Paul Simplifies Sanctification

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11

Ripple of Influence

"Throw a pebble into the lake, and a wave is formed,....and as they increase, the circle widens, until it reaches the very shore. So it is with our influence." Christs Object Lessons p. 146 E.G.W. Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Ecclesiastes 11:1

The King in His Beauty

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: 

they shall behold the land that is very far off. Isaiah 33:17

The winepress of the wrath of God

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. Psalm 75:8  And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, Revelation 14:19.20

Sabbath vs. Sunday

"The papal power has thought to change the Law of God by substituting a spurious Sabbath for that of Jehovah. All through the religious world the false Sabbath is revered, while the true one is trampled under unholy feet. But...will He accept a day possessing no sanctity in the place of His own Sabbath, which ws hallowed and blessed? No; it is on the law of God that the last great struggle of the controversy will be between Christ...and satan ..will come, and it will be decisive for all the world. Men in responsible posotions will not only ignore and despise the sabbath themselves, but from the sacred desk will urge upon the people the observance of the first day of the week." The Southern Watchman 6/24/1904 E.G.W.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis 2:2,3

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, ...For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:10,11

What of the LITTLE HORN POWER?

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Daniel 7:25

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:7

The Blooming Rose of Creation

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. Psalm 104:24 Natural Selection is used by the Creator within His web-of-Creation to produce different shapes, sizes and colors over the generations. Each kind has the genetic code for such. And as the Creation expands from the original pair of each kind, the world blooms like a rose. It fills the earth with the blossoming of its diversity. I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. Song of Solomon 2:1

Micah 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee,

 but to do justly,
and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8

The Greatest Miracle

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Ezekiel 36:26 "Is not this, the renewal of man, the greatest miracle that can be performed?" Testimonies for the Church vol.9, p.152 E.G.W.

Cup of Woe

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. Matthew 26:39

"It was here that the destiny of a lost world trembled in the balance. Should He refuse to drink the cup, the result would be eternal ruin to the human race. But an angel from heaven strengthened the Son of God to accept the cup and drink its bitter woe." Testimonies for the Church vol.9, p.102 E.G.W.

Wheel within a Wheel & History

The wheel within a wheel of the vision of Ezekiel shows the ability of God to guide history in a perfect flow. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. Ezekiel 1:16 The words of Mordecai to Queen Esther is a good example... For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? Esther 4:14

Until the evening

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. Psalm 104:23

Fruits of the Spirit

But the fruit of the Spirit is
love,
joy,
peace,
longsuffering,
gentleness,
goodness,
faith,
Meekness,
temperance:
     against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22,23
"These precious graces are but the principles of God's law carried out in the life." The Sanctified life p.80 E.G.W.

Despondent Feelings

"...these despondent feelings are no evidence that God has forsaken you or me. Gloomy feelings are no evidence that the promises of God are of no effect. You look at your feelings....you begin to draw more closely to the garment of heaviness about your soul. You are to look to Christ." Selected Messages vol.3, p.324 E.G.W.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Matthew 11:29

Sons & Daughters

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth;
that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: Psalm 144:12
"It is because so many parents and teachers profes to believe the word of God while their lives deny its power, that the teaching of scripture has no greater effect upon the youth."  Education p. 259 E.G.W.

Prayer & Youth

"It was in hours of solitary prayer that Jesus in His earth life recieved wisdom and power. Let the youth follow His example in finding at dawn and twilight a quiet season for communion with the Father in heaven." Education p.259 E.G.W.
Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee: 2 Chronicles 6:19

Rose of Sharon

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. Song of Solomon 2:1

Psalm 123

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes,
O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

     Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters,
     and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress;
     so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God,
until that he have mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us,

     O LORD,

have mercy upon us:

  for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud and the contempt of the arrogant.

Psalm 123:1-3KJV & 4NIV

 

Educated in Spiritual things

For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Acts 18:28
"The minds of poor, fallible mortals should be disciplined and educated in spiritual things." Testimonies for the Church vol.4, p.54 E.G.W.

Your own Heart

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. Lamentations 3:40

"Many, in their close watch to discover the faults of their brethren, neglect the investigation of their own hearts." Testimonies for the Church vol.4, p.489 E.G.W.

