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00:39 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, and I'm so glad 00:43 that you've chosen to join us today. 00:46 Today's message is entitled, 00:47 "Satan has a church and a plan, Part 2." 00:50 As we learned in Part 1 of this series, 00:53 Satan is cunningly devising snares 00:55 to win over our allegiance, 00:57 whether it be willingly or as we assemble for worship, 01:01 the worship of God, and yet we neglect to accept 01:04 and to follow the sacred truths of Scripture. 01:07 How often I've heard believers express 01:10 that much of the Bible's instructions 01:12 no longer apply to us today, that we are under grace. 01:16 Most definitely, God's grace is active in His church. 01:21 Through Christ, we are given so much 01:23 more than we could ever deserve. 01:25 But, friends, grace is not a license to sin. 01:29 Allow me to share just a few quotes 01:32 from the Great Controversy, page 518. 01:35 The great controversy between Christ and Satan 01:38 that has been carried forward 01:40 for nearly 6,000 years is soon to close. 01:44 And the wicked one redoubles his efforts 01:46 to defeat the work of Christ in man's behalf, 01:49 and to fastened souls in his snares 01:52 to hold the people in darkness and impenitence 01:55 till the savior's mediation is ended 01:57 and there's no longer sacrifice for sin 02:00 is the object which he seeks to accomplish. 02:04 Though hidden from sight, 02:06 he is working with all diligence 02:08 to control the minds of the worshippers. 02:11 Like a skilful general, he lays his plans beforehand. 02:16 Oh, friends, how we need to humble, submit, 02:19 and commit our wills to our savior 02:22 and hold tightly to his loving arm 02:25 through faith as he leads us heavenward. 02:29 But before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton 02:31 for Part two of Satan has a church and a plan, 02:35 let's visit the 3ABN Worship Center 02:37 and listen to a song entitled, "He Who trust's," 02:41 by Stephanie Dawn. 02:53 These are periled times we live in 02:58 Trouble everywhere 03:02 Weary hearts will often give in 03:07 to this world's despair 03:11 But high and overall 03:14 Our father knows our every care 03:20 So in His book, if you will look 03:24 You'll find His promise there 03:31 He who trusts in the Lord 03:35 Mercy shall surround him 03:40 He who trusts in the Lord 03:44 Mercy shall surround him 03:48 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice 03:53 You upright in heart, lift up your voice 03:57 For great is His mercy 03:59 Toward all who trust in the Lord 04:12 Soon will be the time 04:15 When we will see the Holy One 04:21 And oh, how sweet to know that He'll complete 04:26 What He's begun 04:29 And blessed is the man 04:33 Who stands forgiven in God's son 04:38 And blessed are they who in that day 04:42 will hear Him say, "Well done." 04:49 He who trusts in the Lord 04:53 Mercy shall surround him 04:57 He who trusts in the Lord 05:02 Mercy shall surround him 05:06 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice 05:10 You upright in heart, lift up your voice 05:14 For great is His mercy toward all who trust 05:20 In the Lord 05:26 Gracious is He and slow to anger 05:34 His loving kindness 05:37 Has no end 05:42 With love to embrace both friend and stranger 05:49 He's reaching out to one and all 05:53 Who upon His name will call 06:00 For he who trusts in the Lord 06:05 Mercy shall surround him 06:09 He who trusts in the Lord 06:13 Mercy shall surround him 06:17 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice 06:21 You upright in heart, lift up your voice 06:25 For great is His mercy toward all who trust 06:31 In the Lord 06:36 Mercy is His reward 06:40 For all who trust, for the pure and just 06:43 Who put their trust 06:46 In the Lord 06:52 Mercy is His reward 07:00 Great is his mercy told 07:05 All who put their trust 07:10 In the Lord 07:23 Thanks for joining us here at Behold the Lamb, 07:25 we appreciate you so very much. 07:26 Thank you for your cards, your letters, 07:29 and support of this ministry. 07:30 We want to get the gospel to all the world 07:32 and you are a part of that. 07:34 We just thank you for joining in with us. 07:36 We are doing the second part of the subject 07:39 that we think is very interesting. 07:41 The title is Satan has his church and a plan. 07:45 Satan has what? 07:46 His church and a plan, and this will be part two. 07:50 But always before we go and open the pages 07:53 of this beautiful book called the Bible, we always kneel. 07:55 We have a lot of prayer beforehand 07:56 but we pray once again because we understand 07:59 the importance of praying 08:01 that the Holy Spirit will intercede 08:03 that will help us to have our minds clear 08:05 and our ears open so that we may hear the Word of God. 08:07 So if you will, some of you will be on CDs, 08:10 some of you will be DVDs, 08:11 some will be driving down the road, 08:13 others will be at home in your easy chair, 08:15 but wherever you can, 08:16 you may want to close your eyes, 08:17 others may want to get on your knees and pray with me. 08:19 I'm going to kneel as we pray together. 08:21 Let's pray, shall we? 08:25 Merciful Father in Heaven, again we thank You 08:27 for the privilege that we have to open the pages 08:29 of this beautiful book called the Bible. 08:31 We are thankful, we are grateful for the message 08:33 that you've left for each and every one of us, 08:36 words of warning, words of love and encouragement. 08:39 But Lord we ask that You would bless us special 08:41 each and every one who listens, those who watch, 08:44 we pray in a very special way 08:45 that the Holy Spirit will speak to our hearts. 08:47 Help us to realize Your coming soon. 08:49 Help us to realize that there's nothing more important 08:51 than being ready to meet You 08:53 when You come in the clouds of glory. 08:54 But there'll be obstacles along the way 08:56 and we need Your help in spotting these things 08:58 and the plan that the enemy has. 09:00 Bless us, we pray in Jesus' name. 09:02 Amen. 09:05 Again, it's always good to have pencil and paper 09:07 and have your Bible have it handy 09:08 because I always believe that you should check the preacher, 09:10 all preachers not telling you the truth, 09:12 and I may be one of them, 09:13 and the only way you can tell us is 09:15 if you can get your Bible out, isn't that right? 09:16 And check these things out 09:18 to see whether they'd be so or not. 09:20 I'm going to go over, and again, 09:22 if you've never been through this type of study, 09:24 it may be new to you. 09:26 I don't want to be shocking, I don't want to say, 09:27 oh, your name calling, your this or that. 09:30 I believe that the enemy does have his church, 09:32 the Bible said it so, and we'll go there in just a moment, 09:34 and he has his members. 09:36 God has His family, he has his members in there. 09:38 The devil has a plan to deceive you and me 09:41 and we do not want to be deceived, 09:44 so we have to understand what the Bible has to say 09:46 because God always unmasks the enemy, does he not? 09:50 He always shows us so that we're not deceived, 09:53 so that we're not caught off guard. 09:55 So what we covered last time that we were together, 09:57 I'll go over them quickly as I can. 10:00 We found out as we studied this message 10:03 that Satan has a church and he has his members, 10:07 and his members are those 10:09 who have rejected what is truth. 10:13 His members are those 10:14 who are disobedient to God's Word. 10:17 That makes sense, doesn't it? 10:18 The half converted that we talked about last week. 10:22 In fact, you say, 10:23 "Well, I don't know that the devil has a church." 