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Series Code: TDYFW
Program Code: TDYFW210030S
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:19 Removing pain Lord, 00:24 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 01:08 Hello and a great big welcome. 01:10 We're glad you join us for 3ABN Worship Hour. 01:12 I mean this is... You talk about an exciting lesson. 01:15 I'm very thrilled about it because it's signs of the time, 01:19 things are happening in the world. 01:21 I think this is a good subject 01:22 and I believe that you're going to love it too 01:24 as we get into the Word of God 01:25 because we're going to be reading Bible scriptures, 01:27 we're going to be reading the Spirit of Prophecy. 01:29 We're going to be just going over some things 01:30 that we believe will be a blessing to you. 01:32 So again thank you for joining us today. 01:35 We're going to be talking about peace amidst the storm. 01:39 Some of you may in your life 01:41 going through a storm right now. 01:42 There's things that maybe you like see take place, 01:45 maybe it's a job, maybe you've been threatened 01:47 and things that are happening and so, 01:48 I believe today as we go into the Word of God, 01:51 there's going to be some things that will help you, 01:52 we know that will be. 01:53 We will, we prayed about it already, 01:55 we're gonna have prayer in just a moment. 01:56 But first of all I like to... 01:58 I'm glad that, Chris, that you're here with me, 01:59 my wife Chris. 02:01 And I like to view before we have our prayer 02:03 and before we introduce those who are going to help us 02:06 and we need help as you can see. 02:07 Okay. We always need help. 02:08 We need help. Yes. 02:10 The first paragraph of our lesson peace amidst 02:11 the storm is something that will maybe set 02:14 your mind to make sure you stay with us 02:15 this hour because I know it's gonna be a blessing. 02:18 Promise of the Spirit. 02:19 Okay, it reads, 02:21 "The Apostle John in vision 02:23 heard a loud voice in heaven exclaiming: 02:26 'Woe to the inhibiters of the earth 02:28 and of the sea! 02:29 For the devil is come down unto you, 02:31 having great wrath, because he knoweth 02:34 that he hath but a short time.'" 02:36 That's found in Revelation 12:12. 02:39 "Fearful are the scenes which call 02:42 forth this exclamation from the heavenly voice. 02:45 The wrath of Satan increases as his time grows short." 02:50 That I think I had to read that again. 02:52 Well. 02:53 "The wrath of Satan increases as his time grows short, 02:58 and his work of deceit and destruction 03:00 will reach its culmination in the time of trouble." 03:05 And that quote is taken from Darkness before Dawn, 03:09 page four. 03:10 Praise the Lord. 03:11 So that sets up what we want to start to discuss 03:13 and then we'll come back and if we have prayer 03:15 and introduce. 03:16 So why don't you just introduce the ones 03:18 we have helping us today? 03:19 Oh, absolutely sure. 03:20 I would love to introduce these people. 03:22 I think might be new to some do you suppose? 03:26 But just in case, across the table keeping quite 03:32 a distance is my lovely sister-in-law, Yvonne Shelton. 03:37 I am so happy to have her as a part of my family 03:39 and next to her is my brother-in-law Danny. 03:42 And I, you know, even though... 03:44 Well, Yvonne, we're both married into this family, 03:47 but it feels like blood, you know, it really does. 03:49 If we need something, they are the ones to call. 03:52 And Dee said 03:54 as long as they're on the set that she knew 03:56 we would say the right thing. 03:59 Okay. All right. 04:02 But we say the right thing, that's the one thing. 04:03 Yeah, yeah. 04:05 Well, we need a prayer, don't we, Brother Danny? 04:08 So we starts with prayer and then we'll commence our study. 04:10 Would you pray for us? Sure. 04:12 Dear Lord, we thank You for Your many wonderful blessings. 04:14 And it is such an opportunity 04:16 today to be able to have peace in the midst of the storm, 04:20 it doesn't matter what goes on around us 04:23 that You're always there. 04:24 You're the solid foundation, You're the Rock of Ages. 04:27 And, Father, I pray for each person watching, 04:30 listening today from around the world. 04:33 Before this program is over, if they don't have this peace, 04:36 they'll have it already. 04:37 It's something that's world didn't give us 04:39 and world can't take away. 04:40 That's right. Amen. 04:42 Lord, for giving us peace in the midst of storm. 04:44 Amen. That's right. 04:46 Good. Thank you. 04:47 I read a little something this little paragraph before 04:49 we read on this, I thought was interesting, 04:51 it says, the Bible knows a whole lot. 04:55 Now notice this and... 04:57 But it keeps it to itself until is consulted. 05:01 It's very interesting. Right? That's good. 05:03 The Bible has a lot 05:04 of information in there but it keeps quiet 05:06 until it's consulted, and then it tells something 05:09 and we praise God for that. 05:10 Amen. That is cute. 05:11 Yes. All right. 05:13 Well, again, we're talking about a peace amidst 05:14 the storm and usually after the wrath of Satan increases 05:17 as time grows short. 05:18 Can we maybe establish here today? 05:21 We feel do we not that time is short. 05:24 Yes. 05:25 Now, you know, we're not trying to put 05:26 a timeframe on anything or try to set anything but, 05:29 you know, it's more than just a date, 05:32 it's more than... 05:33 We may not be here tomorrow ourself. 05:35 And so every day I look at time 05:37 can be really short for some of us and really 05:39 what millions around the world today, 05:41 time is very short because it may be their last 05:44 day on earth. 05:45 And so we need to approach it so as we agree 05:47 upon this and the Bible teaching on it. 05:51 We know Satan is active. Absolutely. 05:54 Now, what are some of the ways maybe we can see that he's... 05:57 That he's active? 05:59 Remember that in our lesson it talks about in Matthew 06:02 Chapter 24. 06:04 Disciples were interested in Jesus' return, weren't they? 06:06 Yes. 06:07 And they asked for signs and, 06:09 you know, details about His soon coming. 06:11 And I pray that we all are asking those same kind 06:14 of questions today, even though you've been on anytime, 06:17 Matthew 24 so familiar, 06:19 you know to Bible students, but it... 06:21 Are we really asking that great question about 06:24 what are the signs of Your coming? 06:27 You know, when is this going to take place? 06:29 And we see the devil is angry, is increased in time, 06:31 he knows his time is short right here. 06:33 We might want to read that 06:34 and I don't know how much of it there but, 06:37 Sister Yvonne, you have that where it says 06:39 the disciples are recorded 06:41 as having set with Christ on the Mount of Olives? 06:45 They asked, remember, of a sign, 06:47 and the two different things, one the sign 06:49 and the end of the world. 06:50 Yes. Okay. 06:52 In Matthew 24:6-8, Jesus told them, 06:55 "And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. 06:59 See that you be not troubled, for all these things 07:01 must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 07:05 For nation shall rise against nation, 07:08 and kingdom against kingdom. 07:10 And there shall be famines, and pestilences, 07:12 and earthquakes in diverse places. 07:15 All these are the beginning of sorrows." 07:19 In this year alone, 07:21 we've experienced Hurricane Ida, 07:22 massive flooding, and typhoons, in China COVID-19, 07:26 COVID mandates with the potential loss of our jobs, 07:30 and our constitutional rights along with 07:32 our freedom to choose our own medical treatments. 07:35 The southern border humanitarian crisis, 07:38 the Yemen humanitarian crisis, 07:40 horrific North American wildfires, Haitian earthquake, 07:44 tropical storm Grace, 07:46 and the lives that were lost during 07:47 the withdrawal from Afghanistan 07:49 and grief for those who were left behind under 07:52 the Taliban regime. 