The Spirit of Prophecy

Norman McNulty

Ouachita Hills College

The Testimony of Jesus

There is a God in Israel

Proper Use of the Spirit of Prophecy

Answers to Objections About the Spirit of Prophecy

Well, a very happy Sabbath to each 1 of you.

And it's very good to be here at Ouachita Hills.

We've certainly been enjoying our time here.

It's nice to have Joelle and my girls here this morning.

They were ready for bed last night, but they're having a good time here as well.

And I know Joelle enjoys being back at her alma mater where she was here for several years.

Before we get into our message for this morning, I would like to have a word of prayer.

Father in heaven, we thank you so much that we can be here to worship you, and I just pray that you would speak now, that the words that I speak would not be my own, but that you would speak through me, and that we would have a deeper appreciation for the testimony of Jesus Christ and the remnant church.

And that by the end of this message, if there are any that are doubting, I pray that all would be convinced that truly there is a God in Israel.

The title for our message this morning is There is a God in Israel, And I certainly believe with all of my heart with the evidence that we can find from inspiration that God has clearly identified Himself as the leader of the movement that we are part of.

That we as Seventh-day Adventists are part of a movement that God is the leader of.

And what a privilege we have to be Seventh-day Adventists at this time of earth's history.

And as we look at our scripture reading, Revelation chapter 12 verse 17, the closing verse of the chapter in the book of Revelation that identifies this great controversy that is going on between Christ and Satan.

We read, And the dragon was wrath, or enraged, with a woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Now if you have any doubt as to what kind of wrath the dragon has towards this woman.

Just remember that at the beginning of the chapter, when this woman had a child, and she was paying to be delivered, The dragon was right there trying to destroy that child, which was Christ.

And if you think about it in a simple term, can you imagine the degree of wickedness or evil if a woman, a godly woman, was about to give birth to a baby and there was someone so sinister or so evil that they were trying to kill that baby as soon as it was born, That's the degree to how evil the devil is.

And that is the degree to how much wrath he has towards God's end time church.

The dragon is wrath with God's end time church.

And he has gone to make war with the remnant of her seed, the remnant of the seed of that woman, the woman who gave birth to Christ, who gave birth to the Christian church, who gave birth to a church that had to flee into the wilderness where she was persecuted for 1, 260 years.

And then at the end of time, before Jesus comes back, God has raised up a movement that would finish off the work that God raised up through Christ when he was here on this earth.

And so the dragon is enraged with this woman.

And there are 2 key identifying characteristics that I'm going to mention this morning.

And it is these 2 key identifying characteristics that show us why the dragon is wroth with a woman.

And it is because this woman, as scripture says, keeps the commandments of God and has the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Friends, we are living in a great controversy.

And we are part of God's remnant church which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

There is no other church on the face of the earth that professes to keep all 10 commandments.

And in that combination have the testimony of Jesus.

And I have found it fascinating in my brief 38 years, for some of you that may be a long time, for some of you that may seem like not so long, but in my 38 years I've been around long enough in enough places in various parts of the world that wherever I go, and I'm sure many of you can identify with this, that wherever I go the 2 things within the Remnant Church, within the Adventist Church that receive the most resistance are the concepts of obedience and the spirit of prophecy.

Everywhere I go, you could be in Nebraska, Maine, California, anywhere in the world, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, wherever it may be, And you are going to meet resistance to the concept of obedience by grace through faith.

People will still be resistant to that idea.

And you meet resistance to the use and the belief of the testimony of Jesus Christ, which is the spirit of prophecy.

Just remember that we are in a great controversy war between Christ and Satan.

And God has raised up a church, a woman who keeps the commandments of God and has the testimony of Jesus Christ and Satan is going after whoever will uplift the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

You may hear common sayings of like, well nobody's perfect and we really can't obey anyway, can we?

Those are common things that are often said.

Let me read you a couple of verses from Scripture.

1 John 2 verses 3 and 4 which says, And hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in Him." Friends, you better watch out.

If you are part of any movement or of any church, anywhere you may be, that says we cannot keep the commandments of God.