10:26 Revelation 3:9, 10:29 Jesus calls it the synagogue of Satan. 10:32 So that's pretty clear to me and I pray it's clear to you, 10:36 Satan has his people. 10:38 And certainly, you can look at the Word of God 10:40 and you can find out 10:41 whether we match up with it or not. 10:43 Now what is it... 10:44 We learned this that a lukewarm or that a person 10:48 who is half converted is worse than an infidel. 10:52 That's kind of big words, isn't it? 10:53 What does that simply mean? 10:55 What do you mean worse than an infidel? 10:57 Well, because a half converted person is, notice this, 11:00 they're not even a good worldling 11:02 because they're not just out in the world 11:04 and they are all going in other world... 11:05 They are in betwixt and between, 11:08 and they're not a good Christian. 11:10 That's called lukewarm. 11:11 Jesus said, 11:12 "If you're not really converted, 11:14 I'm going to spew you what? 11:15 Out of My mouth." 11:16 That'd be hot or cold. 11:18 We learned also last week that when we talk about a witness, 11:21 lukewarm Christian is a witness against Christ, not for Christ. 11:26 We learned that God's church is the pillar 11:29 and the ground of, what? 11:30 The ground of truth is church should be. 11:33 Though many times we get off sinners some time 11:36 because we put the Word of God down, 11:38 and we decide that we want to move on, 11:40 feelings, and emotions, and my dad did, my mom did, 11:44 and grandma did, and somebody... 11:46 You know, praise God for all that, 11:47 God takes that all in the, you know, focus, 11:49 but you and I need to realize our relationship with Christ 11:52 is what is so very, very important. 11:55 We found out... 11:56 It's very interesting is that 11:58 all you is study the Word of God, 11:59 Spirit of Prophecy, you find out that the devil, 12:01 he's dirty, he's a liar, right, 12:03 he doesn't know what the truth is, 12:05 he's never told the truth, he's always... 12:06 Everything's a lie about him, that he uses hypnotic, 12:12 hypnotism in order to gain, you know, the mind of people. 12:16 So he's going to use 12:17 the hypnotic influence on those... 12:19 Now notice, he can only use it 12:21 on those who turn a deaf ear to what is truth. 12:26 Did you get that? 12:27 If we turn a deaf ear to what we know is truth, 12:31 guaranteed that the devil's going to come in, 12:34 and it's going to be like 12:36 hypnotic trance almost into that, 12:38 we don't want truth, and so if you don't want truth, 12:40 you don't want Jesus, you don't want Jesus, 12:42 he can't be there, the devil comes in 12:44 and takes full control. 12:45 We have to want truth and love truth 12:48 and be able to live it out in our life. 12:51 And we can read that in 2 Timothy, 12:53 by the way, 4:3, 4, because what we do? 12:57 We don't want the truth, 12:59 so we want the truth turned into, what? 13:01 Fables. 13:02 You know, people like fables, 13:04 they like things that it's easy, 13:05 they don't want to be stepped on, 13:07 they don't want to be hurt, you know, hurt, 13:09 they don't want anything to try to interfere with their lives. 13:11 "Stop. 13:13 I want my life and I want to live it 13:14 the way I want to live it. 13:15 I don't want anybody tell me how to do it." 13:17 Well, you may do that but the end result, 13:19 see that's going against what God wants us to do. 13:22 So we have to keep that in our hearts and our mind. 13:24 We learned that the experiences of the past, read the Bible, 13:29 go back and experiences of the past will be repeated. 13:34 See, I can say these things over and over 13:35 unless all of us get it. 13:38 It's not going to help us. 13:40 Other words, what's God do, He's unmasking the enemy, 13:44 seeing what the enemy did before 13:47 to captivate people to bring them 13:48 under his control, 13:50 he's going to do the very same things again 13:52 because it worked. 13:55 Now remember, the devil thinks he's victorious. 13:58 Does he have a right to think he's victorious? 14:01 Well, in the sense that he's deceived, 14:05 he's caused every person who's been born on this planet, 14:08 right, in this world, we're seven or what, 14:10 over seven billion people, 14:11 he's caused every one of us to sin 14:13 and to come short except for Jesus. 14:16 Think about that. That's odds, isn't it? 14:19 To say, I've caused every person. 14:21 How do I know that? 14:22 Because the Bible says, 14:24 "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." 14:26 There's only one that defeated the devil and did not sin. 14:29 That was Jesus Christ. 14:30 That's why He's my substitute. 14:32 That's why He's my surety. 14:34 Praise God for that. 14:35 It's not, "Well, I go to church on Sabbath, 14:36 therefore I'm going to make it." 14:38 Ooh. 14:39 Millions will go to church on the Sabbath 14:41 and they've received the kingdom of God, 14:42 if you don't mind me say so. 14:43 Because they love not the truth, they don't love, 14:45 you know, want to do what pleases Jesus Christ, 14:48 they want to please themselves. 14:50 But it's very, very important that we follow His command. 14:53 We began talking about something that... 14:55 I don't know if anybody raised their hand, maybe one person. 14:58 I said, "How many know about Rome's Vatican II?" 15:01 Rome's Vatican II. 15:03 I don't know if anybody raised your hand 15:04 or whatever or nod about. 15:06 It's a strategy that Rome has. 15:07 We realized from reading the Word of God, 15:09 Rome has a strategy. 15:11 We all talked about in the Book of Daniel, 15:12 Daniel 7:25. 15:14 It says, "He, the papacy shall think to change," what? 15:17 Times and laws. 15:18 "He shall think to change times and laws." 15:20 In Revelation 13, it says, 15:21 "All the world wandered after the beast, 15:23 and there are those whose names are not written 15:25 in the Lamb's Book of Life." 15:26 I have a concern about that. 15:28 I hope you have a concern about that. 15:30 Did you get that? 15:31 Basically, the whole world will follow after, what? 15:34 The Roman Church. 15:36 And what we're talking about here is celebration, 15:38 and we're talking about different things 15:40 that are going on right now 15:41 that have been implemented over the years 15:43 that the enemy is using to make sure 15:45 that we follow in the footsteps of Rome 15:47 and we don't even know it. 15:49 Interesting thought. 15:51 We talked about Rome Vatican II strategy. 15:54 Remember that all churches would do what? 15:57 Come into the fold. 15:58 Rome says, I'm the what? The mother church. 16:00 She's calling all of her, all the little harlots, 16:03 that's the Protestants, back into the fold. 16:07 They're calling, so if they're calling, 16:09 they must have a plan to get us to come in 16:12 and we're not really even aware that we are 16:14 because we're not going to attend their services, 16:16 maybe, or we're not going to believe this, 16:18 we're not going to believe that. 16:19 But a way to get us in that, we call, you know, unity, 16:23 agree on common things, 16:26 don't really stand up for what... 16:27 It doesn't matter, you can believe 16:28 what you want to believe. 16:30 We need to believe what the Bible says 16:31 and leave everything else outside. 16:34 And then also, that wants to make... 16:36 Rome and Vatican II wants to make a distinction, 16:40 or in all distinctions between religions. 16:45 They don't want any difference. 16:46 They want us just as close together as we can be, 16:49 so nobody interrupts their plan, 16:52 no one protest their plan. 16:55 See, good Protestant does what? 16:56 Protests. 