Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 188 - Twelve Hours
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- 0:13Speaker 1: Less it be the name of the Lord, our God,
- 0:15Speaker 1: who has enabled us, called us, annoying us, and appointed
- 0:20Speaker 1: us for such a time as this. We welcome you once
- 0:23Speaker 1: again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries
- 0:27Speaker 1: USA podcast. I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and
- 0:33Speaker 1: we continue by the grace of God. Having obtained help
- 0:36Speaker 1: from the Lord, we thank him again for this day
- 0:39Speaker 1: that he has a man again allowed us the opportunity
- 0:43Speaker 1: to speak forth the word of the Lord in truth,
- 0:46Speaker 1: in plainness of speech, with soberness a man and prayerfully
- 0:52Speaker 1: with a man the heart of God uh reaching out
- 0:57Speaker 1: and touching and knocking at someone's door that they may
- 1:01Speaker 1: open and see and know and come to a man
- 1:04Speaker 1: a right relationship with Jesus Christ, who is the savior
- 1:08Speaker 1: of all them that will believe. So that is our prayer,
- 1:11Speaker 1: that is our hope. That is the aim of this
- 1:14Speaker 1: ministry to draw people nearer to Jesus Christ, our Lord.
- 1:19Speaker 1: And we thank you each and everyone for your prayers,
- 1:23Speaker 1: for your support. A man for the work of this ministry,
- 1:26Speaker 1: a man God will always provide. He will never be
- 1:30Speaker 1: without a witness. And we just want to be counted
- 1:33Speaker 1: faithful a man as witnesses as ambassadors of Jesus Christ
- 1:39Speaker 1: in such a time as this, Again, a man, we
- 1:43Speaker 1: welcome each and every one of you who faithfully listen
- 1:46Speaker 1: to this podcast, and we certainly as always invite you to,
- 1:52Speaker 1: if you have not already, to become a subscriber, and
- 1:56Speaker 1: pleased by all means, share it with someone else.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Amen.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Our soul endeavor is to spread the truth of the
- 2:05Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the Word of the Living
- 2:08Speaker 1: God by which we are to live. Man is not
- 2:12Speaker 1: to live by bread alone, but by every word that
- 2:15Speaker 1: proceeds out of the mouth of God. Again, Amen, we
- 2:20Speaker 1: are grateful, we are thankful, and we bless the name
- 2:23Speaker 1: of the Lord. All right, the Gospel of John chapter eleven.
- 2:26Speaker 1: If you have your bibles today, we're going to a
- 2:28Speaker 1: man continueing our focus on Jesus Christ, our Savior, Redeemer
- 2:33Speaker 1: and Lord.
- 2:34Speaker 2: It's all about Jesus.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Before we begin reading the Gospel of John chapter eleven,
- 2:41Speaker 1: let's take just a quick moment to, of course, a man,
- 2:44Speaker 1: invoke the presence of the Lord Father. Again, we are
- 2:47Speaker 1: grateful to you for your mercy new this morning, your faithfulness,
- 2:51Speaker 1: your goodness, and your mercy that follows us all the
- 2:53Speaker 1: days of our lives, and we dwell in your presence.
- 2:59Speaker 1: We abide under the shadow of the wings of the Almighty.
- 3:02Speaker 1: In you we have protection. In you, we have peace.
- 3:05Speaker 1: In you, we have joy, love and contentment. So help
- 3:09Speaker 1: us to walk worthy of this vocation, speaking the truth
- 3:12Speaker 1: in our hearts, O Lord, that we might be found
- 3:15Speaker 1: blameless and faultless before your presence, with exceeding joy. God
- 3:20Speaker 1: be glorified in your people. Everywhere we give thanks for
- 3:22Speaker 1: all things. Amen and Amen all right. The Gospel of
- 3:27Speaker 1: John Amen, chapter number e eleven. Now a certain man
- 3:35Speaker 1: was sick, named Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary
- 3:40Speaker 1: and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which anointed
- 3:44Speaker 1: the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Whose brother Lazarus was sick. Therefore, his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold,
- 3:57Speaker 1: he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that,
- 4:02Speaker 1: he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for
- 4:07Speaker 1: the glory of God, that the Son of God might
- 4:11Speaker 1: be glorified thereby. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister
- 4:18Speaker 1: and Lazarus. When he had heard therefore that he was sick.
