The Spirit Cry

We just I'm going to offer a prayer before we start. Is that,

okay? Father? We are intrinsically lost without Jesus and Father, no matter

of trying, no mautter of good efforts will get us to God, get

us back to Heaven unless you save us on your own terms at the cross

and Father, we lift up these dear people. We get through life,

and we don't heal up all the time, and sometimes we do the ultimate

healings when Jesus comes. So Father, help us to be in the business

of helping other men and women, our family, our children get there.

Lord. We're living before the Second Coming, and the world is crazy.

We're living really in what is equivalent to World War three it appears, and

no one knows what will happen. No one can control. Only you can.

And so we ask that the wake up call that the world is hearing,

that we'll hear it too, and we'll get our lives together and we

will be found in Christ without compromise. Lord, having righteousness by faith.

That's real, not just talked about. So bless us in this communion service

to know you in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, Well, one of

the most poignant statements in the Bible is found in Roman's ad where the Holy

Spirit groans and are groaning for God. I mean, Roman's eight is one

of those watershed chapters you should read. In fact, the very center of

the book is Abba Father. It's the chiastic, linguistic center of the book

when the cry goes out of the believer Abba Father. And the Gospel of

God is about bringing us into a vital, living relationship with Abba Daddy,

God the Father. Now there are times in our very challenging lives and we

cry out to God. Have you ever cried out to God? Oh God,

you had the grown raw? You ever done that in pain? Yearning?

You have? I have two, And it's intrinsic in the person that

yearns for him. Now, we live in a wicked world where even men

reach out and they kill children with knives. And we've seen that this week.

It's awful. And God sees it all and he cares about every single

child as if there's none other than the universe. And I was asking myself

the question today, how many children have died on the altars of bail?

How many children are burned alive on the altars? To Malik Malik is the

Hebrew word for king with the vows for shame. It's the shameful king instead

of Yahweh God. They burned their children there on the altars, and they

took that false religion to Carthage, and God brought it down with the Roman

Empire. Awful thing been offered to Satan. I'm going to ask this question

in the abortion clinics, the hospitals of our land, where over sixty million

children were murdered right here in America. That's exactly what happened. How many

have died in the slaughter of the innocence in Israel the past few days.

And the gods strip on the other side also, you know, not just

Disraeli children. Children on the other side by evil men who don't care about

children or people, be they Jewish or Arab, evil men who are merchants

of death and nothing more. You know. I'm it's so easy to get

caught up in the politics of who's right or wrong. But God sits on

the throne and he notices when anyone lashes out at a child. Some of

these images we've seen on the television this week of people coming in paragliders coming

into a Sabbath gathering, Sabbath festival gathering and butchering people on a huge scale,

and then the death that follows on every In our Sainus moments, we

need to know that our Father God cares about all the children, be they

Jewish or Arab, be the American children, African American children offered to Satan

in our own country, and God cares about every single child. You know,

I'm going to say this, I'm kind of talking to you from my

heart here. I can't believe we call a child a fetus in America.

Their children all God's children. One child sacrificed on any altar or in any

war or in any abortion clinic grieves the God of Heaven because every child is

his child. When we cry out to God, we need to know that

our child's cry, because it's a child in all of us, that that

child's cry is heard in the night by an almighty God who cares. We

need to know that there's a Daddy up there who does not sleep at night,

who hears the cry of his children in the night, and who will

act in the end to save them all somehow. And I've asked myself,

how will God make it right for children who never had a chance. And

I want to tell you what I believe, based on scripture and knowledge of

the character of God. I believe in the resurrection at the end of the

age, that there are going to be millions of children without parents resurrected,

and that we will be raising children who God will harvest from every age because

they're all His children. Have you ever heard of William Foy? How many

of you know who William Foy is. William Foy was the prophet that God

raised up in eighteen forty two, forty three before Ellen White, who wrote

about seventeen pages, and he is most definitely a true prophet of God.

