What is Christ doing in the heavenly sanctuary that makes a difference in the way we live our lives right now?

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Dennis Priebe

What is the Final Atonement

We're going to open our Bible, and we're going to see what we can find from God's word.

And we want to get the, first slides up here.

And I'm not just sure which of these, this is not my computer, so I'm not sure which of these I am supposed to hit for our first slide.

All right, it is up, but I'm not seeing it up here on mine.

I'm just going to start it out with a brief verse here.

I'm Just going to start it out with a brief verse here.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." My question tonight is very simple and very basic.

What is Christ doing right now in the heavenly sanctuary that makes a difference in the way I live my life right now.

In other words, if he weren't doing this, how would my life be different today than it is?

What is he doing that changes the way I live a daily life today.

What difference does it make that he is in the heavenly sanctuary?

Came across this statement from Patriarchs and Prophets page 357 and 358.

The blood of Christ, while it was to release the repentant sinner from the condemnation of the law, was not to cancel the sin.

It would stand on record in the sanctuary until the final atonement." In that 1 sentence, you have read something you will never read or hear outside of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

Because most Christians believe that when you confess a sin, It's gone.

But this says no, it's not to cancel the sin.

The sin, the record of sin, will stand on record until the final atonement.

2 words you will never hear outside the Seventh-day Adventist church, because most Christians believe that the atonement was completed on the cross, with no more that needs to be done after Jesus said, it is finished.

She continues, Then by virtue of the atoning blood of Christ, the sins of all the truly penitent will be blotted from the books of heaven.

Thus the sanctuary will be freed or cleansed from the record of sin.

In the type, this great work of atonement or blotting out of sins was represented by the services of the day of atonement, the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary.

So obviously we're going to be talking about the cleansing that goes along with the Day of Atonement in the earthly sanctuary Now I'm going to share with you something that comes from way back about 60 or more years ago in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

I don't recommend you read from him today.

His name is Robert Brinsmead, but this is not the Robert Brinsmead of the 70s and the 80s and the 90s, it's the Robert Brinsmead of the 50s and 60s, a quite different individual.

The concept of the final atonement is the 1 and only contribution that Adventists have made in Christian theology.

We didn't contribute the Sabbath, we had to be talked into it by a Seventh-day Baptist.

We didn't contribute the state of man and death, that had been decided before we got on the scene by some.

We didn't contribute the literal coming of Jesus in the clouds of heaven with no secret rapture preceding that.

All of these had been taught somewhere by someone at some time and we just put them together in a package.

Not gonna hear about that by Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley.

Final atonement is totally unique to Seventh Day Adventism.

And he said there must be a refusal to be embarrassed with this peculiar teaching.

We have gotten embarrassed because we have been hit so hard for teaching that there is more that needs to be done after the cross of Jesus Christ.

We are denigrating the cross, we are told.

We are saying that wasn't enough, and we have to have some kind of final atonement before the plan of salvation can be completed.

Therefore, how can you denigrate the cross like that?

We have been hit very hard theologically by the evangelical Christian world when we say that there is something that has to be done before the great controversy can be finished and the plan of salvation completed.

In fact, I've come across a few statements that are kind of interesting in the very book that we use to define our beliefs these days called Seventh-day Adventist belief is this sentence, the atonement or reconciliation was completed on the cross.

Now, they explain a little more, and it isn't so bad when you read the whole thing, but it still is very confusing just to say that.

Another individual said this, it is crucial for believers to understand and embrace the absolutely finished work of atonement on the cross.

The absolutely finished work of atonement on the cross.

We have gotten embarrassed by this peculiar teaching." And then Robert Brinsmead continued, "...many now teach that the saints will not be sinless until the second advent of Christ.

But such a teaching must result in casting aside the doctrine of a cleansed sanctuary before Jesus comes.

It must lead to a rejection of the final atonement in the most holy place and the special sealing to take place in the minds of the 144, 000.

Have you noticed about Seventh-day Adventist teaching?

If you pull out 1 piece, other pieces come with it.

This is a very connected system, and if we don't believe in 1 part of what is going to happen when Jesus returns to this earth, some very important parts also disappear at this time.

And so we've got to be really, really careful.

Couple of statements by Ellen White on this point.

The minds of all who embrace this message, now that word all is important because that means all of us, are directed to the most holy place where Jesus stands before the ark making his final intercession for all those for whom mercy still lingers.

The minds of all of us are to be directed where?

To the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary so we can see what is happening and bring it down to our level.

All, there's that word again, all need to become more intelligent in regard to the work of the atonement which is going on in the sanctuary above.

Yes we believe in the atoning sacrifice completed when Jesus said it is finished, but that's not the end of the story.

That is not the end of God's great plan of salvation.

There is something going on in the sanctuary above.

When this grand truth, Ellen White doesn't talk about many truths in that exact way, when this grand truth is seen and understood, those who hold it will work in harmony with Christ to prepare a people to stand in the great day of God and their efforts will be successful.

How are we going to finish the work that God has assigned to us if we do not know what's happening up in the heavenly sanctuary in the most holy place.

When this grand truth, she says, is seen and understood, our efforts will be successful.

We've got to think very, very carefully about that.

Now, Nothing, and I mean nothing, that I am going to say tonight is in any way new light or new truth.

It has all been really carefully written and preached in years past, but it may sound new because We aren't hearing much about it.

I don't read many Sabbath school quarterly lessons on the final atonement.

I don't see many major camp meeting presentations on it.

I don't see many seminars happening on the final atonement.

And I think we're kind of missing something very important.

So I'm going to go back and again going back 50 or 60 years, this time to another individual and let's just see what happens here.

Andreessen way back, way back when most of us weren't around, a few of us were.

And the last of the next to the last chapter of this book is, I believe, the most comprehensive, the clearest presentation on the final atonement that I have ever read.

And we're going to be going through a few of the statements in that chapter and I'll make some comments along the way as we go.

The final demonstration of what the gospel can do in and for humanity is still in the future.

He took a human body and in that body demonstrated the power of God.

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