Obedience My Way

Let's pray, Dear heavenly Father, it's possible to make religion all about aye,

me and my so that it becomes nothing but a big virtue signaling session

where we like the people to see how good we look. And Lord,

when that happens, we need Jesus, because that's not real religion. Father.

It's in our brokenness when you say blessed or the poor and spirit for

theirs is the King of Heaven. It's in our brokenness and our humility,

not fake humility, that we come to know you. Lord. There's a

cross that was planted in human history, and you put every one of us

in Jesus to save us. What he went through. We will never understand

what all of God went through. We will never understand the Father. Help

us to put away today our preconceived ideas and allow the Bible, the raw

Bible, to speak to us. We cannot know who you are by reason

or by philosophy or by systemic logic. You have to reveal yourself, and

Lord, maybe not think that when you reveal yourself it's just so simple.

You aren't just so simple, your God. So help us Lord, to

get a little piece of it today, to not overrate our understandings, but

to be humble about it and to seek the truth behind it. In Jesus's

name, Amen title. The message today is obedience my way. Years ago,

Frank Sinatra made a song, actually didn't make it, he's sang it,

made it famous. It's called I did It My Way. You ever

hear that song. I mean, it's been sung over and over again.

Everybody's tried their hand at it. His song is a repetition of that self

centered phrase, I did it my way. You know something like that?

Right, Well, you know what. That's how sin started. The most

intelligent being created in the universe. At the dawn of time, the sun

of the morning one day stood before his creator, who had mapped out the

software of morality, of relationships of human consciousness, which is embedded in his

moral law, the Ten Commandments, yet to be revealed at Zinai in written

form, but put in the heart of his creatures. He offered a better

way than God's way. He said, do it my way. At the

heart of the word sin is the letter I show that I is at the

heart of the word sin. I as always in the middle of Sin,

I me and my is what put Jesus on the Cross, starting with Lucifer,

and how many of the children of Lucifer's sins have embedded that same idea,

I me and mine, not your way, my way. At the

dawn of time, Lucifer rebelled against God's moral law. He rebelled against the

heart of a loving Father, God, the pre existent son of God.

He rebelled against him. He rebelled against the Holy Spirit, which is defined

the book Revelations the seven torches, the seven spirits that are before his throne.

Why are there seven because the word seven in Hebrew, which the Greek

reflects, means the complete spirit of God north, south, east and west.

The eyes are the seventh spirit of God. Seven spirits of God are

called the seven eyes of God, which is the Holy Spirit north south,

east west. How many directions is that? Four? Up and down?

How many directions? Five? Six? Where's the seventh direction inside Holy Spirit?

So the book Revelation introduced, God is the one who is, who

was, and is coming. That's God, the Father. He's called the

Almighty. I am the first and the last. In Revelation of one,

Jesus will say the same thing Revelation twenty two. I'm the first and the

last. I'm the Alpha and the Omega, because he shares oneness with the

Father. Then from the seven spirits who are before his throne, which is

the Holy Spirit identified in Zachariah four. As such, Revelation five talks about

the seven eyes on the lamb, which are the seven spirits of God,

seven spirits of God, seven torches before his throne. And then it says,

from the one who loved us, who died for us, who loosed

us from our sins, Jesus. So if the relation starts with God the

Father, God, the Holy Spirit, and God the Son, you kind

of relation. Sixteen. There's a false trio at the time of the end,

the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet, who attack the

truth that we have revealed in the very first chapter of the Book of a

Because when we lose the knowledge of God, we lose the love of God

in our lives. Isaiah fourteen twelve Lucifer said, how are the fallen from?

No? God spoke of Lucifer here in scripture. He said, how

are the fall How are you fallen? From heaven? O Daystar's son of

the Dawn. The Hebrews hellel Ben Shahar, shining one, son of the

Dawn. Jesus is the bright and morning Star. In Revelation twenty two sixteen,

the bright and morning star precedes the dawn of time. Before there was

a was, before there was a time to call time. Christ was the

light before the dawn. In Hebrews one, verse two and three, he's

identified as the one who created the eons, the fabric of what Einstein would

call space time. So before there was a was, there was Jesus,

the bride and morning Star. Lucifer is hellel ben Shahar. He is the

shining One, the sun of the dawn. He was born this side of

the beginning of time. Christ was the light in the darkness, before the

dawn of time, as an eternal being who was the eternal life that was

with the Father. John says, before all time into an eternity that cannot

be measured by time. He created the eons. Hebrews says Lucifer was a

created being who was the son of the Morning on this side of the dawn.

