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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:46 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:09 Hello and just a great big welcome 01:10 to each and every one of you. 01:12 We are glad that you've joined us 01:14 3ABN Family Worship, 01:15 it's time to get together, 01:17 it's time to get your family, gather them around, 01:19 get the Word of God 01:21 get what you need pencil and papers 01:22 and get ready to jot down some things. 01:24 Because I think you're going to enjoy the subject 01:26 I have as I've studied it. 01:28 It'll be one that you will say, 01:29 oh, I've been over a lot of times. 01:32 Well, I'm a believer in this. 01:33 I'm a believer that 01:34 the Holy Spirit of the Living God, 01:36 as we prayed about it 01:37 already will come into our hearts 01:39 and our minds and things will be brought out. 01:42 Maybe questions that you have been asking. 01:45 You can't find any answers. 01:46 I believe the Holy Spirit will give you those answers 01:48 by here through this panel today. 01:50 So we're glad, we're gonna be 01:51 talking about the great deception 01:54 that could go in a lot of different directions. 01:56 But if you think about the great deception, you know, 01:58 where did it really begin? 02:00 What is it really all about? 02:02 You know, if we say, well, we'll go back to the garden, 02:05 you know, we'll go back to Eden. 02:06 Look up everything that took place what happened? 02:09 And then my question would come back. 02:11 And you know, is the same things 02:13 happening today with us as God's people? 02:16 Has the enemy changed his tactics? 02:18 We're going to see as we study the Word of God today, 02:21 and we believe that 02:22 some of those questions will be answered. 02:24 I'm glad to have my wife with me today. 02:26 Honey, I'm glad you're here with me. 02:27 Well, I'm glad to be here. 02:29 I think I would, we say the right arm 02:31 but I think she's much more than 02:32 the right arm for me. 02:34 Amen. Yeah. 02:35 Oh, I don't know about that but... 02:36 Yeah, but we talk about it a lot. 02:38 That's for sure. But you know what? 02:39 Still is, I still will at least admit 02:41 she's the right arm and certainly, 02:43 you know to support and holds back 02:45 and miss some of you have written many times before. 02:47 She's the one, 02:48 if I get a little bit carried away, 02:50 she's a balancer. 02:51 So praise God for the balancer. Yeah. 02:54 Who do we have with us today is going to help us 02:56 with this exciting study, Great Deception. 02:57 Well, I'm gonna introduce you 02:59 because I don't think you told me your name. 03:00 We may have a lot of new people on. 03:03 You're Pastor Kenny Shelton, and I'm Chris Shelton. 03:06 And when he was talking about the balancer, 03:08 I looked over to JD because JD watches 03:10 a lot of our programs, goes through them. 03:12 I do. 03:13 And he helps to balance both of us. 03:14 So that's JD Quinn. 03:16 And, JD, you're in pastoral, correct? 03:18 I am in pastoral, I am. And you do a lot of things. 03:20 You wear a lot of hats around here, don't you? 03:22 I think just like everybody. Just like everybody. 03:25 If you're not multi-headed, well, then it'd be a tough fit. 03:30 I understand that well. 03:33 I love his willingness. 03:34 I love his willingness always to help out. 03:36 It's always fun with y'all. Yeah. 03:39 And to his right is Pastor John Dinzey. 03:42 John Dinzey wears lots of hats, luckily he took them off today, 03:46 so he could... 03:48 He is such a go getter in the Latino department. 03:51 And, of course, you also do 03:53 a lot here in the English department. 03:55 I mean, you're on a lot of programs, 03:57 you do a lot in both places. 03:58 I don't know how you keep up 04:00 with all of it, but we're glad that you do. 04:02 We're glad that you're joining us again. 04:04 Well, thank you. 04:05 It's a privilege again to be here. 04:06 And it's by God's grace that we can do 04:08 what we're given the privilege to do. 04:11 Amen. It is a privilege. 04:13 It is a privilege to be able to take the time to study 04:18 and then present what the Lord has placed on our hearts. 04:20 We don't realize that. 04:21 I think someday, once this privilege is gone, 04:24 we'll realize what the Lord has given 04:26 each and every one of us. 04:28 And with that privilege is a big responsibility. 04:30 Yes. Oh, yes. 04:31 And so that is where we do need to at least give 04:35 the Holy Spirit permission to be our guide. 04:37 Amen. Amen. 04:38 'Cause, boy, there's some things that, 04:40 well, I didn't know that. 04:41 I thought this. Yes. 04:42 And that's kind of the direction 04:44 we're gonna go today. 04:45 Amen. Amen. 04:47 Well, I mentioned that you know, 04:48 Sarah being kind of tease me about it, 04:50 but it's true the balancer is because sometimes 04:52 when we get and we can get 04:54 maybe we feel like we're overloaded at times. 04:56 And I think the older we get the more 04:58 it's easier to get overloaded. 05:00 And she'll, she'll remind me from time to time, 05:03 she'll say, it's a privilege. 05:06 Don't forget it's a privilege. 05:07 Or if I get little, can I say this beside myself? 05:13 Some of you don't get that way, just a little bit in something, 05:16 you know what she'll say? 05:17 Now listen, this is interesting. 05:19 And maybe your wife will help you or vice versa. 05:20 Just say, remember who you represent. 05:23 Remember who you are. 05:25 That always brings me to my senses. 05:27 You know, we are a child of God. 05:31 And that's very important that 05:33 we represent Him in all the things 05:34 that's going on in the world 05:36 and things are so sometimes easily besets us. 05:39 Well, before we get into the studies 05:41 and we're glad again everybody's here, 05:42 you taken time out. 05:44 I know it takes effort. I know it takes study. 05:46 I know it takes time. 05:47 But I know, God helps you to make 05:48 all of that up as He does us. 05:51 We need to have prayer. 05:52 'Cause we're talking about prayer 05:54 and the power of the Holy Spirit. 05:55 And I wouldn't even attempt not to bring out 05:58 the Word of God. 05:59 Don't even open the Word, right? 06:01 Open it up without promise of the Holy Spirit. 06:03 Would you pray for us, honey? Sure. 06:05 Okay. 06:06 Most Gracious Heavenly Father, 06:08 as we bow before You along with our family at home, 06:11 wherever they may be. 06:12 Father, as was said here, 06:14 we can do nothing without Your Spirit. 06:16 So we ask now that 06:17 You'll forgive us where we have faltered 06:19 where we've stumbled, 06:20 and we ask that Your Holy Spirit will come in 06:23 and give us spiritual eyes. 06:25 Give us spiritual ears, 06:27 give us a spiritual heart to hear, 06:29 to see, to feel all that 06:31 You have in store for us 06:32 during this worship time together. 06:34 We thank You for this time 06:36 that we have with our family at home. 06:38 And we ask Your blessings once again in Jesus' name. 06:41 Amen. Amen. 06:43 Thank you so much. 06:44 I loved it when you mentioned our family at home. 06:48 This is the 3ABN and each one of who do programs 06:50 and so on so forth. 06:52 We'd have to say family, we just have to say it 06:54 because when we meet them physically as we do 06:58 going from place to place, just an awesome thing. 