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00:26 Hello and welcome to 3ABN Worship Hour.
00:28 We're glad you decided to join us. 00:31 I'm gonna spend, I want us to call it a thoughtful hour, 00:33 studying the Word of God today. 00:35 I believe you're going to enjoy the message. 00:37 At least I want it to be challenging to you 00:39 as it was for me in laying it out. 00:41 And so, we're going to be talking about 00:43 weighed in the balances. 00:45 What does that all mean? 00:47 A lot of directions it can go, 00:48 but we're going to encourage you just to stay with us. 00:51 Again, just get your pencil, paper, Bible, 00:54 get whatever you need to study. 00:56 And we're gonna come together and look at this Word 00:57 that I believe is very critical 00:59 in this hour that we are living in. 01:02 Praise God, you're with us today. 01:04 Always before we study the Word of God, 01:06 our custom is that we pray. 01:08 And I encourage you to do that also. 01:10 I'm going to kneel and you, where you can, 01:12 please kneel with me and others maybe you cannot. 01:15 Let's just pray together, shall we? 01:20 Loving Father in heaven, 01:21 we thank You for the privilege that we have 01:23 to study Your Word here today. 01:24 We ask for the power of Thy Holy Spirit. 01:27 Lord, we pray that 01:28 You will take all selfish interests out 01:30 and only Jesus will be seen. 01:32 May the cross of Calvary be lifted high? 01:34 We pray for divine wisdom that only heaven can give. 01:38 Bless we pray, bless every viewer, 01:40 every listener. 01:41 And may we be drawn closer to Jesus 01:44 as we study the Word and lift up Jesus, 01:47 in His name we pray and for His sake, amen. 01:52 Again, the subject is, 01:53 we're going to be talking about weighed in the balances. 01:55 What does that really mean? 01:57 First of all, I want to just kind of go back 01:59 and tell a little bit of story. 02:00 I believe that fits well 02:02 with what we're going to be talking about today. 02:03 So, just kind of put this in the back of your memory 02:05 as we go and as we study along. 02:07 There's some of you are going to be very familiar with this. 02:09 His name is Robert Robinson, Robert Robinson. 02:12 He was a... 02:13 He authored a hymn and many of you will know, 02:16 maybe some of the younger will not, 02:17 but it's an older hymn, 02:19 come thou fount of every blessing. 02:23 He wrote this song and it's very interesting song. 02:26 And I think it's a challenging one also. 02:29 But the time came, he wrote this song. 02:31 It was very heart rendering 02:34 when you'd go through it and to follow it. 02:36 But something happened in this poor man's life 02:38 that he gave up on Jesus Christ. 02:41 He passed into the world of sin and the things of the world, 02:45 and he became very spiritually dark. 02:49 He decided, no, I really don't want 02:50 this kind of a lifestyle, 02:51 but I don't know if I want to change or not. 02:53 And so, he said, I'll travel. 02:55 You know, I'm gonna travel 02:57 and sometime traveling like clear the mind 02:59 and, you know, the senses and so on, 03:01 but he began to travel and he traveled. 03:03 In his travels he met a woman. 03:06 Now in one of their many conversations 03:08 that they had, 03:10 she asked him a question. 03:11 And I think it's a question maybe that, 03:13 you know, most of us could ask our ourselves today 03:16 and, you know, again about the hymn, 03:17 but you'd have to know the hymn. 03:19 Hey, but she had been reading this hymn that he had written. 03:24 And so, she asked, she didn't know that, 03:26 but she asked him, she said, 03:27 "I want you to read this hymn. 03:29 And I want you to tell me what you think about it." 03:32 At first he kind of evaded it and he said, 03:34 "No, I, you know, I don't wanna read that." 03:37 "No, please read it. 03:39 And then tell me what you think about it." 03:41 Well, he read it, but suddenly he began to weep. 03:45 Suddenly the tears just begin to flow from his eyes. 03:48 And he said, 03:49 "I'm the man that wrote that song." 03:53 Oh, she was kind of shocked and put back 03:56 as we say for just a little bit. 03:58 And she said, "Oh really? You're the man that wrote it." 04:01 "Oh, yeah." 04:02 He said, 04:03 "Listen, I would give anything 04:05 if I could experience that joy once again." 04:09 Maybe like some of us today, 04:11 I will do and give anything he said. 04:13 And again, the woman said, "Oh, really?" 04:15 Oh, let me reassure you. 04:17 And she went back 04:18 to a couple of lines of this song. 04:20 And she said, remember the words, 04:23 streams of mercy still flows. 04:28 Oh, it's so touched his heart right then right there 04:31 he rededicated his life to Jesus Christ. 04:36 And I encourage you today. 04:37 Please remember that we're looking at... 04:41 That stream of mercy is still flowing. 04:43 I've got... 04:44 I jotted down a couple of lines of this song 04:45 because I remember singing it as a young person, 04:48 haven't sang it for years. 04:50 But a couple of the lines I liked this, listen carefully. 04:52 It said, 04:53 "Jesus sought me 04:55 when a stranger wondering from the fold of God, 05:01 He rescued me from danger interposed His precious blood. 05:06 Isn't that beautiful when you think about it? 05:08 He sought me when a stranger. 05:10 So, you know, if he's seeking you today 05:12 and it says, you know, we need to seek 05:13 and we shall surely find. 05:15 And those blessings, those streams of life and mercy 05:18 still flowing today to accept Christ 05:21 as your personal savior, 05:22 because we live in a very awesome time 05:24 of earth's history. 05:25 And that's what kind of, 05:27 you know, I was impressed by the Spirit of God 05:29 to be talking about weighed in the balances. 05:31 And certainly, you know, that goes back to Daniel 5:27, 05:36 the Bible says, I love this. 05:37 The Bible says, 05:39 "Thou art weighed in the balances 05:41 and are found wanting." 05:43 What an interesting thought. 05:45 We're weighed in the balances and then we are found wanting, 05:48 and that's going to happen 05:50 to every one of us sooner or later, 05:52 we're being weighed in the balances. 05:55 But here was words of doom 05:59 written on a banquet wall. 06:01 You know just, everybody can see, 06:03 you know, fiery letters up there 06:05 that frightened King Belshazzar. 06:10 Oh, hey, oh, what is, what's going on? 06:13 What's being written up there? 06:15 Why were these words written? 06:16 This might be a better thought 06:18 is why were these words written? 06:20 And maybe they might be written maybe against you or me. 06:24 Wow! 06:25 Weighed in the balances and found wanting. 06:28 I want to be weighed in the balances, 06:29 but found what? 06:30 On God's side. I know you do too. 06:33 Had it possibly been 06:34 that Babylon had gone the wrong direction? 