The Gospel Kingdom

Let's pray again. Dear Father, as we focus on the word,

we're running a hair late this morning. Give us patience

so that we glean. Give me clarity, just to teach

and help us Lord to live for Jesus and his name. Amen.

The title of the message this morning is the Gospel Kingdom.

I don't know about you. I don't want to live

in a kingdom that's not good news. The word gospel

means good news. I don't want to live in a

kingdom or go to a church that's harsh, mean, backbiting, carping, selfish, warlike.

I want to be in a place where I love

and I'm being loved. Are you with me? Where we

value the Ten Commandments, which is the constitution of the universe.

Luisa may Alcott once pondered the difficulty of keeping a

kingdom from going rogue. She wrote, a little kingdom I possess,

and where thoughts and feelings dwell, and very hard the

task I find of governing it well, I can concur

with that. The Book of Daniel teaches us that God's

Kingdom is the one sure thing in this universe. I mean,

things come and go, empires fall, great leaders, disappear suddenly,

but God's kingdom is constant. At the end of Nebul

Canezar's madness, when he thought he was something great, and

God's smoting with insanity, leanthropy, the werewolf syndrome, and for

seven years he was eating grass until finally his eyes

his mind returned to him as God had prophesied, and

the love of God filled his heart, and he recognized

the King of God. And Nebu Canezar, a pagan king,

wrote an entire chapter in the Book of Daniel, part

of our Bible. Don't tell me God can't reach people

outside of Christianity. The Book of Daniel teaches that it's so.

At the end of nebut Canezar's madness, he lifted his

eyes to heaven. He acknowledged that God's kingdom is the

sure thing that we all need in life. Daniel four.

At the end of the days, I Nebuc and Nezar

lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me,

and I blessed the most High, and I praised and

honored him who lists forever and ever, for his dominion

is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation

to generation. Friends, if you're struggling for solidity, If you're

struggling for peace and your generation, God is there for you.

That's what Nebuck and Azer learned. Nebuczer had a dream

in Daniel two of four great world kingdoms, symbolized by

an idle image of a man with a head of gold,

a chest of silver, a waste of bronze, legs of iron,

and feet of iron and clay. That was the dream

he had, And God gave Daniel the same dream so

that he could explain to the king with confidence and

tell him what his dream was, so we know that

its interpretation was sure. In that dream he saw a

metallic man made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, legs and

feet of iron and clay. A stone came from a

mountain that hit the image, blew it away in a

mountain took its place, and he explained to nebuke Nezer

the meaning of this as four successive world empires. He said, you,

o king, are this head of gold? So Babin was

the golden kingdom, followed by Meat of Persia the Silver kingdom,

followed by Greece the Bronze Kingdom, Rome the Iron monarchy

that broke in pieces. All these kingdoms. Rome had two phases.

It was the monarchical phase and then the divided phase

of the ten Toes of Iron and clay, the mixed

Europe of the Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages,

which brings us all the way down to our time.

Because the world is Western we are living in the

days of the Toenails. Now. Edward Gibbon, who wrote Falling

to Cloud the Roman Empire, I think we have it

as the next slide. Go ahead and move forward to it.

That's okay or it is? He wrote this in his

Falling in to Cloud the Roman Empire. He's considered one

of the greatest historians of all time. He's in the

Great Books by Britannica right along with Isaac Newton and others,

and he worked right off of Daniel two to write

his history. He said the images of gold, silver of

brass that might serve to represent the nations and their

kings were successively broken by the iron monarchy of Rome.

So some of the greatest minds like Sir Isaac Newton,

who also wrote on Bible prophecy, Sir Edward Gibbon, John

Bryce his History of the Holy Roman Empire, they knew

of Daniel two. They recognized that it was correct history,

even though it predicted it hundreds of years in dvance.

Four kingdoms and the fourth Kingdom is a divided kingdom

at the time of the end. Daniel was very clear

in his explanation to nebuican Ezer. Now turn to Mark

three twenty four. Jesus says this, if a kingdom is

divided against itself, what does the text say that kingdom

cannot stand? The Holy Spirit comes into us into our lives,

not so we can be divisive, not so we can

have our own way. The Holy Spirit comes into our

lives so we can be one with God, unified with God,

for the salvation of men and women, and for the

glory of God. And so Jesus says, divided kingdom is

not in God's plan. Friend, we live today in the

end of time. If you don't think so, I mean,

we're this close to World War three. If you're not

following the news right, you're not following it. What's happening today?