07:01 And thing that they say a lot of times is what? 07:03 We know you, you're in our house every day, 07:07 that didn't give you the, be careful the big head at all, 07:09 it's a privilege that God would allow us 07:13 to be able to be in their homes and then and vice versa. 07:17 I tell them lot of times if, you know, 07:18 if I'm speaking or somebody else's what? 07:21 I know they're there. 07:22 By faith I know that they're not the individual, 07:25 but I know that they're there. 07:26 They're watching, they're listening, 07:28 because the Holy Spirit 07:29 of the Word wouldn't return void. 07:30 Today is no exception to the rules. 07:32 We look at this great deception. 07:33 We have a good start, a good foundation here. 07:36 Yes. 07:37 And so each one here have asked to read 07:39 just a little portion of it, 07:40 which will set up the foundation. 07:42 And then even if you have a comment 07:44 after you get done reading, it's okay to go ahead with it. 07:46 If not, we'll go right into the first question. 07:49 So can you start out for us on, honey? 07:50 Oh, absolutely. Okay. Good. 07:52 This is a little book called what? 07:55 Darkness before Dawn, this comes out of. 07:58 It's a real nice compilation, right, 08:01 a compilation of these Ellen White's writing. 08:04 Yeah, it's really good, Great Controversy. 08:06 Okay. Okay. 08:09 With the earliest history of man, 08:11 Satan began his efforts to deceive our race. 08:15 He who has incited rebellion in heaven, 08:17 desire to bring the inhabitants of the earth to unite with him, 08:22 in his warfare against government of God. 08:26 Adam and Eve had been perfectly happy 08:29 in obedience to the law of God. 08:31 And this fact was a constant testimony 08:34 against the claim 08:36 which Satan had urged in heaven, 08:39 that God's law was oppressive 08:41 and oppose the good of his creatures. 08:44 You know, we hear that a lot of too today, don't we? 08:47 And furthermore, Satan's envy was excited. 08:50 You know, I don't think many of us 08:52 realized that he was envious of this world. 08:55 Is envy was excited as he looked 08:58 upon the beautiful home 08:59 prepared for the sinless pair. 09:01 He determined to cause their fall. 09:05 He determined to cause their fall 09:08 that having separated them from God and brought them 09:11 under his own power, 09:13 he might gain possession of the earth, 09:16 and here establish his kingdom 09:18 in opposition to the Most High. 09:21 That's a sad thought to think that 09:23 we were pawns in his little deception 09:26 that he did just." 09:28 Yeah, just a paragraph 09:29 before we go unless you have something else to, 09:31 to Brother John, 09:33 is I circled it when she was reading it again. 09:36 Because it said they were perfectly happy. 09:38 Yes. 09:40 To me, if you think you're perfectly happy, 09:42 what are you looking for? 09:43 You're not looking for anything else. 09:45 And then to have the enemy, 09:47 I'm thinking how beautiful 09:48 the Garden of Eden must have been. 09:51 Because it said here, 09:52 he looked upon the beautiful home, 09:55 prepare for the sinless pair. 09:57 Envy, he looked upon the Garden of Eden with envy, 10:02 when this angel, right? 10:06 Was within the presence of God, 10:09 seen him create things in the whole universe, 10:11 there must have been something. 10:13 I'd just stop with that, 10:14 but there's something special about the Garden of Eden, 10:18 which I think God's people 10:19 will be able to re-inhabitant again. 10:20 But, okay, Brother John. 10:22 Let me say something real quick if I could, 10:24 because in following just what you said there, 10:26 what jumped out at me, was the word excited. 10:30 That's a heavy word. Well. 10:31 Well, whenever we get excited to sometimes, 10:33 you know that mean, 10:35 that's something beyond just normal. 10:37 He was excited, because, hey, I have an opportunity here. 10:41 Second thing that caught my attention determined. 10:45 So he was determined that 10:47 that the Garden of Eden was going to become his. 10:51 That was his determination. 10:54 And he was excited, because in his, 10:57 he had in his own mind, 11:01 I'm just assuming this, in his own mind, 11:04 this created being as you made perfectly clear, 11:07 Satan knew that that's what I want. 11:11 And then it comes in, 11:13 but you brought up this word three or four times the ability 11:17 that we can if we're not careful, 11:18 and if we're not balanced, 11:20 we could be big headed, heavy headed, or whatever. 11:24 And now there's that contrast. Yes. 11:28 And the contrast is between good and evil 11:31 and that deception that we're talking about. 11:34 So he did have a foundation then, didn't he? 11:35 He did have a foundation. 11:37 He was determined, he was excited about 11:38 what he's getting ready to do. 11:39 And he's gonna make sure he did it, 11:41 regardless of what it cost. 11:43 Yes, a lot of us can have a plan, 11:46 but we're not sold on the plan. 11:48 Other people like that in the world, today. 11:50 Yeah. 11:51 I mean, I'm trying to relate this thing to, right? 11:53 We want to relate it to the enemy 11:55 and what he's doing in this world today. 11:56 But I don't know if you ever met anyone 11:58 or you don't want to be judgmental about it. 11:59 Have you ever met someone 12:01 who is determined to have a certain position 12:03 or determined and they will do it 12:05 at whatever cost? 12:06 Yes. Come on. 12:07 Turn on the news. Yes. 12:09 Turn on the news. There you go. 12:12 Okay, now, yes. 12:13 We see that, we see that 12:15 I'm sure those listening can look 12:18 in their history in their minds 12:20 and see how they have been affected by 12:22 someone who has had this type of mentality. 12:27 Okay. 12:28 I'm thinking about, you know, when we consider Adam and Eve, 12:33 the earth, and we consider heaven. 12:36 There's a difference here for Adam and Eve. 12:39 And that is, the angels lived under the commandments of God, 12:45 the universal law of God, 12:47 which summarize in Matthew 22, 12:50 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, 12:52 with all your mind, with all your soul, 12:54 your soul, your strength. 12:56 So, the angels loved God and they loved Lucifer. 13:01 However, Adam and Eve did not know Lucifer, 13:04 but they knew the commandments, 13:06 love the Lord your God with all your heart 13:07 and love your neighbor as yourself. 13:09 But Satan does not come to them 13:13 as he came to the other angels. 13:15 See, when he came to the other angels, 13:17 there was already a relationship. 13:19 You're my friend, you're my brother. 13:22 We are family. 13:23 Listen to this idea that I have. 13:26 We're being mistreated here. 13:28 God is unfair to us. 13:29 And they, they had some sympathies. 13:32 But Adam and Eve had no real sympathy for the devil. 13:35 In fact, they were warned. Yes. 13:37 Be careful. 13:39 So when he is developing his plan to tempt them, 13:44 he can't come to them as a buddy, 13:46 as a friend, as family, 13:48 because they don't know him. 13:50 And so they already had been warned. 13:52 So he has to have a different approach. 13:55 And this is why we have the record in Genesis 13:58 that he came in as a serpent, as a serpent. 14:03 Now I find that interesting. I don't know about you. 14:06 But I find that interesting that the word devil or Satan 14:10 is not mentioned in Genesis. 