The Spirit of Prophecy is a Biblical Idea

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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?

Now we could look at some things that really make you really, really angry, but maybe to keep it a little bit lighter, and watch out for the guy in the middle, by the way.

10 things I want to look at, 10 little things that make you irrationally angry.

Number 1, when your internet connection drops.

2, when someone tries to talk to you while you're on the phone.

Number 5, people who tell you to calm down or cheer up when you're neither angry or upset.

Number 6, anyone who puts empty cartons back in the fridge.

Anyone who pushes the elevator floor button after watching you push it first.

People who are completely unprepared for situations that they know are going to happen.

And number 9, people who take up 2 parking spaces as you circle around and search for something.

And lastly, stepping in something wet after just putting on a clean pair of socks.

I mean, that's about the worst, isn't it?

We're continuing our series today on why am I a Seventh-day Adventist?

And I realize this series is kind of stretched out a little bit.

We've had some things along the way and tomorrow we're going to take a, or not tomorrow, next Sabbath we're going to take a break because of Easter.

I hope we answered that sadly resounding yes, the truth matters, God's word matters, being biblical matters.

That's another catchphrase that you hear a lot.

But we want to love everything that is important to Jesus as well.

And so if Jesus gives us something in his word, for me to disregard it is being disrespectful of the author and finisher of my faith, Jesus Christ.

And so that was the second 1 that we looked at.

These are online, if you missed 1 and wanna go back, you can just go to our church website and listen to them there, download the MP3.

This idea of being the remnant church of Bible prophecy.

Well, really, the Bible says that, and it gives some characteristics for that.

And we're gonna touch on that a little bit more and expand on that today with this title, What Makes the Devil Angry?

And then in 2 weeks, we're gonna follow it up with What's Wrong with Being a Cultural Adventist?

But today's title, What Makes the Devil Angry?

The devil is on a mission and that mission is to destroy and ultimately he wants to get back at Jesus Christ and the way he can do that now is through you and through me and the choices and The decisions that we make And so the more he can lie to us, the more he can dupe us, the better.

However, if there's something out there that is a safeguard and keeps that from happening, You better believe it's gonna make the devil what?

And so I don't know about you, but I want to know what makes the devil angry because that's something I need to pay attention to.

Revelation 12 says, woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea for the devil has come down to you having great wrath Because he knows that he has a short time Verse 17 in the same chapter and the dragon was enraged with the woman That's the devil enraged with the church and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring King James says remnant Who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ?

He's filled with wrath with rage because of those 2 things The commandments of God, the foundation of his character, who he is, and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Now we looked at this a few times back, these 2 qualities, 2 characteristics of God's last day people that keep appearing and reappearing in the book of Revelation and in Revelation 19, 10 it says, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.

And so we have the commandments of God and we have the testimony of Jesus which is the Spirit of prophecy and those 2 Characteristics are the 2 characteristics at in time in God's final remnant church That the devil hates it enrages him Why?

Because it cuts to the heart of What he's trying to do?

He is trying with everything he has to throw out the 10 Commandments You watch the media today the 10 Commandments are under attack big-time Lying cheating stealing getting ahead sexual morality on and on it goes Right down to other gods, who is it?

Well, it's me myself and I And the second is the spirit of prophecy, the gift of prophecy.

Speaking with a mouthpiece, if you will, through a prophet, through visions, through dreams of something that is pertinent to the time in which God's people are living.

And the devil hates that because it's a heads up.

It's letting the cat out of the bag, if you will.

And so he wants to throw that under the bus as quickly as possible.

They say this is the most checked out book in the Library of Congress on the life of Jesus Christ.

This is a powerful book that the world is voting by checking out from the Pan Am Bell and White.

Other books like Steps to Christ, The Devil Hates Steps to Christ, or The Great Controversy especially because The Great Controversy is virtually his game plan, being exposed.

I mean you can look in the last portion where it talks about the snares of Satan.

As you go through that chapter and the ones following, it just exposed everything that's happening right now.

If God has not restored the gift of prophecy in his last day church, then he would not be faithful to his own word.

But God promised to restore the gift of prophecy.

So this isn't something we've conjured up.

This was God's idea And we're being faithful to what God has said Amos 3 7 surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets God wants us to know and so he sent us his prophets.

But Jesus also said in Matthew 7, 15, beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, But inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

So how can we know the difference tell the difference between the true and the false?

If there's gonna be true prophets and there's gonna be false prophets I need to know how to tell and decipher between the 2 and there's really 2 dangers The first is to accept the counterfeit.

I don't want to accept a counterfeit, do you?

How many of you have a $17 bill in your wallet?

Series

Why Am I a SDA?

4. What the Devil Hates

Transcript

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