20 Oh, man, that just, it opens it up. 15:22 Brother Ryan, I know you were getting ready to jump. 15:25 This is exciting, isn't it? Yeah, it is. 15:27 And that's a loaded question. Yes, it is. 15:29 You asked several questions there. 15:30 But one of those questions were, what is the garment? 15:32 Yeah. 15:34 We know this is talking about symbolism. 15:35 We know that a woman in Bible prophecy represents, 15:38 you know, God's church. 15:40 I love the parable that Jesus tells 15:42 about how Christ is the bridegroom, right? 15:44 And He's returning for His bride, 15:46 the church, right? 15:47 It's clear, very clear. 15:49 But what does that garment? 15:50 Isaiah 61:10. 15:53 I think it makes it very clear for us. 15:55 Isaiah 61:10. 15:58 Notice what the Bible says here. 16:00 It says, 16:01 "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. 16:03 My soul shall be joyful in my God. 16:07 For He has," notice this. 16:09 Who has? 16:10 He. He has. 16:12 What's that? What's our garments? 16:13 He. 16:15 What's our righteousness? Filthy rags. 16:17 So notice, we can't wear our own, 16:18 I'm trying to get ahead of myself. 16:20 I just want to emphasize, it says, 16:21 he has covered me with the robe of righteousness. 16:27 Notice that and then he confirms 16:29 and as a bride adorns herself with jewels, okay? 16:33 Excuse me, I missed that, 16:35 He has covered me with the robe of righteous 16:36 as a bride decks himself with ornaments 16:38 and as the bride adorns herself with jewels. 16:41 So, this is a robe of righteousness, 16:44 that this white garment is a robe of righteousness. 16:48 So, the white garments represent righteousness 16:50 and we know that it's not our righteousness, 16:52 it's His righteousness. 16:54 Amen. 16:55 You know, and righteousness comes by... 16:58 Faith. Faith. 17:00 And faith comes by hearing 17:02 and hearing by the word of God, right? 17:04 Absolutely. 17:06 In fact, I made some notes here. 17:07 You know, it's what we're talking 17:10 about here essentially is as we grow closer to God, 17:13 and I love what you brought up, brother, 17:15 about, you know, all the love and the wisdom 17:17 and we have to approach this as we grow closer to the Lord, 17:21 by beholding, as we've heard, we become changed. 17:23 That's right. 17:24 And we're going to talk a little bit more about this 17:26 in just a moment, 17:27 maybe in question five 17:28 if we get there, we'll just say. 17:30 All right. 17:31 But as we behold Christ as Moses... 17:33 Jesus said in John Chapter 3, 17:36 as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 17:39 so shall also the Son of Man be lifted up. 17:41 Amen. 17:42 What's saying, I bring this out, 17:43 I brought this out a few times in a few programs 17:45 and I like to emphasize it, 17:46 because Ellen White says 17:48 that in no other place in Scripture 17:51 is salvation made more clear than in the conversation 17:54 that Jesus had with Nicodemus in John Chapter 3. 17:56 That's right. That's true. 17:57 When you read that chapter, you know, 17:59 Jesus quickly makes it a spiritual thing. 18:00 Yes. 18:02 You know, Nicodemus 18:03 being the spiritual rabbi, the leader, 18:05 the teacher of Israel that he was, 18:07 he was a very literal thinker. 18:08 And so, when Jesus says you must be born again, 18:10 what was his response? 18:11 What? 18:12 I got to go get back in my mother's womb. 18:14 What are you talking about, brother? 18:15 Jesus is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, 18:17 it's a spiritual thing, right? 18:18 You know, look at the trees, 18:20 you know, you can't really see the wind, 18:22 but you can see the wind's effect 18:23 as it blows and you can feel it. 18:25 Well, the same thing kind of comes and goes, 18:27 the same thing with the Holy Spirit. 18:28 So how can we hurry the work of the Holy Spirit, right? 18:31 Because He says He clothed me 18:34 with the garments of righteousness. 18:36 So, it's not my work. 18:37 Well, Lord, if it's Your work and not my own, 18:40 then how can I make sure 18:41 You're doing that work in me, right? 18:43 The only thing in John Chapter 3, 18:46 that Jesus says, 18:47 as far as something, something we can do, right. 18:50 Yeah. 18:51 You know, we know 18:52 that we can't work ourselves to heaven, 18:54 and I want to make that very clear. 18:55 Salvation comes by grace alone, right? 18:58 And that's through faith. 18:59 But notice this, 19:01 there is something 19:02 that your salvation is conditional. 19:04 There's something we must do and that surrender, right? 19:05 Yes. 19:07 And so, what does that surrendering aspect 19:08 that Jesus applies in John 3? 19:11 The only scripture you read, 19:13 many people read John Chapter 3, 19:14 and they remember verse 16. 19:15 That's the famous verse. 19:17 But many people don't realize verse 14, 19:20 which is just a couple of verses above, 19:21 and He says, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 19:24 so shall also the Son of Man be lifted up. 19:27 And you read that it's like, wait a second, 19:28 go back to Numbers 21 and read that story. 19:31 All these serpents are going in and out the camp 19:33 and they're biting the children of Israel, 19:35 and they turn to Moses 19:37 and they're crying and they're weeping 19:38 because their loved ones are dying, 19:39 left and right. 19:41 And so, God tells Moses, look, take a bronze serpent, 19:42 put it up on a pole, 19:43 and tell the people that if they look at it, 19:45 just look upon it, they shall be saved. 19:48 You know, that's ironic enough that serpent represents Christ 19:52 taking the sin of the world, 19:54 just as Jesus Christ was lifted up on a cross. 19:56 He took the sin of the world, 19:58 He took my sin that I didn't deserve, 20:00 I didn't deserve that. 20:01 But He took it upon Himself 20:03 and when I looked Christ 20:05 who paid the penalty that I deserve, 20:07 and I behold Him each and every day 20:09 in His righteousness. 20:11 By beholding, you become changed. 20:13 Come on. Is there faith issue? 20:15 Connect the dots, brother, connect the dots. 20:18 That's it, that's it. 20:20 And ours by faith. 20:21 Their job was what? By faith. 20:23 By faith, righteousness by faith. 