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00:02 I want to spend my life
00:08 Mending broken people 00:13 I want to spend 00:15 My life 00:19 Removing pain 00:24 Lord, let my words 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 00:52 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello and a big welcome to 3ABN Family Worship Hour. 01:13 We were excited about the study, 01:15 I know what it's been a long time in coming, 01:16 but we're going to get down and finish today. 01:18 We're going to be talking about Primitive Godliness, 01:21 and that's something to me 01:22 it can go on week after week after week 01:24 because I believe is present truth. 01:27 Present truth is what we need, 01:29 it's what God's movement needs for today 01:31 as things that are happening in the world, 01:33 how we need to get ready for the coming of Jesus 01:35 and I believe by the grace of God, 01:36 the power of the Holy Spirit, 01:38 through these past studies 01:41 that the Holy Spirit is impressed 01:42 to your heart and your mind 01:43 that you made decisions 01:45 that you want to be ready for the coming of Jesus, 01:47 that's the most important thing that I can think about. 01:49 Just be ready. 01:51 So today we're gonna be talking about question number six. 01:53 You know what, I'm gonna read that question number six 01:56 and then we're gonna come back and introduce 01:57 and then we're going to have prayer, 01:59 but the question reads like this. 02:01 "The decisive hour is even now at hand." 02:03 Did you get that, that what? Good. 02:05 "The decisive hour is at hand," 02:08 notice this, 02:09 "and our feet planted, is our, 02:11 our feet planted on the rock of God's immutable Word. 02:15 Are we prepared to stand firm," 02:16 notice what, 02:18 "in defense of the commandments of God 02:19 in the faith of Jesus?" 02:21 Great Controversy, 594. 02:23 A lot of subject, a lot of meat. 02:25 And so we want to make sure 02:27 that you stay with us for today. 02:29 Honey, before we have prayer, 02:30 I'd like for you just to introduce the ones 02:32 who are with us that are helping us today, 02:33 part of our family we feel. 02:34 Oh, yes, yes. 02:36 I look forward to introducing them. 02:38 And by the way, since you mentioned 02:40 this is part 6, 02:41 if you are interested 02:42 in listening to the other five parts, 02:44 just go to 3ABN YouTube channel 02:46 and you can search out "Primitive Godliness" 02:49 with Pastor Kenny and Chris Shelton. 02:51 And to my right is our nephew Terry Jean Shelton. 02:55 You always had to put that Jean in there. 02:57 I had to put that Jean in there every time. 03:00 That's okay. 03:01 That's okay. 03:03 Probably since you were a young man, 03:04 I probably called you Terry Jean. 03:05 I don't know where it came from but... 03:07 Well, it's my middle name, so yeah. 03:09 Thank you for inviting me. 03:11 I'm honored to be here today. 03:12 Oh, it's always a blessing. 03:14 It's always a blessing to have you. 03:15 In fact, for those of you at home that don't know 03:18 this was Terry's idea. 03:20 He said, 03:21 "We need a family worship on Primitive Godliness." 03:23 So even though he hasn't been able to join us 03:25 for all six programs, 03:28 this was because of him. 03:29 I thought, okay, we're gonna do it, 03:31 and to his right is Don Owen. 03:33 Brother Don Owen works up in pastoral. 03:37 Don, you want to tell us a little bit 03:38 about your duties here at 3ABN. 03:40 Oh, yes. I'm just so thankful. 03:41 The Lord is mighty 03:43 and He places us where He needs us. 03:44 Yes. Hallelujah. 03:46 You know, it's amazing. 03:47 Ever, who'd ever thought I'd be in a pastoral department 03:49 growing up? 03:50 But that's where the Lord has planted me. 03:51 I'm so thankful and 3ABN just, 03:54 what it's doing around the world 03:55 is just, it's incredible 03:57 and how we're touching life. 03:58 Yes, and it's been a long time 04:00 since you've spoken at Behold the Lamb. 04:02 But he also can speak as well not just answer phones 04:06 and share Jesus over the phone, 04:08 but I know that you and your wife. 04:09 Your wife has a lovely voice, can come and speak 04:12 and that's a really great thing. 04:14 Amen. Sounds like an open door. 04:16 An open door. 04:18 I guess it is. It is, it is. 04:21 Let's just say it is, you'll be back, 04:23 and then to his right is no stranger to anybody, 04:28 Pastor John Dinzey 04:30 and, Pastor, you wear a lot of hats here 04:32 but I know probably 04:34 your biggest hat might be the 3ABN Latino Channel. 04:38 Yes, 3ABN Latino Channel, that God is using 04:41 to reach many, many people for Jesus. 04:43 Amen. 04:44 That is so vitally important, people don't realize, 04:48 there's so many people that speak Spanish 04:50 so to start that, that station 04:53 was just such an answer to prayer. 04:55 I know the Lord had put it on your heart 04:57 for many years, 04:58 and it finally came to fruition. 05:00 And He does many miracles, 05:01 I get excited when I hear those miracle stories, 05:03 maybe you'll have one for us today, 05:06 but we'll see if it fits. 05:07 Amen. Okay. 05:08 Okay, I think we need to have prayer, right? 05:10 And get started in our study. 05:12 Brother Terry, how about you, my friend, 05:13 would you pray for us please? 05:15 Heavenly Father, we come to You in Jesus' name. 05:18 And we come to You in Jesus' name 05:20 because there is no other name given among men 05:23 whereby we must be saved. 05:25 We come to the throne of grace just now, 05:27 inviting the Holy Spirit to be with us 05:29 during our study here today, tonight 05:31 at whatever time the viewers may be watching. 05:34 May Your presence be felt, 05:36 may our minds and our hearts be uplifted 05:39 and drawn to the throne of grace and glory, 05:41 and may we, and those who view, 05:45 whatever time may we all draw strength and courage 05:49 to stand firm in the times that we're living in. 05:53 So we thank You for the promise 05:55 that where two or three are gathered together 05:56 that You would be in the midst of us. 05:58 We thank You in Jesus' name. 06:00 Amen. Amen. 06:01 Praise the Lord. 06:03 Now for those who you know maybe just tuning in right now, 06:05 we read question number six to be our last question 06:08 on this study. 06:09 Now I think could be well for us. 06:11 And if you have that, 06:12 that we might want to read that question again. 06:14 Number six. 06:15 And again, it starts out this way. 06:17 It's what I like for each one of you here today. 06:20 The decisive. 06:21 Decisive. 06:23 Every time I hear decisive, I pay attention, 06:27 because it deserves, maybe immediate attention. 06:30 So make sure you have pencil and paper 06:32 and get ready jot some things down 06:33 in case we move too quickly for you because you need to be, 06:35 you know, putting these things down 06:37 and go back to study to show yourself 06:38 approved unto God. 06:40 Amen. 06:41 Honey, would you read that for us? 06:42 Well, I think this is such a timely question, 06:44 of course, when we started this study 06:45 it seemed timely then 06:47 but how much more pertinent it is right now. 06:51 So I can't wait to get into this question, 06:53 but it reads, 06:55 "The decisive hour is even now at hand. 06:58 Are our feet planted on the rock 07:00 of God's immutable law." 07:02 Listen to that immutable Word? 07:04 "Are we prepared to stand firm 07:07 in defense of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus?" 07:13 And I just want to jump real quick to a quote 07:16 that's found in the book Maranatha on page 263, 07:20 and it reads 07:22 "The events connected with the close of probation, 07:25 and the work of preparation 07:27 for the time of trouble are clearly presented." 