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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW200040S
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:08 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 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 01:09 Hello and a great big welcome to you. 01:11 Welcome to 3ABN Family Worship. 01:13 So glad you joined us. 01:14 You know, all of us being part of the family of God, 01:16 it's good that we sat down together 01:18 and study the Word of God. 01:19 We've got it, just to me is exciting lessons. 01:21 It's actually part two, 01:23 we're going to be talking about 01:24 "Primitive Godliness." 01:26 Now that's something we know we need to get back to, 01:28 or at least it seems like 01:30 it in the day that we're living in. 01:31 God wants us to go back to the beginning. 01:33 God wants us to understand what truth is. 01:35 And I believe as we study this, as we did in the first part, 01:38 so if you missed the first part, 01:39 we're going to kind of skim over 01:41 just a little bit here to give you an idea 01:43 of what we studied before. 01:44 This again, this is part two. 01:46 Again, we're glad that you've joined us. 01:48 We're going to spend this time together 01:49 studying God's Word. 01:50 On my right I have my wife, Sister Chris, 01:52 we're glad you're with us today. 01:53 Oh, I'm always happy to be here. 01:55 Now, isn't it exciting? It is. 01:56 Think about studying the Word of God 01:57 and studying with people 01:59 that when you meet them, 02:01 they'll say you've been in our home, 02:03 you've been in our home. 02:04 So we're glad that we can be in your home, 02:06 and we're glad that, right, 02:07 we can spend this time together. 02:09 We have for our guest today, brother and Pastor John Dinzey, 02:12 John, we're always glad to see you and always you, 02:15 you have insight to the Word of God 02:17 and we just praise the Lord for that 02:18 and glad you're willing to join us today. 02:20 Thank you. 02:22 It's a blessing and a privilege to be a part of the family. 02:24 And this topic is a very, not only interesting, 02:29 but important and vital for this time. 02:31 And so, we're really asking for the Holy Spirit 02:35 to bring out what he knows needs to be shared. 02:39 Amen. 02:40 Well, we had another guest 02:41 that was going to be here, Brother, Terry Shelton. 02:43 And he was called away at the last minute. 02:45 So by God's grace, 02:47 we're going to delve into the Word of God 02:50 and we're going to try to bring out some things 02:51 that's not only helped us, but we pray that will help you. 02:55 But before we do, 02:57 we know we need to go to the Lord in prayer. 02:58 Whenever study the Word of God and I encourage you that 03:01 you you've heard it maybe all your life. 03:02 And when you gonna study the Word of God, pray. 03:06 And so I'm going to ask Pastor John, 03:08 if he will pray for us, please. 03:09 Sure. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. 03:12 Our loving heavenly Father, 03:15 we thank You Lord 03:16 for the privilege to call you Father. 03:18 When we consider that You are the Almighty God, 03:22 and we can come before Your throne of grace 03:25 in Jesus' name 03:26 with confidence, 03:27 because you know, we know You love us. 03:29 Amen. 03:31 We know you desire communion, communication with us, 03:35 help us Lord to take the time 03:37 that we need to have communion with, you. 03:41 Yes. 03:42 But Lord now we ask, 03:44 that you will bless us with the Holy spirit, 03:46 that we will share wonderful things 03:49 from your Holy scriptures. 03:51 We pray Lord for those that are joining us, 03:53 you know, each and every person, 03:55 young and old that are joining us 03:57 and you know, their urgent need of Jesus. 04:00 Yes. 04:02 So we pray that 04:03 not one word will be left unspoken, 04:05 that needs to be spoken, 04:07 and we pray that not one word that should not be spoken, 04:11 that it should not be spoken. 04:13 We pray for your name to be honored and glorified. 04:16 And we ask you Lord 04:17 that lives will be transformed beginning with ours. 04:20 We ask in Jesus' Holy and blessed name, Amen. 04:24 Amen. 04:25 Praise the Lord and thank you very much. 04:27 Again, we're looking 04:28 at the lesson primitive, godliness 04:31 something that we, you know, 04:32 I feel that we need to be studying 04:34 because of all the things 04:35 that are taking place in the world, 04:37 that God is calling us back. 04:39 He's calling people out, 04:41 calling him into the truth of God's word. 04:43 And so as we look at primitive godliness, 04:45 as I've mentioned before, 04:47 we, we did part one several months ago 04:49 and part two, 04:51 but I thought it'd be nice to some of you missed it. 04:53 I'm sure 04:55 we're going to go over just a paragraph 04:57 that I believe explains what primitive godliness is, 05:01 because there'll be a lot of people say, 05:03 what is primitive godliness? 05:05 So a definition was put there in a paragraph 05:07 and I'm going to read, 05:08 if you don't mind, I'll read it. 05:10 And then we'll go from there. 05:11 I want to touch a little bit on question one, 05:12 because believe it or not, we will. 05:14 I think most people do. 05:15 If they watch us sometime we're a little bit slow. 05:17 And then we take our time 05:18 and try to learn from the Word of God. 05:20 And this paragraph says primitive godliness. 05:23 It said it is our theme and topic 05:26 for this family worship. 05:27 The definition, here we go, 05:29 "A primitive godliness, 05:31 primitive means relating to denoting 05:33 or preserving the character of an early stage in the, 05:37 notice this, 05:39 historical development of something." 05:41 And thus, 05:42 since we are referencing primitive godliness, 05:45 it only makes sense that rather than understanding 05:48 of what this phrase means by examining our church today, 05:52 it would only make good sense that we go back, 05:54 and I like this, says, go back to what? 05:56 Go back to scripture 05:58 and see how God set up the church. 06:00 I mean, really, if you look in primitive godliness, 06:02 wouldn't it be well to go back and see 06:04 how Jesus Himself set up the church? 06:06 Oh, absolutely. 06:07 And what it is like in this purest form. 06:10 And the only place we know to look 06:12 would be in Scripture beginning, 06:13 and I like this, the upper room 06:16 where we find Christ disciples along with other believers, 06:19 waiting and praying for the promise comforter 06:22 after Christ's ascension back to heaven, 06:24 to be with His Father and to become, notice this, 06:27 our mediator and our high priest. 06:29 Amen. 06:31 I think if we take this paragraph, 06:34 we could spend probably another thoughtful hour on it, 06:37 but we will not do that 06:39 because there's so much to cover in here. 06:40 But yet we want you to have a good foundation 06:42 on which to build. 06:44 Now, remember, definition primitive means relating to, 06:47 or denoting, or preserving the character 06:49 of an early stage in something, whatever it might be. 06:52 So we look at this 06:53 and so we chose to begin with Acts Chapter 2, 06:56 didn't we in our first lesson? 06:57 And I'm wondering, if you looked at Acts Chapter 2 07:01 and maybe four, five, six verses into Acts Chapter 2. 07:04 What would be maybe some of the key words 07:07 that would come out, just jump out at you? 07:09 I'm like Houston, 07:11 I read a line and sometimes there's two or three words 07:12 that just jump out 07:14 and they demand are going in to look, 07:16 you know, do four or five of them. 07:17 And then we'll ask Pastor John do four or five 07:19 and we'll just move on as quickly as we can. 07:21 But these to me is just exciting because 07:24 primitive godliness, 07:25 how had God set up the church 07:26 is how He still wants His church. 07:28 And here's how the church functioned. 07:30 Here's how it came into being. 07:32 Here's how it came flooded with power and might. 