06:38 Is it possible maybe to this point, 06:40 we talk about that maybe we as a people individually 06:43 have maybe been going the wrong direction 06:46 and God is trying to call us back into the fold. 06:49 Maybe a greater question would be, 06:51 has America gone too far? 06:54 Is it possible we've gone too far? 06:56 Or the songs that we drifted so far too far from the shore, 07:01 or is God trying to get our attention right now. 07:05 Is it possible His mercy has reached its limit? 07:09 You know, I talked to a lot of people 07:10 and they say, Oh, well, you know, 07:12 God's grace is bigger than, and you say, 07:13 "Oh, absolutely it is. There's no doubt about that." 07:16 But there is a time that, you know, his cup is full. 07:20 There's a time 07:22 that mercy has reached its limit. 07:25 And then what takes place? 07:27 Found something I thought was very, very interesting 07:28 in the Manuscript, 58. 07:31 It's written in 1900. 07:33 Now I would use some of these things 07:35 from time to time as you well know, 07:36 but remember it doesn't matter how old it is. 07:39 If it's truth, it always remains. 07:41 It never changes. 07:43 Notice what it says. 07:44 It says, "All nations have a period of probation 07:48 until the point was reached," 07:49 notice this, 07:51 "till their iniquity was full, huh? 07:54 And the vengeance of God would be," 07:57 notice this, 07:58 "it would be put off for a while." 08:01 But notice every nation, every individual 08:04 has a certain amount of time probate 08:07 and you can go back and you look at Babylon, 08:08 Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. 08:10 You'll find the nations of the world 08:12 had us very specific time and then the end came. 08:15 God doesn't change. 08:17 So it could be, we have it in our life. 08:19 We have it, maybe this country that we live in, 08:21 maybe we're so close to the end. 08:23 And many of us do not realize it. 08:27 God keeps an accurate account. 08:29 When you talk about weighed in the balance, 08:31 accurate account of all sins that are committed, deeds, 08:35 whether it be good or evil, 08:36 but an accurate account is kept. 08:38 You can read that in Romans 2:6, 08:41 you can read that also in Jude 15, 08:44 God keeps an accurate account, 08:46 but the time's going to come when he's going to visit. 08:50 The Bible talks about the transgressors with a rod. 08:54 Other words, there's going to be some correcting 08:56 that's going to go on there. 08:57 Psalms 89, just jot them down, get time and look them up. 09:00 Verse 30. 09:02 He's going to visit us. 09:04 And then as God visit us 09:06 or when God has to withdraw from us, 09:08 who comes in? 09:10 Oh, the enemy, that's exactly right. 09:11 The enemy comes in. 09:13 He comes in to kill, steal and destroy 09:15 just to remind you 09:17 and maybe those who have not heard it. 09:19 You know, we are living in the hour of God's judgment. 09:22 Jesus is soon to come. 09:24 This is an awesome, awesome, awesome time. 09:27 You'll say, well, I've never heard of that. 09:29 Just read a couple of quick passages 09:31 before we move on. 09:33 But the Book of Daniel 7:10, 09:35 it confirms what we're talking about here. 09:38 The Bible says that 09:40 a fiery stream issued and came forth from before him 09:45 thousands and thousands ministered unto him, 09:48 10,000, notice this, and 10,000 stood before him. 09:52 The judgment, notice, the judgment was set and what? 09:55 And the books were opened. 09:58 Oh, you can talk, read about 09:59 the books and we'll read about one in just a moment, 10:01 you know, in Revelation 21:7, 10:03 talking about the Lamb's Book of Life. 10:06 That's where I want my name. 10:07 That's, I'm sure that's where you want your name 10:10 and written in the Lamb's Book of Life, 10:12 how desperately we should be striving. 10:15 Make sure our name is written in that Lamb's Book of Life. 10:19 Another powerful scripture to at least consider, 10:22 Revelation 20:12. 10:23 It goes right along with this, notice. 10:25 And he said, "And I saw the dead," 10:27 and notice this, 10:28 "small and great stand before God." 10:31 Everyone is going to have to stand before God. 10:34 Interesting. 10:36 Remember the good deeds or the bad 10:38 weighed in the balances. 10:39 And how are you gonna be found today? 10:40 That's the big questions we go through the study. 10:44 Where are you going to be found? 10:45 How am I going to be found? 10:48 It said the books were open. 10:49 And another book, which was a Book of Life, 10:51 the dead were judged out of those things, 10:54 which were written in the books. 10:56 Notice this, according to their works. 10:59 Did you get that? 11:00 According to what? According to their works. 11:04 Many people are interested in, I'm certain I'm interested. 11:08 The question has been asked, when will probation close? 11:12 When will probation... 11:14 Has anybody ever asked you that question? 11:16 When will probation close? 11:17 You know, Bible, doesn't give an answer to that. 11:20 Spirit of Prophecy doesn't give an answer that 11:22 I know of, 11:24 but I wonder what people would do 11:25 if we knew that next week, next month, next year, 11:28 that probation was going to close for us. 11:30 How would we react? 11:33 What would we be doing right now? 11:35 What kind of decisions would we be making? 11:37 Would we be making the same ones 11:38 that we are right now? 11:39 Or would they be little bit different? 11:42 God knew that. 11:45 He knew that. 11:46 So He didn't give it as far as I know, 11:48 a definite time on the close of probation. 11:51 But the Bible does say clearly when we study the Word of God, 11:55 that it is... 11:56 You know, that we are to work while the day last, 11:59 because night comes, what? 12:01 When no man can work. 12:03 I want this to be an encouragement to you. 12:05 Yes, weighed in the balances. 12:07 Yes, there comes a time that God is going...You know, 12:09 He's coming back after us 12:11 and we need to be ready for that great day. 12:13 But the Bible says, we need to work right now. 12:16 John 9:4, 12:18 the time is coming when no man can work. 12:22 And let me ask you another question. 12:23 Is it possible that we could be weighed in the balances 12:28 and found wanting? 12:29 Notice this, 12:30 because we're wasting time. 12:34 Well, I think I've wasted enough time 12:36 and I don't want to waste any more time, 12:38 and God has impressed my heart and mind 12:40 as well as I'm sure that He has yours, 12:42 that we need to be redeeming the time 12:44 that we have wasted, 12:46 notice. 12:49 We are accountable for the things, 12:50 notice this, that we will be counted 12:52 for things that we have done, 12:53 but we understand that 12:55 we're going to be held accountable 12:56 for those things that we left, good undone. 13:00 So, wow! 13:02 We need to look at it very closely. 13:04 And so, if I want to look at this and examine it, 13:06 I would look at Jesus, wouldn't you? 13:08 Jesus was an earnest, constant, consistent worker. 13:14 You'll read that in the first part of John 9:4, 13:17 notice what Jesus said. 13:18 He said, I must work. I love that. 13:20 I must work the works of Him that sent Me. 13:24 Don't you feel that in your soul? 13:25 Don't you feel that in your heart, and your mind, 13:27 from day to day 13:29 that we need to be working 13:31 the works of our heavenly Father? 