So, I bring greetings uh from uh my wife who’s back in Berian Springs today and
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our daughter uh our son is with us right now. He’s doing my recordings back
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there. And I’d like to thank brother John Records and all the team that put this incredible weekend together. You’ve
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done a what an amazing job and I just just rejoice to see so many like-minded people gathering on the Sabbath day um
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to share in fellowship and to grow in grace and in truth. So um last night or
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yesterday we spoke um two sermons. Um they were more looking at the times in which we live and what is happening out
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there. And today I’m going to talk about things that are within our church. Matters of should be of concern to all
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of us. Uh matters that actually have a profound impact on us whether we recognize it or not. And so uh this
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morning I’ll be sharing a message entitled buyer beware number one. And this evening buyer beware number two.
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I’m not very creative on my sermon titles. So, buy beware one and then buy a beware two uh later this evening. Uh
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you know uh we are approaching the the most momentous times in human history.
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And um it’s really important that we we beat to quarters and we jettison any
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junk that’s going to stop us from fulfilling our god-given mission. And uh uh we’ve seen in the last five
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years that there are many gods in this world and those gods have a hold over us. And when mandates are imposed,
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people yield on their conscience to whatever pressure points the government has upon us. And so I think it’s
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incumbent upon us to reflect on these last five years and to look forward and to make sure that there’s nothing coming
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between us and our heavenly father um so that when the next pressure points are brought upon and God’s people um there
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are no pressure points where they compress and we can stand tall regardless of what the world does to us.
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So um today I’m going to speak about the relationship with the United Nations and
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uh I think that many of you would agree that CO was a wakeup call for many people. Um CO um opened our eyes in many
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ways. It’s opened many people’s eyes and what I’m going to share today has really
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come about as a result of what happened uh during the pandemic and the opening of many people’s eyes. So, as we begin,
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I’d invite you to bow your heads with me and we’ll invite the presence of the Holy Spirit. Our dear heavenly father, I
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thank you for the blessings of the Sabbath day. Lord, we thank you for the friendship, the fellowship, the
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physical, and the spiritual food you’ve blessed us with thus far yesterday and so far this morning. Lord, I ask that
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your Holy Spirit will continue to speak to us. That your Holy Spirit will bring conviction to our hearts. that we will
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not just um um receive messages but you will change our thinking and direct our paths in new paths of righteousness from
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this day forward. So Lord I ask that you speak through me and for me and may Jesus be glorified and may his body uh
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be able to stand taller and truer because of the preaching of this word. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
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All right. So uh this is our journey this morning and um I’m going to talk
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about the UN structure, the UN problem, the UN and the spirit of prophecy and then the UN some UN questions before we
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come to our conclusions. And so uh that’s our journey this morning and
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there’s the UN building there in New York. Has any of you ever been to the UN plaza there and looked around? Yes. many
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tourists they go to New York and one of the things people like to see um is the
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the United Nations Plaza there. Um but uh back in uh on the 6th of June 1985
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um this article was published and here’s a copy of it here. It was the Adventist
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Review on June the 6th 1985 and you have Sister Ellen White on the front there.
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And um inside it it was very short edition. Um they had a couple of items
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of news, but this news item here, it just said the GC receives NGO status
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from the UN and it was it was a short news item um that you see there on the
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screen. And what did that news item actually say? Um this was given uh to
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the delegates of the general conference session in 1985. And this is on the screen. Um the text it said the GC
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receives NGO status from the United Nations. On May 10, the United Nations
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recognize the General Conference of 7th Adventists as a non-governmental organization NGO having consultative
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status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the ECOS.
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In much the same way that the United Nations Security Council looks after matters of war and peace, ECOS deals
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with worldwide social, economic, humanitarian, and cultural questions,
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including human rights and religious liberty. The general conference now has the right to be represented at all ECOS
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meetings in New York and human rights commission’s meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. The NGO status includes the
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right to speak and submit written statements regarding issues of importance to the church. We believe the
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new NGO status will help the 7th Adventist Church establish a presence in another forum and thus enhance its
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positive Christian outreach. End quote. And that was what was announced to the delegates at the 1985 general conference
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session that we have now achieved consultative NGO status with the United
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Nations ECOS or economic and and and um social council of the United Nations.
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Now as it happens um the ECOS had passed certain resolutions and uh one of those
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which is pertinent to this morning says there that regarding um consultative status nos it says the aims and purposes
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of the organization shall be in conformity with the spirit purposes and principles of the charter of the United
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Nations. So when you apply for and you receive consultative NGO status with the United
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Nations, you’re signing up to the principles and values of the United Nations as a as a supporting an
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nonprofit non-governmental organization at the United Nations. And that ECOS
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resolution was passed in 1968 and it was reaffirmed in 1996.
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So before we joined the UN and after we made an alliance with the UN, the UN
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ECOS had passed resolutions saying if you’re going to be have a status with us, consultative status, you must be in
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alignment with our goals and visions and purposes. Now we note here in passing that this
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was never decided by the executive committee of the general conference to align with the United Nations. It was
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never voted by the members of the Adventist church in a general conference session to align with the United
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Nations. In fact, uh the decision to join and the actual joining took place just before the 1985 general conference
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session. The members were informed that this is what the administration has done, but the members were not given the
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chance to debate or vote on the matter. You kind of think that if we’re going to join up with the United Nations and
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officially submit ourselves to their goals and their principles and their values that the the Wilson um the
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earlier Wilson senior administration you would think that for such a momentous decision they could have waited a few
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weeks and given it to the delegates to vote on but they didn’t. The decision was made.
