This One Was Born In Zion

Okay, now, let's pray, Father God, we are so grateful today

that in Jesus we have life. We're grateful for your mercy. So grant

us as we study the scriptures to understand your character better today and to worship

you and obey you in Jesus' name. Amen. Recently I was listening on

Christian radio to a sermon by Pastor John MacArthur. Have you ever heard Pastor

John MacArthur, who is a prominent Christian Bible teacher today and he's heard daily

on his television radio broadcast called do you know what It's called? Grace to

You? And I've learned a lot from Pastor John MacArthur. I really appreciate

his broadcasts, but this one caught me a little different. I want to

interact with it. I for one, want to get as much of God's

grace as I can. So anything says grace to you, I want to

see if there's grace filled preaching and teaching from the Bible, and for good

reasons, because we grow by grace, don't we We're healed by God's grace.

God's grace matters. The subject of his sermon was focused on the Heathen

and the question, the question being if someone never heard of the Gospel,

if someone never had a Bible, if someone never had an opportunity, would

that person automatically be lost because they didn't know Jesus by name or they couldn't

respond to the scriptures? Isn't that a good question? You ever wondered about

that? Okay? And I appreciate the fact that Pastor John MacArthur affirmed that

Jesus Christ, that in Jesus Christ, God loves us, but he limited

it to believers, to people who would respond. I liked the first part

that God gave Jesus because he loves us, but I found it problematic in

the second part. I was horrified that there was no love for the unbeliever

that could save a certain someone in the heathen world who was unfortunate enough to

never hear, to never have a Bible, to never get a chance as

we have had. There are millions of those kinds of people in the past.

Are they automatically lost? So Pastor John MacArthur put it rather bluntly.

Rather, he says, those who have never heard, have never accepted Jesus

Christ, are lost for all time, with absolutely no hope of salvation,

but only the certain prospect of an eternal hell. I mean, he said

it very calmly. He just put it out there, as if that's supposed

to be grace to you for the day. Now. I'm not trying to

be critical to him. I was interacting with this. I believe we should

interact with thinking preachers in our culture. So I bristled when I heard the

stuff. I thought to himself, who wants to worship a God like that?

Is that a good question to ask? Who wants to worship a God

like that? If God will sentence sincere people to hell without giving them some

meaningful opt opportunity to be saved. Now, the question of eternal hell is

another subject. The Bible does not teach in the eternal hell, where people

are tormented forever and ever. It teaches that hell is an event. It's

when God's glory is revealed at the end of the millennium, and where everyone

has ever lived sees the Cross of Christ, the throne of God exalted over

the mount of Olives, where God's feet, where Christ's feet split the mountain

in two, and based on the Cross and the Book of Life, every

human destiny would be decided by what the choices that they have made that are

written in the books. But that's another subject matter. So would it be

fair that God would send it someone to hell or to final destruction, or

anything for that matter, without ever letting them have a chance to be saved.

Would that seem fair to you? No? And so as I heard

this, I thought to myself, if God will do that, If that's

the kind of God you know that we have to worship. I don't want

to worship him. I don't want to bow down to a God who's more

of a devil than God. And I mean it as I say it here

in the pulpit today. There is something good about the character of God.

Christ came to reveal who God is. You know, Jesus said, this

is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God. And

Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent friends, We are not safe in a

false knowledge of God, our creator. We must know him as he is.

To be moved in love. The Bible says it is the kindness of

God that moves us to repentance. In Romans, too, heaven would be

hell from me. And maybe you, if you think about it, if

we had to worship a God like that for all eternity. So Pastor John

MacArthur, if he ever hears this on the radio, I have great respect

for him in many areas, but I wish we could have a dialogue about

this matter. The character of God revealed in Jesus matters, because if we

worship the wrong kind of path, we become like the object of our worship.

