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Explaingospel
2 – The Everlasting Gospel Defined According to the apostle Paul, the gospel is “the righteousness of God.” Romans 1:16: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to eve…
Explaingospel
…tral theme of Paul’s theology, is the expression “in Christ” or “in Christ Jesus.” This phrase is sometimes expressed by other similar phrases, such as: “in Him,” or “by Him” or “through Him,” or “in the Beloved,” or “together with Him,”…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
…tion they bombarded me with was: “Please defend the SDA investigative judgment doctrine in the light of justification by faith.” This same question is been raised today by many of our own scholars and pastors. According to our traditional…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
…eans He was immortal and mortal at the same time. This is a paradox. Or take us Christians. According to the truth of Righteousness by Faith, we are sinners and righteous at the same time (Luther). In ourselves we are sinners, while in Christ we stand righte…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
…erefore has created opposition against it since the Reformation times. It is still being challenged today, especially by Muslim scholars. It is also one of the issues in Adventism today and that is why I am including it in this series of…
Gospel Issues in Adventism
…oning ministry. It is a work of investigative judgment which is part of the ultimate disposition of all sin, typified by the cleansing of the ancient Hebrew sanctuary on the Day of Atonement. ...The investigative judgment reveals to heave…
Study of Hebrews
Christ, The Supreme Example Hebrews eleven gives us a list of names of Bible characters whose faith endured unto the end. In our last study we brought out six facts as to how faith reveals itself in the life of the be…
Study of Hebrews
…, “God’s Refining Process.” While our salvation in Christ is secure, it is guaranteed only as long as we maintain our faith in Christ. Christian living itself is always a struggle. I am sure that all of you are aware of this by now. This is…
Study of Hebrews
…that problem today. Principles are universal. They apply to all men, all the time, to all cultures. Take the truth of righteousness by faith. I had an officer of the church once come to me. He said “You should not be preaching righteousness by faith to the A…
Study of Hebrews
Warnings From Israel’s History Moses was faithful in delivering Israel out of Egypt, and out of the clutches of Pharaoh, and Christ was faithful in redeeming the hu…
Study of Hebrews
…luding study on the Sabbath. It has to do with the Sabbath in relationship to the law. I have here a document written by a Christian. It says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Here’s the question, “Are Christians under the law…
Study of Hebrews
…ing that many non-Adventist Sunday keeping Christians teach. For example, I have here with me a commentary on Hebrews by a top Evangelical preacher and Bible scholar, Ray Stedman. It’s called What More Can God Say: A Bible Commentary for…
Study of Hebrews
…s but he broke that covenant. How do I know? Because in Gen. 3:19, God said, “From now onward you will eat your bread by the sweat of your brow.” So Adam had turned from God-dependence to self-dependence. He had turned from depending on t…
Study of Hebrews
…b. 2:17-18: Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest. So He was made like one of us so that He could have compassion on us. There are Christians who have n…
Study of Hebrews
The Cost of Abandoning Christ Let us review three things about a baby in Christ: In Heb. 5:11 he tells us that immature Christians or baby Christians are incapable of understanding the de…
Study of Hebrews
…o verses. There is a sanctuary in heaven and Christ is the priest in that sanctuary, and this sanctuary was not built by man but by God. Having summed up his argument he now moves to the sacrifice that the priest has to bring before God.…
The Laodicean Message
…ant us to analyze this passage because it is very relevant to our study of the Laodicean message which is “Christ our righteousness.” Christ tells us that He wants us to overcome, and the question is, “Overcome what?” And we will see, folks, that th…
The Laodicean Message
…so you can cover your shameful nakedness.... And here in Revelation 16 we are to “keep” that garment, hold on to the righteousness of Christ by faith up to the very end. And, of course, verse 16 says: Then they gathered the kings together to the pl…
The Laodicean Message
…the 144,000? And the context of this section is the Three Angels’ Message. It is the Three Angels’ Message — which is righteousness by faith or Christ our righteousness — which will produce the 144,000. The three angels’ message can be described as the seali…
The Laodicean Message
…se are symbols, and we spent some time in the last study looking at the symbols. We saw that “hot” works are works of faith. There are three kinds of works described in the New Testament. “Works of faith” are works produced by the Holy Spiri…
The Laodicean Message
…s on verses 15 and 16, the true significance of our lukewarm condition, which we saw is the works of the law, or self-righteousness, or legalism. And once we have discovered this, we have actually laid the foundation for a true and for a meaningful…
The Laodicean Message
…e think “we are rich and have acquired wealth and have need of nothing,” the True Witness shatters our false security by telling us that we do not know — and that’s the big problem, we “do not realize” that we are really “wretched, pitifu…
The Parables of Jesus
…one very clear statement. Not long after the church began in Acts 4, one of the very first sermons that was preached by the apostle Peter when John was with him is found in this statement in Acts 4:12. I would like to include verse 11 al…
The Parables of Jesus
…he call of Matthew or Levi, who was a tax collector (or publican): After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and follo…
