Pastor John Lomacang

[Music] [Applause] [Music] I said to all the honoree as I was sitting there I said if I survive this song but I'll be able to preach could you bring me you up just a touch more I want to use all the voice I have for the glory of God this is a moment that is much larger than I am as I drove into the campground this morning my mind began to take me back to when their war no DVDs no VHS I can see myself running the campground of victory lake before they change things around as they have Mama Haynes as your conference president gave you a glimpse into my humble beginning sometimes your life has to begin as a tragedy for you to appreciate the triumph through those doors to my left down the corridor if you old enough you remember when they used to have those brown canvas tents can I get a witness just four tents from the entrance was the tent that my mother my sister Vivian would you please stand come on give her a hearty amen a survivor of 9/11 she was there when the building's came down I want her to be there when the praise goes up we humbled in that tent on a very rainy Sabbath morning as the size of our tent made it clear to us we forgot to nail it down and when the rain came down the walls went up I remember the Sabbath afternoons as a little boy running through the through the pipe down by the nursing home looking for frogs while Sabbath school was going on and I had no idea [Applause] at nearly 45 years later or maybe even more the Lord will call me back to the place called victory I look to my left and I see someone who understands my journey sister Ling Li who's been out of home many days many Sabbath's with sister Haynes who understood when I was out in the world coming home from a party on Friday night and I just began dating a young lady who had a connection with God that I couldn't break and she was determined not to marry somebody who didn't have the same connection and so God sent it to my home on Sabbath morning I was tired I just got in from partying on 48th Street and Broadway but that was not enough for her she said to me I will not be with anybody who's not with the God that I'm with and so she threw pebbles at my window to wake me up and dragged me to church and there I said in the back row at Bethel seventh-day Adventist Church trying to gain my bearings as pastor min was preached past to ash me elder Earl elder Humphrey pastor see a Marie as my youth pastor as they tried to preach me into consciousness and I would lean forward inebriated by the world but God kept on coming and he kept on coming one Friday night when I was given an opportunity to join and be a disc jockey in a club in Miami Florida invitation came from an Adventist or so I thought and that Friday evening as I sat at family worship at the Mars house my wife Angela who was my girlfriend at the time who's my wife now and still my girlfriend come on somebody she said to me have you heard of the book the great controversy and I said I think I have don't know very much about it she said let's read it together earlier that day at Bank of America somebody said if you just say yes I'll give you five hundred dollars to begin disc jockey in Florida I'll pay your way down to Miami the devil makes the road to destruction easy but he never reveals the fine print and God touched my heart and said give him your answer on Monday morning that Friday when I left work at Bank of America I had a boom box on my shoulder and a pool stick in my hand I was a pool shark at least I thought so and that Friday evening when I sat down after family worship and the family had broken up in my my beautiful girlfriend said to me let's read the great controversy I want to tell you today nothing can make a sinner sober better than reading the first chapter in the great controversy called the time of trouble that was my first chapter in the great controversy at the time of trouble and then the promises of Christ returned and that Friday evening God revealed to me that it's not about the road you chose but the road I chose and I had to make a decision between singing for the world and singing for Jesus that Monday morning while I went back to Bank of America was no longer a boom box in a pool stick but it was a Bible in the great controversy and since I want to tell you after 31 years of ministry 35 beautiful years of marriage there is no journey like the journey that you can have when you follow Jesus come on now there is no blessing like a blessing that comes down from the father of light where there is no shadow of turning when you follow Jesus I know I'm not standing here today because of Who I am I'm standing here today because of who he is I am Who I am not because of what I am I am Who I am not because of Who I am I am Who I am because the great I am made me what I am today to God be the glory as I sat in that seat and marinated the thoughts came back to me this is the vision I had for you John when your mother abandoned you I had a dream about you my wife and I was sitting in our car last year and almost heard the Lord in the back seat say to us I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the Lord and I pause and I said honey it was as though he was whispering over my shoulder I know the thoughts that I think toward you said the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope my brother Glenn my brother-in-law Glenn my sister-in-law Alicia lindomar sister law in law in law and all of those of you who stood by and watched me meander in the maze of mediocrity when I pondered at the pool of popularity and negotiated at the table of the enemy you watched and you prayed and as your president said who's standing here today is not the same young man you saw 45 years ago when I received the letter from Northeastern from the president of the honor raid and I opened that letter inviting me to be the speaker for the close of the Kent meeting I said Lord what are you up to because I knew I don't have a single degree behind my name I don't have the MA a PhD I just got a BA I just got a BA with a whole lot of scars well a whole lot of nights when I had to pray my self through the tears I got a BA in the valley where Jesus was with me my wife and I both have a be a born-again degree as he filed us down broke us down emptied us and poured into us the vision he had for me pastor Willis you know what I'm talking about when I saw elder Lister in the parking lot today I said that's the man that preached me straight sweating and shouting at the top of his voice I can hear him turning churches on fire never knowing that one day but God did for him he would do for me so I want to tell you at the beginning I did not come to preach a sermon [Applause] because as ltée cleveland would say sermonettes awful christian is i don't wait 35 years of marriage and 31 years of ministry to preach a sermon ed and walk off into the into the sunset of dismal disappointment my wife and I have been praying for months reading for months studying for months asking God why would you choose a man like me when northeastern has access to anybody in everybody I stood in the shade of the pavilion behind me and looked around and saw men far more capable than I but God said if you do nothing else but tell them Who I am to you that's all I want from you and when I travel the world 62 countries later I simply say I'm living from New York and I'm on my way to New Jerusalem and last year my wife and I and the confirmation of our 34th anniversary now we had our 35th we sat together in the shade of the cayman islands and made a pact with each other and i looked at her and she looked at me and I said if by chance I close my eyes before you meet me in the kingdom and she looked at me and she said John if I closed my eyes before you meet me by the tree of life but since I want to tell you God has not sent me to North Eastern to meander this morning I shut it as I said at my dinner table about five months ago when the servant of the Lord says God does not call men who in times of crisis choose not to stand for him so this morning it's morning somewhere God has given me a message for you I'm just an instrument I'm going to preach it but I believe it God's said to me John you've got 1,100 sermons I don't want you to preach a single one of them because it's not about what you did this is about what I'm going to do 5:40 - this morning I laid my head on my pillow as the Sun was rising I laid down to get a glimpse of what rest is all about but I'm not tired because the joy of the Lord is my strength I want you to pray with me after I sing because I've been on a journey my wife and I have