16:57 He protests Catholicism, that's what a Protestant is. 17:00 People say, "Oh, you're picking on this group." 17:02 I ain't picking on anybody. 17:03 The Bible is the one who's talking about this 17:04 and we want to bring it out. 17:06 Protest against Catholicism, 17:08 because I protest and I want to, 17:10 by the grace of God, 17:11 anything that's not in the Word of God. 17:14 Somebody saying, 17:15 "Well, I believe this because..." 17:17 Well, it should be in the Word of God, shouldn't it? 17:19 If it's not founded in the Word of God, then it's just fables, 17:22 and men are just making things up. 17:25 Vatican II said there's going to be a universal, 17:28 they want a universal church. 17:29 And one way to get this universalism, 17:32 you know, in the world today 17:34 is by the celebration type worship service. 17:38 The ecumenical movement is to bring it about. 17:41 I'll prove that as we go on here 17:43 in just a moment. 17:45 Couple of other things we covered. 17:46 Rome, then by using and reforming the service 17:50 known as liturgy... 17:51 Notice this. 17:52 That's just prescribed forms of worship, that's all that is. 17:55 It's rituals that they want you to go 17:58 by rather than a thus saith the Lord. 18:01 That all churches then to accept 18:03 these little rules and regulations 18:05 and manmade forms and types. 18:08 One form that they will use is music. 18:12 You see, the Vatican's already stepped up and said, 18:15 "One way we can get people to follow after us 18:18 is the kind of music that is out there." 18:21 Because music has ways in which to affect our mind, 18:26 does it not? 18:27 Music can affect it either for good or for evil. 18:30 And sometimes what music does to many people, 18:33 it makes us get so emotional high, 18:35 and that we forget and we'll say, 18:37 "I know what the Word says but I know how I feel 18:40 when I hear this." 18:42 See, never one time in the Word of God 18:44 will you ever read that God said 18:46 live on emotions and feelings. 18:50 Well, some mornings that I would get up, 18:52 one for the grace of God, the way I feel, 18:55 I just wouldn't get up. 18:57 None of you feel like that, right? 18:58 I'm the only one, I know. 19:00 Right? 19:01 If we lived on how we felt for that moment. 19:04 I might say I almost going to throw the towel in. 19:07 But you don't, you live by what? 19:08 The Bible said, "Live by faith in Jesus Christ 19:11 and He will give you what you need." 19:14 So we know what's wrong with music. 19:18 Well, the good things could be, but again, 19:21 it affects the mind in such a way that we forget 19:24 and we don't feel good, 19:26 and this is what we're going to do, 19:28 that all of a sudden, thus saith the Lord, 19:29 we don't longer worry about thus saith the Lord. 19:32 And then we get into a frenzy, and pretty soon, we're... 19:34 Ooh, be careful. 19:36 We're dancing in the aisles, we're shouting, 19:38 we've got all kind of loud music, 19:40 there's a bedlam of noise going on, 19:43 and there's repeat, repeat, and repeat, 19:46 going over and over the same things, 19:48 and it's working people up into a frenzy. 19:52 Some of you haven't seen that or been involved, 19:53 I'm not trying to criticize individuals at all, 19:55 but you know, I want to let the Word of God say, 19:58 "This is not the way that we conduct ourselves 20:00 in the house of the Lord." 20:03 Think about that for a moment. 20:05 Think deep on that because that's very, very important. 20:09 You say, "Well, how can music be used 20:11 and how can a new form of services incorporate..." 20:15 In the last 20 years, most, all churches, 20:19 probably all churches 20:20 have changed their style of worship. 20:23 It's interesting. They've changed it. 20:25 It used to be kind of a certain form and so on. 20:28 Now it's all kind of different, all going in the same fashion, 20:32 and so on, and so forth. 20:33 Why? 20:34 Because Vatican II said beforehand, 20:36 "This is how we will reach the mass. 20:38 This is how we'll reach a lot of people 20:40 and they will begin to incorporate 20:41 that which we put out there, 20:43 so that we can come into one fold, 20:46 so that we can come into an agreement." 20:49 In fact, if you look on the wide world web there, 20:52 the charismatic news.com, here's what it says. 20:56 Now I feel free to read 20:57 what people put out there about themselves. 20:59 I think it's okay to do that. 21:01 Is that evangelical Anglicans aim to bridge the gulf 21:05 between the Pentecost and the Pope? 21:08 That's interesting heading, isn't it? 21:11 What do they aim to do? 21:12 They're going to bridge the gap between, right, 21:15 that was Protestants as it were, 21:17 and the Catholic Church and the Pope. 21:20 We have to remember there is a gulf that is there. 21:23 And they say, "Well, that gulf can be fixed." 21:26 It's not by agreeing on all the teaching. 21:28 See, sometimes we just get overboard and we'll say, 21:30 "Oh, they think I'm going to agree with all of this, 21:32 and all the teaching of whatever church it might be. 21:34 I'm never going to do that." 21:35 That's not what they're getting at. 21:38 It's a whole different angle here 21:40 that they're looking at here. 21:41 Just we want to unify or we want to have unity 21:45 on things that are just common, 21:48 things that are just kind of easy. 21:50 Things that we disagree, don't bring it up. 21:52 Have you ever heard that? 21:53 Don't talk about things we disagree on, 21:55 just talk about things... 21:56 There's a plan that's been put into motion, 21:58 and it's been going on for years, 22:00 and most didn't realize that. 22:03 Notice this article what it says. 22:05 It says, "They don't necessarily..." 22:07 Now, listen carefully in case you happen to be Baptist, 22:12 or Pentecostal, or any other faith. 22:15 They just use these names here. 22:16 Notice there. 22:18 It says, "They don't have to necessarily. 22:21 We don't envision Baptists speaking in tongues, 22:24 or Pentecostals setting up 22:26 a shrine in honor of Virgin Mary." 22:29 But a network of evangelical Episcopal pagans 22:33 is at the forefront of a movement. 22:35 It's called convergence. 22:37 I don't know if you've ever heard that. 22:39 It's called convergence or a unity movement. 22:43 This is how the Roman Catholic Church says, 22:45 "We're going to be able get the world to wander after us 22:47 is to come together and to unify us together," 22:51 and a new form of worship and music can do this thing 22:55 because they don't expect that a Baptist 22:59 is going to speak in tongues. 23:01 That's what they say in the article. 23:03 They don't expect to notice this that the Pentecostals 23:07 are going to start setting up some shrines to bow down 23:10 and worship Mary. 23:11 So the Catholic Church says what? 23:12 We don't care if they do that or not, 23:14 but we still have a plan. 23:16 Now listen. 23:17 Convergence or unity means we're going to... 23:20 That word convergence means 23:21 we're going to develop similarities. 23:26 You know, it's much easier to get along with somebody 23:27 that you're kind of similar to, somebody who has the same likes 23:30 as you like and so on and so forth. 23:32 It's easy to get along. 23:33 So we're going to, in order to have this to come 23:35 about to where all the world wanders after the beast, 23:39 there's going to have to be some similarities, 23:42 and they want to bring these to the front. 23:44 Notice this. A meeting... 23:46 So you say, "Well, no, another stuff has happened." 