Faith on Fire

The title of the message today is Faith on Fire.

Martin Luther King Jr. Once Shared that faith is taking

the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

That's pretty good, isn't it. Amen, it would work. Let

me read it again. Martin Luther King Jr. Once Shared

that faith is taking the first step even when you

don't see the whole staircase. Now, that's pretty good, But

I would like to refine a little bit with something better.

Faith is not essentially what you do. Faith is what

God has already done for you. In Jesus Galatians, Iree

Paul says that faith came when Christ came, and the

Greek he says, so that we might be justified out

of faith of Jesus. Out of the faith of Jesus.

He is faith. It comes from him. He shows up.

We have faith because he is the faith that we need.

Glatis three. The faith of Jesus is the faithful one,

the faith that is Jesus. I don't know about you,

but there have been times in my life when my

faith has let me down. Are you with me? Has

it ever happened to you? Yeah? Some of you are

just perfect saints around here, but I'm not okay. My

faith has let me down because my faith is a

mustard seed and sometimes it's faulty. I have found that

the faithful one who's Jesus has never let me down.

I have learned that it is possible as a Christian

to rely on my faith instead of Jesus as the

faithful one. The people of God who endure to the

end will have true faith because they have Jesus. Not

because they're smart, not because they're powerful, not because they're privileged,

not because they know more than others, but because they

have Jesus. Thus the faith of Jesus. Now think about it.

If you have Jesus, you have all that Heaven can

give you for today and for all eternity. If you

don't have Jesus, you have nothing. Jesus plus your nothing

equals everything. Jesus plus your weak or absent faith means

the faith that justifies in the judgment day, a right

now righteousness, kind of faith that's good enough for every

day of your life and for the future. So every

gift of God is wrapped up in Jesus for all time.

I was once preaching about Jesus at a church many

years ago, and a psychologist said, you have a messianic complex.

I thought that was an interesting psycho analysis of the preacher.

You have a messianic complex. Give me a messianic complex

where Jesus is central in my life, central in the Bible,

and meets my every need. I don't need that kind

of analysis, Nor to you, John, the beloved disciple of Jesus.

To find victory as our faith in Jesus, and not

faith in oneself, not faith in personal perfection, which we

hear a lot of at times, not faith in our

will power, but faith in Jesus, a real person who

loves Us, has proved himself true and faithful under pressure,

because when Jesus made the decision to go to the

Cross of Calgary for you, dear heart, he chose to

give up eternal life to save you. If that was

the cost the faith of Jesus. One John five three

and four, it says, whoever is born of God overcomes

the world. God has not given us a faith as Christians,

whereby we are to be overcome by worldliness, or by sin,

or by discouragement, or by anything the devil throws at us.

He says, for whatever is born of God, or whoever

is born of God overcomes the world how and this

is the victory that overcomes the world our faith. Who

is it that overcomes the world, but he who believes

that Jesus is the Son of God. You see, victory

is not based on how much you learn, how much

you know, as important as those things are, it is

based on who you know and who has your heart

in life the power of the Son of God. Faith is

the link that brings us to him. But our faith

is weak. His is strong. The faith that overcomes the

world is the faith that believes with the whole heart

that Jesus has the divine credentials to represent God, not

just a wise man, not just an angelic projection of God, God,

God Man, God in Christ, the believer of the whole

heart that Jesus has the divine credentials to represent God,

the wisdom to reveal God, the love that is God,

to show God's love, the righteousness of God, that is

the law, to meet the high standard in the judgment day.

Jesus has the credentials to save us. The final generation

that will live to see Jesus come, will keep the

commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. That's what

it says in a grivelation. His faith will be in

their lives because Jesus is in their life, the faith

that Jesus is the only faith for God and good

enough for the judgment day. Turneth me to Revelation fourteen,

twelve and thirteen, and let's open up the Bible and

let it speak to us. Now, this comes right after

the Third Angel's message of Revelation fourteen, the message that

prepares the world for the coming of Christ, that is

the warning of the mark of the Beast. The Seventh

administ Church was raised up on the wings of Bible

prophecy to proclaim the third Angel's message. The first and

second were proclaimed by the Millerite movement in others. But

we are the third Angel verse twelve. Here is a

call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep

the commandments of God. And what does it say next,

and the faith of Jesus. They keep the faith of Jesus.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, write this

blessed to the dead who die in the Lord. Henceforth blessed. Indeed,

says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors

for their deeds follow them. Faith changes lives. The faith

of Jesus creates victory at the time of the end.

It brings rest to those who have laid. This passage

is set in the context of the Mark of the

Beast test at the end of time. In fact, it

is the tail end of the Third Angel's messages. I

have just said, which is the warning of the mark

of the Beast. Revelation fourteen twelve and thirteen just read

is the God given climax to the most solemn and

fearful message this world will ever receive from God's amazing

heart of love. It is the warning of the mark

of the Beast. And those who receive the mark of

the Beast excuse me. In Revelation fourteen eleven, it says

they have no rest there a night, those worshipers the beast.