been on a journey they were intervals in our ministry where we were about to give up but God said this trial was not intended to break you but to take you to another level and so this morning as I sing the song God leads his dear children I don't know where you are but that's not my responsibility God has simply called me to preach and give him the glory for the results I want to tell you I have no fear because it's not about what I'm going to do it's about what God's going to do so as I sing this song and I'm gonna ask my brother to play it as I sing this song I want you to inventory your life and look at where you were and where God is leading you and if he has to take you through the fire through the flood through the water through his blood determined by His grace that you will not turn around - you see the gleams of the golden morning my brother play the song let me give God the glory [Music] in shady green pastures so rich and so sweet God leaves his dear children with a water is cool slow he bathes the weary ones heat as God leaves his children [Music] some through the water some through the fire to the fire but all through his blood [Music] some through great sorrow but God gives a soul here in the night season and all the day [Music] with sorrows before us and say turn oppose God leaves his dear children o [Music] new faith we will conquer will defeat our foes his God leaves his children [Music] he leaves some to the water some through the floor some through the fire [Music] through you [Music] sorrows yet God in our night the day [Music] Heavenly Father go with me into this furnace that my refinement this morning may bring you glory and honor in Jesus name Amen I know the scripture reading was read but I'm going to read it again if the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do the message this morning is entitled erosion erosion on March 12 1928 at 11:56 p.m. the residents of a small town located where present Santa Clarita California now exists had no idea that in just one more minute the entire town would be swept into eternity at 11:57 p.m. a two hundred and five foot wall of the Saint Francis dam exploded sending millions of gallons of water on a vicious ten-mile death march when the tragedy was investigated the builder William Mulholland admitted that he saw the cracks I'm gonna say that again he saw the cracks he saw the cracks developing in the wall of the dam he said he saw the water seeping through the damn wall I mean the wall damn I knew that would happen somewhere y'all got to understand that at this moment the word dam is sanctified he said he saw the cracks developing in the wall of the dam he saw the water seeping through the wall of the dam in the record as I read Mulholland along with his assistant chief engineer and general manager he said we inspected the cracks and the leaks in the wall and judged according to our standards that the cracks and the leaks were within the expectation of our standards it took less than two years for the walls of the st. Francis dam to fail it took less than two years for erosion to claim 431 lives as the residents were sleeping husbands and wives had no idea that a wall of eternity was tumbling their way when you read the story it's a heart-wrenching story I read the story of a wife and a husband celebrating the birth of their new baby had no idea that just two weeks after his birth they would be swept into paternity farmers businessmen death is no respecter of persons and I could not help but ask the question if the residents downstream had only knew what would they have done differently they did not know that in less than two years 431 of them would we swept into eternity brethren we live in a downstream society the walls that God has built for our security or developing cracks can I talk to you today I've been around God has sent us places on his dime to God be the glory I could not imagine the life my wife and I lived we could not orchestrate this life we could not buy it we could not talk our way into it but as we travel the world we hear from from Australia to New Guinea from the Caribbean to Europe from Asia to churches in America we hear the question whatever happened to our message whatever happened to the three angels message the walls that were built for our security are developing cracks the infrastructure designed for our eternal good are being eroded we've got to remember we have arrived at a time where we are living in the generation that will be judged not for the decline of its real estate but for the decline of its Laurel state we are living at a time where the agenda of this nation has become the corruption of its inhabitants we have arrived at an hour where the only thing of lesser value than the dollar is the value of human life erosion you see erosion occurs when environmental forces eat away at the foundation that was designed to sustain us and protect us erosion and never before has the effect of erosion been so evident on so many levels than in our present society the Apostle Paul was given a glimpse of a scene that applies with exclusive force to the last days a scene that could not be fulfilled at any other time a scene of physical and moral and spiritual and social erosion second Timothy chapter 3 verse 1 to 5 I read in your hearing this know also that in the last days what days of the Bible say brethren we are living in the last days sometimes I wonder if we know it sometimes I wonder for a comfortable with life's as it goes on in the river on the bank I know I was there in Bethel Church we had a group of people that would party all the time they saved now to God be the glory I'd have come to church on Sabbath morning when I was a junior usher and I would pass out the bulletins and God as a patient God because there were any number of Sabbath mornings he could have kill me and any one of the aisles in Bethel God watched me put party Flyers in the bulletin on Sabbath morning he said John you gonna pay for that when the Sun went down the devil came up there we were professed Adventists professed Christians bumping and grinding to the tunes of a demonic force so when Paul the Apostle takes us down the road that had been developing for 6,000 years this is a picture of what we had become what the world has become this know also that in the last days perilous times will come for men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents that's a whole sermon all by itself unthankful unholy unloving unforgiving slanderous without self-control telling people off in church on sabbath morning brutal despises of those that are good traitors heady highminded lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of god having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof and the Apostle says when you see folks like that from such turn away I know what he's talking about I used to be there I was there living a double life but God in His mercy but God in His mercy had a plan that was greater than my road of destruction so you know that at any given moment you could have been gone but good you're here because God had a plan for your life I'm still breathing today because God had a plan for my life the Apostle Paul gave a glimpse of the erosion effects of sin and sin erodes us over an extended period of time it takes time for the effects of erosion to be seen so when you look at the church today and the deplorable condition of the society that we surround us we understand that what we see is the product of erosion it took time for the world to get to where it is today the problem with erosion though is after the effect everybody knows what they should have done differently when we look back after our lives have come to a dismal end without God without hope we know in hindsight what we should have done differently my wife and I said and this is another sanctified statement it doesn't make sell it doesn't make sense to live in hell go through hell and are not being hell it doesn't make sense to live in hell go through hell and end up in hell Amen somebody the Greek poet Homer talked about the aftereffect he said after the event even a fool is wise the devastating impact of erosion becomes obvious in hindsight erosion has a to us on every level let me begin with some of the obvious places let me begin with some of the places that we can all identify with distorted psychology has resulted in the erosion of parental authority when a child can threaten the parent without any fear of disciplinary repercussions when a child can threaten his parent without any fear of disciplinary repercussions and have the support of a legal