14:12 But there he is working behind the scenes, you see. 14:17 And I come to the conclusion 14:18 that God gives limited attention to the devil 14:22 as far as mentioning him and bring his name out. 14:26 But he, the devil is working behind the scenes 14:28 because he tempts people. 14:30 Yeah. 14:31 We see it right from the beginning. 14:32 In fact, if you look in the Bible, 14:34 you'll not see the name Satan 14:35 until you get to 1 Chronicles and then Job. 14:39 But here he is, he's, he has a plan, 14:44 he has determination. 14:46 And he, he didn't hesitate 14:50 to bring this temptation to Adam and Eve, 14:53 unfortunately, not to make their lives better, 14:56 so that they could become victims of to identify 15:01 with him, to join his rebellion. 15:05 A terrible, terrible thing to do. 15:07 Yes. But he convinced them. 15:10 We read that this was the first sermon 15:13 ever preached on the supernatural powers 15:16 on the spiritualism. 15:20 You know, because can you imagine 15:21 number one, we don't really know 15:22 what a serpent look like before it was cursed. 15:25 You know some, I think it had wings 15:27 and it was probably very beautiful, 15:29 but I doubt that it spoke, you know, 15:32 so just seeing this creature that could suddenly speak 15:36 and speak eloquently and saying, 15:38 God's holding back from you. 15:40 If you eat this fruit, you can be like God, 15:42 you gonna be like me. 15:44 Yes, that's right. 15:45 But... You'll never die. 15:47 Oh. But consider this as well. 15:50 When the devil presents to Adam and Eve temptations, 15:55 he has to present them 15:56 something different than he presented to the angels. 15:59 Because to them, the idea was, 16:01 I can do something better for you. 16:04 I have a better plan than God has. 16:06 We're being mistreated here. 16:08 But for Adam and Eve, 16:09 he came with a different temptation, 16:11 which is, you can be as God. 16:14 Of course, we haven't got to that part yet. 16:16 You can be as God, you can get, you can... 16:18 God has been lying to you. 16:20 God has been lying to you. 16:22 You can be as God knowing good and evil. 16:24 Well, we'll get to that part. 16:25 There's more to share there, I'm sure. 16:27 Yeah, yeah. 16:28 Are you gonna read that was it, paragraph there, John? 16:29 Okay, there we go. 16:31 We are ready to continue reading. 16:32 Yeah. 16:34 Had Satan revealed himself in his real character. 16:39 There we go. 16:41 He would have been repulsed at once. 16:45 For Adam and Eve had been 16:46 warned against this dangerous foe. 16:49 But he worked in the dark, concealing his purpose, 16:54 that he might more 16:55 effectually accomplish his object, 16:59 employing as his medium, the serpent. 17:02 Then a creature of fascinating appearance, 17:05 he addressed himself to Eve. 17:08 Hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 17:13 Genesis 3:1. Yeah. 17:16 That's the big question. Yeah. 17:17 The big lie. 17:19 And then he started out then the conversation with what? 17:23 Was it the question rather than a statement? 17:26 If it made a statement, 17:27 it said this is but he said, have God, 17:30 did God say this? 17:31 He was determined. 17:33 People come to me sometime or something to say, 17:35 in this way that it is this is what was said. 17:37 It's more of a question 17:39 and you're not challenged by it, 17:40 just said, you know, you'll go right to it. 17:42 But I come back once. 17:43 I think you are challenged by because he's casting doubt. 17:46 Oh, absolutely. He's casting doubt right there. 17:47 And even though you said is a little different. 17:50 But it was still the same technique... 17:52 Oh, yes, same technique. 17:53 Same technique, still casting doubt, 17:55 like he did with the angels in heaven. 17:57 And you know, one thing that 17:59 we didn't mention was that Lucifer, 18:01 he was an archangel. 18:03 He was a covering over the law. 18:05 And so we wonder, 18:06 why is the law been so attacked, 18:08 but that's why because he had issues 18:10 with the law in heaven. 18:11 He still has issues 18:13 with God's Ten Commandment law here on earth. 18:15 And we'll see that all the way to the coming of Jesus Christ. 18:19 But anyway, I think you should turn 18:20 to finish reading our intro. 18:22 Yes. Yeah. 18:23 Yes. It's all right. 18:25 Had Eve refrain from entering into argument with the tempter, 18:30 she would have been safe. 18:33 But she ventured to parley with him 18:36 and fell a victim of his viles, to his viles. 18:40 It is thus that many are still overcoming. 18:43 They doubt and argue concerning the requirements of God. 18:47 Yes. 18:48 And instead of obeying the divine commands, 18:51 they accept the human theories 18:54 which but disguise the devices of Satan. 18:57 It's truth. Wow. 19:00 Isn't that interesting? Indeed, it is. 19:02 Wow. 19:03 I mean, if this will be controversial, no doubt. 19:07 But if you think about who started this fiasco, 19:11 just come down, come down to the tree, 19:13 we come down to the enemy, the serpent and Eve. 19:18 Now there had to be a conversation to begin. 19:21 Something had to take place. 19:24 And I don't know that we can pinpoint 19:25 but there's two involved here, but one of them. 19:30 Oh-oh, one of them was out of place. 19:32 Yeah. 19:34 One of them was placed. Yes. 19:37 God told the serpent, you get, 19:39 I'll always like say it this way. 19:40 God told serpent, you get up in that tree. 19:41 That's the only place you can go 19:43 and you stay there till I tell you can come down. 19:46 It's the only place he was allowed 19:47 if I'm thinking correctly, right? 19:49 So he had one place to do but Eve also, 19:51 she had every place that she could go. 19:54 Now some of the women are going to say oh, 19:56 it's not about that. 19:57 It's about, Eve was the one 19:59 so let's just talk about from Scripture. 20:01 So somehow it started, 20:03 one was in the place and ready for battle. 20:07 And the other one came to the place of battle. 20:10 And then when you read here, if she had not argued, 20:15 which is one of our questions, we should when we start in. 20:18 And to me it was much talk, begin the conversation 20:23 with somehow this would have never taken place. 20:27 And so we had to relate that to today in places that 20:29 we're at and things that go on, 20:30 we have to be careful about words we speak 20:32 or not speak or so on and so forth. 20:33 First question, let's get really into it, 20:35 because it's, why would it be dangerous 20:37 to enter into an argument? 20:39 I circle that and put discussion 20:43 whether it's heated discussion, or it's you know, 20:47 on a plane where everybody is just discussing? 20:52 Maybe just try to prove a point. 20:55 Well, here, you're actually touching 20:57 on question number two, 20:58 because that's what the definition of parley means. 21:02 It's a conference between opposing sides 21:04 to try to bring about a resolution 21:06 and the thing about it is, you know, 21:09 do you guys remember the man 21:11 that that was in Satanism, 21:14 and I listened to so many of his sermon 21:18 or just talks on? 21:19 And I kept it, but he actually got out of it without dying, 21:23 because a lot of times 21:25 when you get as deep as he was, the enemy or foe. 21:27 Roger Meno. 21:29 Remember what he said? 21:31 Never talk to them. 21:34 And a lot of times, you know, a lot of people say, though, 21:36 I'll tell him get the behind me Satan. 