The Greek word for rest and Revelation fourteen is anapausus,

and it means sabbath rest. Why don't you repeat the

word with me so you can learn a little Greek.

Here Anna pausis anna. Pausis Ana means again pausus pause.

It means cyclical rest, like Sabbath rest every seventh day.

It's the Greek word for Sabbath rest. So the mark

of the beast is squarely an issue that involves the

Fourth Commandment. Friends, our faith is not impressive to God

and to the angels. Did you know that they don't

see any superstars down here who have good faith. The

faith of Jesus, though, is amazing. It is all sufficient

because in Jesus we have a right now righteousness that's

very impressive. We have an external righteousness, that is His righteousness,

that is good enough for the Judgment Day and every

day of your life to the end of time. Dear heart,

if you're trying to put together your religious life, to

cobble together some argument that God can accept you because

of how you've grown, it's not good enough for the

Judgment day. One thing stands good enough for God, and

that is Jesus Christ. When you read Daniel seven, he says,

I saw in the night visions one like the son

of Man. He came to the ancient days and was

presented before him. That's when the books are opened. That's

when this proxy judgment occurs, and we're not there. It's

in heaven, and he comes before the ancient of days

as father to his kingdom, one name at a time.

Why does God give Jesus the kingdom Because Jesus has

the divine credentials. He has the righteousness to confess us

by name and the judgment day. So get your mind

off of you and put it on Jesus. The mark

of the beast warning is in the third Angel's message

is the warning of fire. It's the most solemn warning

and all the Bible. The call to Faith and Relation

fourteen twelve is God's call for personal endurance, endurance to

the end that will go through the fire. Have you

ever had a time in your life you're just going

through the fire in the next days worse than the last,

and you wonder when it will end. I've had times

like that in my life. I remember my dad died.

I was fifteen. I'd just come to Christ, and I

was so afraid of the future. I knew him for

two months. He led me to Christ, gave me the

book The Steps to Christ, and he died. I never

will forget how angry I was, how upset I was

at God, and I didn't realize that God had put

him into my life at a golden time so I

would have a redirected life course I also didn't realized

that had he stayed, maybe it wouldn't have been the same.

God knew the end from the beginning. But there have

been other times in my life. I remember when I

was going through school. I didn't have a penny in

my name, how going to pay through college for thousands

of dollars. I was working like a dog in the

summers and tree planting. My body was being affected by

the pressure of it, and somehow God got me through it.

I remember praying for the right wife. Did you ever

pray for the right wife? Oh? My goodness, that was

a tough one. Diana wasn't impressed with me all that

much at first. She had this doctor that was on

the line doctor to be. He was a nice guy.

He still is. But I remember right there at a

at that Nohsoka Pines camp where you and I are

at that I would go out to that little knoll there,

that little actually outlet near the what do you call it?

The inlet? What was it? The piece of land out

there where the boats would come. Okay, I'm drawing a blank.

And I said, Oh Lord, God, rise up and intervene

for thy servant, you know. And I'd write her letters

and wasn't quite right. But you know, I got married.

So the Lord answered those prayers. But stress is awful,

isn't it. Look when we go through the fire, we

go through the fire. In Matthew twenty four thirteen fourteen,

Jesus says, the one who endures to the end will

be saved, and this gospel of the Kingdom will be

preached throughout the whole world as a testament to all nations.

Then the end will come. Friend's endurance, here is faith

in Jesus. When you don't give up on Jesus. It's

not giving up. I've given up on myself a lot

in life, but I'm not going to give up in Jesus.

You know the difference. Jesus endures and Jesus has endured,

so you can't endure and be saved. The mark of

the beast is the warning of fire for those who

are disobedient, the very end of time Revelation thirteen. The

lamb like beasts representing a kingdom that arises in the

new World that has Christian principles in its constitution, brings

fire down from heaven and the sight of men. The

first power to use the atom bomb But more here

is implied than just that. This means that the lamb

like beast fakes true Holy Spirit fire in its Christian

culture that only comes from God. It's no accident that

the modern charismatic movement arose here in the realm of

the lamb like beasts. The lamb like beast is not

the true Elijah at the end. The fire brings down

is not God's fire. The lamb like Christian powers what

the book Revelation calls the false prophet Revelation nineteen, who

winds up in the lake of fire. You see, the

false prophet doesn't lead people back to God. It leads

people back to the medieval church state beast that arises

and is resurrected at the time of the end. The

lamb like beast represents a false Christian America at the

end that starts out like a lamb, and it eventually

speaks like a dragon. Our country will one day move

from its great principles of its constitution, which are found

upon the principles of Protestantism, and the principle of its republic,

a representative republic. It will give up this great context

to ally itself with the world and with religio political forces,

and the Bible says, the mark of the beast starts

here in the United States of America. The mark of

the beast test is the sign. The mark of the

beast test will involve the sign of God, the seal

of God, that is the Sabbath sign and seal, which

is inside his law. The mark of the beast, the

sign and seal of God. God's name in scripture is

the same thing as God's law. I don't have this

as a verse, but Psalms one, nineteen fifty five. When

you meditate on God's law, you meditate on his name.

