Advent Cast: July 22, 2017

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the theme of the Bible states that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever will believe in Him will not perish but have everlasting life but don't you know brethren that during the process of crucifixion God cried however when Christ was risen from the dead God also cried that Jesus is alive the title of our song is God cried you [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Applause] [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] ha [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] our speaker for this morning has five children raised in the mission field in Bolivia he has already served 30 years in seven countries currently serving as the president of gospel Ministries International which is operating in 93 countries worldwide here in the Philippines as Hamas Philippine Adventist Medical aviation center they have one in Iligan if I'm right one in Palawan and one in North Zone and the other ministry that they're having in the Philippines is he is coming Broadcasting Network from from this is based in Iloilo and they would prefer to be called D to David and they'd like to fall on data Becky to please stand so that the church members would recognize you this is Tita Becky and this to David Gates now give him the time I came prepared to say manga dango my god but I understand it's much better here to say my Onaga I am grateful with Tita Becky and myself to be back in the Philippines we feel so much at home we wish we could stay but God has called us to work on the other side of the world but we thank God for the privilege of being able to come back now and then and to be back here and Bacolod egg once again I have spoken in more than a hundred countries around the world and I am so grateful for the standard of music that you have here in this church it's not always that heavenly in other places and God cries because heaven is a holy place and in heaven there's no place for worldly things and today I pray that God will cry for joy and I pray as holy spear will be poured out mightily upon us today because we are living in solemn times we are living at the close of Earth's history and God is calling for higher standards and a closer reflection of his character than has ever happened in the history of the earth before and before we begin I would like you to bow your heads with me as we ask God's presence on the message today that he will speak to each of our hearts today let's pray Heavenly Father we pray that you will not cry today from sadness but that you will cry for joy that your Holy Spirit will be poured out on our heart and minds today we asked to the power of Jesus name that angels from heaven will be stationed around this house eliminate every worldly influence and thought may your holy spirit speak to us directly as we prepare for Jesus coming we pray and we thank you in Jesus name Amen the year 2015 was a very special year it was a year of our last General Conference session in San Antonio I love General Conference session it's like going to heaven you get to see all your friends from around the world I have not missed the General Conference session since 1980 I have had the privilege of being a delegate and being a translator into Spanish at several general conference sessions but this year 2015 as we approach the end of Earth's history I was especially interested to sit and listen to the church doing business many great issues were at stake and it was one of my favorite general conference sessions because we spent a lot more time in prayer than we normally do I was very grateful to see our Chairman paused for prayer whenever things got a little hot I was very grateful to see the holy spirit calm things and watch the Holy Spirit at work and yet the devil knows that God's people are about to enter the greatest crisis of history and wherever God is at work Satan is rapidly at work trying to distract us from our church business from the mission that Jesus left us and so I prayed a lot the God would direct the business so important in his last days later in 2015 another major event was about to happen earlier in 2015 I received a phone call I'm kind of scared and fearful of these kind of phone calls Pastor David I have a message from God for you well when that happens I put up my defenses because one doesn't know the last message I received some years ago was not from God so I was a little scared that this would be the same thing but the message was the following in LA you decide the message from God was I have a lot to teach you but I need more time with you you are too busy what do you think does that apply to you as well is there a lot of things God would like to teach us today but we're too busy I accepted the message as coming from God and I prayed Lord I am sorry I have been so busy it is your work but please teach me to pause and spend more time with you please teach me what you have to teach me and I thought back on the disciples the disciples as part of God's church of that day in the in God's chosen people had been blessed with great light just lies just as we had been blessed with great light as seventh-day adventists but the Church of that day has fallen into the temptation of just doing Church when Jesus was born the church did not know the three wise men knew because they were studying and praying the Shepherd's knew because they had been asking for life but most of the church and the leadership were busy with church work just like I get busy with church work and they were unaware of the great events that were happening at that very moment then the disciples having been three and a half years with Jesus Jesus himself taught them and told them what was about to happen they did not understand they had preconceived ideas of what a messiah should be and even though Jesus was on the way to the cross they were arguing with each other about who would be the prime minister could it be today that God's people having been blessed with