07:30 Do we see that? 07:32 Even outside the Word of God, 07:34 do we see that 07:35 when we're listening to the news? 07:37 Do we hear it? 07:38 Do we, on the streets of our cities 07:40 and now just even recently our small town, 07:42 I don't know how many of you know about it, 07:44 but just a few weeks ago 07:45 my daughter, our daughter 07:47 and grandson and my sister-in-law 07:49 and her grandchildren 07:51 were at a park here in park and gun shots rang out. 07:54 It's only by the grace of God, 07:55 nobody was hit, and nobody was hurt. 07:58 "But multitudes have no more understanding 08:01 of these important truths 08:03 that if they had never been revealed." 08:06 What does that tell us? 08:08 We're not picking up the Word of God, 08:10 we're not studying it, we're not putting it, 08:13 we're not writing it in our hearts 08:14 and in our minds. 08:15 "Satan watches," who? 08:18 Satan. 08:19 "He's out to kill, steal and destroy. 08:21 He watches to catch away 08:23 every impression that would make them wise 08:25 unto salvation, 08:27 and the time of trouble 08:29 will find them unready. 08:33 The decisive hour is now at hand. 08:36 Are our feet 08:38 planted on the rock of God's immutable Word?" 08:41 Amen. Amen. 08:42 So we can start in different directions here 08:44 but my eye went back to question even number five, 08:48 because it's food. 08:49 It's food right now because it says, 08:51 "To every soul will come to searching test." 08:54 That means everybody, isn't that right? 08:56 Everybody's going to have that searching test, 08:59 but the eye of God is on. 09:00 So we're going to be tested that we might be candidates 09:03 or, you know, good candidates for, for heaven here. 09:06 It says, "Shall I obey God rather than men." 09:09 So, it goes in all directions, but the test is going to come. 09:13 We're either going to obey man, or we're going to obey God 09:16 and then get back to the point 09:18 of the decisive hour is now at hand. 09:21 Anyone have a common on that? Go, yes. 09:23 Yeah, I think you know, 09:24 we just went to Chicago recently. 09:26 And you're talking about the movements. 09:28 At night there was cops 09:29 on every corner of every street, 09:31 they've had so many murders in the last few weeks. 09:34 We see things just wrapping up quickly 09:36 but really cool in Chicago what happened, 09:38 my wife and I were out there filming some stuff 09:40 for something I'm starting, 09:41 and we ran into a homeless man by the name of Nicholas, 09:45 and we, I don't know, we were actually gonna 09:47 just walk right past the man, 09:49 and I just for some reason started to struck up 09:50 a conversation as we're talking. 09:52 He said, "He's homeless." 09:53 He said, 09:54 "You know how hopeless it is out here 09:56 when you're homeless." 09:57 He said, 09:59 "The other day, I was actually so tempted to steal. 10:00 It was so strong." 10:02 He said, 10:03 "I just wanted to steal so bad, 10:04 and I know God, I know God, I heard the Holy Spirit say, 10:07 "Do not steal," and I didn't steal. 10:09 And so we're talking about the immutable, 10:11 you know, the God's immutable Word. 10:13 Yes. Amen. 10:14 And the man said, "I'm not gonna steal." 10:15 So this day, you know, 10:17 he needed some help financially. 10:18 My wife helped him a little bit, 10:20 but we gave him, Danny, not Danny. 10:21 We gave him. 10:23 Pastor John Lomacang's Three Angels Messages book, 10:24 three of them. 10:25 She said, "Hand these out." 10:27 And he held the money in his hand, he said, 10:28 "This, this here is temporal. This is temporal." 10:32 He said, "I need it. 10:33 Yes, I need it but this here, this is eternal. 10:36 This has eternal value. 10:38 Thank you, I needed this. 10:39 I need to read it. 10:41 This is gonna give me eternal value." 10:42 It was really powerful. 10:44 So we have Nicholas, 10:45 what a powerful story and just... 10:47 Amen. 10:48 This is, you know, these are people in the streets 10:49 that need to hear the Word and we need to get it out so. 10:51 People, I look at the people in the streets 10:53 and I think, you know, but for the grace of God, 10:56 it could be any of us, any one of us. 10:59 And it may be someday. 11:01 You know we see things happening, 11:03 and there's gonna come a time 11:04 where we have to flee everything, 11:06 and we will be homeless. 11:08 I remember, this just brought to mind something. 11:11 I remember about 10 years ago I had an opportunity 11:14 to make a business trip to San Diego, 11:17 and my son and I were down by this pier. 11:20 And there was this boat that was enormous. 11:24 I mean, it was, it was a yacht-yacht. 11:27 You know, it was huge. 11:29 And I said, "Man, look at that boat!" 11:30 It was had like four levels, it's so fancy. 11:33 And it had the name on the side 11:34 and so I looked up the name on my smartphone 11:36 and, and he's, it had the name and it told 11:40 who the owner was a multi, multimillionaire, 11:44 you know that owned his boat. 11:46 But the thing is 11:47 we did a little bit of traveling 11:49 and we only went about three or four blocks from that pier. 11:53 And we came upon this section 11:55 where there was rows and rows of cardboard boxes, 11:58 people living in cardboard boxes, 12:01 and I said look, 12:02 within a matter of three or four blocks, is it, 12:04 I think it was like a $250 million boat, 12:08 and then you have these people here living in boxes 12:12 and the selfishness of man was so on display 12:16 in that kind of thing. 12:18 Now I don't know anything about the owner and I didn't, 12:21 you know, I'm not judging him or whatever, 12:23 I'm just saying that, that the separation 12:26 like you talked about the separation that line, 12:27 really, the lines are being drawn in this society, 12:31 lining the sand, right? 12:33 Drawing a line in the sand 12:34 in a society that we're living in, 12:36 and we are being divided 12:39 according to what society wants us to be divided 12:42 and that comes back to 12:43 whose side are you going to be on in the end. 12:45 Amen. 12:47 Divide. 12:48 Well, there's definitely also a breakdown 12:50 in the morality in the world. 12:53 I don't know where you can begin to describe it, 12:56 but what was shocking. 12:59 Several years ago, let's say 10 years ago 13:02 now is very common, 13:03 and apparently accepted in society. 13:06 And this is, this is, tells us of the hour that we live in. 13:10 And we... 13:13 It's a fearful thing to even bring children up 13:15 in this age and time that we live in. 13:17 Yes. 13:19 But when you, when you consider... 13:20 We've seen, we've seen things in the past 13:25 that apparently, 13:28 it's the people back then would all be alive and say, 13:32 I can't believe this is happening and even, 13:34 I'm gonna say even in churches, 13:36 you see things that you were shocked about. 13:38 Yes. Yes. 13:40 Unfortunately, 13:43 it seems to be 13:45 either that people are turning their eyes away 13:47 from what is truth, what is correct, what is right, 13:51 by little by little the standard of morality 13:54 is being lowered and lowered, 13:56 and there's gonna come a time 13:58 when to stand for right will appear, 14:02 You're gonna be singled out and it's already happening. 14:05 Yes. It's already happening. 14:06 Yeah. 14:07 Yeah, I heard I think it was this past week, 14:10 there were more, you know, with shootings in Chicago 14:13 you were talking about here more deaths by man 14:16 than it was by COVID, you know, as they, 14:19 you know their ratio because it's going quite down there, 14:22 but there was like 74 that were wounded 14:24 and five or six that were killed, 14:26 and just in the Chicago area. 14:28 And so we see the morality of man 14:31 and we realized that's part of the signs of the times 14:34 that is declining, 14:35 I mean to the point where it seems that 14:38 men have no conscience anymore. 14:41 Some of the things that they do 14:42 and some of the things that they're showing, 14:44 they're showing some of the abuse even on TV, 14:46 of somebody just walking down the street 14:48 to be a family man, the wife and a daughter, 14:50 and somebody jumps out of a car, 14:52 you know, with the mask on or whatever and a gun 14:55 and tried to shoot it 14:56 in between and between the kids, 14:58 and so on and so forth. 14:59 You think, what is wrong? 