They're the same thing. God's law, God's name, God's covenant,

which is the Ten Commandments of Deuteronomy four thirteen, God's

character I am who I am, which is the covenant name.

These are all the same thing. God's name is the

ten Commandments. God's name is his character. Therefore it is everlasting.

It is the everlasting Covenant. Likewise, the name of the

beast is the law of the beast. I was listening

to a theologian who's so sure he's smarter than the

spirit of prophecy, and so sure that he had all

the answers, and he even teaches in university where they

ought to consider maybe helping him. But he was trying

to say, there's no evidence in Revelation thirteen that you

have a law, a Sunday law. The name of the

Beast intrinsically is the law of the beast. The mark

of the beast is called the name of the beast,

which means the mark of the beast is a law,

just using solid Bible imagery. So once you know what

the mark of the beast says, you know it's a

law that the beast will impose, just as God has

his law, and that his sign is part of his law.

This isn't rocket science, it's biblical reasoning based on evidence.

In Access thirty one thirteen, twenty twelve, God makes it

clear that his sign and seal and mark within his

holy law as the Sabbath. I gave them my Sabbath

to be a sign that they might know that I

am the Lord Yahweh, the covenant Lord who sanctifies them.

The mark of God's authority, the true sign of his

character of love, is found in the heart of the

Ten Commandments. Fire also come down from heaven comes down

from heaven when the sun sets. Have you ever watched

a nice sun setting and at the end of the day,

it's just going like a fireball that hits the earth.

You ever seen that? So look, the Lamb like Beast

brings fire down from heaven, not just by acting like

Elijah in a false Holy Spirit movement, but it brings

the sun down. The Mark of the Beast is a

Sunday fire kind of issue. It says it causes those

who would not worship the image of the Beast to

be killed. The Sea Beast, which is the Church state

order of the Middle Ages, which is also the World

Kingdom order of all I'm the Antichrist phase of it

was the Middle Ages. The Sea Beast will bring the

power of the Sun to earth in the Mark of

the b Beast tests through the false prophet, the Lamb

like Beast, and they will enforce Sunday as the law

of the land in the United States of America. That's

what Revelation thirteen is getting at. The number of the

Beast is what you guys know, what tell me? What

is it? Six six six. Some of the ancient Greek manuscripts,

it's just written as three letters. That represents six. The

number of the beast is sixty sixty six. It is

the number of a man's name found in the Bible.

You don't have to go to some miter or anything

like that. We go to the Bible. Ezra two thirteen.

Here it is. Here's the name connected to the number,

the sons of Adanika. What does it say, Well, we

gotta get it on the screen first, take your time,

Ezra two thirteen. God, there it is the sons of Adeneka.

What does it say on the screen? Six one hundred

and sixty six. Now that name is the name of

the beast. How the man's name Adnikum is a full

sentence in the Hebrew that means my lord has risen.

So that's the name of the beast. My Lord has risen.

How do we know that the resurrection of the beast

here counterfeits jesus resurrection from the dead on Sunday? On

what day did Jesus come to life? His deadly wind

was healed? And the whole world wondered after Jesus, or

at least his disciples, did what day was that Sunday?

Exactly first day of the week. Now the name Adanikum,

my Lord has Risen is the same as the name

for the beast in Revelation eleven seven, when it says

the beast that arises from the bottomless pit. That's where

the beast is introduced for the first time. The beast

is the resurrection beast, the beast that comes back from

the dead, the beast that has its deadly wound healed.

That wound occurred in the year seventeen ninety eight, at

the end of twelve and sixty years of Bible prophecy.

But it comes back, it's healed. It's not healed because

somebody gets some land from Mussolini in nineteen twenty nine.

The Bible never points to that this world kingdom order

is healed when Sunday becomes the law of the land

and the unifying force in the Christian and political world

to create a world order that persecutes at the time

of the end. Now has that ever happened before? Yes,

it did. And the great twelve hundred and sixty year

prophecy in the Book of Daniel the Great Council of

Orleans in five thirty eight that began that time prophecy.

Among other events, there was a universal sunny law for

East and West unite the Roman Empire. The same will

occur in the mark of the Beast at the time

of the end. The sea beast in Revelation thirteen is

the resurrection beast that ascends from the bottomless pit from

death from the sea. It was wounded in the French Revolution.

