3AC Dr Eric Walsh - Courage in Crisis

a good day to everyone who is joining us uh it's been a little while since we've done one of these but we praise god to be back today um we're gonna jump right into our message today our scripture readings from revelation chapter 3 18 and 19 which says i counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire the thou mayest be rich and white raiment the thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with i salve the thou mayest see as many as i love i rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent message this week is entitled courage in crisis courage in christ let us pray father god we thank you for this opportunity lord to just study your word i ask once again lord that you make me a nail upon the wall a rusty sorry nail lord but upon that nail lord i ask that you hang a portrait of jesus christ let eric walsh not be seen or heard instead father let us say a word from the throne room of grace it's our prayer in jesus name amen we're going to go to the book of jeremiah to start jeremiah in the 13th reign of king of judah is called as a young man to be a prophet to the nations the book of jeremiah is is similar to isaiah and some of the other old testament prophets in that it is full of prophecies and rebuke against how israel and or judah was behaving but jeremiah's is different because he reveals more of his own story in the book um we'll do some more jeremiah talks uh in the coming weeks but to start off jeremiah 1 and verse 4 says then the word of the lord came unto me saying before i formed thee in the belly i knew thee and before thou came his forth out of the womb i sanctified thee and i ordained thee a prophet unto the nations i want to tell you that before we even start one of the recurring themes in my opinion in the book of jeremiah is one of purpose in jeremiah 29 11 jeremiah says i know the plans for use that i have saith the lord plans to prosper you and to give you a hope purpose is written into the book of jeremiah at a time when there was not much left to seemingly be purposeful about as he would live to see the destruction of his beloved jerusalem and the complete overthrow of the kingdom of judah but here god says listen jeremiah i formed thee in the belly or as you were being formed in the belly god says i knew you jeremiah before you were born before you were delivered i had already set you apart i sanctified you and i ordained you a prophet unto the nations god does the ordaining the call came from god and jeremiah was such a one he was young so jeremiah 1 6 says then said i ah lord god behold i cannot speak for i am a child jeremiah's response is one of incompleteness it's similar to isaiah's response and moses response when they are called isaiah says listen i am undone i'm a man of unclean lips and i come from a people of unclean lips moses says i can't speak uh i i'm of no use who do i say sent me the the the idea is that from jeremiah is i'm incomplete i'm not fully developed but i want to i want to tell you especially for the young people god wants to bring you in while you're developing his calling on you you will never be perfect enough to claim god takes the imperfect person and uses them for his perfect work he did it with isaiah he does it with jeremiah but the lord said unto me say not i am a child for thou shalt go to all that i shall send thee and whatsoever i command thee thou shalt speak be not afraid of their faces for i am with thee to deliver thee say of the lord god says listen don't say her child because what i tell you to go and do you're going to do it and what i tell you to say you're going to say it then he says listen you're going to face some adversity jeremiah do not be afraid of their faces for i am with thee to deliver thee sayeth the lord i want to ask you if you are ready to face the faces of the end times this picture here shows you um a rally of black lives matter rally um people are in each other's faces not in this picture but in general in america right now it's interesting you can see there's a young man here with the with the crest and the initials of the former soviet union who i would never thought you would live to see that in the united states um as almost living a badge of honor or of rebellion but i want you to know that we are called before you were born every one of us if you're listening to this and you're a christian you have been called to speak into this climate a climate of confusion and chaos of hatred and division a climate of of uncertainty and unpredictability you have been called like jeremiah to speak you see jeremiah hoped that josiah the king's transformation and his return to god and his call for the people to return to god would have led the kingdom of judah back to god and that they would have been restored but as soon as josiah was dead in fact his grandson jehoiakim takes over and they spiral back into idolatry and and what was supposed to be religious service and worship to the god of the universe degraded into pomp and circumstance uh pride and selfishness and jeremiah has to speak into that and i'm telling you that you are called to have courage in the current crisis god says do not be afraid of their faces how will you speak into the faces of this world now we are called to preach truth when lies have become the norm we're called to give hope when all we see around us is destruction we are called to preach the love of god when men now see god as a great male factor how will you speak into them how will you do this and i can show you this picture but i'll go back to where we started at the beginning of this pandemic we began in matthew chapter 24 and verse seven and it's one of the first two or three messages i've brought for nations shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes and diverse