21:38 He said, you ask God to do that. 21:41 Don't get in a conversation where he warned people. 21:44 And what the devil did, 21:46 what Lucifer did here in that tree with Eve is 21:50 what he's still doing with each and every one of us today. 21:53 And we're listening to these doubts. 21:56 It's casting doubt on the Scripture. 21:58 You know, before we even came out here, 21:59 we were all back there talking waiting for them 22:01 to set the setup for us to come out. 22:04 And it just kind of reminds me 22:06 because it was mentioned about churches in the area. 22:10 And you were talking about the different names in our area 22:12 that have biblical names. 22:14 And I thought, how sad as I was thinking about 22:17 the churches today, 22:19 because there's so compromised with the world, 22:22 you can go into a church, 22:23 but you can come out and do the very same things 22:25 that anybody else would do that's not been 22:27 "saved or not." 22:29 You know, they can still drink, they can still party, 22:32 they're still dressing the same. 22:34 In fact, maybe I should say, undressing the same, you know, 22:39 because there's a lot of the things 22:41 could be similar and the like, 22:43 but at least in modesty, you know what I'm saying? 22:45 And that's just not the norm anymore, 22:48 and it just doesn't matter. 22:50 And so most of the time when you're out 22:52 and you see Christians, you can't tell the difference. 22:55 Because we're being deceived to think that it's okay. 22:58 You know, the scripture says, "Come as you are." 23:01 People think you can come as you are 23:03 and you stay as you are. 23:04 But that's not what God means. 23:07 You come as you are as a babe, accepting Christ. 23:11 And then as you begin to study, 23:13 which we'll talk more about that 23:14 and worship the Lord, 23:16 then He begins to mold and to fashion us. 23:18 And what's he fashioning us for? 23:22 For to live in the kingdom. 23:23 He's remaking us to live in the kingdom. 23:27 So the enemy didn't want to, then we can go from, 23:30 you guys need to go from here 23:31 where he wanted to get into the discussion. 23:34 Yes. He wanted to, for what? 23:37 Because he knew, or at least in his mind, 23:39 he knew he was determined, you told, 23:42 that he could beat her in a conversation. 23:46 Note, he's had to go through his mind. 23:49 He knew he was of... 23:50 It's okay to say higher intelligence, 23:52 at least at that point time in the good and bad. 23:55 So he knew and some people know it today, 23:57 they pick certain ones that they talk to or whatever, 24:00 because they know that they can pretty much 24:02 beat them by parleying, or having a conversation with, 24:08 and they know which ones they can work. 24:09 Enemy knew if I could just 24:11 get this conversation going here, 24:12 I can beat her. Well, it was... 24:15 I have to say it was a wise way 24:18 to draw her into conversation by asking the question. 24:22 Yes. Yeah, sure. 24:24 You know, when you look at the animals, 24:27 I was watching a documentary on these animals, 24:31 they watch their prey. 24:33 They study the moment when it is best to attack. 24:36 Yes. 24:38 And they, they sometimes sneak up upon them, 24:40 but then they come curiously at them to, 24:42 of course, to destroy. 24:44 Sure. 24:45 And I saw these lions trying to kill a little baby elephant. 24:48 And then the hyenas came later, 24:50 but they all did the same thing. 24:52 Yes. 24:53 Watch the prey, and then look for the best moment to attack. 24:57 The best moment to attack was, 24:59 I mean, we some people say that Adam and Eve were together. 25:03 But the Bible doesn't show that. 25:05 Because it says, it says that Eve plucked the fruit 25:08 and gave to Adam and he later, but that's later. 25:12 But Eve was by herself. Yes. 25:14 That's why the devil didn't... 25:17 Adam is not talking in this conversation. 25:18 This is the point which we land down right now, 25:20 which I think is good. 25:22 It's not trying to be hurtful. 25:23 It's not trying to pinpoint this one, 25:24 so more guilty the woman is than the man. 25:27 But Early Writings, page 147 says, 25:29 the very first err that was committed in the garden, 25:32 the first wrong was 25:33 because Eve strayed from her husband. 25:35 Yes. 25:37 So he, she entered into the conversation, but what... 25:40 She wandered from at least by herself. 25:42 Yes. What did the devil know? 25:45 What did the devil know about Eve and Adam? 25:48 Yeah. He knew they loved God. 25:50 Oh, yeah. 25:52 Well, God had done so much for them. 25:53 Yeah. Created this world. 25:56 They could bless them with a Garden of Eden 25:59 that he was in there. 26:01 So he knew that. 26:03 So somehow he must try to persuade her to distrust God, 26:09 to question His love. 26:11 Use the word, we use. I'm gonna use the word here. 26:14 Here I go again, I'm gonna say the women. 26:18 I think sometimes they are 26:20 and Spirit of Prophecy brings out. 26:22 She was curious, probably more curious than Adam was. 26:28 You see. 26:29 And so we always say curiosity killed the cat. 26:33 She was very curious of what about the tree 26:37 and what was going on. 26:38 So therefore she strayed close to it, 26:40 she wandered close to it, he knew he had his prey. 26:45 But remember, curiosity played a big part 26:49 in the one that he chose to land on first as it were, 26:53 because he knew, you know, he had been around, 26:55 he had understood that 26:57 women are just a little different, 26:58 doesn't mean bad. 26:59 But in this case here it caused, 27:01 which would end up causing doubt about 27:05 God's goodness, we talked about and God's love. 27:06 Go ahead. Yeah. 27:08 I'm gonna, I'm going to put in a, 27:10 if you don't mind. 27:11 I know you're not supposed to put words in the Bible. 27:14 But I'm going to put this there to give it a little context. 27:17 Notice, the question is have God said, 27:20 I'm going to say, has God that you love said, 27:26 you should not eat up every tree of the garden. 27:29 Right. Because he is questioning. 27:32 He's trying to persuade her to consider God loves you, 27:35 but He's not allowing you to eat from tree of the garden. 27:37 Right, that makes a big difference. 27:40 See, he's keeping something from you. 27:42 Right. So what does Eve do? 27:45 She loves God. Yes. 27:47 She comes to his defense. What does she say? 27:51 His defense, her defense of God was... 27:55 We may eat the fruit. 27:57 And the woman said to the serpent, 27:58 we may, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. 28:02 Yes. 28:03 And then, but of the fruit of the tree 28:07 which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 28:10 you shall not eat of it, 28:11 nor shall you touch it, lest you die. 28:14 So I'm protecting. 28:17 I'm defending God. He said this. 28:19 You're wrong. You're wrong. 28:21 He didn't say that. You're mistaken. 28:23 He said this. 28:25 And then he, then she added, don't touch it. 28:30 God didn't say that part. No. 28:33 So now he's got her on her underground. 28:37 He's already has her in discussion. 28:39 Her curiosity is aroused. 28:41 So he comes with part two of his attack. 