The world is hanging by a thread, the Iran element

in the Middle East, how the Soviet Union and China

are wrapped around it. We are the Middle East kingdoms

really We are in a hotbed that could blow up

in a minute. Our lives could be forever altered in

a day, and Friend, every day matters because it could

be your last day. We are living before the coming

of Jesus Christ, and it there is no time time

for us to have our minds and our focus on

other things spirit for and we live today at the

time of the end. The Book of Daniel says the

time of the end would come to its beginning in

the year seventeen ninety eight. We've lived a lot of

years since seventeen ninety eight. We are living in Daniel eleven,

verse forty, just before Christ returns. In Nanel twelve to one,

the iron and the clay represent the world that came

out of the divided Europe of the Middle Ages. That's

our world today. We are in the toenails of human history.

We live in a divided world, a world order of nationalism,

self interest, dictators fighting with each other for money and power,

and order of corruption and chaos, of meanness and madness.

The kingdom of the world, Friend, cannot stand because it

is a divided kingdom without Jesus Christ. God has not

called us to a divided kingdom. Like Babel. He has

called us to the Christian faith, the word of God,

to the oneness that comes in Jesus Christ. Daniel two

forty one. You saw the feet and toes partly of

Potter's clay and partly of iron. It shall be a

divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of the iron

shall be in it. And just as you saw iron

mixed with Marie clay, and as the toes of the

feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom

shall be partly strong and partly brittle. Sister White comments

on verse forty two, and she says this in part

represents the union of state craft and church craft in

the Middle Ages, the divided Europe of the Holy Roman Empire.

And she nails the history correctly, because Rome transitioned to

a fusion of church and state corrupted, and it was

a few and then you had strong and weak nations

in the mix. You had the Holy Roman Emperor, and

you had the papal Pope of Rome, and together it

was Europe. It was the second phase of Rome. And

goes on in verse forty three. As you saw the

iron mix with Marie clay, so they will mix one

another in marriage. That brings us down to the eighteen

hundreds post Napoleonic Wars, the attempt to unite Europe by marriage,

and it fails. It leads to World War One, where

the idea of historical hereditary monarchies are essentially abandoned in Europe.

The Bible brings us in verse forty three that four.

So they mix with one another in marriage, but they

will not hold together. And you can put World War

one right there. Every family in every monarch in Europe

before your World War one was kin to each other

by marriage. At the end of World War One, we

have socialist dictatorships, communism and the like. It's the end

of that era. So we're living in the days of

the kingdoms now, but not in the days of the kings.

That era is gone. But they will not hold together,

just as iron does not mixed with clay. In other words,

it will be a divided kingdom at the time of

the end. The world is coming to an end and

Jesus is coming. It is a new beginning for our lives,

our families, and us and friends. I want to start

with Jesus now, not then. Today is the day we

latch onto the kingdom. The image of gold, silver, bronze,

and iron represents the four great world kingdoms of Babylon,

me to Persia, Greece, and Rome, which will be smashed

to pieces when Jesus comes back. The world kingdom order

is coming down, so you better not bank on this

world as your future. Why because a divided kingdom cannot stand.

Divided hearts cannot stand with Jesus, dear heart. God's kingdom

is not a divided kingdom. God's kingdom will stand. God's

Kingdom is a stone kingdom Daniel two. And Jesus is

the Rock of ages, the one who is one with

God and nature and purpose and power. And because of this,

Jesus is the one solid truth you can confidently build

your life on. Plant your hope in Christ. If you

have Jesus Christ in your life, dear heart, you have

the Kingdom of God in you, because Jesus is the king.

If you have Jesus, you have the Kingdom. Jesus is

the stone that smashes the image of the world kingdoms,

the stone that grows into a mountain kingdom for all

time down two forty four in the days of those

kings now now here he's talking about a heavenly event.

The Kingdom of God is not established at the second Coming.