23:48 Listen, we're at the time of the end, 23:50 the devil is working, you know, 23:52 I'm telling in such a way that we've never seen 23:54 at least in my mind in time I've been around, 23:57 he's working in such a way that he's fooling and bringing 23:59 about things to pass just like this, 24:01 rapid movements. 24:03 There's been a meeting 24:05 between the member of Pope Francis 24:07 and the Americans charismatic and evangelical leaders. 24:12 Now who's some of those? 24:13 Just a couple, I'm real quick. 24:14 You know James Robertson? 24:16 Big time Christian right leader. 24:18 And most of it, Kenneth Copeland? 24:20 These all met together. 24:22 I've got pictures of it, there's no doubt about it. 24:24 It's not trying to make up something, 24:25 start trying to make them look bad. 24:27 It's simply saying these things are just exactly 24:30 what Scripture has said 24:31 will take place in these last days. 24:33 They've come together, John... 24:35 what's his name? Amott? 24:36 A-M-O-T-T, Amott I think it is. 24:39 These are big time Protestant Christian leaders 24:43 wanting to bridge a gap together. 24:45 The meeting took place, 24:47 and there was a seven minute video 24:50 that went viral on YouTube, 24:54 and they were swamped with all kinds of requests 24:58 for evangelical leaders, said, 25:00 "We want to be a part of what's happening. 25:02 We want to be a part of this coming together. 25:04 We want to be a part of this unity." 25:07 They were stormed. 25:10 They loved it. 25:13 It's coming to pass exactly what Scripture tells us 25:16 is happening in the world today. 25:18 How does this work? That'd be a good question. 25:20 You say, "Well, how does it work?" 25:22 Well, it works through things like, 25:23 we call celebration movement. 25:26 It's a product... 25:27 At least, in Adventism, 25:29 it's the product of new theology. 25:31 You see, we need to be interested in, what we call, 25:34 that's okay if I say old theology, 25:36 the good stuff that's always been here. 25:38 But there's always somebody coming up and say, 25:40 "Well, this is a new teaching." 25:42 I guarantee you cannot come up with a new teaching. 25:45 You may come up with a new approach, 25:47 but whatever you come up with has always been in here. 25:51 What does Solomon say? 25:53 You remember that, Brother John? 25:54 He said, "There's nothing new under the sun." 25:56 It might be new to you, it might be new to me, 25:59 but it's not new, it's always been there. 26:01 The devil said, 26:03 "I'm going to cover up the truth." 26:06 Now using the illustration, someone might make you sick, 26:08 but you know so what? 26:09 They just will scan you around if you get real sick. 26:14 If you think about it... 26:15 Remember, the devil wants to cover up what? 26:18 Truth, right? 26:19 And so every time truth is thrown out there, 26:22 he's trying to throw something over it. 26:25 You know, if you have kitty cats, 26:26 you'd know what I'm talking about. 26:30 Sister Mary, you know about cats? 26:33 They are not like dogs. 26:34 Dogs go use a restroom out there 26:36 and they just walk off. 26:40 The cats always covers over. 26:43 It always... 26:45 It never fails to stop and to cover over. 26:49 The enemy never fails to cover over 26:51 when truth is laid out. 26:54 Never. 26:55 So we have to be aware of that. 26:59 So it's through celebration and new theology. 27:02 You know, one thing new theology taught, 27:04 at least in Adventism. 27:06 Most churches never even go into 27:07 about the nature of Christ. 27:09 They taught that the nature of Christ, 27:11 they said, "Well, you know, 27:12 His human nature was different than ours." 27:16 Well, if it's different than ours, 27:18 He can't be my savior. 27:20 Bible said it, right? 27:22 Everything was the same. He's the same. 27:25 He took our fallen natures, right, after 4,000 years of sin 27:30 so that He could be my savior. 27:31 He never had an edge. 27:33 But new theology says, "Well, He had little edge." 27:35 That's saying what? 27:36 We cannot be like Him, 27:38 that we cannot gain victory in our life. 27:40 Well, that's what the new theology says, 27:42 it's not true. 27:44 Some say, "Oh, Jesus is our substitute. 27:47 But He's not our example." 27:49 That's not true. 27:50 1 Peter 2:21. 27:53 It said, "He's leaving us an example," 27:55 you remember, "that we should follow in his footsteps." 27:57 Do you remember that? 27:59 John 13:15, it says, "I've given you an example." 28:04 Jesus always, His whole life was what? 28:07 One of an example that I can feel safe 28:09 in following in His footsteps. 28:11 Whatever Jesus, what He lived, what He taught, what He said, 28:14 I can feel confident, and ensure that it's right, 28:19 to believe, just to believe Jesus Christ. 28:24 Now we find that man somehow is trying to take over 28:28 and we're losing power in the church. 28:31 We think that there's power still in the church. 28:34 Well, I think we've lost a lot of that power 28:36 because we're still interested in public relations, 28:38 we're so interested in exciting music, 28:41 we're so exciting in celebration worship, 28:44 we're so excited about colorful programs, 28:46 and exciting the kids, and exciting the older ones, 28:49 and everybody getting excited. 28:52 We're so excited about programs that are going on, 28:55 about theatrics that's going on in the church. 28:58 We're so excited about shirtless men 29:00 getting up on the platform performing music. 29:04 Somebody's not with me? 29:05 I've seen that. 29:07 That's a disgrace as far as I'm concerned. 29:08 I can't even imagine the platform on Sabbath 29:13 getting up without a shirt on and playing all kind of music 29:16 that played at some kind of a dance hall place. 29:20 It seems that maybe God is removing His Spirit 29:23 because of our choices that we're making. 29:26 Many people are trained, this is what, 29:30 trained in God's last day church 29:33 in techniques of celebration. 29:36 They're trained on how to read people 29:38 and how to do certain things 29:40 to make them do what you want them to do. 29:42 Shame on us. 29:45 Jesus doesn't even do that. 29:46 God doesn't do that to us. 29:48 He lays out the facts and lets us make the choice. 29:51 That sounds like the best thing to me. 29:55 See, twice before in the history of this world, 29:59 at least when we're talking about in recent... 30:02 We're talking about Satan has tried to bring about... 30:05 And I talked about celebration is spiritualistic 30:08 because there're supernatural things that happen 30:11 that's contrary to Scripture. 30:12 So that means the enemy is at work. 30:14 Remember this, the enemy has joined the church. 30:17 Yes. 30:19 Nobody got this? Somebody didn't. 30:21 I heard it. Yeah, but you know what? 30:24 Most times somebody said, "I heard it," 30:25 but I understood, it's like, "Well, he's not joining me." 30:31 This is the real deal. 30:34 He's joined the church. 30:37 He's not interested in those who he has. 30:40 He already has them. 30:43 He's interested in those who want to serve Jesus, 30:46 those who won't follow him. 30:49 'Cause remember, there is no middle ground. 30:51 He said, "You're either for me or against me." 30:53 That's what Jesus said in His Word. 30:55 "He who is not with me, scatters," He says. 30:59 So it's one or the other, and if you're not... 31:01 Jesus is not Lord, then we know the enemy comes in 31:04 and kind of does what he wants and lays out 31:07 and we follow in his foot. 31:08 We don't want to do that. 31:10 Twice before Satan's tried to bring 31:11 about this kind of spiritualistic experience. 31:16 Right after the disappointment of 1844, there was a, you know, 31:20 excitement about the Holy Spirit. 