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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

Preparing For the End Times

David Wright

Facing Crisis

True or False Revival

Shaken or Sealed

Crisis or Commitment

Close of Probation and the 7 Last Plagues

We've been going through a series called Hope in These Last Days.

We're going to continue with a piece today called Shaken or Sealed.

Einstein was traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came through, punching cards, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, getting everybody's tickets, click, click, click.

Got to Albert Einstein, and he did 1 of these.

And you're padding every pocket that you know, and you check again, and it's coming up short, and he just couldn't find it.

And the conductor says, don't worry, I know exactly who you are.

In fact, how could you not know who Albert Einstein was, right?

We're not worried about it, so it's okay.

And he kept going, click, click, click, click, click, click.

And the conductor looked back and saw Albert Einstein back in his seat on hands and knees trying to find desperately the ticket in anywhere it could possibly be.

And the conductor came back, he said, Albert Einstein, please don't worry about it, I trust you, it'll be okay.

And he says, well I appreciate that you know who I am, but the problem is, I don't know where I'm going.

Suppose we as a church are on a train, do we know where we're going?

Because where we're going has every, it impacts drastically and affects what we do, doesn't it?

If something's gonna happen to the train that we're on, we're gonna get off, or we're gonna walk, or we're gonna find some other transportation.

Or is it in fact going to get to the destination?

Sometimes the pilot comes on the airplane, he tells you exactly what he's going to do.

He's going to take it up to 50, 000 and then I'm going to take a left to Chicago and at the end of it all you don't really care as long as you end up where it says on the ticket, right?

You're not knocking on his cockpit door saying I'm eating the peanuts now.

I'm not eating them all now because that's a big bag.

No, as long as you get there where it says on the ticket.

But you know there's thoughts that circulate around in the Adventist church that the church is not going to get there, it's not going to make it through, it will splinter up, it will have some head-on collision, there will be fallout, there will be a remnant of the remnant that comes forth.

Does spirit prophecy in the Bible support this remnant of the remnant?

Because there are really 2 methods that we find in scripture that God uses to purify his church.

And so we're here, we've looked at the coming crisis, We've looked at revival, genuine or counterfeit.

Now we're at shaken or sealed is our piece today.

And then we'll look at a few of these other pieces in the coming weeks.

We're going to turn to Hebrews in a moment.

You can go ahead and turn there, but we see a method over and over in scripture that God calls out his faithful, his remnant.

You might think of Abraham, he was called out from the idolaters of his day as a friend of God.

We think of the nation of Israel being called out, if you will, of Egypt.

When we get to the New Testament, the word for church is ekklesia.

So it's another calling out, if you will, out of Judaism.

By the time time continues to go on though you still have this influence of pagan practices and Sunday worship and human ordinances and so on and so you have the Reformers again another calling out if you will and that's what we have Luther and Wycliffe and Hus and Jerome and Calvin.

And then God calls out Bible students out of Protestantism during the Advent movement.

Whenever the corporate body at large drifts away, God calls out, he calls out, he calls out of the body a new faithful group.

But we will find in this passage that God has a different means and a different method at end time, rather than calling out, he does something different.

Because if you stop and think about it, if there was a group called out of Adventism and if time would last, they eventually would apostatize and become corrupt and so he'd have to call out again and call out again and so at end time he does something different and we read about it here in Hebrews chapter 12 verse 25 and 26 it says See that you do not refuse him who speaks.

For if they do not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, how much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth?

Well at Sinai when he gave the 10 Commandment law.

So this is talking about the law when the voice of God shook the earth.

And then verse 26 continuing on, but now he has promised saying, yet once more, I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.

So at Sinai, God shook the earth when he spoke and wrote the 10 commandments to Israel on tables of stone.

It was at that time that worldly Israel was brought to the test of obedience to the law of God.

And when Moses came off the mountain, they were dancing around the golden calf.

And so it was a test between what God had said and what they did.

A test between obedience and disobedience.

But then in verse 27 it says, Now this yet once more indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken as of things that are made.

That the things which cannot be shaken do what?

So what happens to the things that are shaken?

The reason we are not interested in off shoots is because they do just that.

And then verse 28, Therefore since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear." So there's loyalty to God, the faithful in Christ, recognizing that God is going to have a corporate people, a church that will not be spit up into independent atoms, but a God that will guide the ark through, that cannot be shaken, but that will remain.

Just as the winds blew in the days of Noah, and the waves were high, God's hand was upon the ark at that time.

Now that didn't mean there wasn't a smell in the ark from time to time, did it?

The animals were not housebroken, but God's hand was on the ark and he brought it through.

So we have here in volume 2 of selected messages page 380 the church may appear as about to fall but it does not fall it remains there's the word again that's Ellen White's comment on this passage we just read, it remains while the sinner's enzyme will be sifted out, the chaff separated from the precious wheat.

This is a terrible ordeal, but nevertheless, it must take place.

Liberal elements may come into the church.

We're not ostriches in the sand with our heads in the sand.

And so what is the difference between shaking and sifting?

Many of you have been on a Maranatha mission trip before.

They've ordered some sand, but the sand that they are able to get is maybe not as good as they are looking for, and so you put several scoops full of the sand into 1 of these things that's just simply like a heavy-duty screen, and you shake and you shake and you shake and you shake and you shake.

The whole purpose of the shaking is for the settling to occur within that box there, right?

That would be the shaking, the shaking, the shaking, the shaking.

Hopefully you came with a big group because it's very tiresome.

But you shake and you shake and you shake and you shake.

And the sifting would be when that sand finally reaches the bottom and falls out.

Now I understand the illustration's a little bit backwards.

You're looking for the sand in that situation, but you get the idea.

There's a shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking that separates within the church and eventually the sifting takes place when those that have been separated in heart and mind and soul, they may be here but they're not really engaged.

Their heart is not in it and then some level comes some some thing comes that disrupts life as usual and They're out It's not worth it the shaking and the assisting occurs And this might happen with some crisis that takes place in their own life, or it may come as a climax of things happening in this earth that ultimately, probably the greatest climax for most, will be the National Sunday Law.

When people say, you know what, this isn't worth it.

Series

Preparing For the End Times

Shaken or Sealed

Transcript

Parent Series

Sponsor

Recorded

Last Generation Victorious

55m

Seminar: Lift Him Up

Lift Him Up: Evangelism’s Last and Only Hope

1h 20m

Eric Walsh Weekend

01 Purified in Persecution

1h 1m

Antichrist: The One You've Never Known

Antichrist, Episode 6: Revealed

38m

Why Most Church Members Won’t Make It Through the Shaking

43m

Acts: First Generation Lessons for Last Generation Believers

2. Discipline

1h

Jesus on Prophecy

11 The United States in Bible Prophecy

1h 14m

Have MERCY On Me

49m

Mark Finley - The Shaking and the Sifting: A Biblical Approach

True and False Revivals, Part 1

1h

Experiencing Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

3. How the First Angel’s Message Prepares for the Second Advent

54m

Remnant Identity: Who We Are and Why It Matters

6. Summary of 3 and 4

1h

A Call to Revival

When You Lose Your First Love

1h 15m

Sound Doctrine