The king of God is established in heaven and Jesus comes,

as Matthew says in the Glory of his Father, in

the Kingdom. He comes to earth. At Luke nineteen eleven

and twelve says that he would go into a far

off land to receive his country. He gets it in

heaven and returns. And this is here spoken of in

Down two forty four. In the days of those Kings,

the God of Heaven will do what set up a kingdom?

Now friends, those monarchies came to an end of World

War One. This has to be happening in the eighteen hundreds,

a heavenly event where the Kingdom of God is set up.

And then it will be finally at the end of

the Judgment of Daniel seven. And so it says, in

the days of those Kings, the God of Heaven will

set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor

shall it sovereign to be left in other people. It

shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them

to an end, and it shall stand for how long.

What does the Bible say forever. I mean, that's a constant,

dependable kingdom. And just as you saw that the stone

was cut from the mountain, I know human hand, that's

the setting up of the kingdom. The stone gets cut

out of the mountain, and that it broke in pieces

of the iron, and then it flies through space. It

wheams the feet the point of contact of worship, which

means end time. Events are over. Worship, false worship, image worship,

mark of the Beast kind of worship. It pulverizes the

image and the feet, and then it replaces the image

with a mountain, which means the King of God comes

to earth eventually. Just as you saw the stone was

cut from a mountain, I know human hand that it

broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver,

and the gold. And I like this. A great God,

you know, not a weak god. A great God has

made known to the king what shall be hereafter. The

dream is certain its interpretation. Sure, don't let anyone to

convince you that Bible prophecy, we don't know what's going

to happen. No Mark of the Beast, the Bible says,

this dream is certain. It's the outline of the Books

of Daniel Revelation. You can plant your hope and your

dreams on Bible truth. The Gospel writers relied heavily upon

the Book of Daniel in their proclamation recording of the

Gospel of Jesus Christ, and so should we. Friends. There

is no dichotomy, no unnatural division between prophetic truth and

gospel truth. Did you hear me? There is no division,

there's no war between the two. They are one truth.

We are saved by a gospel of grace that was

predicted and affirmed by the prophets. If you have no

place in your thinking for prophetic truth, you have no

place in your heart for gospel truth. That you hear me?

The rumor got back to me recently, and I'm just

sharing this because it really made me a little funny.

I thought this was funny. My wife said, Honey, someone

said that you're teaching new theology. I said, well, that's different.

And I was amused, and I'm begin to chuckle a

little bit. I scratched my head and laughed. And then

I thought, well, I teach prophetic truth from the Bible.

I teach the Gospel truth from Romans. I teach from

the Spirit of prophecy, which is the lesser light to

lead to the greater light. And I teach the everlasting Gospel,

not a new gospel that somebody came up with because

they think they're smarter than Paul. I don't preach that.

Paul knew this. Paul knew that there is an everlasting Gospel.

And so you can't improve on the Apostolic Gospel. A

final generation cannot show up at the time of the

end and have a better gospel than Paul and Peter

and John that they took to the world to transform

the world in the Apostolic era. The gospel we preach

the seventh Avens Christians is the Apostolic Gospel. That is

the everlasting Gospel. It's the Gospel of God, the gospel

concerning his son. Paul knew this because the gospel is

the outcome of prophetic truth. That is gospel truth that

saves us. If you preach prophecy, and I've seen it done,

and you don't have Jesus as the core and content.

Noticing one two how the Rock is the center of

that prophecy. That's Christ. Christ is the focal point of prophecy.

If you preach prophetic teaching. And you don't have Jesus

as the glow in your face, the kick in your feet,

the theme of your teaching, you're not teaching the truth.

Roman's one one to four. Notice the apostle Paul. It

says Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ called to be

an apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God, which

he promised beforehand through the What does the scripture say

through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures the Gospel concerning

his son in one word, you can tell from verse

three that Jesus is the Gospel, and one word, the

good news is Jesus the Gospel concerning his son, who

was descended from David according to the flesh, designated son

of God in power, according to the spirit of holiness

by his resurrection from the dead. Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Here he is. He's saying prophetic truth led to the Gospel.

