How near is the end?
Footprints to Closing Time
Matt 24:3
Luke 21:25-27
Fear, fear about all things but the Devil is a liar. Get to know Jesus … with His Holy Ghost power. 
God can handle it
Rev 7:1 - God is coming, all shall see Him
Matt 24:31   /  Heb 1:14  Walk safely with God
Matt 24:31 Protected by God. How Near is the End?
Matt 24:27  No more pain, sickness … newness in Christ. The end is near. Get ready, its going home time
Christ is coming back to get us. We are going HOME …

Gen 3:13 
Sin is always offensive to God and regardless what the devil says sin always brings death.
Sin and righteousness cannot peacefully co-exist. Regardless of what the devil has done to us there is still something on the inside that brings us to God

There’s healing in the name of Jesus, there’s power in the name of Jesus, there’s hope in the name of Jesus.
Four Pillars of the Everlasting Gospel:
1 Fear God 
Sometimes God has to shake us up (even with something like a near-death encounter) just to say to us “I’m here, I’m God. Fear him, respect him, acknowledge him for who he is.

2 - Give glory to Him
There was a lady who had nothing and one day her food had run out. She went out singing and praising and a neighbour who lived nearby heard her praying asking God to provide her with food. He ran to the store and came back with a basket, put the basket on the steps. When she saw it she shouted “Hallelujah” God has heard my prayer. The man said there is no God- I brought them. She said my God is so good even the devil heard him and bought my food for me!

God’s glory is in his character. When the mind of Christ becomes the master of your mind you walk right, you live right, you walk in harmony with his instructions

3 -Worship him
Teach us to give to your name such a prime place that we will not give our allegiance to any other ? HALLOWED BE THY NAME

4 The hour of His judgement has come.
Our choices make a difference. We were bought with a price
To present your body as a living sacrifice, whatever you have left, (ask God to) help you to use your talents, and your gifts just to reflect His glory

He wants us to live for Him and give Him glory. 
Every breath we take is because of God’s blessing. For every sin you have committed, God has a million gallons of grace.

Monday, July 7 He Is Calling Your Name
1. You never get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression!
2. Do it right the first time
3. But there is life after failure
4. Many people failed before finally succeeding, example Thomas Edison and the light bulb. So dont give up 
5. Someone still believes in you , Jesus
6. Something about us that sin (sex, drugs, music) cannot satisfy …
7. Life’s critical question: What have I done to myself?
8. Easy to get into somethings, but difficult to get out of it
9. Devil promises life but gives death
10. Nothing devil can do unless God allows it
11. God provides for us
12. Romans 6:23
13. We’ve all done wrong, sinned fallen short
14. Some mistakes cannot be corrected, but God can transform our lives
15. If only … 
16. James 1:13
17. No matter what the devil says, God wants us to acknowledge our own sins.
18. Stand up to the devil and say NO!
19. James 1:14
20. James 1:15
21. Romans 6:23 - Ultimate end of sin is death. 
22. There is temptation but there is power to hold us in check. Call on God.
23. Don’t pretend you have never sinned, or done wrong. The answer is to acknowledge your sins, and ask God for grace and mercy. 
24. The higher you climb the more you need the power of God
25. Power of amazing grace
26. Mercy will measure your rope!
27. God loves us with an everlasting love inspite of everything
28. There is a 2nd chance, a new opportunity in Jesus. He can erase your past.
29. Jesus will take your past and give you a new beginning, a new future 
30. Jesus’ blood can transform your life
31. Nothing like when God  erases the past, sin is forgiven and  God grants peace that passes all understanding.

1. It is dangerous to know right and do wrong.
2. It is dangerous to see light and walk in darkness.
3. It is dangerous to know God and not serve Him.
4. Too often we fail to learn from the mistakes of others.
5. Romans 15:4  bible written for our learning, to learn from others.
6. Daniel 5 ? read the entire chapter.
7. Belshazzar (Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson), held a huge banquet for his friends and used all of the sacred religious vessels at his party.
8. When we disobey God, for a while God will withhold His hand of protection.
9. Daniel 5:3 ?The party goers drank wine from the sacred vessels, totally sacrilegious!
10. When we flex our fist in the face of God, He will stop us
11. Daniel 5:5  A finger came and disrupted the party. God will stop us, if we go too far
12. Daniel 5:7  The writing on the wall was a mystery, another interpretation was required, as was the case with Nebuchadnezzar’s dream.
13. Things of God can only be interpreted by people of God.
14. Some troubles can only be solved by God.
15. Daniel 5:10 - The queen was not at the party, but told the King who could interpret the mysterious hand writing.
16. Don’t be hurt when not invited to certain social functions, it means there is something special about you. There is Jesus in you!
17. Daniel was not at the party, he was not a part of the sacrilegious behavior. He was not invited as they knew he would not attend, as he was a godly Christian man.
18. Daniel 5:16  Daniel was asked to interpret the mysterious handwriting and was promised a reward. He refused and kept his dignity.
19. Note godly people cannot be bought or sold. They stand for God. Refuse bribes, return rewards, never sacrifice your integrity.
20. Don’t throw away the lessons of history, learn from the past.
21. Belshazzar should have learnt from his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar.
22. Daniel 5:22  Belshazzar knew better but failed to live it.
23. It is dangerous to know right and do wrong.
24. Daniel 5:24  The hand of God brought a sad message.
25. Proverbs 29:1  If you harden your heart, after repeated warnings, you will be destroyed.
26. Daniel 5:25 Belshazzar was weighed in the balance, all his life’s actions, party going and sacrilegious behavior, was judged and he was found wanting, he failed.
27. Belshazzar died, the party goers left, the music was silent, the glitter was dimmed, it was all over.
28. Belshazzar had been warned yet refused to listen or learn from the past.
29. How many warnings have YOU received?
30. If weighed in the balance, where do YOU stand?
31. Are YOU listening to Jesus calling you now?
32. Are YOU reading the bible and learning from the past?
33. Answer and respond YES, I will follow you Jesus.
34. Surrender your life to Jesus.
35. Let Christ lead and direct your life.
36. Seek God’s direction in prayer and bible study.

