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00:26 Hello, and just a great big old welcome to you.
00:28 We're glad you decided to join us today 00:30 3ABN Worship Hour. 00:32 We're glad you decided to spend this time with us 00:35 and I believe it's gonna be 00:36 a profitable hour as we spend it 00:38 studying the Word of God together. 00:40 Our subject is Darkness Shall Cover The Earth. 00:43 There's a lot to this. 00:45 Don't let the title fool you. There's a lot to it. 00:46 So we pray that each one of you 00:48 have your Bible, pencil and paper, 00:50 and get ready to look some of these passages up. 00:52 If we move too quickly, 00:53 be sure you jot these things down. 00:56 So you can go back 00:57 study to show yourself approved unto God. 00:59 Again, we're glad, so very grateful and thankful 01:02 for what you do your prayers, your support of 3ABN, 01:04 God bless you for it, continue going, 01:06 continue to praying for us as we move forward, 01:09 Darkness Shall Cover The Earth. 01:11 Now always our custom is and it should be is pray 01:14 before we get into the Word of God. 01:15 So I'm just gonna step over here, 01:17 I'm gonna kneel 01:18 and maybe you will pray with me, will you? 01:21 Okay, let's pray. 01:24 Our Loving Father in heaven, 01:25 we truly thank You for this opportunity 01:27 and privilege we have to come before thee. 01:29 We invite thy Holy Spirit, 01:30 please come and be on us in a very special way. 01:33 Illuminate these beautiful truths 01:35 of Your Word that we may understand them, 01:37 they may be clear to us, 01:38 and then give us power, strength, and might that 01:40 we wanna be obedient to Your Word. 01:42 Thank You for every viewer, every listener, 01:44 each and every one 01:46 that will make a decision for You today. 01:48 And we're gonna thank You for that in advance. 01:49 Bless now we pray 01:51 as a word goes out in Jesus' name. 01:52 Amen. 01:54 If you have your Bible, 01:56 I know that you do have your Bible. 01:57 I want you to make sure that you turn in with me, 01:59 I'm gonna read the first passage here. 02:01 This is one of the most special, 02:02 special passage to me in John 1:1-5. 02:06 John 1:1-5. 02:08 Now you'll say, "Oh, I know that. 02:09 Well, I'm glad you do." 02:11 We commit these things to our heart and to our mind, 02:13 but I love it because the Bible says, 02:15 "In the beginning was," what? 02:17 Good. 02:18 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 02:22 and the Word was God. 02:25 The same was in the beginning with God." 02:27 Notice this. 02:28 "All things were made by Him, and without Him 02:32 was not anything made that was made. 02:35 In Him was life, 02:37 and the life was the light of men. 02:40 And the light shineth in darkness." 02:42 Now notice this. 02:44 "And the darkness comprehended it not." 02:48 You know, I love those verses, 02:50 but when it comes down to the very last line of it, 02:53 something just kind of sticks in my heart, in my mind, 02:55 and there's a sadness that comes up 02:57 because it says right here 02:58 that the darkness comprehend it not. 03:01 Jesus came to this world, but what? 03:04 Many people still today looking 03:06 they haven't comprehend it was all about. 03:08 So again one of my favorite passages 03:10 and spend some time studying that, 03:12 you know, there are light. 03:13 I'm finding in this there are light 03:15 and glory in the truth. 03:17 In this truth that we just read 03:18 in this passage of scripture here 03:20 that was Jesus was with God the Father 03:22 before the foundation of the world. 03:24 I love that. 03:26 This is the light shining, the Bible says in dark places. 03:31 He was the fountain of life to the world. 03:34 He was the, Bible says, the Eternal Word. 03:37 He considered to be made flesh. 03:41 God became man. 03:45 He was numbered with the transgressors. 03:49 See, He didn't die a hero. 03:52 Think about it in the eyes of the world. 03:54 He died a condemned criminal. 03:58 He died as man's substitute. 04:02 Jesus died in order to fully meet the demands 04:07 of the broken law, which the Bible says is death, 04:10 the wages of sin, what? 04:12 Sure is death. 04:14 Now let's take a little trip, if you don't mind, 04:16 let's go back just a little bit here. 04:18 And as we talk about darkness shall cover the earth 04:21 at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. 04:23 Let's go back and look at the time 04:25 because I believe there's some parallels 04:26 there at the time of Christ was born 04:28 and the time that we're living in now, 04:30 just before Jesus comes back again. 04:32 It behooves us to put 04:34 these together by the grace of God. 04:36 You see, the nation was struggling. 04:39 They were struggling internally, 04:41 they were struggling externally, 04:43 there was strife, all kinds of commotion, 04:45 things were going on at the birth of Christ. 04:49 In fact, it becomes so bad 04:50 that the office of the high priest was corrupt. 04:54 It was secured by fraud. 04:57 It wasn't, think about this fraud 04:58 and bribery and even, notice this, murder. 05:02 The priesthood had become corrupt. 05:08 The people fighting to make ends meet. 05:12 They were heavily taxed. 05:14 Might sounds familiar for today's time, does it not? 05:17 Things that are going on, 05:18 the world is in turmoil right now 05:20 because we're looking at the nearness 05:22 of the coming of Jesus Christ. 05:25 We look at the state of affairs. 05:27 And what happened because these things 05:29 that were going on here, people were discontent. 05:32 They were uneasy. 05:33 They were looking for something that they couldn't find. 05:37 And not long with discontentment 05:38 we find there was worst frequent outbreaks. 05:42 My, does that sound like today? 05:43 People are unrest, they're looking for something 05:45 and there's outbreaks, 05:47 today we'd call them maybe protest. 05:50 Nothing wrong if it's done properly, 05:52 but it was not done properly. 05:54 See, there was greed. 05:56 There was violence. There was distrust. 05:59 Lack of spiritual interest. 06:03 Sounds familiar, does it not? 06:04 There's this Laodicea, this sleepy, 06:06 this indifference that was going on even in the church. 06:11 There's a lot of hatred at the time of Christ birth, 06:16 one against another. 06:18 Sounds like today, awful lot of hatred going on. 06:21 A lot of things going on out there in the world today 06:23 that certainly points us to the coming of Christ, 06:25 but these things, you see, 06:26 they were happening at the birth of Jesus Christ. 06:29 Of course this and much more, 06:30 you could go on and on with the list. 06:33 It caused the nation to just want to give up. 06:36 I don't know if you've ever come to that point in your life 06:39 that you felt like everything's going haywire. 06:42 And you just want to just like give up. 06:46 Some will say, "Well, what's the use to continue on? 06:49 There seems to be no hope. 06:52 There's darkness in the land. 06:55 Things are going on that I just can't understand." 06:57 And along with that darkness and along things 07:00 that were going on people became, 07:01 I use the word they were depressed and oppressed. 