His prophecy's mirror sister Whites. In fact, the laying which she uses,

like those who eat of this tree returned to earth no more William Foy has

it. William Foy sees in prophetic vision as this the Millerite prophet of the

Second Angel's message, angels moving throughout the earth at the second Coming of Christ,

harvesting children whose mothers can't make it, but harvesting the children anyway,

because our God loves children and had answered the question for me. There will

be millions of children saved. At the end of the age, it's gonna

be a big nursery going to the sea of Glass, and somehow God will

put it together. I don't know how, but he will. So we

need to know deep inside that God cares about the children. The children of

the Holocaust, the children who died, and the great massacres of Rwanda,

the children who suffer in Somalia all over the world. I mean, the

conscience of the world was once raised. But the great musical gathering we are

the world. Remember that we are the children. That song raised money for

the cause of children. When a child dies violent at the hands of evil

men, be it in war or an abortion clinic, the hands of evil

men anywhere. In the end, we need to know that God cares about

the children. I don't know about you, but this week I've seen too

much of children die in the news. The news has to be clear for

me, and it is, and I don't want to watch it anymore,

but it still happens. I feel like Herod the Great has reached out all

over again and killed the children of Bethlehem and is eager thirst for blood.

And he's killed Arab children too. You know my son. My wife is

half Arab. I care about all children. I'm not picking sides. Which

child is special to God. Every child is. But not since the Holocaust

have we seen what happened this week. This is horrible. When a child

dies like we have seen, how can you put knives into a child?

Jesus is there inside that child with the spirit cry, the spirit cry.

They have noticed that when a child is being aborted in the womb, there's

a silent scream. It is the spirit cry. Friends, It's the cross

all over again. Because inasmuch as you have done it to one of the

least of these mine, brethren, you've done it unto me. There is

no excuse to ignore that all of these precious children are God's children. The

Book of Hebrews teaches us that when Jesus died on the cross of Calvary,

he offered himself up as the eternal son of God. That the Bible teaches

in the eternal spirit to God, and the Book of Romans would indicate with

the spirit cry Hebrews nine fourteen, how much more shall the blood of Christ

through the eternal Spirit. Now you know you should underline that verse. What

is this? What kind of spirit are we looking at here? What does

it say? You know the word eternal spirit. So don't let anyone tell

you the Holy Spirit is not eternal. Right there, it is the eternal

Spirit offered himself without blemish to God. Purify your conscience from dead works to

serve the living God. I am looking at the cross of Calvary. I

see us suffering Christ. And when I read Hebrews nine, I see the

Eternal Spirit engaged in the suffering of Calvary's cross Isaiah sixty three to nine.

Now this is a prophecy that Paul will borrow from when he interacts with the

Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. Roman's

eight comes from here. And this is God's the Father speaking at first,

and all their affliction, he was afflicted. There's nothing that happens in this

world that does not affect God Father. He may be beyond space and time.

No man has seen the Father at any time. We've seen the form

of the spirit of baptism, we've seen Jesus in his manifestation as a human

being, but no one has seen the Father at any time. So what

kind of Daddy do we have up there? And right here, it says

in all their affliction, he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence

saved them. God was hurt, and here the messenger of his presence is

Christ. He's identified as Yahweh God in Isaiah forty four to six. Thus

says the King of Israel, Yahweh, and his redeemer Yahweh. Of hosts.

I am the first and the last, and besides me there is no

God. Together, God, the Father, God the Son speak as one.

In ancient Judaism, they got that. In ancient Judaism, they understood

that there are two great powers and they are equal. In fact, when

Jesus was claiming to be the son of God in John five eighteen and nineteen,

right there, right there in John five eighteen nineteen, and they says,

you claim to be the son of God, making yourself equal to God.

Because they knew what it meant, they read Dane seven. They were

engaged in Isaiah forty four to six Isaiah sixty three, and they knew that

to be the Son of God, you had to be God. And for

that they wanted to stone him. Now Here it says in all their affliction,

he was afflicted. That's the Father, and the Angel of his presence,

which is the messenger of the Covenant, saved them. Christ has always

been the savior. And look what it says. Next, in his love

and his pity, what did he do? What does it say? He

redeemed them? What else did he do? It says he lifted them up?

And then he carried them all the days of old, the good shepherd.