Like sand in an hour glass so are the days of our lives.

1. Job 14:1, 2 ? (1) Life is brief ? there is no permanence here. We are transitory. We are like actors on the stage of life ? here today and gone tomorrow. It’s in this life we’ve got to invest and plan and labour. 
2. Psalm 90:10 ? The days of our years are three score and ten. 
3. The devil knows God’s will, he has one objective and that is to destroy our souls.
4. Psalm 90:12 - Lord teach us to number our days so that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Lord, help me to understand that I may die in my youth; that I may not live long enough to enjoy the benefits of my pension ? help me to apply my heart unto wisdom.
5. Life is more than the high that drugs give, more than all the fancy stuff down here ? real life revolves around God’s purpose. You have not begun to live until you have come in contact with God.
6. Heb 9:27 ? It is appointed unto men once to die, but after death comes the judgement. 
7. Live joyfully. The days are coming when you will not walk straight. 
8. Whatsover thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might. Enjoy your life now.
9. Make your calling and election sure. Solomon said in Ecl 11:8, “If a man live many years and rejoice in them all let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many ? all that cometh shall be vanity.” Know that for all these things God will bring you into judgement.
10. I have blessed you with intelligence. Weigh the issues carefully. Like sand in an hour glass so are the days of our lives.
11. God says: “when I come back I will undo the work that Satan has done and don’t let anything here ruin you.” Death will never be welcome, pain will never be felt, hunger will never be present, and drugs will never be there (in my Father’s kingdom).
12. Ecl 12:1 ? Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Sometimes sin takes us so far that God has a hard time finding us. Sin has blinded our eyes. God is reaching out unto us but we have lost every (ounce) of righteousness.
13. While God is busy trying to work on others trying to lead (this group) unto repentance the Devil has blinded your soul unto your condition. Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth. The only time to confess and forsake sin is now.
14. Jesus said: I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life, and no man comes unto the Father but by me.
15. We are vulnerable to the natural processes of life. Don’t let the devil let you waste your years. The best way to live in youth is to live in Jesus Christ.
16. Fear God, respect Him, fear God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole duty of man. 
17. I came as your Consummate Shepherd, I came as your role model. Look upon Jesus.
18. It’s not what you say, it’s not what you do. Keep my commandments.
19. If you love me, prove it! As your days are drifting by, if you love me, keep my commandments.
20. The quality of commitment is the only quality that God will be satisfied with.

1. Mark 5:25 ? Woman with issue of blood.
2.  It’s a bad thing when you get to the place where you can’t be allowed to forget those things that you want to push behind you. She was shut out, excluded, ostracized. There are issues in our life that prevent us from having real fellowship with God. Some persons are just an accident looking for a place to happen. 
3. There’s no power in hell that can keep you from sin if you open up your heart to the Holy Ghost.
4. What is the one thing, when you sit down in your quiet moments that you seek above everything else? Some persons want to feel appreciated, they want to be loved, and they want to belong. 
5. Christ said, “What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his soul.
6. She (the woman with the issue of blood) wanted to be reconnected with the family of God. She was out of the one place that had meaning for her life. She walked about as a silent sufferer. She had suffered many things seeking many physicians but was not any better. 
7. When she heard of Jesus she said, “It’s my time.” It is a dangerous thing to have an issue in your life that prevents you from fellowship with God. We need a Holy Ghost baptism to pick us up and turn us around.
8. You’ve got to get to the place where you say, “I’m fed up with drugs, I’m fed up with the way things are. I want to be where God wants me to be. Rom 6:23.
9. When God asks us to face our sins he asks us to cast them in his mercy.
10. Are you satisfied with life where it is? When you are determined enough the longest journey will not be far. 
11. We know when we are not in contact with God. But there comes a time when we discover something is still missing. You can climb up and go where Jesus wants you to go. There’s power in the name of Jesus. His grace, His mercy is available. Christ has brought you here to give you complete deliverance.
12. Every step you take the Holy Ghost will help you. He knows where you’ve been, He knows what you’ve been through.