That's how we know Jesus the Gospel is the good

news predicted by the prophets. Because prophetic truth, rightly understood,

is gospel truth. Friends, God's Kingdom is the one sure

truth you can depend on every day of your life.

When life is out of control. When you can't control

the crazy stuff, God can control you through the Gospel.

For that reason and others. The Gospel of God, the

gospel about Jesus Christ, the gospel that saves us if

we hold it fast, as Paul says, is the gospel

of the Kingdom of God, the King of God. Paul

says in Romans one to three that that gospel is

the gospel that concerns Jesus. Know why this correlation, Because

if you have the King, you have the kingdom. If

you have Jesus, you have the future. If you're connected

to Christ, you are in, not out. If you have

the advocate, who is Christ, who comes before the Ancient

of days in the judgment in our place, the one

who took our place at the cross, if you have

him in the preadvent investigative judgment as your savior, you're in.

You're not out. So the coming kingdom depends on the King.

Judonomy thirty two four. Moses is the Rock. His work

is perfect in all his ways are justice, a god

of faithfulness, and without iniquity. Justin right is he. So

in Deuteronomy thirty four, the Rock is God. Daniel two.

The Rock comes from the mountain. But you go to

first Peter two four, And Peter says, Christ is the rock,

which means Christ is God. And don't let anyone convince

you Christ is not God, because you cannot be the

living stone, the rock that is God in Deuteronomy thirty

four unless you are God. God became flesh in Jesus.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. And John

is very clear he said the Word was God, and

the world was with God. Jesus is God. One Peter

two four. Come to him, that living stone rejected by men,

But in God's sight. What are the two key words

we see there? Chosen and precious. Now the reason precious

is used because Jesus is a gemstone. In the Old Testament,

he's identified with the blue sapphire stone throne of God.

And here Peter says, he's not an ordinary piece of

rock on a mountain. He is a precious gemstone. The

color sapphire belongs to Jesus in scripture. And like living stones,

be yourself built up in to a spiritual house, to

be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to

God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in scripture. Behold,

I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone, chosen

and precious, and he believes in him will not be

put to shame. That's Jesus, friend. If you put your

confidence in Jesus, you cannot be shamed out of the

Kingdom of God. It doesn't matter how awful you have

fallen in your life, it doesn't matter how low you

have gone down. If you are connected to Christ and

you won't let go of him, Peter said, depart from me.

I'm a sinful man, but he held on to his

knees in Luke fied he wouldn't let him go. You

cannot be lost because of your connection to Jesus. That's

not new theology. That's Bible theology. The word gospel in

Greek means good news. Friends. Jesus is good news, and

jesus Kingdom is good news for our lives because we

need Jesus. For Peter to twenty one, verse twenty one,

twenty five, through him, you have confidence in God? How

do we have confidence with God? At coin to verse

twenty one, What does it say through Jesus? Not because

you're good? This children's story wasn't that a great illustration? Today?

We can't reach high enough. Now. I was talking to

Evelyn a little bit here, and I thought she had

a candy bar, and I said, can I open it?

And says no, because I like chocolate. But you see,

it was a treasure, and she gave the treasure out.

But none of us can reach high enough to be saved.

God has to come down to us in Jesus. Our

confidence is not in us, it's in God who raised him,

Jesus from the dead and gave him glory. So that

your faith and hope are in God, not yourself, not

your own works, not your achievements, having purified your souls

by your obedience to the truth. Yes, we obey, not

to be saved, but because we're in God's hands, he says,

for a sincere love of the brethren. We obey because

we want us to be in the kingdom. Love one

another earnestly from the heart. So no fake religion. When

we're in the Gospel. You have been born anew, not

of perishable seed, but of imperishable through the living and

abiding word of God. That's Jesus. In the book Revelation,

it calls Jesus, the Word of God. He's a name

and was written on him, which is the Word of God.

Verse twenty four. For all fleshes like grass, and it's glory,

like the flower of grass. That's us. The grass withers

and the flower falls. But the Word of God lasts.

How long? What does it say in your Bible abides forever?

The Word is the good News. That means the Gospel,

which was a priest to you. Do you realize that

Paul Peter's saying the same thing that Paul is saying.