such great light could it be that we do not still understand what is about to happen I believe that the disciples even in the presence of Jesus if they did not understand it is very possible that we have much to learn yet but in order to learn we have to stop and listen stop and pray stop and allow God to speak to our hearts God wants to pour out a greater understanding on his people today but sometimes we believe we already know everything just like the disciples could it be that we could be wrong could it be that we have a fuzzy understanding could it be that God just prepare us in a greater way I believe today that the seventh-day Adventist Church is facing its greatest test of history I believe today that 7th avenues must individually ensure their own salvation because otherwise the devil will keep us leaping to the last final events we are told that if the devil could keep a sleeping only a little longer our destruction would be assured and I was trying to understand sleeping only a little longer and I started to read and I began to understand little by little some principles of how God works I pray everyday that God will teach me more about himself one of the principles that we read today is Amos 3:7 for the Lord God will do nothing nothing means how much nothing God will never act without first informing his servants the prophets but then I said the Lord you will be coming as a thief in the night Lord you will catch us by surprise and God said do you have a proper understanding so then I kept on reading and I came to I came to first Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 4 Paul is talking about Jesus coming and Paul says in verse 1 that I don't need to write to you zero already you yourselves know perfectly well that Jesus will come as a thief in the night but in verse four he says but you brethren are not of darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief so I begin to understand something only those that are in darkness will be surprised God's people will not be surprised when he comes in the clouds of glory in fact Jesus will not even come without first God announcing the day and the hour because the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing it to his servants the prophets he won't even come without announcing the wicked will not understand but the wise will understand so if we are awake and if we're asking God he will show us what is about to happen page 77 a Christian service says those who place themselves under the control of God to be led and guided by him will capture the steady tread of events as he ordains them to take place but you have to place yourself under his control there are many things that would seek to control our time our work our family our church responsibilities for those of us that work full-time in church work we have a Adventist Hospital hospitals can absorb a lot of time there's a lot of sick people sometimes we're on call 24 hours and yet God would have us pause and stop and think about what is about to happen so I said Lord if your Second Coming will not catch us by surprise for example when the Sunday law comes Adventist will know that we are entering the very last month verse history and then the close of probation will happen and then we will see the plagues poured out we will know that Jesus is about to come and then we will hear the day in the hour announced and then we will know the exact day in the exact hour there's no surprise to Jesus coming in the clouds of glory but yet jesus warned in mark 13 and mark 13 verse 34 and on for the son of man is as a man taking a far journey who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to every man his work and he commanded the porter to watch Jesus says watch therefore for you know now when the master of the house will come at even or at midnight or at the cock-crowing or in the morning les coming he he find you sleeping and what I say to you I say to everyone watch why would Jesus take so much time to warn us about watching something is about to catch us by surprise not Jesus coming because we will know when Jesus comes beforehand even the day in the hour we will know when God announces it there is something else that will catch God's people by surprise and that's why Satan knows if he can keep us sleeping a little longer our destruction is certain and then Satan doesn't care once our destruction is certain he will go on with other things it doesn't matter anymore there is something about to happen that will catch most of us by surprise now I learned also by setting that God works in certain ways number one we just learned that G says always acts and God always acts according to his own calendar when Jesus died did he die on a random day or did he die according to an exact calendar can you help me today was it random or was it exactly on time exact one time thank you the Passover which pointed from the time of Egypt all the way forward to the Lamb of God it is in the sanctuary service that we will find how God works how he worked in the past and how he will work in the future but many of us don't even study the sanctuary many of us are unaware just a few months ago I was done in Bolivia I was having the worship service for our art TV network and I asked a question does anybody know when Easter is it was only a few weeks a week away a few days away and they ready to raise their hand and he said next week and I said does anybody know when the Passover is today if God always works according to his calendar he died according to the calendar he was resurrected according to the calendar and the seventh-day Adventist movement was born on the calendar October 22 1844 is the very key date that gave birth to the seventh-day Adventist Church what day was that on the calendar the day of atonement we were not born randomly we were born with our roots firmly established in God's calendar and Satan knows that if we understand the sanctuary service if we study the sanctuary service if we understand what all of the feasts stand for we will