07:54 The rising cost of living and gas prices, 07:57 loss of thousands of businesses here and abroad, 08:00 and this list will only continue. 08:03 And so from this, we see that one of the ways 08:07 the devil works is through division. 08:10 He's dividing us, 08:12 he's dividing us along racial lines, 08:16 along, you know, ethnic lines. 08:20 He's dividing us, the vaccinated 08:23 and the unvaccinated. 08:24 He's dividing. That is his emo. 08:28 And one of the things that we have to know at the end 08:32 is how does your enemy work, because you can't overcome, 08:36 we overcome by the blood of Lamb 08:39 and the word of our testimony. 08:40 That's right. 08:41 So, but we need to know how he works. 08:44 And his way of working is divide and conquer. 08:47 And that's what he's doing. Yes. 08:49 That's what he's doing. 08:50 And in the original Greek word says, 08:53 nation shall rise against nation. 08:56 It's ethnos against ethnos. 08:58 It's ethnic group against ethnic group. 09:02 And that's what we're seeing. 09:04 Matthew 24 is, I mean, it lays it out for us. 09:08 So that's what we're seeing. 09:09 And we're seeing all these famines and pestilences, 09:12 and earthquakes and fires, and just as was written here, 09:15 so it's just a matter of knowing 09:19 how your enemy works, 09:21 and then knowing that our enemy has been defeated, 09:25 so we can have peace. 09:27 Yeah. 09:28 Because we know who, who the conqueror, 09:33 the ultimate conqueror is. 09:35 Yes, good. 09:36 Come on, I'm getting ready to preach. 09:38 Yeah. I'm preaching. 09:39 There's a little help. Go ahead. 09:41 I mean, I just feel. That's right. 09:43 We know, once we know, 09:47 we know the enemy's tactics, but we also know 09:50 who God is and who He's been throughout our whole lives. 09:53 And how He's taken care of us throughout our whole lives. 09:56 We don't have to be afraid. 10:00 I was talking to a dear friend of mine the other day, 10:04 and she's not a Christian. 10:06 And she was saying, I just have so much anxiety 10:09 and she's taking anti-anxiety stuff in. 10:13 I said, 10:14 I used it as an opportunity to say to her, 10:17 I just wish you would get to know Jesus, 10:20 'cause you won't feel that anxiety. 10:23 Now you might feel concern about 10:25 what you see happening, but the anxiety that others 10:30 have who don't know, Jesus, 10:32 we don't have because we've read 10:34 the back of the book, right? 10:36 So anyway, I just feel like we need to know Him 10:40 and know the enemy and how he works, 10:43 and know who our defender is. 10:45 That is such an important part because, you know, 10:48 Jesus Himself. 10:49 That's why He reveals a lot of Satan's tactics 10:52 and warns us about it. 10:53 But just with that anxiety alone, that is so true. 10:58 It may not happen the first, second, third, fourth day, 11:01 but as we continue to walk through that sanctuary 11:04 with our Bible study, our prayer, 11:07 and our witnessing, allowing our light to shine. 11:12 His mind becomes our mind. 11:14 And that peace that surpasses all understanding 11:17 is given to us. And 11:19 it's just something that I think for me, 11:22 it took a lot of years to learn, 11:24 it really did. 11:25 But the more that I spend time with Him, 11:28 the less that I feel the stress. 11:30 And, Dr. Yvonne, 11:32 why should we be concerned about stress and fear? 11:37 What would those things do to our body? 11:38 Because they actually have physiological repercussions. 11:43 So there's a Dr. Carolyn Leaf who is a... 11:48 She's a neuroscientist, and she talked about 11:53 how our thoughts actually have representations in our brain. 11:58 And when we have toxic thoughts, 12:01 these neurons give off 12:04 little toxic chemicals that get 12:06 absorbed into the bloodstream. 12:09 But what erases that is something 12:13 like forgiveness. 12:15 Forgiveness actually takes away. 12:18 It's healing, it's literally healing. 12:21 So that's why, you know, 12:22 the Lord wants us to forgive too, 12:24 not just because we should, 12:29 but also because harboring bad feelings 12:34 works against us as well. 12:35 Amen. Yes. 12:37 So these that the stress 12:39 and the fear also burns out our adrenal glands. 12:45 So then we have, you know, adrenal insufficiency 12:48 and it keeps you in that fight or flight mode, 12:53 which can burn out your adrenal glands. 12:56 So we know that the Bible says, 13:00 "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, 13:02 whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts in thee." 13:05 That's good. Good. 13:07 Peace brings healing. Exactly. 13:10 And I like what you said, because you scientifically 13:13 showed what I learned. 13:15 And it stuck with me, 13:16 I was listening to Cheri Peters on this station by the way. 13:20 And she was saying that forgiveness is not fair. 13:24 Well... 13:25 And how she had to forgive her father before he died. 13:30 He never said he's sorry. 13:32 He didn't come and apologized to her 13:34 for things that had occurred. 13:36 But by forgiving him, it brought healing to her. 13:41 And I think many of us have experienced that, 13:43 and you explained it very well. 13:45 Yes. Bible says, a merry heart... 13:47 Doeth good like a medicine... 13:49 Like a medicine, 13:50 we just said before we went on the air that we have to get 13:52 together I think so we can chuckle a little bit. 13:54 That's right. There's a lot of stress. 13:56 And it's not badness or stress, but there's lot of obligation, 13:59 responsibilities that each person has. 14:02 And sometime you need to just lay those aside. 14:05 And, you know, chuckle about the good thing, 14:07 maybe just merry heart. 14:09 Doesn't that endorphins, am I saying it right? 14:11 Exactly, releasing endorphins. 14:13 You know, when you laugh, and it's a healing process. 14:16 So we need that because it says, 14:18 Brother Danny, it says, see that you be not troubled. 14:21 How can I read like Matthew 24 and if I stop at that, 14:26 I'm gonna be a little bit troubled. 14:27 Absolutely. If I can't go beyond that. 14:29 And now I'm a believer in talking about 14:32 issues but also, you know, 14:34 how are we going to attack these issues? 14:36 What do we need to do to try to change? 14:37 These things are going to happen because Jesus said 14:40 so, but it says, see, 14:42 you be not trouble because they're the beginning 14:43 of the sorrow, so I need some help 14:45 if I'm just to read and I read that Matthew 24, 14:47 I'm gonna say, oh, Lord, have mercy on me. 14:50 Okay. 14:51 Do it like you do anything else in life that you 14:53 want to be successful at, prepare, prepare, prepare. 14:57 I like it. All right. 14:58 For instance, I don't want to... 15:00 I shouldn't try to become professional 15:02 wrestler because I pinned my 10 year old nephew. 15:06 Right? Make sense. 15:07 Because somebody, somebody tried to mug me 15:10 and I got an adrenaline punch and knocked him out. 15:12 So I say, I'm gonna be a professional boxer now. 15:15 I'm gonna go, you know? 15:16 No, you prepare. How do you prepare? 15:19 That's you already said it God's Word. 15:21 So it's there. It's quiet until we need it. 15:24 So between God's Word and constant. 15:27 With me, it's constant that's helped me the most. 15:29 And I'm just, everybody's different. 15:31 But is that constant communication today 15:34 with the Lord, like, all during the day, 15:36 if people really my thoughts, I mean, they're bad enough 15:39 as they are when they come out, people's like, 15:41 don't you have a filter, but my thoughts. 15:45 If you heard me talk, it's like I'm talking to myself 15:47 all day things I'm going, if I'm going into town, 15:50 I'm talking to the Lord, Lord, you know, 15:52 what should I do and these things. 15:54 He's talking to me, hopefully. 15:55 And so it's building a relationship. 15:58 So it's preparing for a time of trouble. 16:01 That's right. 16:02 How do we know there's time of trouble? 