20:24 There is life in a look at the Savior. 20:28 Amen. Amen. 20:29 That's it. 20:30 Come on. Come on. 20:32 I'm gonna be quiet. Let some of us go. 20:34 That's rich, that's rich. 20:36 I just quickly, I kind of questioned, 20:38 this is me, Nicodemus. 20:40 I think he knew better when he said I must be, 20:43 I had to go back to my mother's womb? 20:45 He was questioning. 20:46 He was questioning but he was, he was wiggling, 20:48 he looked wiggling. 20:49 People do that today when you put them on the spot, 20:51 you're saved by Christ, you need to do some. 20:53 They begin to wiggle around a little bit. 20:54 Good. 20:56 I can't possibly imagine a man of his stature 20:58 and you know what he's accomplished, 21:00 you know, his study and his position 21:02 that he would say, well, 21:04 I guess I gotta be reborn again in mama. 21:07 I'm just throwing that out 21:09 because sometimes people use that 21:10 as excuses. 21:11 Go ahead. Somebody wants to say anything. 21:13 Go ahead. 21:14 Well, I looked at it a little differently. 21:15 Everybody has, you know, different studies, 21:17 I went to Matthew 22, 21:18 where it talks about the wedding garment 21:20 and the wedding. 21:21 Yes. 21:22 And the wedding, and then I looked a little bit 21:24 last night at what Spirit of Prophecy 21:25 has to say about, it's very interesting, 21:27 because, you know, 21:28 Matthew says 21:30 that there was a certain servant, 21:31 he called the people, 21:33 he begged them to come to the wedding, 21:34 but many would not come. 21:36 You see, and this whole wedding ceremony, 21:39 it's a, it shows, especially this garment, 21:42 it shows a connection between divinity and humanity. 21:47 And when that call was given, 21:49 you know, when Christ was here, 21:50 that call was given first to the Jewish nation, 21:53 to the children of Israel, they rejected the call. 21:56 And so, just like in the story of Matthew 22, he says, 21:59 go to the highways and byways and beg them to come in. 22:03 So, what are we told to do? 22:04 We're to do like, like the, the apostles did, 22:07 we're to go to the Gentiles, 22:09 and we're to call people to come in. 22:11 Yes. 22:13 And there's just so many wonderful illustrations. 22:16 But you know, 22:18 one thing that's so important is, 22:20 as this humanity and divinity is coming together, 22:23 we realized that there was somebody 22:24 that came to the wedding. 22:26 And the person over the wedding said, 22:28 how did you get in here? 22:31 Because he didn't have the garment on. 22:32 He came in with his own garment. 22:34 He came with his own garment. 22:36 And he was thrown out into utter darkness. 22:39 That's right. Yes. 22:41 And so, that tells us 22:42 if we don't have the right garment on... 22:45 There you go. 22:46 The garment of Christ, we will not have salvation. 22:49 There you go. 22:51 So I know we need to talk about how to get this garment 22:53 which you guys have been bringing out 22:55 so eloquently here, 22:56 but we have to submit and commit and accept, 23:02 it's a free gift, it's a free gift. 23:05 And we cannot get to that wedding 23:06 without any other garment on. 23:09 That's right. 23:10 And it's interesting because we live in a world 23:12 full of spiritual confusion. 23:15 And a lot of people think and believe 23:17 that they're Christians, 23:18 and yet in some of the parables that Christ told, 23:20 He said, depart from me, for I never knew you. 23:23 So, He doesn't recognize them. 23:25 So, we have to base our faith, just like Christ did. 23:30 It is written upon the Word of God. 23:32 And that's how we begin to obtain this 23:34 as we're seeking God's face 23:36 as we're seeking to ask Him to come in 23:39 and to take this mind, 23:40 to take our hearts, our stony hearts. 23:43 Give us a heart of flesh. 23:44 May this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus. 23:47 We need the mind of Christ as never before. 23:50 You know, I was thinking as we're looking at this 23:53 and we mentioned this in part three, are you ready? 23:58 Look at the times we're living in this world. 24:00 When we started this back in January, 24:03 none of these things, 24:05 there was no talk of COVID. 24:07 There was no talk of rioting. 24:09 There was no talk of anarchy. 24:12 How quickly we are seeing 24:14 our rights 24:20 as human beings been taken away. 24:23 True. 24:24 How quickly we're seeing the world change. 24:25 Yes. 24:27 How quickly we are seeing such a divide. 24:30 You can watch these people and you can see, 24:33 you can just discern 24:34 that the enemy's taken over the mind. 24:37 They have no consciousness, 24:39 they have no respect of person. 24:41 That's right. 24:42 It doesn't matter in some of these places, 24:44 woman, color, anything, people have been harmed. 24:48 That's right. Yeah. 24:49 And then they're giving it for a right reason. 24:52 Is there ever a good reason to kill someone, 24:55 to throw a brick at someone? 24:57 You know, to terrorize businesses. 25:00 Are we ready? 25:01 Our world is rapidly changing, 25:03 just like we were told 25:04 in Spirit of Prophecy and in the Bible, 25:06 things are happening very quickly. 25:08 And so, if we don't have this garment on, 25:10 we need to be studying and we need to be searching. 25:13 And we need to be putting it on by the grace of God, 25:16 asking Him to put it on quickly 25:19 because we need to be strengthened and fortified 25:22 in order to be able to stand in peace as Christ did. 25:25 Sister Yvonne, you've been pretty quiet 25:27 for a while, just to say. 25:28 There's a lot of bad stuff, well you know. 25:30 I know. 25:31 Because of... 25:33 I mean, you're talking about a robe of righteousness 25:35 that we have to have 25:36 in order to make heaven our home. 25:38 That's right. 25:39 And how do we get that? Yeah. 25:41 The first thing is we have to pray 25:43 for the latter rain. 25:44 Okay. 25:45 We have to ask for the latter rain. 25:49 And Job 25:52 2:23. 25:58 It says, "Be glad then you children of Zion 26:00 and rejoice in the Lord your God, 26:03 for He has given you the former rain faithfully 26:05 and He will cause the rain to come down for you, 26:08 the former rain 26:09 and the latter rain in the first month. 