07:06 They considered their situation. 07:10 They were seeing here, 07:11 think about this, the rulers and the leaders. 07:15 Think about the leaders 07:16 and the rulers were thirsting for power. 07:20 That was the rule of the day. 07:23 And, of course, Satan was working, 07:26 there was a dark shadow that was cast over the world 07:29 as it were, and it became darker and darker. 07:34 I want these to resonate in your mind that 07:37 what's going on in the world today, 07:39 however you want to put it, 07:41 but there's darkness in the land. 07:43 Something is terribly wrong. 07:46 And it's getting darker and darker. 07:49 At the time of Christ birth 07:51 there was a tremendous change that needed to take place. 07:53 Before the coming of Jesus, 07:54 there's a great change that needs to take place, 07:57 and very few want to make that change. 08:01 You think about what's happened here 08:03 with even the people of God here, 08:05 we were called to be His representatives. 08:08 See, I like that. 08:09 We were called to be His representatives, 08:11 but notice the Jews. 08:14 Now I must say this nicely as I can, 08:16 but they had become the representation of Satan. 08:20 They had turned their back on God. 08:24 And now they were followers 08:25 of the enemy and something had to give. 08:29 Deception of sin at the birth of Christ 08:33 had reached its height. 08:37 I wonder has it reached its height today. 08:40 I wonder if it's going to get a little bit worse 08:42 before Jesus comes, other things that 08:45 we need to be preparing for. 08:47 After all, darkness is going to cover the earth 08:49 and as darkness has already, don't say this, 08:51 all darkness is going to one day cover the earth. 08:54 Darkness is covering the earth right now, 08:58 but certainly it's going to get darker. 08:59 Why? 09:00 Because individuals 09:02 are becoming right now victims of Satan. 09:05 Victims because he was 09:09 behind all this corruption we were talking about. 09:12 He was behind all this unrest, and that's today too, 09:16 and all the violence, all the murder, 09:20 all the destructive practices, 09:23 hoping to catch men in these things 09:25 and keep them still in that until they're lost. 09:31 The time of Christ, 09:32 to me the bodies of human beings, 09:34 you know, bodies of human being was meant to 09:37 for the Holy Spirit to dwell in. 09:39 We were there to dwell in the Spirit of God, 09:41 notice this, Spirit of God inside of us, 09:44 but what happened? 09:45 The body became the dwelling place of demons. 09:48 I wonder today some of the things 09:50 I see going on in the world. 09:51 It looks more like demons, doesn't it? 09:52 Demon possession. 09:54 A lot of things are going on 09:56 that we need to be questioning today. 09:57 And are they pointing us to the coming of Jesus? 10:00 Now how can we say that 10:02 you know what the human beings that, 10:03 you know it's a dwelling, 10:05 they supposed to be the dwelling place of God. 10:06 1 Corinthians 6:19. 10:09 I love this. 1 Corinthians 6:19. 10:12 The Bible says, I'll say it over and over, 10:14 but I can't help it 10:15 because that's what the Bible says. 10:17 It starts out with, "What? 10:19 know ye not that your body is the temple of God." 10:23 Know ye not your body's what? 10:25 "The temple of," what? 10:27 "The Holy Ghost which is in you, 10:29 which ye have of God, ye are not your own?" 10:33 You are not like we say you're not your own, 10:34 it would be nice for us to understand. 10:36 We are not our own. 10:37 We have been bought, 10:38 we have been purchased with a price. 10:41 So for a week what? We glorify God in our bodies. 10:44 Praise God for that. 10:48 I've often wondered, you know, 10:49 if I did something may be wrong at home 10:51 or whatever and I came home. 10:53 My mother would say to me some time, 10:55 "Kenny, what do you been up to?" 10:56 And I'm going what? 10:58 She said, "It was all over your face." 11:00 Really? 11:02 Think about it today, human faces the people 11:05 that we pass by in the street or in the car, 11:07 whoever it might be, people that you meet 11:09 friends, family, many their life 11:11 is written up on their face. 11:14 Many times you can tell 11:16 what kind of life they are living. 11:21 Today, some people lives 11:26 are crying out 11:28 for something that they're not seeing, 11:30 maybe even in the church, 11:32 that they're not seeing anywhere 11:35 and yet their voices are lifted up in prayer 11:37 and saying, "God, I need something, 11:38 I need direction, 11:40 I need not know what to do to be ready." 11:42 You realize if heaven is not your home 11:44 and not my home, what good is this life been? 11:49 The whole purpose of us being here 11:50 is to repopulate heaven. 11:52 We've missed our purpose, 11:54 if we miss heaven, so we don't want to do that. 11:58 And I think sometime that Satan laughs as he sees 12:03 how he has debased the image of God in humanity. 12:08 Have you thought along those lines? 12:11 Genesis 1:26, gives us direction on this, 12:15 notice, you say, "Well, I'm not sure about where, 12:18 but are we supposed to be in the image of God? 12:20 How were we created? How were we made? 12:21 What do we do?" 12:23 Well, the Bible tells us, Genesis 1:26, 12:26 just the first few words we'll use on that. 12:28 Notice it says, "And God said." 12:30 Now if you don't know, I love this, "And God said, 12:33 'Let us make man in," what? 12:35 "In our image after our likeness." 12:38 That just answers the question for me. 12:41 I don't need any more information 12:42 because God said we're to made in His image. 12:47 And so I'm just kind of thinking, you know, 12:49 we need to act like we're in His image. 12:51 We are His people. We are His representatives. 12:55 Surely, maybe we're beginning to see 12:57 or maybe you're finding out 12:59 as you're studying and praying every day 13:00 and witnessing for Him, 13:04 but He has a plan for you and a plan for your life, 13:07 but many people don't know that. 13:08 And you know what? 13:09 If I look at humanity as a whole today, 13:11 I think it's totally out of control. 13:14 There needs to be a change, but, you know, 13:17 we just left it there, you know, 13:18 what good would it do us? 13:20 I'm glad the Bible gives plenty of good counsel, 13:21 but notice what it says, 13:23 but there's some good news here. 13:25 All is not lost. 13:27 Praise God for that, it's not lost. 13:28 Galatians 4:4-5. 13:31 Galatians 4:4-5 gives us some real good, exciting news. 13:36 "But when the fulness of time was," what? 13:41 "When the fulness of time was come." 13:43 See, this is a good news. Why? 13:44 Because they were in a dark part of earth's history. 13:46 "But when the fulness of time was come," 13:48 what happened? 13:50 The Bible said, "God sent forth his Son." 13:53 Man, He had a plan. 13:55 You can look at the exact time, 13:56 in fact it won't be on the screen, 13:58 but just jot down Daniel 9:24-25, 14:01 Jesus came at the exact time that He said He would do. 14:05 It was predicted as we well know, Acts 17:26, 14:10 but the right time it said, 14:11 "God sent forth His Son, made of a," 14:14 notice the Bible said, "of a woman." 