07:35 And so we need that in our churches today 07:37 to wake us up sometime, 07:38 we've become a little lazy sometime, 07:40 little lukewarm, 07:41 and we need to be awakened to the things that's going on. 07:43 Well, it's how God set it up in the beginning. 07:46 And, when Christ had left, 07:47 you know, the one thing that I liked 07:50 is that His disciples and other people 07:52 were in the upper room and they were praying. 07:54 They were praying 07:55 and they were looking for this comforter. 07:58 And so that says a lot of what we should be doing in our day 08:01 that we need to be praying 08:03 and we need to be praying for the latter rain, 08:05 the comforter to come once again, 08:07 because a lot of what we read in the beginning, 08:09 we're going to find out that 08:11 we were going to go back to that primitive godliness 08:13 before Christ comes here. 08:14 But you mentioned that 08:16 I just have to stress that because I find it challenging. 08:20 I mean, I can say that we're challenging at times. 08:22 It says they were all in one accord 08:25 in one place. 08:26 For us who believe somewhat, may belong to the same church, 08:30 sometime we're just not all in accord, 08:33 but is it possible to be in all accord 08:35 doesn't mean we agree that 08:37 we all love the color yellow or pink or the color of carpet, 08:40 maybe agreeing on doctrine. 08:42 How do we get into all one accord? 08:45 Because I find there's division everywhere we ever go. 08:47 There's some kind of division something that's going on. 08:51 How important is it that we're in all in one accord? 08:54 Well, the Messiah had been there, 08:56 and the disciples were all in one accord 08:58 because they had been taught of Christ 08:59 and they were believing, 09:01 you know, and also from the Old Testament, 09:03 you know, the scriptures what they were studying, 09:05 and they were basing their faith on God's Word. 09:08 And I think that's where many of us get off track 09:10 is we go away from the Bible and say, 09:13 well, I know it says this, but, 09:15 and we put our own inclinations in there, 09:17 our own thoughts. 09:19 And we get in trouble that way. 09:21 And we also find that a lot of people, 09:23 a lot of churches will take one passage of scripture 09:26 rather than as the Bible says, Pastor John, 09:29 line upon line, precept upon precept, 09:31 here a little and there a little, 09:32 'cause when we want to find out what truth is, 09:34 sometimes we can look at one verse of scripture 09:37 and think, well, I didn't know it meant that, 09:40 you know, because over here it sounds a little different. 09:42 So we need to look at 09:44 what the Bible says on that topic 09:47 everywhere it is in the Bible, which why we love Concordances, 09:50 and now we love computers. 09:52 It's a lot easier to look up that way. 09:54 But going back to Acts Chapter 2, 09:56 I'll just start reading here. 09:57 And then I'll just jump through a few of these things. 10:00 It says, "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, 10:03 you know, that latter, that early rain experience, 10:06 they were all in one accord," 10:08 as you just mentioned in one place. 10:09 "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven 10:13 as a rushing, mighty wind." 10:15 When we had our first program on this, 10:17 we talked about being in the Philippines 10:19 and we were on our knees 10:21 in the conference president's office, 10:24 and we were praying about some very important outreach, 10:27 which had to do with 3ABN and television work over there. 10:31 And while we were in prayer, 10:34 and we're inside of a building 10:37 and the door opened and a wind blew through there 10:42 and you could hear the door blow open, 10:44 you could hear and feel the wind. 10:47 And once we got done, 10:48 he ran out and he asked the secretary 10:50 what happened? 10:51 She didn't know 10:52 and she's right outside the door. 10:54 She didn't know the door had opened, 10:55 she never heard the wind, never felt the wind. 10:57 It was a powerful experience. 10:58 And there were powerful things done 11:00 as it pulled out of that prayer. 11:01 'Cause we were praying 11:02 for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 11:04 we're praying for it. 11:05 Just like here when I mentioned while ago all in one accord. 11:07 They were in one accord over what? 11:09 The subject of the Holy Spirit and the power. 11:12 We should be same ways... 11:14 Well, it had to do with outreach 11:16 with the television programs. 11:18 I mean, they're in his office. Yeah. 11:20 And which has to do with the Holy Spirit, 11:21 obviously . 11:23 Go ahead. 11:24 Yeah, do you have something, Brother John, go ahead. 11:25 Well, you know, when I think I hold my comment 11:29 until we get to this. 11:30 Okay. Okay. It's all right. 11:32 All right, and then it says it, 11:33 there appeared unto them cloven tongues, 11:36 like as of fire, 11:38 just signaling that something was coming, 11:41 something that was supernatural, 11:43 they had never before experienced. 11:45 And we realized that 11:46 that was just the presence of the Holy Spirit. 11:48 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. 11:51 They began to speak in other tongues 11:53 as the spirit gave them utterances, 11:56 which we know when we begin to study 11:57 what other tongues means, it's other languages. 12:00 And that was part of God's plan 12:02 so that they could reach people in other countries 12:05 that did not speak the same language. 12:08 And, so it's very important, that's four verses. 12:11 So I guess I'll stop there 12:12 and let somebody else take over. 12:14 But I think that's awesome 12:15 because I believe when we are praying 12:18 and we're looking for this latter rain, 12:20 we are going to experience more of the power of the Holy Ghost. 12:25 And we're going to experience more of that fire 12:28 and that electricity that we read about. 12:31 We've touched on that some in the past and it's very... 12:36 Would that be the birth of the church 12:39 was taking place? 12:41 Actually the birth of the New Testament Church, 12:43 which we are to pattern ourselves after. 12:44 Yes. 12:46 Well, you know, 12:47 here is something marvelous happened, 12:50 and it has a lot to do with heart preparation. 12:54 Jesus told them to tarry in Jerusalem 12:58 until you receive power from on high. 13:01 Now, it's interesting that 13:03 when you read that verse 4, as you read, it says, 13:06 "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit." 13:11 Now this is something wonderful and powerful 13:15 because if they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, 13:18 that means that each and every one of them 13:21 made heart preparation, confessing their sins, 13:26 drawing close to the Lord, 13:28 putting evil thoughts 13:29 and even desires out of their mind, 13:31 asking the Lord to transform them. 13:33 If we look back before this, what were the disciples doing? 13:38 They were before the crucifixion... 13:40 That's a good point. 13:41 They were arguing. 13:43 They were saying, 13:44 who's going to have the highest place or this. 13:46 Jesus is going to the throne. 13:49 I'm going to be... 13:51 Oh no, not you, I, you know, this was going on. 13:55 So there was a humbling that needed to take place then, 14:00 and confessing of sin and choosing to say, 14:03 I am giving my all to the Lord. 14:06 This promise that the Lord Jesus said, 14:09 I want it. 14:10 I want that. 14:12 So they were pleading for this gift 14:13 to come upon them. 14:15 And when we do what they did, 14:18 allowing the Lord to help us to understand 14:21 that we need to humble ourselves. 14:23 And we confess our sins before the Lord and say, 14:26 Lord, I want to serve You more than anything. 14:30 This is my full heart's desire, full surrender to the Lord. 14:34 Because if you don't fully surrender to the Lord, 14:36 this experience will not happen. 14:38 That's right. 14:40 In order for you to be filled with the Holy Spirit, 14:42 there must be a vacuum to take place. 14:45 Self must be put aside. 