26:11 Amen. 26:12 And this is, you know, 26:14 it's referring to a refreshing 26:17 that we need from the Holy Spirit. 26:20 So, we have three R's that we need to look at. 26:24 Repentance, revival and reformation. 26:28 So, repentance, godly repentance, it says. 26:32 Well, let's, well godly sorrow produces repentance. 26:35 2 Corinthians 7:10 says, 26:39 "For godly sorrow produces repentance 26:42 leading to salvation, 26:44 not to be regretted, 26:45 but the sorrow of the world produces death. 26:48 So, we need godly sorrow, 26:50 we need for God to call us into repentance. 26:54 And then once we have that, 26:56 once we're in that state of repentance, 26:59 and asking God to forgive us of our sins 27:01 to cleanse us of all unrighteousness, 27:03 then we can have revival. 27:04 Amen. 27:06 That revival and it says, 27:07 Ellen White says in Latter Day Events, 27:11 page 189, excuse me, it says, 27:16 "We must pray 27:17 for the latter rain of the Holy Spirit, 27:19 so that we can have a revival of true godliness. 27:22 A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest 27:26 and most urgent of our needs, of all of our needs. 27:29 Yes. 27:31 To seek this should be our first work. 27:32 There must be earnest effort 27:34 to obtain the blessing of the Lord. 27:36 Not because God's not willing to bestow it upon us, 27:39 but because we are unprepared to receive it. 27:43 Are you ready? 27:44 Are you ready to receive the latter rain? 27:46 That's right. 27:47 Because if we're not, then, you know, 27:51 we will be caught up in the great delusion 27:54 and the great deception if we are not ready. 27:57 In fact, you heard people where you travel, 28:00 they're talking about 28:02 praying for the latter rain experience. 28:03 We've heard a lot of people kind of go, 28:05 we need to pray for the latter rain, 28:06 we need to pray... 28:08 I mean, that, that entails something, 28:10 when you say I'm praying for the latter rain, 28:12 there are conditions, right, 28:13 again to receiving the latter rain, 28:15 which we're talking about here. 28:17 Yes. 28:18 The latter rain cannot be put, right? 28:20 We cannot receive the latter rain until what? 28:22 Till we are covered with His robe of righteous, 28:24 until what? 28:25 Every sin is confessed up and forsaken. 28:28 So, we have to be in the sinless state 28:30 by the grace of God, His righteousness included, 28:33 give it, or you cannot receive the latter rain. 28:36 That's the hard word right there, brother. 28:38 You do not receive the latter rain, 28:39 isn't that right what you hear. 28:41 You will not be able to go 28:42 through the great time of trouble. 28:44 You'll not be part of the 144 28:45 nor will you be part in the kingdom of God. 28:48 I mean, that's pretty heavy duty, 28:49 there's lot of information, but let's just put it out there 28:51 and agitate somebody. 28:52 That's right. 28:55 Agitated to get back in the world. 28:56 That's right. 28:57 That's right. Yes. 28:59 I think people are praying for this. 29:00 And they mean well, 29:02 just like the man I talked to on the phone last night, 29:04 just quickly and then everybody just, 29:06 I would just, I want us righteous, 29:10 and they almost frustrated. 29:11 But I don't want, didn't want to be, 29:14 but because they were so confused 29:17 of what's going on in the world 29:18 and how all eyes are turned back to Israel. 29:23 You know, the red heifer, you know, all this stuff. 29:26 The temple has been already rebuilt 29:28 in secret. 29:29 Sacrifices are being instituted again, 29:31 and all this right here. 29:32 You couldn't get a word in edgewise, 29:34 and I thought bless their heart. 29:35 Oh, how confused. 29:37 You mentioned a while ago, our eyes must be, where? 29:39 On Jesus. 29:40 Behold the Lamb of God. Yes. 29:42 Have you ever tried to reason with a drunk person? 29:44 No, you can't. 29:45 Well, at least I couldn't, I've never. 29:47 Yeah. Yeah. 29:48 And you said something interesting earlier. 29:49 You said every sin. 29:51 I did. He said every sin. 29:54 That's what he said. Tell about it, brother. 29:56 Talk about it. 29:57 Let's, yeah, let's look at it for a moment because I mean, 29:59 you know, Yvonne said something that's really beautiful 30:01 when she talked about the three R's. 30:02 You know, you said repentance, revival and reformation. 30:05 Well, the first one is the, really the first work 30:08 we should really be trying to do 30:09 is to repent the change, right? 30:11 To change from our wickedness, to change our ways. 30:14 And the Bible teaches us that we cannot change 30:16 in and of ourselves and of our own strength. 30:19 And it says in Acts 5:31, 30:22 "Him hath God exalted with his right hand, 30:24 speaking of Jesus, to be a prince and a savior, 30:27 for to give repentance to Israel." 30:30 Amen. Amen. 30:31 So, you have to understand 30:33 that repentance is not something that we do 30:34 in and of our own strength 30:36 but repentance is the gift of God. 30:38 And that's something we need to pray for, 30:40 that God would change our hearts, 30:41 change our minds. 30:42 Yes. 30:44 And then when their hearts and minds are changed, 30:45 we will have that state of mind like Jesus had 30:47 the faith of Jesus, 30:49 that victorious faith over sin in our lives. 30:52 And on the subject, you know, I have quite a bit to say, 30:55 but I'm gonna try make it quick. 30:56 So how do we obtain the wedding garment? 31:00 That's what we're looking at, 31:01 which is the robe of Christ's righteousness. 31:03 How do we get that? 31:05 Well, the wedding garment comes at a cost. 31:07 Absolutely. 31:08 It comes at a cost, guys. 31:09 Let's look at the Word of God. 31:11 Let's check it out. 31:12 Revelation Chapter 3, 31:14 we're looking at the council to the Laodiceans, right? 31:16 The last church age. Okay. 31:18 Verse 18. Revelation 3:18. 31:20 He says, "I counsel thee to buy of me 31:22 gold tried in the fire," 31:24 Now we know that gold represents faith, 31:25 right? 31:27 We've studied that in the past. 31:28 But notice, 31:29 he's not just asking you to buy gold. 31:31 Notice it goes on, he goes, "And white raiment." 31:37 Most people forget about that. 31:38 Is that you have to buy the white raiment too, 31:41 you don't just buy the gold, you buy the white raiment. 