"He Still Loves Me" | Pastor Henry Wright

today's sermon come on thank you today's sermon is about God's love he loves me still of all the churches diet IRA is the most challenging one to preach because in Thyatira the church reaches rock-bottom in diet are in some ways it gets about as bad Sonya they can get the church is so far often by Tara that the word Jezebel is used but ultimately fire Tara's about a a loving God who just won't stop loving his wavered Church everybody should have said Amen in many ways the IRAs about you the person it is a statement of God's patience with you you ever hit rock bottom I mean you're not sure your prayers are getting through huh you don't want to come to church and even sitting in the pew you feel unclean and unworthy have you been there let's pray father just talk to us today in Jesus name Amen to my online listeners pastor Cosley Joseph will be your online pastor if you have questions when it more information as I'm preaching just indicate that as you are watching and he will respond I hope that you're keeping up with your notebooks I've not mentioned them for a couple of Sabbath's no handout today well there will be one on next week he loves me still the letters to the seven churches are written by a savior who knows his church well the letters to the seven churches are written by a Christ who knows that the church had lost its first love smothered with the gradual accumulation of the mud of compromise and apathy and so he led them from Ephesus to Smyrna Dakini banks that he might teach them the lessons that can come from trial sometimes the Lord just has to beat you up because your head so hard he pulls back that hedge Joe that is kept around you and he lets you feel how angry Satan is with you now how angry he is come on church high angry sickness you do understand that if Satan had his way you would have been dead a long time ago I may do we understand that as serious stuff but the Lord will let you go through Smyrna but sometimes Smyrna so rough it leads you into Pergamus you become a compromising Christian you can't take the chastening of the Lord and you begin to compromise I even though we have a church like later SIA that has no commendation from God still fire tara is that low point Liat later layer to see as a as a church of hypocrisy they are described in these words because thou sayest I am rich and increased with Goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked in other words their deceives full of hypocrisy but Thyatira is full of apostasy just walking away from God and let me give you a word of warning it's important that the pastor today give a word of warning I do not care how long you've been in the church I do not care how many generations you represent of Adventism do not ever think for one minute that you couldn't leave the church because there's some stuff coming come on somebody turn to somebody right now and say there's some stuff coming go on and say it that's gonna knock you upside the head you're gonna see it's too much echoing this this this this this microphone there's just too much echo you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna experience some stuff you're gonna hear some things that you just aren't ready for in other words before the Lord takes you to heaven he's gonna find out who you are so there's apostasy in theatre diet era in contrast to later see who says that I'm I'm right when she's wrong diet IRA has listened diet IRA has lost its sense of right and wrong diet aras religious buts not spiritual that the the theater is Thyatira is the natural result of pergamus ultimately compromise Parganas pergamus leads to christian with a a head so messed up via Tara that that their conscience has gone on vaycay see here's another morning never ever say I would never do so-and-so don't say it where Satan can hear it he will test your guts and there's many a person some sitting in this church some listening to me who have scars on their soul because the very thing they said they would never do they did it they did it that's the atera but the beauty of the fighter in message choir is that as bad as it is God still sees something in Thyatira worth saving gonna give God a hand yes sir he actually sees hey he actually sees in the pasta sized church something to save simple sentence don't ever decide you're so bad God can't save you because he's a specialist in salvation that was a week a man I said he's a specialist in salvation that's why you sitting here that's why you're sitting here so Tara is a statement of God's love his love is everlasting you you see even those who are ultimately destroyed at the end of time are destroyed because God loves them too much to force them to spend eternity with someone they don't love everything God does is based on love and because God's love is everlasting he will spend the rest of eternity missing those he did not save that blows my mind Nicole because when I can understand the fact that God David is going to blot out of my mind the memory of the lost so I could be happy for eternity but God cannot forget so everyone that is lost he will remember forever you're happy God hurts that's the love of God saya Taro's the statement of God's love in Ephesus they lose their first love for God and truth and Smyrna God allows persecution trouble to get their attention but as we've learned the persecution spread the church and when