14:48 So this is, 14:49 they did some participation by obeying 14:54 what the Lord directed them to do. 14:56 You know, and God is so good and merciful. 15:00 If He will show us how horrible we really are 15:03 all at once, 15:05 we would just be overwhelmed, 15:06 but He shows us step-by-step you need to give this up. 15:09 They look at this, little by little, 15:11 we take these steps 15:13 and we understand that we need to surrender, 15:17 surrender fully to the Lord. 15:18 There is, I'm remembering a quote 15:20 and I'm sure you might be able to help me finish it. 15:24 There is no limit to what God can do when... 15:28 I'm trying to paraphrase. I'll find it in a moment. 15:30 Yeah. 15:31 There's no limit to what God can do 15:32 with a person 15:34 that fully places himself or herself 15:35 in the hands of the Lord, 15:37 there is no limit. 15:38 And that's where we need to go. 15:39 We need to humble ourselves before the Lord. 15:41 Amen. 15:42 Now, so God will take things out of a person's life 15:47 if we lay ourselves bare before Him 15:50 in order to receive that power of the Holy Spirit. 15:52 You mentioned there, I think it was self has to die. 15:55 Self has to die. 15:56 And I've often said, and I think, 15:59 it bears fact in Scripture and Spirit of Prophecy, 16:01 that self is our greatest enemy. 16:04 I can say my greatest enemy, 16:05 and we don't really think that like ourselves, 16:09 it is our greatest enemy. 16:11 So we have to deny what? 16:12 Self. 16:13 Jesus, you deny self, 16:15 then take up the cross and follow Me. 16:17 Who's going to pick up the cross 16:19 if you don't deny self first, 16:20 deny self, then you pick up the cross, 16:23 then you follow Him. 16:25 Jesus knew exactly what He was saying 16:26 when He did that. 16:28 So and the things we need to get rid of right now, 16:31 since we're talking about primitive godliness, 16:32 I think it's, we need to as God's people 16:35 be putting everything 16:36 that God has loaned us on the altar, 16:38 the altar of sacrifice. 16:40 So this work can be finished 16:41 and it's going to go out with a bang. 16:44 Can we talk about a bang it began, 16:45 ignite the church, right? 16:46 We're talking about Pentecost here, 16:48 but it's going to even be bigger 16:50 at the end before Jesus comes. 16:51 And I'm looking forward to, 16:53 if God sees fit that we're alive and kicking 16:55 to be a part of that. 16:56 To me, that's just an awesome thought. 16:59 Number one, 17:00 that God would even use someone like me. 17:02 I'm not going to talk about you. 17:04 I'm not going to talk about somebody else. 17:06 How God would use someone like me 17:08 when He knows me for what I am. 17:10 But then I read, 17:12 He knows everybody for what they are. 17:14 And, but He sees the finished product, 17:16 doesn't He? 17:18 As the Holy Spirit comes in, as we let things go, 17:21 He sees a finished product and I keep, Lord, you said, 17:23 You'd begun the work, 17:25 and You said that you would finish that work. 17:27 Isn't that wonderful He would finish it? 17:29 So I look at myself and I say, 17:30 "Oh, it's not a finished project. 17:31 Oh, Lord, have mercy." 17:33 Time is coming to an end. 17:34 We need the power of the Holy Spirit right now. 17:36 And God said in these last days, 17:38 He's going to pour it out. 17:39 And I want to be able to receive that spirit, 17:41 don't you? 17:42 Absolutely. 17:44 You had some other things. Go ahead. I'm sorry. 17:45 I got carried away with this. Yeah. 17:46 Pastor Kenny, Sister Chris, you know, 17:48 I think that we can safely say 17:52 that my friend, my sisters that are watching, 17:57 we can safely say that the majority of us know, 18:01 there are things 18:02 that need to change in our lives. 18:04 There are certain things we know. 18:05 Oh, if you ask, if you, if you were to say, 18:07 okay, you were on the witness stand 18:09 before the whole universe 18:11 before the Almighty God, 18:12 tell us what you believe needs to change in your life. 18:16 And you can enumerate a few things 18:18 and you might put, oh, this one is the biggest one, 18:20 maybe this, and then this, this, 18:22 but this is what we know. 18:24 This is what we know. 18:26 But then there are things 18:28 that we either think about or do 18:31 or even say 18:33 that are contrary to God's Word. 18:34 Yes. 18:36 And we are not apparently aware of these things. 18:39 And sometimes we get a hint of that 18:41 because somebody says, 18:43 "You're kind of proud, aren't you?" 18:44 Woo! 18:45 And you're not, you don't think you are, 18:47 but somebody tells you that. 18:48 And you have to ask yourself, 18:50 "What? Am I really?" 18:51 You have to go to your closet and say, 18:52 "Lord, I'm really that way?" 18:55 There are these little things 18:56 that we don't notice, we don't know. 18:58 We think of the, this one and this one, this, 19:00 because we know consciously, 19:02 oh, Lord, forgive me 19:04 because I did that and that, and that, 19:05 'cause you know that you're not supposed to, 19:08 but you do it anyway, those we know, 19:12 but the Lord wants to take us from those that we know 19:16 to those that we don't know 19:18 so that the surrender will be full and complete. 19:21 And so that's why there's a scripture that says 19:26 examine yourselves to see if you are in the truth. 19:31 And so, I, you know, 19:34 I was thinking about this the other day and I say, 19:35 "Well, how often do I do this examination?" 19:39 Yeah. 19:41 If we're considering our salvation 19:44 and the ability, 19:47 and I'm going to say the word ability of God to use us. 19:51 God can use anyone. Amen. 19:53 But when we use the word ability, 19:55 the ability of God to use us it's that 19:56 we have to be emptied of self. 19:59 And if we have these obstacles, you know, I... 20:03 There's so much that comes into this that we have, 20:06 you know, I've heard people say different things 20:08 and I've heard people say different things 20:10 that I have said. 20:11 And I remember one time 20:15 there was this person upset at me. 20:17 He was really upset at me. 20:19 And so after one day I said, 20:21 "Well, this guy is really upset at me. 20:23 I wonder why. I wonder why." 20:26 And so the next day, again, and I tried to, 20:32 you know, be nice to this person. 20:34 And perhaps it was the second day 20:36 or the first day or the third day, 20:37 I don't know. 20:38 But I had to say to him, 20:40 "You know, brother, 20:42 I've noticed that you're kind of jumpy with me, 20:44 and quick tempered with me, 20:46 and you're kind of distant from me, 20:49 and when you used to talk differently to me." 20:52 And I say, 20:53 "Is there something wrong?" 20:55 He says, "You know what you did." 20:57 Oh. 20:58 And I said, 21:00 "Wow, what's that I did?" 21:01 "You know what you did!" 21:03 Wow. And I was like, okay. 21:05 Yeah. Something I did. 21:06 Yeah. 21:07 And so, after talking to him a little while, he said, 21:11 "Well, the other day, you said this to me." 21:15 And I didn't realize that 21:17 the way I said it was offensive to him. 21:21 And so, if now this is where self-examination comes in 21:25 and he says, 21:27 "If I have done it with him, have I done it with others? 21:29 Oh. You see? 21:30 And I said, "I am really sorry, I apologize to you, 21:33 I had no idea that I've done that, 21:36 forgive me." 21:37 And he saw that I was sincere about my repentance 21:41 because I was not aware 21:42 that I had offended him this way. 21:44 And that is true. We may do this. 21:47 So all these things, 21:48 sometimes the Lord helps us through people. 21:50 That's right. 21:51 And we should let the pride go down 21:54 and humble ourselves and say, 21:56 "I understand, I've done this wrong." 21:58 And there's the blessing that God gives us 22:01 because we know very well that the Bible says 22:04 that the goodness of God leads us to repentance. 22:09 Amen. 22:10 And so when we have that moment 22:12 that we realize we have done wrong, 22:14 we should also be thankful to the Lord. 22:15 Thank you, Lord, 22:16 because your goodness led me to this repentance. 