13:32 Why? 13:33 Because He's coming soon because the world is in a mess. 13:36 Things... 13:37 People don't know right from wrong anymore. 13:38 They don't know when it's dark, 13:40 they don't know when it's light. 13:42 Someone has to give, right, the good news of salvation. 13:45 Will it be you? 13:48 That's quite a question that's posed. 13:51 Jesus said, I must work those... 13:54 My grandpa said many times to us, 13:57 and I wanna call it this way. 13:59 When we went to work on the farm, 14:02 when we went to work on the farm, 14:04 grandpa would say something like this. 14:06 Now, listen, guys, I don't want any shirking going on. 14:10 Well, when I was a younger guy, don't want any shirking. 14:12 What are you talking about? Shirkers. 14:14 He didn't want any shirkers in his field. 14:17 And so, he'd say, you know, listen. 14:19 I think I maybe understand it better 14:21 now than I did back then. 14:25 He wanted... 14:27 When we came out there to work for him, 14:28 he wanted us to care about our work. 14:31 He wanted us to be responsible for our work. 14:35 He wanted us to take up the work 14:37 where he didn't have to keep an eye on us all the time. 14:40 He said, "No shirkers." 14:42 May I make this comment? 14:43 I don't believe there's going to be any shirkers 14:45 in the kingdom of God. 14:47 So I'm sure you don't want to be one. 14:50 You know, I've thought about that. 14:52 But Christ said, you know, 14:53 just a few words in the Desire of Ages, 14:55 I love the book, Desire of Ages. 14:57 I hope you do too. And you've been reading it. 14:59 Page 73 gives this and it refers to just exactly 15:03 what we've been talking about here. 15:04 Let's go over that just for a moment. 15:06 And you know what? 15:07 This article uses the word shirk. 15:12 Yeah. It says it. 15:13 Notice this, 15:14 Jesus did not shirk care and responsibility 15:18 as many do who profess to be followers. 15:22 Now, notice why do they shirk? 15:24 Why is there shirkers in the field? 15:26 Well, the shirkers in the field, 15:28 the article goes on and says, 15:29 it is because they seek to, notice the word evade. 15:33 They seek to evade. 15:35 To get rid of, to put off, to not accept it, 15:40 got other things to do. 15:42 I'm busy, 15:44 but they put things off because they want, notice this. 15:47 They want to evade Christ's discipline, 15:51 that this is the reason that so many of us, 15:54 the article says we are weak and inefficient. 15:58 If we maybe are weak and inefficient 16:00 in our Christian experience, 16:03 maybe, just maybe it's because 16:05 we have shirked our responsibility 16:09 toward Christ and what? 16:11 Remember along with this shirking come, 16:13 sometime there's some discipline 16:14 that follows. 16:17 The article goes on and says, 16:18 because of this evading discipline, 16:22 or can I say being spiritually lazy, 16:25 notice this. 16:27 They are, notice, 16:28 nerveless and almost useless 16:32 when difficulties to be met and obstacles surmounted. 16:37 In this hour, my brothers and sisters, 16:39 this hour that we live in, it's no time to beat, 16:42 and I'll be careful, nerveless. 16:44 Did you get it? 16:46 People are just, they're shook up all the time. 16:49 And when you're shook up all the time, 16:50 you're just about... 16:52 The word in here in the article says useless. 16:55 Have you ever met someone that's shook up? 16:58 Ever met someone that's like their nerves are shocked? 17:01 They're just shaky all over. 17:02 They can't think properly. 17:04 And you're trying to help them. 17:05 They can't seem to hear what you're saying. 17:09 Maybe it's because maybe we've just kind of evaded 17:12 the life that Christ would have us to live 17:14 and the corrections that He would have in our life 17:16 so that we may be bold in this hour, 17:19 in the judgment hour. 17:21 God's looking for boldness. 17:22 He's not looking for laziness. He's not looking for shirkers. 17:25 He's looking for those 17:26 who are willing to go into the field 17:28 and do whatever it takes 17:29 to get this message out to the world. 17:31 But you know what? You have to love it. 17:33 You have to love this message. 17:36 Now, don't say it in that sense while we're going, 17:38 you just have to love it. 17:40 If you love the message, 17:41 you're going to be willing to give it. 17:42 You want to give it, you want to be involved. 17:44 And you know what? 17:46 People that hear you will respond to that. 17:49 This is no time for us to be lazy. 17:51 This is no time to shirk in this hour. 17:54 And it could be the last hours of earth's history. 17:57 Now, how many... 17:58 How often have you heard that? 17:59 Hopefully you're hearing that more and more and more and more 18:01 because I believe it's a fact. 18:03 Our world is going to change 18:05 and we're not even going to recognize it. 18:08 How are we going to adjust to it? 18:11 Are we willing to get more freedoms? 18:14 What are we gonna do when we're really challenged, 18:16 our faith is really challenged? 18:19 There's so many talkers in the world today 18:21 and professors, as you well know, 18:23 and I'm looking at myself, 18:24 I want to be more than a professor. 18:25 I want to be able to stand on the truth, don't you? 18:28 Be counted of heaven. 18:30 Somebody I can... 18:31 Heaven can count on to give the message 18:33 that God would have us to get today. 18:35 Just simply once again go through the mind, 18:37 Jesus is coming, 18:38 I need, I want to be ready for that day. 18:43 Now, why this statement useless or it's difficult 18:47 or nerveless or spiritual lazy? 18:49 Notice what it's laziness. 18:51 Notice, it goes on to say, 18:52 that which is in Christ is to be developed in us 18:58 through the same, notice this, 19:00 discipline that He endured. 19:03 Wow, He endured some discipline, 19:05 did He not? 19:07 And sometime we have difficulty with discipline. 19:09 We have difficulty with being corrected. 19:12 We have difficulty with people saying things about us 19:16 or saying things that you believe 19:17 maybe it's truth and they're attacking us. 19:24 We learn sometime through difficult situations. 19:28 I can remember at home years ago growing up, 19:31 we did something 19:33 in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 19:34 probably most churches don't do that I know of. 19:36 And that's called in gathering. 19:38 So, every time, 19:39 couple of weeks before Christmas, 19:41 man, we just, you know, 19:42 in the cold who wants to go out. 19:44 You know, if you're 10, 11, 12, 13, 19:45 man, you've got other things to do seems, 19:49 but it was always our duty for those two weeks, 19:50 every night to go out and there'd be a car. 19:53 And you know, there'll be, 19:54 you know, some music on there and playing, 19:57 you know, some religious songs about Jesus 20:00 and you'd knock on the doors 20:02 and ask for a little bit of finances 20:03 to help those who are needy, who needed help. 20:07 Well, I did that, 20:08 you know, several years enrolling, 20:10 I guess I'm probably 13 years old. 20:12 And so, my dad always said, 20:14 you know, about 6 o'clock we'd go out. 20:16 He said, "Well, Kenny get ready in gathering night?" 