- 4:24Speaker 1: He abode two days still in the same place where
- 4:30Speaker 1: he was. Then after that saith he to his disciples,
- 4:37Speaker 1: let us go into Judea again.
- 4:42Speaker 2: His disciples say.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee,
- 4:51Speaker 1: and goest thou thither again. Jesus answered, are there not
- 4:57Speaker 1: twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in
- 5:02Speaker 1: the day, he stumbleth not because he seeth the light
- 5:06Speaker 1: of this world.
- 5:09Speaker 2: But if a man walk.
- 5:10Speaker 1: In the night, he stumbleth because there is no light
- 5:17Speaker 1: in him. Amen, Our focus today is on these two
- 5:23Speaker 1: words twelve hours twelve hours. Get to that in just
- 5:30Speaker 1: a moment. But what we desperately need to understand is
- 5:36Speaker 1: that we need light. Man desperately need light. Sin and
- 5:46Speaker 1: depravity in the heart blinds us to this desperate need
- 5:53Speaker 1: of ours. We cease to exist, Ladies and gentlemen. Without
- 5:59Speaker 1: life light, we simply cease to exist. We must have light.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Light gives us life. He himself, Jesus. Of course, God
- 6:16Speaker 1: himself is light, and in him, the Bible says, is
- 6:21Speaker 1: no darkness at all. It is God who spoke light
- 6:26Speaker 1: into the darkness. You remember in the creation a man
- 6:30Speaker 1: in the beginning a man. God created the heavens and
- 6:34Speaker 1: the earth a man, and then God spoke light into existence.
- 6:42Speaker 1: He said, let there be light. And light, of course,
- 6:47Speaker 1: emanates exclusively from God. God spoke the light into the
- 6:54Speaker 1: darkness to dispel the darkness and to give to us
- 6:59Speaker 1: the daylight in which we are to operate and to
- 7:03Speaker 1: thrive in this present world. I find these words of Jesus, however,
- 7:09Speaker 1: concerning the day and the night, to be quite profound.
- 7:13Speaker 1: From sunrise to sunset, we typically have twelve hours of
- 7:19Speaker 1: light in which we are to work. While we have
- 7:23Speaker 1: that light, the light of which we speak, of course,
- 7:28Speaker 1: is natural light. We're talking about the sun when it rises,
- 7:32Speaker 1: as it were, and when the sun sets, of course,
- 7:36Speaker 1: daylight is no more.
- 7:38Speaker 2: And we are in darkness. Now.
- 7:41Speaker 1: We'll get to the artificial light in just a moment.
- 7:43Speaker 1: But the light of which we speak, of course, is
- 7:46Speaker 1: this natural God given light a man, when He again
- 7:51Speaker 1: in creation said let there be light. Now, if you
- 7:57Speaker 1: go back and read the order of creation, will find
- 8:01Speaker 1: that the light that we operate by, at least again
- 8:06Speaker 1: from the natural perspective, the sunlight was not created until
- 8:13Speaker 1: the fourth day of creation, but from the beginning, when
- 8:17Speaker 1: God said, let there be light. There was no sun,
- 8:21Speaker 1: there was no moon, there were no stars. A man.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Light again emanates from God. And when you go to
- 8:29Speaker 1: the book of Revelation a Man, the revelation of Jesus Christ,
- 8:34Speaker 1: you will find in reading a man, when you get
- 8:38Speaker 1: to the end of the Book of Revelation, that in
- 8:42Speaker 1: heaven in glory, there is no sun, there is no moon,
- 8:46Speaker 1: because God again is light, the light of the lamb,
- 8:51Speaker 1: the light of God himself. A man shines, and there
- 8:56Speaker 1: will be no night. By the way, in heaven there
- 8:59Speaker 1: will be no night. Again, we're speaking from the natural
- 9:04Speaker 1: perspective when we're talking about these twelve hours of daylight
- 9:09Speaker 1: that we have in which on average, in which we
- 9:12Speaker 1: have to work. So in response to this perceived threat,
- 9:18Speaker 1: we read in this narrative about Jesus going to marry
- 9:23Speaker 1: in Martha for the cause of their brother that was sick.
