Randy Skeete

Pastor Randy Skeete Sermon Library

Bridging Heaven and Humanity

Forth in heaven, as I fellowship with your beautiful people, give me simple language, powerful language, language that expresses truth and consequently glorifies you.

Send mighty angels, dear God, to surround this place that we may be protected from satanic interference.

Let the words spoken pierce the hearts of those who are in the valley of decision and strengthen those who are already on the right path.

Bless the online audience I pray in Jesus' name and for his sake let God's people say amen and amen.

Go to Genesis chapter 3 let's read verse 14.

Put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed.

It shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel.

God doesn't put enmity between you and a rattlesnake are you with me it's between you and Satan now who puts the enmity God because we cannot put it you didn't get what I said The carnal nature does not have enmity against sin.

A power from outside must enter the person's heart in order to have an opposite force.

I Will put enmity between thee and the woman steps to Christ page 26 paragraph 3 hello white rights Every Christ is the source of every right impulse every desire for holiness and truth Every conviction of our sinfulness is evidence that his spirit is working upon our hearts.

Only Christ, you write, can implant in the heart hatred for sin.

And so God says, it's the first promise in the Bible by the way, I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed.

We read the verse you know very well, verse 26.

The stony heart out of your flesh and will give you a heart of?

Observe carefully, the sinner cannot do that.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

A sinner of himself or herself cannot hate sin.

There must be an outside force that enters into the heart that opposes sin.

And so David prays, you create in me a clean heart, O God.

The changing of a heart is the result of divine power at work in a person's life.

I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them Why because they are not of the world even as I am not of the world 14 I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil Only God can keep us from the evil.

He tells the Father you keep them from the evil.

Verse 16 he repeats verse 14 they are not of the world even as I am not.

I pray not that thou should stake them out of Conroe.

Finish verse, but keep them from the evil in Conroe.

Mark Finley

HopeLives365

07 A Heavenly Citizenship

Thank you for joining us for another Sabbath School lesson.

The title of our lessons this quarter is Uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians and Colossians.

When you think of citizenship, what do you think of?

You think of a person who is a member or a citizen of a particular country.

When we talk about heavenly citizenship, we're talking about where our mindset is.

Our hope is based on something beyond this life.

So in life, we go through joys and sorrows.

There are many difficult moments in life.

There's sickness, there's financial reverses, family challenges, some people go through conflict in their marriage, some the trauma of a divorce.

There are times that we experience the ravages of war in some countries or famine, heartache, sorrow.

But yet, if you're a heavenly citizen, in spite of what's going on around you, you focus on what's above you.

If you're a heavenly citizen, you anticipate that there's a better world coming.

And it's that joy that takes you through the conflicts of life.

So let's pray and ask the Lord especially to be with us as we study this lesson, Heavenly Citizen.

Father in heaven, we're thankful that we are citizens of another world, that we're citizens of the eternal world.

Keep us ever so focused on the fact that this world is not our home that we're just passing through.

That 1 day we can live with you and see you face to face in those eternal realms of glory.

Under the Sabbath afternoon's reading, the last paragraph under heavenly citizenship says this, Most important, we need not place our hopes in earthly systems or government which regularly disappoint us.

Often governments, as much as they try, disappoint us.

There's dishonesty, graft, corruption at times in some governments of the world.

But as Christians, we are citizens of God's heavenly kingdom.

With that citizenship comes wonderful privileges, wonderful privileges and responsibilities too.

So as a citizen of heaven, 1 of the privileges that we have is being a positive role model to others.

In Sunday's lesson titled Role Models, Let's take a look at Philippians 3, verse 17 to 19.

It says, brethren, join in following my example and note those who so walk as you have us for a pattern, for many walk of whom I've told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they're enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is their destruction, whose God is their belly, whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things.

So here Paul contrasts heavenly citizenship and what it means to be a positive role model and what it means to be a negative role model.

Because as he walks through life, his focus is on eternity.

He shares the Christ that he knows, the Christ that's changed his life.

He wants others to have the joy of knowing Jesus and living in eternity.

Paul's focus is not on the things of time, but on the things of eternity.

Not on the here and now, but on the hereafter.

Certainly Paul was focused on what Christ wanted of his life.

What about those who are poor role models who are enemies of the cross of Christ?

It said they're enemies of the cross of Christ.

They don't believe in the principles of God's Word.

Then it says that they set their mind on earthly things.

So the question is where is your mind set?

These people who are poor role model have their minds set on earthly things.

It says, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is their shame.

Here, under the note of Sunday's lesson we read, we must not miss Paul's love toward those with whom he disagrees.

He weeps over them, that's what the scripture says.

Notice that he doesn't call them his enemies, but enemies of the cross of Christ.

Paul recognized that much larger issues were at stake, namely how the cross breaks down barriers, how the cross places us all on the same level as sinners in need of a savior.

Also not to be overlooked is how Paul urges the Philippians to focus on the good examples, not the bad, to observe carefully those whose manner of life is just much like his own.

