New Again

Dear heavenly Father, thank you today for Jesus. We're dead

in the water without him, we're alive with him. We

got some of our dear people, Lord in the hospital

right now, and I don't want to forget them. I

think of Laurel, Lord, that you'll be with her. I

think of Gilda Herrera that you'll encourage her in Jim

and Father. There are others who are just not feeling

well because they've been hit with something. If they're online

made the word of God, help them to be new

again in Jesus' name. Amen. The title of the message

this morning is new again. You ever, how many of

you like get Christmas presents that are not new but used,

thrift store specials, scratched? It doesn't work, does it? Something

about getting a gift that's new. We all start out

our life new, don't we. Baby is new, fresh, alive.

But what does it mean to be new again? That's

my question this morning, not just renewed, but new again.

To be renewed is to hang on to a little

bit of the old, so it's not quite new enough

to be renewed. To be new again means more than this.

It means to start all over again twenty years ago.

The Passion of the Christ was a global phenomena. Now,

I don't go to the theater, and I don't tend movies,

and I don't have a TV in my home, but

that movie shaped global culture and I watched it and

it was a violent portrayal of what Jesus went through,

very violent. The movie was viewed and praised even in

Islamic circles. One line from that movie stuck in my mind.

Of course, you know, Jim Kvitzol was speaking in Aramaic,

it was not in English. You could see it underneath

Jesus falling under the load of his cross, staggers and

his mother, who ran to Jesus when he stumbled as

a child, having a flashback, then turns and starts running

for Jesus. As he's carrying the cross. He's fallen under

the load of the cross. He's quivering from the trauma

of the beating and shaking into the strange. Jesus turns

to Mary and says, with trembling his voice, he looks

to right in the eye, bloodied up as he is

see Mother, I make all things new. I have never

forgotten that line. To me, it is the one thing

that is stuck in my mind from this artistic attempt

to capture the passion of the Christ. It brings tears

to my eyes to think of the scene beautifully captured

a mother and a son. I make all things new.

Mel Gibson was integrating Revelation twenty one point five into

his artistic struggle to understand the passion of the Christ.

Open up your Bible's turn with me to Relation twenty

one verse five. He says that he who set upon

the throne said, behold, I make all things new, and

he said write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.

You may feel like your life is obsolete. You may

feel like your energy is spent. You may feel like

you've given everything you can. You're getting older, and nothing matters,

dear Heart, in the brokenness of your struggle to know God,

listen to the word of God that is trustworthy and true.

Jesus Actually, the Father here sitting upon the throne, is

saying I make all things new, and that means you,

if you're in Jesus, dear heart, God is in the

business of giving us all in Jesus a new beginning,

fresh alive. When Cain wanted to start over in life.

He went east of Eden. Whet where we tend to go.

We go east of Eden rather than forward in life.

We don't go west where the sun sets. We tend

to go back and try to fix it. East is

the direction of the dawn of time, the ancient past.

I had him from the east, the Bible calls it.

Cain sought to reinvent his past on his own terms,

to put things right for himself. You know, when we

have trauma, when we let the Lord down, we feel

like the year didn't go right, or we sin badly

here or there, and we want to go back and

fix it. Dear heart, we can't go east of Eden

and fix anything in our lives. A Cain tried that.

He called his firstborn son. Enoch is the word in

the Bible from which we get the word kanakah, and

it means to start again, a new beginning. It's a dedication.

It means to dedicate. Enoch literally means a new beginning,

new again, dedication. His new beginning was on his own terms.

Cain was saying, I'll start over because I have all

the ideas, I have the power, I know where I'm

going in life, and so God says, you'll be a

wonder and a sojourner. So what does he do. He

builds a city. It's possible to be a wonder and

a sojourner while you're standing still and living in one place,

because your heart is moving around. And so his new

beginning on his own terms led to death, misery, infidelity,

isolation from God, and the end of the world in

a global flood. You see, it really doesn't work when

we try to make our future for ourselves. There was

another son in that pre flood world who was named Enoch.