Why because the Antichrist beast rises out of the sea

at the end, its deadly wound is healed because it

completes its journey as Antichrist. So just like Jesus had

a pre existence, Jesus had a ministry of three and

a half years. Jesus had a deadly wound, then Jesus

was resurrection. The beast of Revelation thirteen has all the

same things. John says, the Antichrist is already in the world,

had a pre existence prior to its coming as Antichrist

in the Middle Ages, when the church state system of

the Middle Ages took the place of Jesus, when the

Church became Antichrist, when Rome put a man on the

throne instead of Jesus on the throne of the heart,

and from five thirty eight to seventeen ninety eight, twelve

hundred and sixty years, which is twelve her and sixty

prophetic days, forty two prophetic monds forty two times thirty,

twelve and sixty, which is what the Dan Book of

Daniel calls a time two times and half a time,

which is a year, two years and half a year,

just like Jesus had a three and a half year

ministry three and a half prophetic years, which are twelve

hundred and sixty literal years. This power tore down the

gospel of the Bible, of the work of God in

the Middle Ages, and so it got whacked in the

French Revolution. The Bible says we'd have a deadly wound.

The one that goes takes into cap activity. It says,

we'll go into captivity and revelation thirteen ten and birth

the a in the spring of seventeen ninety eight at

the command of the French directory fulfilled Bible prophecy, but

going to Vatican Rome to pass the sixth captive, bringing

that time prophecy to its prophetic end to the month

right on time. And so when the beast steadly wond

is healed, what it means is there'll be a religio

political union of the time of the end, where this

Antichrist power that persecuted for over a thousand years will

come back and it will do it again, and Sunday

will be in the mix. Now, let me ask you

this question. If you wanted to save America from all

the moral decline that we see around us, wouldn't be

great if everybody go to church. I'm gonna raise your

hand if you think i'd be a good I think

it'd be a good idea. But what it be a

good idea to make them go to church or to

enforce a day of worship to christianize our country? Would

that be a good thing? That's the difference. And the

big difference is Sabbath is not Sunday, it's Saturday. The

Fourth Commandment doesn't say the first day God rested, He

said the seventh day, And so it's really it would

be an imposition on the law of God, the authority

of God, and who his very name is law. The

sea beast in Revelation thirteen is the resurrection beast that

ascends from the bottomless pit, because the Antichrist kingdom comes

back to life, just like Jesus came back to life.

Jesus came back to life on Sunday. The Antichrist beast

will come back to life when God's law is violated

by Sunday legislation. It's a resurrected world kingdom order that

persecutes with Sunday laws. The Church state beast that comes

back at the time of the end is violating the

Fourth Commandment and other commandments. Two is most people don't

realize it, but Rome claims as its sign of authority

the power to change the law of God. Did you

know that some if you don't. And this came out

in the Great Debate at Leipzig when Martin Luther was

engaging Johann Eck, who was the great Roman Catholic theologian.

Of course, one of the tenets of the Reformation was

solo scriptura the Bible on the Bible only n Eck

put Martin Luther in a pinch. Luther knew the Sabbath

was Saturday. He was struggling with what to do with it.

There were fanatical aspects of the Reformation that were sabbatarium,

but they were kooks in other areas. So he was

struggling with how to make this sense. He was coming

out of the Middle Ages, and Doctor X said, Luther,

you know good and well as I do that the

Bible doesn't give one shred of evidence that the Sabbath

was changed from Saturday to Sunday by the authority of scripture.

You argue for the authority of scripture, he says, it's

by the authority of the Church of the Council of

Orleans that the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday.

And you, Luther, by continuing to keep Sunday, show that

you are not going with the Bible, and the Bible

only you are guided by the authority of the Roman Church.

And he was stumped by that. One tried to biggle

around it, but the great theologian had him. Luther should

have said, I will start keeping the Sabbath. Now. Now

Luther had to struggle and come to grips. He didn't

know everything at once. We shouldn't be hard on him.

He was growing. So at the time of the end,

this beast is resurrected to enforce the mark of the beast.

That is a counterfeit mark and sign that is not

God's true Sabbath sign. It's not the seal of the

Living God. It is not in obedience the ten Commandments.

So the name, that is the law of the beast

takes the place of God's name. That is God's law

that has be written, where where does it go on

the forehead in the hand Deuteronomy six. These words which

I've given you today shall be as frontlets between your

eyes on your forehead, and they shall be on your hands.

You shall teach them to your children. The mark of

the beast goes where God's law should go. Therefore, the

mark of the beast and the attack upon the sign

that is in God's law, which is the Sabbath. It

is a law because the name of the beast and

the mark of the beast is the same thing, and

God's name is God's law. A Sunday law will be

imposed in the United States of America based in Revelation

thirteen that will stand against the sign and seal the

living God. The fourth Commandment is the Sabbath commandment because

the number four represents what's the four represent in the Bible,

four angels standing at the four winds, four corners of

the earth. It's global. It's the word for global. So

the Sabbath commandment is the fourth commandment because it's the

global commandments. It wasn't just given for the Jews. It

was given at the dawn of time in Jenesus two

one to three. It is for the whole human race.