1. The minute you go on your knees and surrender your heart to Jesus ? (he is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us)  you are fully a child of God.
2. The devil knows that your happiest days are when you are walking with Christ.
3. It’s a wonderful life to live for Jesus. 
4. Someone once said that “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
5. Sin brings us into bondage, sin makes us a slave. The only life that is free is the life that is free from sin ? free by the blood of Jesus Christ.
6. In order for man and God to have real fellowship blood had to be shed. So God established the sacrificial system. There was no salvation in the offering of a lamb. In all of the sacrificial system (all that it represented) it was God’s way of teaching us of His holiness.
7. It takes a responsible person to enjoy true freedom.
8. Like water He (Jesus) poured his soul out as an offering for you. Christ never died like a king; he died like a common criminal.
9. He could have called ten thousand angels to set him free.
10. Freedom to express myself ? how did I get this freedom ? it was paid by Jesus.
11. He shed his blood so that you and I can be free. We can’t fight drugs by ourselves, we can’t fight sexual addiction by ourselves, and we can’t fight lesbianism by ourselves. (It’s only through Jesus.)
12. The price was paid, the lamb was slain, freedom in Jesus!
13. Paul said “it’s Christ in your which is the hope of glory.”
14. Some people refuse baptism they say, I’m going to wait until he fixes me up, I’m going to wait until I get stronger ? Jesus says “come to me just as you are.”
15. Every time the devil reminds you of your past you remind him of your future.
16. When you are free in Christ there is a responsibility, there is a requirement ? if Christ is in you, you will live like Christ. If you love him you will keep his commandments. If you don’t keep God’s commandments you don’t have the Holy Ghost. (John 14:16).
17. 1 John 2:1-6  If you love God with all your heart you won’t have any other God, you will not take his name in vain, you will love your neighbour as yourself, you will not commit adultery, you will always honor your mother and father (you will fulfill the first six and the last four (commandments).

WEEK II
Sunday, July 13 As The World Turns
Text: Genesis 1:1-5, Psalms 68:19

1. As the world turns you can rely on the never-failing goodness and mercy of God.
2. Psalms 68:19 God gives us blessings everyday.
3. Lamentations 3:22-23 God’s mercies are new every morning.
4. Genesis 1 The creation story details how God created the earth. 
5. Genesis 1:5 The day consists of an evening and morning.
6. Each day of the creation story is chronicled, what was done and an assessment of the goodness of the creation.
7. Genesis 1:26 God made man, but it was not good for man to be alone (Gen 2:18),  so God created the female (Gen 2:21-22), and married Adam to Eve (Gen 2:23-24).
8. Genesis 2:2 God established a memorial of the Creation so that Adam/Eve would always remember that everything made came from the loving hand of God.
9. Genesis 2:3 God sanctified the 7th day, setting it aside as a memorial of His creatorship.
10. The purpose of the Sabbath is to remind us that there is only ONE true and living God ? and we should serve Him.
11. God made the world from nothing and can also remake your life to something.
12. As the world turns God is FAITHFUL!
13. The Sabbath day refreshes and revitalizes.
14. Sabbath 7th day is a special day, akin to a birthday. We celebrate our birthday once a year, God celebrates his creation once a week.
15. Jesus set the example on how to celebrate the Sabbath.
16. Luke 4:16 Jesus attended church (the synagogue) on Sabbath. As was his custom or regular practice or habit, He attended church on the Sabbath regularly.
17. As the world turns the Sabbath 7th day cycle remains the same.
18. I John 2:6 If we believe in Jesus, we will walk or do as He did.
19. Jesus kept the Sabbath so we too should obey the Sabbath in like manner.
20. Acts 18:1 Details one of Paul’s missionary journey, however it also mentions that Paul attended church every Sabbath reading and teaching.
21. Mark 2:27 The Sabbath was made for man, to commemorate & celebrate God’s creation.
22. Which day is the Sabbath day?
23. The Sabbath is the day that comes before the Resurrection but after the Crucifixion.
24. Mark 15:42 Jesus died on the preparation day, the day BEFORE the Sabbath.
25. Mark 16:1 Jesus remained in the tomb ON the Sabbath day.
26. Mark 16:2 Jesus rose on the day AFTER the Sabbath.
27. Which day is the Sabbath day?
28. The day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is the Sabbath day ? SATURDAY!
29. Exodus 20:8 A reminder to keep the Sabbath day holy.
30. Only one commandment reminds us to REMEMBER … see the 4th commandment (Gen 20:8).
31. As the world turns. Observe and celebrate the Sabbath each week.
32. We are to remember what God told us in Eden to celebrate.
33. Prepare for the Sabbath, set the mind to reflect on Godly things.
34. Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the SABBATH day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the SABBATH of the Lord thy God …wherefore the Lord blessed the SABBATH day and hallowed it.
35. Jesus rose for me and you. He is ALIVE and WELL. The risen Savior told us to keep the Sabbath day holy.
36. As the world turns  Keep God’s 7th day Sabbath.

