Thanksgiving

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Short Summary

The discourse emphasizes the importance of faith as trust in God’s promises, illustrated through biblical examples like Abraham, Moses, and Noah, who believed in future events despite uncertainties. It highlights that true faith involves believing God’s word specifically, not just acknowledging His existence, and connects this faith to the hope of God’s promised kingdom, which is the central good news Christians are called to share. Additionally, it underscores the power of even small faith to overcome great challenges and the significance of thankfulness, as shown in the story of the healed lepers.

Long Summary

Detailed Summary of the Discourse on Faith, Thanksgiving, and the Kingdom

Theme and Context: 
– The discourse is delivered at a Thanksgiving convention, highlighting the significance of gratitude to God for faith and the divine plan. 
– The speaker notes the timing of Thanksgiving celebrations in Canada and the U.S., humorously pointing out Americans are “a little behind” Canadians. 
– Emphasis on daily thankfulness to the Heavenly Father for the common faith that unites the audience.

Personal Testimony and Audience Interaction: 
– The speaker shares a personal journey from Catholic upbringing to discovering the truth at about age 20, illustrating a transition from traditional religion to the current faith. 
– Audience participation is encouraged by raising hands to identify who did or did not grow up “in the truth,” showing that many came to faith later in life. 
– Recognition that both those raised in the truth and those called out of darkness have reasons to be thankful.

Faith: Its Importance and Definitions: 
– Faith is declared essential to Christianity and pleasing to God, citing Hebrews 11:6: “Without faith, it is impossible to please him.” 
– The speaker explores multiple definitions of faith: 
1. Trust or confidence in someone or something. 
2. A system of religious beliefs (e.g., Catholic faith, Muslim faith). 
3. Belief in a particular doctrine (e.g., belief in the Kingdom, Trinity). 
4. Belief or trust in future, unseen things (focus of the discourse). 
Hebrews 11:1 is quoted as a key definition: “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Biblical Examples of Faith: 
Abraham’s Faith: 
– Romans 4:13 emphasizes the promise to Abraham and his seed comes through faith, not law. 
– Genesis 15: Abraham trusts God’s promise of descendants as numerous as stars; believed God and it was credited as righteousness (Genesis 15:6). 
– Tested in Genesis 22 when asked to sacrifice Isaac; Abraham obeyed, believing God could raise Isaac from the dead (Hebrews 11:17-19). 
– Multiple scriptures affirm Abraham’s faith: Galatians 3:6, Romans 4:3, Romans 4:17, James 2:22. 
– Distinction made between “believing in God” (existence) and “believing God” (trusting His promises). James 2:19 highlights that devils believe in God’s existence but that alone is insufficient.

Moses’ Faith: 
– Forsook Egyptian royalty to suffer with God’s people (Hebrews 11). 
– Trusted God through years as a shepherd and in leading Israel out of Egypt. 
– Believed God’s instructions regarding plagues, Passover, and the Red Sea crossing.

Noah’s Faith: 
– Believed God’s warning of a flood, built an ark without prior experience (Hebrews 11:7). 
– Faith in unseen future events.

– Other faithful biblical figures mentioned include Daniel, Job, Elijah, Elisha, and faithful women.

Faith Today and the Future Kingdom: 
– The future unseen event to believe in is God’s promised Kingdom, blessing all families of the earth (Abrahamic promise). 
– Scriptures pointing to this future kingdom: Genesis 22, Isaiah 35, 1 Timothy 2 (all people ransomed), and the Lord’s Prayer “Thy kingdom come.” 
– Jesus’ preaching focused on the gospel of the kingdom (Matthew 4:23, 9:35). 
– Jesus commanded preaching this gospel globally (Matthew 24:14, Luke 9:2). 
– Paul links the gospel of the kingdom directly to the Abrahamic promise (Galatians 3:8). 
– The kingdom is the “good news” Christians are to proclaim.

Faith’s Power Illustrated – Moving Mountains: 
– Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 17:20 states that faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains, making all things possible. 
– Mustard seed symbolizes small but potent faith; mountains metaphorically represent large obstacles or kingdoms. 
– Biblical mountains often symbolize kingdoms or governments (e.g., Daniel 2’s statue and stone, Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 65:25, Zechariah 8:3, Isaiah 56:7). 
– Faith can “move” or overcome worldly governments and religious institutions—both literal and mental/spiritual obstacles. 
– The challenge is to have even a small amount of genuine faith to effect great change.