places all these are the beginning of sorrows this year 2020 and we're now in september already we started doing these in march and i can tell you that these prophecies have only been more fulfilled since we started nation shall rise against nation remember i said it was ethnos versus ethnos ethnic group versus ethnic group we have seen an even greater polarization of people along color lines and political lines in this country than probably ever before kingdom against kingdom nations are threatening one another uh there's a there's a there's a verbal war and some bit of a trade war between the u.s and china a soviet um uh i called keeping saying soviet a russian um warship sailed through a fleet of american fishing ships last week just just this posturing around war famines this year there were locusts that went through africa and famine caused by the pandemic and pestilence not only are we dealing with the coronavirus but now they're talking about a twindemoc as we go into the fall flu season that in fact there might be a terrible thing that happens um and and even this far into this uh pandemic we still have states in america and places around the world that are having spikes in coronavirus cases earthquakes i could name off all the places that have earthquakes but jesus says all these are the beginning of sorrows what i want you to get when you watch cnn fox news the bbc al jazeera whatever news station you watch i want you to get that when you see the hostility in the streets and in the political sphere not just in america but around the world but specifically here in america when you see the angst and the vitriol with which people are speaking to each other the fact that we can not uh be disagree and be agreeable in fact we have only learned to disagree and be disagreeable what i'm telling you is that the way that they have come aft the world is coming after one another today is the way that they will one day come after us if you don't have the calling on your life that jeremiah had you will not be able to stand in the last day matthew 24 and verse 9 says it like this then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake let me tell you something you're going to have to be a jeremiah you're going to have to know that god has called you and maybe you could say i wasn't called at birth i wasn't even a christian but if you are a christian you've been reborn and you are called since your rebirth since your baptism you have been called to deliver this message while god was nurturing you to be born again into this into his church he was calling you for work jeremiah 1 9 then the lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the lord said unto me behold i have put my words in your mouth see i have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to throw down and to build and to plant god says listen jeremiah you say you're too young but god takes his hand and touches jeremiah's mouth and says look i've put my words in your mouth isaiah was in vision and they took coals from off of the altar in heaven and placed them one of the chair of them placed them on his lips because he said he his lips were unclean placed it on his lips and the spirit of prophet tells that cleansed his lips here god takes his hand and touches the mouth of jeremiah let me tell you something if you're called to do the work of the work of preaching this great gospel in the last days god will touch your mouth with coals of fire like isaiah and you'll put his word in your mouth by his hand like he does to jeremiah jeremiah 1 17 thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise and speak unto them all that i command thee be not dismayed at their faces lest i confound thee before them if you go to stand and you are afraid you will be confounded by them rather than they being confounded by you let me tell you something we have we don't have the kind of courage that it's going to take to deal with last day times is not often present in our churches not sometimes even present in the leadership of our churches it is going to take courage the ability to stand in the face of pending doom and danger and call on the name of god and stand there and preach the truth though the heavens fall jeremiah 1 18 says before behold this is why you can stand there and preach like that this is why you can share with your neighbors and or even those at your job sometimes this is why you can deliver god's message because jeremiah 1 18 says for behold i have made thee this day a defensed city and an iron pillar and brazen walls against the whole land against the kings of judah against the princes thereof against the priests thereof and against the people of the land and they shall fight against you but you shall not but they shall not prevail against thee for i am with thee saith the lord to deliver thee god says listen you're gonna i'm gonna you're gonna be like a defense city you're gonna be like an iron pillar or a brazen wall and even the king of judah the princes of judah who would later come after jeremiah the priest would also come after jeremiah and he was from the priest levitical priest line they were all going to come after him but god said listen don't worry about it they're gonna fight against you but they're not gonna prevail why because your word will go forth and have its effect it's jeremiah who prophesies the 70 years of babylonian captivity it's jeremiah who because of the words that he lays down when it's time for nehemiah and ezra to come back there's hope for them to come back and rebuild the temple and rebuild the walls it is the words of jeremiah prophet king's page 420 says that like that's the the experiences through which jeremiah passed in the days of his youth and also in the latter years of his ministry taught him the lesson that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps