Behold the Lamb Presents

Hope In Times of Trouble

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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I am Chris Shelton
00:42 and I want to thank you for joining us today.
00:44 This message today is number 13
00:46 out of 25 Bible studies
00:48 that correlate with this Bible Study guide that is entitled
00:52 "Sharing God's love makes you happier,
00:54 what the Bible says."
00:56 And I don't know about you but I don't know anyone
00:58 that doesn't wanna be happier in this life.
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01:46 Now lesson number 13,
01:48 and the guide that we are going to talk about today
01:50 is entitled, "Hope in times of trouble."
01:54 If you are alive,
01:55 if you're breathing on this planet,
01:57 this planet that has fallen into sin
02:00 in every despicable nature that you can think of,
02:04 then you desire hope in your family and your life.
02:07 Times of trouble,
02:09 they come to us in many varied forms,
02:11 loss of life, illness, divorce, loss of birth, finances,
02:16 loss of homes due to...
02:18 Look at all the natural disasters.
02:20 And on and on the stories of trouble
02:23 take their unwanted shapes
02:25 in each and every one of our lives.
02:27 But praise God for a book that He has given us.
02:31 The very book that He has chosen
02:33 to speak to us through,
02:35 that indeed gives us hope for the present
02:38 and encouragement for our tomorrows,
02:40 and that being the Bible.
02:43 And in the Bible is where we will look today
02:46 for the promises, the power
02:48 that we can claim for our very own,
02:50 but before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton
02:52 for today's message,
02:54 let's visit 3ABN and be blessed by a song that is entitled,
02:58 "Here's One" by our dear friend Kendol Bacchus.
06:34 Thank you for joining us once again
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07:07 One purpose in mind, get the message out
07:09 so that Jesus can come.
07:11 Again, we're thankful for you.
07:13 Always before we get into the Word,
07:14 we're going to be talking about,
07:15 as you heard my wife already talked about it,
07:17 hope in time of trouble.
07:19 You know, we're living in that time,
07:21 the time of trouble, there is hope.
07:23 And praise God,
07:24 we're going to be searching Scripture to find that hope.
07:26 And we pray to be an encouragement to you.
07:28 But as usual, before we begin the message,
07:30 we pray.
07:31 I'm going to kneel, let's pray together, shall we?
07:36 Loving Father in heaven, again,
07:37 we thank You for the privilege we have
07:39 to present Your Word today.
07:41 We need the power of Thy Holy Spirit.
07:43 We need understanding of Scripture.
07:45 We need to understand what You have for us.
07:47 So we pray that Your Holy Spirit
07:48 will take full possession of each of our hearts
07:50 and our lives.
07:52 And, Lord, as the message go forward
07:53 that will penetrate every ear, every mind, every heart,
07:56 decisions will be made now, now for eternity.
07:59 And I thank You and, Lord,
08:00 what You're going to do in advance
08:02 as we take our hands off of it,
08:03 and we let the Holy Spirit do the leading and guiding,
08:06 in Jesus' name, amen.
08:09 Again if you have your Bibles,
08:10 and it's always good to have your Bibles,
08:12 I say time and time again that you just can't trust,
08:16 you know, without looking and studying for yourself
08:19 what some preacher might say from the pulpit.
08:21 We have to study to show ourselves approved unto God.
08:24 And so we're going to be looking today
08:26 "Hope in time of trouble."
08:28 We're going to turn into a real familiar passage of scripture
08:31 found in the Book of Daniel 12:1.
08:34 Since we're talking about hope in time of trouble,
08:37 I thought it would be good that if we would just establish
08:40 just a little bit that there is trouble in the land
08:43 and there will continue to be trouble
08:46 and it's going to get worse and worse.
08:48 And so therefore, we establish there is trouble sometimes
08:51 and that we need something outside of ourselves
08:53 to help us through this time.
08:56 The most familiar passage of scripture, Daniel 12:1.
09:01 You've read it over and over,
09:02 and I pray that you've been studying it.
09:04 It says, "At that time shall Michael stand up,
09:07 the great prince which standeth for the children."
09:11 Now notice this.
09:12 What does he stand for?
09:13 Remember when he stands up, he's ready to do what?
09:16 He's ready to do something.
09:17 He's seated, he stands up, he's ready to do what?
09:20 He's ready to help the believers.
09:21 He's ready to help deliver us. Notice this.
09:25 "There shall be a time of trouble..."
09:27 Notice that, focus in.
09:29 "There shall be a time of trouble,
09:30 such as never was since there was," what?
09:34 "A nation even to the same time,
09:37 and at that time, Thy people, "who, whose people?
09:40 God's people.
09:41 "God's people shall be delivered."
09:43 I love that word, just underline it quickly.
09:46 I'm not going to go into it any more than just say this,
09:48 "All of God's people will be delivered."
09:51 The outcome of the Great Controversy is sure.
09:55 The outcome is sure.
09:57 God's people will prevail, Christ will prevail.
10:00 And notice, but your name must be found, where at?
10:03 Written in the book.
10:06 Notice, it's talking about
10:07 the book of life here to Daniel 7,
10:10 just jot it down, Daniel 7:10,
10:12 talks about the book, the book of life.
10:14 Revelation 20:15 talks about the book of life.
10:19 Revelation 22:19,
10:21 just a couple of verses to let you know
10:22 that there is such a thing as written in the book of life.
10:26 Remember your name, my name,
10:28 every person's name must be written
10:31 in the Lamb's book of life.
10:34 It didn't say, and I'll be careful with this.
10:36 It didn't say in the church book.
10:38 It said the Lamb's,
10:40 did you get it, the Lamb's book of life,
10:42 if heaven is going to be our home.
10:44 Certainly nice to be able to belong to church
10:46 and certainly nice to have brothers and sisters
10:48 that we can study the Word of God with,
10:51 and sometimes just have a roll call.
10:52 But it's more than that
10:54 when it comes to the Lamb's book of life.
10:56 God is sending, brothers and sisters,
10:58 think about this.
10:59 God is sending more light.
11:02 He's sending more evidence that His coming is near.
11:06 He is sending all this light to let us know that
11:08 probation is soon to close.
11:10 And we realize, part of that is what's happening
11:12 in the world today.
11:14 You remember, we're talking about fire and flood,
11:16 and famine, and pestilence, all of these things.
11:18 We're talking about tornadoes, we're talking about flooding,
11:21 we're talking about disasters by land, and sea, and air.
11:25 All of these things foretell what?
11:27 The coming of Jesus Christ is near.