31:44 Now, this isn't talking about a purchase. 31:47 It's an exchange... 31:48 Thank you. 31:50 Our sins for Christ's righteousness. 31:52 Yeah. He says, I tell you what? 31:54 I got the bargain of a lifetime. 31:55 You give me all your dirty sins 31:57 and I'll give you My righteousness, My life. 32:00 But it comes at a cost. 32:01 Again, we cannot attain Christ's righteousness 32:03 without surrendering all to Him. 32:04 Good. 32:06 And so, this brings me to like, well, how do we do that? 32:09 How do we come to the point 32:10 to where we can surrender all to Jesus 32:12 and to overcome all sins in our life? 32:14 With mercy. 32:15 Is it possible? Absolutely. 32:17 Or Jesus would not have told the woman caught in adultery, 32:19 go and sin no more. 32:21 He would have said, My child, 32:22 you're going to sin from time to time. 32:24 He didn't say that to the woman. 32:25 He said, "Go and sin no more," 32:28 which means we can by God's power only 32:31 have the victory over sin. 32:32 That's right. And so, how do we do that? 32:34 Well, I think 32:35 a beautiful illustration of this 32:37 is in Matthew Chapter 14. 32:39 You have Peter walking on the water with Jesus, right? 32:43 So, Jesus is out walking on the water. 32:45 The disciples in them, they're in the boat. 32:46 Yeah. 32:48 And they see who they thought was some kind of ghost, right? 32:49 And then Jesus says, "It is I, be not afraid." 32:51 We know the story. Then what happens? 32:55 Peter, I love Peter because he's an opportunist. 32:57 He's always looking for an opportunity. 32:59 Now sometimes for the wrong reasons. 33:01 Maybe to have notoriety or to shine. 33:03 But Peter was also looking for an opportunity 33:05 how he might be closer to Jesus. 33:07 He really wanted to be that number one guy 33:10 that Jesus always went to for everything. 33:11 Yeah. 33:13 And so, what did he do? 33:14 He's like, Jesus, if it's You, command to that 33:17 I might come out on the water with you. 33:19 In other words, 33:20 he's looking at Jesus and he's saying, 33:23 my Lord can walk on water. 33:26 If my Lord can do it, I wonder if I can too. 33:30 So, what does he say? 33:31 Lord, if it's You, let me do what You do. 33:36 Oh, come on, somebody. Oh. 33:37 That's good. And so, check this out. 33:39 So, righteousness by what? 33:41 Faith. Faith. 33:43 Now, what does Peter have to do? 33:44 He has to have faith and step out of the boat. 33:47 He has to have faith in the Word of God. 33:50 Notice in the what? 33:51 In the Word. In the Word. 33:53 So, he says command that I come out to you as well. 33:54 What does Jesus say? 33:56 Come. Come. 33:58 One word. Come. 33:59 And then now Peter puts his faith 34:02 in the Word of God, 34:05 that God's Word would allow him to do what he could not do 34:08 in and of his own self. 34:09 Come on now, brother. 34:11 So, now he steps out by faith out of the boat 34:13 and by faith he overcomes the law. 34:16 Praise God. Amen. 34:18 It's what? The law. 34:20 Check this out, the law of gravity. 34:22 That's right. That's right. 34:25 So, yes. Wow, that's powerful. 34:27 I gotta say this because you just said that he, 34:32 you know, that thought probably came to his mind, 34:34 if Jesus can do, I wonder if I can do. 34:36 That's right. Amen. 34:37 But right there in reality 34:40 every person that has ever lived 34:41 would have said in that very moment, 34:43 you can't do that. 34:44 That's right. That's right. 34:45 Only He can. Yeah. 34:47 In other words, it's possible with God, 34:48 but it's impossible with men. 34:50 How many times, man, I'm gonna get fired up here. 34:52 How many times have you heard somebody say, 34:56 we're going to be sinning until Jesus comes 34:57 because of our horrible nature. 34:59 Right. But check this out too. 35:00 Check this out too. 35:01 I'm just gonna say this point so I won't forget it 35:03 and it was so fitting I thought. 35:04 So how did Peter, 35:06 how was he able to walk on water? 35:09 He had to keep looking to who? 35:11 To Jesus. To Jesus. 35:12 And this is where I think so many people fail. 35:15 And why they have that mindset you're talking about, 35:16 Ryan that they say, 35:18 well, you can't do it, it's impossible. 35:20 It's because sometime along our walk, 35:22 we take our eyes off Jesus. 35:23 There we go. We fall. 35:24 And they think, oh, this is impossible. 35:26 But as long as Peter's eyes was on Jesus, 35:28 he did the impossible. 35:29 It's when the Bible says that he saw the wind. 35:33 If he saw the wind... 35:35 It was a quick, it was, right. 35:36 That means his eyes was not on Jesus 35:38 and he begin to sink. 35:39 That's good. 35:40 No, no, no, I was just making the point 35:42 the fact that it seems like more and more people today 35:44 have more faith in the power of the devil 35:48 to cause them to sin 35:50 than they do in the power of God 35:52 to give them victory over. 35:53 That's right. Amen. 35:55 And we're talking about a wedding garment. 35:56 This brother that came into the wedding, 35:57 he came in with his own garment. 36:00 And you can imagine God showing up say, 36:01 wait a second. 36:03 How did you get in here? 36:04 You know, what are you wearing that, you know? 36:06 And so, that's why he was cast out. 36:08 And that's, I think that's a spiritual visual 36:11 that we have to allow God to change us. 36:13 Now, you said something sister earlier. 36:15 Whoo. It sparked something. 36:16 Well... 36:18 You said a few things that sparked something. 36:20 That's good. 36:21 I'm over here like my bells going off over here. 36:23 I had so many things I want to say. 36:25 But no, seriously, you said you were talking about revival. 36:28 There must be, one of the three R's, 36:29 there must be revival, repentance. 36:32 What was the other? 36:33 Repent, revival and reformation. 36:34 That's right. 36:36 I found a quote. 36:37 Now this is powerful here, 36:38 talking about persecution. 36:41 And this comes from Great Controversy, 36:43 page 48. 36:44 Okay. 36:45 And it's connected to the concept of revival. 36:48 Notice what she says here. 36:50 Great Controversy, page 48. 