15:01 What is going on? 15:03 Could it be possibly that we've gotten away 15:05 what we're talking about there from the Word of God, 15:08 and the commandments of God? 15:11 No longer do we have any, you know, moral absolutes. 15:14 Right. 15:16 You know, we've backed up on it, 15:18 and I'm not trying to blame the world. 15:21 I don't want you to think I'm trying to blame the world 15:22 or things are going worst, maybe, maybe it's us. 15:26 Maybe, maybe it's part to do, maybe our church, 15:30 it could be things that are going, 15:31 not in every church I understand 15:33 but there's things that are going on 15:34 that we are around that we become... 15:37 The Bible says, you know, lukewarm. 15:39 We've become cold. 15:42 And we shouldn't be, we're lukewarm. 15:44 I say lukewarm or cold which you'd rather have. 15:45 Would you rather have cold, 15:47 but lukewarm is a very dangerous. 15:49 And that lukewarmness is a pretense 15:52 that we believe the truth that we have the truth 15:56 that we're to give the truth, 15:57 but yet we fail some time to let it come inside 16:00 and really make the necessary changes 16:03 because maybe because it's painful 16:07 and could it be right now. 16:09 The decisive hours at hand, that we have to do 16:12 what the Holy Spirit impresses each one of us to do. 16:16 No man should tell you spiritually, 16:18 what you should do or what you shouldn't do, 16:19 is that okay to say that? 16:21 No man should tell you what you should say, 16:24 what you shouldn't say, 16:26 but it certainly you gauge it by the Word of God 16:29 to see whether it's in the Word of God and it's right, 16:31 but there are many even in our society today, 16:33 they try to tell you really kind of what to believe 16:35 and how to believe and what you can say, 16:37 what you can't say and so on so forth. 16:39 And we don't want to put ourselves in that position 16:41 because the Holy Spirit is impressing each one of us 16:44 to work, in the ability and the gifts and talents 16:47 that He has given. 16:48 And some are little rambunctious 16:50 and others are more laid back, 16:51 but God will use every one to His honor and His glory. 16:53 So I think it's decisive hour right now, 16:56 and I believe this, 16:58 that our message needs to be turned up. 17:02 Our message has to be turned up. 17:04 I believe it's gone the wrong direction, 17:05 that's just me personally, please let me say it, 17:08 that's the way I feel in my heart. 17:09 If I'm wrong, and it's proven wrong, 17:10 I'll get on here and say, you know, I'm sorry, 17:12 I really shouldn't have said that. 17:14 But Jesus is not here, that's my standard right now, 17:18 Jesus is not here. 17:19 And why isn't He here? 17:21 Air He could have come. 17:22 Now am I wrong, apparently anybody can chime in here. 17:25 Could He have come air before this time? 17:28 Sure. 17:30 And if He's not, then why not? 17:32 Yeah. 17:33 Any thoughts on that? Could He have come? 17:35 Oh, we were told that He is waiting to see 17:37 His character fully reproduced through His people 17:40 and then He shall come. 17:42 And what we're, you know, in combining what you said 17:45 with what Pastor John said, 17:47 I wanted to kind of go back just a little bit 17:50 because you were giving overall biblical view. 17:52 He was giving the, 17:54 what we're seeing happening right now in our world. 17:57 You know, a few years ago, 17:58 it was popular in the United States 18:00 at least to be a Christian. 18:01 Uh-huh. 18:03 But now, it's not so much, 18:06 unless you're beginning 18:07 to change the rhetoric of what you believe, 18:10 and we see that within our own denomination 18:13 and outside of our denomination which you pointed out one, 18:17 you know that even, 18:18 it's a law that's been passed against 18:20 God's moral principles of His Word, 18:23 you know, there's been more than one, 18:25 but one that you alluded to, but you're also finding now 18:30 that it's being taught in many churches. 18:33 Has God changed? 18:35 Has His Word changed? Wow. 18:37 And yet you can go back to the Dark Ages, 18:40 and who were the heretics? 18:42 The heretics were the ones who stood as Christ stood, 18:46 and would rather die than commit what? 18:50 Sin. Sin. 18:52 So sin is what separates us from heaven. 18:55 Sin is what the enemy wants us to get to 18:58 in order to lose our salvation. 19:01 So it's the same rhetoric, I was looking 19:04 before we started because there was a quote 19:06 that I've heard more than one 19:08 by the Beast Power of Daniel 7 and 8 right now, 19:12 say that 19:13 "Those are the dangerous people 19:15 those who will not change," you know, 19:16 "those who, who take the word of God as it reads, 19:19 and they stand on that as a firm foundation." 19:22 He doesn't use it in those exact terms, 19:24 but I couldn't find that quote to share with you, 19:27 but let me share this with you from Isaiah 5:20, 19:30 And it's a warning, 19:32 Isaiah has given us a warning here. 19:33 It says, "Woe to them that call evil good," 19:36 which you've alluded to that. 19:38 "Woe to them that call evil good and good evil." 19:42 We are seeing that within and without the church. 19:45 Yes, yes. 19:47 How many times have you just felt like 19:49 it's just overwhelming 19:50 and it blows your mind when you hear 19:53 what we consider same people saying 19:55 some of the things that they do 19:57 and how they flip flop on so many issues 20:00 and how all of a sudden, 20:02 you're a white, right wing Christian, 20:05 you know, you're not up with the times, 20:08 you're not accepting, you're not loving, 20:10 you're not Christ like. 20:11 Really? 20:13 Let me go on. 20:15 It says, "That put darkness for light." 20:19 So the darkness we know when we're studying the Bible 20:21 that represents evil, that's the bad things 20:24 that we need to stay away with. 20:25 The light represents Christ who, what, 20:27 in fact, Christ said, He is the what? 20:30 He is the light of the world. 20:31 "And light for darkness." 20:33 So they're giving light for darkness. 20:36 "And put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." 20:39 Everything's flip flopped. That's right. 20:41 That's how I have felt over this past year. 20:44 Everything has flipped flopped. 20:46 "We are here, 20:47 the truth has fallen in the streets, 20:49 this is outside of that passage, 20:50 the truth has fallen in the streets, 20:53 and left there to perish, 20:55 while err is rejoiced over as truth." 20:59 But why is truth, the question is, 21:02 why is truth fallen in the streets, 21:05 and who dares to pick it up? 21:09 Who dares to pick it up? 21:10 Because when you dare to pick it up and proclaim it, 21:13 you are a target. 21:14 Right. That's right. 21:16 You know, so this made me think of something in my mind 21:17 when you're talking, 21:18 we can actually boil this down to say 21:20 actually Jesus is a terrorist. 21:22 Oh, absolutely. 21:23 Isn't that amazing? Think about it. 21:24 Jesus is actually a terrorist people can serve, 21:26 so if we are Christ's 21:27 and we are considered a terrorist. 21:29 And that's just an interesting thought that, 21:30 you know, this is how far God, 21:32 I think it's 2 Timothy 2:4, it says, 21:35 "Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, 21:37 reprove, rebuke, exhort 21:39 with all longsuffering and doctrine. 21:41 For the time will come 21:43 and they will not endure sound doctrine, 21:45 but after their own loss they shall heap to themselves 21:48 teachers having itching ears, 21:50 and they shall turn away their ears from the truth 21:52 and shall be turned unto fables." 21:54 Yes. I see it. 21:55 Flipping upside down. 21:56 We're seeing prophecy fulfilled. 21:59 And it takes spiritual eyesight because it, 22:02 it's also astonishing to me 22:04 when I meet people who are just very complacent. 22:07 They don't see the difference between right and wrong. 