Who wants to spend all eternity with a bad God and worship someone who's

a monster? I, for one, don't want that. So I thought

it relevant today to readdress the same question that Pastor John MacArthur took up on

the radio. Grace to you and to look and see what the Bible really

has to say about the subject. Can someone really be saved who never heard

of Jesus, who never had a Bible, who never met a missionary,

who never had someone share the truth of the Gospel. Is the heart of

God, the mind of God, the spirit of God able to reach out

and save someone like that? Can God save a person way out there who

never heard? Now? I say this with respect. They are amazing Bible

verses in the Bible that don't agree with Pastor John MacArthur's theology and the subject.

I hope you will one day look at them to consider the true character

of God that matters mighty much for those of us who worship Him in spirit

and truth. This morning, I want to have a Bible study in this

Bible question, not a sermon, but a Bible study, and then look

at some relevant statements in the spirit of prophecy that perfectly agree with the Bible.

And first of all, I'd like to affirm from the Bible that it

matters what we worship, because the Bible teaches we become like the object or

person we worship. Look at Psalms one hundred and fifteen, verse eight.

The Bible says of idols, where he says, you make an idol of

this and that and so on, and he says those who make them are

like them, so are all who trust in them. If you have a

false God in your life, if you have a bad view of God,

if you have an object that takes the place of God in your life,

the Bible saying, you've become like that which you adore. So our worship

affects our character, it affects who we are. This verse means that we

become like the God that is our God, whatever our knowledge of that is.

So that's why John Calvin would write in his Institutes the Christian Religion,

when he helped to foment the understanding of the Reformation, that the knowledge of

God the Creator matters in our understanding of God his character, so that the

Gospel is really good news and not bad news. We need to get to

God's character. We need to get it right in our minds based on scripture,

because if we get it wrong, we can become like the false notion

or theology that we have learned to love. Worship changes people in the church.

Worship matters John three point sixteen. Let's just start there. This is

the greatest version of the Bible. It's called the Magna cart of the Christian

faith. For God so loved the world that he what what does the Bible

say? He gave? God gave his only son monogony. Weios that whoever

believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. The text tells

us plainly that God loves the whole world. I mean there it is.

God doesn't love just the elect, which some of latter Calvinism and the Reformation

taught he loves the whole world. He loves the whosoever of John three point

sixteen. He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should

come to repentance. And then what is love? The Hebrew word for love

means to give, and here in the Greek it says he gave his only

son. God demonstrates his love toward us. The Book of Romans says,

and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God's love

is packaged in Jesus, whom he gave to save us. Whoever believes in

him should not perish but have eternal life. Now this might mean that if

you don't believe, he can't be saved. Of course, the pastor MacArthur

would focus in on that. But here it's saying that whoever believes in him

should not perish but have eternal life. But it's not talking about the person

who never heard. God gave Jesus so we can believe, and that's good.

Is that good? That's good? And he gave it so everyone can

have eternal life. Now, this text tells us plainly that God loves the

whole world. It means God loves everyone in the world. It means God

gave Jesus because God loves the world. And this verse says that God loves

the world because God doesn't want anyone to be lost. And yes, faith

in Jesus makes a huge difference here because God gave Jesus so we could have

faith in him. Hugely important. Now, just a few verses before,

take your bibles and turn to John one verse nine. Here John writes this

amazing statement to go along with John three point sixteen shared later on. We

should not read John three sixteen out of context with John one, especially verse

nine. Of course, in the beginning was the word. The word was

with God. The word was God. Verse one. All things were made

through him, that's Jesus. Without him, not was anything made that was

made. And him was life. The life was the light of men.

The light shines in the darkness at the dawn of time and creation, and

the darkness has not overcome. It goes on to say, there was a

man sent from God whose name was John. That's the disciple John. He

came for testimony to bear witness to the truth. Then it says in verse

nine, the true light that enlightens every man, meaning every human being,

was coming into the world. So how many people have been enlightened by Christ?

According to that verse? Read it with me. Every single human being

has received an illumination from Jesus Christ. Christ came to save those for whom

the light shines. The Gospel of John teaches us that every single person has

received a measure of the light that is Jesus Christ himself, whether that person

knows it or not. And John eight twelve Jesus identified himself as this light.