16:04 Because when I've talked to people about Matthew 24, 16:06 they said, well, there's always been earthquakes, 16:08 there's always been storms, there's always been, 16:10 but there's an unprecedented, to me, 16:13 it's an unprecedented rebellion taking place on this planet 16:19 of the humans against the Creator God. 16:21 And so, that's what I see. 16:23 And it's been in tremendous. 16:27 Other words, it's, how do you say 16:29 how fast that it's been happening? 16:31 Yes. Yes. It's unbelievable. 16:33 That if you look at five years ago, 16:35 10 years ago, but people on this planet, 16:38 I mean, and the worst part to me is, 16:41 is Christian seeming to be okay with things that the world 16:45 is putting in whether, and I don't want to, 16:48 you know, harp on anything but things that we know 16:50 what sin is, we know about the Ten Commandments. 16:52 And we always, for instance, stand up against, 16:55 whether it's adultery, or stealing, or whatever. 16:58 But today because of political correctness, you know, 17:01 whether it's transgender, whether it's, 17:03 you know, gay marriages, whatever, we say, well, 17:07 you know, it's, everybody has a choice, 17:09 you know, that they should do, well, they do, 17:12 and we're not perfect, and we all sinners, 17:14 we're saved by grace, right? 17:16 But we have to constantly go back 17:19 and look to the Word of God. 17:20 We can't allow 17:22 what is happening in the world to come into the church. 17:25 The biggest enemy of the church today is ourselves. 17:29 Right? 17:30 The biggest enemy is ourselves. 17:32 It's not, the world's always been upset. 17:34 Yes. 17:35 So and though there are physical storms, 17:37 and tornadoes, and hurricanes, and all that, 17:39 there's always been physical or spiritual storms, 17:42 and all of that within the church. 17:44 But usually, we get this word and say, 17:47 "No, we don't accept that." 17:49 Today, we're, well, you know, maybe we should, 17:51 and as you said, because of racial tensions 17:55 and all kinds of cultural things. 17:56 So we bring it in that if you don't accept me 17:59 as I am, or what I say, then you're a hater. 18:02 You don't like me and it's so within the church 18:06 we see the same problem that we see 18:08 whether it's racists, you know? 18:10 Well, he's a racist. No, he's a racist. 18:12 Well, you know, this person that he it goes on and on, 18:16 and we're allowing it because we're not 18:18 really prepared and that's we have to build 18:22 no matter what we build or what we stand on has to be, 18:24 our dad told us, a firm foundation. 18:26 Exactly. 18:27 So and builders, Kenny and me years ago, 18:29 we found that we never built 18:30 a house on the sand because we knew 18:32 what would happen to it, right? 18:34 Your first house we ever built together. 18:37 And I've talked about getting out of the coal mines. 18:39 He was making really good money as a coal miner 18:41 and I wasn't, so I was younger, 18:43 and I was struggling to get by and you know, 18:45 somebody wanted he'd built a house and I'd helped him little 18:48 and so somebody's 18:49 Uncle Vyrus actually had a friend from Chicago 18:52 who retired moving back to his old home place 18:54 wanted a house built, showed him to Kenny 18:56 and so he said, "Won't you guys build me a house?" 18:58 I said, "Oh yeah, we'll do it? 19:01 Well, I'm in the coalmine so I talked him out 19:03 of the coalmines, right? 19:05 To become a carpenter. 19:06 So we went out to the lake of West Frankfort 19:09 which now we just all live a stone's throw from there. 19:12 Right. 19:13 Never dreaming we would this many years later. 19:15 But we built the houses, the term would say on the lake. 19:19 Well, now, of course, it was bought by the lake, 19:21 not on the lake, by the lake. 19:22 But guess what? 19:24 Though there's all kinds of sand, 19:25 we didn't build it on the sand. 19:27 No. 19:28 We knew even then in our ignorance because we were 19:30 pretty young and hadn't had a lot 19:31 of experience that we dug through the ground 19:34 and we poured concrete. 19:35 We poured a solid foundation to build the house on. 19:38 So today, what's happening with division, 19:41 as you mentioned earlier, 19:43 all of you that Satan is dividing. 19:45 And so what's happening is we don't... 19:48 Young kids growing up, 19:50 don't know what a solid foundation is. 19:53 That's right. That's true. 19:54 And I've never seen such a time. 19:55 Here's the good news in the midst of the storm, 19:57 then I'll quit. 19:59 I'm starting to preaching. Oh, you're good. 20:00 That's all good. 20:02 But here's the good news. 20:03 The good news is, 20:05 when we see all this rebellion happening, 20:06 we see terrible things happening 20:08 and we're all part of it, so we can't say, oh, well, 20:10 we're watching it and we've got all our act together. 20:12 No, the devil works on us like he does everybody. 20:15 But we have to remember, 20:16 we can always come back to him 20:18 because that's where the forgiveness is, 20:20 that's where in our humanness come to Jesus. 20:24 Yes. 20:25 So, but the good news is, 20:26 I've never seen so many people 20:28 wanting to find out about the Lord. 20:30 Other words, she gets, she has young people, 20:33 I'm talking about the teenagers calling her, 20:36 other ones are calling, now she has Bible studies, 20:39 it'd be Friday night Sabbath afternoon. 20:40 I think we had one last night for two hours 20:43 and these are young people. 20:45 They are growing up in the cities that are with 20:47 some without parent's guidance, and these people were calling, 20:51 there're groups of them and, 20:53 you know, how did it happen? 20:55 She was willing. Amen. 20:56 And, you know, was helping some family 20:58 and then others got involved, and then we invited others, 21:01 she invited others, so there are people, 21:03 we have people I was telling you before calling us. 21:06 If I mentioned the name, 21:08 most of the people would know they're calling, saying, 21:11 we want to know, we want to know the truth. 21:13 We grew up in the church, but we want to know the truth. 21:16 We've been learning from 3ABN, 21:17 so while it looks bad all around us 21:21 and we see all these signs of the times, 21:23 don't get caught up in it. 21:24 Don't get so caught up here, oh my, 21:26 you know, this is terrible and people say, why me? 21:30 You know, the question, 21:31 the real question is why not me? 21:34 That's right. Yeah. Why not me? 21:35 We're all sinners saved by grace. 21:37 So anything that we get, May Chung used to tell me, 21:40 anything we get on this earth is more than we deserve. 21:42 True. 21:44 Once I was going through a really troubled time 21:45 and I called her, called her mom, I said, mom, 21:48 I was telling her about and she said, "Oh son, 21:50 I wish I was going through that." 21:52 And I'm like, you know, because she goes, 21:54 she goes, because that's the Jesus treatment. 21:57 I must not be living right because I'm not being 21:59 persecuted that bad. 22:00 Isn't that something? 22:02 Well, I didn't think of the persecution just this, 22:04 but she's like anytime we stand up for the Lord, 22:06 people are gonna hate it, you know, so be happy. 22:10 When you know you're doing right, 22:12 don't look to the left, don't look to the right, 22:14 just keep going forward. 22:15 But the good news is that if we keep our eyes on Jesus, 22:20 we're not going to be sucked into all these things 22:23 the devil traps the devil has out there. 22:25 That's right. 22:26 And so we can find peace in the midst of the storm. 22:28 And you were talking about the endorphins while ago. 22:31 I thought, I mean you should have 22:32 plenty because we laugh every day. 22:34 Every time, I know. Yeah, we do. 22:35 That's good. Yeah. 22:37 What you're talking about there, 22:38 read something said, you have to thrash 22:41 the straw in order to get the grain. 22:44 Okay. 22:46 It's just small and simple, but there's a lot 22:48 of truth in that. 22:49 Sometime we take a thrashing. Yeah. 22:52 We like to think of this, 22:53 our dad I think said every time. 22:54 Boy, you're gonna get a thrashing. 