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The alliance was signed up for and over time ADRA now has been granted
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consultative NGO status and the IRLA the international religious liberty
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association they have also been granted consultative NGO status by the United
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Nations. So let’s just ask ourselves like what exactly does the United Nations do? uh when I used to work for
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ADRA in many parts of the world in the uh 90s um the United Nations um they
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were big donors for all kinds of aid agencies but the United Nations were kind of an in private they were a by
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word for corruption and nepotism and inefficiency and that was those were the friends of
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the UN speaking and so there’s the UN plaza there so
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let’s talk about the four pillars of the United Nations the the the preamble to The UN charter lists four pillars of the
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United Nations. The first of these is peace and security. Now, according to the UN charter, the UN was created, I’m
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quoting here, to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought
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untold sorrow to mankind. End quote. And so, the United Nations was formed after
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the tragedies of World War I and World War II to try and ensure that there would not be another World War. and they
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wanted to put bring an end to war. The League of Nations had failed and so now
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there was an attempt to unite the nations of the world and peace and security was their number one objective.
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The second pillar of the United Nations was to stand up for human rights. Uh the UN charter begins by affirming I’m
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quoting here faith in fundamental rights in the dignity and worth of the human person in the equal rights of men and
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women and of nations large and small. And so um the second pillar of the United Nations is to establish, define
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and uphold human rights around the world. And the third pill pill pillar of
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the United Nations is to establish the rule of law on a global basis. Um that
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uh we are ruled by law as a global as a global community rather than by the the
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word of dictators. And so in again in the preamble it says this. The UN aims to quote establish conditions under
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which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can
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be combined end quote. And so in the 1930s uh we witnessed the rise of strong men
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such as Mussolini and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. And the United Nations wanted to turn the world back so that
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international relations between nations are governed not by strong men but by
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the rule of law. And I mean these are all lordable aims. I have no problem with with these aims as they are stated.
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They’re noble noble objectives here. And the fourth pillar of the United Nations related to human development. And uh
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they argue that the main components of development are living a long and healthy life, receiving a good
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education, having a decent standard of living and having the freedom to participate in the life of your own
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community. So those are the four pillars of the United Nations. Peace and security, human rights, the rule of law
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and development. And uh so then you have the main organs of the United Nations.
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And the United Nations actually has six main organs in its structure or in its organizational chart. The first one
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which we’re probably most familiar with is the general assembly. And this is where um presidents and prime ministers
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come and speak to the representatives of the world in that massive hall there in downtown New York. And this is the main
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deliberative and representative body of the United Nations. And all the member states of the UN are represented in the
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general assembly. You also have um the security council. You’ve heard of the UN
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Security Council. This is a subset of the uh General Assembly. It has 15
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members uh five of whom are permanent. That is the US, China, the UK, France,
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and the Russian Federation. These were basically the victors of World War II.
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And when the United Nations was put together, they said that we’re going to have the permanent role on the Security
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Council. and then the other 10 members rotate around on a regular basis from the other member states and this is
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causing a lot of tension to today because the world has moved on from 1945 and there are other powers such as India
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that have arisen and say why aren’t we permanent members of the UN security council and so the even though it
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represented the world in 1945 the world has moved on and there is always
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pressure to expand or um the permanent members of the security council and the Security Council um they deal with um
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upholding international law. They deals with matters of conflict, the outbreak of war and they’re looking to maintain
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international peace and security. And so then you have the economic and social
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council for which the general conference is a consultative NGO status holder and
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the princ this is the principal body in the United Nations for the coordination of global um affairs and governments
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around the world on environmental economic and social issues and the implementation of the development goals
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of the United Nations. And then you have the trusteeship council. This is
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something that few people are aware of. But the role of the trusteeship council um is to provide international
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supervision for 11 trust territories which have been placed under the admin administration of seven member states
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and that the trusteeship council’s job is to nurture those 11 trustee areas to
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the place when they can become full member states of the UN and sovereign states in and of their own rights. Then
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you have the international court of justice that is based in the Netherlands at a place called the Hague and that is
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where um for instance in Bosnia um after the the war in in in Balkans in the
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1990s and that is where some of the uh the alleged war criminals were taken and they were put on trial and some of them
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were convicted for crimes against humanity after the Balkans war. And so the International Court of Justice is
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based in the Hague in the Netherlands. And then sixly you have the secretariat. This comprises the secretary general and
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tens of thousands of UN workers who carry out um the implementation of the UN priorities. And then you also have um
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the human rights function within the United Nations. So within the human rights um um uh uh pyramid in the UN
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structure uh first of all you have the UN high commissioner for human rights and they have the overall responsibility
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um for the protection of human rights on a global level. Then you have the human rights council that was established in
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2006 and this is the key um intergovernmental body at the United Nations responsible for upholding human
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rights around the world. Then you have human rights treaties bodies. These are committees of independent experts that
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monitor the implementation of core human rights treaties around the world. Then
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you have what are known as the special procedures. These are independent experts who present thematic or country
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specific reports to the security council and the human rights council um from country specific basis. So for instance,
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if the UN believes there’s a genocide in this certain country, they may may have
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somebody appointed from this role to give a special report to the UN on what is happening when it comes to genocide
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in a certain part of the world. And then you have this is a very catchy phrase, isn’t it? The UN development group’s
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human re human rights mainstreaming mechanism. um this advances this serves to advance
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human rights within the overall um sphere of all the UN UN programming around the world. And then maybe most
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interestingly to me you have the special advisers on the prevention of genocide and the full title is and the the
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responsibility to protect and the special adviser they are a catalyst.
