Michigan Camp Meeting 2019: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Christ our Righteousness

Royce Snyman

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 1

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 3: From 1900 until 1950

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 4: From 1950 until Now

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 5: In these Last Days

Father in Heaven, it's been a good week and we are really thankful for your being with us, for the way that you lead and guide us in our own personal lives, and as a church.

We know that you're preparing us for Your return, the return of Jesus.

We're looking forward to that day very soon as we understand it to be.

As we talk today more about this most important topic of Christ, our righteousness, we pray that you will once again be present here, that the words that are spoken by me will not be from me, but that they will be guided by you, and that our ears will hear what you want us to hear, that we might be in tune with you and be fulfilling all righteousness as we seek to be fully surrendered to Jesus.

There's Too many pieces of equipment that I have to put in here and I'm always forgetting 1 of them.

Let's see if this is going to work as usual.

Remember, oh by the way, there are 3 stanzas today.

Now if you're paying any attention to the stanzas there is a reason for them.

And pay attention to the third 1 because it does have something, a message for us today which is why I have not yet played that stanza or put it up on there.

That's a very interesting problem that I just developed right now.

The problem is that I'm hearing it here, but you aren't hearing it there.

Well, folks, we're going to sing it a cappella today, because I'm not going to play with this for the rest of the day.

Open my eyes that I may see Glimpses of truth, how hast for me Grace in my hands, the wonder of key that shall unclasp and set me free.

Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see.

Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine.

Spirit divine, open my eyes that I may hear voices of truth, how sand is clear.

How sand is clear and where the wave notes fall on my ear, though everything still disappear.

Right now I wait for the ready my God I will to see my ears Illumine Spirit Divine.

Open my mouth and let me bear Gladly the warm truth everywhere.

Open my heart and let me prepare, Love with thy children thus to share.

Silently now I wait for Thee, ready my God Thy will to see.

Open my ears, illuminate By ears illuminate Spirit divine.

Time to share what we know, and that's part of it.

As you leave here, share the good news of the righteousness of Christ.

It is the good news of the gospel, and that's what we need to know.

Ellen White said in Christian Experience and Teachings of Ellen White, it's recorded there, at this time the church is to put on her beautiful garments, Christ our righteousness.

There are clear, decided distinctions to be restored and exemplified to the world in holding aloft the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

The beauty of holiness is to appear in its native luster in contrast with the deformity and darkness of the disloyal, those who have revolted from the law, those who have revolted from the law, those who have revolted from the law of God, namely the disloyal.

It is time for the message of Christ our righteousness to be clearly presented in God's church.

Of course, the big challenge is that we've had a lot of confusion over that message.

That's what we've been talking about today, yesterday, I should say yesterday and the days before.

It's also part of what I talked about a year ago, the camp meeting, and for me it's part of a journey.

It may be a journey even for you, the way that God is leading and working for us.

You know, there was a movie that came out according to the news.

But in the news there was a movie that came out, something about some superhero, here recently.

And the interesting thing about it is that more money was spent on that movie and watching that movie than had ever been spent on any movie before.

I'm not talking about preparing the movie.

It tells me this world is desperate for a superhero.

But the bottom line is there's already been a superhero.

The 1 that we are only superhero we need.

The 1 who defeated the devil on his own territory.

No, it's God's territory, but the devil's claiming it is his.

And the devil is trying to give us a false superhero, but the Bible clearly tells us that Jesus Christ is the 1 who is the answer to our problems and the 1 who can give us the wonderful gift of eternal life.

I want to take a few moments and just backtrack over our journey because it is helpful for us to keep our perspective.

We'll be doing a little bit of backtracking today but only briefly.

First of all, the question is where have we been?

I'm from the angle, it's a little glary, but I think it's okay.

Those of you over here may be having a little trouble seeing it too.

In Monday's class, we surveyed the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy teaching on the theology of Christ our righteousness.

We saw from the Bible why Ellen White said, the Lord in his great mercy sent a most precious message to his people.

It invited the people to receive the righteousness of Christ which is made manifest in obedience.

On Tuesday we looked at the time from 1888 to 1900 and saw that the church was introduced to the message of justification by faith, the latter rain began to fall, and the third angel's message sounded, and the loud cry began to be proclaimed, proclaiming the message of Christ our righteousness.

On Wednesday we saw that our theology on Christ our righteousness changed little from 1900 to 1950.

But the fact that fact is itself significant and a survey of our teaching during that time clarified that this doctrine was known but it was not the focus that the leaders realized it needed to be.

And they realized that the message had not been accepted and practiced by the church.

Daniels in his book, Christ Our Righteousness, was written to help re-center the church's focus on this most precious message.

Yesterday we studied the time of the 1950s, looking at 1 of the most destabilizing events in our history.

That's a quote from Douglas' book, who was quoting also Dr.

Knight, George Knight, recognizing it as 1 of the most destabilizing events in our history, if not the most destabilizing event in our history, which occurred with the development of the printing of the book, Questions on Doctrine.

The church during this time began a time of unprecedented doctrinal change that still affects us today.

This though today is just the beginning of the final step.

Today we need to answer the question, what now?

We need to ask a couple other questions along the way, too.

Are there theological conclusions that we can safely make?

What should I, as an individual Seventh-day Adventist member, do?

What should the church do with the information that we have been discussing?

What is God's plan for His church in these last days?

Part of them have actually already been done.

Because you have been studying all along what we've been talking about starting with the presentation of Christ our righteousness in the beginning.

So there already is a foundation laid that makes it pretty clear to us, and that's what I want to remind you of to start with.

I know I'm putting back up on the screen what we've already talked about.

Some of you have come into the class late, and you've missed some of that discussion.

Series

Christ our Righteousness

Christ Our Righteousness - Part 5: In these Last Days

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