Christ is the living Word of God. He's also the

good News. And you cannot do away with Christ. You

cannot do away with the Gospel, the Apostolic Gospel, the

living Stone is the living and abiding Word of God.

The Gospel of the Kingdom is the Gospel, the Word

of God Kingdom, because Jesus is the world, that is God.

John one one. You guys know that, ladies know that

in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God.

The Word was God. That's Jesus. The word of the

Lord came to Abromavision in Genesis fifteen one, saying the

Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah saying that was

Jesus in the Old Testament speaking to the prophets. That's

why the prophets have the testimony of Jesus. The kingdom

of the world is a kingdom of death, decay, and misery.

The King of God that Jesus brings into our lives

is a king of healing, of meaning, true riches found

only in God. Friend. God heals people for his coming

kingdom because God sent Jesus to make each and every

one of us a perfect jewel in jesus crown. He's

not going to let you stay falling down. He's going

to lift you. You abide in Christ, your life will

change for the rest of your life. Dear heart, you

may think you can't be saved. Jesus saves. Jesus is

the saving business and the healing business for you. The

trade we all need for life is the currency of

God's grace and our sins, Our sins for his grace,

our fear for his faith, our condemnation for his acceptance.

The gospel of the Kingdom that is true in Jesus

heals people who are wounded, broken people, tired, people, diseased, people, polluted, sullied, miserable, depressed, ignorant,

troubled in heart. Christ is the healer of the human race. Friend,

there is not a sin that Jesus cannot heal in

your life. You hear me, not a sin. There's not

a problem that Jesus cannot solve for you through the

power of the Holy Spirit. There is no hole too

deep that you have fallen into that Jesus cannot pull

you out, just like he pulled Peter out of the

water when he was sinking. And there's no stain on

your life garment that is so black and foul, awful

and ugly that Jesus cannot make it white in the

blood of the Lamb. Friend, Jesus is the King, and

Jesus is the King, and that's in the healing and forgiving,

restoring business in your life. And He will not be

done with you until you live with him for all

eternity perfect. He will get you there. Not you don't

let the devil convince you and for one moment to

believe the lie that Jesus cannot forgive you and heal

you totally. Don't believe that the Gospel is the goodness

of the good news of the King of God. Becoming

Kingdom of kindness and grace, power that is seen in

the eyes of Jesus in the Gospels. My father shared

with me the Gospel when I was fifteen years of age.

He was an awful father. He was an awful father

till he met Jesus. But when he started praying for me,

he became the father I needed. And he prayed God

would find his kids and bring them to him. And

the day I walked into hospital room and fletch your

hospital and fletch your North Carolina, having come from Appalachia,

my last night fishing on the New River, begging my

friend Jeff to come with me and to change his

life and to give his life, because I could feel

God was moving in me. It was prayer, It was

changing me. I didn't even know it. I just could

sense it. My father led me to Christ in those

two months before he died, and he took the time

to open the book Steps to Christ and the Bible

and walk me through the Apostolic Gospel. And friends, we

don't get to the Kingdom because we're good people. If

I had to tell you my life when I was

fifteen and before four years of it, it's horrific, but

you know what it's been like since. It's been a

challenge and a growth struggle. But God has been with me,

and I am convinced the one who started the work

can finish it in you and me Matthew twenty four,

twenty three, and twenty five. Jesus went out about all Galilee,

teaching their synagogues and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom

and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

The keyword is every Jesus can handle every challenge in

your life. Christ can heal every weakness, every disease. There's

nothing that you have He can't do to solve it

for you. Jesus is the good News verse twenty four.

So it's fame spread throughout all Syria. And they brought

him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics.

These are mental and physical diseases, and he healed them.

And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the capitalists,

and Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the jord. Never

in the history of the world had anything happened like

this until Jesus came Christ is the good news of

the Gospel of the Kingdom. You may know nothing of theology,

but you can follow Jesus. You can know Jesus, the

one simple truth that will make you a child of

God by faith for all eternity. You can follow Jesus

because Jesus heals you. You can follow Jesus because Jesus

saves you and loves you. You can follow Jesus because

Jesus is the King who can bring you into his kingdom.

There's a statement in the Book Education, page two fifty seven.

