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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Divine Assurance

Randy Skeete

To the Glory of God

A Warranty For Eternity

The Man in the Shadows

The man who attempts to keep the requirements, the commandments of God, from a sense of obligation merely because he's required to do so will never enter into the joy of obedience.

When the requirements of God are accounted a burden, because they cut across human inclination, we may know that the life is not a Christian life.

True obedience is the outworking of a principle within.

It springs from the love of righteousness, the love of the law of God.

The essence of all righteousness is loyalty to our Redeemer.

This will lead us to do right because it is right, because right doing is pleasing to God.

Christ Object Lessons, page 97, paragraph 3.

I, after speaking this morning, I rushed to the place where I'm staying and I conducted a Q&A for a church in New York City.

We had a lovely time and the subject was faith and works and how those 2 interact and the significance of those 2 in the life of the believer and I believe the Lord blessed us as we dealt with that very very central and significant subject faith and works.

It's a ministry based in New York City, run by a medical student, young lady, and from time to time, almost once a month, she has me on.

She also has Doug Batchelor and other speakers.

Well, since you stressed briefly, I'll honor your request.

Works is merely the outward evidence of a genuine faith.

If you have faith it must express itself.

In the New Testament the 2 major authorities on faith and works are Paul and James.

Paul, some people put the 2 against each other, but they're not.

They work perfectly together as all Bible writers do.

Paul is stressing justification by faith, that immediate act, As in the case of the publican who said, God be merciful to me a sinner.

And Jesus said that man went down to his house justified.

James is stressing what kind of life does a justified person live?

Where are the works to give evidence that he's truly or she's truly justified?

And so James says a justified person should have evidence.

And so James and Paul are not at each other's throats.

Paul is stressing the instant event when someone is declared just by God.

James is saying that person now has to live a certain life, and that life is really the works that are produced by a genuine faith.

Jesus had works and we also must have works.

The Bible says, for by grace are ye saved through faith And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.

But verse 10 says, for we are his workmanship created unto good works.

Titus chapter 2 verse 14, who gave himself for our sins that He may redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Those are things ordained by God from the beginning that we should walk in them, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10.

Alright so if there are no works, the faith is dead.

And ultimately while we're saved by faith, we're judged by works.

So it's the works that determine the quality of the faith.

If you're not using 1 of these as a Bible, please make sure they're turned off.

Many years ago I was in Australia, God bless Australia, Preaching in an amphitheater similar to, not like this, well similar to this.

I was on a stage and there's the pit area where the orchestra would normally be.

And I was speaking a Sabbath morning, the phone of somebody rang.

And I thought the person was scrambled to turn it off.

But the lady took the phone out of her bag and conducted a conversation right under my nose in the presence of God.

I didn't rebuke her because I wasn't convicted to.

But as I said this morning, God deserves reverence.

God has killed people for being irreverent.

God doesn't like to kill even though the life he takes is his.

Let me show you something from the Bible.

God makes some charges and the people say, what do you mean?

He makes a charge, what do you mean, who, us?

In chapter 1, verse 8, God is complaining because they're offering him sick and diseased animals as sacrifices instead of perfect and without blemish.

Now here's what God says to the Israelites, Malachi 1, do you have verse 8?

And this is not my presentation, just came to me.

Let me pray, Father, grant me a measure of your spirit as I make this brief presentation.

And if he offered the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil?

And if he offered the lame And the sick, is it not evil?

Will he be pleased with thee or accept thy persons, saith the Lord of hosts.

God is saying, what you offer to me, try offering it to someone with earthly authority.

Now I have universal authority, and you bring that to me.

You could not bring it to your governor he would consider it a disrespectful act Why are you bringing it to me?

God can say, you do not chat in the presence of earthly judges.

You don't text in the presence of earthly judges.

If you're not using 1 of these, please turn off the thing.

I love technology, but it has a dark side.

Fever number 2, while I'm speaking, pray for me and say, Lord, put your words in that man's mouth.

Jeremiah chapter 1, verse 9, Then the Lord put forth his hand, that's divine, and touched my mouth, that's earthly.

And the Lord divine said unto me earthly behold I divine have put my words divine in thy mouth earthly.

Now we understand we have this treasure where in earthen vessels And so I want God really to put his words in my, the carnal nature loves to express its opinions.

And I have the carnal nature, don't tell anyone but I have it.

1 of the dangers of preaching is that you think you're glorifying God and you're glorifying yourself.

Because you and I don't truly know our motives.

And so I want just to give you God's words.

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