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Jesus Friend of My Wounded Heart

Eric Walsh

A World in Crisis

Character and the Seal of God

Sexual Purity and Prophecy

Tribulation Song: Part 1 My testimony

Tribulation Song: Part 2 My testimony

The Flight of the Youth

The Power of Letting Go: The Importance of Forgiveness

The God Who Restores

The Church in a World Addicted

The Healthy Mind

Again, we are so happy to be with you here in beautiful Jamaica, in the sunshine and the warmth.

And I'm looking forward to the rest of this week of prayer.

I wanna just introduce the rest, some of the upcoming messages, so you know what's in store.

Tomorrow night we will be dealing with 1 of the most challenging messages of the week and that will be the message on sex and sexual purity.

It is something that is shied away from often, but you do not wanna miss tomorrow night's message.

Monday and Tuesday at 02:00, I will be giving my testimony in 2 parts.

Because I'm giving it over 2 parts I plan to share with you information that I normally do not share including information on how Donald Trump was instrumental in the outcome of the religious liberty case that I had in the United States.

Now if you know nothing about this then you really need to come.

But you definitely don't want to miss those 2 messages.

And then on Wednesday at 2, I'm going to talk a lot about the mind and learning and how to be a better student as well as how that translates to being a better Christian.

And so that will give you over for the next few nights and days, what we'll be addressing and discussing.

But today, we are gonna talk on a subject I talk on frequently if you follow my messages.

And I keep saying I'm gonna retire these sermons, but God keeps telling me that this is the message that the church needs right now.

So we're gonna go to our scripture reading which is found in Revelation chapter 22 and I want to thank the pastoral staff and the IT folk for getting me this monitor down here.

The Bible says this, He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.

He which is filthy, let him be filthy still.

And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still.

And he that is holy, let him be holy still.

It says, And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be.

A message this Sabbath is entitled, Character and the Seal of God.

Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to study your Word.

Once again, Lord, I ask that you make me just a nail upon the wall, a rusty sorry nail Lord, but upon that nail I ask that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Let Eric Walsh not be seen or heard today, instead Father let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

This is our prayer in Jesus's precious and holy name.

All right, so I'm gonna go back to a text we looked at last night and I want you to follow me.

I hope this week I was talking to your president, Dr.

Edwards, about being able to visit some of the classrooms this week.

So I'm hoping to be able to come into some of the classes where folk are pre-med and nursing and so forth in the health care field and maybe even theology but to come in and talk to you and just give some advice maybe and maybe learn something from you all as well, but this message is 1 that connects what we know scientifically about the mind to what the Scripture says God expects.

In Daniel 12 and verse 1, I read this last night, it says, and at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of your people, and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time.

And at that time thy people shall be delivered, every 1 that shall be found written in the book." What we're talking about to start off with tonight, this morning, is actually the close of probation.

It is a unique doctrine to Adventists, this idea that there is going to be a period of time after which your eternal fate is sealed before Christ returns.

There are a lot of people who don't believe that but it's very biblical and this is 1 of the verses that tells you that because the Bible says that when Michael stands up and where is Michael now?

Michael is Christ is in the most holy chamber of the heavenly sanctuary.

He comes out of the temple, he takes off his priestly garb, and Revelation describes to us that he then puts on his kingly robes.

He mounts a white horse and returns to earth in the greatest rescue mission the universe has ever seen.

But the decision will have been made based on what we as Adventists call the investigative judgment.

A pre-Advent judgment that is going on right now.

Because when he stands he will make this declaration.

No more will there be a mediator and Christ will speak and say he that is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is filthy let him be filthy still.

In the original Greek, the just and the filthy doesn't just mean he that is just in the moment of time, but he that is just might as well go on being unjust.

It means in the original Greek, he that is filthy, go on being filthy.

Ah, but he that is righteous, forever you will go on being righteous.

He that is holy will forever go on being holy.

Let me tell you something, I get feedback on our channel, for our church's YouTube channel, because people are upset that I preach that Christians should gain victory over sin.

But if we were not called to gain victory over sin, how could this declaration be made by Christ while he's still in heaven?

Then Jesus makes the proclamation that he is coming quickly.

That represents the great time of trouble that is going to happen and embedded in that great time of trouble is Jacob's time of trouble.

In fact he says, for the elect's sake he will cut time short.

He will come to give every man according as his work shall be.

You are not saved by your works but you are judged by them.

We're gonna jump elsewhere in the book of Revelation.

And in Revelation chapter 7, in verse 1, the scripture says, and after these things, I saw 4 angels standing on the 4 corners of the earth, holding the 4 winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth nor on the sea nor on any tree.

This is an allegoric showing in Scripture of the fact that God since man fell in the garden has been holding back from the earth the full ramifications of the effect of sin on this planet.

We talked a little bit about the world being in crisis last night.

If there were not angels holding back the winds of strife this world would be uninhabitable.

Verse 2 says, and I saw another angel ascending from the east having what?

The seal of the living God And he cried with a loud voice to the 4 angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea.

And a fifth 1 comes on and this 1 has in his hand the seal of the Living God.

And we're gonna break down this seal a little more in a second.

And then verse 3 says, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have done what?

Till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

The Bible says that a fifth angel comes and this angel is holding a seal and there are 2 parts to a seal.

First part of the seal is the part that does the stamping.

The second part of the seal is the ink which bears the imprint.

The seal that is being held that the fifth angel brings is representative of something we talked about last night.

In 1798 the last days began and the book of Daniel was unsealed.

There's no coincidence that those words are used.

The book of Daniel is unsealed and the Millerite movement begins and the truth begins to spread around the world that Jesus is soon to return.

That seal is translated after the Advent movement begins in full and the church is organized that they understand the truth of the Sabbath and the importance of God's law And I want you to understand that the seal in essence, that the stamp part of it is God's word.

It is his law and definitively in the last days, it is his Sabbath.

So what stamps the mind is an understanding of the Word.

What the other part of it is the ink and the paper and the ink represents your character, your ability to be molded to look like the law and character of God.

And you never stamp with the stamp of royalty anything that is not deserving.

You will not use imperfect paper or messed up paper.

Revelation chapter 22 and verse 4 says this, and they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads.

So now we get 2 things out of Revelation that go in the forehead, which means that the forehead must be very important.

The first thing is that this is where the seal of God goes.

The second thing is that this is where God's name is actually written.

What does the name represent in the Bible?

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Jesus Friend of My Wounded Heart

Character and the Seal of God

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Parts

A World in Crisis

55m

Character and the Seal of God

52m

Sexual Purity and Prophecy

1h 15m

Tribulation Song: Part 1 My testimony

31m

Tribulation Song: Part 2 My testimony

37m

The Flight of the Youth

44m

The Power of Letting Go: The Importance of Forgiveness

58m

The God Who Restores

45m

The Church in a World Addicted

52m

The Healthy Mind

39m

Sound Doctrine