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00:11 [ "Promises" begins ] ♪♪ 00:18 ♪♪ 04:01 [ "Build My Life" begins ] ♪♪ 04:08 ♪♪ 08:48 ♪♪ >> ♪ Ride on, King Jesus! 09:00 ♪ No man can hinder me! 09:04 ♪ Ride on, King Jesus, ride on ♪ No man can hinder me ♪ No man can hinder me 09:19 >> ♪ For He is King of kings ♪ And He is Lord of lords ♪ Oh, Jesus Christ, first and 09:25 last, no man works like Him ♪ >> ♪ For He is King of kings ♪ And He is Lord of lords 09:31 >> ♪ Oh, Jesus Christ, first and last, no man works like Him ♪ >> ♪ King Jesus rides 09:41 a milky-white horse ♪ ♪ No man works like Him >> ♪ The river of Jordan 09:46 He did frost ♪ ♪ No man works like Him >> ♪ For He is King of kings 09:51 >> ♪ And He is Lord of lords ♪ Jesus Christ, the first and last, no man works like Him ♪ 10:02 ♪♪ ♪ King Jesus rides in the middle of the air ♪ 10:17 ♪ No man works like Him ♪ He calls the saints from everywhere ♪ 10:32 ♪ No man works like Him ♪ Ride on, King Jesus! ♪ No man can hinder me! 10:48 ♪ Ride on, King Jesus, ride on ♪ No man can hinder me ♪ Ride on, King Jesus! 11:00 ♪ No man can hinder me! ♪ Ride on, King Jesus, ride on ♪ No man can hinder me 11:12 ♪ No man can hinder me ♪ No man can hinder me ♪ Ride on, King Jesus! 11:32 [ Applause ] 11:42 >> Good morning, boys and girls. 11:45 So, today, I have a story for you about a little six-year-old 11:49 girl that lived in South Korea. Do you guys know 11:52 where South Korea is? 11:55 No? Some of you do. Well, this girl lived in South Korea, and unfortunately, 12:01 she was from a very poor family. Now, most six-year-olds don't really know when their 12:07 family's poor because they're just happy to play and let their parents deal with 12:12 all the stress of being poor. But this little six-year-old girl really 12:16 did not like being poor. And the reason was her teachers at school were not nice 12:22 to kids that were poor. They would treat kids that weren't poor, that were rich, 12:27 very nicely and very well. But all of the poor kids just weren't treated that well, 12:34 weren't treated very nicely. So she really did not like being poor. 12:39 Now, this little girl came from a Buddhist family, so her mom would sometimes 12:44 take her to the Buddhist temple and she would watch her pray and do all the things that 12:50 you do in a Buddhist temple. But even though she was Buddhist, 12:55 this little six-year-old girl really liked going to church. There was a small tent 13:00 at the end of her street, and the people there would give the neighborhood kids chocolate 13:07 and then sing Bible songs with them and tell them Bible stories. 13:11 And she loved to attend whenever she had the chance. So she would attend church there 13:17 in that little tent. But then, one day, the church disappeared. 13:21 So she didn't have a place to go anymore. She was about eight years old 13:25 at this time. So she decided to go find another church to attend. 13:30 So she walked around her town, and then she finally found a building in which 13:34 a church congregation met. So she decided to go there instead of the little tent 13:39 she used to go to. Now, remember, she didn't like being poor, right? 13:44 And the reason was because people weren't nice to her because she was poor. 13:48 Well, unfortunately, this church that she started going to had church members 13:54 that did that very thing. They weren't nice to people that were poor. 13:59 And she saw this as an eight-year-old and she really did not like it. 14:03 So she decided to stop going to church. But the thing is, 14:07 she was sad about that. So she prayed and she said, "God, I want to go to church, 14:13 but I will go when you show me the right church. So please show me the 14:17 right church so I can go there." And, so, she forgot about that prayer as she was growing up 14:24 because a lot of other things happened to her. She went to a Christian high 14:28 school, but unfortunately, the teachers in that Christian high school did the same thing. 14:33 They just weren't nice to poor kids. So that lessened her esteem 14:38 of Christianity even more. And then, something really sad happened when she was 15. 14:45 Her dad had a heart attack. And when her dad was in the hospital, 14:50 she prayed and said, "God, if you're there, please, please save my dad." 14:56 But unfortunately, her dad passed away. And, so, after that, 15:00 she lost all interest in going to church and tried to drown her pain 15:06 with distractions, music, having fun with friends. And this went on for another 15:12 seven years. But even though she forgot about the prayer she prayed 15:17 when she was eight years old, God didn't forget. And when she was 22 years old, 15:23 she met a very interesting boy. Now, this boy was from America, so he wasn't Korean. 