And looking at here's the third person of the Godhead. But they rebelled

and grieved. His Holy spirit, just like his redeemer is Christ. Second

person the God had. His Holy spirit suffers as Christ redeems. And thus

when Christ died on the cross, he offered himself in the eternal spirits.

They rebelled against his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned to be their enemy and

fought against them. You know. The last book of the Bible, the

book Revelation, introduces God the Father, God the Son, and God the

Holy Spirit has three distinct persons. It says, from him who was is

in his coming, that's God the Father. Then it says, from the

seven spirits before his throne. Why seven because seven Hebrew means the complete spirit.

How many directions are there by the way, seven eyes of God,

seven spirits of God north south east west. How many directions? Four up

and down? How many directions plus four? Is what? Six? But

why are there seven? Why does he use the word seven, which means

the complete spirit of God? Because he can also see what inside the seven

spirits of God, the seven eyes of God. That's the complete Holy Spirit

that sees knows everything. It says before his throne, greetings from all three.

In the book Revelation Relation, there's a false trinity, Dragon, the

beasts, and the false prophet. But these are introduced at the very begind

of the books, so there be no confusion at the time of the end.

That God, the Father, God, the Son God, the Holy

Spirit, his sister White would say, these three holy beings, these three

holy beings are a one, and don't try to do the math that does

one equal three. Forget your math. Let the Bible reveal that in the

oneness of God there are three. The One who was is in his coming,

the Father seven spirits, the Holy Spirit which is before his throne,

and the One who loved us and died for us, it says, and

loosed us from our sins. The third person is introduced in Revelation one.

And so we have God, the triune one God. If Sister White would

call him the Holy Trio. Now, trio is more accurate than the word

trinity. Trinitos in Latin means trio means a group of three, and she

uses the term the Godhead friend. If there is not a God like this,

the cross of Calvary is empty. You know, I'd studied once with

a Jehovah's witness and he was a very nice man. Weak theology week study

the Bible, because at the Cross of Christ, God really gives up nothing.

If God was not in Christ reconcile in the world unto himself, as

Paul says he was, then God gave nothing at the cross. He gave

a creature, He gave a creative being. And thus God intrinsically is selfish.

Now, Sister White says in Patriarchs and Prophets, page seventy that the

Cross, it was demonstrated the deity has sufficient capacity to exercise self renouncing love.

If you can't give of yourself, if you have someone else do the

work for you, you're not a God love. God had to be in

Christ, reconcile in the word unto himself, or there is no reconciliation at

the cross. We worship a God who feels the pain inside all his children,

who loves each one of us as if there is no other child of

love in all his vast universe. If we are led by this Holy Spirit,

how many of you want to be led by the Holy Spirit. I

want to be led by the Holy Spirit. If we are led by the

Holy Spirit, we are the children of God, and thus we cry out

to God as God our father. Romanz Ade establishes that fact. When we

cry out to God the Spirit himself. Those are the words of Paul and

Roman's ay. Not the Spirit is some force like George Lucas's Star Wars.

The Jews believed that the Father and the Son were equal, so they got

it Christ was claiming to be the son of God, that he was claiming

to be God. But they didn't believe the Holy Spirit was anything more than

a force like George Lucas. Is the force, and it's interesting. Paul,

using Isaiah sixty three, will add the reflexive pronoun altos himself, the

spirit himself, which imbeds personhood into the Holy Spirit. When we cry out

to God, the Spirit himself cries and groans within our spirit, bearing witness

in our spirit that we are the children of God through the Holy Spirit.

Cry the spirit cry, and the Book of Genesis, Moses records that it

grieved the Lord God that he had made man when he saw the violence in

the pre flood evil world. Yeah, weegh, God was grieved. Moses

uses the Hebrew word now, it's amazing, the word hamas for violence in

Genesis six. The terrorist group that has killed Palestinians in the West Bank,

the commandeer, this wonderful Arab people are dedicated to murder and mayhem. They

named themselves after this verb violence. Come us. We don't need a dictionary

today to know that what that word means. It means the death of children.

