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00:27 Hello, and a great big welcome to you,
00:29 we're glad you join us here today, 00:31 3ABN Worship Hour. 00:32 And that's just exactly what it means, 00:34 we're going to be worshiping the Lord 00:36 and we're going to be reading scripture, 00:37 we're going to be praising His name. 00:39 And we're going to be by the grace of God 00:41 answering maybe some questions that you may have. 00:44 You know, God is good, 00:45 the Holy Spirit is good about doing that. 00:47 So I'm sure today, 00:48 there's going to be questions that you had in your mind 00:50 that's going to be answered, 00:51 because the Holy Spirit is in charge. 00:53 Again, we're glad you've joined us. 00:54 And we want you to get a pen, a piece of paper, 00:57 write down some of these things, 00:59 I have the tendency sometime 01:00 and I tell you right up front to move quickly. 01:02 As we move quickly along, sometimes you know, 01:05 you need to go back and read before and read after 01:08 because we want things to be in context. 01:10 We live in an hour that Jesus is soon to come. 01:12 We live in an hour that probation is about to close. 01:14 We live in an hour, where we need to be ready 01:17 for the coming of Jesus. 01:19 So we want you to be ready. We want to be ready here. 01:21 Again, thank you for joining us. 01:23 Well, our title for today. 01:25 Interesting one is Iceberg Meet It. 01:29 What does that mean? 01:30 Well, we're going to see here in just a moment, 01:32 but as usual, we have to, we need to pray. 01:35 And so I'm going to kneel down 01:37 and have prayer here in just a moment. 01:39 And I'm going to invite you please to pray with me. 01:41 Thank you that many of you write in and say 01:43 we kneel or we pray when you pray. 01:45 So I'm grateful and thankful for that. 01:47 So let's just pray together, shall we? 01:52 Loving Father in heaven as we come to You, 01:54 we commit ourselves into thy care and they keeping. 01:58 Lord, we pray that we would have clean hands, 01:59 clean heart, clean mind 02:01 that we would be a fit vessel 02:03 to bring honor and glory to You and to you alone today. 02:06 May self be put behind the cross of Calvary, 02:08 may Jesus be seen. 02:10 May we realize the awesomeness of the hour that we live 02:14 and maybe some changes that need to take place 02:15 and only can do it 02:17 through the power of thy Holy Spirit. 02:18 Bless the crew here today. Bless each one of us. 02:21 We pray with the Holy Spirit in such a fashion 02:25 that will change our life 02:26 not just for today, but forever. 02:28 Thank you, Lord, that You promised 02:29 to take over we lack and we lack in every area. 02:32 So we just leave it in Your care 02:33 and Your keeping in Jesus' name. 02:34 Amen. 02:37 Again, thanks for joining us, 02:38 again, we're looking at iceberg meet it. 02:40 What does that mean? 02:41 Now I'm getting ready to just to relate 02:45 something that happened. 02:46 And it was a... 02:48 to me it was a scene that was presented 02:51 that at a very crucial time 02:54 in the history of this movement. 02:56 Something was taking place in the movement. 02:59 And God was revealing and He did through this. 03:02 It wasn't a dream, but it was just simply, 03:05 I want to call it something revealed. 03:07 And so we're going to look at this 03:09 and some of you read it many times. 03:10 And it's found in the First Selected Messages 205. 03:14 First Selected Messages 205 and 206. 03:17 Remember, this was a scene that was presented 03:20 shortly before, here's the key, 03:22 shortly before the testimonies came out to the church. 03:26 Testimonies are very, very important. 03:28 And I say sometimes 03:30 reason we're in the mess that we're in, 03:31 because we're not getting, 03:32 you know, following everything that God has given us 03:35 to be reading and studying and following the counsel 03:37 that God gives us to prepare us for His soon coming. 03:40 So what was it? What were the testimonies? 03:42 The testimonies were regarding the efforts of the enemy 03:46 to unbalance the foundation of our faith. 03:50 Now, that's what he's always doing. 03:51 He's trying to make us unbalanced in our faith. 03:54 Now getting what? 03:56 He was going to try to prevent or present a counterfeit. 04:00 We call it a dissemination or that spreading 04:03 or that's a scattering of seducing theories, 04:07 that was an interesting word here. 04:09 And that something that will lead you astray, 04:11 something that will lead me astray. 04:13 See, the enemy knows you pretty well, 04:14 he knows me pretty well. 04:16 And he's going to present things to you and to me, 04:17 that's going to get our attention. 04:20 It's going to get what? 04:21 Get our attention to try to lead us away from truth 04:24 and here is that iceberg meet it. 04:27 She says here, I had an, 04:30 notice this, I read of an incident 04:32 about a ship in a fog meeting an iceberg. 04:36 Now keep this in mind, 04:37 we realize this is kind of close to the time, 04:39 you know, as we look at another big ship, 04:42 you know, that went down 04:43 and hit an iceberg so on so forth. 04:45 But God was revealing something here 04:46 that we want to focus on today more than the Titanic. 04:49 Okay, so this is not Titanic. 04:51 But notice the similarities of it anyway, 04:54 for several nights I said I slept but little. 04:58 I seem to be low down or bowed down 05:01 as a cart beneath sheets. 05:04 Noticed this, one night a scene 05:07 was clearly presented before me. 05:10 Notice what, notice this scene. 05:11 There was a vessel upon the waters, 05:13 now notice or listen, 05:15 and the vessel in the waters was a heavy what? 05:18 Was a heavy fog, very good. 05:20 Suddenly the lookout in on the ship. 05:22 So you had to look out and look out as to what? 05:24 If there's any kind of danger that goes on you say what? 05:27 They begin to cry out and to warn. 05:29 That's what we are in there we're to cry and mourn 05:31 what's taking place right now. 05:33 But suddenly the lookout, cried out, 05:36 iceberg ahead. 05:39 Now, they're above, even above the ship. 05:43 You can see that iceberg. 05:45 It was gigantic. Huh. 05:48 Towering above the ship 05:50 that frightened everybody that saw it. 05:53 But then what happened? 05:55 There's an authoritative voice, 05:56 you know, there's some people with authoritative voice 05:58 and there are some that not so authoritative. 06:00 But this voice here, authoritative voice cried out, 06:03 meet it, meet it. 06:06 Why would a ship want to hit an iceberg like that, 06:09 that gigantic in size. 06:12 But there was not a moment to lose, 06:15 they couldn't hesitate. 06:17 And it was time for instant action. 06:20 You know, today God's talking to us people. 06:22 It's time for instant action not to be put off. 06:27 The engineer put forth, 06:28 when the captain said meet it on, now notice this. 06:31 It said, the engineer put on full steam. 06:35 And the man at the wheel steered the ship, 06:37 notice this, 06:39 he steered at straight into the iceberg 06:42 with a crash struck the ice. 06:46 There was a fearful shock. 06:48 Please notice this, it said a fearful shock. 06:50 And the iceberg did something what? 06:53 It broke into many pieces, 06:56 and some of it falling 06:57 with a noise like thunder to the deck. 07:01 Notice about the passengers with me. 07:03 The passengers, notice this, were violently shaken. 