Participants: C. A. Murray
Series Code: POFCM
Program Code: POFCM000004
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00:57 Heaven is a city, built by jewels rare
01:05 Its beauty is a splendor yet untold 01:14 If you neglect salvation you'll never enter in 01:22 You'll never ever walk those streets of gold 01:30 So don't overlook salvation, while living 01:37 here in sin Someday it maybe too late to pray 01:49 Someday when you need Him, 01:53 He may not let you in 01:57 How awful if He should turn you away 02:05 How many of you ever being 02:06 discouraged in your life. Amen. 02:08 I know I have. Amen. 02:14 Sometimes we get discouraged, 02:19 while we walk this weary way 02:23 But Jesus said he'd every burden bear 02:31 So take Him all your troubles, 02:36 when it seems all hope is gone 02:40 Just trust Him when you go to Him in prayer 02:48 So don't overlook salvation, 02:53 while living here in sin 02:58 Someday it maybe too late to pray 03:07 Someday when you need Him, 03:10 He may not let you in 03:15 How awful if He should turn you away 03:24 Now Jesus said be ready for you know 03:29 not when the hour For He may come at 03:35 morning, night or noon So keep your eyes upon 03:44 Him and your soul filled with His power 03:50 For you know He's surely coming soon, 03:55 do you believe he's coming soon tonight? 03:57 So don't overlook salvation, 04:02 while living here in sin Someday it maybe too 04:10 late to pray Someday when you need Him, 04:20 He may not let you in How awful if He should 04:27 turn you away, how awful if He should 04:36 turn you away. Oh! Yes. Amen. Amen 04:50 Thank you for that. Darrell Marshall one of 04:53 the, our very favorites on 3ABN and we love 04:57 Darrell, we always enjoy having him here for 04:59 camp meetings and as he travels across the 05:02 country, people tell him everywhere he goes. 05:05 We watch you on 3ABN. So, welcome each one 05:08 of you back here to our Camp Meeting and our 05:11 pillars weekend, where we're talking about the 05:14 pillars of the faith and we believe with all of 05:19 our hearts that this is the sort of a spring 05:22 board for revival throughout the 05:25 United States and all over the world that 05:27 people are going to begin upholding the Bible 05:30 trues again stronger than ever before. That they 05:34 are going to determine to preach Christ and him 05:37 crucified to a dying world and to uphold his 05:41 trues. You know, there is nothing wrong with 05:44 being right remember that. So, tonight we are 05:48 going to be enjoying a message but also 05:53 receiving a message from the Lord brought to us 05:57 through his servants C.A. Murray. I know Pastor 06:01 Murray very well, I had met him before we 06:04 came here but we've become very good friends 06:07 during the time that I've been here at 3ABN. 06:11 First time we met was in New York City and it 06:14 was right after 9/11, we are both involved in 06:18 reaching out to that city and bringing some love 06:22 and some peace and some help to the people 06:25 that lived in Manhattan. And those were 06:29 unbelievable days folks, I those of you that may 06:32 have been in that part of the world at that time. 06:35 I met some people here from New Jersey today, 06:37 right across the river they know exactly what I 06:40 was talking about and those that were there 06:45 especially felt the impact of those days. 06:49 Elder Murray is a man that knows people, 06:53 he is man that has ministered to all walks 06:56 of life. He is a man that's been in just about 07:00 every pastoral situation that a man can find 07:04 himself in. Before we hear his message we have 07:09 David Huntsinger is going to introduce one of 07:12 those pillars songs, one of my very favorites, 07:16 I'm gonna let him tell you about it, the song is 07:19 called in the sanctuary and it's a blessed 07:22 Adventist doctrine because it, it talks about 07:26 Christ's work in heaven for us now. 07:29 He seals our bond with him, he hears the prayers 07:34 of saint and sinners, "there 07:37 is still time in the sanctuary." 