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed,

a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know

Thy name will put their trust in THEE. For Thou

Lord hast not forsaken them that seek THEE. The compassion

that God manifests toward us, he bids us manifest toward others.

Let the impulsive, the self sufficient, the revengeful behold the

meek and lowly one led us a lamb to the slaughter,

unretaliating as a sheep done before her shearers. Let them

look upon Him who our sins have pierced, and our

sorrows burdened, And they will learn to endure, to forbear,

and to forgive through faith. And this is one of

my favorite paragraphs in all of all of Sister White's writings.

Through faith in Christ, every deficiency of character may be supplied,

every defilement cleansed, every fault corrected, every excellence developed, she says,

quoting psychicautions, too, ye are complete in Him Manuscript forty seven,

nineteen oh one. Another beautiful statement. Every provision has been

made for the salvation of the fallen race. All power

was given to Him who offered himself as a sacrifice

to redeem every son and daughter of Adam who would

accept him as a personal savior, as many as received

him to them, gave he power to become the sons

of God, even to them that believe on his name.

And then I have this in bold Christ came to

this world and stood before men with the hearted love

of eternity. The whole ocean of divine love was flowing

forth from its great center. And then she identifies the

eternal sinner of love that he brought to this earth.

She says, the Godhead, the Father number one, the Son

number two, and the Holy Spirit number three. We're working

in behalf of man. Every power in the heavenly universe

was put into activity to carry forward the plan of salvation.

Don't tell me you can't be saved. God has brought

infinite loving power into our lives. Friend, God has given

the resources of eternity within the triumn. God had to

save us. That's why we are a baptized the name

of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Sister

White calls him the three heavenly worthies and other terms

as well. So why does he do this? Because the

that is God, the hoarded eternal unity of love that

is God, the Father, God, the Son, and God the

Holy Spirit flows to us because God loves us. Thy

Kingdom Come, Jesus says, Thy will be done on earth

as it is in heaven. And it means God's love

came when Jesus came, you know John three point sixteen.

I have the RSV. You can quote it in any

translation you used to. But go with me. For God

so love the world that he gave his only son,

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have

eternal life. For God sent the Son into the world

not to condemn the world, but that the world might

be saved through him. The Gospel the Kingdom is all

about the King and not about us. We're not the

gospel in any way. Our church is not the gospel.

Our denomination, as important as it is as the remnant

movement of the book Revelation, it's not the gospel. Friends,

Jesus is the Gospel of the kingdom. Three truths in

Jesus' life It led to his death, and what follows

are the cour truth that save us for God's eternal kingdom.

When the angels came and they sang the song on Bethlehem,

they told the shepherds, we bring you good news, which

means the gospel. When Jesus shows up, it's gospel, but

the three core truths of the gospel, Paul identifies in

one Corinthians fifteen one to four. Quickly turn with me.

I know we're going a little late here. We had

a good health knuck of today, didn't we. We needed that,

so I'm not far from being done. But help me here,

Paul says, Now, I would remind you, brethren, in what

terms I preached to you. What is in your bible?

What's the word gospel which you receive in which you

stand verse two by which you are saved if you

do what what does it say in the Bible? Hold

it fast, don't give it up. Don't let someone convince

you to some crazy theology that would surrender this. That's

what he's saying unless you believed in vain verse three.

For I delivered to you as a first importance, here

is the most important truth of the gospel. But I

also received that Christ died for our sin. Is what

did Jesus die for? Tell me for our sins? Why?

Because we're sinners? In accordance with the scriptures and the

look of verse four, that he was buried. So what's

the second piece here? He was buried and the third

he was raised on the third day. And what does

it say and accords to scriptures, that's prophetic truth predicting this.

The first and most important truth of the gospel is

that Jesus died from my sins so I can be saved,

so you can be saved. Jesus took my place and

your place on the cross. I've heard some people say, no,

that's pagan idea, nothing pagan about it. God cannot set

aside his law, that is his character and save us.

So God went to the cross in Christ to save us.

Every sin has ever been committed went to hell at

the cross and Christ. It was judged in Jesus, and

when it was over with, there was no one left

to condemn. If they're in Christ, no one left to condemn.