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Their role is to raise awareness of the causes and the dynamics of genocide. It is to alert relevant actors to the
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threat of genocide and it is to advocate for appropriate action to be taken and
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sometimes they’re successful in this goal and sometimes they’re picking up the pieces after the genocide has been
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taken place. Uh so they have a they have a mixed report card you might say. Um
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and at the very core of the United Nations human rights um world is the
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universal declaration of human rights. Now, we mentioned this briefly yesterday. It was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris
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on December the 10th in 1948, and it sets out for the first time in human
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history fundamental human rights to be respected all around the world. And it
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is recognized and adopted in more than six 70 human rights treaties around the
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world today. So, that’s just a brief introduction to the UN. The UN actually has it has a variety of organizations
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affiliated with it. Some organizations of the UN are actually created by
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bilateral treaty among governments such as UNICEF or the world food program and
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others are called officers. So there’s the is the UNCHER the United Nations
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office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs and whenever there is a humanitarian crisis um UNICEF
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rushes in because they want to protect the children and World Food Program rushes in because they want to provide food to the children and UNHCR rushes in
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the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees because they want to protect the child because it’s a refugee and you
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end up with three global agencies fighting over who gets to take care of that child. And that’s important because
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whoever gets jurisdiction over that child gets funding. And so they they these these major agencies which like
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major kingdoms in their own right um they they are then required to to coordinate through UN OCH UN office of
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coordination of humanitarian affairs and you get constant turf battles going on around the world. Is this child a child?
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Is this child a refugee? Is this child hungry? Should the UN population fund get involved in ministering to this
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child? um becau and because it comes from a family and so forth. And so you get these jurisdictional battles going
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on because with jurisdiction comes global funding. And so um the UN has the
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the these competing agencies out there that are always doing fundraising and
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looking for donors and dollars and the best way to find dollars and donors is
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to have victims that you’re claiming to be ministering to. So the United the universal declaration
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of human rights is the core of the UN human rights um
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um sector. So what is part of the UN problem and I covered some of this yesterday. The preamble there’s a
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preamble to the universal declaration of human rights. I don’t expect you to read that from the back. I understand um
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unless you’ve got you know the eyes of eagles but um the UN declaration of human rights starts with the preamble
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that recognizes that equal the equal and inalienable rights of all human beings
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are the foundation for freedom justice and peace in the world and there it is
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it’s written the very first sentence whereas recognition of the inherent dignity of the equal and inalienable
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rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom justice and peace in the world. And we
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say, well, praise the Lord for that. The challenge is after this one mention of inalienable rights, the UN charter and
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universal declaration of human rights switches to human rights. And as we said yesterday, there is a profound
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difference between human rights and inalienable rights. Inalienable rights are yours by virtue of creation by a
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loving creator in a moral universe. And so for in our constitution the
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declaration of independence, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are given you by our create given us by our
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creator regardless of which government we happen to live under. Whereas human rights are given us by governments in
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legal codes and they can be given by governments and they can be taken away by governments. They’re not inalienable.
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They they appear in good times and they disappear in bad times. So um some of these articles we actually agree with as
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Adventists. uh such as article one on the screen there. It says, “All human beings are born free and equal in
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dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of
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brotherhood.” I’d say amen to that, wouldn’t you? I got no problem with that. And then in
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in the Adventist um world, we particularly celebrate in the official statements from the general conference
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this article here, article 18, which says, “Everyone has the right to freedom
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of thought, conscience, and religion. This right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom
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either alone or in community with others and in public or private to manifest his religion or belief in teaching,
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practice, worship and observance. That’s a pretty good article, wouldn’t you agree? And we actually mention this
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article in our official statements from the general conference. We celebrate this article. We uphold this article. We
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stand by this article and so forth. The challenge is is that when people say we
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support the universal declaration of human rights and then they give you these examples, people say well that’s a
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good thing. The problem is when you come to the end of the universal declaration of human rights, you come to article
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29.2 as a church we celebrate in our statements article 18 of the universal
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declaration of human rights. um because it upholds the right freedom of thought, freedom of conscience and freedom of
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religion and it also includes freedom of the right to change your religion or belief. Now implied within that is the
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freedom to evangelize and to share the gospel to invite people to follow Jesus
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Christ. So the freedom of evangelism and proletism isn’t explicitly included but
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the freedom to change your religion is included within the UN declaration on human rights. And there are some parts
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of the world today where this freedom um is partially respected but not completely respected. In the Middle East
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there is a country that says um on your national ID card you can you can either be Muslim or
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Christian or atheist. And if you want to change your religion you can change from
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Christian to Muslim or atheist to Muslim. But if you want to go from um Muslim you can only go to atheist. You
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can’t go to Christian. And so in that particular country many people are registering as atheist and in the
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statistics there’s a rapid growth of atheism in that country but it’s not really a growth of atheism at all is
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because the law won’t allow them to make the full change across on their identity cards. So we we support article 18 of
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the declaration of human rights. The problem is articles 29.2 and 29.3 state
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this. It says, “In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be
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subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose
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of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of
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morality, public order, and the general welfare in a democratic society.
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Which means that all the rights enunciated in the article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1
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through 28, they are not absolute rights. They are subject to what the government or the UN determines is in
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the general welfare of society. Article 29.3 says this, “These rights and
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freedoms may no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles
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of the United Nations.” So in plain English,
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when you interpret this legal ease, we’re only allowed to ex exercise our
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rights subject to the dictates of governments, intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health
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Organization, and other UN or globalist stakeholders. Inalienable rights are
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gone. What the UN calls rights are not rights at all. They’re merely temporary
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permissions that can be revoked at any moment should what we as individuals do conflict with what the new glo globalist
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governance regime calls the general welfare in a democratic society or with
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the UN’s own purposes and principles and we saw a classic example of this in co
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19 in our general conference working in policy manual many of you very familiar with this text here um the the pH
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department public affairs and rel religious liberty um in the preamble layer describes what is the purpose of
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the public affairs and religious liberty department um at the general conference and by extension to every division,
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union and conference around the world. And um it says there that public affairs and religious liberty, one of the
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original core departments of the church was initially established to promote to
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maintain religious liberty with particular emphasis upon the most intimate freedom, individual liberty of
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conscience. End quote. And I say praise the Lord that we take a stand at least in the working policy for individual
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liberty of conscience. And what is individual liberty of conscience? It is the ability to act in harmony with the
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convictions of the Holy Spirit upon your conscience. That is what liberty of conscience
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means. It’s not you telling the Holy Spirit what the Holy Spirit is going to convict you of. It’s your ability to be
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obedient to the convictions of the Holy Spirit. And uh some people say and we’ve
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heard this over the last 5 years because the Bible says nothing about vaccines and the Bible says nothing. Spirit of
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prophecy says almost nothing about vaccines. Therefore the Holy Spirit cannot bring you conviction on vaccines
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because the Bible and spirit of prophecy say nothing. Therefore this is not a religious liberty issue. That’s an
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argument we heard in our church. Well, if you turn in your Bibles to Acts chapter 16 and verse 6. Acts chapter 16
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and verse 6. And there’s a fascinating little verse there. It’s a verse we kind of glance over because it doesn’t
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contain it initial reading any profound theology,
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but it’s an interesting little verse there. And I just want us to uh think about it for a minute.
