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00:38 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb presents,
00:40 I'm Chris Shelton, your host, 00:42 I want to thank you for joining us. 00:45 Today's message is entitled 00:46 "Our March Back to the Vatican." 00:49 You know, the first colony of the United States 00:52 was founded at James Town Virginia in 1607. 00:56 The Pilgrims, founders of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 00:59 arrived in the years 1620. 01:01 And many of those people who settled in the new world 01:05 came to escape religious persecution. 01:09 Quoting from the Library of Congress's website, 01:11 we can read this, 01:13 "The religious persecution that drove settlers 01:16 from Europe to the British North American colonies 01:19 sprang from the conviction 01:20 held by Protestants and Catholics alike, 01:23 that uniformity of religion 01:25 must exist in any given society." 01:28 This conviction rested on the belief 01:30 that there was one true religion, 01:32 and that it was the duty of the civil authorities 01:36 to impose it forcibly, if necessary, 01:39 in the interest of saving the souls 01:42 of all citizens." 01:44 Friend, what a quote, 01:46 "The saving of souls of all citizens." 01:51 You know, we are currently hearing Pope Francis 01:54 networking his push for legislation 01:57 among all the nations today using nearly the same term 02:02 for the common good of all, he says. 02:06 It just seems as though nothing has really changed 02:09 in their way of thinking 02:10 when it's this type of an issue. 02:13 Reading on from the Library Congress, 02:15 "Nonconformists can't, could expect no mercy 02:19 and might be executed as heretics." 02:23 The dominance of the concept denounced by Roger Williams, 02:27 as enforced uniformity of religion 02:29 met majority religious groups who controlled political power, 02:35 punish dissenters in their mess. 02:38 Friends, it is no secret that the religious church 02:42 that control the political power 02:44 during the Middle or Dark Ages 02:46 was none other than the Catholic Church. 02:49 Hence, the word Protestants was given as a label 02:52 for the other various Christian denominations 02:55 that protested the Vatican's rule over them. 02:59 It is often been said, 03:00 and maybe you've heard this as well. 03:02 We have nothing to fear 03:04 unless we forget how God has led us in the past. 03:08 God gave Protestants a land of refuge in America. 03:13 So one must ponder the question, 03:15 "Why are we retreating back to the Vatican?" 03:18 I'm sure that we will examine this question today 03:21 with Pastor Kenny Shelton 03:22 in part one of our series that is entitled 03:25 "Our March Back to the Vatican." 03:28 But first let's visit 3 ABN and listen to a song entitled 03:32 "He's Concerned" as sung by Lorikay Sartin. 03:51 God is just a prayer away 03:56 All you need to do is call 04:01 He will hear, your faintest cry 04:07 'Cause He's concerned about you 04:13 So while your tears are flowing through 04:18 This time of mourning 04:23 He will hear, your faintest cry 04:29 'Cause He's in love with you 04:34 He knows He cares 04:40 He sees He's there 04:45 And He'll carry you 04:51 He's concerned about you 04:58 Weeping may endure for a night 05:02 But the morning will bring joy 05:08 He won't give you more than you can bear 05:13 He's concerned about you 05:20 He loves you He loves you 05:25 He loves you 05:29 I know He does He really, really does 05:35 He's concerned about you 05:40 He knows He cares 05:46 He sees He's there 05:51 He'll carry you 05:58 He's concerned about you 06:03 He knows He cares 06:09 He sees He's right there 06:15 He'll carry you 06:23 He's concerned about you 06:29 He's concerned about you 06:37 He's concerned about you 07:01 Thanks for joining us once again here 07:03 at Behold the Lamb Ministry. 07:04 We appreciate you so very much, 07:06 appreciate your cards, your letters and your support 07:08 to get this message around the world. 07:10 We do believe that Jesus is coming. 07:12 We believe that probation is closing, 07:13 the world's in a mess, Jesus is soon to come, 07:16 and how wonderful that is, that's good news. 07:18 Today we're going to be talking about some issues 07:20 that's going on in the world today. 07:22 And the sermon title is "March to the Vatican." 07:26 You'd say, well, that maybe we should be marching 07:27 towards Zion toward heaven, 07:29 but we're going to be looking at some things 07:30 I believe that will be of interest to you 07:33 of what's going on in the world today. 07:35 And remember, this march to the Vatican 07:37 didn't take place overnight, 07:39 it took place over years and years and years, 07:41 the Vatican, that the papacy has a plan. 07:44 Now I believe God's people need to be prepared 07:46 for what is taking place in this world. 07:49 We say, "Well, we've heard it before." 07:50 Let me tell you, 07:52 this is not a message for the weak and the faint. 07:55 If you're weak and you're faint, 07:57 you may not want to listen but bless your heart, 07:59 you're going to miss out on some things 08:01 if you've not heard it before, 08:02 if not, it's going to help you 08:04 to be equipped for what's taking place here. 08:07 So I'm going to have prayer right now 08:08 because man, we need prayer, don't we? 08:10 So I'm gonna be encouraged if you pray with me right now 08:12 that the Holy Spirit will lead us 08:14 and guide us and direct us. 08:17 Merciful Father in heaven, 08:18 we just ask once again for Your sweet Spirit. 08:20 Lord, wash me in Your blood, help me be whiter than snow, 08:24 help me to be just have my mind and heart stayed upon Thee, 08:28 and be able to hear your sweet voice 08:30 and to be able to relate that to Your children today, 08:32 Lord, how we need the understanding, 08:34 how we need the anointing and I thank You in advance 08:36 for what You're going to do in Jesus' name, amen. 08:40 If you have your Bible and pencil and paper, 08:42 if not get the Bible out, 08:43 check the preachers, check all of them, 08:45 make sure they're telling you the truth, 08:47 that what they say must coincide with scripture, 08:49 because that's part of the problem today. 08:51 People are teaching things that are not in harmony 08:54 with the Word of God. 08:56 And so we have to know the Word of God 08:57 or we're not going to know these things. 08:59 March to the Vatican, you know, and wine, 09:03 some of you might be familiar with wine, 09:05 it's just actually expository on word studies in the Bible, 09:10 and of the Greek New Testament, 09:12 so they take words in the Greek 09:13 and then they do studies out of it. 09:15 Here's what he wrote, 09:16 I thought was very, very interesting. 09:18 He gives a definition of spiritual fornication, 09:22 a word that we use, 09:23 and we read in scripture, spiritual fornication. 09:26 Here's what he says about it. 09:28 He said, "It's the association 09:30 of pagan idolatry with doctrines," notice this, 09:33 "of professed adherence to the," what? 09:37 "Christian faith." 09:38 So it's a combination of what? 09:40 You have some truth and you have a lot of error. 09:42 So remember, 09:44 spiritual fornication is mixing what? 09:46 Truth really and error. 09:48 Think about it together. 09:50 And, you know, 09:52 what do you think about when you hear 09:54 about somebody mixing, you know, truth, 09:57 and then they're putting error together 09:58 when we're talking about our march back to the Vatican, 10:02 it describes the Church of Rome, 10:04 there's no doubt about it. 10:05 And, of course, 10:07 lot of the churches we understand, 10:08 but specifically, the Church of Rome. 10:13 I sense right now and I hope you do, too. 10:16 We sense that the delusion of the truth, 10:20 we're talking about the watering down 10:21 of the truth is taking place. 