Sabbath April 4th 2020

the wash bus reads the letter and then moves on to another place and then the letter or the salmon would just be a cycling in a cycling letter a letter that was moved from one congregation to another my dear viewer and listen let me read one of these this is what happened to Peters congregation PETA was not addressing a congregation from one central sanctuary as we are used to but it was from various places let me read first Peter chapter 1 and you hear what happened so that you rest assured that what is happening now the way we are worshipping has been a mother Holy Spirit according to the the future that the congregation like we are doing now because of the covet 19 scare and so that's who I want to say please relax wherever you are is not strength it has been that's happened before it would happen again God is going to bless us as we do so there's someone title for this Sabbath someone is I will trust in the Lord I will trust in the Lord let us pray our dear loving father we want to thank you for the privilege of given us to hear from your word and I want to pray that you are all spirit ministers to various people from wherever they are listening from their houses from friends houses from teen is not the one which has created the situation's which has pushed people to a state of hopelessness it has happened before and I want us to see a few of these instances where will since of the title that I've just read to you that will guide our someone for this afternoon it is I want to read one situation where people were scattered where they were scared and they were put in a state of being destroyed what can the righteous do and if I read from another one it says vast chapter 11 of Psalms verse 3 says what are the righteous to do when everything and some do not have this and so they are here you think the world is falling apart the question is what should the VAT the righteous do when foundations are being destroyed my dear viewer let me give you the background so that you can appreciate what the concern of the writer of the eleventh son had in mind he destroyed what can the righteous do of a song and this is what they said if I read four samuel chapter 18 and was beginning verse 6 it says after goliath had been killed and soul and soul and his men were returning home from battle women from surrounding cities and towns came out to greet them with tambourines and Liars they danced and sang songs of victory and joy say Saul the King has killed thousands and David the Shabbat as killed tens of thousands buss 8 says these Mets are very angry angry and they say to himself they are giving me credit for only thousands and they are given this stripping shabad credit for tens of thousands the next thing I know they will be making men they will do is they will be making him King then from there so kept an Tara's eye on David you see this is where it began and so serve vowed that you will wipe out David because David was becoming a threat David was becoming a challenge between him and the State House office and so he began to chase David and David moved from one hideout to another my dear viewer I'm giving you a background of this some 11 so as David was moving from one hideout to another sometimes in a foreign country sometimes in Judah from one forest to another from one cave to another from one city to another he came one time to a cave of a drama and visited and it was visited by people when they knew of the close family members then the prophet guard told him soon Saul will discover and kill you so can you run away and find a new hideout and so when he went he decided to go to Nob and inquire of his future from a priest because that was the communication line then people used to know God's will or what they should do from a priest and so David went to know a city of the priests and enquired from a him Eric the priest and so when we reach there is just inquired and I'm Eric gave him directions of what he should do then he went a new hideout but soon it was discovered that I'm Eric had shown some kindness to David and so when he was there he called his army generals his soldiers together and began to tell them you must tell me who among us is tipping David because every time I realize in some place he runs before we catch up with him and so because he Kannada he said today you either tell me who releases secrets or you're dead and because of that one of the soldiers called Doeg the Edomite said oh yeah please kill don't kill us I saw David at nob and I'm Eric the priest gave him some food supply even give him a SWAT that you brought that he brought from a garage the SWAT had belonged to various and so I saw I met given him that kindness and that now the when he when they are Ahmet a command I died a decree and said can you bring I'm Eric here immediately and I met was brought when he reached there he just was supposed to explain why the assisted David to run away from Seoul and the explanation was not enough and so sauce ate you'll be punished for aiding Devi to go away from my hand and my dear viewer that is what I want to read from far Samuel chapter 22 and I will begin from Westland was 18 first of all from by 16 he decided and told the soldiers that can you tan and the kill the priests but the people from Judah said no we can't do that we know the priests stand for very critical min of a very critical role in the economy of Israel so they refused but was 18 it says here and I read say sauce all ordered oil and his sons to do the job the job of giving the priests and this was this and they didn't estate they pulled out their knives surrounded the priests and they killed all 85 of them this dog now assisted by his sons was 19 so so then add all the