And so Jesus is the Sabbath was made for man,

not man. For the Sabbath. It's for our good. We need, Prince,

I'll say this, we need the Seventh Day Sabbath sign

and seal in our lives. Why because we need Jesus

in our lives, and because Jesus is the Lord of

the Sabbath with the divine credentials to save all of

us when the fire falls. Turned to Matthew eleven twenty

eight and thirty, Jesus has come to me all who

labor and are heavy laden, and I would give you rest.

Now this is the exact same word that we find.

Excuse me, it's the exact same word that we find

in Revelation fourteen eleven. For sabbath rest is the Greek

word anna pausus. So come unto me and I'll give

you sabbath rest is really what he's saying. Here, take

my yoke upon you and learn from me. What kind

of God does he represent? A mean god, harsh god?

For I am what gentle and what lowly in heart,

He's humble, and you shall find rest for your souls.

Why when you find Jesus, from my yoke is easy

and my burden is light. The Sabbath was not given

to make our lives a mess. It was not given

so we'd have one more thing to do. It was

given because we need Jesus in our life. We need

the Holy Spirit. The number seven is the Holy Spirit

number and scre The seventh day is the Holy Spirit

day for the seven eyes, the seven torches of God

that move throughout the earth. Friends, Jesus can heal you.

How many of you want to believe that, Raise it high.

Jesus can heal you. Friends, Jesus can seal you. In

the book Revelation with the fire of the Holy Spirit.

The Sabbath is the mechanism to be sealed with the

Holy Spirit. When we worship we fellowship, there is fire

in the day. The Word of God comes a life

and alive in our lives. And thus we have the

faith of Jesus because of our relationship with God. Christ

can give us spiritual rest in our lives. Because Christ

is the Lord of the Sabbath. The Yahweh of Jehovah, God,

the Lord of the Sabbath, who has made us, who

has saved us, who can heal us. Dear Heart, when

we talk about faith, we have better focus on Jesus

rather than ourselves. His faith is the all sufficient faith

that gets us through to the end, that passes the

test of the fire, of the second Coming, that follows

the mark of the Beast test just before the end.

Jesus' faith is what we need in our life now.

We don't have much time to shape up as Christians.

Did you hear that we don't have much time. I've

been preaching the sudden coming of Christ, the prophetic truth

for many years. I've had people laugh at me because

I do, most of them in our own church, not

so much outside our church. But dear Heart, changes have

happened in this nation, in the world that now place

a square on target for the mark of the Beast issue.

It is coming, maybe not next year, maybe not the

year after, but it is coming, and we need Jesus

for the end, Dear Heart. Jesus is coming. Those who

pass that test will have but a little power, not

a lot of power, a little, and they will be

true because they have not denied Jesus' name, which is

his law and his character, and their weakness. They affirm

they will know that Jesus has the power and faith

for their lives. Turn to Revelation three eight and eleven

describing the Church of Philadelphia. When Sister White describes the

group that will make it through the Mark of the Beast,

she doesn't use the language of Leadata at all. She

uses the language of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Adventus, Philadelphia, and Christians.

At the time of the end, when the Mark of

the Beast does its work, we are a church of

brotherly love, just as the coming of Christ is before

us as we enter the fire. So he says, I

know your works. Behold, I've set before you an open door.

That door was to the most holy place of the

heavenly Sanctuary. It was also a door of opportunity for

Millerite Adventism that would become Seventh Day Adventism. As the

last time Prophecy ran out in the year eighteen forty four,

he says, which no one is able to shut. Look,

God has opened up access to Christ in our time

that people cannot get out of your life. They cannot

root it out of your life. If you stay focused

on the word of God. He says, I know that

you have, but how much power? What does the text

say little power? Oh? These aren't superstar, perfectionistic, bragging, final

generation type of Christians. These are people are saying, I'm

a sinner like Peter who came to Jesus' fate depart

from me. I'm a sinful man, and you wouldn't let

Jesus go little power. Yet you have kept my word,

have not denied my name, which means is law. Behold,

I'll make those of the Synagogue of Satan. And we've

been told that Synagogue of Satan are nominal Avenus who

have failed to advance in the truth to enter into

the most holy placed experience that was opened up in

eighteen forty four. Now, if you're a seventh da Avenist Christian,

I'm preaching a sermon to avidence to a large extent today.

I want you to hear this. And you say, ah,

the twenty three hundred days is nonsense. Nothing happened in

eighteen forty four. You know what you've done. You've just

stepped out of the experience that God has opened up

for us to have to focus on that final judgment

hour when Christ represents us before the Father. You've come

back into the most holy placed mode, which is not

holy at all now because that's not where God's at.

Christ has moved into a most holy place and a

typical day of atonement phase of ministry. And so that

group that opposes, that be it adventist or non avidist.