22:56 So you kind of knew what was going to happen, 22:57 yeah, with that. 22:59 But all of these thrashings or these trials 23:01 and these things that Jesus says gonna happen. 23:04 I'm looking at them, if we can endure by the grace 23:06 of God, guess what we need? 23:08 It's character development, is it not? 23:10 Which is the only thing that we can take to heaven, 23:12 without these thrashings. 23:15 Right, without these, you know, 23:16 little corrections from the Lord 23:18 and these tests, we'll never make it to heaven. 23:20 That's right. 23:22 So I'm trying to associate 23:23 and learning to associate that when I'm going 23:26 through this stuff here is because the Lord 23:28 wants me to spend eternity with Him. 23:30 He sees a lot of things in me that I don't see 23:32 that needs to be corrected. 23:34 And I'm glad that He does. Yes. 23:36 So He sends a little thrashers in there, 23:38 you know, that little challenges at times that we all 23:41 have that we face, we say, oh, Lord, 23:43 only have mercy of all days. 23:46 You have all days, I don't have time or all days, 23:48 why now? 23:50 There's a reason for that. 23:51 So, you know, I'm praising, I pray, 23:52 I'm learning to praise God. 23:54 I'm not saying I've arrived, you mentioned, 23:56 I'm glad you mentioned it's always good. 23:58 No one here ever say that we've arrived that we've got 24:01 everything under control at all. 24:03 But you know what, that should never prevent us from telling 24:06 what is truth, you know? 24:08 That's right. 24:10 You know, some people won't talk about certain subjects, 24:11 because they may have it in their mind, 24:13 or they may be guilty. 24:15 Can I say that guilty? 24:16 And so they won't talk about it. 24:18 But we can talk about 24:19 what God says in His Word there 24:20 and bring it out it may help someone along the way. 24:22 Do you find that too? 24:23 Oh, I find that, yes, I find that as well. 24:26 And I relate to everything that everybody's 24:28 saying because, you know, Jesus Himself, of course, 24:31 He told us what was going to happen at sort of like 24:34 current events, as it were. 24:35 He wants us to be aware, but like you said, 24:37 we have to be grounded. 24:39 We have to know where our source of strength, 24:42 our source of health, 24:43 our source of support comes from, 24:45 and that comes from, from the Word of God 24:47 and from Christ Himself. 24:49 And so, I'm experiencing some of the same things, 24:51 you know, people that I've prayed for years. 24:54 We mentioned Webby, 24:56 I don't know if she'll be listening but if she is, 24:58 hello, Webby. 24:59 We mentioned Webby before this. 25:01 And Webby been asking more questions. 25:03 It's opening doors. Right. 25:04 And I was listening to a doctor last night, 25:07 and she was talking about, 25:08 and she showed different charts that they have developed 25:12 over this last year and a half, almost two years, 25:14 you know that, how the incidence of stress 25:18 and depression has just risen astronomically. 25:23 And you have young children. 25:24 When you were talking about the young people calling her, 25:26 I said, praise God. 25:28 They're looking for help, because a lot 25:30 of these young people, it's unbelievable 25:33 have taken their lives as a child, because of all 25:37 of this depression, they don't see a way out. 25:40 And so that's what I'm hoping that, that this peace amidst 25:43 the storm that this family worship will give us all hope, 25:47 give us a connection, help us to know where to go. 25:51 I was speaking with somebody close to me, I won't say who, 25:54 because they really might be watching. 25:56 But I had a call and this is from a 10 year old, 26:01 oh, I just don't know what, 26:03 you know, I can't handle this person at school, 26:05 and they're just such a bully, and now this person has died. 26:08 And there's just, there's nothing 26:09 that can be done, nothing can be done. 26:11 And I had to stop and say, 26:12 "Now, now, what was that verse that I've taught you? 26:15 What was I? What was Isaiah 41:10? 26:18 Remember, we memorize that one? 26:20 Come on. 26:21 You know, what I was trying to do is go back 26:23 and then later on, someone said, 26:25 well, you've got to let them vent. 26:26 And I think so to a point. 26:28 Absolutely, we have to get things out once in a while. 26:31 But we need to know where our source of strength lies. 26:35 We have to learn to those promises, 26:38 we have to learn to claim those promises. 26:40 We have to accept them because those are things 26:42 that God gave to us 26:45 and He gave us these promises to give us that strength 26:47 and give us that hope. 26:49 Of course we know supernaturally 26:50 He will do that as well. 26:51 But we got it, we've got to know where to plug into. 26:55 And I think that's so important because people don't know 26:57 where to turn. 26:58 They want to turn to us, but what do we do? 27:00 We send them right back to Jesus, 27:03 right back to the Word, that's where it's at. 27:05 And sometime we all need that help like even here. 27:08 You know, the Lord says not to forsake 27:09 yourselves assembling together. 27:11 I know that He means that on like on Sabbath. 27:13 But even here we draw strength from one another. 27:16 I draw encouragement, you know, 27:18 you both said I feel like preaching. 27:20 I'm like, yes, go on at time may use. 27:23 You know, we draw strength from one another. 27:24 We draw ideas from one another. 27:26 And that's what God wants for each 27:28 and every one of us, and it helps. 27:30 It helps us to stay strong in the midst of all these storms. 27:33 Everybody's really focusing on the questions 27:35 we haven't even read it, but we're focusing on that like 27:37 number one and again, let's just run with it. 27:39 How shall Christ people? 27:41 How will Christ people stand in the days 27:42 of almost overwhelming fear and, 27:46 you know, anxiety and opposition? 27:48 So we've really been without reading the questions, 27:50 we really got into it. 27:51 I have one passage and I'll pass it on author, 27:53 I think Jesus speaking here 27:56 and when I see it as least letters in red. 28:00 I think I mentioned on the program the other 28:01 day that you wrote a song written in red. 28:04 True? 28:06 Yeah, mine is similar to that. 28:07 Yeah. I forgot what it was. 28:11 I was thinking anyway written in red or something that's part 28:13 of the line or something in that, 28:15 lest Calvary says to me, something. 28:17 Calvary says love to me. Calvary says love to me. 28:19 You threw me there for a minute. 28:21 There is a song also Rusty Goodman's 28:23 beautiful written in red. 28:24 Okay. 28:25 And I wrote a song, Calvary says love to me. 28:27 Okay. 28:29 So both of those and through that is through 28:30 His shed blood on the cross of Calvary. 28:32 Thank you. 28:33 Sorry, it took me a minute to get that. 28:35 Well, 'cause it wasn't the song you wrote, actually you did. 28:38 That won't be nice. 28:40 But it was beautiful and it's combination. 28:42 I think one of the things we were trying to identify was, 28:45 was love because the world doesn't understand maybe love. 28:48 We don't understand it. 28:49 And then it said, Calvary, means love to me. 28:52 If you wanna know what real love, it's Calvary. 28:54 And you want to, you know, 28:56 know what's happening in the world. 28:58 What Jesus said to us there in John 14-27, 29:01 He said, "Peace I leave with you, 29:04 my peace I give unto you. 29:05 Not as the world giveth give I unto you. 29:08 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." 29:12 And if I would just take those words 29:14 and have faith enough to just, 29:16 you know, just take them in and chew them up. 29:18 I wouldn't fear what's going on in the world today. 29:21 How can I, when Jesus said Himself right here, 29:25 it's not like the world, the peace what the world 29:27 is talking about. 