system erosion has set in when I was a child the world was a different place when I grew up the bottom line had a different meaning I didn't die I learned certain Bible verses on certain memorable occasions I can hear that verse echoing in the back of my mind foolishness is bound in the heart of a child come on church talk to me today but a rod of Correction will drive it far from him as a as a fight up seventh day adventists from Trinidad was singing zippity-doo-dah on my behind showing me that my road was not her room and she was determined to get me straight so I could make it into the kingdom come on somebody talk to me the problem of our society today is that the law has taken the authority from the parent but that's not the only sign of erosion moral decline moral decline if you look at our world today things aren't going on in our world today that not even dogs would do moral decline is the evil that has led to the erosion of family values you see the biblical family revolves around the husband and the wife God first marriage second and children third did you get there having children was the result of marriage but the modern family revolves around a child children first marriage second and God last children are worshipping in places children are worshipping gods because there is no God in their home the child that does not know God has often surrounded by substitute gods I was walking through Walmart I live in a white community in the Midwest it took a while for them to realize I live there for a long time they asked me the question are you visiting now my sister-in-law came to visit with us my sister-in-law Olesya came and she said this with tongue-in-cheek you know she's from you know she's from a different place and we saw some people that might resemble in the minds of some of us what we might refer to as a redneck and they walk up to me in Walmart and they said rim I watch you on 3abn I'm Baptist I may not agree with everything you say but I'm watching you and my sister-in-law said I didn't know you had friends like that let me give you a secret to friendship it's not who they are it's who you are [Applause] they have friends one must first show themselves to be friendly I live in a community where just about seven miles away was the headquarter of the Ku Klux Klan we're just about 20 years ago there was a sign don't let the Sun set find you in this town and God has a sense of humor take a brother from bed-stuy do or die bed-stuy and put me smack dab in Central America in the Midwest a brother with color is preaching in the Midwest in all the people that have varying shades of brown light and dark weather from Mississippi or Texas or wherever they from they respect me because they said like I when I walked into subway I'm always dressed up the lady who owns subway she said I didn't recognize you because you would dress down today when you walk with God he said when a man's ways please the Lord he'll make even his enemies to be at peace before so I don't worry about the color of the skin as long as I'm right in the eyes of God he'll make everybody else right for me parents you got to remember the injunction of God don't be the friend of your child be the parent of your child train up a child and the way he should go and when he is old hey I got a hint for you I'm old now I made up my mind not to color my here I want y'all to see that I'm old I'm about to turn another year in a couple more weeks July 30th about to hit this big sick soul I don't feel bad of 60 look like this come on now somebody say Amen no medication my wife and I went to Australia we went when we passed through customs they said where are you from we said America they said do you have any medication to declare I said no they said you said you're from America are you sure you don't have any medication to declare I said no they said everybody in America got medication to declare every now and then we come to New York and remember and we remember like one one survey said ninety-five percent of the people in New York now we got the five percent here this morning ninety-five percent business of this is an actual article said 95 percent of the people in New York need medical attention that's putting it lightly they said need mental attention but we got the five percent here today come on somebody say men for the first time seventy evidence to call themselves five percenters am I going far back enough for you erosion has touched every level of our lives corrupt entertainment i'ma say it again corrupt entertainment has led to the erosion of ethical values you see erosion occurs when we expose our children to entertainment that support practices that conflict with the scriptures you gotta understand you cannot put everything before the eyes of your children wise man said I've covered Joe Jobs said it and Solomon said it he said I will put no evil thing before my eyes sometimes my wife and I we we watch television you know well we like the house Channel because we still down on a house so we still dreamin and if we don't own the house down here one is being built for us up there amen we watch the house Channel but every now and then even the commercials are unsanctified and I told my wife I said honey I don't need to watch stills to know it's Phil's I feel bad for the brothers are the last days Satan is doing everything he could to excite and ignite the carnal passions of the men in our church and a large part of that is corrupt entertainment you see your feet will never lead you where your eyes have not been looking the modern family is destroying the biblical family promiscuity is unraveling morality promiscuity is unraveling modesty can I say that again promiscuity is unraveling modesty in the church little girls don't dress like little girls anymore see it might be 31 years before they invite me back well I'm a priest today little girls dress in light they have something for sale and that's not the bad part it's the parents ain't saying nothing ain't doing nothing because they don't want to offend their kids but I want to let you know today when you stand before God you're gonna have to answer for the neglect that you have given your children train them up and the way they ought to go not only that homosexuality is the last thing its way into our hearts I just saw in the mall my wife and I went to Macy's just so that we could be ready for New York my wife is beautiful she looks gorgeous today we went to New York we said now we could dress down in the Midwest but you got to go up a notch when you come to New York and then we were walking together in New York and we saw two unusual figures walking towards us I thought to myself well that's a tall that's a tall woman it's often it's often a little fearful for a guy that 6-3 to have a woman look him in the eyes but then I saw them when they turned around and on the shirt of this confused individual let me make a point right here God can change anybody so don't misunderstand my application God can change anybody but on this shirt that one of these two men wore see they may not know who they are but I know who they are [Applause] don't get confused master Santa said because they look like a woman watch it they had a sign on the shirt gender is out and I read an article yesterday as of 2018 in the gay community they say there are 112 different genders now don't let that start to confuse you because I'm gonna read what the next line says somebody posted a comment and they said all you gotta do is check the organs and now to straighten it out somebody's confused but God ain't behind it we've got to stop giving attention to immorality at every level why we shocked about homosexuality when for decades we have not been shocked about pornography we've been saying nothing when it'd been happening in our churches when people in leadership is playing with somebody else in leadership now all of a sudden we shocked about homosexuality what started decades ago has taken itself to another level it's erosion you see immorality erodes itself away to the point where what Satan presents is indescribable and what we're seeing today is what Satan always knew he could produce but let me tell you brethren don't ever get to the place where immorality becomes your entertainment and where darkness becomes the altar at which you meander and I'm telling you from my heart because I have two nephews that again but I'm going to tell you I pray for them and when they around Uncle John he don't hide his Christianity I'm us i'ma take you behind the curtain I got a text last night from one of my nephew's who's living a different