14:17 What is it do? It indicates His humanity. 14:21 "Made under or subject to the law, to redeem," 14:25 I like that to buy back. 14:28 Man, I need to be purchased, I need to be bought, you know, 14:30 He paid with His blood, did He not? 14:33 "Them that were under the law." 14:36 Literally that means under law, 14:38 which was the Jewish legal system, 14:41 "That we might receive the adoption of sons." 14:47 To me it's exciting 14:48 when I read the scriptures and it says, 14:50 sons and daughters, sons of God, daughters of God, 14:53 what a privilege that is and how many times, 14:56 many people spurn that. 14:58 They look at the world and things going on. 14:59 They just wonder what we're gonna find 15:01 the answer here. 15:02 We're gonna have to go here. 15:03 We're gonna have to do that, but we have to realize 15:06 we are in this time of the coming of the... 15:08 We talked about the bridegroom. 15:10 Remember the Bible said, what in Matthew 25, 15:12 "The coming of the bridegroom was at midnight." 15:15 Wow, what it meant at midnight that was the darkest hour. 15:20 And so we know that the coming of Christ. 15:23 Notice this, takes place 15:25 in the darkest period of earth's history. 15:29 So we need to be prepared for that. 15:31 And what does God do? 15:33 Well, I know this, 15:34 He calls us to reflect His light. 15:37 He calls us to reflect His glory. 15:39 And look how often we feel that. 15:41 We reflect somebody else's glory, 15:43 maybe somebody else's. 15:44 And we were not reflecting the light 15:46 from the throne room of God, His glory. 15:48 And that's for I'm thinking right now 15:51 we need to be shining a light, we need to be, oh, oh, 15:53 lighting a candle so for the world to see. 15:58 I love the passage of scripture in Isaiah 60:1-3. 16:04 Man, do they have special application 16:08 to God's New Testament Church after His people today? 16:12 Isaiah 60:1-3. 16:16 Again, the Bible says, I like this, "Arise and shine," 16:19 you know, why does it start out arise and shine? 16:21 Because we've been seated way too long, that's why. 16:24 And God said, "He wants us to get with the program. 16:26 I want you to rise up." 16:28 We can't really do anything as we're seated. 16:29 We need to get up and where we can move them out 16:31 and do what God asked us to do. 16:33 "Arise and shine," notice, "for thy light is," what? 16:37 "The light is come." 16:39 Boy, you think about this right here. 16:42 But notice, when we talk about this passage of scripture, 16:45 "Arise and shine, for the light is come," 16:47 is talking about here, remember, 16:49 these promises that I'm gonna read here 16:51 and I'm reading, it was a condition of what? 16:56 Of the Reformation that would be 16:58 taking place in Isaiah Chapter 58. 17:01 See, God made some promises here, 17:02 but they were conditional 17:04 and what Israel failed of that of those conditions, 17:07 and therefore, listen. 17:08 This passes over to the New Testament Church. 17:11 These are our hours for today, grasping, so when I read it, 17:15 it says, "Arise, Kenny." 17:17 Did you see that? 17:20 I remember person one time I was preaching somewhere, 17:22 I don't remember where it was at. 17:24 I read some passages of scripture 17:26 or something on this order said arise Kenny and da-da-da, blah. 17:28 And when I got done, 17:29 somebody met with me and they said, 17:31 "Hey, now, what do we mean arise? 17:33 You're adding words to scripture. 17:35 You put your name in there. 17:36 I know your name is not in there." 17:37 And I said, "Oh, I'm sorry, you don't see yours." 17:40 I think we should see our name. 17:43 "Arise and shine, for the light is come, 17:47 and the glory of the Lord has risen up on thee." 17:50 So we are to reflect then that glory. 17:53 "For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, 17:57 and gross darkness the people." 18:00 See, that's not good news if we just leave it there, 18:03 but it's something we should not ignore, 18:05 we should approach and we should look at it 18:06 and we should pray about it. 18:08 And we should say, "Lord, what are you saying here?" 18:10 Said, "Gross darkness to people." 18:12 But I like the next word says, but. 18:15 You know, in scripture over and over, 18:16 it goes on he says it but, 18:18 it gives you some maybe some bad news 18:19 as it were, but then it says, 18:20 but and so I like to read on, it says, 18:22 "But the Lord shall arise upon thee," 18:25 with His glory, 18:27 "His glory shall be seen upon thee." 18:30 Ain't that wonderful? 18:31 "And the Gentiles 18:32 to the brightness of thy rising." 18:35 I mean, there's all kind of information 18:37 that is talked about here 18:39 the Lord shall arise up on thee and His glory, 18:43 not your glory, you have no glory. 18:46 Lot of time we like everything pointed us 18:47 and that all about it, it's not about us. 18:51 It's the Spirit of the Living God 18:52 that's living inside of you, 18:53 living inside of me that needs to come forward. 18:56 The Gentiles are going to come in. 18:59 Other words, they, the Gentiles are those 19:00 maybe not believing the way you believe or, you know, 19:04 if other people have made that decision, 19:07 they'll see something in you and they'll want that. 19:11 And it's certainly not you, it's not me, 19:13 it's Christ who lives within, right, He is our hope. 19:16 And they'll want to come in 19:18 to the brightness of thy rising. 19:20 The kings are going to come in, 19:22 that means the great men of the earth 19:23 before Jesus comes, 19:25 there's gonna be some great king, 19:26 great men as it were 19:28 that we look at in the world today 19:29 are going to come in 19:30 and grab a hold of this message of the three angels, 19:32 and they're going to go give it to the world 19:33 and people are going to listen to them. 19:37 Man, what an awesome time that is that we're living in. 19:42 Are you reflecting the glory of God? 19:47 So I just say again, all around us 19:49 now the world is in turmoil. 19:53 I mean, some bad turmoil. 19:55 We mentioned a few of them, everybody mentioned them 19:57 and talks about them, but, you know, 19:58 there's some people's got their head in the sand 20:00 and they just don't, you know, 20:01 some time they just maybe not thinking along we are. 20:03 We think about bad COVID-19 20:05 we understand that the economy is in trouble. 20:08 We say it's hanging by a what? 20:09 It's hanging by a thread. 20:12 It could snap any day, 20:13 and then what are we going to be doing? 20:16 All we think is bad, horrible right now, 20:18 but, you know, it says it's gonna get darker. 20:21 Things are gonna get worse 20:22 before they get better before Jesus comes. 20:26 Man, a millions have lost their job. 20:28 They've lost their income. 20:30 They've lost their and we call employment. 20:32 And now there's rioting and there's, you know, 20:35 drive by shootings, 20:36 little children are being killed. 20:40 There's heartache and there's pain. 20:42 There's suffering, Schiro murder. 20:47 Loss of home, people are losing their homes 20:49 because they don't have a job. 20:50 They don't have money coming in. 20:53 Even nature is rebilling under the weight of sin. 20:59 Many have lost hope. 21:01 Many have lost encouragement. 