28:45 Yes. Mm-hmm. 28:46 Part two, you shall not surely die. 28:49 Ah, there you go. 28:51 Now, this one now is a direct contradiction 28:57 to what God said. 28:59 A direct contradiction to what God said. 29:01 Now he has to wait for her 29:03 to respond to that contradiction 29:05 because she knows. 29:08 And she said it, if you eat of it, 29:10 you're going to die. 29:12 Now he's contradicting her. What are you going to? 29:13 What are you going to do now? Yes. 29:16 You know the sad thing about it 29:18 is bring it up to the day then we'll go back there 29:20 is that this is probably salesmanship. 29:23 Like if you go to your fortune 500 companies, 29:30 and they're saying, hey, you've got some potential. 29:33 We want to see you grow. 29:35 And they, then they send you to the specialized courses. 29:39 And this is where we are right now, okay? 29:43 Establishing that doubt, making a fact, 29:46 taken that fact 29:48 because we're going against competition. 29:51 Okay? 29:52 And then we're asking a question, 29:56 which most people, 29:58 not most people, a lot of people 30:00 their answers are yes, no. 30:02 Oh. Yes, no. 30:05 And you're not getting anywhere and think well, shoot. 30:07 I'd like to speak with the decision maker. 30:10 Well, I am the decision maker. Yes, no. 30:13 So you have to come back with a question. 30:16 And here I mean, this, 30:18 this is the first time that they've met we're assuming. 30:21 Yes. Okay. 30:23 And he's coming out with this question. 30:25 I think that, you know, and in today's work, 30:28 I've always heard, I would rather have someone 30:32 that has some experience and determination. 30:37 I put them up against anybody that's super intelligent. 30:41 So if you're taking 30:43 two different personality types, 30:45 you would want someone 30:47 that's got experience, and someone 30:49 that has determination, 30:51 because they're not going to give up. 30:52 We've read while ago, 30:53 you know that he was very determined. 30:56 Okay? Yes, absolutely. 30:58 She, bless her little heart. 30:59 She's being naive and taking and backing what she knows. 31:05 And, boy, then all of a sudden, 31:07 now, then he comes right back 31:09 and he's asked her another question. 31:10 Yes. 31:12 So she thought she was defending. 31:13 You bet. 31:15 I mean, that's kind of the way that we're, 31:17 that's the direction we're going. 31:18 Okay. All right. Yeah. 31:19 But notice this part, notice this part. 31:23 I'm sure you thought of the same thing. 31:25 She heard the first lie in the human, 31:29 on the earth that was the very first lie. 31:31 She had never heard a lie before. 31:33 Everything she had heard before was truth, truth, truth. 31:37 And now here comes a declaration 31:40 by a serpent and said, you will not surely die. 31:44 Oh. 31:45 Now she has this conflict, God said this. 31:48 Yes. 31:49 Can't you see that the serpent could have said, 31:51 "Look, I've eaten it, I'm not dead." 31:54 You see? 31:55 So there was a lot there 31:57 and exactly you're setting it up so well, 32:00 because she didn't understand it, 32:02 but he was... 32:03 Back in the 80s there was a program 32:04 that was really big. 32:06 They were pushing it on a lot of ministers 32:07 called linguistic programming. 32:10 I see this in here. 32:12 Because he's what, 32:14 what he's doing by asking these questions, 32:16 he's getting her to think the way 32:17 he wants her to think without her realizing that 32:20 he's changing her way she thought. 32:22 She has to analyze the declaration, 32:24 this statement. 32:25 Yeah. Yeah. 32:27 Which is a contradiction to what God said, 32:29 but the devil adds something else. 32:31 Notice what here he adds. 32:32 He says, He says, 32:37 we're in verse... 32:39 Just finished four. Oh, yes. 32:40 For God knows, verse 5, 32:42 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it, 32:46 your eyes will be open, and you will be like God, 32:50 knowing good and evil." 32:51 So she was told the day you eat of it, 32:55 you're going to die, but the devil says, 32:59 the day you eat of it, you're going to be like God, 33:01 a complete opposite. 33:02 And she has to analyze this. 33:04 And he says, your eyes will be open, 33:07 and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. 33:10 Two things I'd like to point out if I may. 33:14 One, the serpent appears to be saying, 33:19 I know something about God, you don't. 33:21 Sure. 33:22 Now, to me, that should have been a red flag. 33:25 You're a lower form of life. 33:28 Your brain is smaller than mine. 33:30 How could you know something about God? 33:32 How could you know this without? 33:34 And I, I'm smart, I'm supposed. 33:36 She's supposed to be smarter than the serpent. 33:37 Because he ate it. 33:38 So she had to say, 33:40 I'm not really talking to a serpent here. 33:42 Somebody's behind this a very smart declaration, 33:46 intelligence is coming 33:47 from this animal that's not supposed to be 33:49 coming from this animal. 33:50 But anyway, look at the statement is, 33:53 you will be as God knowing good and evil. 33:56 Painted, put in her mind the idea 33:59 that knowing evil 34:01 was going to bring her to a higher plain. 34:05 Absolutely. 34:06 You're going to reach new heights. 34:07 Yes. 34:09 heights that you are not, 34:10 you cannot reach unless you eat of this fruit. 34:14 And so what follows is Eve expressing 34:19 or her thoughts are revealed. 34:20 Yeah. 34:22 He appealed to two things again, 34:24 first he appealed to... 34:26 Her desire. 34:27 That sometimes the women, they are more emotional. 34:30 Not always but I'm saying, 34:32 he appealed to her feelings and her emotion, 34:36 emotions with these. 34:37 And when you do that sometime, 34:39 sometime we respond in a way that's a little different than 34:42 maybe we ordinarily would. 34:44 Because, and I'm gonna throw this out here too, 34:46 because it seems like 34:48 when you read this account in several thing. 34:50 I read a couple more this morning was like, 34:52 it's kind of like that the enemy plucked the fruit 34:57 and put it in her hand. 34:59 Try it. 35:00 Okay, now, but that went deeper than 35:03 I kind of thought about previously. 35:05 He plucked it, he put it in her hand 35:07 because usually when somebody hands 35:08 you something or shape or... 35:10 The natural reaction. 35:11 Natural reaction, look, I have the water. 35:13 Thank you, honey. 35:15 And natural reaction is I do like this what? 35:17 Her hand will respond to that, and I leave it. 35:20 But it's so, she went ahead, let me just throw this out. 35:24 She went ahead and she took a bite. 35:28 And so it was still, 35:30 it was still the enemy had really put 35:32 some undue pressure, 35:34 her emotions and her feelings 35:35 were kind of out of whack at the time here. 35:37 She did feel once she ate, 35:40 she felt special power go through her, 35:44 she thought she did through her system. 35:47 So that was evidences 35:48 of this must be a mightier power 35:50 that you're talking about while ago. 35:53 It made her feel I believe it was a great controversy. 35:56 It made her feel alive, powerful and good inside. 36:00 You know, people say, 36:02 I know that didn't harmonize with Scripture. 36:04 But man did that make me feel good? 36:05 You ever heard that? 36:07 They'll say, I'll mention one of the things 36:09 just go ahead with it. 36:11 Some people are speaking in tongues. 