Enoch's father was named Jared, who was from the line

of Seth, a different line, a different Enoch. Jared literally

means he goes down. This expression is used for death

in the Bible. He will go down to Siol. Jacob

said it means to die. So he's really named after death.

Imagine naming your son he goes down. Maybe people begin

to die when Jared was born. Seth's name in Hebrew

invokes the memory of God's first gospel promise in Genesis

three fifteen that God would put enmity between the woman

and the servants. Seth's name and Hebrew means to put.

After the murder of Abel. Even Adam in that order

named their son Seth, which means to put. Now. If

I were to ask you next week, what does Seth's

name means? What would you say loudly to me to put?

Very good now? In Genesis four twenty five, it says

Adam knew his wife again, she bore his son, called

his name Seth. What does it mean? Help me to put? For?

She said, God has appointed you see appointed in the

translation here. Actually it's not on the screen. That's all right.

How many of you are following your bibles here? If

they can't get it up there, don't feel pressure get

your bibles out because it's not on the screen. I

didn't notice that. So God has appointed or put from

me another child instead of able for Cain slew him. Now, friends,

I don't know about you, but I'm looking at Eve

here and she's figuring it out. And when she Kain

was born, she says, I have kannati f is ish Yahweh,

I have begotten. I have created literally a man who

is the Lord. She thought Cain was the Messiah. She

thought Yahweh the Messiah and God and Himan flesh had

come as Cain. Instead of crushing the head of the serpent,

he crushed his brother's head. He killed his brother, not

the promise. And so in her arrogance, she thought she

had been a co creator with God to bring about

the Pomer's child. And now, in her humility and brokenness,

she says, God has appointed from me. God is in

the business of getting this done. I can't fix the

future or my life. God is doing it through Seth

to put Eve said at last that God is in

charge of my life. Eve was saying that God had

somehow appointed Seth to bring about the future Messiah. Now,

the Bible says in Genesis five that Seth was born

in the image of Adam, not the image of God.

It was a let down, but hope was in that

holy line. In Genesis, Seth's line is the line of

the new beginning. From that holy line comes Jesus Christ,

who makes all things new. The second Enoch was the

seventh generation from Adam. The number seven is the number

for the Sabbath day. The seventh day is the day

the Lord finished his work, the day the Lord blessed,

the day, the day the Lord made it holy. The

Sabbath is a sign that the one who made us

saved us at the cross. We rest on the seventh

day because Jesus said it is finished at the cross.

He said it is finished at the dawn of time.

And when we are trying to put right our lives

and get it together, we need Sabbath rest in Jesus.

I had someone say to me not long ago, pastor Mike,

isn't the Sabbath just a legalistic day? You'd keep no way.

The Sabbath is a sign of the everlasting covenant. That

is God's law, that is God's character, his nature, his name,

And we enter into a relationship where the holy name

of God is written on our foreheads when we come

into a Sabbath rest relationship. That's what Hebrews four gets at.

The Sabbath is a sign of the Gospel at the

very end of time. In fact, we're facing the mark

of the Beast's test one of these days, friends, Historic

changes have happened in this country in the world. The

world is moving toward religion. It's moving toward nationalized religion.

And we will see a day, I believe in our

lifetime when this country will fulfill Bible prophecy, and there

will be an image to the beast described in Revelation

of thirteen, a church state fusion that forces the violation

of the Fourth Commandment. And I've heard pastors say, you

really don't believe that's going to happen. You don't believe

there will be a national Sunday law in the United

States of America. The Bible teaches that there will be such.

The name of the Beast is the law of the beast,

just like the name of God is the law of God.

And the name and the mark are one. The mark

of the Beast will be a law imposed upon the

consciences of men and women who want to be true

to God's mercy. The Sabbath is a sign of the

one who made us and saved us, who said it

has finished at creation of the Cross. The number seven

in Hebrew means oath. It also means to be satisfied.

Enox name means a new beginning or an inauguration, like Hanukkah,

which was a commemoration of the cleansing the temple from

the evil defilement of the Greek king an Taiakas Epiphanies

when they ran him out of the temple and they

got it all cleaned up, and it was a dedication. Friends.