life and he said I need help uncle and he said because you are a man of God maybe you could give me the answers I want to tell you last night I rejoiced when I saw my nephew send me a text in the confusion of sin he said I know uncle Yu I need help and because you are a man of God maybe you can give me direction and I said let's talk after the Sabbath he said that's good with me I want you to pray because God gave me an insurance policy he said I am not willing that any should perish but it all should come to repentance you see I was in New York for long enough to know that he can save us from the gutter Mo's to the uttermost today I stand here as a witness as a testament to how far down God can reach and how high up he can bring a child who simply surrenders to the molding influence of the power of God the Apostle Paul describes the condition of our world and we are shocked by it to some degree but let me make a point we are just as guilty as the participants when we watch it Paul says that those who have pleasure in unrighteousness are just as guilty as those who perpetuate unrighteousness so we can't even watch it hard for men to walk through the mall anymore when the summer becomes a season of crisis for Christian men I was down in Miami Florida it's always hot in Miami Florida we had a meeting for men it was men only on Sunday morning at an Adventist Church and they said pastor we have some questions we need to ask you we don't want any women around we got some men questions so a short little brother about the height of Zacchaeus stood up and said to me he said pastor what do you do on Sabbath morning when you come to church to worship God and the site of the sisters make you forget God altogether I said what do you mean he said pastor I know you know it's hot in Miami when the sisters on the praise team they don't walk down the aisle they mince down the I he said pastor I want to tell you it's hard for me he said what do I do if the foundation be destroyed what shall the righteous do and sometimes before I tell you the end result before I tell you the punchline let me make a point because I remember discussing this issue and one young lady came up to me and said she ain't the problem it's his mind that's the problem she said to me what I'd wear is how he thinks about what I wear and I said so let me ask you a question what's worse dressing to tempt a man or a man falling to the weaknesses of that temptation what's worse is the Apostle Paul says in the last days women ought to be women professing godliness not with your mouth alone but with your life come on somebody say Amen now I'm not done with the men yet but this brother said what should we do I said now brother what you need to do is you need to lift up your eyes into the hills from whence comes your help I thought I gave him the answer but he came back with one I had no answer for he said that's the problem I'm so sure he said I'm so short that when I lift on my eyes ma'am there they are if your eye offend you pluck it out am i right pastor will am I telling the truth I had no answer I just said pray without ceasing and close your eyes while your brain we are living at a generation that does not like to retain God in their knowledge but God is the great leveler I read an article the other day said it doesn't matter how much you have whether you're rich or poor the grave is still six feet deep [Applause] when you die with all your degrees and your education your accolades and your accomplishments you can't take an either one of them with you the grave is still six feet deep for the rich and the poor but that's not the only place that erosion has showed itself the unquenchable thirst for technology has resulted in the erosion of privacy Millennials are socially saturated this generation is socially saturated and relationally disconnected I saw it I saw a little boy run through the mall just a day before yesterday and the caption on his shirt was something like this Wi-Fi has accomplished its purpose we are no longer connected little boy couldn't be more than four years old I didn't forget that I wrote that down as soon as I got to the room Wi-Fi has accomplished its purpose we are no longer connected families are disconnected on the train in Oakland California young man came on the train brandishing a shiny for t5 caliber pistol he announced above the noise of the train movement that this was an this wasn't a a burglary this was a robbery and nobody responded he got upset he said yo y'all this is a robbery anybody was downing yeah right the article said he got off he got off the next stop because nobody paid him any attention I came to rob y'all y'all and nobody even give me the time of day let me find me another train by our smart devices receiving a text when I was growing up meant that somebody gave you a Bible verse to read nowadays we are in the MySpace and Facebook and Twitter and snapchat always in your face generation but to this generation God is saying don't forget one day you'll have to face the book I get sick and tired when I go on Facebook people put all their business on Facebook arguing with each other on Facebook who cares whether or not you just came back from the bathroom Mark Zuckerberg in an article in Omni magazine he said that those on the technical development staff of Facebook one Indian young man talked about the C's 37 years old he has children I watched his interview he said it saddens his heart to see that he participated in the development of an engine that's destroying society he's a millionaire he says my children don't watch TV they don't have cell phones I will not expose them to the engines of destruction you see when you have smoke when your phone is smarter than you you ought to get rid of it Paul the Apostle says in Romans 1 verse 30 inventors of evil things and we know the rest of the story not only immorality at every level but economic instability has given birth to the erosion of financial security my wife and I are not too far away from retirement and we've discovered every time we look at our Adventists for time I don't wanna make that clear because we don't we don't I'm gonna say it like they say in Brooklyn we don't got no money it's all in the Adventist Retirement and here it is in July and because of the instability of the economy I got a letter from risk management said your profit for this year is zero I asked myself how are we gonna make it and the Lord tapped me on the back of my head and said and your God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory through Christ Jesus amen survive what a world it is unjust judicial verdicts have given way to the erosion of human rights look what's happening in this present administration ethnic intolerance has given birth to the erosion of respect when a wall becomes more important than a life something's wrong when the tentacles of racial injustice begin to spread rather than retract something's wrong the evident of political erosion happens when real news is called fake news and lies aren't graced as the truth when the agenda of the few is more important than the rights of the many well let me let me let me wake you up this morning sorry this afternoon why would Christians that reject God's law not support a man who's immoral hear me listen to me why would I expect a preacher that says God's command are no longer in effect to get shot about a man that grabbed women because if the preacher says there is no commandment then Trump does not sin but I want to tell you there's a day coming by your words you shall be justified and by your words you shall be condemned we have arrived at a time where we cannot identify Christians by what they profess we have to look at their fruits listen to what they're saying by their fruits you shall know them and whether you know it or not the reason why you see what you see let me make it clear the reason why we see what we see is we have entered the testing time also known as the shaking and the sifting ly says that when the testing time shall come those who have made God's Word their rule of life will be revealed in other words if you live by the Bible when the tests come it'll be obvious in summer there is no noticeable difference between evergreens and other trees but when the blast of winter comes I got I got an announcement today the blast of winter has come this is not the world that I was raised in she says when the blast of winter comes the Evergreen remains unchanged while the other tree's are stripped of their foliage so she said the false-hearted professor may not now be distinguished from the real Christian