understand what God is about to do so there is great ignorant among God's people today about what God is about to do we call that sleeping Jesus talked about 10 conversions that were sleeping he said that while the bridegroom tarried Matthew 25 the first verses of Matthew 25 is about the ten virgins was a bridegroom tarried in verse five the Virgin's slumbered and slept is God pairing as Jesus tearing today yes he's parried for quite a long time why does Jesus Terry is it that he doesn't want to come Peter tells us it is out of love for his people if Jesus were to suddenly shut the door many of us would be lost because we have been busy with other things too busy to get oil in our lamps so Jesus Terri's in mercy in Iloilo team put together or HC BN team put together a full-size sanctuary to scale and they placed it there in all of Iloilo knows that there's a sanctuary and we have people that give tours to the sanctuary so that the people can understand what the sanctuary is all about because in the sanctuary you will find God at work today Jesus is in the most holy place and he has a specific function first John 1:9 says if we confess our sins God is faithful and just to number one forgive our sins number two cleanse us from all unrighteousness you see our evangelical fellow Christians they all be they all believe in the holy place Jesus went to the most holy place as our high priest and to the holy place after the resurrection and that's where the blood was applied to forgive sins but only seven 7s understand that in October 22 of 1844 Jesus passed to the most holy place and a purpose is not only to forgive but to cleanse from all unrighteousness have you heard of the word cleansing of the sanctuary heaven is not a place where all the sins are piled up the sins are down here in our hearts and God as to Jesus is functioning to cleanse our hearts of all sin how much sin will be allowed into heaven let me ask you a tricky question is it possible for sin to be in heaven in a perfect place I heard most of you say no but where did sin break out caught you by surprise haven't started since started in heaven with perfect individuals some people believe once we reach perfection it will be impossible to sin but sin started with perfect people the guarantee that will never happen again doesn't come because we're perfect the guarantee that sin will never again enter the universe is in Jesus death and his life with his blood he bought the right Romans 5:10 as says we are reconciled with God through the death of his son even so more so being reconciled we are saved through his life you see there's always two parts to the plan of salvation there is the part where Jesus died and the part where he lived almost all our Evangelic o fellow Christians believe in the part that he died did Jesus died for our sins yes or no I didn't hear you thank you yes he died for our sins he paid how many sins did he pay for all of the world did he ask your permission to die or did he die without your permission without our permission he loved humanity so much he came down to earth and he just hugged us and because we were sentenced to death he had to die Jesus did not ask our permission to come to earth and die but the second part is his life today I would like to ask you if if you have ever told a lie in your life please raise your hand if you have ever told a lie if you don't raise your hand you're a liar right all of us are like what do you call people that life a congregation of law let's make it worse how many you have ever taken something that was not your own have you ever stolen something you're pretty good congregation or you're lying one of the two most of us what what would you call somebody who takes something that is not your own thieves how many of you have ever thought an immoral thought have you ever thought an impure thought afraid to raise your hand or what we call that adultery Jesus called it adultery so if we stand before God's throne and we are liars and thieves doulton's we don't stand a chance the law requires perfection perfect obedience from the time you are born who can deliver nobody except Jesus Christ and Jesus knows that when he died for us he reconciled us to God and now we can start talking to God now he can listen to us but the law still requires perfection and so Jesus life provides exactly the white robe that we need to stand in God's presence we cannot live in heaven without being without having God's robe of jesus robe of righteousness it's called righteousness by faith so that we're studying and reading I learned that God always announces always informs every time he's about to act I learned that God always acts according to his calendar so we need to study the calendar we need to be aware what everything means for example the Passover the Passover was given to us at the time that Israel left Egypt right correct you remember the story the Passover Death Angel passed over and everybody who had the blood survived the firstborn but it pointed foot to the Lamb of God it pointed forward to the time when Jesus would die and Israel wasn't even looking at that even the disciples were not looking and when Jesus said the Son of Man is going to Jerusalem to die Peter rebuked them they did not understand later they understood but they could have prevented a tremendous disappointment all of their hopes disappeared after Jesus died because they did not understand there is a big surprise about to happen - 7 7 s and many of us are looking at the future and saying everything looks good and we're thinking like the disciples that the way Jesus is going to work is going to be very easy for us and many of us will sleep right through the final events and many of us sadly enough will lose our salvation because once we wake up according to the parable of the ten virgins once the midnight cry the bridegroom is coming let us go for it to meet him once the la the midnight cry resounds across Adventism from this pulpit some day that will go out Christ is now coming we must get ready