1. Statistics ?50% of all American marriages end in divorce.
2. “Woe unto the house where the hen does the crowing and the Rooster keeps quiet!”
3. God’s plan was that the home should be a miniature heaven on earth, nurturing happy children.
4. Deut 6:4  Love God with our everything and keep his law in our hearts then teach this law to our children.
5. We can’t teach what we do not know - We must first LEARN God’s law, so that we can teach our children.
6. Remember  Children live what they learn.
7. God wants us to have happy homes.
8. Why Some Men Lose Their Wives, and Some Women Lose Their Husbands?
9. Reason #1  Some got married for the wrong reason.
10. I John 4:8  Love must be the foundation of every marriage.
11. If God is not in the love affair, it is not a true love affair.
12. Marriage is a divine covenant NOT a social contract to be broken or discarded.
13. Marriage is binding until death
14. If one marries for external physical attraction it may fade in time. Marry for love!
15. Sometimes our very soul salvation may be affected by our life’s partner. Choose wisely!
16. Psalms 37: 4  God will give us our heart’s desire when we serve & trust Him.
17. Reason # 2  Couples didn’t know enough about each other before marriage.
18. Percy Sledge said: “Take time to know him, it’s not an overnight thing.”
19. Know who you are, know what you can live with and without before marriage.
20. Get to know your prospect partner, take your time. WAIT! Slow down!
21. Reason # 3  Attempting to build a home without Christ
22. Psalms 127:1  Consult God before marriage, build with God.
23. Unless the Lord builds the house, we build in vain.
24. Reason # 4  They didn’t learn to trust each other.
25. You cannot build a stable relationship without trust.
26. Trust each other.
27. Lack of trust destroys self-respect and love.
28. Amos 3:3 You can only walk together if you both agree.
29. Examine all 4 reasons during courtship BEFORE marriage.
30. Reason #5 Break down in communication.
31. If you cannot talk about the issue you cannot solve it.
32. Selfishness is at the root of every argument.
33. Matt 7:12  Treat each other as you would want to be treated.
34. Mature communication must do more than hear with the ears, one must listen.
35. Listening understands more than the words, it will EMPATHIZE!
36. Lack of communication destroys everything in a marriage.
37. If you cant talk then you cannot enjoy intimacy.
38. The mind must meet before the body meets! Sex begins in the mind.
39. If something is wrong talk about it.
40. Reason #6  Incorrect Marriage Roles (the wife is not a slave).
41. Ephesians 5:23 Husband is the head of the wife i.e. the protector.

1. Whatever he takes from you he adds back in return. If you can put your little bit in God’s big hand it becomes much. He adds by subtraction. He multiplies by division.
2. Psalm 24:1 ? The earth is the Lord’s and fullness thereof. Everything down here belongs to God.
3. Acts 17:22, 24 (God is Lord of heaven and earth.) You can’t lock Him in a temple; He is bigger than all things.
4. God is such a loving God - he loves all things. 
5. Understand that when you are enjoying life God is the benefactor of all things.
6. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. 1 Cor. 6:19. Don’t you know that God wants to dwell in you? He says, “you are mine by creation, you are mine by redemption ? I bought you through the death of my own Son.
7. If you are not loved by your parents, spouse, children, you are loved by God.
8. Because of whom you are and who God is he will not rest until sickness shall be eradicated from the face of the earth.
9. When God gave Jesus to die in your place He gave the Best that heaven has to offer.
10. You are His twice ? you are His because He made you, you are His because He redeemed you through the blood of Jesus Christ.
11. When He made you He made sure he had a manual ? the Holy Bible.
12. The Bible says “destroy not your temple.” It tells us that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
13. God is able to climb down inside of you and make you drink ice water instead of the devil’s juice.
14. Thank God we can be clean by the power of the Holy Ghost.
15. There’s power in prayer. What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and grief to bear.
16. If we don’t have trouble we will never get on our knees to pray. 
17. Money has a way of losing its value, pleasure has a way of losing its pull ? seek you first the kingdom of God.
18. Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.
19. You belong to God. He’ll do everything he can to get you from here to there.
20. Even time is created by God. God has given you a body and you ought to live a certain way because I gave you that body.
21. “I am from eternity in the past to eternity in the future.” You can never get to a place where God will not be. He was BEFORE time came in existence. 
22. The Sabbath has to do more with allegiance and loyalty. You cannot be an atheist and keep the Sabbath. Once you are surrendered to the issue of obedience to God you recognize Him as the One who made the world in six days. One seventh of your time is His. He has earmarked one day as His holy time. The Sabbath belongs completely to God.
23. Even when you’re sleeping He’s watching over you. Your blessing may be delayed but it’s not denied.
24. I want you to develop such a relationship with Jesus that the devil will be afraid of you.
25. Eze. 20:12, Rev 14:6, 7.
26. There is enough power in Jesus Christ to make us live right.
27. God has a plan for your life. You are God’s creation. He shed His blood for you to be redeemed. The earth is His, your life is His.
28. Whatever you do you ought to make sure that the devil gets no benefit.
29. Rom 6:13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness.
30. When you walk with Jesus ? your walk will tell, your dressing will tell, your eating will tell. Neither yield your members of instruments of unrighteousness. 
31. Deut 8:18 ? But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth that He may establish His covenant which He sware unto thy fathers as it is this day.
32. Lev 27:30 ? And all the tithe of the land whether of the seed of the land or the fruit of the tree is the Lord’s. You don’t lose anything when you give unto God. David said “bring an offering and come let us appear unto God.” He (God) says follow me and I will open up the windows of heaven.
33. Read Deut 28:1.
34. He gives you peace in the midst of the storm. Blessed shalt thou be when thou go out and blessed shalt thou be when thou come in.
35. All you need is to say Jesus I’m putting this in your hand. 
36. Malachi 3:8. Will a man rob God?
37. I’ve blessed you with wealth but you have forgotten it is the Lord who has given you power.
38. Little with God’s blessings will go further with God’s blessings.
39. When I am tempted to rob you of your tithe and offerings remind me that the cattle on a thousand hills is yours.