Story of the Ten Lepers (Luke 17:11-19): 
– Ten men with leprosy, symbolic of sin, call to Jesus for mercy but must keep distance due to the law. 
– Jesus instructs them to show themselves to the priest; all obey without hesitation and are healed as they go. 
– Only one, a Samaritan (historically despised by Jews), returns to give thanks and praise to Jesus. 
– Jesus notes the lack of gratitude from the other nine and confirms the Samaritan’s faith healed him. 
– This story illustrates the connection between faith and thankfulness, and the importance of expressing gratitude to God.

Summary and Encouragement: 
– The audience is encouraged to examine their faith—is it truly built on believing God’s promises? 
– Believing in the existence of God is not enough; faith involves trusting and acting on God’s word. 
– The kingdom is near; believers are on “God’s train” headed toward the kingdom’s blessings. 
– The speaker notes there are more than 400 scriptures about the kingdom, especially in Isaiah. 
– Emphasis on thankfulness for the faith and hope believers share.

Key Bible Verses Mentioned: 
– Hebrews 11:1, 6, 7, 17-19 
– Romans 4:3, 13, 17 
– Galatians 3:6, 8 
– James 2:19, 22 
– Matthew 4:23, 9:35, 17:20, 24:14 
– Luke 9:2, 17:11-19 
– Isaiah 11:9, 35, 56:7, 65:25 
– Zechariah 8:3 
– Acts 3:21-22 (about restitution and prophets like Moses) 
– 1 Timothy 2 (all ransomed)

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Overall, the discourse underscores the vital role of faith as trust in God’s promises about the future Kingdom, exemplified by biblical heroes, empowered even by small faith to overcome great challenges, and coupled inseparably with thankfulness to God.

Transcript

So our theme for this convention is it’s a Thanksgiving convention, and I know here in Canada, it was just a couple weeks ago that you had or you celebrated Thanksgiving, and in. Back in the States, we’re gonna celebrate Thanksgiving in about a month, so more proof that the Americans are always a little behind the Canadians. So.

But, you know, at least we have one day that we can reflect and to be thankful for, you know, that really the whole. The whole country is thankful, I would hope at least. But all of us are thankful every day to our heavenly Father. I know that. So one of the things that we can be exceedingly thankful for is what brings us all here together, all here today.

Something that we all share, and that is our faith. We all share a common belief, and I’m really thankful that God called me and showed me his wonderful, divine plan. You know, when I was. When I was brought up in the Catholic Church, I went to church faithfully every Sunday or Saturday as far back as I can remember, until I came in contact with the truth when I was about 20 years old.

That’s when I first came in contact with the truth. So, you know, that was like nine years ago, so you can do the math.

But I have a question for each of you, and that is you’re gonna. We’re gonna raise our hands, so everybody’s gonna get a chance to raise your hand. In fact, the way I have the questions worded, everybody is gonna have to. Right? Okay, so first question is this.

I’d like to ask how many of you, like me, did not grow up in the truth? Okay, just take a look around the room. To give you an idea, at least half, I would say, did not grow up in the truth. Maybe a little more. Okay.

By contrast, how many of you did have the benefit of growing up in the truth? I can’t raise my hand for this, so. Okay. Okay. A little less.

A little less, and I think. I think if we were to go to the general convention or a lot of conventions, might be a little bit more that grew up in the truth, and maybe in some cases a lot more. But here in Toronto, looks like more have not grown up in the truth. Okay, so for that group, I know that all of you who were called out of darkness from the world into the light are so thankful to truly know God.

Because you didn’t know God before.

You have this contrast in your life before and after darkness to light, wondering what is. To knowing what is from error to truth. You have an immense gratitude. You’re thankful for what you now Have. I also know that those of you who grew up with the truth are so grateful for the truth you’ve always had your whole life.

And I’m sure you can’t imagine what life would be like without knowing the truth and how thankful you must be as well. So we all have something to be thankful for. I said I went to church faithfully. I thought I was faithful. That’s what I was told.

Go to church to keep the faith once a week sounds easy, but is that really faith? More importantly, is that the faith God is looking for?