07:53 We have a high priest up in heaven 08:00 Hallelujah, hallelujah 08:07 He's our Defender before the Father 08:14 In a temple made by God, not man 08:21 Behind the veil in a place Most Holy 08:28 Hallelujah, oh hallelujah 08:34 Investigating, He dears the record 08:42 Of those redeemed by His own blood 08:48 He's blotting out my sin in the Sanctuary 09:02 He seals my bond with Him in 09:08 the Sanctuary up in heaven 09:17 He makes provision for me in the Sanctuary 09:33 Heaven's temple Hallelujah, oh hallelujah 09:43 In preparation for His returning 09:50 For those who love and follow him 09:56 He's blotting out my sin in the Sanctuary 10:10 He seals my bond with Him in 10:17 the Sanctuary up in heaven 10:25 He makes provision for me in the Sanctuary 10:34 At the mercy seat, in the Holy of Holies 10:45 In the Holy of Holies we meet 10:58 He's blotting out my sin in the Sanctuary 11:12 He seals my bond with Him in 11:19 the Sanctuary up in heaven 11:27 He makes provision for me in the Sanctuary 11:39 In the Sanctuary, in the Sanctuary 11:56 He's blotting out my sin in the Sanctuary 12:10 He seals my bond with Him in 12:17 the Sanctuary up in heaven 12:26 He makes provision for me in the Sanctuary 12:37 In the Sanctuary, in the Sanctuary 12:53 In the Sanctuary Amen. 13:14 Shall we pray? Gracious Father, as we turn our 13:19 hearts towards you and look at this interloper 13:24 that has come into our lives called sin. 13:27 We ask that we would see sin for what it 13:30 really is. And that what no one understand that 13:34 we're inequity abounds, love and grace abounds 13:38 so much more. So, we praise you now and ask 13:41 for you power, your presence and 13:43 your spirit in Jesus name. Amen. 13:48 Any attempt to analyze, to dissect, to digest or 13:55 to understand sin must begin with what I call 14:02 head scratching incredulity. 14:06 You've got to start your discussion of sin with a 14:10 settled platform that what you are seeking to 14:13 examine can indeed be analyzed, can be 14:18 discussed, can be mused over, and in a real 14:24 sense understood experientially and of 14:28 course consequentially, but it can never ever 14:35 be fully explained. To explain sin, 14:41 says Ellen White, would be to excuse it. 14:45 Sin cannot be explained, certainly not from a 14:52 theological standpoint, or a causative 14:59 standpoint. It cannot be explained, how do you 15:00 draw logic from that which is essentially 15:04 illogical? That's right. How do you sign an 15:07 assigned reason to that which is so 15:11 unreasonable? How does one make sense from 15:16 that which is intrinsically 15:19 non-sensible, non sequitur, unfathomable, 15:27 indefensible and inherently insane? 15:33 Sin is the ultimate expression of a spiritual 15:39 Schizophrenia and Wikipedia described 15:43 Schizophrenia, I like this definition, 15:46 as a mental disorder involving the breakdown 15:50 of the relationship between thought, 15:53 emotions and behavior. Leading to faulty 15:57 perceptions, inappropriate actions 16:00 and feelings and a withdrawal from reality 16:04 into fantasy and delusion. 16:07 And if ever any two words capture the 16:10 essence of sin it is fantasy and delusion. 16:16 Sin is a type of spiritual mass psychosis, 16:22 that began in the exalted yet somehow defective 16:27 mind of one individual and is so violent, 16:32 so virulent, so highly contagious, 16:36 so irresistibly communicable that only 16:40 one person in the 7000 years of recorded history 16:43 of this planet has ever been able to 16:46 escape it uninfected. 16:52 There are some 6.5 billion people on planet 16:58 earth as we speak and all of us are carriers. 17:05 Sin is a species wide malignancy that 17:08 Revelation chapter 12 verse 9 indicates God has 17:12 quarantined to this planet. The extent of 17:16 which is documented in the medical report 17:19 written by the Apostle Paul of the diagnosis of 17:23 the pathology and its spread to spread to it, 17:27 all have sinned and come short 17:30 of the glory of God. 17:33 Including such notables as Enoch, Moses and 17:37 Elijah, who are residing in heaven even as we 17:41 speak. Amen. So, since we are handling 17:45 something so contagious. So, irresistibly 17:49 communicable, the only way to deal with sin 17:53 forensically and not descend into a depression 17:57 is to handle it postmortem, 18:00 in other words let's start with the 18:02 corpse and work our way back. 18:06 Nahum chapter 1 verse 9 says affliction shall 18:11 not rise a second time. Amen. For which we are 18:15 to praise the Lord. Amen. The Lord in this text 18:18 and many others indicates and affirms that once 18:23 the universe has been rid of sin it will be 18:27 inoculated and effectively vaccinated 18:31 against it ever coming back again. 