It means evil in our time, like Isis and other groups, but

not the dear Palestinian people, the dear Arab people, many of them who

love God. Is there any soul in any of us when we would justify

a group like this, you know, at Seventh day avns, we have

no business identifying with political groups like this doing. Shouldn't we be in the

saving business? You know? Who identify with I identify with Jesus Christ.

In the third Angel's message, we are to be the good Samaritans of the

world and not involved in murder, thinking political nonsense, be it the right

left or anything. If there's any soul in any of us, we should

care about the death of children anywhere in the world, if we are really

Christians, when evil men murder children to make a point, or if they

do it in a medical clinic for a twist to kind of them, or

some crazy notion that somehow a fetus is not a child of God. I

don't even like using the word fetus. That isn't freedom at all. Something

inside of us has been broken when we don't realize that God loves all his

children. We need the Holy Spirit inside himself inside of us, the Holy

Spirit himself in us, not some cold force, but a person who's God,

the Holy Spirit himself. Are we aren't the children of God? Because

their spirit cry inside of us is the proof that we belong to God.

Turning Romans eight fourteen, I want to draw your attention very quickly to fourteen

and fifteen. For all who are led by the spirit of God, what

does it say are the children of God? Hown't even want to be led

by the children the spirit of God. We're children of God. If we

are now, we can grieve the Holy Spirit. It said it right there

in Isaiah sixty three. Jesus at every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven man,

but the sin against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven this age or

the age to come. God says another place, he's jealous for his Holy

Spirit, very similar to a husband be jealous for a wife. You don't

mistreat my spirit now the Holy Spirit cannot be an inanimate force and be tenderhearted

and grieve and cry. You know, you know, it hurts more than

any other thing in life is to be treated like you don't exist. Has

anyone ever treated you like you don't exist? You're sitting there and they say,

they just ignore you. I mean, to me, it hurts.

If I come up to someone, I'm kind, I greet them and they

just turn away and they ignore me. It hurts, doesn't it hurt Jesus,

I don't grieve the Holy Spirit. You know, it's interesting the Jewish

people have this false notion of the Holy Spirit. When Pete not Peter,

but when Stephen preached in acts, they stoned him because he said this.

He says, you always reject the Holy Spirit. You have made him in

your lives when he is someone. Let me show you why, Paul.

This is why Paul is saying this. Here Paul was there when Stephen was

stoned. He helped kill him. Paul here is speaking, but Stephen couldn't

say. Paul says, for all who are led by the spirit of God

are the children of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery

to fall back into fear. Does God want us to worship him because we're

afraid of him? Yes? Or no? The answer is no. But

you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, what does the

Bible say? Ah ba father? That's ba ba ah bah pop ba.

DoD dots the child formation, that looks at a daddy and starts talking that

way, ahba daddy father. Now look at verse sixteen. It is the

spirit. And then Paul puts the reflexive pronoun in himself, bearing witness with

our spirit that we are the children of God. Now I'll ask you a

very clear question. It doesn't take a genius or a PhD to figure it

out. If you are someone called himself, does that make you a person.

Does the word himself mean person or not? Should we take our scissors

and cut that word out of Romans eight? So the spirit is not himself

anymore. If the spirit can be grieved, what would it do to the

spirit? Just speak of him as like George Lucas's force or something. The

Spirit himself Paul is speaking. Jesus called him another counselor bearing witness with our

spirit that we are the children of God. I want that tender part of

God in me? Do you how I do? I want to be a

child of God. Friends, Jesus was offered through the eternal Spirit on the

Cross of Calvary in the spirit cry Christ was the child of God, who

is God, with knives in him, cut the ribbons by the Romans and

others, the Jews, the people of the earth. We all stuck our

knife in him at the cross. And the Holy Spirit was in Jesus from

all eternity. How do we know that first John One, the eternal life

that was with the Father was manifested. We saw him, we beheld him.

Christ doesn't start in time. Christ is before all time. The eternal

life that was with the Father and the Holy Spirit was in Jesus from all

eternity, and Christ was this Christ. And Christ was in the Spirit.