but the time is upon us when the difference will be clear you see what you don't understand is that and I'm not being political because I don't agree I didn't agree with everything about Obama did I was where we had a black president give us one Amen somebody but I wasn't happy when he pushed for homosexual laws I gotta be clear about my own position we're living at a time where half hearted professors are beginning to be exposed by the decisions they make in support of that which offends God and what we have to come to realization is it has taken America 242 years to get to where it is today and Satan has been working on eroding America since it escaped the grips of tyrannical Rome and Europe in an article entitled our political foundation is rotting ejd own of the Washington Post said great nations and proud Democrat democracies fall when their system becomes so corrupt that the decay is not even noticed or the rot is written off as normal he said the corrosion of norms and values begin to lose its effect long before the nation has passed the point of no return while erosion is a natural process the erosion that confronts us today was best described by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and economist Joseph Schumpeter saying they called erosion creative destruction I want you to listen to me today we live in a world of creative destruction the Bible reveals some examples of creative destruction Peyman created a gallows that he thought would advance his life but it ended up becoming the instrument of his death creative destruction we are creating things that we are fooling ourselves to believing that it's for some reason it's going to be for our benefit when in fact we discover that the end thereof is the way of death creative destruction Nebuchadnezzar raised up a city that eventually brought him down the brothers that sold Joseph into slavery became subjects to his authority you see the reality is when ever erosion is overlooked as innocuous it eventually reveals herself as dangerous whatever we dismiss as irrelevant will prove to be consequential but today I got a shift before I close because the more sobering focus of this message is not the erosion that's taken place in the world but the erosion has taken place in God's church just warn me if something's flying towards me just just tell me to duck erosion begins ever so slightly that it tends to lead us to dismiss its presence erosion working beneath the surface eroding our foundation with unrelenting force erosion is destabilizing the foundation of our educational institutions can I tell the truth today erosion is destabilizing the foundation of our fundamental truths the divinity and role of the Holy Spirit is questioned the relevance of the sanctuary is discounted the preaching of the three angels messages is vanishing the sanctity of the Sabbath is dismissed with impunity but like a silent predator erosion is patient and steady while methods may vary with time hear me carefully methods should never threaten sanctification erosion is attempting to place the worship experience above worshiping God [Music] when what I hear begins to take me back to where I came from rather than contribute to where I'm headed erosion has taken place when a basic move becomes a let me behave myself I haven't forgotten how to dance it might be old to the young folk but I know how to hustle the point is my brother when when all worship fails to bring us into the presence of God its erosion and here's how Satan works you see nominal Christians listen to Kirk Franklin and so do you nominal Christians listen listen to Yolanda Adams and so do we Satan who did not forget the former gift he possessed music decided that I've been trying for a long time to get God's people to abandon the Sabbath but it's becoming difficult so I'm gonna shift my methods I'm gonna go back to the old bag I remember music work for me in heaven when the Hebrews were standing on the plain of Dura and Nebuchadnezzar said when the music is playing I want you to bow to the image God revealed to me as I was sitting in my car in Orlando Florida waiting for my wife to come out of Walmart God said to me the reason why the Hebrews did not bow was not because of the in jimin's listen carefully we vinil we villainize instruments it was not because of the instruments but when the music you play leads you to bow at the wrong altar it ceases to be praise to God so we got Adventists gone to church on Sunday now to get their praise only they would never go to worship but they go on to get their you can praise God right here if I'm not mistaken we praise God today amen don't let music lead you to the wrong altar when it takes you where God cannot be found and let me make my position clear God has followers in every church but when the storm hit the disciples when they were on the Sea of Galilee and all the boats were driven together in a moment of crisis Ellen White said in desire of Ages the boats were pushed together during the storm so close they were she said that you can step out of one boat into the other and I noticed in the story the disciples that kept the commandments of God never stepped out of their boat into another boat you see it's okay for them to step out of that boat into this boat can I get an amen but it's too late for us to step out of this boat into that boat nothing is more absurd than making supporting and participating in a decision that will eventually result in your destruction you see the devastating impact of erosion becomes obvious in hindsight I got to go quicker I got to speed it up I gotta ask you the question today how did the church get to where it is today can I tell you what God showed me God gave Adam stewardship responsibility as long as Adam was loyal to God his future was secure God also gave Adam a helpmate a wife as long as he was loyal to God her future was secure when you read the Genesis record a conversation was kindled between God's woman and God's adversary I want you to get this a conversation between God's woman and God's adversary and the devil said in Genesis 3 verse 1 now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said to the woman has God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden and when she listened she chose the word of the adversary over the Word of God because she responded listen to me she responded by adding in her response what God never said God never said you couldn't touch it but when she added you cannot even touch it Satan took advantage of her and he seized the fruit and put it in her hand and when she did not immediately drop dead it was no great thing to bite it because she said if you touch it you're gonna die he said did you die you will not surely die better said in the Hebrew I'm sure you will not die and she seized the fruit but brethren the problem was even deeper than that it was even deeper than that up to that point sin it not enter the world did you hear what I said because Eve was not given the authority that God gave to Adam but the very next acts introduced erosion that has not stopped chipping away ever since the Garden of Eden the bible says she took of the fruit and ate she also gave to her husband with her and he ate creative destruction as a slow erosion followed by a sudden catastrophe listen to adam tell on himself he said to god when the lord came looking for him at a moment when he could have confessed his fault he said to her he said to the lord the woman you gave to me she seek god the problem is the church you gave me creative destruction is a relentless force that ultimately consumes its hosts it was not just the eating of the fruit that plunged us into sin but the choice that adam made listen carefully i'm gonna go faster than you can think are you ready to listen to me here's where we are today Adams choice unveiled Satan's master weapon so what's happening today Adam was the first participant Adam chose a woman over God Abraham chose a woman over God David chose a woman over God Samson chose erosion a woman over god solomon lord have mercy chose a thousand women over god a hat chose a woman over god you see I've learned in my quiet time with God that God did not call Jezebel God called a.m. and the lesson that these men will teach us today as men of God as leaders in this church the lesson that we can learn from Adam and Abraham and David and Solomon and Samson and Ahab is that never underestimate the power of a woman when the man's heart has turned away from his God a woman can reduce him to a piece of bread they have chose a prostitute not because of who she was but because of who he