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Living Hope SDA Church

Christian Martin

The Remnant’s Call To Give Glory

He is worthy of our praise and our thanksgiving.

As we prepare to open the word of God, let's pray that the Holy Spirit will tune our hearts to listen to his voice as I share a message with you entitled The Remnants Call to Give Glory.

Our Father in heaven, You brought us here today and we can anticipate a divine appointment.

For Lord, you have good thoughts towards us, you have precious, precious thoughts towards us.

And there's countless reasons, Lord, why you are praiseworthy.

We have many reasons why we can be thankful.

And so we pray, Lord, that you would have your own way with us as we open the word of God.

Both veterans and active military personnel today are far too familiar with regions such as Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

These are territories that we know too well.

We hear about them in the news very often.

Wars are declared and wars come to an end.

For many, the field of battle is a place where they never want to go back to.

It brings back too many painful and dramatic memories.

Yet there is a different kind of war that is taking place right now all around us.

And I have a biblical conviction that since humanity fell into sin and rebellion, a war has been going on of the most serious kind between God and Satan.

It's actually a war between truth and lies, resulting in a rebellion and a loyalty.

And it began in heaven involving all angels, with no exception.

All of the angels were involved in this war and later.

And made his way to the newly created earth.

Involving God's masterpiece, the first created man and woman.

Sadly, one's course that led to ruin was mirrored by the other.

Trusting in his own beauty, Lucifer distanced himself from the beauty of holiness.

And they in turn attempted to hide from God's beauty.

Lucifer focused on self, and it gave birth to envy, resulting in strange thoughts.

And eventually, it was Eve's demise as well.

It's the prophet Ezekiel that gives us an insight on the thoughts that were going on in Lucifer's mind.

It's recorded there that he said, I will be like the Most High.

He told himself and he influenced 1 third of the angels according to Revelation chapter 12 verse 4.

And then later he told her, you will be like God.

And she believed him, according to Genesis 3.6.

So As we see the entrance of sin into the world, in the context of envy, a desire to be like God, it all boils down to losing sight of the fact that it is God who made us and not we ourselves.

God makes sure that you have what you need.

He fearfully and wonderfully made you and even then promises to give you everything that you need for life and godliness.

But of all the good things that God gives us, we don't deserve any of it.

And the minute that you think you do, you breed discontentment.

Discontentment is that which comes into the mind, into the heart, causing us to think that we deserve what we are not getting.

And what we do have, what's not good enough?

2 friends, they met each other on the street 1 day and 1 of them looked pretty down.

And his friend asked, what has the world done to you, my old friend?

3 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago, my uncle died and he left me $40, 000.

His friends said, oh, well that's a lot of money.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you see, then 2 weeks ago, a cousin I never knew I had, he died and he left me $85, 000 free and clear.

His friend says, wow, I mean, sounds to me like you've been very blessed.

He interrupted, last week, my great aunt passed away.

And I inherited almost a quarter of a million dollars from her.

3 weeks ago, you got a good sum of money.

And a week ago, he got half, a quarter of a million dollars.

I don't understand why he looked so gloom then.

You know we often come to the place where we expect to get certain blessings that God never promised.

And when they don't come, well, it's easy to get bitter.

And discontentment is the very spark that ignites the fire of anger.

The New Living Translation translated as being angry, he was angry.

The English Standard Version says he was furious.

John wrote in Revelation 12.17 Revelation 12.17 I invite you to open your Bibles with me to go to the very text where it clearly says there in verse 17 that the dragon was enraged with the woman.

We're going somewhere with this this morning my friends because at the very heart of the matter we're going to discover something that we often underestimate or not value as it ought to be.

The dragon is angry, he's furious, he's enraged with the woman, but why?

Well, we're introduced to the woman for the first time in Revelation chapter 12, same chapter, verse 1.

So look a few verses earlier, in fact the very first verse of the chapter, and it says there that a great sign appeared in heaven, A woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and in her head a garland of 12 stars.

A woman in Bible prophecy, you recall, symbolizes the people of God who are called out of darkness into his marvelous light.

The word ekklesia in the Greek means the called out ones.

They're being called out, called out of darkness into his marvelous light.

And as we just read there in verse 1, there is there's more than 1 symbol.

She symbolizes the people of God, the church, but notice how she is described.

What does the Sun and the Moon and the stars represent?

They all shine with light and Jesus himself said, I am the light of the world.

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