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Anchor Point Films

Chad Kreuzer

Surety in the Last Days

Hi there, my name is Chad Kruiser with Anchor Point Films and my wife and I, Fadia, travel around full time producing documentary films and also speaking, lecturing around the world on subjects like the gut-brain connection, overcoming depression.

We also talk on overcoming depression and overcoming addictions also.

And if you have any interest in learning more about our ministry, go to our website anchorpointfilms.com.

But before we begin, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Heavenly Father, thank you for the opportunity we've had.

What an amazing time that You've blessed us with, being able to come out into nature.

Like Jesus said to His disciples, come and rest awhile.

We've had this opportunity to come together.

Father, I know for some of these things may be new.

Some of these things may be strange and even difficult.

But we know that when our Savior Jesus came, there were also struggles that the people had to wrestle with as they were coming back to the Word of God.

And we pray that as we look at Jesus again this morning through your scriptures, that your Holy Spirit would guide.

John Hus was a Reformer and he had been preaching the Gospel.

And in his day, these were still the days where it was illegal to own the Bible, the Roman church had made it illegal, and John Hus was the greatest preacher of his day.

He was captured by the Church of Rome, but he stood firm to the end.

2 of the heresies that he had clung to, 2 of the heresies had to do with, number 1, that Jesus was the only way, He was the only head of the church.

He was teaching that those who truly follow Jesus Christ are truly followers of God, and for this, He had to lose His life.

But as He went to His death, He said they gave Him an opportunity to let go of His faith.

And just before they were to execute Him, just before that, they said, okay, you'll have an opportunity.

If you'll recant, if you'll let go of your teachings, you can go free.

And He said, I will die for the messages I have been teaching gladly.

Gladly willing to yield your life for Jesus and this book.

And then after he was executed, sometime later his friend and contemporary, a man by the name of Johann Hus, or John Hus as we call him.

And John Hus was the reformer of the city of Prague.

It's the most beautiful city I've ever been to.

It's a city that was not destroyed by the bombs of World War II, and so you have this very old architecture that is still there today.

And you can go see the Reformation site of this great reformer, Jerome.

And he had seen his friend or he knew that his friend and contemporary John Haas had gone to his death and the time came for Jerome also to be killed.

For almost a year, he was in a cold, wet dungeon without sufficient covering to keep him warm.

We are told that his flesh literally began to rot off of his body.

It was so traumatic that finally he told them, I'm willing to recant my faith.

Then they sent him back to the dungeon again to give him some time.

And then they brought him forth to give his full recantation, the full letting go of his faith.

And as he came forward, as he was in his dungeon the second time, his memories of his friend John Hassan, how he faithfully had gone to his death and how he himself, Jerome, had not done that.

He had allowed the torture to sever or sunder his relationship with Jesus.

And he decided when I go forth, I would rather die.

I will recant my recantation and I will tell them I cannot let go of Jesus.

And so the time came and notice what we read.

Jerome was then brought to the stake where he was to yield his life.

He said, prove to me from the holy writings that I am in error and I will abjure it.

The holy writings exclaimed 1 of his tempters.

Who can understand them until the church has interpreted them?

He came back with, are the traditions of men more worthy of faith than the gospel of our Savior?

Paul did not exhort those to whom he wrote to listen to the traditions of men, but said, search the Scriptures.

I repent having pleaded so long with you.

I see that you are urged on by the devil, " they said to him, because he wouldn't let go of this.

His last words uttered as the flames rose about him were a prayer, Lord Almighty Father, He cried, have pity on me and pardon my sins, for Thou knowest that I have always loved Thy truth.

This man went to the flames for his Savior, Jesus Christ.

Something as simple as saying, I will let go of my beliefs, could allow you to live peacefully the rest of your life.

And yet this man, after being tortured, the torture broke him.

But finally, he decided, I will not let go of my Savior.

Someone who is firm and never swerves from the path of duty.

Or whether you're a husk or whether you're a Jerome, and you've stumbled and fallen, the good news is Jesus will be with you.

But he said, Lord, you know that I have always loved your what?

And you remember the experience of Jesus?

Jesus was before Pilate, the Roman governor.

And while he's before Pilate, we read in John 8 in verse 33, Pilate therefore entered again into the praetorium, called Jesus and said to him, are you the king of the Jews?

Jesus answered him, do you say this by yourself or did others tell you about me?' Pilate answered, "'I'm not a Jew, am I?

"'Your own nation, "'and the chief priests delivered you to me, what have you done?' Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world.

If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here.' Pilate therefore said to him, "'Are you a king then?' Jesus answered, "'You say that I am a king.

For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world that I should testify to the truth.

Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice." Pilate said to him, What is truth?

He asked him the question, what is truth?

And notice what he does immediately after asking him.

When he had said this, he went out again.

You know, there's 2 reasons that people ask questions.

Sometimes we ask questions, not because we actually wanna know the answer, but because we're trying to bring up an objection so we don't have to follow what we see is actually the direction God is pointing.

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