22:10 And the reason goes back to our question, 22:14 because their feet are not planted on the rock 22:18 of God's immutable Word. 22:21 And so if we are not making a commitment, 22:23 a decisive commitment each and every day 22:26 to study that Word, 22:27 and I wish I could turn the clock back, 22:29 I wish I had the memory 22:31 I used to have when I was younger 22:32 and I can look at things 22:34 that are so easy to memorize them. 22:35 I have a lot that by the grace of God 22:37 sometimes He brings forth, 22:39 but I'm not one that can just always say, 22:41 well, this passage, that passage, 22:42 I've got to look it up, you know, 22:44 but it's just, we've got to put it, 22:48 we've got to understand it, 22:49 it has to be a part of our minds and our hearts. 22:53 It's God's reflection. 22:55 His Word is how He speaks to us, 22:57 what He reflects through that Word. 22:58 Yes. 22:59 I was just thinking, 23:01 I don't know how many of our viewers are, 23:02 you know, heavy users of social media 23:04 and I have one social media account, 23:07 I try to use it for ministry purposes. 23:09 But oftentimes, when you throw something out there 23:12 that is biblical truth, 23:14 boy you get people come after you. 23:15 Yes. 23:16 You know, if you make a statement that says, 23:19 you know, "God created one man and one woman to be together." 23:22 Boy, people come after you, you know. 23:24 Because it doesn't go with the... 23:26 It doesn't go with the, what society now. 23:29 Yeah the rhetoric or the societal norm, you know. 23:34 All you have to do is go on any website 23:36 and you see the little rainbow and the colors 23:38 in the corners and everything. 23:40 It's being forced upon us. 23:43 And like you said, good for evil, evil for good. 23:46 And now all of a sudden those of us who, 23:49 what was America like 100 years ago? 23:51 About family values and, you know, 23:54 and you know, had fathers in the homes and whatever, 23:58 and all is out the door now. 23:59 Yeah. 24:00 You know, and things have changed so much. 24:02 And now those of us 24:03 who still try to hold to those principles 24:05 were looked at as, as crazy, you know, and, oh, we don't, 24:09 you know, you don't love people and whatever. 24:11 It's just not true, is it? No. 24:13 You know, God... 24:14 No, but if you love someone. Yes. 24:16 If you love someone, if you really love people, 24:18 you're gonna present them to the truth, right? 24:20 Exactly. 24:21 And really that there is a judgment 24:23 that is coming upon the face of the earth 24:26 upon every human being, 24:27 and we want people to survive the judgment. 24:29 Amen. 24:30 I've just got to insert this little point. 24:33 It's because you see all of these things, 24:36 I look at it as a great orchestra 24:39 that's being orchestrated to set it up 24:41 because how many of us just maybe 20 years ago, 24:45 could have thought, 24:46 okay, there's going to be laws passed 24:49 like a Sunday law. 24:50 How could that be worldwide? 24:53 Do you see what's happening? 24:55 Oh, Jesus, yeah. 24:56 Now they're saying 24:57 we're so interdependent upon one another 24:59 that we all need a great reset. 25:02 We all need to come together under one umbrella. 25:05 The great reset talks about 25:07 even our economic system in a world, 25:10 one which we've heard about 25:11 since what, the 80s, 70s, 80s having a different, 25:14 you know, type of currency that would be worldwide, 25:17 but you can see all of these things 25:20 bringing us under a different umbrella. 25:23 You can see where those of us who hold on to the Word of God 25:28 are gonna be looked at again as heretics, 25:31 as not interested in the common good of everyone, 25:37 because there's talk now, 25:38 you know, of shutting things down 25:41 and it's for the common good, 25:42 it's for the family well, if it, if we stand up 25:45 for what the Word of God says, 25:47 then all of a sudden, 25:49 well you're, you don't care about anybody. 25:50 But you're gonna be criticized. 25:52 And you'll be criticized for it. 25:53 There's one person I do say little, 25:55 you know, little texting back and forth a different guy, 25:57 you know, when he's down there, 25:59 "You're just, you're just like a little boy 26:01 compared to the knowledge that I have of Scripture." 26:04 Well, says become as little children, 26:06 so I guess maybe I am I couldn't fight that one back, 26:09 but it's right quick 26:10 you give them the truth of God's Word backed up 26:12 there it is for and right quick it's like, 26:14 you don't understand what's going on in the world. 26:17 We have to be able to absorb that 26:19 by the Holy Spirit, by the grace of God. 26:21 Find another opportunity to come back 26:23 maybe a little bit later on 26:24 that may not be 26:25 if you're found some time that's not a good argument, 26:27 you kind of have to back away at times, discussion, 26:30 if you've postponed it 26:32 or maybe zipped it at a time or two, 26:34 I don't know if you have or not but I've had too few time, 26:36 another time, I just let it out. 26:38 Yeah. 26:40 You know I was, as you were speaking 26:44 with the conversation here. 26:46 I remember an experience 26:48 that when I was in the army in Germany. 26:51 We had a visit from Chaplain Bowen, 26:54 somebody may be listening that may remember that name. 26:57 And he took a train from Frankfurt, Germany, 27:02 all the way to BA blingen, Germany. 27:07 And he presented the sermon to us. 27:10 And as he was coming, he said that on the train, 27:14 he started looking around, 27:15 it's about four and a half hour trip. 27:17 He started looking around, he saw this man 27:19 that was across from him, 27:21 and he didn't know him. 27:24 But a question came to his mind. 27:27 Do I love this man? 27:29 Yeah. 27:30 And so, as he said that, it caused me to think, 27:34 well, you know, we were supposed to. 27:37 The Bible says that, 27:39 "God so loved the world 27:40 that He gave His only begotten Son." 27:42 Shouldn't there be in us as well? 27:44 That we love our fellow man, 27:47 that we should bring to them the message of salvation. 27:51 You know, I was thinking 27:53 of some family members the other day 27:54 and I started to go through the names of each one. 27:58 And I said, well, this one is not a Christian, 28:00 this one's not a Christian. 28:01 And it occurred to me, I said, you know, they could be lost. 28:05 What am I doing to help them? 28:08 And so, if you, if you think about your family members 28:12 and they are in your understanding, 28:15 not walking with the Lord, 28:17 do you love your family members enough to tell them, 28:19 hey, I'm concerned, 28:21 you're not walking with the Lord, 28:23 please consider this, you know, but how about the other people? 28:26 Because we're supposed to love our neighbor as ourselves. 28:29 If we love our neighbor as ourselves, 28:31 shouldn't we be concerned about their salvation as well. 28:34 So, I'm praying, 28:36 Lord, give me a love for my fellow man. 28:38 Amen. 28:40 A love for my neighbor, 28:41 to the degree that 28:43 I can say something to him, to her, to them, 28:46 you know, Jesus is coming soon. 28:47 Yes. 28:49 I mean we're talking about that we're seeing signs, 28:51 fulfilling prophecy. 28:52 Yes. 28:54 And what are we doing? 28:55 Are we letting people know 28:57 that we should be getting ready for what is coming? 28:59 You're talking about the decisive hour is coming. 29:01 Yes. 29:03 If a decisive hour is coming, 29:05 everyone is gonna have to make a decision 29:07 for the Lord, or not for the Lord. 29:09 Amen. 29:10 If we say if I asked the question, 29:12 if the Lord would have come yesterday, last week, 29:16 what would happen to me, to this family member, 29:19 to this friend, this neighborhood, 29:20 what would have happened? 29:22 Well, you might be able to say, 29:24 Oh I know, I saw a picture of a family member, 29:27 not too long ago, 29:30 with a beer and smoking a cigarette 29:33 and I said, I didn't know he smoked. 29:36 You know, and I said, you know, they're in danger. 29:39 They are in danger. 29:40 Oh, Lord help us, help us to know how to reach them. 29:43 Give us the words. 29:45 What can we share with them 29:46 that will say, I didn't realize I was in danger? 