Redeemed! How I Love to Proclaim It - King’s Heralds Beyond the Sunset - Bob Seamount and Del Delker My Shepherd - King’s Heralds Washed White As Snow - King’s Heralds

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

The Dying Angel

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music with the King's Heralds, Del Delker, Brad Braley, and the Voice of Prophecy speaker, HMS Richards, a Seventh-day Adventist minister.

The quartet offers first a gospel song that tells how the Christian feels about the miracle of salvation, I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, redeemed through His infinite mercy, His child and forever I am.

Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

Redeemed, redeemed, His child and forever I am.

I know I shall see in His beauty the King in whose law I delight, who lovingly guardeth my footsteps and giveth me songs in the night.

Our Our Father which art in heaven, We thank thee today for the mercies of heaven which come to us through Jesus Christ.

Bless this broadcast to every hearer and us to thy service.

[♪ music playing ♪♪ ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪� There is a place of quiet rest near to the heart of God, a place where sin cannot molest near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God.

Hold us who bow before Thee, near to the heart of God.

A strong faith in the future and a bright hope for tomorrow is the theme of this favorite song as we hear now from Del Delker and Bob Seamount, Beyond the Sunset.

Beyond the sunset, O blissful morning, When with our Savior heaven is begun, of your heaven is begun.

Earth's toiling end, end, O glorious dawning, beyond the sunset Beyond the sunset when day is done.

Beyond the sunset, no clouds will gather, no storms will threaten, no fears annoy.

O day of gladness, O day unending, Beyond the sunset, eternal joy.

Beyond the sunset, a hand will guide me to God the Father, whom I adore.

His glorious presence, his words of welcome, will be my portion Will be my portion on the fair shore.

Oh Shepherd divine I know mine thy search in the night was for me The equal is cold, but warm is thy fold, my shepherd, I follow thee.

Thy beautiful lamp shineth bright on my way, Thy glorious light unto thy perfect day.

Through pastures serene, through valleys of green, my Shepherd, I follow Thee.

Thy grace and thy law I picture in awe, they kissed upon Calvary.

A life that was given to ransom my soul, a heart that was broken to make sinners whole.

The world is but loss in view of thy cross.

Oh, shepherd divine, I know thou art mine.

Thy message today illumines my way by the spirit of prophecy.

I thrill at thy marvelous love to thy ship, the way thou dost lead to the still waters deep.

1 staff and 1 rod, 1 fold and 1 God, Here now is HMS Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker.

We may expect unusual things written in letters to angels.

In the great prophecies of the book of Revelation in the Holy Bible, we have 7 letters to 7 angels.

In this case they represent the messages or the ministry of the Christian Church in 7 different ages, beginning when Jesus was here on earth and continuing until he returns according to his promise.

Unto the angel of the church in Sardis write, These things saith he that hath the 7 spirits of God, and the 7 stars.

I know thy works, that thou hast a name, that thou livest, and art dead.

Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.

For I have not found thy works perfect before God.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast and repent.

If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

He that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my father and before his angels." This letter, quite long in this case, is found in Revelation the third chapter.

The city of ancient Sardis was built upon a high cliff supposed to be impregnable.

However, it was captured by Cyrus in 549 before Christ because the people were overconfident.

King Croesus looked upon as the richest man in the world, thought there was no danger even when the enemy was camped below his city.

1 Persian soldier climbed up the supposedly unclimbable cliffs, opened the gates, and the city was given over to their enemies.

It was captured again in almost the same way 330 years later.

In AD 17, Sardis was practically destroyed by an earthquake.

The Emperor of Rome gave a lot of money to rebuild it.

But in 1402, Tamerlane with his Mongols from China destroyed the city and it has never been rebuilt.

The message of the angel of the Church of Sardis is certainly appropriate, to be watchful, to strengthen the things which remain, and if not watchful, the danger that the master will come as a thief and will not know the hour.

In the days of World War II, Winston Churchill warned the citizens of the British Empire, saying, I must drop 1 word of caution, for next to cowardice and treachery, overconfidence, leading to neglect, is the worst of crimes.

We must be watchful as well as repentant.

The word sardis means those escaping or that which remains.

It applies no doubt to the Church of the Reformation days, covering the period of the 16th, 17th, part of the 18th century.

Christ presents himself here as the 1 who possesses the 7 spirits of God and the 7 stars.

7, of course, meaning completion, and represents the Holy Spirit in all his fullness.

To a church that had started out with great promise and great power under the mighty reformers, what a change came.

Jesus represents himself as having the fullness of spiritual power, the gifts of the spirit.

The 7 stars represent the human guides, the leaders of the church.

It is the Holy Spirit that gives light and power to Christian ministers.

Otherwise they become wandering stars as we read in Jude the 13th verse.

The church of Sardis with its ministry has a name and reputation of life, but in reality is spiritually dead.

1 who calls himself a Christian, but is dead spiritually is living a lie, isn't he?

Samson, a man of old, did mighty works for God, had the power of God upon him.

But because of sin, a change came in his life.

The Scripture says, he wist not, that is, he didn't know that the Lord was departed from him.

It was into this state of lifeless formalism that such men as John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, the Puritans, the Pietists and others came and with earnestness and the power of the Spirit of God brought a revival so that the great missionary movement pictured by the next church period was born.

How many Christians today have the name of life spiritually but the fact of death?

They need to change their name or change their experience.

We fear that multitudes of Christians who look back to the leaders of the Reformation as their spiritual fathers are almost ignorant of the great truth of justification by faith, of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, of the work of sanctification in the heart.

Many professed Christians today lack practically all knowledge of the scriptures and live in conformity to the world and in weakness and defeat.

There's no protest against evil in their lives, little proclamation of scriptural truth.

Too often the reputation of the modern Church is built upon activity, doing things.

It measures success by campaigns, anniversaries, rallies, assemblies, conferences, collections, appropriations, magnifying of office, and accomplishment.

It is possible to do all these things and have merely the appearance of spiritual life, a sort of galvanic simulation of life as a dead muscle is flexed by an electric current.

What's the exhortation to the angel of the Church of Sardis?

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