18:33 In other words we can rejoice in the knowledge 18:36 and the fact that once sin is gone it is gone 18:39 for good and gone forever. Amen. 18:43 For two very pragmatic reasons, number one if 18:49 anyone has ever suffered from the effects of sin 18:53 and gotten the victory over sin and been cured 18:58 of its deadly effects it's like, it's like being 19:01 diagnosed with cancer and surviving the cancer 19:05 and the chemotherapy. You know if you live to 19:08 get through all of that, you don't ever wanna go 19:12 through that again. Amen. Amen. And the 19:15 second reason most importantly, God said so. 19:21 Revelation chapter 21, verse 5, the Lord says 19:22 behold I make all things new, no room, 19:27 no place, no space for sin, once sin is gone 19:31 praise God it will be gone for ever, 19:33 that ought to make you smile. Amen. 19:35 That ought to make you sit up and take notice in 19:37 fact turn to your neighbor, smile and say 19:39 never, never again. 19:46 Once sin has gone we don't have to worry about 19:49 this fungus among us ever again. Amen. 19:55 So, how do it begin, where did it begin, 20:01 in the most unlikely of places, in the soul of an 20:07 entity, arguably the most wondrous, the most 20:11 luminescent, the most exalted of anyone or 20:15 anything that God had ever created. 20:19 A ministering spirit whose description in the 20:24 word of the God uses some of the most 20:26 sublimed language ever employed to talk about 20:30 somebody made by God. 20:33 I am in Ezekiel chapter 28, verse 12 in New 20:35 King James version. And the Bible says 20:39 You were the seal of perfection, filled with 20:46 wisdom and perfect in beauty. 20:51 The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes 20:54 was prepared for you on the day you were 20:56 created. Listen to the language that is employed 21:00 here, perfect, flawless, complete, incomparably 21:08 beautiful, designed, manufactured that way. 21:15 A creation so magnificent that when the 21:18 omnipotent mind of God searched for a word or 21:23 a name to give to this new creature God himself 21:28 chose the word son of the morning, morning 21:34 star. God gave him the best name 21:39 and the best job in all the universe. 21:44 Ezekiel chapter 28, verse 14 describes his 21:47 responsibilities and gives his job description. 21:52 You were the anointed cherub who covers, 21:54 the Bible says, you were on the holy mountain 21:57 of God; you walked back and forth in the midst 22:00 of the fiery stones. You were perfect in your 22:05 ways from the day you were created until, 22:12 the Bible says. Until, think about it, 22:17 continually constantly in the very presence of 22:21 God, dwelling in light unapproachable, called in 22:26 the Hebrew, the day star. Now all stars shine at 22:30 night, it's not a big deal but there is only one 22:33 star that shines during the day and when the day 22:37 star shines all other stars shines disappear. 22:41 Lucifer was the day star. He was the son of the 22:47 morning and no luminous body in our galaxy 22:52 outshines the Sun. His beauty his wisdom, 22:58 his intelligence exceeded only by God. 23:04 And next to Christ God the son the most highly 23:09 exalted creature ever created, but somehow for 23:18 reasons the human mind may never understand. 23:22 Even this most honored position, ladies and 23:26 gentlemen was not enough, being the son 23:31 wisdom not enough, being perfect in beauty 23:37 not enough, being first of the covering cherub 23:42 not enough, being as it were a four star general 23:47 in the army of God not enough, being the 23:52 preeminent among all of the angels and created 23:55 beings not enough, honored, loved and obeyed 23:59 though not worshiped, not enough. 24:04 Lucifer had it all but he wanted more. 24:10 He had everything but everything was not 24:15 enough. You see when you have everything, 24:22 when you've got it all and you're still want 24:27 more, your in trouble. Where you got it all, 24:34 when you have everything and you still 24:36 want something more you are in trouble 24:38 because you've got everything what more 24:41 could you want. 24:47 Someone defined jealousy as an inordinate 24:53 desire to possess what you already have. 24:56 When you have everything how can you 24:59 want more? And what do you give someone 25:04 who has everything. I'll tell you what you 25:08 give them? You give them nothing. 