I think we would all agree that faith, or having faith is an essential element in order to be a Christian. It’s important. Is unquestioned, not only by us, but by all who claim to be Christians. But what is faith? What is real faith?

Ever since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door, claiming that you are saved by faith and not by the creeds of the church or by obedience to the church, or by indulgences for the church and so forth, Christians everywhere to this day realize that faith lies at the very foundation of who we are. Hebrews 11:6 says, without faith, it is impossible to please him.

So what is the faith that God is looking for? What is faith? How can we define it? What is it? How does it begin?

Are we on the right track? Going in the right direction? That’s important. Suppose we want to go to Vancouver. We’re going to stay in the country.

Okay, and we decide to take a train. Do we get on the first train that we see? For me, that was the Catholic Express. Do we get on the fanciest, most glamorous, expensive train?

That might be the televangelists, the deluxe coach. Maybe we should board the train that everyone else is getting on. It’s popular. I could be with the in crowd. How could that be the wrong one?

Is that the megachurch everyone is going to? So we jump on a train and we look out the window, and as we leave the station, we see train tracks going everywhere, all different directions. Are we on the right track?

Faith is a big subject. We can’t possibly cover it all. But by the time we’re done.

But by the time we’re done, we want to be able to say, my faith is built with gold, silver and precious stones. So we want to look at some examples of faith in the Bible and use that as a pattern as to what we should build on in the Gospel Age. That’s different maybe than the. The harvest time period. We know we’re in the harvest but what I’m going to look at today really covers the whole gospel age.

It’s. It’s for everyone in the gospel age, and let’s just define faith first. The word faith can be used in a multitude of ways.

One definition, first definition. It can mean simply trust or confidence in someone or something. Like you get in your car in the morning and you trust that it’s going to take you where you want to go usually. Or someone you know, you might have confidence in someone and you really believe that they’re going to come through for you. That’s this trust that you have faith in this person.

Number two, a system of religious beliefs. For instance, the Catholic faith or the Lutheran faith, or the Anglican faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith, or Hindu or, and so forth. Number three, faith could be a belief in a particular doctrine. For instance, we believe in the kingdom.

Others may believe in a burning hell, and the Trinity doctrine. Okay, there’s a difference. So definition number four. Finally, we can say it can be a belief or trust in something future, something not seen, maybe even something unlikely.

It’s this definition that I want to focus on today.

And we find a good definition In Hebrews, the 11th chapter and verse one gives us that definition. It says, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. In other words, future things that you’re hoping for. Now let’s look at the faith of Abraham. In Romans 4:13, we read, for the promise that this is speaking about Abraham.

For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Faith secures that promise. Faith is what God wants. The promise to Abraham was that all the families of the earth would be blessed through his seed. That includes the seed in the stars and the sand.

But Paul’s argument was that this promise was not secured by the works of the law, but solely on the basis of faith. Faith secures the future promises.

So in Genesis 15, after he faithfully entered Can Canaan, I’m going to use the word Abraham because it’s just easier. His name at this point was still Abram. Abram brought a concern to God. He had much land and riches, but he had no true heir to give it to, and God tells Abraham or Abram, you will have a son of your own.

And he takes him outside and says, if you can count the stars, that’s how many descendants you will have. This is a future promise, and was Abraham skeptical? He was old at that Time. No, in verse six it says, and he, Abraham, believed in the Lord.

And, and he counted it, and he, God counted it to him for righteousness, and here we begin to see what faith is. Abraham believed what God had promised to him and a future event.

And we see that what you believe is your faith. Now, later, God promised a son through Sarah, and it came to pass. She had a son, and she was old too.

She had a son, Isaac, and then God made one final great test for Abraham in Genesis 22, and we begin to see. We. We see again that Abraham obeyed God.

He believed God, and we know the account very well. Abraham took his son for a burnt offering. But as he was about to slay his son, as God had told him to do, an angel stopped him and he offered a ram caught in the thicket in place of his son. In Hebrews 11:17, it says, by faith, Abraham offered his son.

And in verse 19 he believed that God would raise Isaac from the dead after he was slain, and according to Abraham’s faith, God made a great promise to Abraham that we all know as the Abrahamic promise.

