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In this powerful message, we explore how easy it is to go through the motions in our spiritual lives and miss the profound beauty of God's love demonstrated through communion. Drawing from John 6:51, we discover what it truly means to receive Jesus as the "living bread" and why so many turned away from Him that day.

Today's story is about a rotten apple - but not only a rotten apple but about gossip as well.

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Did you hear about Anya?”

Ruth looked up from her reading book to see her friend Eliza next to her. 

“What did you say?” Ruth asked. 

“Shh! Keep your voice down!” Eliza whispered. “I asked if you’d heard about what Anya did.”

“No? What happened?” Ruth asked. 

“She cheated on the Bible quiz we had before lunch!” Eliza hissed.

Ruth was shocked. She didn’t know Anya very well, but she knew Anya was one of the smartest girls in their class, and she was especially good at knowing a lot of things from the Bible. Why would she need to cheat?

 “Are you sure?” Ruth asked slowly.

 “I’m positive!” Eliza said. “William saw her, and he told Kalia, and she told Max, and he told Amy, and she told me.”

 Ruth frowned. That seemed like a very long way of hearing something.

 “I just can’t imagine Anya doing something like this,” she said.

 Just then, their friend Ella dropped into the seat next to Ruth.

 “Can’t imagine what?” she asked.

Peter reminds us that many will be unprepared for Christ’s return because they “willfully forget” (2 Pet. 3:5, NKJV) what happened at the Flood. Today, even though the world has a collective memory of a great deluge (an astonishing number of global cultures tell the story of a devastating flood, from the ancient Greeks to the Mayans), the story of Noah is today perhaps one of the most ridiculed of the Bible’s accounts. As predicted, the world is willfully setting the story aside as a myth, no matter how clearly and explicitly it is depicted in the Old Testament and referred to numerous times in the New Testament.

Jesus said that the world situation would resemble “the days of Noah” in Matthew 24:37–39. Compare this passage with Genesis 6:1–8. What were the moral conditions that led to the Flood? What parallels exist between the two times?

There is another important lesson for God’s last-day remnant people that emerges from careful study. Hebrews 11:7 tells us that Noah “prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith” (NKJV).

Imagine preaching for more than a century with nothing to show for it but your own family in the ark. If Noah had been a modern evangelist, we might be tempted to write him off as a failure: decades of preaching and what would appear to be no results.

Fortunately, at the moment, many parts of the world are very responsive to the three angels’ messages. Evangelistic outreach—the preaching of our unique remnant message—is proving incredibly effective in many places, and many are coming to know the Lord. We have not yet reached the point where there are no results, although we have been told the moment is coming when “probation will close, and the door of mercy will be shut. Thus in the one short sentence, ‘They that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut,’ we are carried down through the Saviour’s final ministration, to the time when the great work for man’s salvation shall be completed.”—Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 428.

Until then, we have a work to do as a church.

How can we learn not to get discouraged if our personal evangelistic efforts don’t seem to be bearing much fruit for the moment? Why must we continue our efforts? (See John 4:37.)

UpSetters discuss the timeless methods of evangelism alongside modern approaches, focusing on the nature of the mission and the heart behind it.

The opinions expressed within the content are solely the individuals and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of the Allegheny East Conference or its affiliates.

Have you ever read the Bible and found that you cannot turn away from it because it is powerful? As you read through scripture, did you desire to make positive changes in your life? This week, we look at the Bible as a force for positive transformation.

Downey Adventist Church Sermon

Reading the Bible with Purpose series - week 3

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Chris Famisaran

31 May 2025

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