36:13 They'll will, I've not had them as I say 36:15 and there are other people where you can fuss if you want. 36:17 They, we will say, well, 36:19 there's a true and there's a false. 36:20 They'll say, it doesn't matter. I know what it did inside. 36:23 I know what I felt. She felt alive. 36:25 She felt invigorated, she felt powerful. 36:28 And she wanted to reach a higher, 36:30 listen, a higher plain than 36:32 God had attended her ever for her to reach. 36:37 She went out of that which God had in mind for her. 36:40 That's why the sin came 36:41 and then she became subject to mankind. 36:44 Yes. 36:45 But go on with the other 36:47 and then we can debate if we need to. 36:48 Oh, Brother John said, I sit down at the end. 36:50 I said yeah, so case we get into it, 36:52 we can really discuss this stuff. 36:53 But you know, that is so important though 36:55 what you're pointing out because we're still 36:57 and I hope people are catching this 36:58 at home taking notes. 37:00 Because once we get to question number three, 37:02 which we will get to question number three. 37:04 You know, we have to at this one time. 37:06 No, we're putting all three together. 37:07 But you know, it makes sense 37:08 'cause God, the devil has not changed his tactics. 37:12 Yeah. He hasn't changed it. 37:13 And it's still the same way, it may, you know, 37:17 what do you say like morphed into other ways. 37:19 He's gonna get us 37:21 where he thinks we're the most vulnerable. 37:23 Like you said, we're his prey. 37:25 And I'm glad you pointed that out, 37:26 because really, we are his prey. 37:28 He didn't care. 37:30 And what he was telling Eve when he said that 37:33 your eyes will be open, you'll be like God. 37:35 Was he telling a full lie? 37:39 That was not a full lie. No. 37:41 It was not a full lie. 37:43 But the way he presented it was... 37:45 Was very deceptive. 37:46 It's not that you're going to be 37:47 like God in character, 37:49 but like God in authority and power and ability. 37:53 You're going to be as God, like knowing good and evil. 37:56 That's a privilege, 37:58 that's something that brings to end. 37:59 Feeling good. Isn't that right? 38:00 That's all they knew was good and perfect and righteous. 38:02 That's all they learned. 38:03 You pointed out like it was a privilege. 38:05 He presented it as it was a privilege. 38:08 And she began to realize that it was a heartache. 38:11 She was far better not knowing. 38:14 He already knew they wouldn't. Yes. 38:17 And isn't that exactly the same thing 38:20 we find when we're talking about 38:21 God's Ten Commandment laws. 38:23 God wants me to have no fun. 38:25 It's nothing but do's and don'ts, 38:27 when in fact it's God protecting us. 38:30 Don't go out and murder. 38:32 Don't commit adultery. 38:34 Treat your children honor your parents, 38:38 you know, love God, 38:39 and how to love God and how not to love God. 38:43 You know, all of these things, 38:44 is God protecting us from this character. 38:46 Praise God. If I... 38:48 Oh, sorry, go ahead. 38:49 As far as the enemy is concerned here, 38:51 we have to remember the angels 38:54 who is a little bit higher than us 38:57 that Lucifer had converted 39:01 a third of these people. 39:03 Yes. Absolutely. 39:05 So I mean, salesman of salesmen. 39:08 Yes. That's right. 39:10 He had probably, and I'm just making this up. 39:16 He had probably talked to a million. 39:19 He had probably told her story a million times. 39:22 You can't throw anything at me that I haven't already tackled. 39:26 So in here she is very vulnerable. 39:32 Just very vulnerable. 39:34 Well, any of us would have been very vulnerable. 39:37 Yes. We are very vulnerable today. 39:42 You talk to people today, do you not that says, 39:44 no matter what you throw at me 39:46 when you're in discussion. 39:47 I've already thought about it. 39:49 I already have the answer to it. 39:51 So there's no issue to go there 39:52 and all sudden you're going, what. 39:54 I want to just read part of my answer for that question. 39:58 And it was basically 40:00 we are simply no match for the devil. 40:03 That's the bottom line. 40:04 We must, and this is for all of us. 40:07 We must allow Christ to intervene 40:10 and fight our battles for us. 40:12 We cannot do this on our own. 40:14 We cannot win an argument with the devil. 40:16 He is a master manipulator and deceiver. 40:20 He seasons his words 40:23 with just the right amount of truth 40:25 and a hefty portion of doubt, 40:27 and mixes them to the point that 40:29 you begin to question what truth really is, 40:33 just as Adam and Eve questioned that 40:35 God was hiding the truth from them. 40:38 This is a lie that he has been using on all of us a deception 40:42 that he's been using on all of us. 40:43 That's right. 40:44 And we need to begin to recognize 40:46 and then we also need to spend time 40:48 on how to not be deceived. 40:51 We need to look at question number three, 40:53 so we know how not to fall just as they fell, 40:56 or to quit falling. 40:57 All of us have sinned 40:59 and come short of the glory of God. 41:00 But we need to learn how not to continue to fall. 41:03 Good. If I may take a moment. 41:07 You know, when I'm going to go forward 41:10 and then backward, if I may. 41:12 When God asked Adam, you know, 41:16 have you eaten up the fruit? 41:18 Have you eaten of the fruit? What did he say? 41:21 Well, he said, he threw her under the bus. 41:25 The woman, you gave me. 41:26 Yes. The woman you gave me. 41:29 She gave me of the fruit and I ate. 41:32 Yeah. But Eve is not without excuse. 41:34 Because she said, what did she say? 41:37 The serpent deceived me. 41:40 I'm not to blame. Yeah. 41:41 She blamed God. The serpent deceived me. 41:43 Yeah. And I ate. 41:45 But notice what it says in Genesis Chapter 3, 41:49 because Eve was deceived. 41:51 However, she had a, she had a choice. 41:55 Notice this, verse 6, So when the woman saw 41:58 and the Hebrew word saw is, 42:01 you consider, you analyze, you evaluate. 42:05 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, 42:09 and that it was pleasant to the eyes, 42:12 and a tree desirable to make one wise. 42:17 He took of its fruit and ate. 42:20 She also gave also to her husband 42:22 with her husband with her and he ate. 42:25 So she analyzed, she evaluated, 42:28 and she says, Hey, this fruit, 42:31 like the devil said, 42:32 and I'm putting there apparently, 42:34 like the devil said will make me wise. 42:36 And so she evaluated before she ate, she evaluated. 42:41 It wasn't that, oh, well, that sounds good to me. 42:44 No, she evaluated, she saw, she evaluated. 42:47 And she made a decision based on information given 42:50 and her own analysis. 42:52 So she has guilt in this process is not, 42:56 well, the devil deceived me. 42:57 Because if that would be an excuse, 42:59 when we are tempted, 43:00 we could say, Lord, the devil deceived me. 43:04 And I killed that person or I stole that. 43:07 That's not an excuse. 43:08 We have a choice. 43:10 Eve had a choice, 43:12 Adam had a choice, we have a choice. 43:14 Yes. But we are at a disadvantage. 43:17 Yes. 43:18 Adam and Eve had an advantage, I could say that, 43:20 we have a disadvantage. 43:22 What's our disadvantage? We inherited a fallen nature. 43:26 That brings, yes, that, I mean, 43:27 that brings the food for thought, 43:30 because we have a tendency to blame the enemy. 