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Cedar Lake SDA Church

The Everlasting Gospel

Mark Howard

1. The Goodness of God

2. Another Gospel

3. The Lord Our Righteousness

4. Preparing the King’s Highway

5. Righteousness by Faith

6. And They Don’t Take American Express

7. Looking Unto Jesus

Father in heaven, oh Father, you're so wonderful to us.

You are our heavenly Father and you've invited us to call you by that name.

In fact, Lord, in scripture, you even encourage us to call you by the name Abba, which is even a closer and more endeared term.

You've portrayed yourself as such a wonderful, loving Father throughout Scripture, and I pray this morning that your Spirit would be present to help us to understand what that means to us here today.

Father in the words of Moses, show us your glory.

I want to start today in the book of Revelation.

Revelation chapter 14 is where we as Seventh-day Adventists see our marching orders as it were.

Revelation 14 and you probably don't even need to turn there to know what it's talking about in fact you shouldn't.

Revelation 14 and verse 6, the Bible says, then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having what?

The everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water." Now I'm not going to read through all 3 messages, but if you jump ahead to verse 14, just following the messages given a little earlier.

It says, Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud and 1, I'm sorry, on the cloud sat 1 like the Son of Man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp, what?

And another angel came out of the temple crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, thrust in your sickle and reap, for the time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

So he who sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped." Now this picture is Jesus sitting on the cloud coming back to reap the harvest of the earth.

Now the reason I bring that up is when you go to Matthew 24 And you're looking at the signs of Jesus coming.

Jesus says in Matthew 24, and you've heard me say this before, this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness unto all the nations, and then the end will come.

Now we come to Revelation and we see the gospel being preached to every nation, tongue, and people, nation, tribe, tongue, and people, all the world, as a witness to all the nations and right after what happens.

In other words, what Jesus foretells in Matthew 24 we see here in Revelation, this gospel message that goes at the end of time.

And the Bible calls it the everlasting gospel.

It tells us there's only 1 way that anybody has ever been saved.

Now, you may say, of course, that's, yeah.

But you'd be surprised maybe to find out that there are people today in the Christian church who believe that God saves different people different ways.

There are those who believe that the Jews in the Old Testament were saved by their commandment keeping and that they still have to keep the law, but in the New Testament we don't break the law, we believe in Jesus.

And so there's a difference in how people are saved.

The Bible says it's an everlasting gospel and if you go with me to the book of Acts chapter 4, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Acts chapter 4.

Peter, the apostle, is speaking And he says in verse 10, Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of whom?

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands here before you whole.

This is the stone which was rejected by you builders which has become the chief cornerstone, nor is there salvation in any other, for there is No other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

1 gospel through Jesus Christ all the time.

So the Bible gives the everlasting gospel And in that context it says to fear God and give glory to Him.

Now a lot of times when we think of glory, we think of a dazzling brightness.

Some of you who have done a little study on this word in scripture realize that the Bible often employs the word glory to talk of what?

And I want to show you a place in the book of Exodus.

Now this is what I referred to actually in my prayer.

The Bible says, So the Lord said to Moses, I will also do this thing that you have spoken, for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.

And Moses said to him, please show me your glory.

Then he, God, said, I will make all my glory, all my goodness pass before you and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you, I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." Now we fast forward a little bit to this actual event where God shows Moses His glory.

The Bible says in 34 verse 5, just go 1 chapter forward, verse 5, Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty.

In other words, when God proclaims his name, isn't that what Moses said?

And God says, okay, I'll show you my goodness.

Those are all synonymous in the usage here.

In other words, God is showing the goodness, his goodness, his character to Moses and in the context of Revelation when that Gospel message is going and it says, fear God and give him glory, It's highlighting God's character, God's goodness.

And a core of the Gospel message is the goodness of God.

Now I want to talk about that goodness of God, that character of God.

Look at the statement on the screen from the book Christ's Object Lessons.

It tells us here the gospel invitation is to be given to all the world, to every nation and kindred and tongue and people.

The last message of warning and mercy is to lighten the whole earth with its Glory.

Now notice this other statement a little bit further along in that same book.

It says, it is the darkness of misapprehension, that's a misunderstanding, of God that is enshrouding the world.

Men are losing their knowledge of His what?

It has been misunderstood and misinterpreted.

At this time, that is our time, a message from God is to be proclaimed, a message illuminating in its influence and saving in its power.

Into the darkness of the world, He sheds the light of His glory, the light of His goodness, mercy, and truth.

The last rays of merciful light, The last message of mercy to be given to the world is a revelation of his character of love.

That's what we're seeing there in Revelation 14.

You talk about love in this generation, you can get any number of things.

You know, I love my socks, I love pizza, I love Fritos, and I love Jesus.

We talk about our God as an awesome God, right?

And then we say, oh man, I just got this new pen, this new gel pen, it's awesome.

Now it dawns on me that if the gel pen is in fact awesome, then I probably ought to come up with a different adjective to describe God.

I mean, it's like, oh yeah, I love this and I love...

We need a revelation of what this character looks like.

And we're going to go to the scripture and look at that.

Now I'm going to break down God's character into 4 parts.

We're going to look at God's forgiveness from a human perspective and I need to clarify that not from a divine well from both.

We're going to look at those 4 components of God's character.

We're going to use these terms, either conditional or unconditional.

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The Everlasting Gospel

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