So when we walk through life, We often have a stamp we place on other people's souls.

You know, I remember 1 time, I was just a young man, I was 21 years old.

I was flying from Manaus, Brazil, back to Beiling.

I was a student missionary on the Amazon River, worked there on the Lucero 6.

And as I was flying, I was sitting there on the plane.

I saw a man walk in, long hair, deeply etched lines upon his face, long robes.

And I could tell he was some kind of Indian holy man.

And I wondered, where's this guy gonna sit?

And as we traveled, I just enjoyed talking to him so much.

He shared his philosophy of life with me, and I shared some biblical values with him, which is a very healthy, positive discussion.

At the end of the meeting, he stood up to leave, the plane landed by now, and he stood up to leave, and he looked back at me, And with these pensive eyes of wisdom, he simply looked at me and he said, young man, every 1 of us as we walk through life put footprints on the souls of somebody else.

He might have used the word fingerprints on the soul.

And then he said to me, today, thank you for leaving positive fingerprints on my soul.

I've thought about it many times through the years.

It's true that as we walk through life, just as a fingerprint is an identity mark, when you are fingerprinted by the police, hope you're not, but if you are, they are fingerprinting you to check a database to see if you've committed any other crimes.

And what Paul is saying in Philippians chapter 3 here and verses 17 to 19, he's saying every single 1 of us is a positive or negative influence.

And the essence of being a positive influence is we leave positive fingerprints on the soul of another when every action, every word, every thought is based on heavenly values.

So let your life shine like a light for Jesus.

Leave fingerprints on the souls of others, on the lives of others, on their deepest part of their being.

By focusing on the values of heaven, let those values guide and strengthen your life.

In Monday's lesson, the title is Stand Fast in the Lord.

So as a heavenly citizen walking through life, our mindset is on eternity.

It's a way of thinking, it's a thought process.

Philippians 3, verse 20 and 21, look carefully what this heavenly citizenship is all about.

For our citizenship, that's our way of thinking, our way of life, the values that govern us, is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We're looking for Jesus to come, to take us home.

Verse 21, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body according to the working by which he's able to subdue all things to himself.

So Jesus, 1 day is gonna come, and he's gonna transform these mortal bodies into immortal bodies.

He's gonna transform this corruptible into incorruption, like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15, verse 51 to 54.

InVerse 1st Quarter 2026: Apologetics

Felecia Lee

Joe Reeves

Jonathan Walter

Hope Channel

07 Jesus and Islam

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Joe Reeves, with Inverse.

Hi, my name is Joe, and welcome to Inverse.

Inverse is a Bible study where we get into the text.

This season we are looking at apologetics.

We are considering other religions and worldviews.

We're going to be looking at a number of different scriptures.

We're going to be thinking about what other people bring, what we can find common with them, and how the Christian religion challenges them or calls them to something different.

Studying all these things today with my friend Jonathan.

So we're at the table and you're the other chair at the table and we're so glad for that.

And as we journey through this, we've been learning a lot from each other about the Bible, about Christianity, about Jesus, the very basics of our belief system.

Leave a comment on YouTube, Facebook, or wherever you're at and ask the tough questions and engage with us and with each other.

But as we open the scriptures today, we will begin with prayer, as our acknowledgement that we need help from God.

Father, we are so privileged to get to know you.

We are in awe of the fact that although you're so great, you still invite us to know more about you and your son, Jesus Christ, who is equal with the Father.

We ask for understanding and for clarity and for hearts humble enough to receive who you are.

Bless our study together in your name I pray, amen.

You can read our Bible study guides online at inversebible.org.

We have lots of material there and some of it we go through on the programs and there's some things more in depth there in our publication.

And we have many past Bible studies that are very exciting, maybe answering questions that you've thought about.

All of our past episodes are there at hopetv.org forward slash inverse.

And the verse that we are looking at today is in Deuteronomy chapter 6.

And addressing 1 of the questions that our friends, our brothers and sisters from the Islamic faith have questions about Christianity right away.

So let's see what the Bible says about that.

In Deuteronomy chapter 6 and verses 4 through 9.

Hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is 1.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength.

And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, when you rise up.

You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets before your eyes.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." Very pivotal passage in the Old Testament for the Jewish religion, culture, tradition.

And Jonathan, what does this passage tell us about the nature of God?

It's a fascinating passage as many passages in the Old Testament kind of allude to this.

And that is the fact that we hear, if we look at the grammar in the original language, something interesting takes place here.

So when you see the word the Lord in the Old Testament, that is actually a replacement because the Hebrew word that is there is the name for God.

It's Yahweh or YHWH if you want to put it that way and and because the the in the Hebrew I guess religious tradition they considered the name of God unspeakable because it is so holy so they replaced it with Adonai which means Lord.

So often when you see a Lord staying there it's it really is the name of God that is mentioned there in the original language which is in singular Yahweh the Lord our God.

Now the word that's used here is in Hebrew is Elohim, which is a plural form for God.