36:52 She said, "Why is it then 36:54 that persecution 36:56 seems in a great decree to slumber? 37:01 The only reason is that, notice, 37:03 she doesn't say the world. 37:04 Right. 37:06 She says the church has conformed 37:08 to the world standards, 37:10 and therefore awakens no opposition. 37:12 That's right. There you go. 37:13 The religion which is current in our day. 37:16 Now notice, she's writing this over 100 years ago. 37:20 She's in the religion that is current in our day 37:22 is not of the pure and holy character 37:25 that marked the Christian faith 37:26 in the days of Christ and His apostles. 37:28 So, what's fascinating about this 37:30 is Ellen White lived 37:31 during the time of Philadelphia, 37:33 which is one of the churches 37:34 that Christ had no condemnation for. 37:36 And if she saw that the faith of the people in her day 37:39 of the church, 37:41 that it wasn't where it needed to be. 37:42 What does that say about us, you are Laodicean, right? 37:44 Yes. Wow. 37:46 And she goes on to say, 37:47 it is only because of the spirit 37:49 of compromise with sin 37:51 because the great truths of the Word of God 37:53 are so indifferently regarded, 37:56 because there is so little vital godliness 37:58 in the church. 38:00 Yes. 38:01 That Christianity is apparently so popular with the world. 38:04 And then she gives this, here comes the revival. 38:07 She says, "Let there be a revival of," 38:10 and notice this, "the faith." 38:12 Oh, okay. The faith. 38:13 She goes, "Let there be a revival of the faith 38:17 and power of the early church 38:19 and the spirit of persecution will be revived, 38:22 and the fires of persecution will be rekindled." 38:25 Yes. 38:26 So, it's not that she's sending out some, 38:28 you know, horrible message here like, you know, 38:30 we should just look forward to persecution. 38:31 I don't think 38:33 anybody looks forward to persecution. 38:34 But we also forget that in the Sermon on the Mount, 38:36 Jesus very first recorded sermon, 38:38 this is powerful, 38:39 the Beatitudes. 38:40 I'm going to get into this 38:42 a little probably on the next program 38:43 that we have on the different levels 38:46 of Christian character development. 38:48 The Beatitudes is all that. 38:49 A lot of times people read the Beatitudes and they think, 38:51 it's like, oh, blessed is this kind of person 38:53 and blessed is this kind of person 38:54 and, whoo, this kind of person is blessed too, 38:56 but if you read those, 38:57 what Christ is showing through those Beatitudes 38:59 is a person that's going 39:01 from one level of Christian character development 39:02 to the next. 39:04 You get sanctification. 39:05 Sanctification, now you get to, right. 39:07 In fact, that goes along with our fifth question, 39:08 which I know we're going to get to our fifth question, 39:11 which he was talking about, 39:12 how is Christ conform with him. 39:14 We're going to talk about that. 39:15 But I just got to make this point, 39:16 then I'm going to pass it on to you guys. 39:18 The very last beatitude in that particular list 39:21 is blessed are those 39:22 that are persecuted for righteousness. 39:25 Yes. Yeah, yeah. 39:28 Persecuted for righteousness sake. 39:30 And this is the question Ellen White's raising here. 39:33 Why is there no persecution? 39:34 Because if you're following that level 39:36 of Christian character development, 39:37 at some point, the devil is going to say, 39:39 I can't have this person stirring the pot. 39:42 I can't have this beacon of light 39:44 going out into my realm of darkness, 39:46 shining the bright, 39:47 shining light of Jesus into the hearts of, 39:50 blackened hearts of these people 39:51 that have fallen in the world. 39:52 So, then he brings about persecution, 39:55 and she says 39:56 what's going to bring about persecution 39:58 is a revival of, 39:59 and notice she says the thing, which thing? 40:03 Third angel's message. 40:04 The one delivered to the saints. 40:06 Right, in Jude and the three angels' messages. 40:07 The third angel's message, 40:09 she was the patience of the saints, 40:10 or they did keep the commandments of God 40:12 and not just fade in Jesus, not like a directional sense. 40:16 Like, like Jesus, you're on the playing field 40:18 and I'm the fan on the sideline, 40:20 you know, over here like, you know, go Jesus, go Jesus. 40:22 Jesus says, I want, I've given you the power. 40:25 I died on that cross 40:26 so that you can have the power that I had. 40:29 That's right. 40:30 And so, the faith of Jesus. 40:33 Yes. 40:34 Which is true godly. 40:36 And righteousness comes by... 40:37 Faith. I just want to say this. 40:38 Come on. 40:40 We're on the topic of righteousness by faith. 40:41 That's true. And that's powerful. 40:43 You know, to think about 40:44 that's Christ's righteousness in our lives by faith. 40:48 And I was thinking about this is that there's a, 40:51 there's a statement 40:52 that a lot of people tend to think is that 40:54 when Jesus came into the world, 40:55 He came to show us what God could do. 40:57 Yes. 40:59 But Jesus did not come into the world 41:00 as God in the sense of His, all of His attributes, right? 41:04 He lay aside all of those attributes 41:07 and the Son of God, 41:08 get this, became the Son of Man, 41:10 so and so. 41:11 Jesus did not come into the world 41:13 to show us what God could do. 41:15 That's right. 41:16 But He came into the world to show us 41:18 what a man can do through God. 41:19 Oh, wow, powerful. 41:21 Powerful. That's powerful. 41:22 Powerful. 41:24 Well, I think we'll end it right there. 41:27 It's very, everybody is weeping. 41:28 Praise the Lord. 41:30 But you know a lot of 41:31 what you guys are talking about 41:33 goes back to the first war which came, which began where? 41:35 In heaven. In heaven. 41:36 That's right. 41:38 You know, Lucifer was an archangel 41:39 over the law of God and he began, 41:42 he didn't go to the other angels 41:44 and, you know, as a demon per Se, 41:47 he went to them and started reasoning with them 41:50 with spiritual things 41:51 that we no longer we can we can be good... 41:55 Yeah, yeah. 41:56 We can be good without the law. 41:58 I can do that, 42:00 if Christ did that, I can walk on water. 