1. This generation, that is closest to the 2nd coming of Christ, is living on borrowed time when God’s clock will declare the end of all things.
2. Sometimes it seems that God has to stand on his head just to get our attention.
3. As we deal with the 7th trumpet of Revelation ? the trumpet was used for many significant reasons ? to call the nation ? to call God’s children to a solemn assembly.
4. Joel 2:15 ? Blow the trumpet in Zion, call a solemn fast…. 
5. One reason the world still survives is that God still operates from between the mercy seat.
6. There are still intercessors: husbands praying for their wives, parents praying for their children. 
7. Jeremiah 4:19 - I cannot hold my peace, because thou has heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 
8. Sometimes we do things we aren’t supposed to do but God still protects His church.
9. Your name could be on the church records but not in the Book of Life.
10. There is no salvation in church membership. 
11. Rev 8:1, 2 ? (opening of the 7th seal) this 7th seal opens the way for the coming of Christ. 
12. And the angel took the incense ? standing in God’s presence with the prayers of the saints.
13. God will take you from where you are to be where you want to be. Christ is always calling us to be more like himself. 
14. Jacob was a conman, a thief, a liar but God says Jacob I can still help you, every step you take I have one below you to help you up.
15. My God will not rest. If you want to be saved, you can. If you want to obey, you can. If you want to be baptized, you can. There’s an angel on your ladder. They know how to intercede/to talk with Jesus.
16. We are living today in dangerous times. 
17. Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel…the mystery of God should be finished. What is the mystery of God? 1 Tim. 3:16 says, “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
18. If you really believe in Jesus, what He says you will do, where He sends you will go. 
19. Eph 6:19 - And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel.
20. In these last days God is having a hard time getting our attention. 
21. There will come a time that the only asset that will be worthwhile, the only asset that you need will be Jesus Christ.
22. God is in charge. He will bring time to an end. He is Lord over sun, moon and stars. He is Lord over the seas. There will come a time when time shall be no longer.
23. If this was your last day what would you do differently today? 
24. I’ve come to tell somebody the grace of God is pleading and this could be somebody’s final opportunity.
25. Somewhere deep inside your soul you want the Lord to come now. You are tired of all your pain, grief, sickness…
26. Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever.
27. The day will come when there will be resurrection morning, the 7th trumpet will sound and Christ will break the eastern sky. 
28. When the 7th trumpet will sound the mystery of God will be finished. The appeal of salvation will be over. Those of us who know so much, if we should be lost, our hell would be hotter than the others. Of him much has been given, much is required.
29. I want to be safe in the arms of Jesus. In the quietness of your own meditation when you are left with your self, there is no true self without Jesus. Every somebody is a nobody without Jesus.
30. Phil 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. 