Therefore, he doesn't have the answers. Lucifer doesn't know all there is

of God. Jesus does. At some point in time. Lucifer grew arrogant

in his attempt to take out God and the pre existent Christ, who was

the commander of Heaven's armies. That he's called the captain of the Lord's host.

Who is Yahweh, that's his title in the Old Testament. He was

the being. He took the form of a creature, of a pre existent

being to be the representative of God to creatures, just like he became a

human being. Do the same for our race. He has always been God

with us. Emmanuel. The prophet Isaiah asked the singular question here in Isaiah,

how are you cut down to the ground. It's Lucifer, you who

laid the nations low. You set in your heart. I will send to

heaven above the stars of God. I will set my throne on high.

I will sit on the mount of the Assembly in the far north. I

will send above the heights of the clouds. And here it is. I

will make myself like the most High. I ay ay, I is always

at the center of what is sin. I Satan boasted that I will make

myself like the most High, not in character, but in power. Friends,

our Father God, his eternal son, Jesus Christ, and the eternal

Spirit as the Book of Hebrews declares him to be in their trifol union,

that is God, the Holy Trio, as these three holy beings who together

are one as God. From all time, they live together as one God.

Because God is love, and in that give and take in the love

dance. That is God one God in relationship, and I who is in

us. God gives, God loves. It has always been, it will

always be. The character of God is defined by the nature of God.

God's nature must be love. The false faith of Islam, and I'm not

here to pick on good Islamic people. I have good friends who belong to

Islam, but the faith of Islam misrepresents the character of God for them,

I say, for many adherents. In the reading of the Koran, God

is a lonely, isolated being. God cannot love really because God does not

have it in his nature to love. Therefore, he is about authority,

and anger is the natural response to disobedience. God has never been alone.

God has always been alone in their view, and so he is thus a

being who is isolated, unable to give really friends. The Bible teaches that

God has never been alone, and their view of God is wrong. And

in the oneness of God, in which he is not alone, we find

love. God is one, yet God is also in us. Because God

is not alone. God has always been in the relationship that is love.

Now the Bible say God is love? Doesn't it say that? In First

John God is love? What does that mean? In Genesis one one we

are introduced to the God of the Bible as a God of love who is

not alone. Take your Bible as you can, turn to Genesis one one,

very first version in your Bible. I'm going to put on the screen

for those of you don't have one, But let's look at the verse.

Here in the beginning, God created the heavens of the earth. The Hebrew

is brace sheet barrah, elahim Ah, hasham and vaja nz. Now my

Hebrew pronunciation is a little off because I learned it from a professor who didn't

speak it well. But that's kind of the idea. There in the beginning

God created the heavens and the earth. And then verse two, the earth

was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep,

and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

And God said, let there be light, and there was light. Now

here, we have it right here in these first three verses. We have

compact loaded information about God. And let's take it apart. Now I'm gonna

have to take put on your thinking caps. You may want to take notes

because we're in a Bible study mode in the sermon. Is that okay to

do that today? Bible study mode? So, oh, pastor mind,

just give me point A, B and C. Not today, We're going

to go into the raw material of God's word on this seturth morning. Now,

the Hebrew word translated God. You see God and Genesis one one in

the beginning God bedreshikh Badrah eloheim God elohem. In the Hebrew language, the

ending for the word eloheim is plural. Now that's a fact of grammar.

Some people say, well, why would that we We're gonna look at why

that is. It's plural. Elohem is a plural ending. It could just

as easily be translated God's So context matters here, fair enough, You can't

misuse a word. But this word is plural. God chose to use that

word in Jesus won one for a good reason. Now it says better a

sheet in the beginning in the Hebrew language, race sheet. The word for

beginning comes from the word roche or the root word roche that means head,

head, beginning head. So we have the god Head, which is God

here intimated in Genesis one, verse one Hebrew Ylohem in the Hebrew language is

plural. The Hebrew ending eme and elohem is a plural ending. It can

be translated God into singular or God's context determines it. But if it's followed