21:04 It seemed like there's no one out there 21:05 who wants to give you hope, 21:07 no one wants to give encouragement, 21:08 no one because as soon as you mentioned, 21:10 "Well, how are you doing?" 21:11 "Well, I wasn't feeling very good." 21:12 They'll tell you how bad they're feeling. 21:14 I think you got there. 21:16 And so we need to look, we need to be a hope, 21:20 we need to be a light in a dark world. 21:25 And because it seems the majority of the world 21:28 not everybody's involved 21:29 in what I'm getting ready to say here, 21:30 but I understand 21:32 because there's so much going on, 21:33 that the enemy has such a hold on this world, 21:36 that we realized that many have lost their hope 21:39 and they turn to other things. 21:41 They turn to alcohol, and they turn to drugs, 21:44 and they turn to many bad choices, 21:46 and they turn to bad company. 21:50 And things only get worse for them. 21:54 These folks need a light, 21:57 the light of the world. 21:59 They need that Bread of Life. 22:01 Ain't that wonderful to think about that Bread of Life? 22:04 It makes me hungry, 22:05 it makes me want to thirst after righteousness. 22:08 When you think about the Bread of Life, 22:09 we know that is none other than what? 22:11 That Jesus Christ. 22:15 We must give them. 22:17 We must introduce them to Jesus. 22:23 Tell them, you know, 22:24 what people's wanting to hear today? 22:26 People's wanting to hear. 22:27 I want to hear. I need to hear. 22:29 I need to read it from the Word of God. 22:31 When people are going through such times 22:33 as we're going through right now. 22:34 Oh, there is a balm in Gilead. 22:37 There is a balm in Gilead. 22:39 There's healing that He has for us, 22:42 healing of the sin-sick soul. 22:46 We have a great, mighty physician, 22:51 one that knows all about you and all about me. 22:55 There's healing in the name of Jesus. 22:58 There's victory. 22:59 We know that in the blood of the Lamb, 23:01 I think that's the way that song goes. 23:02 It's a beautiful song. He knows all about you. 23:07 He knows what you have need of, 23:09 this physician, this waiting just for you to call, 23:13 just for you to call, Lord, I need some help. 23:16 I can't handle it anymore. It's too much. 23:19 Do you realize how suicide rates 23:21 are just climbing, climbing, and climbing? 23:24 Because we're entering in that dark period 23:26 and we're not looking for that light. 23:30 There's the physician that can handle 23:32 and heal all manner of diseases, 23:34 whether it be mentally, physically, 23:36 spiritually, financially, doesn't matter. 23:38 Nothing is too big for God. 23:40 I think that's just awesome to think, 23:42 but nothing's too big for God, 23:45 but He's waiting for you to call. 23:48 And I just wonder, will you call? 23:53 If you don't call, He's not going to answer. 23:55 I think today would be the day to call on Him 23:57 because you may fit in some of these things 23:59 we've been talking about here. 24:01 You've noticed the world getting dark. 24:03 You've noticed the coldness of the heart. 24:06 You've noticed that the laziness in the church, 24:09 the coldness, and you're looking 24:11 for something a little bit different right now. 24:16 We need Christ. The days are dark. 24:21 Warning after warning 24:23 is given in scripture, praise God for that. 24:26 And over and over, we go back. 24:27 Well, you know, when you've read all time, 24:28 maybe we've read it too many times 24:30 some have, and we've just thrown it out, 24:31 we've ignored it. 24:33 As it was in the days of Lot, as it was in days of Noah, 24:36 the condition of the world just before Jesus comes, 24:38 man, we can know. 24:40 We can know 24:41 where we're at in the stream of time. 24:45 The Bible tells us in these last times, 24:48 I'm talking about Satan, 24:49 I talked about the man of sin will work with all power. 24:53 How do we know that? 24:55 Because the Bible says 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10. 24:59 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10. 25:02 It says, "Even him, 25:04 whose coming is after the working of," whom? 25:07 "After the working of Satan with all power and signs and," 25:11 notice this, "lying wonders, 25:14 and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness 25:17 in them that," what? 25:19 "In them that perish." 25:21 We're going to be what? 25:23 We're working to be saved as it were, 25:24 by the grace of blood of Jesus Christ, 25:26 or we're going to be lost, we're going to be perishing 25:28 because the devil says, 25:29 I'm going to try to take you down. 25:31 I'm going to work signs, I'm gonna be working miracles, 25:33 lying wonders, I'm gonna deceive anybody 25:35 and everybody I can. 25:37 Unrighteousness is in them that perish. 25:40 You don't have to be in that boat, 25:42 and then the next word says 25:44 because I like that because, notice this, 25:46 "Because they receive not a love of the truth, 25:50 that they might be saved." 25:53 And so again, the question has to come back. 25:56 Do you have a love for the truth? 25:58 I mean, do you really love it. 26:00 Man, if you have somebody sitting in the pew next to you, 26:03 you talk to your neighbors and your friend, 26:05 mom and dad whatever, it might be family. 26:06 You love Jesus? 26:07 Oh, we love Jesus, we love Jesus. 26:11 Sometimes we can question some of these things. 26:13 And we might question ourselves, 26:14 we just need to do a little, 26:16 you know, self-examination here. 26:21 Did we spend time in prayer this morning? 26:25 Well, no, we went to work. 26:27 We work at a religious place and boom, boom, boom, 26:29 that didn't take the place of it. 26:32 Did you read scripture? Did you get something? 26:35 You get a foundation on which you know, 26:36 to build on the day 26:37 because you already know that the devil is going to try to, 26:40 may I say beat your socks off? 26:41 Yeah. 26:43 He's gonna try to work you over. 26:45 And we need to build a good foundation of a morning 26:48 so that he can't take us off of that. 26:50 To know what the truth 26:51 is so exciting to me to develop a love for that truth. 26:56 You love truth more than you love life itself. 27:00 Wow. So are we doing that? 27:03 Are we doing what's necessary that we may gain the victory? 27:07 We can know the work of the enemy, 27:10 we can know his plan. 27:12 We can know where we're at in the stream of time, 27:16 as the darkness continues to increase. 27:20 And what do I mean by that? 27:22 The darkness is increasing. 27:23 We can say dark, when people's looking outside, 27:25 say man, is it getting dark outside, listen though. 27:27 The spiritual darkness of air, 27:29 the spiritual darkness of heresies, 27:33 spiritual darkness of delusions, 27:36 along with, may I say again, 27:37 the lukewarmness, you know, hey, we call by heresies. 27:41 Don't care attitude 27:43 that seems to be some time facing us. 27:46 Satan is leading the world captive. 27:50 Don't be his victim. 27:52 You don't have to be his victim. 