20:20 I looked at him. 20:21 I said, "I'm not going tonight." 20:24 He said, "What?" 20:26 I said, "I'm not going tonight." 20:27 "Oh, you've made your mind up. 20:29 You've made that upon your own." 20:30 Yeah. Yeah. 20:31 So, he said, well, let's see, 20:33 your brother Ronnie 20:34 was just a year younger than me. 20:36 He said, Ronnie, how about you? 20:37 Well, he said, 20:38 "Well, Kenny is not gonna go. I'm not gonna go either." 20:41 Dad said, 20:42 "Well, well, okay, I see what you want. 20:44 I'll tell you what I'm gonna do." 20:45 Now, we're talking about discipline. 20:47 We're talking about trying to correct and help 20:49 this today would not be accepted 20:50 because we're not being, you know what? 20:52 The twigs, we're not bending those twigs 20:54 when we can bend them, our youth. 20:58 We wait until they're older sometime. 20:59 And then we tried to bend and it's very difficult 21:02 because they'll say, 21:03 "Oh, they made me go to church. 21:04 That's why I don't go to church now." 21:06 I never did say that. 21:07 It was just a custom. 21:08 That's what we did. 21:10 That's how we were raised. 21:12 But in gathering, 21:13 I just thought I just wasn't gonna go. 21:15 So, day said, "I'm gonna give you a choice. 21:16 You don't have to go. 21:18 Ronnie, you don't have to go either, 21:19 but you're gonna to have to get a whipping. 21:20 Which one you want?" 21:22 I said, 21:23 "Just bring the belt on. 21:24 Go ahead." 21:26 I'd rather have the whipping than go. 21:27 He said, "Okay." Said, "Ronnie, how about you?" 21:29 He said, "Well, if Kenny's going to take one, 21:30 I'm gonna take one too." 21:31 Well, So we got a good thrashing. 21:35 I'll just put it that way. A good one. 21:38 No more was said about it. 21:39 We got out of it that night. 21:41 So, I just thought, this is the way it is. 21:43 I don't have to go anymore. 21:44 I just... That was well worth it. 21:46 Next night, about 6 o'clock "Kenny, you ready?" 21:49 "Ready for what?" 21:50 "Go in gathering." 21:53 Thought I was over with. 21:55 "No, no, it's not, but you've got a choice. 21:59 You can go tonight or you get another whipping, 22:01 what's it going to be?" 22:03 I looked over at Ronnie and Ronnie said, 22:04 "I'm going in gathering tonight. 22:06 I don't know about you." 22:07 I said, you know, after what we got last night, 22:08 I think maybe I will go. 22:11 Some things that just happen in our life. 22:13 We'd say, oh, we could all go back on 22:15 and say, oh, this was a horrible nightmare. 22:16 May old people shouldn't be treated that way. 22:18 It helped us. 22:19 It was an encouragement to us. 22:21 It was under difficult times. 22:24 Nerve-wracking as it were. 22:26 God disciplines His people. 22:28 And I'm thankful for godly parents 22:31 that was showing us the right way, 22:33 giving us a choice. 22:35 But what would happen if you do 22:36 and what would happen if you don't? 22:38 Is it possible? 22:40 We are weighed in the balances and we can be found wanting? 22:45 If we don't give this last day message 22:47 the way God said to give it. 22:49 I don't know you hear that a lot, 22:51 but listen, this is so imperative. 22:53 Oh, we're giving the message away. 22:55 You know, this last day message. 22:56 Are we giving it the way 22:58 that God would have us to give it? 23:00 And I just put it like it, 23:02 because it is a life and death matter. 23:05 It is not just, oh, well, take it or leave it 23:09 or just, you know, soft pellet. 23:11 We have to give it as it is life and death issue. 23:15 The whole world is going to be tested and tried 23:18 on this last day message of the three angels 23:20 of Revelation 14 23:22 and all that's involved with that. 23:25 And I pray, I know that you're hearing it here on 3ABN 23:28 and it should be over and over and don't go, 23:30 ever get tired of it. 23:32 Our message is a life and death. 23:34 And it's going to be the testing truth of this age. 23:38 And the world needs to hear it. 23:39 We need to take it in. 23:41 It needs to change our hearts and change our life. 23:44 What if we don't give this message 23:45 the way God said to give it? 23:48 The way He's revealed it here in His Word. 23:52 And we just want to give it in our own way 23:54 so that we can say, well, we're giving the message. 23:59 I asked the question here. 24:00 Is it time to fight error? 24:03 It's a simple question, but well worth pondering. 24:07 Is it time that we fought error? 24:09 See a lot of times as a Christian, 24:11 we just stand back 24:12 and we don't want to cause any trouble. 24:13 We just... 24:15 You know, we're just going to be real quiet as everybody. 24:16 Is there a time we have to stand 24:17 and fight as it were, 24:19 even though God said, I'll fight your battles. 24:20 We have to make a stand on issues. 24:23 I found this article Review and Herald in 726, 24:27 written in 1898. 24:29 Notice almost 120 years ago. 24:34 Remember, truth doesn't change doesn't matter how old it is. 24:38 The article says then, even then it says, it is time. 24:41 The time has come 24:43 when the truth is to be proclaimed 24:45 against falsehood and error. 24:48 The truth is what? 24:49 Is to be proclaimed between falsehood and error. 24:52 People say, "We have to be careful with it." 24:54 We need to follow exactly what it said here. 24:56 If it was truth back then, how much more today? 25:02 We have to fight against that falsehood and error 25:04 because the devil has deceived and led millions down his path. 25:08 And God is looking for people 25:10 who will march as it were to his orders. 25:13 March and give the message like never before. 25:17 I've mentioned already, 25:19 but I just have to mention it 25:20 with what's going on in the world today. 25:23 Lord have mercy, 25:24 it demands our attention like never before. 25:30 I don't know about you, 25:31 but there's times I kind of like 25:34 to get it off my mind it seems like for a while, 25:36 but the Lord doesn't allow that. 25:38 And I'm glad that He doesn't 25:39 because He understands, 25:41 He realized He's coming soon. 25:43 He wants us to realize that 25:45 so that we can be about our Father's business. 25:49 What you see happening and taking place right now, 25:52 surely it reminds you of His coming. 25:55 This is not a time we can be silent. 25:57 This is time we need to push like we never pushed before 26:00 because I'm telling... 26:01 I just know and you know by reading 26:02 the time will come 26:04 when you'll not be able to do it 26:05 without being fined and arrested 26:06 and thrown into prison. 26:10 And so, I asked myself over and over, 26:12 what is our work now? 26:15 What is our work? 26:16 Well, we know nothing has to occupy our mind, 26:18 but the giving of the three angels' message 26:20 but notice how this work, 26:22 what we should be doing right now. 26:23 Again, the article in Review and Herald 726, 26:27 1898 says this. 26:29 Now it starts out this way. 26:30 So there's no questioning about it. 26:32 It says, notice this, 26:33 the work now, 26:35 the work what? 26:36 The work now is to be done in our world. 