10:23 I mean, it's rampant in the world today. 10:24 Think about it. 10:26 The plainest truth in God's Word 10:28 right now are covered. 10:30 And we're talking about covered 10:32 with a mass of manmade theories. 10:35 Remember, enemy wants to take truth, 10:38 he wants to cover it up with manmade what? 10:40 Theories. 10:41 Remember, God wants us to talk about Jesus and God, you know, 10:44 we talk about the false church and so on and so forth, 10:47 and the beast and the papacy, 10:48 they always want to talk about man and elevate man. 10:52 So we realize that these deadly errors 10:54 are being presented as truths. 10:57 Listen to it very carefully, 10:58 "Deadly errors are being presented as truth 11:02 and the majority of the world will accept these errors." 11:05 That's why I say we cannot be silent any longer. 11:08 If we have been in the past, 11:10 God help us and then ask God to forgive us, 11:13 so we need to speak boldly, 11:15 we need to speak plainly, 11:18 it will not be at individuals that we're talking about, 11:21 this is part one, there's a lot to go through. 11:25 We're talking about an organization, a power, 11:27 you see, that God spoke of in the last days 11:30 that was going to be what? 11:32 It's going to be exposed. 11:33 Now remember, the man of sin is going to be what? 11:36 He's going to be exposed. 11:37 And so these doctrines and untruth 11:39 must be talked about. 11:41 It either is from the Word of God 11:43 or it's from the enemy. 11:44 And we don't want anything from the enemy, do we? 11:46 Not at all. 11:48 You know, we got lies today that I believe 11:51 with my whole heart are coming from... 11:52 Listen carefully, from the synagogue of Satan. 11:56 Listen carefully to what? 11:58 The synagogue of Satan, Satan has his church. 12:02 And sometime we forget that. 12:04 Think about it. Why? 12:05 Because he's a copycat. 12:07 Everything that God has, the devil is a copycat. 12:10 He's not the originator of anything. 12:12 So whatever truth that there is, 12:14 he has the counterfeit, you know that. 12:16 He also has the false church. 12:18 And, you know, 12:19 underneath that he has his little banner out there, 12:21 the commandments of men and tradition. 12:24 God's Church says what? 12:25 Keep the commandments of God, have the testimony of Jesus. 12:28 Man, you can tell the difference. 12:30 You're gonna have to be under one banner, 12:32 I'm going to have to be under one banner or the other. 12:35 So we're looking at the poison that's coming from Babylon. 12:39 Did you get it? 12:40 The poison that's coming from Babylon 12:42 that most of the churches have been drinking of. 12:46 Very interesting thought if you think. 12:48 I'll just read a couple verses right quickly. 12:50 For instance, Revelation 18:3, what does the Bible say? 12:55 Revelation 18:3, 12:57 I wanna turn here quickly as I can. 12:58 I hear that popping 12:59 but I guess I'll just continue and go right ahead. 13:01 Revelation 18:3, here's what the Bible says. 13:06 It says, "For all nations have drunk 13:08 of the wine of..." what? 13:10 "Of the wrath of her fornication." 13:12 Did we define fornication from the Greek? 13:14 We did, didn't we? 13:16 You notice that, mixing of truth basically 13:17 of error and illicit relationship, 13:20 notice this. 13:22 "And the kings of the earth 13:24 have committed fornication with her 13:26 and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich 13:29 through the delicacies of her what? 13:31 "Or abundance of her delicacies." 13:33 So we see what's happening here, 13:35 all nations didn't have what? 13:36 Had drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication 13:39 or truth mixed with what? 13:41 Mixed with error, 13:42 majority of people have done that. 13:44 And then there's a call, you notice the call? 13:46 Verse 4 gives a call, 13:48 and this is what you can't miss. 13:50 This is what I can't miss. 13:52 For we already I think come in agreement 13:54 that there's a lot of false teachings 13:55 and doctrines out there, did not, do we? 13:58 We believe that and God gives a call there in verse 4, 14:01 Revelation 18:4, and he said, 14:03 I heard another voice from where? 14:06 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 14:07 "Come out of her, My people, 14:11 that you'd be not partakers of her sins 14:14 that you receive not of her plagues." 14:16 Now think about that, come out of her, 14:19 come out of that church. 14:20 Who's ever teaching falsehoods don't belong there. 14:22 Let's get out of there while the getting's good. 14:25 This is so very important in this hour 14:27 that we are living in. 14:28 Why? 14:30 Because all nations have drunk, God knows that. 14:32 The world, spiritual world is drunk. 14:35 They don't know truth from error, 14:37 they just have no idea, they just got little truth 14:38 and a bunch of error and they say, 14:40 well, that must be good enough. 14:41 The priest said it, the pastor said it, 14:43 the evangelist said it. 14:45 Check them all out. 14:47 And once you see that your church 14:49 or wherever you're going is not preaching the truth, 14:52 man, pack your bag. 14:54 Somebody's not with me, pack your bag and move on. 14:57 Because God is saying, 14:58 God Himself said come out of her, 15:01 her represents the church, does it not? 15:04 Come out of the church that's teaching errors. 15:06 And so we're looking at our march to the Vatican. 15:09 Now listen, for a while 15:11 I'll be talking about today is interesting. 15:13 The Lord gave this more than three years ago to me, 15:16 I had it in my desk for over three years, 15:19 as well before the sickness, anything else in there, 15:21 and I felt really impressed and to do this message, 15:23 and then to put it back. 15:25 Now, I don't know if I did wrong, or I did right. 15:27 Usually, you know, well, 15:28 I want to claim that in His time, 15:30 in His time, He makes all things possible. 15:32 But three years ago, it's interesting, I look today 15:36 and the things that wasn't even an issue, 15:38 you see, three years ago, they're issues today, 15:42 we're seeing it balance up, it's really interesting. 15:45 God gave in advance. 15:47 I didn't know that, that God knew it. 15:50 And He knew it would be presented today, 15:52 would He not? 15:55 Protestantism, as we know it, 15:57 has been under attack for a very, very long time. 16:00 In fact, and since the founding of the Jesuit order. 16:04 Now remember, just back up 16:06 and just think a little bit with me on this here, 16:08 because we're looking, 16:09 remember, we're going somewhere, 16:10 the march to the Vatican. 16:12 How did the Vatican get where it's gotten today? 16:14 Why is it so powerful today? 16:16 Why is all the world wandering after this power? 16:19 You see, there's a reason for it. 16:20 So first of all, sometime, you have to what? 16:22 Cut down your opposition, 16:25 and so that the Catholic Church begin to cut down what? 16:28 Protestantism, which was what? 16:30 Certainly was revival in the Dark Ages, right? 16:32 In the 15th, 16th century, what happened? 16:35 Protestantism was coming alive and well, 16:37 and the Catholic Church 16:38 had to put in some and fight this, 16:41 because they were losing members. 16:43 Now notice how they did it. 16:45 They did it through the founding 16:46 of the Jesuit order, 16:48 isn't that interesting? 16:49 That's in 1534, the order came, these men came about. 