but brothers and sisters what Jesus has told us is that once the midnight cry sounds it is too late to get oil in your lamps none of the foolish virgins were able to get oil in their land you have to have the oil before can you tell me please what event what future event will definitely wake up all Adventists can you tell me please what event is about to happen that will wake up all seventh-day evidence the Sunday law the Sunday law will definitely wake up seventh evidence because when North American government the Congress votes a National Sunday law we will know in prophecy that this is a sign now Rome has already planned it it's standard in Washington in 2015 right after the general conference the Pope came to North America and he didn't come just to visit he came to take over he met with the president she met with Congress and then he addressed the nation just like a newly elected president except he didn't address a nation from downstairs he went upstairs an address the nation from the top window what was he saying I am higher than the US president and just a few weeks ago the US president went to Rome and after he met together with the Pope the literal words from the president where I will obey every word you have commanded me so who is running Washington today Rome has Rome Planet is standard in in Washington definitely but that wasn't the biggest revealer to me the biggest thing that happened is win the day that the Pope went to Washington did you know that it was the Day of Atonement September 23 2015 it wasn't any day it was on God's calendar and I had just learned that God always works a couple to the calendar and I was watching the calendar and then I realized in August my wife and I were in Australia I was preaching across the east coast of Australia and we realized that it was going to be on the day of atonement so we went back to study and you know what a physician friend of mine that lives in Walla Walla Washington wrote to me in April I looked for my computer and he said dear David last night I had a dream I don't understand it but I heard the words and yet five months and I will purify the tribe of Levi which is a quote from Malachi and yet five months I will purify the tribe of Levi he said I don't know what it means so we added it up and they came out exactly to September 23 2015 and as I begin to think what is the next thing that God has to do what is the next step you tell me please on October 22 of 1844 what event happened Jesus went into the most holy place to do what he began the investigative judgment correct yes he began with the living or the dead huh I heard those both he began with Adam and Eve the dead and the righteous did those who claimed to be God's people and he began the judgment of the Dead and the only thing that is left is to begin the judgment of the living the brothers and sisters when that happens he's going to start with his church what does what does what does Peter have to say about that first Peter 4 verse 17 for the time has come that the judgment must begin where with the house of God and according to Ezekiel Ezekiel EIN the judgment will begin with the ancients in the house the leadership and they will then come down to every one of our names if we claim to be seventh-day Adventist we will be judged before our neighbors the judgment will begin with the house of God and when it is finished the door will close to 7,000 s last day events says that the door will be closed to those who would not enter but it will be open to those that have never heard why does Jesus tell us watch watch watch it's because something is about to happen that will catch us by surprise in Matthew 24 Jesus had further words for us not only talking about the last days but he says in verse 37 but as in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days that are coming of the Son of Man for as in the days of the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the Ark and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away some day in this - in this church in every church some day from this pulpit we will be discussing your pastor will announce to you that the Sunday law has been approved has been passed the next thing after the National Sunday law will be the International Sunday law which the United Nations has already discussed they have already approved they are just waiting to implement soon after the National Sunday law in North America the Philippine government will also ratify and approve and do the same thing and governments across the world will do the same thing when that announcement is made from this pulpit many of us will wake up and say I need to get ready sorry it is closing time brothers and sisters the National Sunday law is not the time to begin to prepare the National Sunday law is not here to prepare us for Jesus coming the National Sunday law will bring a storm of persecution and it is here to separate the wheat from the chaff once the ten virgins wake up there is no more oil to be acquired that has to be done before it has to be done now one of these days our names will come up I can tell you when one day I can only tell you that it you will not know and I will not know when our names come up and we will continue to eat and to drink we will continue to marry and give in marriage we will continue to preach and sing and acquire and we will not know that our names have been permanently registered in either the book of life or the book of death and there is no changing the verdict the Sunday law will reveal what side you are already on now how far away are we from the Sunday law that is a good question right because it's a Sunday law indicates the closing of the door it is the final exam living next to a hospital here I assume there's a lot of medical professionals here if you're a medical professional if you have studied something in health care and are working or have worked as a medical professional I want to see your hands please raise your hands if your medical professional a lot of us not as many as I