The 3rd Angel’s Message | Dr. Conrad Vine

extract qoutes and verses: Develop a 5 day devotional guide: develop a study guide: develop sermon blog post: All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Uh, it’s been a beautiful day. Yes.
I want to say thank you to whoever made that delicious lunch for us today. It was wonderful. It was a beautiful meal
and um those either like like chopped up like false meat things in some kind of hot sauce, hot sweet sauce. It was
absolutely delicious. So, whoever made that stuff, thank you very much. It was a nutritious meal. The fellowship was sweet. And I say praise the Lord for all of his blessings in each of our lives.
And so, uh, today, this afternoon, we’re going to come to the last of our, um,
three messages on the three angels messages. Uh, last night we spoke about preparing for persecution. And, uh,
today we so far covered the first and the second angel’s messages. And now we’re going to come to the last of those uh of those messages uh that we find in in the scriptures, Revelation 14 9-12.
1:So, let me just make sure I’ve got the PowerPoint up on the screen there. Um I just want to say to you that when you study these things for yourselves is an
1:absolute blessing for you. And if you’re ever asked to speak somewhere on a topic, count it a blessing from the
1:Lord. Because when you are asked to speak on a topic and you know nothing about it, you’re forced to study it for yourself. And what gives you joy in
1:preaching is not the preaching or being a Sabbath school teacher being a is the joy is not as much in the teaching but it’s in your voyage of discovery and
1:spiritual growth and growth towards maturity in the process of preparing for that event. And so I want to encourage you here today. You know, if you are
1:asked to preach or be a Sabbath school teacher or lead out in some event somewhere, count it an immense blessing from the Lord, it’s an invitation to
1:spiritual growth. And so, one of the joys I find uh with preaching is I get to sit at my kitchen table with my Bible
1:and my laptop and off I go. And you never quite know at the start of a sermon where it’s going to be at the end of the sermon. Uh so God sometimes takes
2:you down some strange paths in the writing of sermons. But uh today uh this afternoon, this evening now, we’re going to speak about the third angel’s message
2:of Revelation 14:es 9-12. And as we said, um earlier on in our second service today, um that the first angel’s
2:message is essentially God revealed as redeemer and creator. The second angel’s message is Satan exposed for a liar,
2:deceiver, and a murderer and a and so forth. And the third angel’s message is essentially this. We need to make a choice. Do we choose for God or do we
2:choose for Satan? And that’s the essence of the third angel’s message. We need to make a choice. We don’t hear these messages for merely intellectual
2:stimulation. We hear these messages because God wants us to make a choice.
2:And he wants us to choose life and not choose death. And so as we begin this afternoon, I’d like to invite you to bow
2:your heads with me and we’ll invite the presence of the Holy Spirit. So shall we pray? Our heavenly father, we thank you
3:once again for the privilege of meeting in your house during these Sabbath hours. Father, I pray your blessing upon us now as we share these moments
3:together. Lord, you’re in control of this world. We know, Lord, that Satan claims to be the prince of this world.
3:But the sparrow does not fall to the ground, but you know about it. And your angels are promised to watch round about those who fear you. And your angels are
3:promised to deliver us. So now I ask Lord that as we share these moments together that your spirit will take command and control of this time that
3:you’ll speak through me and for me as I’ve said before and that my words will be accompanied by the convicting and the converting power of your Holy Spirit.
3:Lord, these messages are not given to condemn people, but to win people into your kingdom. To warn people of the seriousness of the times in which we
3:live, to invite people to lift their eyes above the froth of popular culture and to ask questions such as, “Where did I come from and where am I going? And do
4:I have any assurance of anything in my life?” So Lord, as we share these moments together, may Jesus be glorified in all that is said and done. or for
4:those who are watching online, I pray that your Holy Spirit will draw close to them. If they’re watching on their tablets or in their phones, uh in their
4:cars or in their homes, I ask Lord that your spirit will be with them. You will speak to them. You’ll bring them conviction and conversion and guidance
4:in the way that they should live. In the name of Jesus, we humbly ask. Amen.
4:All right. So, what does the third angel’s message actually say? And if you have your Bibles, um some people prefer reading in their Bibles. I invite you to
4:turn to uh Revelation 14 and uh the third angel’s message is from verses 9-
4:11 and then there’s a summary of all the three angels messages in verse 12 and we will come to that message together. So
4:um this is our journey on the screen um as you can see there. Let me just see if this thing works. There it is. We’re going to start out with the third
5:angel’s message. Um we’ll see what it is. We look at the warning given by God.
5:then a description of the faithful saints before we come to our conclusion.
5:So what does the third angel’s message actually state and you’ll see that on the screen there and I’m going to read it out you can follow me on the screen
5:and or in the Bibles as you please. It says there, “Then another angel, a third, followed them, crying with a loud
5:voice. Those who worship the beast in its image and receive a mark on their foreheads or on their hands. They will also drink of the wine of God’s wrath,
5:poured unmixed into the cup of his anger. And they’ll be torment of the fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the
5:lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. There is no rest day and night for those who worship
5:the beast and its image and for anyone who receives the mark of its name. Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments
5:of God and hold fast to the faith of Jesus.
6:So we saw this morning that the first angel’s message found its fulfillment in the Millerite movement, the announcement of the coming of Jesus 1840 through
6:1844. The second angel’s message found its initial fulfillment after the summer of 1844 when the mainline Protestant
6:denominations pushed out and rejected and dysfellowshipped those who were faithful to the call to prepare for the coming of Christ. And then the third
6:angel’s message found its fulfillment as in the late 1840s the significance of the Sabbath and of the sanctuary came
6:into clearer and clearer view and the early Adventist pioneers understood that um that the law of God exists in
6:perpetuity and it has an ongoing validity all the way down to the end of time. Sister White writes about this in the book Great Controversy. She says
6:there she says those who had accepted the light concerning the mediation of Christ that is his heavenly high priestly ministry and the perpetual
7:perpetuity perpetuity of the law of God found that these were truths presented in revelation 14. The messages of this
7:chapter constitute a three-fold warning which is to prepare the inhabitants of the earth for the Lord’s second coming.
7:And so the purpose of these three angels messages is to prepare people. And to go a bit further than that, the the purpose of these messages is to win as many people as possible for Christ.