by a singular verb, then it must be treated as singular. So that's

how you gotta look at it. You mean, you know, a verb

and a subject have to agree. How many of you took grammar? Okay,

got to get things right in grammar. If you don't get it right,

just work with me. I'm bad at grammar, but I know Hebrew

grammar. Now, it can be translated God in the singular if it is

followed by a verb, this singular. In the Hebrew of Genesis one to

one, the name Elahem is followed by a singular verb bar Rah that means

created. So you have a plural noun for God, but you have a

singular verb which means whatever that plural is, it's singular. Fair enough,

are you guys with me the pastor Mike, raise your hands. I need

some help and relief. Plural verb elohem for God, and then you have

a singular verb bar Rah created okay. That tells us something. Thus,

in the very first verse of the Bible, we have a plural Hebrew noun

for God, does lahem by a singular he proverb created. God could have

chosen a different word for God here, but he didn't. There are times

in the Bible when God is called by the simple name L that repeated after

me l okay Lohem is what we see in Justus one one. The word

L in Hebrew is singular. He is sometimes called l but most often called

Elohem, so both are true. So when elohem is used, it has

that plural ending. When L is used, it's intrinsically singular. L means

God just like eloheim and the plural. But L is singular and not plural

in the Hebrew. Take that to heart. So if God wanted to limit

God to one here, he would have used the word L for God right

here and been consistent in the rest of the Bible. But he does not

do that. So when God does something, he always does it because he

has a reason to do it, and we don't force God into our box.

We try to enter into God's box to understand what God didn't do that

In Jesus one one, Elohem is a plural noun followed by a singular verb

Barrah created. If God wanted to indicate here that elohem is plural with the

number two instead of three, there is a Hebrew noun form for two,

that is pearl. Did you know that? In other words, in the

Hebrew language, when they want to say more than one, they have two

options, not just one. They don't just add an s like we would

do. You know, God, Gods, they have a form that can

indicate two or more, two different forms. In to indicate that there are

two indicated by this, it would be the word ayams. I'll say that

with me aam aam It means two. That's the ending. Now elohem doesn't

have that on it. It has loheen em, which is plural at least

three. But am would be two, and that exists in Hebrew. Spell

it out that way. It is the name mitz Rayim. Why don't you

say that with me mitz Rayem. I'm teaching a little Hebrew here you're gonna

walk out here saying better shehet bad raw elhem he pascha mays and you're gonna

have fun. But say mitz raym with me. Now, mits raying is

the Hebrew word for Egypt. If you read the King James version, I'll

just say mits rayim. And the table of nations in Genesis ten, mitz

raying has that dual ending mitz rayim a yim. You hear it mitz rayim,

and that means two. So why would that be the name for Egypt.

Have you ever noticed that on the tu tongue common's head there's a there's

a vulture and then a serpent. It represents upper and lower Egypt, the

two Egypts. So the duel is used as mitz rayim to show you that

plural can be indicating Hebrew language as two. And why am I saying this?

The Hebrew language allows that kind of profits precision for describing God. And

yet the word elehem is used in Genesis one one, that is in the

plural form, indicating at least three persons. It does not revert to two

or one in Genesis one one. So Genesis one one, right out of

the gate has the plural form of the word of God elohem, meaning at

least three, followed by the singular verb barrah created, indicating that God,

who is at least three, is one. Did you hear me? Now,

that's raw grammar right there in Genesis one one, all three persons who

together are God appear immediately in the context as one. That's how the Bible

starts. Now, the great commandment in Genesis Sixtus Shama Yetsrael at deny elehinu

a deny ahad here o Israel. The Lord our God is one. Right

there in Genesis one, you see that you shall love the Lord your God

with all your heart and all your soul and all your might, out of

the nature of God, the love of God. Because God is one.

That's the argument Genesis six. The entire ten Commandments are built upon the fabric

of who God is. His nature, His law is love, It has

ever been and ever will be. That's how the book Patriarch and Prophet starts.

The spirit so all three persons who together are God appear immediately. In

the context of Genesis one, the spirit of God was hovering over the deep.

The word hover here means to hover like a bird. Miracathit. It's

a it's a verbal participle, hovering like a bird, like a dove.

Like the Holy Spirit hovered like a dove in the form of dove at Jesus

baptism. And no one has ever seen God the Father, no one has

ever seen his form. But we have seen the form of the Holy Spirit

like a dove. Here a creation. He appears. Same Spirit was there.