29:29 He said, I'm going to leave my peace with you. 29:32 Man, did He? Did He not have peace? 29:34 How could He had peace unless He relied upon His Father? 29:37 I mean, He was asleep one time, where was it? 29:39 In the boat. 29:41 And disciples were screaming and yelling, 29:43 we're all gonna drown, it's going to turn over, 29:44 He was snoozing. 29:46 I mean that's peace. 29:47 He had that, so I mean, do we look that direction? 29:50 Do we look at these words? Do we understand them? 29:53 Do we know them well enough to claim them when we're going 29:56 through a real mess in the world said, 29:57 oh there, there's just no peace out there. 29:59 I'm telling you, Jesus said, 30:01 I am going to leave you my peace. 30:02 Yeah. What do you do with that? 30:04 Well, to me, it's, I think, because we were raised or, 30:08 you know, our father gave us things just simple. 30:10 Yes. 30:11 And so it wasn't like he didn't leave me any questions, 30:13 any wiggle room, if he told you to go do something, 30:17 you couldn't make excuses, because he made it so straight, 30:20 we'll say black and white. 30:21 But to me, the very simple part of it is, 30:25 is we first have to establish who God is and who we are. 30:29 So when we look around this world, 30:31 you're either going to believe there is a God 30:33 or you're going to believe there isn't one. 30:35 So now it's for me, it's much harder to be, 30:38 it would be much harder to be an atheist 30:40 than it is to believe that the Creator God, 30:42 when you look at all the detail of the human body, 30:46 you look at the animals, the plants around the world, 30:49 there's no way that all of a sudden, 30:51 this just came into already evolved from what. 30:54 It's still had to, even people say, well it evolved. 30:57 Well, from what? Right, exactly. 30:58 That had to start somewhere. 31:00 So simply put, you have to really find 31:03 out in your own mind, and decide and all of us do, 31:05 whether we become Christians or not, 31:08 you know, where do we come from? 31:11 Where am I going? Right. 31:13 What happens to me after I die? 31:15 We have to ask these simple questions. 31:17 So who am I? You know, who God is? 31:21 So I realized my dad used to say, son, 31:23 you're just one little speck of sand. 31:25 So the world doesn't revolve around you. 31:27 He kept it real. Yeah, if you wanted to do. 31:29 He said, but Dad, whatever is, son, 31:31 the world revolve around you. 31:33 Remember, you've heard that Kenny, right? 31:34 Yes, they know you're there. 31:36 So while he'll tell us how minuscule we were. 31:39 Yes. 31:40 On the other hand, then he would tell us 31:42 that we can do anything through Christ. 31:44 There's nothing that anybody else can do, you can't do. 31:47 So he balanced it out. 31:50 But let's find out number one for me, 31:52 who I am and who God is, okay? It's very easy. 31:55 I see that of myself, I can do nothing. 31:57 I have no control of my future as far as eternity goes. 32:01 It's all in God's hands. 32:03 So, well, what that is? Well, it's in God's hands. 32:05 So I understand that, you know what? 32:08 If I want to look beyond this world, 32:10 I have to look to Jesus. He's the foundation. 32:12 He's the rock, as we said. That's right. 32:14 And when I submit and commit my life to Him, 32:17 He's faithful and just to forgive me from those sins, 32:19 and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. 32:22 And now, I can have peace in the midst of the storm, 32:25 so when things go bad. Here's the beauty about it. 32:28 You don't have to be a theologian, 32:30 Yvonne, to be a Christian 32:32 and to have peace amidst the storm. 32:33 That's right. 32:34 But there are certain scriptures I've been using 32:36 most of my life. 32:37 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 32:40 Well said. 32:41 Well, my God shall supply all 32:44 we need according to His riches in glory. 32:46 What's hard to understand about that? 32:47 So when we, 32:48 if we believe that God has the power to create 32:53 the entire universe and to create us. 32:56 Don't we think that He has the power to take care of us? 32:59 Don't we, do we have to worry in the midst of the storm? 33:02 Here's the worst thing that ever happened to us 33:04 is that we die. 33:05 Well, if so we're in trouble because Bible says in Psalms, 33:08 it's appointed once a time for every man to die. 33:11 And then He says, "Precious in the sight 33:13 of the Lord are the death of His saints." 33:15 There you go. 33:16 So we don't measure 33:18 what's happening to us on this earth by how long 33:20 we live. 33:22 You know, people watching, our age 33:23 and then we have teenagers think, man, 33:25 it's never gonna happen to me. 33:27 Many teenagers are dying today. 33:28 They'll die today as we speak through accidents, 33:31 as you said, sometimes suicide, 33:33 all of these things because they don't have 33:35 any answers and don't know where to go. 33:37 Right. 33:39 So it's our responsibility and our privilege 33:41 as Christians to show people where they can find 33:44 peace in the midst of the storm. 33:46 In fact, and this is not time to promo, 33:49 but you can have this as free. 33:50 Other words, this little book 33:52 we wrote several years ago after Katrina, 33:54 Pacific Press asked me to write it. 33:56 It's just a little pamphlet called After the Storm, 33:58 what comes next? 33:59 Amen. 34:01 And then just, what, two years ago, 34:03 Greg and Jill asked us to write, Yvonne and me. 34:05 So we wrote this one, After COVID-19, 34:08 what's next? 34:09 These give you Bible scriptures, 34:11 it's very simple and then COVID is not going away, 34:13 neither is sin going away. 34:15 Neither is doubt going away, and confusion going away. 34:18 So if you want some peace amidst the storm, 34:21 you want to give your friends, your neighbors, whomever. 34:24 Just write and say, Danny said you could say 34:26 Yvonne said you could have this. 34:28 That way I don't get in trouble. 34:30 You can just have these for free. 34:31 We'll send them to you After the Storm or after COVID-19, 34:34 all it is, is what's next. 34:37 So all we have to really do is establish who God is. 34:41 And that He's the creator of the universe, 34:43 that the God had formed a plan of salvation. 34:46 And that's where it's written in love that Jesus 34:49 agreed to come to this earth, be born in a manger 34:52 and lowly lived in a lowly humble life, 34:55 and lived a sinless life. 34:57 Amen. 34:58 So that then He could go back and now is ever interceding. 35:00 They crucified Him. Praise God. 35:03 Yeah, He wasn't nailed to the cross, love. 35:05 Billy Blackwood wrote a song, he says, 35:07 love held Jesus to the cross. 35:09 Wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. 35:12 So because of His love, He died for us. 35:14 Now He went back to the Father, 35:16 He's ever interceding at the right hand 35:18 of the Father for you and for me. 35:20 So every time we fail and we will. 35:23 You will fail I don't care if you're the preacher 35:24 or you're the town drunk, we're all going to fail, 35:27 but there's only one solution. 35:28 We come back to our Creator God and say, 35:31 Lord, please forgive me. 35:32 Praise God. Yes. 35:34 So to me, this is most exciting 35:37 time to be alive in earth's history. 35:39 Yes. 35:40 Because we are seeing prophecy being fulfilled, 35:43 and Jesus can come and I believe 35:45 He's gonna come very quickly. 35:47 We said it for years, but everything now 35:49 is fast pace. 35:51 Knowledge will be increased, men running to and fro, 35:53 look at our phones, look at our technology, 35:56 but look at the rebellion. 35:57 So the rebellion against God and His Word 36:01 is at an all-time high. 36:03 And every day we think we can't. 36:06 When she and I talk about it all the time 36:07 every day we think it can't get worse. 