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Bristol SDA Church

Garhett Morgan

Adventism’s Unique Message

Father, Lord, we come to you this Sabbath knowing that we are not good enough to be in your presence.

But Lord, we know someday that's coming very soon that we are going to be directly in that presence.

But Father, today we know that your presence is here, that your angels are in this place.

And Father, we want no man to receive the glory from this truth, but only you.

So Father, be with me and help me not to mar Your perfect message with my imperfect lips, Lord.

Father, speak as only You can, we pray in the name of Jesus.

Turn with me to the book of Revelation, if you would.

Revelation, we're going to go to a chapter that we often go to on Sabbath, and that is Revelation chapter 14.

Revelation 14 is very important to some of the Adventists because we are called, In fact, not just by the church, but more importantly, we're called by God to preach the 3 angels' messages.

The 3 angels' messages will be proclaimed with a loud voice right before the second coming of Jesus.

And there's so much that we can say on the 3 angels' message.

Now, if we're doing this by memory, let's do this together.

The first angel's message says, fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come.

The second angel's message has to do with Babylon.

Does anyone know what that message is about?

So, the second angel's message is Babylon is fallen.

And the third angel's message, to put it briefly, is simply this, don't get the mark of the beast, right?

Those are the 3 angels' message in very simple language.

Fear God for the hour of his judgment has come, and then Babylon has fallen, and then following, don't receive the mark of the beast, receive the seal of God.

And those are all very important topics for our day.

There are so many things that we can unpack in these, but we're gonna take a look at the first angel's message this morning.

It says this in Revelation 14, verse 6, and I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation kindred in tongue and people, saying with a loud voice, " pause here, is this something that we should say as Christians meekly and quietly?

My friends, this is something that we should be boldly proclaiming, amen?

Saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come and worship him that made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters.

My friend, there's a very important part here in this verse.

It does not say that the hour of his judgment is coming.

It doesn't say that the hour of his judgment has come in the past, but it says the hour of His judgment is come.

My friends, you as Seventh-day Adventists know this, but ever since 1844 and the historical understanding of the sanctuary and the New and Old Testament of the Word of God, we have found that Jesus, your High Priest, is in the heavenly sanctuary.

And that High Priest is battling for your soul.

Right now, in heaven, in the most holy place, we see Christ atoning for His people, our sins.

Now, to put this very basic, Each and every 1 of your names at a point in time is going to come to judgment.

There's going to come a point where your name comes before this judgment throne in heaven.

There's going to come a point when your children's names come before this judgment.

There's going to come a point when your pastor's name comes before the judgment.

And the wonderful thing about it is this, everyone is judged by the same law.

Everyone is judged by the same judge, and every single 1 of us has the same lawyer.

And as we take a look at that judgment scene that is happening in heaven, even now, we've been living in this Deuteronomy 8 since 1844, we find, as we look at the law, and in Romans 3.23 and 6.23, we find that we have all sinned.

We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

And then the next text continues to say, but the wages of sin is death.

For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." And Romans also tells us that the wages of sin is death.

Now this is a common theme that Seventh-day Adventists have been preaching from the Word of God for quite some time is simply this, sin is universal.

Every single 1 of us in humanity has sinned except for Christ Jesus alone.

And because each and every 1 of us has have all sinned, we all justly deserve to die.

However, and I always say this in my evangelistic series, the verse, the wages of sin is death, does not end there.

It says, the wages of sin is death and there's this wonderful 3 letter word after that, it says but.

However, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

My friends, each and every 1 of us deserve to die and from the courts and the law we find that that's a just judgment.

However, Christ loved us so much that He could not allow that to happen without us having a chance.

A chance that we could not find ourselves, but a chance that only we can find in Christ.

Turn with me if you would to the book of Exodus, Exodus chapter 25.

This is a very basic verse for understanding the sanctuary message.

I know many of you have studied the sanctuary message before and when we study this there are literal, I mean we could study the sanctuary for years, we could have an entire year, in fact maybe even decade, that's no exaggeration of sermons just on the sanctuary.

It's so complex and it can be so complicated and there's beauty in each and every 1 of its complicated little details, but my friends, Let's not lose the message with all those details, amen?

Look what it says here in Exodus 25, in verse 8.

This is the purpose for the sanctuary of God while it was here on earth with the Israelites.

It said, it says, "'And let them make me, ' talking about God, "'a sanctuary that I may dwell among them "'according to all that I show thee, after the pattern of their tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it." My friends, we know this as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, but just as a reminder, we know that there was not only a sanctuary here on earth, but that sanctuary that was here on earth was made as a replica of the 1 where?

Not only is there a heavenly sanctuary, but there's a high priest in that heavenly sanctuary.

And the book of Hebrews tells us that we do not have a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, right?

But he was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Christ, our Heavenly Father, both of them, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, every single 1 of them, the only thing that they have wanted is to be with us.

When we look back in Genesis, Adam and Eve lived in perfect harmony with God.

There was full of peace, joy, bliss, and being able to commune with God face to face.

And once Adam and Eve were tempted for either further knowledge or whatever it may have been, there's a few different things, the world fell into a separation from God because of sin.

The entire Bible, Genesis, The first few chapters show us a perfect world, and the last few chapters of Revelation show us a perfect world.

Everything in between is God battling to get humanity back to where it should be.

The battle of God to restore humanity to where He longs to have us.

And yet sometimes, if not most of the time, we stand in His way.

As soon as Adam and Eve fell, the Word of God tells us in Genesis that God made them cloaks of animal skin.

Where do you suppose that animal skin came from?

God began to set up a system of sacrifice to illustrate what God was going to be doing for them in years to come.

In fact, the first murder that took place on earth of all things was over the sacrificial system.

The first murder that happened on earth was over worship.

In fact, we find we've kind of discussed this in prayer meeting on Wednesday, but when Abel brought that lamb before God as he was supposed to and as he was commanded, he did it in a way that was righteous.

But when Cain brought in the works of his own hands and brought it to God, it was unrighteous in God's sight.

My friend, spirit of prophecy tells us that in the end of times there's going to be 2 types of worship.

There's going to be those that worship God the way that God has told us to, and there's going to be those that try and do it on their own.

My friends, let's make sure that we don't do this on our own.

But that sacrificial system was set up and it began and it continued until Jesus came and died on the cross for our sins.

A couple weeks ago, a few of us pastors were talking and we were talking about camp meeting.

When camp meeting ends, we begin planning for camp meeting next year.

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