07:06 Please don't get carried away in the story here 07:09 because we're looking at this pertains to God's movement 07:12 and what was taking place then 07:13 and what's taking place right now. 07:16 Run over but the passengers were violently shaken 07:19 up by the force of the collision, 07:22 notice this, but no lives were lost. 07:25 The vessel was injured, but not beyond repair. 07:30 She rebounded from the contact 07:33 and the trembling from stem to stern 07:36 like a living creature. 07:38 Hmm. 07:39 Then she move forward on her way. 07:42 Well think about that. 07:45 The article goes on and says, 07:46 I well knew the meaning of this. 07:50 I had my orders. 07:51 Well, I pray today by God's grace 07:53 that you have your orders. 07:55 You have your orders from the master teacher, 07:58 and you know the voice 07:59 and you're willing to follow that voice. 08:02 I knew she said, talking about Ellen White. 08:06 She said I knew I had my orders that I was to meet it. 08:11 I must obey the command. 08:14 And then she goes on to say, 08:16 I worked early and I worked late 08:19 preparing, notice this, 08:21 here's the key, preparing our people, 08:23 giving them instructions 08:26 regarding, notice this, 08:27 the err that were and are coming, 08:31 I use the word are come, are in the church 08:34 or among us now. 08:36 So remember the testimonies were getting ready to come out. 08:39 The enemy didn't want the testimonies 08:41 because it reveals his plan to hoodwink God's people. 08:45 And so what, oh, tried to sidetracked issues 08:48 but God's saying here, 08:49 he moved upon the prophet 08:53 to write down to say, 08:54 I need to hurry up and get these out 08:55 because there are things that are coming up on us 08:58 as a people that we are not prepared to meet. 09:00 There's an iceberg 09:03 and we are prepared not to go around it, 09:05 not to wait till it melts. 09:07 Not about this climate change business. 09:09 But what? 09:11 To meet it head on. 09:13 You meet err head on, 09:15 you don't sidetrack, you don't go around it, 09:17 you don't wish it never happened. 09:18 You meet it head on. 09:22 In 2 Timothy, 09:24 I want you to turn with me to your Bible. 09:25 2 Timothy 4:2. 09:27 2 Timothy 4:2. 09:29 I want you to read this with me if you will. 09:30 Second Timothy 4:2. 09:32 Now what's happening here? 09:35 Paul begins a list of duties 09:39 for Timothy to perform. 09:41 Now some of you may do that, some of you who are bosses 09:44 or whatever, you know, 09:45 you get ready to leave on a week vacation. 09:47 What do you do? Well, what do you do? 09:49 Well, naturally, you leave a list. 09:53 We want this done and that done and this is what, you know. 09:55 And so that's exactly what Paul was doing 09:57 to I want to call his spiritual son Timothy. 10:01 I love this, 10:02 we could probably spend the whole hour on this, 10:05 you know, but we're gonna move on with it, 10:07 but I want to read it. 10:08 And I pray that you are seasoned 10:10 by the Spirit of God to listen to the words. 10:12 2 Timothy 4:2 says, notice, preach, do what? 10:17 Preach the word, that just means, 10:19 get it out, right? 10:21 "Preach the word, be," notice this, be what? 10:25 "Instant in season and out of season," 10:28 very interesting, 10:30 "reprove and rebuke and exhort 10:32 with all longsuffering and doctrine." 10:35 Now, what does that mean? 10:37 If we just look back quickly and go over 10:39 because many people, 10:40 you know, they just read it and say, 10:42 you know, what? 10:43 These words, what do they mean? 10:45 What did they mean then? What do they mean to us now? 10:46 Let's just take a moment, shall we? 10:47 And go over and right now just look. 10:49 Remember when he says to this, carefully, 10:51 we preach the word. 10:53 That means herald, that means get it out, 10:56 and we're to go where? 10:57 Oh, in all the world and to preach the gospel. 10:59 Get the Word of God out. 11:01 And I'm wondering if any of you're 11:03 getting the Word of God out right now, 11:05 herald it. 11:07 Notice, preach the Word, that means the truth, 11:09 preach the what? 11:10 Preach the truth, the revealed truth. 11:15 Be instant, what does that mean? 11:17 Instant means ready quickly. 11:18 You know, we live in a world of what? 11:20 Everything's instant. 11:21 We want it now. We gotta have it now. 11:23 Everything be instant. 11:24 But in the gospel, we're to be ready 11:27 in season and out of season. 11:29 I wonder how many of you have ever thought about that. 11:31 How can we be ready in season and out of seasons? 11:35 Well, it's not always convenient, 11:38 you see to preach the gospel 11:39 or to give a Bible study 11:41 or to witness to somebody. 11:44 But notice, we all know the gospel 11:46 is always needed. 11:49 The gospel, there's always room for the gospel, 11:51 it's always needed, 11:52 if convenient or not. 11:54 And notice what the gospel does? 11:56 People say, oh, gospel, 11:57 well, we're, it's about love 11:58 and it's about taking care of that. 12:00 Oh, it's all of that. 12:01 But listen carefully, it uses the word reprove. 12:03 That means to convict that means when you convict, 12:08 bring conviction from the Word of God, 12:09 you've got to get proof. 12:11 Give proof is what he's saying here 12:13 and rebuke. 12:15 That means, oh, no one wants to be rebuked. 12:17 No one wants to hear about all we did or no, 12:20 we need to make changes. 12:21 But we're to rebuke censor. 12:23 Sin has to be dealt with. 12:26 The church's responsibility is to deal with the sin issue. 12:30 There's no doubt about that. 12:33 It's our duty, our Christian duty, 12:36 the church's duty, 12:38 exhort to encourage. 12:41 How many of you really encourages 12:42 somebody with the Word of God? 12:44 Sometime we hit him pretty hard, 12:45 and we give them this and give him that, 12:47 but we've not really been encouragement to them. 12:49 We bang, bang, bang, 12:50 but we not encouraged him to say, 12:52 "Come on, stay in there, hang in there. 12:54 Be faithful, God's gonna be faithful to you." 12:57 Encourage, exhort with all longsuffering. 13:00 And I'm sure I've failed many times on this. 13:02 And longsuffering means with a lot of patience. 13:05 Now, I don't remember, you know, at least in my mind, 13:08 I'm thinking, I need to be more, 13:09 notice this, I need to be more compassionate. 13:13 How about you? 13:14 I need to be more what? 13:15 Compassionate. 13:17 I need to be more patient, longsuffering, and doctrine. 13:21 Just keep this in mind. Don't let this blow your mind. 13:24 Some people you mentioned doctrine, 13:25 they go off the deep end. 13:26 I don't want you to do that today. 13:28 Doctrine here is just, doctrine is just teaching. 13:31 That's, that's you look at the word there 13:33 just means a teaching. 13:34 It means a good foundation. 13:37 So I ask you today and I ask myself as well, 13:40 do we have a good foundation? 13:43 How deep is your foundation in the Word of God? 13:48 If it's not deep in the Word of God, 13:50 then we realized as the rain comes 13:51 and the storms hit, 13:53 something's going to happen. 13:54 We're not going to endure. 13:56 We need to be deep again in the Word of God, 13:59 that says your doctrine, 14:01 doctrines, listen carefully, please, 14:04 doctrines reveal facts, 14:08 reveals facts about God and His plan. 14:12 Make it this way, 14:13 it reveals God and His program for us, 14:18 so it's very important that we understand that. 14:21 Now, I ask you the question is why be concerned? 14:25 Listen carefully. Why be concerned? 14:27 I believe that will be on the screen, 14:28 but in 2 Timothy 4, we already read verse 2, 14:31 but we're going to read this line here of verse 3. 