11:30 You just can't miss it.
11:32 If anybody's missing that, what's wrong?
11:33 How can we miss
11:35 what's going on in the world today
11:37 that tells us,
11:38 "This is a sign that Jesus is coming."
11:42 When you talk about just a fire quickly,
11:44 the fires in California,
11:46 you know, you look at one place in there,
11:48 it says it's the worst, right?
11:50 That it's what? That ever been in that area.
11:53 Every time something happens, it says,
11:55 "This is the worst, this is the worst."
11:58 All that signs of the time reveal that,
12:01 you know, in this world that we live in that soon
12:05 that God's cup is going to be filled up.
12:07 See, I think it's running over a little bit.
12:09 Are you getting it? I want you...
12:10 You realize that God has a cup? Come on, church.
12:13 God has a cup.
12:15 You realize, if you look in Revelation Chapter 17,
12:19 you follow the false church, right?
12:21 Babylon has what?
12:22 What does she have in her hand? She has also a cup.
12:26 Now she copied that.
12:28 She got that because God says, "I have a cup in my hand.
12:31 And one of these days my cup is going to be filled."
12:34 We would say something like this,
12:36 you know, you can only push me so far.
12:39 Be careful with it.
12:40 That's it, "And then something's going to happen."
12:42 God said, "I've got a cup and when that cup is full..."
12:44 Okay, you don't believe that?
12:46 Somebody said I don't believe it.
12:47 Well, let's turn to the book, shall we?
12:48 Turn in the Book of Psalms.
12:50 Psalms Chapter 75, that's right,
12:52 Psalms Chapter 75 brings it out real clear here.
12:57 Verse 8, Psalms Chapter what? 75:8.
13:01 Notice these bold words, notice them.
13:05 "For in the hand of the Lord..."
13:07 Where am I at? Psalms, where?
13:09 Seventy five, verse what? Eight.
13:11 Okay, you got to stay there.
13:13 "For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup.
13:16 For in the hand of the Lord, there is," what?
13:18 "A cup, and the wine is red.
13:21 It is full of mixture, he poureth it out of the same,
13:27 but the dregs thereof,
13:28 all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out
13:31 and drink them."
13:33 What can that possibly mean?
13:35 Notice, in the hand of the Lord there is a, what?
13:38 A cup.
13:39 And notice it, the wine here.
13:42 Notice, the wine in this cup,
13:44 well, if you study it out, it says what is in this cup,
13:47 it's actually in a bubbling, fizzling state.
13:51 It's red hot.
13:53 Somebody's not getting it.
13:56 God said, "I'm red hot."
13:59 It will be different than our red hot,
14:01 but remember that that means what?
14:02 He has limits.
14:04 And He says that's going to be it.
14:06 Notice that wine, because we know
14:08 wine in the Bible is talking about it here
14:10 is that it says it's red.
14:12 Did you get that?
14:13 Red here means translated there in the Hebrew is,
14:16 it's troubled and it's boiling.
14:19 The cup in God's hand filled up with his wrath,
14:22 wrath is bubbling right now, it's troubled, it's hot.
14:26 Something's getting ready to happen, notice that.
14:30 And it says, "Right now,"
14:31 it says, "the same shall be poured out."
14:33 Notice this, "But the dregs of all the wicked of the earth
14:38 shall wring them out."
14:40 Think about this, "And drink them."
14:44 And when you look at this, it says the cup.
14:46 The cup is here for the mixing purposes.
14:49 Things of this world,
14:51 things that are going God said not to do,
14:52 they're being mixed.
14:54 And God's getting ready to pour this thing out.
14:56 It's boiling over right now. So there is a time of trouble.
14:59 We need some hope in time of trouble.
15:01 We need some help right now.
15:04 And if you don't call on God right now,
15:05 you're not going to get that help.
15:07 You're not going to have the experience that you need.
15:09 I won't have that experience.
15:11 It's interesting with the dregs you think about.
15:14 God said, "The wicked must drink this cup
15:18 and they have to drink it all."
15:20 And notice, they're in the dredges of it.
15:22 That is simply the solid matter
15:25 that sinks to the bottom in the liquid.
15:28 And that usually is not very good
15:31 if you'll notice that.
15:32 It's not good at all.
15:34 It's the worthless product that sinks down.
15:37 But God said, "The wicked is gonna drink it all.
15:40 When I pour it out, they're gonna drink it all."
15:42 So this tells beyond a shadow of a doubt
15:45 just talking a little bit about this
15:46 that God has a cup,
15:48 there's a time of trouble, and it's coming on this world,
15:50 and it's already started in my opinion,
15:53 it's already started.
15:56 Now we can talk about the cup if you want to more,
15:58 we don't have time.
15:59 Revelation 14:10, it still talks about the cup,
16:03 talking about the third angel's message
16:06 and receiving the mark of the beast,
16:08 and it's talking about the wine of wrath,
16:10 the cup God has with the wine of wrath in it.
16:13 So establish beyond a shadow of a doubt here.
16:16 Judgments of God are falling in the land.
16:19 This, in my opinion, is a wake-up call.
16:22 This is a wake-up call.
16:24 How long will we sleep as a people
16:26 when we know these things?
16:29 You not gonna help, but get a little emotional about it
16:31 when you think about it because we sit, and we listen,
16:34 and we hear, and we study, and we know these things,
16:37 yet we do nothing about it.
16:40 This is a wake-up call every time you turn on the TV
16:43 or the radio and you hear things that are exploding,
16:45 things that are burning up,
16:47 people that are dying in the land,
16:48 people shooting people.
16:50 No reason, they can't find reason.
16:51 Their mind is blown because they can't figure out
16:55 why a young man might walk someplace in
16:57 and just start shooting people right and left.
16:59 They think there has to be a reason.
17:00 The devil has taken over the mind.
17:04 Because they have used those minds
17:06 for things that are not good, they poisoned themself.
17:10 By beholding, they become changed.
17:13 We have to be so careful.
17:15 These warnings then are just simply just signs.
17:18 You know, if we choose and say we choose light,
17:22 God's going to help us through this time of trouble.
17:24 There's going to be help for us.
17:26 But if we choose darkness, darkness will come
17:28 and we're going to reap the results of our choices.
17:33 None of us want to make the choice of darkness, do we?
17:35 None of us want to say, "Oh, I accept that."
17:37 Do we realize we're talking about real things?
17:40 And I want to encourage you,
17:42 there is hope in time of trouble.
17:43 Yes, there's a dark picture over here that's painted
17:46 that says all of these things are going to happen,
17:48 and they will happen.