I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not

walk in darkness, will have the light of life. So the light that

is Jesus helps us to walk in the light that is right. God's light

is God's right righteousness. It is more moral than it is theological. It

is personal, it is relational. It is our response to God on the

inside of our heart, more than our understanding in our head. You can

have lousy theology, but the Lord can illumine your heart to be a good

person. Did you hear me? So the light that is Jesus helps us

to walk in the light that is right to be good people. That means

it is our walk in the light that makes more, that matters more to

God, than our talk about the light, our discussion of our theology,

our description of how right or wrong we are, and understanding of things.

Friend, now hear me here, Being a good person matters more than knowing

what a good person is. Being a good person matters more than being able

to articulate the Greek Hebrew aramag or whatever a fine theological point. Every single

person has received a measure of the true light, that is Jesus, the

light inside the heart that matters most to God. So what about the heathen

who may have a knowledge of what is right inside of themselves, but not

a knowledge of Jesus or his word or any kind of correct theology. Is

there any hope that someone like that can be saved? Look at Romans two

eleven to sixteen. They will the apostle Paul is great treatise and righteous by

faith. Here hits this question head on, For God shows no partiality.

All who have sinned without the law will perish without the law, and all

who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. God will

bring the whole human race to judgment. Look at verse thirteen. For it

is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God. But what

does the scripture say, but the doers of the law whill be justified?

That opens the box. And then Paul moves to the gentiles who may never

have heard about God from the Bible, that may never have heard about Jesus,

may never have heard the name Yabweh Loheim or anything like that, never

heard of the Holy Spirit. But who can be saved? Nonetheless, look

at verse fourteen. He says, when gentile meaning the other nations, the

unbelieving pagan world nations who have not the law, do by nature what the

law requires. That means inside they've responded to something that true light that enlightens

every man. He says, they are a law to themselves even though they

do not have the law. And they show that what the law requires is

written. Where what does it say in your Bible on their hearts? Now,

Hebrews eight the New covenants to take the law of God and right on

your hearts. So if they have the law written on their hearts, even

though they have no knowledge, God has the ability to put that law on

their hearts and give them a new coven experience even though they they don't know

anything. He says, they show that what the law requires has written their

hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts. Now we

all have conflicting thoughts as I do right here. Did I mess up here?

Yet? I messed up there, But I tried to get it right

here. I'm struggling to do better. That's what conflicting thoughts are about.

We all have that, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts.

Accuse or perhaps excuse them on that day when according to my Gospel,

God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. That's an amazing passage.

Here are people who didn't have a clue, who just didn't. But they'll

stand for God, and they'll realize that they've tried to get it right,

and that something inside of them was working and what they have wanted all their

life, they now see it's God, and they'll have to figure it out.

Paul is here indicating that there will be a gentiles in the judgment day

with clear consciences who never heard of the law of God as such, but

who keep the principles of the law that are written on their heart. Now

that matches well with acts seventeen thirty thirty one, when Paul preached Jesus to

the pagan philosophers and Greeks on Mars Hill. He came to Mars Hill in

fact, there was a statue to an unknown God, and he said,

well, you worship ignorantly. I proclaim to you there's a story behind that.

In antiquity, there's a great plague that hit the Greek Hellenistic world and

people were dying by the thousands. They were sacrificed to know this God,

that God, and any god you could think of, till finally a wise

philosopher who who knows where he God's wisdom from, probably the true light that

enlightens every man, come to the world. He said, it could be

there's a god we know nothing of, and that that unknown God, if

we pray to him, will somehow hear us and heal us so we don't

die anymore. So they went out in the middle of nowhere, they put

an altar up and they sacrificed to the unknown God. Right there on Mars

Hill in Greece, they had a statue to the unknown God. So Paul

is walking by and he sees it. He seizes on it. The philosophers

are arguing theology and philosophy and everything else. And he says, what you

worship ignorantly? This I proclaim to you. And he says this in verse

twenty nine, next seventeen, being then God's offspring, we ought not to

think that the deed is like gold or silver or stone and representation by the

art and imagination of man. Verse thirty the Times of Ignorance? What does

he say? Oh, it's not on the verse up there, Keep moving

to the next one. It's in verse Well, there's thirty. Oh,

the Times of Ignorance. That's it. God, what overlooked the King James

version? Says? Do we have a King James version out there? What

does it say? God winked at it like this? Okay, he winked

at it, But now see I like it. But now he commands all

men everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day in which he will

judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he is appointed. And of

this he has given insurance to all men by raising him from the dead.