22:20 Couldn't you kind of let that go a little bit 22:22 because you could have said could have. 22:24 I could have. 22:25 That's just the way he took it. 22:27 That's not the one I meant because some people take things 22:30 just not the way you said it at all, 22:33 but yet you realize there was an issue there. 22:35 And so when we realize there's issues, 22:38 even if we're not the guilty party as it were, 22:40 because we're looking for primitive godliness. 22:42 We're looking 22:43 for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 22:44 We're looking for things 22:46 that need to be changed in our life, 22:47 self-examination. 22:48 So you could have left it that 22:50 and justified it wouldn't mean to be right. 22:51 You did the right thing. 22:53 I've seen people, they, I hear it, they said, 22:57 they wear their feelings on their sleeve, you know, 23:00 where they get hurt so easy 23:01 about a lot of different things. 23:03 And so, 23:04 I had an individual told me one time before 23:07 which I didn't realize it. 23:08 Then he told me, he said, 23:10 "Well, you know, you have to be careful around me 23:12 when you say things." 23:13 See, they'd done some self-examination evidently too. 23:15 And I said, 23:17 "Well, why is that?" 23:18 He said, 23:21 "Because I'm very touchy. 23:23 And I know I shouldn't be, but it hurt easy." 23:26 Oh, wow. 23:27 And I said, 23:29 "Thank you for telling me that. 23:30 I'll be very careful what I say." 23:33 So it's a work back and forth. 23:34 Once somebody says that, 23:37 then it's our job, don't you think? 23:38 As a crew, we'd be very careful how we approach issues 23:41 and how we say things to them. 23:42 Even though we shouldn't be so touchy, 23:44 we understand that. 23:45 But my job is to make sure I don't maybe go too far 23:48 and hurt them unnecessarily. 23:50 Well, the Lord is so patient, 23:53 kind with us that He works with us. 23:57 Amen. I'm glad He does. 23:59 I am grateful to the Lord for that. 24:01 And we need to be receptive to the leading of the Lord. 24:05 Like you said, I could have, and there are some people, 24:10 like you said, that are sensitive, 24:12 but then, you know, I could have responded. 24:14 Well, you're such a baby. You're so sensitive. 24:16 You know, I could have responded that way. 24:18 You know, I didn't think about it until you said it. 24:19 You're such a baby. 24:21 Just grow up, you know, or something like this 24:23 that would not have brought that reconciliation. 24:28 Yes, no. 24:29 And that brotherly love to return 24:33 and be able to be friends, 24:38 because there was a situation 24:41 and I don't know how far it would have gone, 24:43 but praise God that there was a reconciliation. 24:46 And so, I don't know. 24:48 I'm wondering if there are some, 24:50 there are some people listening that may have some issues 24:54 and they may even go to church. 24:56 Oh. 24:58 And they see that person, 24:59 and they go to walk another way or they sit on the other side. 25:03 Oh yeah. 25:04 Because of something, you see, there's something. 25:06 Yeah. 25:08 And so, the Lord wants to bring us here 25:11 to be of one accord, to humble ourselves 25:12 and be of one accord 25:14 so that the mighty working of the Holy Spirit 25:17 can come upon us. 25:18 Amen. 25:19 And so this is a work 25:21 that each one of us has to be involved. 25:22 It's a process of sanctification, 25:24 and you're talking about 25:26 how the Lord is patient and merciful, 25:28 but see, He's our example. 25:30 So often we look at one another and we say, 25:32 I want to be like her, I want to be like him, 25:34 I want to, you know, be able to do things the way they do, 25:37 but we need to be looking at Christ. 25:39 And the way Christ deals with us 25:42 is how we need to deal with others. 25:44 So that, that's what I'm hearing 25:46 in what you're saying, 25:47 rather than showing yourselves to be right. 25:51 We need to say, what can I do to help this person? 25:54 Whether they're in the wrong, or they're not. 25:56 There's been times that we've taken the blame, 26:00 you know, just because 26:02 that would help someone else feel better. 26:04 You know what I'm saying? Yes. 26:06 Even if you feel like you're in the right, 26:08 and you could probably prove it, 26:10 but you're out to win a brother or sister. 26:13 And at times they may not be where you're at 26:15 in your walk with Christ. 26:17 But it's allowing that Holy Spirit 26:19 that we're talking about, 26:20 that primitive godliness 26:22 to come into our minds and our hearts 26:24 and to create in us a new heart, 26:28 to create in us a love. 26:30 You know, years ago, I can remember 26:33 living next to a lady 26:36 and she was so not nice to me 26:39 and had not nice things to say about me. 26:43 And I thought, 26:44 "Lord, it's really hard, I'm having trouble liking her." 26:48 You know, I knew that 26:50 how we were supposed to be with one another. 26:52 And I thought, I remember praying. 26:54 I said, "God, I don't have any love for her." 26:58 And so I said, 26:59 "Would you give me Your love?" 27:02 Amen. Amen. 27:04 And once I honestly asked Him for His love, 27:08 things began to change 27:11 and I was able to help this lady, 27:13 to help her son many times after that. 27:16 And it was able, we were able to build a bond, 27:20 you know, that we wouldn't have had there before. 27:23 And hopefully she saw Christ, you know, in that bond. 27:26 So should we read on? 27:28 Well, yeah, well. 27:30 Shall we read on and finish that 27:31 and get on to question number two? 27:33 Well, we may want to do hit question one, 27:35 just, just the paragraph there. 27:38 And then go on to question two, 27:39 unless there's something else we want 27:41 because our time is going by so quickly. 27:42 Yes, it is. 27:43 We're having a good time in the Lord, but listen, 27:45 some people will say, 27:46 "Well, that doesn't seem to be the subject 27:47 that you're talking about here." 27:49 How are we going to reach that point? 27:51 We're talking about it being what God wants us to be 27:53 until we... 27:55 You talked about self-examination 27:56 till we come to the point where these things, 27:59 you know, we're looking and think, 28:00 well, they're not going to be in heaven 28:01 because they're out running around. 28:03 They ain't going to heaven because of their... 28:04 Sometime we forget about the pride 28:06 and the selfishness 28:07 and the things that are going to 28:09 what will keep us out of heaven. 28:10 Yes. 28:11 So those things have to get victory 28:13 must be gained over these issues 28:15 in order for us to be, you know, 28:16 receive of the latter rain, right? 28:18 Early rain comes to us, praise God, 28:20 you know, and then the rain comes 28:22 and that Holy Spirit is poured out. 28:24 God wants us continue to grow 28:26 so that we can receive the latter rain. 28:28 And remember, we cannot receive of the latter rain 28:31 until we take care of all sins in our life. 28:33 We have to repent of sin. 28:36 Sin has to go out of our life 28:38 and we have, here's what we have many Christians 28:40 that will fight this tooth and nail. 28:42 I'm not fighting it 28:43 because God Word to me makes it very clear, 28:45 at least in my mind 28:46 about He is able to do it. 28:48 I look at myself, I'm a failure. 28:50 I look at him, 28:51 I'm more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ. 28:53 This is exciting things. 28:54 Quit looking at ourselves in the mirror. 28:56 I can't gain a victory over this, 28:57 I can't... You can do nothing on your own. 29:00 We can't do anything on our own, very good. 29:01 Absolutely nothing. 29:03 But again, to recognize that we have shortcomings, 29:06 and failures and there's points that we need to, you know, 29:09 gain victory over. 29:10 I think it's very good 29:12 because again, that we need this power, 29:14 we need to get back, 29:15 because question number one goes in Joel Chapter 2, 29:18 talking about the return of Christ. 