In Galatians 3:6, part of it says, Abraham believed God. In Romans 4:3, it says Abraham believed God. In Romans 4 17, it says, Abraham believed God, and in James 2:22, it says, Abraham believed God. Well, it’s no wonder Abraham had such a great faith.

He believed God. Is it that simple? Do we just need to believe God? I think it is. I think that’s the beginning of faith.

We must believe God.

Now, we want to say. We want to make a note here that these scriptures say Abraham believed God, not Abraham believed in God. There’s a big difference. When it says that Abraham believed God, it means that he believed in his existence.

He believed exactly what God had said and believed God’s promises. But believing in God’s existence, that’s fundamental, that’s obvious. But that’s not what constitutes faith. Abraham went far beyond believing in God. He believed God.

The scriptures clearly declare this. In James.

In James 2:19 we read speaking about faith, it says, thou believest that there is one God. Thou doest well. The devils also believe and tremble. Merely believing in the existence of God cannot be the extent of our faith, for even the devils believe that. So when we say we believe in God or we believe in Jesus, we must believe what they said.

By looking at Abraham’s faith or Moses faith or Noah’s faith as an example to us, we can begin to see how we should build our faith. This is just one small aspect of it that we’re looking at today. There’s a lot more. But looking at future events, future promises that God has spoken.

What about the faith of Moses?

He had faith to leave a position of favor in Pharaoh’s palace. He preferred to suffer with God’s people rather than to enjoy sin for a short time. This is in Hebrews 11 also he forsook Egypt. He believed God, and even when God sent him away to be a shepherd for 40 years, he still believed God.

He lost his pride and confidence. He learned to be humble. It was then that God could use his faith that he still had to lead his people out of Egypt. He believed God when he delivered the message to Pharaoh that the plagues were coming. He believed God when God told him to save the firstborn, the Israelites would need to keep the Passover and sprinkle the blood.

He believed God that God would deliver Israel from Pharaoh’s army when leading them through the Red Sea. Now these for him were near promises. They weren’t too far off in the future. But Moses believed God, and there are many more examples.

How about the faith of Daniel, of Job, Elijah and Elisha and many others, including women. They all believed God.

But let’s look at one more. Noah. Noah was warned of a coming flood and he believed God. He had never seen a flood before. God told him to build an ark and he built it.

Noah believed God. In fact, in Hebrews 11:7 it says by faith. Noah, being warned of God of things not seen, prepared an ark. Noah believed things unseen, things that had not yet happened, future events, and so it says of those ancient ones that they obtained a good report.

That’s how they built their faith. So we should build ours in a like manner. But are things unseen is different from theirs. While we believe the things that are not. While we believe these things, they are not future events for us.

Keep in mind. Look, we’re just looking at one aspect of faith. Past events like the death and resurrection of Jesus. These are past events. We believe them, of course, and believing them is essential to our faith.

But just keep, just kind of keep this in mind. This isn’t the only aspect of faith, but it’s an important one. So what is our future event that we should be looking for something unseen, something that we should believe. God has promised a kingdom of blessing to the whole world. Thankfully we are on the doorstep of these blessings to everyone and how thankful we can believe we we are about that.

Do we believe it?

Of course we do. But very few Christians believe this. It sets us Apart, we’re unique in this area of believing in the kingdom. We read about this future kingdom for all the families of the world. In Genesis 22, where it says all will be blessed.

In Isaiah 35 we have. It’s described for us a kingdom, a future kingdom where the ransomed of the Lord will come, and in First Timothy 2, we read that it shows that who is ransomed and it’s everyone, all the Lord’s Prayer. Thy kingdom come. These are the words of God.

So let’s talk about the kingdom.

You’ve heard of the gospel, the good news. What exactly is the good news? Well, Jesus tells us what the good news is. In Matthew 4:23, it says Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, the gospel of the kingdom throughout all Galilee, the kingdom is the good news. In Matthew 9:35, a little bit later, it says that Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.

This is what Jesus preached the kingdom to all the people everywhere he went. Now think about that. Maybe that’s what we should preach. If you’re not sure what to tell somebody, tell them about the kingdom. That’s what Jesus did to everyone.

In fact, in Matthew 24:14, Jesus says this good news, the gospel of the kingdom, shall be preached in all the world. Well, how’s that going to happen? The whole world? Here’s how it’s going to happen. Actually, we have a little instruction manual.

