Weekly Sabbath Sermon

Vows in the bible are an example of promises made and promises kept. Vows to God are not required but when you make a vow to God you must be sure to pay your vows to God.

Fulfillment of vows is very pleasing to God you Father because they show you putting on and living out an important Godly trait... faithfulness.

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1️⃣ The Purpose of the First Four Commandments

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2️⃣ Heaven & Hell: What the Bible Really Says

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3️⃣ Remember the Sabbath Day

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4️⃣ Where is the Church Jesus Established?

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➤Pay Your Vows To God - Making Vows in the Bible

Daniel's dream of four beast and John's vision of the beast of revelation are both a revealing of what is to come and a riddle at the same time.

The riddle of the beast begins with dream of Nebuchadnezzar which Daniel interprets for the king according to what God told him. Years later Daniel has a dream of his own concerning 4 beast that rise up out of the sea. These are the four successive kingdoms that take us from the demise of Israel to the return of Christ at the end time. Finally, we must add the vision of the great and terrible beast Christ gave John as recorded in the book of revelation.

These visions give us the content of the riddle. Many of these events have happened through the course of history and are aspects of the riddle we can understand and know the answer to. However, certain aspects of the riddle remain to be answered.

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➤ Daniels Dream and The Riddle of the Beast of Revelation

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The mercy and compassion of God are the beginning of our salvation from death and expectation of life everlasting. Mercy is essential to the emotional makeup of the living God... who desires that His children be merciful as well.

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God wishes to be known and understood by His character, and at the top of the list is MERCY.

This message will take a look at the mercy of God in the old testament, then the new testament. Also we'll take a look at God's desire that we be merciful just as he is merciful.

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➤ The Mercy and Compassion of God

Hardening of the heart signifies a spiritual condition that can cause you to miss out on the blessings God has in store for those who are in Christ.

Two main section of scripture in the new testament address how hardness of heart happens:

Romans 9 - where the primary subject is the hardened hearts of Israel. We also get introduced to a prime example of hardness of heart in the person of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

Hebrews 3-4 where the primary subject is the church of God and their attitude towards the 7th day rest [aka the Sabbath].

Hardening of the heart involves stubbornness, pride, lack of mercy, an unforgiving attitude, and blindness to the obvious work of God.

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Conduct in the household of God is spelled out clearly in the epistles of the new testament. They do require a bit of interpretation because we live in a very different society than 60 AD. but the principles, concerns and warnings remain the same.

In this message we'll address some additional matters of conduct within the household of God as found in the last three chapters of 1 Timothy.

The over-arching concern is about false teaching and ideas that were affecting the conduct of the members of the church in Ephesus. Specifically we are introduced to controversies over:

1. Food and drink

2. Sex & marriage

We are reminded that the main purpose of teaching within the church was to provide useful help in how to live a Godly life. The structural model offered is that of the human family.

Money matters are also discussed:

1. how should financial assistance be regulated (and how bad doctrine was resulting in some bad policies in this area)

2. problems related to maintaining a paid ministry

The letter to Timothy concludes with a warning about the love of money and greed.

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Sabbath keeping requires that we learn to judge righteous judgement. The ox in a ditch scenario and the question about whether or not it is ok to heal on the Sabbath give us two case studies in how we are to judge matters based on the spirit of the law.

We are not given 10,000 scenarios for what is and is not appropriate on the Sabbath day. We must learn to apply the spirit of the law to our observance to be pleasing to the God who gives the commandment.

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The history of Israel leaving Egypt is a lesson for us to leave sin behind us and never look back. God's command that Israel was to come out of a sinful society is as real in our time as it was in the past.

Leaving Egypt is a call to leave the temporary pleasures of our lives in the flesh for a permanent reward with an eternal future. Egypt [along with Sodom and Babylon] typify humanly devised societies that offer an appealing alternative to the way of God. However they lead us away from the path to life.

We must do our part in leaving sin behind... just as Israel had to do their part by getting up on their own two feet and walking out of Egypt. But sin wants you back. Satan will come after you just as the Pharaoh of Egypt chased after the people of Israel.

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The apostle Paul's letters to Timothy [1 & 2 Timothy] outline Paul's plan for establishing church life on the biblical pattern of the human family as ordained by God Himself. Understanding this concept is considered one of the deep truths of God.

Building off the keynote phrase "household of God" this message explores the instructions Paul wrote to Timothy for establishing order and sound doctrine in a congregation besotten with false teachers, controversy, and strife. These instruction still present a valid and effective model for meaningful church life in the 21st century.

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The apostle Paul sent Timothy to confront false teachers in the church of Ephesus. Paul's instruction to Timothy about how he should confront false teacher and false doctrine in Ephesus give us good guidelines we can still use today!

While the apostle Paul was imprisoned in Rome he was greatly concerned about the congregation of God's Church he had established in Ephesus. Paul was aware that their church life had deteriorated greatly.

Instead of holding to the course of sound doctrine they were engaged in meaningless disputes about questionable matters which Paul called "endless genealogies and fables [myths]. Additionally they were have difficulties maintaining proper order in their worship services. The church in Ephesus need some solid direction about he appropriate roles and responsibilities with a congregation... the household of God!

Paul sent his trusted co-worker Timothy to confront, expose and combat the false teachers, and false doctrine in Ephesus. Its warning and correction we need even today!

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➤ False Teachers in the Church of Ephesus

Cleansing by the sprinkling of Christ's blood is the necessary end of an ongoing process to address sin our lives. We must confess our evils, turn away from evil, seeking God's forgiveness and then be sprinkled with blood.

The cleansing power of the sprinkled blood of Jesus is an important part of your walk with God. Through it we are declared clean after having repented of sin, and seeking forgiveness. The sprinkling of blood in mentioned multiple times in the new testament. However, the idea of cleansing through sprinkled blood is not a new concept introduced after Jesus death.

Cleansing through the sprinkling of blood is an important part of the old covenant which has [like most other elements of the old covenant] been adapted and modified under the administration of the new covenant.

This message will review 4 ways sprinkled blood was used to cleanse and purify in the old covenant and consider how these provide insight for those of us who are under the new covenant:

1. the ratifying of the covenant through the sprinkling of blood

2. the cleansing of the altar and mercy seat through the sprinkling of blood

3. the purification of the priests through sprinkled blood

4. the cleansing of lepers through the sprinkling of blood

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