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Village SDA Church

Jesus On Prophecy

Ron Kelly

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Hallelujah, Here Comes the Judge

Hour of Judgment Part 1

Hour of Judgment Part 2

Prophecy and the Eternal Gospel

Babylon the Fall and the Call

Blood on the Hands of the Remnant

That spirit of the prophets has inhabited the hearts of mothers and fathers and teachers and preachers down through the ages.

I pray, Lord, may we embrace it again for edification, for exhortation and for consolation.

This morning, I've entitled my message, Blood on the Hands of the Remnant and the American dream.

I mentioned last night that the world is hungry for genuine Christianity, a principled Christianity, not 1 that says my dogma is.

Now we learn that doctrine is very important.

It's the bones upon which the heart and the flesh of a body can operate and maneuver.

But a principled Christianity is what, like Jesus spoke to the woman at the well.

He said, those who worship me must worship in spirit and in truth.

It's not enough to have a head in the game.

If the heart's not in the game, there's a serious problem.

I didn't get married over my head, although my head was in the game.

And I'm not gonna stay married and be at the marriage supper of the lamb without my heart being in the game.

I have to tell you at the beginning of this message, for many, there's a lot of head game and a little heart game.

And I'm here this morning to invite you to make a decision to change it.

You can change it by starting with your head.

When somebody wanders outside the sacred circle of marriage and they allow the heart affections to go out to someone else, it doesn't mean the original marriage is over.

What it means is someone's going to have to make a really hard decision and say, the relationship I'm in has inadvertently grown to be wrong.

But I can choose to go back to the original source of love and the promise I made, knowing that my head can lead my heart.

So this morning I'm going to challenge the church, I'm gonna challenge any Seventh-day Adventist that's listening to me, and I'm gonna invite those who are not Seventh-day Adventists to consider if whether or not what I've told you over the week is truth And if it's truth to follow it, so when it's all said and done I'm not here with any misgivings about where I'm going.

I'm going to issue an invitation for you to move For you to move.

Why is there a hunger for genuine Christianity because materialism hasn't done it You can get more you can have better you can trade in the last model on the new people do it with people, too But it doesn't satisfy and of course pleasure hasn't found itself in the pantheon of lasting satisfaction either.

You can shoot up, you can watch something exhilarating on a screen, you can sit down and eat yourself into the pit, whatever it might be, when it's all said and done, whether it's watching people get blown away in a video game in which you're pushing the buttons or just on a screen where somebody else has engineered the entertainment for you.

Pleasure doesn't satisfy long-term either.

I didn't say these things don't satisfy at all.

There's not a quick, there's not a situation he presents that doesn't have a quick dopamine hit to it.

There's pleasure out there, it just leaves ashes in your mouth.

And of course, technology's got a little bit of a thrill on the front side too, but in the end it may be the emptiest of them all.

But God is calling today a people on this earth to come into an emotionally, spiritually, relational, intimate relationship with him in which their joy is the joy of knowing they're loved and loving back and loving around.

There is a group on the earth today that God calls his church.

For 120 years, God was seeking to redeem the earth as I mentioned the other night.

If the people would have repented, God would have called off the flood.

Just like when Abraham was mediating on behalf of Sodom, at least he thought he was mediating, he didn't really know the heart of God like he would.

You won't destroy that city for 50 people, will you?

And when Jonah had to be in that insecure posture is a preacher which is which unless you've been in that position You can't empathize with him but if you're a prophet it's because you tell the future and how many of those people after the fire didn't consume the city of Nineveh said, I wonder if he was really right or if this was just a bunch of psychology and sociology all wrapped up in 1.

He knew that he might be considered a false prophet, and he didn't like it.

But God does have a heart full of mercy, and when the conditions change, He's willing to change.

Long after the Jewish nation has rejected the special covenant that God sought to confirm with them in the life of Jesus, Peter is writing these words.

You, speaking to Jew and Gentile, it doesn't matter where you're at.