29:49 You know, we really need to pray for the Lord to give us 29:51 that holy zeal that we need. 29:53 Yeah, I had something like that happened to me, 29:55 again in Chicago, 29:56 we just got out of our parking garages. 29:57 There's these two men, literally not exchanging fist 30:01 but getting ready to, 30:02 and I could just see him as tense 30:03 and the one guy was trying to dodge around people, 30:05 he's trying to use people's shields 30:06 to protect himself from the bigger guy. 30:08 And I said what's, you know what are you guys doing? 30:10 I just kind of asked the question, 30:12 trying to be nice. 30:13 The guy said, 30:14 "Mind your business. Keep walking." 30:16 Yeah. 30:17 So I was like, wow this need, I mean, the word does tell us 30:18 that we should be our brother's keeper and I'm like how do you, 30:21 that you know, there's certain scenes 30:23 where you know maybe we should try to bring peace, 30:24 we're to be children of peace too. 30:26 You were a fish out of water in Chicago. 30:30 It's a different world. 30:32 I was born in St Louis, I grew up in around St Louis. 30:36 We were taught at a very early age, 30:38 you don't even make eye contact, 30:39 so if you ever noticed a lot of people will not look at you 30:42 when they're in the city. 30:43 It's very dangerous to look at somebody. 30:45 It's like an open door, 30:46 "Oh, I can talk to this on, I can, whatever to this one." 30:49 But what you guys are pointing out is, 30:53 is so imperative, so important 30:55 and I have found out for many, many years, 30:58 because my family knows. 31:01 I believe they know that I love them. 31:03 But there came a time where they wouldn't listen. 31:07 There came a time where, you know, I've been told, 31:10 I don't want to hear it anymore. 31:12 I send newsletters, "Don't take me off your list." 31:17 So, I continue to pray for open doors, 31:21 and I know that there have been some doors 31:23 that are opened. 31:24 I continue to pray as Spirit of Prophecy instructs 31:27 that we pray for conviction and conversion. 31:30 Pray for those two things. Amen. 31:32 And again like you said, how can I witness. 31:35 Well, one way you know is, 31:37 is 3ABN has a lot of opportunities where people, 31:41 you can go in and you can send mailings 31:45 to certain mail routes 31:47 and start giving them 31:48 and maybe they will pick up on it right away, 31:51 but you know we've got 31:52 one now on the Commandments, on Salvation, 31:55 on The State of the Dead, 31:56 you know the truth about all of these things, 31:58 and it's, that's another way, 32:00 I mean as a ministry we're doing that too, 32:03 you know as much as we can. 32:04 But, and of course I did pick out some, some zip codes 32:09 where my family lived to send those books. 32:12 So there's ways, 32:14 you know, sometimes they won't see us directly. 32:16 And you can also pray that 32:18 God will send someone into their lives. 32:20 You know, it may not be us. 32:22 That's right. Yeah. 32:23 But some time, 32:24 you just brought that, sometimes, 32:27 as individuals with our own family, 32:30 we are not the best witnesses, we should be, but we're not. 32:34 I'm gonna read a quote here. 32:36 I think feed food for thought 32:37 because we realized that here in that question number six, 32:41 we can go on down the Great Controversy 32:43 is there's a lack of spirit and power 32:47 in the church or with God's people. 32:49 Oh, yes. 32:50 We're talking about evangelism, why aren't the churches full. 32:53 I mean I look around 32:55 every seat should be the standing room only, 32:56 two or three services, you know, all these kind of, 32:59 you know, 3ABN, 33:00 you find a lot of the ministries in the world 33:04 when they get their mail. 33:06 It comes in a semi tractor trailer, 33:10 seriously. 33:12 And we wonder, 33:14 you know that this is truth of God's Word in place, 33:16 so there's questions that ask, 33:17 but we wonder sometimes 33:19 why are we lacking some of this power, 33:21 and I looked at my own life and I'm thinking, 33:23 sometimes because we haven't been 33:24 the best witness. 33:26 People say, I witness all the time, phone calls, 33:28 I've witnessed in my family 33:29 over and over and over and over, 33:30 they just don't want anything to do with me. 33:32 You know, maybe it's us. 33:34 Maybe we're not approaching it right. 33:36 Let me just read something, Evangelism, 110, 33:38 just, it's not very long, notice, 33:42 this bothers me to a certain extent, 33:45 but I know God's in charge, and it said, 33:47 "Well, if this be true 33:49 then why you really try to work hard at it?" 33:52 Because notice what it says. 33:53 "God does not now, many of you done this, 33:56 God does not work 33:58 to bring in many souls into the truth." 34:01 Why? 34:02 "Because the unconverted souls in the church. 34:05 God does not now work to bring not, not these not. 34:10 But because of the unconverted people 34:13 that are in the church. 34:14 Not trying to blame anything, anybody, 34:16 just if we're unconverted, 34:17 you will notice when people come in 34:19 and maybe it's new, 34:20 you find a lot of sometimes people just gather around them. 34:23 Is it okay to say this? 34:24 And you wish, maybe they wouldn't, 34:27 because of what's said, 34:28 or maybe not upholding the standards themselves 34:30 for whatever, or maybe it's me. 34:32 We need good witnesses 34:34 but this because we're unconverted. 34:36 Now, when you say that, 34:37 "Oh, we shouldn't be saying that in the church, man. 34:39 Man, everybody's..." 34:40 No, not everybody in the church, 34:42 it has their name on the church is converted. 34:43 That's right. 34:45 Now, I know that for a fact 34:46 because I was in that situation 34:48 for many years. 34:50 Laodicea, didn't really even realize it. 34:53 Never probably heard it, wouldn't talk that much 34:54 and what was around or whatever it was, 34:56 but in the Laodicean condition that, and again. 35:00 Oh, I've got little I said before I got little plaques. 35:03 You know, teacher, teenager, the best of the young married, 35:07 you know, the 80s, blah-blah, all these little plaques 35:10 and a deacon and elder, that doesn't mean you're saved, 35:13 that doesn't mean that you, you're converted. 35:15 And when conversion really came changes really took place. 35:20 That's a different and that's what we need today. 35:22 If the church, in other words when the church is ready, 35:25 let me say it, 35:26 "When the church is ready, God will bring the people." 35:30 So when I look at our own self and say, 35:31 Man, that people maybe you're not just coming right. 35:33 Then well God knows 35:34 there's a timeframe about everything. 35:36 God's in charge, I understand that. 35:37 But when we are ready that people will come 35:39 and I'm saying, God, help us to prepare to get ready 35:42 so we can be the best influence. 35:44 So it's mentioned here, 35:45 "So we can love them. 35:47 Embrace them when they come in." 35:49 We don't see what they have on. 35:51 We don't see the kind of language that they use. 35:54 We don't correct them at every step they take. 35:58 See I've seen it every time every Sabbath come, 36:00 there's people they're saying things like, 36:02 whoo, it's not biblical. 36:04 Right then and right there to me it's not best, 36:06 you know, show them Jesus, 36:08 you know represent why we're here, 36:10 and I think some change will really happen. 36:11 Okay, I'll get off the box now. 36:13 Let me share something 36:14 that just to build on what you said 36:15 because this, I think it fits perfectly, 36:17 and I'm sure in past programs we've probably, 36:19 I don't remember which ones 36:21 but we've shared this passage before 36:22 but this fits perfectly with what you're saying. 36:25 In Great Controversy, 464, 36:27 before the final visitation of God's judgments, 36:30 and we probably shared this before 36:31 but maybe there's somebody who hasn't seen your program. 