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It says there, this is talking about Paul on his second missionary journey. It says they went through the region of
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Friia and Galatia having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. Some versions say the spirits of
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Jesus. Now, let me ask you this. Does the Bible
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anywhere other than this verse here say that the apostles should not be doing missionary work in northern Turkey?
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No. There’s nothing in the Bible that says you should not be doing missionary work
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in northern Turkey. Yet here, the Holy Spirit brings conviction on the apostles
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not to do something that is nowhere mentioned anywhere else in scripture.
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What does that tell us? It tells us that the Holy Spirit can bring conviction upon your conscience on a matter on
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which scripture is silent, but it is still the legitimate conviction of the Holy Spirit upon your conscience. Amen.
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So the the arguments that because the Bible is silent on vaccinations, therefore this cannot be a religious
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liberty issue would mean that this passage here is a lie because this passage says the Holy Spirit brought
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conviction on the apostles not to go into Bethnia, but there’s nothing on scripture on that topic at all anyway.
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So if the scripture is silent on not going to Bethnia, this kind the argument if it’s to be consistent, um therefore
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Paul should say that wasn’t the Holy Spirit convicting us there. So the point about this is when you hear
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the argument if the scripture is silent on something the Holy Spirit cannot bring conviction on you on that matter.
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Therefore um this is not a matter of religious liberty. You can’t base that on on principle on
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scripture because I’ve just shown you just one verse there where the Holy Spirit can bring you a conviction on a
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matter that is entirely is not covered anywhere in the word of God. You follow the logic on this?
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So therefore, the decision to or not take vaccines is is is still a religious
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liberty matter regardless of whether the Bible says anything about vaccines in particular. And it doesn’t um in in a
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specific way because that doesn’t stop the Holy Spirit bringing conviction upon the heart and conscience of the
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disciple. So liberty of conscience is celebrated
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and upheld in our GC working policy manual. But in our reaffirmation statement and I
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always I always highlight this sentence here. Therefore, claims of religious liberty.
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We’ll highlight the two bits in red here for the purposes of this morning. The statement says um you know the statement
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that the the reaffirmation statement is is about two and a half pages long. Have you ever read it?
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So in England um every legal decision every if if the judge gives a legal
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decision and the the decision is a 100 pages long. Okay, you do get those things and there
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is always one sentence in that 100page decision that’s the fulcrum of the whole case. There’s one sentence that defines
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the decision. Everything else and that’s what sets the precedent for future decisions. Everything else is what the
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lawyers called obbita, which is Latin. It means other words. It’s surrounding
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fluff. It’s expensive fluff, but it’s fluff.
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And in the reaffirmation statement, there was two pages of fluff designed to lull us asleep.
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They say nice words about liberty of conscience. They say nice words that vaccination is a matter of private
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conscience. But there’s one paragraph that’s the fulcrum for the whole statement and this is it here and it’s
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buried near the bottom of the second page says the 7th Adventist church it’s on the screen in consultation with the
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health ministries public affairs and religious liberty departments of the general conference of 7th Adventists is
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convinced that the vaccination programs that are generally carried out are important for the safety and health of
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our members and the larger community. Does that sound like the general welfare of society?
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That’s another way of putting it. Therefore, claims of religious liberty are not used appropriately in objecting
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to government mandates or employer programs. Then you have the same phrase again. They just reverse the wording
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designed to protect the health and safety of their communities. So the denial of liberty of conscience by the
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general conference is sandwiched between two sentences talking about the health
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and safety of the wider community. That’s the wider good, the general good, the
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general welfare of society is the is the the the um the delivery mechanism for
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the the general conference presumption of its right to override the convictions of the Holy Spirit on your conscience.
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With this statement, the GC leaders at the time made an official declaration to
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every Adventist worldwide that their deeply held, prayerfully considered for convictions did not provide a valid
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basis for religious exemption. Essentially, our leaders were stating that they had the authority to override
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the convictions of the Holy Spirit upon the consciences of members worldwide if
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in their determination the Holy Spirit was not acting in the general welfare of society.
