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Plenaries with Norman McNulty

Norman McNulty

Revelation’s Sanctuary Theme

The Third Angel for Our Time

The Straight Testimony from the Most Holy Place

Adventism and the Vindication of God

The Sealing of the 144,000

Abraham - Father of the Three Angels’ Messages

The Mystery of God Finished

The Song of Moses and the Song Of the Lamb

Jesus and the Third Angel’s Message

Sleeping At Midnight

Father in heaven, we want to invite the presence of the Holy Spirit into this meeting tonight.

We thank you for the blessings that we've received today, and I pray that you would pour out your Spirit this evening as well and give me the words to speak that will provide a source of conviction and challenge and encouragement all in the same and so I pray that you would just speak through me and may Christ be lifted up, I pray in Jesus' name, amen.

The title for our message this evening is the third angel for our time.

You know, as a Seventh-day Adventist, I will proudly say that the third angel's message has not lost its relevance.

The third angel's message is needed now more than it ever has been needed before.

Now is not the time for us as Seventh-day Adventists to be making excuses for our distinct message as a people, especially as it relates to the 3 angels' messages.

And I want to start by reading a statement in Great Controversy, page 464, which says, "...before the final visitation of God's judgments upon the earth, There will be among the people of the Lord such a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed since apostolic times." Now let me stop right there and say this, the future of Adventism is not worldliness where we become more and more like the world so that we are indistinguishable from the world.

That is not the future of Adventism that goes through to the Kingdom.

The future of God's people is a revival of primitive godliness as has not been witnessed since apostolic times." Now interestingly the quote continues, and this revival will not only happen among Adam's but among those in the other churches.

She goes on to say, The Spirit and power of God will be poured out upon his children.

At that time many will separate themselves from those churches in which the love of this world has supplanted love for God and His Word.

Many, both of ministers and people, will gladly accept those great truths which God has caused to be proclaimed at this time to prepare a people for the Lord's Second Coming.

Friends, we need to be praying for that revival of primitive godliness.

That is the future of Adventism and many generations now have come and gone as Seventh-day Adventists and we have yet to see that revival.

We are still waiting for the outpouring of the latter rain.

We are still waiting for Revelation 18.1 to take place where an angel comes down from heaven having great power and the earth is lightened with His glory.

I'm sad to say that at this point if God were to try to pour out the Holy Spirit in latter rain power, many of us would say, did you see what we did?

Look at how many people are noticing my posts on Facebook and how many downloads my sermons are getting or whatever it may be.

Look at how our ministry has shaped the trend in Adventism right now.

God is looking for a people who will have primitive godliness, who will also have a spirit of humility so that God can use us for the finishing of the work.

And that is what this message is about tonight.

Review and Herald, April 1, 1890 is the famous statement.

Several have written to me inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the third angel's message and I have answered it is the third angel's message in verity.

Now what I have often seen in Adventism is that people just read that one-line sentence and they don't read the rest of the quote.

And yes, it is true, justification by faith is the third angel's message in verity, but Ellen White gives us some clues as to what that will look like because there are a lot of confusing views about justification by faith in Christianity and in Adventism today.

And your understanding of justification by faith, if it's correct, won't save you.

But if you have a wrong understanding of justification by faith, there's a very good chance you could be deceived and receive the mark of the beast.

So Ellen White goes on to say in this statement in Review and Herald, April 1, 1890, right after she says, it is the third angel's message in Verity she quotes Revelation 18.1 and she says, ìThe prophet declares, ìAnd after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory.î And she closes that quote and goes on to say, "...brightness, glory, and power are to be connected with the third angel's message, and conviction will follow wherever it is preached in demonstration of the Spirit." Here's what Ellen White is saying, when we experience justification by faith as God designed for it to be experienced, Revelation 18 1 takes place which is the outpouring of the latter rain which gives rise to the loud cry where the character of God illuminates the earth.

Now, if you believe that justification by faith is a legal declaration only without a heart change, how can it be that you have an experience that reflects the character of Jesus that illuminates the world.

Ellen White is saying that yes justification by faith is the third angel's message in Verity and with that third angel's message is an experience that leads to Revelation 18.1 where the earth is lightened with the glory of God's character.

Brightness, glory, and power are to be connected with the third angel's message and conviction will follow wherever it is preached in demonstration of the Spirit.

You've probably heard a bad sermon if you didn't come under conviction.

You've probably heard a bad sermon if you haven't come under conviction.