42:03 You see, I can be good without Christ, 42:05 without God's strength, 42:07 His grace, His power to overcome. 42:10 You know, it just takes us, just a split second. 42:14 And you mentioned also 42:15 that it doesn't come without a cost. 42:17 We're told very clearly, 42:19 you know, we came into this world with nothing. 42:22 And we're gonna go 42:23 through these last days with nothing. 42:25 We're gonna leave this world with nothing except prayerfully 42:28 that robe of righteousness by Christ. 42:30 But I find it interesting 42:32 how all of this is just a perpetuation 42:35 of the enemy's first lies. 42:36 That's right. 42:37 You know, coming in and righteous by faith, 42:39 you know, years ago, 42:41 we all know that Wagner and Jones, 42:45 they presented this and it was rejected. 42:49 And I wonder why would it be rejected? 42:50 Because to me 42:52 when I first heard about righteousness by faith, 42:54 I'm like how beautiful 42:56 because I know I cannot do that. 42:59 I cannot control my thoughts. 43:01 Sister Yvonne, I cannot control my dreams. 43:05 I cannot always control what comes out of my mouth, 43:07 how quickly it comes out of my mouth, you know. 43:11 But by the grace of God, through His strength, 43:14 by submitting and committing my heart 43:17 and my mind, daily, 43:20 brother, preached on the daily, 43:22 morning and evening sacrifice, daily. 43:26 You know, daily to God then He imparts to me 43:30 His strength every gift 43:32 that we have talked about repentance, 43:34 revival, reformation. 43:36 They're all gifts of the Holy Spirit. 43:38 They have nothing to do with us. 43:40 It's just that humanity coming in... 43:43 Christ within. 43:44 Yes, Christ within coming and combining with divinity. 43:47 Divinity, 43:49 it's allowing divinity to take over. 43:51 Yes. 43:53 So, when you say like, you alluded to it 43:57 and set it pretty clear, 43:58 at least to me is if the churches are asleep. 44:01 That's us. Yes. 44:03 And the devil gets asleep as it were, right? 44:06 He gets to rest. 44:07 If we're asleep, 44:09 once we wake up, it wakes him up. 44:11 Right. And then what? 44:12 Then you present the truth and the persecution will come. 44:16 And so, you look today, have we done our job? 44:19 Let's not try to blame this group or that group 44:21 but look at yourself, 44:22 you know, have we done what God has asked us to do 44:24 in giving the message the way He said to give it? 44:27 If we have, and if we are, 44:31 we will be persecuted and no one wants that, 44:34 but it will awaken the enemy to say, oh, my. 44:36 Go ahead, yeah. No. 44:38 And what Jesus said 44:39 what you just said, Brother Kenny, 44:41 reminds me of what Jesus said, how will persecution come? 44:43 He says, "All that live godly in Christ 44:47 shall suffer persecution." 44:48 Amen. 44:49 So, when we live the life of Christ, 44:51 persecution will come. 44:53 But the reason why persecution hasn't come 44:54 is because many of us aren't living 44:56 the life of Christ. 44:57 That's right. And that's good news. 44:59 Yeah. Yeah. 45:00 A lot of people gonna look at that and go, oh, 45:01 you know, I don't want to be persecuted. 45:03 Nobody in their humanity wants to be persecuted. 45:05 But that's some good news. 45:07 That means that the devil has turned to you and said, 45:09 you know, you're worthy of his persecution, 45:13 then you must be doing something right. 45:16 It's gonna take things just like that for the world 45:20 to get the world's attention that we even exist, 45:23 as you can go a block from your church nowadays, 45:25 and they didn't know, still don't know 45:27 that there's a Seventh-day Adventist 45:28 located around there. 45:30 So, when persecution comes, or they begin to talk, 45:33 like now we see these protests and the riots and the loot, 45:36 all this stuff here, 45:37 it's bringing attention to something 45:39 whether it be right or wrong, you see. 45:41 And so, when we do what we're supposed to do, 45:43 and say and act and live like we're supposed to, 45:46 it's going to bring attention, 45:48 the world's going to see things, 45:49 are going to hear things 45:51 that they never seen or heard before. 45:53 And it's going to take that rather than make excuses 45:55 why we shouldn't do 45:56 what God has already commissioned us to do. 45:59 We should never apologize for truth, 46:01 we should always stand for truth. 46:02 Amen. 46:03 And surely, I won't say surely to Pete. 46:06 Surely to Pete there won't be somebody 46:07 in a high position 46:08 that will take the truth and say, 46:10 well, this is not, you know, it's hard to chew. 46:12 And so, don't present it. 46:14 We should praise God, 46:17 somebody said the truth who understands our message 46:19 and why we are here. 46:20 If we're not going to do what God asked us to do, 46:23 I just encourage you, oh, boy, go find something else to do. 46:26 It's okay to say that. 46:28 What does Pastor Lomacang's on? 46:29 Yeah, Pastor Lomacang always says 46:31 you need to go sell watermelons. 46:34 Always say get a real job. 46:36 Minister's not going to do what he's supposed to do 46:38 and evangelize and pastoring a church 46:40 and saying what needs to be as preparation getting ready, 46:43 things that you were talking about here. 46:44 Then seriously, Lord, have mercy, 46:47 find another job 46:49 because you're not doing the job 46:50 that God has asked you to do. 46:52 You know, Brother Kenny, one thing that amazes me, 46:54 you know, as an evangelist, I travel all over our country 46:57 and I get to visit many different churches, 46:59 many different beautiful churches, 47:00 a lot of beautiful people. 47:02 But there's always those that group of people 47:04 on almost every church 47:06 that doesn't believe in the true gospel. 47:09 And they seem so like, 47:11 overwhelmed when they hear me preach 47:12 the true gospel from the pulpit. 47:14 I'm up there preaching about, you know, 47:15 all throughout my evangelistic meetings, 47:17 and they'll hear me talk about victory over sin 47:18 that we can't overcome. 47:20 And they come in, they're like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. 47:23 And they're like, they present this gospel 47:25 that Jesus saves us in our sins. 47:27 Right. 