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A claim to such authority to override the Holy Spirit has no basis in
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scripture whatsoever. Amen. in denying liberty of conscience to Adventists worldwide. However, the GC
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was acting as legally required because of our consultative NGO status with the UN, which requires us to uphold the UN’s
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objectives and goals, including the general welfare concept contained in article 29.2 of the UN declaration of
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human rights. And we repeatedly mention our support for the UN declaration of human rights through our official
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statements. In fact, we even mention issued a statement on the 50th anniversary urging all governments to
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uphold all the principles of the universal declaration of human rights. There was a one of our statements actually called on governments to uphold
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all these principles including the subjugation of individual liberty of conscience to what the UN determines is
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in the general welfare of society. It’s unbelievable when you actually start reading through the details of this kind
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of stuff. Before COVID or beyond COVID though, as Adventists, we all need to
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know that if in some point in the future the UN or one of its agencies or institutions such as the WHO declares,
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for instance, in the new pandemic preparedness treaty that was just signed earlier this year, that something is in
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the general welfare of society. We need to know today that the GC will
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always side with the UN because the GC has subjugated itself to the UN in a formal alliance. and the GC is thus only
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ready and willing to to um deny liberty of conscience to Adventists worldwide as
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they did in the last four years. In effect, we being told by the GC that
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Adventists can act in harmony with their conscience only in so far as your actions are in harmony with whatever the
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United Nations determines is in the general public interest, the common welfare or the common good. Put
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differently, liberty of conscience is now dead within the official Adventist Church, and the GC will only support
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members if their actions are in harmony with the determinations of the GC’s globalist monsters or what is in the
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common good or the general welfare of society. We are not in an alliance with the United Nations. We are in submission
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to the United Nations. And both members and liberty of conscience have been sacrificed on the altar of political
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expediency by our leadership. But the problem doesn’t just end there because the papacy has permanent
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observer status at the United Nations. There are 193 member states in the
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United Nations. But there the United Nations was granted permanent observer status rather than
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member status on April the 6th, 1964. And just a reminder of what the Bible
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says about the papacy, I’ve given you three passages there. In Revelation 13:1,
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we read in scripture that the power behind the papacy is Satan himself, who gives the papacy his power and authority
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to deceive the world. In 2 Thessalonians 2 1-12, I did a sermon on this last year
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in Maine called Dancing with the Devil on why the papacy is the antichrist of scripture. But in 2 Thessalonians 2
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1-12, the papacy is the man of sin, a blasphemous power that declares itself
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to be God, Antichrist itself. And in Daniel 7:1 19-26,
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we know that the papacy is a persecuting power, arrogantly assuming the right to change the law of God, a reflection of
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God’s character, and to coers false worship. It is also a persecuting and bloodthirsty power. Yet the papacy is a
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power that will come to assure judgment and destruction from God himself. So the papacy is a condemned power by God as
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the antichrist. Despite this, the papacy today has the right to attend all sessions of the general assembly, the
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security council, and the ECOS to observe their work. The papacy today by
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virtue of its permanent observer state is legally capable of ratifying international treaties and actively
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participating in the negotiation of international lawmaking treaties at the UN. The papacy can make substantive
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proposals, reject the proposals of other negotiating parties, request a vote, and
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even vote directly. On October 24, just four weeks ago, the
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new Pope Leo I 14th held a meeting with all the leading Jesuits around the world. He called them to Rome. This was
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a matter of public record and he made a direct appeal to them on October 24 this
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year to take the lead in fulfilling their mission at all levels of society
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politically, culturally and spiritually. And this is what he said. um paraphrase this is words from his speech here. He
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said, “Today I repeat, the church needs you at the frontiers, whether they be geographical, cultural, intellectual, or
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spiritual. We must oppose the globalization of powerlessness with a culture of reconciliation,
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meeting one one another in truth, forgiveness, and healing. The church must help guide these developments
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ethically, defending common good, and promoting the what? The common good. True disciplehip
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requires both denunciation of injustice and the proposal of new models rooted in
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solidarity and the common good. Caring for our common home responds to a cry
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that is both human and divine. May the Lord lead you to the frontiers of today and beyond. Renewing the church and
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building a kingdom of justice, love, and truth. What kingdom is the pope
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referring to here? He’s speaking about the the the reign of Rome or papal
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supremacy around the world. The phrase our common home goes back to La Lauato C
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that infamous cycl encyclical from a few years ago that called specifically for
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Sunday rest so that we can preserve our common home the planet and we can all celebrate the eukarist together. This is
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loaded language from Leo I 14th. And uh just as a reminder, the Jesuits were
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created in the 16th century in 1540 with the specific purpose of defending and
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advancing papal supremacy during the counterreformation. The Jesuits are
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Rome’s response to the Protestant Reformation. The Jesuits are the Pope’s most loyal soldiers sworn to absolute
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obedience to the Pope and to advance the interests of the papacy rather than any other entity on planet Earth. When Pope
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Leo I 14th summoned the Jesuit leaders four weeks ago to renew their mission of quote reconciliation, solidarity, and
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ecological conversion. We must recognize that this is a renewed call for the Jesuits to embrace their
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original purpose to restore the spiritual dominion of Rome and to lead the world back into unity under papal
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authority. Sister White writes about the Jesuits in great controversy. She said, “The order of the Jesuits was created.
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It was their studied aim to secure wealth and power to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism and the
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reestablishment of the papal supremacy. End quote. Great controversy there. Page
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234. And yet today,
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just this very weekend in Bellum in Brazil, Adra and the Jesuits are working
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together for the common good to preserve our common home.
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This is on the internet. These are the press releases you read from ADRA and the interropuropean division celebrating
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the fact that Adventists and Jesuits have found common cause.
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I’m not making this up. This is on the internet for anybody to see. Now
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parallel to the papacy and the Jesuits. Among the 5,400 NOS’s with consultative
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status with the EOS at the UN is the Lucis or Lucas Trust um short for
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Lucifer. Alice Bailey was a world famous occultist. She was a disciple of Theosophy and she founded what was then
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known as the Lucifer Publishing Company, later called the Lucis Trust. and Alice
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Bailey promoted the UN as a vehicle for everybody to work together for the common good from an occultist’s
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perspective. The Lucist Trust openly admits this. There’s their website there
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and it says there on their website, it says the Lucist Trust has consultative status with the Economic and Social
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Council of the United Nations and World Goodwill, that’s a subsidiary NGO of the Lucus Trust is recognized by the
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Department of Global Communications at the UN as a non-governmental organization. Since their inception,
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Lucas Trust and World Goodwill have given their support through mediation, educational materials and seminars by
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highlighting the importance of the UN goals and activities. End quote. So we
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ask ourselves, how is it that um Satan worshippers and Jesuits and Adventists
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find common cause? It raises a I mean, how is that
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possible? Through our consultative NGO status at the UN, we sit alongside and work in
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common cause with the papacy, the antichrist of prophecy, which is empowered by Satan himself. And we are
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collaborating with the Jesuits to preserve our common home. Their primary purpose is the destruction of our
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Protestant faith. And we’re collaborating with open occultists who are devoted to a false Christ and the
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worship of Satan himself. This is the problem we face through our alliance with the United Nations. It’s not that
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we join the not just we join the UN to influence the world. What is happening and there’s a lot more information
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coming out in the next month on this because people behind the scenes have been doing this research. More and more
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of our statements which all started coming out after we became affiliated with the UN. Our statements increasingly
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are channeling UN language, UN ideology and UN terminology.