thought but still a lot you would expect that near an Adventist Hospital we all know whatever profession we studied that when a final exam comes it is not time to begin studying correct you have to study before in order to pass the final exam Oh today's a final exam I better start studying sorry the Sunday law is the final exam how close are we to the Sunday law do we have a date no but Jesus said in Matthew 24 he said in Matthew 24 verse verse 32 now learn the parable of the fig tree when the branches are tender and put forth their leaves you know that summer is near likewise when you see all these things you know that it's even at the door are we seeing things today we're not talking about them you rarely will read about them there's a silence what is happening to us the devil is desperate he knows his time is short but you know what that means he has the same time that God does Jesus is desperate to because he only has a short time as well Jesus doesn't have more time than Satan does it's the same time because in Satan would accuse god of being unfair you had more time than I did no we have the same time God is preparing his people Satan is preparing people and the great two events are converging to a final conflict between truth and error we have today to prepare we have today but how close are we as we observe that Rome has planted his banner firmly in North America and the great controversy tells us that when Rome when Washington when the u.s. reaches across ago and click the Rome together with the workings of spiritualism the time has come for Satan to work many of us maybe don't read the great controversy maybe some of us have decided no longer to read the spirit of prophecy and we are told one thing a certain those who reject the testimonies will march under the banner of Satan why they have no protection Jesus sent his spirit through sister white to defend us from the last day deceptions that will deceive the whole world I have been told in fact here in the Philippines I was preaching speaking at what they called CPAC is it yeah I was I was speaking at the at the college to the theology students and they ask me a questions Uncle David why do you refer to the spirit of prophecy like if it were the Word of God we have the Bible which is the greater light and even sister white herself said her writings are the lesser light so I asked the young man a question which of the prophets ever claimed to be the greater light maybe Moses was the greater light maybe Daniel Jeremiah Isaiah none of the puppets ever claimed to be the greater light all of the profits are lesser lights it's only when you pull put all the lesser lights together that you get the greater light and sister white is another lesser light to be added to God's revelation to mankind you see there is not a single prophet that is a greater light every prophet is a lesser light but the combination of God's revealed will to us is the greater light and the greater light is composed also of the spirit of prophecy the same Jesus as Pope to John the Baptist spoke to a long white the same Gabriel as talked to Daniel spoke to Ellen White and how many of us actually spend time reading many evidence will be lost because they have not prepared God is telling us today that time is almost up so when will the Sunday law come I can't give you a date I can only tell you Rome is ready I can tell you the US president is ready when the Pope came to Washington some of our team members went to Washington it was very interesting they decided to protest the Pope's arrival and I said are you allowed to protest we're going to go try ok can you see this the US has an established procedure for protesters you get a life and you can officially protest so they went to Washington and they asked how can we get a lot to protest you have to go to that building over there in the US Congress and there's a set you can apply to protest so they went in and they talked to the secretary ma'am how can we get a license to protest she said oh I'm so sorry there's many many locations allocated for protesters but they all been reserved by the Catholic Church there's no more spaces left you see Rome did not want any protesters right and he says it wait there is one more left nobody reserved number seven and they said number seven is available yes Rome did not reserved number seven and he said that's because the Pope is allergic to number seven and so they gave them number seven they told them you have a banner this size this deep you can have a table you can have books you can do whatever and you have to stand in this little section so they they put their table there and they marked it out they made a banner there was a very tall image of the woman dressed in white standing on the moon with stars around her head what does that what does that refer to God's pure church but what do the Catholic people think that refers to they think he refers to Mary and it said on there he are they that keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus well the Cardinals and the bishops were going in and out of the white house and they looked over there and said look there's a picture of Mary let's go talk to them so they went over to talk to our young people and I said we see you have a picture of Mary here well actually that is not Mary that is the pure Church of Revelation as you see they are they that keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus well the Cardinals had to admit that's what it says and then they looked on the table and what are you giving away oh great controversy oh we know who you are you are those people right yes you mean serve at the Adventists yes I see oh we know who you are sir just a question before you leave I have read the papal encyclical we have read all about the environment all the plans that Rome has to pass laws to protect the environment and then in the name of the environment to set aside a day to protect the environment for the family not to work and not to do anything and even though it doesn't