26:39 Whoa! 26:40 Is to exalt the law of the Lord 26:43 and call, notice it, 26:45 the attention of the people to it. 26:47 To me, that's very simple. 26:49 Our work now is to do what? 26:51 To exalt, to lift up the law of God, 26:55 to bring the attention of the people to the law. 27:00 Now remember the man of sin. 27:04 What is he saying? 27:05 Oh, he's going to exalt another day. 27:08 He has great power. 27:09 We understand that, the man of sin. 27:12 We might even say, he's got big bridges, 27:17 but you know what? 27:18 No matter how big we might think 27:20 this person or that person may be, 27:22 they cannot and know what God has declared 27:26 to be stand fast forever. 27:29 But the law of God is being attacked right now. 27:33 So as the law of God is being attacked 27:35 and we see these changes taking place. 27:36 Do I withdraw? 27:38 Do I try to behave myself as it were? 27:41 Or do we want to exalt it and raise it up? 27:43 Let me give you something here, 27:44 I found it very it's an undated manuscript 145, 27:48 but please listen to this. 27:50 It makes sense to me. 27:51 This is the position 27:54 those will occupy who loved God. 27:56 Ooh, there it is. 28:00 Did you get that? 28:02 This is the position 28:03 that those who love God will occupy. 28:05 Okay. 28:06 I want to know what it is, don't you? 28:08 Those who love God sincerely 28:11 and their neighbor as themselves. 28:13 Oh, as what? 28:14 And their neighbor as themselves 28:16 on these two hang all the law we understand that. 28:19 Notice this, what will we be doing? 28:21 Notice, 28:23 they will exalt the commandments, 28:25 listen, in proportion as the contempt increases. 28:34 Is it being challenged right now? 28:36 Oh, absolutely, it's being challenged. 28:39 It's increasing every day. 28:42 It's happening right under our noses. 28:44 And most of us say, Oh, way down the road, 28:46 it's going to happen, 28:47 the change of the Sabbath to Sunday, as we will know. 28:51 As the law of God is being, right, being attacked, 28:55 we need to raise up 28:57 and we need to talk about it more 28:59 than maybe that we are right now. 29:01 After all Psalms 119:160 says this, 29:06 "Thy word is true" from where? 29:08 "From the beginning." 29:10 Oh, I like this. 29:12 Every one of thy judgments endureth forever. 29:15 Every one of the righteous judgments 29:17 endureth forever. 29:21 So, that may come back at you again. 29:22 Is there any contempt now shown on the law of God? 29:27 Is there any contempt now? 29:29 You start saying, 29:30 "Oh yes. 29:31 It's being challenged everywhere." 29:35 David understood this as he... 29:38 I want to say that he poured out his heart to God 29:42 in Psalms 119. 29:43 You remember this one, 29:44 that'd be verses 111 through 115. 29:47 Read that when you have the opportunity. 29:49 He was pouring his heart out to God. 29:51 And he said to God right now. 29:52 Oh, interesting, notice here. 29:54 He said show that there is a God. 29:57 God show that you're God. 30:00 I prayed that a lot. 30:01 And I'm sure you've prayed that a lot. 30:02 God, show yourself to be God, 30:04 not to be mocked of men 30:05 and not to trample upon God's law 30:07 or the truths that He's given to us, 30:09 but what? 30:11 Let stand up for what is truth. 30:14 Show them, He said there is a God 30:16 and there are, notice, limits to His forbearance. 30:21 Hmm. 30:23 Is it possible to presume upon His mercy? 30:27 Is it possible to exalt, you know, exhaust His mercy? 30:32 Sure, it is. 30:33 Sure. 30:36 Thank God that we serve a God who loves us. 30:39 He's challenging us today to reverence His law, 30:42 to elevate it, lift it up 30:46 more as we see 30:47 that, you know, it's disregarded and contempt 30:50 and people are trampling on this day. 30:52 Psalms 119, quickly, 136 says this, 30:56 here's the way. 30:57 And I don't know if you've ever had this happen. 30:58 I'm sure that you have, but in Psalms there in 119:136, 31:03 talking about David, 31:04 he, notice this, he said, 31:05 rivers, rivers of waters, 31:08 waters run down my eyes 31:10 because they keep not thy law. 31:13 Rivers! 31:15 He cried tears over it. 31:16 How many of us were so busy 31:18 with everything that's going on? 31:19 Do we ever, you know, concerned about the love of God 31:21 what's taking place in our world, 31:23 the commandments of men 31:25 rather than the commandments of God. 31:27 How many of us, again the challenge today, 31:29 how many of us are really sighing 31:30 and crying for the abominations 31:32 that be done inside and outside the church? 31:35 Those are legitimate questions 31:36 they're in the Spirit of Prophecy there in it. 31:38 You read Ezekiel 8 and Ezekiel 9. 31:41 Man, we are challenged as the people. 31:43 How many of us are sighing and crying for the abominations 31:45 that would be done in the land? 31:48 Do you realize that if we don't, 31:50 I want you to study, many of you study? 31:51 If we're not signing and crying for the abomination to be done 31:53 inside and outside the church, 31:54 we will not receive of the latter rain. 31:57 We will not be able to go 31:58 through the big time of trouble. 31:59 We will not be saved in God's kingdom. 32:01 This is something I believe 32:02 that we really need to look at closely. 32:04 If you disagree with it, you disagree with it. 32:06 But I encourage you please to study it. 32:10 Reverend say, well, we need to be careful what we say. 32:12 Yeah, maybe we didn't need to be really careful. 32:14 Make sure we say the things that God wants us to say, 32:18 abominations that be done in the land for the... 32:21 is it the contempt, 32:22 the disrespect shown for the law of God. 32:28 And again, if you don't... 32:30 I don't know if I believe that or not. 32:34 Isn't it time that we cast our care on Him 32:36 because He cares for us. 32:39 He's trying to wake up His people. 32:41 He's trying to wake me up. 32:42 I don't know about you, 32:44 but I want to be wide awake 32:45 of the things that are transpiring 32:46 in the world today 32:48 that I don't understand all of them, 32:49 but I understand enough 32:50 to know that I'll tell you things are happening 32:52 and it could break lose any moment. 32:58 Ten Commandments, 33:00 if you think this is not an issue in there. 33:02 All you have to do is just mention to a person 33:05 that you believe that by God's grace, 33:07 we should keep all Ten Commandments. 33:09 Watch their reaction. 33:11 They may be your friend one moment, 33:13 they're not your friend now. 33:16 So what should we get? 33:17 Another question comes back. 33:19 What should we be doing 33:20 who believe in keeping God's law 33:21 especially at this time? 33:24 After all we do believe Ecclesiastes, do we not? 33:26 Oh my, what a beautiful passage. 33:28 Ecclesiastes 12:10 and, of course, verse 13. 33:32 Verse 10 is interesting. Hardly... 