7:And so these messages are not given to push people down or to criticize people.
7:They are to warn people of the seriousness of the times in which we are living today and to invite people into God’s kingdom of grace that one day they’ll be in God’s kingdom of glory.
7:And so what is the actual warning itself? So we come to look in a bit more detail now at the third angel’s message
7:itself. And uh you see on the screen um I’ve just highlighted in in red the bit we’re looking at here. This says then
7:another angel a third followed them crying with a loud voice. So the first angel’s message went to all of humanity
8:in a loud voice. We saw this morning the first angel goes to every nation, every tribe, every language and every people.
8:The second angel’s message does not say it goes out with a loud voice. But the the parallel to the second angel’s message is the revelation 18 message
8:where the the whole earth is lit by the glory of his splendor and there is a loud cry given to the nations of the earth. So the fourth angel that is
8:revelation 18 and the second angel which both talk about the fall of Babylon, they actually go out with a loud voice.
8:It’s just not mentioned in the second angel’s message. It’s just mentioned as such in the message of Revelation 18. Uh the angel who got called out with a
8:mighty voice. And then the third angel’s message kind of combines and unites and brings to a conclusion the messages of
8:the first and the second angels. The first angel’s message is a call to worship God as creator with an emphasis on the fourth commandment. The second
9:angel’s message is a warning that Babylon is fallen and is under the judgment of God. And the third angel’s message is a warning not to worship the
9:beast or receive his mark on your head or in your forehead. And the everlasting gospel runs through all these three
9:final messages of mercy. I want us to reflect on this for a minute. The gospel proclamation and in particular the
9:warning not to receive the mark of the beast is given in opposition to all powers of the world that are united in imposing the mark of the beast.
9:It’s not just a theoretical concept we’re talking about here. If we’re going to preach the third angel’s message
9:when the mark of the beast is issued because it’s a warning not to receive the mark of the beast. And with that mark of the beast comes economic
9:coercion and no buy no sell rules and social exclusion and cancel culture and loss of professional license and loss of
9:job and loss of mortgage and loss of rent and loss of home and ultimately the death penalty for those who are going to preach the third angel’s message when
10:the mark of the beast is out there is going to take nothing short of raw courage because this is a message that’s going
10:to be given in the teeth of opposition from every government on earth, all the multinational organizations, all the social media corporations, all the
10:mainstream media corporations, they’re all going to be pushing this one message that the whole earth is to receive this mark. And those who who preach against
10:it, those who speak against it, I it’s like you’re standing in the face of a gale.
10:So to preach the third angel’s message today, I mean, you don’t hear many sermons on it anyway, but when the mark of the beast comes out, to preach the
10:third angel’s message is going to require raw courage.
10:But courage is not a fruit of the spirit. It’s not a fruit of the spirit.
10:We know that in Revelation, those on the outside of the walls of Jerusalem, the number the first group that John mentions are the cowardly.
11:By that he means those who knew the truth but were not were afraid to stand up for the truth in the final crisis.
11:But the fruit of the spirit does not include courage.
11:The first of the fruit of the spirit is love.
11:Now if you have um love and courage are kind of intermixed.
11:I’ll describe how. If you’re standing in front of your house tomorrow morning at in the morning, your house is on
11:fire and you have a three-year-old daughter in the house and there’s a crowd of bystanders waiting for the fire trucks to arrive. You know your
11:daughter’s in that building. You’re going to run in to save your daughter because you love your daughter.
11:The bystanders who don’t know that you are the father of that child, they just see an act of courage.
11:That’s from the outside. But from the inside of that act, this is an act of love and of loving sacrifice to save
12:omebody else. And thus it is that John 3:16 does not say, “For God wanted to demonstrate his courage to the world.”
12:It says, “For God so so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son.”
12:That is when you’re motivated by love for the lost, you will do things and engage in ministries that those who are outside of the kingdom will look on from
12:the from the outside in and say, “That was a courageous thing for that person to do.” And you’re not thinking of it,
12:you’re not thinking of it as being a courageous thing. All you’re concerned about is saving as many people as possible. You’re motivated by love for the lost.
12:And so if you want to engage in activities that that that appear to be courageous from the outside, um my my counsel is ask God to give you renewed
12:love today for the lost, a boldness for the lost, a willingness to step out and step into inconvenient paths for the
12:benefits of the lost. As you step out for the lost, other people may be inspired and say that’s courageous. But from the inside the battle, all you know
is there’s a soul that needs saving and you love that soul. You care about that soul and you want that soul to be redeemed by the blood of the lamb. And
13:so courage is something looked at from the outside. People don’t stand up and say generally I want to demonstrate my courage to the world. They act because they are motivated by love for somebody.
13:And so the proclamation of the third angel’s message is going to require courage, raw courage.
13:But really, those on the inside who are proclaiming the third angel’s message, I believe, will be motivated, as was Jesus, by love for the lost.
13:Now, Sister Dwight comments on this one passage. She says in manuscript 51, she says there, “These last day witnesses,”
13:she’s speaking here about those who proclaim the third angel’s message, are are bold soldiers of Jesus Christ. They have tasted of the powers of the world
13:to come. Their feet are not on sliding sand, but on solid rock. They are not easily moved away from the faith once delivered to the saints. These will be
14:strengthened by their leader to cope with difficulties. They are messengers of righteousness, representatives of Christ, revealing the triumphs of grace.
14:Amen. And amen. The people who proclaim the third angel’s message, when the mark of the beast is imposed, you’re standing in the in the opposition to every power on planet Earth, human and satanic,
14:and they’re still going to proclaim that message. That could be any of us here today.
14:God is looking for people who will know what this message is and are willing to stand up for that message in spite of opposition from every power on planet
14:earth. And the only way this is going to be possible is if we are compelled by the love of Christ for the lost. If we
14:are constrained by the love of God to reach out to his dying and lost children. And so ask God today not for courage but love for your neighbor. And
14:then love for your neighbor will be tried will translate naturally into loving and courageous actions on their behalf. So to come back to the text, it
15:says those who worship the beast, this is the bit in red on the screen and its image and receive a mark on their foreheads or on their hands. Now this
15:this bit here is referring back to the uh the first piece of revelation 13 that is the papacy through which um Satan disseminates false doctrines. We
15:mentioned them this morning to deceive the inhabitants of the world. The image in this passage refers to the image of the beast established by the second beast, this land beast of Revelation 13.