other inhabitants of up the city of the priests killed he also killed our cattle donkeys sheep you know the village none of the animals was spared in other words we are saying here it was a total extermination of the priests family so decided that he didn't want to see one priests surviving Ahmadiyya viewer I want you to know that in the arrangement of Israel there were three critical leaders there was the political leader represented by the king in this case it was so that was the political leadership and it was arranged so by God then there was the prophetic office a voice a spokesman of God between God and man and that was the prophet and in this case it was prophet God then there was the office of the priest that was in charge of the spirituality of the nation that were that made sure that the people who are spiritual because you remember on their way from Egypt to their promised land if you read Leviticus chapter 19 God said to the Moses that tell the whole Assembly of Israel that they should be holy because I am all hurry so God was very keen with spirituality and he had decided that the office of the priest was going to be in charge of spirituality what they used to do is whenever somebody sinned then you will just go to a priest of a sacrifice and then your sins are forgiven and so what now sawdust is like saying the nation of Israel can survive without priests in other words the nation of Israel can survive without spirituality in other words that they can do away without religion and that is what is eight that the office of the King represented by me is enough we don't have to have the priests in this case so by killing all the priests at Nob that is what Saul was saying David had other views though that by killing the priests Saul had actually tampered with the foundation of the Asura's economy he had tampered with the foundations of individual lives because all other lives aspects of life the economic life the social life the political life the philosophical life or had their foundation on the spirituality of the nation in other words of their relationship to God and so by wiping out the priests saul was saying we can do without religion we can do without spirituality and that is why David give us with him and now when that story goes on it says Saul killed everyone except one priests core abhyasa and this is the one who actually went unreported - to David and if I read chapter 22 again and was 21 verse 22 it says and David said to Abby odda that that day when I stopped to see your father I noticed the oil the adamite was there and something told me that he will tell Saul so I'm responsible for the death of your family and the death of all the people nope and so David just broke down in in in mourning for these people and as I was mourning actually that is the content of chapter one of the phrases of that money was even Dacians are being destroyed what can the righteous do my dear viewer in this verse it brings two groups of people there are those who are busy destroying foundations of this life personal life or corporate life or national life and also those who are supposed to be doing something and that one in the verse is the righteous the people who are faithful to God people like you and me if in wherever you are whether in Africa or America or Asia or Europe you see people as individuals or as nations are busy destroying foundations what should you do when everything seems to be crumbling what do you do as a person there and that is what we can see was the back of David and it is the burden of today Simone that my dear viewer we want to see that when you see the world crumbling because we have ignored the spiritual aspect we are not serious with our relationship with God we think that we can define ourselves by other aspects of life other than spirituality then you must know that we are ready in trouble Paul in the book of first Corinthians chapter 15 10 he defined himself in terms of spirituality he says ah whoo mama I am because of the grace of God that's how he defines himself he says am a product of grace I am a product of God's doing in other words with him he put the foundation of his life on his spirituality and his relationship with God because of the grace of God my dear viewer I don't know how you define yourself maybe you are defining yourself through the economy status that you hold maybe you define yourself you are who you are because of the size of your bank account or by the number of pieces of land you hold or number property you hold sometimes it can be like that that means you have not built on the foundation let me say this when you read a Bible very carefully God has shown us how we will build this life so that it is firm whenever storms come like the storm in which we are we just cared everybody in the world kings and slaves free learners and ignorant rich and poor mean everybody white or black whatever dakara everybody scared by this why because we want to see what God says about this foundation because David was very very concerned about the foundation let me take you to the first letter of first Corinthians the first letter of the Corinthians chapter 3 Paul also spoke of this foundation and this is what is 8 from us chapter first Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 10 he says in harmony with the grace God as given as a wise masterbuilder carefully made a foundation for for others to build on but everyone who builds needs to be careful how he builds mass 11 says there is only one solid foundation and that foundation is Jesus Christ my dear viewer here is where Saul went to attack spirituality where soul decided to attack godliness among people and so to David it looked like it touched the foundations