Scripture says, oh I know God, I'm a Christian, I'm following Him, But you're not keeping the commandments.

The Scripture says that you are a liar and the truth is not in you.

And that tells me that those who say that they don't keep His commandments, but they say that they know Him, they are being used by the devil as part of his end time attack against the remnant church.

Now this may not be popular, But friends we are living in a time where we have to get past the point of being afraid of teaching unpopular things from the pulpit.

Because we are living in a time where Jesus is coming soon and we need to give a clear, thus saith the Lord, that will prepare hearts and minds for what is soon coming upon this world.

Now is not the time for dumbing down the message, making people feel comfortable in a lukewarm, lay at a sea in state.

God is looking for messengers to rise up who will shake people out of their comfortable, lukewarm condition and realize that now is the time to stand on the Lord's side.

And obedience is under attack in the church.

Jesus also says in John 14 verse 15, if you love me keep my commandments.

Now if Jesus says if you love me keep my commandments, why then would we as humans say we can't keep them?

Because Jesus says if you love me keep my commandments.

As we are told in Inspiration, all of his bidding are enablings.

Praise God that God has given us grace that we can obey him.

I'm tired of a gospel that says I'm going to continue to live in a life of disobedience and discouragement and frustration and unhappiness, but at least God covers me while I'm living in such a life of discouragement, disobedience, frustration and anger.

Is that the kind of gospel you want to be living under?

Or do you want a Gospel where God says that we can be more than conquerors through Him who loved us, and that by His grace we can keep His commandments.

1 of the identifying characteristics of God's last day people who will be ready for Jesus to come, is that they will keep the commandments of God.

When we look at the book of Revelation, interestingly in Revelation 11, 19, we see in Revelation 11, 19 where it says, the temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His Temple the Ark of His Testament.

Now those of us who study Scripture understand that in the part of the Temple of God where the Ark of the Testament is seen We understand, and you can see this in Hebrews 9, 4, and also in the Old Testament that within the Ark of the Testament was contained the 2 tables of the covenant, or the Law of God.

And so the most holy place is being opened where the Law of God is being revealed again.

And God is raising up a movement who remembers His law, who remembers His Sabbath.

And it's this remnant church that brings back a focus to the law of God that the devil is going after.

And in fact this law of God is the law that God writes into our hearts in the New Covenant in Hebrews 8, verse 10.

You also see this in the book of Jeremiah.

So this remnant church that the devil is attacking is the church of the new covenant.

And I might also add in Romans 7 verse 12 that God's law is described as being holy, just, and good, which is a transcript of Christ's character.

So the remnant is designed to be a transcript of the character of Jesus.

Now it just so happens that Jesus works through the testimony of Jesus Christ to develop that transcript of his character.

Thus the 10 Commandments and the testimony of Jesus are under attack.

2 Timothy 3 tells us that all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Now let me show you, and I haven't taken the time to do this, I didn't mention this last night.

When you look at Revelation chapter 12 verse 17 we see that the remnant keeps the commandments of God and they have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Now there are some in higher academic circles that are now saying that the testimony of Jesus in Revelation 12, 17 is the testimony of how Jesus works in my life.

That's an idea that has started to gain traction in certain circles of Adventism.

But I'm here to tell you today that I do not believe that for a minute.

The testimony of Jesus is far deeper than that.

Revelation 19.10, which is a familiar passage, which develops this idea a little bit further.

Revelation 19.10 we read, And I fell at his feet to worship him.

And he said unto me, See thou do it not, I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus.

Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Here John the Revelator is about to fall down and worship at the feet of an angel and the angel says, don't worship me I am of your fellow servants who have the testimony of Jesus.

And if you want to know what the testimony of Jesus is, it is the spirit of prophecy.

Now let me make it even clearer, the Bible makes it clear.

Revelation 22 verses 8 and 9 we see a very similar scene.

Revelation 22 verses 8 and 9 we read, And I, John, saw these things, and heard them.

And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel, which showed me these things.

This is very similar to Revelation 19.10.

Continuing on in verse 9, Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not?

For I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren, the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book, worship God.

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