16:53 Now, they played a very important part. 16:57 The Jesuit order played a very important 16:58 because they were going to, 17:00 notice what they were going to do, 17:01 they were going to, we're talking about, 17:05 for what the Protestants were doing, 17:07 the Catholic were going to try to make going through there 17:09 and cover it all back up 17:11 and say this is not really the truth. 17:13 I think about that counter, 17:15 to counter the Reformation is very, very important. 17:19 Seventeen years after Luther nailed his thesis 17:24 to the door of the Wittenberg castle, 17:26 a few man started a new order. 17:29 Think about it, a few man did what? 17:31 They started a new order, we call the Jesuits. 17:34 What would they do? 17:35 They were to attack Protestants. 17:38 That was the whole function, to attack the reformation, 17:42 what was taking place and the truth and revival 17:45 that God wanted to happen in the world, 17:47 not only this country, but the whole world. 17:51 And notice how they would attack. 17:53 The Jesuit order was established 17:55 that they would attack from the inside out. 17:59 And a lot of times they give out and you attack, 18:01 but they knew they need to infiltrate 18:03 and get inside the churches 18:05 and begin to work 18:07 where no one realized what they were doing. 18:10 And, you know, and you know, what? 18:12 Apostate Protestantism helped the Catholic Church, 18:15 and then they didn't even know it? 18:17 How could they help the Catholic Church? 18:20 How could they help Rome? 18:22 Well, simply by denying many of the biblical truths 18:25 that are written in the Word of God. 18:27 See, Protestantism helped them 18:28 because they started denying the truths of God's Word. 18:32 And therefore the Rome realized 18:34 they had us on the ropes denying, 18:37 they wanted works, 18:40 of religion of works and of doing, 18:43 think about that. 18:44 Liberalism came into the church. 18:46 You think there's liberalism in the church today? 18:49 Well, I think there's quite a bit of liberalism 18:51 in the church today. 18:52 There way too much liberalism. 18:54 You know, let's say, well, we're conservative, 18:56 well, we're liberal. 18:57 Why don't we just be God's people, you know, 18:59 not being one over here, one group over here, 19:01 we're following God, not this group was too liberal 19:04 and this group peers are conservative, 19:06 and so on and so forth, but we're following God. 19:08 This is what we need to be doing. 19:10 Liberalism ramped. 19:13 College students poisoned with poison, 19:16 their minds about the papacy. 19:18 The papacy was on the rise. 19:20 Protestantism was on the way down. 19:22 Remember when Catholicism is going this way, 19:24 Protestantism is going what? 19:26 Down. 19:27 When Protestantism was coming up, 19:28 you see in the Dark Ages, 19:30 at the end, the papal rule, what happened? 19:33 Protestantism going up, Catholic Church, they're up, 19:36 then all of a sudden it began to come up 19:37 and begin to put down Protestantism. 19:41 I know you've heard about 19:42 the Puritans and the Reformation 19:45 and you've read a lot about that 19:47 but, you know, that's very interesting, 19:48 that we need to look at closely today. 19:50 You look at the papacy, 19:52 I call him today the man of sin 19:55 if you don't mind that I will do that 19:57 because God said it first, the man of sin. 20:00 Just prior now to us looking 20:01 at some of these teachings of popery, 20:05 we'll see how Christ was humiliated 20:07 in this one teaching, for instance, of the Eucharist. 20:10 You realize Christ is humiliated 20:12 when you talk about communion, 20:14 when the Catholic Church does communion, why? 20:18 Because don't they pass out the wine and the wafer, 20:21 what do they believe? 20:23 All this could be proven, go back in their own books. 20:25 They believe that that wafer they pass out 20:28 becomes the literal what? 20:30 Literal body of Jesus Christ. 20:33 They teach that the wine that they're drinking 20:35 is the actual blood of Jesus Christ. 20:39 Now, that means that they believe 20:41 that the body and the blood of Christ 20:44 cannot act on his own, 20:46 but Jesus has to act 20:47 through the priest who's giving it. 20:49 Other words, the priest, I read a book on 20:51 not too long ago was talking about this, 20:53 and one guy made the comment 20:54 that Jesus basically has to sit there and to wait 20:57 until the priest tells Him what to do. 21:00 Yeah, you talk about blaspheme, you talk about, you know, 21:02 just about as low as you can get. 21:04 But really, this, 21:06 these are the teachings and notice 21:08 what the Catholic Church is doing today. 21:10 They're asking the religious world, 21:12 especially evangelicals, let's have Eucharist day, 21:14 let's have communion together. 21:16 See, you're gonna say, 21:18 "Well, I could have communion with you," 21:19 but you go, "You believe this and I believe that." 21:21 No, we shouldn't do that, 21:22 because of their beliefs and while they're leading out, 21:25 and it's not what we want, 21:26 and what we believe is from God's Word. 21:29 Why? 21:30 Because we find out that God is dethroned, 21:33 God is taking off of the throne 21:35 and man wants to sit on the throne. 21:37 You remember that? 21:38 Think about the Protestant, think about the reformers. 21:42 Think about the real men and women 21:44 of God in the colonies that came over from Europe 21:46 to escape the persecution of the papacy. 21:49 They came over to this country 21:51 and it wasn't long the way our country 21:52 was doing the same thing 21:53 that we escape, try to escape from. 21:55 Why? 21:57 Because everybody begins to think along the line 21:59 that somehow we cannot just encourage people 22:02 and lift up Jesus to them and let them accept Christ. 22:04 But somehow we have to pass laws 22:06 to make them Christians, 22:07 you know that can't be. 22:09 That's what took place even here in our colonies. 22:12 How sad that is, how sad we look at that. 22:15 I mean, the pope even given names. 22:18 You realize that the names that he's given, 22:21 they belong to God alone, isn't that, 22:25 the names that are given to this man? 22:27 Now this man, this pope who only God only knows him 22:29 so I'm not judging him as an individual, 22:31 God knows all of that. 22:32 But I'm judging, I'm looking at what he stands for, 22:36 and the names that are attributed to him. 22:40 How a man is exalted, and Jesus is put down. 22:45 The pope for instance is addressed 22:47 as our Lord God, the Pope. 22:51 And I'm saying all these things it makes, 22:52 as we study and go through to see 22:54 how the Vatican has attained what it's attained. 22:57 Listen to it, everybody in the world 23:00 knows the pope better than anyone else. 23:01 He's known worldwide. 23:04 Somebody's not with me. 23:06 Anywhere you go in the world, 23:10 he's known. 23:13 That's Bible prophecy. 23:15 The whole world is going to wander after the beast. 23:22 Prophecy before our very eyes, our very ears. 23:27 He's addressed as what? 23:28 Lord God, the Pope. 23:31 He's addressed as Jesus Christ on earth. 23:35 Now remember, others are going to say what? 23:38 Well, that's not what we are today. 23:39 We didn't do, we did some persecuting, 23:41 we did a lot of things in the Dark Ages, 23:42 we're not that way anymore. 23:44 Don't you believe it? Don't you believe it? 23:47 The papacy never changes. 23:50 I'm saying this for a reason. 23:51 Brother, John, you realize 23:52 it's not individuals I'm talking about. 23:54 I don't want have to say that over and over and over. 23:56 But lot of people always say, well, individual, 23:58 God has good people everywhere 23:59 that's true, not this organization. 