43:32 And that's what we're bringing out while ago. 43:34 We're gonna go to all three questions here. 43:35 Yes. 43:36 Eve parleyed with, you know, 43:38 what happened when she parleyed with the devil. 43:40 So the first thing to do is not to parley. 43:41 Yeah. 43:43 Interesting, I looked up the word parley. 43:44 Listen, it's interesting. 43:46 Parley, to speak with an enemy, It could be. 43:50 It's a conference as to settle a dispute 43:54 and goes on, to speak with the enemy. 43:57 And then I put this in red here, 44:00 listen, to discuss terms. 44:03 When you parley, he parleyed with Eve 44:06 because he was going to discuss terms 44:09 of what was going to take place 44:11 and how it was going to take place. 44:13 And then there's that word, parley is different, 44:16 you parley is to bet on something 44:20 that you can win. 44:22 It's very close to this, but notice, 44:24 to exploit the original wages plus his winnings. 44:29 He was putting it all on the line, was he not? 44:33 In his words he put everything out there 44:35 on the line that he could take her. 44:38 He was smarter 44:39 as everybody's brought up here wisdom. 44:40 So there's two things 44:42 and then the other was because, again, 44:44 we said while ago 44:46 and again it can be up for discussion 44:47 that Eve seem to eat, he gave her the apple. 44:51 So I will say he plucked, he gave it to her. 44:53 She reached out and got it. 44:55 And she evidently took a bite. Yes. 44:57 And because then she said, 44:59 she started feeling all these emotions 45:01 and these feelings and she ate it 45:02 and power came into her system, 45:04 she became alive, she become feeling different 45:07 than she ever had before. 45:08 See, the enemy can do this all about feelings 45:10 when we think oh, we, you know, but it's against scripture. 45:13 But then notice this, this, 45:15 this is on the Patriarchs and Prophets, page 556. 45:20 This brought her to imagine herself, 45:23 entering upon a higher state of existence. 45:26 We kind of talked about, notice, remember when, 45:29 to me is when you guys can correct me maybe. 45:31 When he gave it to her, she reached she ate, 45:34 all these things came in her to her mind. 45:37 Now notice it, all of a sudden 45:39 she's entered a higher state of existence. 45:43 And then it says, after that, 45:45 it says, notice after without fear, 45:48 she plucked it, she plucked and ate. 45:53 So now listen, and now having I've never seen this before, 45:58 and now having transgressed 46:01 Now, having transgressed what was it before? 46:03 Temptation. 46:05 You know, the temptation, but she did eat for him, 46:07 but maybe some of the blame, 46:08 I don't know, God knows. 46:09 But the enemy, I mean, he had it all fool her. 46:12 But now he fooled her so that she plucked, 46:15 she ate, she transgressed is what it says. 46:19 She became the agent of Satan to work 46:22 the ruin of her husband. 46:23 Yes. 46:25 It seems there's two different plateaus 46:27 that seems to be there. 46:29 I mean, how it is today when we are fooled, 46:34 the enemy fools, he deceived. 46:35 If we don't, we don't know at that moment, 46:37 and we are deceived. 46:38 How does God look at that? 46:40 Or that we know that we have sinned. 46:43 We know that it's wrong, but we go ahead. 46:46 It's just food that can go a lot of different ways. 46:49 Yes. I had never seen that before. 46:51 Yeah. 46:52 And it excited me to a certain extent, 46:54 in God's Word to say, how did God look at this? 46:57 Wow. Go ahead. 47:00 Go ahead, brother. 47:01 Oh, I have, I entered three of your questions 47:06 and probably 10 words. 47:08 Okay. 47:09 Now I mean this is just food for thought that 47:11 we can continue to chew on. 47:13 Okay. Number one. 47:17 And let's bring this down to where we are today. 47:19 We have predetermined or preconceived ideas. 47:24 We watch so much TV, 47:26 we buy into this billboards and everything, 47:28 that we kind of like we don't have to go 47:32 through everything. 47:33 They've already told us, and we bought because we... 47:37 Many people feel like they're needy, 47:39 I'm being cheated at home. 47:41 Okay? 47:42 All next place, 47:44 being at the wrong place at the right time. 47:48 Boy, now here we got preconceived ideas. 47:51 Now, that's my move. 47:55 Wrong place, wrong time. 47:57 And then we buy into it. We take it. 48:02 But then we find out after the fact is a temporary high. 48:08 Exactly. Good. 48:10 Yes. 48:11 Now all of a sudden, the good seed that's been sown. 48:16 We see, maybe I've been deceived. 48:22 The good news, 48:24 because right now this is purely bad stuff. 48:26 We're at such a disadvantage. 48:28 The good news is that somebody went to the cross for us. 48:32 Amen. Amen. 48:34 Amen. Powerful. 48:35 Which means that all of a sudden... 48:40 Thank you, Jesus. 48:41 I do have a second chance. 48:43 Amen. 48:44 Or as before because this, 48:46 this is a tough battle if I got preconceived ideas. 48:48 It's pretty bad if I'm driven to be 48:52 at the wrong place at the wrong time. 48:54 And then all of a sudden, 48:57 I buy into it, or I buy into the story, 49:00 because I have my own fantasies. 49:04 And then all of a sudden, 49:07 I just went three steps forward. 49:10 Yes. 49:11 But then all of a sudden, I went four steps backward. 49:14 Is at least for our simple mind, 49:16 my simple mind is 49:18 what we're saying here is the enemy studies us, right? 49:21 He studies our character. 49:23 He knows he doesn't, he can't read your mind. 49:25 But he knows by actions 49:27 what you're trying to set up the words 49:29 that you speak to different people. 49:31 And he tries to arrange that 49:34 which goes through your mind that's wrong. 49:37 He tries to arrange it and set it up to 49:38 where you say wrong place wrong time, 49:40 and then something develops and happens. 49:42 I just know that if I go out and play the game, 49:45 I may think that I'm pretty good at it. 49:47 But if my opponent's got 6000 years of experience... 49:50 Oh, have mercy. 49:51 I think that the reality steps in. 49:53 That's right. 49:54 And I think I may be outclassed. 49:56 So I think that probably I better listen to mom and dad 50:00 and not find myself 50:02 in the wrong place at the wrong time. 50:03 And look where he started. 50:05 Valid point. Excellent. 50:07 But look where he started, much higher than what we are. 50:10 We're the dust of the earth, none good, 50:11 no, not one, look where he started. 50:13 We are just getting so close to being out of time. 50:16 Because this is so important. 50:20 How may we be 50:21 overcomers of this evil clothed in righteousness, 50:24 especially as his deceptions reach a crescendo, 50:29 when we are told that Satan himself 50:31 will appear as Christ, when the world is 50:34 in a total state of hopelessness, right before 50:38 the true second coming of our Lord and Savior. 50:40 Actually, most of my study was on this question, 50:43 because this is what we see the world 50:46 coming to right now. 50:48 They are hurting, they are confused. 50:50 They want to know 50:52 why things are happening the way 50:53 that they're happening. 50:55 You know, is there somebody, 50:56 is there a group of people behind this. 50:58 And then what happens when the devil gets us 51:01 so choked up that we're pleading God, 51:03 we need help, and who shows up, 51:07 but the beast, the dragon, and the false prophet. 