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University SDA Church of Los Angeles

Randy Skeete

The Opposites

I'm delighted to see those of you who are here for the final presentation on this weekend's spiritual revival, entitled The Line of Distinction.

I sincerely hope you had a very pleasant evening.

I was contemplating this morning as I was preparing to come that many telephone calls went out, either late last night or very early this morning to funeral homes or undertakers to come and collect the bodies of people who passed away during the night.

That happened all over the world, but no calls were made to come and get you.

Then you ask yourself, if around the world, multiplied thousands of people died last night, why am I alive?

God gave you life 1 more day, for his business, not yours.

God could have taken your life last night because the life is his.

First Chronicles 29 14, all things come of God and of thine own come of him and of thine own have we given him so that life is his to take as he chooses what I am asking you to dwell upon briefly if God allowed you to live 1 more day, why?

And it has to do with his business, not yours or mine.

And so I just want you to accept this day as a gift from God, and to make up your mind to serve him, glorify him in whatsoever you and I choose to do today.

And it is my purpose to glorify him through this message by the help of his Holy Spirit.

Favor number 1, you have a cell phone, please turn them off.

Favor number 2, while I'm speaking I would like you to pray for me and I mean that from my heart, I'm not joking.

Say, Lord put your words in that man's mouth.

And favor number 3, I very much would like you to think as you listen to the words of God.

Loving Father in Heaven, we come to you, Father, asking you to be merciful to us.

We make this request in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and your Son.

Father, we do not possess the natural ability to understand truth.

And so we pray that your sweet Spirit, who inspired the writing of the Bible, will open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things out of thy word.

Remember your words in 2 Samuel 23, verse 2, where David said, the Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

Father, put your words in the very organ of my speech, my tongue, and I'll be careful to give you all the glory, the praise, and the honor which are due to your holy name.

I told you a couple of times this weekend that the Bible is a book of opposites.

Proverbs 8, 36, the last clause of that verse, the Bible says, all they that hate me love death.

And in that chapter, wisdom is a reference really to Christ.

All those who hate Christ Love death because Christ is life.

Jesus said in Matthew 12, verse 30, he that is not with me is against me that's it and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Romans chapter 5 verse 18 the Apostle Paul says therefore as by the offense of 1 judgment came upon all men to condemnation.

Even so, by the righteousness of 1, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

We have condemnation, we have justification, that's it.

And in verse 19, therefore as by 1 man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of 1 shall many be made righteous.

John 3 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life those are the only 2 options there's heaven and there's hell When Abraham was negotiating with God in Genesis 18 verse 23 the Bible says, and Abraham drew near and said, will thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

As I told you yesterday, Christ's object lessons, page 283, paragraph 3, Elowite writes, there are only 2 classes in the world today, and only 2 classes will be recognized in the judgment, those who violate God's law and those who obey it.

And on this quotation, I want to continue my remarks.

There are only 2 classes in the world today, Those who violate the law of God and those who obey it, question for you, do not answer me, to which of the 2 classes do you belong?

To which of the 2 classes does your church belong?

On the basis of the principle of opposites, I want you to listen to a verse all Seventh-day Adventists should know.

And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Now we want to apply the principle or the law or the rule of opposites and see what light flashes into your mind.

Now the Bible doesn't say the dragon was wroth with the world.

John chapter 1 John chapter 5 verse 19 inspiration tells us and we know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness or darkness.

If overwhelmingly the world is in darkness and wickedness, the world is in the condition Satan desires and so he is not angry.

I repeat, the dragon is not angry with the world.

And that church is identified which keep the commandments of God.

And let me pause on that item of identification.

If Satan hates a commandment-keeping church, Let's flip it.

Now let's use the word commandment-keeping.

Let's keep the word commandment in the response.

If Satan hates the commandment-keeping woman, what woman does he love?

Now in Revelation, a woman represents what?

Revelation 17 5, and upon her forehead was a name written, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.

In order for a woman to produce a harlot, what must she be?

A harlot produces harlots, which means that since she's the mother of harlots, all the little harlots are just like mother harlot.

Now if a cat has kittens, let's say the cat has 6 kittens, there may be variations in the color of the kittens, but they're all what?

So this woman has daughters and there may be variations among the daughters in outward expression but the heart and soul of each 1 with respect to God's law is the same.

The woman in Revelation 12 does not have many daughters.

Numerically there is a tremendous imbalance.

Revelation 17, there is a numerical imbalance.

In other words, the woman that the devil hates is vastly outnumbered by all the others that Satan has no problem with.

Let me again stress the identifying mark.

And the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of God.

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