17:50 We need help.
17:52 Lord, have mercy, we need help.
17:54 I need help every day of my life.
17:57 This timeframe has certainly arrived,
18:00 and it's going to get worse and worse.
18:02 God just tells us right here...
18:04 You know, just, you know,
18:06 if we don't put a stop to it right now,
18:08 it's going to mushroom so quickly,
18:10 that we're gonna be overwhelmingly surprised
18:14 how fast these issues take place.
18:16 There is still, I believe, work to be done.
18:19 I still believe God's holding back the winds of strife
18:21 until He sealed His servants in their forehead,
18:24 but how long will He hold them back.
18:26 How long do you hold Him back in Sodom and Gomorrah?
18:28 Is somebody still with me?
18:30 How long do you hold Him back
18:31 at the time of Noah and the flood?
18:33 Look at all the disasters.
18:34 There was a time,
18:36 and I believe we've entered that time.
18:37 God help us to see that today rather to sit idly by
18:42 and do nothing.
18:43 He warns us in Isaiah Chapter 26.
18:47 See, this is real.
18:48 If something's real,
18:49 it's going to come across as real.
18:51 You're gonna feel it in your heart today,
18:53 because the Holy Spirit is going to say,
18:55 "This is real, this is real."
18:57 Isaiah 26:21 says,
19:00 "Behold the Lord cometh out of His place
19:03 to punish the inhabitants of the earth."
19:07 What does He punish them for? For their iniquity.
19:10 "The earth also shall be disclose her blood,
19:12 and shall no more cover her slain."
19:15 Interesting.
19:17 "Soon, soon, we'll know.
19:19 Nine Testimonies, 228,
19:21 "Soon there will be trouble all over the world."
19:24 Did you get it?
19:25 Soon there's going to be trouble.
19:27 How long? Where all...
19:28 Isn't that what seems like to you
19:30 when every paper you see,
19:31 everybody in every country is what?
19:33 There's something going on.
19:36 This has to tell you something.
19:39 And so all I'm talking about this
19:40 is not to elevate all the trouble is going on.
19:43 We have enough of that.
19:44 But I'm telling, as we elevate the trouble,
19:46 we need somebody
19:47 that can take care of that trouble.
19:49 This is what this is about.
19:50 "Soon there's gonna be trouble all over the world."
19:54 And the last sentence on that, it simply says, notice this,
19:57 "It becomes everyone to seek
20:00 to know God and don't delay."
20:04 It's for our own good.
20:06 I'm not just speaking about the world today,
20:08 I'm speaking about the church.
20:10 I'm just talking about those who should know better,
20:12 we should all know better.
20:15 But one step out of time
20:16 would seem like we're going down, not up.
20:18 We're to be marching.
20:20 Our orders are to march onward and forward and upward.
20:22 Now we're marching downward, a step at a time.
20:26 Do you remember the Jewish nation?
20:29 God sent them warning after warning after warning,
20:32 and what did they do.
20:34 They rejected all of the warnings,
20:36 they killed the prophets.
20:38 Oh, my, murder...
20:39 Think about refusing what God has said.
20:43 Yeah, that part of our message is come out
20:46 and certainly to be separate.
20:49 How about the time that we know of the flood, Noah's world?
20:52 Bible said Noah's time in Genesis 6:5,
20:56 "That their minds were on," what?
20:58 "Evil all the time."
21:01 Continue, if this is not in the newspaper for today,
21:04 I'm not standing here.
21:07 Men's mind are on evil continually today.
21:10 You can hardly get a civil conversation.
21:12 You can get a godly conversation
21:15 hardly any more out of anybody,
21:17 they want to talk about something that's dirty.
21:19 Some of you are not gonna get it.
21:21 It's true, it's true.
21:24 They don't want to talk about God.
21:25 They won't talk about the mess of this world.
21:27 This is our day, this is in our day.
21:31 See if this statement, I'll read you statement.
21:33 If this statement doesn't match,
21:36 if it doesn't match,
21:37 what's going on today among us right now,
21:41 I'm gonna have a closing prayer and sit down and be quiet.
21:47 If this doesn't match, I'm gonna do it.
21:48 Somebody is gonna have to tell me,
21:50 and then you're going to have to challenge me,
21:51 and I like a good challenge.
21:54 Are you ready for it?
21:58 That's how sure I am that it fits.
22:01 This is found in the Manuscript 24 in 1891.
22:05 Man, this was written in 1891.
22:07 And notice how it fits like a pair of glove.
22:11 Notice this.
22:12 It says, "They worshipped selfish indulgences,"
22:16 talking about the people how they were.
22:19 "They worship selfish indulgences
22:22 eating, and drinking, and merry-making."
22:27 Notice this one,
22:28 "They resorted to acts of violence and crime,"
22:32 check it, "if their desires and passions
22:36 were interfered with."
22:38 What do you see happening today?
22:40 If they think that their desires
22:42 and their passions
22:43 and what they want to see take place, what do they do?
22:46 They resort to crime and violence.
22:50 That's exactly what they do.
22:52 Notice, they resort to what?
22:53 Crime and violence,
22:55 if their desires and passions weren't interfered with."
22:59 Notice also in this,
23:01 the majority this time was opposed to the truth.
23:05 Do you say today
23:06 that the majority of the world is opposed to truth?
23:10 Yeah, that shouldn't be hard for us at all.
23:12 The majority of the world is, what?
23:15 Is opposed to truth.
23:16 Majority of God's people are opposed to the truth.
23:21 Because the majority of the people
23:22 as the Sunday law is passed, what's going to happen?
23:25 They leave the church.
23:27 I mean let's just put it out the way that it is,
23:28 not the way it should be.
23:29 Why?
23:31 Because what we're talking about here,
23:32 they do not have a hand in the hand of God.
23:36 They're relying upon everything else in the world.
23:41 At the end of that article, it says here, notice,
23:44 "The land was filled with violence," ooh,
23:47 "and war, and crime, and murder was the order of the day.
23:54 Just so will it be before Christ's second coming."
23:59 That's not hard to understand, is it?
24:01 No.
24:02 Just before the second coming of Jesus,
24:04 violence every day, that's all you can hear.
24:06 You can't hear good news in the media.
24:09 Violence, and crime, and murder and not just single murder,
24:13 even that's horrible enough, it's by the dozens anymore,
24:16 as many as you can get.
24:20 But notice the three things.
24:21 And, oh, Lord, have mercy with the time.
24:25 Notice the three things which seems almost harmless.
24:28 They were eating, and what?