15:30 And he stood out very much among the people in her town since there were no foreigners 15:36 at that time. And this boy really liked this little girl. 15:40 He thought she was very pretty. So he wanted to date her. And this little girl 15:47 wanted to learn English. So she decided, yeah, I'll date him just so I can learn English. 15:53 Well, she noticed that a lot of things were different about this boy. 15:58 First off, he didn't drink. He didn't stay up late at night going to clubs and parties. 16:07 He was vegetarian and he was nice to everybody, even to the poor people. 16:13 And he treated everybody the same. So she thought this boy was 16:16 a very nice boy. She started to like him more. Well, one day, they were 16:21 in a park together, and they started talking about religion. And this boy said, "Well, 16:28 I go to church on Saturday." When the girl heard that, she was like, "That's strange. 16:33 What kind of weird religion is this guy in?" But the boy said, 16:38 "It's not weird at all." And he went to the Bible and showed her in the Bible 16:41 where it says that we should worship on the seventh day of the week. 16:45 And as soon as she saw that, the prayer she had prayed 14 years before, 16:50 when she was eight years old, came to her mind. And she knew in that moment that 16:54 God was answering her prayer and showing her which was the right church to go to. 17:00 So she started studying with the boy, and eventually, she became an Adventist. 17:05 And eventually, she married that boy. And her family -- her mom, 17:10 her sister, her brother -- all became Adventist with time. And I know this little girl 17:17 is very happy that she found God because that little girl is my mom. 17:23 And because of her prayer when she was eight years old, I had the privilege 17:28 of growing up as Adventist and knowing Jesus. So, boys and girls, even though 17:33 sometimes it seems like God has forgotten all about your prayer, he never forgets. 17:38 And he's just waiting for the right time, the right person 17:42 to answer your prayer, especially when he knows that it will be a blessing 17:45 to many people. Do I have a volunteer for prayer? 17:49 Would anyone like to pray for me? 17:55 >> Dear Jesus, thank you that we are here. Help us to be good. 17:59 Help us to be strong and courageous in your holy name. Amen. 18:04 >> You may all go back to your seats. 18:09 ♪♪ ♪♪ 18:29 >> ♪ When I survey the wondrous cross ♪ ♪ On which the Prince of Glory 18:48 died ♪ ♪ My richest gain I count but loss ♪ 19:04 ♪ And pour contempt on all my pride ♪ ♪♪ 19:19 ♪ Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, that I should boast ♪ ♪ Save in the death of Christ 19:36 my God! ♪ >> ♪ Christ my God >> ♪ All the vain things that 19:46 charm me most ♪ ♪ I sacrifice them to His blood ♪ 20:05 ♪ See from His head, His hands, His feet ♪ >> ♪ His feet 20:15 >> ♪ Sorrow and love flow mingled down! ♪ ♪ Did e'er such love and sorrow 20:34 meet ♪ ♪ Or thorns compose so rich a crown? ♪ 20:48 ♪♪ ♪ Were the whole realm of nature mine ♪ 21:01 ♪ That were a present far too small ♪ ♪ Love so amazing, so divine 21:20 ♪ Divine ♪ Demands my soul ♪ My life 21:34 ♪ My all ♪♪ ♪ Amen 21:53 >> Amazing. [ Applause ] 22:03 >> Oh, Prince of Glory, we pour content on all our pride. 22:09 What is what we have? And in comparison to all you have poured out for us. 22:19 Speak to us. Teach us. Empower us. We humbly pray in Jesus' name. 22:28 Amen. 22:30 Woke up way too early this morning. 22:33 Not the time of the alarm. I don't know what was going on. 22:38 So I went outside. Looked up into the heavens. 22:42 Wow. Orion. This is the season where Orion, 22:45 for our driveway, is just right there looking 22:47 down like we got -- we're keeping an eye on you. 22:52 I love the constellation Orion. And since I was up, 22:57 I tried to imagine what would it have been like that morning? 23:00 Maybe the constellation was in the same position. 23:02 It would have to be, I'm guessing. 