He said, look, God didn't hold those people accountable for what they did

not know. Isn't that good to know that I mean something's the world.

Yeah, Yeah, it's funny seeing preachers arguing with the Bible. They shouldn't.

God was fair to the times of ignorance. But we are no longer

in times of ignorance. People have a chance to know there's a Bible in

our hands. In the last days, we have a chance to dig and

get answers. Now, I was early on in my experience, throughout the

age of fifteen or sixteen, I would characterize myself as an agnostic. During

those years, I thank God that I took the time to seriously study the

books of Daniel Revelation where the evidence occurs, which gave me the knowledge of

God's existence. Of course, the Gospels gave me the knowledge of God's character.

The prophet Zachariah tells us that there will come a day when people have

never heard of Jesus will need to be instructed in the plan as they come

to Christ, to God and look upon his nail pierced hands and ask the

salient question, how did this happen to you? And why? And He

will tell them why look at Zacharat thirteen, verse four. And it shall

come to pass in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of

his vision when he hath prophesied. Neither shall they wear a rough garment to

deceive. So about false prophets or people who grew up in other religions with

like the Oracle of Delphi and that kind of thing. But he shall say,

I am no prophet. I am an husbandman, for man taught me

to keep cattle from my youth. And here's the key verse verse six.

And one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thy hands?

Then he shall answer those with which I was wounded in the house of my

friends, and they will be instructed in the plan. Jesus put it plainly

in John ten sixteen. And I have other sheep that are not of this

fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice.

So there shall be one flock and one shepherd. When he said this,

he wasn't talking about Judaism. He was talking about the great were religions.

Cornelius, in the Book of Acts, was giving alms to God in his

pagan context until he got a knowledge of God. The apostles taught him.

He was already serving God as best he knew how. And that's the paradox

here. You know, we think that somehow God can't reach or interact with

people unless they have the knowledge we have, not true in the Bible.

Jesus, I'm gonna gather them. I'm not satisfied with all of the world

religions. Galtama. I don't know if I said that right. Different people

say it. But you know, the father Buddhism taught that he was the

way. Jesus is, I'm the Way, the truth and the life.

But he was probably trying to figure it out as best he could. There

would be good people from every single part of the world who have lived throughout

the ages, from every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue, who

if they never heard of God, those who yearn for a good God will

find him. Jesus was talking here about people and the other world religions who

will be gathered in by him. The good shepherd. His sheep are out

there also, He says, I must go and gather them. The prophet

Jeremiah for saw the day when these ignorant gentiles. By the way, I'm

an my ancestors were ignorant gentiles. How many of you are in that group

here? Okay? Anybody few people born in the Jewish line, but most

of us didn't have that are distant past. The prophet Jeremiah for saw the

day when these ignorant gentiles loved by God will come from the ends of the

earth and confess that they have inherited lies all their lives. But now they

know better the truth is before them, because God is before them Jeremiah sixteen

nineteen. Oh Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the

day of trouble. To these shall the nations come from the ends of the

earth and say, our fathers have inherited not but lies, worthless things in

which there is no prophit. And how will God treat these dear people who

will come to God in the resurrection on the last Day, who discover who

wake up in eternity and it's not what they were expecting. It's not hades

in the middle of the earth. It's not some nirvana nonsense. It's a

real physical body resurrection at the end of the age. And they wake up

and they discover that they got there now. C. S. Lewis.

When I was a young person, I read a lot of C. S.

Lewis. He has a book called The Last Battle in his Narnia series,

and Taskland know tash I say, right, tash Land, but it's

a corruption the word Aslan. Aslan was the word Turkish word for lion,

representing Christ in his symbolic work there, and Taskland was the counterfeit at Antichrist

in his book The Last Battle. And it turns out that in the New

Narnia representing the New Earth, a faller of Taskland, the Antichrist shows up

and you can't figure out how he got there, and Asland, representing Christ,

that he was the lion terms to him, said, well, you

know, you didn't realize it, but all your life you were really mine

because you lived the right kind of way. You had the right principles inside.

