Is it abusive to say we are the remnant church of Bible prophecy? 

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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 took place about 3 and a half years ago, what you see here on the screen at the 1 Project.

I've mixed 3 1, 000-piece puzzles all together in this mixing bowl.

Now, you know that's not a good idea especially if there's a thousand pieces each.

He says now imagine for me the piece I now hold in my hand is part of the image we want to create And that is the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

It has a special gift that it must give The image of Jesus.

So that's what this puzzle's trying to put together.

An image of Jesus, and then he says this, but it, referring to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is only 1 piece.

But I have a problem with this statement.

This idea that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is great, we have a contribution, but we're just 1 piece of this picture of who Jesus is.

That would stand to mean then that if I really want to get a full and complete picture of Jesus, what must I do?

I must go to all these other denominations and see what they have to say and see what they have to offer and bring to the table.

I need to gather their piece and put it into the puzzle so I have a complete, not an incomplete, because who likes an incomplete puzzle, right?

I bet it's you Mario that sneaks the last piece in your pocket.

I mean this is a puzzle that we have at home.

This is just 1 puzzle of a thousand pieces and this is a pretty small piece.

Maybe I should get a brighter 1 This is a pretty small piece How do you feel church?

This is you you're 1 piece, but we need to get not just a thousand but 3000 more pieces or 2999 you get the idea and put them all together so we can have a complete picture of who Jesus is I Have a problem with that he goes on and It's not just his way of thinking it's others too Because when he continued he said you see God has never given the totality of his image to just 1 gender or just 1 skin color Or just 1 ethnicity and by that point everybody is starting to applause and be all excited Or to just 1 historical time period or just 1 group of people or to just 1 movement or to just 1 church.

For he knew that if 1 group decided that they represented the totality of the image of God it would be easy to become Arrogant and assume that we have it all Now this was 3 and a half years ago.

Maybe this individual has changed their mind.

I Don't think that's the case because just this last fall he preached a sermon and it was still this same idea we are but 1 piece in the puzzle of the image of who Jesus is I don't know where should we go tomorrow and find another piece and how much of an image do you get from just 1 piece Could I give you 1 piece of a thousand piece puzzle and you could tell me what it is?

And so it sends us out searching to gather pieces from everywhere else.

The question, is it wrong to say that Seventh-day Adventist Church is the remnant church of Bible prophecy?

I don't believe that it is because I didn't say it God said it in his word.

It wasn't your idea So we're continuing this series.

Why am I a Seventh-day Adventist If we are just 1 piece of the puzzle, then it really doesn't matter.

All roads lead to the same place is what it sounds like to me.

The first 1 we've already done, does the truth really matter?

We looked at quotes like this, scripture is not truth, Jesus is truth.

There's a difference and he shall be revealed in many odd and interesting places.

Are there greater greater revelations in Scripture?

Yes, Jesus for 1 the Holy Spirit now for another scripture is our guide to the Spirit.

And we talked about the danger of that idea.

How when it just becomes my feelings, my emotions, and all these other things, the scripture's a guide, but after that I launch off, and it doesn't matter what scripture says because the Spirit is telling me something else.

We looked at verses like sanctify them by your truth your word is truth.

He just said it wasn't truth but the Bible says your word is truth.

Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

We looked at this verse, he was clothed with a robe.

This is a description of Jesus if you read it in its entire context, dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God.

Last week we talked about isn't loving Jesus enough?

I don't mind this idea of Jesus all as long as we take all that Jesus has to say.

But if we're only going to listen about Jesus, but I don't want to hear about doctrine or the teachings of Jesus That's a problem when we talked about that last time We looked at the 5 S's of Adventism the second coming the sanctuary the spirit of prophecy the state of the dead the Sabbath all safeguards that God has given to us because he loves us that I believe is truth and it's a safeguard in these last days that we need to treasure.

We talked about how the second coming gives me hope.

How the sanctuary gives me a complete picture of salvation.

How the spirit of prophecy grounds me in God's word.

And we'll talk more about that in a few weeks.

How the state of the dead quiets the deceiving voices.

I mean if you don't have a correct understanding of the stay of the dead it's like Pandora's box opens up.

And then we looked at how through the Sabbath I receive the seal of God.

Now the Sabbath is a lot of things And you hear various Adventist preachers talk about aspects of those things, but I never hear them or rarely hear them talk about the Sabbath as the seal of God.

There is more to it than simply 1 day off during the week.

In today's piece, what makes you so special?

And in a few weeks what makes the devil angry and what's wrong with being a cultural Avenist, we'll get to those.

Is it wrong to say the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the remnant church of Bible prophecy?

They claim that we, to claim that we're the remnant church, some preachers are saying even within the Adventist Church it is dysfunctional, it's abusive, it limits God, and it's arrogant.

And they build that on the assumption that you must be a seventh-day Adventist to be saved now we've never taught that as a church and We'll get into that a little bit more But I do think that God has given us the truth that He has given us as a safeguard.

Again this idea of the remnant is not my idea, nor is it yours.

And the dragon, or the devil, was wroth with the woman, the true church, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed.

If you get a suit, guys, sometimes you have some of the cloth in your pocket, and you wonder, what am I supposed to do with this?

And the idea is if there's something that goes wrong you can take out a patch and you can put that patch back in it's amazing What they can do of course they want to charge you an arm and a leg for it But that's a remnant There are some suits out there.

You're never gonna find the fabric to that again.

These violets up here in the corner, I remember as a kid we went to somebody's house that was a relative and they picked off, they told us that these violets were from my great grandma Gladys or somebody, I don't even remember, I'd have to ask my dad.

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Why Am I a SDA?

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