he learned to pray oh lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing jeremiah 10 23-24 did you get that jeremiah's prayer was look lord correct me get me ready for what's going to happen but do it in judgment in the bible judgment is often associated with a positive or or a good connotation he says look judge me but don't correct me in anger god wants to correct you how do you get the courage that jeremiah had god is going to have to develop that as he's developing your character prophecy kings page 420 when called to drink the cup of tribulation and sorrow and when tempted in his misery to say my strength and my hope is perished from the lord he recall the providences of god and his behalf and triumphantly exclaimed it is of the lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not they are new every morning great is thy faithfulness the lord is my portion sayeth the soul therefore i will hope in him the lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him it is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the lord lamentations 3 18 22-26 this it is the great hymn is based on these passages from the book of lamentations that great is thy faithfulness that god's mercies are new every morning that we must wait on him but jeremiah says god is going to correct us jeremiah 37 15 one of the little stories from later in the book where uh after jeremiah has told them that it would be better that they sided with the babylonians than to take what is about to come he warns them to become vassals to babylon and and submit but there were false prophets preaching that god was going to deliver them but jeremiah was saying listen god can't deliver you because you have you have rejected him let me tell you something there are people preaching today that god is not really going to destroy the world there are people preaching today um that jesus is going to come in the flesh um and walk the earth to restore man and his law let me tell you something they are false prophets today just as those were false prophets in jeremiah's day they're going to preach smooth things easy to understand they're not going to preach the words of rebuke um to burden the hearts of men to change that drive them to their knees at the foot of calvary's cross instead what is going to be preached in these last days are easy things things that are popular even the music of this day will be music that does not drive you to self-examination or to repentance i'm talking to music in the church instead you're going to hear a lot of songs about only about god's love and that's exactly what they did in jeremiah's day it's not that god doesn't love you but he loves you too much and he loves this earth too much to allow sin to go unchecked so just as in jeremiah's day i'm sure those false prophets listen god loves us god is a god of love he would never punish us jerusalem will stand forever god is going to wipe out the babylonians as he did for our ancestors and we will they're saying that now let me tell you something anybody that tells you that church is not going to pass to a time of trouble has not studied the scriptures so when he says this they come after jeremiah jeremiah 37 15 says wherefore the princes were wrought with jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of jonathan the scribe for they made that the prison verse 16 of jeremiah 37 when jeremiah was entered into the dungeon and into the cabins and jeremiah had renamed their many they had remained there many days 17 then zedekiah the king sent and took him out and the king asked him secretly in his house and said is there any word from the lord listen even though they couldn't stand jeremiah we'll talk more about this maybe in the next few weeks all the things that jeremiah goes through being put in the stocks being laughed at and ridiculed being threatened almost a bounty being put on like a bounty's put on his head to kill him jeremiah goes through so much he's dropped into a cistern in the mud to starve and yet when he is in captivity now the king comes to him and says is there any word from the lord let me tell you something if you have this thing on you even as they come against you they're going to ask you if you have a word for the from the lord that is the power that we will have in these end times we will have a word from the lord and this is where our health message comes in this is where our prophecy and our preaching and teaching of prophecy is important this is where our our our stance on marriage and family and helping to build stronger marriages in our communities these things are the things that we can do that people will come in and even though even as we're being ridiculed even if they want to take us away the fact that adventists of the adventist health and lifestyle have shown to add years to the life means that even when they come to ridicule somebody's gonna say wait a minute let's ask one of them because they do something right while they live so long and i know everybody's not living like that right now but in our in our in our midst but at least we have the testimony we have the word because what we are called to be for jeremiah's day and he winds up going off to egypt at the end of his life where um tradition has it that he was martyred in hebrews 11 seems to reflect that we'll talk about that in another time at another time as well we are to be that too where does the bible tell us well we of course will be the remnant but look at revelation chapter 3 what it says it says i counsel thee to buy of me gold tried and the fire the thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that thou shame of thy and the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes of the eyesight of the thou mayer see jesus speaking to the church of laodicea says and this