And God said, just like the Father spoke at Jesus baptism, God

speaks here. God said, let there be light. Jesus said, I

am the light of the world. In John eight. John said in John

one to five that Jesus is the true light that enlightens every man, that

he is the light that overcame the darkness at the dawn of time. Friend,

before there was a sun, moon or star on the fourth day in

Genesis one, Jesus was the light of the world that made it all happen,

the causative agent of creation, God is light. John says in John

one two, We'll look at this, and this is the beloved disciple of

Jesus. The life was manifest. And by the way, that word manifest

is the Greek equivalent of mare. In Dale nine. For those of you

who are in the know on this, the life was manifested, and we

saw it and testify to it and proclaimed to you the eternal life which was

with the Father and was manifested us. So when Christ was revealed, it

wasn't just a human being eternal life. The eternal life that was with that

was with God Almighty, as God almighty, and part of God Almighty was

in the person of Jesus Christ, who as he appeared on this earth.

John one one. I love this passage. It's so clear. You don't

have to manipulate it. We should never manipulate clear scripture. Some scriptures are

hard. We should never manipulate any scripture. But this is so easy to

follow. In the beginning, was the what what does it say the word?

And the word was with God. That means the word is in relationship

with God. But look what it says. Next and the word was what

does it say? The word was God. Now you go back to Genesis

fifteen one. John is picking off of Genesis one one. In the beginning,

God created the heavens and the earth, and God said, lead to

be life. But he's also picking off of Genesis fifteen one, and the

Word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision, saying the Word was

alive. The Word revealed the promise to Abraham. That word was Christ.

Look at verse two. He was in the beginning with God. All things

were made through him, and nothing was nothing, and without him was not

anything made. That was made. In him was life, and the life

was the light of men. God has always had eternal life in his being.

Christ is as God was with God from all eternity. That is very

evident in John one. Now, the first word God spoke in Genesis one

is the first light. And dear Heart, Jesus is the Word and the

Light. Let me ask this question. If God is light, as John

tells us, how old is the light? John says, God is light.

In him is no darkness at all. How old would the light be?

If God is light, there would be no beginning to the light.

Can you separate the thought of God from the word of God? Would there

ever be a time in eternity where God would not be able to speak?

No, So to put Christ as a created being is to do violence to

the very nature of God. Christ cannot reveal God unless God has always been

with God and that's what John One says. He's in the bosom of the

Father. He has revealed him. The first word God spoke in Genesis one

is the first light, and Jesus is the Word and the light. And

Jesus was the word of God back then, and Jesus was the light of

the world from the very dawn of time and before time. Hebrews One indicates

God said the light was good, just like God said at Jesus baptism.

This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased. That the

holy trio that is Elahem, God as one God was at Jesus baptism just

like they were at the dawn of time. You don't get one verse in

the Bible before you see clearly a God who is one, but who is

at least three in that oneness that is God. It's spelled out so clearly.

The Hebrew grammar will not allow you to do another option here. People

have tried to wiggle around the hebres and manipulate it. It is what it

is. Now this becomes clearer that the God who is one, who speaks

as he and I and as the I am God of the Bible, is

also and us in that oneness that is God. Now I'll prove this to

you. I'm not making this up. Turn to Genesis one twenty six,

same chapter as Genesis one one to three. Look at verse twenty six.

Then God said, Now the word God is elohem. What form is that

singular? Plural? Grammatically it's plural, but it can be singular if it's

used with a verbal form that's singular. I'm being fair to grammar. Then

God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, and

let them have dominion of the fish of the sea, and of the birds

of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,

or every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God said, let

us make man in my image or our image. What does it say,

Come on, look at the Bible our image after my likeness or our likeness,

our likeness. Now, the verb let us make is plural. Now,

whereas Genesis one to one indicates the oneness of God, here in Jesus

one twenty six we see the plurality of God, where lahem is used with

the plural verb, which means at least three. So God, who is

one, is at least three. Again, the word Olahema is carefully used

by God in Genesis one twenty six, indicating at least three persons, not

the word l for God, which is singular, not the dual plural noun

form that is potentially available but is never used in the Bible for God that

would limit God to two rather than three as one Eloheim is the one God

who is at least three in Genesis one one. The grammar will not allow

you to wiggle out of this. And some people say, well, I

want to read the Bible in as simple form. You need to read the

Bible correctly and our you know, we need to be students of the Bible

and not be how do you put it to not treat the word of God

as if it surrenders to our lack of information. We need to learn and

understand it right, And the three or one in Genesis one verse one because

of the singular verb that forces it so. But in Genesis one twenty six,

the plural verb let us make is used with the plural noun for God,

that is elahem, with the plural pronoun us embedding the Hebrew verb to

tell us something about God, who is God? What is his nature?

And Elahem said in Genesis one twenty six, let us make man in our

image according to our likeness. When he did this, he made a family.

