Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000031
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00:41 Hello, and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:44 I'm Chris Shelton your host, 00:45 and I want to extend a warm welcome to you 00:48 for tuning into our program. 00:50 Today, we are concluding a four part series 00:53 that we have entitled 00:54 "The Plain Straight Testimony Must Live." 00:57 We've been learning about our responsibility 01:00 as individuals and as a group to properly deal with sin. 01:04 Sin separates us from our Heavenly Father. 01:07 It was because of sin that Christ suffered so greatly 01:11 and died for each and every one of us. 01:14 And it is because we would rather sin 01:17 than obey God that so many lives, 01:20 so many lives will be lost in the end of this whole world. 01:24 So we certainly hope and we certainly pray 01:26 that you will prayerfully consider today's message, 01:30 and ask God for divine guidance in your personal 01:33 and cooperate preparations for the kingdom. 01:36 But first, we're privilege to listen to my niece, 01:39 as she sings, "I Can Touch Him," 01:42 and that is by Melody Firestone, 01:44 and brought to us from 3ABN Worship Center. 02:10 Desperately, she pushed her way through the crowd 02:17 They were crushing her now they were crying aloud 02:26 But she didn't care it was her only hope 02:35 This was an issue of life and she could no longer cope 02:44 If she'd ever be healed, if she'd ever be whole 02:53 Then he was the one and she knew in her soul 03:03 She had to touch him 03:07 Oh, she said, I can touch him 03:14 He is here within my reach I can touch him 03:22 Oh, I feel that he lean flow 03:27 My faith will make me holy as Jesus and I can touch Him 03:47 There comes the time when you give all you can give 03:55 You've exhausted your mind, you don't think you can live 04:04 Tormented by fear, you face the unknown 04:13 People are there yet you feel alone 04:21 Then you reach out in faith and confess once again 04:31 Jesus is here and there's healing in Him 04:40 You can touch him You can touch him 04:52 He is here within your reach You can touch him 05:00 Oh, just feel that healing flow 05:04 Your faith will make you holy as Jesus and you can touch Him 05:21 Oh, we can touch Him 05:26 He is here within our reach 05:30 We can touch Him 05:33 Oh, I feel that healing flow 05:38 My faith will make me holy as Jesus and we can touch Him 05:52 He is Jesus, he is Jesus, and we can touch him 06:20 Thank you for joining us 06:21 once again here on Behold the Lamb. 06:23 As you know, this is the fourth part of it. 06:25 This is the last part of the series about 06:27 "The Plain Straight Testimony Must, 06:29 you know, Live" in the church. 06:31 So it's very, very important subject 06:33 that we must deal with, 06:34 the God requires His people to deal with. 06:38 And so, as we are looking at these issues, 06:40 we pray that the Holy Spirit of God will not count us 06:42 to back up and be afraid, but to move forward 06:45 in the power and the might of Jesus Christ. 06:47 Now, I'm gonna just read a text, 06:49 well, a little quote here from the testimony, 06:50 then I'm gonna have prayer, but I want you to notice this, 06:53 4 Testimonies 185 says this, 06:55 "The servants of God should manifest a tender, 06:57 compassionate spirit. 06:59 But they must never flinch from pointing out the sins 07:04 that are corrupting the professed people of God, 07:07 nor should they cease striving to influence them 07:10 to turn from their errors to obey the Lord." 07:14 Boy, what council that is? 07:16 We pray, you'll take that council, 07:17 I will take that council, and let's take it to God right now, 07:20 shall we as we, as we pray together. 07:22 Please, where you can kneel with me as we pray, 07:25 as we ask the power of the Holy Spirit 07:27 to come into our hearts, into our minds that will make. 07:29 Well, God, the message for today will be clear 07:32 in your mind and in my mind, 07:33 and that we maybe pleasing to God. 07:35 Let's pray, shall we? 07:38 Merciful, Father in Heaven, 07:39 we thank you for Your love today. 07:40 We thank you for Your longsuffering with us. 07:42 Thank you for Your grace. 07:44 Thank you for the Blood of Calvary 07:45 that flowed so freely for each one of Your Children. 07:48 Now, we ask if there be sin, 07:50 anything in our hearts and life that need not be there 07:52 that you'll correct that now by the blood. 07:54 We ask for the blood of Jesus Christ 07:56 to cleanse us right now, make our, 07:58 make our minds stayed upon thee, 08:00 help us to realize Your coming soon, 08:02 we need to be ready. 08:04 Thank you for hearing, for answering prayer, 08:05 bless the people we pray now that their ears maybe open, 08:09 their eyes maybe in tune with You, 08:11 that they may see, hear, and understand the truths 08:14 that You're bringing to them today in Jesus' name, amen. 08:19 Now, again we encourage you get your pencil and paper, 08:21 because it's important that the points 08:23 that we're making-- we have to move quickly. 08:25 Some people say, it's too quickly, 08:26 but anyway, we've got to move quickly 08:28 because there is just a certain amount of time. 08:30 We covered in part three, and we're gonna recap that, 08:33 incase you missed part three. 08:34 Point number one, we must never let sin do, 08:36 what, appear less sinful to the offender. 08:40 Now, these are all things we went over, 08:41 not going to try prove anything right now, 08:43 but these are the points that we never let, 08:45 you catch them, "Pat them on the heads, 08:46 oh, we understand and all, we, you couldn't be help." 08:49 No, sin is sinful, and we realized, 08:52 it has to appear to the offender that is sinful 08:54 and it's hurtful to people and to God. 08:57 Number two, temptation, no matter, 08:59 doesn't matter how strong that it may be, 09:01 that may, we almost overwhelmed with it 09:03 is never an excuse to sin. 09:06 Point number three, God holds His people 09:08 as a body responsible for the sins 09:12 in the individual members of the church, how is that? 09:16 Remember, for God's people, as a body, responsible. 09:19 So, when you're in belong to the church, 09:21 friend, you are responsible for what goes on in that church. 09:25 You have a voice. 09:26 Power of the Holy Spirit can work 09:27 through your heart and mind. 09:28 And if you don't deal with, 09:29 you know something is going on in the church, 09:31 and you're not dealing with that issue and the sin, 09:34 they are open, you're not prying, 09:36 you're not circling the block, you're not eavesdropping, 09:39 come on, somebody follow me here. 09:40 But, you realized that something is going on, 09:43 you have an obligation to search it out, 09:45 for the Bible said, individual. 09:47 Number four, if leaders, leaders, 09:49 you say, well, you know, we have to be very careful 09:51 'cause we don't want to upset the applecart, 09:53 that time some of you ministers upset the applecart, 09:56 that time you stood for what is right. 09:58 If we neglect, we neglect to deal 10:00 with the sins in the camp, 10:01 we become responsible for those sins. 10:04 Same point, get it here. 10:06 Number five, God has laid the burden of reproving 10:09 and correcting sin on certain individuals. 