24:02 The Bible said that the dragon, the devil gave him his power, 24:05 his seat and his great authority. 24:08 The enemy picked a religion as it were, 24:11 because he couldn't do it through persecution, 24:13 are we still, that true? 24:15 He tried it during the Dark Ages, 24:16 he tried the killing of 50-100 million Christians 24:20 during the Dark Ages attribute to the papacy, 24:23 because they refused 24:25 to keep their teachings and doctrines. 24:27 And the majority of the Protestant world today 24:28 are keeping their doctrines and they think it's okay. 24:33 These teachings that are going out 24:35 that no one wants to look into 24:37 and find out whether they're truth or not. 24:39 You try to present truth to them, 24:40 they don't want to hear anymore. 24:43 This just these names Jesus Christ on earth, 24:46 as pope has said it, you know, think about, 24:49 Protestantism has been infiltrated. 24:53 They used to say to me all time 24:54 will you think, oh, boy, 24:56 you think there's a Jesuit behind every tree? 24:58 I said, I don't anymore, I think it's every other tree. 25:02 I can think that if I want to. 25:05 You can think how you want to, but I'm telling you right now, 25:08 what we're talking about now is life and death issue. 25:11 If we don't listen, now, 25:12 we don't heed the call right now, 25:13 it may be too late. 25:15 Yeah, we're not going 25:17 to have the other opportunity and chance. 25:18 Why? 25:20 Because if we're not growing 25:21 in experimental knowledge as it were, 25:22 knowledge of Jesus Christ, 25:24 we're going backwards the other way. 25:26 We need that experience right now 25:28 to gain strength, and faith, and courage 25:30 to go through what's before us, 25:32 that I look at with disdain and say, 25:33 I don't know how only by God's grace, 25:36 a time of trouble. 25:38 Remember, the enemy said in the beginning, 25:41 Isaiah 14, you remember Isaiah 14:13? 25:44 What did He say? 25:45 He said, "I will, "what? 25:48 Yeah, "I will ascend," remember? 25:50 "Above the," what? "The throne..." 25:52 "I will ascend into heaven and I will exalt my throne." 25:56 Did you get that? 25:58 I will exalt... 25:59 So what is wrong, you think about the infiltrated by Rome, 26:02 man, and when Rome infiltrates, 26:04 man gets elevated, exalted, man is exalted. 26:09 The King of the universe are saying, 26:11 basically, of the pope. 26:13 There's only one real King of the universe, 26:14 and we know that. 26:16 And as long as he is elevated and lifted up, 26:18 think about those who are sincere in their belief 26:20 that think that he's God on earth or Jesus Christ, 26:23 when they look at him or see him 26:25 or they go to places where he's speaking, 26:27 they really believe that he's God on earth. 26:29 I'm glad my dad always taught me, 26:31 he say, he's the same as any of us, 26:32 he puts his pants on the same way 26:33 as everybody else does. 26:35 Does that make sense? 26:40 And let's not kid ourselves, he's a sinner. 26:44 If he saved in the kingdom, 26:45 he'll be saved just like the rest of it 26:47 by the blood of the Lamb. 26:48 Not his, not what they do, but it's by Jesus Christ, 26:52 our Lord, and certainly our Savior. 26:54 Because his plan was, I will ascend to heaven. 26:58 I will exalt myself, did you get it? 27:01 Just exactly what we see happening as we exalt man, 27:05 God is taken off of the throne. 27:07 Protestants today, 27:09 I believe that most Protestant 27:10 really don't know anything about Christ. 27:12 Very little, 27:14 and about the Christ as our high priest. 27:17 I remember many years ago, going to a Sunday church, 27:20 they asked me to come and do 27:22 a prayer meeting for them for a while, 27:23 because I know the pastor and one of the members, 27:25 they said, well, you come and do prayer meeting 27:27 in one of the churches in Heights, in West Frankfort. 27:29 I said, "Yes, I'll be glad to." 27:31 So I said, "Lord, what would, what should I be speaking on?" 27:36 The Lord right quick said, "You speak on the sanctuary." 27:38 Speak on what? 27:40 On the sanctuary as Christ as our high priest, 27:43 because the importance of the work 27:45 of the high priest right now, 27:47 when people are denying, they say, 27:49 "Well, it's finished at the cross." 27:51 No, that blood has to be applied, 27:53 you see in the most holy place, 27:54 it has to be applied or it's not effective. 27:57 Oh, friend, what people don't know 27:59 about though they don't about the high priest, 28:01 they don't know about the heavenly sanctuary. 28:03 You'll say, "Oh, well, I've never heard of..." 28:05 I'm going to take time to read a verse or two, 28:07 if you don't mind. 28:08 Turn with me to the Book of the Hebrews. 28:10 This is just a couple little verses here. 28:12 Hebrews chapter, let's see, was it 8? 28:15 Hebrews 8:1-2, Hebrews chapter what? 28:18 Eight. 28:19 I'm going to read verses 1 and 2. 28:21 Here's what the Bible has to say. 28:23 "Now of those things which we have spoken, 28:26 this is the sum..." 28:28 What does that mean? 28:30 This is a total, 28:31 everything we've been talking about, 28:32 here's the total. 28:34 You know, I like that. 28:35 When I go to store and somebody just added up 28:36 half of what I bought, that's not good enough. 28:38 I want to get, I would say, what's the bottom line? 28:40 What's this thing going to cost me? 28:42 They'll say, "Well, so much," and I'll say, 28:43 "Well, that include tax?" 28:44 See, some of you not getting it, 28:46 that makes a difference. 28:48 It makes a difference. Here's the total sum, right? 28:49 Here's what the Bible said, right? 28:51 Now, notice this, and I like this. 28:52 "We have such a," what? 28:56 "We have such a high priest who is set on the right hand 28:58 of the throne of Majesty in heaven." 29:00 Where is Jesus sitting as it were, 29:02 what's His position? 29:04 What's that say? Good. 29:06 He's high priest, 29:08 He's sitting on the right hand. of the throne, 29:10 the Majesty in heaven. 29:11 Verse 2, "He's a minister of the sanctuary 29:15 and of the true tabernacle, 29:17 which the Lord pitched and not man." 29:19 Man, is God pitching something for us up there 29:21 to look into the heavens to see what Jesus is doing. 29:24 The world doesn't know that 29:25 because man has come in his little traditions 29:28 and they're lifting up man, and we're beholding man 29:31 rather than beholding Jesus Christ. 29:33 It's sure failure when you behold a man. 29:36 Are you there? You're looking to man. 29:38 He's gonna let you down. 29:40 You look to Jesus, He'll never let you down. 29:42 You're looking for salvation, you look to Jesus Christ. 29:44 You don't look salvation through man. 29:46 You want to confess your sins? 29:48 You confess them to Jesus Christ. 29:49 There's one, only one mediator 29:51 between God and man and that's Jesus Christ. 29:53 It is not a priest, it's not a pastor, 29:54 it's nothing, it's only through Jesus Christ. 29:57 We need to get that out to the world 29:59 because millions don't understand that. 30:02 Hebrews Chapter 9, 30:03 let me read another quick in Hebrews 9:24, 30:07 Hebrews 9:24. 30:09 Here's what the Bible says. 30:10 It says, "For Christ is not entered into," what? 30:14 "Holy places made with hands, 30:16 which are the figure of the true." 30:18 But where's Jesus now? 30:19 "But He is, He's in heaven itself 30:23 now to appear in the presence of God for us." 30:26 The Bible is clear, you talk of sanctuary, 30:28 sanctuary message, where's Jesus, where's He at? 30:31 He's in the heavenly sanctuary, what He's doing? 