You and I can't cleanse our personal temple unless God

cleans us up. We do not have the willpower to

fix our lives. You can't reach inside your heart and

fix what is broken because you did not create the

human heart. You can't reclaim the past and start all

over again, like Cain wanted to do by going east

of eating. Excuse me, by going back in time trying

to recover your life. Let's give me one second here.

Oh that works, Thank you. I got a frog in

my throat, dear heart. God is the one who puts

things right in life, so to put means to let

God get it done. Enoch was born after he was

born to a father whose name means to die, Jered

means to go down. But Enoch never died. Enoch lived

sixty five years without a deep personal relations with God.

And I'm sixty two. Imagine living sixty five years and

you really aren't walking with God. You're just existing. And

then he has a son he names in Methuselah, and

when his boy comes online, he begins to think about

his relationship with God. And if I have a son.

Maybe God wants me to be his son, and he

begins to walk with God. Matthuselah died the year of

the flood came. His name means when he dies, it

is sent or when he died it comes. Probably that

massive meteorite that hit the Yucatan Peninsula, the chicks Kalb

chicks Kaloob impact crater that started the global flood, with

other impacts is very likely implied by this. When he dies,

it is scent like an arrow. God shot the earth.

There was a global flood. The crust of the earth

broke up. There's more water underneath the crust of the

earth than there is in the oceans. The water came up,

it went down, and then God hung his battle bow

in the sky because he was done shooting the earth.

And so he hung his bow in the sky Mathusalem.

When he dies, it is scent. He died the year

the flood came. Matthusla's name also means death on the

front side of his name, when he dies. Enoch's name

is sandwiched between a father whose name means to die

and a son whose name means to die. And yet

Enoch never died. He's the man that was new again

would live on and on. The Bible says in Hebrews

nine twenty seven that is appointed for all men to die,

and then comes the judgment. We are told in the

spirit of Prophecy that Enoch was troubled by the idea

of death. They live long lives in that ancient world,

but eventually they begin to die, and he begin to

ask questions. Does it pay to follow God when you

die in the end and you go away? Does God

reward that manner woman who does their best to obey

God and keep His law even as they struggle with it?

In life? Is there imperfect? Does it pay to hang

in there with God? Is the end of life and

its spiritual struggles just death and no lights. Enoch's name

means new again inauguration. Enoch led three hundred more years

to an age of three hundred and sixty five, and

the man named Enoch, which means new again, did not die.

The annual cycle of the sun is how many days

come on? You know, three hundred and sixty five days.

He lived three hundred and sixty five years. Why you

see that is the cycle that it takes the earth

to move around the sun to come back to the

very point where it started, the journey to be new again.

The sun represents the word of God in the Bible

in Psalms nineteen So he lived a solar cycle. He

is a life that shone like the sun. The sun

represents the word of God in Psalms nineteen. God's word

is a lamp and a light in Psalms one hundred

nineteen one oh five, Jesus face shines like the sun.

In Revelation one sixteen in full strength. Christ's name is

the word of God. In Revelation nineteen thirteen. The law

is sweet like what in Psalms nineteen ten, What did

it sweetlight like honey in the honeycomb. Honey is golden,

just like the sun is golden. Honey shines with golden

light when you see it in the light. The sun

shines with truth that is old. And the truth that

is sweet, that is sweet, that is embedded in God's word.

And the law is Jesus Christ, the light of the

world Psalms nineteen seven. Excuse me, The law of the

Lord is imperfect. Aren't you stunned by that? The law

of the Lord is imperfect? Well, isn't that what they

preach across many pulpits in our land. It's been done

away with. The Sabbath is obsolete. We just decided we'll

keep Sunday based on the fact that it's the first

day of the week. Jesus rose, it's a good thing.

Even though Christ never said to He said keep the

Sabbath at the end of time. In Matthew twenty four,

verse twenty, when the Gospel goes to the world, in

verse fourteen, when the abomination of the Book of Daniels

in play, in verse fifteen, he says, at the end,

keep the Sabbath. But many people today say the law

of the Lord is imperfect. Not the Bible. The law

of the Lord is perfect. And notice it's row in

our lives, reviving the soul. It helps us to be converted.

