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Warren Seventh Day Adventist Church

Giancarlo De Miranda

06 Written in Stone

So let's have a word of prayer, let's bow our heads and invite the Holy Spirit to bless our time together.

Father in Heaven, we are grateful for the wonderful truth in your word and the things we've been studying so far.

And Father, we would like to continue to pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

We understand that spiritual things are spiritually discerned and we need the Holy Spirit tonight to guide us, to bless us, for we pray in Jesus' name.

So in the past for many centuries, the home was perceived as a place of safety.

The home was perceived as a place where you could come and find acceptance and be embraced.

And there you found support, you found people that understood you and were there for you, though you may have mistakes.

But the home was for many centuries being known as a place for family togetherness.

However, in the past 20 years, things are changing, things have changed and the home now has become a place where we could find names such as conflict, hostility, abuse, divorce, and these things are becoming the description of a home, what a home actually is.

Of course it doesn't need to be that way but unfortunately we see these things increasing more and more.

The structure of the home is different today than from years in the past.

The number of single parents are increasing in our society and the home which used to be a place of safety, a place of what everyone?

Safety is now a place where the enemy is creeping and parents are not even aware.

Through television, through internet, the devil is somehow permeating and introducing things to our children and young people or even adults that before had no place in the home.

Let me read this statement to you through television and internet excessive violence what else sex and a total lack of what everyone decency and moral have invaded our homes do we agree with this statement yes or no oh yes is becoming more and more common let me give you a statistic here tonight that it becomes undeniable that things are creeping into our houses and morals are declined.

The average 18 year old has witnessed 200 violent acts on television and movies including how many murders 40, 000 murders can you imagine that can you imagine that 40, 000 murders you know a young person has witnessed after the age of 18 and friends make no mistakes the things that we are seeing in television, online, is shaping how society is today.

Compass, our society is thrown into the state of what everyone?

Confusion, and we can all testify of that.

You decide what is right for you and what is wrong for you.

There is no moral standard according to society.

Follow your own what everyone your own heart ok so if it feels right they must be right are you following but is that really true in old times we heard Solomon writing this words Proverbs 28 verse 26 he who trusts in his own what everyone heart is a what is a fool why the Bible says in Jeremiah that our hearts are desperately who can finish we could okay We cannot trust in our own inclinations, we need to have a moral compass, we need to have a moral standard and not trust in our own inclinations.

The other day I was talking to someone about a particular passage of the scripture and the person said, I don't like this statement and I said, sister, it's not about liking, it's about what is written in the Bible.

You know, we may not like what is written there, but if we decide that there is no moral standard of right and wrong and we must follow what we like or what we don't like, we are in trouble, friends.

In Hosea 8, verse 7, I have it here, but I will...

If you want to follow in the Bible that's fine but I just want to lay the foundation before we can go to a few passages of the Bible together but in Hosea we find this principle here in chapter 8 verse 7 they sow what everyone?

The world wind and friend this is a basic principle of agriculture If you sow 1 seed of corn, what are you going to have?

And not only 1 seed, but you're going to have several now.

We don't reap exactly what we sow, we always reap more than what we sow.

Otherwise, what would be the purpose of sowing?

If you're going to place like 1 seed of tomato plant to harvest 1 single tomato with 1 seed there is no point of sowing but when you sow 1 seed of tomato plant you have 1 full tomato plant with several tomatoes with much more seeds and you multiply and so it is true friends in the spiritual realm we saw the wind and we reap what everyone the world wind notice we are sewing whatever you want to notice carefully hear this statement we've been sowing the wind of what?

Violence in the media and we are reaping the whirlwind of crime so it came you know multiplied we've been sowing the wind of what everyone?

Immorality and we've been reaping the whirlwind of fornication, divorce, rape and child abuse.

They have lost the sense of right and wrong and those trying to stand for what is right, they are perceived as probably you know fanatics or something like that, old-fashioned or whatever.

Notice, how do you protect moral values in our, what kind of world today?

Immoral world, because we need to protect our children, we need to protect our grandchildren, we need to protect our own minds from the attacks of the enemy that is creeping in society today and coming all the way to our homes friends and we need to watch that I like to suggest tonight that the book of Revelation what book everyone revelation has a solution The book of Revelation presents a moral compass that will give direction for us to stand in the midst of corruption tonight.

I want to invite you to turn your Bibles with me to Revelation chapter 14.

Yes, Revelation chapter 14 and that we've been talking about this chapter.

Revelation chapter 14 we find the 3 angels messages.

What kind of message did I say everyone the 3 angels match friends if I fail to communicate to you throughout this series what is 3 angels message is about and then this seminar the seminary was a failure because this is the message that God wants to go to the whole world in these last days let's read together here chapter 14 ok of revelation we're going to start in verse 6 I want you to see and by the way this message will be proclaimed with the assistance of the holy angels with the system of whoever you want the holy angels notice what it says here then I saw another angel flying the midst of heaven having what everyone The everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth.

Every nation, tribe, and how many tongues?

And then notice carefully, here he has what in his hand, everyone?

What does the angel have in his hand to proclaim to the world?

It's everlasting because it never changes, it's the same.

But I want you to see the proclamation of the gospel.

Sometimes, depending on the age we are living, there is a different emphasis on the gospel.

The gospel is always the same, but there is a different what, everyone?

In the days of Noah, the gospel was proclaimed there, a message of repentance and a message of restoration.

He said, come into the ark because God will destroy sin.

And if anyone wants to hold on to sin, they will be destroyed together with sin.

And then a message was given providing an escape from sin and judgment, but many people didn't go into the ark and then the flood came.

For instance, in the day of the of the apostles, you know, they were preaching the crucifixion of the Messiah and the resurrection of Jesus.

And in this last days, we have emphasis also to give.

Notice carefully verse 7 the everlasting gospel will be proclaiming notice what the angel says and then I saw excuse me verse 7 what was the message what is the first word Fear God and give glory to Him for the hour of His judgment has come and what next?

Worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the springs of water so we see a message of consecration we already saw that fear God is more than just having reverence toward God but it means obedience to God we saw that the other night give glory to him is more than just like singing praises to God but has to do with our lifestyle that glorify God everything that we do we must glorify God and we must worship him for what reason for the hour of his what everyone judgment has come believe or not friends the judgment is part of the everlasting gospel we're going to discuss that tonight notice what it says here again in verse 70 emphasis there on the judge fear God and give glory to Him for the hour.

The word for is the reason, because the hour of His judgment has come.

Therefore, friends, the judgment calls us to what everyone?

And a lot of people, they don't like this kind of gospel but did you did you see from the Bible that we see the everlasting gospel being preached to every nation and the message was a message of accountability Fear God and give glory to Him for the hour of His judgment has come.

Friends, it's a message of accountability to our actions.

Again, we live in a society that we don't like accountability.

I use drugs because I was abused as a child and I have to cope with that trauma.

I am in prison, I'm a criminal because I grew up in the midst of crime and we transferred the blame.

And I'm not saying that people are not born in situations that are averse or very difficult.

But friends, we are accountable to our own actions are we together in the end of the day I can say listen I became such as is because of my mother because of my parents are because I was abused or because these and that and the influence I had in high school, God will say where sin abound, grace much more what everyone?

Abound, if you know that verse in Romans chapter 5, the last few verses of that chapter, it talks about where sin abound, grace much more abound.

God is providing grace for any situation that we might be in.

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