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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Practical Truth for Perilous Times

Wes Peppers

1. Adventist Culture or Adventist Faith

2. The Adventist Atheist

3. When Righteousness Becomes Sin

4. A Love That Deceives

5. Black Magic & Resurrection Power

6. The Two Witnesses of the Two Witnesses

7. The Peril of Novelty

8. Faithful AND Fruitful

Father, this morning we praise You for waking us up today, for giving us life, for giving us health, and for giving us the strength, Lord, to rise up and come to the meeting today.

And Lord, You've told us through Your prophet that we should have a desire to be wherever prayer is being made, wherever the Word is being preached.

And I pray this morning that it will be our heart's desire to be in your presence, and that today, Lord, you would call us to a deeper consecration.

You would call us to a deeper walk with the Savior.

You would call us to a deeper experience in Your Spirit.

And Lord, that the mysteries of the Word of God would be revealed to us today.

That we would be challenged, we would be convicted, we would be comforted and assured in the hope and the truth of Your Word today.

And today, O Lord, we would open our hearts to receive Him.

I remember a number of years ago, I was pastoring in Kansas, and I was an associate pastor, I was a Bible worker as well, followed up on many interests, and We saw many people come to Christ.

And we had an evangelistic meeting and he came to our meetings.

And he came night after night and he was being blessed and His heart was opening up.

Every night He came, His heart and His mind were more open to the truth.

And we were sitting there talking together.

And I had somebody with me and I was visiting with him about the things he had learned in the meetings and asking him if he wanted to make a commitment to Jesus, if he wanted to give his life to Christ, and we just kept on and on.

And finally he looks at the person that had come to me, that had come with me, and he said, I think he's trying to get me baptized.

Usually the people are running from baptism oftentimes.

And the person was shocked, and I was shocked, and I said, well, if you want to put it that way, I am.

Would you like to be baptized and join God's church?" And he says, you know, I think I would.

He says, I was wondering when you were going to ask.

And so that next Sabbath, we cleared him and prepared him, and that next Sabbath he was baptized.

And about a week later, I got a phone call that he had been called into the doctor's office.

See, prior to that time, he had had some testing done and they found some lumps in his lungs and in various places in his body.

So I went by there and he told me, he said, I've got a fatal cancer.

He says, they've told me I have 2 weeks to a month to die.

I'm so thankful that I came to know Christ before this time came.

And he said, you see, I had gone in for those tests, and then I got that flyer in the mail, and he says I recognized how frail my life was.

I recognized how needful I was to have someone higher than myself watching over me, so I came to those meetings.

Studying the Bible, people, is important, yes?

Public evangelism is Life or death, what do you think?

For many people, it is their last hope to put their trust in God.

And about 2 weeks later, indeed He passed away.

And I said, brother, what do you want me to say to people?

When I invite people to follow Christ, What do you want me to tell them?

And he says, I'm so thankful that I found Christ.

He says, but, he says, I'm so regretful that I didn't seek for him in my early 20s or my teens that I might use the strength of my youth to serve Him, to be consecrated to Him.

He said, tell them not to be half-hearted Christians, but to be wholly consecrated to the Lord all the days of their life.

That all they possess, that all they are, all their strength might be given over to Christ for His kingdom and His service to win souls for Him.

And so today, many years later, I'm telling you about my good friend.

And I know that I'll see him in the resurrection.

But friends, he wants to see you in the resurrection.

He wants to see those whom we will lead to Christ in the resurrection.

He wants us to be wholehearted Christians And I would tell you today that there is nothing more that Jesus wants in this life for you than to be a wholehearted Holy committed holy consecrated son and daughter of the Almighty God Today friends through the righteousness of Christ alone.

We can be holy Consecrated amen how many are thankful today for the righteousness of Jesus?

The grace of God that does not simply redeem us and leave us in our sins, but redeems us and restores us into the image of God.

Christ frees us from the penalty of our sins through justification.

He frees us from the power of sin through sanctification.

And 1 day very soon, He's going to free us from the presence of sin when He comes in the clouds of heaven and glorifies our bodies.

Now yesterday we talked about 1 of the great dangers that is coming upon God's church.

1 of the great dangers that many Adventists are falling into today.

And we talked about the pitfalls of that.

Being accustomed to a very nice culture, but not having transformed hearts by grace, being a part of a comfortable culture, but not seeking self-denial to lead other souls to Jesus, by seeking to be restful and where we're at and not putting the kingdom of God first.

Now we talked about that yesterday, and today we're going to go to the other extent of that.

Now we're going to talk about something very different today.

The title of the message this morning is, The Adventist Atheist.

Could it be possible that there are people who are not just enjoying a nice culture of veggie links and soy milk and all these different things, but could there be people who are within God's church also seeking the world?

You suppose today that there could be atheists even in the ranks of God's people.

We're going to go to the Bible and we're going to see a story of a man who I think fit many people today in our generation.

If you would, please turn in your Bibles to the book of Luke.

The Bible talks about a parable of a man who I believe is very representative of so many in our church today.

The Bible talks about the parable of the rich fool.

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Series

Practical Truth for Perilous Times

2. The Adventist Atheist

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Christ In You

34m

Morning Devotional

Faith and the Final Crisis

59m

iShare 2013 Seminar: Experiencing God

Helps for Your Devotional Life

50m

Anticipation

Pt 2-The Holy Spirit and the Cross

1h 13m

What Can I Give Him?

32m

Finishing the Work

38m

Dave Fiedler: Core of the Controversy

Omega - Nothing New Here

1h 27m

The Time of Destiny

52m

No Safety In Politics

1h 1m

Running

42m

Delighting in the Almighty

2. How Can I Enjoy God?

26m

Sound Doctrine