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

You want to be smart, You want to be wise.

Read your Bible. Accept the law of God. The precepts

of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. You're sad.

Read the Bible. Accept God's law. The commandment of the

Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. You got to mess

up life. You align with God's life law you'll have

a pure life. The fear of the Lord is clean,

enduring forever. The ordinances of the Lord are true and

righteous all together. You don't pick and choose which commandment

you keep. All ten matter to God. More to be

desired are they than gold? You see the word gold,

there even much fine gold. He moves from gold now

to something that's sweet, sweeter also than honey. Why because

honey is gold that you eat and drippings of the honeycomb.

He saying, give me every drop of God's holy law

and word in my life. It's sweet, golden like the sun. Moreover,

by them, as thy servant warned, in keeping them, there

is great reward when the lion roars. In Scripture, the

prophets speak, the lion is golden, just like the sun

and honey are golden. Samson, ate what out of the

carcass of the lion honey. Jesus is the lion of

the tribe of Judah. If you want honey inside the

person of Christ, the golden lion of the tribe of Judah,

there is sweet Bible honey coming into your life. Jesus

is the lion of the tribe of Judah. Because Jesus

is the source of all truth that comes from the prophets.

Jesus is sweet, and Jesus is golden. The testimony of

Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. How many of you

know that from reading the book Revelation, don't The testimony

of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. So the spirit

of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. Because when the

prophet speaks, the lions and the honey pores, and that's

how we get the sweet things of God Amos Three

seven and eight. Surely the Lord God does nothing without

revealing his secret to his service the prophets. The lion

has roared, who will not fear the Lord God has spoken?

Who cannot but prophesy Enoch was the first prophet in scripture.

His life span of three hundred and sixty five years

is the cycle of the Sun. His life was a

life guided by the Word of God symbolized by the sun.

It was a sweet life for God. His commitments were

daily commitments to God because God's Sun shines every day

in our lives. There is an arrogance in the unsurrendered

life that would have us believe that we can just

go do things our way and not God's way. Even

in worship we said, well, I want to do it

my way. I want this because it makes me feel good.

Shouldn't we be doing things that make God feel good?

Do you hear me? Shouldn't we have this surrendered life

that focuses on His will rather than ours? And that's

how it was before the flood, and that's how it

will be at the end of time. People are telling

us today in political circles that we're on the cusp

of a new golden age. It's in the news. Elon

Musk has used that term. Others have friends don't believe it.

According to the Bible, we are in the cusp of

the end of the world. We are living before the

soon coming of Christ. This world would descend in the

chaos one day, and the only way out of here

will be a relationship with Jesus. In Matthew twenty four

forty seven and Luke seventeen twenty six, Jesus said that

just as it was in the days of Noah, it

will be the same way at the end of the

world when Jesus comes. Enix prophesied of the end of

the world when Jesus would come. Enox's life represents a

prophetic movement at the time of the end, a born again,

a live prophetic movement that is committed to the Bible.

The sun shining in its glory, that is, a christ

centered moved but that will illumine the earth with the

glory of God. In Revelation eighteen one, he says, I

saw a mighty angel, great angel coming down, and the

earth was illumined with God's glory. Implied Enoch predicted the

coming of Jesus Christ. He was a light predicting the

end of the world in his day. In June fourteen

and verse fifteen, now Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied

about these men, also saying, behold, the Lord comes with

ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment and all

to convict all who are ungodly among them of all

their ungodly deeds which they have committed in ungodly way,

and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have

spoken against him. The man Enoch, who was named knew

again never died. How many of you like to never die?

In that club? Boy? You all you must love funerals. Okay,

I raised both hands. There. I'd like to never die.

That's gonna be great, all righty, I'm having fun with you.

Enoch never came under the power of death. You realize

to be men and women at the second coming, who'd

go to heaven like Enoch who never die. His life

holds the secret to a new life for us all,

whether we die and are resurrected or not, if we

have the Enoch key in our life, we're going to

have a future. What did he do that made all

the difference in this world and the one to come?