was listen to me today I've been asking myself the question and I'm not making any blanket statements here today but I believe we got some Ahab's in our church she captured the admiration she captured his admiration not because of how she walked but because of how he refused to walk all of a sudden Israel's worship was synchronized to the temple that Jezebel said he happens life became an orchestrated march of eventual collapse and when Jezebel minced in the Attic of Ahab's mind he can hear that old song Walk This Way it was not the scent of Ahab's cologne that attracted Jezebel to him but the stench of his sin that attracted him to her they have desires they have deserted his God for a woman that was dedicated to her God she was more enthusiastic about her message than he was about his message see I didn't come here to make it I didn't come here to get emotional I came here to talk to you I want you to think this is a thinking man's religion you got your inoculation they have deserted his God for a woman that was dedicated to her God she was more enthusiastic about her message than he was about his message would to God that ministers of the gospel men called elitist Church would understand the sanctity of their call and rise up in times of crisis and refuse to be eroded by the popular churches of the day God has not called us to be TD jakes he has not called us to pattern our cells after man who rashly mocks the Sabbath of God and your degree is no excuse for your immorality God is calling men to stand up refuse to be bought and paid for in diluted and delayed I know I know where I was and I know where I am now God had to pull me through in 31 years of ministry God had to pull me through a whole lot of times I'm not talking to you I'm telling you what God did for me don't let the churches of the world around us we're rubbing shoulders with people that have degrees like we have don't let the degree inoculate you to ignore the fact that these men with impunity ignore the truth of God's Word and I want to say it hello I said tell it and leave the consequences to God we should not have men in our pulpits that don't preach the truth what can they tell us what can they tell us God never called an Amalekite nor jealous sight nor a hit sight nor am i right nor parasite no and heavy eyes to preach to Israel and neither should we you can respect them but don't give them the sacred desk that belongs to a man that understands the call on his life leave the results to God I said in my table shuttering shaking reading about the call that God placed on Elijah's shoulder the Habs departure from God was not sudden erosion takes time the avalanche that crippled Israel began as a trickle the woman that received they had two legions represents the churches the style of worship that Satan employs to steal our allegiance from God I've been there I understand it I was in Singapore in a Sunday church on Sunday morning with the hair it is singers everybody jumping but let me tell you something is not how high you jump is how straight you walk when you hit the ground the word of the Lord said a a hab did more evil in the sight of the Lord than all the kings that were before him and Solomon discovered something that is important for us today you see Solomon discovered that the woman wheat shoes will affect the words we use listen to me I don't I don't I don't I don't need to I don't need to read somebody else's book when I got the books of a woman who was anointed and inspired I remember going a couple of our pastors a number of years ago went to see a pastor in Korea dr. Cho fifty thousand members he had at the time I was in the late 90s mid nineties the late 90s and they went to ask him why his search was so full how you get your church to be so full dr. Cho and he said to them I could tell you but I can't tell other pastors so he took them to his pastor study and he showed them two books gospel workers and evangelism and he said to them if you would read your own books your church would be full - Amen somebody Solomon said thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things so I'm not shocked when I hear strange sermons where the truth should be preached because we're looking at some other church trying to fill it up with pablum selling salvation for lentils giving away a message that Jesus died to sustain we are living in the last days gradually Satanist is trying to erode our identity he's been trying to cover us with a camouflage of nominal Christianity attempting to get us to blend in with toxic surroundings but don't forget when King Saul was an apostasy he disguised himself when Ahab was an apostasy he disguised himself when Josiah disobeyed God's council he disguised himself Saul disguised himself went to a wish and told her that God won't protect her if she would work for him let me tell you some my brethren don't be enamored by the messages that God has not written we've got people coming to our church every day I remember a number of years ago I know I'm not gonna get invited back but that's alright took me fifty nine years to get here I don't think I have fifty nine years left so I got to do what God told me to do I remember the idea came to me I don't know if you ready for this the idea came to me they have church on Sunday morning I introduced it to my church had a church business session and a Pentecostal lady stood up and said to me pastor have you lost your mind I said well we're gonna do it for good reasons people already custom to going to church on Sunday morning we're gonna have church on Sunday morning and this woman brand-new Adventists she said the reason I don't go to church on Sunday morning wait let me say that again she says I came here because you told me that Sunday is not the Sabbath and now you're gonna confuse me he's a pastor if you do that God will not be just God will be dishonored by your actions don't go where God just took me from brethren we don't have to use confusing tools all you got to do is preach the message well-fed sheep do not stray well-fed sheep produce good wool and well-fed sheep entry will attract other sheep just preach the message can I get an amen it's too late to change our identity it's too late to change our name I'm a metal today about to wind up I know y'all hungry I haven't eaten since yesterday afternoon so chill out you ain't gonna die I don't see nobody in here close to starvation so I came to tell it like it is we are not satisfied with the name seven day Adventists anymore we want to be community this and community that but what you don't understand is that when God touched the hearts of our pioneers to find a name it was not just a name our name is a message all by itself seventh day we still believe in the Sabbath of creation Adventists regardless of what you get ready for we're getting ready for the coming of Jesus so don't try to change your identity and ask for God to bless it stand up unmoved in this critical hour God is calling his people to confirm their faith in this critical our God is calling us back to unadulterated worship in the closing scenes of Earth's history God is calling ministers back to faithfulness as a people we have been given a priority message not because of who we are but because of who's we are the three angels message is not intended to be a blended message this message is to be preached over the babbling confusion of compromise we don't lift up Jesus instead of doctrines we left up Jesus by the doctrines we got this false sense of Christology coming to our church and we tell people jesus loves you as you are that's right but don't forget he never leaves you the way he finds you so we got people that can no longer be identified as sin of the Adventists the standards have been deleted and we say don't tell him about how to dress they'll figure it out well I never heard the devil tell us how to dress and nobody figures out righteousness he told me lift up thy voice like a trumpet show my people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins he said to me make straight paths for your feet so that the lame coming behind you will not be turned out of the way brethren it's time to stand up it's time to be counted if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound who will prepare for the battle if the foundation be destroyed what will the righteous do the three angels message is not a preparation message for the picnic of the ages it's not a message for the excursion of the ages it's a message for the final battle of the ages get back to preaching Jesus he's the foundation of our faith when you preach Jesus there will