He made a father and a mother, and then ultimately children who could

love each other. The nature the image of God somehow has to do with

love. The God, who is one, is not alone in Genesis one

one, because he's also in us in Genesis one twenty six. So right

here in the very first chapter of Genesis, we have the exact formula that

Jesus leaves us with when he gives us the great gospel commission to go and

baptize people into the name of the Father's Son and Holy Spirit. Turned to

Matthew twenty eight, nineteen twenty. There is no contradiction between Jesus' words in

Matthew twenty eight, nineteen twenty and God's revelation Genesis one one. In Genesis

one twenty six, go therefore and make disciples of all nations. What does

it say baptizing them in the names? Is that? What it says there?

It doesn't say that, does it. What does it say in the

name of the Father and of the Son and in the Holy Spirit? Is

name singular or plural singular is Father's Son Holy Spirit? Is that a plurality?

There? Notice one name but Father's Son and Holy Spirit. That's the

trio teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and lo I

am with you always to the close of the age. Sister White gave a

sermon in Oakland, California, in nineteen oh six that signed off that she

signed off on. We know that it wasn't doctored, it wasn't created,

and someone didn't come up with it after the fact. It really amazes me

to see how she is so much knowledgeable of things like this without knowing Greek

and Hebrew, that she just gets it. And I we're really blessed to

have the Lord working in our early history through I'm want to read to you

what she says here. Taken from Sermons and Talks, Volume one, page

three, sixty seven, October twenty, nineteen oh six. She'll die in

nineteen fifteen. This is the mature understanding of her ministry. Here is where

the work of the Holy Ghost comes in. After your baptism, notice this

phrase of underlying you are baptized in the name of the Father's Son, Holy

Ghost. You are raised up out of the water to live henceforth in newness

of life, to a new life. How many you want to have a

new life? Baptism is about a new life. And look what it says.

I underlined this. You are born unto God and you stand under the

sanction and the power. Notice her phraseology here of the three holiest beings in

heaven. And how many did she describe there? One, two or three?

That she means it. She's not manipulating words. Here, she means

three holiest beings that agrees with Genesis one, who are able to keep you

from falling. You are to reveal that you are dead to sin. Your

life is hid with Christ and God. Hidden with Christ and God wonderful transformation.

This is a most precious promise. And then she talks about her own

experience and how that heavenly three, the three holiest beings, that is God

helps her. Here's what she says, when I feel oppressed and hardly know

how to relate myself toward the work that God has given me to do,

I just call upon I underline this, I just call upon. What did

she say there the three great worthies? What's the number one, two or

three? What three And notice it's capitalized worthies. And then she says this,

and say, you know, now, when you're talking to the three

Great Worthies that are God, you're praying. Some people say you can't just

pray, but look look what you're saying. You know, I cannot do

this work on my own. You must work in me and buy me and

through me, sanctifying my tongue, sanctifying my spirit, sanctifying my words,

and bringing me into a position where my spirit shall be susceptible to the movie.

Is the Holy Spirit of God upon my mind and character. And this

is the prayer that every one of us may offer. We can call on

the three Great Worthies. We can get help from God the Father, God

the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Now let's go to the next

slide. I don't have it here in my notes of the next slide,

very insightful understand of scripture. Here the image of Christ engraved upon the heart

is reflected in character. In other words, God's nature affects our moral character

in practical life day by day because we represent a personal savior that's not the

God of Islam. The Holy Spirit is promised to all who will ask for

it when you search the scriptures. The Holy Spirit is by your side.

Now, this is an amazing phrase personating Jesus Christ. That means he represents

Jesus Christ as a person. If we will open the door to Jesus,

he will come in and abide with us. Our strength will always be reinforced

by his actual representative, the Holy Spirit. Very clear language. Move to

the next one. Actually, is that the last one? Bob, There

you go. This is Desire of Ages, page six seventy one. Sin

could be resistant and overcome only through the mighty agency of the What does it

say, Just read it, third person of the Godhead, who would come

with no modified energy, but in the fullness of divine power. It is

the spirit that makes effectual what has been brought out by the world's redeemer.

Now, the Holy Spirit does not have human personality, but he is a

person. Some people are reading the statement Desire of Ages. They think that

because he doesn't have human personality, he's not a person. But you've got

to read all of the statements in the Zara of Ages. He is the

third person, the Godhead. I need the Father of the Son in the

Holy Spirit of my life. Without their nature being watered down because in this

union that is three, there is love that is one. The angry God

of Islam is a lonely, selfish being who cannot love because he's alone.

