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Lansing SDA Church

Wes Peppers

Through His Eyes

I am looking forward to a wonderful communion service with you this morning.

And I've never seen so, a church have so many events, this has been probably event wise, the busiest month I have ever seen in any church, anywhere, at any time.

We have a lot of things going on, don't we?

There's no reason why any person would not be able to say, there's nothing for me to do.

There's nothing for me to be involved with.

Well, this morning, I was praying last night and I was praying this morning, and this week has probably been 1 of the most prophetic weeks of modern times.

You will find people who will say the opposite of that, and there's plenty of those within the Adventist Church.

But let me tell you, friends, the stage is being set for the final events of prophecy to be unfolded.

And they're going to continue to unfold at a more rapid pace as time continues.

And brethren and sisters, we are sliding into monumentous times like we never have before.

Now people will say, well, you're just fear-mongering.

Well, if speaking the truth is fear-mongering, then I'm fear-mongering.

But in my book, Everything that Seventh-day Adventists have preached for the last 150 years is now being witnessed to become true.

We can safely say as Seventh-day Adventists, we've been right all this time.

Not with arrogance and pompous attitude do we say that, but with humility, with trembling, because with that knowledge also comes the knowledge that we have a great responsibility to the world to tell them about Christ, his death, his resurrection, and his offer to give them righteousness by faith, his offer to the world to dwell within them, his offer to them to live eternally with him, and the truth that Jesus is coming back to this world very soon.

We have a grave responsibility, dear friends.

With that, I'm going to bow, I'm going to kneel, invite you to bow your heads wherever you are, I'm just gonna offer a prayer as we take a look at a few thoughts this morning.

Father, this morning we thank you so much for the opportunity, dear Lord, that we have to gather here together as your people.

And I pray, Father, that we would sense the solemnness of the times, the importance of the times, the magnitude of the times, and in experiencing that, we would not be moved by sensationalism or emotionalism, but that we would be rooted and grounded and cemented in the sure word of prophecy and the truth of your word.

And we ask today, dear Father, that the Spirit of God would touch our hearts and in opening to us the magnitude and the momentous times in which we are living, it would also create, the Spirit of God would create in our hearts a need to have a deeper walk with Christ, a deeper walk with our Savior, a deeper walk with you, Father, and that our hearts and our lives and our minds would be laid bare to the Spirit of God, and that all of our sin, Father, might be forsaken, and that Jesus would cover it in the heavenly sanctuary.

And Father, we live on the edge of eternity, and many of your people are sleeping.

All throughout the world they are sleeping.

But oh how you are calling us to awaken today.

And Lord, we ask this morning that we would have a special connection with Jesus.

In case you had missed this week, 3 key events took place.

I'm just going to briefly mention some of these and we'll be breaking for foot washing here in just a moment.

On Wednesday of this week, Pope Francis appeared in America.

He landed and he was greeted by the president and his wife.

And he was also greeted by Vice President Joe Biden, his wife and family, and several other dignitaries.

It was written that no world political authority, no other person has been greeted with the depth of those people as Pope Francis was this week.

No 1 has greeted, been there, never before has that taken place as the way that it did this week.

And then you see the address at the White House later that, I believe it was Wednesday, Pope Francis and President Obama exchanged speeches, You see the 2 flags flying in the background.

Then on Thursday, September 24th of 2015, just this week, Pope Francis entered the congressional chamber of our nation.

It was the first time in history that a pope had stepped foot in that room.

50 years ago, there would have been a revolt if that tried to take place.

And yet, not only did he enter into the room, but he entered the room with the cheering of senators, representatives, and presidential cabinet members.

And he walked down the aisle and he stood in that pulpit being praised and honored as if he were God himself.

And there it almost seems like he's glowing in the desk there.

And that place was packed and there was not 1 person who was seated.

People are not remembering what took place centuries ago and they are opening the doors for it to happen again right in the streets of the United States of America.

He speaks to Congress here with Speaker of the House Mr.

Boehner in the background, Vice President Joe Biden there, and he gave a very eloquent speech.

Then just yesterday he spoke to the entire UN, was given the invitation to speak to the United Nations, and there he gave another rousing speech.

Here he is with Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary, and he is treated...

His place is elevated amongst world leaders, and he is being placed in a position of global authority over all nations.

He's not viewed anymore as 1 of the world powers.

Everyone is looking more and more, and dear friends, I don't have time today, but in a few weeks after the Doug Batchelor meetings, I'm going to present, I'm going to preach an exhaustive message on this subject.

And it is mind-blowing, it is spine-chilling, it causes me to tremble to see the prophecies of Revelation 13 and 17 being fulfilled in our midst.

If that does not awaken us, I'm not sure what will.

Not only the book of Revelation, is it now coming to life?

I mean, I have often thought to myself, what it must have been like for the Adventist pioneers as the 1260 year prophecy and the 2300 day prophecy were fulfilling in their day.

I thought to myself, what must it be like to see and know that you're living at a time when a major prophecy is concluding.

Oh, but how we now know what they must have felt like.

And not just that, but when the prophecy of the 2300 days took place, they weren't sure, and they had the great disappointment, they weren't sure if they were really even right for a while.

But there is no mistake that as we see these events unfolding, it's exactly what prophecy predicted.

And not only that, but in the book Great Controversy, if you have not read that book, please let me give you a copy today.

And the book Great Controversy, not just Do we find the broad view, but the very specific things are mentioned in there that would happen, many of them have already happened, and you'll see more of that on October 17th, when I preach that message.

And let me tell you, friends, there are people today who are trying to deny that in fact I read an article just this morning.

I won't tell you where I found it because I don't want you to go read it.

That basically said we need to revisit our interpretation of Revelation 13 saying essentially that it is absolutely ridiculous for us to hold the view that this is the Roman Catholic Church in America uniting together in prophecy, saying that there's no possible way that John the Revelator would have been able to see in prophetic vision the times in which we're dealing with now.

But let me tell you, what was written and our understanding of the prophecies, those prophecies, what has been written there in the great controversy and how we've come to understand Revelation 13 and other chapters and the fact that the interpretation that we came to and the message that we've been preaching for 150 years, now that it's unraveling and taking place just as we've always said it would, there is no chance that that is just sheer coincidence.

If those people are right in what they're saying, then what we see happening now in our historic understanding of prophecy are just totally coincidence.

Let me tell you, we've been right about this thing.

Just an excerpt from the speech of Pope Francis to the United States Congress.

Notice this, he says, we know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism.

This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of what?

Fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind, and he continues to mention this over and over again in his speeches the dangers of fundamental religion and let me ask you a question who do you suppose they what do you suppose the world views Seventh-day Adventists?

It simply means this, that I believe wholeheartedly that the Bible is the Word of God, that it is true, that it is inspired of God, and that we need to follow its teachings.

And now you have the most popular religious leader in the world saying that that is dangerous And we should not be doing that.

We should be compromising so that we can come together as 1.

He says, there is another temptation which we must especially guard against, the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil.

We need to have a reduction which sees only good or evil, or if you will, the righteous and sinners.

The contemporary world with its open wounds, which affects so many of our brothers and sisters demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these 2 camps.

In other words, anybody that preaches that there's good and evil, they're polarizing the world.

We all just need to get along and accept 1 another as whatever, okay?

We must move forward together as 1 in a, listen to this, a renewed spirit of what?

Fraternity and solidarity, cooperating generously for the common good.

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