If you pose the work of God that leads us

to be ready for say coming, they become a synagogue

of Satan who say they are Jews and or not,

in other words, believers, but aren't. But lie behold, I

make them come down before your feet and learn. And

what does it say next that I have loved you,

dear heart. God loves the week. God loves the person

who values his word does not need to be popular,

but wants to be faithful. Look at verse ten. Because

you've kept my word of patient endurance. I will keep

you who keeps us, I will keep you from the

hour of trial, which is come to the whole world.

That's the mark of the beast issue to try those

who dwell upon the earth. And then he says, I

am coming, So hold fast which you have, so that

no one may seize your crown. It takes Philadelphia experience

to meet Jesus. Brotherly love is what the name Philadelphia

means keeping God's law and name is Philadelphia. Endurance is

Philadelphia focusing on the second Communist Philadelphia and during the

Mark of the Beast tests that is the great test

come in the world. Is Philadelphia's stuff. We need a

Philadelphia experience for the end. The Church of Brotherly Love

latest Sea in Greek means people of righteousness, but is

anything but righteous. The Seventh Church, which is the church

that came out of the Philadelphia experience, the majority experience

at the end, because Philadelphia and Ladesty are both Seventh

the Adventism at the end, it's just the majority experience

is a compromised experience. The Latest Sea in Church and

the book correlations be rapped of true faith, that is

gold tried in the fire. It is naked without the

righteousness of Christ that comes by faith in Jesus, a

rogue that cannot be supplied by feeling or music or

religious experience. Are just wanting to feel good or religious experience.

It's lacking because only through faith in Christ, the faithful one,

can we find the gold and the robe and the

eyesab in our life. The seventh Church and the Revelation

is the Seventh day Church that has the Sabbath right,

but not the Lord of the Sabbath right inside the

heart and experience. It is the Church that is holding

up the Second Coming, why because it's been given Bible truth. Nonetheless,

it lacks Christ inside. It has not benefited as it

should from the great discoveries of righteous by faith given

by God in the Reformation. And so Jesus stands at

the door and knocks on the windows of the soul,

the eyes, the ears, and the heart. The church's pitiful, naked, blind,

bereft of the righteous of Christ. But Jesus provides the cure,

that is gold with white linen and healing eyes. Have

look at Relation three eighteen and nineteen with me, Therefore,

I counsel you, that's us to buy from me, that's him,

gold refined by fire. Could you repeat that phrase with me?

Gold what refined by fire, that you may be rich,

and white garments to clothe you and to keep the

shame of your nakedness from being seen. And say, have

to anoint your eyes. Why that you may see and

those whom I love have reproven chasten, so be zealous

and repent. Is God love The ladacy in church. The

greatest love call to all the seventh churches comes to

the one that's the worst at the time of the end,

the ladacy in church. There's nothing good, he says about

it in its present state without Jesus. Gold refined by

fire represents faith in Jesus tried by fire, turned to

First Peter one seven. Peter writes in this you rejoice,

though now for a little while you may have to

suffer at various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith,

more precious than gold, which though perishable, is tested by

what does it say in the text, tested by fire

may redown to the great praise and glory and honor

at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Without having seen him,

you love him. And though you do not now see him,

you believe in Him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy.

That's what faith in Christ brings into our lives. It

brings a Christ centered focus when it's not about us,

it's about Him. Gold refined by fire is what we

need to be ready for the fire at the end,

because faith will be on fire at the end. Faith

is not a cold kind of thing. Have you ever

hear someone say, well, I have faith in Jesus, but

it's been so hard to be a Christian, you know,

it's such a hard road. You know, as soon as

I was baptized, it's just been miserable ever since. You

haven't heard a testimony like that. Do you ever hear

a testimony that I have. I've heard people give up

and give tests. Look, when we have faith and the

one who saved us, we have a reason to be

buoyantly happy in life right because we are Jesus. We

belong to him, we're saved by him. The faith endures,

the end is faith on fire. It puts fire in

our ministry, our lives. Want to make a difference in

the Church in the world. The color of gold represents

some beautiful things in the Bible, God's laws, golden honey

and Psalms nineteen. How many have you ever taken honey

and just kind of dropped it on your tongue? You know,

I wish I had some here, I'm already getting hungry,

and it just kind of your whole body goes, that's

sweet as honey. Okay, golden honey Psalms nineteen eight. The

precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The

commandment of the Lord is pure and lightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, and during forever

the ordinance of the Lord are true and rites us

all together. More to be desired are they than gold,

even much fine gold, sweeter also than honey. And the

drippings of the honeycomb. Gold and honey are both gold.

And this time in the same psalm, the law of

God has it's not just a thing, it's a person,

a divine person, like the golden sun, the bridegroom who

moves from east to west to his bridal chamber, the

judgment at the end of time. And so the bridegroom

is the honey, the bridegroom is the gold. So it's

nineteen forty six. Yet their voices growth throughout the all

the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

In them the heavens. He has set a tent for

the sun, which is the bridegroom, which comes forth like

a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man

running its course with joy. It's rising from the ends

of the earth, heavens and its circuit to the end

of them, and there is nothing hid from his heat.

