New Life Adventist Church Live Stream 9/11/21

[Music] that phrase over there that talked about no poisonous breath no death no sickness imagine getting there and lying [Music] foreign one [Music] earth [Music] is [Music] me [Music] [Music] yes [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] is is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] today the lord our words [Music] remember [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] yes hey [Music] [Music] welcome thank you for being here um happy saturday i don't see any businesses coming up [Music] oh that was the first time i saw him roll down your window and say happy i honked and he just gave me the prettiest smile and i thought our world is so messed up thank you lord for sending this man so each and every one of us that drive by can remember that today we got to choose christ i love that man and i thank god for him i forgot to mention one thing also to especially to the viewers on on zoom moonga is actually uh we're having some camera issues because uh actually moga is live streaming this on youtube so that's another option as well [Music] happy shot with everyone thank you bobby for that sharing that was really good um who wants to grow spiritually yeah all of us want to right so i wanted to um i read this one in uh gospel workers and i wanted to share with you guys and he says here let minister ministers teach church members in order to grow spiritually the burden of leading souls to the truth the truth those who are not fulfilling their responsibility prayed and labored for why is that you think there's something missing they need to be nurtured because they need to grow right um do not leave do not leave people to depend upon you as ministers teach them rather that they are to be to use to those around them in working they will have the cooperation of heavenly angels and will obtain the experience and give them a strong hold on christ you know mmg saw this vision during our time now when the church is um experiencing she said this is hundreds and thousands were seen visiting families and opening before them the word of god and this doesn't say ministers only it doesn't say elders only these are laypeople hundreds and thousands imagine we don't have hundreds and thousands of ministers in the adventist church right but we have a lot of lay people and that is all of us right and this is what she saw that these people are visiting other families hearts were convicted by the power of the holy spirit of genuine conversion was that um calling for all of us to go therefore right and teach all nations that applies to see that we are sufficient we might we might say that we do not know everything but all of us know enough enough to share to another and the promise in second corinthians chapter 3 verses 5 to 6 is for all of us and he says this not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything but our sufficiency is from god who also ministers of the new covenant not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life amen [Music] thank you cheryl for that uh warm exhortation reminding us of what we're about in fact that was just echoing my thoughts as i was just sitting here uh in the morning when i got up all that and everything and i'm constantly thinking about how to do my part every one of us has a part to play right do you know that how many of you know you have a part to play if you don't know ask yourself what's my part to play in this whole thing you know i thought about three things you know i i read about um ezra uh the priest and scribe and es that have inspired me i read a long time ago how he had prepared his heart to seek the law of the lord and to do it and to teach in israel statutes and judgments three things and i thought gosh you know that's the example that we have from him three things that every one of you every one of us is called to do number one to seek on the understanding of god and experience of god okay in his work and then to do what you learn and then to teach them i'm going to repeat that again you have to study practice and then teach and as you teach your practice will give power to your teacher did you know what i just said if you if you don't live it you can say all you want people are gonna want you and they'll see a contradiction between what you're saying what you're doing but it's what you do that gives power to what you say uh and you know that goes right along with the announcement i'm going to make this morning because um we've had i want to back here so that people zoom can see my face um we are having a wonderful time uh on a monday evening this is the first time that i am doing a bible study with people that i have no idea who they are okay and there are many people and i'm excited for that really really happy to not know who i'm talking to because that goes to show that the efforts are far above my own there are other people's efforts it goes right along with what i'm talking about what part do you have to play and that's exactly that that you can invite someone so just join in you can make an eternal difference because you invited them to join and i found myself in my prayer in the morning i'm like okay lord who can i invite who else can because this is a good time for them to join in as we're beginning to lay the foundation in the books of daniel in revelation for an understanding of these entire books so so if you invite someone uh uh three weeks from now that's going to be good but they're not going to have the foundation that we're trying to set so i'm just ask invite someone you know and it's very easy nowadays to invite people because they're waiting for you to invite them just tell them you know uh we're having this exciting bible study on monday evening with a focus on the prophecies in the bible that address the times in which we're living in they're helping us understand why everything is happening the way that it's happening who doesn't want to understand that [Music] so i'm gonna encourage you as a church to do that to invite the people and then i'm gonna tell you another secret while we're here because a lot some of you are joining the bible study question in the bible study don't answer it okay don't answer it okay why do i say that because questions are usually asked in order to get a sense of where if people can understand what you're saying and so because i already know all of you understand i'm expecting the new call out to them and have them answer the questions are you with me so when you hear a question asked what's the rule don't answer don't be afraid of quiet repeat i am not afraid of quiet okay but but let the people answer the questions that's how that's what we're going to be doing so please reach out to people invite them because this next monday here's what i'm going to do i'm going to challenge every one of those people who have come to invite someone very very exciting you know exposition you care about to hear this okay so i'm gonna invite them just like the women of samaria to leave their water parts and run home and tell someone to come join amen so can we all pray about this okay so i'm inviting you to just i challenge you invite one or two people let's do that let's let's i have a dream of seeing more than 100 people joining the bible study is that overambitious no because if we're having close to 50 people guess what amen this my friends it's not george's bible study it's not mine i don't want it having my name okay this is what we are doing and you're going to hear me allude a lot to what we are doing we're trying to teach you amen i want people to know that so that if you invite them they know they can ask you the questions amen they don't have to necessarily come to me so this is what we are doing let's get this done let's take advantage of the times that we're living in because people are really sensitive and they're wanting to do this so uh thank you all for joining and listening to me we're gonna move on to the next i don't know if there yes please come up i know you have announcements yes come on come on [Music] good morning happy sabbath church and happy sabbath church on zoom as well we have the natural remedies workshop thank you on september 21st