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So we’re not influencing the world. The world is influencing us. That’s the problem here. So what does do
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we have any spiritual guidance on this matter? Yeah. So if we look at the UN and spirit
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of prophecy, I’ll just start out with one Bible verse here to start off with. You shall make no covenant with them and
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their gods. This was God’s warning to his people as they were about to enter the promised land. God warned his people
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against entering into a formal alliance with the nations around them. At no
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point in in Old Testament history or in New Testament history did God ever
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counsel his people to enter into an alliance with the pagan nations around them. It was they were never given that
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instructions. Not once. And yet in Joshua chapter 1 that within within the
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first chapter in fact turn your Bibles to Joshua chapter 1. As soon as they enter the promised land, that’s exactly
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what they do. And uh as as they enter the promised
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land, um they’re driving out the nations before them. But in Joshua chapter 1 and
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verse 22, this is where they make their first covenant. And it’s the start of their problems. It’s a sorry, sorry,
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Judges, my apologies. Judges chapter 1. Judges chapter one.
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Uh so Judges chapter 1 verse 22 it says there the house of Joseph also went up
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against Bethl. This is Judges 1 and verse 22. And the Lord was with them.
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The house of Joseph sent out spies to Bethl. The name of the city was formerly Luz. When the spies saw a man coming out
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of the city, they said to him, “Show us the way into the city and we will deal
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with you.” My version says kindly.
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That is that word means covenant faithful in the Hebrew. They made a covenant with
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the people of the land. So it says so he showed them the way into the city and they put the city to
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the sword but they let the man and his family go. And in Judges chapter 2 verse one it
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says the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bockim and said verse one of chapter 2 I have brought you up from
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Egypt and brought you into the land that I promised your ancestors. I said I will never break my covenant with you. For
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your part do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of their land. This land tear down their altars but you have not
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obeyed my commands. See what you have done. And because of this, the angel of the
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Lord says, “So now I say unto you, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become adversaries to you,
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and their gods will be a snare to you.” And so
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when the God’s people were about to enter the promised land, the text on the screen, Exodus 22:32, God said, “Do not
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make an alliance with the nations of the land because they’re under God’s judgment.”
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Satan came down to earth with great wrath because he knows that his time is short. He’s under God’s judgment. The
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papacy is the man of sin is under God’s judgment. Daniel 7:13-14, the destruction of that fourth beast.
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And yet, by virtue of all meeting around the same table at the UN, committing ourselves to the same goals, we find
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ourselves working in alliance with powers that are opposed to God and already stand condemned by God.
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mercy. So what does the spirit of prophecy say about this? Testimonies to the church volume 7
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uh page 84 says this. God has warned his people not to unite with the world. Those who join
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themselves to worldly confederacies are binding up with the enemy of God and truth.
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Then we come to selective messages book two page 129.
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It says, “God will never lead his followers to take upon themselves vows that will unite them with men who have
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no connection with God.” Do Satan worshippers have no connection
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with God? Yes. So why do we bind ourselves into an
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alliance with those who have no connection with God? Spirit of prophecy says God will never lead his followers
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into such a union. It is impossible for those who make the law of God the light
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the rule of life to unite in confidence and cordial brotherhood with those who turn the truth of God into a lie.
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Between the worldly man and the one who is faithfully serving God, there is a great gulf fixed. You cannot serve God
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and mammon. So it is impossible to serve in cordial
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alliance and to work in harmony with people who are fundamentally opposed to God.
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It’s as simple as that. Fundamentals of Christian education, page 482. She says this, “The Lord
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desires his people to remain distinct from the world in spirit and in purpose. Never are they to be bound by promises
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that restrict freedom to proclaim the truth for this time.”
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Yet, we take money from USAD. And the the most important uh qualifier
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for that is you’re not allowed to share the gospel if you take our money. But we take the money and we take money from UN
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agencies all around the world for refugee work in particular on the condition that we do not share present
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truth for this time. It’s what we do all the time.
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The purpose of God, the people of God are to stand. This is from Gospel Workers 391. The people of God are to
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stand as a distinct separate people not taking part in political strife or worldly confederacies.
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Then she goes in in the next quote here, any confederacy with the world is
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strictly forbidden by the scriptures. God would have his people distinct from all confederacies. Amen.
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I mean, I’m not sure how much more clear the spirit of prophecy could be for God’s people in the end times,
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particularly when you consider that when the mark of the beast is imposed, the UN will be at the heart of the system
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that’s implementing it worldwide. And the last quote here from the spirit
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of prophecy. Now and ever we are to stand as a
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distinct and peculiar people free from all worldly policy unmbarrassed by comp
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unmbarrassed by a confederacy with those who have not wisdom to discern the claims of God so plainly set forth in
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his law. We are to be a distinct and a peculiar people.
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We’re not to be embarrassed by entering into confederacies with those who deny the claims of God in particular who seek
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to change the law of God. Yet we are an alliance with the UN which
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is filled with Hindu nations, Buddhist nations, Muslim nations, um Luciferians,
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occultists and the papacy. And the net effect of that was seen in
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the pandemic where the church subordinated your liberty of conscience
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to our desire to maintain um in the good favors of the fallen worldly system.
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So let’s ask ourselves the questions about this UN shall we? 2 Corinthians
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6:15-18 is a is a good starting point here.