24:30 Drinking, and making merry
24:36 like a lot of social things.
24:38 Are you still with me?
24:41 I jotted these down, Lord, have mercy on me all the time.
24:45 I thought this was just interesting.
24:47 And maybe it won't be to you but it was to me
24:49 because of the foolishness that's in the land,
24:52 because of all the things that devil has rustle up
24:55 to keep us busy till the probation passes by,
25:00 because we're eating, and drinking, and foolishness.
25:02 Every time you turn around,
25:03 there's a holiday or some kind of a day,
25:06 some kind of something to be kept.
25:08 And I didn't even go into the holidays
25:10 that we count as governmental holiday, blah, blah, blah.
25:13 Left out a lot of good things on there,
25:15 but I just looked at some of that.
25:16 And maybe not all of them is foolish to you,
25:18 but there's just some foolish things here,
25:21 saying this means exactly what it says it means here.
25:24 Notice this,
25:25 if you look at some of the things
25:27 on the calendar
25:28 that's supposed to occupy our mind
25:30 and our hearts right now,
25:31 when we're close to probation.
25:34 Think about in January,
25:35 just a couple of one or two on each month.
25:37 Are you still with me?
25:40 In January, there's the thing...
25:42 If you're a bird lover, you just forgive me anyway,
25:44 it says National Bird Day.
25:50 And there is another day in January that says
25:53 it's Houseplant Day.
25:56 These are on their calendar, Houseplant Day.
26:00 Well, it's nice to have plants in your house,
26:03 but man, do we have to have it as a day on there
26:05 where we're supposed to take off work,
26:07 supposed to throw a party?
26:10 February, there's this thing called Groundhog Day.
26:15 And then I looked on the calendar,
26:16 my eyes got big,
26:17 and I had to go through dictionary,
26:19 Brother Josh, I didn't know what it meant.
26:20 I felt little bit foolish.
26:23 But you might feel foolish.
26:25 It says Hoodie-Hoo Day.
26:29 Some of you're not with me. I just might as well close it.
26:32 Hoodie-Hoo Day.
26:33 H-O-O-D-I-E H-O-O, Hoodie-Hoo Day.
26:38 I said, "What in the world is Hoodie-Hoo Day?"
26:41 And I thought I shouldn't even get up and say it,
26:43 because I'm not sure what that means.
26:45 So I looked it up and it says it's simply,
26:48 you know, it's just...
26:51 These are people who go outside in the month of February.
26:55 They're sick and tired of winter, right?
26:57 And so toward the end of February,
27:00 they go outside about noon,
27:02 and they raise their hands up toward heaven and say,
27:05 "Hoodie-Doo, Hoodie-Hoo."
27:09 Hoodie-Hoo Day,
27:13 that's what they chant when they go out there,
27:16 because they had the winter blast.
27:19 I'm just saying, "What is this world?"
27:20 Bible has talked about this kind of foolishness.
27:23 I'll go on. It's all right.
27:25 March, you have this thing and you call it what you want.
27:27 And a lot of people have good intentions.
27:29 They have Earth Day.
27:32 I'll leave Mitcham Palm Sunday for John's account.
27:37 April, they have this Tatten Day or Tatting Day.
27:41 I didn't' t know what that was. What do you mean Tatting Day?
27:45 What does that mean?
27:48 That means Lace Day.
27:49 They have a Lace Day,
27:52 and it just talks about women,
27:53 they get together, and they take string,
27:55 and they tie knots and things in it.
27:58 What is it?
28:00 And then they have another day
28:02 they want you to recognize is Walk to Work Day.
28:05 Some of us done that for years, come on, now.
28:10 In May, they have a day they want you to take time,
28:12 I guess, have a party, they call it Star Wars Day.
28:17 In June, this Juneteenth Day.
28:20 I don't even know what it was, I didn't even wanna look it up.
28:23 In July, they have Bikini Day.
28:27 They have Hot Dog Day, they have Hammock Day.
28:32 Well, they all sound well,
28:34 you know, the Hammock Day sound pretty good to me,
28:36 like getting a hammock.
28:37 But I'm saying, the time that we live in,
28:40 August Watermelon Day, S'mores Day,
28:43 Marshmallow Toasting Day, these are on your calendar.
28:50 You see what the day that we're living in,
28:52 this is foolishness.
28:54 This is not talking about all the other holidays.
28:56 You see, that the world will come to the point
28:58 where it's having more holidays than it is workdays.
29:00 Are you still with me?
29:02 This is what it's all about.
29:06 Of course, they have Grandparents Day in September.
29:08 I know Peace Day.
29:10 October, this is a World Smile Day.
29:13 So in October, you have to smile every day
29:14 even if you don't feel like it.
29:17 Then you had this bad thing, most people don't want to do.
29:19 You got Boss's Day.
29:21 Who wants to give tribute to the boss!
29:24 And then it's got a day on that they put Sweetest Day.
29:27 Sweetest day of what?
29:29 Sweetest Day.
29:31 I'm just not with it, I guess.
29:32 November, they have All Souls day.
29:35 Care giving day,
29:37 and a Great American Smokeout, and Black Friday,
29:41 this is all in November not counting the other holidays
29:43 that we keep in.
29:46 December, Poinsettia Day.
29:51 Well, Boxing Day, and the last one.
29:55 This might just fit all of it together,
29:57 National Fruitcake day.
30:00 I'll leave it at that.
30:01 Some of you're not going to ever get it.
30:05 See, it brings a chuckle but this is things
30:07 that people have got serious about enough
30:09 that it gets on a calendar.
30:10 Are you still with me?
30:12 They're supposed to take special note
30:14 of these kinds of things
30:16 when we're right at the end of earth's history.
30:18 I can see the enemy in all of this stuff.
30:20 We need to get rid of all that stuff
30:22 and not pay it any mind.
30:25 You remember when the Jews were dispersed from Jerusalem,
30:29 you know, they were sent out among them.
30:32 Among those who were sent out, there were a lot of faithful,
30:35 there were a lot of faithful.
30:36 Praise God for that.
30:39 Faithful who was sad,
30:41 faithful who were reprimanding
30:45 those backsliders of God's people.
30:48 They tried to warn them, but they wouldn't listen.
30:52 And because they wouldn't listen,
30:53 the judgment came,
30:55 and they know the Jews Israel went into captivity.
31:00 But notice this here,
31:01 the innocent had to suffer with the guilty.
31:06 Did you get it?
31:08 The innocent suffered with the guilty
31:11 as it rains on the just and the unjust alike.
