And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. Jeremiah 39:3
While deciphering through the 130,000 Assyrian tablets in the British Museum, it was discovered that Sarsechim mentioned in the book of Jeremiah really existed. One more historical detail matched to Scripture. In the Assyrian tablet he is spelled Nabu-sharrussu-ukin. In Hebrew Sarsechim. Below is the interpretation of the actual Assyrian comments:
1.5 minas of gold, the property of Nabu-sharrussu-ukin, the chief eunuch, which he sent via Arad-Banitu the eunuch to [the temple] Esangila: Arad-Banitu has delivered to Esangila. In the presence of Bel-usat, son of Alpaya, the royal bodyguard, [and of] Nadin, son of Marduk-zer-ibni. Month XI, day 18, year 10 [of] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.2
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Jeremiah 13:23
For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; Job 37:6
Christ Implemented:
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matthew 26:26-28
Paul's Comments:
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. 1 Corinthians 11:24-26
1) Transubstantiation/Real Presence{CATHOLIC}- The bread & wine (grape juice) literally turns into the body & blood of christ when it enters your mouth. --Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, some Anglican/Episcoplian
2) Consubstantiation/Sacramental Union {LUTHER}- Christ's presence is alongside the bread & wine, but not literally in it. -- Lutherans/Some Anglican/Episcopalians
3) Instrumental/Real Spiritual Presence{CALVIN}- We are spiritually taken to heaven during Lord's Supper as an extension of our union from the sacrament of baptism. -- Reformed, Presbyterian
4) Symbolic/Memorial{ZWINGLI}- Simply a symbolic ritual to remember Christ's sacrifice for us. -- Evangelical Churches, non-denominational churches, Baptists, Pentacostals, many other denominations.
**Quakers don't practice the Lord's Supper
**Mormons use water rather than wine (grape juice) during the Communion service
**Jehovah Witnesses call it the Memorial Supper and celebrate it once a year. Only the "144,000" can participate. The remainder of Jehovah Witnesses are excluded from the bread and wine.
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. Proverbs 3:11,12
The song of songs, which is Solomon's. Song of Solomon 1:1
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: Song of Solomon 1:15,16
Four Problems with the "Emerging Church" Movement:
1) Pluralism (Your Truth is as valid as my Truth).
2) Pragmatism (What works rather than the purity of Truth)
3) Cafeteria Religion (Religion is now based upon style & taste)
4) Morality (Reduced to what one wants or likes)
"I have seen the results of these fanciful views of God, in apostasy, spiritualism, and free-lovism. The free love tendency of these teachings was so concealed that at first it was difficult to make plain its real character. Until the Lord presented it to me, I knew not what to call it, but I was instructed to call it unholy spiritual love." Testimonies for the Church vol.8,p.292 E.G.W.
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? Jeremiah 2:13,18
In Scripture, Egypt is used to represent the secular world. The Bible opens with man in paradise seeing God in the cool of the day- And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: Genesis 3:8The book of Genesis ends with these 5 words.....
.............in a coffin in Egypt. Genesis 50:26
Only God can save us from our coffin in Egypt.
But we can once again be restored to our state of face to face with God one day....
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. 3 John 1:4,14
In Chinese Taoism, although known more as a philosphical worldview than a religion, it does contain belief in gods, ghosts and ancestral spirits.
The "gods" are good and help the side of good on earth.
The ghosts are bad and need to be appeased through either sacrifices or name control. Especially during the Chinese ghost festival.
The ancestral spirits are honored by rituals. They trace through the male ancestral line.
But what does God say about the dead?
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Romans 8:7
As the 19th century British preacher Charles Spurgeon once said "He whose garments are the whitest, will best perceive the spots upon them."
One does not need to "spin" a buddhist prayer wheel for prayer. For the God of Heaven hears our prayers that we pray and His Holy Spirit intercedes on our behalf for what we can't put into words that is in our hearts as we pray.
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Romans 8:26
"When you hear about the Self, meditate upon the Self,
and finally realize the Self...
you come to understand everything in life."
--Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.5
But what does God say?
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. John 5:30
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind,
and write them in their hearts:
and I will be to them a God,
and they shall be to me a people: Hebrews 8:10
"The less spiritual, self-denying, and humiliating the doctrines presented, the greater the favor with which they are recieved. These persons degrade the intellectual powers to serve their carnal desires. Too wise in their own conceit to search the scriptures......they have no shield from delusion." The Great Controversy p.523 E.G.W.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. Hebrews 13:9
I delight to do thy will, O my God:
yea, thy law is within my heart. Psalm 40:8
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. Psalm 40:12
And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. Luke 17:26
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Revelation 14:6
In Revelation-at the close of probation, one can see the outlay of the Sanctuary. In the outer court was Justification-made righteous by the blood. And in the inner court was Sanctification-a changed life. So in Revelation 22 these are the people who have been Justified/made righteous and Sanctified/become Holy and passed their Judgement Day.
The layout in the Sanctuary is to become Justified (Outer Court), Sanctified (Inner Court)-to be prepared for your Judgement Day (Most Holy Place).
.........and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: (JUSTIFICATION)
and he that is holy, let him be holy still. (SANCTIFICATION) Revelation 22:11
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ezekiel 18:20
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Romans 6:15
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Romans 7:7,12
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Galatians 3:24
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23
@What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Romans 6:1,2
@Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:3,4
@What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. Romans 6:21
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned: Romans 5:12
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one;
much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Romans 5:19
"The past, present, and future are linked together. We must learn lessons from the experiences of other ages." Review & Herald 7/23/1895 E.G.W.
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: Colossians 1:26
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8
"Men of action are needed-men who will labor with earnest energy for the purification of the church and the warning of the world." Testimonies for the Church vol.5, p.187 E.G.W.
"A world perishing in sin, is to be enlightened. The lost sheep is to be brought back in safety to the fold. Who will join in the search? Who will bear the light to those who are wandering in the darkness of error?" Review & Herald 7/23/1895 E.G.W.
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. Psalm 22:30,31
Praise ye the LORD.
Praise God in his sanctuary:
praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet:
praise him with the psaltery and harp. Psalm 150:1,3
The saddest position one can be in is that of Samson. To be one who truly believes in God and yet prefers the world. It was the cry of Samson to God that was so sad- And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. Judges 16:30
"Begining at Genesis, they give up that which they deem questionable, and their minds lead on, for satan will lead to any length they may follow in their criticism,..." Selected Messages vol.1,p.18 E.G.W.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:18
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Genesis 1:26
Some people today look in the mirror and see someone created in the image and likeness of God. And some see the latest offshoot of a monkey.
"The Lord did not make man to be redeemed, but to bear His image. But through sin man lost the image of God."
Selected Messages vol. 3,p.134 E.G.W.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; Isaiah 61:1
The SPIRIT of GOD was upon HIM (Christ)
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Luke 4:18
The false doctrine of Modalism is the belief that God appears in 3 different Modes or manifestations over time.
1) God the FATHER in the Old Testament
2) God the SON in the Gospels
3) God the SPIRIT since Pentacost
But God has always been the Father, Son and Spirit: Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Isaiah 42:1