- 9:28Speaker 1: And Jesus lingered, of course a little while, and then
- 9:31Speaker 1: he said to a disciples, let us go into Judea.
- 9:34Speaker 1: And the disciples and man of course said to Jesus, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Master.
- 9:38Speaker 1: The Jews of late they sought to stone you, they
- 9:42Speaker 1: sought to kill you. So In response to this perceived
- 9:45Speaker 1: threat to his life by the disciples reminding Jesus of
- 9:49Speaker 1: this a man, Jesus replied to them with a question
- 9:54Speaker 1: about the number of hours in the day. He said,
- 9:56Speaker 1: is there not twelve hours in a day? Now? I
- 10:02Speaker 1: find it profound these words of Jesus, of course, and
- 10:06Speaker 1: I believe we must, if we think on this, linger
- 10:11Speaker 1: no longer procrastinating while we have day, while we have
- 10:19Speaker 1: these twelve hours, first of all, and our supposedly more
- 10:26Speaker 1: technologically advanced world. Of of course, we are now fast paced.
- 10:34Speaker 1: We are basically at least And again this is just
- 10:37Speaker 1: very deceptive, by the way, you know, how we have
- 10:42Speaker 1: supposedly advanced. We are in a world of fast paced,
- 10:47Speaker 1: around the clock productivity and activity, and we mistakenly believe
- 10:54Speaker 1: we're under the illusion that we are operating with more
- 10:59Speaker 1: time each day than in previous generations and civilizations. This is,
- 11:07Speaker 1: in my opinion, strong opinion from which I gather from
- 11:14Speaker 1: again the word of God. I believe this isn't. This
- 11:19Speaker 1: is an artificial illusion a man, and it's based on
- 11:23Speaker 1: artificial light. Again, because the light by which we operate
- 11:28Speaker 1: at night is man made. Although again God gives to
- 11:33Speaker 1: us wisdom and ability and all of that technology. And
- 11:36Speaker 1: by the way, let me just go back into the
- 11:40Speaker 1: days of Jesus, since we're reading from the Gospel of John,
- 11:44Speaker 1: and if you read further into the Gospel of John,
- 11:47Speaker 1: when Jesus was taken into custody, as it were, by
- 11:53Speaker 1: the soldiers sent from the a man of rulers of
- 11:57Speaker 1: the Jews, a man in order for him to be
- 12:00Speaker 1: a man tried by an illegal, you know, gathering of
- 12:07Speaker 1: the Sanhedrin at night, Ladies and gentlemen. It happened in
- 12:12Speaker 1: the dark. It happened at night when they came to
- 12:17Speaker 1: take Jesus. Now, if there's no light, where did they
- 12:22Speaker 1: how could they see? They had light, They had lanterns
- 12:26Speaker 1: and torches. The Bible says, when they came to take Jesus,
- 12:30Speaker 1: they were able, just as we are to operate to
- 12:34Speaker 1: some extent at night.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Amen.
