The Revival Fellowship

Delivered By Pastor Brad Smith on 3rd November 2024.

The following is a simple analysis between the plausibility of God creating our current world with purpose and planning in mind. Alternatively, all of the natural world is meaningless, unplanned randomness, which somehow sees matter and life evolve and appear in incremental stages over a long period of time.

* These notes assume God is right despite religious arguments, which may be erroneous to the scriptures.

* That Godless evolution requires a complete lack of purpose, design and logical process. If it is to remain valid... everything must be coincidental and without intelligent structure or pattern.

The scientific explanation for our world is... something came from nothing. The key assumption of this model is that just before the Big Bang, space filled with an unstable form of energy, whose nature is not yet known (out of nothing). At some instant, this energy was transformed into the fundamental particles from which arose all matter we observe today.. which is scientifically impossible.

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Delivered By Chris Tankey on 20th October 2024.

When God does something in the Bible, we should consider it carefully.

He does nothing without a purpose, and thinking about His actions tells us about His character and nature.

One of the most important events in the Bible occurred at Mt Sinai where God called Moses up the mountain and gave him two stone tablets on which He had written some rules for living - they are of course, the Ten Commandments.

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Delivered By Pastor Brad Smith on 20th October 2024.

This talk follows the talk 'Rejecting The Secret Rapture', where 'the' Rapture, 'the' Great Tribulation and 'the' Antichrist are falsely used. As a result of these errors, the correct understanding of salvation and overcoming are clouded in doctrinal garbage.

Factual points to consider...

The concept of a secret rapture is totally refuted by clearly defined scripture... see 'rejecting the secret rapture'.

Great Tribulation... there is no such thing as 'THE' Great Tribulation.. the word 'the' is not used.

Antichrist... neither is 'THE' used with 'Antichrist'... meaning it's not a specific person.

'Antichrist' (antichristos) as a word has a simple meaning... 'anti-' (against or instead of) & -'christ' (the anointed or anointing). It is not a person, but rather a doctrinal attitude towards the anointed or the anointing experience of the Holy Spirit. The worst betrayer of God's gospel comes from within the church itself... not an outward person or group. Spirit filled people who compromise the true gospel and promote a water-down version of salvation that removes the emphasis from the 'anointing' and shifts it to a lesser gospel are 'antichrists'... in simple terms, it is God's own people who are doing the most damage to God's blessings.

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Delivered By Pastor Brad Smith on 15th October 2024.

A few observations about the new Jerusalem and the millennium.

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Delivered By Pastor Brad Smith on 13th October 2024.

Before we disprove the "secret rapture", let us look at the teaching...

1. The rapture takes place when Jesus suddenly and secretly comes to the earth to gather all "born again" Christians to heaven. Importantly, this occurs without warning or sign -- and literally happen any day now.

2. According to most proponents, the rapture includes both living Christians and those "dead in Christ". A minor view holds that the rapture is only for those Christians alive in the last days.

3. The rapture occurs before the onset of "the" Great Tribulation -- hence, it is often called the pre-Tribulation rapture. Thus, Christians are spared the horrors of the Great Tribulation (this seems to be the motive behind the teaching).

4. Depending on the particular school of thought, "the" Great Tribulation -- described as a time of unprecedented trouble on the entire world -- lasts either three and one half years, or seven years.

5. After "the" Great Tribulation, Jesus will "officially" and visibly return to fight in the great Battle of Armageddon.

Factual points to consider...

The word 'rapture' {secret or otherwise} is not used in the scripture... the rising of the overcomers at Christ's return is the reference.

"Great Tribulation"... there is no such thing as 'THE' Great Tribulation... the word 'the' is not used.

"Antichrist"... neither is 'THE' Antichrist a specific person... 'the Antichrist' is not used in Revelations.

'Antichrist' (antichristos) as a word has a simple meaning... 'anti-' (against or instead of) & -christ (the anointed or anointing).

It is not a person, but rather a doctrinal attitude towards the anointed or the anointing.

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These talks were delivered by Chris Tankey on 15th September 2024, and 22nd September 2024.

It is worth spending time examining and thinking about the events leading up to and including the so called trials of Jesus Christ. These proceedings are generally condemned as illegal and unjust, and we will see why...

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Delivered By Pastor Brad Smith on 15th September 2024.

When God created Adam and Eve, they were created as spiritual beings in physical bodies. The serpent first pretends to offer a greater source of blessing than God, and temps them to believe him rather than God...

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These talks were delivered by Chris Tankey on 15th September 2024, and 22nd September 2024.

It is worth spending time examining and thinking about the events leading up to and including the so called trials of Jesus Christ. These proceedings are generally condemned as illegal and unjust, and we will see why...

A PDF copy of the talk notes is available at:

https://www.brf.org.au/articles/articles.jsp?category=9

These notes also include aa PDF version of the Powerpoint presentations given at the time.

Delivered By Pastor Brad Smith on 10th September 2024.

The revelation from God that we are created for a positive purpose and the fact that he is prepared to reveal these purposes, is the most wonderful knowledge that any human could ever experience. The opportunity to be anointed (enlivened) by God's Spirit and the promise of eternal life almost seems to good to be true. The Bible not only reveals these truths, but also reveals the best way to deal with problems as well.

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Delivered By Pastor Brad Smith on 3rd September 2024.

Jesus give us an understanding of what Spiritual truths are, how God sees us, and how he deals with us relative to mercy and forgiveness.

The parable of the lost sheep, The parable of the lost coin, and the parable of the lost son.