Satan discovered he could not destroy the church he joined the church pergamus Satan inspired the Roman Emperor to join the church during pergamus the church became popular and then spiritually dilute diluted Pergamus once the compromise became habit the church lost its sense of correctness and became Thyatira he describes some of the loss let's review the KU prophetic timelines emphasis 31 to 100 martyr 102 313 pergamus 313 to 538 to remember and around 321 constantine joined the christian church Thyatira 538 to 1798 but some say 1517 the beginning of the Reformation Philadelphus Ardus 1798 or 1517 to 1833 philadelphia 1833 to 1844 latest C 1844 to the coming of Christ if you look at Kristin and historically fire Tyra is the low point in terms of the church distancing itself from its roots IIIi I have been amazed some time what I bump into people who have left the church to see how far out they go have you ever noticed that they don't just wear jewelry they wear extra jewelry have you noticed that it'll just paint their face they look like a clown yes just like they gotta sure everybody I'm out of the church now they go to the lowest dives and listen to the most launched music and and and but this see here's what blows my mind even while that person's doing that they cannot escape the truth somebody say Amen it's all down inside of them and God sees it and just well calm down just when you think just when you think you have separated yourself totally from God he comes in your back door and knocks you on your back and saved your carcass from sin that's the god I serve I don't know about the one you you serve as the God that I serve so in Thyatira the vestal virgins and priests of the heathenistic worship were dedicated to the religion of Roman Greece were replaced by Christian monks and nuns devoted to the parishes and cathedrals of Roman Christianity syncretism is the word the church began to combine hedonism with Christianity perhaps the most dangerous thing that happened during the pergamus period was the gradual change from individual members knowing and certain God's word instead the Bible become the sole property of clergy by the time you come to the inner thigh atera the 18th century get this by the time you come to the end of fire Tyra the Bible is now chained to pulpits nobody was allowed to have a Bible say I'll tell you this I'll tell you this if you're going to a pasta size you have to stop reading the Bible so that's why you stop coming to church see you if you keep coming to church and listening to Henry right or people like him sooner or later I'm gonna say something uh-huh man I hit you every Sabbath but sooner or later God's gonna put something in my mouth you cannot escape that's why you stay home you can't you can't take a chance that you might get saved yeah yeah so stop being - coming to the church in Thyatira they gave up the teaching of clean and unclean meat they forgot the Leviticus system of tithing and then two key truths two key truths now she's taking him out that's what she should do now when my mother got me out I'd come walking back in church like a little sink both the sisters got follow through but but but but but - - - - - terrible sins came in during during dietary the first was the total giving up of the Sabbath they went on and bought into the fact that the first day is the Sabbath rather than the seventh day and the change was made by a leading Christian body uh can you fellows put those quotes that I had in my sermon up there that that that that question an answer did you get that maybe they didn't get that here's what they said that's what they said this is a quote from the Roman Church how to view that the church that the church hath power to the man's feasts and holidays answer about the very fact that we change the Sabbath into Sunday which Protestants allowed us to do and then from that same church leadership we read you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find authorizing you will not find one text authorizing the sanctification of Sunday descriptors enforce the religious observance of son the scriptures enforce the religious of religious observance of Sunday a date which we never sanctify of Saturday Messr of Saturday a date which we never sanctify James Cardinal given so a leading Christian group in Thyatira decided to change the Bible and as Jeff Taylor so beautifully presented this morning not only did the doctrines of Jezebel come into the church but the church did nothing about it he called fire Tara the nice accepting Church they just let false who had come in and set quietly in Thyatira but then there was another false truth that came in during that time and that was the false teaching concerning the state of the Dead now note the Sabbath truth and the state of its dead truth the book great controversy says these will be the two main truths of controversy in the last days they started in Thyatira the teaching that the dead are not dead that when you die you go straight to heaven and there are many sincere Christians who believe that with all their heart they don't understand that the dead know not anything ecclesiastical five and six they don't understand that the wreck righteous are not resurrected till the second coming of Jesus second Thessalonians they don't understand these things so because they do not they sincerely believe a falsehood and the church the nice church