27:54 I don't have to be his victim, but he's leading the world 27:59 right down a path 28:01 that we'll never come back from. 28:03 We need some help. 28:04 We need some power from on time on high. 28:08 So how can we fight this as it were in the Word of God? 28:11 In John 3:19. 28:13 The Bible's clear on it. 28:15 John 3:19. 28:18 The Bible says, "And this is the," notice this, 28:21 "condemnation, that," notice, "light is come into," what? 28:25 "The world, and men loved," men love what? 28:29 "Darkness rather than light," why? 28:34 "Because their deeds were evil." 28:37 Man, that's a powerful passage of scripture right here. 28:39 We have what? 28:41 We have light it's in the world, 28:42 we have the Word of God that's here, right? 28:44 We have time we can get into the Word of God. 28:46 We have the power of the Holy Spirit 28:47 that can illuminate these 28:49 beautiful truths of God's Word in here, 28:51 can convict and convert 28:52 and change the heart and change the life 28:54 and yet many refuse it. 28:55 They don't want it. Why? 28:58 Oh, they love darkness, they love evil. 29:03 And, you know, God can reverse that. 29:07 I've said this many, many times and I do believe it. 29:09 And I'm not trying to be smart about it, 29:12 but I really believe 29:14 that Satan has joined the church. 29:17 Is it okay to say that? 29:20 I believe that Satan has joined the church 29:21 and that he's bringing in apostasy. 29:25 He's bringing in over and over the traditions of men. 29:31 And this develops into darkness as deep as midnight. 29:37 No, I know that's heavy duty, but, you know, 29:39 these things that we need to be thinking about here. 29:43 If he's joined, 29:44 if he's coming in through apostasy 29:46 and traditions of men. 29:49 How does he do that? 29:51 Sometime we find many times 29:52 it's because think if we go to read sometimes 29:54 somebody said, "Well, that's changed now 29:55 for some reason. 29:57 We can't get the full context though for some reason 30:00 or maybe we don't care." 30:06 It's developing, the darkness, 30:08 and it doesn't need to be in the church. 30:12 The devil needs to be disfellowshipped. 30:14 No, somehow you'll get that one. 30:18 We have to realize the time 30:19 that we're living in is a night of trial. 30:22 It's a night of going to be a persecution. 30:26 It is for many right now. 30:28 It's a night of separation. 30:30 It's a night of tears and even death. 30:36 Why? All because what? 30:38 Because we love the truth. 30:40 I mean, do we really love the truth? 30:42 Are we willing to give our lives 30:43 for the truth? 30:45 Are we willing to live the truth 30:48 maybe some time we began so lukewarm 30:50 and just so, you know, 30:51 just kind of out of it so much yet claiming 30:53 that we are Christ right here. 30:54 Maybe we don't see, maybe our conscious 30:56 has become severed with a maybe 30:58 with a hot iron, but, you know, 31:02 we don't have to walk in this darkness 31:06 because the Bible tells us so. 31:08 Let's read a passage, shall we in John 8:12? 31:11 John 8:12 says this, I like the way it starts out. 31:16 It says, "Then spake Jesus again." 31:20 Don't you love it? 31:21 When Jesus spoke again, 31:22 so He speaks to us again he says this. 31:25 Jesus pointing to Himself, 31:26 He said, "'I am the light of," what? 31:28 "Of the world, 31:29 he that followeth me shall," what? 31:34 "Not walk in darkness, 31:35 but shall have the light of life.'" 31:38 Man, what a guarantee. 31:40 Jesus says, "If we follow Him, we will not walk in, what? 31:44 We will not walk in darkness, but we're gonna walk in light. 31:49 You have a choice there. 31:50 You can walk in darkness or you can walk in light. 31:52 Jesus says, "I've come, I've set an example for you." 31:54 We're told we're to walk the way 31:56 that He walked. 31:57 And yet you point that out in scripture. 31:59 Many people say, "Well, I wanna go to heaven, 32:01 but I don't wanna walk that way." 32:03 Way we get to heaven is following God's plan 32:05 and only following God's plan. 32:08 How can we say that we love Jesus? 32:09 How can we say we wanna follow Jesus? 32:11 How can we say we wanna go to heaven? 32:12 But yet we dismiss the words of scripture. 32:16 We feel like we no longer have to do that, 32:18 when we know they haven't changed 32:19 as He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 32:23 My Bible is very, very clear out of darkness, 32:27 God's light is going to shine. 32:31 Man, we have this guarantee of scripture, 32:33 for those of you may be are fighting it 32:34 and you're living in darkness and people 32:36 we've worked with even this week is that 32:38 they're having all kinds of troubles internally 32:40 and externally too, 32:42 and they don't know which way to turn. 32:43 They're ready to give up. They're thinking about suicide. 32:44 They've quit eating. 32:46 They just don't wanna live anymore. 32:48 This is reality. 32:51 But God sends help along the way. 32:54 God's wanting to shine light 32:55 in our pathway, 2 Corinthians 4:6. 32:58 The Bible says 2 Corinthians 4:6, "For God," 33:02 who commanded the light to shine out of darkness," 33:05 notice this, "For God, who did what? 33:07 "He commanded the light to shine out of darkness, 33:10 hath shined in our," notice this, "in our hearts." 33:14 Notice this. 33:16 "It's in our hearts, 33:17 to give the light of the knowledge 33:19 of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." 33:23 Man, what a passage of scripture right now, 33:26 the world's that we don't know God. 33:28 Disciples said, "We don't know God." 33:30 Do you remember how they said, "We don't know God? 33:32 We're not familiar with God." 33:33 And Jesus said, 33:35 "Men have I not been with you so long. 33:36 If you have seen Me, you have what?" 33:38 Good. You have seen the Father. 33:41 Jesus came. You notice that. 33:43 We have the knowledge, 33:45 the glory of God is in the face of Jesus Christ. 33:48 Let's look at Jesus and certainly you can see God. 33:54 The light is come. We need that light. 33:58 Powerful verses when you go back 34:00 to the very beginning in Genesis 1:2-3, 34:03 we wanna read that now. 34:05 Genesis 1:2-3. 34:07 These are very familiar, 34:09 but no, this was back in the beginning. 34:12 Bible says, "And the earth 34:13 was without form, and void," right? 34:15 You knew those, didn't you? 34:16 Genesis 1:2-3, and notice this, 34:18 "And darkness was upon the face," what? 34:21 "Of the deep. 34:22 And the Spirit of God moved upon the," what? 34:24 "The face of the waters. 34:25 And God said," notice this, "'Let there be light," 34:27 and what happened? 34:29 "And there was light.'" 34:31 In this time of spiritual darkness, 34:35 we need the Word of God, 34:37 we need the power of God in our hearts, and in our life. 34:39 We need that light to shine on our pathway. 34:43 Why? 34:44 As we mentioned, simply to shine the light on the path 34:46 so we know where we're at on the stream of time, 34:49 so that we can be sure 34:50 that His coming is near even at the door. 34:53 This is not something 34:54 that people been just talking about 34:55 what's happening in the world today 34:57 has never happened like this before. 34:59 Not to this extent. 