So we see singular and plural, a singular and a plural form of God being used.

So that brings up a lot of questions, because if God is 1, what does that oneness communicate?

Is it does it mean he's 1 God or in terms of how many gods there are, or what does it mean?

And as Bible-believing Christians, our understanding is that there is here an allusion to the fact that God is unity and that he's considered 1 God, yet there is a plurality within the Godhead that is hard to comprehend.

I just recently had a discussion with someone who called me, a random person who called me where I work and was trying to discuss this with me.

And I was like, listen, like there is, there are certain illustrations you can use to try to understand it, but there is an element of mystery around what some call the Trinity or the plurality within the Godhead.

And so this this verse is beautiful because it brings out that reality about God.

And this this verse brings out something that we can really appreciate about our Islamic brothers and sisters in that many other religions that we have studied so far have many different gods that are being worshipped and they have many different idols Islam came into the scene in the sixth century was it and from the teachings of Muhammad and his leadership.

These idols cannot hear and cannot see and cannot help you.

And there's only 1 God and the Lord is 1.

And so that does bring a certain breath of fresh air when you've been surrounded by idolatry and a multiplicity of gods.

However, they do stumble on the Christian description of God and that becomes a challenge.

In the human sense, we are 1 in being and 1 in person.

But the way as Jonathan pointed out, the Bible describes God as 1 in being, but 3 in person.

And to the natural mind, to the human mind, that seems impossible.

But this is the mystery that scripture presents.

And it is a spiritual thing that has to be spiritually discerned as the Bible says.

I'd like us to walk through some of the scriptures and we'll get the number 3 in the New Testament for sure.

But are there any other verses from the Old Testament that help us understand that there's some complexity to the nature of God.

1 scripture that I like to go to is actually in Genesis.

And that is, there's a couple of, if I can, if I may, if we start in Genesis chapter 1 real quick, just 1 phrase here in verse 26.

It says, then God said, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness.

In the image of God, he created him male and female.

So you have the play on words, on singular and plurality in the creation, in the image of God, when God created human beings.

In a way, He's saying that, you know, man and woman are, yes, they're both human, but they're together, they are the image of God.

So there's a oneness and a plurality even within humanity.

Yes, and then that's, and there's a beautiful coming together in chapter 2 of Genesis, when God, in God brings marriage into the picture.

Will God’s People Be Alone During the Seven Last Plagues?

What is your first reaction when you hear the expression, the time of trouble?

I remember a young man came to me once after 1 of my evangelistic meetings and he said, Pastor Mark, I can't make it, I can't make it, I can't make it.

He said, the time of trouble is going to be so great, it's going to overwhelm me.

Well, what about when you hear somebody say, it's going to be necessary during that time to live without a mediator?

Because of misunderstandings of these subjects, many people have become discouraged altogether and thrown up their hands and given up.

But in this presentation, I want you to look at the time of trouble, the close of probation, the judgment of the living through new eyes.

And I want you to see Jesus and know that you can make it.

So let's first look at the sequence of events that are going to take place.

As you go to the book of Revelation, we find that God's last message to this dying planet is found in Revelation chapter 14.

Revelation 14.6 says, and I saw another angel flying in the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the earth, to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

The first thing we notice is that God's last day message is the gospel.

The gospel says that Christ came, he lived the life we should have lived, died the death we should have died.

The gospel says that through Christ, his strength, his power, we can stand against the wiles of the enemy.

Then the text says, fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment has come and worship him that made heaven, earth, the sea and the fountains of waters.

Now notice, here is a message to worship the Creator, the first angel's message.

The second angel talks about Babylon is fallen, confused religion, a departure from God's plan, a departure from living a godly Christ-centered, obedient life.

Then in verse 9, it warns against the mark of the beast.

It says, the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if anybody worships the beast in his image and receives his mark on his forehead or in his hand, he himself shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation." So in Revelation 14.7 you have this call to worship the creator.

In Revelation 14, verse 9, you have the call not to worship the beast.

And it is this subject of worship that becomes the final test in earth's last war.

Who you worship, where is your allegiance?

Notice here, it talks about those that worship the beast and it says, they shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God that is poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation.

What is the wine of the wrath of God that's poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation?

Whatever that is, it must be a very serious thing and you and I certainly want to avoid it.

In Revelation 15, verse 1, it tells us what that is.

Back to Menu

All Teachings

Bridging Heaven and Humanity

1h 9m

07 A Heavenly Citizenship

26m

07 Jesus and Islam

29m

Will God’s People Be Alone During the Seven Last Plagues?

23m

01 Is Jesus an Unwanted Guest?

1h 3m

Great Characters of the Bible: Abraham

28m

05 Will Heaven Be Safe With Us in It?

1h 2m

05 Should There be Free Speech in the Church?

50m

05 The Trouble with Al

56m

04 How Will God Destroy the Wicked Fairly and Finally?

1h 1m

04 Should Adventists Accept Government Money?

41m

04 Hollywood’s War on God

38m

Sound Doctrine