The Word of God, who is alive, shines like the sun.

The Sun is fire. His face is on fire. The

light of the Sun is in him. That is why

Jesus face shines like the sun, because he is the

Sun of righteousness that Malachi Force says, arises with healing

in his wings. When Christ was transfigured. Look at Matthew

seventeen two. It says he was transfigured before them on

the mountain. His face shone like the sun. His garments

became white as light. Same thing Revelation one sixteen. His

right hand he held seven stars. From his mouth issued

a sharp, two edged sword, and his face was like THEO.

What does it say, the sun shining in full strength,

the two edged sword, that is the sword of the spirit,

the word of God. And the sun is also the

word of God, his law. Sunlight, sword symbols of the same.

These symbols converge in Jesus. Excuse me to state in

a double measure that he is the Word of God. Friends,

don't think for a minute that you can have true

faith in your life. If you're stuck on yourself like Ladysia.

Is a church that is blind to the wonders of

God's word, absorbed with its own achievements. Is not in Christ.

We need a different experience. Gold tried into the fire

is Jesus faith that was tested as a man of sorrows,

that was trying in the fire of Casemone in the cross,

a life of service and death for you and me.

He is the gold tried in the fire. Look at

relation one point fifteen. His feet were like burnished bronze,

refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like

the sound of many waters. Many waters represent the peoples

of the earth. Christ speaks the language of every nation, kindred, tribe,

and thongue. His voice speaks to every nation the waters,

and no one can improve on him because he is

also refined in the fire. He has faith that has

gone through the distance. He is the miracle of the Gospel.

When we come to Jesus and we accept him into

our lives, his faith, his righteousness, his Holy spirit, eyes

at his riches of wisdom, become ours. Not because we're good, smart,

or anything else, but because he is. When we have Jesus,

we aren't naked anymore. We aren't blind to Bible truth

and too ourselves. We aren't poor when we have no money,

and we aren't miserable when the whole world unleashes its

fury on us. Jesus divines defines himself in Revelation three

fourteen to the latesty in church. He says, I am

the Amen, the true witness, the beginning of the creation

of God. His statement when he says I'm the Amen

is a direct allusion to Wisdom in Proverbs eight thirty.

Wisdom is a person in Proverbs eight thirty who created

the world. Wisdom is the architect. He's called the amone.

It's the same thing, the Amen, the master workman, the

wisdom of God that danced with God at the dawn

of time, his father who rejoiced always before him, and

the sons of men. The wisdom that is Jesus is

the gold the latesty in church needs. It's what we

need in our lives. Proverbs eight nineteen. My fruit is

better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than

choice silver. I walk in the way of righteousness, in

the paths of justice, and dealing with wealth those who

love me, and filling their treasuries you want to be rich?

How many if you like to be rich, now, come on,

be rich. I'm not pleased with that answer. I want

to be rich. I don't want to be poor. I'll

be rich when you have Jesus you have gold. Last,

you know, yesterday I started my devotions. I've got a

lot of busy stuff going on, and I decided to

take the whole day studying the Bible. Is it okay

for a pastor to do that? I mean, really, please,

don't have me doing everything else, which I'm struggling with

the times. And I got up in the morning. I

just worked on a linguistic structure that went all the

way this great distance. And I remember telling myself, man,

people have never seen these connections before. And I thought,

I said, it's sweetest honey, it's the real gold. I

would rather have this than a PhD. I'd rather have

this than a bank account full of money. This is

the mind of God that's coming to me from the

Bible and the spirit of Prophecy. The Book Revelation. There's

more to gold than honey, gold, wisdom in the sun.

In the Book Revelation, the lion is golden. His face

shines like the sun. You see. The lion of the

tribe of Judah is gold, gold refined by fire. Is

the lion of the tribe of Judah who has conquered.

Because he went to the cross, his feet were burnished

like a furnace fire. The lamb who is the lion

is able to take the scroll and open seven seals.

The lamb who is able to open the grave at

the end of the age is the hero. He is

able to change your life, conquer the devil and as

hordes of evil. The golden faith we need is the

lion of faith that is conquered for us, so we

can conquer in him and through him. When Jesus tells

the Church of Ladacy that it needs gold refined by fire,

that is faith purified by testing and endurance, he is

really saying that we need the lion of the tribe

of Judah has conquered. Need Jesus who stands at the

door and knocks. We need the lion who's golden, who's

been tried in the fire. The Book of Revelation is

a revelation of Jesus Christ. I mean, if you're studying

prophecy and all you're getting out of is some beast

and some time calculation, and you don't come to Jesus.