23:06 178 years ago, this very early morning, 23:10 what would it have been like? I know 23:12 if you and I had been alive 178 years ago this very morning 23:16 and afraid to touch the floor as we awake, and we said, 23:19 "This is it." 23:21 Cold floor. No heat in the house. This is what? 23:27 This is the day Jesus comes. Do you understand that? Today, October 22, 23:34 178 years after 1844. My, oh, my, oh, my. Thanks to that Baptist farmer 23:43 turned preacher, William Miller. Entire cities up and down the Eastern seaboard 23:48 had been set ablaze by -- You can go and Google it. The Millerite revival, 23:53 the Millerite movement. Men and women and children scrambling because the Bible 23:59 date had finally been calculated to everybody's satisfaction. Miller believed that 24:04 Daniel 8:14 -- that was his key text -- "the sanctuary shall be cleansed," he says. 24:08 That's the return of Jesus. This planet will be ablaze in flame, and that's it. 24:14 We don't understand that. We don't understand that kind of urgency, do we? 24:19 I mean, look at you and me. So sophisticated, so suave. Our collection of toys 24:27 and trinkets and things of this world freighted and pinning us to the Earth. 24:33 Who even thinks about Jesus coming soon anymore? Not you. Not me. 24:38 But they did. My, oh, my. Maybe what we need is what 24:46 King Hezekiah faced. Instant annihilation in hours. Maybe we need 24:54 a sense of urgency. Maybe we need something to cut us loose from everything 24:57 that's weighting us down. I tell you what, the air is hot with high-wire tension. 25:06 This drama that we turn to right now. Bad news for the king. 25:12 And by the way, when the news is really, really bad, I mean, when you get a phone call at 2:00 in 25:17 the morning. When the doctor says, "We need to sit down. 25:21 I want to talk about the results to your tests." When the lawyer calls, 25:27 when the police call. When your addiction clutches you in a choke hold, 25:36 asphyxiating your very soul. What then? May I suggest that this 25:45 panicked king may have found what we need, as well. Open your Bible, please, to 25:49 Isaiah chapter 37. Let's go. Come on. Dramatic to the core. 25:54 Isaiah 37. We'll begin in verse one. Isaiah 37. 25:58 I'm in the NIV. Whatever Bible you have, just open it up. 26:01 Let's go together. Isaiah 37. And here it is. 26:09 "When King Hezekiah heard this".... He received a message, 26:15 FedEx'd to him from the commander of 185,000 crack warriors who now are suffocating 26:23 his church in their siege. Here comes the note. "Surrender or you're dead." 26:38 "Surrender or you're dead." The enemy has always worked -- have you noticed this? -- always 26:43 thought by intimidation. That's the way. And here's the FedEx message 26:49 right here. 26:58 Rubbish. 27:08 Nope, nope, nope. "Surrender or you're dead." Intimidation. 27:13 New Testament, 1 Peter 5:8... 27:23 Do you know why a lion roars? Paralyzes prey. You can't run. 27:29 You're pinned. Gotcha. Intimidation. 27:34 "Be alert and of a sober mind. Your enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion 27:38 looking for someone to devour." Wesley Duewel, in his stirring masterpiece. 27:44 Oh, I wish I could give this book to everybody sitting in this sanctuary right now. 27:48 You'd get one from me. Stirring masterpiece. Mighty prevailing prayer. 27:53 Here he goes. "Many Christians have a morbid fear of the devil." 27:58 You may be in that camp. 28:12 Martin Luther, that great, "A Mighty Fortress" hymn. And in our opening music, 28:18 our organist bringing back those refrains. There's a line tucked away 28:22 in "A Mighty Fortress" that goes like this. "And lo, his doom is sure." 28:32 But he still fights. He knows he's lost the war. Calvary's clear. 28:37 You lose, loser. In fact, Colossians 2:15 declares that Jesus made a 28:43 public spectacle of the enemy, the powers and authorities, the devil himself, 28:48 and conquered him at the cross. Lucifer has been shamed at Calvary 28:52 for the rest of his existence. No, he knows he's lost the war. But guess what? There are still 28:57 the little battles. And that's where you and I fit in. 29:00 There's still the little skirmishes, and his strategy is in furious desperation 29:04 to take as many of us with him into oblivion as is humanly and diabolically possible. 29:09 "Come on, girl. I'm getting you, boy. Surrender or you're dead." 29:17 Duewel goes on, "As a created being" -- speaking of Satan -- "he is limited in power. 29:22 Only God is all-powerful. As a created being, he is limited in knowledge. 29:27 Only God has all-knowledge." And here's a little bracketed line. 29:30 "The devil cannot read your mind." I stuck that in there. 