15:That is the United States combining with fallen Protestantism, which commands false worship of the first beast, the
15:papacy, and its teachings. And so, the first angel’s message invites the world to the true worship of God as creator,
15:emphasizing the Sabbath in the fourth commandment as the visible expression of loyalty to and love for God. The second
15:beast of revelation 13 commands and coerces false worship of the beast expressed in a rejection of the fourth
15:commandment in favor of Sunday worship as the first be first beast the papacy has claimed the right to change the law
16:of God and transfer the semnity from Sabbath to Sunday. Great controversy describes it thus. We read in both the
16:old and the new world, the papy will receive homage in the honor paid to the Sunday institution that rests solely upon the authority of the Roman church.
16:So when you look in this text, those who worship the beast and its image and receive a mark on their foreheads, the the the conjunction and the word and is
16:a conjunction is used three times in that sentence. They worship the beast and its image and receive a mark on
16:their foreheads on their hands. So it’s mentioned twice there. And so what this means is that the worshippers, the one who worshiped the beast also worships
16:the image and is thus a mark a bearer of the mark itself. And what is the description of God’s judgment upon such individuals? The text goes on to say
16:this and it’s in red. Um they will drink the wine of God’s wrath. Well, that doesn’t sound too pleasant,
17:does it? They’ll drink of the wine of God’s wrath. Now, the second angel’s message says that fall and fallen is
17:Babylon the great. Why? She made all the nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. She is driven by
17:hatred of Christ and therefore she is a persecuting power of those who bear the name of Christ. And so in response, God
17:says that if you do worship the beast and its image and receive your mark on the forehead or on the hand that you will drink the wine of God’s wrath. So what is this wine of God’s wrath? Well,
17:um the uh just put this here. Um Revelation 14:9-12 says um this is the third angel’s
17:message in red. They will drink of the wine of God’s wrath. And Revelation 14:8, the second’s angel’s message has a very similar expression. She made all
17:the nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. So there’s there’s this phrase, drinking of the wine of the wrath, which is paralleled
18:in the second angel’s message and the third angel’s message, but they refer to different things. The wine of the wrath of her fornication refers to the false
18:doctrines um inspired by Satan, promoted by Rome, and enforced by the United States worldwide. The wrath of Babylon
18:is a deep-seated hatred of Christ and in turn of the saints of God.
18:But this warning is if you receive the mark of the beast, you’re going to drink of the wine of the wrath of God. So what is John talking about here? Well, the warning itself,
18:the word angry or anger, the word is oray in Greek. Um it says, “Then the dragon was Revelation 12:17, angry with the woman.”
18:And that anger in Revelation 12:17 is manifest in persecution of the saints of God. And you see on the right hand side of the screen there, Revelation 14:18,
19:uh the second angel’s message about Babylon made all the nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. That word wrath is the same
19:in Revelation 14 as is in Revelation 12 and verse 17. And so all who drink the wine of the wrath of Babylon, that is
19:those who willingly accept the satanically inspired false doctrines of Rome, will in turn receive the wine of God’s wrath. But what is this worried
19:wine of God’s wrath that we keep reading about? Well, in verse 14 and 10, chapter 14 and verse 10, it says, “They will
19:also drink the wine of God’s wrath.” And I’ve put there, there’s the actual expression in Greek. Um there um out of
19:the wine of God, out of the wine of the wrath of God. That’s what that expression literally means there. And in Revelation 14:8, she made the nations
19:drink of the wine of the wrath um of her fornication. So you got the two passages side by side here. But what is this wrath of God? Well, the wrath of God,
this expression, the wrath of God here is found in Revelation 15 and verse one.
20:uh which comes just after the three angels messages and it says there then I saw another portant in heaven great and
20:amazing seven angels with seven plagues which are the last for with them the wrath of God is ended so the wrath of
20:God is the seven final plagues the seven final plagues those who receive the mark of the beast in order
20:to receive economic prosperity and temporal security will find themselves on the receiving receiving end of God’s
20:seven final plagues. And there is no escape from those seven final plagues from God. They are poured out by God not
20:in vindictiveness, but in judgment upon those who promote, enforce, or receive the mark of the beast. And that wrath of
20:God, says the text, is poured unmixed into the cup of his anger.
That sounds pretty brutal.
21:poured unmixed into the cup of his anger. This is an image of God’s judgment. Now, how do we understand this? Well,
21:Job chapter 21 and verse 20 says this,
21:”Let their own eyes see their destruction and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.”
21:And Psalm 75:8 says this, “For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine well mixed. He will pour a
21:draft from it and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
21:So drinking of the cup is an Old Testament image of receiving God’s judgment. And in Luke chapter 22 in the
21:garden of Eden, the garden of Gethsemane, sorry, Luke 22:42, Jesus had the same expression. Says,
21:”Father, if you’re willing, remove this cup from me. Yet not my will, but yours be done.”
21:So in ancient times when people drank wine they had three options. They could drink it um diluted with water to um
22:lessen the alcoholic impact if it was alcoholic and stretch out the wine. This was more like sweet water rather than grape juice. Uh or they would mix in
22:herbs and spices with it to magnify the alcoholic impact of that wine. So it was like like supercharging the wine. So you
22:could dilute the wine or you could supercharge the wine like a cocktail.
22:But what what the the the punishments that God promises is one that is undiluted and unmixed. That is it’s not
22:watered down justice and it’s not supercharged justice. The justice that God’s given is portrayed as neither
22:vengeful nor diluted with mercy. That is the punishment fits the crime.
22:It’s proportionate. is commensurate with the sins. When Christ comes again, he promises to give to every man according
22:as his work has been which means that Adolf Hitler will receive a greater punishment than you regular Joe in Atlanta.
23:That every punish every man who faces God’s judgment will receive according as his work has been. So God’s judgment,
23:God’s justice is proportionate to the crime. Um I grew up with a twin brother. We used to fight quite a lot together.
23:We were best of friends, but we fought a lot. Um, if I accidentally pushed him,
23:he would push me back, but twice as hard. Then I’d push him back twice as hard.