1. Sodom was a first world country, luxurious and wealthy ? a fertile valley
2. Ezekiel 16:49 ? Describes Sodom as proud, vain and idle
3. Genesis 18:1 ? God paid Sodom a visit in the form of 2 angels
4. Genesis 18:20 ? God despised the evil in Sodom
5. You cant do wrong and get right
6. If you think crooked you will be crooked. You become what you feed, read, live on
7. Devil cannot read your mind but can observe your actions ? then He will tempt you
8. But even if you fall God has enough grace to forgive and save you
9. You can make something of yourself with God
10. Genesis 18:30 ? Will the righteous be destroyed with the wicked?
11. Genesis 18:32 ? Abraham bargained with God not to destroy Sodom if at least 50, if not 10 righteous people were found
12. Genesis 19:1 ? The angels visited Lot, trying to find at least 10 righteous Sodomites
13. Lot persuaded the angels to spend the night in Lot’s house
14. Genesis 19:5 ? The evil Sodomites attempted to pervert the angels with their evil lifestyle of homosexuality
15. Genesis 19:8 ? Lot even offered his virgin daughters in place of the angels. But the Sodomites persisted in their request for the angels
16. Genesis 19:11 ? God stepped in, and turned the Sodomites blind, giving Lot time to get out of Sodom
17. Genesis 19:16 ? Do not flirt with danger, Lot lingered, he should have left immediately
18. God will destroy sin and sinners!
19. If we linger with them we might be destroyed as well
20. But God is merciful and will direct us by His hand if we allow him
21. Genesis 19:24 ? Sodom is destroyed, both the sin and the sinners
22. Genesis 19:17 ? Four Instructions to Lot and his family
(a) Escape for your life ?  Leave sin behind
(b) Do not look or turn back ? Burn the bridge, have no regrets, leave the past behind
(c) Don’t stay in the plain ? Move onward to bigger and better things even if difficult. Detach yourself from the past
(d) Escape to the mountain ? Climb closer to God, move upwards far away from the past
23. Luke 17:32 ? Remember Lot’s wife and what a return to the past does. It kills.
24. Luke 17: 28-30 ? God will once again destroy sin and all sinners
25. Be among the righteous and be saved

WEEK III
Sunday, July 20 Attorney For The Defense? Whose Witness Are You?
Text: 1 Peter 3:15

1. 1 Peter 3:15 ? (Sanctify the Lord God in our hearts) we must be always ready to give an answer to our faith.
2. First defense ? as a child of God we must follow exactly what God says.
3. Gen 2:3 ? God blessed and sanctified the Sabbath. This is a commemoration of His creatorship. There is only one true and living God. He is the One who made the world.
4. He spoke the Ten Commandments and gave them to Moses. The only thing written by the hand of God was the Ten Commandments.
5. Eze 20:20 ? And hallow my Sabbaths and they shall be a sign between me and you that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.
6. The Sabbath is a sign between Himself and His children.
7. Isa 58:12, 13 (I am the Lord God; I have blessed it (Sabbath). It takes a whole lot of love to obey what God says. The will of God will never take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
8. Genesis account of creation: God will never alter His covenant. Psalm 89:34 ? My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing which has gone out of my lips. When we get to heaven the reason there will be no confusion (about the Sabbath) there is because we are connected to the same “computer.” God did not change the Sabbath; Christ is the example to us. There is no salvation in church membership.
9. Matt 5:17 ? Jesus said: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 
10. Luke 4:16 ? as His custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day.
11. Heb 13:8 ? Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. If Christ were to come to Bermuda today he would still keep the Sabbath. Christ never altered His Father’s commandment.
12. There are 27 books in the New Testament and 39 in the Old. Paul wrote 13 of the 27. If any of the apostles could say something about the change of the law, Paul would have said it. Romans 3:31 ? Do we make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
13. We uphold the law. Faith in Jesus Christ does not free us from obedience to the commandments of God. 
14. If you are “engrafted” in me you are going to produce the stuff that I produce. You cannot love the salvation of Jesus and hate the Sabbath of Jesus. If you abide in me and I abide in you, you bring forth the same fruits.
15. Acts 17:1-2 ? Paul’s custom was to go the synagogue on the Sabbath. See also Acts 18:1, 4, 11.
16. The only Sabbath that the disciples knew was the 7th day of the week. 
17. Acts 5:29 ? Peter and the other apostles said we ought to obey God rather than man.
18. Who changed God’s Sabbath? Every Bible student knows there are only 4 kingdoms that ruled the world.
19. The 4th kingdom that would rule the world would be a religio-political kingdom. Rome was both political and religious. When the last of the Caesars died immorality, vice and debauchery was so rampant in Rome that the church was called in to help. 
20. God does not send truth to condemn anybody. 
21. (As a boy the Evangelist asked his minister about the Sabbath and was given the answer that the Sabbath was for the Jews and that they kept Sunday in celebration of the Resurrection.)
22. Cardinal ____ (of the Catholic Church) said: You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find one line that authorizes the change of the Sabbath.
23. Christ never asked us to keep Sunday in honor of His resurrection. 1 Cor 11:23, 24 explains that the communion service was what Jesus ordained to commemorate His death. 
24. He died on Good Friday, he rose on Sunday, and the day between the two is the day identified as the Sabbath Luke 23:54 ? 24:1.
25. It is important to know that God still expects you to keep His commandments. Blessed are they that do His commandments that they may have a right to the tree of life and enter through the gates into the city. Rev 22:14.
26. Acts 17:30 ? At the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.
27. The only way to be happy in Jesus is to trust and obey.
28. John 10:16 ? Other sheep I have which are not of this fold: them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice and they shall be of one fold and there shall be one fold (and) one Shepherd.  Do you want to follow Jesus in obedience to the Sabbath commandment?