at 6 pm it's a free online workshop and then also board members we have a board meeting in two weeks also and we also have um i'm sorry communion also at the end of this month so i'll be sending an email out for that too thank you [Music] so then [Music] calm down [Music] oh [Music] [Music] with [Music] the [Music] you may be seated [Music] do [Music] hi kids happy sabbath so um we know that jesus performed many many miracles can can one of you guys name like a favorite miracle that jesus performed okay well um i'm going to actually share one of his his miracles through a story here it's called hungry people fed so one morning ben had been down to the lake with his fishing pole and caught two little fish look mother he cried as he rushed into the kitchen see what i caught mother looked and smiled they're not very big are they she said what are you going to do with them they'll do for my lunch if you'll cook them for me lunch what are you planning to do today well i'm going to listen to jesus again he's wonderful you should go hear him too could i have three or four of the little barley loves mother all right dear take five you'll you'll be hungry before the is over ok thank you mother cried ben and in a little while he was on his way there was no trouble finding jesus everybody seemed to know where he was on the main road across the fields along the mountain trails hundreds of excited people in a small large group were going in the same direction by and by the crowd got more and more dense ben never seen so many people before he pressed through the squeeze he pressed through squeezing um this way that so he could get in front and be near the great teacher soon jesus began to talk and he said such beautiful things in such a kind and gentle way that the people loved every word he spoke so clearly even those farthest away could hear him could hear what he said hours after hours hour after hour slipped by and still he talked and so the people listened they were so interested that they forgot all about eating ben even forgot to eat his lunch by and by and by the sun began to sink and chili breeze blew up from the lake don't you think it's time to send the people home one of the disciples said to jesus at least tell them to go buy food in the villages around said another they haven't eaten all day they don't need to go say jesus you feed them the disciples were shocked we don't have any food they said 200 penny worth wouldn't be enough to feed all this crowd and philip even every even if everyone had one little only a little ben ben then heard them talking wondering that uh wondering what it was all about it could be jesus was hungry and no one and no wonder after talking all day then thought about his lunch if the master's hungry he said to andrew who was standing by he may he may have my lunch andrew smiled and spoke to jesus there's a lad here he said who has five barley loaves and two small fish but what are they among so many tell everyone to sit down say jesus and they did sit down sit down everybody the disciples shouted moving um out among the crowd why what's the matter the people ask we're going to eat eat why where's the food never mind you'll see and ben was handing his lunch to jesus and jesus was smiling at him and saying thank you ben thank you very much that sweet smile was worth everything to ben it made more it it more than made up for going without his lunch but he didn't lose his lunch after all soon soon something very wonderful began to happen first people first jesus blessed the bread and the two little fish then he began to break them to pieces and give them to his disciples and the strange thing was no matter how much he broke off there was always some left pretty soon all the disciples were carrying the food to the people as fast as they could walking up and down the mountainside time and time they came back for more there was always more bread and more fish waiting for them as it felt as as waiting for them as it fell from the master's hands ben looked amazed he couldn't understand it and i wouldn't be surprised if every now and then jesus turned and gave him some food just for himself never had he had so much to eat he had far far more than he would had had he eaten his lunch all by himself the bible says that 5 000 men were fed that afternoon besides women and children and everyone all everyone everybody had all that they could eat in fact when it was all over jesus said to his disciples gather up fragments that remain that nothing be lost 12 baskets were filled so greatly had everyone been blessed but there's something else very special about this story it is found in john 6 6 where we are told jesus knew what he want he would what he would do this means that's right from the start when the people begin to get hungry and the disciples start to worry about how much food would cost jesus had everything planned he knew about ben he knew about ben's lunch and he knew that he would do what he knew what he would do with it if ben would give it to him he had watched ben all day he had seen how interested he was he knew ben wanted to do something for him and so he planned the whole marvelous miracle with the little boy in mind today he has his eye on you perhaps you can tell he is planning to do something great and wonderful with you he knows what he would do if you would let him if you would place your best your dearest treasure in his hand who would like to pray dear jesus thank you for this day please help going to get better from our sickness and please have no one to get clover 19 anymore thank you for this day in jesus name [Music] all right thank you everyone so [Music] [Music] morning church and happy sabbath all right it's time to give back to god and uh i'm gonna be reading today i'm gonna be reading and do we have anybody to collect [Music] will be the young deacons and deaconesses okay [Music] all right [Music] all right i'm gonna be reading oh you guys can start okay i'm gonna be reading from uh malachi 3 and i'm gonna start with eight will a man rob god yet you have robbed me but you say wherein have we robbed thee in tithes and offerings ye are cursed with the curse for ye have robbed me even this whole nation bring ye all the tides into the storehouse that there may be meat in my house and prove me how it says the lord of hosts and i will not i will not open you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that there shall be not no there shall not be room enough to receive it may the lord add a blessing to the reading may everybody stand please [Music] let's all bow our heads lord father first and foremost we want to thank you for all that you do and father you asked us to give back to make us unselfish and i'm thankful because that helps me out a lot and i'm pretty i'm pretty sure everybody's thankful for what you do for us you're just asking a tenth from us and lord let us just be obedient to your word i pray all these things in the name of jesus y'all amen be seated [Music] so today's scripture reading is revelation chapter 14 verses 18 through 20. and another angel came out from the altar which had power over fire and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle saying thrust in thy sharpsicle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe and the angel thrust and sick in his in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of god and the wine press was trodden without the city and blood came out of the winepress even unto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs amen [Music] [Music] how many of you need god every hour how about every minute that's right the bible says he's the one that keeps us from falling and i read a wonderful statement that stayed with me it says that when we breathe in and out every you know uh time that we breathe in and out which is all the time that that is not as it seems an autonomic sort of action on the part of an automatic i mean you know god didn't just wind you up so that you're breathing in and out all the time but it is god's power continually exercised that keeps you alive that means that god is actively involved in your staying alive right now okay i suppose he could have wound us up and got us going and and that would