23:And then he’d punch me. Then I’d kick him. And it just went downhill from there. And my mom would say, “Boys, how did this start?” And I would say, “Mom,
23:it all started when he hit me back.” And of course, that didn’t do the the defense any good whatsoever. Uh once my mother was she decided to give me six of
23:the best on my hand with a wooden spoon and um no there’s a spatula actually and after three smacks on my hand the
23:spatula broke and I thought oh good the punishment will stop but my delightful beloved brother ran to the kitchen and picked up
24:a wooden spoon and brought it back and say mother here’s a wooden spoon finish him off with the wooden spoons I received three more smacks on my hand
24:with a wooden spoon and Um, I guess I might love my brother still, but it was a painful moment in it was painful in
24:the moment there. But the point about this is is that when God pours out his judgment, there is no joy or glee in God when he does it. And he’s not mix He’s
24:not watering it down with mercy. God is not pouring out judgment that is vengeful and seeking vengeance and revenge. And I’m going to teach you guys
24:a lesson. I’m going to repay you back twice what you’ve done to the innocent on planet Earth. But neither is God’s judgment going to be watered down with mercy. Okay, we’ll let this one slide
24:for a bit. That God’s judgment is going to fit the crime. That’s what justice is.
24:Neither too much, neither too little.
24:God’s judgment is pure, undiluted. It is neither vengeful nor diluted with mercy.
25:And that judgment, drinking the wine of the wrath of God’s anger, the text goes on to say, “And they will they will be
25:tormented in the red there. I hope you can see that this bit here. And they’ll be tormented with fire and sulfur in the
25:presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever.”
25:Has any of you ever smelt sulfur?
25:Yeah. Sulfur is another word for um brimstone. Fire and brimstone, fire and sulfur.
25:It’s the same thing. I was preaching in a church in Jasper, Tennessee a couple of years ago. A gentleman came up to me.
25:He says, “Um, I’m the brother of um a famous Adventist archaeologist.”
25:And he said, “Um, my brother dug up Sodom and Gomorrah.” I said, “Oh, that’s interesting.” He said, and he dug up all these sulfur balls. I said, “Well,
25:that’s interesting.” He said, “This is little glass jar with sulfur balls from Sodom and Gomorrah in it.” And he gave me this glass jar and he says, “Now,
25:whatever you do, don’t smell it.” So what do you think I did in front of him?
26:I unscrewed him. I said it’s like that your head just gets blown off. I mean it was terrible. I had to preach. Had to sit down for a few minutes. It was like
26:having smelling salts on steroids. It was it was a terrible experience. I said, “What’s so special about these sulfur balls?” Cuz I know nothing about
26:sulfur. And he said, “Well, normally uh sulfur occurs naturally only at 50%
26:purity levels. The sulfur balls in Sodom Gomorrah are all 90% or above, which means they’re not from PL. They’re not
26:naturally occurring. You don’t find this anywhere else on planet Earth. These sulfur balls were designed to burn at an incredibly high temperature. And so I
26:keep those sulfur balls by my um by my desk. And sometimes I want to wake up in the morning, a whiff of sulfur goes a
26:long way. I can tell you. But I think this is Sodom and Gomorrah here. Oh, okay. I’m awake now.
26:But the it says they will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels in the presence of the
26:lamb. It’s a picture of the final destruction that is actually portrayed later in revelation 19 through20. See,
27:the end of the millennium, we read that the new Jerusalem will descend containing the redeemed saints of God together with the Lamb and his angels.
27:And Satan is going to ride the wicked in one final assault on the on the saints of God in the city in the new Jerusalem,
27:but they’re going to be destroyed as God defends his saints and defends his city.
27:Revelation describes that. It says there, “And the devil who had been deceived them was thrown into the lake
27:of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were. They’ll be tormented day and night forever and
27:ever.” And then later on in Revelation 20:14-15,
27:we read there that then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
27:And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire. And so you have this imagery that the final destruction
27:of Satan and of the the the persecuting powers on planet Earth in the final crisis and of the wicked is going to be
28:in a lake of fire which will represent the second death. And it’s interesting that the text says it is the second death. It doesn’t say it’s the second
28:way of living. It’s not going to be your suffering for eternity. It is called the second death.
28:Now uh are those outside the walls of New Jerusalem? Revelation 21:8. I referenced this text already. It says, “As for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted,
28:the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolatrous, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which
28:is the second death. So is this an everlasting life of torment, or is this everlasting destruction?” Because the
28:language kind of you could possibly read it both ways here. Well, the language here echoes the Old Testament destruction of Sodom, of Gomorrah, and
28:of Edom. Genesis 19:24 says this, “Then the Lord rained on Sodom, sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven, and
29:Sodom and Gomorrah are now completely destroyed.” Uh Isaiah 34:8-10 says this, “For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
29:um a year of vindication by Zion’s cause, and the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into
29:sulfur. Her land shall become burning pitch. Night and day it shall not be quenched. Its smoke shall go up forever.
29:From generation to generation it shall lie waste. No one shall pass through it forever and ever.” Let me ask you the question. are Sodom and Gomorrah and
29:Edom that is modern day Jordan. Do we see smoke rising from those parts of the world today? No, we do not. What we what
29:so what these texts are talking about is the the the final absolute and complete destruction and final judgment on Satan
29:on the first beast that is the papacy and the second beast that is the USA and all the persing persecuting powers on planet earth upon all the fallen angels
30:and demons and those who are not in the lamb’s book of life. It’s an end to their existence not just of physical
30:fires that burn for eternity. So these passages are talking about God finally eradicate eradicating sin and suffering
30:and their source that is Satan forever and ever and ever. And I say burn baby burn.
30:Really,
30:if you’ve ministered to somebody with cancer,
30:if you don’t have a sense of righteous indignation at that evil angel that brought these diseases to planet Earth,
30:then something’s wrong. Maybe we become so immune to the reality of human suffering, we’re so desensitized to it,
30:we’ve lost a sense of what God intended for life to be.
30:But there’s all around us we we we live in this in this um this world of suffering of death and depression and
31:divorce and despair and drugs and and um all all manner of problems. It seems that behind every front door there is a
31:story to tell and it’s normally not a good story. And whether you drive a Ford or a Ferrari, people are still crying behind those front doors.