He says, I'm in the Father, the Father is in me. And

thus Christ could be called Everlasting Father, Mighty counselor a term for the Father

and the Holy Spirit, because the three are one, and we have this

embedded in the Old Testament. This is why godly, humble people in our

early movement who didn't understand this fully came to understand this in the eighteen nineties

as God revealed righteousness by faith to us. Now tell you why it's important

to see that God the three or one, because if you do not have

the ability to give without being special in the oneness of God, you are

intrinsically selfish. The triun God necessitates the love of God. Anything less you

get an unloving God. And Judy has improved it. They nailed Jesus to

the cross, and the Holy Spirit was in Jesus, Jesus in the Spirit,

in the Father, the Father, and the Son. He says,

from all eternity, and in that love swirl the universe was made, and

Christ was in the Spirit. Is also in the fathers of the eternal life

that was with the Father, and thus the life was manifested. John says,

Praise God. There is a trio, a group of three that is

one the Godhead. They speak as one. They are one, and yet

there's three. Forget the math. It's revealed. The spirit cry was in

Jesus Christ at the Cross of Calvary. We don't recognize the suffering spirit there,

but you know what he said at the cross Eli Eli Lama sabachthani in

aramah, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Mount

Sinai, When the Father and the Son stood and gave the law of God,

said the Lord, the Lord, Yahweh, Yahweh, a God merciful

and gracious. The Father and Son together revealed himself. But here Christ is

speaking in similar fashion. In the loneliness, the darkness of the loss of

the cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

He groaned it out twice because it was real for him. In a double

measure. When Jesus lost God the Father, that day, Jesus also lost

God the Holy Spirit. In the same day, the spirit cried, He

offered himself in the eternal spirit. The Bible says, friends, Jesus suffered

in gast semity. Does anybody know what the word as semony means? Do

you know what it means? It comes to what death means, press and

semon. Simony means shimen, and Hebrew it means oil. It's the oil

press. Oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. When Christ comes in

the garden cause simone, great drops of blood are forced out of him.

He comes to the ground and he clinches the ground as his humanity begins to

shut down. If it weren't for an angel come from heaven to put him

on the respirator, so to speak, he to diet on the spot because

the sins of the world begin to move through him as a human beings,

not as the Angel of the Covenant, whose form that's the form he had

before before that, Paul says, he was equal to God, having the

form equal to God. But he condescended to become a servant being in the

Old Testament era. But he wasn't using that now he was human and in

his humanity as all of this was moving through and from Adam to the end,

millions of people going through his mind is hard. He clinched the ground

with my sins. You're in him Isaiah says, all our sins were caused

to meet in him. And I'm telling you it's unbelievable what happened to Jesus.

The Holy Spirit was being pushed out of him. He had been one

with the spirit from all time. The spirit of life is connected to the

Word of life. The Word of life is eternal, and that garden and

on the cross, the Holy Spirit was pressed out of Jesus in the groan.

That is the spirit Christ, my God, the Father, my God,

the Holy Spirit. Why have you forsaken me? If the two were

one? But what do we see at the cross? We see the brokenness

of what Sister White calls the heavenly Trio or the three heavenly beings of the

Godhead, My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me? David

said when he sinned with Bethsheba, take not your Holy Spirit from me.