31:15 So sometime if you're in the group,
31:19 and the group is going the wrong direction,
31:23 you might have to suffer.
31:26 And if you know it's going the wrong direction,
31:28 we're challenged by the Word of God
31:29 to come apart and be separate
31:31 and touch not the unclean thing,
31:32 then you wouldn't have to suffer.
31:34 But because you stay in that thing,
31:37 the judgments fall.
31:39 But God is good.
31:41 God gives strength, God gives courage for day,
31:43 He gives hope in time of trouble.
31:45 Psalms 46, quickly verse 10,
31:48 I like this and someone even alluded to it today.
31:52 You know, you quoted this many times,
31:54 Psalms 46:10 says,
31:55 "Be still, and know," what?
31:58 "Be still, and know that I am God.
32:00 I will be exalted among the heathen," right?
32:04 Oh, wow.
32:05 "I will be exalted in the earth."
32:08 God is simply telling us here in this verse,
32:11 He's telling me, I don't know if He's telling you or not.
32:13 He's telling sometime,
32:14 "Kenny, be hush, be quite, be still
32:18 and know that I'm God,
32:20 be still so you can hear my voice."
32:22 If you're talking all the time,
32:23 you don't hear the voice of God.
32:25 You're trying to instruct God, you're doing the wrong thing,
32:27 let God instruct us.
32:31 He says, "Be still, hush, and listen, I am God."
32:35 Many times we're talking when we should be listening,
32:38 we know that.
32:40 We become too busy with some things,
32:44 too busy to listen.
32:46 And sometimes when we're too busy to listen,
32:48 we're not prepared when the divine call,
32:50 listen, when the divine calls our life into action.
32:54 We're busy doing other things, we miss the divine calling
32:57 because we're too busy doing other things,
32:59 we might wanna do rather than what God has asked us to do.
33:02 Let me ask, what did Enoch do?
33:04 Who was Enoch? Was he a man of God?
33:06 Was he translated without seeing death?
33:08 Notice what he did in this world
33:10 that we're talking about today.
33:12 Remember, it's not just,
33:13 "Oh, we'll read these promises right quick
33:14 and this is what God's going to do."
33:16 How wonderful they are and we claim them.
33:18 But we have to realize
33:19 what the enemy is trying to do right here.
33:21 We have to do our part too.
33:23 We have to do our part sometime in separation.
33:26 Notice what Enoch did.
33:30 We call him in the Bible, we call righteous Enoch,
33:32 you remember?
33:35 He was distressed
33:37 over the increasing sinfulness of man
33:40 when he walked this earth, the wickedness, the ungodly.
33:45 It came to the point to where he just said,
33:47 he would not daily associate with those of the world.
33:52 Did you get it?
33:54 Here was a man who...
33:55 It must have been what he was doing was right
33:57 because he was translated.
33:58 So in order to be translated to be where God wants us to be,
34:01 there was days on end
34:03 that he would not associate with the world
34:05 or anything in the world,
34:06 because he was afraid
34:07 that he would lose his reverence for God.
34:10 See, have we lost our reverence for God?
34:12 We've lost it for the pastors most of the time,
34:15 we've lost it for the elders, we've lost it for the deacons.
34:19 All of a sudden, we had a church school over here,
34:21 the older people can call me what they want,
34:23 but if a young person comes and calls me Kenny,
34:25 they're not gonna get an answer from me.
34:27 They have to learn, they have to be taught,
34:30 when they call you a deacon,
34:31 elder, or somebody in the church,
34:33 they can say Brother Kenny or Pastor Kenny.
34:35 I will answer.
34:38 Somebody's not gonna get that.
34:41 See, we've lost it
34:43 because we're not teaching our young people.
34:46 These are men and women
34:47 that God has in the church for a reason.
34:50 The God is either leading them or He's not.
34:52 And if God's leading, they deserve the respect.
34:56 If God's leading, I used to follow them.
35:00 "Be still and know that I am God."
35:02 Don't get too busy.
35:07 Maybe we should be a little more like Enoch
35:11 that we're willing to do whatever it takes.
35:13 Desire of Ages, 363, says this, "We must individually..."
35:18 See a lot of time we like to lump ourselves together,
35:20 say, "Boys, as a church, we're all going to go."
35:22 Wouldn't that be nice if every one of us here
35:26 jump on that cloud together in that, right?
35:28 But notice, "We must individually hear Him
35:31 speaking to our heart."
35:33 Here it comes, if you want help in time of trouble,
35:36 you need some encouragement, you need some strength,
35:38 you're going through a miserable time here on earth.
35:42 And you need something to change.
35:44 "When every other voice is hushed,
35:47 in quietness we wait before Him,
35:50 the silence of the soul
35:52 makes more distinct the voice of God.
35:56 Here alone can the true rest be found.
35:59 This is the effectual preparation for all
36:03 who labor for God."
36:05 I think that's beautiful.
36:06 We must hear the voice of God speak. "
36:08 As long as you hear the voice of God,
36:10 you hear the voice as it were through whatever it might be.
36:13 I don't hear it, how come?"
36:14 Maybe we're doing the wrong thing,
36:16 maybe we're too busy,
36:17 maybe we're making too much noise.
36:19 It's when it's quiet.
36:21 It's when you're in that steady time with God,
36:24 when you're in that prayer time with God,
36:26 when you and Him alone, when it is just quiet time
36:29 is time you can hear Him speaking to you.
36:33 When you go out on that walk by yourself and it's quiet,
36:37 your heart begins to meditate, you begin to think,
36:39 God begins to speak,
36:41 He begins to impress you with certain things.
36:43 Be careful, they're not just things
36:45 that we might want or maybe things
36:47 that we think we should be doing.
36:48 But God will make it clear to us.
36:51 Is there hope today?
36:54 It sounds like there's a preparation.
36:55 It sounds like he's going to be with you.
36:57 In that time of trouble,
36:58 He said, "I'm going to stand up for you."
37:01 Beautiful book that I like, the Great Controversy,
37:03 page 622 tells us this.
37:05 It says, "The time of trouble, such as never was,
37:08 is soon to open upon us, and we shall need,"
37:11 notice this, "we shall need," what?
37:13 "We shall need an experience which we do not now possess
37:18 and which many are too indolent."
37:20 Or many are too lazy, many are too idle,
37:24 many are trying to avoid doing something.
37:26 Did you get that? "To obtain."
37:29 And then it goes on, it says, "It is often this case
37:32 that trouble is greater in," what?
37:34 "In anticipation than in reality,
37:37 this is not true of the crisis before us.