be no erosion no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is Christ Jesus lift him up till the sinner there's hope tell the man who's in the darkness his light tell the person I walked away his time to get back stop apologizing for the truth make it clear give the trumpet a certain sound I'm done with a low livin smooth walking dumb mundane preaching i'ma tell it like it is so that when he comes he could tell me like it is all I wanna hear is well done thou good and faithful servant I don't care whether like me as long as I make it in the Lord said and they that shall be of me shall build up the old waste places you can keep all preaching those seven eleven songs seven words repeated eleven times but God is looking for those that still believe the church has one foundation God is looking for those that believe on Christ the solid rock I stand god wants those that said Rock of Ages cleft for me let me hide myself in thee the three angels message reminds us it's high time for this dark and meaningless world to come to an end it's high time to stand up for the truth or will fall for tradition it's high time to straighten up so that we can walk right it's high time to speak up for the cause of God for you see the church may appear as those about to fall but it does not because Jesus is the foundation the church may appear as those about to fall but it does not it remains the old ship resins are going to go through while sinners in Zion will be sifted out I want to tell you when the sifting is over I don't care what you think about Ellen White I'm staying I don't care what rod you are well the ship is rods or broken rod I'm staying this is God's church this is God's command to keep in church it's high time we stop apologizing I saw a preacher go back and set your church on fire go back and preach the three angels messages get it to the communities reason why we ain't see no fruit because we don't have any food in our lives [Applause] God's looking for a message he's looking for a messenger I think on today I am John the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight paths for your feet stop apologizing for this message Jesus died for it the Apostles were tortured for it the Pioneers gave up comfort and home and life and limb for it the meeple people God here in the mountains to preserve it they lost their heads not their jobs you want to work on the Sabbath break the Sabbath for a job go to hell for Walmart [Applause] reason why you don't have nothing it's because you ain't given God a chance to show you that he can bless you for being faithful the eyes of the Lord roam to and fro throughout the earth to show himself strong in behalf of those whose hearts of oil to him God brought this little boy from the streets of Brooklyn 45 years later to tell you what he can do for you I don't know where I was but I know where I'm headed you see when they have and have nots no longer matter when high living has finally been brought down when compromise has dealt a severe blow of eternal defeat there is still going to be a standing group of people standing on the sea of glass what a foundation which shall never be destroyed standing firmly there will be a group to which heaven it will point we are they here are they here are they that keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Saint is upset not because you're doing wrong but because you don't want to tell what's right here are they who here are they that cannot be bought cannot be compromised cannot be deterred cannot be lured away turn back diluted or delayed here are they Satan that will not flinch in the face of sacrifice hesitate in the presence of the adversary negotiate at the table that in me and they will not ponder in the pool of popularity and they will not meander in the maze of mediocrity here are they that won't give up they won't back up they won't let up they won't shut up until they preached up and prenup and stayed up and stored up for the cause of Christ here are they that lived by presence learned by faith loved by patience live by prayer and labor my power don't just sing it live it don't just talk it walk it don't just wait for the coming of the Lord works for the coming of the Lord don't just be venez being happiness everyday don't settle for being in the congregation it's time to be in Christ all my brethren one day sin and sinners will be no more the Lord showed me that one day the skies are gonna depart as a scroll when it is rolled together in every aisle in every mountain shall be moved out of his place and the kings of the earth and the great men and the Richmond and the commanders and the mighty men and the slave every free man will hide themselves in the caves and the rocks of the mountains but I'm going to be running in the opposite direction I'm going to be running to Jesus I'm gonna be shouting at the top of my voice lo this is the God that never let me down this is the God that pulled me through every time I called him this is the God that saved me from death this is the God that when I was abandoned gave me a father and a mother this was a God that said John I got a plan for you and your wife I got a future for you and your wife Satan go to hell I'm on my way to heaven I'm on my way to a city which has foundations whose builder and maker is God I want to be there when the Rose of Sharon bloom again I want to be there when the bright morning star rises again I'm gonna be there when the light of the world shines again on that great and glorious morning the oil of gladness will flow again the lion of the tribe I want to be there when he roars again I want to be there when the author of salvation becomes the finisher of my faith when the mighty God becomes the everlasting father and when the Alpha is crowned as the Omega I want to be there one day sin will be eradicated one day death will be exterminated one day pain will be eliminated one day sorrow will be terminated one day won't will be assassinated and hay will be obliterated sinners will be extricated life will be celebrated st. will be annihilated and Jesus will be vindicated somebody's gonna be saved somebody's gonna be saved it might as well be me come on Satan somebody somebody's gonna be saved tell your neighbors somebody's gonna be saved it might as well be me there's a roll of righteousness with my name on it I ain't giving it to nobody somebody's gonna be saved it might as well be me this morning sister Humphrey come on give a microphone to my dear sister God sent me here today are you ready for Jesus to come are you faithful in all that you do have you fought a good fight have you stood for the rights of others seeing Jesus and you my brother organist joined with the pianist when he plays I'm opening the doors of the church today I told God I said God going go with me in the furnace called Victory Lane years ago I used to be afraid of fire until God showed me the secret behind the burning bush Moses saw bush that was burning but it was not consumed and I learned that instead of avoiding the fire I want to be embraced by the fire over the fire of God's righteousness to cleanse the impurity of my life you see God didn't come to burn us up he came to light us up he didn't come to consume us he came to ignite us and when we are ignited by the righteousness of Jesus somebody's going to see the light my sister arise shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you for behold we're right there we are right there listen to the Pope listen to the Congress listen to the president we're there America is already speaking like a dragon it ain't coming we're there but today but today somebody came to victory Lake to find victory [Music] how far you traveled is nothing compared to how far Jesus travel but God is calling you today to take that step of faith now to make my appeal clear I'm a first start with those who want to say and I know there's a whole lot of us so I want to be specific if you've wondered far away from God and today you want to come back while the doors of the Ark are still open I'm gonna hear it pastor Willis singing ship ahoy ship alone singing that song but pastor Sanders was making that making that appeal somebody today wants to come back before it is ever too late and no my friend's sister Margaret of Bethel act we won't get really simple this morning I don't want to appeal to your emotion I want appeal to your sense of reality we're gonna take you back because there's only one thing that's gonna matter are you ready for Jesus to come as the Evangelist sings if there's somebody here today that says my appeal is gonna be in three