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Jesus On Prophecy

Ron Kelly

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Hour of Judgment Part 1

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Lord, we're here on a Thursday night, night number 11.

It's been a joy and a pleasure to make this journey with everyone.

I pray, Lord, send your Spirit tonight to bless all of us.

I Pray, Lord, may your conviction be in your word.

And I'm asking now, Lord, when it's all said and done, that we would love you more and be the more prepared to challenge those who have mismanaged their ambassadorship and represented you wrongly to the world with doctrines that destroy hope and confidence.

So bless us now tonight, Lord, as we look at the eternal gospel.

Set a watch before my lips, a guard before the door of my mouth, And I pray also for a holy boldness in Jesus' name, amen.

All right, let's make the journey, the eternal gospel.

Jesus, I wanna put this in on the front side.

The other night I had a presentation on the gospel trumpets.

We realize that I don't know which night we're in.

We are in the part of the Jewish festival year tonight that is the Feast of Trumpets.

It's going on in certain Jewish communities, even this evening.

And I was showing you in 1 Corinthians 14, where it talks about the gift of prophecy as the 1 to desire that whole chapter.

Desire the gift of prophecy to edify, which is to teach and instruct, to exhort, which is to encourage to do right and sometimes to correct, put back in the path of right doing, and to comfort or console.

But it's right in the early parts of that chapter where Paul writes and he says, unless the trumpet gives a certain sound.

Now those trumpets were used on battlefields to call people.

And then I took you immediately to the book of Revelation where it says the dragon went to make war.

Now I just don't want you to miss this on the front side of the book of Revelation, that when Jesus shows up, this is Revelation 110, the voice that he hears, that John hears behind him, is the voice, this is a trumpet.

The book is a revelation of Christ, the ultimate and preeminent prophet of his own people.

I want to talk to you tonight about what you're learning.

Tonight, I'm going to emphasize something that for some is going to be very new.

Most of you are here because at 1 point in time, you moved from a position of unbelief to belief.

Someone presented the gospel to you and you came to the other side you came to a new perspective Life came into your being Your very visage the hope that wells up from within was new and and full and free So you moved from being an unbeliever?

To being a believer Someone lifted up the story of God's love on the cross and you felt God was calling you and you moved.

Some of you have never made that move yet.

Some of you watching me online have never made that move yet.

Tomorrow night, I'm going to give an invitation to make that move.

God is giving you the highest order of honor to invite you into a personal, living relationship with him.

Satan thought to separate us forever from God with sin.

He didn't know God was gonna come down and connect us closer than we would have been if sin never happened.

What he didn't know is that before he created man, he was ready to come if man needed him to.

But most people that are listening to me now are at least considering moving from running their own life to saying, God, you can be trusted, I'll follow you.

But the warning I wanna give right now is that the journey doesn't end.

Jesus said, the road is wide that leads to destruction and many find it, but the road is narrow that leads to eternal life.

It's the journey that is transformational.

Getting doctrinal truth is the right thing to pursue.

His way of living embodied the application of that truth.

When I'm done here tonight, you're gonna have a lot to think about.

At the end of the day, what you believe about God is gonna shape how you treat people and how you live your life.

Don't let anybody tell you that doctrine doesn't matter.

Doctrine, it'd be like saying, all you need are muscles and a heart to live.

Without bones, I'd be a pile on the stage Doctrine art is the bones upon which God breathes beauty in action Systematizing everything don't let anybody ever run down the benefit of doctrine.

If you had a bad foundation on your house, you'd be paying forever to fix it.

You might come to the place where you'd say, I'd rather get a bulldozer here and shove it in and put a good foundation under it.

We're living in a supposedly post-modern age.

What we're going to find out when the spiritual world breaks wide open, when this earth face a crisis bigger than its science can solve and its political systems can fix, this world's going to be back at the feet of God and in the churches and the seams are going to be bursting on religious institutions.

At that moment in time, a failure to have gotten to know God is going to create a crisis that God wanted to avert.

So when I come into a church, I should study the doctrine, but just getting the doctrine is just the beginning because the doctrine is the foundation for an ongoing and developing lifelong relationship.

Jesus is the good shepherd and he moves on.

Now the truth of the matter is, if I don't move after making the first move, I'm kind of in the middle.

And I want to warn my Seventh-day Adventist brothers and sisters, there's a lot of people for whom this illustration is very relevant.

They've not only not followed their fathers and mothers and gone on to higher ground and advanced the cause of God more, they've taken the blessings and they've created a huge liability for their spiritual progress.

But I want to tell you right now, if you were to look at that man's life represented by the red dot, You'd have a question.

But Jesus isn't staying still and he moves on again.

And this time when he moves on, things are starting to change and he goes just a little bit farther.

And when he gets a little farther and he shows up again.

You tell me, which side is the man on that proclaimed Christ if the cross itself is dividing the world?

He became a Christian, she became a Christian, didn't follow on, didn't hear the voice of the shepherd, thinks they have doctrinal truth, might even go away saying, I received Jesus, I'm saved.

And if they're unfortunate enough to believe that salvation was only at the cross, if the point of the cross wasn't to open up a relationship, if they're unfortunate to believe primarily just in legal justification, they're lost thinking they're saved and they don't even know it.

God didn't come along just so that every day he could pour a little more grace on our record and we could stay like we were.

God came into this world to give us a revelation of who he is so that we could enter into a life-changing relationship through his indwelling presence, through the Holy Spirit, so that we can actually be remade.

It's represented by the resurrection power of Jesus.

And when Paul grabs on to the call to walk Worthy, which is a common call in the epistles of Paul walk worthy It's because we've got resurrection power that can break the bonds of self-inflicted Dysfunction and besetting sin.

We've got resurrection power because we have the love of Christ that's inside our hearts purifying the soul.

Friends, tonight, it's not enough that your mama and your papa believed in Jesus.

It's not even enough that you believed in Jesus.

I know people, even of my own faith, whom they have called themselves, actually I've heard of them, Adventist atheists.

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