14:34 Listen carefully. 14:36 Why should I be concerned about this? 14:38 Because it says there in verse 3, 14:40 the time will come. 14:41 Did you get it what? 14:42 The time will come 14:45 when these things that we've just been talking about, 14:47 they're needful right now. 14:49 The time is going to come and that's right now. 14:53 May just read something else from, 14:54 this is found in Three Testimonies. 14:56 Three Testimonies, 327 and 328. 15:00 Yes, it's valuable to you and to me 15:02 to read the whole thing. 15:03 But notice 3T, 327 and 328. 15:07 Now think about this. 15:08 These are big words. 15:10 And listen carefully. 15:11 Never, notice the word, how this start, will start out. 15:14 Never was there a greater need of faithful warnings 15:18 and reproof, 15:20 and close, straight dealings, 15:24 than at this very time. 15:27 You can go back and people make excuse, 15:28 oh, the time when that, when that, was is it right now, 15:32 it's more right now valuable to God's last day 15:34 people that may be one of the day 15:35 that it was written. 15:37 Never was there a greater need of faithful warnings. 15:41 Who's given the warnings today? 15:42 My, my, my, 15:44 it's all peace and safety 15:45 and everything's good and given, 15:47 you're gonna go and come back, everything's gonna work out. 15:48 Everything's gonna work good. 15:49 There has to be warnings along with the good news 15:51 of the gospel for sure. 15:54 Never was there faithful warnings 15:56 and, notice this, reproofs, the corrections, 15:59 close straight dealings at this very time. 16:03 Some people say, 16:05 "Well, it's too close. 16:06 I don't want that straight. I don't want that close." 16:08 But listen, this is what we need right now. 16:10 That's what I need. That's what I need to do. 16:12 I was talking about before the, you know, the children 16:15 before the program is the children, 16:16 you know, raising up, 16:18 I needed somebody to deal with me straight. 16:20 I need somebody tell it to me like it, 16:22 like it really was. 16:24 And then to deal with the issues. 16:25 And that's what God's people need today 16:27 instead of the sugar coated, watered down mess 16:29 that sometime we hear. 16:32 I talked to quite a few people. 16:34 And I think it's kind of a nice, interesting, 16:37 and maybe you've heard it too. 16:38 I hear a lukewarm. 16:40 You know, God's people are lukewarm. 16:43 And you know, how interesting is it, 16:44 when somebody says that, 16:46 I want to say to them by the grace of God, 16:47 I want to be God's, one of God's people, 16:49 one of God's little people. 16:51 And so I take it to heart. 16:53 Somebody say, you folks are lukewarm. 16:55 Instead of just rejecting it, putting up a wall and say, 16:57 Oh, it's not true, man, we're on. 16:59 We're doing this, we're doing that. 17:01 You're not saved by works we understand. 17:03 So let's get that squared away. 17:06 But we need to look at it very carefully 17:08 what the Word of God is saying about 17:09 lukewarmness in the church? 17:12 What does that really mean? 17:14 What is the cause of it? Why? 17:17 You could do all kinds of sermons on that? 17:19 What's the cause of lukewarmness in the church? 17:22 May I just condense it down, at least in my mind, 17:24 a couple of things here real quick, 17:26 two small points. 17:28 Now notice the two small points I think it's very interesting. 17:32 The cause of our lukewarmness and apostasy 17:37 is the lack of number one, what? 17:39 Study, the lack of study, and notice this, 17:44 lack of study to God's Word, 17:45 and then our willingness to be submissive to it. 17:50 The first one probably didn't upset you at all. 17:53 The second one, oh, we have to be submissive? 17:55 Absolutely to the Word of God. 17:58 If we were submissive, 17:59 if we would be reading and studying 18:00 and be submissive to the Word of God, 18:02 there would be no lukewarmness in the church. 18:05 Lukewarmness, God hates lukewarmness in the church, 18:08 I'm telling, that's the devil 18:10 if I've ever heard it and seen it. 18:13 Also, I hear an awful lot about uniting together. 18:17 Oh, I think we should and will be united people, 18:20 you know, before Jesus comes. 18:21 Jesus prayed that, did He not? 18:23 The father, we all be one. 18:25 So I am a believer in unity. 18:28 But very interesting how the church 18:30 or the world how they talk about 18:33 what unifies us together. 18:35 May I just give you a little caution about it? 18:38 Remember, I believe in unity, 18:40 I believe we should be working together. 18:41 But, boy, I mean, even in the same movement, 18:43 we have so many different beliefs 18:45 and so many different teachings. 18:46 What's wrong? 18:48 What's wrong? 18:50 Surely the same Holy Spirit is the same one that 18:54 should be uniting us together on the platform of truth. 18:58 Well, I like this, 18:59 this is found in the Great Controversy, 19:00 page 608 The Great Controversy, page 608 points this out. 19:05 Please listen to every word if you can, 19:07 if not, remember, you jot down. 19:09 Great Controversy, 608, 19:11 you just jot down and then go back 19:13 and read when you can. 19:14 It talks about uniting together. 19:16 "By uniting with all the world 19:20 participating of its spirit, 19:22 they've come to view matters in nearly the same" what? 19:25 "The same light, and when the test is brought, 19:29 they are prepared to choose the easy popular side." 19:34 Now, may I just please remind you, 19:38 and I'm gonna, remind myself too, 19:42 I'm not being above any of this. 19:45 I learn a lesson every time 19:46 that I'm preparing for a message 19:48 and I'm sure you do the same when you do your study. 19:52 If I am uniting with the world, 19:54 if I have a close connection with the world 19:56 and things that are going on in the world, 19:58 I begin to view things in the same light 20:01 as the world views them. 20:03 And I don't want to be, some people, 20:05 I don't want to be different. 20:06 Oh, please, dare to be different. 20:09 Dare to be a Christian, dare to be a Daniel, 20:12 dare to do the right thing. 20:14 Don't do what the world is doing, 20:15 and believing what the world is. 20:18 Because the test is going to come, 20:20 there's no doubt, 20:21 there's no such thing as if the test come, 20:23 the test will come. 20:25 There's no doubt, the test will come. 20:26 And when it comes, 20:28 if we have been giving into the world, right? 20:30 We will choose the world's way. 20:36 So we have to be by the grace of God 20:38 to stand up and say, I dare to stand for Christ, 20:41 I want to stand for Christ. 20:43 I don't want the popular side, 20:44 I want to be on the side of Christ. 20:48 Now, I might mention 20:50 was maybe just a word of thought here for you. 20:53 We must be careful, for there are good and bad 20:58 in the world and in the church. 21:02 People just hate it sometime when I say the church. 21:05 You've got to talk about the church. 21:08 You've got to care about God's people. 21:11 All those who are professing to love Jesus, 21:14 and those who love Jesus. 21:17 Yeah, I love Jesus, I want to hear what is truth. 21:20 People who don't love Jesus really don't want to hear 21:23 what is truth. 21:24 But remember, there's good in the world, 21:27 there's good. 21:29 We're not talking about being saved here, 21:31 we're talking about good people. 21:33 And there's good and bad in the church. 21:35 Now interesting, in 2 Timothy, 21:38 I want you to just jot that down 21:39 2 Timothy if you will. 21:41 In fact, we'll read it here for you in just a moment. 