29:34 Some people are absolutely intimidated by the devil. Do you know 29:37 that he can't read your mind? He cannot read your mind. The angels can, the Holy Spirit, 29:41 of course, all the time is tracking you through your mind. But the devil cannot 29:45 read your mind. Oh, don't be fooled. He may not 29:50 be able to read your mind, but he can read your face. And when you walk past that 29:55 second piece of chocolate cake... he watches your eyes. 30:02 And those eyes light up. He watches. He can see your taste buds. 30:06 And when they start squirting, he says, "She's ready to go. Move in for the kill. 30:10 Go for the second one. Come on, girl. Go, go, go." No, it's brilliant. 30:17 He can't read your mind, but he can tell what you're thinking. 30:20 He can tell just by watching you. He's hung around you 30:23 just long enough, yeah. Okay. "As a created being, he is limited in presence. 30:29 Only God is everywhere present." You don't have Satan on you. Somewhere on this planet, 30:34 there's a bigger battle than you or me right now, and he's there. But if you start 30:39 giving him resistance, another little demon that's been assigned to you is calling for 30:43 help and there's a second demon brought in, and that is more help. 30:46 And by the way, help's coming from the other side. He may one day 30:50 be on your doorstep saying, "I'm going to get this girl, I'm going to kill her. 30:53 I'm going to kill him this time." Don't minimize him. 30:59 You don't have to live intimidated. But don't minimize our enemy. 31:06 My, my, my, my, my, my. Luther wrote in his song. "For still our ancient foe 31:11 Doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, And, armed with cruel hate, 31:17 On earth is not his equal." There's nobody that can match him. 31:21 Not you, boy. You are no match for him. Give it up. 31:25 You are no match for him. No wonder Paul, himself an intrepid warrior for Christ, 31:32 described it this way, read just a moment ago by my young friend, John. 31:37 Ephesians 6:12. 31:50 Those who study heavenly cosmology, or we could call it angel 31:54 cosmology, you know, the order of things, all agree that verses like these remind us 32:00 of a multitiered hierarchy and thus alert us to the fact that both sides -- light, God; 32:12 darkness, fallen Lucifer -- both sides are armed to the teeth and organized to the hilt. 32:23 Nobody's dinking around in this battle. The only people dinking around 32:26 in this battle are you and me. They got this thing down to a science. 32:30 "Kill her." "I need help." "Go." 32:33 "I need more." "Go." 32:41 But in any case -- and always hallelujah -- God and his angel armies 32:45 rule the day and night. Can I get an amen to that? They rule the day and the night, 32:49 but poor King Hezekiah. My, my, my. Surrender or you are dead. 32:55 But watch this. In the strategic battle plan of the divine, 32:58 Hezekiah seizes one weapon that's available to you and it's available to me. 33:03 And if we will simply seize it as he did, we shall win. Watch. 33:11 Chapter 37, a few verses later. So he's torn his garments, he's in the temple. 33:15 Here we go, and "Hezekiah received that letter from the messengers and read it" -- 33:18 surrender or you're dead -- "then he went up to the temple of the Lord and he spread it out 33:23 before the Lord." I love this. He comes to the front 33:25 of the church, nobody's there. He spreads out that FedEx, and he says, "My God." 33:32 That's exactly what he says. And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord. "Lord Almighty." 33:37 Now the New International Version, God bless them, they just didn't like 33:41 "Lord of Hosts." I think it's to their loss. They decided we won't call 33:45 this "sabaoth," we'll just call it "Almighty." But it's really the Lord of 33:50 Angel armies. And we need to be reminded He commands angel armies. 33:55 And they're on your side. Do you understand that? "Lord Almighty" -- Lord Sabaoth, 34:01 Adonai Sabaoth -- "the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim" -- 34:06 What are cherubim? Angels. The highest of high angels. "Enthroned between the cherubim, 34:12 you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the Earth. You have made Heaven and Earth." 34:17 That is an absolutely beautiful Adventist prayer. Did you notice that? 34:22 First of all, it's talking about the Creator God. We serve only one Creator God. 34:26 He's the creator of Heaven and Earth. 