The Holy Spirit, The work of the Holy Spirit, it's not to pat you on the back for living in sin, it's to convict you of sin and of righteousness and of judgment.

And the third angel's message leads to that experience.

When the minister, the preacher, is under the influence of the Holy Spirit, you will come under conviction for sin in your life.

And the fact that Jesus hasn't come yet tells me and tells us that we are still dealing with a sin problem in our church.

And so, yes, we need messages of encouragement.

Yes, we need times of encouragement when we've perhaps been downtrodden.

But when we look at the prophetic message for God's last day people, God's last day people need to be brought under conviction.

It's too late in Earth's history to be in a lackadaisical state, in a malaise where you feel perfectly comfortable just floating along in a Laodicean state as if nothing is ever going to change and Jesus isn't going to come for 5, 10, 15, 20, or even 30 years and you just think you can live your life the way you always have.

Friends, a day is coming where it's going to all wrap up very quickly, and I believe it may be sooner than we think.

Now what is it that makes justification by faith the third angel's message?

I'm going to take you through the Bible to show you this very thing.

I've shared with you some statements from Ellen White just to lay a foundation, but this is something that can be clearly shown from the Bible.

And I invite you to turn to Romans chapter 1 verses 16 and 17.

This should be a familiar passage of Scripture to every single 1 of you.

But I hope that as you see this verse, these 2 verses again tonight, you are going to see it in a fresh way.

Here the Apostle Paul says, "...for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.

For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Verse 17, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written, the just shall live by faith." Now let's unpack these verses.

Paul is writing this letter to the church at Rome and the gospel to the church at Rome is 1 of the best theological expositions of the Gospel.

And he goes through a variety of things in the book of Romans, but as he sets out at the beginning of the book he can hardly contain himself and he says, I've got to tell you why I am so excited to preach the gospel to you here at Rome.

I am preaching it to you through writing and let me tell you why this gospel is so powerful.

Here is why I am not ashamed, because it is the power of God unto salvation.

Now the word power in the Greek is the Greek word dunamis which is similar to dynamite.

What Paul is saying is that the reason why I am not ashamed of the gospel is because it has dynamite power to blow up your life of sin.

That rock hard heart that won't change it can change under the dynamite power of the gospel of Christ.

The gospel is not a lifestyle modification improvement plan.

You put dynamite into a rock quarry and it blows the rocks up.

And that is what the gospel is designed to do in the lives of everyone who believes or the word in the Greek is the same as everyone who has faith everyone who has faith can experience the power of the gospel.

Now verse 17 shows us just how powerful the gospel is.

What is it about the Gospel that has dynamite power?

In other words, here's why the gospel is so powerful.

It's because that in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed.

Now notice, Paul does not say the righteousness of God is declared.

Many Christian scholars today say that the point of the Gospel in the book of Romans is that justification is declared only and we're saved by an outward covering without a heart change.

And yet that's contradictory to the very thing that Paul is saying here in Romans 1 verses 16 and 17.

Because in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.

As it is written, the just shall live by faith.

In other words, those who are the just, who live by faith, have the righteousness of God revealed in their lives and that is why the gospel has power.

Justification by faith, faith to believe in a dynamite power to change your life brings justification by faith into your experience and when you are truly just by faith the righteousness of God is not only declared in your life it is revealed in your life and that's why Ellen White says justification by faith is the third angel's message in verity.

That's why Ellen White says when we have justification by faith as a people Revelation 18.1 takes place because Revelation 18.1 is the righteousness of God revealed to the world.

And as Adventists some of us have fallen into a false Babylonian gospel thinking that justification by faith is righteousness declared only in which our lives do not change and somehow we'll just scrape through heaven living a sinful life while we're covered with a garment of Christ's righteousness still living a sinful life and yet that is not the power of the gospel.

The power of the gospel, The third angel for our time is justification by faith which reveals the righteousness of God in the lives of those who believe.

Now interestingly in the New Testament we see this phrase coined by the Apostle Paul also in Galatians 3, 11 Paul is dealing with Gospel issues in Galatians.

But we also see it in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 38 in the context of the Second Coming.

Hebrews chapter 10 and I'm going to actually pick it up in verse 35.

Hebrews chapter 10 starting in verse 35, cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense or reward.

For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise for yet a little while.

And he that shall come will come and will not tarry.

Here is what the Apostle Paul, who is the author of Hebrews, is saying in this passage.

Those who are waiting for Jesus to come will have the experience of justification by faith, and that is the experience that we must have in order to be ready for Jesus to come.

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