21:42 2 Timothy 2:20. 21:44 2 Timothy 2:20. 21:47 Here's what the Word of God says about this, 21:49 notice. 21:51 "But in a great house..." 21:54 Now notice when I say the great house, 21:55 some people, oh, what? 21:57 The great house is the church. 22:00 Did you get it? 22:01 The great house is the church. 22:03 "There are not only vessels of gold and silver, 22:07 but also of wood and earth." 22:09 So you know the difference in gold and silver, right? 22:11 And you know the difference between the wood and the earth, 22:15 "some to honor and some to dishonor." 22:19 Now, what does that really mean to us? 22:22 Notice that some to honor and some to dishonor. 22:26 Now, for instance, let's say we have a net, 22:29 we're going to go fishing. 22:30 Let's go fishing. Come on, let's go fishing. 22:32 And there are some people who don't want to just fit, 22:34 they want to just cast in the net 22:35 and just bring in anything that they can. 22:38 When you cast a net out and you bring that net back in, 22:42 you're going to get good, 22:43 and you're going to get some bad. 22:46 Interesting even in the church. 22:51 But God is only going to work through the sanctified. 22:55 God is only going to work with those 22:56 who have given their whole life 22:58 into His care and His keeping. 23:03 He's going to use those men and women 23:05 who have a desire to win souls. 23:08 This is what it's all about. 23:09 But remember, we're talking about 23:11 errs coming in, 23:12 the enemy is trying to deceive us 23:14 so that we don't do 23:15 what God has commissioned us to do. 23:17 And the sad part is, 23:19 a lot of time we are fooled 23:21 and say no, no, we're on the right track, 23:23 when we're totally off the track. 23:25 That's what the enemy wants. 23:27 We have to examine ourselves. 23:29 That's what the Bible says, 23:30 as you're going along, doing what you're doing. 23:32 Examine yourself. 23:34 Are you doing what God has commissioned you to do? 23:37 Or is that track so close 23:39 that the enemy lays is so close to the side track of truth? 23:42 We have to be very careful, 23:43 because he's gonna lay side by side real close. 23:46 And he begins to veer off just a little bit, little 23:48 and pretty soon you're actually in the North 40. 23:51 Let's write, let's examine ourselves. 23:57 Are we really interested in reaching others 24:00 with the truth? 24:01 And can we do it this way? Can we give them the gospel? 24:04 I'm talking about people. 24:05 So when you give the gospel, it's just about love. 24:07 Oh, I believe it has to be the foundation, 24:09 I believe that. 24:10 Absolutely. 24:12 But it still has to be firm. 24:14 It's got to be decided. 24:16 It's got to be in a clear manner. 24:19 Absolutely, you know that. 24:20 Please notice, 24:21 Paul was pointing out to Timothy here 24:24 knowing his time was short. 24:26 I want to say Paul's Calvary was coming up. 24:31 His world was coming to an end, his work. 24:34 And he warned Timothy, 24:35 so the warning comes to me today, 24:36 it comes to you today as well as all Christians. 24:40 And so we need to listen to this warning. 24:42 And the warning was, notice this, 24:44 why would Paul say, listen, 24:46 I'm gonna warn you about the heresies 24:47 and the err and the... 24:49 Can I say junk? 24:50 I'm gonna say junk, 24:52 junk that's coming into the church. 24:53 If it's not truth, it's junk. 24:58 It's err. 25:00 And Paul seen, he says gonna be after my departing, 25:03 the wolves are going to be coming in. 25:05 And there's a lot there's just can't hardly wait to hear 25:07 what someone has to say, 25:08 so they might follow another leader. 25:12 But what did Paul say to Timothy? 25:14 He said, Timothy, when you find out 25:16 what is truth and what is right, 25:17 he said, hold fast, 25:19 don't let go for anything or anybody. 25:21 The devil is going to do his best 25:23 to make sure that you let go. 25:25 Did your grip loosen just a little bit? 25:28 Just a little bit of time? 25:29 I mean, let's go ahead and do that. 25:31 It doesn't really matter, does it? 25:32 Oh, yes. 25:33 Everything matters. 25:35 See, Paul was encouraging Timothy. 25:38 So I'm encouraging you today, 25:39 please, I'm encouraging you today. 25:41 Think about this with me 25:42 because there are different temperaments. 25:45 Come on, somebody. 25:47 There's different temperaments in the gospel. 25:51 I don't know what kind of temperament 25:53 that you may have. 25:54 I'm not about talking anything ugly. 25:55 I'm just talking about there are those like Timothy. 25:58 He was mild mannered. 26:01 There are those like him, nothing wrong with that, 26:03 of a mild temperament. 26:06 You know, how about you today? 26:11 Remember, Timothy was not as aggressive as Paul. 26:15 See some of us sometime take a little bit. 26:17 Woo, be careful now, a little verbal beating, 26:22 because we feel aggressive in the cause of Christ. 26:26 That's not wrong to be aggressive. 26:28 You don't want to do it the wrong way, 26:29 but we need some aggression. 26:30 Paul was aggressive. 26:32 Timothy was more laid back, but he was still doing the job. 26:36 And so Paul knew this. 26:37 So he was warning Timmy, 26:38 as he's warning the New Testament Church, 26:41 was time for us to be aggressive. 26:44 Not to back up, not to sit down, 26:46 not to be quiet, 26:47 but to sound an alarm. 26:52 And so he talked to him. 26:54 And the same today, many of us in the Lord's work. 26:57 He talks to us today. 27:00 They might feel that you're too aggressive. 27:03 And they're going to tell you that you're too aggressive. 27:06 Well, you might want to think about it 27:08 and pray about it and say 27:10 God, am I too aggressive in the cause of Christ? 27:13 And there are some people who are beyond aggressiveness, 27:15 they're in ugliness. 27:20 But to be aggressive, 27:21 it means you still line up with Scripture. 27:25 And then there are others that come along, say 27:27 you're not aggressive enough. 27:28 Why didn't you tell of it? Why didn't you do it this way? 27:30 Why didn't you do? 27:33 I just say this, no two people are alike. 27:38 No two people are alike in the Lord's work. 27:41 We do not know. So be careful. 27:43 We don't know what the Holy Spirit 27:45 has impressed them to do, 27:47 as long as it lines up with Scripture. 27:51 None of us are to, you know, tell someone what, 27:54 you shouldn't do it this way, and it's the truth. 27:56 How do you know? 27:58 What if everybody present the gospel 28:00 the way you presented? 28:02 Oh, be careful, Kenny, 28:03 you know, maybe the Lord would never come. 28:07 Or maybe if we presented the way you do, 28:09 I'm just saying you, 28:11 maybe the Lord would already have been here. 28:14 But the main thing is we harmonize with Scripture 28:17 and not be so, 28:18 you know, content of looking at the speaker, 28:19 but listen to what is being said. 28:22 And the heart is being wrenched 28:24 of what the Holy Spirit has been pressing to give 28:27 or what you might have waken up night after night 28:31 with on your mind and your heart, 28:33 and you need to let it out. 28:36 The Scripture is our standard of doctrine. 28:38 There's no doubt about it. 28:41 If we realize, and let me pull some more things too, 28:43 if we realize the end is near. 28:46 Now think, think with me, church. 28:48 If you realize that the end is near, 28:54 how are you going to present the gospel of Jesus Christ? 28:58 What should our message be? 29:02 Listen, did you, let this soak. 29:05 If we really believe 29:07 that the end is near that Jesus is coming, 29:10 then what, how, how should our conversation be? 29:13 What should our conversation be about? 