33:34 I don't hardly ever hear it read, 33:36 but it starts out. 33:37 Notice, the preacher, 33:39 the preacher sought to find out acceptable words. 33:42 You know what? 33:44 A lot of preachers, including myself, 33:45 we need to be seeking out 33:47 the words that God would have us to say, 33:50 those things that are acceptable to God, 33:52 not just get through a Sabbath sermon, 33:54 not just get through a little series of meetings, 33:56 not just to kind of get by, but to really give the flock, 33:59 you know, something to eat, words, meat to chew on. 34:07 Verse goes on and says, 34:08 and that which was written was upright 34:11 even words of trees. 34:12 So the preacher then sought to do what? 34:15 Find out, find acceptable words, 34:17 which was written upright, even the words of truth. 34:20 So we need to be proclaiming what is what? 34:22 What is truth? 34:23 Verse 13, you know this well. 34:25 Let us hear what? 34:27 Let us hear the conclusion of the... 34:29 Ooh, the whole matter, notice, fear God and keep His, what? 34:32 Good. 34:34 Keep His commandments, 34:35 for this is the whole duty of man. 34:37 You've heard it. 34:38 You've memorized it, but are we... 34:40 Have we applied it to our life? 34:42 Are we really living it out in our life? 34:44 I talked to people who know, they know, 34:47 and they let you know that they know, 34:51 but really has that truth come in 34:52 and change your life. 34:54 You're no longer the same anymore. 34:57 The whole duty of man is to fear God 34:59 and keep His commandments, 35:01 for it's their whole duty. 35:02 Look up that word, whole duty. 35:03 It just simply means all. 35:05 It simply means everything that has to do with life, 35:09 for this is the whole duty of man. 35:13 I hope we're seeing it that way today. 35:14 We're gonna be weighed in the balances. 35:18 I do believe this, 35:19 if we really believe as a people, 35:21 that we're the people of God. 35:23 If we really think, you know, 35:24 Satan is out as a roaring lion 35:27 and he's certainly going to, 35:28 right, get rid of all that he can. 35:30 He's going to try to entrap. 35:31 He's going to try to disguise himself. 35:35 How many of us are really preparing for that? 35:40 I like what Paul had to say in Romans 7:12. 35:42 He said, "Wherefore by the law, 35:44 the law is holy 35:45 and the commandment is holy and it's" what? 35:47 "It's just and good." 35:48 I'm wondering what people do 35:49 with this simple passage of scripture 35:51 when they read them and this like, 35:53 there's no, the light doesn't come on. 35:56 Bible say the commandments are holy and they're just, 35:59 and they're good. 36:00 You notice that. 36:02 Remember, the law does what it's designed to do. 36:06 It's simply Romans 3:20. 36:07 It points out what sin is. 36:09 It's doing its duty. It condemns the sinner. 36:13 But we know as Seventh-day Adventist Christians and we... 36:16 You should know studying the Word of God. 36:17 The sinner can only be saved by the blood of the Lamb. 36:21 Did you get it? Revelation 7:14. 36:23 We're saved by the blood of the Lamb. 36:25 Isn't that beautiful? 36:27 Ephesians 2:8, "By grace are you saved through faith." 36:30 This is what it's all about. 36:32 The one in whom we have redemption 36:35 through the blood of His forgiveness 36:36 and his sins, Ephesians 1:7. 36:40 Please remember, please remember, 36:45 the law was not changed in any way 36:48 to meet fallen man in his condition. 36:51 It remains what it has always been. 36:55 It's holy, it's just, and it's good. 36:58 The Bible is clear. 37:01 No one who believes in Jesus Christ 37:03 is under bondage to the law of God, 37:07 for the law of the Bible says is the what? 37:09 Law of life. 37:11 "Life is in the Son," 1 John 5:11. 37:16 These are good. The key is here. 37:18 The Word of God is live to those who obey. 37:21 This is beautiful, the precepts. 37:24 "The law is spiritual," Romans 7:14. 37:28 Romans 8:6, 37:30 "To the spiritually minded is life and peace." 37:36 I wonder how many of us are really contemplating 37:39 the nearness of the coming of Jesus. 37:42 The power that there is in the blood of the Lamb, 37:46 how God will raise us up from this world 37:48 and use us in such a mark wonderful way, 37:52 but he can take man, sinful man, 37:55 come in. 37:57 And as they sup with him and change him. 37:59 Change those natural desires 38:01 and those tendencies 38:04 above temptation that leads us into sin. 38:08 God is able to give us that victory in our hearts, 38:10 in our lives. 38:11 No one said it would be easy. 38:13 It's not going to be without trials and tribulations 38:15 and heartaches and maybe failure. 38:17 You fell down, you get back up, you fall down, you get back up. 38:20 But praise God, if something happens, 38:22 you go down and get back up by the grace of God. 38:26 God has begun a good work in you. 38:27 I know He's going to finish it. 38:30 Enemy is working I know in many, many disguises. 38:34 There's no doubt about that. 38:38 We need to be calling more and more, 38:40 in my opinion, 38:41 more and more for the people of God 38:43 to stand in the old paths. 38:47 Those straight testimony. 38:49 Stand in the old ways places. 38:50 You remember that in Isaiah 58? 38:52 Sure, you do. 38:54 We need to be a people that restores the path, 38:58 but are we really doing that? 38:59 We might talk about it, 39:01 but we are living it out in our life? 39:03 God said, these are the people. 39:05 These are my people in the last days 39:07 that's gonna restore this old path. 39:09 They're gonna go back to the way it's supposed to be. 39:12 Not some new-fangled thing. 39:15 I mean, I hear sometime, 39:18 somebody might disagree with me. 39:19 That's all right. 39:21 But I hear all the time, 39:23 well, this church is conservative. 39:25 This church is liberal. Come on now. 39:29 I thought that was in the political field 39:31 that you could say that. 39:33 God has a church 39:34 and He has identified His church. 39:36 And what makes up His last day church? 39:39 To me, if you say it's liberal, 39:40 that means you're not living up to the light 39:42 that God has given because you're liberal. 39:43 You want other thing. 39:45 If you're conservative, 39:46 that means you're sitting on 39:48 like a hen sitting on an egg, somebody... 39:52 And we're afraid to move forward 39:53 with the light that is given. 39:55 God never identifies His church that way 39:58 the world identifies in the political realm. 40:02 Please think about, please think about that. 40:08 God's people need to stand right now 40:10 because we're in the judgment hour. 40:12 There's a weighing that's going on. 40:15 When your name comes up, 40:17 there's going to be a final verdict. 40:20 And how will you be found? 40:24 What is the platform of truth? 40:27 I love the message that God has given 40:29 to this last day church. 