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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Roger Seheult

To Be Righteous or Not to Be Righteous, that is the Question

You know, I always look forward to speaking at Advent Hope.

It's a wonderful experience to come here and to be able...

But the problem that I have is I have so many things that I want to discuss with you that I don't know which 1 I have to actually discuss.

Like, I really wanted to talk to you about light today.

But we're not going to talk about light today.

There's actually some really interesting advancements in that.

We're actually talking to some scientists in England, and they're having a better understanding about what actually infrared light is doing.

We actually know now that it passes all the way through the body and comes out the other side from the sun.

And we're actually talking to a Nobel Prize winner about how the physics of that actually work.

It has to do with electron transport and all sorts of things.

I would love to give you an update, but there's something even more important than that.

There's something even more important than the sun, and that's what?

And that's what I really want to talk to you about today.

This will come in later, a little bit later.

That should give you a hint, the reason why I said North America.

You know, how many of you are students here at Loma Linda?

You know, the thing about going to school is they tell you up front exactly what it is that you need to do to get your degree.

They tell you what it is that you have to do.

Did God do the same thing for us in terms of what we need to be saved?

You know, I teach at another medical school.

I actually teach at UCR just down the street where I went for undergraduate.

I actually went to a state school for undergraduate university where I got my chemistry and biology degree.

And here, at least at Loma Linda, you have chapel Every Wednesday, right?

Because the thing that is amazing at UCR that I would tell nobody about because I thought they would take it away, is every single hour, the central bell tower would play, Oh God, Our Help in Ages Past.

And no matter what I was going through, no matter what trials and tribulations I was going through, there was that constant reminder every hour that God was with me as he had through all the ages.

And the greatest fear that Ellen White says that we have is to forget how God has provided for us in the past.

And to this day, I go back and I teach the medical students at UCR and I always go by the bell tower, although you can hear it all throughout the campus, it still plays those same bells as it has for years since that bell tower was put up.

But 1 of the things I noticed 1 day, when I come and teach the medical students there at UCR, I do it every year in November and December, and they park me way out in Lock 13, which is the way at the very end.

If you guys don't know where that is, it's by the Botanical Garden.

They have a multi-level parking structure, and what they've done since I graduated from there is they made a huge chemistry building, which now sits on the front part of Lot 13.

And I have to walk for 5 minutes to try to get to the medical school where I can give my lecture.

I have to actually time that in to my arrival.

And I noticed that as I was passing By the chemistry building, the school has gotten more prestigious since I was there.

There are now 2 spots, 2 parking spots right by the building that says reserved Nobel Prize.

So apparently they have 2 laureates in their chemistry department that are Nobel Prize winners.

And so again, if I want to park close, they're kind of telling me what I need to do, right?

They're telling me what I need to do to get a closer parking spot, so I better get to work.

You know, God, it's very clear in the Bible, isn't it?

Today we're gonna talk about 2 verses that are a little problematic.

The 1 that we love to read is Paul in Romans, Romans 3, 28.

But before we get started, let's ask the Holy Spirit to be with us, because this is going to be a tough 1 today, okay?

Dear Heavenly Father, Please send your spirit to be with us as we open your word.

Not that we try to understand it in our terms, in our understanding, because that's worthless.

We need to understand the Bible in terms of the truth, and the truth only comes by the Spirit.

Let my words be your words in Jesus's name.

For we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Martin Luther wrote in the margin, by faith alone.

And we have this, we understand righteousness by faith.

Hebrews 11, I think, where they go through all of the righteousness of everybody that had existed that had faith.

Kind of 1 of those brothers that maybe chided Jesus early on and then after Jesus' death realized who he was the brother to.

And actually became the leader of the church in Jerusalem.

You see then that a man is justified by what?

You see then that a man is justified by works and not only and not by faith only.

These are 2 very interesting texts, are they not?

How are we going to, does the Bible contradict itself?

Does not, So there has to be a way of putting these 2 texts together.

Paul's target is the idea that we are counted righteous by performing works.

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To Be Righteous or Not to Be Righteous, that is the Question

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