Even though you were technically on the wrong side, you were on my

side. And I have you here in the New Narnia. That's an amazing

insight of C. S. Lewis, as he would do that table talk

in World War two post World War two times to encourage the people of England.

Now England is essentially a secular nation. How will God treat those dear

people who will come to God in the resurrection on the Last Day, who

discover that they relied to about God all their lives. How does God accept

someone who never heard a sermon, never had a Bible, never had a

chance to learn the truth? Now we do. That's why we're with that

excuse. You know, if you're a true seeker after truth and you haven't

really studied the Bible to examine it, well, I'm not talking about this

surface reading stuff, then you're really not honest about it. You need to

dig in. Allow God to give you a chance to show you the evidence

He's placed in this book for the time of the end. Look at Acts

ten thirty five. But in every nation, anyone who fears Him and does

what is right, what does it say is acceptable to him? How do

you feel about that? Isn't that a good thing? In Daniel seven,

now, Daniel seven is one of the most important chapters of the Bible,

the prophet Daniel tells us that just before the end, there will be a

judgment in heaven, and God, the Father the ancient days, will give

to Jesus, the Son of Man, people from all over the world,

from every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue, so that they will

worship him, and he will be the King of the Fifth Kingdom, the

Toro Kingdom, the Kindness Kingdom, the Kingdom of Heaven, and then he

will return at the end of the age. And in this judgment that occurred

technically the end of the seventeen hundreds, coming into the year eighteen forty four,

it seats, and then in a special event in the year eighteen forty

four, thrones were cast down. It brought down the old world order of

the Holy Roman Empire. It brought the Church state system Middle Ages down.

And in this judgment, God the Father, the Ancient of Days, takes

his seat in the investigative judgment, which commences in the year eighteen forty four

at the end of the god Zone vision, the longest Time prophecy in the

Book of Daniel, and in the pre advent investigative judgment. And some people

said, Pastor Mike, why do we need a preadvent investigated judgment? Is

that a good question? Yes or no? Raise your hand now let me

just kind of walk you through this. And Luke nineteen eleven and twelve,

the Disciples were nearing Jerusalem and asked Jesus the question, will you at this

time restore the kingdom? And then he said gave them the answer. In

verse twelve, a nobleman went into a far off country to receive a kingdom

and then return. Have you ever read that in your Bible? Verse twelve.

Now the nobleman is Jesus. He ascends to heaven after the cross.

The far off country is Heaven. And why does he go, according to

that verse, to receive what is kingdom and then return? Now, how

many of you want Jesus to come raise your hand high? Based on that

verse? How many of you wanted to receive his kingdom in heaven? So

he can? Okay? So how does he receive his kingdom? In Dale

seven? He comes before the ancient days to him as given a kingdom,

glory and dominion that our nations should serve him. I'm going to read that

in a second, and we learned that he receives his kingdom one name out

of time. You see, Christ represents us in the judgment. Because Christ

died for us on the cross. He does not expose us to the raw,

naked, awful scrutiny. It is a proxy judgment. He presents us

in heaven to enroll us in the heavenly list that will be the Taara kingdom,

the fifth kingdom of Daniel that will never end. The Book of Daniel

indicates that this judgment for God's people began in the year eighteen forty four.

Excuse me, okay, I am I just need a drink of water.

Hey, I choke up with some of this stuff. Thank you. I'd

swallowed a frog. You ever swallowed a frog? It takes a while for

the frog to jump out. So the frog's jumping out. But I scratched

my voice box a little bit just now, so I'm all right, all

right. The Book of Daniel indicates that this judgment for God's people began the

year eighteen forty four, the end of the twenty third years. That's not

what the sermons about in Daniel seven thirteen and fourteen. At the end of

time. In this preavant judgment heaven, just before the Second Coming, the

prophet Daniel shows Jesus as the son of Man, coming to God the Father

in the most holy place on his chariot throne. That is the ark of

the Covenant of Heaven, to receive his eternal kingdom. Look at verse thirteen

Daniel seven, I saw in the night visions and behold with the clouds of

heaven. There came one like a son of man, and he came to

the ancient of days and was presented before him, and to him was given

dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples and nations and languages should serve