30:34 He's appearing for God, for us. 30:37 He's working in our behalf. 30:38 When your name comes up in the judgment, He has to say, 30:41 "I know John. 30:43 John's mine," And God says, "That's good enough for me." 30:46 Isn't that wonderful? 30:48 God's not going to, whoo, 30:49 God's not going to question Jesus. 30:52 Jesus knows, the Bible said, knows who is His. 30:56 And He's not going to forget us, 30:57 He's not going to leave us. 30:59 So they know very little about the heavenly sanctuary. 31:02 They know very little about Christ, 31:04 they know little about God, man, as it were. 31:07 But you know what? 31:08 They know an awful lot about sinful man. 31:10 Are you still there? 31:12 They know a lot about sinful man. 31:14 Many evangelicals, if I might say this, 31:17 many evangelicals call the pope, 31:20 one of the greatest Christians on the earth. 31:23 Are you still there? Have you heard him say it? 31:25 You see it in literature? 31:26 He's one of the greatest Christians 31:28 on the face of the earth. 31:30 See, I believe that a church should be founded 31:33 on the Word of God, not on tradition, 31:36 not on manmade, not on paganism. 31:39 What do you find? 31:40 See this, this is what so hard for me to understand 31:42 is why we call it and whether it's a newscast, 31:46 whether it's a storm, 31:48 where there's good times or whatever it is, 31:50 and any religious person needs to be, 31:52 you know, they want to speak to, 31:54 they say a man of God, 31:55 they always get a priest or pope or somebody. 31:57 It's always the Catholic Church, 31:58 it's never the First Baptist, it's never the Church of God, 32:01 it's never Seventh-day Adventist, 32:02 somebody's not there. 32:03 Think about, you got to focus in, 32:05 have you noticed this, never is. 32:08 The enemy has a plan to bring it to the forefront 32:11 so people can see and hear and pretty soon, 32:14 well, that's not so bad. 32:16 It's not so bad. 32:18 The evangelical world calls the pope 32:21 the greatest Christian on earth, 32:22 when reality the Bible calls him the man of sin. 32:27 Is that not right? 32:29 Now, if somebody said, they don't know it, 32:31 well, well, well. 32:32 You know what the Bible says? 32:33 Turn with me to 2 Thessalonians, 32:35 I know I'm taking some time to do it. 32:36 But, you know, sometime we need to do it. 32:38 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, 32:42 now remember, they call him 32:43 the greatest Christian in the world, 32:45 but the Bible said, he's the man of sin. 32:48 So I need to think about that then, don't I? 32:51 Sure, we need to think about it. 32:53 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, the Bible said, 32:56 "Let no man deceive you by any," what? 32:59 "By any means for that day shall not come, 33:01 except there come a falling away first." 33:03 There's going to come a day 33:05 that God's people are going to have the Holy boldness 33:07 that they'll get up and they'll say, 33:08 "This is what who the man of sin is. 33:10 This is what's going on in the world. 33:12 This is what we need to be studying. 33:14 This is what needs to be going on." 33:16 I'm telling you right now, we're not doing that, 33:18 God help us that, notice this, that 33:20 "The man of sin be revealed," 33:23 and calls him, watch this, "the son of perdition." 33:26 That's not good name, 33:28 the pope is called the son of perdition here. 33:30 Pope here is called what? 33:31 He said, "Oh, the man of sin." 33:33 Notice this, you say, "Well, what do you mean?" 33:35 Verse 4 said, this man, this power, 33:38 "Who opposeth and calleth himself 33:40 above all that is called God," did you get it? 33:43 "Or that is worshiped, 33:45 so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, 33:48 showing himself to be as God." 33:51 So you can think about our religious leaders 33:53 or any of them in the world today 33:54 that says they're God on earth? 33:56 No, there's not. 33:57 This is just a little iota, 33:58 this is just little crumbs 34:00 of how this can be proven what I'm talking about. 34:02 This is showing himself to be God. 34:04 He said, "I'm going to sit on the throne," 34:06 remember "I will rise above." 34:08 This is what we'll have to look at here. 34:09 God said here right now, he's going to be exposed, 34:12 somebody is going to expose him. 34:14 Listen, don't you think for a moment 34:16 that those who are out there don't know who's exposing... 34:18 the Roman Catholic Church and who, those who are not. 34:21 Those who are too scared, 34:22 those who are petrified that what might happen to them. 34:25 In fact, we're told in the Spirit of Prophecy 34:27 as we look at it, as we look back, 34:29 and we see what happens to those 34:30 who are exposing the beast, 34:31 it say we may never spoken those words 34:35 of what's going to take place? 34:37 And when you say it, and then you record it, 34:39 it's there, you can't really deny it. 34:41 So we're not looking forward to it but, you know what? 34:44 I think we need to shout 34:45 what we have, the shouting time. 34:47 We need to expose while we have the exposing time. 34:50 The Bible said, "Oh, the world says he's this." 34:54 They wandered after the beast. 34:55 The Bible said, "No, he's the son of perdition, 34:59 he's the man of sin." 35:01 2 Thessalonians, you're already there, 35:03 verse 2, verse 7, 35:05 also calls him the mystery of what? 35:07 Iniquity. 35:09 Man, you can get right down. 35:11 2 Thessalonians 2:7, the Bible said, 35:13 "The mystery of iniquity doth already work, 35:16 only he who now letteth 35:18 will let until he be taken out of the way." 35:22 What does that tell you? 35:23 One of these days, 35:24 he's going to be taken out of the way? 35:26 Yes, he is. 35:27 But let me tell you, 35:28 the shaking is going on in the church, 35:30 majority are going to be shaken out. 35:31 Why? Because we aren't to worship. 35:33 Whoo, be careful, we're spiritual cowards. 35:35 We are spiritual cowards 35:36 because we're so many times we're afraid to mention 35:39 that we're Seventh-day Adventist, 35:40 we're afraid to mention we go to church on the seventh day, 35:43 we're afraid to expose the man of sin, 35:45 which is leading the world by the millions to hell. 35:49 And we will do nothing about it 35:51 because we don't want to upset anybody. 35:53 I don't either, I like for it 35:55 to be something else to talk about here 35:56 but God is impressing us right here right now. 35:59 That he said, they say 36:01 he's a religious leader of the world. 36:03 I say he's the mystery of iniquity. 36:04 I say he's a man of sin. 36:06 I see he's the son, I say he's a son of perdition. 36:10 I say, Jesus says, he is the antichrist. 36:13 Is that what the Bible talks about? 36:16 Three or four passages, you look up 1 John 4:3 36:19 and 2 John 7, and 1 John 2:18. 36:25 Look those things up and it says the antichrist, 36:29 they were already working, you remember, in Paul's day, 36:31 but it's going to increase. 36:32 God is letting us know 36:34 that we need to be very careful. 36:36 Today what do we have? 36:37 We go to a lot of churches, you know what we have? 36:40 We have a lot of... 36:41 We go to churches 36:43 and we have a lot of rock music, 36:44 we have a lot of the devil's music, 36:46 if you don't mind me saying. 36:48 And lot of the Christians for today, 36:49 you know what they do? 36:51 They'd rather have music and short sermons. 36:54 You're going to get long sermons here 36:55 and less music. 36:58 Now, I didn't hear amen from everybody 36:59 but that's all right too. 37:01 There's not going to be a balance 37:03 that the balance has to be there we understand. 