40:30 Revelation 14, I love it. 40:34 No one said it was an easy message, 40:35 but it is a wonderful message 40:38 that test and tries and sanctifies, 40:41 prepares the people to meet Him. 40:44 And there's a warning against those 40:45 who are trying to attempting to change, 40:50 to change the three angels' message 40:52 or to change the law of God 40:54 or the change is coming about 40:55 that we see this right just around the corner, 40:58 in my opinion, right now 40:59 from the seventh day to the first day of the week. 41:03 And I just wanna encourage you 41:04 to never, never, never exalt the institutions of man 41:09 above the institution of God. 41:12 When we do this, 41:13 we're showing contempt for the law giver. 41:16 No one wants to do that. 41:17 I know you don't want to do that. 41:20 We cannot give way 41:21 from what the Bible has said and stand on it. 41:23 This is what we are challenged to do as a people today. 41:27 How will you stand 41:32 right at this moment? 41:36 Right now, today, 41:38 I'm talking about at this moment. 41:39 Men are trampling upon the law of God. 41:43 They're making up their own laws 41:46 and their own laws 41:47 that they're making up is manufactured by the enemy. 41:50 There's no doubt about it. 41:53 They're affecting our liberty, huh? 41:58 They're affecting our religious freedoms, 42:03 liberty of conscience again. 42:05 There's a forming of the image of the beast. 42:07 These all things are being done in darkness, 42:11 but yet they're going to come to light 42:13 in a very near future. 42:14 And how will you stand and how will I stand? 42:17 I don't want anybody coming up to me 42:19 later on and say, 42:20 "You knew these things were going to happen 42:22 and you didn't say anything." 42:23 Some of you preachers and teachers and elders 42:24 and whoever we might be, 42:26 that's people of God right now, 42:27 don't purpose in your heart right now. 42:29 You're not going... 42:31 You don't want anybody coming up and saying to you, 42:32 "You knew these things were going to happen. 42:34 You knew these judgments 42:36 are going to be falling in the land. 42:37 You knew there could be wars and rumors of war. 42:39 You knew there was going to be destruction. 42:41 You knew there was going to be famine 42:42 and pestilence in the land. 42:44 You knew there was going to be Sunday law. 42:45 You knew it could come about by climate change. 42:48 And yet you said nothing." 42:51 Oh, we don't want that. 42:54 Lord have mercy on us. 42:57 There's three things quickly before the close of probation, 43:00 I'm going to remind. 43:01 And I think remind over and over and over 43:03 while I'm trying to remind you of it. 43:05 Remember, when I say remind 43:06 that means, I accept that you, 43:08 I'm sure you know it no more than I know about it, 43:10 but there's three things that's very, very important 43:13 when we talk about this, 43:14 the close of probation 43:16 and the change. 43:18 And, of course, we're speaking 43:19 about the attempted change of what? 43:21 The seventh day to the first day of the week, 43:22 we understand that by the law. 43:24 Daniel says in Daniel 7:25, 43:26 "And he shall think to change" what? 43:28 Good "times and laws." 43:29 So, we know this is they shall think to try 43:32 and change times and laws. 43:34 So we realize 43:36 as we see this, 43:37 you know, this movement going forward right now. 43:40 We have been put here on this planet, 43:43 in my opinion, for such a time as this. 43:47 To warn, let them laugh, 43:50 let them heckle right now if they want to. 43:52 Let them think that you're not so, 43:53 you know, you don't, you've lost it up here, 43:55 but at least tell them that. 43:57 And when it comes to pass, then they will know, 44:00 at least they'll ask questions. 44:02 They'll say you knew... 44:03 You told us before this was going to happen. 44:05 It never had, we didn't believe it. 44:06 But now we see it come to pass. 44:08 What else is going to take place? 44:10 Then you'd go to the Word of God 44:12 and reveal that which God has given to you. 44:15 Number two, 44:16 we know that the will, this will, will be... 44:19 This is a Sabbath question is going to be the big test. 44:23 This is the last test of the people of God. 44:26 Our eternal destiny depends upon it. 44:31 Think about it. 44:32 If you really knew you were taking a test right now, 44:34 your eternal destiny depended upon it. 44:38 Wouldn't you concentrate on it? 44:39 Wouldn't you do the very best? 44:42 This is exactly what you're going to run out. 44:44 This is the test. 44:46 This has been the test since 1844. 44:49 Oh, what a comment. 44:51 And I know it deserves some studies for most of you, 44:54 but what a test, this is the great test. 44:56 Eternal destiny is depending on it. 44:58 Letter 11 in 1890 says this. 45:03 This is the test. 45:04 Now we're talking about the Sabbath and Sunday 45:07 or the Sunday laws. 45:08 Notice this. 45:09 This is the test that the people of God, what? 45:12 Must have, notice, before they are sealed. 45:17 People go on and on about all this kind of stuff 45:19 and waste time on it 45:21 when it's very clear from the Word of God, 45:22 let's just accept it, right? 45:24 Just accept it what it says. 45:26 There's going to be a test 45:27 that's going to be given as a Sabbath Sunday issue 45:30 before they are sealed. 45:34 How many Adventists who claim to keep 45:36 the Seventh-day Sabbath is going to say, 45:38 okay, the test, 45:41 I'll stand the test by the grace of God, 45:47 because the opposite is, if you don't, 45:49 then you're going to accept the man... 45:51 You know, the man of sins day, 45:54 and after the law is passed 45:56 that will simply be the mark of the beast. 45:57 We can't be ashamed about that. 45:59 Don't anybody shutter 46:00 when we talk about the mark of the beast. 46:01 Don't anybody shutter 46:03 when we talk about the image to the beast. 46:04 Don't back down 46:06 because God has put it in His Word 46:07 and He looks at you and He said, 46:09 I've called you out of darkness 46:10 unto marvelous life. 46:11 I've called you for such a time as this. 46:13 I've called you to warn the world 46:15 of what's going to take place. 46:16 When His wrath is full, His cup is full, 46:19 He's going to come. 46:21 Oh, dear friends, we've got to be ready. 46:26 The laws of land, 46:27 you know, they make void the law 46:30 and every person has had the opportunity 46:32 to understand what truth is. 46:35 What will you do? 46:37 Oh, it's gonna be difficult. 46:40 You're gonna have to do without. 46:41 I'm gonna have to do without. 46:43 There's gonna be some self-sacrificing here. 46:45 The whole world is going to turn against you 46:47 if you stand for truth. 46:48 Are you prepared by the grace of God? 46:50 Am I really prepared? 46:51 I question myself every day, 46:53 oh, Lord, help me to be prepared. 46:56 All we do without sometimes is one meal 46:58 and we think we're gonna die. 47:02 I think some of you are getting what I'm talking about. 47:06 Remember law, the laws is being passed right now. 47:09 You know, Satan is behind every one of them. 47:10 There's no doubt about it, 47:12 because they're against the laws of God. 47:16 They're under a disguise or under a cover. 