36:10 We hear something on the news or so upside down. 36:12 We look to each other, did you hear that? 36:14 Can you believe this, you know what's going on? 36:17 I mean, it's amazing. But what do we do? 36:20 We have to act. 36:21 As Christians, we say onward Christian soldiers. 36:24 We're on the front line. We need to be marching. 36:26 We need to be going in the name of God, 36:28 lifting up Jesus to the world because people are interested. 36:32 They're looking for answers. 36:33 And they won't know unless we tell them. 36:35 And I'm so thankful that this what you 36:37 have this ministry with all these teenagers 36:39 and young people in their 20s and 30s, 36:42 and it's growing all the time. 36:44 People are looking for answers. They are, yes. 36:47 They're hungry. 36:48 I mean across the board, young, 36:49 old, because they're seeing unprecedented, 36:52 you said, unprecedented things 36:54 happening in the world today. 36:56 And they know there's something different going on. 36:59 This is not business as usual. 37:01 This is not what we have been seeing. 37:04 This is something new. What's happening? 37:07 Yes. You know what's happening. 37:09 I want to share something. 37:11 One of my storms recently was when Jason had COVID. 37:15 And I was so worried about him, be concerned, 37:19 and I was bringing it to the Lord, 37:20 please, Lord, please be with my child 37:23 and help him through this and all. 37:26 And the Lord gives you this peace, 37:30 He gives you. 37:32 When you reach out to Him, 37:35 He gives you a peace about things that you might not, 37:39 what you would not have had had you not sought Him. 37:43 Prepare, prepare, prepare, that's... 37:45 That's right. 37:46 Put the word in your spirit. 37:49 I have an app on my phone. Come on now. 37:52 It's a Bible memory app. 37:55 And during that time with Jason, 37:57 I went to my app and I was, 38:00 you know, memorizing scripture and stuff. 38:03 And all of these scriptures that I had started to memorize 38:08 were on my phone, 38:09 and they were just ministering to me back to back. 38:14 And that's what, that's what we have to do. 38:16 I'd like to share a couple of them. 38:18 One is Psalm 27:13-14. And I... 38:23 These are two of my new favorite verses. 38:25 Okay. All right. 38:27 And this is taken from the New King James Version. 38:29 "I would have lost heart, 38:31 unless I had believed that I would see the goodness 38:34 of the Lord in the land of the living." 38:37 That's true, yes. 38:38 "Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, 38:41 and He will strengthen your heart, wait, 38:45 I say, on the Lord!" 38:47 Isn't that beautiful? 38:48 You know, I would have lost heart. 38:50 I mean, how modern is that? Yeah. 38:53 How modern is that? How contemporary is that? 38:56 That we... 38:58 There's so many things going on, 38:59 we could lose heart. 39:01 That's right. 39:02 Unless that that word there, 39:04 unless, we have believed that we would see 39:08 the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 39:11 Amen. So He's here right now. 39:13 Some guy says one time, it's not so much 39:16 what you eat that makes you strong, 39:18 it's what you digest makes you strong. 39:22 And I'm thinking, you know we take that with a grain of salt. 39:24 But think about that is what we digest. 39:27 That means what we put inside, 39:30 what we absorb and we become like. 39:32 Yes. 39:33 I'm thinking, man, I need to digest more 39:34 of the Word of God. 39:36 David said, thy word have I hid in my heart, 39:38 that I might not sin against Him. 39:40 So I mean, that's, that's... 39:42 I mean, that's beautiful testimony 39:43 what scripture can do, but it, doesn't it take, 39:46 doesn't it take faith. 39:48 Something about faith or somebody, 39:49 some people can, you can read, they can read it. 39:51 They sense nothing. They feel nothing. 39:55 It doesn't lift them, but a man or woman or child of faith, 39:59 you read that, you just know it so. 40:02 I mean you talk about did Christ come and live and died. 40:04 Said, I didn't see, but I just know He did. 40:07 You just know based on the Word of God. 40:09 So we need that kind of connection with God 40:13 right now and digest that stuff that's good for us. 40:15 So it becomes a part of our character. 40:17 Amen. Faith is an action word. 40:19 Yes, it is. 40:20 Other words, rather than we just believe, 40:23 if we just believe Him, we'll do something about. 40:24 If we believe that Jesus saved us that He died for us. 40:28 If we believe that He formed the world and, 40:31 you know, and so in myself I had the scripture 40:33 and I should have read it while ago but I can't 40:35 get it off here. 40:36 I love what when we're talking about who God 40:38 is and who we are. 40:39 But it says, Job 38:4, when God says, 40:43 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? 40:45 He said, tell me if you know so much. 40:47 Right. Right. 40:49 Tell me about so we have to say, well, 40:50 I don't know anything. 40:52 But, you know, I couldn't even made that one grain 40:54 of sand, we're talking about and that's almost. 40:56 I've heard that a few times already. 40:57 Yeah. 40:59 Then we can find out science 41:00 is allowing us to know about DNA 41:01 and all these things, there's billions of particles 41:04 and I didn't have, I have no idea any of that, 41:07 but as we learn how great God is, how big is God, 41:11 how big and wide His vast domain. 41:14 You know what I'm saying? You know that song? 41:16 To try to tell these lips can only start. 41:18 It's big enough to rule the mighty universe, 41:20 it's big enough to rule the mighty universe 41:23 yet small enough to live within our heart. 41:25 So to understand God that to me 41:29 what helps me is to understand that with God, 41:31 He is the creator of the universe, 41:33 He is, Jesus died did not one should perish but all 41:37 should have everlasting life. 41:39 So based on that, I'm that one. 41:41 He died only for me, He died only for you. 41:43 Amen. 41:44 If that's what it would take 41:46 and He would have died for each of us. 41:48 And so there, 41:49 it's easier to be saved than it is to be lost. 41:54 Right? Yeah. 41:55 Because you hear preachers telling about, 41:57 are you going to burn and go to hell, 41:59 and you're going to burn forever and ever 42:00 and this is going to happen to you 42:01 and that if you don't do this, you don't do that. 42:04 All we have to do is trust in God 42:06 and when we learn something that's truth, 42:09 hold on to that and then share it. 42:11 That's what He asked us to do. 42:13 Come to the cross and then go and tell what I've done to you. 42:17 I sing because I'm happy. 42:18 That's right. 42:20 In the midst of the storm, we can have peace. 42:23 That's right. 42:24 I didn't know how I would act when you come, you face death. 42:28 When, Kenny, you had an open heart surgery, 42:31 I had it and I didn't know cause I knew 42:33 when I'm lying there and all of our family 42:35 and people, they were allowing to come it's three years ago 42:38 and you realize there's a good percentage 42:41 chance you're not going to come out of that, 42:43 you know, but I had to think about it. 42:45 I thought I went either way, I went either way. 42:48 Let's say, if I make it through this I get to see Yvonne 42:52 and all of my family, my loved ones. 42:54 What a great blessing? 42:55 If I don't, the next face I'll see is Jesus, you know? 42:59 Yes. 43:00 So I found peace in the midst of the storm 43:02 because I understand who I am 43:04 and I understand who God is. 43:06 So even though I fail Him from time to time, 43:09 He understands that and long as I'm sorry 43:11 and I'm willing to come back, 43:12 and long as you're willing to come back to the foot 43:15 of the cross, He's gonna forgive you 43:16 and you can start all over. 43:18 Don't let anybody put you down. 43:19 Don't let anybody tell you, 43:21 you're not worthy of anything, you're worth everything. 43:23 If you were worth it for the Creator to come down 43:26 and Jesus to shed His blood on the cross of Calvary, 43:28 you're very valuable. 