that that that pastor Jeff talked about has accepted it and so when people say something different now truth sounds like a lie and so talking to Thyatira the Bible says thou sufferest that woman Jezebel to teach and seduce my servants but I said thigh hour is about God's love get personal have you ever been hurt and disappointed in someone that you love now this was real folk you trusted them maybe even said I do to them and they hurt you how many would agree without raising your hands that's a hard thing to get over I don't want to raise your hand you might be sitting next to him so how much rage stay with me this is what Jesus says in revelation 19:7 let us be glad and rejoice they give honor to him for the marriage supper the lamb is come the church is the Bride of Christ revelation 21 and verse 2 and I John saw the holy city New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband now there's something deep going on here watch it now Jesus is announcing and celebrating his love for his wife in Revelation toward the end of the book but do you know how his wife treated him have you ever read the story of Hosea huh Hosea was a pastor fresh out of the seminary and he's praying one morning having morning worship and the Lord comes to him and the misty morning worship says Hosea it's time to get married I'm sure Hosea nodded with a great deal of appreciation thinking one of the nice ladies of the church would be God's choice are you listening to me he probably thought about Sally here who worked in the Sabbath school or Jane over here who sung in the choir or or Hortense who sang up in the and he's waiting for God to name the woman he would marry adding to his image and his position as pastor now casting him forth to be considered for the large churches like slag one Takoma Park was the right ladies by side and the Lord said guess who I want you to marry I want you to marry that girl whose name is written on restroom walls and I see Hosea almost choked maybe I ate too many veggie links last night this is a nightmare this cannot be God talking and god says again go marry her and then names her she's the girl who's got the worst reputation in the church her name is Gomer marry her are you listening to me too much the Bride of Christ I'm not taking that name home to my parents and no pastor will perform the marriage ceremony watch me now God says I'll perform it you see ladies and gentlemen God the Father hooked his son to the church nobody else would have done that that God nobody would have married their son to you but God only God would call you family only God would call me family are you listening to me saya Tara is an announcement from heaven that God takes us as we are does not change his mind and though we embarrass him and spread his name all over Takoma Park God says hey don't push my child too far Satan that's my child that's my wife I will marry her Hosea says that he betrothed himself to us in love Hosea marries Gomer by the way Hosea's name means God saves the word Gomer means not perfect but I'm getting there hey they start having children the first child means no mercy in this place they've been married a few months marriages falling apart Hosea telling God I told you saying I'll work do you know listen to me do you know how many times Satan has told Jesus about you this ain't gon work do you have any idea how many times when you're sleeping in your sins that Satan is telling Jesus you can't save them you have any idea how many times in your lifetime Satan has said you're wasting your time Henry Wright belongs to me but I know a God and glory who is not buffaloed by Satan he'll tell him to his face get your hands off my son they have a second baby that name means Mercy's leaving the house they're falling apart Hosea's come in the church now without his wife the members are talking idiot and never married that Nomar a corridors a ax she leaves him she becomes real Thyatira he leaves the church and then for some reason we can't figure out she comes back now I imagine when she first left Hosea said I did all I could do make it work Lord see see see Hosea sometimes and his attitude toward Gomer represents us don't ever decide that somebody won't come back you got a child out of the church keep on praying you've got a nephew out of the church keep on praying you got a brother not coming to church keep on praying that person you were baptized with not coming keep on playing don't ever decide God's business Norma comes back and sooner she comes back Marik starts she turns up pregnant we know how things are they've made up things are going well baby's delivered Hosea goes to the hospital you know how they do don't you it have a little baby sitting after all the little fat faces out there behind the glass it's so much fun there they are they just squalling and kicking and so forth and the nurse always comes and picks up your child brings it so you can see those SS nurse says don't say it says see the board LaRue my means that's the third child the root LaRue humma means not my baby not my nose not my hair not my baby and he gets so angry when that we don't were not given the details she leaves again but in Chapter three God says to Hosea go find your wife and he finds her downtown on the stripper Street being sold for pleasure and when Jose against there and sees his wife he says seed I'm out of here the Lord says bid bid for your hey you