37:41 The most vivid," the most what?
37:44 "Vivid presentation," notice this,
37:46 "cannot reach the magnitude of the ordeal."
37:49 If you sound like, if I sound urgent today,
37:51 this is why, did you get this?
37:54 You can't even think how bad,
37:56 you can't even muster it up in your mind
37:57 how bad it's going to get before Jesus comes.
38:01 "It is the time of trial,
38:03 every soul must stand for himself before God."
38:07 You're not gonna stand as a duo, or trio, or quartet,
38:10 or as a church family.
38:12 Did you get it?
38:13 You're going to have to stand by yourself.
38:15 How is it that you can stand by yourself before God today?
38:19 Can you stand as it were with Jesus beside you
38:22 and stand for God?
38:24 The test will come on everyone
38:26 like there's no one else on this planet.
38:28 That's how close scrutiny there's going to be.
38:30 And there would be, you see, if somehow it could be reversed
38:34 and it sure enough cannot be.
38:36 But before someone else makes it into heaven,
38:37 God's gonna make sure they're gonna be all right.
38:41 He's gonna make sure.
38:43 Ezekiel 14:20, the Bible said...
38:47 Smart people say, "Well, you know,
38:48 I'm going to the church,
38:50 I think the church will help save me,
38:51 the preacher is going to help save me, everybody..."
38:53 Salvation is between you and God.
38:55 It's that simple.
38:56 It says, "Though Noah, and Daniel,
38:58 and Job were in the land,
39:00 as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver," what?
39:03 "Neither son nor daughter,
39:06 they shall but deliver their own souls
39:08 by their righteousness."
39:11 No one else can help you, Brother Levi.
39:13 There's nobody can help you.
39:14 Nobody can help me, as it were, only Jesus, only Jesus.
39:18 We have to rely upon Jesus.
39:19 There's good news.
39:20 You remember Jacob in the Word of God?
39:23 He prevailed because he was persevering.
39:26 Jacob did what?
39:28 He prevailed against God because he was persevering
39:31 and because he was determined.
39:33 Two things a Christian needs, we need to be persevering,
39:37 and we need to be, what?
39:38 Determined by the grace of God,
39:40 determined that His promises are sure,
39:42 stay in there when this is like
39:44 maybe I shouldn't stay in there.
39:45 Stay in there whenever things are going against you.
39:47 Stay in there when the family's turning against you.
39:50 Stay in there when you don't have the finances to do
39:52 what you think you need to have to do with.
39:53 Are you still with me?
39:55 Stay in there, be persevering,
39:58 lay hold of God's promises.
40:01 This is exactly what Jacob did.
40:03 Whenever things seem bleak,
40:04 he laid hold of the promises of God.
40:07 And know what? He was earnest and persevering.
40:11 If we are as earnest and persevering as Jacob,
40:14 we will succeed the way he succeeded.
40:16 See, that's beautiful.
40:18 You say, "Well, that was Jacob of old."
40:19 No, that's you.
40:20 That's me.
40:23 If we persevere and we have that determination
40:26 based on the promises of God, we shall prevail as Jacob did.
40:31 He prevailed with God and with man.
40:33 Man, this is what it's all about today.
40:35 I need that experience.
40:36 God, help me to have that kind...
40:38 Man, listen to this powerful statement
40:40 and promise of God,
40:42 one of the familiar ones
40:43 that people read all the time, but you know what?
40:44 It's still good.
40:46 Every time I read it, I want to get richer.
40:48 Every time I read it,
40:50 I want to have more power in my life
40:51 because it means so much.
40:53 Jeremiah 29:11 to 13, listen to this.
40:58 What?
41:00 Do we think God loves us?
41:01 Sometime we question that, but notice,
41:03 "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you."
41:05 God's saying today,
41:07 "I know what I think towards you."
41:09 Isn't that wonderful to know that His thoughts are good
41:11 when it comes to you?
41:13 Regardless of what you're doing or where you're at,
41:14 His thoughts are good towards you.
41:17 He wants to do good for you,
41:19 "Saith the Lord, thoughts of peace."
41:21 This is what the Bible said.
41:23 God's got thoughts of peace for us today.
41:26 "And not of evil, to give you an expected end."
41:31 And that seems to turn around
41:32 to simply say an end of expectations.
41:36 God wants to give us an end of expectations.
41:38 We're expecting something great,
41:40 something good because God said,
41:41 "I'm thinking good towards you, Kenny.
41:43 You may not be a very good boy right now,
41:45 but I'm thinking good towards you.
41:46 I'm not gonna think evil to you.
41:48 I want to help you.
41:49 I'm gonna help you."
41:50 Verse 12 said, "Then shall you call upon me,
41:53 and ye shall go and pray unto Me
41:55 and I will hearken unto your voice."
41:57 Who are we, Sister Beverly,
41:59 who are we that God should listen to us?
42:03 Who are we that we should get the ear of God Almighty
42:06 to listen to our voice?
42:08 When really we're none good, no, not one.
42:11 We should be struck out of existence,
42:13 but because of the grace and the mercy of God,
42:16 how wonderful that is,
42:17 when you call He says Sister Mary,
42:19 "I'm going to hear you, I'm going to answer, "
42:21 but you've got a call,
42:22 but you've got those conditions to that,
42:24 you can't just call, and lay back, and do nothing.
42:26 Verse 13 says, "And ye shall," notice it, "you shall seek me.
42:32 When you seek me and then you shall," what?
42:34 "Find me, when ye search for me with all your heart."
42:39 Half-hearted Christians not going to make it,
42:41 three-quartered heart Christians
42:42 not going to make it.
42:44 The Bible said, "When you search for Me
42:45 with all your heart,"
42:47 Man, what a test,
42:48 what an easy question that would be.
42:49 It's God, are we searching for You
42:51 with all of our heart.
42:54 Am I putting everything out on the line?
42:57 Am I willing to give up anything and everything
43:00 that might keep me out of the kingdom?
43:02 See, we're not searching for Him with all of our heart
43:05 if we're not willing to give up everything that separates us.
43:09 Oh, Lord, have mercy on us.
43:12 Lord, help me to search with you
43:13 for with all of my heart.
43:17 There will be some people who say,
43:18 "Well, how do I know that God...
43:20 How do I really know that God loves me?"
43:22 Now the person who's been studying for a while,
43:24 you wouldn't ask that question surely.
43:25 But a lot of people do.
43:26 "I don't know that God really loves me.
43:28 How could it really be answered that He loves me?"
43:30 Oh, He gave His only Son to die on Calvary for you,
43:35 if it had only been you.
