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Gospel Issues in Adventism
#12 – The Investigative Judgment The court was seated, and the books were opened. – Daniel 7:10b So far, in our study of the sanctuary doctrine, we have already seen that the sanctuary message is vitally linked to the everlasting gospel…
The Sanctuary
23 – The Investigative Judgment The sanctuary year ends with the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement was a day of judgment and the judgment has many facets. We will be looking at these different facets of the judgment in the next stu…
The Church - An Extension of Christ
8 – The Issue is Jesus In our last study of the early church, we were introduced to Stephen, one of the seven Greek-speaking Jews chosen as the first deacons of the Christian church. This man was not only recognized as an honest person…
Romans: The Clearest Gospel of All
#29 – The Jewish Tragedy If there is any church or denomination that faces the great danger of repeating the sad history of Israel, it is ours, because we have so much in common with them we are vulnerable to follow the same mistakes th…
Romans: The Clearest Gospel of All
#7 – The Law and the Gospel We come now to our third and final study on this tremendous passage that we have been looking at for the last three studies, where Paul introduces us to and defines the unconditional good news of salvation in…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 16: The Law of God Fundamental Belief #19The great principles of God’s law are embodied in the Ten Commandments and exemplified in the life of Christ. They express God’s love, will, and purposes concerning human conduct and rela…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 6: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ Fundamental Belief #9In Christ’s life of perfect obedience to God’s will, His suffering, death, and resurrection, God provided the only means of atonement for human sin, so that tho…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 13: The Lord’s Supper Fundamental Belief #16The Lord’s Supper is a participation in the emblems of the body and blood of Jesus as an expression of faith in Him, our Lord and Savior. In this experience of communion, Christ is pre…
Explaining the Gospel
4 – The Love of God According to the favorite text of the Bible: John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. It is this love of God that i…
Understanding the Gospel
7 – The Love of God There is no book in the whole of the Bible that so clearly and so masterfully explains the wonderful gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ than Paul’s epistle to the Romans. In this letter Paul expounds the full counsel of…
The Everlasting Gospel
2 – Review In part one of this study, I defined the everlasting gospel — that I believe God raised the Advent movement to proclaim to the world in its global mission — that the gospel is the good news about the birth, life, death, and r…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 24: The Millennium and the End of Sin Fundamental Belief #27The millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven between the first and second resurrections. During this time, the wicked dead will be judg…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
Chapter 9 – The Ministry of the Holy Spirit The work of the Holy Spirit plays a most important role in the subjective gospel, for while salvation full and complete has already been prepared and provided in Christ Jesus (the objective go…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 4: The Nature of Man Fundamental Belief #7Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do. Though created free beings, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind, and spir…
Built Upon the Rock
Chapter 25: The New Earth Fundamental Belief #28On the new earth, in which righteousness dwells, God will provide an eternal home for the redeemed and a perfect environment for everlasting life, love, joy, and learning in His presence.…
Ephesians, Queen of the Epistles
#9 – The New Life in Christ In our last study of Ephesians 4:7-16, Paul discussed the spiritual gifts that are placed upon every believer for equipping the saints for the ministry of presenting Christ to the world as well as building up…
The Church - An Extension of Christ
4 – The Only Solution I read in Acts that: Acts 4:33 With great power [i.e., signs and wonders] the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. It is clear that not all the sign…
Revealing the Gospel in Galatians
2 – The Origin of Paul’s Gospel Galatians 1:11-24: I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation…
The Parables of Jesus
The Parable of the Soil Luke 8:4-8: While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the pat…
Study of Hebrews
The Peril of Unbelief In this study we will cover the last half of Hebrews chapter ten. The first half which we covered in our last study dealt with the sacrifice of Christ being a perfect, complete, full payment for all our sins. The s…
The Parables of Jesus
The Parable of the Perils of an Empty Heart Turn in your Bible to Luke 11:24-26. This is one of the short parables of Christ. Jesus said, When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find…
The Parables of Jesus
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican Luke 18:9-14: To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Parisee and the o…
The Parables of Jesus
The Parable of the Priceless Pearl Matthew 13:45-46: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. In this study we are…
Dynamics of the Everlasting Gospel
Chapter 8 – The Principle of the Cross According to the apostle Paul, the power of the gospel is to be found in the cross of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:17-18). In Chapter 5 we made a study of the cross of Christ as a truth or an objective…