1. John 1:1 ? In the beginning was the word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
2. Luke 14:15 Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.  Blessed is the sinner who will wake up and know that all his trials are over. 
3. Sin, like a cancer, is multiplying.  (Some say) I’m just not ready yet; I just need a little more time. Lord help me with my ‘but.’
4. Prov 16:25 ? There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 
5. How often we struggle with our issues and we sometimes make those issues bigger than God. Jeremiah said: “Is there anything too hard for God to do.”
6. Jer 5:30-31 ? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely….There are some persons who should represent my will but they are doing stuff their own way … they prefer the lies of the prophets.
7. Some youth have to understand that fun has a way of running out. No matter how joyful it gets the end is coming.
8. It’s not because we don’t know … but we sometimes put the doctrines of man ahead of God. 
9. What will you do in the end? When you come down to that final meeting with the Almighty God he’s the only one to put heaven before you. You must ask yourself: “If I don’t make this adjustment what will I do in the end?”
10. These are the days that God wants us to use our intelligence, examine the issues. Everything that God has he gave for you when He gave Jesus.
11. Phil 2:5 ? Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Allow your will to reflect God’s will. Let the mind of Christ control your mind.
12. Phil 2:8 ? He (Jesus) became obedient even until death. This is the essence of God’s grace.
13. Have you ever prayed and wanted God to answer right away. He always answers right on time.
14. The devil tries sometimes to hold you back; he tries to keep you from getting baptized. He may even use people in the church. 
15. You may never know what faith in God will do until you get in trouble.
16. If Christ is obeying His Father that‘s what I must do, wherever He’s going that’s where I’m going. Obedient even to death.
17. I don’t understand why sometimes the heart of the righteous must be broken. The day will come when there will be peace in your valley. 
18. Wherever the Holy Ghost finds us He finds us struggling with something. We must be willing to be obedient even until death.
19. Have you ever been told that you will die as you are with that cocaine habit, drinking habit, sexual addiction? There is nothing over until my God says it’s over. There’s no burden so heavy that He can’t lift you up. I don’t care who’s writing you off He can help you with your ‘but.” The living God has come by to set you free!
20. Jesus knows your name, Jesus knows who you are, Jesus knows your issues, and He knows your ‘buts.’ 
21. When He calls you He calls you as a person, as an individual. Don’t look to the left or right. It’s not my brother, it’s not my sister, but it’s me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.
22. If Lazarus could respond to God’s call - tied up with grave cloths, bound up with the chains of death - why can’t you? The difference is, Lazarus heard the voice of God and not even death could hold him back.  He heard his name and even in the grave he was determined to go. You’ve got some issues, you’ve got some trials, you’ve got some struggles, but He’s calling your name.
23. You need the victory; you need to be obedient to God even unto death. Tonight is your night for the victory. Tonight is your night for deliverance. He’s calling your name.

