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

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Prophetic Faith

Wes Peppers

Prophetic Faith in Daniel- Part 1

Prophetic Faith in Daniel- Part 2

Prophetic Faith in Revelation- Part 1

Prophetic Faith in Revelation- Part 2

Precious Father, today we thank You so much as we go into this lesson.

We just pray, Lord, that Your Holy Spirit would guide and direct our thoughts and our hearts, and You would give us clarity of mind.

Most importantly, Lord, give us the Holy Spirit.

Without Him, we are just running circles of foolishness.

And so I just pray, Lord, for His presence to be more than in the room, but also in our hearts.

And we praise You and thank You, Lord, that You would lead us and guide us and teach us today.

So yesterday we talked about how can a person obtain the righteousness of God?

Does any of us have righteousness of our own?

We have no righteousness of our own, and it is impossible for us to attain it on our own.

Can the law of God give us righteousness?

It actually makes it very good because though it can't give any righteousness, it does do what?

It declares the righteousness of God, right?

How many of you were at the early morning session with Pastor Mark Howard?

So the law has no ability to give us any righteousness.

Now, what is the number 1 purpose of God's law?

Well, before it convicts us, well, before it shows us where we're at, it shows us where God is, right?

So the first role of the law of God is to declare the righteousness of God or to define righteousness as well.

Then as a following point, when it declares the righteousness of God, that righteousness is basically just kind of like trumpeted out.

And any place that there is unrighteousness, it reveals that by aligning it beside the righteousness of God.

And so, of course, we who are sinners are righteous or unrighteous?

And so that righteousness of God is naturally going to do what?

And so when it does that, it brings the sense of need, a sense of conviction, a sense of judgment that we are separated from Him, right?

We're separated from God, and we don't want to be separated from God, even though we are, but the only way to not be separated from God is to have that perfect righteousness.

But there it is, staring us in the face, the law of God telling us and pointing out all of our sins and revealing to us that we are nothing but unrighteous and your sins have separated you from God.

But God through His mercy cannot give us righteousness through the law, but He gives us righteousness from another place.

Because the beauty of Jesus is that He can both declare righteousness, well, He is righteousness, He declares righteousness, but He can also impart it.

That's the difference between Christ and the law, that they both declare the exact same righteousness.

There's so many people today that think that the commandments, the righteousness of God's law and the righteousness of Jesus are 2 separate things.

Jesus has no less justice within His person than the law does.

If he did, then you could say that Jesus came from the law rather than the law coming from Jesus.

Jesus has no less justice within him than the law does.

So we need to find, this is just slightly reviewed from yesterday, we need to find a man who had never sinned but kept the law perfectly, would allow us to have His righteousness as our own.

And if you remember we read Romans 3 And I would like to read that again today because I think it's highly important.

It says, "...but now the righteousness of God..." Let's go back up here.

It says, Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth should be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." And so when he says there, those who are under the law, he's not just simply talking about Jews, he's talking about those who are under the condemnation of the law, right?

The ones that have broken the law and have had the knowledge of breaking the law and now understand that they've broken the law, correct?

And he says, all the world becomes guilty before God.

Because now they have a revelation of God's what?

Character and His righteousness, which is in contrast to their character and unrighteousness.

He says, "...therefore, by the deeds of the law, no flesh shall be justified in its sight.

So he says basically, once you've broken the law, you cannot do anything to fix that brokenness.

It is just there, and you can give your best effort, you can give it your best shot, but it's still going to be broken.

Even if you get it right after that, that moment in time still is there.

But now the righteousness of God, apart from the law, is revealed." So in other words, he's saying, okay, look, the law of God declares the righteousness of God, but it's not going to give you anything.

But here's another place of righteousness that's besides the law, other than the Law, where we can actually obtain it, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets.

Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

Which righteousness would you rather have?

If you could obtain your own righteousness from the law, if you could do that, but you can't, but if you could, would you rather have that?

Or would you rather have Jesus' righteousness?

The reality is we cannot get righteousness from doing the deeds of the law.

But even if we could, we'd still rather have His.

So why then, when we still rely upon our own unrighteous acts, do we still prefer our own rather than His?

We still trust somehow in our own efforts to do something good of ourselves when we can't.

But even if we could, even if God could go, whoo, now you can do it, We'd still rather have His, so why would we rather have His in the worst spot, see what I'm saying, than even in the middle spot?

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Prophetic Faith

Prophetic Faith in Revelation- Part 2

1h 13m

The Science of Surrender

56m

Experiencing Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

2. Power of the Word Brings the Righteousness of Christ

41m

Seminars

Your Problem Solved

1h 2m

The Day of Atonement

03 When You Don’t Understand

1h 4m

Trump, Biden and the Image to the Beast

1h 8m

Is God Enough?

1h 5m

Unlock Revelation

5. Revelation’s Global Peace Plan

1h

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior - Part 5: Sanctuary Under Siege

1h 12m

Finishing Their Story

Purposed

59m

Back to the Mission

The Battle Cry of the Remnant

1h 1m

The Three Angels' Message

07 The Fourth Angel’s Message

1h

Sound Doctrine