35:02 And certainly that should wake us up out 35:03 of our sleep as sleeping, 35:05 maybe church members, a sleeping world, 35:09 even the world, have mercy, 35:11 even the world says things are happening 35:13 and we can't even explain. 35:14 We don't know what it's all about. 35:16 You know what it's about. 35:18 Your obligation and my obligation 35:20 is to make others aware of it. 35:23 That's our job. That's our commission. 35:26 We've accepted that, have we not? 35:27 When we accepted the call of Christ, 35:29 when God, what God called all you out of what? 35:33 Out of darkness into that marvelous light. 35:36 He called you. He equipped you. 35:38 He sustains you. 35:40 Now He says, "Guy, you have it, 35:41 now go give it to someone else." 35:43 Man, this is the hour to do it. 35:45 Please don't put it off another day. 35:47 Don't put it off a week. 35:49 Don't say it doesn't matter right now. 35:50 It does matter. Time is of the essence. 35:56 A time of spiritual darkness, we need the Word of God 36:01 to shine like it's never been before, 36:05 shining a bright light on the Word of God 36:07 and giving us courage and faith and hope to follow that word. 36:11 We need the understanding. 36:14 And we can know that some of us have forgot. 36:17 In the Advent movement sometimes 36:19 we forget the blessings that God has had. 36:21 I mean, He's just bestowed upon us as a people. 36:24 We have forgotten the light 36:26 that He's shown in our pathway 36:29 that we're to give to the world. 36:32 The world doesn't know many things that you know, 36:35 that the Holy Spirit's enlightens you with. 36:39 You wanna be part of God's remnant church. 36:42 We have a remnant message to give to the world 36:44 and we need to be giving that like never before. 36:49 We need to know that the Word of God has lined out 36:53 and laid out for us in no uncertain terms, 36:56 where we're at in the stream of time. 36:58 Jesus made it so clear. 37:00 We say you, you will know what is even at the door, 37:03 you're going to know, you know, 37:04 when the leaves are on the tree, 37:05 you're gonna know how close it is, 37:08 and then comes backwards. 37:09 Am I ready? Am I really ready? 37:13 Or am I just playing church? 37:17 Am I just dressing up for church? 37:21 Have I really been converted? 37:23 Do I really remember 37:25 when that conversion took place? 37:29 I'm wondering if we haven't read it. 37:31 We don't remember what took place. 37:33 Maybe it didn't take place, but it needs to take place. 37:36 We must be born again the Bible says 37:40 if we're to enter the Kingdom of God. 37:41 That simply means to me that your old taste 37:44 and your old habits and your old desires, 37:46 they have to be gone. 37:47 Mine do. 37:48 They have to be dead, they have to be buried. 37:51 There's only one that can do that, 37:53 but He's willing to do that 37:54 regardless of your lifestyle regardless 37:56 of where you've been and what you've been doing. 37:58 God is willing to take you right back into the fold. 38:02 I mean, definitely that's just good news. 38:06 Now is the time for us in Isaiah 60, 38:09 we talked about to arise and to what? 38:11 And to shine. Why? Arise and shine of what? 38:14 We have something to give, no, you have nothing which to give. 38:17 We arise and shine because the light has come 38:20 and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 38:23 This is what we need in the church, 38:24 this is what we need in the world, 38:26 this is what we need in everyday life. 38:28 We need the glory of the Lord, 38:30 want the Spirit of God living inside of us 38:32 and coming out to where people can see that 38:34 there's a Spirit of God inside of you. 38:36 They can see, they can tell by looking. 38:39 Remember, they're gonna look and see something good for you. 38:41 I mean, they're not gonna see anything good in me. 38:43 I wanna see Jesus Christ in me, the hope of glory. 38:47 Let Him come arise and shine. 38:48 Let the glory of God just come down, 38:51 get on your knees and beg for it 38:52 if you haven't done it in a while. 38:54 Oh, God, let me be a reflector. 38:56 Let me reflect Your glory. 38:57 Let me reflect Your power. It's risen upon me. 39:01 Gets a promise that God says, "I'm going to give you. 39:04 I'm going to give you this." 39:07 Just carrying on just a little bit more, 39:09 that was Isaiah 60:2. 39:13 Again, it says, "Behold, 39:15 the darkness shall cover the earth, and," what? 39:17 "Gross darkness the people." 39:19 We read it moment ago, 39:20 "But the Lord shall arise upon thee, 39:22 and His glory shall," what? 39:24 "Be seen in thee." 39:26 That's God's plan for you and for me. 39:28 Remember, self is going to have to die 39:30 somewhere along the line. 39:34 Even in ministry and work, there's too many... 39:35 Oh, boy, be careful. 39:37 There's too many people who are selfish. 39:40 We try to put self in the work. 39:42 And God tells us plainly that if any iota or little, 39:45 any kind of self is in the work of God, 39:48 He does not accept it. 39:51 So I don't know about you. I have to pray about it. 39:55 Self is my biggest enemy. 39:58 Now don't sit there and laugh, self is your biggest enemy too. 40:03 This is what it's about. 40:04 That's why Jesus said when you come to Him, 40:06 He said, "Deny," what? 40:07 Come on. Good. 40:08 "Deny self, take up the cross and follow Me." 40:11 Unless you deny self, 40:12 you're not about to take up the cross. 40:15 You're not about to follow Him until self is dead. 40:19 We need to ask the Holy Spirit to come in 40:20 and say, "Oh, Lord, get rid of self." 40:24 I don't want anybody to see me. Man, I lead them astray. 40:26 I want them to see Jesus Christ. 40:29 And when Jesus Christ is living in your heart, 40:30 you don't go around touting it 40:32 and blowing your own trumpet and your own horn either. 40:35 One lady said to me, started to met, 40:37 in fact for very first time and she said to me, 40:39 "Well, my, my, my, she said, 40:41 "I haven't sinned in seven years." 40:44 And I said, "If you haven't sinned 40:45 in seven years, you just did." 40:47 Okay, I'll leave it at that, you think about it. 40:52 Certainly, that's the goal and the objective is to live, 40:55 right, victorious life, 40:58 but we're not going to be around touting 41:00 and talking about it all the time 41:01 and telling others about. 41:03 It should just show in your life, 41:04 should it not? 41:06 Sure it should. 41:07 It's natural. It just comes out. 41:12 What is this darkness? 41:15 Think about what is this darkness 41:18 is talking about said, 41:19 darkness shall cover the earth and what? 41:21 And gross darkness the people getting 41:24 with spiritual application here, this darkness. 41:27 What is it? 41:29 Listen, we've read many times 41:30 and you've read it I'm sure and you've studied. 41:32 It's a misapprehension of what? The character of God. 41:38 People don't understand God. 41:39 They think He's a tyrant, they think He's a, 41:40 you know, it's bad news, 41:43 but God said there'll be a people 41:44 that I will appoint here in these last days. 41:46 They need a knowledge of His character 41:50 and is to be made known. 