be okay but there are we have enemies that want to see to it that we're dead at any moment they want us there and so god has to continually exercise his power to keep us alive is that a wonderful revelation that to me is profound and so we can thank him for that [Music] amen and i'm so happy that you're here those of us who are joining us via zoom uh first of all i want to give a shout out to manga manga is doing a wonderful job over there he's actually today is the first day live streaming on youtube so we're live right now okay and people can go in on youtube wherever they are and they can see our services and that is all compliment of that young man back there just quietly working exercising his gift amen that's right thank you jason for you know just working with him and all of that i'm just wondering you know some of the younger men like george i'd love for you to be able to learn if you want what he's doing over there because we've learned that if you're just the only person doing something if you fall sick or something like that then and that's the end of the church so we don't want that to happen amen we want the gifts multiplied and shared and all of that so that people can be prepared to be able to fill their positions that that god has for them amen and i'm just thankful for the gifts that god has given to people amen i you know that's not my gift i mean john if that was up to you and i that would never get done amen but that that god has brought him god brought you so that you can fill that important position i just want you to know each and every one of you you are so important if it was left up to you to play the piano you know what i mean my wife is saying i'm having such a bad day today none of us know you're having like in terms of playing the piano it sounds great amen just do what god has you doing amen and do it with all your might because it's important amen can we pray together today i'm going to invite you if you have something hey june is so good to see you my friend back there i've seen you for a long time i'm excited that you're here that's right that's right yes um if if you want to come to the front parade if you want to just do wherever you are that's fine if you have something that you wanted to bring up front i'm not going to ask you to give it to me i'm going to ask you to come in the front with it we're going to pray together amen and um i'm so glad we have a god who wants to hear our prayers amen let's do that together [Music] father behold your children kneeling before you recognizing that you are the giver of life you are the maintainer of life we are not alive today because we woke up and ate some wheaties or oatmeal or whatever it is we ate we're alive today because lord you have seen us it fit for us to be alive because there's so many that was strong yesterday nothing wrong with them but today they're not with us help us to recognize every minute every day that it is you continually exercising your power your benevolence to keep us alive we want to just acknowledge that right now we want to in unison just give you thanks for that you are a good god because this wayward planet you could have taken it like a little pebble and in anger hurt it into oblivion but you did not do that instead of destroying this world which you have every right to destroy because lord wickedness is everywhere you saw fit to save it we thank you what an adorable son you have he could have chosen to stay in heaven there would have been no sin on his part but he said no father you know i am god with you and you i i'm adored by angels but this is not something that is worth me holding on to while men and women boys and girls on planet earth are lost i must go you gave him to us but he volunteered to come so we want to just give you thanks today we want to praise you we still are not worthy father we don't have any native intrinsic value that is in our own selves worthy of saving but lord it is that which you invest in us lord you created us and we don't understand until we come to heaven to begin to understand it why you love us so but we want to thank you today lord we're here none of us has lost you know a a a a a wife or husband or child mother or father lord we just want to thank you through this father that you have kept us and lord even if it were so we would still thank you even if lord you would have seen faith for i or someone to go lord like job we could say you give you take away blessed be the name of the lord but today we're alive and we can give you thanks lord um there's much going on in the world father and i i i was remembering the other day the bible jesus told us that there would be a time the time would come when men's hearts would fail them for fear for looking upon those things that are coming upon the earth lord many of us suspect those times are here but the same jesus said let not your heart be troubled you believe in me and believe also in god you've told us that be not anxious for anything but in everything simply let your request be known unto god and the answer is the promise is the peace that passes all understanding will keep our hearts and minds through christ jesus you've told us to stand in the ways and seek and see and ask for the old path which is the right way and walk you in it and we shall find rest unto our souls help us lord unlike the ancients not to say we will not do it help us to walk in the way that he walked out for us because if we do that there will be peace this morning lord i just ask for the peace of god that passes all understanding for each and every one of your children waiting before you i am asking you lord to perform a wonderful miracle in our hearts and upon our minds and cause all fear wherever it exists all anxiety lord to flee away in your presence let it free your way lord i'm asking that you would verify the promise of psalm the 23rd psalm that says yea though i walk even through the valley of the shadow of death itself i will fear no evil why because thou art with me help us to understand what it means for you to be with us because you're the god who spoke in the beginning let there be and there was and you're the god in the presence of whom even death cannot exist sickness sorrow fear cannot exist in your presence the bible tells us and it is still true in your presence is fullness of joy and at your right hand are pleasures forevermore we are here in your presence make each and every person to feel your presence even though our faith may be small or little still dear lord because for your sake not ours and for the sake of the honor of your glory and your throne lord i pray make each and every person here experience your presence father be with those who are watching via zoom those who are watching on youtube i pray lord for the same blessing for each and every one of your children i am asking for a uniform experience of just no anxiety no fear just confidence in god today lord if there is someone dear lord who came in here carrying a burden that they have been carrying maybe perhaps so worried someone lord maybe is on the verge of giving up someone is discouraged i am praying for that person today lord father maybe there's a mother worrying about her children maybe someone is worried about a job someone is worried about their relationship maybe perhaps a marriage somewhere lord maybe a job lord whatever it is i am bringing that to you perhaps there's a young person lord you know they too have their worries perhaps children are worried about something i'm asking lord that father you would notice such a one and do something wonderful right here on this sabbath dear lord we're going to hear a word from you in a little bit and these dear lord are singular times dear lord and every time we come before your presence we want to make sure that we are hearing from you lord you have not let us down you have made it very very apparent that you care about us by speaking to us every time we have come we ask that you would do the same today we corporately lift up elder alvin hamilton before he stands up before us here we are asking lord that you would touch his lips up his heart lord i pray that you would indict and inspire every word that comes out of his mouth and