47:28 And that's, that's the one thing 47:30 about our church that I love 47:31 is that our church 47:33 has the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. 47:34 Amen. 47:35 Apart from all of the other denominations, 47:37 the one thing 47:38 that a lot of the other denominations teaches 47:40 that God saves us in our sins. 47:42 Our church doesn't teach that. No. 47:43 It teaches that no, God saves us from our sins 47:46 that we can by God's grace change as Jason, 47:50 victory over that former lifestyle. 47:51 Yeah. Right? 47:53 Amen. Yeah. 47:54 Yeah. It's powerful. 47:55 Victory in Jesus. 47:57 You know, I think that, 47:58 you know, one reason why like you said, 47:59 Brother Ryan, about the us 48:01 not being persecuted as Christians 48:02 is because we have definitely compromised, 48:06 but we also don't understand love. 48:07 That's right. 48:09 Because, you know, 48:10 love doesn't condone bad behavior, 48:13 it teaches that you can overcome 48:15 that bad behavior, it teaches victory. 48:18 Love also doesn't stay silent on issues of oppression. 48:22 Love doesn't stay silent on issues of sin, 48:26 love doesn't stay silent. 48:27 I think about Jesus when He was walking around, 48:30 He stood up for the tax collector, 48:31 He stood up for the harlot, He stood up for the leper, 48:35 He stood up for all of these people. 48:37 And so, when we see things, we have to say something, 48:41 you know, we have to be about our Father's business 48:44 and we do it in a way that is His love. 48:47 You know, I think about the protests 48:50 and all the stuff that's going on in our world. 48:53 And I think that, you know, 48:55 a lot of times we can lose sight of certain, 49:00 certain things and what I mean by that is 49:02 the protests are existing 49:05 because of issues in society of racial oppression. 49:09 That's right. 49:10 And so, sometimes we end up focusing 49:14 on the rioting or the looting part, 49:17 but we don't focus on the racial oppression point. 49:20 And so that is where our focus, the rioting, the looting, 49:24 that's bad, that's not to be condoned, 49:26 that's not acceptable by any means. 49:29 But we need to focus on bringing the human race 49:32 together as one, focus on the issue. 49:36 There was, you know, there's, I mean, 49:38 so many different things where we get sidetracked like, 49:41 what about this? 49:42 What about this? 49:43 You know, what about this? 49:45 Almost looks like a doctor. This is where, yeah. 49:46 It's like going to the doctor. 49:48 If you go to the doctor and you're sick. 49:50 You know, and it's sad to say this 49:52 but most doctors treat just the symptoms, right? 49:54 Yeah. Right. 49:56 The rioting and the looting, 49:57 all this are symptom of a greater heart issue 50:00 that's not being dealt with. 50:01 That's right. That's right. 50:02 Deal with the heart issue. Yeah. 50:04 Deal with the underlying issue 50:05 and all those symptoms will go away. 50:07 See we can, like you're talking about here. 50:08 We have to focus on the issue. 50:11 And all these other things is not helping the issue. 50:13 That's right. 50:15 To me, it's taking away from it 50:17 in Adventism or any church 50:19 or our relationship with Christ. 50:21 Sometime we called the side issues. 50:22 That's right. 50:23 We got all these things that people are coming to hear, 50:25 rather than what we have already been told 50:27 we need to be doing 50:28 in this hour that we're living in, 50:30 under the power guidance of the Holy Spirit, 50:33 the living God, 50:34 that we need to do 50:35 what He has commissioned us to do. 50:37 You know one quote I saw was very interesting, it says, 50:39 "Nothing should occupy the mind 50:41 but the giving of the three angels' message." 50:43 When you give three angels' message, 50:45 you give all three of those messages, 50:46 it's going to be, 50:48 it's going to talk about are you ready, 50:49 it's going to talk about grace. 50:50 It's going to talk about righteousness by faith. 50:52 Gonna talk about victory. It's gonna be talking about... 50:53 I'm sorry, go ahead. No, keep going. 50:58 I start losing out here, what's going on. 50:59 It's all gonna to say too 51:01 that God is no respecter of persons 51:03 and I just want to bring in 51:04 our good friend Pastor Ivor Myers, 51:06 he just did a recent video on this 51:09 that he released online. 51:10 It's, God created one race, 51:12 the Bible tells us but many colors... 51:14 Yes. One race, but many colors. 51:17 And the thing about it is the enemy is using this 51:19 to bring about the end, if we can, 51:21 if we can have division among ourselves, 51:23 whether it's over religion, 51:25 whether it's over color, whatever it might be, 51:27 then he's bringing about all this devastation, 51:31 because he wants to destroy 51:33 our relationship with Jesus Christ. 51:35 He wants none of us 51:37 to have this robe of righteousness. 51:39 If we have that robe of righteousness on, 51:41 guess who is the scapegoat? 51:42 Guess who pays for my sins? 51:44 It's the enemy. 51:45 Does he want to burn for me? No. 51:48 He doesn't want any of us to go back to where he left. 51:51 He left by choice. 51:53 We here can only see through that glass darkly. 51:56 We long to see face to face what heaven is like. 51:59 Yeah. 52:00 You know, and he wants to take that away from us. 52:02 So that, you know, 52:04 we need to recognize 52:05 who is behind all these movements 52:08 and what it's doing and that's perfect, 52:10 we need to focus in where we need to focus, 52:13 giving the three angels' message 52:14 in the love of God, unifying the people. 52:17 God wants us to unify every nation, 52:19 kindred, tongue, and people. 52:22 Every nation, the Bible says, 52:24 we are the blessings are on the go, 52:25 Danny says, to every nation, kindred, tongue and people. 52:29 There is no separation in the love of God. 52:33 That's the heart change. 52:34 We're talking about all these things. 52:36 And if God comes into our mind and our hearts, 52:38 if He creates in us His image which He's so longing to do, 52:43 then all these things will, 52:45 that would be a thing of the past. 52:47 Glory. You got to preaching. 