41:52 His power to save, His grace, 41:56 His mercy, His power, 41:58 His long suffering, His goodness, His mercy. 42:02 This message is to lighten the world. 42:06 And certainly we will do. 42:07 It's not on the screen and won't be, 42:09 but I want you to read, I don't think we'll have time 42:10 in this Revelation Chapter 18. 42:12 When that fourth angel comes down 42:14 and lightens the world, 42:17 we will see these truths come to live. 42:22 This next passage, I'm going to get ready to read 42:23 here in just a moment. 42:25 Luke 21:26. 42:26 I wanna say this, I want you to make understand 42:28 what I'm talking about here. 42:29 When I say that, there's no usefulness 42:32 for this passage of scripture. 42:34 Oh, yeah, I got some of you riled up already, good. 42:37 Maybe it woke you up. 42:38 There's no usefulness this, notice this, for the Christian. 42:43 Notice as I read it 42:45 because we're talking about script 42:48 the life there in Luke 21:26. 42:50 The world is heavy and the things 42:52 that are heavy Bible said, 42:53 "Men's heart are failing them for," what? 42:55 Good. 42:56 "For fear, for those looking after those things 43:00 which are coming on the earth." 43:01 Men's heart are doing what? 43:03 Men's hearts are failing them for fear. 43:05 As a Christian, right? 43:06 We should not have fear, 43:08 perfect love casts out all fear. 43:10 We can be concerned. Absolutely. 43:11 We can spend time on our knees. 43:13 We can certainly be concerned. 43:15 Oh, Lord, am I in a saving relationship with You? 43:18 What do I need to be prepared? Where would you have me to be? 43:20 Where should I be 43:22 in this part of earth's history? 43:23 Well, I wanna stay here 'cause my family's here, 43:24 but it may not be good enough. 43:26 Well, I wanna do this 43:27 because that's what I feel like I wanna do. 43:29 God may ask you to do something you don't wanna do. 43:31 It's going to really test your character, 43:32 going to test mine. 43:34 The world's falling apart. 43:35 We don't know what's going to happen next, 43:38 but men's heart failing them for fear. 43:40 It should not happen in the Christian life 43:44 because we know that He's always there for us. 43:49 The world and the church is in serious trouble. 43:54 Is that okay to say that? We already did. 43:58 The world and the church are in serious trouble. 44:02 If we do not seek the old paths to dwell in, 44:07 too many things are changing, and not for the good. 44:12 God has warned us over and over in scripture. 44:17 How can He deliver any person 44:20 who fails or refuses 44:23 to heed these signs of the times? 44:25 This is what they are. 44:28 I'm assured based upon the Word of God over and over. 44:31 He's gonna do everything He can to save me. 44:34 He's gonna do everything He can to save you. 44:36 You must make that choice. 44:37 You must make that decision. 44:39 It can't be halfway, 44:40 my, my, my after all you gonna repopulate heaven. 44:44 I wanna repopulate heaven. 44:46 I have to be material, heaven material. 44:50 And it's certainly maybe not the way 44:51 we're walking around what we're doing today 44:53 with all the thoughts, and with all the evilness 44:54 and all the stuff that's going on. 44:56 You know, we need some changes. 44:58 We got to get back to those old paths. 45:01 But people are trying to block those old paths, 45:02 but you know what? Stay in there. 45:04 Present the message the way God gave it to us. 45:08 Maybe we need today, maybe we need a fresh vision, 45:12 maybe we need a fresh word from God, 45:16 and maybe you've been getting daily stuff. 45:19 Maybe you've not been getting a word from God at all, 45:21 but you know what? 45:22 Maybe today you need that. 45:24 Now I just wanna just relate to 2 Kings, 45:27 a few moments we have. 45:28 2 Kings 6:17. 45:32 I take, when I read this, I got so excited, 45:34 I couldn't hardly stand it. 45:35 And it's okay to get excited about the Word of God. 45:38 I got excited about it because why? 45:39 Because I seen something. It was a fresh vision for me. 45:42 It's something I needed in my life. 45:43 And I praise God for it. 45:45 It was about Elisha, you remember him 45:46 and the servant they were, you know, 45:49 surrounded by the enemy and there's no way out 45:52 and notice 2 Kings 6:17 simply says this. 45:55 And notice, and Elisha prayed. 45:57 If you were in trouble, 45:59 my brothers and sisters, remember what? 46:00 First thing you do is you pray. 46:03 First thing you did when his life 46:04 was on the line Elisha prayed, 46:06 but notice that, "He prayed and said, 46:08 'Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes," 46:11 man, that was with him, "that he may see.' 46:14 And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man," 46:16 notice this, "and he saw, and, behold, mountains," 46:19 notice this, "mountains was full of horses 46:22 and chariots of fire around Elisha." 46:26 Man, you talk about exciting right here. 46:29 Life seems to be on the line, Elisha, 46:31 first thing he did was what? 46:32 He said, man, he says, I'll pray. 46:35 First thing we need to get on our knees 46:36 and begin to pray. 46:38 And notice, at that point in time, 46:40 if I was surrounded by the enemy, 46:42 and my life was on the line, I might be saying, 46:44 Lord, help me. 46:45 Help me out of this situation, 46:48 but he asked, Lord, open the eyes. 46:50 What? So the young man could see. 46:53 He didn't even pray for himself. 46:54 He prayed for somebody else 46:55 because young man couldn't see by faith. 46:58 And God opened his eyes. 47:00 And he saw these horses it says here chariots of angels 47:04 that had surrounded Elisha, 47:07 just like they're surrounding you. 47:10 Every day of your life, 47:11 the angels of God are surrounding 47:12 around you there. 47:14 Oh, they're a hedge around Job. 47:16 Remember devil said, "Man, 47:17 get that hedge away and I can take him." 47:19 Something like that. You remember? 47:21 Take that hedge down, you put a hedge around him, 47:23 how can I get to him? 47:25 Why do we look and say, "Well, that was for Job. 47:28 That was just for Job." No, it's for you. 47:30 And it's for me today to realize 47:32 if we're obedient to God doing the best 47:34 we know how to do right by the grace of God. 47:36 We're climbing that ladder by faith toward heaven. 47:39 There's a hedge just been put around you. 47:41 The devil can't get to you the way he wants to get to you. 47:44 He can't do what he wants to do to you. 47:47 Think about that. 47:50 Those angels' chariots as it were fire. 47:53 There's hostile environments. There's hostile elements. 47:58 Oh, in the world today 48:00 they're all around us, every day, 48:04 principalities and powers we read in the Bible, 48:08 spirits of demons, wicked spirits, 48:13 but notice, like in the day of Elisha, 48:15 when the servant pointed his master, he said, what? 48:18 There's that angry army. 48:21 They're surrounded us. 48:23 They're cutting us off. 48:24 There's no way that we're going to make it, 48:26 all opportunity has been shut off. 48:28 Maybe you feel that way today. 48:32 There's just no way. 48:34 You're not gonna make it. 48:36 You're surrounded by the enemy. 