10:12 We learned that, didn't we? 10:13 He doesn't choose just everybody to do it 10:15 because some, you know, they -- oh, I can't deal, 10:17 I can't deal with it, others may not want to, 10:20 but they, they feel the importance 10:21 and they feel the power of the spirit 10:23 that they must move forward, 10:24 do what God has asked him to do, what? 10:26 So that we can be the kind of church 10:28 that God wants us to be, become pure. 10:30 Point number six, New Testament Church, 10:33 we're talking about here. 10:34 When problem would rise, would come up, 10:37 and the local church couldn't settle 10:39 the issues among themselves, what did they do? 10:41 They had the council and different several members 10:43 of other churches, they came together in council, 10:46 and they heard the case, they heard what was going on 10:49 and they made massive ruling and, you know, what? 10:51 It's up to us to accept if we were that person 10:54 to accept that ruling of the various churches. 10:57 Number seven, God is the leader of His people. 11:00 Praise God for that. 11:01 Can't say, "Well, this group, here the leader, 11:03 God is the leader of His people, of His church." 11:07 And we must realize that, He uses visible leaders 11:10 that people can see, but we must always remember, 11:12 the visible leaders must always be attached to the, what? 11:16 The invisible leader is, what? 11:18 The God in heaven to communicate. 11:20 Last point, number eight, 11:22 God is going to bring in to the church. 11:26 People, when we are, what? 11:29 When we are converted, 11:30 when the members are truly converted, 11:32 God will bring people in. 11:35 Doesn't bring a whole lot of people maybe 11:36 in right now in certain areas, why? 11:38 Because maybe there's some real problems 11:39 that need to be addressed in the church. 11:42 As we studied in our last lesson, we left open, 11:46 and have your Bible to Matthew 18:18, 11:48 we're gonna be talking about 11:49 because God has given authority to the church 11:52 to local body, hasn't He? 11:54 To His people, to deal with the sin issue 11:56 something crops up in the church, 11:59 it has to be dealt with, not ignored, 12:01 it's sinful to ignore it. 12:03 God will hold us accountable for that. 12:05 Jesus made it very clear, Matthew 18:18, 12:07 He said, "Verily I say unto you, 12:08 whatsoever ye shall, what? 12:10 Good, bind on earth shall be, where? 12:12 Bound in heaven, and whatsoever 12:14 ye shall loosed on this earth shall be loosed, where? 12:17 In heaven." 12:19 Now, again He just didn't guess say, 12:20 "Well, whatever the church ruling is going to be 12:22 and whatever they feel like they want to do, 12:24 then I'm gonna go along with them." 12:25 No, God doesn't operate that way. 12:28 We must follow the rules of heaven, 12:31 the principles of heaven must be in play, 12:34 that's the only way that heaven will ratify 12:37 the decision of the local church. 12:40 Now, what if the church stands dealing with 12:42 the sin issue and an open sin issue. 12:44 Okay, let's make it clear, so now people say, 12:46 well, you know, we do but-let's just listen 12:48 to the Holy Spirit here. 12:50 What are steps that we should, 12:51 we should we take as a church? 12:54 Well, you know, Matthew 18:15, simply says, 12:56 "Moreover if your brother shall offend, what do you do? 12:59 Trespass, what do you do? 13:00 Against thee, it said, go and tell it to him, what? 13:02 He and thee alone, don't, him alone, 13:05 not somebody else, and if he shall hear thee, 13:07 you gained your brother." 13:09 More, lot of times people do want to say, 13:11 "Well, who do you think you are, 13:12 while you're more sinful than I am 13:14 and more they start throwing it back in your face." 13:17 Oh, dear friends, let me tell you, 13:18 a person who is convicted by the Spirit of God, 13:20 even though someone come, they come in the right spirit, 13:23 you know, if you're trying to live right 13:25 and if you're fighting some issue, you'll hear it. 13:27 And you may welcome and you will ask for that prayer 13:30 and they're gonna pray, 13:31 and you're gonna gain some victory. 13:32 Don't just start saying, "Well, how about your life." 13:34 We're talking about dealing with open sin here, 13:37 you've gained a brother. 13:38 So here's what? 13:39 Jesus makes it clear, how a Christian 13:41 then a church is to deal with, with the sin issue? 13:44 He has to deal with somebody and this is, 13:47 oh boy, this is difficult, to deal with somebody 13:49 that just blatantly wronged you, 13:52 deal with somebody that you sinned against you, 13:54 somebody has taken advantage against you, 13:56 think about that, somebody just living in sin. 14:00 So, how will you look at the issues here? 14:02 God is saying for us as, as individuals, 14:04 as members of church, somebody has done you wrong. 14:08 Boy, I hear it in the world today. 14:10 Well, they did me wrong, boy, I'm gonna do it back to them. 14:12 Boy, I tell you, we have to realize 14:14 what we're getting out, 14:15 we have time to get into that part of that study today, 14:17 we may not, but it's gonna open the way for you 14:19 to do some more studying 14:20 of what God says about forgiveness. 14:23 You say, "Well, I can never forgive them, 14:24 then God could not-- I'm gonna make it right now, 14:26 God can never forgive you, He can never forgive me, 14:30 we have just closed the door of heaven 'cause God, 14:35 because God can't agree with you, that you said, 14:37 "I never can forgive him." 14:38 He has forgiven you, He has forgiven me, 14:40 oh, my! Friend, don't close the door today. 14:44 You say, "Well, I can't." 14:45 We're gonna study little bit more, 14:46 how it's possible to forgive someone who's, 14:48 who's done you dirty, low down? 14:53 How you can deal with the issues? 14:55 Well, there's a close connection 14:58 in Matthew 18 and 12 through 14, 15:00 its about, talking about the sheep. 15:02 And, you know, we talked about the sheep, 15:03 who they will stray, and then how that 15:06 we must deal with him in order for the church 15:09 to be pure and fit to be used of God. 15:13 Read that when you have the opportunity. 15:14 Now, so we're talking about a brother now, 15:16 he is in air, he is doing wrong, 15:17 he sinned, he has gone astray, 15:19 we've gone through those issues. 15:20 We have an obligation, number one, 15:23 not to drive him farther away, but to win Him back, 15:27 to win Him back before it's ever too late. 15:31 Leviticus 19:17, God gave instructions to Moses. 15:35 Now, listen carefully, even in the Old Testament, 15:38 notice what the problem that what we're talking about 15:40 the issues of the church, okay, 15:42 the principle was back there are too, notice, it says, 15:44 "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, 15:46 Leviticus 19:17, thou shalt in any wise, 15:50 notice, rebuke thy neighbour, what? 15:53 Thou bare not sin for him." 15:58 Not to it, so we have to, you know, something is wrong, 16:00 you need to go between he and the alluring, 16:02 you need to talk this issue out, if not, what? 16:04 Oh, you're gonna have to bare his sin. 16:05 Oh, friend, be careful. 