as we listen to your lord may we be cognizant that it is the very voice of god that we're hearing when you shall have done that lord we will leave this place with gratitude may we be changed every day dear lord and may we be ready for your soon coming it's our prayer and we ask it in the wonderful adorable name of your only son and our savior and everyone said amen amen [Music] [Music] hello good morning how's everybody doing this morning i got up this morning and i looked up and then the sky was so blue it was like one of those mornings that god is just smiling down said yeah i got you a great day today we serve a wonderful god uh you know i'm going to pray in a little bit but before i i pray i wanted to just uh talk about i i guess i could take this off huh guys don't mind i'm far enough away um i wanted to kind of mention something that happened this week that i thought was really uh incredible and and i and i wanted to mention it in the context where um there's a family that goes to this church and when you think about i think about this family that went to this church that goes to this church and they raised up their child and the fear and the admonition of the lord seeking to do all that that would bring honor to glory in their child and as far as i know they raised them in christian schools and did all those those type of things and uh at one point they take their child to our our youth our university or our college whatever and it's it's a it's a huge thing when you when you're doing that it's a sacrifice it's a huge sacrifice because we do that with our kids it's a huge sacrifice that family is going through and trying to to do the best to raise up their child in the fear of god and of all that sacrifice that the family has they come to a a cross point and when i think about the family but also the young man that came through this cross point and i think about that i don't know it's just it's a thing that i feel that even for me and my family for one thing i don't even think my kids might they may not have listened to me and they might just make their own decisions you know but to see that the connection that this family had in unity and in prayer and then to see what happened last week when the youth got together and they were praying this is for noel and they're praying and they're fasting for one particular individual in the church you know uh so that so that his so to speak religious liberty could be honored i thought that was fantastic and when god showed up which he did god showed up man i was just like celebrating man i was like that's incredible it was even for myself because we each are going through a um a act was you know a moment of of of in our in our lives where where we're being under a scope so to speak under under watch you know many of us are turning in these these letters stating you know i you know i never would have dreamed i'd be writing all this religious stuff and sending it to some place i never really really thought about that i would be doing something like that you know but the thing is is it's the fact that in prayer seeing a miracle brings hope to every one of us we get encouragement as god works in all of our lives and we get encouragement when we know that something needs to be prayed about and we come together as a team and we pray about those particular situations and we hold it up to god and then god comes and shows us in ways and that's happened many times in our church many times in our church where god has showed up and done some marvelous things on our behalf if you look back of all the miracles and things that god has done for us he he really has watched over us he's really been near us and protected us and and so uh when you have these situations that that happen it's good for us to to take note and to give god the glory and to take hope in yourselves that god if you can pass by and bless that family i know you're going to come by and bless us also i know you're going to come by and bring that same assurance and that same hope for us also uh in in starting uh this uh sermon which i don't know what the name of it's called i i called it armageddon but i don't think it's really armagedding and it's like cleansing and judgment so i don't know but we'll we'll talk about it maybe you guys at the end will give me a title but anyhow so um i wanted to kind of give a precursor to what i was going to talk about and then we'll pray and one of the things that i've kind of come more the conclusion that it's taken me a while to kind of unfold and kind of get understanding as god has been kind of um show me things and talking to me and one of the things that i've kind of got over that is what george was talking about last week temperance how important temperance is in in our life and one of the things that i'm beginning to understand about temperance uh it's not i don't know i used to think tempers was just you know i'm a vegetarian i'm doing the right things but i began to realize that the work of true temperance is is a lot more than just a assumption on our part that we are there there's a lot more work to be involved to really attain the level of tempers that we need to be at the reason being at some point god wants to pour out the holy spirit if god would have already poured out the holy spirit in this church we would see no need to change how we live to change your diet not stay up late at night eat in between meals these are all things i did and i'm trying to overcome uh we why change i got the holy spirit let's move on but i'm beginning to understand that for us to receive the outpouring of the holy spirit god is looking for us to do our part so he can pour it out in a cleanse or clean vessel not any kind of vessel he's not going to pour his holy spirit out in somebody who's going to continue in the same habits that are destroying or are tearing up his body he's not going to do that and so the more i begin to look at that i go like oh my goodness really i got to work that much more harder to get to where i i should be you mean i'm that far away from from being where i should be for the for for the outpouring of the holy spirit like wow that came as kind of heavy news to me so to speak you know that that and it's not that we are doing it don't don't get me wrong it's not like we're working our way to heaven it has nothing to do with that because if it was that none of us would get there we we might be able to hold off okay i'm not snacking today and uh uh and this and then we'd fall down again and it would be back and forth we'd never achieve it but it's because we are are at this point realizing oh my goodness my connection with god almighty has to be deeper than it's ever been for me to overcome those things do you understand it's not us it's us saying lord i understand that these are things that i shouldn't be doing that are destroying my body how be it because you know the problem is it's so easy to look around you and go like i think i'm doing a lot better than these other guys i don't smoke i don't drink i think i think i'm pretty close i think i'm pretty close but but in reality god's saying no man you're not even there you're not even there there's so many things i want you to do in your body and i know that you're not going to do it i have to do it for you but you have to acknowledge that it needs to be done you have to ask for it have to be done and then i will work with you to get it to that point and when we get there it won't be what we won't have no glory of ourselves saying look what i've done we won't have not any ability to say oh wow man i don't do any of those no it's going to be thank you lord i never really thought i could overcome in all those areas and the more you read and i want you guys to to take time and study and read the spirit of prophecy on our health and on that just so much is written and the more you read the more you will see how far away that you really are and then you'll find things okay i got to work on that i'm going to pray about that i'm going to ask god to help me overcome on that do you understand what i'm saying and we will get there it's it's it's it's bigger than what we think because the more you study the more you read you more you'll see how