- 12:39Speaker 1: But of course, now, of course we are more technologically,
- 12:42Speaker 1: supposedly advanced, and we can supposedly work twenty four hours
- 12:49Speaker 1: a day even after the sun. The natural light, the
- 12:54Speaker 1: light that God created, the light that God spoken to existence,
- 12:58Speaker 1: has in essence go down again. Speaking from the sunrise
- 13:04Speaker 1: sunset perspective, a man, we live under the illusion that
- 13:12Speaker 1: we have more time. But ladies and gentlemen, we have
- 13:18Speaker 1: twelve hours in a day in which we must work.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Now again, from the biblical perspective, there's spiritual a man
- 13:33Speaker 1: meaning if you will, when he the Bible refers to
- 13:37Speaker 1: day and night. When the Bible refers to light and darkness.
- 13:43Speaker 1: So what is the implication of what Jesus is saying
- 13:48Speaker 1: or asking concerning the hours in a day when we
- 13:52Speaker 1: speak of these twelve hours. Well, again, from the natural perspective,
- 13:56Speaker 1: we only have twelve hours and not to twenty four
- 14:00Speaker 1: hours in which we must work. If it would listen,
- 14:07Speaker 1: this is based on what Jesus said, if any man
- 14:12Speaker 1: walk in the day, This is what Jesus says. Twelve
- 14:16Speaker 1: are there not twelve hours in a day? If any
- 14:21Speaker 1: man walk in the day, Jesus says, within the time
- 14:27Speaker 1: while it is day, he does not stumble because he
- 14:36Speaker 1: has the light of this world by which to walk.
- 14:41Speaker 2: Now again, here what light.
- 14:43Speaker 1: Remember the spirit spiritual implications of light and darkness, day
- 14:47Speaker 1: and night. If you walk in the day, you will
- 14:51Speaker 1: not stumble, stumble, Jesus says. However, on the other hand,
- 14:56Speaker 1: if a man Jesus says, walk in the night, he
- 15:02Speaker 1: stumbleth because there is no light in him. The man
- 15:11Speaker 1: has no light in him, of him from him. Now,
- 15:20Speaker 1: notice again, Jesus did not say to the man, there's
- 15:22Speaker 1: no light available to him that could illuminate his pathway.
- 15:26Speaker 2: Jesus said that there.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Is no light in the man. Walk in the day,
- 15:35Speaker 1: and we have the light that God has provided for us.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Walk in the night, and we have no light, no
- 15:49Speaker 1: light in us. Now again, you can use the artificial
- 15:54Speaker 1: light of man, but you're still in the darkness. It
- 15:58Speaker 1: is not possible for us to walk in the night,
- 16:02Speaker 1: because ladies and gentlemen, we have no light. So this,
- 16:08Speaker 1: in essence means that our days, which we perceive, which
- 16:15Speaker 1: we think to be twenty four hours, are shortened by
- 16:20Speaker 1: half seeing ladies and gentlemen, that we cannot walk in
- 16:28Speaker 1: the night season without stumbling. We only have daylight, the
- 16:36Speaker 1: daylight of the twelve hours that Jesus spoke of.
- 16:43Speaker 2: In which to walk.
- 16:47Speaker 1: Now, if we only have twelve hours in a day,
- 16:52Speaker 1: is it therefore not all the more incumbent upon us.
- 16:59Speaker 2: To our days? I believe that the lesson to be.
- 17:06Speaker 1: Extracted from the words of Jesus is that we, just
- 17:14Speaker 1: as he did, have a limited amount of days in
- 17:22Speaker 1: which we are to walk in the light and not
- 17:27Speaker 1: stumble in the darkness of this world. The man who
- 17:33Speaker 1: walks in the day does not stumble. Jesus say, Remember
- 17:37Speaker 1: what Jesus said, if you walk in the day, if
- 17:41Speaker 1: you walk in the light, in other words, you do
- 17:45Speaker 1: not stumble. Now what light is Jesus referring to? Is
- 17:56Speaker 1: he talking about the light of the sun that he
- 18:00Speaker 1: spoke into existence, that he created.
- 18:04Speaker 2: I think not.