1. Post-modern youth are tickled by disaster. Wars and bloodshed. WPD ? weapons of mass destruction. 
2. Rev 7:1 ? And after these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth….John sees all the signs he sees wars and strife. If you remove God’s restraining hand we will [move] each other out. Mankind is so hard in sin he will fly your own plane and destroy your own buildings.
3. Every now and then God steps in and says ‘not yet.’ We wrestle against spiritual wickedness. 
4. God is ensuring that before you (die) your ears will hear His word, your heart will touch His spirit. He is a just God, a merciful God and you will be given an opportunity to make a decision.
5. Every word you hear there is a God behind it trying to make you understand.
6. God is holding back because he wants you to get the evidence. Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess at the judgment seat of God.
7. He fashioned the world, he made the universe and yet he is a personal God. He takes time out to be concerned for you.
8. Rev 14:6 ? I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them….
9. Before you die He will confront you with the everlasting truth.
10. God has just one set of standards, just one plan of action…. it will only be through the grace of Jesus Christ.
11. Babylon is the cold name for the doctrines of man. God says ‘you’ve got to walk in my council.’
12. You cannot save your own self. You don’t have enough righteousness to save you from your own sins.
13. Any doctrine that you hold must be rooted in the doctrine of a plain “thus saith the Lord”. Not every one that says to me “Lord, Lord” will enter in the kingdom of God.
14. John 8:32 ? You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
15. Christ is saying “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”
16. Matt 15:8 ? This people draweth nigh to me with their mouth…but their heart is far from me.
17. The day is coming when you will take your last breath. Heb 9:27 says, “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”
18. Every call to repentance is a call to baptism, to obedience. You’ve got to have the courage to stand up to your conviction.
19. There are many intelligent folk who will reason out the issue, know what God wants them to do…and just at that critical point they start to vacillate.
20. There will come a time when God’s mercy will have been withdrawn and judgment will take over.
21. The angels will say ‘O how I tried to warn you but you wouldn’t listen.’
22. The second angel speaks against the doctrines of man. The truth of God will stand alone in the last days.
23. Rev 7:2, 3 ? I saw another angel…hurt not the earth until we have sealed the servants of God in their forehead. We have been blessed with the intelligence to make decisions.
24. God is making sure there is enough grace to wash away your sins. Just in case you want to do right he can fix you up. 
25. 2 Tim 2:19 ? The foundation of God standeth sure…the Lord knoweth them that are His….
26. He calls drug pushers, sex addicts, liars, and murderers. He calls them from the uttermost places. He is the only one who can make them right.
27. Sometimes the issues (of life) are like a raging storm. Sometimes our drive/inner desires/unconverted nature threatens to run away from us. Our better judgment has stopped. Thank God, if you want to stop/if you are sinking beneath the sin of disobedience to God’s will/rejection of God’s commandments/of a false sense of security/over inflated sense of your own importance ? you can cry out like Peter ? Lord, save me, I surrender, I have seen the light, I have heard the truth, show me what you want me to do.
28. The power of God is still available. In every age God has had a people who are true to Him.
29. God is always calling people out before destruction comes. God is always calling on His people. 
30. There is joy in the presence of God among the angels over one sinner who repents. 
31. Christ gave His life for you. He invites you to obey his word, to repent and return [to Him].
32. Do you want to do what God says? Do you want to genuinely surrender to Him? Let the Spirit of the Living God take your life from this moment.

1. John was there when God the Father spoke, “this is my beloved Son, here ye him”. John was there in the Garden of Getsemane. John saw and heard Him when He looked down on the (Holy City) Jerusalem. John was there when Pilate washed his hands. John was there when soldiers dragged Him back, bruised battered and bleeding. John stood afar off and he heard the cry “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” John was there when the tomb was sealed. 
2. John’s face lighted up when the news of resurrection morning broke. John’s hope was revitalized, John’s faith was rekindled and from this point onward there was no turning back. 
3. He watched when his compatriot disciples were martyred. John saw truth marching on as a mighty conqueror. He was … sanctified with Holy Ghost power.
4. If death can’t kill a brother, you’d better join him. John was [banished to Patmos] with hardened criminals.
5. He had no sanctuary, but wherever God is there is a church. 
6. John saw the church moving forward.
7. He sees bloodshed ­ a pale horse, a red horse, a black horse.
8. If you mix truth with error all you will have is a hypocritical death….By the time you get to [the year] 1545/63, man declares the church to be equally inspired as the Word of God. John saw the church now having only a form of godliness. He saw priests…with no truth on the inside.
9. The devil may succeed in bringing falsehood to the church…but the Almighty God will have a remnant church who will not bow to Baal.
10. God will have a remnant church in the last days. God will know His own. 
11. Rev 17  -  He (John) sees a church who has no basis in the Word. 
12. Over 50 million Christians suffered under the hands of the Apostate system. (Read about the Waldensians and Foxes Book of Martyrs). The devil may try to hide truth from you.
13. John saw the blood shed, he saw the death [of the martyrs in vision].  
14. If individuals would offer up their lives as a sacrifice - what’s a boyfriend, what’s a husband ­ when persons willingly gave up their lives rather disobey God.
15. Rev 19:1 ­ And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven….
16. We go from one liquor to another, we go from one drug to another ­ these things cannot keep us away from making foolish mistakes. 
17. Sometimes when you have a broken hand, a broken leg ­ folk are tempted to be kind to you…you are hurting but nobody sees your wound.
18. John says “the days are coming when these things will be behind you.”
19. Sometimes the devil wants to fool us that heaven will not be populated. The Bible tells me that Jesus has angels ­ 10 thousand times 10 thousand and thousands of thousands.
20. God is saving His children ­ he says bind up the testimony, seal the law.
21. The tabernacle (of God) is with man, and he will dwell with them…. Rev 21:3.
22. And God himself shall be with them. Rev 21:4.
23. God is touched with the feeling of your infirmity. His greatest joy is to have you walk in His truth. He knows who you are. He will hide your soul in the cleft of the rock.
24. Child of God, we’re going home. Where the weary will be at rest. Where all the saints have gathered home.
25. If you have not yet surrendered to Jesus, why rob yourself of this endless hope. Why cheat yourself out of the blessing that God has in store for you.
26. John said, ‘God himself will be there and he will wipe away all tears.” The past shall be vanished completely. No more walkers, no more wheelchairs, no more broken marriages, no more loneliness, no more struggles with drugs.