43:36 This reveals the Father's love that He has for each one of us.
43:40 He has a heart of love for the human family,
43:43 isn't that beautiful?
43:44 Think about it, He has a nothing
43:46 but a heart of love for us,
43:48 even though we're wayward, even though we're rebellious,
43:51 even though we're out in a world in sin,
43:52 God has a love for us that He wants to draw us in,
43:56 reveals the Father's heart.
43:59 I mean, what more could He give?
44:01 What more could He possibly do?
44:03 And I'll go out on a limb
44:05 and say there was more that He did.
44:07 There's nothing more than the life of Jesus Christ.
44:10 But I'm simply saying, He didn't stop at that.
44:12 God want to make sure, "Oh, here it is.
44:13 This is the life, this is the blood,
44:15 accept this, He did more."
44:17 He spared nothing for my redemption,
44:19 He spared nothing, He emptied all of heaven.
44:22 Man, that's good news, that's hope in time of trouble.
44:25 This, we can cling too.
44:28 He withheld no truth
44:30 that is essential to my salvation.
44:32 He could have withheld it,
44:33 He could have make it mysterious.
44:35 We read the Bible mystery sometime, we go...
44:39 Without the Holy Spirit, no, it is a mystery,
44:40 we can't understand it.
44:42 But God does not put anything in His Word that He, what?
44:45 Will not encourage us and enlighten us with that.
44:48 Isn't that wonderful to know?
44:50 He withheld no truth.
44:52 Gift after gift after gift was bestowed upon me,
44:58 is bestowed upon each one of you
44:59 who are going through a mess.
45:00 "Nobody loves me, God doesn't love me
45:03 because everything's going haywire.
45:05 Everything's going against me,
45:07 everything I go to do
45:09 falls apart."
45:12 Every once in a while, I'm tempted to say
45:14 it's all falling apart.
45:15 And God right quickly reminds me,
45:17 "It's not falling apart.
45:18 You're the one who's falling apart.
45:20 I never fall apart.
45:23 Come a little closer to me
45:24 and I'm gonna fix this for you."
45:26 That's what God's asking of us to do.
45:29 All of heaven, it was just simply to seek
45:31 and save that which is lost, all of heaven.
45:35 Brother John, all of heaven wants you there.
45:39 All of heaven is seeking to save that which was lost.
45:42 That was me.
45:45 Can you think about the billions,
45:46 and trillions, and quadrillions,
45:48 whatever it might be?
45:50 Everyone is worried about your salvation
45:52 and wants you there.
45:54 Man, that's good news.
45:59 Think of the grace, and the mercy, and the favor,
46:03 and the infinite power that's promised to us,
46:06 the Holy Spirit that will equip us,
46:10 give us power and victory in our life.
46:12 And it's all given that we might
46:14 experience Christ more,
46:16 this is what we need in the time of trouble.
46:20 And through all of this grace, and favor, and mercy,
46:23 and Holy Spirit, and love, and infinite power,
46:27 God simply coming to us to say,
46:29 "Kenny, can you now realize that God so loved the world?"
46:34 God so loved the world.
46:36 Oh, if I ask today,
46:38 "What's your attitude toward Christ?"
46:43 You might answer different
46:44 if He's by yourself in a closet.
46:46 But sometime if we're asked that,
46:48 point blank,
46:49 "What is your attitude toward Christ?"
46:50 We might give a little different answer
46:52 than what really is in our heart.
46:53 We don't wanna be humiliated, we don't wanna be embarrassed
46:56 because we've been
46:57 supposedly walking with God for years.
47:01 If you make that decision for Christ,
47:03 I can promise you this,
47:05 if you make that decision for Christ,
47:07 you haven't made it but you make it
47:08 with Christ right now,
47:09 the day is going to come that is gonna prove
47:12 which side you're standing on.
47:14 You have to make that decision for Christ.
47:17 And it's over here, you stand with Christ.
47:19 If you don't make that decision,
47:20 you stand by the side of the enemy.
47:24 And remember, when that happens,
47:26 just say, "Well, you know, God doesn't want me there.
47:28 And oh, I'll tell you, the church family turned on me,
47:30 and everybody did this right here."
47:34 Every person passes judgment on themselves.
47:40 Let it soak in.
47:42 Every person passes judgment on himself
47:46 when he's confronted with Christ,
47:48 he has to make a decision and it's one way or the other.
47:52 That's pretty heavy duty.
47:54 We pass sentence on ourselves.
47:55 I want the good sense, right?
47:57 Heaven.
47:59 Ooh, glory.
48:02 The day when all hearts will be revealed.
48:05 Certainly Romans 8:28, we can't read it all.
48:08 We won't even be able to get through it.
48:09 I wish we could because it talks
48:11 about pre-destination.
48:13 It talks about foreknowledge.
48:14 And I'll go as quickly as I can.
48:16 Romans 8 mark out 28 through 31.
48:21 I better read it
48:23 because some of us not got it, it's gonna be brutal.
48:26 Okay, Romans 8, this is what we really,
48:27 this is...
48:29 Many people are chosen to travel on a slippery slope
48:35 when they read these verses,
48:37 and their theology is all tangled up and mixed up.
48:41 Please don't let it come to that point.
48:43 Romans 8:28 says,
48:45 "And we know all things," do what?
48:46 We talk about it.
48:48 "All things work together for," what?
48:50 "To good to them that," what?
48:52 "Everything is not working good to me."
48:54 You do? Do you love God?
48:56 He said, if you love me, they do.
48:57 That's what it says here,
48:59 regardless if it's going well for you or not.
49:01 "To them who are called according to his purpose.
49:04 For whom he did," what?
49:05 "Foreknow, he also did predestinate
49:08 to conform to the," what?
49:10 "The image of his son,
49:12 that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
49:14 Moreover whom he did predestinate,
49:17 them he also called,
49:18 whom He called them He also," what?
49:21 "Justified, and whom He justified,
49:23 He also glorified."
49:24 Come on.
49:26 "What shall we say then to these things?
49:28 If God be for us, who can be against us?"
49:31 That's beautiful, hope in the time of trouble.
49:33 Notice this thing right here.
49:35 Eight things if I can get through them
49:36 in four minutes and some odd.
49:37 Notice right.
49:39 Eight things in this passage of scripture here
49:40 that we need to know.
49:42 Number one, God works all things
49:43 for His ultimate good, long term.
49:46 Are you with me? Long term.
49:48 Number two, our love for God
49:50 is a response to His love for us.