- 18:06Speaker 1: I think, I believe, I'm assured, I'm persuaded, And the
- 18:11Speaker 1: Bible affirms this. Jesus is the light by which a
- 18:17Speaker 1: man must walk if he is not too stumble. John
- 18:24Speaker 1: chapter one, there was a man sent from God verse
- 18:29Speaker 1: number six, whose name was John. The same came for
- 18:32Speaker 1: a witness, to bear witness of the light. Who was John,
- 18:39Speaker 1: John the Baptist, the forerunner of Who was he speaking
- 18:43Speaker 1: of preaching about? Who was going to come to baptize
- 18:49Speaker 1: men with the Holy ghost and fire?
- 18:51Speaker 2: Was it not Jesus.
- 18:53Speaker 1: Jesus is the light of which John the Baptist came
- 18:58Speaker 1: to bear witness of the Bible says that all men
- 19:03Speaker 1: through him might believe he was not that light. John
- 19:06Speaker 1: the Baptist was not that light, but was sent to
- 19:10Speaker 1: bear witness of that light.
- 19:11Speaker 2: That's verse number eight.
- 19:13Speaker 1: That was the true light, which lighteth every man that
- 19:20Speaker 1: cometh into the world light light day. Walk in the day,
- 19:30Speaker 1: Walk in the light. Walk by the light of the day.
- 19:34Speaker 1: That light, ladies and gentlemen, is Jesus again in the
- 19:38Speaker 1: Gospel of John, speaking of light, Amen Jesus. John chapter eight,
- 19:45Speaker 1: verse twelve says to these who are within earshot of
- 19:54Speaker 1: his teaching. I am the light of the world. He
- 20:03Speaker 1: that followeth me shall not walk in darkness. There you
- 20:10Speaker 1: have it, ladies and gentlemen, but shall have the light
- 20:16Speaker 1: of life. Jesus is the light that gives us life
- 20:25Speaker 1: and the only way that we can live, the only
- 20:28Speaker 1: way to live, the only way to walk, the only
- 20:32Speaker 1: way to have life, is to walk in the light.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Walk in the day, ladies and gentlemen, Walk in Jesus.
- 20:42Speaker 1: He is the light, He is the Day, the proof,
- 20:50Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, that Jesus is that light is the
- 20:56Speaker 1: Jews themselves, stumbling in.
- 21:01Speaker 2: The daylight.
- 21:03Speaker 1: With the incontrovertible manifestation of Jesus, their long awaited and
- 21:11Speaker 1: promised Messiah shining all around them. They stumbled in the
- 21:20Speaker 1: day time with the light of glory, with the light
- 21:26Speaker 1: of heaven right there in The Bible says, they stumbled
- 21:30Speaker 1: at that stumbling stone, that rock of offense. They were
- 21:36Speaker 1: offended in Jesus, by Jesus. They stumbled in broad daylight
- 21:46Speaker 1: while Jesus performed his work in their midst while Jesus
- 21:52Speaker 1: spoke words of life. He said, the words that I
- 21:55Speaker 1: speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Remember these words of Jesus. Also in Jung's Gospel, chapter nine,
- 22:05Speaker 1: verse number four, he says, I must work the works.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Of Him that sent me while it is day.
- 22:21Speaker 1: The night cometh when no man can work.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Again, Jesus is.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Not talking about again this division of night and day
- 22:40Speaker 1: in the natural. No, ladies and gentlemen, No, you and
- 22:46Speaker 1: I must work while it is day. In other words,
- 22:54Speaker 1: while we have the light, while we have Jesus, while
- 22:58Speaker 1: we have life that comes, while we have Him illuminating.
- 23:03Speaker 1: The Bible says, Jesus is the light that lighteth every
- 23:07Speaker 1: man that comes into the world. The Bible says, the
- 23:08Speaker 1: grace of God that brings salvation appears to all men,
- 23:12Speaker 1: teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly loess, to live righteously,
- 23:16Speaker 1: to live soberly, to live godly right here in this
- 23:20Speaker 1: present world. God commanded the light to shine out of
- 23:24Speaker 1: the darkness. And that light, ladies and gentlemen, is Jesus
- 23:29Speaker 1: to shine in our hearts, to show us the way,
- 23:35Speaker 1: to teach us, to guide us into the day.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Wow, it is day.