In Luke 9. 2, Jesus sends the 12 out to do something to preach the kingdom, and in the NLT version, it says it uses the word tell everyone. That’s what we’re to do also, and in Galatians 3.

8, Paul links this good news directly to the Abrahamic promise that all the nations be blessed. That’s the kingdom, the gospel, the good news, the kingdom, it’s all the same thing. When you hear the word gospel, you should be thinking kingdom.

We have a good God and we have a lot to be thankful for.

I have another question for you. Is there a clock here? I don’t know. I have no idea. What time is it?

Okay. Okay. I have another question for you. Can you move a mountain? Anybody?

Can you move a mountain? I see a head shaking. Yes, over here, too. Okay, okay. Maybe, maybe not.

Okay, let’s read Matthew.

I had all this in order.

Guess I didn’t bring that with me. We’ll look at. Look it up directly. Matthew 17:20.

Matthew 17:20 says, you don’t have enough faith, and this is. This is after the disciples came to him and asked why they couldn’t cast out devils, and he said, you don’t have enough faith. Jesus told them, I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it would move.

Nothing would be impossible.

So here Jesus is making a little comparison. If you have the faith of just a small amount of faith, like the size of a mustard seed, your troubles, your difficulties, your trials, your testings that seem like a mountain in your path can be moved or removed from your path. Now, you all know how large a mustard seed is. I have a mustard seed here. One mustard seed in this little bottle.

Sure you can’t see it. Where’s the camera? Okay, I have a little. A little. One mustard seed in this bottle.

Okay. It’s really tiny. Now compare that to a mountain. You’ve all driven up into the mountains. They’re huge, they’re majestic.

If you have the faith, like a mustard seed can move a mountain. Now, a mustard seed represents our faith that we’re told that directly in a mountain can be our difficulties or trials. We’re not told that implicitly, but it does seem like a good fit, a reasonable fit. But let’s look at this a little bit deeper. There’s an additional thought, I think.

In scripture, mountains represent kingdoms.

And so we have a number of examples of mountains picturing God’s kingdom. Of course, in Daniel, the second chapter, it talks about these kingdoms of this world being removed, and a stone hits the image and grows into a mountain, covers the whole earth. Okay? That’s God’s kingdom.

And also we can Read in Isaiah 9, 11, 9. Read that.

Isaiah 11:9 says, Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain. For as the waters fill the sea, so the earth shall be filled with people who know the lord. In Isaiah 65, we can read in Isaiah 65, 25, it says, the wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat hay like a cow, but the snake will eat dust. In those days, no one will hurt or.

Or destroy. In all my holy mountain, I, the Lord have spoken, and in Zechariah is another Nice example, Zechariah 8, 3, it says, and now the Lord says, I am returning to Mount Zion, and I will live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the faithful city. The mountain of the Lord, of heaven, of heaven’s armies will be called the holy mountain.

All right, so we have a lot of examples here of mountains representing kingdoms And I’ll read one more. Isaiah 56, Isaiah 56, 7. Isaiah 56, 7 says, I will bring my holy mountain of Jerusalem and will fill them with joy in my house of prayer. So again, we have a lot of pictures of mountains, and just with a little bit of faith like that of a mustard seed, you’ll be moving mountains and helping grow God’s holy mountain.

Now, I think that the mountains of this world will be gone. The governments, the religious institutions of today when the people return from the grave and in their minds, they will remember these great governments of this world, the literal governments in so forth, they’ll be gone. But the governments and religious orders will still be in their minds when they come back. The Catholics, the Hindu, the Buddhists, the Muslims. How hard or how long will it take to convince a Muslim that he was wrong and that the Jews were right?

Well, we hope it won’t take too long. But these mountains in the minds of the people, that we will move or be a part of moving. So that’s something we can be thankful for. So if you have. It just starts with a little bit of faith.

If you have a little bit of faith, you will be able to move mountains.

Time is it anyways.

Okay, all right. Okay, so we’re going to read something in Luke. Read something in Luke, and here we. We find something where we have a story.

And this story is about faith and thankfulness, and so it’s kind of a nice example here. So let’s take a look at Luke, the 17th chapter. I think you all remember this story. Let’s see, Luke 17, verse 11 through 19.