What was special about him? Look at Genesis five twenty

three and twenty four. Enoch walked with God, and after

the birth of Methusalam three hundred years he had other

sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were

three hundred and sixty five years, the cycle of the sun.

Enoch walked with God. He was not for God took him.

One key phrase defines Enoch's life. The Bible says it twice,

not once, that Enoch walked with God. Did you pick

that up? He didn't walk behind God, he didn't walk

away from God. He didn't walk in front of God.

He walked with God in his life. Enix life is

prophetic of every life that will do the same thing. Friends,

we need to walk with God if we're going to

be saved at the end ever after. Whoever walks with God,

who and doesn't stop walking with God will live forever.

Enix Life is a promise that we can have a

new beginning, and just like Enoch, whose life came full circle, Friends,

we will be new again and again and again every

day of our life until eternal life floods upon us

and we are transformed in the moment in the twinkle

of an eye. Enoch was new again every day of

his life because Enoch walked with God. The Book of

Hebrews comments on edenex life will live for God Verse

five of Hebrews eleven, verse six. By faith Enoch, I

like the way it starts. By faith, Enoch was taken

up so that he should not see death. He's not

saying Enoch was was perfect even though he was in

God's eyes. He doesn't say that he had impressed people

with all these virtues signaling acts of whatever. He just

simply says he had faith in God. By faith, Enoch

was taken up. How are we gonna make it in

a second coming. Friends, Righteousness by faith, our hard reliance

of the heart on Jesus as our savior is our

only ticket out of here. That's how Enoch went from

Earth to Heaven. By faith. Enoch was taken up so

that he should not see death, and he was not

found because God had taken him. They looked for him.

I imagine that in all the countries side what happened Enoch? Well,

Enoch went to heaven. He's dancing around in different worlds.

He's not here anymore now. Before he was taken, he

was attested as having pleased God, and without faith is

impossible to please him forever. Would drawn near to God

must believe that he exists and that he rewards those

who seek him. So does it pay to follow the Lord?

Yes or no? It pays. It's worth it. We find

in our relations with God a good outcome. So how

do you walk with God when you can't put your

life right on your own terms? How do you walk

with God when your past life is full of failures?

You've sinned against God. The best image you can project

is not good enough to take that memory out of

your life. I blew it. What do you do for

sixty five years of his life, Enich did not walk

with God. Notice that, but after his son was born,

Enoch walked with God. Friends, as long as you breathe,

it's never too late to make the good decision to

be poor in spirit and broken and to start walking

with God in your life. I was Brother Zundel is

at my house helping me renovate my bathroom. I say helping.

He's doing ninety five percent of the work because he

knows what he's doing. I don't know much about that.

I walked in as he was working on it the

other day and he was listening to the Desire of Ages.

I believe that was the book, and it just warmed

my heart to see that he wasn't listening to the

latest rock music or Christian rock music or anything like that.

He was listening to the spirit of Prophecy on the

life of Christ. And I'm telling you, if you have

someone work at your house, she can bring this ma

out over because he'll pray with you and you'll feel

the Holy Spirit. You see, brother Zundel is walking with

God in his life. Is he perfect? No, He's growing.

I'm growing. It helps to be around people like this

as long as you breathe. Friends, it is never too

late to start walking with God. You maybe or sixty

five start walking with God. Paul says that to draw

near to God, we must believe that He exists and

He rewards those who seek him faith by faith, Enoch

walked with God. Faith is a gift that comes from God.

It's not something we man of fact in our lives. Friend,

use that little faith God has given you, that mustard seed,

and start believing in God and son Jesus Christ in

your life with the devotional life of prayer. Start small, grow.

Here's some things you can stop doing. Stop pouting about

how bad your past was and is you tend to

do that? Oh, I had such a bad experience this year.

I don't know how I survived as a Christian. Stop

doing that. You know, the past is a way of

dominating the present if you let it. Stop rehearsing the

defeats of the past and pains that you have endured.

Stop defining yourself by what you've done wrong, or about

what you should have done right, or how imperfect you

were it are, stop it. Stop trying to put yourself

right with God and yourself. Like Cain did, who went

east of Eden. In one John five, four and five.