ought to be celebrating right now I'm talking about saya Tara that's how some of you got back in the church because Jesus was not embarrassed to be identified with your foolishness he went where you were found you in your sin and crying this is my child no Messiah Tyra now I'm still preaching on Thyatira yet to buy her back and so in the book in Revelation case you think you forgot my text revelation - look at this look at this it's beautiful revelation - in the message - Thyatira these shocking words come up after all this mess and foolishness the Lord says in verse 24 - 24 look at it - 24 now to you I say and to the rest in Thyatira as many as do not have this doctrine the young lady reddit who have not known the depths of satan as they say i will put on you no other burden that is he's saying there's some folk in Thyatira who didn't apostasy but let's take it personally just take it personally don't you go astray God says to you there's some stuff left in you that still ain't crooked Christ who come for me hallelujah praise God he looks past my foolishness past my apostasy past my liquor past my dough past my tobacco past Michael Rosen says I still see it hit me right something I can't say they're not all bad that's why you got to keep your mouth shut when somebody leaves the church and comes back they're not all bad and you ain't all good so just shut up let him come on back in here then he says in verse 25 hold fast you can be down and you can be out and you can't be discouraged but hold fast to what you got at least pray come on y'all then I become the church but pray yeah you didn't pray with liquor on your breath spray you can pray with tobacco on your breath pray you can pray while you're spinning God's time pray what little bit you got left hold on to that don't just throw everything out the love of God blows my mind because God's love is such that he says in Hosea therefore behold I will allure her and speak cottoned her car says Hosea only do I want you to go back and get Gomer then when you get her and bring her home say sweet things give her a Valentine's card dress up LaRue Houma with the best clothes ain't your baby but that's all right that's what I like about God I could even bring my mess back to him and he takes it in and cleans it as his own see when Jesus went to the cross he was accepting all of our activity His Holy Name I will give her vineyards and a door of hope and then he says to Gomer I will be trolled her to me forever and so the church get this the church that calls the Lord the most embarrassment is the church to whom he shows the most love now elder O'Neill if we could learn that as church members the member who's the weakest at the Cooma Park that's the person we ought to love the most the young person whom we've heard dead so and so and so and so that's the young person we ought to take the most time with I was a weak Amen but Tom Considine tells this story a man in his wife who's been married for 30-some years and he finally got a job that really was bringing in some money but the job required but it quite a bit of travel and so she was used to help an impact of his luggage getting all the necessary things together so his trip could be successful my name is rolling in nice new house car and of course their children there was a particular trip that came he'd have to go to Japan this is a true story disappeared in Reader's Digest back in the 1960s the story's entitled could you have loved this much it was assigned to a trip in Japan he'd be gone for three months he always would call Said's arrived and everyday would call to let her know how things were going that went on for first about 90 days he was gone and then she got this call saying I will have to extend my stay I'll be in touch they went by no one touch week went by no one touch he calls the office asked is my husband okay and it's kind of a flat answer far as we know we became - she calls the office again look what's with my husband and everything going around the job yes this times kind of evasive well will will let you know that sounded strange I mean he's your employee and he's doing your work and you'll let me know it's now become 30 days she's heard nothing she goes to the office wants to see a supervisor and the supervisor does everything he can to kind of put her off finally she works away into his office and she looks them she said what is going on with my husband the supervisor says you really haven't heard from him she says nothing his eyes dropped a missus cause her name there's a situation and we'd rather that you get it from your husband well I he's not calling I'm writing him he so she could see that the supervisor was very uncomfortable it's what I I just hate to be the one said that there's a situation what is the situation he said we'll be in touch with him what we'll get him what we'll get him to be in touch it's now going into three months he's heard nothing from her husband the Ameri 30-some years the letter she gets is from a little Japanese girl named my okie and then not well written English says your husband is ill I am his caretaker and just all the radar the bells the lights were flashing she goes back to the office she confronts the supervisor my husband's ill you haven't told me sir processes well that's is that all he said today he didn't say anything I got a letter from my okay as a supervisor gets real nervous he says missus