- 23:44Speaker 1: Twelve hours, Jesus said, listen, twelve hours in the day.
- 23:54Speaker 1: There's no working in the night season. There is no
- 23:58Speaker 1: walking in the night season, only stumbling. If you're trying
- 24:04Speaker 1: to walk, if you're trying to work in the night season,
- 24:08Speaker 1: you're in darkness. You're stumbling. We must walk in the day,
- 24:15Speaker 1: and we must.
- 24:16Speaker 2: Work whilely this day twelve hours.
- 24:22Speaker 1: We have twelve hours to walk, for the night comes,
- 24:29Speaker 1: in which no man can work. No man can walk
- 24:34Speaker 1: without stumbling. Again, to work or to walk in man
- 24:45Speaker 1: made artificial light, it's still darkness because again man has
- 24:56Speaker 1: no light in him.
- 24:59Speaker 2: Go.
- 25:00Speaker 1: God alone is light, and God divided the light from
- 25:06Speaker 1: the darkness, and the day from night. You're either in
- 25:12Speaker 1: the day in the light, or you're in the night
- 25:16Speaker 1: and in the darkness. Let me close with these words
- 25:20Speaker 1: from Romans thirteen, verse eleven, And that knowing the time,
- 25:29Speaker 1: that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.
- 25:37Speaker 1: For now is our salvation nearer than when we believe.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Listen what the wible says verse twelve. The night is
- 25:48Speaker 1: far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore
- 25:56Speaker 1: cast off the works of darkness, and let us put
- 26:02Speaker 1: on the armor of light. There is a difference, ladies
- 26:06Speaker 1: and gentlemen. There is a distinction. There is a line
- 26:10Speaker 1: of demarcation. Light and darkness cannot coexist. They cannot dwell together.
- 26:17Speaker 1: When light is present, darkness ceases to exist. Verse thirteen.
- 26:25Speaker 1: Let us walk honestly as in the day. You see
- 26:29Speaker 1: this in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not
- 26:37Speaker 1: in chambering and wantonness, not in.
- 26:42Speaker 2: Strife and envying.
- 26:44Speaker 1: But put ye by the way, all of those things
- 26:47Speaker 1: of the night of the darkness. But put ye on
- 26:53Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ verse fourteen. And make not provision
- 26:58Speaker 1: for the flesh to fulfill the luss thereof We are
- 27:07Speaker 1: to know the time twelve hours, Jesus says, to walk
- 27:15Speaker 1: in the day. It is much later than we think.
- 27:24Speaker 1: Know that the night is far spent. The Bible says,
- 27:28Speaker 1: know that the day is at hand, twelve hours to walk,
- 27:32Speaker 1: twelve hours to work my life. Your life is but
- 27:38Speaker 1: a vapor. We must work while it is day. We
- 27:44Speaker 1: have no time.
- 27:47Speaker 2: To waste the way.
- 27:50Speaker 1: We only have twelve hours, for the night comes when
- 27:59Speaker 1: no man can work. Father, help us to redeem the time,
- 28:05Speaker 1: because the days are evil. We are of the light,
- 28:09Speaker 1: children of the light, not of the night, not of
- 28:14Speaker 1: the darkness. So Lord, we pray that the light of
- 28:18Speaker 1: your glory will shine through us, that men will see,
- 28:23Speaker 1: that men will come out of the darkness, that men
- 28:25Speaker 1: will come to know that you are the true and
- 28:28Speaker 1: living God, that you are the light of the world.
- 28:30Speaker 1: You're the light by which they must live and have life,
- 28:33Speaker 1: and have it more abundantly. Be thou glorified, be thout magnified.
- 28:38Speaker 1: Send the name of Jesus Christ. We pray your things.
- 28:41Speaker 1: Amen and Amen.