far away you are from that ideal situation where you are ready for the outpouring of the holy spirit but that's going to be a glorious moment but we will get there we don't have a lot of time but we have time right now to start preparing and and getting ready for that outpouring of the holy spirit and that's i believe that's probably one of the big works that that that god has us to do that that's part of it the other part that that comes along with that is we always talk about we want to reach our neighbors and we want to reach our friends and george kind of alluded to this thing well if you are living any kind of lifestyle and you're trying to reach your neighbors and friends what do you have to offer them what are you going to show them or what are you going to teach them but when they truly see the works of god in your life you're going to have much to offer them and much to encourage them and show them the things that god has shown you in uh taking this vessel this weak vessel and preparing it for the outpouring of the holy spirit you're going to have an incredible work because people will just be almost like lining up and saying what are you doing differently people at work how's things different in your life and and it's and it's a hard walk you know i mean because we have to be so different you know uh you go to to somewhere to eat and it's getting to the pla sometimes you can't really find too much to eat because you you've chosen a different lifestyle you chose to to to be healthy you chose to take your body and and and or maybe you're you're with the people at work and and then the food comes in and it's like well i don't know you know it's it's not easy but our witness is going to be powerful we can't do exactly like everybody else should have a witness and that's what i really appreciate about noel he has a powerful witness right now god has blessed him with a powerful witness to his other workers and to other people and and whoever he meets that god can do mighty things in your life if you call upon him and if you believe he can do incredible mighty things in your life i think i'll pray now i have one more introductory type thing but i'll pray first and then we'll get going dear lord we thank you so much for giving me wisdom and understanding and thanks for using your humble servant lord lord i'm really nothing and i don't i'm not even really a natural in speaking but i know that you have used me and i just thank you that you've chosen me to to speak to your people today and uh lord i just ask that you feel me i i i need your spirit to to relay the things that you've relayed to me so and to make the right emphasis and i just ask that that um your people will be open and and i ask that i that you will just send me your spirit so that i only speak those things that you would have me i pray in jesus name amen so uh i want to talk about one other thing and um uh that happened to me we kind of ties in this whole all this stuff that i'm talking about health it kind of ties in and i think you'll see in the sermon that where it ties in but one of the things i was doing this week is uh we um we had a huge crop of grapes and um i just couldn't believe how how much grapes we had and and we were harvesting them and we had this pretty sized good sized barrel and and another big thing filled up and it just got it was overwhelming it was more grapes and uh normally i would process the grapes myself there's usually like a couple few bowls and i just do it by hand and we had already picked the grapes i didn't know where to get a wine press to press the grapes and so it took me a long time squeezing these grapes by hand working them to get the juice out it was a lot of work it was just like intense work processing the grapes and and the thing is is we are living in a time where this great process that we're going through is a representation of god's work in the last days of working with people and and he's so patient he's so patient as he he works you know i was listening uh to um about you know what time are we in what time frame are we in and i don't know for sure where we are i don't know if we're in a little time of trouble or before or whatever but but i know that that we are seeing where things are getting more uh you know we're losing freedoms and stuff like that and so god is so patient that we can see oh things can get rough but okay i'm gonna give you time to to get your stuff together you know although many of us want to move to the country and god is patiently working with us and taking us and even even in the revelation of of of of of my you know my our bodies and living all to all that we should live you know he's so patient and taking us along the way to where we need to be at so the first story that i want to talk about that's that's uh out of the bible is a man by the name of jesus have you guys heard this guy named jehu now jehu lived uh during the time of elisha uh he was a a captain in the israel israelite army and he was maybe one of the more prolific or or really tough captains that was there and so they have the story where elisha sends a a young man he says i want you to go to i think it's rhema gilead or whatever i want you to go over there and i want you to take this box of oil and i want you to go and look for this particular captain named jehu and and you just you go right there and and call them out give them the oil and then run get out of there get out of there don't don't hang around there was a story about a guy that had another mission like that and he didn't go back and he died and and and and the story goes where i think it still was with elijah anyway the guy was dead there was a donkey and there was a lion the lion hadn't eaten the donkey but he had killed the guy well anyway this guy he told the same thing get away get out so he goes there and he's saying who is jehu and he takes him into inner room and he says god has anointed you king over israel and he opens up the box pours the oil on his head and he gets out he says a few other things but that was the main thing let him know you're going to be the next king king of israel and so uh the story of jehu he you know he goes he he gets talks his you know he comes out the other guy hey what happened what was that crazy guy here doing that ran out of here and and he says well i i've been anointed king of israel and so and and he had given specific instructions and i want to read those instructions that that he was supposed to do and this is found in second kings oh found in second kings if you'll turn with me the second kings nine second kings nine you guys all there second kings nine and look at verses seven through ten and this is kind of like the instructions that jesus do says thou shall smite the house of they have thy master that it may avenge the blood of thy servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the lord at the hand of jezebel so you know i want you to take care of the house that they have they have not been living the way they're supposed to be lived i've worked with ahab i've been patient with ahab and it's just i said for the whole house that they have shall perish and i will cut off from ahab him that it says pisses against the wall meaning all the men and that him that is shut up and left in israel and i will make a help i will make the house of ahab like the house of jeroboam you remember what happened to jeroboam how he got cut off the son of nebat and like the house of bayash bayshash whatever the son of and the dog shall eat jezebel at the at the portion of jezreel and there shall be none to bury her and he that opened and he opened the door and fled and we're going to talk a little bit more about jezreel but so anyhow he went there and uh uh told a jehu at all this information so jehu didn't take long and so before you know jehu's in his chariot and he's riding like a wild man i just think this guy was just an incredible warrior i mean i think warrior was what jehu did that was that was a big part of him so he was riding like crazy and here's the king of israel and the king of judah and they're looking out kind of like in this plane area where they see dust probably coming up and this guy's riding and beating his