Jesus took my place in your place on the so

I can take his place, and you can take his

place in heaven for all eternity. The second truth flows

from the first, and that Jesus was buried to take

away our sins. And finally the third truth of the Gospels,

that Jesus was raised for my acceptance, my legal acquittal

in the Greek of Romans four twenty five and five

to one. So I cannot be condemned in the judgment day.

You cannot be condemned in the judgment day if you're

in Jesus. Christ's death, his burial, his resurrection is the

way of the woods. So who's the good news? One word?

What isn't I'm quizzing you. Jesus is the good news.

We're living in a world that's changing fast in front

of our eyes. Kingdoms are falling and churches are burning,

and our dear brethren at the Spenserville church. If there's

anything we can do to help them, we're going to

do it. We don't let churches go down. Is it

fair enough? So whatever we can do if they need

to baptize in our baptistry. How many of you are

committed to making sure our sister church survives this horrible

thing that happened this week. I went over Friday morning

to the Spensable Church and I met Pastor Crystal there.

We had a prayer for them, We took some food

and evidently they're reguarding the church there so they can

figure out how to secure the building properly. But let's remember,

our dear brothers and sisters in the Spencerblee Church, we

are living just before the coming of Jesus, and we

may lose our building too. It could be taken away.

We're living the toenails of the Image of Daniel too,

just before Jesus comes. We cannot afford to be worshiping

an image in our lives. We cannot afford to have

false religion, be it in a church or any other place.

We need the Bible, we need Jesus. I appealed you

today to let Jesus work for you in your life

I'm going to read from Jesus' words here, and then

I'm going to ask for a simple call by raising

his hands. But I want to read what Jesus said

about the rock. One, then, who hears these words of

mind and does them. In other words, who obeys the gospel,

will be like a wise man who built his house

upon the rock. The rain fell, the floods came, the

winds blew and beat upon that house, and it did

not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does

not do them will be like a foolish man or

woman understood, who built his or her house upon the sand.

And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the

winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell,

and great was the fall of it. And when Jesus

finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,

for he taught them as one who had authority, and

not as their scribes. And my call is very simple today.

I want to first extend it to those who have

never been baptized. Do you realize the Bible teaches that

we must be obedient to be baptized When we are baptized.

We show we believe Jesus said, whoever is believed is

badzed will be saved. Whoever does not believe is baptized

will be condemned. It's the way we tell Jesus. I'm in,

I'm into the kingdom. If you've never been baptized and

you feel conviction today that you need to be, raise

your hand high, raise it high. Let's see. Thank you, Daniel,

God bless you. You've made a public confession of faith.

Daniel and Malaysia, God bless you. Web You've raised your

hand high. Donald, you've raised your hand. And Brother, you've

raised your hand too. Now, Mervin, I'm going to ask

you to come up to the front with me. Just

come quickly to the front, and I would ask Elder

John Dom if you're here, to come as well, and

we're going to have a prayer for you before we end.

I would like to do that as the way we

end our service today. Now, next week we have a baptism.

We prepare people for baptism. If that's not if we

can't do it by the seventeen, we will have a

baptism soon. Once your preparation is ready. Why don't you

stand and come to the front. If you raise your hands,

just come to the front. We're going to have a

prayer for you, Paul.

Oh Lord, we are grateful that we have an invitation,

an open invitation to come to you without any preconditions.

I'm so thankful Lord that these people have come and

signified the intention to join you by publicly expressing their

faith in you. We want to have everybody who has

made that decision to be consecrated Lord today so that

they can join you and grow in You. Father. We

ask you to bless the other candidates who are not

here but who are going to be baptized next Sabbath.

We thank you for this harvest that you have given us.

May this be the beginning of our efforts to have

a desire to win souls for you, and may this

church be known as a church where sinners can come

and be accepted by Christ and grow. Father. Each one

of us has that work and we want to do

it and welcome each member who has made this important

decision today. Thank you, Father for your love and for

the provision that you have made. Something which we could

not do. You did for us. So we thank you, Lord,

and appreciate what you have done, and dedicate our efforts

to inviting others to do the same thing. We ask

all of this in Jesus' name. Amen.