29:20 What does the Spirit of Prophecy say 29:21 in the Great Controversy 4:64, 29:24 before God comes, what have. 29:25 You'd like to read that for us, Honey, right quick, 29:27 and then maybe discuss it. 29:28 Each can have a point if we'd like to on it. 29:30 'Cause I love it 29:31 because it's talking about 29:33 a revival of primitive godliness. 29:34 It says, 29:36 "Before the final visitation 29:37 of God's judgments upon the earth, 29:39 there will be among the people of the Lord, 29:41 such a revival of primitive godliness 29:45 as has not been witnessed since the apostolic times. 29:48 The spirit and power of God 29:50 will be poured out upon His people. 29:53 And at that time, 29:55 many will separate themselves from those churches 29:58 in which the love of the," 29:59 and I think this is an important part, 30:01 "in which the love of this world 30:03 has supplanted love for God and His Word." 30:07 You know, we've mentioned before, 30:09 we've seen pastors get up and just throw the Bible out. 30:13 Literally throw it as an object lesson to people 30:17 because it no longer fits the lifestyles 30:20 that they are accepting into the church 30:22 and the principles 30:23 that they're accepting into the church. 30:25 "Many, both of ministers and people 30:27 will gladly accept those great truths. 30:30 These are God people that are open in their heart, 30:33 which God has caused to be proclaimed at this time 30:36 to prepare a people for the Lord's second coming." 30:41 Wow! 30:42 So what's promised? 30:44 A revival of what? 30:46 Primitive godliness, 30:47 spirit and power that would be poured out. 30:50 Since we're talking, 30:51 and then we're kind of examining 30:53 the word right now. 30:54 What do we say? 30:56 Just, just your own thought, 30:57 would you say that we're far distance 30:59 maybe from this revival of primitive godless? 31:02 Are we still in a lukewarm condition 31:04 as a group, as a people, individuals different, 31:07 but because it just seemed like there's much more 31:10 that we should be seeing and experiencing 31:14 to reach this point of primitive godliness 31:17 since the apostolic times. 31:19 Are we really seeing what we... 31:21 And that's not trying to be criticized. 31:22 That's not trying to judge anyone. 31:24 It's simply saying, 31:26 this is what it says is going to take place here 31:28 as the spirit is poured out of. 31:29 If we see that spirit being poured out, 31:32 what are we doing as Christians? 31:34 Have we reached that, 31:36 you know, are you really set on fire 31:37 worthy soul winners? 31:38 Are we really in one accord in one place? 31:41 Are we putting everything on the altar? 31:43 Are we trying to give everything 31:44 to Jesus Christ? 31:47 Do we love others the way that Jesus loves them? 31:50 And I said, I read this one time before 31:52 it brought me to tears. 31:53 I couldn't stand it anymore 31:55 because it says, unless I love my fellow man, 31:57 unless I love my brother, 31:58 the way that Jesus loves the fellow, 31:59 heaven will never be my home. 32:01 Wow. 32:02 See that make you weep. Yes. 32:04 Because you look at, and you say, 32:06 how can I love my brothers 32:08 in the way that Jesus loved them? 32:11 Well, again, let's let Him come in 32:12 and let Him love through us, 32:15 but lots of time we forget about others. 32:17 And we forget about what's going on in the world 32:19 in different places right here. 32:20 But we need to go. 32:22 We have a job to do 32:24 to evangelize, 32:26 to spread this good news that God has given us. 32:28 I mean, I'm going to say the Seventh-day Adventist Church 32:31 has a commission. 32:32 We're not just here by happenstance. 32:34 We're not here because we split in a lot of different ways 32:37 from this and that. 32:38 And we didn't get along with this group 32:40 and that group, da-da. 32:41 God ordained this movement. 32:42 Is it always moving in the right direction? 32:44 I have to say no, 32:46 because we've learned. 32:47 Well, we have to just look back at the past history 32:49 of the movement 32:50 and we'll see God was leading, 32:52 but sometime we take our eyes off of him. 32:54 And then if we catch ourselves that we're not watching Christ, 32:58 we readjust 33:00 and we begin to look for Him again. 33:02 And then we come back and we acknowledge 33:04 that we slipped off of the path. 33:06 See that's what we want to hear is that God wants to hear, 33:09 we slipped off the path here. 33:11 Now we want back on the path. 33:13 We want that Holy Spirit experience, 33:17 because I believe this church finished 33:19 where a guy said just yesterday in fact. 33:22 He said, "I don't see, I don't see how in this world." 33:26 I mean, he was getting down to it. 33:27 "How in this world 33:29 that the gospel can go into all the world 33:31 and everybody will have an opportunity 33:33 to learn what truth is." 33:35 He said, "It just seems impossible to me." 33:37 Don't you think that it's not going to go everywhere 33:39 and there's going to be people 33:40 who have not had the opportunity, 33:42 but yet God will still save them. 33:44 I said, "No. 33:45 I think what we do is we go what the Bible said, 33:47 this is what we're talking about. 33:49 He said, "When the gospels went to the whole world, 33:50 when every person has had the opportunity and privilege, 33:53 the best they can, wherever they're at 33:55 and they follow the light that God has given them. 33:59 See, but he's saying like, 34:00 oh, God's going to make an exception here. 34:02 You know, God doesn't make exceptions, 34:05 and so we need to realize, talk about buckle up, 34:07 get ready for this ride that we're on 34:10 because we're looking 34:11 and we're talking about it could be months. 34:13 It could be weeks. 34:14 It could be whatever God is in charge, 34:16 but things could blow up in our face. 34:18 We need to be in a place. 34:19 You were talking about while ago, 34:21 it's so dear to my heart. 34:22 We need to be, we're in the position 34:23 to where the Spirit of God can be poured out. 34:26 I mean where the Spirit of God can be poured out 34:28 without measure. 34:29 You know, He talks about and tithing. 34:31 Open the windows of heaven, I'll pour you out a blessing, 34:32 not room enough to receive it. 34:33 You better go ahead. 34:35 I'm getting to wanting to preach. 34:36 My, oh my. That's okay. It's all good. 34:37 It's getting exciting because we think this is, woo! 34:40 This is what God wants to do. 34:43 Think about what He wants to. 34:44 He looks down at poor, I'm getting started again, 34:46 poor miserable man, as frail, and two faced sinner, 34:53 dust of the earth. 34:54 None good, no, not one. 34:56 He looks down and he says, 34:57 I'm going to shower my blessing upon them. 34:59 I'm gonna show you what they can be 35:01 if they just look to me, 35:02 the author and finisher of their faith. 35:03 He wants to do that for us. 35:06 Bring us out of the pots that we're in, 35:08 the potholes that we're in bringing some, 35:09 put us on higher ground. 35:11 Go ahead, Honey, I must stop. 35:13 Well, you know, Philippians 2:5 says, 35:15 "Let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus." 35:19 In Christ Object Lessons on page 69, 35:22 it talks about Christ is waiting, 35:25 He's waiting, 35:26 He could have ended all this a long time ago, 35:29 but He is waiting for all of us with longing desire 35:33 for the manifestation of Himself 35:37 in His church. 35:38 When the character of Christ 35:39 shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, 35:43 then He will come to claim them as His own. 35:48 It is a privilege of every Christian, 35:50 not only to look for, 35:52 but to hasten the coming of our Lord." 35:56 You know, 2 Peter 3:12, I believe talks about that. 36:00 We are all to profess His name, bearing fruit. 