horse and just coming like crazy like and they go that looks like jake there's nobody that rides like that but jay that's coming down and so they said send out a horseman they sent out a horseman they're going like and the horseman gets to where jesus are you coming in peace and he just says get behind me on what piece yeah get behind me you know don't even go back just get behind me and he's going they sent out like like two or three horsemen and i think even one of the times he goes uh how is it going to be peace when the house of of ahab or jezebel is in wickedness and doing all these type of things how is there going to be peace and so he he so those two kings when they realize that this madman is coming for them and he doesn't look like he's coming very peaceably uh they take off and so uh one uh ahab he takes the arrow and and you know i don't know god led the arrow but anyhow he just pulls his arrow back and lets it go and gets him right between the blades man boom and takes him out and the other king he he went and i don't even know if he went he personally got after him but he sent his guys and the king of judah and you think of the king of judah sometimes the place that we're at is the wrong place the kings of judah are genuinely good good people but i just believe that he wasn't where he should have been and so he gets killed i mean he gets uh injured i should say but he makes it back to to this place called megiddo we're going to talk about megiddo in a little bit and so he makes it back over there but he that's where he dies and so uh so jay uh jehu he's not down for his work i mean he he um after that he went and he goes to uh goes into town there and uh he goes to like a palace by the palace walls and he calls out he says who's on my side who's on my side and these eunuchs they look out the window who's that that's jehu you know maybe they recognize his voice whatever but they look out the window and he goes throw jezebel out the window and and here's jezebel she's all painted she's all ready and whatever and getting and so they did they threw her out the window and the horses trot her under and then and then this guy goes to sit down and eat and by the time they got back what was prophesied and and this prophecy you'll notice it is many times it's this prophecy kind of goes like this it says of certain individuals who are not obeying god either the dogs will eat them or their birds will eat them and you'll see this a number of times in different phases where uh the house of jeroboam that's how it was it was says the the if you're in the city i believe it was the dogs are going to eat you and if i think if you're in the country the birds are going to eat you we're going to talk about this prophecy that particular prophecy a little bit later on and so by the time they got back to see jezebel the dogs had finished everything it was it was it was finished and it was just as god had spoken and had told um had told the the young man that went and talked to jahil was just as he had said and so uh he said man that's crazy now when we look at this this place uh jezreel i want you to turn with me to hosea because he talks about this jezreel it's really it's connected into hosea jose is right after daniel and we're gonna go to um hosea look at let's go first chapter look let's look at verse 1 verse 2. it says in the beginning of the word is everybody there sorry uh hosea chapter 1 verse 2 is everybody there okay amen the beginning of the word of the lord by hosea and the lord said to jose go and take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of from the land which committed great departing from the lord listen to that carefully that last part a land that had committed great whoredom departing from the lord a specific land as a specific people and so uh skipping down to verse four and five it says and the lord said unto him call his so oh let me read verse three so it makes sense so he went and took gomer the daughter of the bellam which conceived and bear him a son and the lord said in him call his name jezreel for yet a little while and i will avenge the blood of jezreel upon the house of jehu and i will cease and i will cause deceased the kingdom of the house of israel and it shall come to pass at that day that i will break the bowl of israel in the valley of jezreel in the valley of jezreel now there is actually a valley in jezreel coming in israel is saying that's called jezreel there's a true there's a valley there it's also known by the name megiddo the i believe it's the central part i think is jezreel something like the southern part is megiddo because it was their names came off of the of the city that was just real there's a city there and also there's a city called megiddo and so uh in this valley i want to talk about it in this in this valley what you will see is there's mount carmel we know mount carmel where elijah was there with the prophets this is a very notable area uh there's a there's a highlands of sumeria and uh there's also giboa this is where saul lost his battle and and and there's a reason that god allowed saul this is battle so you see all this in this valley of jezreel and the name of jezreel means god's souls is kind of along the line of sowing god sows our two plant seeds god sold seeds may god give seed and i and we'll tie that in a little bit later on but that's what it means and uh so uh megiddo uh comes from the valley of megiddo many believe that this is the valley where the last battle on earth is going to take place armageddo a lot of people believe megiddo that valley is a valley so uh sometimes depending on where where you are in this valley like i said it's sometimes called the valley of jezreel or the valley of megiddo a lot of people believe that this valley there is where somehow the world is going to end this this battle and and some and when i was looking up they even say that the kings of of the earth under demonic leadership will rage war with the forces of god this is how some people some people believe that this is going to take place in this particular valley and uh where it's going to take place so we're going to study to see you know where what this armageddon is really about so if you turn with me in revelation 16. and we're going to start in verse 12. revelation 16 and we'll start in verse 12. and it says the sixth angel poured out his vow upon the great river euphrates and the water there was dried up do you ever remember another situation where a battle was to take place and water was dried up a notable city where they dried up the waters they diverted the waters babylon babylon babylon the great so here it says the great refuge the great river euphrates and the water there was dried up and made way for the kings of the east might be prepared and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophets so there's a lot of when you look at this there's a lot of falsehood and there's a lot of what you might call smoke and fire taking place there's a lot of lies being told and it's a certain period in time where this is all happening for they are the spirit of devil's working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole and the whole world to gather them to the battle of the great day of god almighty let's see i'm going to read two verses a little bit more here and behold i it says behold i come as if he blessed it is blessed is he watch it and keepeth his garments we see walk naketh and they see his shame and he gathered them together into the place called in the hebrew tongue armageddon armageddon that particular battle that a place and the seventh angel poured out his vow into the air and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is done and there were voices and thunders and lightnings there was a great earthquake such it was not since where since men were upon the earth so mighty an earthquake and so great and so this is where people think this is but what is the spirit of prophecy we're going to check to see what the spirit of prophecy because a lot of times men will devise their own thinking but we want to know what the prophet of god says about this particular place and it says a terrible conflict is before us and it says we are