16:08 Well, I heard people say, 16:09 "Well, I know a lot of things going on." 16:11 Well, then you're accountable for lot of things, 16:12 if you know, but most generally things that you know, 16:14 you've never seen with your own eyes, 16:16 you think, you've heard it, you've been gossiping, 16:19 you've been sitting around the gossip corner up there the, 16:22 where you have breakfast, 16:23 you know, what I am talking about. 16:24 See, if we neglect to do as Christ has instructed us to do. 16:29 See, if we neglect to do that work, 16:30 we're in trouble, why? 16:31 Because Christ has instructed us. 16:33 He is saying, "Pastor Kenny, whoever you might be, 16:37 He said, 'I want you to restore that one, 16:39 want to restore Him, bring Him back.'" 16:43 Even though He is wounded, even though He is hurt, 16:46 but if you don't do that, you become responsible, 16:48 if you don't stand up for the issue, 16:49 you become responsible for and partakers of that very sin. 16:53 Now, Desire of Ages 4:41, makes us very, very clear. 16:57 Notice, "For the evils that we might have checked." 17:00 What does that mean? 17:02 "For the evils we might have checked." 17:06 For those things that maybe you could've stopped 17:08 because you knew somebody is getting ready to do something, 17:10 they shouldn't or have been doing. 17:12 "We are just as responsible as if we were 17:15 guilty of the acts ourselves." 17:18 Have you ever been guilty, 17:19 as I've been guilty of the times passed? 17:22 Maybe you're young in the church and you're coming, 17:24 you know some things were going on, 17:25 you didn't that, you didn't just hear the gossip meal, 17:28 but that person himself 17:29 maybe told you or you seen something, 17:31 you didn't quite maybe understand, 17:33 but you're just, you're not going to say anything, 17:34 'cause you don't want any trouble, 17:36 you don't want to be a problem in the church. 17:38 Oh, friend, the devil loves for us 17:40 to try to keep quite and back up, 17:41 do nothing about some of these wrongs. 17:44 So, what? Devil loves it, what? 17:45 God can't do anything for the church. 17:47 For those things you might have checked. 17:51 Oh, see this is-- 17:52 Now again, this is important subject that very, 17:54 very few people follow, why? 17:58 Because they believe that God somehow 17:59 is going to overlook them. 18:01 Some people think they're special to God, 18:03 of course, everybody is special, but notice it, 18:04 He doesn't just favor one person and the other. 18:08 Oh, we're special, God is not going to have that, 18:10 it happened to us, you're no exception, 18:12 I am no exception. 18:15 Matthew 18:15 says, 18:17 here's what we've to do in the situation. 18:19 Here's where it hinges, 18:20 here's where the majority of the people 18:22 who profess to be followers of Jesus Christ. 18:25 Here's, how they respond? 18:28 Here's, how they respond 18:29 when they need to take care of an issue. 18:32 I mean, it's just actually four words right here, 18:34 they either do it the right way or they do it the wrong way, 18:37 and it simply says, "Thee and him alone." 18:42 Wow! When there is an issue that you have sin. 18:46 Remember, you don't have to, 18:47 'cause somebody has given you a rumor, 18:49 you don't go react on that rumor, 18:50 I've had people call and say, "Somebody said, 18:54 I should just go click," somebody said, 18:58 "Well, that's a rumor mail, do you get it? 19:00 Somebody said, they heard. 19:02 These are all will distorts up. 19:04 The Bible says, now listen carefully Bible says this, 19:07 "If you have awe against your brother." 19:10 That means, your brother has done something to you 19:13 not somebody else, you're involved with something here, 19:16 you've seen something that by yourself 19:18 and you just simply need to figure it out in your mind, 19:21 you have a right to go to him, 19:23 between he and thee alone, 19:25 most people professed to be Christians will not do that. 19:30 Now, listen we have to, there's no exceptions. 19:35 You don't just, you don't say, 19:36 "Well, okay, well, you know, I don't, 19:39 I'm not worrying you're gonna talk about this, 19:40 but I have a best friend 19:42 so I'm going to tell my best friend. 19:43 No, Bible didn't say that. 19:46 I'm gonna call a group together 19:47 and we're going to discuss it. 19:48 No, He didn't say, calling a group together. 19:50 Well, I've seen this, if I'm gonna call a friend, 19:53 I need some advice from a friend, 19:54 Bible doesn't say that. 19:58 Boy, you know, with it, what do we do, 20:00 you know, at the same time, 20:02 we're exposing, when we're doing, 20:04 we're exposing this wrong to other people 20:06 who have no idea between he and thee alone, 20:11 don't listen this here, I see this, I hear of a friend. 20:16 You don't call a friend and you say, 20:17 "You know, I know, I shouldn't talk about this, 20:20 you ever had somebody call you? 20:21 I know I shouldn't be talking about this and you should say, 20:24 "You know, what? Yeah, you're right, click." 20:28 I know I shouldn't be talking about this, 20:30 I shouldn't mention this about the situation 20:33 and then they always say, but, there is no but! 20:36 The Bible has already spoken. 20:38 Others say, what do you think about this situation? 20:40 You say, "Well, I don't know anything about it." 20:42 Well, let me tell you what I, somebody told me. 20:45 Listen, God has already spoken on the issue, 20:48 you don't have all these means with everybody else 20:50 between he and thee alone, if not, 20:52 you're doing the work of a devil, you're bad, 20:55 worse than the other person, 20:56 you're spreading it all over the place. 20:59 And then you say, "Well, you're gonna be ears for them, 21:02 so they say, 'Well, let me talk to you a little bit about it.'" 21:05 And, you know, what? 21:06 And then if you don't fold, you begin to spill the beans, 21:09 and before long you've added more beans. 21:11 Boy, you're gonna have an explosion 21:13 if you know what I'm talking about here, getting back. 21:15 You've had your own beans in there, 21:18 put them in the pot and you've made the thing 21:20 a lot bigger and when it spill out, 21:22 it's a bigger spill than it was before. 21:24 Oh, somebody needs to listen. 21:27 Some people come and they said, 21:31 "I know I shouldn't mention this, 21:33 I told somebody I wouldn't, but I'm gonna tell you. 21:36 Well, what do you mean? 21:37 I told them I wouldn't mention this to anyone, 21:40 but all of a sudden when you say, 21:42 but you have sinned at the door. 21:44 Notice that, number one, what? 21:47 Because you recognized. 21:49 You said, "I told him I wouldn't, but." 21:51 You realized, how James 4:17 21:53 would just pound you in the head over this. 21:56 The Bible says that, 21:57 "To him that knoweth to do good, and what? 21:59 And doeth it not, to him it is sin." 22:03 You said, "I know, I shouldn't but." 22:06 Oh, friend, the Bible is clear. 22:09 Sin lies at your door as soon as you say that, 22:11 you knew the difference. 