25:12 Because they're showing a disrespect for 25:15 everything they already possess and so, 25:20 into a perfect ordered society, an idea took 25:26 route, just a little nascent motivation, 25:35 a little exfoliant insinuation, 25:39 just a little benign flirtation with 25:44 self-exaltation. Just a little idea when 25:53 a perfect being looked at his own magnificence 25:59 and then he looked at God. And then he looked 26:02 at the son of the God, as he had done so many 26:06 times before, he saw the same love, the same 26:13 glory, the same majesty, the same unity, 26:15 the same worship as he had seen so many times 26:18 before. It has always been there, he had been 26:20 in their presences constantly, he knew what 26:23 looking at God was like, but this time when he 26:28 looked, when he looked, he, he dared to 26:33 compare. And in the secret preaching of his 26:38 inner most heart, the son of the morning said 26:42 to himself one day in the very presence of God. 26:47 Why? Oh! better yet. Why not? Why not me, 27:02 why can't I have what they have? 27:10 Look at me, look at what I am. Look at what I 27:17 have, Look at what I can do, I ought to have 27:20 what they have. I think, I think, I think, I want 27:33 more. Why should they have such a relationship 27:44 and not me. Why should they have the power 27:48 and the worship and not me. Don't they know 27:53 who I am? I am the son of the morning, 28:01 I am the day star, I deserve what they have. 28:05 I'm the powering cherub, I am the first of 28:08 creation and what I have is not enough, 28:13 been there, done that, now I want to be God. 28:23 And if they don't give it to me I'll 28:27 take it. I will take it. Ezekiel chapter 28, 28:39 verse 15 exposes the secret thoughts of 28:43 Lucifer's own heart. Perfect to iniquity was 28:52 found in you. The story was picked up in Isaiah 28:59 chapter 14, verses 13 and 14 the word of God 29:02 says, I will ascend to the heaven, I will exalt 29:07 my throne above the stars of God: I will 29:09 also sit, in the mount of the congregation. 29:12 I will ascend above the height of the clouds, 29:14 I will be like the Most High. I will be God. 29:25 I looked up that word like in the Hebrew the 29:29 word is 'Damah,' it means to favorably compare. 29:35 Satan was saying I wanted so that when they 29:39 think of God they will think of me. When they 29:43 see God they will see me, when they talk about 29:47 God they will talk about me, perfect until 29:53 iniquity was found. The word for iniquity in 29:56 the Hebrew is 'Avon' not a great step from evil. 30:03 And it carries the idea of a moral distortion, 30:09 so the Bible is saying perfect until a moral 30:12 distortion was found in him. And I don't know if 30:16 there is more fitting word for what sin is? 30:19 Or what germinated in the heart of Satan than 30:22 moral distortion? Something in Lucifer's 30:25 mind and heart got distorted and every 30:29 distortion presupposes an original, you've got 30:32 an original and then it gets distorted like, 30:36 like lust is a distortion of love or licensed 30:40 lawlessness is a distortion of liberty, 30:43 sin somehow distorted God's image in Lucifer. 30:48 The son of the morning, got it distorted who in 30:54 turn distorted God's image before the angelic 30:57 host, then before the world and now we've got 31:04 preachers who preach that God will burn people 31:07 in hell forever and to face the image of the 31:11 loving God or we get report just this week 31:16 that a certain preacher married his boyfriend, 31:22 or as we heard just several weeks ago a 31:25 Christian singer decided to marry her girlfriend 31:28 and come on national TV and say, it's alright 31:33 God doesn't mind he just loves us. 31:38 So we get an image of an God who is either 31:40 spineless and weak less or just ashamed or 31:43 doesn't have the power to change us from sin, 31:46 it is a distortion of a God that we serve. 31:53 Sin began as a distortion of the image of God in 31:55 one of his creatures, sin is a living lie and 31:58 everyone living in sin is living a lie. 32:05 Whatever sin is at it's core it bespeaks a 32:09 disaffection, a dissatisfaction with what 32:13 I am and what I have to endure and what I have 32:16 to take and what I want? And what God desires 32:19 for me? God says do it this way, I determine I 32:22 will do it in another way. 32:27 Lucifer couldn't have anything more, 32:33 he was the first of his order, you cannot 32:37 supersede number one, there is nothing ahead of 32:41 number one, the only position better than top 32:46 angel is God. And excuse me that position is 32:52 already taken. Amen. 32:58 For any created being to be or desire to possess 33:03 any part of God beyond his character is insane. 