nearing the battle we're nearing the battle of the great day of god almighty almost like she wrote it right out of the scriptures and there was and there which has been inc that which has been in control is to be loose the angel of mercy is folding her wings preparing to step down from the throne and leave the world to the control of satan now that's the time in which we're living it satan will eventually have his wish to be in complete control of this earth the angels are going to let go and satan will have absolute power and control except for the people who have given their homage to god he will have absolutely complete control so you can imagine what that's going to be like the principalities and the powers of the earth are in a bitter revolt against the god of heaven they are filled with hatred against those who serve him and soon very soon will be fought the last great battle between good and evil armageddon the last great battle and the earth is to be the battlefield okay so she doesn't say the valley of armageddon is going to be a battlefield she says the earth is going to be the battlefield you know that makes sense because satan's angels are everywhere on the earth right so the earth is to be the battlefield in the scene of the final conquest the scene of the final contest in victory it says here where for so long satan has led men against god rebellion is to be forever suppressed that's what we're up against and that's when you when the spirit of prophecy talks about things getting crazier and crazier when satan has complete control it just goes berserk i mean the things that is i mean angels are still holding back now but they are slowly releasing and so you're going to see things getting a little bit more crazier and a little bit more intense and and that's the direction we're going so it says so i talked about a little bit about uh how it talks about um the um where the you know the fouls eating these uh uh the fouls of the air and the dogs of eating uh kind of like a judgment that god has on people of the earth and that kind of goes all the way down to to this last battle what happens during this last battle and so turn back say in revelation we're going to go over to revelation 19. and it's gonna and we're gonna go to starting verse 11 in revelation 19 and it's going to talk about these fouls of the year she's and so who's gonna and so there's a battle coming going on and there's a battle between good and evil so first we're gonna read about who is uh gonna be leading the battle of good and we know that satan and and uh these evil these um these different spirits that he talks about the spirits are going to be uh against him so in um verse in uh verse 11 revelation 19 verse 11 it says and i saw heaven open and behold a white horse and it says and he that set up on him was called faithful and true so we know who's leading the battle during the battle of armageddon he's faithful in truth and in righteousness does he judge and make war and his eyes are were as the flame of fire and on his head were many crowns and he had a name written that no man knew but himself and he was clothed with a vestchester dipped in blood and his name is called and his name is called the word of god the word of god and the armies which were in heaven followed him so they're following him the armies of heaven are falling in in this last great battle the battle of armageddon it's a lord savior who's who's in commander i mean my goodness who else would you want to command in this last great battle to fight and to put down evil forever but but our lord and savior he's leading the battle he's on a white horse he's going out before the the the armies and and they're going into battle and out of this and this is a mouth a sharp sword which he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with a rule a rod of iron and he treadeth the wine press with the fierce wrath of god almighty there's that wine press read a little bit more about that warning press and he hath on his register and on his name written king of kings and lord of lords this should give us hope because we know we're going to go through some stuff when satan takes complete control we know that the earth is going to be an earth and upheaval but the hope is the white horse is coming and he when and when he comes the battle is going to begin and we know who's going to win that should give us hope and i saw the angel stand in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven come and gather yourself together unto the supper of the great god that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men and a flesh of horses that and of them that sat on and on them that sat on them and the flesh of men both free bond both small and great and it and it says and i saw the beasts and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that satan said on the horse and against his army and the beast was taken and within the false prophets they're going and those that wrought miracles before him and with with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast all deception complete deception we're entering a time of deception like no other and if we are not closely connected and studying and reading and nobody can study for us we have to study for ourselves and we read we're entering time with such great deception that says even the very elect can be deceived and so right now there is much smoke and fire and deception and it's continual and it's going to get worse verse 20 and it says and the beast was taken and the false prophet oh i was reading that and deceived them that receive that receive the mark of the beast and them that worship his image these both are cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone so we know who's going to win this battle the spirit of prophecy says about this particular time it says we are standing on the threshold of great and solemn events prophecies are fulfilling strange eventful history is being recorded in the books of heaven everything in our world is in agitation is it not there are wars and rumors were the nations are angry and the time of the dead has come that they should be judged so we know what's happening we don't know if it's still just the judgment of the dead or we're crossed over to the judgment of the living but we know that's coming that's the wine press god is doing his judgment so they have the judgment of the dead and if it hasn't already the judgment of the living events are our events are changing to bring about the day of god which which hastens greatly only a m only a moment of time as it were yet remains only a moment of time as it were yet remains in other words there's not no long period of time we are at that time and it says but what but while already nations are rising against nations and kingdoms against kingdoms there is not now a general engagement as yet the four winds are held until why do you think the whole fellow warns of being held right now that's right until the servants shall be sealed in their foreheads if we are shuffling our feet and we're not sure and we're unsure do you know that increases the time because he's waiting and he's patiently for the servants of god to be sealed in their foreheads that's us that's the time right now then the power of earth will marshal the forces for the last great the last great battle so that's the time in which we're living right now i want to read one more scripture that we're going to go over and this is well maybe two more romans 9 23 turn with me to romans 9 23. 