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Eugene Prewitt: The Spirit of Prophecy

Eugene Prewitt

The Purpose of a Lesser Light

The Faithful Testimony of Jesus and Sources of Unbelief

So Persecuted They the Prophets

The Last Adventist Deception

When you were coming in, you might have seen a little paper that was an outline of this weekend series.

But I've been informed by 2 young men who walked up here that many of you didn't see it.

Or you didn't care to pick it up, 1 of the 2.

If you'd like a copy of that outline, if you'll raise your hand, there are people behind you who will give you 1 of those.

You'll just hold your hand up until you get 1.

For those of you that have 2 free hands, turn with me in your Bible to 1 Corinthians chapter 8.

1 Corinthians chapter 8, and we're looking at verse 1.

There was a time in Adventist history when this passage was pivotal to our future.

And if I understand the history correctly, that if this passage had been understood And practiced, we wouldn't have been born, which would not have hurt our feelings.

Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge.

That first verse is significant because we've heard that in all you're getting, get knowledge.

We've heard that knowledge is the chief thing.

A knowledge of God is how we receive the precious promises that allow us to partake the divine nature in 1st Peter.

But is there something dangerous about knowledge?

Knowledge can make a man proud, and if it does that, it's a disaster.

Because for the few of you that were here last night, how many of the wicked understand?

None of the wicked, according to Daniel 12, none of the wicked understand.

And if you can imagine this, you're learning more and more knowledge until you become proud and so now you're wicked and so now you don't understand.

That would be knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, no understanding.

It would be a disaster if that was the pattern you followed in your spiritual life.

Verse 2, And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing as yet as he ought to know.

In the time in Adventist history when this happened, there was a young man preaching, And there was an elder gentleman in the audience.

Jones was speaking on a topic that Uriah Smith was familiar with.

The covenants, and the law of God, and the Sabbath, and righteousness, and faith, and how these things work together.

Uriah Smith's opinion was that he understood these things.

And if you understand these things, which are the foundation of Christianity, why would you need to hear a young man speaking about them.

He never wrote that, and I might be putting into his mind words, or speaking like words he never had in his mind, but whatever the case was, A.T.

That if we think we know it, the 1 thing the Bible says is we don't know as well as we ought to.

If we would confess that, we would be teachable.

Because there is a deplorable situation where a man has so much knowledge that he is no longer teachable.

That would mean that he is proud and he has no understanding of those things mentioned in Daniel 12.

If in our learning we begin to feel that we know things pretty well, not only do we contradict 1 Corinthians 8, but we set ourselves up for the curse of 1 Corinthians 8, we can become proud and that's a disaster.

Last night we were speaking about the need for the spiritual gifts in the church.

I think For many of you, you've studied this at some point, maybe in an evangelistic series or during baptismal studies, maybe you haven't.

But the Bible is very clear that spiritual gifts are continuing in the church today.

How long are they going to be in the church?

Till we come to a unity of the faith, to the stature of the fullness of Christ.

The gifts are here, but why would we need, for example, to have prophets in the church or a prophet in the church when we have the Bible which is so true and full of everything that we need.

The reason that John the Baptist was sent, even though Jesus was about to come, wasn't because John the Baptist was more accurate than Jesus.

Have you ever wondered, why didn't we not just start with Jesus?

Since Jesus was wiser and brighter and more holy than John the Baptist, why not just skip John and go straight to Jesus?

He was the voice crying in the wilderness to make straight the way of the Lord, to make ready a people for His coming.

We need those extra biblical prophets because our hearts are not prepared to receive the truth for this time.

Is this a particularly converted generation?

For those of you over in that little corner, is the second passage there?

I want to go to Revelation 3, but I guess I should follow the order there.

What I'm talking about right now is this idea of the testimony of Jesus.

For those who have gone through studies in the truths taught by Adventists, we would know that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

But first Corinthians, second Corinthians, that's what I meant and that's where I am.

That's because I'm thinking about those Chronicles things.

Chapter 17, and looking at verse 9, in the gifts of the spirits that the New Testament lists, you'll find some gifts like pastors and teachers and evangelists.

Pastors and teachers, 1 of the things they're to do is to point out sin in the body.

I don't know if your speakers here do it.

But If they're doing their duty, they're going to be pointing out sins.

Not particularly the sins that are out there, because it's no good to point those out to you.

But there is a problem with depending on pastors to point out the sins of the church.

Also, the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right.

Does that describe the people of God still today?

Is it possible that there are people here who are living in sin, some very wicked abominable sin, and that the elders here know nothing about it?

I mean, guaranteed, Unless you're just a bunch of holy people.

It's guaranteed because God's people do secretly those things.

And the pastors, maybe intuitively, can preach against some sins, but God uses another means to preach against sins that pastors can't see.

Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah by all His prophets, every seer saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law, which I commanded your fathers, which I sent to you by My servants, the prophets." What is the testimony of the Lord in this verse?

By the way, when we read about the Lord in the Old Testament, check me on this, I believe it's Jesus.

That Jesus, if you'll check the order of inspiration, the Father gives a message to Jesus, who gives it to his angel to give it unto his servants, the prophets, and they give it to us.

And the Lord here that testifies by his servants, the prophets is Jesus.

So when you say the testimony of the Lord, I'm just going to read it simply.

It's the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And what do the prophets and seers say when the Lord is testifying through them?

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