is our church our day as many as i love i rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent we will be we will have to repent we will have to all come back to god in a sense but jesus says it's because i love you that some of the trials are going to come on you it's because i love you that you're going to be chastened and that you're going to feel my some rebuking what does alan white say this is how you become a jeremiah god is going to pass you to remember what jeremiah said correct me through thy judgments here's what ellen white says ly says meeting difficulties develops spiritual muscles when you lift weights to develop muscles what happens is you tear the muscle the microscopic rips in the muscle but god made the muscle not so that you through this tear god puts the tear back together instead what god does is he the muscles grow by filling in new muscle in the space with a muscle rip this is why when you lift weights to do resistance exercise and you feel sore you actually start to grow new muscle faith works similarly it is when your faith is tried and tested and it's torn that new faith grows in where faith was not before and the white says it like this it is his providence that brings us into varying circumstances in each new position we meet a different class of temptations how many times when we are placed in some trying situation we think this is a wonderful mistake how i wish i had stayed where i was before but why is it that you are not satisfied it is because your circumstances have served to bring new defects in your character to your notice but nothing is revealed but that which is in you she goes on she says in another place the salts of satan are fierce and determined his delusions are terrible but the lord's eye is upon his people and his ear listens to their cries their affliction is great the flames of the furnace seem about to consume them but the refiner will bring them forth as gold tried in the fire god's love for his children during the period of their severest trial is as strong and tender as in the days of their sunniest prosperity but it is needful for them to be placed in the furnace of fire their earthliness must be consumed their image the imp that the image of christ may be perfectly reflected great controversy page 621 isaiah 48 10 ly uh um quotes here behold i have refined you but not a silver i've tested you in the furnace of affliction the furnace fires are not to destroy but to refine a noble sanctify without trial we would not feel so much our need of god and his help and we become proud and self-sufficient the fact that we are called upon to endure trial proves that the lord sees something in us very precious which he desires to develop if he saw in us nothing whereby he might glorify his name he would not spend time in refining us we do not take special pains and pruning brambles christ does not cast worthless stones into his furnace it is valuable orr that he tests the blacksmith puts the iron and the steel into the fire that he may know what manner of metal they are the lord allows his chosen ones to be placed in the furnace of affliction in order that he may see what temper they are of and whether he can mold and fashion them for his work it may be that much work needs to be done in your character building that you are a rough stone which must be squared and polished before it can fill a place in god's temple you need not be surprised if with chisel and hammer god cuts away the sharp corners of your character until you are prepared to fill the place he has for you otherwise goes on to say no human being can accomplish this work only by god can it be done and be assured that he will not strike one useless blow his every blow is struck in love for your eternal happiness for your eternal happiness he knows your infirmities and works to restore not to destroy some of you are going through some trials right now and you don't know why i'm telling you because god is preparing you for your jeremiah experience god is preparing you for what he has for you to do you are called with a special purpose from the time of your birth and definitely from the time of your rebirth through baptism god is calling you to stand and deliver the work he's doing is not to destroy you as tough as it feels right now and i've been through this i i use these same slides when i talk give my testimony i've been through the tough times i'm telling you i know how rough it is but i'm telling you what god has for you is greater than thus any suffering you're feeling right now listen if you can't keep up with the footmen the old pro old testament prophet says how will you run with the horses that's where we are because god wants us to become a part of a very purified group just like jeremiah did and revelation 7 verse 4 it says and i heard the number of them which were sealed and they were sealed 144 000 of all the tribes of the children of israel god is putting together 144 000. we will argue over whether or not this is a liberal literal number or not and um we can discuss that at another time i will tell you what matters is that you're in the number and that you all have the character of the 144 000 which is described in revelation 14. and i looked and lo a lamb stood on the mount sion and with him 140 and 4 000 having his father's name written in their foreheads we talked in another talk about the seal of god now it's written in the frontal in the front in the front and the forehead because behind the forehead is the frontal lobe so that is where the seal of god is given a seal of redemption powered by the holy ghost but isn't it interesting that also in that same place the 144 thousand have god's name written there it is because again the character is a name represents character uh that's the way that in in in the ancient east they name