36:03 You know, in other words, 36:06 we have a part to play. 36:09 It is our job to submit and commit 36:12 our wills and our hearts and our minds 36:14 to Jesus every day. 36:16 It is our choice whether we're going to wake up 36:18 and we're going to pray first 36:20 and we're going to get our Bibles 36:22 or Spirit or Prophecy, whatever, 36:23 and begin to study and spend time with Him. 36:26 So as we are doing that, He is the master potter. 36:30 He's recreating His image within us and through us. 36:35 And I've often said on the air that 36:37 that's when my life really changed. 36:39 You know, we talk Christians like we're Christians. 36:42 We think we're walking like Christian. 36:45 But when my life changed is when I said, okay, 36:49 before I eat of any physical food, 36:51 I'm going to eat of the spiritual food. 36:53 Amen. 36:54 And five minutes turns to 10 and 10 turns to 20. 36:58 And pretty soon it's an hour. 36:59 Pretty soon you're running late for the rest of the day, 37:02 because you would just relish that time with Jesus. 37:06 But that's when He begins to speak. 37:08 It's in those quiet times 37:09 that He speaks to our hearts and our minds. 37:11 And He's able to point out, like you said earlier, 37:14 you know, those sins that, 37:15 that might easily beset us 37:17 that may be separating us from Him. 37:19 And so, we need not neglect that He's waiting, 37:23 He's waiting patiently 37:25 until He sees His image reproduced in us 37:29 until we're able to respond. 37:30 Yes. 37:32 You know, I've often said because we're not only, 37:36 we're not only held responsible for our actions... 37:39 Whoa, whoa, look out now. 37:42 We're held responsible 37:44 and you gave a good example of a good reaction 37:47 because most of the time, 37:49 our reactions come without any thought 37:52 and they're not always good. 37:54 But as we begin to reflect Jesus 37:57 in our hearts and our minds, 37:59 our actions and our reactions will rightly represent Him. 38:03 And that's what it's all about. 38:04 I've heard people say this, Brother John, a lot. 38:06 They say every time, 38:07 "Your reaction wasn't the right thing." 38:09 And, you know, I have tendency to go back and say, 38:10 what you first said is not the right thing. 38:13 In other words, not either, neither one was right, 38:16 but that's not throw off what person did to, 38:19 let's say, start something 38:20 to do something that wouldn't hurt 38:22 and then blame it. 38:23 Well, you had the wrong reaction 38:24 that can be too, 38:26 but we have to be very careful, right? 38:27 Not to just, you know, 38:28 blame it on the person that's reacting. 38:30 We had to think of ourselves. 38:32 As the person mentioned, is being very sensitive, 38:34 then we have to be right. 38:36 Let me just interject this thought here 38:38 about being sensitive to other people. 38:41 Because what I was thinking when you were talking is, 38:43 look how different, you know, our homes are to be, 38:46 have the atmosphere of heaven, right? 38:48 Yes. 38:49 Look how different our homes would be 38:52 if our reactions... 38:53 A lot of times we can act, 38:55 we planned to act a certain way, 38:56 but we don't react 38:58 properly either to our children or our spouses 39:00 or whoever else might be living in the home. 39:03 But think how different it would be 39:05 if we learn to react in the love, 39:07 and the mercy, and kindness, 39:08 and patience of Jesus Christ in our home, 39:12 then our homes would be a place of peace, 39:14 it would be a piece of heaven. 39:16 She's wanting to talk about this. 39:17 So we have to look at it very carefully, 39:19 A is before R in the alphabet. 39:22 First of all, we be very conscious of our actions, 39:25 of our actions 39:27 because our actions sometime, right, 39:29 we respond with reactions. 39:31 So again, both are very important 39:32 that we do it, 39:34 our actions, how we conduct ourselves, 39:35 and then how we respond when someone says, 39:37 or does something that maybe we don't prove of. 39:40 Go ahead, Brother John, we're going to separate school. 39:41 We're going to go back and forth here. 39:43 No, I think we are on the same plane, 39:44 I thought we were on the same. 39:45 That's why I said A is before R, right? 39:47 Reactions. 39:48 I thought we were on the same thought. 39:50 We are. No, that's good, Hun. 39:51 Okay. You know, it's... 39:52 I want to share this because it came to my mind, 39:55 you learn from other people. 39:58 And I remember, 39:59 I'm sure you remember Dane Griffin. 40:01 Yeah, sure. 40:03 He said something that caught my ear 40:06 and my thought one time. 40:08 He said that he and his wife used to argue a lot 40:11 for a while. 40:13 Oh, okay. 40:14 Then, they, I can't remember exactly 40:16 how he said is they, 40:18 they realized they loved one another 40:22 that they would rather be together than apart. 40:25 Come on. 40:27 So this is why I would like to say this 40:30 because there may be people listening, 40:33 they're having trouble in their marriage right now. 40:35 Come on. 40:36 And so, I would say, take a moment. 40:38 This is like a, take a moment and ask yourself... 40:44 actually ask the other person, 40:46 do you love me with all your heart? 40:49 All right. 40:52 Actually, let's start this way. 40:54 You know, I love you with all my heart. 40:56 I really love you with all my heart. 40:58 He says, "Do you love me with all your heart?" 41:00 Yeah. 41:01 And so, if you see that there's a mutual agreement 41:04 that hopefully there is, 41:05 if not, you've got to pray for one another. 41:07 That's right. 41:08 But when you see that you both love one another, 41:11 okay, let's look at the facts, 41:14 the facts is, we've been arguing a lot lately, 41:17 but you say you love me. 41:19 And you know that I love you. 41:21 Something is going on here that it's not working out. 41:24 And the reality is that we both need Jesus. 41:26 Amen. 41:28 They both need Jesus. Wow. 41:29 And so when you start the day 41:30 with surrendering your heart to the Lord. 41:32 Amen. 41:33 Surrender your heart to the Lord. 41:35 And when you realize that I love you. 41:37 Yes. 41:38 If I say something or do something 41:40 that somehow gets you upset, 41:44 remember that I love you with all my heart, 41:47 that maybe I said something or did something 41:49 that my love wasn't shown at that time. 41:52 Remember that I love you with all my heart. 41:54 And because you love me, 41:58 please forgive me 42:00 before I even ask you for forgiveness. 42:03 And, you know, 42:04 you can have these conversations 42:06 and say, look, today, you did this to me. 42:09 Oh, you know that, I love you with all my heart. 42:11 I'm really sorry. 42:12 I didn't realize, you know, 42:14 you can have a beautiful relationship, 42:17 but Jesus has to be in there. 42:18 And how does that happen? 42:20 Husband surrenders his heart to the Lord, 42:22 wife surrenders her heart to the Lord. 42:24 They know that 42:25 their goal is to love one another 42:27 and to have a happy home. 42:28 There is an enemy, 42:30 there is an enemy and he's very good. 42:33 He's had thousands of years of experience 42:35 at creating problems. 42:37 He can create a problem out of nothing. 42:40 Yes. 42:41 Like, is that my water you have there? 42:44 Yeah. Right. 42:45 And all of a sudden, there's an argument 42:47 because of this one thing. 42:49 But when we realize that 42:52 the enemy is trying to divide the home, 42:55 destroy the home 42:57 every day should be a day of examining yourself. 43:00 And individually, 43:02 have I shown my love for my wife today? 43:05 Have I shown my love for my husband today? 43:08 And so, and I noticed that I say, shown, 43:12 because you can say. 43:14 Oh, see? 43:15 You can say and act differently. 43:17 And they don't perceive that love, 43:18 but if you show your love and in some way ask the Lord, 43:21 I would even say, ask the Lord, 43:23 Lord, show me how I can let my wife know that 43:26 I love her with all my heart. 43:28 Amen. And when do you start? 43:30 If you haven't said it all ready today, 43:32 I say it right now, ain't that right? 43:33 I can look at her and say, Honey, 43:34 I love you with all my heart. 43:36 Amen. 43:37 And I know he does. I love you with all my heart. 