29:17 What should I have in our life? 29:18 What kind of life are we living? 29:21 Are we encouraging people to, you know, follow Jesus? 29:25 How aggressive are we? 29:27 Oh my, how aggressive are we in giving 29:30 the three angels' message? 29:32 Oh, some people say, my lands of love. 29:34 Oh, don't give it like that. 29:36 Man, you're just driving people away. 29:38 You're just driving away. 29:40 How do you know? 29:41 Is it okay to do that, 29:43 I'm fussing a little bit with you. 29:45 How do you know? 29:46 Remember, your temperament may be a little different 29:48 than the other guys over there. 29:50 What is the message being preached? 29:52 And yes, it can be overdone. 29:54 There's no doubt about that. 29:57 What I'm saying is we need to be careful 29:59 we don't turn people off 30:01 before we turn them on to Christ. 30:05 We've to harmonize again with Scripture. 30:07 We realize that Jesus is coming. 30:09 Shouldn't we with the three angels' message 30:11 stir the people up, 30:13 stir the people up a little bit. 30:17 I'm the kind of person who needs to be stirred. 30:20 Stir me up. 30:22 I need it. 30:24 And then by the grace of God, we'll go to the Word of God, 30:26 see whether it be true or not? 30:29 Remember, stirred up all you can, 30:31 the day is going to come in where it's gonna be 30:32 almost impossible to stir it up 30:35 without causing an awful lot of grieve? 30:39 Would it be all right if I just mention that 30:41 there needs to be a cleansing in the camp of Israel? 30:46 Oh, you know what somebody will say? 30:47 I wish you'd find something else to say. 30:49 No. 30:51 This is what I'm impressed with. 30:53 I believe this is what God would have us to do. 30:55 The cleansing of the camp of Israel 30:57 because we're not in heaven yet. 30:59 There's a lot of things left out there 31:01 before us a lot of tests and trials 31:02 that are coming our way. 31:03 There's a work that needs to be done. 31:06 Where does it start? 31:09 Turn within your Bible to 2 Timothy 2:21. 31:12 2 Timothy 2:21. 31:14 2 Timothy 2:21, makes it really clear here. 31:20 It starts out, I like this. 31:21 If, "If a man therefore purged himself from these," 31:26 now I encourage you to go back there 31:27 in verses 22 through 26. 31:31 And then you can find about these things 31:34 that he's talking about here. 31:36 "He shall be a vessel of honor unto God." 31:38 Are you praying that you're a vessel of honor 31:40 that God sanctified? 31:41 "Meet for the master use, 31:44 prepared unto the very good work." 31:46 See? 31:49 Now think about, man is not to receive anything 31:53 that would lead him away from God. 31:55 But sometime that's the way the sure Word of God. 31:57 Why is it that we're so apt, it seems like to receive that 32:01 which, you know, which is not in God's Word? 32:03 It's not sure, it's not clear. 32:05 And yet we want to receive it. 32:07 We want answers that God has not given to us. 32:10 Certainly, we pray and search the scriptures. 32:14 And when you pray, and when you search scripture, 32:16 I can guarantee you this, you will not find man, 32:19 but you will find God. 32:21 Too many people are doing it over and over and over. 32:23 They're searching, they're reading 32:24 and they're looking to man. 32:26 The man is not your author and finisher of your faith. 32:29 It's God. 32:30 When you read the Bible, it shouldn't remind you of man, 32:32 it should remind you of God. 32:34 And you know what? 32:36 It doesn't lead to man around here, 32:37 but leads toward heaven. 32:39 That's where I'm wanting to go. 32:40 How about you? 32:41 There's a work of preparation that's going on right now. 32:45 It's an individual work. 32:47 And may I say this, no one can do it for you. 32:51 No one can do it for you. 32:52 Well, I'll let my husband do it. 32:54 Well, I'll let my wife do it. 32:55 No one can do this work for you. 32:58 But God's work surely does encourage us 33:01 that if we walk humbly, I like this, 33:04 if we walk humbly before God, 33:05 God's going to direct our path. 33:08 We're going to receive the instructions 33:12 that God has laid out in His Word. 33:14 In other words, you say, well, I've been praying and praying 33:16 and praying and, you know, 33:17 I want to know what God would have me to do. 33:20 If you are honest and sincere in heart, 33:22 clean hands, clean heart, you present everything to God, 33:25 He will instruct you, He will lead you, 33:27 He will guide you, there's no doubt about it. 33:30 He's going to do it in those things 33:32 that are plainly revealed in His Word. 33:35 Now, I want you to be aware of all 33:39 you know, all the warnings of Scripture. 33:42 Remember over and over in Scripture, 33:43 I see warning, warning, warning, blow the trumpet, 33:46 you know, it said, the man on the wall, 33:48 you know, somebody sound an alarm 33:50 my holy mountain over and over and over. 33:51 But yet people don't want to hear that, 33:53 they still want smooth things. 33:54 Even in God's last day remnant, 33:56 we want to hear things that are smooth. 33:58 We don't want to hear these things over and over. 34:01 But I tell you what? 34:03 If a tornado or storm or whatever's coming 34:04 in Southern Illinois, 34:06 where we're at and it's on here, 34:07 that's what I want to hear about. 34:10 I don't care about what your dog did, 34:11 or your cat did. 34:12 I want to hear what the storm, 34:15 so that we may be prepared. 34:18 And certainly the Spirit of Prophecy. 34:20 Let's look up Review and Herald if you will please with me. 34:23 This is written in 2-5-1901. 34:27 1901 this is written, 34:28 see if it doesn't pertain to today. 34:30 Review and Herald 2-5-1901, 34:33 you know this, but it talks about, 34:35 "History has been and will be repeated." 34:39 History what? 34:41 Good, has been and will be repeated. 34:43 It seems like we would learn, 34:46 things that have happened are going to happen, 34:48 will be happening again. 34:50 There will always be those who, though apparently," what? 34:54 "Conscientious." 34:55 Other words, people in the church, 34:56 somebody that you look up to, 34:58 somebody you think is doing the right thing. 35:00 They're teetering off a little bit here and there, 35:01 but it must be right because they're doing it. 35:04 Don't be looking at them. 35:05 They're not your, you know, Jesus is 35:07 what you want to be looking to. 35:08 Notice, 35:10 "Will grasp at the shadow, 35:11 preferring it to this substance." 35:14 What does that mean? 35:15 Oh, think about it. 35:17 Many prefer the what? 35:18 The shadow to the substance. 35:20 Other words, they're taking and drinking in err 35:23 in the place of truth. 35:25 And to say that, you know, 35:27 it can't happen in this movement, 35:29 or in your church or in my church, 35:31 you're daydreaming. 35:34 The enemy has designed it, 35:36 that he began working in the church. 35:40 He's probably considering himself a good, 35:42 oh, oh, church member. 35:45 He may be sitting next to you in the pew. 35:48 You think because you go to church, 35:50 everything is all well, that's not true at all. 35:53 Remember, the enemy has joined the church, 35:56 the synagogue of Satan. 35:59 Man, we need to find out his plan, 36:01 we need to find out where he's coming in at. 36:05 Apparently, those who are, you know, conscientious, 36:08 and they're doing the right thing, 36:09 but it doesn't quite line up with Scripture 36:11 but evidently they wouldn't do it, 36:13 the deacon, the elder, the pastor surely. 