34:30 That's why, as a Seventh Day Adventist, we will never yield 34:33 the Bible seventh day Sabbath, no matter how much pressure 34:36 is put on us, no matter what the offer 34:38 is to walk away from it. We will never walk away 34:42 from the seventh day Sabbath because it identifies, 34:45 every seventh day, who our Savior and Creator is. 34:49 We'll never walk away. Don't you ever let anybody 34:52 try to dissuade you. Crazy. 34:56 It's an Adventist, it's a really Adventist prayer. 'Cause you get this line 35:00 right here, right here. "O Lord of angel armies, the God of Israel, 35:06 enthroned between the cherubim." That's language straight off the top of Mount Sinai, 35:14 wrapped in thundering lightning and fire, and God is at the top 35:19 with his dear friend, Moses, and God is instructing Moses. "Now, there's one last piece 35:24 we need to make for this little portable church called the tabernacle. 35:27 It's called the Ark. Let me give you the dimensions." Here's what's going on 35:32 right here. Exodus 25:18-22. 35:49 That little golden box. In the most holy place. In space that is perennially 35:59 white with fire and glory. The physical presence of Almighty God. 36:07 "I'll meet you. Between the cherubim." Hezekiah prays, "Oh, God. 36:13 Oh, God who dwells beneath the cherubim." Do you know that that phrase 36:18 is used only seven times? It's a unique phrase, seven times in all of holy Scripture. 36:26 Wow. Hezekiah appeals to that God, surrounded as he is today 36:32 by imminent death, spreads out that surrender or you're dead letter 36:36 on the temple floor and pleads with the God enthroned 36:40 between Heaven's cherubim. "Save us, deliver us." Oh, I love that prayer. 36:45 I think I'll memorize it. 36:53 I beg of you, save us. It's a Daniel 8:14 kind of prayer, is it not? 36:59 For only once a year, Yom Kippur -- come on, you know the story -- Yom Kippur, 37:02 the day of atonement. Only happens once a year. When in a ritual symbolic of the 37:08 final cleansing in Heaven's sanctuary and Heaven's records, prophesied by Daniel to take 37:14 place just before the cataclysmic end of the world. 37:16 The high priest -- only one day of the year -- parts that veil. 37:20 His heart is in his throat. White light, glory. And he steps into that divine 37:28 presence, physical presence. "Oh, God enthroned between the cherubim, save me, save us." 37:38 Even at 2:00 in the morning. You have no idea who's calling at this unearthly hour. 37:46 "God save me." Even at midnight, when our overheated laptop 37:53 surfs the dark web. Where our addicted souls need somebody to step in quick 38:01 and deliver us from the lair of the cruel lion's den, who will take us deeper 38:07 and deeper into that darkness. Stop. 38:15 Prayer ends. "Now, Lord our God, deliver us from the enemy's hand, so that 38:20 all the kingdoms of the Earth may know that you, Lord, are the only, only God." 38:25 Hezekiah, in a moment of crippling danger, grasped the most potent weapon 38:29 he has, and it is the most potent weapon you and I have. Three times God will use the 38:34 identical Hebrew formula to describe this weapon. And here we go. Here it is. 38:40 Jot these down in your mind. Psalm 50:15, God speaking. 38:50 Psalm 91:15, the great protection Psalm. "He will call on Me"... 38:54 You already got it. 39:03 Jeremiah 29:12. Verse 11. "'And I know the plans 39:07 I have for you,' says the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, 39:10 plans to give you a hope and a future.'" As soon as he makes 39:12 that promise, he says... 39:21 "Call on me. Call on me. Call on me. Dwight, why don't you ever call 39:24 on me? You're calling on yourself. You're calling on your friends. 39:27 You're calling on the authorities. You're calling somebody. 39:30 You're calling everybody. You don't call on me. Why? 39:35 Do you think you can save yourself out of this? You cannot. 39:40 Call on me. Call on me and I'll deliver you." 39:46 Some people think you have to be trained to pray this prayer. You need no training at all 39:49 because the prayer is one word long. "Help!" 39:54 That's all you have to pray. "Help me, God between the angels' wings. 40:04 Deliver me now. Please." "Yeah, but, Dwight, 40:13 I'm too much of a sinner. I'm too addicted. I'm too weak. 40:21 I'm too much of a loser." You know, my friend, even if you were right, 40:32 even if you were, you need to pray only one prayer before this one. 40:38 And this prayer will open this prayer we just learned for your immediate access. 40:44 And here's the prayer. Jesus told a story once upon a time about two men 40:47 who went to church. One sat in the front and said I'm the greatest guy on Earth. 