The blove of John tells us that faith is the

victory that gives that new beginning that is only true

in Jesus. Look at verse four. For whatever is born

of God overcomes the world. Raise your hand. If by

faith you have been born of God, raise your hand.

Let God know in the world. Don't be ashamed of it. Friends,

you are not called to some tragic outcome. You overcome

the world through faith, it says. 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 Christ has divine credentials to

save us. Have faith in Jesus, live forever as you

face and greet the new year. How about ending this

game of making resolutions you cannot keep fair enough. How

about accepting the fact that you aren't good enough and

strong enough to be saved in your own terms. You

know what I can't stand about Final generation theology is

it rejects the Gospel. It puts people on trial until

they get perfect to be accepted. And that idea came

right out of the medieval papacy. Of the Council of

trend It's Catholic theology should have no footing in the

Seventh day Aventist Church. Look, we rely upon Jesus Christ,

our righteousness as a right now, righteousness good enough for

the judgment day and good enough to make us perfect.

But we don't rely on our perfection. We rely on

our Savior. Does that make sense? And let him get

the work done. Yes, we're serious about it. We're focused

on character development, but not for the purpose of being accepted.

We have a grace we receive and we do not

have to achieve the grace we receive. It's a gift.

So how about coming to Jesus and let him work

in you with that wonderful grace and love of the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit. You cannot will to

be a good person, but you can give Jesus your will.

Then Christ will will in you. He will work in

you to get it done, transforming your will your nature

through His power and grace. Peter says, by the precious

promises of the Word of God, how do you get

Jesus into your life to receive such a thing? Practical question?

What we know from Enoch's life By walking with him

by faith, you can walk with someone when you aren't happy.

In my walk with the Lord this week, I'll tell

you forthrightly, I did a little whining to the Lord Lord.

Why did this happen to that? The Lord would rather

hear you whine rather than not talk to him. But

I have more to be grateful for than the little

whining I did, because his mercies are so great. There's

so much to be grateful for. By walking with him.

There is the light of the day in the morning.

Seek his face in prayer, hear his voice in the Bible,

and those good books like The Desire of Ages, Steps

to Christ, Christ's object Lessons. These are books given to

us by Jesus Christ himself to help us to be

saved the time of the end, written by the very

special servant of God who had the testimony of Jesus.

The spirit of prophecy. The Lion roared again in the

eighteen hundreds. The prophetic word was given to us to

bring us back to the Bible. Don't sit there and

stand in judgment on these books. Let them work for

you to help you be saved. Self made prophets in

this world are a dime, a dozen. I hear them

all the time. People say it almost casually that the

Lord told me this. He told me that I got

a word from the Lord, and of course I got

to tell you what to do. I know who's dying

because someone told them not to get the right medical

care they needed. How wrong it is to speak for

the Lord when you're not a prophet. God speaks through

the honey that is in his word. Here are the

prophets right here. His voice is sweet, his face is bright.

Eternal life is not something we do to impress God.

Eternal life is being with God because God has become

our friend and our home. God in Christ, the Holy

Spirit is sweet as honey. He walked with God for

three hundred years, honey years, golden years. For those three

hundred years, every day of his life, God is the

one who made new again. He didn't wait to be

new again. He was new again every morning. Christ defined

eternal life as meaningful and personal living, a knowledge of

God that makes a difference in our lives. John ten

ten the thief that Satan comes only to steal and

kill and destroy. I came that they might have life

and have it abundantly. Your life with Jesus is not

a tragic motif of how bad it was. It is.

If that's how you're talking about your Christian experience, you

need to be born again. Yeah. Yeah, we can slip

every now and then because we're going through something. But

if that's the theme and motif of your life, you

have not yet embraced the love of God in your life.

God loves you more than your misery. He loves you

more than and your problems. He loves you more than

that which you challenge by. He loves you more than

the awful mistakes you've had, how you've wrecked your family,

or anything else or others that wrecked you. He loves

you as his dear child. He died for you. He

sent Christ to this earth. It was the everlasting Father

in the Son of God that was on the Calvary's cross.