43:30 Don't let the world lead you astray, get you here and there. 43:33 Within the church, let's quit arguing 43:35 about things that that we stand up 43:38 about today that I've preached about you have. 43:40 We talk about 30 years ago no one would have said a word. 43:44 Today we can use that same sermon, in fact I took one 43:47 of CD Brooks' sermon from 30, 40 years ago and preached it, 43:51 everybody would have... 43:52 You know, they thought it was great but if I do it today. 43:54 Oh, that's wrong You can't say those things. 43:57 But what changed? Right. 44:00 What we did. What we did. 44:01 That's right. 44:03 Confidence, I'm hearing confidence in the Word of God. 44:07 When you think about confidence was He said, you know, 44:09 next thing I'll see if I should pass through is face of Jesus. 44:13 That's right. 44:14 Well, a lot of people say that, 44:16 you know, in the world, they'll say, oh, yeah, 44:17 a guy just told me this week right now. 44:19 I know exactly where I'm gonna go, 44:21 I'm gonna... 44:23 Is it confidence in self 44:24 or is it confidence in the Word of God 44:26 or the God that we serve? 44:28 That says where I am, that's where I want you. 44:31 How important is having confidence in the Word 44:33 when you read it to believe? 44:35 Well, confidence is faith. 44:36 It's faith, it's believing in those things, 44:39 which we haven't yet seen. 44:40 But it's believing in the Word of God, 44:42 and the Holy Spirit builds that confidence. 44:45 There is, you know, there is no other book that has ever been 44:48 written, that has changed lives like the Bible has. 44:51 You know, and as I was listening to you guys talk, 44:53 I've done a lot of listening. 44:54 But it's been really good. 44:56 You know, I stopped, and I began to think, 44:58 you know, when you talk about the little time 45:01 of trouble, you talk about the great time of trouble. 45:03 We see all these storms. 45:04 And you mentioned like Matthew 24, 45:06 we've always had storms, 45:07 and yet we've had century storms 45:10 happen back to back to back. 45:12 You know, it's increasing in its ferocity, 45:14 it's increasing in its frequency. 45:17 I feel like with all the things we've been talking about, 45:19 that the voice of the dragon 45:22 is getting louder and louder and stronger. 45:24 It's like a great crescendo 45:25 as I see all these things coming together, 45:27 because he's working to deceive in any 45:29 way that he possibly can. 45:31 But when we go out in the storm, 45:33 if we were to leave here right now, 45:34 and it's stormy outside, 45:36 what are we going to look for? 45:39 Umbrella? 45:41 An umbrella, a shelter, a shelter, 45:43 a shelter in the storm. 45:45 That's right. 45:46 You see, as I was listening to all this, 45:48 and thinking about how I always wish that it wouldn't 45:51 happen this way. 45:53 God is so much more intelligent. 45:55 Because as these storms are increasing, 45:57 what are people doing? 45:59 They're looking for a shelter? Is there any place I can go? 46:02 Is there anything I can do? Is there any hope? 46:04 Is there any help? What can I do? 46:06 What does the Bible really say about death? 46:08 Because you know, we could die. 46:10 We don't know, tomorrow, I had a cousin 49, just 49, 46:15 he died of COVID. 46:17 You know, a girl that I grew up, 46:18 I don't remember how old she is, but I know, 46:20 she's younger than I am. 46:21 Her and her husband just a couple weeks ago died 46:23 two days apart from each other in the hospital on the vent 46:28 from COVID. 46:30 You know, so people are looking at these things. 46:32 And it just dawned on me, you know, 46:34 we're told that in the last days, 46:36 people are going to come into this truth by the thousands, 46:39 as the latter rain is poured out. 46:41 Why? 46:42 Because they're looking for a shelter in the storm. 46:45 They're looking for truth. 46:47 And I just, as far as that, that one question that 46:50 we were talking about, you know, 46:52 how shall Christ people stand in the days 46:55 of almost overwhelming fear, anxiety? 46:58 I just want to just kind of glimpse at a few passages 47:01 and let the Word of God speak. 47:03 Psalms 121:5-7," 47:05 The Lord is thy keeper. 47:08 He's the one that's going to keep us safe in that storm. 47:11 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. 47:13 He shall preserve thy soul." 47:16 That's the faith that you had. 47:18 That's the confidence you were asking me about. 47:20 John 16:33, "In me, you might have peace." 47:25 You know, we got to go to Him for that peace. 47:28 Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. 47:32 We're on the way. 47:33 I've often heard Danny say, I've read the end of the book, 47:35 we're on the winning side, hold on, hold on, hold on. 47:39 You know, Isaiah 41:10, I referred to this one earlier. 47:43 "I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee." 47:45 I cannot tell you how many times. 47:47 That right there is such a summation 47:51 of all of that there is in Christ 47:53 and what He is to us. 47:55 Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand 47:58 of my righteousness, not our righteousness, 48:01 His righteousness. 48:03 Of course, we want to reflect that. 48:05 Psalm 34:7, how many times have I claimed this? 48:08 "The angel of the Lord shall encamp round 48:10 about those who fear Him and deliver them." 48:14 You know, that is such a strong promise in the Word of God 48:17 and I've claimed that many a times. 48:19 Psalms 91:3-10. He, Christ, shall deliver thee. 48:23 His truth shall be thy shield and buckler, its truth, 48:27 the truth shall set us free. 48:29 Thou shalt not be afraid, nor for the pestilence, 48:32 nor for the destruction, because thou has made 48:35 the Lord which is my refuge, 48:37 even the most high my habitation." 48:41 And if those of you who are looking and saying, that's not. 48:43 What I'm saying, I'm just skipping through those verses. 48:46 Habakkuk 3:17-18, 48:48 you can read those when you have time. 48:50 Yet I will rejoice, we can rejoice. 48:55 You know, martyrs, they say, 48:58 as they were burning at the stake. 49:00 Stephen said, "Lord forgive them, for they know 49:02 what not what they did to Christ." 49:04 Said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not 49:07 what they do." 49:08 I've often felt, we can rejoice, 49:11 I will have joy in the God of my salvation. 49:13 Because when it comes to the point that we can't 49:17 take it anymore, He takes our pain. 49:21 He carries us through, 49:24 He is our refuge. 49:26 He is our salvation. 49:28 That's right. That's right. 49:29 That's good. Yes. 49:31 Very good. Yes. 49:32 So if we want peace in the midst of the storm, 49:35 I think I'm finding out here. 49:37 We have to prepare, look to the Word of God. 49:40 And then don't be, let the wind blow 49:42 you from the left to the right or from one side to other. 49:46 So when you're in God's protection, 49:48 when you're sheltered in the arms of God, 49:50 as we say, then you're not going to be blown by every 49:53 wind of doctrine, you're not going to be, 49:55 your confidence won't be shaken, 49:57 because once you're in the arms of God, 49:59 you know, hey, my lives in God's hands, 50:01 whether I live or whether I die, 50:04 doesn't make any difference. 50:05 We're all going to die on this earth, 50:07 either from old age or accidents 50:08 or whatever health, we're going to die. 50:11 But the main thing is eternity that we spend with Jesus. 50:15 Oh, yeah. 50:17 So to have the confidence, to have the faith, 50:19 and then to act on that. 50:21 But our responsibility is we can't just be selfish 50:24 and say, okay, I'm thankful I learned this. 50:27 Now we got to go tell. 50:28 Jesus says, "Go and tell 50:30 what I have done for you in this." 50:32 Ellen White says that, that our personal testimony 50:36 is our greatest asset that we have. 50:39 So for me, 50:40 and I know Yvonne will tell you this from her giving 50:42 those Bible studies, are you learning from this, too? 50:45 Oh, I am and it's wonderful. The kids are appreciative. 