43:39 I love you too. 43:40 You touched on something else. 43:42 I want you to return that. 43:44 I did, I said, I love you too. 43:45 Thank you, sweet heart. 43:47 But I want to touch on something else 43:49 that you said 43:50 that I think is very vital and Cheri Peters on her program 43:54 really helped me with this, and that's forgiveness. 43:57 You said that he said, 43:59 "Honey, forgive me before I even ask." 44:01 And a lot of times we think, well, I don't have to ask for, 44:04 or forgive somebody 44:06 because they have asked for forgiveness, 44:07 you know, and we hold grudges. 44:09 And one thing I learned through listening 44:11 through a lot of her programs was that 44:14 number one, forgiveness is not always fair. 44:16 No, yeah. 44:17 It's not always fair 44:19 because you think of even Christ 44:22 when He was laid out, stretched out 44:25 and they were driving nails in His hands 44:27 and He said, 44:28 "Father, forgive them, 44:30 for they know not what they do." 44:33 He was asking for forgiveness. 44:34 And yet they were going to kill Him. 44:36 And they were piercing His hands and His feet. 44:39 You see a lot of times it's the same with us 44:42 because forgiveness is not only for the person 44:44 that we're speaking with 44:46 or we're interacting with, 44:48 but it helps us at our heart. 44:50 Yes. 44:52 It helps to strengthen us. 44:53 And sometimes we forgive things when we really don't want to, 44:57 but if we learn to forgive 45:00 and we realize it's not always fair, 45:01 then that also helps 45:03 to change the atmosphere of the home. 45:04 Oh, absolutely. 45:06 Those are very good thoughts, and can put more in as we go. 45:09 Question number two, 45:10 we should probably should at least try 45:11 to touch it a little bit. 45:13 So we're sure we got enough time. 45:14 It says, the enemy of souls. 45:15 This is a Desire of Ages or Great Controversy, isn't it? 45:18 Four or 64, 45:19 "The enemy of soul desires to hinder the work." 45:21 I think we've agreed on that, have we not? 45:24 "The enemy of soul, he's out to kill, 45:26 steal and destroy 45:28 before the time for such a movement shall come, 45:30 he will endeavor to prevent it by introducing" what? 45:33 "A counterfeit," where? 45:36 "In the churches, 45:37 which he can bring under his deceptive power. 45:39 He will make it appear 45:41 that God's special blessing is poured out. 45:43 There will be manifested, 45:45 what is thought to be a great religious," what? 45:47 "Interest here. 45:49 Multitudes would exalt that 45:50 God is working marvelous for them 45:53 when the work is that of another spirit, notice this, 45:56 under a religious guise, 45:58 Satan will seek to extend his influence 46:00 over the Christian world." 46:02 Right. 46:03 Now, are we faced with that today? 46:05 We're seeing that today and you might want to go back 46:07 and just make the point that 46:09 this is how the devil is working, 46:10 this is his plan, 46:12 to keep as many souls as possible from worshiping God 46:15 in spirit and in the truth of primitive godliness. 46:18 And you see this a lot of times, 46:20 a lot of times people, 46:22 they actually will not take a thus saith the Lord, 46:26 the Word of God, the Bible, 46:27 the way it's written 46:29 because of their church experience. 46:31 Oh, but it's so nice over here. 46:32 And I get to do this 46:34 and we're up and we're praising, 46:35 and we're seeing marvelous things, 46:38 but the Bible also teaches that we are to worship God, 46:41 I think it's John 4:23 in spirit and in truth. 46:46 So without both of those together, 46:49 we realize that 46:50 it may be another spirit working 46:52 and not, he doesn't work revealing himself 46:55 for who he is, 46:57 he's working to imitate Christ. 47:00 So you're going to get a lot of the same emotions 47:02 you would from Christ, 47:04 but it's coming from the wrong spirit. 47:07 So we have to go back always 47:09 to what God has so graciously and miraculously preserved 47:15 through many martyrs that have died. 47:17 And that is the Word of God, the Bible. 47:19 And we must base our faith, our actions, our reactions 47:24 that we talked about a little bit ago, 47:26 everything upon His Word. 47:28 And we are to worship Him in spirit and in truth. 47:31 So if we find that where we're going 47:33 is not lining up with Scripture, 47:35 then we need to look for a church 47:37 that lines up with Scripture. 47:39 There's a lot of paths out there. 47:41 There's a lot of paths and go different directions. 47:43 And everybody has the truth. 47:44 And every church is the remnant to everything in here. 47:47 Maybe one thing that we can do as God's people, 47:49 was it Jeremiah 6:16. 47:51 He said, ask for the old paths. Yes. 47:54 See, primitive to God, ask for the old path, 47:56 ask for the paths that's worn. 47:59 I mean, you can see it in our front yard 48:01 to where the deer comes through all the time. 48:03 There's actually, there's a path. 48:05 They have a certain path that they want to go 48:07 and they want to stay in 48:08 because they feel they're protected. 48:09 They feel it's a right path to stay in. 48:12 And God has given us 48:13 a beautiful, wonderful message of truth. 48:15 And we need to stay in it 48:16 because that's what he's talking about here. 48:18 What is it, John 8 says, you shall know the truth. 48:21 John 8:30, you shall know the truth 48:23 and what will the truth do? 48:25 The truth will make you free. We have to... 48:27 Yeah, set you free 48:28 because it says 48:30 there's miracles going to be performed, 48:31 so we want to hit on that just a little bit. 48:32 Miracles going to be performed, isn't that right? 48:34 And they're going to be of such a nature that the... 48:38 If we're standing there we'll not be able to detect it. 48:40 That's right. 48:41 They are going to be that marvelous as it were. 48:43 Yes. 48:45 So how are we going to know the difference 48:46 because it says here 48:48 that multitudes are going to say, 48:49 oh, well, you know, he's performed a miracle. 48:52 Look at this, only God can do that. 48:53 That's right. 48:55 So we, what are we to do as God's people? 48:57 Are we to test? Are we to try? 48:59 Or we just say, 49:00 we can't figure it out, so it must be right. 49:01 That's right. 49:03 You know, it's, you know, 49:05 as when you read this about this counterfeit 49:10 that the devil introduces, 49:14 and this is done 49:15 to prevent the true revival of primitive godliness to come. 49:20 Yes. 49:22 So how do we avoid 49:24 getting deceived by this false revival? 49:30 It's the Bible. 49:31 The Bible is our guide, it's a light unto our path. 49:36 We need to be reading the Bible. 49:38 So when a false comes, we know it's a false, 49:43 because we know we are reading the scriptures 49:46 and I want to say, God doesn't have fine print, 49:49 He has the scriptures 49:52 that He reveals the truth to us in His scriptures. 49:54 I know that some people know about the fine print. 49:56 Remember, read the fine print that doesn't have fine print, 49:59 it's all there clear in the Scripture 50:01 to Genesis to Revelation. 50:03 There is no, there is no hiding of what he's going to do. 50:07 He's already told us like 50:08 we say here at many times at 3ABN, 50:10 we read the back of the book 50:12 and we know that God's people are victorious 50:15 and they live each eternally happy and peacefully. 50:21 So we know that the enemy will be destroyed, 50:24 but we don't want to be deceived 50:25 because Matthew 24 says that 50:28 if possible will deceive the very elect. 50:30 Well, how do you avoid getting deceived? 50:33 This is the only way. You must stay close to Jesus. 50:34 You must be. 50:36 We must be reading the scriptures daily, daily. 50:39 And I say daily, because 50:41 if you skip a day, it's dangerous. 50:44 These days that we live in, skipping a day is dangerous. 