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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Dennis Priebe Weekend 2008

Dennis Priebe

Confusing the Gospel

Is Jesus Really Coming Soon?

Current Issues In Justification

Current Issues In Sanctification

Salvation: Question and Answer Session

Read it before you need to go and read it carefully for yourself.

A whole chapter that you need to read carefully this is 1 paragraph from that chapter in the book Fundamentals of Christian Education page 475.

The Lord would have his people bury political questions.

Christ calls upon his followers to come into unity on the pure gospel principles which are plainly revealed in the Word of God.

We cannot with safety vote for political parties, for we do not know whom we are voting for.

We cannot with safety take part in any political schemes.

We cannot labor to please men who will use their influence to repress religious liberty and to set in operation oppressive measures to lead or compel their fellow men to keep Sunday as the Sabbath.

The people of God, listen carefully now, are not to vote to place such men in office, for when they do this they are partakers with them of the sins which they commit while in office." It's a very, very important statement that we tend to overlook when we get caught up in the excitement and the activities of who's the best candidate for this position, that position, or whatever it is.

Notice she does not say we should not vote.

She does say we cannot with safety vote for political parties.

We should not, that we should bury political questions.

My friends, no matter where our human citizenship resides, no matter where our human loyalties are, we are citizens of heaven.

And no human government, even as good a government as the United States of America has been for 200 years is to be had is to have our primary loyalty.

So I would suggest we think carefully about our political activities during a year as eventful as this year promises to be with all kinds of things exploding around us.

I do have a few, not many, a few extra copies of this.

If you would like to have 1, ask me later.

Now again, I'm going to add a few announcements to what Norman already told you.

The program is as you will find as he has announced it to you.

Matthew's presentation will be a new presentation a different 1 than he did here last time.

We will have available our CDs, DVDs, books, etc., available for your perusal after sundown, and you are welcome to look at those at your leisure.

In addition to that I always bring with me little booklets, a number of them from Amazing Facts and some other ones, some that GreatControversy.org has been printing in the last year or 2.

And so I bring with me some of those little booklets.

If you would like some of these to take home, study for yourself, extra material for your own personal study, just ask me at any time today and I will be delighted to share these with you.

It is all I ask is that you desire them enough to ask for them.

And lastly, if you would like to probe a little farther and if you haven't come across my website, my website is available.

It is a study website available for your study downloading of materials etc.

Most of my materials that I present are on that what I do this afternoon is not on that website or is it.

Yeah I forget what's on there and what is not.

Yes most of my materials is on the website are on the website and you're welcome to get them for yourself and study them over again if you want to or new material.

The new thing, the brand new thing that I have just put on the website is a Bible study course on the basic issues that I covered here 4 years ago, you tell me, that we covered on the issues of the nature of sin, the nature of Christ, and the nature of perfection.

And I put this into the kind of Bible study course that we're familiar with from Voice of Prophecy, Amazing Facts, etc., where you can read the question.

There is a Bible text and a place for you to answer, standard Bible study format.

So if you would like to review or go into this for the first time on these issues, if you've not heard my presentation on the basic gospel issues, that would be a good way to do it.

So that Bible study course is available on my website.

As I said last night, the material we're covering this weekend is more advanced material than that basic series.

We're now moving into the upper echelons of trying to understand righteousness by faith, dealing with the more subtle issues sometimes that are not easily seen and understood.

OK, I think that covers our announcements and we're ready to begin.

Make sure you spell it right or you'll be in trouble.

Now before we get into current issues in justification, we're going to take a brief 10 minute or so review of what justification is, because if we do not know what it is, We will not be able to figure out where there is a problem that is coming from another direction just like how do you figure out counterfeit money you know the genuine and then you can see the counterfeit more easily.

So we're gonna look first at what justification is and so we're gonna start with what is up on the board right here.

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.

Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.

So the imputing of righteousness is forgiveness of sin and covering of sin.

Iniquities are forgiven and sins are covered.

Bible Commentary, volume 6, page 1070 puts it this way.

As the penitent sinner, contrite before God, discerns Christ's atonement in His behalf, and accepts this atonement as His only hope in this life and the future life, His sins are pardoned.

Pardon and justification are 1 and the same thing.

Through faith the believer passes from the position of a rebel, a child of sin and Satan, to the position of a loyal subject of Christ Jesus, not because of an inherent goodness, but because Christ receives him as his child by adoption.

Parents fill out legal papers to change the legal standing of the child to be part of their family.

The grace of Christ is freely to justify the sinner without merit or claim on his part.

Justification is a full, complete pardon of sin.

The moment a sinner accepts Christ by faith, that moment he is pardoned.

The righteousness of Christ is imputed to him and he is no more to doubt God's forgiving grace.

So you catch the phrasing of the words as we've gone through this.

Forgiveness, pardon, imputed, all of these are legal words.

We have been adopted into the family of Jesus Christ and we are legal members of His family.

There is definitely a legal aspect to justification.

It is a statement that God makes and He pardons us from all our sins.

That is understood by just about all Christians.

This is not very much in doubt throughout Christianity.

What is coming next is the issue that is not well understood by Christians.

Is there also, in addition to the legal pronouncement of our pardon and acceptance by God, an experiential internal aspect to justification.

Something that happens not on the books of heaven only, but in my heart, in my life, in my mind.

Is there a change that takes place inwardly in addition to being accepted outwardly, legally as a child of God.

And again notice the sequence of events very carefully as we go through this passage.

It's talking about salvation, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but According to His mercy He saved us.

By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being justified by His grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

So the process of salvation that is being described here is going to be telling us how we are justified, how we stand justified, righteous.

The words justified and righteous are the same in the New Testament.

This washing is not the baptism washing, this washing is the heart washing in which the heart is made new, cleansed.

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