It's a false form of monotheism that will not allow a triune God who is

one to have love. The God of Islam described in the Koran is all

about power, control and nothing else, just himself, like Lucifer, who

is all about I and not the Us. That is God who is one.

That's why the early followers of Muhammed searched out killed both Jews and Christians,

who they called the infidels. Satan is an eye of that in us,

and that is just like God, the God of Islam as portrayed in

the Koran. But the Bible God is an ee who is in us,

an eye and relationship of the oneness of Love, father, son, and

Holy Spirit. That is his nature, his nature, his law, as

love has ever been, ever will be friend. There is nothing compelling about

the character of a God who is so lonely he cannot give of himself.

The God of Islam, who cannot be in us is in the Koran,

cannot give himself at the cross of Calvary. He cannot give. But when

God gave Christ, God gave God. He didn't give some created being to

die for a sins. He gave himself to die for a sins. It's

not the God of the Bible revealed by Jesus. We need the God of

the Bible. John sixteen one to three. Jesus said, I have said

all this to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you

out of the Senate. Indeed, the iris coming now is when whoever kills

you would think he's offering service to God. And they will do this because

they have not known the Father nor me. In Judaism, the ancient rabbi

Is recognize that the Son of God is equal to God. They knew their

Old Testament well. Modern Judaism has rejected that. But the ancient rabbi Is

understood that they were at least two that are equal, and they bore witness

to that in the rabbinical writings. Now John affirms that that idea is correct,

that the Father and the Son are equal. They understood that the King

of Israel, who is Yahweh Jehovah God and his Redeemer, who's also Yahweh,

Jehovah God in Isaiah forty four to six are equal because together they say

I am the first and the last, the same God. They affirm themselves

as one. Look at Isaiah forty four to six. Here it is now

I have studied with well meaning, very nice Jehovah's witness, people who just

choke on this verse. They don't know what to do with it. And

it's good. The Bible makes us choke because we need to surrender our views

to the Bible that are forcing the Bible to come out wrong. Thus says

the Lord. And how's it spelled in your Bible? Look at it there?

And like I said, we're in a Bible study mode today. You

got to go with me. Say it quickly? How's it spelled? L

O r D all capital letters? Right? The King of Israel. That's

God, the Father and his redeemer. Now who's his redeemer? You already

know you've read the New Testament. Who is he is Jesus and his redeemer.

And then it tells you who he is, the Lord of Hosts.

How is Lord spelled? There? Capitel l O R D. So both

the King who is the Father and his Redeemer we know as the Son.

Both of them are Jehovah. When you see Lord l O r D.

It is the sacred name of God, the tetragrammaton in Hebrew Yahweh Jehovah sometimes

called it is the sacred name of God. It's not just the Father who

has that name. Jesus says that name. And together they say, I

am the first and I am the last, besides me, that there is

no God. Now, the ancient Jews knew that, they knew the Son

is equal to the Father. This is not something new to them. But

Jesus healed a man on a Sabbath day. The Jewish leaders accused Jesus of

breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually showing them that God is in work

in the ministry, helping people, healing them on the Sabbath, and he

affirmed his oneness with the Father. Turned to John five seventeen and nineteen.

But Jesus answered them, my Father is working still and I am working.

This was why the Jews sought all the more to kill him. And here's

here's what John writes. Because he not only broke the Sabbath, in their

mind understood, but also called God his Father. Now look at the next

phrase, making himself equal with God? Do you read that I mean?

This nonsense, that Jesus is not equal to God denies the clarity of the

Gospel of John. Jesus said to them, truly, truly, I say

to you, the son could do nothing of his own accord, but only

when he sees the Father doing. For whatever he does, the son does.

Likewise, we work together because we are one. He said, I

am the father of one. Jesus came this world to obey God and to

do his will, because how can he do anything other, because he was

weed to the nature and character of God as God. The Book of Hebrews

records Jesus very words as he entered the world, left his position as the

commander of the Lord's host to save us Hebrews ten five. Consequently, when

Christ came to the world, he said, sacrifices and offerings thou hast not

desired, but a body thou hast prepared for me, And burnt offerings and

sin offerings thou hast taken no pleasure. Then I said, Lo, I

have come to do thy will, O God, as it has written to

me in the scroll of the book, and he disappeared as the commander of

the Lord's army, became a baby in Bethlehem's manger. God with us he

Manuel and human form great condescension. Friend. Jesus came to this world to

do the will of God and reveal the love as God. He can't do

that unless he is God. His whole life was one unselfish gift of service

in which Jesus revealed the love, the nature, the law of God.