Sabbath for Today

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. Exodus 31:16
Who is "Israel" today?
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:29 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Galatians 3:7 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 2 Corinthians 11:22
The 4th Commandment Sabbath that also commemorates Creation
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. Exodus 36:17
So then, based upon the above verse, and the following verse, then His focus at the end with Moses on sanai, was once again His Sabbath day.
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. Exodus 31:18
What does God say in the New testament about His people?
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

4th Commandment

Ceremonial sabbath(S)-plural-NOT the same as the 7th day Sabbath of the Decalogue

Here Paul is not talking about the weekly 7th day Sabbath of the 4th Commandment, but rather, about the ceremonial sabbath days (plural). Look at the context of what he is discussing...the ceremonial celebrations, as we all know, were a "shadow of things to come". But the 7th day Sabbath stands with the rest of the 10 Commandments.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; Colossians 2:16,17
EXAMPLES of sabbath(s) - Plural (ceremonial)
1) And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, Ezekiel 45:17
2) I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. Hosea 2:11
3) And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, 1 Chronicles 23:31
4) Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God.2 Chronicles 2:4
5) Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Isaiah 1:13
6) Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. Leviticus 23:39
7) But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. Leviticus 25:4
8) And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Leviticus 25:8
9) It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. Leviticus 23:32

Death & Life

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Proverbs 21:16 

                                           
"Our loved ones die. Their accounts with God are sealed up. But while we consider it a serious, solemn thing to die, we must consider it a much more solemn thing to live." Selected Messages vol.2, p. 264 E.G.W.

Lion & Lamb

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat.   They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD. Isaiah 63:25

Tears

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Revelation 7:17

Thanksgiving

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.  Psalm 100:4

Giraffe

The Creator made giraffes as an animal that can reach up to 10 ft. tall. Their design includes veins in the neck which contract as the head lowers then raises so as to restrict return blood flow. Also their spots are designed to regulate body heat. Each spot has blood vessel around it directing blood flow to smaller vessels. Each spot is unique to each giraffe similar to unique fingerprints to each human.

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, Genesis 1:25

4 Points

And Jesus increased in- 1) wisdom (intellectually) 2) and stature, (physically) 3) and in favour with God (spiritually) 4) and man. (socially)Luke 2:52

Spring is in the Air

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, Song of Solomon 2:12

The Virgin Birth and Psilanthropism

Psilanthropism is the idea that Christ was born simply as a human and that the virgin birth was made up to make Him sound divine. Some Ebionites in early Christianity were psilathropists. The pagan philosopher Celsus, who hated & debated Chrsitianity,claimed that the father of Christ was a Roman soldier named Pantera. Some Jews perpetuated that line during the middle ages to try and hold back coversions in Europe from Judiaism to Christianity. A modern church that espouses some psilathropist views is the Unifiicaation church ( aka moonies). The term coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,"Willing suspension of disbelief" was used to describe the idea of the virgin birth. {Psilo is Greek for merely or only & anthropos is Greek for human being}.
So we know what man says-but what does Scripture tell us?
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Matthew 1:23

To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. ---And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. LUKE 1:27,31

What is the House of God?

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself
in the house of God,
     which is the church of the living God,
the pillar and ground of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15

Our High Priest

Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Hebrews 2:17

ENOCH-For HE WAS NOT

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Genesis 5:24
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. Hebrews 11:5

"The experience of Enoch and John the Baptist represents what ours should be....we need to study the lives of these men." Testimonies for the Church vol.8, p.329 E.G.W.
"Enoch's case is before us. He lived in a corrupt age, when moral pollution was teeming all around him; yet he trained his mind to devotion, to love purity. His converstion was upon heavenly things. He educated his mind to run in this channel, and he bore the impress of the divine.Enoch had temptations as well as we. The atmosphere he breathed was tainted with sin and corruption, the same as ours; yet he lived a life of holiness. He was a representative of the saints who live amid the perils and corruptions of the last days. For his faithful obedience to God he was translated." Testimonies for the Church vol.2 p.122 E.G.W.
"It was through constant conflict and simple faith that Enoch walked with God. You may well do the same." Testimonies for the Church vol.3, p.543 E.G.W.
"Brethern, pray at home,...night & morning; pray earnestly in your closet; and while engaged in your daily labor, lift up the soul to God in prayer. It was thus that Enoch walked with God." Testimonies for the Church vol.4, p.616 E.G.W.
"Enoch did not become polluted with the iniquities existing in his day; why need we in our day?" Testimonies for the Church vol.5, p.113 E.G.W.
"During those early years, Enoch had loved and feared God, and had kept His commandments. But after the birth of his first son he reached a higher experience; he was drawn into closer relationship with God. As he saw the child's love for its father, its simple trust in its protection; as he felt the deep, yearning tenderness of his own heart for the first born son, he learned a precious lesson of the wonderful love of God to man in the gift of His Son and the confidence which the children of God may repose in their heavenly Father. Enoch's walk with God was not in a trance or a vision, but in all the duties of his daily life. He did not become a hermit....His faith waxed stronger, his love became more ardent with the lapse of the centuries. To him prayer was the breath of the soul. As the scenes of the future were opened to his view, Enoch became a preacher of righteousness...the prophet of God made known the wonderful scenes that had passed before his vision. Behold, he declared, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgement upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds. Jude 14,15. The servants of God are to bear a similar message to God in these last days, and it will also be recieved with unbelief and mockery." Testimonies for the Church vol.8, p.329,330 E.G.W.
"Enoch, pure in heart, holy in life, holding fast his faith in the triumph of righteousness against a corrupt and scoffing generation." Education p.254 E.G.W.
"We have the encouraging record that Enoch walked with God. If Enoch walked with God, in that degenerate age just prior to the destruction of the world by a flood, we are to recieve courage and be stimulated with his example that we need not be contaminated with the world but, amid all its corrupting influences and tendencies, we may walk with God." Selected Messages vol.3, p.338 E.G.W.