50:50 But they don't realize that it's a privilege for me, 50:53 because I'm learning. 50:55 Every time we have a study on a topic, 50:57 I'm learning more myself. 50:59 So it's, I mean, it's a blessing. 51:01 It's a blessing for me, we all need it. 51:03 We all need it. 51:04 We all need to be rooted and grounded in the world. 51:08 What you're talking about there when you read, 51:10 the Bible says work out your own salvation with fear 51:13 and trembling. 51:15 Ellen White comes along and says, 51:16 working out our own salvation 51:18 is when we help others find Christ. 51:20 We're working out our own salvation, 51:22 then we point others to Him. 51:24 So I need to be pointing others to Him, you see. 51:27 Yes. Right. 51:28 And then, it's working out your own salvation. 51:29 It draws you closer to Him. 51:31 Yeah. See the importance of life there changed. 51:33 We're going the wrong direction. 51:34 Now they're coming back, even in the midst of a storm. 51:38 I heard a person said one time, you can read a verse, 51:40 you know, one time in the Bible 51:42 and you're familiar with it, 51:43 but if you read it several times, it becomes a friend. 51:46 Okay. It's different. 51:47 So it's more than just, 51:49 well, I read the Bible through once. 51:51 Right. 51:54 And it's okay, people say that, 51:55 it's not trying to criticize that, you know, 51:56 I've read through once, and it was so you read through 51:59 three or four different times, 52:00 but have you studied the Word of God? 52:02 Have you read it over and over looking for truth, 52:05 looking for something that will help you 52:06 and me find our way to heaven? 52:08 And so I'm trying to understudy the Word, 52:11 rather than to read the Word. 52:13 Hope that's fair. Yes. 52:14 I want to really study the Word. 52:16 Amen. 52:18 I think it's important, you know, 52:19 when you're going through something to look 52:21 back on the other trials that you've had 52:24 and see how God resolve that. 52:27 Because you come to realize that, okay, 52:33 this is happening now, but I remember 52:36 when I was losing my home or I remember 52:38 when I lost my job, or I remember 52:40 when my marriage that went to the birds, 52:44 or I remember whatever it was that you went through, 52:48 think about how God watched you through that time. 52:51 You think He's gonna just drop you now? 52:53 No, He's gonna bring you through because He promises 52:57 when you... 52:59 I love Isaiah 43:1-3, 53:02 "Fear not for I've redeemed you, 53:04 I have called you by name, you're mine. 53:06 And you pass the waters, I'll be with you 53:09 through the rivers they will not overflow you. 53:12 When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, 53:14 neither will the flame kindle upon you, 53:16 for I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, 53:20 your Savior. 53:21 So in those verses you have degrees of suffering. 53:26 You've got the waters, 53:28 which are you know your basic trials. 53:30 You've got the rivers which are deeper 53:33 and then you've got the fire. 53:35 Mercy. 53:36 When you go through that fire, He's saying, 53:39 you will not be burned, neither will the flame 53:41 kindle upon you. 53:43 I am the Lord your God. Yes. Yeah. 53:46 He's our God. He says, we're His. 53:49 He is our. Yes. 53:51 We don't have to fear. 53:53 I just, you know. 53:55 It's exciting because fire is purification. 53:59 Yes. 54:00 When you go through all the other things you 54:01 may be knee deep, you may be up to here but 54:03 when you go through that fire 54:04 all that stuff that doesn't need to be 54:06 is burnt out as it were. 54:08 That's right. 54:09 If we don't take it out, it'll burn with us. 54:11 Can I say that? 54:12 You know, we don't want that. 54:13 We want Him to purify. 54:15 Turn up, that's kind of a difficult thing. 54:18 Maybe today you say, God turn up the heat in my life. 54:21 Get rid of those impurities 'cause He know. 54:24 He know things are gonna start happening 54:26 and going on unless you're really connected to Him, 54:28 you may fall apart. 54:30 But trust in Him, He said, I'll be with you 54:32 through all those things. 54:33 Yes. 54:34 So prepare, prepare, prepare, because so many people 54:36 as soon as they find out they got COVID, 54:39 they're giving their life to the Lord. 54:41 They're gonna do. 54:42 Somebody recently he had a big health problem 54:45 and all he went, pastor went to see him. 54:48 He said as soon as I get out here 54:49 I'm starting home ministry, I'm gonna go right, 54:52 I'm gonna do all these things then right afterwards 54:54 you never see him, 54:55 he never does it because it's like God 54:57 is a Santa Claus so for time of need, 55:00 give me this, give me that, but it's not, 55:02 it's a two way street. 55:04 What he did for us than we show God we love Him 55:06 as we said by literally submitting, 55:09 committing our life to Him and then given our own 55:11 personal testimony being there for others, 55:14 so lest prepare, prepare, prepare and how do we do that? 55:18 Through prayer, through Bible study 55:20 and through constant communication. 55:22 We commit, if we commit to Him like you 55:24 just said this individual. 55:26 Let's make sure, you know, 55:27 the Bible is very clear on that. 55:29 It'd be better that we never 55:30 made that commitment to Christ than to make it 55:33 and then break it. 55:34 Make sure you're serious when you do it. 55:37 You have nothing to lose, right? 55:39 With Christ on your side, you have all to win. 55:42 You got a thought or two, just a minute or so left? 55:44 Well, I was thinking as we're talking you know, 55:46 as we're preparing, 55:47 we also need to be falling in love with Christ, 55:50 falling in love with the Word of God. 55:53 1 John 4:18 says, 55:55 "Perfect love casteth out all fear." 55:59 That's what we want. We want Him so close to us. 56:01 And be so in love with Him. 56:04 And no matter what's happening around us, 56:07 we have His peace. 56:08 Oh, wow. Praise the Lord. 56:11 Yeah, one thing that I read. 56:12 I've got it jotted down, it said, 56:14 it's not so much what happens to us that counts. 56:18 But what we do with what happens. 56:20 That's good. That's good. 56:22 You know, really again it's these things 56:23 are going to happen. 56:25 The enemy is going to throw things at each one of you. 56:28 Sometime you're in a glass house. 56:31 Yeah. 56:32 You know, people it's easy for them to write letters 56:33 and criticize everything and you have to ask 56:36 you know what, ask yourself, 56:37 what are you doing for God that maybe sinning. 56:40 You know we have better things to do than to worry about 56:43 the color of the man's tie 56:45 or if he has a tie on or if he doesn't. 56:46 What he looks like, his hair is combed just right or not. 56:50 We're at the end of the world 56:52 and you and you're saying prepare, prepare, 56:54 prepare, that just strikes 56:55 a chord in me that we need to be preparing for the coming 56:58 of the Lord. 56:59 I know that each one of you agree 57:01 with that He is coming. 57:02 We need to be ready, make preparations, 57:04 peace amidst the storm. 57:06 And we're certainly glad that the folks 57:08 who joined us today. 57:09 We pray this been a blessing by the grace of God, 57:11 something's been said, something's been done. 57:13 Right? 57:14 That would just bring some encouragement. 57:15 I've been blessed, so nobody else, I was blessed. 57:18 Amen. Yeah, we've been blessed because what? 57:20 We're going over the promises of God, 57:22 the sure Word that we can 57:24 count on that we are going to be counted on the same 57:26 promises that you do. 57:27 And again, we're so glad that you join us. 57:29 And let's don't forget, get in the Word of God, 57:31 stay in the Word of God, 57:32 and He's going to come in soon, be ready. |
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