No one knows the Son but the Father, and the Father but the Son,

because he's God. Not my will, my way, but your will,

your way, Father, God. Jesus was the man who lived before

he was born. He was born to do the will of God. Jesus

was the mighty protector of Israel in the Old Testament, carried them all the

days of old Isaiah sixty three nine, and all of their affliction. He

was afflicted. The angel or messenger of his presence saved them. That's Jesus

right there, and his love and his pity. He redeemed them. He

lifted them up and carried them all the days of old, but they rebelled

and grieved his holy spirit. Therefore he turned to be their enemy, and

himself fought against them. The ancient rabbis in Judaism recognized what they called the

two great powers of Heaven, and that's why they responded to Jesus the way

they did. They knew that the Son is equal to the Father. Both

are God. They refused, though, and I want to tell what they

refused to do in their theology. They refused to recognize the Holy Spirit as

a person. Did you know that ancient Judaism didn't do that, and so

they always resisted the Holy Spirit. They grieved the Holy Spirit but refusing to

recognize who he is in their midst because isaiahsty says he put the Holy Spirit,

his Holy Spirit in their midst. God had placed his Holy Spirit in

their midst in the wilderness, and they grieved him by their rebellion in the

wilderness. They acted like he didn't exist, or he's just some external presence

sent from God, but not a person who can be grieved. When Paul

came to Ephesus, he met some recent disciples of Jesus who liked the Jewish

rabbis didn't even know that there was a Holy Spirit. Because of this false

teaching of Judaism, acts nineteen one and two. While Paulus was at Krinth,

paul passed through the Upper Country and came to Ephesus. There he found

some disciples. These were recent converts from Judaism, no doubt, maybe because

Judaism had spread in the diaspora. And he said to them, did you

receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And they said no, we have

not ever even heard that there is a Holy Spirit. So they had to

be taught to the Holy Spirit. This person. When Stephen stood up to

defend Jesus in the Gospel, he also stood up to defend the Holy Spirit,

who'd been grieved by the Jewish leaders for centuries as they ignored the Holy

Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, as Sister White calls him,

denied his existence as a as an impersonal presence, kind of like George Lucas'

is the Force. Even though the Lord had placed his Holy Spirit in their

midst, they grieved his Holy Spirit. And look, the Holy Spirit can

cry, can weep because he's a person. Act seven point fifty one.

Here's what Stephen said. I want to read it because man, these words.

Look, he said, you stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and

ears. You can't even read your Bible right. You always resist the Holy

Spirit, and your fathers did so, so do you. And so he's

identifying their theological error that made them resist the Holy Spirit. When he was

poured out at Pentecost and in the life administer of Jesus, which of the

prophets did you not? Your fathers persecute And they killed those who announced beforehand

the coming of the righteous one, this Jesus, whom you have now betrayed

and murdered you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep

it. Now when they heard these things, they were enraged, and they

ground their teeth. Tried grinding your teeth a little bit, and they ground

their teeth against him. But he full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into

heaven, and he saw the glory of God, God the Father, and

Jesus Christ stand at the right hand of God's the holy spirits and him.

God the Father's there, the Son's there. They're all three here they are.

And he said, behold, I see the heavens opened, Son of

Man stand at the right hand of God. But they cried with a loud

voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him. Then they cast him

out of the city and stoned him, and the witnesses laid down their garments

at the feet of the young man named Saul, who would become the great

apostle to the gentiles. Friends, Jesus came to this world to show us

the love of God that he had within the Godhead. From all eternity,

there was never a time in which God was alone without God, the God

who is eyes in us. Why, because the God who is one is

also us. Let us make man in our image. God is love friend.

When Jesus died on the cross, the Holy Trio, as Sister White

calls, the Godhead in three persons, was wounded and broken in heart,

because altogether the Us that is God, was broken two persons of the trim

God, who said, let us make man in our image according to our

light. And I saw Jesus Christ, the third person on the outside,

cut off in the darkness of the cross. And the horror of the cross

is the horror of what is happening to God, who has never been alone

from God who is love. And at the cross Jesus this becomes the God

forsaken God. And don't let that water down in your minds, My God,

my God, he cried out, why have you forsaken me? My

God, the Father, my God, the Holy Spirit. I'm alone in

the night. I cannot find my way home. I can't find my way

home? And what is what did the eye problem of sin do? It

broke the heart, It wounded the nature of God. When we do not

pay attention to the scriptures, we missed the cross of Christ. And what

really happened there on the cross? The Book of Hebrews reveals that Jesus is

offered up in the eternal Spirit as a sacrifice. Holy Spirit was there?