phases if you want to come back today let me tell you do not miss it do not miss it young man young lady husband wife if you need peace in your marriage I'm invite my wife to join become one sweetheart because God didn't call me he called us come on sweetie I just just follow me right here i'ma say to the pastor's this morning love your wife as god loved the church and gave himself for her we don't go anywhere without her if they say they don't have enough money to bring us both I said then counsel me God didn't send me oh no solo one person tour to try to exalt myself when I'm done preaching with you I got a godly woman but I could hug but I can kiss and I can get on the plane and go back home without the fear of a text message following me hey man Church I must say first of all if there's somebody here today that wants to come back honey you may see you sit right there I want you to stay up here with me when we have prayer there's somebody here today God is speaking to I may have a sister Margaret sing and as a Spirit of God is here today and you hear the voice of God saying young man young lady don't let the devil fool you into thinking that you have more time only God has time the Spirit of God is speaking to us as the song is being sung don't even think about anybody else because nobody's could nobody could go to hell for you and nobody could replace you in the kingdom but the Spirit of God speak to you [Music] [Music] it's got a speaker you just come [Music] you have you want to be ready this morning coming as a spirit of God is speaking to you just come on down I'll wait for you I'll wait for you down here just come wherever you are don't wait today's your day just come on down God's calling you today just come on down hazel or hazel or a seat come on young lady there's a husband a wife here that wants a stronger marriage just come on down we want to pray for you today don't leave don't leave not gonna hold you long but God is calling somebody here today if you're in the overflow changes come on over let the Spirit of God bring you [Music] [Applause] [Music] anybody else just come on down wherever you are [Music] praise God are we going back to the simplicity of the call just come on down wherever you are somebody needs a prayer answered in their lives just come on down don't worry about anybody else is just you and God just come on down Lake the way don't block the way help them come soon just come on just come on down come on your baby come on down you're praying you're not looking if you're not coming you're praying just come along just come [Music] come on just come on yes praise the Lord [Music] yes boys there's somebody that does not show about tomorrow [Music] you don't know what the world hasn't stole for you but I've come here today to tell you that Jesus is calling you - that's right come on come on come on down my brothers and sisters yes somebody to my left today you're coming down because you want a new star with Jesus see all fashion evangelism the old calves the tribe pants this is your moment this is your moment don't say yes to the devil and no to Jesus they're coming they're coming [Music] that's right come on down [Music] [Music] let's come on there just come on down praise the Lord that's right young man young lady maybe there's a parent here that wants to pray for their children you know they're out there somewhere I know I was out there Mama's prayers kept me from going to the end of that road just come on young lady come on the decision you make today will carry you into eternity praise the Lord if the organiz continues to play softly I'm not gonna hold you much longer god bless you just stay right there are you ready for Jesus to come you don't even know if you're gonna make it home from camp-meeting today nobody gave you a guarantee return home car don't let the moment go to waste I don't mind begging for Jesus I know what he did for me I know he did for my wife I know we he brought me from and he wants to take you down that road but he's looking for willing hearts if you're willing and obedient he said you need of the good of the land today yes and my second appeal you can still come and join those that are down here if Bible workers would take your name but now my second appeal is gonna be a little more general if you want to say father I want to remain faithful until you come again give me strength to remain faithful in that which is least so one day I'll be able to appreciate that which is much your standing God is speaking to you today the Lord loves us with an everlasting love he's a forgiving God you cannot go too far that God cannot bring you back there's nothing you have done no matter how long you've been away God will come and invite you back he won't tell you how bad you are you'll just put his robe around you and welcome you back home and my final appeal is to the preachers to the teachers to the pastors to the leaders of this conference I praise God for godly leadership can you say Amen I see God is called Elda honoré and the staff to turn northeast and around but they cannot do it without the power of God but I'm challenging clergy I'm not calling from outside I'm one of you brethren I'm a pastor in the Adventist Church I'm not throwing stones I'm on this ship with you God is calling me to no longer preach for popularity but to preach for a crowd I'm done with popularity I'm preaching for a crowd I just want to hear well done I'm not putting your blood on my head i'ma tell it so that when he says did you tell him I told him Lord he said well they're brothers not on you preachers don't preach for popularity don't go into the ministry for filthy lucre try to stone try to become a preacher of a financial success be a preacher of righteousness seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added some of you want jets like Kenneth Copeland then TD jakes they can't fly that to heaven so today forgive me for preaching so long but it took me a long time to get here Elda honoree could you come and join me as I pray for you I'm gonna put my hand on the shoulder of your president because God has called this man and his administration the shoulder a responsibility as far greater than either of us could understand and I want you to give him permission I want you to support him when he has to make tough decisions when he says no because God has impressed him to say no don't argue with him don't have your conference president being torn apart at your dinner table don't criticize the man that God has called for you'll stand in judgment for that touch not the Lord's anointed no do his prophet no harm elder vice president would you join us they'll devise president would you join us and we're gonna pray right here you see these are the men that God has called to lead you there the under shepherds but he's the chief shepherd loving father in heaven Lord we stand here today under the unction of your righteousness we are united in a bond under the blood of Jesus Oh Lord not one of us could claim any righteousness of our own but father we say today thank you Lord for your long-suffering your mercy your goodness your forgiveness north-eastern father there's a conference that's going to be ignited souls are going to come in under the unction of anointed preachers whose call has been recalibrated today they're gonna lay down the pools of popularity and they're no longer going to negotiate at the table of the enemy but they're gonna remember that when they were called that they became your mouthpiece so father may we all be faithful as ministers help us not to preach in ourselves be castaways give us a faithful heart and I pray Lord that today the Israel of your kingdom will stand with the Joshua's and the Caleb's of the closing hours of Earth's history and we will say as for me in my house we will serve the Lord father today we leave the believe the gods of Our Fathers behind us we we walk away from the gods of the amorite sin whose lands we dwell and we are singling our eyes to the Kenan land and there soon we're ready to cross over the Jordan land may we all hear well done thou good and faithful servant so father as I close despair I pray Lord Jesus that have not disappointed you forgive me for the words that have become my own but may we leave here different than we came and maybe our distinct joy to one day simply hear well done thou good and faithful in Jesus name and for his sake I closed this prayer but may we all open our hearts in Jesus name and all of God's people said amen and amen god bless you

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Published: Sun Jul 15 2018