mention the day we assume that you're talking about Sunday and it looks to me like you're not even talking about the environment you're really talking about a Sunday law could you let me could you comment on it please and I in the Cardinal told the young man young man you have read correctly it is not about the environment indeed it is about the Sunday law and you left brothers and sisters that has already been voted in all the countries under the name of the environment it is already been approved the only thing we are waiting in on is the implementation how close are we to the Sunday law we are already beginning they don't call it to Sunday law they call it the environment they call it the family day it's the same thing the Cardinal confirmed it so how close are we to the final exam it's already beginning so I'd like to ask you are you ready for the final exam examine your hearts are you really calm totally consecrated to God everything you are everything you have your main focus is God's honoring glory or are you concentrated on your profession accumulation of assets your reputation political interests what people think about you because one of these days it is time for the final exam and after the final exam there's no changing a lady that I know in puerto rico has had a series of dreams and she cries every time she tells it but she said God showed her in a dream a group of people that were crying desperately in agony they were wailing and weeping and the angel told her those are God's people that were not ready but the door is closed and never again will they be able to be get ready the preparation time they ignored they were careless they knew they had to get ready they knew the truth they knew the commandments they knew the mission but they focused on earthly things instead of putting first things first I don't want to ever experience head to you having been raised in the truth having known the truth all your life or maybe having come into the truth only to be declared without the robe of righteousness I was in Brazil a few months ago I met with our media team our television team in Sao Paulo we're based right outside the Adventist University in Sao Paulo there's a beautiful campus of 2,000 acres thousands and thousands of young people study there we have our media center there and on Sabbath afternoon after church we met together with all of the the team about 40 people summer producers summer pastors summer doctors other specialists and summer technicians and they all work together to produce programs for the television network as we were there meeting Marco one of our producers said pastor David do you mind if I share what happened to me recently no Marco please I sat down he stood up and he said brothers and sisters a few months ago I had such a vivid dream I don't know if it was a vision or a dream but it was as real as I am standing here today he said I was walking with a large group of people five or six wide and we were walking toward a person and as we got closer I realized the person at faced us was Jesus and he was looking at us and he was saying left left left right left and I realized it was the judgment Oh I said the time has come I now must be judged I hope God says to me right I know they got closer he looked at me with the tears in his eyes and he said left oh why Lord why am I lost an angel tapped him on the shoulder and said you almost were saved what does almost save me you're lost but why was I almost saved why am i lost the angel said because you disregarded and were careless with the small things you almost were saved but you disregarded the important small details then he remembered the music of the world the videos that he watched the literature that he read the things that he looked at on the internet and all of these rose up before him so many little details but he was careless with the small details he did not pay attention to them it's only a small detail God doesn't care what I look at on the TV tonight God doesn't care what I eat God doesn't care how I dress it made a just a small detail who my friends are and he said Oh Lord I understand but if only I could have another chance and the angel said God has heard your prayer you will have another chance and he woke up what do you think Marco did immediately he cleaned his house he cleaned his life he took two things off his phone he took the things off the computer he put the things in order and he said I know one thing Marco said God is a God of small details he cares about small details and he has God to help him to live in him and God began to clean his life and then he said I one wife to tell her story so his wife came up a very beautiful young lady she's a professional singer she sings all across Brazil professionally I want to I want to thank the special music we had today I want to thank the choir and and in the orchestra the strings ensemble I was gagged glad that God prepared away with such beautiful music and she said two weeks ago I was sleeping and an angel woke me up the angel said I am the same angel that spoke to your husband she said I remember he said I have a message for you yes please tell me what the message is he said there is one small detail you have not yet taken care of what is it tell us and we will do it the angel said God has shown his people that we must not live in the cities and you are still living in a city that is one small detail that you must take care of right away because 2017 is going to be a very difficult year they immediately sold their house they moved out of the city they still work in the city but they have obeyed God's instruction to live outside what's about to happen in 2017 brothers and sisters do you know what's about to happen in October what is going to happen in October this year the fifth five hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther and the Pope is going to declare Protestantism dead once Protestantism is dead how can a Pope do that because all the churches are fine all the Protestant churches have signed