Ahmet foundation temple even as these days people have ignored spirituality people have ignored godliness they are building their businesses without mean based on sifting sand they are not building their businesses on the true foundation with Jesus Christ they are not building they are family life which is a social aspect of life they are not building their education pursuit of one thing one social amenity or another on Jesus Christ and that is why we say when people are ignoring spirituality when core people are ignoring godliness in this generation what should that I just do what should you and me who has believed in Jesus Christ and who still has that that much to make sure you hold on until Jesus Christ comes so one to say that Jesus Christ is the foundation of everything and everybody is asked to make friendship without Jesus Christ then you will become it will become the foundation of anything that we are building Jesus Christ is not only the is not only the foundation stone is also called the cornerstone the cornerstone Peter and Paul wrote about and likened Jesus Christ as the cornerstone of personal life the cornerstone and the foundation of family life the cornerstone and the foundation of personal life of national life of international life and in in Ephesians chapter 2 it says that Paul wrote to the divisions and said so you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners you are citizens along with God's God's people you are a members of gods family together we are a house built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets and the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself and you see the teaching of the Bible is it makes God it makes religion it makes spirituality to be the the foundation and the cornerstone of and ever in the world and so my dear viewer this is what Sol tampered with and this is what met David cry and say e foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do and we must know what the righteous should do and I want to tell you my dear viewer it doesn't need a lot of research you know that in the century we live in this century the 21st century there are more people destroying the foundations than those building them up even in the religious world there are people who are not doing what we are supposed to be to be doing and so it says now what can this what can the righteous do my dear viewer I want to tell you now that when things seem to be breaking apart when things seem to be to come tumbling down like the walls of Jericho what should the righteous do when Corona has virus has sent you in the house in your house and you are not sure when somebody misses you just come to yourself and think maybe I'm contracting it everybody is afraid everybody is running away because of these coronavirus what should we do and I won't tell you my dear friends that the Bible tells us to do three main things and that is why when the question says when the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do number one I want to ask you to read with me from the book of some eleven first one it says when everybody else is busy destroying foundations let it be your goal to say I will put my trust in the Lord I will put my trust in the Lord then he says David will say you may undermine religion you may put a very little value on spirituality but for me I'll put my trust in the Lord and my dear viewer that is the right thing to do when foundations are being challenged when foundations are being destroyed when everything is seems to be thumbing down you are not sure you are then told not to go and visit your loved one in hospital when you are told you must bury your dead ones as soon as possible for those who take time to do elaborate burial you are told to do it with a minimum of 15 people and do it very quickly even worshipping worship in your house what do you do number one put your trust in the Lord there's a problem when the Strongs or around us you can make a wrong decision if the Foundation's if your spirituality if your relationship with God is not strong you can do a wrong response because in chapter 11 verse 1 there it gives the right response and the wrong response immediately because in an event of a a problem strong like the one we are in now wall over the coronavirus you can choose between the two he says one either you can put confidence in the Lord or because to say why do you then tell me run and hide in your Mountain so another response is you can decide to run away you can around decide to run away from you are from from the storm your own mountain one mountain here might be a view and listener is some when they find life changing they ran for drugs that is your mountain you want to sort it out by running and making sense out of the chaos of the world you can run to drinking you can run to games you just go and do other things you can have your own mountain you can go to to do pursuits maybe you can say I want to amass wealth upon wealth you can run to that mountain over massing worth you can run to amazing education one degree of the NADA those things are not bad my dear viewer or this but EVPs as a response of running away from a challenge that is there then that is a wrong response so when foundations are being destroyed when everything seems to be falling apart my dear viewer the right response is put trust in the Lord and that's why we say the title of the sermon is I will put my trust in the Lord verse 4 says there says God looks down from heaven on mannequin to see if anyone understands goodness and so verse 4 of chapter 11 says look to the Lord who is in his holy temple is still on his heavenly throne he looks and sees what is the Hutts what is in the hearts of people everywhere so my my