52:49 That's amazing because when we get to heaven 52:52 and I know we kind of got on this issue, 52:53 but we're dealing with burning issue. 52:55 This is all part of it. 52:56 We're talking about things that's happening right now 52:57 in our world. 52:59 And you know... 53:00 Now you're ready to face these things. 53:01 Yeah. 53:03 I don't usually put much into what celebrities say. 53:05 But I heard a celebrity, I think it was Morgan Freeman. 53:07 And he had made this quote. 53:09 Somebody had asked him about, you know, 53:10 the whole racist issue 53:11 and he had made this quote years ago he said, 53:13 he said, "I don't put much into it 53:14 because you know, I don't look at you and I see, 53:16 I don't say there's a white man, 53:17 I say there's a man." 53:19 That's right. 53:20 And I hope that you look at me and see 53:22 that there's not a black, 53:23 that I'm not a black man, I'm a man. 53:24 And it made perfect sense because when we get to heaven, 53:26 you know, we're not gonna see, 53:27 you know, all these people flying, 53:28 all these angels and say, I mean, look, 53:30 there's a black angel flying right there. 53:31 You know, you're gonna say, 53:33 look at that beautiful angel flying right there. 53:35 But the devil plants these, 53:38 these backward counterfeit unloving thoughts 53:41 in our minds 53:43 and it grows like a virus in us. 53:44 It is a virus. 53:45 And sometimes people can have racist thoughts, racist ideas, 53:49 racist concepts built up in their heart, 53:52 while all the while considering themselves 53:53 not to be a racist. 53:54 Yeah. 53:56 And I know that's not necessarily now 53:57 what I hear and say, they talk just about that. 53:58 But I just wanted to ask in fact 54:00 that Dakota said something earlier, 54:01 I gotta bring this in. 54:03 He said Christ came here to show us 54:05 what we can do through God. 54:06 Amen. Absolutely. 54:08 Listen to this quote, The Upward Look, page 303, 54:10 it's exactly what he was just saying. 54:12 "Christ took humanity 54:13 and bore the hatred of the world." 54:16 You think of oppression, you want to talk about racism, 54:19 you want to talk about oppression, 54:20 you want to talk about, 54:21 I mean, these people looked at Jesus said, 54:23 that dude's from Nazareth. 54:26 Can anything good come out of Nazareth? 54:27 Yeah. 54:28 Is this the son of Mary and Joseph, this guy, 54:31 you know, you know, right? 54:32 Christ took humanity 54:34 and bored the hatred of the world 54:35 that He might show men and women 54:37 that they could live without sin. 54:41 The Upward Look, page 303. Yeah. 54:43 Righteousness by faith. 54:45 It's all about victory over sin. 54:46 Amen. 54:47 And you know, the Bible says 54:49 the devil is like a roaring lion. 54:50 Yes. 54:52 How many people 54:53 do you know of would be attacked 54:55 and being eaten by a lion 54:57 while their friends sits on the sideline 54:59 and watches them 55:00 and the person being mauled by this lion 55:02 is reaching out to the friend and says, hey, hey, 55:04 save me from this lion. 55:06 And the friend looks on and watches this lion 55:08 eating their friend alive 55:10 and they're just saying, oh, hey, you're saved. 55:13 You just know, you're saved. 55:15 You know, no one's gonna be mauled 55:16 by this lion at the same time and go, oh, praise the Lord, 55:19 that I'm saved from this lion 55:20 all the while being eaten by this lion. 55:22 Jesus did not come to save us in our sin. 55:25 He came to save us from our sin. 55:27 That's what the garment's all about 55:28 when you're wearing His righteous white garment. 55:30 Jesus has put His stamp of righteousness on you 55:34 but not because of what you've done, 55:35 but because what you've allowed Him 55:36 to do in you. 55:38 His life testifies. 55:39 Yes. 55:40 Desires of Ages, 24 quickly says, 55:42 "His life testifies that it is possible for us 55:45 also to obey the law of God." 55:47 Amen. 55:48 The life of Jesus Christ, 55:49 beholding we become changed, right? 55:52 Imitate Him. 55:54 Don't imitate somebody in the world 55:55 and I want to be like this. 55:56 I want to be like Jesus. 55:58 I want to have the mind of Christ. 56:00 And certainly, that is possible as we pray and submit ourselves 56:03 to Him each and every day. 56:04 We have a minute and 30 seconds. 56:05 Let's do something. Yeah. 56:07 The key is cooperation. Amen. 56:08 We can't do it on our own. 56:10 We have no strength to do it on our own. 56:12 We must yield to Him 56:15 and in so yielding His righteousness, 56:17 His life, His perspective comes into us 56:21 and then we can have the victory. 56:23 Amen. Amen. 56:24 We have to yield. Yes, yes, that's our part. 56:26 Good. 56:27 And if you think that you can't do it 56:29 on your own, 56:30 go to Romans Chapter 12 and behave like a Christian. 56:33 That's right. 56:34 And you will soon get a wake-up call. 56:36 Very said. That's right. 56:38 Amen. Praise the Lord. 56:39 Enemy is hungry, feed him if he is thirsty, 56:42 give him drink for in so doing you will heap 56:44 coals of fire on his head. 56:46 If your enemy is hungry and you feed him 56:48 and keep him drink. 56:50 That's tough. 56:53 You can't do that on your own. 56:54 No, you can't. 56:55 I think Ephesians 5, 56:57 if people could go back and read Ephesians 5 56:59 because in there, it's going to encapsulate 57:01 a lot of what we've talked about 57:02 and move it a little further. 57:04 I think it tells us how to have that robe of righteous too. 57:07 Just what we're seeing this anger in the world, 57:09 it will be turned on God's last day people, 57:11 we're told that, so we need to be ready, 57:13 we need this robe of righteousness, 57:15 aggressive warfare, aggressive warfare, 57:18 we need to suit up with the armor of God. 57:20 That's right. 57:22 I feel like I'm suiting up today. 57:23 I want to praise God. Amen. 57:25 Well, thank you for joining us. Praise God. 57:26 Thank you for joining us today. 57:28 We pray, it's been a blessing to you. 57:29 Thank you. We're gonna be praying for you. 57:31 You pray for us. Jesus is coming. 57:32 Let's be ready. 57:33 God bless you. We'll see you next time. |
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