37:05 But it's not to where many religious service you go 37:07 and all there is is music. 37:09 All there is is rock and roll, 37:10 all there is a swinging from the rafters. 37:13 You know, I'd love to have a good time myself, 37:15 but I'm saying that, 37:16 and I know it challenges many good, 37:17 honest hearted people. 37:19 God knows that, God takes that into account, 37:20 I'm not their judge, 37:22 I ain't saying whether they're going to heaven or hell, 37:23 but I'm saying, the Bible says, 37:25 "Be still and know that I am God," 37:26 you remember that? 37:27 "Be still and know." 37:30 You have, again, you have all the music, 37:32 you have all the other things that are going on in here, 37:34 and just a few minutes you have in the Word of God. 37:39 So they're going to learn nothing 37:41 then of Jesus basically, 37:42 the ministry or the office of the Son of God. 37:45 Real Bible students, real Bible studiers, you know, 37:50 the real Bible preachers, 37:52 are there any real Bible preachers left 37:54 on this planet anymore? 37:56 You know what's given away? 37:57 Most of the preachers going on in the pulpit today, 38:00 they've given away to this thing 38:01 called prosperity preaching. 38:03 I'm sick of it. 38:04 If you don't care me say that. 38:06 I'm up here on this platform, 38:07 I'm gonna keep going, somebody drags me off. 38:09 Think about it. 38:11 Prosperity preaching. 38:12 We all love it because you say prosperity 38:14 "Oh, I want to prosper. 38:16 God said we all prosper and be in hell." 38:17 Everything we do, let's get to this, get to that, 38:19 we're going to prosper, we're going to get rich, 38:20 we're going to be prosperity preaching, 38:22 and Jesus is left out. 38:25 Real preachers today 38:27 you find some of them getting in the pulpit. 38:28 Are they real preachers, 38:30 when all they have to say is have jokes and humor? 38:33 I've had people invite me to different churches and said, 38:35 "Man, you will love it." 38:36 We laughed our socks off. 38:37 We were down in the floor laughing, 38:39 all he did was one joke after. 38:42 Yeah, it's entertainment, that's all it is. 38:44 You have other pastors getting the pulpit. 38:46 He's advocating self help, self help, self. 38:51 Think about it, self help, 38:53 self revelations, positive thinking, 38:58 you ever heard of those things? 38:59 Sure, you have. 39:01 It's a religion centered on man and not centered on Christ. 39:06 But you know what? 39:07 That what I just talked about is a very close connection 39:09 to the Church of Rome, did you notice that? 39:12 Jesus said in John 8:28, 39:15 "When ye have lifted me up." 39:18 Did you see it? 39:20 "When you have lifted," what? 39:21 "Me up," John 12:38, 39:25 "And if I be lifted up will draw," what? 39:28 "All men unto me." 39:29 You see, there's a balance, 39:31 we've got to get to way from man and his religion 39:36 and focus upon Christ and what He has to offer. 39:39 You know, to me, it seemed like it's impossible here 39:41 to try to satisfy millions of people. 39:45 And at the same time to try to build a church 39:48 that loves the truth. 39:49 We got to have a church, 39:51 love the truth my brothers and sisters, 39:52 come to love the truth, 39:54 if you don't love the truth, you can't stand the truth, 39:56 pray that God will help you to love the truth. 39:58 See how important that is? 40:00 Help him, He knows if you don't love it, 40:01 He knows if you're bored when you come here, 40:03 He knows if you can't wait till the preacher be as quiet. 40:06 He knows you can't wait, I'd rather have lunch 40:08 than I have to hear the Word of God. 40:10 He knows that. 40:12 But if you do, you know 40:14 that still backwards it's not right, 40:15 get down on your knees and pray. 40:17 I've had to get on my knees and pray about things, 40:19 I'm telling you, lot of them. 40:21 That I didn't like and ask God to help me to love it 40:23 because the Bible says, I need to love it 40:25 if heaven's going to be my home. 40:27 For instance, we gotta love your brothers and sister. 40:28 You don't love your brothers and sisters. 40:30 But we're all selfish, 40:31 we're not gonna make it to heaven. 40:33 Do we care about our brothers and sisters? 40:34 Oh, friends, please say 40:36 "Yes, I care about my brothers and my sister." 40:40 Jesus said, it's our duty to God, 40:41 isn't that right? 40:43 On these two, hang all the law and the testament, 40:44 duty to God and our duty to our fellow man. 40:47 Every person we see 40:48 should be someone for the kingdom. 40:50 I say it over and over, 40:51 I have to continue to say it 40:52 because I have to keep it in my mind 40:54 when I see people who don't look like 40:56 I think they ought to look like. 40:57 Doing the things that they're doing 40:59 that I don't approve of. 41:00 I'm saying, it's not me, it's Christ. 41:03 That's who we have to call in. 41:05 I don't have to give approval, 41:06 doesn't matter about my approval. 41:08 That sure matters about God's approval, does it not? 41:12 So over and over, 41:13 we see this reformation came along 41:16 and tried to build a church that love the truth. 41:20 Remember, we're marching toward the Vatican now 41:22 because the Vatican said, 41:24 we're coming out of the Dark Ages now, 41:26 people are beginning to 41:27 and Martin Luther and many other 41:29 are putting these things out, 41:30 righteous about faith and blood of Jesus Christ 41:32 and no longer have to work. 41:33 Oh, get away from that church and all they say, 41:36 "Oh, well, we got to get this counterfeit going here." 41:39 We gotta fight back. 41:40 We're going to continue to fight back. 41:43 Today, it's difficult, only by the grace of God, 41:46 it's not God's fault, it's not lack of Holy Spirit, 41:49 it's a lack of us wanting Holy Spirit. 41:51 If you want to know the truth, 41:53 this church should have two or three services on Sabbath. 41:56 Okay, somebody's not going, I just might well as sit down. 42:00 Think about it. 42:02 There should be hungry enough people, 42:04 that you have to have two or three services in here. 42:07 Don't go and have church service at other places, 42:10 we have two and three services. 42:11 And they didn't hear nothing but jokes all the time. 42:14 No conviction, no signs of the time. 42:18 They're dead, absolutely no Christ, 42:20 it's completely left out. 42:22 But you know that this group, 42:24 this group that was raised up in the reformation, 42:26 that really loved Jesus and loved truth, 42:28 you know what? 42:29 They wanted to worship the Lord in spirit and what? 42:32 And in truth, John 4:24, 42:36 "We must worship Him in spirit and in truth." 42:39 You have to have a church that's got a little spirit. 42:41 We have to have a church 42:43 that's got a little bit of feeling. 42:44 We have to have a church 42:45 that's got a little bit of emotion in it. 42:47 We have to have that, you know, again, 42:48 it doesn't override scripture and all the unbalanced is, 42:52 it's all feelings, 42:53 it's all emotion and forget scripture, 42:55 that's not the way it's going to be here. 42:57 You know that and I know that because the Bible says. 43:00 This is very, very important. 43:01 Remember what the reformers, what did they say? 43:04 They said, Sola scriptura, you remember that? 43:07 Sola scriptura, what does that mean? 43:09 They said, "Give us the Bible and the Bible only." 43:11 This is how we're going to determine what is truth. 