22:12 Number two, I told them I wouldn't tell, 22:16 but -- You have just become a liar. 22:21 Oh, Bible, Revelation 21:27 talks about, 22:25 "And there shall no wise enter anything into the, what? 22:27 Into the city anything that defileth or that, what? 22:31 Whatsoever worketh an abomination or, what? 22:33 Maketh a lie." 22:35 You're not going to be in heaven. 22:36 I know I shouldn't, but, the devil loves the buts, 22:41 you get it, I was going to do the right thing, but I-- 22:45 Number three, if someone comes to you 22:48 and starts telling you some, 22:49 oh! Yummy gossip, yummy gossip. 22:53 And then they say something like this, 22:56 don't mention my name, don't mention it was me, 22:59 I don't want anybody to know it was me, 23:01 I don't want anybody know where you heard this at, 23:03 just, before he gets to that point, 23:05 cut him off already, already, he is a coward. 23:10 Think about it, ah! It's gossip. 23:15 Oh, don't listen to that kind of stuff, dear friend. 23:19 If you want the church, 23:21 if you want the straight testimony in the church, 23:22 we're gonna have to deal with these issues, 23:24 but it's prevalent to see mic in every church, 23:27 and God is calling us to put a stop to it. 23:30 Don't tell someone something and then say what? 23:33 Don't, don't tell where it come from. 23:36 Don't tell anyone I, I said. 23:42 How can a church be pure? 23:46 And remember, when that person is coming to you 23:48 talking about somebody else, 23:50 they're going to go to somebody else 23:52 and they're going to talk about you. 23:54 Please, keep that in mind. 23:56 You say, well, listen Desire of Ages 441, 24:00 makes this comment again, listen. 24:01 "We are not to make it a matter of comment 24:05 or criticism among ourselves, 24:09 nor even after it is told to the church, 24:12 what, even after the sins told to the church, 24:14 we are not at liberty to repeat it to others." 24:19 We've already skipped down a little bit 24:20 in our steps that we're doing, but notice this, 24:22 even after it's made public to the church meeting 24:25 because it's come to that point that they're sinners, 24:27 not going to listen, and the church has to be told about it, 24:31 that's the third step, is it not? 24:33 Even after it's made. 24:34 We have no right to discuss it, did you know, 24:37 liberty to repeat it to others. 24:40 Almost everybody goes out and finds their friends 24:42 and they begin to tell them everything 24:44 that took place in the church and the people are saying, 24:46 "Why I belong to that church." 24:47 They call themselves a Remnant Church, 24:49 they call themselves a Commandment Keeping Church, 24:51 and look at the problems they have, 24:53 the vision, separation. 24:54 No, God's Church, you can known by its unity, 24:57 its love one for another, 24:59 if you really love someone you're gonna, 25:01 you're gonna try to protect them the best way that you can, 25:04 that doesn't mean overlook sin, 25:05 that means sweep underneath the rug, it's simply means, 25:08 you don't want to hear somebody talking ugly, do you? 25:10 As a parent, you would come up and say, somebody come and say, 25:12 "Boy, I tell your son and your daughter, 25:14 boy I tell you how about that, right, 25:15 quick you're gonna stop that business, aren't you? 25:19 But when it comes to other people you say, 25:20 "Well, is that right? 25:21 Well, how did that happen?" 25:25 See the sin issue is going to have to be dealt with, 25:28 but it has to be dealt, 25:30 what, good in the light of God's word. 25:33 It has to be dealt with. 25:35 These are issues that we have to look at. 25:37 Oh, I found this little book called 25:39 "Sons and Daughters of God." 25:40 Oh, I did, you can get one, oh you read it, 25:42 if you will this is page 13. 25:44 And it starts out telling us 25:45 about how God loves His people? 25:48 Oh, don't you know, He loves His people, 25:49 but notice this, God loves His people, but notice, 25:53 "He will not serve with their sins." 25:57 Come on somebody hang on, pen it down, 25:59 Sons and Daughters, what, 13. 26:01 He loves His people, but He will not serve with their sins 26:05 or give-always listen 26:07 "Or He will not give them prosperity 26:10 while they continue to follow a wrong course of action." 26:14 Once you know, what truth is? 26:16 You cannot prosper in this world, 26:18 not with the blessings of God. 26:19 I've heard a lot of people say, 26:20 "Well, I'm really prospering, you know, 26:21 you just like, you know, 26:22 living for the devil and living for the world." 26:24 And boy, I'm ready. 26:25 Let's who do you think, you think God's prosper you, 26:28 then God is not telling us the truth in His word 26:30 and He always tells us the truth. 26:32 God can't prosper anyone when they're disobedient 26:36 to the principles of His word. 26:38 Oh, yeah, well, but, yeah, I have this-- hey, 26:40 you think the devil can allow that, 26:42 you think he can builds you up, 26:44 you think he can give you things, 26:45 and cost things to work out to where it looks like, 26:48 you're having the blessings of God 26:49 and you're living in sin and everything is going well, 26:51 you better believe it, that's, that's no, no, 26:54 you know, criteria-- so, well yeah, 26:55 well I've a God's blessing me 26:56 because I have all these things on. 26:59 You got to be following God's word here. 27:01 Now, notice here, Father and that's-- 27:04 "Prosperity while they continue to 27:05 follow a wrong course of action. 27:08 Only reading on, only by faithful repentance 27:12 will their sins be forgiven, for God, 27:16 listen, will not cover their evil 27:19 with the robe of His righteousness." 27:22 God will not, what, cover evil 27:24 with the robe of His righteousness. 27:26 Sin does what? 27:28 Psalms 59, sin separates us from God. 27:33 God cannot bless. 27:36 He can even answer our prayer when we're, 27:38 here's, when we're separated from Him because of sin, 27:41 but I do know this. 27:42 Proverbs 15:29, He said, listen to this, He said, 27:46 "He heareth the prayers of the righteous." 27:50 Oh, isn't that good news? 27:51 The Bible says, "He heareth the prayers of the righteous." 27:55 Those are striving to do the right 27:57 by the grace and the strength, 27:58 and the power of God. 28:00 He hears it. 28:01 Oh, and He, He hears their prayer and He commits us to, 28:03 what, answer those prayers. 28:06 But, boy, there is a Bible say 28:07 in the Proverbs 28 verse 9 said, 28:10 "He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law." 28:13 And we've got some people today, isn't that right? 28:16 Oh, you need to look. 28:17 "He that turneth away his ear from hearing 28:19 the law even his prayer shall be an abomination." 28:23 Wow, Proverbs 28:13, you know this well. 28:29 "He that covereth, what? 28:30 His sins shall not prosper." 28:32 So anybody says that, 28:34 "I'm living in sin, I'm living for the world, 28:35 I don't care about Jesus, and I"-- 28:37 God is not prospering him. 28:41 God can't prosper, why? 28:42 Because the Bible says so, 28:44 "If you cover your sin you can not prosper, 28:47 but whosoever confesses and what, and forsaketh." 28:51 Didn't just say confess, you confess 28:53 and you forsake, you get rid of it? 28:55 There is no longer exist in your life, 28:56 "Them shall he have mercy." 