him. His dominions. What kinds of dominion was it? Say, every

lasting dominion which shall not pass away. His kingdom, one that shall not

be destroyed. That's the final kingdom. It's the king of Heaven. But

noblemen went into a far off country receive this kingdom, then returned. The

second coming follows the heaven event. And I'll tell you right now, we

need to understand the doctrine of the investigative judgment, because it's all about grace.

It's about seriously surrendering to Christ, but being enrolled by Grace in the

eternal Kingdom. And Christ tells us in Revelation three five that in this judgment

we have angels. We have God the Father, that he will confess the

names of his people before His Father and the Holy Angels, one name at

a time, and he will not take our names out of the book of

life. If we hang on to Jesus. Is that good news. That's

good news. And these people he confesses remain in the Book of Life and

be saved for all eternity. So what matters most is not what you say.

It's what God says to Jesus in the judgment. And one by one,

this one and that one will be enrolled in Zion, this one and

that one will be enrolled in his eternal kingdom. Now let me say this.

I want Jesus to confess my name before His Father and the holy angels.

What about you? So you know what you need to do in our

daily life. We need to get on our knees and confess Jesus. We

get in the morning, we consecrate our lives to God. We share Christ

with our friends and neighbors. We ask God to straighten our lives out.

We want it to be fit for a Torah kindness, heavenly kingdom. Who

wants to live in a place with angels if we make them miserable all the

time, We should live like angels now right, learn to live to perfect

holiness in the Lord. Not to get to heaven, but because we're accepted

because of Jesus. I want to be right with him all the time.

So He will stand for me in that day and with me every day of

my life, so I need to stand for him. By grace right,

how many of you want to stand with Jesus? Choose that? Raise your

hand high, good choice. In the Bible, the sons of Korea,

you know who they were, sons of kor had a father, defied Moses,

we want to be in charge, and God too, and God said,

stand aside, I want to deal with this problem. And the earth

opened up swallowed them alive, and the Bibles as they went down to shield

alive. Then it closed back up. Kora died and some of the sons

of Kora died, But there were some of his sons who stood apart from

him in his rebellion. They didn't stand with him. They were saved,

and they became very important people in the worship of Israel. They wrote some

of the psalms that we have. The sons of Kora were outsiders who were

saved, who would not participate in an attitude of rebellion within the ranks,

who follow God. And the songs of Korra wrote Psalms eighty seven about the

nations who do the same thing as they did, who stand for God,

even though they don't know much. And this song tells us plainly that there

will be people from all over the world enrolled in the heavenly Kingdom when Jesus

confesses the names of his people in the Investigative Judgment just before the Second Coming,

that God will reach into places that we've never imagined, and that he

will enroll people in the Register of Zion. Look at verse one Psalms eighty

seven of the Sons of Kora song on the Holy Mountains stands the city he

has founded. The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling

places of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, a city of God.

Among those who know me, I mentioned Rahab. That's Egypt, Babylon.

Behold Felictia and tire with Ethiopia. This one was born there, they

say. But this, that confession of the nations is not the final word

in the judgment day. God knows who belongs to him. God is the

one who decides who is born in Zion or not, and God chooses who

will be enrolled. So look at verse five. Excuse me, I have

an allergy too, You know I like you do. Know like about heaven,

there'll be no allergies. You back. This pollens out there or what

do they call it. It's not Paula, but in the fall it always

hits me. Ragweed, No ragweed in heaven. All right. Look at

verse five of Zion. It shall be said, and this one and that

one was born in her For the Most High himself will establish or the Lord

records as he registers the peoples. This one was born there. You may

have been born in the most awful place on planet Earth, but if you're

seeking God, you're trying to live for him. God accepts that person and

an investigative judgment, even though they were never a Christian. He will stand

before his Father and confess their names before the Father and the Holy Angels,

because this one was born in Zion. Verse seven says singers and dancers alike

say, all my springs are in you. In closing, I would like

to share some amazing statements in the spirit of prophecy that support every word we

have just read from the Bible Manuscript one, page one, eight eighty nine.

