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Dave Fiedler: Core of the Controversy

Dave Fiedler

Lucifer: Try Something New

Christ: Let Me Show You

Kellogg: So Close, So Far

Omega:  Nothing New Here

Father, as we meet 1 last time for a little while here yet, today we pray that you'll be with us.

We pray that you would give us the appropriate levels of caution and humility and just simple recognition of the human lack of foreknowledge.

We want to take the inspired instruction for all that it's worth and nothing more.

And I pray that you would guard us from jumping to conclusions because the truth is we know very little about the real details of things.

Help us to benefit from what you've instructed, but not to go beyond, not to imagine, not to make stuff up, not to think we know what we really don't, and yet to treat with utter confidence the instruction that you have given us.

Okay, so the title of this 1 is Omega, Nothing New Here.

How are we ever going to resist a foe who is so much more intelligent and powerful than we are?

And I would argue that a key element of that is by learning the lessons of history.

The followers of Christ know little of the plots which Satan and his hosts are forming against them.

But he who sits in the heavens will overrule all these devices for the accomplishment of his deep designs.

The Lord permits his people to be subjected to the fiery ordeal of temptation, not because he takes pleasure in their distress and affliction, but because this process is essential to their final victory.

He could not, consistently with his own glory, shield them from temptation, for the very object of the trial is to prepare them to resist all the allurements of evil.

Just, just, you know, kind of reread that here as I'm talking just just think that's through in your own head here We take great delight in the promises the Lord will not allow us to be tested or tempted above what we were able to bear And and God's People have depended on that promise.

Hopefully you've depended on that promise.

But if you are Satan, what do you think of God keeping him from giving us his best sales pitch?

Adam and Eve chose the knowledge of good and evil, and Satan will clearly say this is tampering with the judicial process to not even let me present my side.

And I kind of like that every earthly support, what seemed to be a terrible thing, turned out to be actually the goal.

The very object of the trial is to prepare them to resist all the allurements of evil.

He will not allow us to be tempted above what we are able to bear, and yet let Satan bring everything he has to bear upon us.

The only way he can do both is to help us to grow to the point where we can bear everything that he can bring to bear upon us.

That promise is not there so that we could say well I don't have to worry about that.

I get a I get a get out of jail free card.

Yeah Now what it's there for It's there so we have the time and opportunity to grow to the point where God can fulfill his promise and yet turn Satan loose, which is necessary in the end of time.

That's good, I'm gonna have to go very quickly here.

Satan deceives and corrupts the world and makes men believe they are sinless and holy while sinning against God, but in so doing, he is only carrying on his original work.

He has created no new empire of darkness from which to draw supplies for the furtherance of his deceptions.

And sin that was sin in the beginning is sin today.

And sin, the Apostle declares, is the transgression of God's law.

The end of time, the Omega apostasy, whatever you want to call it.

In these days it is Satan's determined purpose to intensify sin by making it legal in the children of disobedience.

He is to reveal to the world and to heaven what is the order and result of a government carried on according to his ideas of administration and law.

He is working with secret yet with intense zeal in both church and state to cause men to throw off all the restraints of God's law and take a decided stand with him in the ranks of rebellion.

But When his work is accomplished, the Lord will interpose and vindicate his honor as the supreme ruler of the universe.

What do you suppose it takes for his work to be accomplished?

Satan's eternal purpose wants to make it legal.

Any interesting landmark legal rulings in the last little while that might lean that direction?

I happen to live in a different country at the moment, and things are unique and different up there.

Well, so we looked at those 4, and the point is to try and understand these 2.

Well, we've got a few simple things we can think of.

Christ's method alone will give true success.

The great object that brought Christ to the earth was to reveal the Father.

That was the great truth that Christ came to the world to reveal.

The object of Christ's mission to the world was to reveal the Father.

In all his ministry, all his self-denial and self-sacrifice, Christ's object was to reveal God to the world.

It's the only method that God has in his arsenal.

I suggest it's the only weapon that we should carry with us.

The world needs today what it needed, we could go up to 2, 000 years now, a revelation of Christ.

What the world needs today is the light of Christ's example reflected from the lives of Christ-like men and women.

Our role is mission critical to the plan of salvation.

Hearts will be captivated not by the glory of man but by the inward adorning of an abiding Christ.

It is the revelation of Christ in the man that captivates the hearts of men and women they behold the beautiful character of Christ revealed by good works and good words Proclamation is the explanation of the demonstration the proclamation without demonstration is pretty much imagination.

God's purpose in committing to men and women, the mission he committed, we read this 1 before, this is the identical, I'm gonna skip ahead.

The glory of the character of Christ can never be expressed in words.

Human language is inadequate to reveal it.

It is to be manifest in the individual Christian, in the family, in the church, in the minister of the word, in every institution established by God's people.

That's what we're here for, is to reveal the Father.

Christ, the great medical missionary, is our example.

He healed the sick, he preached the gospel.

In his service, healing and teaching were linked closely together Today they are not to be separated Medical missionary work is The means through which the truth will find entrance to the large cities, which will catalyze the loud cry.

The Holy Spirit never has and never will in the future divorce the medical missionary work from the gospel ministry.

Bound up with Jesus Christ, the ministry of the word and the healing of the sick are 1.

The union of Christ-like work for the body and Christ-like work for the soul is the true interpretation of the gospel.

And once again, you remember the definite article.

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