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Pillars of Faith SDA Church

Eric Walsh

Marking the Mind

Father God, we thank you Lord for this opportunity to study your Word.

We thank you Lord for your Sabbath, for this time we have to worship you.

I ask now Lord that you make me just a nail upon the wall, a rusty sorry nail Lord.

But upon that nail I ask Father that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Let Eric Walsh not be seen or heard today.

Instead, Father, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

As our prayer in Jesus' precious and holy name.

We'll start in the book of Revelation chapter 7.

1 of the most interesting passages in Scripture finds a story with 5 angels.

The Bible says, and after these things I saw 4 angels standing on the 4 corners of the earth.

That the wind should not blow on the earth nor on the sea nor on the tree.

So the Bible gives us this incredible picture that the world, almost like a square, is being guarded by 4 angels.

That these angels have a job, and their function is to hold back strife, the winds of strife, which is the winds of difficulty, the winds of challenge, the winds of pain.

That Their job is to hold back strife from off the planet.

Now, when I was at Oakwood and I heard, I believe it was Cleveland preach on this, he said, sometimes it's like these angels open their hands because it seems like some of the wind slips through.

In fact, as I was preparing, I looked at some of the things that are going on in the world.

Democratic Republic of the Congo, it didn't even really make news in the United States.

Over 5 million people killed, multiple nations involved.

In fact, our country is at war with itself in a psychopathic, suicidal, homicidal flurry almost every day in the United States.

In fact, this year we've had almost 1 mass shooting every day on average.

If you look at this slide here, you can see going back to 1970, the University of Texas, there were 15 people killed.

But when you get out here to 2010, look at this.

I took care of some of these patients from Las Vegas.

In fact, the mass shootings happen so fast, we often forget the last 1.

We shot up a country music bar in Thousand Oaks this week and we almost forgot that the week before a synagogue had been shut up.

Constantly, in fact our church in California we have active shums in the back and where would you run them and let me tell you There ain't no too many places to run in church Now what you got to understand is that Strife is coming and I used to think that it was an all-or-none effect that 1 day They just dropped their arms But I'm beginning to wonder as we go through this message if there isn't something gradual happening as the spirit of God is being lifted from off the planet.

As that spirit is lifted, do their hands begin to come down slowly?

So you can do the same thing even with earthquakes.

If you go back to 19, these are earthquakes between the magnitude 6 and magnitude 8.

And you can see that as time went on up until 2008, that the amount of massive earthquakes, Jesus says that there would be earthquakes in Matthew 24 earthquakes in diverse places strife right now in California the the state is on fire That's a big state so don't call me and ask me if my house on fire.

The Kardashians have to run from their house in Calabasas.

You're trying to keep up with the Kardashians.

They try to keep ahead of the fire Strife is real in the world But here's the thing if there's this much strife now what happens when the angels drop their arms?

Revelation 7 Verse 2 says, and I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.

He cries with a loud voice to the 4 angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea saying here's what's holding back the wind hurt not the earth neither the sea nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads Ah What is holding back the winds of strife from fully blowing is that God wants you in a protected state?

First So, wait a minute You can't touch don't you drop your arms fully?

Until God has finished the work he's doing in his people So now we're gonna talk about what that means.

So the front the your forehead actually is really indicative of the part of the brain that is right behind this bone.

We call it your forehead, but it's really a frontal bone.

And behind it is the part of your brain called a frontal lobe.

Now, the frontal lobe of the human brain is 33% of the brain.

Now, the next smartest animals are porpoises and chimpanzees.

And their brain is only 13% frontal lobe, 1 3.

Now Fido, your beloved dog, His brain is only 7% frontal lobe.

So no your dog's not as smart as you think he is but your dog has a frontal lobe.

Now, I honestly believe that 1 of the reasons that God formed man out of the dust of the ground is because when God went to make man, he did something special, something different in the creation of man.

And part of that was in how he formed the frontal lobe of the brain.

You watch 10, 000 BC and all these shows.

But it doesn't really make scientific sense because all Evidence of human civilization is only 5 to 6000 years old Y'all missing this thing In other words, once you have a frontal lobe, You're going to create you're going to invent The frontal lobe is the part of your brain that allows you to be creative it allows you to be to innovate Now watch this.

It's also the part of your brain that allows you to worship Scripture says that God made man in his own image part of that part of that is this ability to connect with God on a higher level That happens In the frontal lobe of the brain and and let me let me summarize some things Let me do some foreshadowing in this message what the devil wants to do is get into your frontal lobe So what are the functions of the frontal lobe let's look at this let me show you this this is important, Right?

So in the frontal lobe is where reasoning happens.

Language, long-term memory, impulse control.

And that's actually by a chemical called GABA.

We'll come back to that in a little while.

Even social behavior, sexual behavior, all housed in the frontal lobe of your brain.

Because that is the part of your brain where salvation actually takes place.

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