36:32 Yes. 36:34 "Before the final visitation 36:35 of God's judgments upon the earth, 36:36 there will be among the people of the Lord." 36:38 It's us, right? Right. 36:40 Yes. Of what? 36:41 "Such a revival of primitive godliness 36:45 as has not been witnessed since apostolic times." 36:48 Yes. That's right. 36:49 "The spirit and power of God will be poured out 36:52 upon His children." 36:54 Now let me stop there. 36:55 I just got through reading I got another tab open 36:57 in my, on my tablet here that says, 36:59 "The Spirit of God has been withdrawn, 37:01 which is true upon the world in general, 37:04 but the spirit and power of God 37:06 will be poured out upon His children." 37:08 At that time, oh, I love this. Come on now. 37:10 "At that time, many will separate themselves 37:13 from those churches in which the love of this world 37:16 has supplanted love, for God and His Word. 37:20 Many, both of ministers, and people 37:23 will gladly accept these great truths 37:26 which God has caused to be proclaimed, at this time 37:30 to prepare a people for the Lord's Second Coming." 37:34 I can't add anything to that. 37:35 No. No. 37:36 That's beautiful when you think about it. 37:38 No. Beautiful. 37:39 Again, Pastor John, 37:40 the church has to be ready to receive them. 37:42 Is that a true statement or somebody can almost argue, 37:45 you know, or discuss that. 37:46 The church has to be ready 37:48 because here's it says right here, 37:49 there's gonna be a revival. 37:50 There's gonna be latter rain experience, right? 37:52 Yes. People are going to come. 37:54 Well, you know there, if we put these two together. 37:57 You read that the Lord does not work 38:01 to bring many people into the church. 38:02 Why? Because there are unconverted. 38:04 Come on. 38:05 And if these people come in 38:06 and they see the worldliness and the people unconverted. 38:09 What are they going to say? Yeah. 38:11 These are not the people. No. 38:13 These are not the people. 38:14 These are not God's followers, they leave, 38:16 or they will get discouraged and leave. 38:18 But here, 38:20 there's going to be a revival of primitive godliness. 38:22 Oh, Amen. 38:24 Wow! 38:25 When that happens, 38:26 and these people come in and they say, 38:29 I am where I need, I need to be. 38:32 So how do we get there? 38:34 Yeah. 38:35 How do we get there? 38:36 So, the question here in number six was, 38:39 are our feet planted on the rock 38:42 of God's immutable Word? 38:44 So when we talk about God's immutable, 38:46 we're talking about the Holy Scriptures. 38:49 I mean how many times in the week 38:55 do we open the Word? 38:56 Is it just when we get to church, 38:59 you open the Word? 39:00 Oh, my. No. 39:01 Guess what? 39:03 When the person in, 39:04 whether in the Sabbath School and says, 39:06 turn your Bibles to Matthew 24, 39:09 let's read verse 12. 39:12 That's what, is that when people are opening 39:14 the scriptures? 39:15 What are they doing during the week? 39:17 So, you know, 39:19 I was, I've been listening to these lectures 39:22 on how the mind works. 39:26 And the studies showed that the mind adapts 39:29 to what to that it is exposed to. 39:31 That's right. 39:33 You begin to think of it as truth. 39:34 And you begin to think of it as truth 39:36 and you form habits 39:38 according to what you are exposed to, 39:41 whether for good or for evil. 39:44 That's right. 39:45 So during the week, if all you're doing, 39:49 opening the scriptures like, 39:51 turn your Bibles to Matthew 24:12. 39:56 If that's when you're opening your Bible, 39:57 you are in great danger 39:58 and you're not gonna participate 40:00 in this revival of primitive godliness, 40:03 because during the week, 40:04 you have been educating your mind 40:07 to love this other thing. 40:08 Yes. 40:10 And we need to educate our mind to love God's Word 40:12 and the soon appearing of our Lord and Savior Jesus. 40:15 I'd like to also to piggyback on what you said, in Luke. 40:18 The story appears in Luke 19, I just read this morning. 40:21 It really touched on me. 40:22 Jesus says in verse 45, 40:24 "He went into the temple 40:26 and began to cast out them that sold there in. 40:28 And then that bought saying to them it is written, 40:31 'My house is the house of prayer, 40:32 but you have made it a den of thieves.' 40:35 And they, He taught daily in the temple. 40:37 But the chief priests and the scribes 40:38 and the chief of the people sought to destroy Him.'" 40:41 So when this revival happens like with Jesus, 40:43 they're gonna want to seek to destroy us too. 40:46 And I was just thinking about 40:47 how so many people were standing outside of this temple 40:50 wanted to hear Jesus speak, wanted the healing, 40:52 wanted the revival but they couldn't come in 40:54 because these people were extorting 40:56 and taking advantage of 40:57 and twisting all these things, 40:58 but then when he ushered out all these people, these, 41:01 whatever they were doing, 41:03 then also these people came pouring in 41:04 and they really were waiting for the revival. 41:06 Brother Don, but, see, to me is, 41:08 who were these people? 41:12 Who were these people that were in the temple? 41:15 The leaders. 41:17 They were the chosen. 41:18 Yeah, the chosen. Just to say the chosen. 41:20 You can say, 41:21 and there's nothing wrong with saying leader 41:22 not all the... 41:24 Praise God for good leadership. 41:25 It was lot of it around. 41:26 I praise God. 41:28 But there are those who are leading, 41:29 you know, that is blind for eyes to the slaughter, 41:31 and we have to know the difference. 41:33 I'm glad you brought that up 41:34 because we have to keep our eyes and our hearts 41:36 and minds open to the Word of God 41:38 because there are people who are just time serving, 41:42 can I use that word? 41:44 Yes. 41:45 There are those in the pulpit that are time servers. 41:47 Yeah, I know somebody screaming right now. 41:49 Well, it's you that I'm talking to then so. 41:51 If you're not screaming you're okay 41:52 but if you're upset about it. 41:54 They're really, we have to first admit 41:57 that this was an issue, and then admit that is possible 42:01 that what we've read because the Bible says 42:02 all these things are examples, right? 42:05 That we need to learn from. 42:06 That it happened before with Christ present. 42:10 Right. 42:11 And could it not happen again? 42:13 Not necessarily trying to condemn everything. 42:14 Just look at it and say, 42:16 "Man, be careful 42:17 because the devil is a master deceiver." 42:19 Yes, he is. 42:21 And what's the best to deceive you and me. 42:23 It's basically gonna be in the church, 42:24 the world is not, we pray right now 42:26 is not really deceiving us 42:27 because we're looking at say, "Oh, shall we." 42:29 Nasty. Right? 42:31 I don't want what I see out there going on. 42:35 So the enemy is trying to do. 42:36 Go ahead, honey. 42:37 Oh, no, no, I was just thinking... 42:39 Oh, I'm getting excited now. 42:40 I hope that they're saying shall we now, 42:42 but they don't want to. 42:43 I hope that they are, 42:44 because how is the primitive godliness 42:46 going to come about. 42:48 Back to our question, how are we going to stand firm 42:51 in defense of the commandments of God 42:52 and the faith of Jesus? 42:54 It's because and I often said, it goes back to what you were, 42:57 you were talking about earlier. 42:59 I often said, 43:00 your life will change 43:02 when you begin to pray and ask God, 43:05 what is truth? 43:07 And I think, I think there's a lot of people, 43:10 a lot of honest people remember that Jesus says, 43:13 I have people that are not of this fold. 43:15 He's calling His sheep in, 43:17 and they're honest in heart in what they believe, 43:20 but as they see these changes coming in these churches 43:24 as they see a pulling away from the Word of God. 43:27 They're asking God, "What is the truth?" 43:30 What is the truth? 43:31 Show me what is truth. 43:32 And then what is primitive godliness 43:34 is going back 43:35 to how God set it up in the beginning. 