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered

himself of that blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve

the living God. The Father and the Son and the Spirit have always been

one in holy fellowship from all he turn. But at the cross Jesus became

the god forsaken God, My God, my God, Why have you forsaken

me? You know what? The answer that question is. He did it

for you and me. He did it because he didn't want to have eternal

life without you and me. He wanted to expand that circle of love that

existed from all time, the glory we have of the Father before the world

was made, and to bring us in so that our children, our families

will be saved and we would know God and never die. God is loved

because our loving God, who is one, is not only an I,

he is also an us. The Holy trio I in the middle letter is

the word sin of sin. God hates sin because God is love. Take

your bibles in turn with me to first John four eleven. We're almost finished

here, John said, beloved, if God so loved us, we also

either love one another. No man is seeing God. If we love one

another. God abides in us, and his love is perfecting us. So

what is the nature of God. It's love in us. We get a

picture of what is in him. By this we know that we abide in

him and he in us, because He has given us of his own spirit.

And we have seen and testified that the Father has sin his son as

the savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God,

God abides in him and he is God. So we know and believe

the love God has for us. And what does it say next? Friends?

What does it say, God is what love, and he abides in

Love, abides in God, and God abides in him. And this is

love perfected with us. That we we have confidence for the day of judgment,

because as He is, so are we in this world. God is

love and he has to give. He has to be an eye that is

us to be love. And that is the holy trio that sister White has

talked about two corinthen Is five eighteen. Now all things are from God,

who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the

ministry of reconciliation. That is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to

himself, not imputing their trespasses of them, and has committed to us the

word of reconciliation. If God didn't give God at the Cross, that Christ

is not God. I'm sorry your sins aren't forgiven. It takes God to

save John three point sixteen. For God so loved the world. What does

it say that he gave his only son The Hebrew word for love is to

give. If God can't give because he's isolated, if he's an eye who's

not an us, he can't give. But God gave himself when he gave

Christ. Therefore, God is love. See, when we have a distorted

view of the nature of God, we have a distorted view of the cross

of Christ. And then we have a distorative view of the character of God,

and we become selfish, self centered virtue signaling people. If God is

only an eye and not on us, then God cannot give himself. He

cannot give us Jesus friend. Jesus was named God with us at his birth

Emmanuel, because the God who is an eye is also in us, and

he is with us now as a man, Emmanuel, the God Man.

There is a holy fellowship in love in the Godhead. John speaks of it

because more than any of the other disciples revealed, the love of God is

preaching and teaching and from the well of God's eternal love. That is a

love dance of three who are one in a circle of love. We come

to learn to love God as God loves us. Because God is love.

Paul ended his letter and Second Corinthians with a call to enter into the fellowship

of our loving God, who is one but also in us a father's son

and holy Spirit. Second Corinthians of thirteen fourteen and let's read it together,

could we. It's our last verse of the morning. The grace of the

Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit

be with you all. God said, let us make man in our image

according to our likeness. What does it means? Let us create a group

of people who can love. Dear Heart, Let there be love right here

like it is in the US. That is the one God. God is

Love eloheen, God, Almighty Yahweh. Love is God, Father, Son

and Holy Spirit. Love is God. Dear Heavenly Father. We're sinners by

nature. We've all messed up in life. Not a one of us is

better than anybody else. And it just takes one of those sins to break

a law that says the wages of sin is death. But dear Father,

thank you that deeper in the law of God, that is God, there

is love mercy, that the principles that were operative in your eternal being from

the dawn of time require in your justice and mercy you forgive the sinner,

because that's who you are. And Father, I just lift my hand to

you today, say Lord, take me and renew my life, because I

need Jesus. I need the savior you have sent in my life. If

you're in that group, just raise your hands. I need Jesus. I

want to live forever. I can't do this on my own. And Father,

there could be someone here who say I'm struggling with belief in God.

I don't know. May the scriptures Lord, which defy logic. This makes

no sense that God could be so beautiful, yet the Bible has revealed him

as such. May that work and help it to work out in the life

and the heart. Father, we got children and we have family members.

Save us. Give us the joy of the Sabbath, the joy of your

presence today. May there be no bickering, no lack of love in this

place, because God is with us in Jesus' name. Thank you, God

is with us. Amen.