people the name meant something jesus is yahshua because yeshua means that god will deliver us uh each name has a meaning and and so it represents the character this is why abraham and sarah's name had to be changed jacob's name had to be changed because their character changed watch this god's name is written on the forehead of 144 000 because his name represents his character and in the frontal lobe of their brain the part of you of your body that is like the most holy place in the temple the name of god sitting there represents that the 144 000 have god's character they have the character of christ how does that happen that happens through the trials you're going through right now that are driving you to your knees driving you to trust him verse two when i heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters and as the voice of a great thunder and i heard the voice of harper's harping with their harps god is speaking in heaven they can hear the harps in verse chapter verse 3 of chapter 14 of the book of revelation says and they sung as it were a new song before the throne before the four beasts and the elders and no man could learn that song but the 144 thousand which were redeemed from the earth the song that you're going to sing one day is a song of redemption one that the angels cannot understand the angels in heaven have never sinned they don't know what it's like to be lost and then found they don't know what it's like to have to go through a process of developing a perfect character they've always already always had one you're going to sing a song that no one else in heaven can sing because you have been redeemed in revelation 14 and verse 4 says it like this these are they which were not defiled with women for they are virgins these are they which follow the lamb with us whoever he goeth these were redeemed from among men being the first fruits unto god unto the lamb and in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of god so listen you're gonna go through your jeremiah experiences you're gonna go through your tough times you're gonna go through your trials so that you're not defiled with women and this doesn't simply mean sexual purity even though obviously it is it is evident in the scripture that that they would have that it's deeper than that this is saying that you're not corrupted with false doctrine if a woman represents a church you're not defiled by the false doctrines of the last days he's the day which father the lamb with us whoever he goeth and i read one wrong commentary says you won't be following the lamb in heaven if you couldn't follow him on earth these were redeemed from among men i mean the first fruits of unto god and to the lamb and in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of god in their mouth is found no god jeremiah later on says when he wanted to stop preaching the gospel he said man it feels like fire shut up in my bones i challenge you and as you get to know this good news like jeremiah you're not gonna be able to hold it back there will be no guile found in your mouth you know why because truth is like is like the normal flora of the body there's a lot of talk about normal gut flora and the normal flora of different parts of the body and how they're good bacteria and bad bacteria and what you want to do is feed the good bacteria so that your gut flora and other parts of your body have this healthy flora and there's no space for the bad bacteria to grow let me teach you something here what god showed me once you start to really understand the truth it's like good flora there's no space for deception no space for life some people go out and you want to study the lie and there's some some sensibility in that but if you know the truth well what god has shown me is that as we begin to know the truth as we dig deeper and deeper into his word the truth protects us from deception it is the having that indwelling truth that's why in the spirit of prophecy cells it says that the seal of god is not a mark that any that man or angel can see but it is a settling into the truth both intellectually and spiritually when you do that there's no more space in you for the lies of the enemy and i want to challenge you we are coming up at a time when we're going to need courage they're talking about a twin democ they're talking you know even no matter how bad things get and to finally hear a word or hope somebody on tv tells you no don't hope it it's going to get bad again let me tell you something do not be afraid of their faces we have a hope in christ jesus that jeremiah had for the people of israel and we are to proclaim that truth in boldness god has called us to have courage in this time of crisis let us pray father god we thank you lord for your word we thank you for your truth we thank you for all you give us in these teachings what happens to be like jeremiah help us lord to to understand the calling on our lives from even before we were birthed physically birthed and spiritually birthed father god we ought not be afraid of their faces and that lord we will be beacons of truth even all the way to the end the lord we may be like jeremiah counted among the remnant among the final believers as the 144 thousand are described the lord like them we will have their attributes for father god i pray that everyone listening would one day have your name written on their foreheads this is our prayer in jesus's precious and holy name amen hi my name is daryl i hope you enjoy the program today we'd like to offer you a free gift it's a book called path to peace do you have stress in your life do you have guilt in your life do you know someone that does well then why not order this free book path the peace and enjoy it i'm sure you'll be blessed by it thank you

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