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Triangle SDA Church

Dwayne Lemon

The Cross and the Most Holy Place

Father in heaven, we truly praise you and thank you for the privilege of worship.

We can look back at our lives and we can remember times where we didn't even acknowledge your name.

You called us out of the darkness of our lives of sin into this marvelous light of Christ our righteousness.

There's more about Jesus that we would learn.

I pray that you would do something special today.

That you would cause us to pass from death to life.

She will help us to hear your voice and that we will be able to hear not just yours but the voice of Jesus and we will follow the Lamb with us wherever he goes.

Please abide with us in a very special way.

I ask you to take my life and let it be consecrated Lord to thee.

May you grant us the presence of your Holy Spirit and may we sense his power in this room as you minister unto our hearts.

For this is our prayer that we do ask in Jesus' name.

If you want me to use it for recording, then I'll use it.

We're just going to get the microphone set up.

And as we prepare to do that, I would like to invite you, as much of you as are able, to please turn to the book of Revelation, chapter 12.

And I simply mean able, meaning that you got your Bibles with you.

If you don't have your Bible with you, you're not able.

But I hope that every single 1 of us has our Bibles with us, so that way we can turn to the book of Revelation, the 12th chapter.

And we're just going to take a look at an old, old story.

And we will start at a very familiar passage of Scripture which is Revelation 12 and verse 7 and when you get there just please let me know by saying Amen.

The Bible says in the book of Revelation, the 12th chapter, starting at verse 7, it says something very strange took place, but it is true.

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not neither was their place found anymore in heaven and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceived the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

The Bible makes it clear that even though whenever I think of heaven, I know even as a child, as a non-believer, whenever I heard of heaven, I guarantee you I never thought of it as a place of war.

That was the last thing that came to my mind.

I didn't understand its structure, but I definitely thought of a place of peace, a place that was absent of warfare, a place that was absent of fighting and any of these things.

And the Bible says that there was an actual war that started in heaven.

And it was between 2 characters, it between Michael and the dragon.

Now the Bible clearly identifies the dragon.

It says it was none other than the devil and Satan.

Michael, would take a little bit of Bible study to prove it, but even in the very name Michael, you can find a lot.

The name Michael in the Hebrew, Mike, means 1 who is like.

So therefore, when you think of Michael, you're thinking of someone who is exactly like God.

I remember 1 time I was studying with some Muslim brethren, and as I was studying with them, they had a real serious problem with John 3.16.

I don't believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

And they said, because how can Jesus, the Christian, say be God, and yet the Bible says he was begotten?

He says, well, in John 3, 16, you know the text, for God so loved the world that he gave his only what?

Begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And I said, well, maybe it's because you don't understand that word begotten.

You see, I was talking to a Muslim man, which we generally think of the East, but this was a Muslim man in America.

And when we hear the word begotten, we think of something brought forth or created.

That's what you think of when you think of the word begotten.

And he was thinking in that same frame of thinking.

But lo and behold, as I told him, I said, well, the Bible wasn't written in English.

It was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.

And when you look at the New Testament, it's Greek.

So I said, have you ever looked up the Greek word for begotten?

I said, well, you'd be amazed to know, because there's 2 Greek words.

1 word is monogeneo, which means brought forth.

And that's the kind of begotten that we're thinking about.

But then there's another word that was in John 3.16.

And it was not monogeneo, this idea of bringing something forth or creating something.

And when you look up the Greek word monogenes, you know what it means?

So when you look at John 3 16 it was actually saying for God so loved the world that he gave the only 1 that was like him.

That you should not perish but have everlasting life.

And when I think about that that name Michael 1 who is like God and Jesus was the only 1 that was like God.

So this is none other than a warfare between Satan and Christ.

Christ and Satan had warfare with each other.

And again when we think of heaven we don't think of a place of fighting but there was 1 that took place there.

And it was not with jabs and punches and kicks but brothers and sisters it was with ideologies and concepts.

It was individuals trying to see who is supreme, who really is God, who really is worthy of worship.

This is what was taking place in heaven, and thank God, the Bible says that Satan lost that battle.

The Bible clearly says that he lost that battle.

He prevailed not the Bible says and he was cast out.

The Bible says he landed somewhere didn't he?

The Bible says he was cast out and he landed on earth and I want you to understand the war was between Christ and Satan in heaven and the war continues between Christ and Satan.

There's only 1 difference and I want you to see that difference in the book of Revelation 12 still but I want you to look at verse 12.

You see it's in Revelation 12 and verse 12 that the Bible continues to tell us more about the story.

It says, therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them, but woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea because the devil has come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he has but a short time.

Somehow, someway, you and I now are caught in the middle of this war.

So now the great controversy took a bit of a shift.

It was initially just between Christ and Satan, but now it's between Christ and Satan over man.

But Satan's goal is still to affect and hurt Christ.

And the question is why does he pick on us?

I mean, listen, I grew up in a public school system.

I don't advocate it, but I'm just telling you the truth.

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