51:12 And when those three are together, 51:13 we're told that 51:15 that is the abomination of desolation 51:17 standing in the holy place, 51:18 that's when it's going to get really bad. 51:20 So how are we going to be able to stand? 51:23 You know, are we going to 51:24 continue to be deceived when we sees a being 51:28 showing up and looking 51:29 and sounding like the description 51:32 that we read in revelation of Jesus Christ? 51:36 You know, and they tell you, 51:38 oh, he's, he's here, come and see him. 51:40 He's here, Christ has come, He's going to help us. 51:42 He's doing all these marvelous miracles. 51:45 He's raising people from the dead, 51:47 he's healing people, we're saved, 51:48 everything's going to be better. 51:50 Just come and meet him. 51:52 Isn't the enemy can do something, 51:54 maybe in the last five minutes 51:55 we have we talked about because the main thing 51:56 here is he wanted to create what? 51:59 Doubt in the goodness and the wisdom of God 52:03 and God's law and doing the right thing. 52:05 Doubt is the issue. 52:07 And so I found something in Great Controversy, 52:08 then you can go head on, 52:09 it's just a couple lines of page, 52:11 I think it was 528. 52:14 It says, you want to be free from doubt, 52:16 we have to be free from doubt, because notice what it says, 52:19 instead of questioning and caviling concerning that 52:22 which they do not understand, talking about people who is, 52:25 you know, questioning all the time and doubting. 52:27 Let them give heed to the light, 52:29 which already shines upon them. 52:32 And they will receive greater light, 52:34 simply to do those things 52:35 that are already made plain, 52:37 you know, whose understanding, 52:39 more understanding will come. 52:41 Other words, if you say 52:42 I don't have much understanding, 52:43 then concentrate on the understanding 52:46 that you do have, 52:47 the light that has been given and more that 52:49 you look at the light that has been given 52:50 you know that it is, doubt would dissipate. 52:53 And God will be showing you more things to come. 52:56 Doubt has to go as long as we're down in Scripture. 52:58 That's a lack of what? Lack of our faith in God. 53:02 And without faith it's impossible to please God. 53:04 Okay. Go ahead. 53:05 You know, I mentioned something a little while ago 53:08 that after Adam and Eve sinned, they had an advantage, 53:12 we have a disadvantage 53:13 because we inherited a tendency toward evil, 53:17 a nature that wants to do evil, but because of Christ, 53:22 because of Christ, we can go 53:24 from being at a disadvantage to be to have an advantage, 53:29 because through Jesus we can be overcomers. 53:32 Amen. 53:34 And that's why it says in Revelation 12:11, 53:37 "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb." 53:40 Good. 53:42 And their oil, their lamps were filled with oil. 53:44 They were studying, 53:46 they were praying, they were witnessing, 53:47 they were going through the sanctuary message. 53:51 To summarize some of this, 53:52 the thoughts came to me late last night, 53:55 God is our fortress. God is our strength. 53:58 God is our restorer. God is our sustainer. 54:01 God is our overcomer. 54:03 God is our hope, and you can back 54:05 each and every one of these up with Scripture. 54:07 God is our fortress. 54:09 You know, Psalms 91:2, 54:11 you can find every one of these in principle in Psalms 91. 54:13 Yes. 54:15 He is my refuge and my fortress. 54:16 God is our strength. 54:18 His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 54:21 See, if we don't know what truth is. 54:23 If you don't know the second coming of Christ, 54:25 you're going to be deceived. 54:26 That's what's bothering me. 54:28 I see my children being deceived. 54:30 I see people I love being deceived, 54:32 because they're not accepting the Word of the God 54:36 as the absolute morality. 54:38 Absolute truth. Yes. 54:41 And we must accept it as absolute truth 54:43 or we're gonna be deceived just like Eve was. 54:45 God is our restorer. 54:47 He shall give His angels charge over thee. 54:50 What a blessing. 54:52 You don't have to do it yourself. 54:53 He's going to give you the strength to do it, 54:55 to keep you in all thy ways. 54:57 God is our sustainer. 54:59 He shall give His angels charge. 55:02 Well, that's what I meant to read. 55:03 I read the wrong one. 55:05 Oh, I got in here twice, that's why, 55:07 but also restored to me the joy of thy salvation. 55:10 God is our overcomer, 55:11 He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. 55:15 It's He that is doing the battle for us. 55:18 When we get there, but you know what? 55:19 He's not going to force anything on us. 55:21 You got to reach out. God, I'm in a mess, help me. 55:25 And He said He will do that. God is our hope. 55:28 Because He has set His love upon me, 55:31 therefore will I deliver him. 55:33 I will set him on high because he had known my name. 55:38 God wants to do all these things for us. 55:41 And it's in His strength, His power, His salvation, 55:44 everything that we can be overcomers 55:47 and when these things are attacking us 55:49 and we feel hopeless and helpless, 55:50 we have God's Word to combat that. 55:52 Amen. Brother, JD? 55:53 Well, I just... 55:54 Here again, I understand and following exactly 55:58 what you said, Chris, number one know that 56:00 you know that you know. 56:02 How do you know that you know that 56:03 you know is by getting in, 56:05 getting in there inviting the Holy Spirit in, 56:08 He knows your heart, He knows. 56:11 Thank You, Jesus that He tells us in Matthew 56:13 that I will bring to you the remembrance. 56:17 But I've got to have something in there first. 56:20 And then there's the rules of engagement 56:21 of which means that God is not going to overstep 56:24 unless you're giving permission, 56:26 giving permission. 56:27 Yeah. Lord, I need Your help. 56:28 This has got to make some sense to me. 56:31 Yes. And then be faithful. 56:32 And don't hesitate to plead. 56:35 Nothing wrong with pleading. 56:37 That's right. Pleading is not sissies. 56:39 A contrite heart as Micah said. 56:40 Amen. Amen. 56:42 A contrite heart. Amen. 56:44 Well, you know, in John Chapter 15, 56:47 Jesus says, abide in Me, 56:51 and without Me you can do nothing. 56:52 Abide in me, 56:54 as the vine cannot bear fruit of it, 56:55 as the branch cannot bear fruit 56:57 unless it abides of the vine neither, 56:59 neither can you except if you abide in Me. 57:00 I see the time is over. It says, Desire of Ages 324. 57:03 Remember that, Desire of Ages, 324. 57:05 The only defense against evil is the indwelling of Christ 57:09 in the heart, through faith and His righteousness. 57:12 Amen. Wow. 57:14 To me, it's been a real good study, 57:16 blessings of the Holy Spirit being with us. 57:18 We want to condense it down real quick, we did. 57:20 You know, again the first error of Eve 57:22 wandering away from her husband. 57:24 Let's that not be issue, we don't wander away from God. 57:25 Number two is that 57:27 we need not linger around the forbidden tree 57:29 or the temptation. 57:30 And then we did not doubt God's Word. 57:31 I know you're not going to doubt. 57:33 God loves you. 57:34 We love you and we look forward to seeing you next time. 57:35 Amen. |
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