It's the New Testament Church it's comprised of both you're a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation his own special people now I'm not going to glide by This slide because it's about you you me we are part of this special Family of God chosen paid for with the royal blood of Jesus a holy nation We don't have a geographical border or boundary that defines us but we are nonetheless Known by God written in his book and he's looking forward to bringing us home into the kingdom And what's our job?

We are to proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light So what do you think the devil's 1 ambition is to make sure that you forget you're royal You're chosen.

You're special and you know what else you've got a job.

When you take a step to follow truth and become part of God's commandment keeping people you do not deny any truth that you believed in the past.

I want to tell you what I've shown you, the progress of God's restoration of His church starting in the early days with the translation of the Bible, onto righteousness by faith and grace with Martin Luther, onto other truths like baptism, sanctification, etc.

With Calvin, the Anabaptists, the Methodists.

We're standing on the shoulders of those who are looking to recover from the dark ages, truths that were lost, but they were regained in the freedom to study the Word.

And while we may appreciate our past, we commit ourselves to going with Jesus.

You may never have heard about the seventh day Sabbath until the last couple of weeks.

You did come to a seventh day Adventist church, so you probably thought you would eventually.

But some of you have been going to church on Saturday for decades.

So those who are looking for truth should be looking for a church that embraces as much of Bible doctrine as anyone can find that stands on the solid shoulders of the prophets, the preachers, and the teachers of the past, but always only tested by the word of God.

Timothy was written to, and Paul said this, I write so that you may know how to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of truth.

I want to remind you, friends, 1 of my favorite authors says, enfeebled and defective as she may be, the church is the 1 object of God's supreme regard.

Church is sometimes enfeebled, sometimes it's very defective.

Because you collect all of us with our core and you create a corporately defective group.

Except for 1 thing, with our eyes fixed on Jesus and his healing touch on our shoulder, our hand in his, the healing is going on in the midst of the stumbling and sometimes the missteps.

John was writing when he recurred the words of Jesus, Jesus said, sanctify them by your truth, your word is truth.

When these words come into our experience, when we actually surrender to them and let them be the guide of our life, our very nature is changed.

That's why Peter could write, through the exceeding great and precious promises.

We become partakers of the nature of God Listen, you want it fixed from the outside in put the word on the inside and what's happening on the outside will change We'll know the truth Jesus said and it will make you free and so we come down to this book of Revelation and as I mentioned last night we have 2 cities Babylon in the New Jerusalem We have 2 women the adulterer and the pure woman the pure woman has the pure doctrines She's giving the life-giving water of life whereas the other woman is making people drink of the wine, the corrupted, fermented, ruinatious, if there's such a word, wine of false doctrine.

Paul would use this metaphor of the pure woman and marriage.

He would say, speaking of the Corinthian church, "'I'm jealous for you with a godly jealously, "'for I have betrothed you to 1 husband.'" Who is that 1 husband?

"'That I may present you as a chaste virgin.

Purity of life and doctrine is important.

He wants a church without a spot or a wrinkle.

We know a battle began in heaven where the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old called the devil, and then Satan, who deceives the whole world.

He was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

So thus we see the battle lines drawn up.

He wants to devour and destroy, especially the woman and her offspring.

Let's look at a few episodes in the great controversy, Satan rebels against God in heaven.

Satan comes down here to earth, and he knows God is gonna try to redeem the ones that he has stolen away out of the family of God And so he's there waiting to destroy their deliver waiting to take the 1 who's going to give birth Jesus was the focus of all of Satan's animosity and hatred.

The child would rule the nations, and we're looking forward to that day when righteousness will reign.

The good news is Jesus was caught up to heaven after he finished the ministry of sacrifice, to go on with the ministry of mediation, open up a relationship for us to go straight to his Father, and eventually on to a ministry of vindication.

This is 1 of the main things we've learned this week.

The ministry of salvation is complete and full in the cross, but it's applied, it's made efficacious.

The blood of Jesus now allows him to bridge the gap between rebel sinners and a redeeming God.

And eventually, Jesus can declare our names before the angels.

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