43:38 And it is a foundation that those people 43:42 after that early rain experience laid for us, 43:46 for the latter rain, 43:47 because they were willing. 43:49 They were willing to stand in arenas 43:54 as their children were being tied 43:56 and fed to the lion. 43:57 Yes. 43:58 They were willing to die for their faith. 44:00 Yes. 44:01 They were willing to hide during the Dark Ages. 44:04 We have a whole Bible. 44:06 We have a whole Bible. 44:07 In fact, I bet you we have so many Bibles in your home, 44:09 you don't look at all of them, right? 44:11 You have your favorites, hopefully, hopefully, 44:13 hopefully you have your favorite 44:14 or some may never pick them up. 44:17 They couldn't even go around 44:19 and share the Word of God, what did they do? 44:21 They would sew them in their clothes and hide it, 44:24 and then if the Holy Spirit opened the door 44:28 to someone who was hungry for the truth, 44:30 they would do that 44:32 and they would just give them a portion. 44:33 Yes. Just give them a portion. 44:35 I want to continue with something else 44:39 from go back to where you were, Brother Terry, you were on. 44:43 Great Controversy, page 464. 44:45 I want to read a quote from Great Controversy. 44:48 Great Controversy, page 465 and it is in paragraph one, 44:53 and it reads, 44:54 "In the truth of His Word." 44:57 God and we keep going back to this 45:00 because they're throwing the Bible out. 45:03 They're saying it doesn't mean what it says. 45:06 And those who believe it are out of their minds. 45:11 "God has given to men, a revelation of Himself." 45:15 Who do we want to reflect? 45:16 We want to reflect Jesus. 45:18 He needs to be revealed to us, and to all who accept them, 45:22 they are a shield against the deceptions of Satan. 45:26 We must never forget that the great deception, 45:28 that final war is soon upon us. 45:31 As people are crying out for help, 45:33 who's gonna show up. 45:34 They're crying out for Jesus for help, 45:36 but there's gonna be a deception first. 45:38 The enemy of souls is going to deceive people 45:41 by coming as Christ himself. 45:44 "It is a neglect of these truths 45:46 that has opened the door to the evils, 45:49 which are now becoming so widespread 45:51 in religious world, 45:53 the nature and the importance of the love of God 45:56 have been to a great extent, 45:58 to a great extent, lost sight of." 46:01 That's the problem. 46:03 "A wrong conception of the character, 46:05 the perpetuity and the obligation 46:08 of the Divine Law has led to errors 46:11 in relation to conversation and sanctification, 46:16 all part of our growth in Christ, 46:18 and has resulted in lowering the standard of piety, 46:22 which is, you know, being religious 46:24 or reverent in the church. 46:26 Here is to be found the secret of the lack of the spirit 46:32 and power of God in the revivals of our time." 46:36 There it is. 46:37 The closer, we, we can't back down, 46:39 you said our message needs to be ramped up, 46:42 we can't back down when you present the truth 46:45 no matter where it cuts, 46:47 you're gonna experience the power of the Holy Spirit. 46:50 I mean, that just hit it right on the head. 46:52 Let's do all three maybe just get a thought on that 46:54 because when I read that, when you read it just again 46:56 I was reading a while ago. 46:58 It says, 46:59 "Our conversion and our sanctification, 47:01 notice this, has resulted in lowering 47:03 the standard of piety in the church." 47:06 So sometimes become, 47:07 or has it become about numbers 47:10 and we no longer want to bring in those fundamental beliefs 47:14 that made us what we are today, 47:16 when we used to have maybe 27, 28 fundamental beliefs, 47:19 and sometimes now, I'm again not trying to criticize, 47:21 I just want to look at all the time now there's, 47:23 there's 10 or 12 little points, and they're just barely hit on. 47:27 This is exactly what this is talking about here. 47:30 And when you do that, 47:31 people are not on the same page 47:32 when they come in, 47:34 and lest two agree how can they walk together. 47:35 You find that any ringing bells for you, Brother Terry? 47:39 Something I was thinking of is that, 47:41 you know, those of us who, who are excited 47:44 and engaged in proclaiming the gospel 47:47 and the ministry to those who don't know it. 47:49 Sometimes we find that easy to do 47:51 but what happens when you call to like be a Jeremiah 47:54 to go to your own people and show them their flaws. 47:59 I was thinking about this passage 48:01 from Ezekiel 9:4, 48:02 and it says, 48:04 "The Lord said to Him, 48:05 'Go through the midst of the city. 48:07 This is my city, through the midst of Jerusalem 48:09 and put a mark on the foreheads of men 48:11 who sigh and cry over all the abominations 48:14 that are done," out there. 48:16 No, "within it." Right? 48:19 Yeah, so I mean, 48:21 do we have brothers and sisters 48:23 who call themselves Seventh-day Adventist like us, 48:26 who are lowering the standard, I believe it is occurring, 48:31 I mean, I would never call anyone out personally on it. 48:33 But when we look nationwide, worldwide, 48:36 it is occurring, you know. 48:37 Yeah. 48:38 And you're being very modest and very sweet 48:40 about it when I would say, if I see and it's obvious, 48:43 I will call them out. 48:44 Amen. 48:45 I'm not trying to be ugly about that 48:47 because that is our obligation 48:48 because when sin is in the church 48:49 or disbelief or wrong. 48:52 The church is held accountable as a whole, 48:55 until it's dealt with, and the pastors 48:56 and the elders deal with that sin issue, 48:59 the problem there, until it gets straightened out, 49:01 God cannot bless, so I think we need to. 49:04 Go ahead, Don, I'm sorry. 49:05 Something that Lord put in my mind is 49:07 God cannot bless when we make a mess. 49:08 Thank you. 49:10 I mean, you know, this concept, 49:11 I think what we're talking about is 49:12 when I see our churches doing is 49:14 we want to adapt our cultural norms. 49:16 We want to embrace those 49:17 instead of what the plain word says. 49:19 So we're bringing all these... 49:21 We want to be accepted. 49:22 Yeah, with all these feelings and emotions and all this stuff 49:25 it's, you can see it creeping in everywhere. 49:28 There was a guy, he was a famous. 49:29 He's a big mega church leader, 49:32 and something that caught my attention was 49:34 I heard this. 49:35 He said that, 49:37 "God sent His Son here to break the law." 49:40 I was like, whoa! 49:41 I thought. 49:43 I'm just thinking, wow this is what pastor said out. 49:46 And this is what people are teaching is, 49:47 you know, it sounds wonderful. 49:49 See, that's outside of the Scripture. 49:50 Yeah. Yeah. 49:51 People are buying that. 49:53 People are hearing it. 49:54 And this is the young person who is attracting young people. 49:56 I've got a 10 year old grandson that goes with a daughter 49:59 that is outside the faith right now. 50:02 It goes to one of our largest churches 50:04 in this area, 50:05 and he's told me more than once, 50:07 grandma's like going to a big concert just, 50:09 it's just fun and games, are playing games. 50:11 He's just 10 years old. 50:13 Yeah. He recognizes it. 50:14 It's just, it's just a lot of music, 50:15 you know, and bless his heart, 50:18 you know, he that he's, 50:19 he's taught something different... 50:20 Right. And they're asked, right? 50:22 They're asked when they come in, 50:23 what did you learn today? 50:25 And most generally, they said, we just played, 50:28 we didn't do anything. 50:29 You know, our children, need to be in church. 50:31 They need to be taught these beautiful truths 50:33 on the foundation from the very beginning. 50:35 Get that twig while it can be bent. 50:37 That's right. 50:38 I'm sorry I'm going to go back to, 50:40 we really need to spend time in the Scripture. 50:42 Okay. 50:44 You know, Jesus said in Matthew 11. 