33:08 Amen. And frightening and sin. Can you imaging 33:15 having the omnipotent power of God without 33:19 the character of the God? The power to create 33:23 and to destroy, to set up or pour down without 33:28 the superintending power of love to guide all of 33:31 your actions and yet that is precisely what Satan 33:37 wanted. I want the authority, I want the 33:41 praise, I want the glory, I is that covetous 33:47 mindset that was at the heart of the sin. 33:52 So, my brothers and sisters in the caldron 33:54 that was once day star, they are simmered and 33:58 admixture of selfishness, egotism, jealousy, 34:05 envoy, covetousness. Salted with self 34:10 exaltation and an unholy desire to posses what 34:16 he could never have. And quicker than you can 34:20 blink, wink, or think, sin was born. 34:28 That's right. So new, so novel, so original 34:38 that even Lucifer did not know what he was 34:42 dealing with. How could he know? 34:47 How could he understand? How could he look 34:50 down through the corners of the time and 34:52 realize that he had created a disease? 34:58 No angel had ever seen sin before? 35:03 No one knew what sin was, there were no 35:08 discordance steps in the kingdom of God. 35:11 This was a brand new thing. And at first 35:15 glance, sin back then like sin today doesn't 35:21 look so bad. That's why we have to preach so 35:29 hard against it. Say that. That's why 35:31 it has to be played out, because it doesn't look 35:36 so bad at first glance. In the right light and 35:43 with the right spin, sin looks like freedom. 35:55 Who knows? That's why God couldn't destroy 36:00 Satan immediately, because at first nobody 36:06 knew, nobody understood that what Lucifer was 36:11 considering would result in his defection from 36:15 his job, his rejection of God, his ejection from 36:22 heaven and his infection of this entire planet. 36:31 Sin is not just simply a rejection of the word of 36:36 God or the law of God, it is de facto a 36:41 rejection of God himself. Amen. 36:49 It is a rejection of all that God stands for, 36:54 thus in the truest sense of the word and the best 36:58 attempt that the Bible makes to understand and 37:01 define sin, we read this in First John chapter 3, 37:04 verse 4, whoever commits sin doth also 37:11 transgress the law for sin is, it is the 37:18 transgression of the law. What then is sin? 37:24 It is the transgression of the law, to have sin 37:31 presupposes that you have law. If there is no 37:36 law there can be no sin. 37:41 For by definition sin is the 37:46 transgression of the law. 37:49 Paul says in Romans chapter 7, verse 7, 37:52 I would not have known sin except for the law. 37:58 So, where you've got sin you got to have a law 38:02 that was broken. Amen. So, not only is sin a 38:06 rejection of the law, it is de facto a rejection 38:12 of the law's author and then is a 38:17 rejection of God himself. 38:22 Douglas Cooper in his book 'living God's love' 38:26 says that all sin is based on a failure to 38:31 love God enough. Think about that, 38:36 put that in the blender, spin it around a bit, 38:40 all sin, he says is a failure to love God 38:45 enough, if you love him enough you put him 38:48 first and when you put him first he cleanses sin 38:51 from your life. Amen. So, he says if you're not 38:55 being cleansed you are not loving or you're not 38:59 loving enough. The current hip parlance is 39:05 ultimate lifestyle. Everybody wants to 39:07 an ultimate lifestyle, don't talk about my 39:09 lifestyle, I won't talk about your lifestyle, 39:12 we just live alternate lifestyle that's good for 39:14 you, this is good for me. It is interesting because 39:19 alternate lifestyle is remarkably close to one 39:23 of the definitions for sin. You know I 39:26 discovered no less than 19 word examples for 39:31 sin. Nineteen, six in the Old and 13 in the New 39:42 Testimony, nineteen categories for sin. 39:50 There are only five total categories for 39:52 love, that's right, 19 for sin. You got, ah, 40:00 let's see, you've got in the Greek for Love 40:05 you've got Eros, Phileo, Agapao, and one that is 40:11 not spoken of too much because it's only used 40:14 twice Romans chapter 10 and 2nd Peter, 40:18 Storge, which is translated natural 40:22 affection and then you've got a whopping 13 40:28 words for sin in the New Testament alone. 