<p>Free sharing permitted under the Creative Commons <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/">BY-NC-ND 3.0 (US)</a> license.</p>

Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Westney White

Who Do You Think You Are?

Well, I hope that the Word of God will cheer our souls this morning.

My prayer is that each 1 of us will be blessed with a spiritual blessing that comes from God alone, not from a person, not from me.

As you probably know, there's nothing good in my flesh, nor in yours, but we have the promise of Christ that lives within us and a blessing can come from Him.

The title of this morning's message is, Who Do You Think You Are?

And before I pray and get into the message proper, I want to set the stage for us a little bit this morning.

If you have a Bible, go with me to the book of Acts, Acts chapter 17.

Dear God, I pray you bless your word as we open it right now in Jesus' name.

A verse that I'm sure many of you are familiar with this morning.

I'm gonna ask you, I'm gonna implore you this morning to take this verse to heart as you hear the message that is given this morning.

Acts chapter 17 and verse 11, when you get there, you can just say, I'm there.

The Bible says, these were more fair-minded or more noble, the old King James says, than those in Thessalonica.

Because they received the word with all what?

I'm gonna ask you first of all this morning to receive not my words, but the word of God with all readiness of mind.

Often we jump to the last part of this verse and we don't think about the first part first.

I want you to receive God's word with all readiness of mind.

And they searched the scriptures daily to find out whether those things were so.

So 2 things, number 1 first, receive the word with all readiness of mind, amen?

Because sometimes people say, they look at this verse and they're like, I'm gonna reject something that doesn't quite align with my current thinking, right off the bat.

I'm just gonna reject that thing, even if it's God's Word.

Receive that Word with all readiness of mind and then go back and search that thing out for yourself daily to see if that thing is true.

Is that fair that I ask you all to do that this morning?

What I'm going to be sharing with you this morning is maybe what some may think a familiar type of subject or message.

But I want to encourage you with this verse.

The Bible says here in 1st Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 2, if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to.

We may think we know something, but I guarantee you the knowledge of God is far more infinite than our finite knowledge, amen?

And by God's grace, we can learn things that we thought we may have understood something before of them.

We can learn a deeper understanding of them or something different than what we've learned before by the power of Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So I'm gonna ask you to do those 2 things this morning, all right?

I'm gonna pray once again and then I'm gonna get into the message.

Dear Father in heaven, we thank you Lord, for the gifts of your son.

Lord, without that we are of most men, most miserable, dear God.

But because of Christ, there is joy and there is life in our souls this morning.

We are grateful for the word of truth that teaches us who Christ is and who we are in Him.

Allow your word to speak this morning, dear God.

Allow this earthen vessel not to be seen and allow Christ to be uplifted that he may be glorified through the reading of your word.

We thank you, dear God, and pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

I don't see a clock, so If someone wants to get 1 for me, that'd be great.

I believe this message is gonna be quick.

But I don't see a clock, so you can't hold me to any clock, amen?

And this is an easy question, or not an easy question, but it's a very familiar question, and we hear it all the time.

Singer, yeah, not all of us are singers, but some of us are.

When Christ was coming, they said, you should call his name Jesus.

Because it will save his people from their sins.

Let me ask you a question, has Christ accomplished that?

I hear some people saying yes, I hear some people saying no.

I mean, I believe the Bible says that we've been washed from our sins in his blood, amen?

He's washed us, he's made us clean, he's accomplished the work and is accomplishing the work which he said he would do, amen?

So I ask the question again, how many of you are sinners?

I'm not going to bury the lead this morning.

I'm just going to tell you straightforward what the thesis of my message is this morning.

The Bible says in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21, it says, let's turn there, let's go to the word, let's go to the word, amen?

Because we don't wanna receive my word, we wanna receive God's word, Amen?

It says here in 1st or 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21, For he made him who knew no who knew no sin to be sin for us.

Back to Menu

Who Do You Think You Are?

Transcript

Sponsor

Recorded

Sound Doctrine