36:15 Quit looking at them. 36:17 Look to the Word of God. 36:21 Now, I'm gonna ask you a question. 36:22 What kind of vessel can God use? 36:24 I've heard it over and over the years. 36:27 I want to be a vessel of honor. Don't you? 36:30 I want to be a vessel of honor. 36:32 But what kind of vessel can God use? 36:35 Well, you know the simple, very simple answer with what? 36:40 An empty vessel. 36:42 Are we willing to empty out everything? 36:44 Or are we still holding on to just a few little things 36:47 that we kind of like and nobody knows about it? 36:50 We think and God does, certainly doesn't He? 36:54 But we're holding back. 36:55 And so we need to see, 36:57 you know, this little thing called defilement of sin, 36:59 sin has to go, 37:01 has to be emptied from the soul. 37:04 And when sin, 37:05 notice, when sin is empty from the soul, 37:09 then we are a vessel of honor and usable for God. 37:13 Until then we are not usable. 37:16 We might say we are, the devil is so happy, 37:19 go ahead and go to church. 37:21 I'll say Kenny, go ahead and go to church. 37:23 It doesn't matter there? What? 37:24 Go ahead and cling to this, okay, 37:26 you're not going to be used 37:28 until we've cleansed sin from our life, from our soul. 37:33 So that God can really use us the way He wants to use us. 37:37 Oh, the enemy allow certain little good things 37:38 to come up here and there. 37:40 And we use that as proof that we're all right. 37:41 Now you know, 37:43 if you know that it's sin, if you know that it's wrong. 37:46 You know that 37:48 God wants you to get rid of that. 37:51 Let me just ask some questions 37:52 if it's all right, some questions. 37:54 Just I want you to ponder. 37:56 It's okay to ponder. 37:58 Just think about them for a moment. 38:01 Are we lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God? 38:06 You know, are we? 38:09 What really gets us excited? 38:10 Is it going out to the lake 38:12 or going out here, going out there? 38:14 Or going to church or studying the Word of God? 38:16 Or, you know what I mean? 38:19 Are we searching for God as for hidden treasure? 38:25 Diligently, diligently seeking for Him. 38:29 See people say, I'm searching for God. 38:31 Well, they search for God and they find God 38:34 and they find what God's Word has to say. 38:36 And then they don't want God. 38:37 What proof is it we would be willing to obey? 38:41 Would we not? 38:44 Ask myself the question, 38:45 are you really dead to the world? 38:49 Can I really say the life that I live 38:51 is the life I live by faith in God? 38:56 Is that the kind of life that you're living right now? 38:59 It's not on the screen, 39:00 but read, I think Galatians 2:20, 39:02 and you'll see. 39:04 Could I say? 39:06 Can I really say my life, not bragging, 39:08 my life is hid in Christ. 39:11 Is it really? 39:15 Can I say when He comes 39:17 I believe by faith and hope and my prayer is 39:20 I shall appear with Him in glory. 39:23 Is that your goal, that your objective in life? 39:26 Read more of Colossians 3:3, 39:28 you'll see what he's talking about. 39:30 Here, have we reached by the grace of God 39:34 a point where we can say 39:36 this is a passage of scripture and jot it down there 39:38 if it comes in Psalms 42:1. 39:41 Psalms 42:1 reads like this, just a line or two, 39:44 notice Psalms 42:1, 39:46 "So panteth my soul 39:50 after thee, O God." 39:52 Sounds pretty simple. 39:54 But is that, that's what you live 39:56 and you move and you have your being 39:57 and you realize that He's your all in all in. 40:00 Everything that you accomplish are good, 40:01 it's because of Him. 40:03 Have we given our mind totally to God? 40:05 And the enemy can't get and put in the bad thoughts 40:07 that he wants to put in there. 40:09 They're gone now. 40:10 Are we reaching out after him 40:12 like we've never reached before reaching for what? 40:13 For pardon. 40:15 Reaching for peace, reaching for grace, 40:17 reaching for righteousness, reaching for true holiness. 40:20 See, are we really doing that? 40:22 If not, maybe we're missing the mark. 40:23 God have mercy. 40:25 And we asked him the question, has my soul been transformed? 40:28 In Romans 12, has it been transformed 40:30 by the grace of God? 40:32 Am I really a new creature in Jesus Christ? 40:34 Are those things that I used to love I now hate. 40:38 If I come to there, 40:39 we realize that things are coming into the church 40:40 unless we're of spiritual mind 40:42 that we're going to mess it all. 40:43 We're going to go right on through, 40:45 going right until the Lord comes and we die 40:46 and we think, oh, we've got it made, 40:48 and we've missed the mark. 40:49 Why? 40:50 Because the preacher don't want to preach about, 40:52 preacher don't want to talk about it, 40:53 don't want to hear what's going on in the church. 40:57 We need to be concerned. 41:00 Concerned about what? 41:02 Little things like concerned about the growing church, 41:05 you may not like that word, 41:07 and you might like it, the growing. 41:08 Yeah, we want the church to grow, 41:09 absolutely. 41:11 Winning souls, how to win souls to Christ, 41:13 absolutely. 41:15 Being true to our calling. 41:16 And yet, we don't want to say oh, 41:19 but let me tell you this, 41:21 all of these things can take place 41:23 without our following 41:24 after the world or other churches. 41:27 We follow the Word of God, and the Spirit of Prophecy, 41:30 we find ourselves just falling after, 41:32 oh, this church here is, 41:33 look at the mega church 41:35 and all these people doing this, 41:36 that let's do it like this. 41:37 No, absolutely not. 41:41 If we do it, I guarantee you this 41:43 based on the Word of God, 41:44 if we do this, 41:46 the result is going to be lost and not gain. 41:51 The enemy is preparing us to accept something here, 41:55 a different message, a different lifestyle 41:59 than many of us were raised on. 42:01 Where did you cut your teeth on? 42:03 Man, I say, a lot of cards and letters of people 42:05 all the time saying my, 42:06 you know, they're 50, 60 or 70. 42:09 Things are not the same as they used to be. 42:12 Things are just not the same. 42:14 Why aren't they to say? 42:15 Listen, the Word of God is the same, 42:16 it doesn't change. 42:18 Then who's doing the changing here? 42:21 By the grace of God, I'm not going to change. 42:25 So you're not going to change, 42:26 you're going to follow the Word of God. 42:29 How is it? 42:30 Let me just say something, 42:32 let's just get it off the chest, I'll feel better 42:33 and I need to lose a few pounds anyway. 42:37 How in the world did this new theology 42:40 creep into the church? 42:42 Oh, many of you in denial say, oh, it hasn't. 42:45 Oh, I wish you'd be quiet about it. 42:46 No, it did. 42:47 And many years ago, 42:49 and it continues to creep in right now. 42:51 It's still coming in. 42:54 And the question has to go back 42:56 and we have to ask, how did it slip in? 43:00 It didn't come in just boldly and oh, it's coming. 43:03 The enemy brings it in just a little bit at a time. 43:06 And you got these, you know, again the lukewarm 43:09 and spiritually, they're not discerning anything. 43:11 And there's somebody high maybe in the church. 43:14 And all they've accepted this wonderful is 43:16 God's doing great things. 43:18 But it somehow goes a little bit against Scripture. 43:20 But some say, well, that's all right. 43:22 It's not all right. 