If you could hear..............

 It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, .... who also maketh intercession for us. Romans 8:34

The Figs of Jeremiah

1) The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Jeremiah 24:1
2a) One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe:
2b)and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. Jeremiah 24:2
3) Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah?
3a) And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good;
3b)and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Jeremiah 24:3
4) Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. Jeremiah 24:5
5) For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land:--And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart. Jeremiah 24:6,7

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Revelation 18:4

And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land..... Jeremiah 24:8-10







Silver & Gold won't save you-it's God's anyway

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; Zephaniah 1:18
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. Haggai 2:8

Stand Still

.......stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Job 37:14

Zebra

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, Genesis 1:24

Beauty of our God

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: Psalm 90:17

The Children

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. Mark 10:14

Enoch Prophesied-before the Flood

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying,
1) Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
2) To execute judgment upon all,
3) and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed,
4) and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Jude 14,15

"The message preached by Enoch and his translation to heaven were a convincing argument to all who lived in his time....That God who walked with Enoch was our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He was the light of the world then just as He is now." Testimonies for the Church vol.6, p.392 E.G.W.

Peter Testifies

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Peter 1:16

Evolution or Creation

Evolutionists try to confuse people with macroevolution and microevolution.
Macroevolution is what we call evolution.
Microevolution is really natural selection-how we get different shapes, sizes and colors within a kind. But the kind remains a kind. It doesn't "evolve" into something else. The crux of the debate is whether or not natural selection leads to evolution.
Based on Creation, we should have each kind at a starting point. Then a straight line spinning as it extends out in time, cranking out different shapes, sizes & colors of the kind. For example, different shapes, sizes & colors of bears. But the bears are still bears.
What we see in nature is exactly what we would expect to see based on Creation.
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. Psalm 119:73

Buddhist Mystic takes 50 on a "tour of hell"

Buddhist mystic, Kek Eng Seng, took 50 people in Malaysia, including western journalists, on a supposed "tour of hell". Some claimed to have seen dead relatives in the distance. One journalist claimed his head was hot and was told it was his "soul" attempting to exit his body. Another saw a rainbow in the sky. Another claimed someone approached them and said they should try being a vegetarian!! These "experiences" sound more heavenly than the other place.
Of course we know from scripture that "hell" does not yet exist. It is the lake of fire in the end that
consumes once and for all. For the dead are dead until the resurrection.
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, Jeremiah 27:9

The Canon of Scripture is Closed

"The Lord desires you to study your Bibles. He has not given any additional light to take the place of His Word." Selected Messages vol.3, p.29 E.G.W.

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Revelation 22:18,19

LOL on evolutionists

Evolutionists bash those who believe in Creation for the belief in ex nihilo, which means Creation out-of-nothing.
But-hey-don't evolutionists believe we came from nothing? Started with a Big-Bang in space?- Now who is into ex nihilo? LOL

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

BIBLIOLOTRY

A term in the Emerging Church Movenent which is used to describe Christians who are overly dependent on Scripture. Apparentyly these emergent church types don't agree with the Reformers from the Reformation who touted SOLA SCRIPTURA (only Scripture).
These emergent types remind one of the days of the Judges in Israel-In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Judges 21:25

What is Death? 2 Views:

The Atheist View: Death is simply a way to weed out the weakest in our ongoing evolutionary path
The Bible View: Death is an ENEMY
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 1 Corinthians 15:26

Emergining Church Heresy

A heresy (among many) put forth by the Emerging Church Movement is the false notion that absolute truth does not exist.....

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Colossians 1:5

Talk about a Book Burning.....

Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. Acts 19:19