31:22 You know, the latter rain falling, 31:24 and people started getting, you know, involved, 31:26 and they started getting excited about things 31:28 that were going on, and then again 31:30 about the turn of the 19th century here 31:34 that each group, each thought 31:37 that there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 31:40 And notice, 31:41 when they were associated with this group 31:43 and they begin to get on the edges, 31:44 and they began to overdo 31:46 and get away from the Word of God, 31:47 I'll tell you some things that were involved every time. 31:50 Music was involved, drums were involved, 31:55 interesting, and swing or even dancing. 31:59 Now you can just take it for whatever that's worth, 32:01 but when these things took place, 32:03 this was always involved, why, because emotions, 32:08 because that's what... 32:09 What do you think people do 32:11 when they go out to the clubs and to the dance halls? 32:14 They start to feel good, don't they? 32:16 They get to move, and twist, and shaking, and carrying on. 32:19 Everybody says, "Forget the, you know..." 32:21 You don't have a good sense. 32:22 We lose reality. 32:26 It's interesting, and we can't deny it 32:28 whether we agree with it or not, 32:29 we can't deny. 32:31 These things were involved because the enemy knows 32:33 if we get these things involved, 32:35 it's going to get some followers every time. 32:38 I love the book, Selected Messages Book 2, 32:40 and page 36 tells us this. 32:42 Here's what's happening in the last days. 32:44 It says, "Every," notice the word, 32:46 "Every uncouth thing will be demonstrated. 32:49 There will be shouting, with drums, and music, 32:52 and dancing. 32:53 The senses of the rational being 32:55 will become so confused that they cannot be trusted 32:59 to make right decisions." 33:00 Did you get it? 33:02 And then it says as a question, 33:03 "This is called the moving of the Holy Spirit." 33:07 We'll say, well, that's Selected Messages. 33:09 What did 1 Timothy 4:2 said? 33:12 It says, "There comes a time that the people 33:14 have their conscience seared with" what? 33:17 "With a hot iron." 33:18 That means they've had their... They don't have a con... 33:20 The world we live in a world where people don't, 33:22 some don't have a conscience. 33:24 It's true. No, well. 33:26 Nobody's getting it. 33:27 It's all right. 33:28 Nothing bothers them. 33:32 People just pick out a gun, 33:33 go to school to start shooting people, 33:34 and there's no remorse about it. 33:36 They don't say, "I've lost my head." 33:38 They don't say, "I'm crazy." 33:39 They just do it because they wanted to do it. 33:41 A voice told them to do it. 33:42 Right. 33:46 The time will come 33:47 when people don't want to hear the truth, 33:49 and when you reject the truth, guaranteed, 33:51 "Your conscience will be seared," 33:52 the Bible said, and that means, 33:54 "It's going to be rendered unsensitive." 33:57 That's what seared means in the Greek, 34:01 unsensitive to what's going on. 34:03 It means to branch, 34:06 to burn it, callus it, 34:10 where you don't feel it. 34:13 You know, we need to have hearts 34:14 that can be touched by Jesus Christ. 34:16 Amen. 34:17 We don't need to be hard hearted. 34:19 We don't need to be unlovely. 34:21 But the enemy is working these things out 34:23 so that we can. 34:25 What's the danger then you say? What's the danger? 34:28 The danger is God said that these things, 34:31 in the Word of God, that people will have what? 34:33 You know, that they turned the truth into a lie, 34:36 and then they're talking about fables. 34:38 They love all of this stuff. 34:40 And all of a sudden, their conscience begin to have 34:42 no conscience anymore, 34:43 they can't make a difference between that which is good 34:45 and that which is, you know, which is bad. 34:47 But Jesus said, "These things will happen 34:49 just before I come." 34:51 Just before probation closes, these things 34:54 would be taking place in the church. 34:57 In fact, in Isaiah Chapter 22, if you read the whole chapter, 35:00 we can't do it, got no time. 35:02 I'm moving fast, talking fast. I'm sorry. 35:03 It's the way it is. 35:05 Said that, "There would be no atonement made 35:06 for those who join in when probation closes." 35:10 For those who join in this kind of a movement 35:12 because it's spiritualistic, 35:14 because there's evil spirits that's working, because... 35:16 How do you know they're evil spirits? 35:18 Because they are going against what Scripture says. 35:21 Now it doesn't take a smart person, 35:22 I'm not a smart person, don't claim to be. 35:25 But if you know what the Bible said, 35:26 and they're doing the opposite and calling it holy, 35:29 it's still unholy. 35:31 Does that make sense, Sister Mary? 35:33 Call it what you want 35:36 how you feel about it, but the Bible says it's unholy. 35:39 These are things... 35:40 Be still and know that I'm God. 35:44 But we think we go, 35:45 and we jump over the pews and hang 35:47 from the chandeliers that we've had a service. 35:50 I mean, there're times that I feel like 35:52 stand up and shouting, and some time I guess I do. 35:57 But it's not for a show. 36:00 It's not because well, emotions take on... 36:02 Because my heart swells up with joy as yours does 36:05 when I talk about Jesus and what He's done, 36:07 and the only possibility of me making it to heaven 36:09 because I'm filthy, I'm not good, 36:11 there's no not one 36:12 but because I've accepted Jesus and His life., 36:14 He's washed me whiter than snow, 36:16 He's cleaned up my messy life, and He's made me, what? 36:18 Like Him because I simply just submitted to Him. 36:22 Man, that's simple. 36:24 You want heaven to be your home. 36:26 And so I say for those who say, "Oh, we celebrate, man. 36:29 We've got to celebrate." 36:31 Churches all over, Adventist church all, 36:32 they're in celebration mode. 36:34 I ask you this question. 36:35 Is it time to celebrate right now 36:37 before Jesus comes 36:39 or should we be sighing and crying 36:40 for the abominations that be done? 36:42 Mercy. 36:44 Should we be sighing and crying for the abominations 36:45 that are done in the world, 36:47 in our schools in the shootings, and things 36:49 that's going on in the midst of this world 36:51 that we don't hardly know anything 36:52 that's really going on? 36:54 What little bit we hear drives us almost crazy, 36:56 how can people do this to other people. 36:59 And how long will God let it go on? 37:01 I can guarantee you this, 37:02 He's not going to let it go on much longer. 37:04 He can't. 37:08 He can't let it go on. 37:11 So I believe we need to be, that's Ezekiel Chapter 9, 37:14 sighing and crying for those abominations. 37:18 And I think it's going to be time to celebrate 37:20 when Jesus comes, 37:21 when all my labors and trials are over, 37:23 and I am safe on that beautiful shore 37:26 just to be near the Dear Lord I adore, 37:29 will through the ages be glory for me. 37:32 Then standing on that sea of glass, 37:35 Brother Mark, I believe I could celebrate 37:37 if I could use that word. 37:38 Don't turn on the Word. 37:39 It's what man has done to the Word. 37:41 But we have to be very careful about God's warning. 37:45 We cannot afford to attend any place 37:49 where error, false doctrines 37:51 are being pressed upon the mind. 37:54 I'm telling you right now. 37:55 You think you can, you cannot. 37:58 You cannot outsmart the enemy. 37:59 You cannot outdo the enemy. 38:01 You think you can go and listen to error, 38:03 and you're going to be all right. 38:04 You will be taken. 