50:46 "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me." 50:49 He's still willing to teach us. 50:51 Amen. 50:52 Luke at, it's 23, no 24, I opened it here, 50:56 and you know there's a scene there 50:58 two disciples are walking to Emmaus 51:01 and I call it Emmaus, but it's Emmaus maybe. 51:03 It's all right. 51:04 Anyway, they're walking and they're talking 51:06 about what happened. 51:07 And Jesus joined them. 51:09 And He said, "What are you talking about." 51:12 And they were talking about, you know, where have you been, 51:15 don't you know that there was a prophet among us Jesus 51:18 and he did many mighty miracles, 51:19 but this is the third day after His death 51:21 and they were sad. 51:23 And Jesus said, 51:24 "O fools and slow of heart to believe 51:28 all that the prophets have spoken." 51:30 And then it says there that beginning at Moses. 51:33 Yes. 51:35 He began to tell them about the prophecies 51:37 and how Jesus fulfilled those prophecies, 51:40 and they were just amazed, 51:41 and then it says in verse 39, notice this wonderful thing. 51:43 Notice this. 51:45 In verse 30, 51:46 "Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them 51:48 that He took bread, 51:49 blessed and broke it and gave it to them. 51:51 Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him, 51:54 and He, vanquished from their sight, 51:56 vanished from their sight, 51:58 and they said to one another, 51:59 did not our heart burn within us, 52:01 while He talked with us on the road 52:04 and while he opened the Scriptures to us." 52:07 So, this thing about 52:12 that their hearts burned within them. 52:14 But if you read before what I read, it says, 52:17 "Then He opened their understanding." 52:20 Amen. 52:21 So I believe we need to read the Scriptures, 52:23 but we need to ask Jesus, 52:25 open our understanding that we may understand 52:28 and the same experience they had, 52:31 because it says, 52:32 "Did not our hearts burn within us?" 52:34 Right. 52:35 And we're going to get that same experience 52:36 as we spend time with the Bible. 52:38 Jesus is willing. 52:39 We have to make ourselves available. 52:41 Now the other day I was praying. 52:43 I said, "Lord, should I present this message or not." 52:47 You know, I'm praying, 52:48 because there's, there are many things 52:50 you can preach about. 52:51 And this idea, this thought came to my mind 52:54 to preach about a particular thing. 52:56 And as I was praying there, asking the Lord, 52:59 "Should I preach about this?" 53:01 And it was like the Lord opened the door 53:03 and showed me something 53:05 that I had never seen before in the Scriptures. 53:08 And I said, "Thank you Lord." 53:09 Yes. Thank you Lord. 53:11 And I say, well, I know I have to present the message now 53:14 because You've showed me something about this topic 53:17 that I never knew. 53:18 And I could tell you, I am not smart enough 53:21 or have the capacity 53:23 to put those things together that way 53:25 that I could say, well, this is my idea. 53:26 I give glory to the Lord, He's the one that gave it. 53:30 So glory be to Him. 53:31 And so, the Lord is willing. 53:33 We need to make ourselves available. 53:35 Pray, "Lord, please open my understanding." 53:39 God is willing. 53:40 Let's take advantage of while the door's open. 53:42 While the door is open. 53:43 Because decisive times are coming. 53:45 Good. Amen. 53:47 Yes, they are. 53:48 And I think, you know, as we were talking here 53:50 and bringing pointing out what sin is 53:52 in that passage I read, 53:54 or the paragraph I read out of The Great Controversy, 53:57 is that we need to do everything 54:00 through wisdom in the Spirit of God. 54:03 It goes back to, you know, someone comes in, 54:06 you don't immediately hit them. 54:07 You bring them, you love them, 54:09 you show them Jesus like He did to those people, 54:12 you know, He wouldn't even address them 54:14 that way if He thought it was going to hurt them. 54:17 But He knew it would catch their attention. 54:19 And then He began to break the bread of life. 54:21 Open the Scripture to them, give them understanding, 54:24 and then once they have that understanding, 54:26 then that's when they have 54:28 a decisive decision right then and there to make. 54:30 Yes. 54:32 You know, but we don't want to wound somebody, 54:34 or we're working the work of the enemy. 54:36 You know, Brother Terry, on here, our time we say 54:39 this decisive hour is coming, 54:41 you know, even, even in our question here 54:43 is decisive hour is now. 54:46 And if it was now, 54:47 then when some of this was written, 54:49 we get out of here. 54:51 How much more now is it? 54:52 That's right. 54:54 And if not now, when? 54:56 And if there's a reason why, I mean, what is the reason? 54:58 Is it really? 55:00 Because the time is going to come, 55:02 that we are, 55:03 we can't ignore the commandments of God, 55:06 they've got to be put out there, 55:08 to avoid persecution. 55:10 Persecution is coming to those, 55:12 I think it's been mentioned here, 55:14 you know quite a bit here, 55:16 to those who eventually stand up to Christ. 55:18 Don't let that make you afraid 55:21 because He said, I'm gonna be with you always 55:23 till the end of the world. 55:25 Can we really believe that promise? 55:26 I'm going to be with you 55:27 and when the time comes to advocate, 55:29 and it already had a long time ago, 55:31 you advocated once you learn its truth. 55:33 That's right. 55:35 Have you seen that in your own life? 55:36 Well, I was just thinking, you know, we as Adventist, 55:38 I'll try to be quick, you know, as Adventist we talk about 55:40 the great and final test that is yet to come, 55:42 that is coming and it is coming, 55:44 we understand that. 55:45 But there are tests being performed now. 55:46 Right now. 55:48 Now that have to do 55:49 with the other nine commandments of God. 55:51 And are we going to stand on a thus saith the Lord 55:53 or are we going to accept what man is pushing upon us? 55:56 That's right. That's right. 55:57 That's a fact. 55:59 Do you see that happening, Brother Don? 56:00 Oh my, yeah definitely. 56:01 I was just reading this quote, 56:03 I'll just read it real quick out of The Great Controversy 56:04 where it says that, 56:06 "Every revival of God's work, 56:07 the Prince of evil's arouse the more intense activity. 56:10 He is now putting forth His utmost efforts 56:12 for final struggle against Christ and His followers." 56:14 That's in Great Controversy, 593. 56:16 So yeah for walking with the Lord 56:18 is gonna get more intense. 56:19 Amen. 56:21 Pastor John, do you see this 56:22 as we're talking about primitive godliness. 56:23 We've got to get back, no time to delay. 56:26 Do you see that right now like today's the day? 56:30 Today's the day we need to really examine ourselves 56:34 to see whether or not we are in the truth. 56:37 It is a personal examination, there's a time when you, 56:41 when you assess to examine, to examine their fruits, 56:45 but we need to examine ourselves 56:46 to see if we are in the truth. 56:48 Are we walking with Jesus? 56:50 Are we opening the Bible just when you get to church, 56:53 or are we spending time with the Lord daily? 56:56 Which, whichever one you're doing 56:57 you're preparing yourself 57:00 for revival primitive godliness, 57:01 to be prepared when Jesus comes, 57:03 or you're preparing yourself, yourself to be deceived, 57:06 and to take upon yourself 57:07 the mark of the beast and to be lost. 57:09 You're doing one or the other. 57:10 One or the other right now preparing for. 57:12 Honey, 20 seconds left, you got a thought? 57:13 Well, the good news is, Jesus will never leave us. 57:16 He will never forsake us. 57:17 There will be people who will stand. 57:20 Now Revelation talks about that 144,000, 57:23 that's gonna stand through great tribulation. 57:25 We want to pray to be amongst that number. 57:27 Amen. Praise the Lord. 57:28 Thank you for joining us. 57:30 We pray, it's been a blessing. 57:31 We're going to be praying for you. 57:32 Pray for us. God bless you. 57:34 Have a good day and we'll see you next time. |
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