31:The material wealth does not equal spiritual wealth. a material wealth doesn’t necessarily bring peace in your
31:heart and joy uh to your mind. And so what these passages are talking that they will receive the wrath of God’s the
31:wine of the rock up the wine the cup of the wrath the cup they’ll receive the cup of God’s wrath poured out unmixed upon them means that there is going to
31:be complete and utter destruction of the wicked it will never more raise its ugly head. I say praise God for that. There
31:is coming a day when divorce will never happen again. when cancer will never be again. When drugs and and depression
31:will never curse the human existence ever again. There’s coming a day when all that is evil and makes for tearing down will be gone once and for all
32:forever more. And that is a beautiful promise we find in scripture in this passage here. The passage goes on to say
32:in red there it says, “And there is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image and for anyone
32:who receives the mark of its name.” Now the saints of God in scripture are promised an eternal rest. Revelation 14:13.
32:And Psalm 95:11 kind of discusses this concept. We’ll read that passage here.
32:It says there, “Therefore, I swore in my anger, they shall not enter my rest.”
32:And this passage here, God speaks of rebellious Israel in the wilderness,
32:wandering in the wilderness for those 40 years, going after false gods. And God promises that they would not enter the
32:promised land. And so in this final message, the third angel’s message, the warning is that those who worship the beast in his image, those who receive
the mark of the beast in any which way possible are promised that they will not enter into eternity into the heavens and the earth made new. Rather, their destruction is going to be complete.
33:Their destruction is going to be absolute and their destruction is going to be forever.
33:So whereas the second beast of Revelation 13 uses fear to coersse the inhabitants of the world into receiving
33:the mark of the beast, now God responds with an even stronger message. The beast says this, “Receive the mark of the beast or you’ll use lose your career,
33:your income, and possibly your life.”
33:And God responds as if you receive the mark of the beast, you’ll you’ll lose eternal life. So the choice is ours today.
33:Do we what will we give up for eternity?
33:Will we give up eternity for a nice house in the Atlanta suburbs? To get a new car every 3 or 5 years?
33:Life is really short. You’re only going to enjoy that new house for a few short years, if at all. So God says, make a
34:choice. You either receive the mark of the beast and you receive eternal destruction or you can reject the mark of the beast and have the promise of
34:eternal life. To me, it’s a no-brainer that kind of offer. Eternal life or a house in Atlanta, I’ll take the eternal
34:life forever more. No disrespect to Atlanta. It seems a nice city to me. But if I have a choice between eternal life
34:in heaven above or 10 or 20 good years in Atlanta, that’s I’m willing to opt for eternal life. No matter what it
34:costs today, I’m willing to go for the eternal life option. So, how are the faithful saints going to respond when
34:this message goes out? How are the faithful saints portrayed in this passage as responding? Well, the first thing we see about the saints is this.
34:It says um here is a call for the endurance of the saints.
34:Now the saints are described in Revelation 12:17 as those who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus. And uh so if you if
35:you put those three passages side by side, Revelation 12:17 says describes the saints of God. It says those who
35:keep the commandments of God and hold the testimony of Jesus. Revelation 13:10 says, “Here’s a call for the endurance
35:and faith of the saints.” And Revelation 14:12 says, “Here’s a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep
35:the commandments of God and hold fast to the faith of Jesus.”
35:Now, in Revelation 12, you got this overview of Satan going after God’s people. And despite all that Satan can do, there’s a group of people called the
35:saints. They keep the commandments of God and they have the testimony of Jesus. And in Revelation 13, which describes in more detail Satan coming
35:after God’s people, we once again read of a people who show endurance and faith that is they survive the worst this
35:world can throw at them. And Revelation 14, which describes God’s response to these satanic attacks coming upon him
36:and upon his saints, we read once again about a group of people who show endurance, who once again keep the commandments of God and hold fast to the
36:faith of Jesus. That is in every single chapter of of these three chapters which describe this cosmic conflict that’s now
36:spilled over into planet Earth. In every single chapter, in every single era, God has a faithful generation.
36:They’re always there.
36:You know, I had a friend once and I came back from Africa and I didn’t clean out my suitcase properly. I was in a my my
36:last night in this country in West Africa. I was staying with a friend,
36:fellow missionary, and we got to this this cheap guest house by an airport about $10 a night. And at that price,
36:you’re not going to get very much. You know, at least the cockroaches will be clean at $10 a night. That’s what you’re praying for. Well, I was lying on the
36:bed next to my friend. We were both in our underwear cuz it was like baking hot and high humidity and all around us were
37:cockroaches on the bed. It was uh the bed is the kind of thing there stains everywhere, you know.
37:every human liquid possib on the bed around us. We’re lying there like this and nobody wants to turn over and um the
37:cockroaches are kind of line around you on the bed and they’re kind of feasting on the sweat coming from you. And so when you want to go to the restroom, you
37:kind of like sap your hand and the cockroaches scatter and you stand up and you swivel sideways. You kind of scoot across the bed. And I went to middle
37:night and I opened up the the the toilet and there was a huge spider like the size of a small plate looking up at me like like what do you want here?
37:And um so I put the toilet back again and thought I can’t wait until I get to the airport. So I went back to the bed and where my body had been on the bed
37:which was like a white stain a wet stain on the bed all the sweat from my body it was now covered with cockroaches feasting whatever they could find there.
37:It was absolutely disgusting. And when I got home, I visited a friend in Laurel,
37:Maryland, and I I didn’t spray my bag with anything.
38:My wife always makes me spray my luggage when I come back from some parts of the world. She doesn’t want cockroaches in the home.
38:And anyway, for um I brought my luggage absent- mindedly into their base room, into their basement, the spare bedroom,
38:and they had cockroaches for a long time afterwards.
38:I brought them home with me. And cockroaches are disgusting animals. There is no good side to cockroaches.
38:Maybe the left side with garlic, but there’s no good side to cockroaches.
38:That was a joke. None of you got it, but never mind. There is no good side to cockroaches.
38:And you can’t get rid of them. You almost have to like nuke your house to get rid of the cockroaches.