You got the wrong mode of study. The Book of

Relation is a revelation of Jesus Christ, who is the

gold we need to have faith and to overcome in

our own lives. Revelation five to one. I saw on

the right hand of him who was seen on the throne,

a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with

seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaim with

a loud voice, who is worthy? You see, the strongest

angel in heaven is not worthy. Who is worthy to

open the scroll and break its seven seals? And by

the way, that scroll is the scroll of the Covenant,

which was in essence the book Revelation given to John.

And no one in heaven, or on earth or under

the earth was able to open the scroll to look

into it. Don't entertain for a minute the idea that

you're worthy to make it to heaven. You're not. Don't

think for a moment that your faith is amazing. It's not.

In our sanest moments. We need to fall on our

knees and weep much because we are not worthy to

be saved. You cannot find the gold if you are

rich and increase with goods, have need of nothing. God

doesn't give the gold to self sufficient, proud hearted latesty

and Christians who are stuck on themselves, and who are

obstacles and roadblocks to others coming to Christ. Look at

verse four, and I wept much that no one was

found worthy to open the scroll or look into it.

Then one of the elders said to me, weep not

lo which means, look, the lion of the tribe of Judah,

the root of David, has conquered so that he can

open the scroll. At seven seals the who's not worthy us?

Who is worthy Jesus? Who can open the book? Jesus,

we cannot. Do you need faith? Jesus is the golden

lion tried in the fire. Do you need to obey

the commandments of God. Jesus is the golden honey that

is God's law? Do you need to have wisdom to

understand the Bible to grow? Jesus is the wisdom of God,

the amen, the golden wisdom. Do you need to right

now righteousness good enough to cover that messed up memory

of yours with all those struggles? Excuse me? Good enough

for the judgment day, Friends, Jesus is the golden son

of righteousness, with healing in his wings. Do you need

courage to have faith in your life? Jesus is the

lion of the tribe of Judah, tried in the fire,

who is conquered with golden faith. Friend, when God stand,

when God Saints stand on the sea of glass, at

the end of time, they will be standing on a

sea of glass mixed with fire. Faith will be on fire.

They will sing the victory song over the Beast and

his image and the number of his name, because they

will have endured the mark of the beast test at

the very end. Why, how, because they have Jesus in

their life. The Word of God has brought Jesus into

their experience. In Revelation fifteen, they sing a Sabbath song,

the Song of Moses and the Lamb will end with

this passage here briefly spoken of verse two. And I

saw what appears what appeared to be a sea of

glass mingled with fire, and those who had conquered the

beasts and its image and the number of its name,

standing beside, literally in the Greek, upon the sea of glass,

with harps of God in their hands. Verse three and

they sing the song of Moses, the Sern of God,

and the Song of the Lamb. Now in the Second

Temple period j Alfred Etttersheim's book on the Temple where

he describes in his chapter on music in the Temple

service at the time of Christ, the song of Moses

and the Lamb was the special Sabbath song for the

morning worship of the Sabbath. This is a Sabbath victory

song that comes to play at the end of the

seventh Plague, which is the song of Moses and the Lamb.

And they had a special way of doing that. He says,

great and wonderful are thy deeds, And this is a

direct quote from Psalms ninety two five, the only song

in the Psalms that is the Psalm for the Sabbath.

Direct quote, great and wonderful thy deeds, O Lord God Almighty,

Just in true are thy ways of King of the ages?

Who should I fear and glorify Thy name, O Lord?

For Thou alone art Holy, all nations shall come and

worship THEE or bow down before THEE, for Thy judgments

have been revealed. Another direct quote from the Sabbath of

the Old Testament, Isaiah sixty six twenty three. From moon

to new moon, from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall

come and bow down or worship before thee. This is

the Sabbath victory song over the mark of the beast

at the time of the end. It's the song of

Moses and the lamb of the commandments of God and

the faith of Jesus. I appeal to you to let

go of your faith. Don't rely on it, rely on Jesus.

Take hold of the lion whose faithfulness your life never fails.

The lion who's been through the fire, who's conquered, the

golden lion, never fails. His faith is golden. You know,

we have a mustard seed of faith. That's a gift

that God has given us. Jesus said, if you use

that little mustard seed of faith, you shall say to

this mountain be removed and thrown to the sea. It

will be done for you. You see, the mustard seed

of our faith, that is a gift from Jesus. Very

small lays hold of the mountain of his faithfulness, which

is the faith of Jesus. And we will stand on

the sea of glass. Not because we were good people,

not because we arrived at some golden standard that we

felt good about, but because we would not let Jesus

go to the end. May God keep you in the lion,

the golden Lion, Jesus, Dear Father God. As we bow

our heads today, we are genuinely grateful that we make

it because of Jesus. We are grateful that right now

we're except as if we'd never send. If we are

in Jesus by faith, which we are by choice, Lord

gets sent out of our lives. Purify us, not so

we can look good, not so we can boast and brag,

but because of Jesus. May we value the gold tried

and fire the honey that is Jesus, the lion of

the tribe of Judah. In Jesus Name, Amen,