43:24 How could these things slip past 43:29 the watchman on the walls of Zion? 43:32 If you know the Word of God, Pastor, 43:33 and I'm talking to you, I'm talking to deacons, elders, 43:35 to every member of the God's last day church, 43:39 church, period, you love Jesus with all your heart. 43:42 You can't let this stuff come in 43:44 these liberal views 43:46 that's transforming us 43:48 that we don't need transformed like the world. 43:51 Did these messages slipped through the cracks? 43:54 Who let them slip through the cracks? 43:57 Where did they? Where did they come from? 44:00 Maybe just a couple examples in here. 44:04 Example, notice this. 44:05 How did it? 44:08 I'm very well aware you don't want to hear. 44:10 But I'm gonna talk to you anyway about it. 44:12 How did the books of a new order suddenly appear? 44:18 And that we were encouraged to read them? 44:24 Somebody wasn't standing on the walls of Zion. 44:29 This warning was given 44:30 found in the First Selected Messages 204. 44:34 First Elected Messages 204 say this. 44:37 Now listen, don't miss the word. 44:39 "The enemy of souls has sought to bring in supposition 44:42 that a great reformation was to take place." 44:45 Notice, 44:47 "And this reformation would consist 44:48 in giving up the doctrines 44:50 which stand as pillars of our faith, 44:52 engaging in a process of reorganization." 44:55 Did you get all of that? 44:59 Who brought this in? 45:01 The enemy of souls brought this in. 45:03 We think, oh, reformation, 45:06 wonderful big things are happening. 45:07 Does not line up with Scripture just quite, 45:09 but man, look at somebody's coming in the church, 45:11 it's growing double up. 45:13 We have to realize this is the enemy's plan. 45:16 He sought to bring these thing suppositions, 45:19 these thoughts. 45:22 The real reformation was taking place. 45:25 But notice, if a reformation is taking place, 45:28 and we see it happening, 45:29 oh, it's good, peoples coming into the church. 45:30 But it would be, we would have to give up 45:32 some of our doctrines, some of them, 45:34 listen, pillars of our faith. 45:36 So I know what this article is talking about. 45:38 How about you? 45:40 I'm not willing to give up by the grace of God, 45:43 the pillars of our faith. 45:44 I accepted them as truth a long time ago. 45:48 And so when I see them being abused today, 45:50 I want to lift my voice by the grace of God. 45:56 You talk about, here's the punch. 46:03 If this takes place, 46:04 in other words, we give up the pillars of our faith. 46:08 If we give them up, 46:09 there's going to be some results. 46:11 So maybe we've given them up in the past, 46:13 and we're giving up right now, let me just go, 46:15 oh, I know it's 10 or 12, I'm gonna as fast as I can. 46:20 Notice, if they've taken place or are taking place, 46:23 maybe you'll recognize them 46:24 as I just read them quickly as I can. 46:29 The principles of truth would be discarded. 46:33 Remember, the principles of truth 46:34 would be discarded. 46:36 Man, I hear a lot of that now. 46:37 Two, our religion would be changed. 46:41 Notice that, 46:42 three, the fundamental principles 46:44 over the last 50 years would be counted as err. 46:49 Hmm, that's totally against Bible, 46:50 it's totally against Spirit of prophecy, is it not? 46:53 A new organization would be established 46:55 with different than it used to be. 46:58 Books of a new order would be written 47:01 and encouraged and put in places 47:03 where we can get them and read them. 47:06 Six, a system of intellectual philosophy 47:10 would be introduced. 47:12 I'm leaving this for you now to think with me. 47:14 Let's read some more. 47:16 The founders of this system would go into the cities, 47:20 listen carefully, 47:22 and say we're doing a wonderful work. 47:24 We're following the world's plan 47:25 in another churches and so on and so forth. 47:27 Man, we're doing awful lot of good job, 47:29 job is that? 47:30 What's taking place over has taken place, think. 47:34 The Sabbath would be lightly regarded, 47:36 number eight, and the God who created it. 47:39 All the sudden we don't worry about buying and selling. 47:41 We don't worry about all these things, 47:42 we should. 47:44 The Bible talks about it. 47:45 We don't have to, we don't keep it anymore. 47:47 We can go on and do like the world does, 47:48 see, these things I'm talking about it's taking place. 47:51 Nothing would be allowed to stand in the way. 47:54 If you stand in the way and you lift your voice, hey, 47:56 there's a price to pay. 47:57 It's all right. 47:59 Ten, leaders of the movement would make plan, 48:02 notice this, would place their dependence 48:04 on human power, 48:06 which without God is worthless. 48:09 Number 11, 48:11 their foundation will be built on sand. 48:14 Twelve, it would be swept away. 48:18 My, it'd be easy for us to take and go 48:21 over some of these things 48:22 and give more examples and illustrations. 48:24 Not going to do that right now. 48:28 We must be on the lookout for the enemy, 48:32 because... 48:34 He's come into our territory. 48:37 And we need to send him back out the door 48:38 by the grace of God. 48:40 Are we concerned about those who have been educated? 48:43 We're getting more questions, I think it's good. 48:45 Are we concerned about those who've been educated 48:47 in our schools 48:50 or other schools? 48:51 They've educated in other schools 48:53 and they bring and they're thinking 48:54 what they've learned and so on into our schools 48:57 and all of sudden presenting it to our children. 49:03 Surely what they've learned 49:04 they'll be teaching some of that stuff. 49:06 I'm just, I'm not asking questions here. 49:09 Could it affect what they've learned elsewhere? 49:11 Could it affect their thinking? 49:13 And it would be brought out in some way? 49:17 Should we be concerned about an effort to unify believers? 49:20 And again, I've told you before, 49:22 I'm for unity. 49:24 Now notice the word would be 49:27 solely on the principle 49:29 that other churches will accept us. 49:32 Change our doctrine, change our position 49:34 so other church would accept us. 49:35 So they're counted as oddball, 49:37 an odd thing, different. 49:41 Remember, God never has, 49:43 never will call for unity on wrong principle. 49:47 Never. 49:50 Should we be concerned if they're teaching us, 49:52 those teaching us have a different view than we have, 49:55 then our belief, then the pillars of our faith. 49:59 I think we should be. 50:00 Example, just a simple, very simple one. 50:03 Let's take faith, some people say faith, that's it. 50:05 Just faith is all alone. 50:06 But then someone's going to say, 50:08 no, we talk about faith as good. 50:11 But we need to be obedient to the what? 50:13 The law of God. 50:14 They don't want to hear about the obedience. 50:17 How about programs based on real soul winning? 50:20 Man, I love that. 50:22 Well, it's real, so we. 50:24 That's what we want. 50:26 That's what this movement needs. 50:27 That's what we need to be doing. 50:29 Soul winning based upon the truth of God's Word, 50:31 listen, not on music, 50:33 not on and I'm not talking about, 50:35 you know, we're talking about good stuff here. 50:37 Not based on the wrong kind of music 50:39 or based on doughnuts. 50:42 Some churches serve them, you know, in the hall 50:44 and they serve their coffee and their, 50:46 you know, in play time and donkey rides. 50:49 Can I just go ahead and keep going? 50:52 Christian rock music, they call it or only believe, 50:56 just love 50:59 or dress like we're going to a picnic 51:01 rather than to meet with God. 51:03 Oh, nobody wants to hear that. 51:04 I understand that. We want to be comfortable. 