And I think we have time to read, read that, and this is talking about the lepers that were healed. Ten of them, and so it says in verse 11, as Jesus continued on towards Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria, and he entered a village there.

And 10 men with leprosy stood at a distance. Now, if you had leprosy, you can keep in mind that leprosy represents sin. But these 10 men stood at a distance. They weren’t allowed to go and mingle with the people. They had to keep their distance.

This was an absolute law. So they cried out to Jesus, master, have mercy on us, and he looked at them and said, go show yourselves to the priest. Now he had to go show himself to the priest because they needed approval from the priests to re enter the community. It was the priest who declared them clean.

And they were not clean. So they couldn’t approach Jesus. They couldn’t mingle with the People, they couldn’t, you know, go. Go up close to Jesus, and Jesus realized this.

And when they said, jesus, Master, have mercy on us. He said, go show yourselves to the priests, and so the priests, they did. All 10 of them. All 10 of them, they didn’t question it.

They didn’t. They didn’t debate this. It wasn’t, you know, go dip yourself in the Jordan or go do something. Just go show yourself to the priest, and so it shows that these ten all had faith.

It didn’t hesitate. Doesn’t appear that they hesitated. They went straight to the priest to be declared clean, and as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy. So they had faith and they did what Jesus told them to do, to go straight to the priest.

And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus. Praise God. He fell on the ground at Jesus feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan. Now, if you know anything about the Samaritans, the Samaritans were.

There was a big battle between the Jews and the Samaritans. The Samaritans came into being or originated back in the days when Babylon took the Jews captive, and some of the Jews who remained in the land married, intermingled and married with the conquerors, the Assyrians and the Babylonians. Okay, they, and they. They took up their gods and, and so forth.

So when. When the Jews returned from Babylon and built their temple and built their city, the Samaritans built their own temple, and they kind of had. They had a rival temple going back and forth, and.

And so the Jews didn’t like that. So they attacked the Samaritans and tried to destroy their temple, and, and so there’s been this bad blood between the Samaritans and the Jews for a long time, and it continued all the way into Jesus day.

And so the one who came back this despised, the one that was looked down upon by most Jews, came back and thanked Jesus, and Jesus asked, didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give glory to God except for this foreigner? Jesus said to the man, stand up and go.

Your faith has healed you. Now all of them were healed. But the Samaritan had a special faith. He was. He was thankful.

He was maybe healed in his mind a little more than the others because he was thankful, and Jesus says, your faith has healed you. So here we have a story where you have faith and you have thankfulness. It’s a little bittersweet because only one came back to give thanks, and so, you know, we want to always be thankful.

This is, this is very important. Now we talk about the ancient worthies and they believed God. They believed in God’s future promises, and for us, our future event is the kingdom. Are you on the right track?

Is your train going in the right direction? God’s train is headed straight for the kingdom, and that’s the train we want to be on God’s train because we believe God. In Acts 3 we read.

I had all these scriptures written down and I don’t see them any where.

Acts 3 it says that God in verse 18. But God was fulfilling what all the holy prophets since the world began had foretold about the Messiah. Oh, it’s not the one I was looking for. Sorry. God promised long ago through his holy prophets that God will raise up you a prophet like me from your own people.

It’s still not the one I was looking for.

Well, I think you’re familiar with the. The Bible phrase in Acts. It’s in chapter three. This is a different version that I’m not completely used to, but it says that, that God has promised this time of restitution by all the holy prophets since the world began. Now there’s more than 400 scriptures.

I heard an elder, I don’t remember who it was, but one of them elders said there’s more than 400 scriptures that he was able to identify that talked about the kingdom.

Is it. What? Foreign.

I’m sorry, what was that? Acts 3. 22, right? 322. Okay, let’s.

Let’s just read that.

21. Yeah. Okay. For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things. This is the NLT version.

As God promised long ago through his holy prophets, Moses said, the Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything he tells you. So we know that all the holy prophets since the world began have spoken about this kingdom, and there’s more than 400 scriptures, and you know, if you want a lot of them all at once, just read Isaiah.

Isaiah is. Has so many about the kingdom. So brethren, we have very much to be thankful for, and because we believe in the kingdom, and we’re looking forward to that kingdom pretty soon, so may the Lord add his blessing.

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