Michigan Camp Meeting 2019: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Christ our Righteousness

Royce Snyman

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 1

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 3: From 1900 until 1950

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 4: From 1950 until Now

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 5: In these Last Days

Father in Heaven, we are grateful to be able to join together again today to study together.

Lord, we have been praying that you will guide this class today.

What we're going to be talking about, as you well know, is sensitive.

It's really easy to get mixed up in humanity and human thinking.

Father, please help us, because we don't want to confuse your work.

And we know that the only source of clarity in sorting this all out is your holy word.

We thank you for it, and we thank you that we can talk together as brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Guide us now through the presence of your Holy Spirit, we pray in Jesus' name.

Somebody turned on the sun, so now we got that along with everything else.

You may be hidden, but you actually may be more focused.

Today is a day where I'm venturing underground I've somewhat feared to launch upon.

But when I first discovered a very important little piece, which was only a couple, 3 or 4 weeks ago, a lot of lights turned on in my mind, and I'll try to explain that today as time allows for us.

And it helped me to understand why I've been confused.

I just said I now know why I was confused.

And but it's a very serious discussion we need to have today.

I'm going to focus on some recent history today.

I want to remind you that we will focus on the teaching of time, not necessarily the teaching of the Bible.

Now I caution you with that, and I place the emphasis of my prayer on the Word of God.

And tomorrow we will take a look at the word of God again, but there comes a time when we do have to compare some of the journeys in history along the way and our more recent history.

And the Bible does not record recent history, but it does correct recent history to make sure that we're on the right track.

Today we're going to be focusing on a major event which has had significant impact on our church and seek to understand its impact on us today.

But we really want our eyes and our ears to be open to the Word of God and His truth.

I don't know how many of you, how many of you, quote, grew up in the Seventh-day Adventist church.

How many of you came to the church later through Bible studies, evangelistic meetings, that kind of thing?

Okay, maybe there are even some here who have not yet made that decision, and that could be too.

I'm not going to put you on the spot today, but I want you to realize that all of us are on a journey.

You are on a journey, I'm on a journey, and that also reminds us that I'm part of a church made up of people who are on a journey.

And along this journey, it's easy for us to get off track on our journey without us realizing we're off track.

And the only way we know for sure is to come back to the Word of God.

The Word of God is full of stories and examples of the church wrestling with the journey along the way.

We got a real devil out there and Brother Sligar keeps reminding us we're in a war and in this war there is an enemy and the enemy is real and the enemy has a goal and his goal is to destroy God's church.

I know that there are some people here who have not been here all along.

And I want to make sure that we're all together on this.

First of all, as we tend to focus on the differences.

Folks, we're very blessed to be part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Our differences are far outweighed by what we agree on.

And by the grace of God, the Lord will help us sort out those differences.

That's why we must be praying together that God's going to help us figure out those things.

We must have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Each of us individually must know the Word of God ourselves and through our relationship with Jesus, be learning what he's trying to teach us there.

We talked a lot about what Ellen White says in Great Controversy yesterday.

Those quotations are in the notes from yesterday.

We tend to put everything, and this is a new observation, we tend to put everything in the church related ideas and concepts into boxes.

Let me suggest it's time to throw the boxes away.

The conservative or the liberal box, The woman's ordination or the headship box, the 1888 box, the Ford theology box, the final generation box, the whatever theology box.

There's only 1 box that matters and that's God's box in which you'll find the Bible and the spirit of prophecy that will guide us and direct us clearly to where we need to be.

Remember those boxes all have people in them for whom Jesus died.

And the Word of God is there to help us shed the boxes and focus on the truth.

I want to make this observation from yesterday.

A couple people came to me and I appreciate the fact that they did because that means they were looking very carefully and not accepting everything they saw in front of them.

And that doesn't mean you didn't see it, it just means they came to me and talked to me.

And so I went back to look carefully at what I gave you on the screen and realized that inadvertently I'd made a mistake.

First of all, there were 2 slides on the screen.

The problem was the first slide was the objection.

If you know his book, you'll understand what that means.

It means he was not giving the answer, he was telling what people were objecting to and their question.

And so I was trying to portray it as being the answer when it was really the question.

And if for some reason you saw that and it was really bothering you, I've got the whole thing right here, okay?

And you can see the objection that was there, and then you can see the total and complete answer that he gave.

The most important thing that I was illustrating thereby that particular statement is that in the time when this was written, which I believe was 1952, F.D.

Nicoll was expressing his opinion consistent with what the Seventh-day Adventist church taught at that particular time on the nature of Christ.

And the response he gave was affirming the belief that the church had at that time that Christ's nature was a fallen nature.

Now that's throwing you, I'm just reporting history right now.

I'm trying to give you the history, but he was simply stating what he believed and what the church believed and taught at that time, okay.

So I'm not going to labor on that particular point.

If you have more questions, there are some sheets here.

I did not make enough for everybody because I wasn't sure everybody had the question.

If for some reason there's a long line of 100 people here afterwards and we run out after 20 copies are given out, I will make more copies for tomorrow.

I try to save money by not wasting paper and trees and all that kind of thing.

I'd like to review quickly where we have come so far.

Series

Christ our Righteousness

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 4: From 1950 until Now

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Talking Points 2nd Quarter 2024: The Great Controversy

12 Earth’s Closing Events

28m

Eugene Prewitt: Of Minneapolis and Modern Times

The Beginning of the Latter Rain, Part 2

15m

Turning Stones Into Bread

1h 13m

Plenary Meetings

Question and Answer Session

1h

Righteousness by Faith

Wounded in the House of His Friends

1h 8m

On the Unity of the Church

02 Our Adventist Journey: From Unity to Division

52m

Experiencing Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

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

54m

The Early and Latter Rain: Our Need of the Holy Spirit

Six Reasons Why the Early Rain is Needed

57m

1888's Everlasting Gospel

3. The Repetition of 1888’s History on a Corporate Level

52m

SWYC 2006 Breakout Sessions

The Latter Rain and Intercession, Part 2

32m

Righteousness by Faith

Revival and Reformation in the Last Days

1h 11m

The Final Destination

1h 11m

Sound Doctrine