28:58 Praise God for that. 29:00 Psalm 66:18, it says, "If I regard iniquity, 29:04 what, you know this one, if I guard what? 29:06 Iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." 29:12 There is no use trying to say, well, yeah, 29:13 He, by there is circumstance-- the Bible said-- 29:17 the Bible has spoken, God has spoken, 29:19 that's it on the issue. 29:22 If we can only come to that point in our life, 29:24 how much happier we would be? 29:27 Friend, you know, why we seek may be 29:30 to correct someone in air 29:33 and if we are led by the Holy Spirit to do so. 29:38 Listen very carefully, we will try to 29:41 protect that person from the loose talk of the church. 29:47 Are you still with me? 29:49 And certainly we will try to protect them 29:51 from the world, if we love them, 29:53 if we're led by the Spirit of God, 29:55 and if we really love that person 29:57 we're not gonna let somebody take him apart. 30:03 And what is the good reason, why we won't, 30:05 we shouldn't let someone take, 30:07 you know, someone who is fallen in the sin, 30:08 someone who is, all of a sudden, 30:09 they found themself in a real mess, why? 30:13 Because you are weak and I am weak. 30:16 We need God's mercy, 30:18 we need God's forgiveness, do we not? 30:21 And this is how I would want to be treated 30:24 if I fell into that same situation. 30:26 How about you? 30:27 Bible is clear in Galatians 6:1, it simply says, 30:30 "Consider thyself lest thou also be, what, be tempted." 30:35 So in dealing with someone else 30:37 I want to deal with them the way 30:38 I would like to be dealt with, don't you? 30:42 Sure, you would, not unmerciful, 30:44 not gossip back by about throw out. 30:48 Oh, friend, there's many, 30:51 many who have been wounded by someone, 30:54 and I've talked to a lot of, they have been wounded, 30:56 have been hurt and, and I know some of these people, 30:59 listen they try to get over this hurt, 31:03 they try to love this person, they may not be able to 31:09 fellowship with him, because that person 31:11 just too far away gone, but they don't want that 31:13 to separate them from God, so they want to be forgiving 31:16 and they're working on it, but somehow they just 31:18 can't seem to, to love them the way 31:20 that they should, let me give you some, 31:22 oh, I tell you Gospel Workers page 4 of 97, 31:25 makes this comment. 31:26 Oh, please don't miss this, please don't miss this. 31:31 Because everybody has been wrong by somebody 31:33 and many times over in some cases, 31:36 and I heard people lot of time, 31:37 I can't get over, I can't get over. 31:39 No, listen, I can't love them, 31:41 I can't deal with them, let me, listen here, here's 31:43 the whole issue right now, you cannot and you never will 31:47 on your own, I never will on my own. 31:49 Here's what this little paragraph says, 31:51 "We need not begin by trying to love one another." 31:57 Wow, people say, "Well, I'm gonna try to love him." 31:59 Don't begin by just trying to love them. 32:02 Here's the key, "But the love of Christ 32:06 in the heart is what is needed." 32:10 Christ in the heart, what? 32:12 'Cause Christ can love that person, why, 32:15 he has loved you and me, we've sinned, right? 32:18 We're garbage of the earth, the dust none good, 32:22 no matter what, but He love it, 32:23 Christ can love them. 32:26 And if you let Christ into your heart, 32:27 you can begin to love, that's what is needed, 32:30 and here's goes on, it says, 32:31 "When self is submerged in Christ, 32:36 true love springs forth spontaneously." 32:41 I have to submerge myself in the love of Christ. 32:45 I have to have that robe of righteousness on, 32:47 because I just in my flesh, 32:49 I just can't love somebody who has been ugly. 32:54 You just can't love somebody that's ripped you off. 32:59 You can't love somebody that's beaten, 33:01 battered somebody that you love. 33:03 You can't love somebody that's kill 33:04 some of your fellows and friends, 33:06 you can't love somebody that's ripped somebody may your son, 33:09 your daughter, whatever might it you're your child, 33:12 not on your own. 33:16 And so, what I encourage you to do, 33:17 if you've had those situations 33:18 and maybe some worst it could be, 33:21 you submerge yourself in Jesus Christ, 33:26 fill yourself with the love of Jesus, 33:29 let Jesus come into His heart of love, what? 33:32 He begins to love them and that's awesome. 33:35 Your feelings begin, emotions begin to change, 33:37 you're not really sure, how as you submit yourself to Him. 33:42 I'll said, you can deal with issues 33:43 that you couldn't deal with us for. 33:47 So, when we deal with sin and a brother or a sister 33:50 in the church or out of the church 33:52 and we're talking about this nasty word correction. 33:57 We must deal according to the word of God, isn't that right? 34:00 That's what we're learning here. 34:02 Think on this, if you have been wounded lately, 34:07 if you've been hurt by someone, 34:09 if someone's taken advantage of you. 34:12 Think on this for just a moment, 34:13 just little common sense 34:14 principles here, but please think. 34:16 Number one, if someone's wounded you lately, 34:19 take care of the issue quickly. 34:22 Did you get that? Why? 34:24 So resentment will not turn into malice 34:28 because it begins to be, what? 34:30 You resent, you dislike, 34:33 and then I hear that people say, 34:34 I hate, because what? 34:36 They didn't take care of the issue, 34:37 they won't take care of the issue, get so. 34:39 Two, realizing if you don't take care 34:42 of this issue quickly, this wound is going to fester, 34:48 it's going to break open with this poison and it's going to, 34:51 but just poison your whole being, 34:55 every word that you come out is poison, 34:57 every deed that you do is poisonous. 35:00 You'll say, and do things that you can't easily take back. 35:06 Oh, how many of you said those are all I have? 35:08 Oh, Lord help me. You can't take it back. 35:14 Didn't take care of the issue. 35:16 Number three, here is the key that most people, 35:19 oh, they never think off. 35:22 In fact, when they've been wounded, 35:23 they've been hurt, they've been, 35:25 you know used, all they want to do is talk about it. 35:30 I'm going to encourage you, don't dwell on the situation. 35:34 I know it's gonna be difficult, 35:35 but something else gonna have to fill you, 35:36 your mind and your heart, 35:38 don't dwell on that situation, why? 35:40 Because it's only going to get worse if you do. 35:42 We have to learn by the grace of God to guard our thoughts, 35:47 the mind of Christ. 35:48 Guard our very thoughts, 35:50 because it can turn in to, what? Just poison. 35:52 And number four, quickly go to 35:54 your brother and listen, do it in humility and talk. 36:01 Go to the brother in humility and talk. 36:03 And some of you're gonna say so I am going to answer 36:04 those questions in a minute. 36:05 Somebody say, "Yeah, I would, 36:06 but it's not my fault, I didn't do it, 36:10 and I'm not going." 36:13 Listen, we must learn to forgive others and wow, 36:19 we need Jesus, isn't that right. 36:21 We have to learn to forgive. 