38:06 Eve thought she could go to the tree. 38:07 She thought she could conversed 38:09 with the devil himself out there 38:10 and she could come out victorious, 38:12 she could learn a little of something. 38:14 She was fool. 38:15 It got her husband and got all of us 38:18 because of one choice she made. 38:20 "Well, I've only made one bad choice." 38:22 Well, that's enough. 38:24 Look what one bad choice did. 38:26 Send them out of the garden. 38:30 One bad choice could keep us out of heaven. 38:34 You see, you say, "Well, what's so bad about it 38:36 if I go and I listen to somebody 38:37 preaching false doctrine or teaching... 38:40 Well, it doesn't matter, you know, 38:41 what happens when you die?" 38:43 It does matter 38:44 because the Bible says it matters, 38:45 because it's the truth. 38:47 You see, it's the truth of God's Word 38:48 or it's the truth of devil. 38:49 You're listening to the devil or you're listening to God. 38:51 To me, that's just as simple. 38:52 You'll have to decide what it is, 38:54 but you're going to have to study it, 38:56 you're going to have to find out. 38:58 "Oh, you're going to burn in hell forever 39:00 and ever and ever." 39:01 Because the Bible says sometimes ever and ever, 39:04 you need to look at what ever and ever, 39:06 you know, means to us today. 39:08 When ever and ever in the Bible refers to God, 39:11 it refers to the angels, it refers to heaven, 39:13 that's exactly, there is no limit. 39:15 When it refers to mankind, it means in the Greek, 39:18 age lasting. 39:19 It lasts for an age, root and branch. 39:24 If the devil's going to come to an end, 39:26 why shouldn't we as sinners come to an end? 39:29 Have you done everything that the devil has done? 39:31 The Bible said, "You're going to pay by," what? 39:33 "The deeds that we've done in this body." 39:35 Have you done all the awful deeds 39:37 that he's done over 6,000 years? 39:39 I doubt it. 39:41 I hope somebody's getting that. 39:42 If you're not, just let it go over your head. 39:44 Don't worry about it. 39:47 We cannot afford to focus on error because, 39:49 let me tell you why, John. 39:52 You know, why, Brother John, I can't focus on it 39:54 because when I'm focusing on error 39:56 and listen somebody give error, I cannot focus on the truth. 40:00 You can't do both. 40:02 It's one or the other. 40:05 "Truth so that we can stand in the day of God." 40:07 I believe we're standing in the day of God. 40:10 That's why Ephesians 6:11 says put on the what? 40:13 "Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand 40:16 against the wiles of the devil." 40:18 Don't tell me he doesn't have any wiles. 40:20 He's after you, he's after me. 40:22 Listen to this warning quickly, it's getting... 40:23 Our time is winding down. 40:25 Early Writings, 124 tells us this. 40:27 "We are to..." 40:29 Here's what gets my goat. 40:30 It's just what it is. 40:31 If I can say that, I'm telling you, 40:33 somebody pray for me. 40:35 You hear it, you've heard it over and over, 40:38 I've heard it over and over, 40:39 but yet I choose to make different decisions. 40:41 Wow. 40:43 I choose to do something different 40:44 and still think I'm all right with God. 40:46 How can I? 40:47 The Bible says, "Come apart and be separate 40:49 and touch not the unclean thing." 40:52 Lord, have mercy how could it be any clear, 40:55 but yet, we think we can touch the unclean, 40:57 we can delve around in the world, 40:58 and we're going to be all right, you're not. 41:00 No. 41:02 I'm not mad at anybody... 41:03 I'm frustrated to the point that I'm saying, 41:05 "Oh, Lord, have mercy." 41:08 Why? Because your soul is important. 41:10 My soul is important. 41:12 Every person is, 41:13 and I can't stand to see somebody being taken 41:15 when there's no use to be taken. 41:16 You can hear the truth. 41:20 The article says, the Bible says come apart 41:22 and be separate. 41:23 The article tells us, 41:24 "We are to be separate from those 41:26 who are daily imbibing new errors." 41:29 We are to be separate from those who are what? 41:31 Daily. Daily imbibing. 41:33 That means those 41:34 who are daily drinking in error, 41:37 those who are listening to error on the radio, 41:40 those who are listening to error on the TV, 41:42 those who are listening to error 41:43 from the preacher in the pulpit. 41:45 Are you still there? 41:48 We are to separate from that. 41:51 We are imbibing new errors means that 41:53 which we are taking into the mind, 41:55 do you notice that? 41:57 That which we are absorbing. 41:58 You cannot afford 42:00 and I cannot afford to absorb error. 42:02 Makes sense? All right. That's right. 42:04 Then I should get a chair and just sit down. 42:05 I'll get comfortable too. 42:07 No. We are not thinking. 42:08 Well, think about those, think about it. 42:10 We think that we can... 42:12 As soon as I hear on radio, TV, whatever it is what I believe, 42:16 and that's all I can do is the best I know how to do, 42:19 soon as I hear one lie, 42:21 one thing that's taken out of context, 42:22 one thing that's not from the Word of God, 42:24 he's gone. 42:26 I'm not going to sit and listen anymore 42:28 because I know... 42:29 Maybe he's not responding, maybe he doesn't understand, 42:31 it's not blaming that fellow, do you get me? 42:33 It's not blaming all these people preaching 42:35 all this kind of stuff. 42:36 But the enemy has taken over. 42:39 I'm listening to... 42:40 If it's not the truth, it's a lie of the devil. 42:41 Can we say amen to that? Is anybody here? 42:44 If it's not the truth of God, it is a lie of the devil. 42:50 But if you don't know what truth is, 42:52 you're going to drink in those lies. 42:53 I'm going to drink my... 42:54 I can't do that. 42:57 Said here in Early Writings, "I saw," notice, 43:00 "that neither young nor old should attend their meetings, 43:03 for it's wrong to thus encourage them 43:05 while they teach error 43:07 that is a deadly poison to the soul 43:09 and teach for doctrines the commandments of men." 43:12 I mean, how much clearer can it get? 43:15 Come apart and be separate, touch not. 43:16 Don't be listening to error 43:18 because it will contaminate you. 43:20 Pretty soon, your mind's going to get confused 43:21 because you're not sure. 43:23 One man is saying this, one voice is saying that. 43:25 God's Word has said this. 43:27 That's right. 43:28 This is what God's Word says. 43:29 This is what we hang on to. 43:31 Who you want to please? 43:33 You want to please man or you want to please God? 43:34 You please man, I guarantee you, 43:36 hell is going to be your choice or mine. 43:40 Does that make sense? 43:41 Not trying to be difficult here. 43:42 No one here may fit into that. 43:44 That's not the idea. 43:46 There is somebody that fits into 43:47 what I'm talking about here. 43:49 And the warning is for me, I'm reading it. 43:51 Stomping on my toes and I understand. 43:52 I cannot afford to listen to error. 43:55 I'm going to become confused. 43:56 I can't afford to run around with people 43:58 who are teaching and preaching lies 43:59 and errors even if they don't even know 44:02 that they are, it's going to affect me. 44:06 Everybody influences everybody. 44:09 No matter what it is, we're influenced. 44:11 Brother Carson was influenced by that can 44:17 and maybe the $5. 44:18 Some of you won't get it, we won't go into that. 44:20 But there was an influence there. 44:24 Does it make sense? 44:27 Listen church. 44:28 Does it make sense if God has called you 44:30 out of darkness into marvelous light 44:33 that you go back in the darkness? 44:35 Does that make sense? 