38:And I’m not comparing the Christians to cockroaches, but in this passage here, in this passage here,
38:despite all that Satan can do, despite all that his demons do, despite all that his satanically inspired earthly powers
39:can do, despite all that the Antichrist can do, he can’t get rid of those faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Uh
39:they are always in the story. They’re in Revelation 12. They’re in Revelation 13. And there is they’re in Revelation 14.
39:That is no matter what Satan does, the gospel is going to survive. You could go to communist China. You could go to the former Soich Union, go to Chowoescu’s
39:Romania, and despite the the the worst efforts of earthly governments to wipe out Christianity and the Christian
39:faith, the Christian faith has always survived.
39:It can’t be wiped out because it is the power of God to save Jews first and then the Gentiles. It’s the power of God
39:under salvation. And every sane right-thinking person knows that something is wrong and there must be a better way of living. And so this
39:passage here, this this third angel’s message describes the the saints here describe as those who live through the final crisis of faith when the first
40:beast and the second beast of Revelation 12 13 are satanically inspired to attack those who are faithful to God. And they they are described as showing endurance.
40:Well, the book the word endurance Romans 5 3-5 describes endurance. It
40:says there, “And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
40:and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us because God’s love has
40:been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. That is, suffering produces endurance.
40:Endurance comes when our faith is purified.
40:This engenders hope that one day things will be better. This prepares us to receive a fuller outpouring of the Holy
40:Spirit. You know how you can tell when silver is 100% pure?
41:As you can see your image in the reflection.
41:And so if we’re to reflect the image of God like silver per pass through the furnace seven times,
41:God sometimes puts us through a furnace seven times in order that he might see his reflection when he sees us. Going
41:through hard times, going through persecution is not necessarily a sign that God has abandoned us. It may be a
41:sign that God is working a deep work of transformation in our characters and in our lives. When you when people start their new year with their resolutions,
41:nobody says, “I want to lose my job. I want to go bankrupt. I want my home to be repossessed. Give me a cancer diagnosis and a divorce for good
41:measure.” Nobody says that on January the 1st. Everybody says, “I want to lose weight. I want to make more money. And I want a bigger home.” That’s that kind of
41:summarizes most people’s New Year’s resolutions.
42:But the times when you grow spiritually the most in life are not when you’re losing weight, gaining money, or
42:building a bigger home. The time when you grow most spiritually and you grow closer to the Lord is when you’re going
42:through that business repossession. When you’ve been you lost your job in lost your place in college. When you’re struggling to keep your professional
42:license. When there’s a for a change being forced upon you that you don’t want to go through. It’s in the tough moments in life. It’s in the valley of
42:the shadow of death that we experience the rod and the staff of God that comfort us. It is in the hard moments of life. So when God saints goes through
42:persecution at the end of time, it’s not a sign that God has abandoned you. It’s a sign that God has a special work yet to do in our lives.
42:And what we went through in the last 5 years, I’m hoping for most of us was the realization that a glittering career in
42:corporate America is going to be very hard to sustain when the mark of the beast comes out. that corporate America will be just too quick to fall in line
43:with the mandates, the next set of mandates as and when they come out,
43:whether it be for medications or whether it be for worship.
43:And this these last five years taught us that this world is really not our home.
43:The things that we thought we had that were secure, our job, our license, our profession, our mortgage, you know, our toys in the in the garage and so forth,
43:all that can be snatched away just like this. And therefore, this world is not our home. And we’re not trying to build roots here. We’re trying to build roots in the kingdom of God.
43:And so suffering produces endurance. And endurance produces character. And character produces hope. And hope does not disappoint us. In the final crisis,
43:the saints of God are going to be attacked from multiple sides. On the one side, you’ve got the papacy promoting false doctrines and claims to change the
43:law of God. On the other side, you’d have the United States of America that’s going to create a persecuting union of church and state to coers the world’s inhabitants into following the papacy.
44:And those who resist will face economic sanctions, economic shutdowns, cancel culture, persecution, and demonization
44:on social media and mainstream media before you get to the death penalty itself. Meanwhile, just to add insult to injury, Satan will be deciding and will
44:appear will be appearing as Christ himself to deceive, if possible, the very elect of God, claiming that the world needs to worship on Sunday to
44:assuage the anger of God and worship on Sunday rather than on the commanded Sabbath. That is why we need endurance in the final crisis. This this requires
44:moral courage if we are to endure to the end, knowing that the one who endures to the end will be saved. That is why we preach about these things. As I said
44:last night, when my girl gets on a roller coaster as a teenager and I’m sitting there with her, I ain’t getting onto that roller coaster unless I know it’s 90 seconds long.
44:I hate roller coasters, but my teenage girl loves to roller coasters for some crazy reason. And I’m only getting on that roller coaster with her cuz she
45:wants dad to go with her if I’ve measured it multiple times and it’s exactly 90 seconds this ride. If I thought that roller coaster would never
45:end, I’m going nowhere near that that roller coaster.
45:But the knowledge that there is an end to this means I could get through this.
45:And we preach these things because beyond the mark of the beast and beyond the economic coercion and beyond the death penalty is undescribable glory.
45:And as long as we keep our eyes on the glory that is set before us and the crown of eternal life given to those who overcome all the challenges of this
45:world, we can get through what this world is about to throw at us.
45:We can get through if we keep our eyes on the prize which is eternal life with Jesus Christ. So who are those those saints who show endurance to the end?
45:The text goes on to describe says those who keep the commandments of God. The question of the commandments of God has
46:come up repeatedly. We’ve discussed this last night and so far today. Uh the literally it says the ones who are keeping the commandments of God. This is
46:a present participle. The ones who are keeping this means uh don’t just keep the commandments of God on Sabbath.
46:But keeping the commandments of God is just your regular way of life. when nobody is watching, when it’s just you and your and your own thoughts,
46:you are keeping the commandments of God.
46:You’re not envying in your mind, you’re not lusting in your mind, you’re not coveting in your mind, you’re not lying to yourself in your mind, you’re not um
46:committing adultery in your mind, um you’re not disrespecting your parents in your mind. No, the is the it describes this with a present participle. So those
46:who are faithful to God, their their habitual way of life is simply to keep the commandments in all aspects of their of their of their daily life.
46:That this is how I live. If you want to know about the ten commandments, look at how I live. Like Paul could say to
47:Timothy, be an imitator of me as I am of Christ.