9 23 romans 9 23. now we're starting to verse 23 here and it says that says and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had afford prepared unto glory the vessel listen to this the vessels of mercy so god has vessels that he's preparing and he's preparing them ahead of time right now it says for for glory so he's preparing us for glory so he's doing work right now preparing our vessels that's why when i talk about the health message and how important it is for our vessels to prepare for glory because you can't be glorified in your body when you have illnesses and you're taking a bunch of medications and stuff there's no glory in that there's no glory in that but as we through christ are working to do all that we know and are studying and reading and preparing ourselves mentally physically and spiritually it's a whole thing and it's a it's a huge work he's preparing vessels for glory and it says even us whom he have called called not of the jews only but also of the gentiles we are also invited not just the jews but the gentiles it says and as he says unto osi which is hosea i will call them my people which were not my people i will call them my people so there's many people not just us but many people who are living whatever lifestyles that they're living but he says i'm going to call them my people which were not my people and it says and and it says and her beloved which was not beloved and this goes back even to what we're reading in hosea about jose's wife not my people not beloved but uh but she's going to be beloved and it shall come to pass that in the place where it said of them you are not my people there shall there shall they be called the children of the living god that's a transformation that's people being transformed into the likeness into the image of god that's that transforming power of god it's not something that we can do it's something that god does as we call upon him to do it but we have to call upon him and we have to believe that he can do it and he is going to do it in our lives elias also cried concerning israel through the though it says though the number of the children of israel be as the sand of the seed a remnant shall be saved and it says for i will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness because the short work will the lord make upon this earth it's not going to go on forever it's going to be a short work and as elijah said before except the lord the sabbath had left us a seed talk about jezreel the seed the sowing of the seed had left us a seed we have been as sodom and gomorrah and have been like i've been sorry we have been like sodom and have been like gomorrah and so god has left a seed and there's going to be many people that he's calling out and part of that calling out of the work that that through this big wine press that's being taken place is the work that we're doing calling people out the the bible studies that george are doing is calling people out when we witness and we and we're working on on changing our lifestyles and people start noticing that things are lifted are different that's part of that work that's going to call people out one of the things it talks about in this battle of great armageddon and this is out of spirit prophecy it talks about the the horse and all that but i wanted you to listen to a little bit about uh what the great controversy says that's going to be happening on this earth and it really gives us an emphasis to to make sure that our rock that we stand on this firm and all we're doing is firm and it says the whole earth heats this is during that time period and swells like waves of the sea its surface is breaking up its very foundation seems to be given away mountain chains are sinking inhabited islands are disappearing seaports that have become like sodom and sodom for weakness are swallowed up by the angry waves the proudest cities on the earth are are laid low new york l.a san francisco hong kong wherever all these proud and powerful cities all these cities where where the kings of the earth have put their money and they have their wealth it even talks about this the lordly places upon which the world's great men have lavished their wealth in order to glorify themselves are crumbling and ruining before their eyes it lets us know that our treasures are not going to be here even no matter what you do to hold your treasures around this earth they will not be sustained here so at a point everything that you have all that you can possibly do might as well be used to finish up the work because nothing at some point will be sustainable here when satan has allowed complete control it's anarchy and this kind of gives us a pitching picture of this prison walls are asunder and god's people who have been held in bondage for their faith are set free this is at a great controversy page 637 it gives us a view of of of what things are going to be like and it lets us know that our focus is not here our focus is heaven and and even in our life and and the things that we we hold so dear in our life it's the focus is is still heaven and uh the last verse that i'm going to read was is in revelation uh um revelation 14. if you turn for me this is the last one i'm sorry a little bit more reading than i normally read but i just felt that the bible explains this so vividly and it's it's where we can go back to re-steady ourselves and to get our our faith from revelation 18 of revelation 14 verse 18 sorry we're going to finish with this and it says then another angel came out of the altar which had power and fire and cried of a loud voice that they that they that had the sharp sickle saying thrust in thy sickle and gather the clusters of the grapes of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe and it says and the angel thrust in the sickle and the earth unto the earth and gather the vine of the earth and cast it into the great rhine press of right of the wrath of god and it talks about the wine coming uh so that's where we are where god is just about in that process of the wine press and he's doing a work to finishing up and that great last battle guys this is a beautiful thing when that battle is over it's over all the the things that that that we got we've gone through it will be done when that white horse comes out and finishes that work of putting that aside forever is finished let us pray the lord we are thankful that you are a great god and what i love lord is that you show us what's happening next and and as you as we see the things that are taking place now we can definitely understand more of what's going to be happening next and that you are working with your people even now lord you're working with your people even now for for our salvation to bring us into closeness with you so that we can perfectly reproduce your character we want that so much and we want to be ready for the outpouring of your spirit when we're going to go forth and do mighty works when the rest of the world is in torment and suffering and hunger and famine and all those are going on your people will will be taken care of by you going forth doing the mighty work lord and so we ask that that we take this time so dearly these days even right now lord even myself i'm asking you that i i spend less time doing frivolous deal frivolous things and more time in studying the word and focusing and learning and understanding that which is taking place and that which you would have us to do guide us and direct us we pray in jesus name amen can we say amen amen i'm not going to add anything to that message it's timely um i'm gonna do the benediction we're gonna get together and uh eat and but before we do that let us bow our heads the lord bless you and keep you the lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you may the lord lift his countenance upon you and give you peace thank you lord for the message that we've heard uh encouraging us dear lord reminding us lord that it is to the word we are to look that the battle is not literally in a literal in a local place but rather it's a spiritual with a global universal application and we thank you for letting us know that we ask now that you would pronounce the blessing of the food so graciously prepared by those who took the time to bring it the lord are thankful for those sacrifice in that very very important area ask the lord that you bless each and every one and maybe the food that is prepared bless and strengthen us to abide in you and to connect with you more securely so that when everything as it's already begun to do is shaken and is moved out of its place including the earth the very earth we stand on father having our faith anchored in the rock that cannot move the lord we ourselves might find ourselves to be secure we thank you and praise him we ask all of these things in christ's wonderful name and everyone said amen amen right you're dismissed you

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