According to the prophet Isaiah, your life of Jesus is

not a tragic motif of how bad it was. It is.

Your life of Jesus is a joyous journey of how

good he is. If he is good, life is good.

If you don't have that right in your life, you're

not walking with him like Enoch did. You're walking with

you trying to put things right yourself. John seventeen three

simply stated, Jesus said, and this is eternal life, that

they know thee the only true God, in Jesus Christ,

whom thou hast sent. Eternal life is sweet because in

the knowledge of God and coming into a relationship with God,

we are fulfilled. We come into contact with the divine mind.

When I'm reading my Bible and I'm doing chiastic and

panel block structures, which is the thing I do, I'm

praying that my work will be finalized before I die

one day, because I know from that research that the

Bible formed intentionally in the eighteen hundreds. It formed as

if it had been written that way at the dawn

of time. And that the Bible we hold in our

hand is the carried word of God, not just the

inspired word of God. And that God will have a

people at the last day who will be people of

the Bible, who will be people of the Word of God.

And He has given us the spirit of prophecy and

this prophetic movement that we belong to, so we can

know our Bibles and not be deceived. And so I

spend valuable time in the desire of ages, great controversy,

Christ's object lessons, and even researching the writings of Ellen

why because it leads me back to the Bible. We're

in a time where it's not in vogue to take

these things seriously. But dear Heart, the more I study

these beautiful books, the more I listen to them in

the morning in my devotions with the Bible, the closer

it brings me to Jesus, and Jesus as sweet as honey.

That's the test of inspiration. She passes the test. But

I'll let you know something. She's chiastic. And there's panel

block structures in her writings which are supernatural structures, no

different than the ones that are found in the Bible.

And we just simply don't know why that is. We

cannot explain how God did this again in the gift

of the testimony of Jesus to the remnant church, But

he did. We possess knowledge and truth that the world needs,

and yet we have not walked with God. So what

does the Lord say to the latest see in church? Behold,

I stand at the door and knock. If anyone will

open the door, I'll come in and sup with him,

and he with me. You know. I'm saddened by the

divisions I see at times, which are wholly preventable if

common church members and leaders would simply walk with God.

I don't know if anyone's listening to me. I'm going

to say something. I'm watching this fiasco. That's a tragedy

in Michigan Conference, the Village Church. I was called to

be a pastor there before Eller Ron Kelly was called there.

I know Ron Kelly. I don't know why the leadership

of that conference and that church doesn't hold a communion

service and stop this trying to prove who's right or wrong,

and take off their shoes and wash each other's feet,

and for the sake of that church, come to Jesus.

That's what every church needs, isn't it. That's what we need.

Souls are lost when we're all about ourselves, our own agenda.

I'm praying for Pastor Kelly, I'm praying for Elder Mitcheff,

and I'm praying for our world leadership. It's time to

stop virtue signaling. It's time to come to the cross

and break our hearts and be born again. In the

book Steps to Christ, in the last chapter Rejoicing the

Lord pages one sixteen to one eighteen. Sister Ellen White

shares a personal experience she had with a dear sister

who was not walking with the Lord. She wrote this,

many walking along the path of life dwell upon their

mistakes and failures and disappointments, and their hearts are filled

with grief and discouragement. While I was in Europe, as

sister who had been doing this and who was in

deep distress, wrote to me asking for some word of encouragement.

The night after I had read her letter, I dreamed

that I was in a garden, and one who seemed

to be the owner of the garden was conducting me

through its paths. I was gathering the flowers and their fragrance,

when this sister, who'd been walking by my side, called

my attention to some unsightly briars that were impeding her way.

There she was mourning and grieving. She was not walking

in the pathway following the guide, but was walking among

the briars and thorns. Oh, she mourned, it is not

a pity that this beautiful gardness. Is it not a

pity that this beautiful guard is spoiled with thorns? Then

the guide said, let the thorns alone, for they will

only wound you. Gather the roses, the lilies, and the pinks.

Have there not been some bright spots in your experience?

Have you not had some precious seasons when your heart

throbbed with joy and response to the spirit of God.