36:23 Mark 11:26 we, you know, 36:25 kind of been bringing this in principle along, 36:28 but listen, the way that we forgive, what? 36:31 Others is the way that he is going to, what? 36:34 Forgive, that's the principle of Mark 11, you read it 26, 36:36 when you have the opportunity. 36:39 If we don't forgive others it says, God cannot forgive us. 36:42 So it's essential to salvation that we learn 36:45 by the grace of God how to forgive, 36:49 or He can't forgive me. 36:52 And I know this by reading my Bible, in Mark 2:7, 36:55 it said, "God forgive sin." 37:00 And you know what Jesus is on the earth 37:02 and Jesus praised God by His blood. 37:04 He forgives, isn't right, Mark 2 verse 10, 37:07 Jesus forgives sin. 37:10 There is no pastor, there is no evangelist, 37:13 there is no priest, there is no pope that can forgive sin. 37:20 My Bible says, "God forgives sin, 37:22 Jesus forgives sin," isn't that right? 37:24 And my Bible says this in First John, you know 1:9 said, 37:29 that we've confessed our sins, what is He? 37:31 He is faithful and He's just to do, what? 37:33 Forgive us of our sin and cleanse us from all 37:36 unrighteousness, isn't that good news? 37:39 Some of you are just bound under the hand of the enemy, 37:43 you just bound, you know, how to get loose, 37:47 you want to get loose and you want to change, 37:49 and you want your life to start all over, 37:51 girlfriend, the problems. 37:54 You don't know how? 37:57 And somebody is wronged you 37:58 and yet you're holding things inside and you say, 38:00 "Yep, I'd go to him, but it's not him, 38:02 it's not me, it's him, he is guilty. 38:06 He is the one that should be coming to me." 38:09 Let me just encourage you, put pride aside, do what? 38:17 Usually, if it boils down, it boils down to a pride issue. 38:20 Put pride aside, you make the first move, 38:26 regardless of how offensive his conduct. 38:31 See, God doesn't change His plan for settling the issue. 38:35 Think about, God never changes His plan 38:38 for settling an issue. 38:40 Go to Him, and what? 38:42 The Bible says, "Go to him in love reasonably, 38:45 calmly, quietly." 38:48 Remember, remember you're trying to do, what? 38:51 Good. Win a brother back to Christ. 38:55 James 5:20 says this, 38:57 "Let him know, that he which, what, 38:59 converteth the sinner from the error of his way 39:02 should save a soul from death, 39:05 and shall hide a multitude of sin." 39:07 Aren't you glad, you have scripture? 39:09 Aren't you glad, you can draw from this well? 39:13 The blessings and the strength, and the power, 39:16 led Him that converteth sin, go to the sinner, 39:19 beg and plead to get right with God. 39:22 See, that's why "The Plain Straight Testimony 39:25 Must Live In The Church." 39:27 It must be dealt with. It's a God appointed work. 39:34 God is in charge, and you know, what? 39:37 He is going to be leading the spiritual minded, 39:40 because they are open and they're listening. 39:43 Let me just read this quote a little letter, 39:46 found Letter Two, written in 1851. 39:49 Wow, listen to this one, it says, 39:51 "God will separate the precious from the vile. 39:56 Although He bears long, listen, 39:58 with the hypocrite and the sinner, 40:01 yet he will be searched out." 40:04 What is being, what's being taught here? 40:07 God eventually is going to separate 40:09 the precious from the what? 40:10 From the vile. 40:11 The holy and the purer from what? 40:13 The unrighteous. Although He bears along 40:16 with the hypocrite, see hypocrites lot of time 40:18 and sinners say, well, I have been doing this for years 40:20 and God hasn't done anything yet 40:22 and everything is fine right now, 40:23 yet He is going to search you out. 40:27 Bible said be sure your sins will find you out. 40:30 You know, again if we're following Mathew 18, 40:32 what we are talking about, 40:33 this is our time is getting down. 40:36 Bible says when we go to them, 40:37 when we try to plead with them but they don't want, 40:40 they won't hear the, the next step is you do what, 40:43 it says you take, take another with you witness, 40:46 two or three with you, you take some witnesses with you, 40:50 because the Bible said you know in the mouth of what? 40:52 Two or three witnesses, this may be established. 40:56 Please think on this for a moment, 40:58 the steps that God has given to what? 41:00 The straight testimony can live in the church. 41:02 Sin can be eradicated from the church, 41:03 the member, we're talking about the people God? 41:06 We have to deal with these issues, 41:08 they won't go away on their own. 41:11 Only as we deal with them in the strength of power of God, 41:15 can the church become pure the way God want's it to be. 41:18 Beset the man won't listen when you go to he 41:19 and thee alone and it still an issue and continues on. 41:22 You take your couple of witnesses with you 41:24 and then you plead with that brother again. 41:28 Who do you take with you? 41:31 When you go to see this brother to winning back, 41:32 who you're gonna take? 41:33 You take the spiritual minded. 41:36 Those who want to win this brother or the sister back, 41:40 the spiritual, I can remember a case here, 41:43 I know our time run short Lord help us look. 41:46 We had a man sitting in there and he is talking about CNN, 41:49 open CNN, dealing with CNN in the church 41:51 and here's this one man setting you know, 41:53 and talking about the issues. 41:55 Well let me just get real personal with you, 41:58 you know, as the pastor, 41:59 I knew this person and talk with him privately 42:02 and he is dealing with an issue of another person 42:05 that somebody had said something 42:08 and so he wants to sit in council and pass judgments 42:10 on somebody that said something about somebody else 42:13 and here was the man and I called his--here is the man, 42:17 listen carefully here was a man, 42:18 you take the spiritual minded with you not the sinner. 42:21 This man was openly living with someone professing 42:24 to be a member of good standing in the church 42:27 and as he told me and I'm not talking about names, 42:29 so you don't know. 42:30 Well, I say he said everyday I got to smoke some pot. 42:36 And he is gonna sit and pass judgment on somebody else? 42:40 Somebody said, take the spiritual minded. 42:46 I didn't put up with him very long I can tell you. 42:50 It takes a lot of nerve. 42:53 See the hope is dealing with these people there what, 42:55 they'll turn from the air of their way. 43:00 And the ones who are there and talking 43:02 to the one who may be fallen, 43:04 that they see the all these other brothers sit, 43:06 they are in agreement and it's the right thing to do. 43:10 It will help him to see it clearly. 43:13 This is all about getting us ready 43:14 for the coming of Jesus Christ. 43:17 See again I can see the duty, can't you of the, 43:19 of the local body of believers. 43:22 The local body of believers to deal with those 43:26 or some of these actions are contrary 43:28 to the light that they have. 43:31 We have to deal with them. 43:33 Now, I want you get up in arms about this just yet. 43:38 Give me a chance to kind of explain 43:39 little bit here but that, this statement might shock 43:42 somebody, somebody say-- why shock me in a long time. 43:46 This little book called Testimonies to Ministers 450, 43:49 if you haven't read it for a while, 43:50 this might shock you, but let me explain 43:52 little bit as we go. 43:53 I'm gonna read the statement out 43:55 and then you see if this is not real plain, 43:57 straight testimony, see if it's not. 44:02 It says "The time has come for earnest and powerful 44:07 efforts to rid the church". 