47:That that if we could see the apostle Paul saying, see how he lived. If we to copy how he lived, then by extension, we would also be keeping the commandments of God.
47:Can we say to other people, “Be an imitator of me as I am of Christ.”
47:When people see our lives, do they see an expression of the character of Christ? Do they see the obedience and submission of Christ to his heavenly
47:father? Do they see the Christ who looked on crowds with nothing other than compassion? Do people see that in us as well?
47:And so those who keep the commandments of God, they don’t bow to the coercion except the false Sabbath, that is Sunday worship. The time is not far distant,
47:patriarchs and pro prophets and kings,
47:page 188. The time is not far distant when a test will come to every soul. The observance of the Sabbath, the false Sabbath will be urged upon us. The
48:contest will be between the commandments of God and the commandments of men.
48:Those who have yielded step by step to worldly demands and conform to worldly customs then will yield to the powers
48:that be rather than subject themselves to derision, insult, threatened imprisonment and death. At that time the gold will be separated from the dross.
48:True godliness will be clearly distinguished from the appearance and tinsel of it. Many a star that we have admired for its brilliance will then go out in darkness.
48:And so in this passage here, we see those who’ve yielded step by step to worldly demands and conformed to worldly
48:customs. That’s the sure path to yielding to the mark of the beast. People say it doesn’t matter.
48:You are faced with a moral choice. It’s not that big a deal. Just go alone to get alone.
48:and living a life of moral compromise on small issues today prepares your character to yield when the bigger moral issues come our way.
49:Character is revealed in times of crisis is not formed in times of crisis.
49:Choosing on moral grounds today in the decisions we make on a daily basis.
49:Choosing for God rather than for our carnal selves, our fallen desires. best is the best preparation we have to
49:prepare and shape our character that if we’re willing to make sacrifices on a daily basis over small things. We’re going to choose truth over falsehood,
49:purity over um impurity and and light over darkness on a daily basis in the decisions we make from day to day as we
49:do that. So our characters are shaped and and formed um and conformed to the will of God rather than to my carnal and fallen desires. Therefore, when the mark
49:of the beast comes along, I am best prepared to say no.
49:You follow me on this? Those who yield step by step to worldly demands are the ones who will yield to the mark of the beast.
50:So don’t say, “I’ll stand tall for God when the mark of the beast comes.” Say,
50:”We’re going to stand tall for God this week in Atlanta, and we’re going to make decisions this week that are honoring of God and his revealed will.” And if
50:that’s to my own hurt, so be it. But I’m shaping and preparing my character for that final crisis. The text says, “Those
50:who keep the commandments and hold to the faith or have the faith of Jesus.”
50:Sister White discusses this as she says there in Gospel Worker. She says, “The proclamation of the third angel’s message calls for the presentation of
50:the Sabbath truth. This truth with others included in the message is to be proclaimed. But the great center of of
50:attraction, Jesus Christ, must not be left out. It is at the cross of Christ that mercy and truth meet together and righteousness and peace kiss each other.
50:The sinner must be led to look to Calvary with the simple faith of a little child. He must trust in the merits of the Savior, accepting his
51:righteousness and believing in his mercy.
51:Now, we could talk all day about the third angel’s message and the health message this afternoon. We could do that. I haven’t mentioned the health
51:message once, but the health message is an integral part of the third angel’s message.
51:Okay? So, I just at least I just want to recognize that. I’m not going to talk about that today because we don’t have time for that.
51:But those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus,
51:they talk about Jesus in their daily lives. Right? People know that you’re a Christian.
51:They know you’re a Christian by your behavior, by your values, by your entertainment options, and by the fact that you talk about Jesus as your
51:longlost friend. And he’s coming back for us. And he’s coming back for us. The faith of Jesus, manuscript 24, says why it says this, the faith of Jesus,
51:Revelation, is talked of but not understood. I read this quote this morning. What constitutes the faith of Jesus? that belongs to the third angel’s
52:message. Jesus becoming our sin bearer that he might become our sin pardoning savior. He was treated as we deserve. He
52:came to our worlds and took our sins that we might take his righteousness.
52:Faith in the ability of Christ to save us amply and fully and entirely is the faith of Jesus. When I used to take my
52:little boy on planes in the former Soviet Union, one of those airlines, um I won’t mention the name, but the planes were so bad and they came down so often.
52:We joked that the theme tune for that airline was nearer my god to thee because it was a deeply spiritual
52:experience to fly on those old triples and spells and illusions. And um I would get on those planes and sometimes there’s Russian expression like pian
52:means drunk and there the dry the pilots billip pan they were drunk and they get on the plane like like staggering up and
52:and saying these guys are drunk and you say well why are you driving flying? He says oh it’s my birthday I want to get home and see my family. Oh really?
53:You’re drunk? Um and sometimes they couldn’t speak English. I would be sitting in the in the pilot with them.
53:We be flying into the capital city listening to um British Airways and Lufansera and a few other western airlines and the pilots don’t understand
53:a word of what the air traffic control is saying because they don’t speak English. Not good. Not good.
53:Well, I used to carry my little boy onto those planes. He was 3 or 4 months old.
53:And I would be praying really hard on those flights. Oh Lord, help us land.
53:One time we came in to land and the landing gear wouldn’t come down.
53:So the mechanic walked out, dropped down through a hole in the passageway between the in between the rows of seats. We heard him cranking the wheel down slowly
53:and he couldn’t get it down. It jammed and he pushed it bit hard and eventually the wheels all came down just in time.
53:And another time they the cabin depressurized and that wheel basically got knocked out when that happened. We all came to we were much lower think oh
good we’re still alive. Uh so these were life-changing experiences and as we were flying my little boy would fly with me
54:and he would always be peacefully asleep in his car seat next to me in the plane.
54:He wasn’t worried, he wasn’t upset, he wasn’t scared. Why? He was with his daddy.
54:And when you know you’re with your daddy, you can smile at the storm.
54:And of those who get through the final crisis, they have a faith in the ability of Christ to save them amply and fully
54:and entirely. They don’t doubt that they’re sinners. What’s more important is they have a sin bearing savior who in
54:Christ Jesus’s grace was given us in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 1:9 before the foundation of the world. That is God had made full provision for your full
54:forgiveness before this world was created. He knew every sin we would ever commit. And he’d already made forgiveness for provision for your
55:forgiveness and for mine. So we beat ourselves up today, not because what the gospel tells us, but because Satan puts these lies into our minds. God could never forgive somebody like you. Oh no.