calls her name said I don't want to say it sir but your husband my opiate become very close and there's a situation she says if you tell me that one more time he says she is pregnant with your husband's child so a who smile kick well it's our custom when we sent a man overseas that long we assigned some personal help and we contacted agency they send someone and she was assigned as the housekeeper in the cook and so forth and said she's devastated 30-some years of marriage on tour knowledge she has never stepped out of line she's never out of line and this is what she gets after 30-some years and she gets it from somebody else not even from him two days later a second letter arrives my okie it's a little bit better English this time saying that the husband is at the point of death she goes to the office I need to get to Japan well we we we we can't provide that but my marriage is falling apart this is your fault no we're sorry she doesn't have the money to make the trip then 10 day she gets a third letter your husband is dead it's a true story and then Bob Considine says the most amazing thing has ever heard of took place she went about to her friends went to the banks made contacts and raised enough money not to go to Japan but to bring my okie and her husband's baby to America did you what I just said did anybody hear what I just said Kanta nine story is called could you have loved that much it takes another several months the baby is born and then there is that day when this dear woman walks to the airport that's back the days where you didn't have to go through security walk to the airport goes out to the tarmac and stands there and watches my okay walk down the steps from the plane carrying her husband's child and reached that child my okie is barely out of her teens hubs are closed receives the baby and says you're coming home with me Mr I am love I am love I can risk loving you for for the one who knows me best he loves me more I am loved you are loved won't you please take my hand we are free to love each other we are I said if you knew my scars are hidden by the face of where he said my child my scars go deeper and it was love for you that put them there my child a few more I am loved of diam love I can raise loving you for the one who knows me best loves me more I am loved you are won't you please take my hand we are free to love each other we are loved I'm standing here today because the Lord Jesus Christ accepted my situations and covered them with his blood I'm standing here today because the things I have produced the babies of selfishness the babies of self-centeredness the babies of self-indulgence he has received me back with my children come on somebody wrapped his arms around me embrace me to himself bring Henry and his past I'll take care of it I'll cover it I'll see that it doesn't build a breach between me and him did somebody say man I am loved hey turn to somebody right now and say it I'm loved go on and say it I'm loved tell somebody tell them twice I'm loved I'm loved diet arrows not too much for God and neither is your mess your hits or valve your eyes are closed holy father I leave it in your hands now somebody wants to bring their situation to you they've lived way too long in Thyatira if you're watching me online you're now contacting pastor Cosley Joseph and saying pray for me I want to bring my situation to Jesus if somehow you were surfing and thought this message and caught this service tell pastor Cosley listen I'd like to be contacted once I want to pray for me I've got questions to ask but I want to respond to the call of God you're sitting in this church I don't want you to raise your hand I don't want you to come forward I just want you to give your situation to Jesus come out of tyre Tyra what you have hold fast you can't fix everything that you've messed up overnight but what you got left hold fast still praying hold fast still going a little Bible reading hold fast to have the courage to come to church and spite off hold fast and then ask the Lord to help you now with heads bowed eyes closed you want to make a decision you want to respond you want to make this today that you sign up for Bible study you want to make this the day that you come forward to prepare for baptism to join the church just those two Bible study to prepare for baptism you want to do that today everybody's praying one more course Anwar let's see if somebody comes do this you'll have to get up I'm down here I am loved you are loved won't you please take my hand we are free to love each other we are course again I am I can risk loving you for the one knows me best loves me more I am loved you are loved won't you please take my hand and we are free to love each other Thank You Father dietary gives me hope it sounded pretty bad at first way off the mark way too much ugliness going on way too much apostasy in the pew and yet you found someone in something to save I'm encouraged I have hope and I thank you so that soul wrestling with decision Lord give them no peace bring them as you did last Sabbath to the young man who came came to me at the door today move upon that soul not to leave today without decision this we pray in Jesus name and all the people said amen are you glad you came to church today

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Length: 51min 11sec (3071 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 14 2016