49:54 Love must come first from God
49:57 because God would, what?
50:00 He first loved us, isn't that right?
50:02 That's what the Bible talks about.
50:03 The Holy Spirit helps us to return that love to Him.
50:07 1 John 4:19 talks about, "He first loved us."
50:11 Number three,
50:13 God is always working for our good."
50:15 Is that true?
50:16 Yes, it is, always working for our good.
50:18 Number four, God's eternal purpose.
50:20 Ephesians 3:11, get it down,
50:23 "Our God's eternal purpose for me and for you,"
50:25 Ephesians 3:11, "is to save sinners by grace."
50:29 Did you get it? Save sinners by what?
50:31 Grace. Yeah.
50:32 Read 2 Timothy 1:9, that's what it says.
50:34 Five, God's purpose includes
50:37 all stages in the process of salvation, all of them.
50:41 Number six, God knows all things beforehand.
50:44 Hebrews 4:13,
50:47 example, He knew the fall of Satan beforehand,
50:49 He knew about the fall of man so on,
50:51 and provisions was made at that point and before that,
50:54 to meet the condition of this fallen world of man.
50:57 Think about it.
50:59 God knew beforehand, didn't He?
51:01 Before the foundations of the world,
51:02 read Isaiah 46:10.
51:05 Number seven, events prophesied,
51:07 think about it.
51:08 Events prophesied or foretold do not take place
51:12 because they are foreseen.
51:15 They are foreseen because they will take place.
51:19 Oh, that's heavy duty.
51:20 Somebody is not going to get it.
51:22 Prophesied or foretold, right, we're talking about,
51:24 do not take place because they are foreseen.
51:28 People say "Well, they're foreseen."
51:30 They are foreseen because they will take place
51:33 because God says they will take place.
51:36 Foreknowledge, what does that mean?
51:37 It has no influence on the outcome.
51:40 God has foreknowledge in everything,
51:41 but that does not affect the outcome.
51:44 Predestinate, determine, mark off,
51:48 God foresaw every man, woman, and child.
51:50 Notice this, and He had a desire for, what?
51:53 For all people to be saved.
51:56 He had no other purpose to save mankind
51:58 and repopulate heaven.
52:00 1 Timothy 2:4,
52:01 "God will have all men to be," what?
52:04 Say, 1 Timothy 2:4, I'm moving fast.
52:06 Write it down, 1 Timothy 2:4,
52:10 "He wants all men to be saved,
52:11 and come to the knowledge of the truth.
52:14 Not willing that any should perish,"
52:16 2 Peter 3:9,
52:18 "Not willing that any should perish,
52:19 but all should come to," what?
52:21 "Repentance."
52:23 So we must know
52:24 through this passage of scripture
52:25 that we realize beyond a shadow of doubt,
52:27 salvation is offered, what?
52:29 It's freely to all,
52:30 but not all accept this free gift.
52:34 Matthew 24:14 says, "Many are called, but," what?
52:37 "Few are chosen."
52:38 Nowhere, my, brothers and sisters,
52:39 in Scripture does God predestinate some to be saved
52:42 and others to be lost
52:44 regardless of their own choices.
52:47 Did you get it?
52:49 First is the call, if obeyed you're justified.
52:52 Second, we talked about sanctification
52:53 is living a life of Christ.
52:55 Third is what?
52:57 Glorification formed in the image of God.
53:00 This is God's plan for us, my brothers and sisters,
53:02 hope in time of trouble.
53:04 Bible said, it's gonna wax worse and worse
53:06 until the coming of the Lord.
53:08 I will say today, "Will the Lord forget you
53:11 in this time of trouble that's coming upon the world?
53:14 Will God forget you?"
53:15 Did He forget Noah at the time of the flood?
53:17 No.
53:19 Did He forget, if you talk about Joseph
53:20 when he's in captivity? No.
53:22 Did He forget about Elijah
53:23 when he was attacked by everything and anything
53:25 and in just killing Jezebel?
53:27 No, He didn't.
53:28 Did God forget Jeremiah when he was in prison?
53:31 Absolutely not.
53:32 Did God forget the three Hebrews
53:33 when they were in a fiery furnace?
53:35 Absolutely not.
53:36 Regardless of your troubles today,
53:39 there's help for you.
53:40 God points us simply to Him.
53:43 He has the answers.
53:44 There is hope in time of trouble.
53:48 The Bible is clear. Let's pray, shall we?
53:52 Merciful Father, in heaven,
53:53 again we thank you for Your precious Word.
53:55 We pray that Your Holy Spirit will help
53:57 to illuminate these truths that we may hear them,
53:58 we may accept them today
54:00 regardless of what we're going through
54:01 and be ready for Your coming.
54:02 In Jesus' name we pray and for His sake, amen.
54:06 Again, we appreciate so very much
54:08 each and every one of you.
54:09 And we want to invite you to continue to pray
54:11 for Behold the Lamb Ministries.
54:13 Thank you for your support. Thank you for your prayers.
54:15 And we look forward to seeing you next time.
54:19 Hello and welcome back.
54:20 Although we are encompassed roundabout
54:23 with troubles and trials,
54:24 God is faithful to not leave us
54:27 without a source for His strength,
54:29 He speaks, He leads, guides, comforts,
54:32 and gives us hope through His Word.
54:35 Hope in times of trouble, again,
54:37 was today's message with Pastor Kenny Shelton,
54:40 and it is our sincere prayer
54:42 that the Holy Spirit has touched your heart today
54:46 in such a special way that only He can.
54:48 And we realize because of that,
54:51 you may like to have this message
54:53 for your very own.
54:54 And we wanna make that available to you today
54:57 for a love gift of just $8 or more.
55:00 And when you order just a single message
55:02 from this 25 lessons set,
55:05 we will also send you out
55:07 one of these study guides for free.
55:10 Now then, you may also order all 25 hours
55:13 and if you choose to do that,
55:15 we're offering that for $175 or more
55:18 and we will send you
55:20 five of the study guides for free.
55:22 Simply call us here in the United States
55:24 at Behold the Lamb Ministries
55:26 at 618-942-5044 that's Central Time,
55:31 or write to Behold the Lamb Ministries,
55:33 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948.
55:38 Email your order or just email us a letter,
55:41 we love receiving your letters.
55:43 Email us at
55:44 BeholdTheLambMinistries @yahoo.com
55:46 or you may also visit us on our website at
55:49 BeholdTheLambMinistries.com.
55:51 Friends, until next time,
55:53 may our precious and loving Lord
55:55 continue to richly bless you and yours.


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