Jesus was the son of David, and unlike David, the spirit was taken

from him Christ. It was pressed out of him in the sufferings of the

cross when he died for my sins and yours friends. At the cross we

hear the groan of God, the groan of the God forsaken God. Who

is Jesus crying out in the darkness for God, his Father, and God

the Holy Spirit in the spirit, cry my God, My God, why

have you forsaken me? When we feel the spirit cry instyted of our spirits,

we know that God hears us. We know that if we can't express

it in language, he's there because of the cry. But when Jesus cried

out, he could not find the God, the Father, God, the

Spirit, and the darkness of the cross. The word for darkness in three

of the Gospels the Synoptic Gospels is scot us. It means a darkness of

mind. It's used in subtuagen Greek for the darkness that could be felt over

Egypt. He could not feel the light, he could not feel God's presence,

lost in the night, a child crying in the night, My God,

my God, Daddy, why have you forsaken me? Romans eight twenty

two. We know that the whole creation has been groaning and travail until now

verse twenty three. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who

have the first fruits of the spirit grown inwardly. As we wait for adoption

to sons, the redemption of our bodies. Look, we're in this game

with Christ. Don't ask God to give you a road where it doesn't go

where it's perfect. No, you have no suffering your life. Friends,

if you're called to live for Christ, you're going to have a rough I

mean, what happened in Israel could happen to us as Sabbath keepers at the

time of the end. You hear me, So we better be real in

our religion with God. It hurts to live in this world, and we

cry like children inside when we see evil men kill children. But Jesus came

into this world to save the children. How does the song go? Jesus

loves the little cheer all the children of the world, red and yellow,

little black and white. They are precious in his side. Jesus loves the

little children of the world. He does. We have hope because Jesus came

to save his children, and that we are verse twenty four. For in

this hope we were saved. And I hope that is seen is not hope,

for who hopes for what he sees. But if we hope for what

we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Now look at

verse twenty six with me, how many of you want to hurt the Holy

Spirit today by ignoring him. I don't look at this verse Likewise, the

Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray

as we ought. Now, look what it says next. But the Spirit,

now, what's the next word himself himself? I mean, just say

it again. Let the Bible affect, maybe adjust something in our hearts.

The Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. It's amazing.

The Spirit himself Jesus lost him at the Cross of Calvary. He lost

his father too. Oh, don't worry about that phone. You know my

phone goes off to can I check my phone real quick? We don't.

Don't be embarrassed. Okay, I got mine off, but I've left it

on. You stay in church with that phone. I want, don't want

you want to leave in here? Okay, I don't know whose phone it

was, but they can go off. Don't be don't feel bad about it.

The Spirit himself has a heart. Why because he intercedes, He pleads

for us. He's not some George Lucas kind of force. He helps us.

The spirit cry Verse twenty seven, He who searches the hearts of men.

Now knows what is in the mind of the Spirit. That's God the

Father. Because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according of the will of God.

He's not a person himself. He can't intercede with the Father Verse twenty

eight. We know that in everything God works for good with those who love

Him, who are called according to His purpose. Now, I was going

to share a song here at the end of this message that my brother wrote

when he was in Sturaught years ago in twenty thirteen, when rockets were coming

and his life was saved, and he saw children running for their lives.

I want to read part of the lyrics of that song that he wrote.

It's on the Internet. It's called the Children of Start by Tim Davis.

He says, well, I wonder do the angels cry when the rockets fly

again, when the children off stir Road are alone and afraid of them?

Do the tears of Leon Rachel's fall, And do they reach the ground when

the fires fill the heavens down in stay roll? Why good men to fight

off evilmen? Greater love has no one but to give his own life in

the end, Well, I wonder do the angels cry each time the rockets

fly, when the fires fill the heavens down in Stay Road. God,

You're our salvation, cousin you, we all depend. Give us your very

Ah and the strength of your mighty pin. And let our hearts and beat

as one as we pray for peace. Today, God remember Israel and the

children of st Roll. God bless the valiant ones, the eagles fly high.

Let there be peace on earth. And as the years go by,

and give us your salvation, cousin you, we all depend. And God

remember Israel and the children of st Roll. Well, I wonder do the

angels cry when the rockets fly again? When the children off the road are

alone and afraid of them? Do the tears of Leon and Rachel's fall?

And do they touch the ground when the fires fill the heavens down in Stay

Road? Please, God remembers rise and the children of Stay Rolled. We

want God to save all the children of the world, don't we children of

Visrael, the children of the Arab world, the children of America, our

children the Spirit cry Father. We were baptized in the name of the Father,

the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Father. We don't get a

day through life without Christ in us, through His Holy Spirit and Lord.

We don't get anywhere unless we look to You as Aba Father and of Jesus

as Savior. May we go from this place and never ignore you, never

develop a theology to ignore you, an attitude to ignore you. But surrender

in our lives and give us victory over sin in the mighty, mighty power

of the third person of the Godhead, in the name of Jesus Christ,

for the sake and glory of God our Father, in Jesus' name, Amen.