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Dwayne Lemon

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Let me go ahead and say good morning or yes, good morning and happy Sabbath.

Well, if you're happy, then say happy Sabbath like you mean it.

That sounds like a group of happy people.

And I am definitely happy and I'm definitely thankful to be here with you all as we prepare our hearts to study the Word.

I don't know if you were given a title, but If you weren't, I was asking God, I'm not big on titles myself, but nevertheless I was asking God, Lord, what would you have me to entitle this?

And so if you like titles, then that is your title.

But nevertheless, the Lord is going to teach us from his word what he desires from each of us.

And I believe the best way to do that is with prayer.

And I'm very appreciative of the prayer that has already been given.

But I call it a habit or what have you, there's just something very personal about my need to offer a word of prayer before I speak.

And so I'm going to go to my knees 1 more time.

You don't have to, you just went to your knees, but if you would like to, you can certainly kneel with me.

But in either case, let us reverently go before God and ask him to do something special to speak to our hearts as we prepare to go through the message.

Our Father in heaven, Lord, you know what we need, but it's imperative that we have ears to hear.

And so I simply pray in the name of Jesus that you would please forgive us of anything that we have said, done, or even entertained in our thoughts that has broken your heart.

And I ask that you would purify us through the precious blood of Jesus, and that you'll grant us your Holy Spirit, who is the only 1 who is an effectual teacher of truth.

And may you make your words plain to us that we can leave from this message better than where we were before it started.

And I pray that if we even take 1 more round up on Jacob's ladder, may your name be honored and glorified.

And we thank you that you have heard this prayer, more importantly that you have answered it, For we ask it all in Jesus' name, amen.

I want you to turn your Bibles with me to the book of Hebrews, the 11th chapter.

We're going to consider the 11th chapter.

And I want you to watch what the Bible says as we consider Hebrews the 11th chapter.

I would imagine many of us know this verse by memory, but in the event you don't, we're going to review it so that way no 1 has passed by.

The Bible says something, and it's amazing because I have read this verse perhaps literally tens of thousands of times over my 26 years of being part of this Advent movement.

But this verse speaks to me in a way that it did not do in most previous years.

The Bible says in Hebrews 11 and verse 6, and if you're there, please let me know by saying amen.

The Bible says in Hebrews 11 and verse 6, it says, but without what?

But without faith, It is impossible to do what?

It says, for he who comes to God must believe what?

That he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

1 of the very first things that God puts as the qualifier of that which pleases him, according to the verse, is we must believe that he is.

Sometimes this verse is gleaned over, it's overlooked, or it's not deeply studied or taken seriously because maybe there's not enough going on in our lives for us to contemplate Him.

But usually when things start to happen, loss of money, loss of property, sickness, death, facing the loss of someone who has died.

When these things begin to happen, you begin to start asking questions that sometimes you never asked in your various amount of years of Christianity.

You start wondering, are you really who you say you are?

This is why last night I thought to myself, I said, this message that Brother Bryant started us with, it was so pivotal.

I mean, It was just like, Lord, I said, that's the message right there.

I see on Facebook all the time, even my own sister whom I love dearly, and this is no fault of hers.

Again, it is just the idea of how our minds work.

And just a few days ago she put up, in fact it was July 25th, she put up on Facebook, praise the Lord, it has been 4 years since I had my breast cancer and I am still clear of my breast cancer.

Now isn't that something worthy to say, praise the Lord.

I mean, that's something worthy to say that.

And I thought to myself as I read the post, it is not a rebuke to my precious sister, but it's like what if year 5 it came back?

You know, that's always the thing that they watch for in oncology.

You know, They want to go ahead and see if you can get past that five-year mark because they make it very clear it can pretty much potentially come back within those 5 years.

What if year 5 comes by and all of a sudden, lump, symptoms, et cetera?

My question is, can you still go on Facebook, can you still say, oh, how much he loves me, my cancer came back.

It would almost sound ridiculous, wouldn't it, to the natural mind.

It would sound like, hold up, that don't even make sense what you just said.

So again, a lot of times we have this view of God that you are somebody who loves me because of what you've done for me.

And again, we base it on circumstances and so on.

And that's why I said, Lord, this message is hitting some serious heart chords.

And I know I got what I needed and I hope you got what you needed.

And so a lot of times we have very skewed views of God.

And as a result of not understanding who he is, I guarantee you we will mess up the fact that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

And this is how we'll start falling into fanaticism and legalism and trying to work our way into heaven and et cetera, et cetera.

We'll have righteousness by works versus righteousness by faith.

Everything else gets messed up when we don't understand who he is.

So when I look at that verse, I said, OK, God is telling me, Dwayne, until you understand who I am, whatever you do, I'm not pleased.

And so I had to really start asking myself those questions.

So the Bible actually helps us with this, and I want you to see it in Exodus 3.

Go to Exodus 3 with me and I want you to watch what the text says, because we're living in a time, brothers and sisters, where I believe with all of my heart, I really, really believe this, the more that I study and the more that I pray and the more that I observe the signs of the times.

I do not believe that we need to wait for more, and please hear me good on what I'm saying.

I don't believe we're living in the time that we need to see more agitations from the papacy to let us know they are vehement on setting up a Sunday Law.

I don't think I need to see more of those agitators.

They have spoken very clear on that matter.

I don't need to see a whole lot more happen with the United States of America makes it very clear we are that second beast of Revelation 13, and in order to set up the image of the beast, we must have a reunion of church and state.

There are all sorts of things that are happening right now, everything from the wall, everything from the Johnson Amendment, everything from way back in 9-11, things have been moving super rapid pace to get us to a place in America that we become so afraid and so fearful that we'll actually trade our freedom for safety.

And that's how we're going to get back church and state.

And you can look at the American landscape and pay attention to what the people are saying.

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