44:37 No, if he's called you out of darkness, 44:40 if he's brought home the truth that you know 44:42 is truth from God's Word, 44:44 why in this world will we go back? 44:47 That's what 1 Peter 2:9 says. 44:50 He says, "I've called you out of darkness 44:52 into marvelous light." 44:56 I'll tell you this. 44:57 If we do that, God will not keep us. 45:01 The angels of the heaven cannot protect us 45:03 if we go places and do things that we know is not correct. 45:06 God cannot do that. 45:08 We will have to fight our own battles. 45:11 If you fight your own battle, I fight my own battle 45:13 without the mercy and grace of God, 45:15 we will lose every time. 45:17 We can't fight the enemy. 45:19 We're not big enough. 45:20 We're not strong enough to, 45:21 but Jesus is because He's never lost a battle. 45:24 All you have to do is submit it to Him, 45:25 He'll take up your battle, He'll fight it for you, 45:28 He'll give you what you need, He'll change your life, 45:31 He'll change your heart. 45:32 He'll make you into His image 45:33 that we can be what we need to be before Jesus comes. 45:37 Man, I tell you. I want to make it to heaven. 45:39 I want you to make it there. 45:41 Heaven's not going to be the same if you're missing. 45:44 Let's compare a few statements. 45:45 Man, with only 10 minutes or some, 45:47 I've not even get started here. 45:49 Let's compare quickly, if we can, 45:50 statements to see if there's any difference 45:52 between giving a three angels' message and celebration. 45:56 See if there's a difference to you. 45:58 Do you believe it's time 45:59 to give the three angels' message past time, 46:01 or is it time to celebrate? 46:03 Number one, notice this here. 46:05 Three angels' message calls the people 46:08 out of Babylon, is that right? 46:09 Yes. 46:11 Revelation 14, anybody can read it. 46:13 Three angels' message calls the people 46:14 out of Babylon. 46:16 Babylon is the, what? 46:17 Religious world out there that's drunk 46:20 with the wine of false doctrine and teaching. 46:22 As a drunk doesn't know where he's at, 46:23 he doesn't know 46:25 if it's daylight or dark sometimes. 46:27 And that's the way the devil's laughing at us. 46:28 They don't know diddly about the Bible. 46:31 Let me go on. 46:33 Is that what three angels' message does? 46:34 Absolutely. 46:36 Celebration movement is the message of Babylon. 46:39 Listen carefully. 46:41 Rome gives that message, spiritualism. 46:44 Or I'm going to be careful. 46:45 Oh, the charismatic movement. 46:49 It's pushed on by Apostate Protestantism. 46:53 Its purpose is to get the whole world 46:55 to worship on Sunday. 46:59 You think I'm out of my mind? I'm not. 47:02 There's more proof than you can shake a stick at, 47:04 there's more books that you can read in life time. 47:08 And the Bible is so clear that there is a movement, 47:11 the enemy has a movement, 47:12 and he's using people at churches 47:15 to do his bidding for him, 47:17 to bring all back to what, so there will be a Sunday law, 47:20 and we know there is going to be. 47:22 Quickly. 47:23 Third angel's message is a pure gospel 47:25 about gaining victory in our life, is that true? 47:28 Absolutely, it is. 47:29 Celebration movement is a false gospel, 47:32 it's given by false shepherds and prophets, 47:35 and it's proclaiming salvation and sin. 47:38 Did you get it? 47:40 Salvation, no, the celebration movement 47:42 is saying basically, 47:44 "Have sin, don't worry about it. 47:45 You're going to make it. Do the best you can." 47:47 That's not what the Bible teaches you. 47:48 Three angels' message proclaims the judgment in our message. 47:50 Is that true? Yes, it does. 47:52 It gives the three angels'... 47:53 Celebration, 47:55 there is no judgment in our message. 47:57 It's encouraging everyone, all come back into the fold, 48:02 come back and let Rome be in charge. 48:06 Three angels' message calls men to worship God 48:08 through divine help, and that we can completely, 48:11 by divine help, obey the law of God. 48:14 "If God tells me all things are possible," the Bible says. 48:17 Celebration movement is controlled by man 48:20 and by the enemy. 48:22 It's under the control of Satan. 48:25 And it says, you know 48:26 what that message celebration says? 48:27 You cannot keep the Law of God. 48:29 That's what the enemy said from the very beginning. 48:31 "You can't keep the law." 48:32 Can't keep the Law of God. 48:34 Third angel's message calls for men to worship God 48:36 on the seventh day Sabbath. 48:39 That's what it says in the Bible. 48:40 "Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." 48:42 I'm not making it up, don't have any extra grind, 48:45 I don't get a star, 48:46 I don't get in more money for saying it, 48:47 it's what the Bible says. 48:49 True. Amen. 48:50 The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 48:52 It's God's day, 48:53 it's not Seventh-day Adventist's day. 48:55 It's not Seventh-day Baptist day. 48:57 It's not the Seventh-day Church of God day. 48:58 It's God's day. 49:00 That's what the Bible says. 49:02 Calls them into worship God on Sabbath. 49:03 Celebration movement, according to Vatican II 49:06 and their paperwork that they've wrote out, 49:08 their plan to deceive the whole world together. 49:11 They say what? 49:13 We want to have a day that we can call celebration, 49:15 and the day that we celebrate, 49:17 when all the churches celebrate with us 49:19 will be on Sunday. 49:21 Second angel's message says Babylon 49:23 has fallen because of what? 49:25 Because of her sins. Why? 49:27 Because they've rejected God, they rejected what is truth, 49:32 and the enemy takes over. 49:34 Notice with me, Early Writings, quickly, 73. 49:36 It says, now, 49:38 some of you're not going to get this, 49:39 some of you don't really care. 49:40 But listen, it's important. 49:42 "Satan has taken 49:43 full possessions of the churches as a body." 49:48 We are living in the last days of earth's history. 49:52 We're talking about 1844 and the movement, 49:55 and the message it was given, the three angels', 49:57 and the majority of the world 49:58 rejected those three angels' message. 50:01 Oh, friend. 50:03 If you look at it right now, Satan then is what? 50:04 If you reject the truth of God's Word, what happened? 50:07 The enemy then is allowed to come in 50:09 and take possession of your church. 50:12 You reject any truth, he's going to come in 50:14 and he'll give you a false doctrine, 50:15 false teaching. 50:17 Early Writings, 74, says this, "An innumerable, " 50:20 and you can't even number them, 50:22 "host of evil angels 50:23 are spreading over the whole land 50:26 and crowding into the churches." 50:28 That should make us... 50:30 I'm telling you, we should be alarmed, 50:31 there should be bells and whistles going off, 50:33 there should be fire alarms going off. 50:35 There should be something about this to say, 50:37 "We can't take this city down." 50:40 This is the awesome time. 50:41 I don't want to see anybody fooled, 50:43 I don't want to be fooled. 50:45 Three angels' message 50:46 is the most fearful message ever given to mankind, 50:50 is that true? 50:52 Three angels' message 50:53 is the most fearful warning ever given to mankind 50:55 in all Scripture, is what? 50:57 Not to receive the mark of the beast. 51:01 And eventually, it's not now, 51:03 but eventually when the Sunday law is passed, 51:05 that will end up being, what is that, 51:07 eventually, the mark of the beast 51:09 will be Sunday keeping. 51:11 Is somebody still with me? I can't say it any plainer. 51:13 No one has the mark. 51:15 Yeah. 51:17 But when the Sunday law is finally passed, 51:19 you're going to have to choose. 