dear viewer my dear listener God is yearningly looking from heaven to see that when things are being destroyed when everything is shaken and seemed before in a part will you put trust in the Lord number two after you have put your trust in the Lord and nothing is God not going to try to move you you trust in the Lord you obey what God has said then number two is what Paul says you begin building your personal life on the Shuar foundation Jesus Christ you begin to develop a godly character the other thing that God will look when he comes a second time this what is going to look among the children this what is going to look among the youth this what God is going to look for among the adults whether they are Lynette or ignorant they are rich or poor there are advantages or disadvantages in this life is not going to look at any consideration except the character but and after the heavenly similitude so after your put you are you are trust in the Lord then the next one is put on the values which second beta1 from us three says please add begin with faith begin with trust in God than without trust add to your faith add then that addition and addition and addition so that the character of York recta is an all-rounded heavenly character so number two is built paul says yahveh choice java choice at first Corinthians three you have a choice in the choice of materials you can use to build your character let me lead you to that first Corinthians chapter three and you will see the choices you have so that might be a viewer wherever you are be very very vigilant in this building work because the foundation is already laid on here what the sail was twelve some spiritual builders as they build on Christ use valuable materials which can be compared to gold silver and precious stones while others use less variable materials which are more like good hay or straw in other words Paul gives us six choices of material or building christ-like character you can choose gold you can choose silver you can choose precious stone in other words you can use the Bible to build you are your character you can use other writers who have examined the Bible to build your life on Jesus Christ or you can use less variable material to build your life which is like grass wood and hate and these materials is where do you build your what is the basis of building your character sometimes in the social media you can choose that one as social media to build your life or you can use from these fairy tales stories which has no real stuff that can build your character or you can use what God has provided for character building so my dear viewer is your choice because number two you have got to build a character a personal character after the similitude of heaven please maybe a viewer do it by listening to good sermons listening to good music live written from the Word of God from the lesson pottery from books Byron white and the rest and them you are able to build an all-rounded heaven in character a number three is if foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do it is help others build a similar character in other words witness do the loving grace of God till a drunkard hey things can change tell somebody caught up in black say no no no things can change there's power in the blood of Jesus Christ is the foundation of this you can leave your evil ways you can leave you are you are still in habits you can you can live a sober life you can overcome your negligence of your family or these are the things that is witnessing to the grace of God we has stunt you upside down and given you a heavenly character and I won't tell you my dear viewer whoever has put confidence in the Lord and as taken time to build a character by the grace of God the heavenly character will not be lazy will not sit there and enjoy the heavenly power by himself or herself know you'll be propelled to go out and have somebody else somewhat somebody somewhere also join the group and that is how we multiply this big group which will be in heaven as recorded in Revelation chapter 12 chapter 7 verse 12 says then I saw a great multitude which no one can count from every tribe nation and tongue singing with palms you know this is the efforts of the righteous who have done the right thing one they are built on the foundation Jesus Christ - they put their confidence in Jesus Christ and three they have now gone out to spread this power that can change sinners my dear viewer the Bible's very rich we know people who are crooks who are as it were beyond repair who did not care about spirituality but when they came face to face with Jesus Christ with the true foundation and they put trust in him he changed them we are talking of people like Abraham we are talking of people like Samson we are talking of people like Rahab the harlot and when they met Jesus Christ and put their trust in the Lord he turned them and now if you read chapter 11 then they are called heroes of faith people what confidence in God and said Christ can help me they clung to it and then they formed a character that is as a heavenly stand so my dear viewer what can we say the question we were considering is this when foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do when we are scared like we are scared and we are thrown everywhere by the corner value virus and you are not knowing what to do what should you do I have said put trust in the Lord build a heavenly corrected by the grace of God and help others build the same character by witnessing to the loving grace Lord Jesus Christ may be a viewer until next time may God help you to concentrate in these perilous times to cling to the Lord trust him build a character don't fear of the things going around and God will bless