40:50 The other sat in the back pew of the church, pounding, beating his chest, Jesus said, praying 40:54 the one-sentence prayer. "God be merciful to me." And in the actual language 41:00 of Luke, which is the language Jesus was intending through Aramaic, the emphasis 41:05 he is intending to make, "God, be merciful to me, the sinner. I am the sinner." 41:12 Some of you are convinced today that you're the sinner sitting in this sanctuary. 41:16 You're these sinners here because you know your life. None of us does. 41:19 But you know your life. Oh, but we also know our lives. "God, be merciful to me, 41:24 the numero uno sinner." That's not so unusual. The mighty Apostle Paul 41:30 comes along and he says, "Here is a trustworthy saying worthy of all acceptance. 41:35 Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the worst. 41:40 I'm the worst." 41:45 My, oh, my, oh, my. 41:49 Wow. 41:54 How critical is this prayer at this time? "Prayer is the greatest 41:58 means" -- This is Duewel now. 42:08 Keep reading. "Apart from God Himself and His heavenly beings, prayer is the 42:13 greatest danger to the enemy's purpose, the enemy's plans, and the enemy's activities." 42:19 Prayer is the most -- is the mightiest weapon you have. The greatest, the most powerful. 42:27 "Call on me in the day of trouble, and I'll deliver you." Here's Duewel again. 42:36 Nah. 42:47 And by the way, you not only pray for yourself, but you have people you're 42:51 praying for. Never back down praying for the people that you love. 42:55 It might be your parents back at home, and they're going through a mess right now. 42:57 You keep praying for your parents. This weapon is not just for me, 43:03 me, me, me. You can use it for others, as well. 43:08 Ellen White concurs, by the way, "Satan cannot endure" -- Oh, this is something. 43:13 "Satan cannot endure to have his powerful rival appealed to." Who do you suppose is 43:18 his powerful rival? The Lord Jesus Christ, of course. 43:22 He's been jealous of Jesus from the get-go. "Satan cannot endure to have 43:26 his powerful rival appealed to, for he fears and he trembles before Jesus' 43:31 strength and majesty. At the sound of fervent prayer, Satan's whole host trembles. 43:38 He continues to call legions." Come on, he's praying. She's praying. 43:42 Give me -- Send in reinforcements. "He continues to call legions 43:46 of evil angels to accomplish his object. And when angels, all-powerful, 43:52 clothed with the armory of Heaven," show up, as they will -- 43:55 When you pray, they show up. "When angels, all-powerful, clothed in 44:01 the armory of Heaven, come to the help of the fainting, pursued soul" -- 44:05 That's one person. That's not the whole church praying. 44:08 That's one person. That's little you and little me. When you pray, 44:13 you unleash forces. Who rush to your side to defend you from the killer 44:21 who has determined that today's your day. "I will destroy you today." 44:25 No. Satan -- Oh, boy. I've got to read this again. 44:29 "And when angels, all-powerful, clothed with the armory of Heaven, come to the help of 44:34 the fainting, pursued soul" -- one soul -- "Satan and his host fall back, well knowing" 44:40 the battle's over, guys. Find somebody else. She's protected now. 44:45 He's protected. Keep an eye on him. I can't be back here. 44:47 You keep an eye on him. He'll let his guard down. Trust me, 44:50 he'll let his guard down. We've been through this before. Just stay on him. 44:56 We're in a war, folks. Nobody's dinking around out there. 45:00 Why are we dinking around in here? It's stupid. It's foolish. 45:06 We ought not to be doing it. 178 years ago, people took life really serious. 45:12 You know why? Because they believed Jesus was coming soon. 45:16 It's time to resurrect the advent hope in Adventism today. 45:20 Jesus is coming soon. Just because you don't believe 45:23 it, doesn't mean he's not coming soon. 45:25 That's your problem. 45:28 And by the way, if you die on the way home, God forbid, Jesus just came for you. 45:33 There you go. He just came for you. Now, don't put it off. 45:40 All right. One more line. "And when they humbly entreat 45:47 the mighty conqueror for help, the weakest believer" -- By the way, 45:50 I'm the weakest believer. Anybody else the weakest believer in the sanctuary 45:53 right now? Put your hand up if you are the weakest believer. 