God tests God's test of the heathen who have not the light, and

of those living where the knowledge of truth and light has been abundant is altogether

different. He accepts from those in Heathen lands a phase of righteousness which does

not satisfy him when offered by those of Christian lands. He does not require

much where much has not been bestowed. Christ's object lessens page three eighty five.

Wherever there is an impulse of love and sympathy, wherever the heart reaches

out to bless and uplift others, there is revealed the working of God's Holy

Spirit. In the depths of Heathenism, men who have had no knowledge of

the written law of God, who have never even heard the name of Christ,

have been kind to His servants, protecting them at the risk of their

own lives. Their acts show the working of a divine power. The Holy

Spirit has implanted the grace of Christ and the heart of the savage, quickening

his sympathies contrary to his nature, contrary to his education. The light which

lighteth excuse me, the light which lighteneth every man that cometh in the world.

John one nine is shining in his soul, and this light, if

heated, will guide his feet to the King of God Andrew. Thank you

for this water. Okay, the desire of Ages, page six thirty eight.

Those whom Christ commands in the judgment may have known little of theology,

but they have cherished His principles through the influence of the spirit. They have

been a blessing to those about them. Even among the heathen are those who

have cherished the spirit of kindness before the words of life have fallen upon their

ears. They have befriended the missionaries even ministering to them, and peril their

own lives. Among the heathen are those who worship God ignorantly, those to

whom the light is never brought by human instrumentality. Yet they will not perish.

Though ignorant of the written law of God, they have heard His voice

speaking to them in nature, have done the things that the law required.

Their works are evidence that the Holy Spirit has touched their hearts, and they

are recognized as the children of God. Isn't that an amazing statement? Friend?

It still matters if we preach the gospel or not, because many more

will be saved, but no one will be lost because God didn't care,

and God didn't give each and every person person a portion of Holy Spirit light

that is really Jesus light, the light of the world. Christ loves the

little children of the world, all the children of the world, red and

yellow, black and white. They are precious in his sight. Jesus loves

the little children of the world Romans ten, fourteen and fifteen. But how

are men to call upon him whom they have not believed? And how are

they to believe in Him whom they have never heard? And how are they

to hear without a preacher? And how can men preach unless they are sent?

As it is written? How beautiful are the feet of those who preach

the good news? How many of you want to help people come to Christ,

you know, not just come to church, but really learn. Look,

I spend most of my time teaching people how to know the books of

Dean, Revelation, Romans, the Gospel so they can have Bible studies.

Would you let me teach some of you that would be interested in that?

That's what I live for. We have people in our community have never heard

of Christ, and they won't hear unless you share him and friends, our

neighbors are there, and our children and some others. Let's be soul winning

Christians. But don't forget God has already gone before us. He's got people

out there waiting. You're ready to hear preaching, and teaching matters. But

don't think for a moment that God doesn't love those dear people who have never

heard. He wants everyone to be saved and come to knowledge of the truth.

Dear Heart, we worship of God who wants every single person to be

saved, including you and me. So make your decision sure by removing every

ounce of rebellion in your life, so you two can stand with the redeemed

of all ages. Dear heavenly Father. No one gets to heaven without being

in heart part of a kingdom of kindness. So the Lord guard arts.

I don't want to be anything like Cora. I don't want to be an

unbelieving Judas. I don't be anything that would hurt you, Lord, just

part of the mixed multitude at the end that just go along and don't matter.

Help us, Lord to be humble, surrendered, up, respectful,

grateful that we belong to a worldwide movement that Jesus brought into existence for the

time of the end. Heal our church, Heal the pastors, our conference,

and Lord, our precious people. Lord, not a single one of

them is someone that can easily be discarded, Keep them for You and Lord.

All those people in our community that need to know what we've just talked

about today, May we be the good news and the pleasant feet on hills

that bring them to Jesus in this place, and maybe never surrender the truth

in Jesus name. Amen, Amen,