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What agreement does Christ have with Belia? What agreement does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement
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has the temple of God with idols? For as we for we are the temple of the living God, as God said, I will live in them
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and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore, come out from them and be
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separate from them, sayeth the Lord, and touch nothing unclean. Then I will welcome you, and I will be your father,
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and you shall be my sons and daughters, sayaeth the Lord God. And that phrase word there then this is conditional. God
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will welcome us and be our father and we will be his children. That word then means when we come out from union with
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the unholy around us. You follow the logic there? Praise the Lord.
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This is a conditional promise. God does not say I have a remnant movement and I
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will always bless them regardless of how many alliances they make with the ungodly.
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God says, “My people will not enter alliances with the ungodly because they are my people and they and I will be
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their God.” So this alliance with the UN raises profound questions for us today.
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The alliance causes an erosion of the separation of church and state because
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God’s remnant movement, once called to stand apart, increasingly mirrors the priorities of the world and of Babylon
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in health, education, the environment, and the denial of liberty of conscience.
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Increasingly, if you want to know what God’s remnant movement think about something, look to the UN press
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releases, not to the word of God. The alliance is causing a shift in in
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emphasis. If you do a systematic and longitudinal study from 1985 to 2025 of
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all 59 statements on the general conference website and all the other things they’ve issued, they show a
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significant shift in language. We’ve shifted from prophetic proclamation of the three angels messages now to
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humanitarian language. The alliance with the United Nations is preparing us for
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the final deception. By walking hand in hand and in harmony with the UN, we are
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in harmony with the Antichrists, with the Jesuits, and with the cultists. And they risks conditioning the members to
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accept endtime unity under a false Christ. So we may ask ourselves, why has
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not a single UGC leader since 1985 spoken up against this Babylonian
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partnership? Amen. Why has nobody raised a voice of protest? I was raised in the church. I
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had no idea this existed until after CO we all started digging a bit more
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and we realize, yeah, there’s something not right here. And CO was a blessing
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from God in some ways because it’s opened our eyes and it’s causing us to ask hard questions and say, why are
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things the way they are? The people of Israel could not take possession of the promised land because
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of the sin of Achen. Yes. And when we’re in an alliance with the Antichrist and the Jesuits and a
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cultists, how can we take possession of the spirit of the land? Because this sin is at the heart of our movement.
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This alliance is causing a shift in emphasis. We ask ourselves, why has not a single leader in our world church
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spoken up against this Babylonian partnership? Is it due to ignorance? Are they not aware of this? That’s not the
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case. Because the new PAL director for the general conference, his job for the last 10 years was the UN liaison based
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in New York. They know exactly all about this alliance with the United Nations. And yet he got through the nominating
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committee process to be the new public affairs and religious liberty director for the general conference.
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That doesn’t give me any confidence that somebody who is tied to the UN and
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to everything that goes with it is now theoretically defending our liberty of conscience. This is the fox guarding the
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hen house is the qu we may ask the question are they not speaking up out of fear
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maybe of loss of jobs maybe they won’t be considered on the inroup anymore
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then what kind of shepherds are these leaders who will not risk their reputation to defend the flock
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or is it because they’re in agreement with the union then how can our GC
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leaders claim that we are the remnant movement of God while aligning our church with institutions that are rooted
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in the occult and guided by the antichrist. How can that be?
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James 4:4 says this on the screen. Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with
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God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes a what of God?
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Enemy of God. Our official alliance with the United Nations representing the
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kings of this world and all their fallen beliefs and false gods represents enmity
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with God. And it’s hurt the members profoundly in the last 5 years and the flow of
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statements from the United Nations increasingly reflects the priorities and values and language of the United
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Nations. And after a while you have to say um buy a beware for people who are
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joining the advent movement. Buyer, beware. Understand what you’re getting into.
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This is what we say and this is what our leaders are doing. Something has to
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change. So, our time is up. We need to come to our conclusions here this morning. The
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remnant church of God was not raised to court favor with the powers of Babylon, but to bear faithful witness to God,
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even if despised by the world, and to call people out of Babylon. And the GC’s
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partnership with the UN since 1985 never once voted by the members or the constituents ever represents a betrayal
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of our God-given calling. The General Conference of St. the Adventists, the visible head of God’s
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remnant church, has entered into a partnership with the UN, an institution bound up with occult philosophy,
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Luciferian ideals, Jesuit activism, and Satan himself. And so this message this
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morning is a warning for all for all of us to open our eyes to measure our leaders actions by the word of God and
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to call for our worldwide movement to stand separate from the Babylon that we are currently joined to. So what can we
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do about this? Well, the first thing I would say is this. We need to ask our leaders and we have there’s a letter
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went last week. It’s on the internet now that the GCI should take the steps to immediately cancel the ECOS consultative
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NGO status for itself for ADRA and the IRLA. We cannot be tied to the
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antichrist or to any organization tied to occultism and we cannot subordinate the Adventist message to what the UN
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determines is in the general welfare of world society. The second thing is we can learn from
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history one the JWs the Jehovah’s Witnesses they once registered their leadership they
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registered as consultative NGO status with the UN but when the members heard about it there was an uprising and they
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so pressured their leaders that the leaders withdrew from consultative NGO status with the United Nations.
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Now, we have theological disagreements with the JWs, but they were the most solid opponents of Adolf Hitler in Nazi
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Germany, not the Adventists. And their members understand that union
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with the UN is a spiritual compromise from their perspective, and so should we.
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And if the members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses rose up and said to their leaders, cancel this agreement. If the
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Jehovah’s Witnesses could do it, why can’t God’s remnant people do it as well? We need to stand up and learn from
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history. And we need to demand faithfulness to our message from our leaders. The third thing is going to get
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me into a lot of trouble and I say this, withdraw blind support.