51:07 We don't care who we're meeting with. 51:08 If You really understand and know God, 51:10 you're going to be very careful. 51:12 But our religion cannot be based upon, 51:14 oh, we have a great big Sabbath school 51:17 or Sunday school class or whatever. 51:18 And we're serving dozens of doughnuts 51:20 and the kids are coming for all those rides 51:22 and so on so forth. 51:23 Spiritual blindness is deadly. 51:27 I'm gonna say it again. 51:29 Spiritual blindness is what? 51:30 It's deadly. It'll kill you. 51:33 Spirit of Prophecy volume four. 51:38 Notice. 51:39 Notice what it says, to me it's so important. 51:43 Pages 42 and 44, you read them all when you can. 51:46 Satan therefore laid his plan, notice, 51:48 if you don't get anything else, get this. 51:50 Satan therefore laid his plan to war more successfully 51:54 against the government of God. 51:56 So we are in a battle royale. 51:58 Now notice how he plan to do it here. 52:00 It's exactly what I'm talking about right now. 52:02 Don't be in denial. 52:03 By planning his banner in the Christian church. 52:08 If the followers of Christ could be deceived, 52:11 and led to displease God, 52:13 notice this, then their strength 52:14 and their fortitude, and firmness 52:16 would be, would fail. 52:18 They would fall an easy prey. 52:20 Come on, children, are we listening? 52:22 We realize a larger portion of the Christian company 52:25 lowered the standard and a union was formed, 52:29 the Christian religion became corrupted, 52:32 and the church lost her purity and her power. 52:35 Man, that's an awful lot, I understand that. 52:37 But please keep that in mind here. 52:39 If we are, if we want strength and fortitude and firmness, 52:43 we have to uphold the truths of God's Word. 52:45 If not, we're going to lose our purity. 52:47 We're going to lose our power. 52:49 And somehow I'm wondering, do we receive all the power 52:51 that we need in the church in this movement, 52:53 in these last days? 52:54 If not, there might be a reason for it, 52:56 should we not examine to see. 52:58 There are those who are ripe, ripe for apostasy. 53:03 You know who those are, 53:04 you need to notice in the church too. 53:05 And I'm going to try to be nice as I can about it here, 53:07 those who are ripe for apostasy. 53:10 Please listen carefully, are always, listen, 53:12 they're always looking for something different. 53:14 They're never satisfied 53:15 with the doctrines and the teachings 53:17 that's going on 53:18 that the church that they want grasp 53:20 and once said we believe in. 53:21 They're looking for something new, 53:22 they're looking for something that's strange, 53:24 a different kind of experience in, 53:26 oh, and many times they're in a spiritual low 53:29 when they just need something to come out of whatever there, 53:31 that there's something's missing, 53:34 something different. 53:35 What's the cause of their lukewarmness? 53:37 What's the cause if they're still looking for something? 53:41 Even go so far as apostasy again. 53:44 I mentioned in the beginning of the program, 53:45 a lack of study of the Word of God 53:47 and then submission to it. 53:50 We must be submissive to the Word of God. 53:53 This should wake us up in our last few minutes 53:55 that we have here today. 53:56 Six Testimony 14. 53:58 Six Testimony 14. 54:00 If this don't wake you up, man, just go ahead 54:02 and hit the reset on the alarm and just go back to sleep. 54:05 I don't want you to. 54:07 This is gonna... 54:09 Satan is working to the utmost. 54:11 Who's working? 54:12 Satan is working to the utmost to make himself as what? 54:15 As God, this is now on the screen. 54:17 Read Isaiah 14:14, 54:19 and to destroy all who oppose his power. 54:22 He's going to do what? 54:23 He's going to try to oppose all who oppose his power. 54:27 See, this is a real battle royale. 54:29 John 10-10. 54:31 He's a thief, he comes to kill, steal and destroy. 54:33 Today the world is bowing before him. 54:36 Revelation 13:8, 54:38 the Bible is very clear on that is talking about here, 54:40 all that dwell on the earth to worship him, right? 54:44 Names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 54:46 His powers received as the power of God Why? 54:49 Because he transformed himself into angel of light, 54:52 2 Corinthians 11:14. 54:56 Revelation 13:30, he performs miracles 54:58 and people are going for it, doesn't? 55:00 There's an iceberg. 55:02 Friends, there's an iceberg out there, 55:04 we have to meet it. 55:05 We have to meet it. 55:07 God's people's going to be distinguished 55:09 by their faith, 55:11 and by their action. 55:13 This is powerful, all of it. 55:15 I don't want you to miss one thing, 55:16 Desire of Ages, 671 will be the last one for today. 55:19 Desire of Ages, 671 says this. 55:22 "It is through false theories and tradition, 55:25 that Satan gains his power over the mind." 55:28 So what is he doing? 55:30 He's trying to take control of what? 55:32 Of your mind and my mind and how's he going to do it? 55:35 False theories and traditions that Satan gains his power. 55:38 Most of the stuff you have today, 55:39 you look at people say, 55:41 "Well, this is a tradition 55:42 that you value tradition over thus saith the Lord." 55:44 We cannot do that. 55:45 It's not safe, 55:47 we're going to lose eternal life. 55:48 Again, spiritual blindness is what? 55:50 It's deadly. 55:53 Jesus attacked, and I say it a nice way. 55:57 The target of Jesus' attacks 55:59 on the Jewish religious system in His day was tradition. 56:04 And I mean, He attacked by the grace of God. 56:08 He's handed down from teacher to pupil 56:10 from generation to generation 56:13 of all these teachings that come 56:15 and we accept them as truth. 56:16 Oh, please don't do that. What? 56:18 There's an iceberg, and it's out there. 56:21 And the old ship, we'll talk about that someday, 56:24 meet it head on. 56:26 You come across err by the grace of God, say what? 56:29 Meet it head on. 56:30 Don't sidetrack for anything or anybody. 56:33 God's going to give you courage. 56:35 It may hurt a little bit, 56:36 and it may be a little discouragement. 56:37 But, you know, God's people are going to go through, 56:39 we're going to be ready. 56:41 But there are conditions to that. 56:43 I want to pray for you right now as we close, 56:45 how about which is, I'm just going to kneel up here 56:46 and just have closing prayer. 56:48 And I want you to pray along with me, 56:49 because there's an iceberg. 56:51 It's going to hit 56:52 and you're going to do by the grace of God 56:53 has to be willing and ready. 56:55 Let's pray, shall we? 56:57 Merciful heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Word, 56:59 we thank You for Your love. 57:00 We thank You for the warning that You've given. 57:02 There is an iceberg ahead, meet it. 57:05 We can only do that by the grace of God 57:07 and by knowing what is truth. 57:08 We know the enemy's plan. 57:10 Bless us, we pray to this, and thank you for those 57:11 who have made decisions now. 57:13 They're not going to be hoodwinked 57:14 because they're going to be studying and praying 57:16 and following Your Word in Jesus' name. 57:17 Amen. 57:19 It's been a real joy and real pleasure 57:21 to be able to come into your home, 57:23 be able to share the Word of God together. 57:24 Yeah, we love you. 57:25 We look forward to this every time 57:27 by the grace of God, we love you 57:28 and we look forward to seeing you next time. |
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