43:14 And the papacy said, "No way." 43:16 We chained it for many, many centuries, 43:18 you know, on the walls, 43:19 no one could be allowed to read it. 43:22 God wants us to get back to the Word of God, Bible only. 43:27 That's our Bible cry, did you get it? 43:30 Bible cry, and let me tell you, 43:32 people say, "Well, that means the Bible, 43:33 you can't read for me from that." 43:34 As long as whatever somebody writes is in, right, 43:38 gels with the scripture, we're okay, 43:40 you can feel free to read it. 43:42 I almost said it, I'll just be careful. 43:44 Even the pope tell some things that's true sometimes. 43:51 It's almost brutal. 43:52 It's almost to think about but really, 43:54 so some people say, "Well, you can never read it." 43:55 If it goes along with what the Bible says, 43:58 feel free to read it. 43:59 It's all good. 44:01 This is heavy duty times. 44:04 We're going to serve God 44:05 or we're going to serve the enemy. 44:07 We're going to belong to God's church 44:09 or the enemy's church. 44:12 Scripture must govern this church. 44:17 It must govern every church, 44:19 every denomination, but how can it 44:22 when we're throwing away most of the truths 44:24 in the Word of God? 44:26 You're accepting day old stuff, non truths of God's Word. 44:32 Listen, when we do this confusion develops, 44:36 when we throw out the Word of God. 44:38 If all of us are using the Word of God, 44:40 we're all in harmony. 44:41 That would be not all these why all these denominations, well, 44:45 it's because the majority ones who leave and go to, 44:46 they didn't want to hear the truth. 44:49 They didn't want to sit down and study what is, 44:51 they felt like they wanted to. 44:54 Always when you leave the Bible, 44:56 there's always disorder. 44:58 Did you get that? 44:59 Disorder and confusion, 45:02 that's why confusion talks about in the Bible, 45:04 Babylon is what? 45:07 Confusion isn't it, really Babylon... 45:08 The world is involved in Babylon right now, 45:11 the world is confused, the world is drunk, 45:13 because maybe I haven't done my job, 45:15 well, I'm determined by the grace of God 45:17 to do my job. 45:18 Many are not going to like it. 45:20 They'll say, "Well, you should set 45:21 a little bit more love, you should have been more..." 45:23 "Yes, I wished I could." 45:25 I say, "It's life and death issue. 45:26 It'd be nice just to be able to dug it." 45:28 You know what? 45:29 Listen, no one could say it, I've said this dozens of time. 45:32 No one could preach it and teach it and live it 45:35 better than Jesus Christ, 45:36 and they nailed Him to the cross. 45:39 So you can use as excuse if you want. 45:41 "Well, I didn't like the way you said." 45:42 He said too nastly, he said to, blah, blah, blah. 45:45 I understand people have preferences 45:46 and all that too, I want to be balanced with it. 45:48 But you understand, 45:49 Jesus did it in a way no one else could ever do it. 45:53 And they hated Him for it. 45:55 But He told the truth, did He not? 45:57 Sola scriptura, confusion and disorder. 46:01 Heresies, 46:02 false doctrines in the church. 46:05 What happens when heresy comes in 46:08 and apostasy come in, 46:09 truth goes out the door. 46:11 See, that untruths need to be going out the back door 46:14 and the truth needs to be coming in the front door. 46:18 Every time Protestants have been attacked 46:21 through the ages by Rome, we know that. 46:26 Why? 46:28 Because the Roman Catholic Church 46:29 wants to bring Protestants back to the mother church. 46:32 Who's the mother church? 46:34 I've got writing stuff 46:35 on where they called themselves the mother church. 46:37 So I'm not just saying something here. 46:39 Well, I can't go into every little thing, 46:40 I'd love to be able to go into everything 46:41 which would take hours and hours and hours and hours 46:44 'cause everything I'm talking about here, 46:46 it's in their own writing. 46:49 You have to do some reading and finding out 46:51 what's going on here. 46:52 Rome says, I want the Protestants 46:54 to come back the way that was in the old world. 46:56 Everybody is a Catholic or you don't live. 47:00 And it's what's going forward right now today, 47:02 if our eyes are open. 47:05 This is becoming very, very clear, 47:07 at least to me. 47:09 In areas of where they're working hard, 47:10 they're working hard in the areas of theology, 47:13 they're working very hard in the area of politics, 47:17 they're working very hard in the area of culture, 47:21 very hard in the churches, as it were, 47:24 and very hard for literature 47:25 and those things which are passed out. 47:28 They're working very hard in the world condition. 47:31 They're using all of these things 47:33 to get their goal, which they said was to get 47:36 the United States of America to be Catholic. 47:39 You need to read some of those things. 47:42 Let me give you a couple of few examples, 47:43 our time is running out but just few examples. 47:46 How many have heard of contemplative prayer? 47:51 If you have contemplative prayer, 47:52 that's kind of interesting thing. 47:54 Notice this, 47:55 this was pushed into many churches 47:58 around the world, 47:59 even in our own church, no doubt. 48:02 And this, they said would help us to unite 48:04 with all the churches of the world 48:07 and it was promoted by 48:09 and supported by the Catholic Church. 48:11 Did you get it? 48:13 Now this is according 48:15 to the official Vatican II statement. 48:18 Here's what Vatican said. 48:20 "Worthy of special mention are the various projects 48:24 for causing the contemplative life 48:27 to take root. 48:28 Since contemplative life belongs to," notice this, 48:31 "contemplative life belongs to the fullness of the church. 48:34 Did you get church's presence?" 48:38 Notice this, "Let it be put into effect everywhere." 48:42 Roman Catholics said, 48:43 "A contemplative prayer must be put in all the churches, 48:45 everybody needs to do it." 48:46 And you'll find out why it needs to be put in there 48:49 because it wants to clear your mind out 48:50 so the devil can come in and take it. 48:52 Did you get it? 48:53 We'll talk more about it. 48:56 Pope John Paul II said this, 48:59 "This exercise plays an important role 49:03 in the evangelization, 49:07 I guess yeah, of the world, by what? 49:09 By the Catholic Church. 49:11 To evangelize the world, the Roman Church says 49:13 this must take place in the churches. 49:16 Remember what it's doing? 49:17 Contemplative prayer is simply you sit 49:19 and let your mind go blank. 49:21 You never let your mind go blank 49:23 because the enemy will take it. 49:24 Remember, it's the defense of things 49:26 you put in your heart and your mind 49:27 that keeps you away from the devil 49:29 and what he's wanting to do. 49:30 Here's a few terms being used to promote this new... 49:34 They call it a new spirituality, 49:37 if you want to experience something new, 49:39 that's going on in Adventism 49:40 as well as in many other places. 49:42 Many has been hoodwinked by this, 49:43 many have left the church are out 49:45 on the northbound lane somewhere, 49:47 and their life is never going to ever be the same again. 49:49 Here's a few terms used to promote this new spirituality, 49:52 it says this. 49:53 You've heard of the emerging church, 49:55 well actually, 49:57 the emerging church is based upon two doctrines, 50:00 basically two main doctrines that is it. 50:03 Basic doctrine is everybody's going to be saved. 50:06 Well, I want to go to that church. 50:10 Yeah, it's a lie. That's not what the Bible said. 50:12 Oh, the Bible said, many are called but what? 50:14 Many are called but few are chosen, 50:16 or few make the choice. 50:18 It's not, well, God chooses you and He doesn't choose you, 50:20 He doesn't love you, God loves everybody the same. 50:22 Man, somebody... 