Book Summary of Steps to Christ
Another Look at Matthew 24
Sermon notes are a transcript from the sermon with only minor editing, retaining the conversational style. It is very serious for anyone who has the duty to speak with Gods people. Sometimes we do not realize how serious the things are that we are doing. In The Great Controversy, 640, it says, "Not until the day of final accounts will it be known how great is the responsibility of men in holy office and how terrible are the results of their unfaithfulness."So anyone who has the responsibility to study the word with Gods people, has a fearful responsibility. If I know something from Gods word that involves your salvation and I do not tell you and you are lost, that would be a terrible thing. Yet the devil is always trying to keep Gods ministers from declaring all the word of God. The apostle Paul said to the elders in Ephesis, "For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God." Acts 20:27.There is counsel on this in the Old Testament, too, in Ezekiel 33:6. It says, "But if the watchman sees the sword coning and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchmans hand."That is serious. So we must study all the word of God and I hnave to teti you that there is a sword coming and you need to be ready. While this is happening, we see that we have very little time left in this world. The final events of world history are hastening rapidly upon us, one of the things that I think anyone finds that visits or gives Bible studies, is that the devil is attempting to press discouragement upon Gods people.So there are sincere Christians all over the world that are just like people that are pressed under a load that is so great that they feel like despairing, like giving up. Now these loads that make people feel like giving up can be many different things. Some people are pressed under a
Sermon notes are a transcript from the sermon with only minor editing, retaining the conversational style. It is very serious for anyone who has the duty to speak with Gods people. Sometimes we do not realize how serious the things are that we are doing. In The Great Controversy, 640, it says, "Not until the day of final accounts will it be known how great is the responsibility of men in holy office and how terrible are the results of their unfaithfulness."So anyone who has the responsibility to study the word with Gods people, has a fearful responsibility. If I know something from Gods word that involves your salvation and I do not tell you and you are lost, that would be a terrible thing. Yet the devil is always trying to keep Gods ministers from declaring all the word of God. The apostle Paul said to the elders in Ephesis, "For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God." Acts 20:27.There is counsel on this in the Old Testament, too, in Ezekiel 33:6. It says, "But if the watchman sees the sword coning and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchmans hand."That is serious. So we must study all the word of God and I hnave to teti you that there is a sword coming and you need to be ready. While this is happening, we see that we have very little time left in this world. The final events of world history are hastening rapidly upon us, one of the things that I think anyone finds that visits or gives Bible studies, is that the devil is attempting to press discouragement upon Gods people.So there are sincere Christians all over the world that are just like people that are pressed under a load that is so great that they feel like despairing, like giving up. Now these loads that make people feel like giving up can be many different things. Some people are pressed under a