Michigan Camp Meeting 2018: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Jesus, the Way, the Truth, the Life

Jed Genson

Jodi Genson

You Must Be Born Again - Part 1

The Sanctified Life, a Lifelong Process - Part 2

Satan is Defeated - Part 3

How to Meet the Enemy - Part 4

Keep it Alive - Part 5

Our Father which art in heaven Lord you've given us the gift of life today That means you have a purpose in us living Lord today we want to know you in a deeper way than we've ever known you before.

This is not just theology or anything, it's real life stuff.

We talk a lot about it, but what's the nuts and bolts about it?

So Lord, yesterday we talked about justification, that you're the justifier.

In John 14.6 It says you are the way, you are the truth, and you are the life.

And so we want to make that a practical experience in our life, how you're the way in our life, how you're the truth.

So please bless us as we share together today.

And we love you and we thank you in Jesus' name, Amen.

God looks at us and he sees Jesus Christ's perfect character wrapping us up.

Okay, now today we're gonna talk about the second part of the gospel.

In Revelation 14, 6, we have these 3 angels that are flying in the midst of heaven, right?

And so sometimes we just brush over that first angel, but the first angel is carrying the everlasting gospel.

And if you look at the world, the everlasting gospel is kind of confusing.

There's a lot of different ideas about the gospel.

But the 2 main points of the gospel is we're justified by faith in Christ alone, and the second part is we're sanctified by faith in Christ alone.

Okay, now sanctifying, this is a part that the humanity and divinity are combined.

We're working together to surrender our lives over to Jesus in the practical aspects of our life, things that we war against, the temptations and things of the flesh, and how we have victory over those things.

So what happens after I give my life to Jesus?

Yesterday we gave our lives to Jesus Christ, brand-new, fresh, never, it's never been like that before, it was brand-new, and you were justified, you were cleansed from your sins and righteousness, and you recovered with His perfect robe of righteousness, right?

Okay, now He gives you His own righteousness.

We went through that quite a bit yesterday, and this is out of the present truth, January 30th, 1890.

The moment the sinner lays hold of Christ by faith, his sins are no longer upon him.

Christ stands in the sinner's place and declares, I have borne their guilt.

You shouldn't be bearing your own guilt right now.

You shouldn't feel guilty about anything.

We accepted His peace and joy and forgiveness.

You know, it's lawful to say amen in this class if you'd like to, okay?

The moment you surrender yourself wholly to Him in simple faith, Jesus accepts you and encircles you in His arms of love.

He holds You more firmly than you can grasp him.

He holds you Jody had a story where you found that that statement It's not our holding on to Christ as him holding on as us Once you share that that thought you had how you came up to that conclusion, because when we're in California.

Okay, I don't know if any of you have had this experience where you've been in a Sabbath school class or a prayer meeting and it's testimonial time and people will be praising God for him helping them find keys or you know whatever the situation was and then someone will come up and say I let go of the hand of God and I fell this week and I don't know what to do.

And people are constantly letting go, letting go, letting go, have you heard that?

And maybe you have experienced that, I've let go of the hand of God and I blew it.

You know, it's like this cut across my grain and it almost left me with no hope.

I thought, does my salvation depend on my hold on Christ?

And so I asked the pastor, I asked the Sabbath school teacher and they couldn't give me an answer.

And so I continued to wrestle with God in prayer.

And then 1 day as I was studying and doing my devotions, I was reading through the book of Acts of the Apostles.

And I found this wonderful statement, and I can't quote it verbatim.

It says something like this, if our salvation depended upon our hold on him, now was that a direct answer?

Our grasp on him may seem feeble, and it is, isn't it?

And I'll find that for you, and I'll send it to you in an email.

It says, it goes on, it says, his love is that of an elder brother.

So long as we maintain our union with him, no 1 can pluck us out of his hand.

So our challenge is to maintain that union with Christ.

Come to the light and triumph in God, then shall Your peace be as a river and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.

Christ's object lesson is, righteousness is right doing.

That's a definition for righteousness, doing what is right.

Now, in and of ourselves, because we're carnal and we're self-centered, we can't do what's right.

But we connect ourselves to Jesus Christ and He's done what is right.

He will help us to do what is right in every situation.

And you're going to have to ask yourself, well what is right in this situation?

And it is by the deeds that all will be judged.

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