50:23 We need to get with the program 50:24 as far as looking at what is truth here. 50:27 God calls we have to respond to that call. 50:29 Now remember, 50:31 everybody is going to be saved in this church. 50:33 And then the second part, notice this, 50:35 God is in everything, now there's more, 50:39 God is in everything and everyone is God. 50:44 Did you get it? 50:45 People are eating it up. 50:47 Have you heard, yeah, 50:49 have you heard of spiritual formation? 50:51 We made videos on it. 50:53 Spiritual formation, 50:54 it teaches we are formed or we are changed 50:58 through spiritual mysticism. 51:01 That's kind of a big word. 51:03 Mysticism, what does that mean? 51:05 That means the occult, part of the occult. 51:07 Something dealing with magical powers, 51:11 dealing with contemplative meditation, 51:14 everything but dealing with God, 51:16 and the cross, and Calvary. 51:19 These are things that go on that you hear in all kinds, 51:21 whether it's Sabbath or Sunday preaching churches today. 51:25 What are we going to do as God's people? 51:28 Have you heard of conversation and dialogue? 51:31 This is something else that's going on. 51:33 Yeah, this is where, listen, 51:35 this is where Bible doctrine is set aside. 51:39 They want to just come together 51:40 and talk about it. 51:42 But you can't use the Bible, 51:43 you can't use something as a main point here. 51:46 The Bible becomes unimportant. 51:49 So you discuss the Bible and you begin to share 51:54 as it were just personal little testimonies. 51:58 That's all that you do. 51:59 But there's not much about Bible, 52:01 no doctrine, no teaching 52:02 you might relate to it or so on. 52:04 Others relating to this goes all over the place. 52:06 Listen carefully, meditation in the church, 52:11 well, I'm really good if I sit and I meditate. 52:13 Lord, have mercy 52:14 if you're going to sit and meditate like some Hindu, 52:17 if you don't mind me saying that bold. 52:20 You have to read, yeah, that's emptying your mind. 52:22 Maybe I'll get to that 52:23 in just next three or four minutes we've got. 52:25 Meditation and then there's a prayer thing 52:28 they call silence. 52:31 And then they have one that's called focusing, 52:34 centering down, centering prayer, 52:39 repeating a sacred word over and over. 52:44 Purpose of this, 52:45 what is that repeating something 52:46 or slowing things down 52:48 purpose slow down your thoughts and so what? 52:51 If you slow down your thoughts then all of a sudden 52:54 you become in a sort of, 52:56 we say in a state of self, 52:59 you're hypnotized, hypnosis. 53:03 To slow down your mind and not to get it to think 53:05 and not know right and wrong anymore, 53:07 you just sit right here, 53:08 all of a sudden you self hypnotized yourself 53:11 and we know that we need is that the beta wave, 53:14 the beta wave in the mind is used, 53:17 you know, in our process, 53:19 if you slow that beta wave down, 53:22 it becomes the alpha wave 53:25 and alpha waves is used in witchcraft, 53:28 did you get that? 53:30 The mind you see is opened up, 53:32 listen, the mind is opened up 53:34 too forms of communication outside of the five senses. 53:38 That means the spirit of demons and devils 53:41 are trying to take over, did you get that? 53:43 And through this experiences going on in churches today, 53:47 people are having all kinds of, they're saying, they're having, 53:50 listen, telepathy, they're having visions, 53:52 they're saying oh we're having, 53:54 and never going along with a Bible. 53:57 Visionary information as it was, 54:00 is, you know, taking place. 54:05 Witchcraft, 54:08 man, closely we know resembles. 54:12 This is what this is, 54:13 this is all witchcraft here centered 54:15 and we brought it in the church and we baptized it 54:17 and we think it's okay now. 54:19 Look where it originated, 54:20 all of this stuff closely resembles, 54:23 notice this, Hinduism, 54:26 it resembles Buddhism, it resembles Wicca. 54:30 Did you get it? 54:31 Paganism, what? 54:34 Bottom line again, 54:35 through these things 54:36 the mind becomes what? 54:38 Empty. 54:40 And no longer has the process of good information 54:42 in our brain anymore. 54:44 And the enemy uses that to come in. 54:47 Wow. 54:49 And many people who go through what I've just talked about 54:51 some of these things here, 54:52 they'll come back to you and said, 54:53 you don't know until you experience it. 54:55 There is a shot of energy 54:56 that goes through your body and through your mind 54:59 like you've never felt or seen before. 55:01 We're talking about the march to the Vatican. 55:04 Vatican uses all of these things 55:06 to clear the mind 55:08 so that we'll forget about our Bible. 55:11 So we'll just come and say, "Oh, everything is okay now, 55:14 whatever you teach is okay." 55:21 You have to realize that this is real. 55:25 That's a terrible time that we are living in. 55:29 We must be concerned 55:32 that we have truly turned our back on God 55:35 and we're walking the wrong direction. 55:38 And God is looking for people who be willing to turn back, 55:42 and be willing to expose the man of sin 55:45 that the Bible says going to happen. 55:47 No, it'll make people uncomfortable. 55:49 No, it'll make them like 55:50 "Oh, I can't believe we said that, 55:52 you shouldn't be prodding, you shouldn't be doing." 55:54 If not today, when? 55:57 The day is coming, you'll going to jail 55:59 for saying what was just been said 56:01 and many will. 56:03 May God help us to see that important part. 56:05 Only 30 seconds left, I want to kneel 56:07 and have prayer together with you. 56:08 This is part one, part two, as it becomes more 56:11 you won't want to miss it, more powerful. 56:12 Let's pray, Father in heaven, 56:14 thank You for Your sweet Holy Spirit. 56:15 Thank You for Your precious Word. 56:17 Lord, help people that are honest in heart 56:18 to see here and understand 56:20 that You're coming soon, changes have to be made, 56:22 the enemy has to be exposed, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 56:27 We appreciate spending this time with you. 56:29 You know and tuning in as often as you can, 56:31 remember, this is only part one 56:32 of the March back to the Vatican. 56:34 Part two is really powerful, you don't wanna miss it. 56:35 We love you. Thank you for your support. 56:37 We'll see you next time. 56:40 Hello, and welcome back, 56:41 how quickly we as a nation 56:43 have forgotten why this land became our home. 56:46 It's truly amazing how powerful the influence of the Vatican 56:50 is on our society and even upon our faith. 56:54 They're deadly wound as spoken of in Revelation 13:3 56:59 has been healed 57:01 and the world is truly wondering 57:03 after the beast. 57:04 Friends, you don't want to miss part two of this message, 57:07 our March back to the Vatican. 57:10 Nor do you want to miss the opportunity 57:12 to own this series for your very, very own. 57:15 We are offering this two part series again entitled 57:18 "Our March back to the Vatican" 57:20 for a love gift of just $15 or more. 57:23 It's simple to order. 57:25 Just contact us here at Behold the Lamb Ministries 57:28 at (618)-942-5044. 57:32 That's Central Time 57:33 or write to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:35 PO Box 2030, Herrin, Illinois 62948. 57:40 You may email your order at beholdthelambministries.com 57:43 or you may also order these messages 57:46 or donate on our website at beholdthelambministries.com. 57:51 Until next time, friends, may our precious Lord 57:53 continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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