55:This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. It’s a grace sufficient for all of our sins if we would receive it by faith. Sister
55:White comments on this and I’m not going to read this because I read it this morning. So,
55:come to our conclusions here.
55:We can either stand before God in our own merits asking for grace to make up for the shortfall of our sins. Many Adventists do this.
55:It leads to a life of spiritual struggle and the lack of assurance of salvation because we’re continually aware of our own sinfulness.
55:Or we can receive Christ in his righteousness by faith. And therefore,
we stand before God in the righteousness, the merits of Christ, and his perfect obedience is counted as if it were our own.
56:If we daily look to him in faith,
56:believing in his promises, partnering with him in the process of sanctification, he writes his law in our hearts, and we do experience ongoing
56:sanctification through the infilling of the Holy Spirit. And thus, God gives us victory over sin. So, we do end up
56:keeping the commandments of God. The choice is ours today. We can look at ourselves in the mirror and be discouraged every morning. Or we can
56:choose to look to Jesus and claim his promises and believe his promises. And then God does a wonderful work in each of our lives. I know which group I want
56:to be a part of. So this these three chapters we’ve looked at briefly today. Revelation 12, as we said before,
56:provides a panoramic overview. There is a struggle between good and evil. And on planet Earth, it’s played out between God’s faithful remnant and the
56:oppressive powers that Satan has inspired to attack the saints of God.
57:Revelation 13 is a detailed breakdown of how Satan attacks God’s people. And Revelation 14 is God’s response to
57:Satan, his response to his attacks on his saints. And it’s a call to us today to faithfulness to resist Satan and his
57:earthly representatives. And those who survive the final crisis that is coming upon our world have two characteristics.
57:And it has nothing to do with education,
57:nothing to do with ethnicity, nothing to do with nationality, nothing to do with how wealthy or poor or educated or illiterate we may be. Those two
57:characteristics are these. They keep the commandments of God and they have the faith of Jesus.
57:Those are the characteristics that will carry us through the final crisis. Their eyes are not focused on the beasts of this world, on the geopolitical giants who deceive and dictate to billions.
57:Their eyes are fixed by faith on Jesus,
57:their soon cominging savior. So the first angel’s message is God revealed.
The second angel’s message is Satan exposed. The third angel’s messages make a choice. A choice for eternity and
58:start living that choice today. Start living out that choice today. So I invite you today to bow down in
58:repentance and confession before our loving heavenly father. to look up in praise and adoration to the one who loved us, who loves us, and died for us,
58:and is coming again for us, than to step out in faith, and shine for Jesus in Earth’s darkest hour here in the Atlanta
58:metro area. It’s my prayer that when Jesus comes, he will find each one of us with our names in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And you will find that this group
58:of people, every single one of us here today gathered will be those who are keeping the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. And there’s
58:absolutely nothing this world can do about it because they are secure in the rock. I love that song that we sang as opening for our opening song uh this
58:afternoon. Um uh the rock divine uh that song we sang.
59:Yeah, the brain’s getting tired. I remember we sang a song that I like. It was a very good song and I remember we sang a nice song. Um but I that that
59:song rock divine um I think of that a lot. a refuge in a time of storm. Our refuge is found in Jesus Christ. He has
59:never lost a battle with Satan. He never fired a a disciple when he was on earth.
59:And he is the good shepherd who goes looking for his lost sheep today. And if you’re a lost sheep today, you can ask Jesus to come look for you tonight. And
59:if you’re secure in the fold, you can ask him to fight those battles for you that you cannot see. And if you’re worried about your future,
59:you can ask him to guide you with his shepherd’s rod. That yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For thou art
59:with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. We serve the good shepherd.
59:He’s coming for his own. His own hear his voice, and they are obedient to him,
1:00:and they follow him. And it’s my prayer that we will be found in that glorious group when Jesus comes again. Don’t accept the mark of the beasts. receive
1:00:what else is where elsewhere is called the seal of God. That those who receive the mark of the beast, it’s on their foreheads. Means they they’ve they’ve
1:00:received the character of Satan. Those who receive the seal of God, it says the name of their father is in their foreheads. Revelation 14 and verse two.
1:00:That is at the end of time there’s a group of people whose characters perfectly and completely reflect the character of their heavenly father.
1:00:There’s going to be a group of people whose characters reflect that of Satan. That means we’re in for a rough ride.
1:00:Extreme violence.
1:00:Stuff like the school killings just going to get worse and worse and worse.
1:00:But we can either have the seal and the character of our father in our foreheads or the character of Satan in our foreheads. You’ve got the wheat and
1:00:you’ve got the tears. You have to choose.
1:01:The first angel’s message is God is revealed. Creator and demer. Second angel’s message, Satan is exposed. a deceiver and and a liar and a murderer from the beginning. And the third
1:01:angel’s message is choose today who you will serve. As for me in my house, we will serve the Lord. My prayer that will
1:01:be your your statement of faith as well for the n for the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. So invite you to bow your heads with me and we’ll
1:01:close with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father,
1:01:we thank you for the time we shared here today. Lord, I thank you that you don’t leave us in the dark to wander around as lost sheep, wondering what is going to
1:01:happen with all these earthly beasts doing all they can to these innocent lands. Father, I thank you that you are the good shepherd, that you always go
1:01:looking for those lost lands. I thank you that you’ve given a message of mercy to a dying world, appealing to as many
1:01:as possible to turn and live. To turn and live. I ask you, Father, that in our own lives, in our own hearts, in our own
1:02:homes, within our own marriages, with our children, in our daily activities,
1:02:whether it be school or work or retirement or whatever it may be, I’m asking, Lord, that people will see Jesus
1:02:in each one of us. Lord, if the Sanhedrin could take note that Peter and John have been with Jesus, may the people of America take note that we have
1:02:also spent time with the man from Nazareth. I pray Lord that in through our lives, through our witness,
1:02:multitudes will be saved and one for your everlasting kingdom. This is our prayer in Jesus’ holy name. Amen.