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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

It's Time Someone Finally Told You the Truth About...

Mark Howard

The Last Generation

Revisionist Adventist History

The Human Nature of Christ - Part 1

The Human Nature of Christ - Part 2

I'm going to be talking this afternoon, the series is titled, It's Time Someone Finally Told You the Truth About.

Remember, that's kind of tongue in cheek.

I'm not presenting myself as the expert on everything.

I'll introduce a little bit more about that in a minute.

But this afternoon is the human nature of Christ.

And 1 of the reasons I shared, if you weren't here last night, there are certain topics that you're almost not even allowed to discuss in Adventist circles anymore.

I don't like an atmosphere where you can't investigate.

I don't like an atmosphere where you can't discuss.

Now somebody had told me earlier this afternoon they were thinking about being here and they said, you know, I'm just not sure.

I figure everybody's pretty much got their mind made up on this subject anyway.

You better not have your mind made up on this subject.

I don't have my mind made up on this subject anyway.

I don't have my mind made up on this subject from this standpoint.

When we're talking about the nature of Christ, we're talking about the nature of God, when we're talking about the nature of God, you don't understand it yet.

We're told it's going to be the science and song of redeem through eternal ages.

So I hope you don't have a mindset that you're not going to learn anything more.

Now our purpose here this afternoon is not for debate, as I mentioned earlier, but more for edification.

And I want to touch on a little bit of what we looked at last night before I jump into this particular topic, before I do that, I'm going to kneel and ask God to bless our time together.

So I'm gonna invite you to bow your heads with me at this time.

Heavenly Father, Father, once again, we just thank you for the privilege we have of being here in your presence on your holy Sabbath day.

Lord, if we've ever needed the Holy Spirit in human history, Lord, it's now.

And as we come together and we're studying these subjects together today, We need your spirit, the spirit of truth, to lead us into truth, to give us understanding, to humble our hearts, open our ears.

I pray Lord that you would touch my lips and that the words I speak would give glory and honor to your name.

And Lord, I ask and pray all of this in the name of Jesus and for his sake.

Amen Now I want to just briefly okay, it's up there now When we talk about the human nature of Christ I'm gonna share a number of quotes here and I had wanted to have slides for them I didn't and so what I did is I gave you a URL.

If you happen to have a smartphone you can pull up the notes I'm going to be following right there, so at least you have some reference point, and you can look at it later on because I'm not going to read my notes and I'm not probably going to touch on everything in my notes today.

This is not intended incidentally to be an exhaustive study on the nature of Christ in the time period that we have.

But it will be food for thought for you and hopefully, like I said, a little bit of encouragement and direction.

Last night we talked about the truth about the last generation.

And I told you there were 2 things I was, reasonably, actually I told you there was 1 thing I was positively certain about, and 1 thing I was reasonably sure about.

The thing I was positively certain about is there's gonna be a last generation.

And the point that I was reasonably certain about is that some of us are going to be part of it.

So that makes it important for us to understand.

And the reason I decided to share what I did, as I said last night, is this, when you talk about, some of you are aware of this, maybe some of you aren't, but when you talk about a last generation, it's a subject that is very marginalized in the church today.

It's criticized and ridiculed like you would believe such a thing, and it's so non-grace, non-gospel-centered.

But as Seventh-day Adventists, we have to remember something.

And it's rooted in the concept of the sanctuary.

What the sanctuary, the heavenly sanctuary teaches us is that Jesus is doing a work.

Now this isn't just taught in the sanctuary of course, but when we look at the salvation picture, the work Jesus is doing is putting away sin.

Okay, so He's in the heavenly sanctuary and from the biblical vantage point, he's going to finish his work in the sanctuary, i.e.

When he completes that, he's going to put off the priestly garments, he's going to put on the garments of vengeance, he's going to come back not as a priest, but as a king and receive his people.

He's not gonna do that until his work in the sanctuary is finished, i.e.

It wouldn't make sense for the high priest to leave the sanctuary when sin wasn't put away, amen?

And so it's from that standpoint that we have a clear understanding.

Now you're not gonna get this from the evangelical churches and this is our problem.

We go to the evangelicals and they ridicule us because they don't understand this framework.

They come from a whole different framework, and instead of us being bold and saying, listen, we have a high priest who can save to the uttermost, we cower and say, well, yeah, I guess it was all done at the cross.

But what that does for you and me on a practical spiritual level is it totally incapacitates our Christian experience.

Because the fact of the matter is we are not secured for heaven yet.

A lot of people want to go to heaven but you've got to be fitted for heaven.

Now that's a work that Christ is doing, but he doesn't do it apart from you and me.

We're not, nobody's going to be forced to go to heaven.

It's not like, yeah, I exercise, I've mentioned this this morning.

Oh, I exercised that choice 20 years ago, I accepted Christ.

And so as we looked at the topic last night, the reason I shared it is that I believe, let me say 1 other thing, when you look at the prophetic end time scenario, the issue at the end of time, the final testing issue, the Mark of the Beast, Seal of God issue is a character issue.

The Mark of the Beast is in the forehead or in the hand.

When you look at Revelation chapter 14, it says that the name of God is in the forehead as well.

Now we talked about this, I believe we talked about this a little bit, the name of God is synonymous with the glory of God and the character of God.

The final test, when we talk about the Sabbath being the test, that's the outward test, but it's a test of character.

Okay, much like when we look at the Apostle Peter, who with all his heart promised Jesus he would not deny him.

With all his heart, he promised, I believe that, that Peter believed it with all his heart.

In fact, he read it in the Desire of Ages.

The problem is that Peter didn't know himself, and he had not developed the kind of character that could withstand that kind of test.

Now you're going to find this throughout scripture.

You don't find it just in the book of Revelation.

You go to the parable of the wedding garment.

I'll tell you in short, and you can go back and study it.

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It's Time Someone Finally Told You the Truth About...

The Human Nature of Christ - Part 1

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Attachments

Raymond Holmes: Studies in 1 John

Not a Pretty Picture

1h

Antichrist: The One You've Never Known

Antichrist, Episode 2: Characteristics

29m

Freedom From Fear 2006

Beloved, Let us Love

41m

Incarnation

Incarnation: The Reality

36m

The Digital Inebriate: Church, Society, and Salvation

56m

Myth or Miracle: The Virgin Birth

57m

Raymond Holmes: Studies in 1 John

To Tell the Truth

57m

The Humanity of Christ is Everything to Us

1h 10m

Summary and Conclusion

39m

The Spirit of Antichrist and My Fifth Grade Birthday Party

39m

Sound Doctrine