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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

Why Am I a SDA?

David Wright

1. Does the Truth Really Matter?

2. Isn’t Jesus Enough?

3. What Makes You So Special?

4. What the Devil Hates

5. What’s Wrong with Being a Cultural Adventist?

Well, this morning we're asking a pretty simple, maybe fundamental question.

There may be a few here that say, well, I'm not, but I think most of us would agree that that you are part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, you're a member in good and regular standing.

Why did you choose the Seventh-day Adventist Church?

Well we might be able to come up with a host of reasons.

You say, you know, I just, I love haystacks.

Anywhere I go, they don't know what it is, but the Adventists know what haystacks are.

You just think that everybody else is too mainstream, so you want to go and chart your course your own, is that the right?

You say, I like the school system, the Adventist edge has shown that our school system is very good and we can find a school around the world, and so I like that aspect.

Maybe it's the health message, and we have a wonderful health message.

The annual fast has certainly been a blessing to many of us.

Maybe you think, well, Adventists are friendlier.

And we might even argue, is that even true?

Is that the reason that you chose to be a Seventh-day Adventist?

Well, Saturdays are more convenient than Sundays.

I hope those aren't at the top of your list.

And so, we're going to be looking over the next 5 weeks at a series that I'm entitling Why I Am a Seventh-day Adventist, or Why Am I a Seventh-day Adventist.

I want to get you thinking along those lines.

Are we just another denomination or are we unique?

Do we have a message that is relevant at this time in earth's history?

It's going to be split up because there's other speakers coming on through as well.

But question number 1 that we're going to look at today, does the truth really matter?

In a couple weeks we're gonna look at this next question.

And then you use words like like remnant and so on, I just I don't feel comfortable with that.

Number 4, fourth question, what makes the devil angry?

You have to wait to see what that's about.

And then number 5, what's wrong with being a cultural Adventist?

And so those are the 5 pieces that we're going to look at and we're going to unpack those as we go along.

And so today we're just kind of getting started here and you might say, well, that's not the only reason and I hope that's not your only reason in terms of what I'm covering today, but we have some other things we're going to be looking at as we go along.

A lot of people today say there is no such thing as absolute truth.

You know, if we look here back in our own history, John Harvey Kellogg published in 1903 a book that was highly controversial called The Living Temple.

In this book, of course we know Kellogg was an inventor and many things, but he was big into health and the idea was God lives in everything and It's everywhere, including first and foremost in you.

If you want to get in touch with the God in you, you have to look within, not without.

The earth and all its life forms and processes are sacred.

We belong to them and they to us, we are kin.

So it's that idea that you hear, for those of you that can remember Oprah Winfrey, and we talk about the power within.

If I can just get in tune with the power within.

And so that created quite a stir within the Adventist church and people were divided on 1 side or another, who are they going to follow, until eventually it came to a head and Kellogg left the church.

And Sister White writes about this, should choose my words better, in Volume 1 of Selected Messages, page 200, in the book Living Temple there is presented the alpha of deadly heresies.

The omega will follow and will be received by those who are not willing to heed the warning God has given." Now what's this alpha and omega?

So here we have something that's going to be very similar to this living temple, this pantheism, this centering inward and so on, is going to come about again and she refers to it as the Omega.

Later on, a few pages later, she says, living temple contains the Alpha of these theories.

I knew that the Omega would follow in a little while and I trembled for our people.

You should know as all this went on, by the way, that Kellogg was almost like a son to her.

She prayed for Kellogg, she wrote to Kellogg, she engaged in every way that she could with Kellogg.

And I would say that example would be a wonderful example with us today As I believe we're starting to see this Omega apostasy.

Should we write them off or should we pray for them?

Because I think they're sincere, but they're sincerely wrong.

But you know it's not something that's just impacting the Seventh-day Adventist church.

We see it in the Baptist church, the Methodist church, the church of God, I mean on down the list, the Catholic church and our church as well.

This idea that if I'm gonna really connect with God, I have to focus on the sensory, right?

We had a minister's meeting recently that talked about the dangers of yoga and how everybody's having Christian yoga and holy yoga and undistracted worship.

Friends, if you really look at the background of yoga, well, it's just stretching, it's just this.

Well, people may say that, but if you really look into yoga, the whole thing is about getting your body into a position and emptying your mind where you can be filled.

Series

Why Am I a SDA?

1. Does the Truth Really Matter?

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

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Two Covenants

57m

Plenary

By Every Word

1h

Emerging Church Symposium

The Serpent’s Whisper

1h 10m

Revelation Made Simple

18. Revelations Spiritual Revolution for a New Millennium

57m

Where Is Your Faith?

1h

Going to Extremes

1h 10m

Bible Weekend

02 Answering False Doctrines

43m

Wondering After the Beast

45m

The Supremacy of Scripture

1h 11m

Some are Stronger than Others

41m

Twin Cities

And God Said

1h 32m

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

24 The Sanctuary and the Testimony of Jesus

1h 2m

Sound Doctrine