45:56 I'm easily the weakest believer. Which is why this promise is so good for me. 46:02 "When they humbly entreat the mighty conqueror for help, the weakest believer 46:06 in the truth, relying firmly upon Christ, can successfully repulse Satan 46:11 and all his armies." All of them. 46:18 You. It's not in your power. 46:20 You know that. That's not your power. 46:23 It's Jesus' power. Jesus ready to shoo! 46:27 "You call?" "I did. 46:31 God of Angel Armies, enthroned between the cherubim, 46:35 save me now." 46:37 Why are we so hesitant to ask? "Call on me. Call on me. Call on me. I'll come. 46:43 You call, I come." Hmm. I... 46:52 Do not let the devil -- I scribbled this down here. Do not let the devil use 46:57 your sin because he knows your sin better than you do. Do not let the devil use 47:02 your sin or your sinful record. He knows your addiction. Do not let him use 47:07 your sinful record to hold you back from calling on God night and day. 47:12 The God who dwells between the cherubim. "Save me, please." 47:17 Call on him. Last quote. I have this written in every 47:20 Bible I have because this is my dynamite. This is just so favorite. 47:24 This is from my favorite book, "Desire of Ages." "We are to contend 47:27 with supernatural forces, but we are assured of supernatural help." 47:31 Hallelujah. "All the intelligence of Heaven are in this army." 47:37 This is the army that comes when you call. The entire intelligence 47:42 of Heaven in this army. "And more than angels are in the ranks." 47:46 Keep reading. 47:52 For you, madam, for you, sir, all Heaven is at your disposal. 48:00 Now here comes the line. He said, "Dwight, I'm just -- I'm a loser. 48:05 I cannot avail myself of this power." You are so wrong. 48:11 You are so wrong. 48:27 What matters to God is not your track record, mnh-mnh. 48:32 What matters to God is not your sin that counts. Mnh. 48:38 It's grace. It's grace. My grace is sufficient for you. "Dwight, did you want something 48:44 more than my grace?" "No, Lord. Grace is enough." 48:57 "Call on me." The hill's guard hands outstretched at Calvary. 49:01 What's he saying? He's saying, "Call on me. Call on me 49:06 and I will deliver you. And you will glorify me. Yes, you will. 49:11 You will glorify me." And guess what? That dark night, when troubled 49:18 King Hezekiah finally drifted off to sleep after his desperate and passionate prayer, 49:25 sometime in that night, his prayer was answered. When, the next morning, 49:33 185,000 enemy warriors woke up dead. 49:41 Gone. "Call on me, the God between the cherubim. 49:49 Call on me. Commune with me, worship me. Ask me." 49:56 It doesn't get any better than this, my friends. 50:06 I learned a song in a prayer conference in Hawaii some years ago where I'd gone 50:10 to speak. Never forgotten the song. Came back and shared it 50:15 with the congregation. and the minister of music. Ken Logan and I went deep 50:20 into our computers and we said, "Yep, we can find the music to that." 50:24 It's a very simple song. It's a beautiful prayer, and I'm going to invite you to stand, 50:28 and I'm gonna invite you to pray this prayer with me. There are three short stanzas 50:31 to it. The first one goes like this. Commune with me 50:35 between the wings of the cherubim, commune with me. The second one goes like this. 50:42 I worship you between the wings of the cherubim, 50:46 I worship you. And the final one goes like this. 50:49 I'll meet you there, between the wings of the cherubim, 50:54 I'll meet you there. Stand to your feet, please. Picture Jesus standing 51:00 between the cherubim right now in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary, 51:04 where he is at this very moment. He's standing there. And let's sing our prayer 51:10 to him right now. 51:12 [ "Commune with Me" begins ] ♪♪ ♪♪ 51:20 ♪♪ ♪♪ 51:39 ♪♪ ♪♪ 51:51 All right. Let's sing together, all right? 51:54 Here we go. 54:44 >> I want to call an audible here, and I want to add that 54:46 fourth stanza, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, 54:48 then I'll worship you." 55:50 >> O God who dwells between the wings of those cherubim... 55:56 ...we cry out to you today. You must save us, too. The enemy has pulled tightly 56:05 about us. We can't escape. Send the angel armies. 56:15 O God on that throne between the cherubim, send the angel armies. 56:21 Renew our courage, revitalize our hope, empower our lives. 56:29 We have this prayer entrusted to us. Oh, and as Jesus taught us 56:37 to pray, deliver us from evil. Deliver us from the evil one. Yours is the kingdom and 56:49 the power and the glory forever. 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