agreements that they no longer will protest so in reality he's right even Adventists are afraid to open their mouth is the seventh-day Adventist Church a Protestant church then why don't we protest love you believe it's a Protestant church but we're not protesting only those who open their mouths only those that stand up and say the things clearly our Protestants if you keep your mouth shut right now you're not a Protestant the Pope is mainly right it is very difficult to find Protestants today even among God's people we prefer to be quiet and not to cause any problems but God has raised us up as a people to stand up we have a message as the Seventh day Adventist Church is not a church it's a movement the 7th avenues Church has a message and the message is to go to all the world to every nation kindred tongue and people and God is preparing a people today a people that not only will be forgiven but cleansed from all their sins Jesus is in the most holy place cleansing a people and if we ask him he will cleanse us from how much and righteousness from all unrighteousness if we give our life to Jesus and he covers us with his white robe of righteousness his life Romans 8:1 says there is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit we cannot continue to walk after the flesh let me ask you a question if you are coated with the robe of righteousness do you still look at soap operas I didn't hear you do you still watch worldly movies I didn't hear you silence the Holy Spirit is speaking to our hearts today there is a work that has to be done we will talk more this afternoon the young people will be here and the young people have a very special mission to be like Daniel to be like Jose of pure and separate from the world in our dress and our speech our entertainment we are to reflect God's character and as we do that not just the young people everybody but the young people have the mission of carrying the gospel to to all the world they have the energy we might have wisdom but they have the energy and together the wise with the energetic working together God is about to finish his work but one saw something lock-ons brothers and sisters and it's already started once the Sunday law is implemented there's no time to prepare you understand that right are you understanding when it's preparation time now I would like to ask you if you have heard the Holy Spirit speaking to you today if you understand clearly that all of your personal interests all of the worldly things all of the other things must take second place we must focus on our primary most important priority is our relationship of dependence and obedience to Jesus Christ we must be covered with the white robe of righteousness and I want to say that if daily every morning every night you accept Jesus Christ robe of righteousness and you allow him to control your life and as your thoughts and your words and your profession and your influence and your pocketbook you don't have to fear the judgment let it come when it comes Jesus will stand in our place I look forward to the judgement because every day I begin my day by accepting a white robe of righteousness and asking God to control my every thought word in action and when my name comes up Jesus will be there covering my in my place and I will be declared without condemnation oh how I longed how Jesus longs for every one of his daughters every one of his sons those who claim to be seventh-day Evan is not to sleep any longer wake up to the reality it is almost over preparation time is almost over and many seventh-day adventists will be surprised to find out it is too late she says doesn't want that he loves you dearly he gave His life would you want to close the door on your own child would you want to close the door on your own loved ones but Jesus is about to do that and he doesn't want to he's been waiting and so today he's asking you would you like to say Lord everything I am everything I have from right now I promise that I want to belong to you I want to accept your free gift by faith I want to you to cleanse me from all unrighteousness not my profession not my material possessions not my reputation nothing is to take second priority to Jesus Christ if this is your desire today if you want God to write your name down and you need to renew that every day would you raise your hand please amen praise the Lord God has written your name down but you have to renew that every day we will finish with our normal service but I want to invite you at this very moment to accompany me on our knees for a special word of prayer of consecration asking God to live his life in us to protect us and to use us to save others who are dying in darkness when you kneel with me at this time please have any father we have heard your voice speaking to us Oh Lord please forgive us for delaying so long please forgive us for getting so involved in the clears of this life jesus said the cares of his life would drown the truth for many we don't want to be drowned in the cares of this life we want to be dressed in a white robe of righteousness and to live for Christ everything you have blessed us with our profession our influence with health with life with resources we place into your hands at this time and we pray Lord that you will take total possession of us nothing else matters except our relationship with Jesus Christ in carrying out his will in our life we cannot even do it only you can but you have given us the power of choice that is all we have we give you our will we choose to give you our will and we choose to accept the gift that you give us thank you for dying for us thank you for living for us we love you and we thank you use us now we pray bless this lovely church bless our pastor our elders deacons deaconesses blessed our community through that the Holy Spirit that will be is being poured out we love you and we thank you for hearing our prayer save us now we pray in Jesus name Amen [Music]

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Published: Wed Jul 26 2017