you abundantly and in this way may God bless you in Jesus name [Music] q for tuning in as Postum a courier said we ought to build a strong foundation linked to the last three teams to end this session and the first team is so dear to the members in Aruba central SDA church and I'll invite you from whichever place you're watching us from just to follow the ones and eternalism the message the song is we will keep our faith alive lately after that we'll do him number 72 in Suellen will be done we will build on the rock Tudor Jenga Julia Mamba we will keep our faith alive you [Music] this man we can't share Oh sweetie boys are taught me because see Oh we we serve shoots are Tootsie No this night we will see we many time Oh me more time see told me not fair Oh No Oh Hey Oh night we will you'll see please Dana me we'll see Oh Oh [Music] Oh indeed you can only kill a favor like it was a Christopher we bought pistol-whip anima Sabina nobility to the Jenga juror mama in English as the hymnal five-three-one will build on the rock the solid rock that is Jesus Christ [Music] to sooo true true we me Oh the last Hill to cram the message of the day is in English a mighty fortress is our God him number 506 and I'll invite you my fellow viewer because I'm also being you in faith please just rise so that you make use of him number five zero six written by none other than the great reformer Martin Luther five zero six [Music] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] Oh oh sorry Oh Oh and Oh [Music] Oh Oh Oh [Music] [Music] what a beautiful worship service I will trust in the Lord even when the foundations are being broken I'll seek the Lord to build one such that when the storms come I'll remain standing I don't know about you but thank the Lord that today you and me wherever you are we have been blessed of the Lord want to thank you so much in a very special way and keep encouraging you in the situation that the Lord knows you and he is ministering to you in ways you cannot see as you sit at home or in your car or wherever you are please always remember God is with you we want to continue inviting you and encouraging you to stay tuned on our platforms hope channel on online from Central Church YouTube and Facebook accounts and please share widely remember gain ascend connect don't be alone keep connecting because we know that a heavens is with us we can't be confined from our worship God is not confined in a room in a sanctuary is everyone keep praying and worshiping him because we know soon Jesus is coming now for those of you who are tuned online as I said from next Sabbath we are rolling a program on family live we want to talk to you in your family and talk about the issues affecting our families from next about every afternoon from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. we are giving you wonderful program for the family please remember to keep tuned and tell a friend to tell a friend because we are here for you thank you so much want to do the closing prayer in let you have a moment alone with the Lord let's pray a gracious father in heaven we thank you so much for the privilege of fellowshipping even in these very difficult times thank you for the timely message from your manservant pastor dr. Samuel McCrory Oh has reminded as law that even in the storms of fist-width we can still trust in the Lord we thank you God because a so close to us we feel you we feel the presence we have encouraged we know that for sure God is with us and we continue to pray and especially for many thousands and thousands of the sick people through this pandemic of coronavirus lord i pray that may you visit with your people and touch them restore them lord i pray against this wind of debts we have been witnessing people dying in a single day in thousands Lord and praying that may you Lord speak deliverance and they know the Lord whatever you choose to do no power nothing can stop you Lord and is seek you from this sanctuary praying the Lord may you come through to your people I pray for those who are affected because the family members are isolated a parent is sick lord I pray that me you'd speak and whisper to them once of hope that it's going to last not so long but soon you're going to see the hand of deliverance from you Lord we thank you so much when as we continue worshiping the rest hours of Sabbath god I pray that may you help us to be close to you remind as the Lord we are always safe when we are with you and when we stay at home we can use this moment this time when we are being quarantined to have more time to search the scriptures to know what we have spoken and especially for the experience you're going through that we can find solace in the--in thank you Lord for being so gracious and continue blessing us and continue supplying every single need that we have feed us Lord give us what we need because you know these are difficult times but I know the Lord those who trust in you for sure they will be like Mount Zion with bless your name and we keep praying that may you walk with us every single John we make we pray in jesus name a man a man god bless you god be with you hoping they're coming aboard let's see me just saying Oh Oh asakim Elizabeta napo's eliminar Papa numbe comma villagiulio Tejada ritual and just to say thank you as you bid farewell we are soldiers of Christ so our closing hymn new in bow were Cristo number City Nina tano trend any Ascari in English as the hymn number 6 112 onward Christian soldiers [Music] [Applause] Oh trendy - Oh [Music] me to Taji babies come to Oh to god bless you all have a lovely week amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 67min 11sec (4031 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 04 2020