When you look back into the chapters of your life experience,

do you not find some pleasant pages? Are not God's promises?

Like the fragrant flowers growing beside your path on every hand,

will you not let their beauty and sweetness fill your

heart with joy? The briars and thorns will only wound

and grieve you. And if you gather only these things

and present them to others, are you not besides slighting

the goodness of God yourself, preventing those around you from

walking in the path of life? It is not wise

to gather together all the unpleasant recollections of a past life,

its iniquities and disappointments, to talk over them and mourn

over them until we are overwhelmed with discouragement. A discouraged

soul is filled with darkness, shutting out the light of

God from his own soul and casting a shadow upon

the pathway of others. Thank God for the bright pictures

which he has presented to us. Let us group together

the blessed assurances of His love, that we may look

upon them continually. The Son of God leaving his father's throne,

clothing his divinity with humanity, that he might rescue man

from the power of Satan into our behalf, opening heaven

to men, revealing to human vision the presence chamber where

the Deity unveils his glory. The fallen race uplifted from

the pit of ruin into which sin had plunged it,

and brought it again into connection with the infinite God,

and having endured the divine test through faith in our Redeemer,

clothed in the righteousness of Christ, and exalted to his throne.

These are the pictures which God would have as contemplate. Friends,

there is joy in the journey. Hey, if we have God,

we have won the lottery. You hear me. If you

have Christ, you're rich, you're blessed, you're forgiven, you're exalted,

You're moving to heaven. Doesn't matter what the world thinks

of Christ thinks well of you because of mercy you're in.

I don't know about you, but I want to say

amen to the truth today. Do you know what Amen is?

It's a name of Jesus. In Proverbs eight thirty and

Revelation three fourteen, the Amen the true w witness, the

beginning of the creation of God. The Amen is the

new beginning. In Proverbs eight thirty, the exact center of

the canonical Bible uses the word Amen. I was daily

before him at the dawn of time, rejoicing always before him, amone,

the master workman, the architect, the Amen, rejoicing daily in

the sons of men, dear heart, Christ is a joyful

savior for the joy that was set before him. He

endured the cross. This year, I challenge you to give

up on you and give in to God. Is that okay?

How many want to give up on you and give

into God. Get that toxic negativity out of your life.

Give in to God. Trust in God with that little

mustard seed of faith, and walk with Him every golden

day for the rest of your life. The days are

sweet with Jesus. They are sweet when we gather in church.

Let us talk of Jesus. Let us talk about our

experience with him, the blessings he has given to us.

Let us share those with others, to encourage them. Never

forget that the sun is golden and the honey is sweet,

because is gold to the taste. Find the gold that

is sweet. God with you every day and his word

in Christ as the sun shines in your life when

you walk with God like Enoch walked with God. What

does Enoch's name mean? It means new again. May God

make us all enox new again this golden year to

enjoy the sweetness of Jesus, of salvation of the Church,

and let us pray that there will be nothing that

would take that away. I'm not going to have an

altar call, but I'm going to have a call before

we have a closing song. You can come up here.

The call is simple. How many of you want today

not to be renewed that means to keep the old

a little bit, but to be new again, To give

Christ your life and ask Him to put things right

because you can't. I'm raising my hand because I'm doing

that today. How many of you would raise your hands

with me and affirm that in the Lord, Let's stand

and sing the song together. Dear Father. There's a few

more days left of twenty twenty four, and Lord, we

can't fix anything of last year, and we really can't

get things right next year either unless you put them right.

Help us to have faith like Enoch, to walk with you,

to live for the golden light of your presence in

our lives, to be a missionary of prophetic truth to

the world as Enoch was. But to not get stuck

on ourselves to where we think we're so perfect, we

get our eyes off the light. We're not. And that's

the kind of person you take into heaven. So Lord,

bless your people with Jesus lots of him this year,

the Bible, the spirit of prophecy, prayer, devotional life, and

get the other stuff out of all of our heads.

And Lord, I pray for this precious church up in

Michigan that you'll help them to have a good communion

service and so people can be saved. And Lord, when

we have ours next, may we have the same here

in Jesus' name, Amen,