44:09 Now stop right there, I kind of go back listen 44:11 "The time has come for earnest and powerful efforts 44:14 to rid the church of the slime and the filth 44:20 which is tarnishing her purity." 44:22 The church of Christ is called to be a holy, 44:25 powerful people, a name of praise to all the earth. 44:31 Now you tell me that's not plain and straight. 44:34 It said the time has come, time is past, 44:36 we need to rid, you know, 44:38 as the church needs to be rid of what? 44:39 It says the slime and the filth. 44:43 Now let me just put that into nutshell 44:45 that I'm thinking sin here, aren't you? 44:47 The slime of sin in the church that filth of sin 44:51 in the church, we are all filthy rag, 44:53 we understand that, so we'll say well, 44:55 you have that person sliming up, 44:56 let's talk about the sin issue. 44:59 It's time to get rid of it. 45:01 So, in dealing with sin issues, 45:03 this slime and the filth of sin, 45:05 please keep this in mind. 45:07 Testimonies to Ministers 451, now we're dealing here 45:10 but keep this in mind and you've seen it 45:13 and I've dealt with it, "Sacred and holy things 45:16 are brought down to the level of the common things." 45:20 Did you get that? 45:22 Sacred and holy thing, see what's in the sanctuary? 45:26 I won't think about the cameras, 45:28 the equipment that God has given, it belongs to Him, 45:32 it's sacred and it's holy, you're sacred, 45:35 you're holy to Him. 45:37 But people want to bring them 45:38 down to the common level of things. 45:41 She says this, note, 45:42 "The commonness, a cheapness, 45:45 is working itself into our churches. 45:48 A standard must be elevated, 45:52 the work must have a higher mold. 45:54 There must be coming out of the customs 45:58 and the practices of the world and being separate. 46:02 There must be a coming upon a higher platform 46:06 by both ministers and people." 46:09 Man that's heavy duty, you realize at time 46:12 that could be spend just on this paragraph, 46:16 that which belongs to Lord as, 46:18 you know, the Seventh-day Sabbath, 46:19 it's sacred and it's holy and sometime we try to bring it 46:24 down to the level of the, the common things. 46:29 It's a disgrace, cheapness, 46:32 we're bringing cheapness into the church, 46:36 cheap teaching and cheap doctrines 46:38 and friend there is nothing cheap about salvation. 46:42 Wow! We must reach a higher standard but more and more. 46:48 We find it people have a tendency 46:50 trying to lower the standard. 46:52 We're calling scripture to elevate the standard, 46:55 let the people see the standard elevated before the people, 46:58 call their attention to it. 47:01 There must be a coming out from the world 47:02 and the practices of the world. 47:05 A higher platform, what by both ministers and individuals, 47:09 so far what we learned here time is running out. 47:13 If a brother has opened you, 47:14 or he has offended you, he has wronged you 47:17 and there is something -- open sin. 47:19 Bible simply says what? 47:20 Go between he and thee what? Good alone. 47:22 Number two if he refuses to change, 47:25 if he refuses to repent, do what? 47:28 Good, take your couple of witnesses with you, right? 47:30 Three, if he continues in sin after that 47:34 then you tell it to what? 47:36 It must be told to the church the local body of believers 47:40 and the church is going to have to deal with the issue. 47:44 Tell it to the church, so if he fails to repent, 47:47 if he fails to change his life, make things right as possible, 47:51 the church body must bow him 47:55 out of fellowship if he refuses to change. 47:58 We follow what the book of Matthew, 47:59 what Jesus said to do. 48:01 If he will not listen and continues after 48:03 he is told to the body and the body would church body 48:06 as a group votes together to dis-fellowship that person. 48:10 Wow! You say well, you know, we want to 48:12 listen to - I'm hovering around with the word of God 48:16 and just as read it and say thank you 48:18 God for and then follow it. 48:20 Christ Object Lesson 71, says 48:23 "Christ has plainly taught that those who persist 48:27 in open sin must be separated from the church, 48:32 but He has not committed to us the work of, notice, 48:36 judging character and motive." 48:39 We need to be very careful, don't we? 48:41 We're not to be judging character, 48:43 well it seems like somebody said 48:47 well, I know what they were up to they said something out 48:49 but -- that's not for you, that's not for me. 48:53 I said when they're in open sin, 48:55 I knew dealt Matthew 18 with him 48:57 and they will not change their way, 48:58 it said plainly those who persists 49:00 an open sin must be what? 49:03 Separate, that's what Christ taught, 49:04 that's what Christ Object Lesson 71 says. 49:07 Acts of the Apostle, page 268 notice. 49:11 The apostle Paul "Also enjoined upon the church 49:14 to separate from their fellowship 49:16 anyone who would persist, now listen, in disregarding, 49:20 listen the instructions of God's ministers." 49:25 Paul was preaching and teaching the apostles. 49:27 If the people wouldn't go along with what 49:29 the minister was preaching and teaching, 49:30 he said we separate from this 49:33 because it causes nothing but division, 49:35 and confusion in the minds. 49:37 Friend, I see that how often, the purity of God's Church 49:41 must be preserved. 49:44 Wrongs and evil and sin, you see, 49:48 it's gonna have to be removed, it's gonna have to be forsaken 49:51 So, if we as a people you see, 49:53 if we were not here the body of believers, 50:01 The Bible says, here's what we do? 50:04 Let him be unto thee as a what? 50:07 As a heathen man, what does that mean? 50:11 If he doesn't hear and he would persist in the sin 50:13 that means --don't deal with him anymore, 50:15 don't talk with him, don't love him, don't -- no! 50:19 A heathen here simply is what? 50:21 A public, a Gentile, a tax collector whatever here. 50:24 Now remember, we have to follow 50:26 the council that you know, if he doesn't, 50:29 he has to be separated from the fellowship, 50:32 but what, he is not to be hated, 50:35 he is not to be despised, he is not to be shown. 50:40 Oh dear friends, but we continue to work 50:43 for him as we would, you know, a non-believer. 50:47 We continue to labor and to pray 50:48 for and to work with as a non-member. 50:54 But you know that's when the church goes 50:55 through that many times, I have seen it 50:57 as they say treat him as a heathen, 50:58 they shut him out the door. 51:02 And as they shut him out the door, 51:04 they won't have, nothing else to do with him, 51:06 never call him, never talk to him-- 51:07 you are not following the Bible. 51:11 Remember the word of caution here is this 51:13 for so men is so left, listen. 