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Lansing SDA Church

Wes Peppers

Does It Really Even Matter?

I love his people and this is God's Church I believe friends that this is God's last day Church on earth.

I believe that we are living in The final moments of Earth's history I believe that we don't have much time to lose and as the Apostle Paul counsels us that we need to redeem the time, amen?

We need to be prayerful in season and out of season.

Things have happened even in the last year or 2 that bid us that we are on a precipice ready to coast on into eternity.

And I hope that you here this morning are ready for eternity.

It's my prayer that this church will grow, not just numerically, but spiritually.

That there would not be anything that the devil could throw at this church that would allow it to be separated or divided or to fall apart, but that we, it's the love of Christ only that can knit this church that close.

And I believe, I'm not saying that it's not, I believe it already has been, but even more so every day.

I heard it once said that the problem with preachers today is that no 1 wants to kill them.

But by the grace of God we want to be faithful to the Word.

I also heard it said that probably 1 of the best things that could happen to the church is that all the pastors would be thrown in jail.

And that's evidence that the church revolves around Jesus, yes?

I want to say I appreciate those of you that came and helped us move in.

We are moved in and we're settled for the most part.

We still got some loose ends to tie up, but we really appreciated those of you that came and have been such a blessing.

This church has already been such a blessing to us months before we even got here.

We appreciate all of you that have just so welcomed us warmly.

What I'd like you to do, I know this is, we won't make a habit of being this late, we'll strive not to do that.

But they told me that lunch will be ready at 3, so we got a little while.

But what I'd like you to do, you've been sitting a little while, is we want to do this orderly because God is orderly, but why don't you just stand for a moment, briefly, and just turn to someone beside you and say happy Sabbath, it's good that you're here.

I've entitled the message this morning, Does it even really matter?

And I'm hoping this morning that we'll just kind of set a little vision for the church in a sense.

And we'll talk about some various things this morning.

So I want to invite you wherever you are to just bow your heads with me.

And I'm going to ask the Lord's blessing 1 more time as we enter into the time to study his word together.

Father in heaven, Lord we're just so grateful this morning to be here.

We're grateful to know you, to be known by you, and to make you known to others.

Those are the great reasons that we have to live.

And so Lord, this morning as we look at the significance that you've placed in our lives, we pray that your spirit would bless, we pray that our hearts would be encouraged, they would be drawn to you, that we would be challenged, we would be convicted, and Lord that there would be a surrender in our lives this morning that would bring us more in harmony with your will.

So we ask for your blessing, we come in Jesus' name, amen.

How many of you have ever asked the question, does my life have significance?

How many of you have ever asked that question?

You know, there are a lot of people walking around the world today, especially in Lansing and in your neighborhood, and they're asking themselves that question.

I remember appreciate Paul who did our believe he did our scripture reading this morning and he told me that years ago he was an atheist and 12 years ago I was also an atheist.

I've been in God's church now for 12 years and I praise the Lord for the church.

I was 22 years old and when I, or I was a little younger before that, but I began that journey to find my significance and I wanted to know, does my life matter?

And at that point in time I didn't think that it did.

I couldn't find any satisfaction in anything that this world has to offer and I was this close to putting an end to my life when God divinely intervened.

I'm going to tell you that story in full, not today, but in the future, so you'll have to keep coming to church, amen?

I mean, where else would we rather be today than heaven?

And in God's church, worshipping with his people, amen?

And I asked myself that question and so I thought about that and I said even as Christians, even as Seventh-day Adventists, what is the significance of our life?

And I've come up with 6 points, there's many more, but 6 points that I want to share with you this morning about why our life is significant to God and why we should feel the significance that He's placed upon our lives.

Alright, we're going to start with the first point.

All right, push, go out of the, go out of the slideshow presentation.

Okay, then unplug it and plug it back in, the clicker.

You can go ahead and hit the slide, advance.

Go with me and your Bibles to Genesis chapter 1.

And we're going to quickly go through the whole chapter, and I want to highlight a few words for you this morning.

How many of you have ever heard people say, oh, I could never be a Christian because Christianity is too restrictive?

How many of you have ever heard people say that?

You know, there's too many rules to follow.

I want to be free to do what I want to do.

Don't raise your hands, but how many of you have ever said that before this morning?

Too restrictive, too many rules, too many things to follow.

But look in Genesis chapter 1, and we're going to just start in verse 1.

It says, In the beginning God did what everyone?

Now I want you to drop down to verse 3 and it says, Then God said, what?

Does It Really Even Matter?

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