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Faithfulness to Christ comes before loyalty to any institution. I want to encourage you to remain
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faithful in tithing. And here in Northern New England, you have a great conference. Okay? And I’ve been returning my tithe
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to Northern New England because this is a bastion for truth and liberty of conscience.
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Okay? However, our financial and moral support should not be given without accountability and transparency. In our
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division today, some conferences issue statements celebrating political murder.
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Other conferences platform radical leftist and Muslim politicians in their pullpits on Sabbath morning for campaign
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rallies. Others greenlight preachers to promote the normalization of the LGBTQ lifestyle in our church. Others
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undermine the worldwide body by implementing world women’s ordination. Still others ban preachers of
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righteousness and Bible faithful preachers. I’m tempted to say something here.
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My view is the woke, the progressive, the biblically and spiritually compromised conferences should wither on
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the vine and we should be supporting conference leaders and conferences who contend for the faith that has been
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passed on to us. Fourthly, I want to encourage you to stand up and speak out.
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Every believer has a duty to contend for the faith. Jude verse three. Silence in
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the face of apostasy equals consent. Raise these matters with your pastor. They may not be happy with you, but
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raise them anyway. Raise them with your conference president and ask for spiritual accountability and
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reformation. If the JWs can do this, so can we.
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And finally, most importantly, in all these discussions about
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organizational alliances and in official statements and universal declaration of human rights, what really matters is our
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need for a return to primitive godliness. Amen. We need a revival of personal primitive
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godliness, beginning with myself and expanding to all of us here today. Sister White wrote this in page 464. And
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this is where we’re living now. before the final visitation of God’s judgments upon the earth. That is before the close
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of probation, before the seven final plagues fall, and that is where we are today. Before the final visitation of
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God’s judgments upon the earth, there will be among the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness as
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has not been witnessed since apostolic times. The spirit and power of God will be poured out upon his children. Amen.
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And so these are these matters that we’ve been discussing. We can argue about policy. We can argue about budgets. We can argue about alliances.
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We can argue about the United Nations. But what really matters is a revival of primitive godliness in my home, in my
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family, around my hearth, and in your home, and in your heart as well. Amen. And when I and we as members take
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responsibility for cleaning out our lives and cleaning up our lives and standing
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up for the Lord in every way possible in our lives and seeking to live and walk in the light and have fellowship with
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him who is light and have no fellowship with works of darkness in our own personal lives, then the Holy Spirit
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will be poured out in a way we’ve never seen before. Amen. So I want to encourage you if nothing else from our talk here this morning is
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to when uh from this day forward to take ever more seriously than me more seriously than ever before your personal
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encounter with the living God. He is holy. He is just. He is righteous. He is worthy of our worship on a daily basis.
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And we can put our trust in him to fix all the problems of the world around us. Just in my devotions on Thursday before
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I flew here, I read through the Bible every year. I’m on 2 Chronicles right now. And this is what Hezekiah Hezekiah
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said to the people of Israel when they were surrounded by the Assyrians and the armies uh that had come to invade and
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attack Jerusalem and the armies of Assyria were mocking the people of God and saying, “Do you think your God can
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save you? The other gods of nations couldn’t save them. Jehovah cannot save you.” And this is what Hezekiah said to
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the people. He said, “Be strong and of good courage.” 2 Chronicles 32:7, “Be
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strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde of UN nations
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that is with him. They just said horde actually in the Hebrew. It doesn’t say United Nations, but you understand my point. Do not for all the horde that is
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with him. For there is one greater with us than with him. With him is an arm of flesh, but with us
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is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.
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The battles are fierce, but the battles belong to the Lord. Lord, I want to encourage you today. You
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see the thing things I’ve challenged us to do here on the screen
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to ask our leaders to withdraw from the UN. Yes. To follow the example of the JWS and say
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we as members do not accept this union with the world. To give to return faithful tithes, but also to demand
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accountability to stand up and speak out however and whenever we can. and starting in my own
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home every morning and every night to be down on my knees asking for the spirit of Christ to guide me that day.
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Amenise God. Praise to God. And to the extent that as individuals
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we take responsibility for our own spiritual lives and our own spiritual growth. Yes, the battle is fierce, but
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the battle belongs to God. May God give us victory in the battles that are coming our way. Amen.
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Amen. Invite you to bow your heads and we’ll have a word of prayer. Uh heavenly father,
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we thank you for uh the light you’ve given us in scripture. We thank you for the blessings of the spirit of prophecy.
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And Lord, we know we’re living in troubled times. Father, we know that there are wheat and tears within the
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harvest field itself. And Father, we humbly ask that you so change us and shape us and mold us and make us that we
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are counted not among the tears but among the wheat. I pray, Father, that from our lives there will be a harvest
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of righteousness um that will shine for eternity in that final harvest. And so,
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Lord, I ask that uh you take these matters we’ve been talking about that you will bring conviction upon our
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leaders to do the right thing. I pray Lord that we can stand distinct um
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unsullied by confederacy with the heathen and that uh the gospel message will go forth with with purity and with
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clarity and without compromise and without consideration of financial consequences. Oh father, may the gospel
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of the good news of salvation go forward to the ends of the earth. Lord, may we not be in union with the king kings of
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this world, but may the gospel go to all of their people and win as many people for Christ before he returns in the
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clouds of glory. So I pray, Lord, that we will be faithful in our portion of the vineyard where you’ve called us to
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serve. And until Jesus comes again, we ask for the infilling of your spirit. We ask for the transformation that only
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your spirit can give. We ask for the protection of your angels. We ask for divine encounters even this week that we
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may share um the good news of salvation with our neighbors and our friends. And Lord, may all know that there is a God
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in Israel because this group of believers here this morning are filled with your Holy Spirit.
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So Father, we give our lives, we give our homes, our hearts, our marriages, and our hearts into your hands today
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asking you to do immeasurably more for us than anything we can begin to imagine. We thank you in advance for
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these miracles. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.