47:19 They're under the cover of this. 47:21 It's going to be good for the country 47:23 if we do such and such, 47:26 it's going to be good for the country 47:27 or it's going to be for the common good of all. 47:32 Really? 47:34 It can't go against the laws 47:36 that God has in His Word here, can it? 47:38 It couldn't be good for all of us. 47:41 And the other part, they'll say what? 47:42 This way, if we pass certain laws, 47:44 it's going to keep, 47:45 you know, it's going to keep evil down. 47:47 Really? 47:49 The Bible says it's gonna wax worse and worse 47:50 to the coming of the Lord. 47:52 As I mentioned a while ago, 47:54 it's certainly come under climate change 47:55 or economic disaster, a health pandemic, 47:58 which we're like here in COVID-19 48:00 you're hearing the first wave 48:02 we've been, it's talking about the second wave, 48:04 it's even mentioning the third wave right now. 48:06 And our leader said right now, ooh, he said, 48:08 "This is a dark time." 48:12 Next few months he said, 48:13 "It's going to be a dark time in the history of this world." 48:17 I wonder what they might know about it 48:19 that maybe we don't know. 48:20 We should know more than they know 48:21 based upon the Word of God. 48:23 Is this the time, 48:26 God's cup is full 48:28 and He's gonna let it play out this time. 48:34 I have to mention everything once again, 48:36 this is my third time, 48:39 that everything that's going on in America 48:41 and around the world, 48:44 it's all gonna boil down to something very, very simple. 48:48 Those who obey God and those who don't obey God. 48:52 And you know that. 48:53 And you have known that 48:55 for literally years and years and years and years, 48:56 but we're not hiding the Word of God in our heart 48:58 where we're gonna know the difference. 49:03 I say, based on the Word of God, 49:06 tough times are ahead. 49:09 We need Christ more than ever before. 49:12 There's no doubt in my mind, 49:15 we're gonna need Him just to survive, 49:18 to try to get by. 49:19 The world's not gonna have anything to do with you, 49:21 as you will know. 49:24 And I'm encouraging you today, 49:26 to be true to God 49:28 or you're gonna be true to mankind. 49:32 The test is coming. 49:34 The test is here. 49:37 Many of you by the grace of God been passing that test, 49:40 but it's going to be a little more severe 49:41 as the law, certainly, the lands are passed that way. 49:47 What should we do now? 49:49 Think with me, what should we be doing now? 49:51 I've asked that several times, 49:52 but again, what should we be doing now? 49:54 Review and Herald 1-1-1889 says this, 49:57 Ooh, I like this right here, because somebody said, 50:00 oh, you're just making a bunch of racket. 50:01 Listen right here what it says. 50:03 Let not the commandment keeping people of God do what? 50:06 Be silent at this time. 50:09 Let not what? 50:10 Let not the commandment people of God at this time beaten, 50:14 like we gracefully accepted a situation. 50:18 Notice, there is a prospect before us 50:21 of waging a continuous war 50:23 at the risk of all imprisonment, 50:27 losing property, even life itself. 50:30 Know what? To do what? 50:31 To defend the law of God. 50:33 Coming back to the beginning, right? 50:35 Law of God. 50:36 Psalms 119:126. 50:37 So familiar to you, I know it is. 50:39 It says, 50:40 "Oh, it's time for thee, 50:41 oh Lord, to work for they have what? 50:43 For they have made void thy law. 50:46 This is the cry. 50:50 Psalms 119:173 quickly. 50:52 Notice what it says. 50:54 Let thine hand... 50:55 Whoa! 50:56 I cry out to God, Lord, let your hand 50:58 help me, for I have chosen thy precepts. 51:02 What have you chosen today? 51:04 Oh, God, Lord, have mercy on us today as a people, 51:07 of a languishing people, 51:09 I'm putting myself 51:10 and I'm not trying to point fingers at anybody. 51:11 I'm not trying to condemn anybody, 51:13 but if I could stir you up by the grace of God 51:15 through the power of the Holy Spirit, 51:16 just say, I know I'm weighed in the balances. 51:19 I don't want to be found wanting. 51:22 Oh wow! 51:26 There is a great work left to be done. 51:29 God has a work especially for you to do. 51:33 We need to stay close to Jesus. 51:36 It seems like the whole world is guilty 51:40 and will be guilty 51:41 of receiving the mark of the beast and be lost. 51:44 Whose names are not written, Revelation 13:8, 51:46 in the Lamb's Book of Life. 51:48 I can't hardly stand that thought. 51:50 I think of family and friends and... 51:55 Who will you choose today? 51:58 I'm gonna call my dear sister-in-law up here, 52:00 Sister Yvonne Shelton. 52:04 Gonna sing one of my, 52:06 I liked this, one of my favorites, 52:08 one of my favorite songs, 52:10 "Fairest, Lord Jesus." 52:23 Fairest Lord Jesus, 52:29 ruler of all nature 52:35 O thou of God 52:40 and man the Son! 52:49 Thee will I cherish, 52:56 Thee will I honor 53:02 Thou art my glory, 53:07 joy, and crown 53:17 I'd rather have Jesus 53:23 than silver or gold 53:29 I'd rather have peace 53:34 than have riches untold 53:40 I'd rather have Jesus 53:47 than anything 53:53 This world 53:57 affords today 54:04 Than to be the king 54:09 of a vast domain 54:15 And be held 54:19 in sin's dread sway 54:28 I'd rather have Jesus 54:33 than anything 54:39 This world 54:44 affords today 54:52 Give me Jesus 54:59 Give me Jesus 55:05 You can have all this world 55:12 But give me Jesus 55:19 Give me Jesus 55:25 Give me Jesus 55:36 You may have 55:41 all this world 55:50 But give me Jesus 56:14 Oh, glory. 56:16 Praise the Lord. Thank you. 56:17 Oh, I love that song. 56:19 And I know it's a blessing to each one of you, 56:21 you know, it talks about fairest Lord Jesus, 56:23 and just give me Jesus. 56:25 I'm praying right now as we come to a close 56:28 in 3ABN Worship Hour. 56:30 I pray that your prayer is give me Jesus. 56:34 If that's all you can pray today, 56:36 just give me Jesus. 56:37 I guarantee He'll come into your life 56:39 in a very, very special way. 56:41 He wants to do something great for you. 56:42 He wants you to be saved in the kingdom, 56:44 He wants me to be there too. 56:46 He wants the whole world, 56:47 but we have to give our life to Him. 56:49 Would you not do that right now today? 56:50 I wanna pray for you. 56:52 And then I want you to be praying for me too. 56:53 I'm gonna kneel right here, 56:55 just having a quick closing prayer 56:56 that the Spirit of the living God 56:57 would touch your heart and teach your life right now. 57:01 Loving Father in heaven, 57:02 thank You for Your precious Word. 57:04 Thank You for the beautiful words 57:05 of this song. 57:07 Thank You for the love. 57:08 We thank You for Brother Tim playing that piano so nice. 57:10 The gift that You've given Sister Yvonne. 57:12 May these words and music touch hearts and lives 57:14 and may they turn them over to you today 57:16 is my prayer in Jesus' name. 57:18 Amen. 57:19 God bless each and every one of you. 57:21 Thank you for joining 3ABN Worship Hour. 57:23 And you know what? 57:25 In the very near future, 57:26 we look forward to seeing you again. 57:28 God bless you. |
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