48:39 You're surrounded by so called friends 48:42 that lead you in the wrong direction. 48:45 You're participating in things, 48:46 you know, you shouldn't be participating in. 48:51 We should pray. Elisha prayed. 48:55 We need to pray that our eyes, spiritual eyes will be open 48:58 that we may see that God is there for us. 49:02 God cares for us. 49:04 Pray, Lord, open my eyes. I want you to do that today. 49:07 Lord, open my eyes that I might see. 49:11 Heaven is right there near to us. 49:15 We have fear, nothing to fear 49:17 when we go do what God asked us to do. 49:19 Oh, yeah, the world may turn on you. 49:22 The church may turn on you, 49:23 different people may turn on you, 49:25 but God will not turn on you 49:26 when you do what God asked you to do. 49:28 And you know what based on His Word. 49:33 In Revelation 2:11. 49:36 I like this. It's good for us. 49:40 Bible said, "He that hath an," what? 49:42 "He that hath an ear, let him hear 49:44 what the Spirit saith unto the," what? 49:47 "To the churches to us. 49:50 He that overcometh shall not be hurt 49:52 of the second death." 49:55 Man, I see victory here. I smell victory. 49:59 I sense victory here, but if you have an ear, 50:02 please open them up. 50:04 You have eyes that's been blind. 50:06 And you've been not wanting to see things 50:07 that are going on that should be taken care of 50:11 in and among and around God's people, 50:13 ask Him to open your eyes 50:14 and give you the spiritual insight 50:17 that sin needs to go out 50:18 of our lives so we can be like Jesus. 50:22 Could it possibly be? 50:25 Could it possibly be that the darkness covering 50:27 the whole earth right now 50:29 is so close to the time 50:31 of Daniel 12:1? 50:36 Remember, Daniel 12:1 says is gonna be a time of trouble. 50:40 In that time of trouble what's going to happen. 50:41 Michael is going to stand up 50:44 that great prince that standeth for the children of thy people. 50:49 Are you ready? 50:51 Are you ready for that really that time? 50:53 if you have an ear to hear, if you have eyes happen to be 50:55 open up spiritual ears, spiritual eyes, 50:57 spiritual mind because we're in that time, 51:01 and it's going to increase as we go on. 51:05 And I want you to be ready for that day. 51:10 And by the grace of God, I know that you will be. 51:14 You're making a decision right now 51:16 I know that you are, and we're gonna be a song 51:18 that I want you to hear because I like this song. 51:21 It's a Go Light Your World. 51:24 Our world needs to be lit up. Don't you believe it? 51:27 By Celestine Dickens 51:30 and Tim Parton's gonna accompany her. 51:32 I know you'll enjoy this song. I do. 51:34 Sit back and listen to it and enjoy. 51:43 There is a candle 51:47 In every soul 51:50 Some brightly burning 51:54 Some dark and cold 51:57 There is a Spirit 52:01 Who brings a fire 52:05 Ignites a candle 52:08 And makes His home 52:12 Frustrated brother 52:16 See how he's tried to 52:19 Light his own candle 52:23 Some other way 52:26 See now your sister 52:30 She's been robbed and lied to 52:33 Still holds a candle 52:37 Without a flame 52:40 So carry your candle 52:44 Run to the darkness 52:48 Seek out the lonely 52:51 The tired and worn 52:54 And hold out your candle 52:58 For all to see it 53:01 Take your candle 53:05 And go light your world 53:08 Take your candle 53:12 And go light your world 53:19 'Cause we are a family 53:23 Whose hearts are blazing 53:26 So let's raise our candles 53:30 And light up the sky 53:33 Bring to our Father 53:36 In the name of Jesus 53:40 Make us a beacon 53:44 In darkest times 53:47 So carry your candle 53:50 Run to the darkness 53:54 Seek out the hopeless 53:58 Deceived and poor 54:01 Hold out your candle 54:05 For all to see it 54:08 Take your candle 54:11 And go light your world 54:15 Take your candle 54:19 And go light your world 54:34 Amen. Amen. 54:36 Praise the Lord. 54:38 Appreciate that song so very much. 54:40 Celestine Dickens, 54:42 Brother Tim Parton always a blessing. 54:45 God is so good, isn't He? 54:47 We need to go light the world by the grace of God. 54:51 I'm wondering, is there someone right now 54:53 that you just you don't wanna light your candle. 54:57 You wanna go tell others that Jesus is soon to come. 55:00 What an opportunity. 55:01 What a privilege right now that we can take 55:04 these words of this song, 55:06 we can take them to the Lord in prayer. 55:08 Say, Lord, I need my candle relit. 55:13 I need to be what You want me to be. 55:15 And I wanna help to light the world. 55:18 We have a message to give like no other. 55:22 No other folks in this whole world. 55:24 It's a life and death issue. 55:27 And I wanna invite you to respond. 55:30 Before we have closing prayer, 55:31 I just wanna invite you to respond to the call 55:35 that the Holy Spirit's making on your life right now. 55:39 Respond by just saying yes. 55:42 Yes, Lord, I'll follow You. 55:44 Wherever You lead, I'll follow You. 55:46 Whatever You've asked me to do in Your Word, 55:47 I know You'll give me strength and power 55:49 to be more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ. 55:53 Will you accept Him as Lord and Savior right now? 55:57 Will you confess your sins? 55:59 Bible said, "If we confess our sins, 56:01 He's faithful and just to forgive us 56:02 our sins, 56:04 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 56:06 Oh, Lord, how we need to be cleansed? 56:09 How we need to be washed? 56:11 We can be washed in Your blood, 56:12 we can be washed by the blood of the Lamb, 56:15 we can be washed by the Word. 56:17 So we pray right now you made that decision that you said, 56:20 I'm gonna follow Jesus wherever He leads. 56:23 I wanna have prayer for each one of you. 56:26 I didn't say it'd be an easy decision 56:28 that you've made, 56:29 but it'll be one that God will honor, 56:32 it'll be one that God will help you to make sure 56:34 that you follow through. 56:36 Only He can help you, shall we pray together? 56:38 I'm just gonna kneel 56:40 where it's possible you might wanna kneel. 56:41 If you can't, it's okay, 56:42 but we're gonna kneel and pray for this decision. 56:47 Merciful Heavenly Father, 56:49 we thank You for Your precious Word. 56:51 Thank You for that beautiful song that 56:53 invites us to light the world. 56:56 We can't do it without You. We need You. 56:58 There are those who have made that decision right now. 57:00 And, Lord, for those who have 57:02 made that decision to follow You, 57:03 we pray that Your Holy Spirit now 57:05 will comfort them, encourage them, 57:06 give them the victory 57:08 that they need so that heaven can be their home. 57:09 Bless us, we pray to this end. 57:11 We thank You, we give You praise, 57:12 we give You honor, and give You glory. 57:13 Thank You for this opportunity in Jesus' name. 57:16 Amen. God bless. 57:19 And we're glad and so happy 57:20 that you've decided to join us on 3ABN Worship Hour. 57:23 Again, we thank you for your love, your prayers, 57:25 your support of this station 57:26 to keep this message going till Jesus comes. 57:28 God bless you. 57:29 We look forward to seeing you next time. |
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