51:16 Is the local body has voted to disfellowship 51:20 and here I have seen it, here I have been through it 51:23 dear friend, and it is wrong as wrong can be. 51:27 The local body has voted to disfellowship a person. 51:31 Each member should be careful in his association, 51:36 what you are talking about? 51:38 Peer, a careful association to make it appear 51:41 that you are in agreement with him after the fact, 51:44 did you get it? 51:45 If you do, you share in his sin. 51:49 That is you don't go and pad him on the back and say well, 51:51 everybody else voted, make sure 51:52 you are nonfellowshippers, but you know, 51:54 I didn't vote, I voted for you, 51:55 your old friend, be careful, you can do that. 51:59 He needs to see sin for what it really is, 52:00 1 Testimony 212-213, here is the enemy working 52:06 and how God can work "If the ministers of Christ 52:08 will be of one mind, wouldn't you like to see that 52:11 the ministers of Christ if they are be of one mind, 52:14 notice this "United in the plan of action." 52:17 You just get the ministers to work together. 52:20 And you can hardly do that? 52:24 And how, what a shame that is? 52:25 If we have the mind of Christ, notice this, 52:27 "United in the plan of action, united in their effort. 52:31 If they will stand together," 52:33 notice this, "And sustain one another, 52:36 faithfully reprove and rebuke wrong, 52:39 they will soon cause it to wither. 52:42 Think about all this, if we just stand together, 52:44 leaders of the church and ministers 52:45 stand together and say, Bible says this is wrong. 52:49 This cannot be tolerated in the church 52:51 and we just stand out, no sympathy to them, 52:53 they just say we love you, we are gonna work for you 52:55 that we can't tolerate that in the church. 52:59 They say if we do that it will soon wither away, 53:01 it's gone, wow! 53:03 But I want you to see in the last couple of minutes 53:05 what Satan's plan is, we do not have time, 53:07 oh there is so much more Lord, help us! 53:10 One Testimony 213 says this, notice 53:14 "Members and even preachers have sympathized 53:16 with the disaffected ones and have been reproved 53:19 for their wrongs." 53:21 Ministers even go behind the back say, 53:22 well I wish this hadn't happened, 53:24 but you know the church, oh stop all that business listen. 53:27 "Divisions of feeling has been the result. 53:30 I saw that many souls have been destroyed 53:34 by their brethren unwisely sympathizing with them, 53:39 when their only hope was to be left to see 53:41 and to realize the full extent of their wrongs. 53:46 False sympathizers have worked in direct opposition 53:50 of the mind of Christ and ministering angels." 53:54 Oh friend! 53:58 Bible says we've to learn to forgive 54:00 as God has forgiven us. 54:03 Friend today in the last couple of minutes, don't you? 54:05 The importance of this whole study, 54:07 this four part series is to give us 54:10 to see the responsibility that we have to deal 54:13 with the sin issue in the church, the local body. 54:17 And how God requires it if He wants to bless us. 54:22 He want to place spirit upon us. 54:26 And friend, we need to pray for us, 54:27 some of you right now, you're fighting issues right now, 54:29 you don't know how to get rid of them? 54:30 Remember, you follow the counsel, 54:32 we're dealing with sin issue, follow the counsel of what, 54:34 not talking about this issue, take him to God in prayer. 54:38 And see what God will do what? 54:39 Because of plain straight testimony must do what? 54:42 It must live in the church. 54:45 Sin has to be called by its right name. 54:47 the axe has to be laid to the root of the tree, 54:50 its going to have to go and God's people responsible 54:53 if they don't stand for that, they don't say okay, 54:55 we stand as a body, then you're going to be accountable 54:57 for that sin if you like I am brother, 54:58 you don't need anybody else's. 55:00 We want to pray about that right now 55:01 someone who is striving and searching right now 55:04 for a new beginning. 55:05 And you want it in the last few seconds we have, 55:07 we are gonna pray about it right now 55:08 and God is going to give it to you, lets pray. 55:10 Merciful God in heaven, we pray right now for those 55:13 who are searching and crying out for You. 55:15 How they need another star and light, 55:16 they want forgiveness of sin. 55:18 They wandered far away from you, 55:19 they want to come back right now before it's too late. 55:22 Pray to it, help them right now in the name of Jesus 55:24 as they call upon You, you will hear 55:26 and that You will answer and I thank you 55:28 for that in Jesus name, amen. 55:31 Thank you for joining us today. 55:32 I realize that you may be having lot of things 55:34 that you could be doing, but you spent time 55:36 in the word of God and studying. 55:38 So remember we just scratched the surface of this study 55:40 continue to pray, continue to search out 55:42 and see the responsibility that you have. 55:45 Please remember this ministry please, 55:46 as you pray about, you want to support this ministry, 55:48 how to support free will offerings of God's people. 55:51 We thank you, we love you, 55:52 look forward to seeing you next time. 55:57 Welcome back, you know someday very soon 56:00 Christ is going to save us as He is closing his work 56:03 in the holy of holies in heaven that it is finished, 56:08 it is finished, very solemn, yet exciting words indeed. 56:13 Solemn, because we must ask our ourselves, 56:16 have I done all that I can do in my life to make you 56:20 what Christ would have it to be? 56:22 Will I be spending eternity with my Savior? 56:26 Am I, am I in a saving relationship 56:29 with Him right now. 56:31 I hope friends that your answer is yes 56:34 and if it is yes, then Christ words, 56:37 it is finished may also have an exciting connotation 56:41 to them as well, because this means 56:43 that He will be coming back for us very soon, 56:47 back to take us home. 56:49 And I hope friends that you desire do wanna go home? 56:53 And to help you on this journey, 56:54 we are providing this four part series 56:57 that we're just finishing out today 56:59 for a love gift of just $29 or more. 57:03 If you are not interested in having this set, 57:05 you would like to see us continue with this broadcast, 57:08 then please would you preferably consider supporting 57:11 this ministry with your financial gifts and prayers. 57:14 And don't forget, Pastor Kenny and I do travel 57:17 to various churches for weekend meetings, 57:20 evangelistic crusades, 57:22 whatever you might have in mind. 57:24 So if your congregation would appreciate having us 57:26 to attend your special event in person, 57:29 the contact information is all the same. 57:32 You may call us at area code 618-942-5044 57:38 that's Central Standard Time here in the United States 57:41 or write us at Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:44 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:49 You may also contact us by email 57:51 at BeholdTheLambMinistries @yahoo.com 57:55 or visit us on the web 57:56 at www.BeholdTheLambMinistries .com. 58:01 Friends, until next time may our precious Lord 58:05 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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