50:48 You know, in having to go to the hospital with my wife. 50:53 And sometimes they prescribe these medicines 50:55 and they give you these antibiotics 50:57 and they say, do not skip a day. 50:59 And if you notice you skip one, get on it right away. 51:03 So just the same way. 51:05 This is medicine for our souls, for our lives. 51:08 Eat every single morning 51:10 that you have an opportunity to connect with the Lord 51:12 through prayer and reading of the scriptures, 51:14 take it, because it will be for your benefit. 51:17 This is just, you had something to say, 51:20 I just want just quickly we have what? 51:21 Six minutes or so left. 51:24 It boils down to something that's very simple 51:26 because you'll say, well, our eyes may deceive us, 51:28 our ears may deceive us, you know, what we deliver. 51:30 But I found something I thought Review and Herald article 51:32 in a little magazine 825 and 85. 51:35 And it talks about, that's 1885. 51:37 So it says this, 51:39 "Satan gives his power 51:40 to those who are aiding him in his deceptions." 51:43 Wow. 51:44 So Satan gives his power 51:46 to those who are working for him 51:48 so that it's superhuman power that they too have. 51:51 Like God's people have supernatural power, right? 51:54 As the Holy Spirit. Now notice how it goes in. 51:56 Now, it can be very simple 51:58 because sometime we're praising a lot of things 52:01 that's going on in the world, 52:02 and may I just say boldly, 52:03 a lot of people in the world today 52:05 that are breaking God's commandments. 52:07 We have to be very careful. 52:08 We don't elevate them and lift them up 52:10 that this is God's people. 52:11 This is the one that blah-blah, blah-blah... 52:13 Notice how this continues to read on, it says, 52:16 "Those who claim to have the great power of God, 52:20 notice this, those who claim to be." 52:21 We have it because miracles are being performed. 52:24 There's healings going on, 52:25 praise God for all that if it's legitimate, 52:27 but notice this, what happened? 52:28 "The power of God can only be discerned 52:31 by the great detector of the law of Jehovah. 52:35 That's right. So what is it? 52:36 It's a moral standard, Ten Commandment law. 52:39 That's how you very simply can discern truth from error. 52:44 Even though you can't explain it, 52:46 you just look at the background. 52:47 Are they by God's grace obeying God's law? 52:51 If they are not, it's not the power of God, 52:53 because he's not going to work at cross purposes with himself. 52:57 I mean, to me, it just makes it real simple, 52:59 but it's very offensive to some people. 53:01 That's not offensive to me 53:02 because that's in the Word of God. 53:04 He blesses those, right, 53:05 blessing pronounced upon those 53:07 who keep the commandments of God, 53:09 have the faith of Jesus. 53:10 You know, I would like to say this 53:11 because I think is important. 53:13 And that is the Bible says, 53:15 "You shall know them by their fruits." 53:18 Notice it says, 53:20 "You shall know them by their fruits, 53:21 the things they say, and the things they do." 53:23 Come on. 53:24 It doesn't say you shall know them 53:26 by what they have 53:27 or what they have not, 53:29 because some people get the idea, 53:30 oh, that brother's blessed 53:32 because he's got this, this and that. 53:33 And he's got a house, cars 53:35 and several cars and several houses. 53:36 That is not the criteria that the Bible brings out. 53:41 The criteria for knowing if you are with Jesus, 53:44 is that have you surrender your heart to the Lord 53:47 and you're going to be, it's going to be manifest 53:49 that you're going to obey His commandments, 53:52 by this, shall all men know that you are My disciples. 53:57 If you love Me, and keep My commandments. 53:59 Yes. 54:01 I do want to make a quick point 54:02 because not everybody's at that point yet. 54:05 And God holds us accountable for the light that we have. 54:08 But once we begin to see this light, 54:11 then we're to walk in that light. 54:13 You know, so there's a lot of people. 54:14 He says, I have a lot of sheep that are not of this fold 54:17 and He's calling them out. 54:19 So once they see and they hear the light, 54:21 they need to come out 54:22 and to join God's remnant church, 54:25 you know, but until then, 54:26 they're responsible for what light that they have. 54:29 And so, the Bible is the discerner of truth. 54:32 I think we all agree on that for sure. 54:34 But there's so many winds of doctrines out there 54:37 that people they get to the point 54:38 they don't even want to listen. 54:40 You know, I've seen on the internet, 54:42 like I was listening to this one guy 54:44 just for a short bit, 54:45 and he said, he was talking about another man 54:47 that is in a state close to us. 54:49 He said, well, this is an up and coming prophet. 54:51 How can you be an up and coming prophet? 54:53 And, you know, they were talking about the dreams 54:55 that he had and prophecies that he had. 54:57 Well, what little I heard of this one pertaining. 54:59 And I wouldn't even tell you what it's about, 55:01 but far as I can see it hasn't come true 55:03 and that's within and without 55:06 what we would consider God's remnant church. 55:09 You know, I had a call yesterday 55:10 from a lady in Georgia 55:12 and she was sharing about some other prophecies 55:15 that someone within the Adventist movement, 55:18 you know, were making 55:19 that were supposed to happen on Thanksgiving. 55:21 You know, we must be very, very careful. 55:25 These things will happen, 55:27 but we need to know it's from God. 55:29 Amen. 55:30 We need to know, 55:31 and we build our faith on the Word of God. 55:33 Another point I wanted 55:35 to make just real, real quick on this 55:38 is because there's so many people. 55:40 In fact, I speak in with someone 55:42 I love dearly. 55:43 And he said, 55:44 "Well, you know, there's just so much doom and gloom. 55:46 You guys need to talk about something else." 55:48 But we do talk about a lot of other things. 55:51 But right now, 55:52 and the atmosphere in our government 55:54 and in our land, 55:55 people need to have their eyes open. 55:58 We need to understand what's happening 56:00 and how it fits with God's Word so that we're not deceived. 56:04 Closing thought. 56:05 We have a minute and 30 seconds. 56:07 A closing thought, I would like to fix that, 56:09 I combined two verses. Come on. 56:11 He says, "By this shall all may know that 56:12 you are My disciple 56:14 if you have love one for another. 56:16 The other one says that 56:20 "You should love Me, and keep My commandments." 56:22 Now, I would like to finish with this scripture 56:25 because I said, you know, 56:26 we should humble ourselves and surrender to the Lord. 56:30 And God is working in our lives. 56:31 Philippians 1:6, Jesus says, 56:34 "Being confident of this very thing 56:36 that he who has begun a good work in you 56:39 will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." 56:43 Let us cooperate with Him 56:44 because He wants to complete that marvelous work. 56:46 Amen. 56:47 Honey, we have 50 seconds or so. 56:49 So I'm going to ask you to make a little appeal to the people, 56:51 and then you close out our program for us. 56:53 Would you do that, please? Oh, I can share it though. 56:55 Yeah. Just talk to somebody right now. 56:57 Well, we've been talking about so many things, but I think, 57:00 you know, to close out this program, 57:02 every doctrine, 57:03 wherever you are, 57:05 wherever you are in your walk with the Lord, 57:07 your walk with your church or your fellow people 57:10 that are around your fellow Christians, 57:12 everything must be weighed 57:14 against the infallible Word of God, every doctrine. 57:17 It reminds me of Christ 57:19 when He was tempted at the devil 57:20 and how He answered it is written, 57:22 and hopefully in another program, 57:24 we'll get to that. 57:25 But just hold on to Jesus as never, before, look to Him, 57:28 ask Him what you should do. 57:30 And until next time 57:31 may our Lord continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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