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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

Who can tell me where in the New Testament you can find a book of the Bible that is written to a church very similar to Laodicea?

Who can tell me which New Testament books were written to a church that had in it living prophets?

Turn with me in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 11 verse 19 Once upon a time in a land far far away a Gentleman preached on this passage It was recorded on tape and I got the tape years after he had died, which tells me that if you preach the Word of God, it doesn't always stop working when you die.

Verse 19 says, For There must also be heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

Is there a place for heresies in the church?

They have an essential quality, because not everyone in the church is a safe teacher.

Not everyone is someone you want to study under or receive instruction from.

And you need some way to distinguish between those who are approved by God and those who are not.

And what has he put in the church to serve that essential purpose?

I'm debating how much to preach about that.

I think I'll preach 1 more step about it and then leave it alone.

Turn from your Bibles to Romans, this isn't written up there.

Romans chapter 15, excuse me, verse 16, chapter 16.

Says, now I urge you brethren, mark those which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them.

Isn't that sensible in light of 1 Corinthians 11?

What are the purpose of heresies in the church?

We're to study to show ourselves approved unto God, right?

A workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of God?

Heresies show who are studying to show themselves approved.

And what if you find a man who's speaking against the truth and causing divisions and offenses contrary to the truth?

Which is different than the word tuition.

My better judgment almost told me not to say that.

It says, Verse 18, it says, For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple." Simple, and our word for that is uneducated.

Who is it that are deceived by these kind of people?

Those who cause divisions contrary to the doctrine.

What's the purpose of people in the church that teach contrary to the doctrine?

It's so you can know who are approved of God.

In the passage written over there, Galatians 5, I don't think I put a verse there, if I didn't, anyway, it's verse 19.

You're familiar with verse 22, It's the fruits of the Spirit, the love, joy, peace.

Well, if you go back up to verse 18, you have the fruits of the flesh, which somehow never ended up nearly as famous.

But at the end of verse 19, 1 of the fruits of the flesh are...

I didn't tell you to, so you don't need to be.

Right there, you have all these different things that people do who are serving their own bellies and what's 1 of the fruits of serving the belly?

If I can say this point clearly, if you're a glutton, don't begin to evaluate whether Ellen White is a true prophet.

You'll most certainly come to a wrong conclusion, Eventually.

If you are serving your own lusts in some other way, whether it's a desire for honor or for power or whatever the case, if you're serving self and with that self-service you come to the issue of determining what is right and what is wrong, you're going to conclude the wrong eventually, if not immediately.

That's part of what you missed this morning.

I'm skipping past 12.17, assuming that it's just very familiar to us, but 1217 speaking in the last day church describes it Maybe this also will get me in trouble even with people who are helping to pay for my plane ticket here but The church in Revelation 12 is not the organized body.

I really do believe in an organized body, that it's essential, and it is the church that we're speaking of when we talk about testimonies of the church.

But if you look at that church in Revelation 12, she has on a white robe.

And you'll see there that she's the same church from before Christ was born to the very end.

And you'll find there that her seat are called the remnant.

And the remnant are those that are chosen according to the election of grace.

Maybe this is just getting too far too fast, but I'll just say my point.

When he said, I alone am left and they seek my life.

And God said, I have reserved myself 7, 000 that have not bowed down the knee to Baal.

Now let me ask you were those 7, 000 the visible or the invisible church?

Does that make any sense to you, what I just said?

Revelation 12 was about the invisible church.

I don't go with those people who teach that that's the only true definition of church.

And there you have the remnant who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy, which is where we're looking.

Revelation 19 and verse 10 says, speaking about John, and I fell at his feet to worship him that is the angel But he said to me see thou do it not I am your fellow servant and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

There are 2 thoughts in this verse significant to me.

The 1 we're more familiar with and the 1 we're less familiar.

The less familiar thought is that John had been with Jesus for 3 and a half years and understood the 10 Commandments, but when he was in the presence of a holy being dazzling like an angel, without thinking about it, he violated the second commandment.

We need to be seeking for some experience because when I come to revelation 22, I find John doing the very same thing And what did the angel here say?

Now I, John, saw and heard these things, and when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things.

At least I see that there is something about human nature in these 2 passages that is scary.

I understand from these passages that the temptation to false worship in our day is going to be so intense that even if we had an experience like John, we might just go the wrong way.

And we're going to need something more than that.

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Eugene Prewitt: The Spirit of Prophecy

So Persecuted They the Prophets

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