51:20 If you're riding the fence right now 51:22 and you're trying to play God, 51:23 you think that you can get away with all the stuff. 51:24 The time will come 51:26 when you can't ride that fence anymore, 51:27 all you're getting is splinters, 51:28 you have to go see the doctor or get a shot. 51:31 Somebody not with me? 51:33 You're going to have to decide, why not decide now? 51:38 Bible is clear. 51:41 Celebration movement, the ultimate goal. 51:44 According to the Vatican II, not according to... 51:46 Well, Seventh-day Adventists, this group says this, 51:48 that group... 51:49 According to Vatican II, the documents 51:52 that they have is to get the whole world to worship her 51:55 on celebration Sunday. 51:57 Did you get that? Oh, wow. 52:00 So we must be careful. 52:01 So we're not... 52:03 You know, that we've come so far, 52:05 that we can't use the word celebration. 52:06 Ooh, need to be very careful. No, it's not that. 52:08 But notice some of the words you find in celebration. 52:11 We have four minutes left. Listen. 52:12 You hear all the time. 52:14 Well, celebration of the Word, we're going to celebrate mass, 52:17 we're going to celebrate a worthy celebration, 52:20 even a funeral is celebration, celebration of Sunday, 52:24 celebration of the Lord's Supper, 52:26 celebration of matrimony and marriage, song celebration, 52:30 sacred celebration, celebration of the Eucharist, 52:33 the list just goes on and on and on. 52:35 The Vatican is using it and pushing it 52:38 through the charismatic and the different groups 52:40 to bring it out. 52:42 Here comes from Spiritus Domini 52:45 written on 16th April, 1970, says this. 52:48 "The spirit of the Lord..." 52:50 This is the Vatican, this is the Rome talking. 52:52 Notice what Rome's saying. 52:53 "The spirit of the Lord is at work 52:55 in the present day ecumenical movement." 52:57 Isn't that interesting? 52:59 Huh. 53:00 "In order that the obstacles 53:02 enduring perfect ecclesiastical communion has been surmount..." 53:07 In other words, there's things in there 53:08 that's causing us to be all united together. 53:10 But soon, these things are going to be worked out. 53:12 Notice this. 53:14 Rome says, "The unity of all churches 53:17 may at last be restored." 53:18 If we can get a few wrinkles out of this, 53:21 "Unity of all churches," notice this, 53:22 "will be restored and shine forth, 53:25 for all people are called to be a single new people, 53:28 confessing one Jesus, Savior and Lord," 53:31 notice this, "professing one faith, 53:34 celebrating one Eucharistic mystery." 53:38 Did you get that? 53:40 This is the plan that's laid out there. 53:42 The Bible is very, very clear on that. 53:44 The ultimate goal it is to finally have the whole world 53:47 celebrate one Eucharist mystery on Sunday, 53:50 that means one communion, one Lord's Supper. 53:53 Notice this. 53:54 "Person who would serve Christ cannot follow Rome." 53:58 The person who is going to follow Christ, 54:00 you can't follow the world and the world's opinion. 54:03 You can't meet the world's standard 54:05 if you want to see Jesus. 54:07 That's why Jesus said in Matthew 6:24... 54:09 See Christ doesn't say that man will not 54:13 or that man shall not serve two masters, 54:15 but that he cannot. 54:17 He didn't say, "He wouldn't." 54:19 He said, "He cannot serve two masters." 54:21 So let me tell you today. 54:22 You are trying to serve two masters, 54:24 it can't happen 54:25 because Jesus said that it can't happen. 54:28 Boy. 54:30 There's no neutral position, no middle ground. 54:33 Great Controversy says, notice, 54:35 "The very beginning of the great apostasy 54:37 was in seeking to supplement the authority of God's Word 54:40 by the church," the Roman Church. 54:42 Notice, "Rome began, notice, 54:43 "enjoining what God had not forbidden..." 54:46 Rome started out, 54:47 Church of Rome started out saying, 54:49 "This is what God's Word says we will do." 54:50 But notice what happened. 54:51 "She ended by forbidding 54:53 what He had explicitly enjoined." 54:56 They changed their plan, they changed their mind. 55:00 The Catholic Charismatic Celebration movement 55:03 prophesied by inspiration 55:05 that's going to bring in an acceptance, 55:08 a proclamation to proclaim the worship of the devil 55:11 when he appears as Christ in this movement. 55:14 It's deadly. 55:16 2 Corinthians, the Bible said, 11:14, 55:17 "The devil's going to come as Christ," didn't he? 55:20 "And it will form the image to the beast, 55:22 this movement will form the image to the beast." 55:24 It's going to pass the national Sunday law, 55:26 it's going to pass the death decree 55:28 against all who're faithful to God 55:30 and keep His commandments. 55:32 Revelation 13:15, 16. 55:35 "Satan has his church and a plan." 55:38 My brothers and sisters, don't get involved with this. 55:41 Any deviation from the Word of God, 55:43 please don't go that direction. 55:45 It may sound tough, it may sound too difficult, 55:48 you want smooth things preached to you. 55:50 But dear, friends, 55:51 I'd raise my hand and praise God to say, 55:53 "Thank you, God 55:54 that you're warning us of these things 55:56 that are right now in the church." 55:57 He said it, the spirit especially, right? 56:00 The last days, the demons are going to be working. 56:02 I'm going to pray for you right now 56:03 for those of you at home, 56:05 those who've heard for the first things, 56:06 kind of tough, I'm going to do it quickly. 56:08 Let's pray together, shall we, as we close. 56:09 Father, which art in heaven, 56:10 we thank You for Your precious Word, 56:12 thank You for Your love that You have for us. 56:13 Lord, impress and bless hearts and minds of those 56:16 who maybe this is all new, it's shaking them all up, 56:18 bless and we pray to this and that they may receive 56:20 what is truth and follow in Jesus' name, amen. 56:23 Hello and welcome back, friends. 56:25 I pray that your spiritual eyesight 56:27 has truly been sharpened by the Word of God 56:30 through this two-part series with Pastor Kenny Shelton. 56:33 The enemy is out to kill, steal, 56:35 and to destroy in every way possible 56:37 that he can device. 56:39 His strength and his intelligence 56:41 is far beyond any human's capability. 56:43 But praise God. 56:45 We are not left alone in the spiritual warfare. 56:48 Christ has overcome. 56:50 He won the battle for our souls at Calvary. 56:53 He's now finishing up His work as our High Priest and mediator 56:57 in the Holy of Holies, 56:59 but we need to humbly call upon His name, 57:02 and He is always ready and able to empower 57:05 and to strengthen us on the path of righteousness. 57:08 Friends, Satan does have a church, 57:10 he does have a plan for our souls, 57:13 but we have a powerful God given ability 57:16 to choose not to be a part of his plans. 57:19 That's why we're making this two-part series entitled, 57:22 "Satan has a Church and a Plan, " 57:24 available to you for a love gift 57:26 of just $15 or more. 57:28 Simply contact us here at Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:32 by calling 618-942-5044. 57:36 Or write to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:38 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:42 Email your order 57:44 to BeholdTheLambMinistries @Yahoo.com, 57:46 or you may also order these messages on our website 57:49 at BeholdTheLambMinistries.com. 57:52 Until next time, friends, may our precious Lord 57:55 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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