40:34 I suspect the fact that there are so many words 40:37 gives evidence to the many ways that you can 40:41 fall into sin. It speaks of the treachery of the 40:46 author of the sin, of the way the devil 40:50 can pull us into sin. It shows the hideous 40:54 and insidious nature of sin. Doing what you 40:59 should not do is sin. Amen. Ummh! Ummh! 41:08 Not doing what you should do. Amen. 41:16 He that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to 41:18 him it is sin. Thinking about doing it, 41:36 getting others to think about doing it, 41:40 is sin. Encouraging others to do wrong is 41:46 sin. That's right, discouraging others from 41:53 doing right, Amen, is sin. Saying the wrong 42:04 thing is sin, not saying the right thing, 42:21 encouraging others to do wrong is sin. 42:28 Discouraging others from doing right is sin. 42:33 You see, sometimes we get the victory through 42:37 senility, that means, that mean you don't 42:44 want to do it you just too old to boogie. Amen. 42:50 And God knows you would if you could. 42:58 That is sin. Well, the Bible says make no 43:03 provision. That's right. Don't even prepare, 43:07 don't even think about, that's right. 43:10 Sins of omission, sins of commission, stuff you 43:16 should do you don't, stuff you should not do 43:19 yet do. So, many ways to fall into sin. 43:31 Thirteen New Testament, we want to run 43:33 through them very quickly. Kakus, 43:37 k-a-k-u-s, simply means bad, bad axe. 43:41 Romans 13 Hamartia, I will talk about that 43:45 again in a minute, missing the mark. 43:48 First John 3 Adikia, unrighteousness. 43:54 First Corinthians 6:9 Anomia, lawlessness 43:57 from which we get anarchy. First Timothy 43:59 1:1, Paraptoma, fault, we'll do that in just a 44:03 moment. Galatians 6:1 Planao to go astray. 44:09 First Peter 2:25, Agnoeo, ignorant sin, that sin 44:15 you do, you don't even know you're doing it, 44:17 it's still sin. That's right. 44:25 Romans 13:3 rather Romans 10:3 Parabatai, 44:29 transgression, James 2:9 Poneros, evil, 44:35 meaning evil people. Matthew 5:45, 44:41 Asebes, Godless, Romans 1:18 enochos, 44:48 guilty. James 2:10 Hypokrites, two faced. 45:00 It tends to be a Church sin. 45:09 First Timothy 4:2 and Parapipto, falling away. 45:14 Hebrew 6:6, now we can't deal with them all. 45:17 So, I want to take the big three before I am 45:19 done. Hamartia, Anomia and Paraptoma. 45:25 Paraptoma we find in Galatians chapter 6 verse 45:27 1, the Bible says if a brother be overtaken in a 45:32 fault, a paraptoma and usually a paraptoma is a 45:37 deliberate sin. You know, when you know you 45:39 are doing wrong, but you're gonna do it 45:41 anyhow. That's a paraptoma, but even 45:44 then the Bible says, and we ought to praise God 45:46 for this. The Bible says even when you sin 45:49 deliberately God says restore. That's right. 45:52 Amen. Restore in love. So, even if he bold faced 45:57 sins, one those kind of hand on your hip type 46:04 sins. God says there is still restoration for 46:11 that person. Amen. Amen. Praise God, 46:13 that's a paraptoma, if a brother falls, 46:16 makes a mistake, sins restore him in love. 46:20 Amen. Amen. The next one is Anomia 46:23 from which we get anarchy or lawlessness. 46:28 It is important because this is used in the First 46:32 John 3:4 definition for sin, when you sin you 46:37 trespass the law of God. For sin is lawlessness, 46:45 you know as bad it is not to believe in God, 46:49 it is arguably worse to believe in God and live 46:55 like he doesn't exist. Amen. That's right. 47:00 There are so many who reject God because they 47:04 don't want the rules, they don't want the 47:07 regulations. Yes. They don't want the laws of 47:10 God. You know, it's very, very interesting how 47:12 everybody likes Christmas. 47:15 Everybody likes Jesus as a baby. That's right. 47:18 No problem with the baby Jesus, because the 47:21 baby Jesus can't hurt you. Everyone likes the 47:24 baby, it's when the baby grows up. Yes. 47:28 That's where we got a problem with him, 47:29 because the grown up Jesus says lay down your 47:33 life, pick up your cross, follow me. It's the 47:36 grown up Jesus that comes with the 47:38 "thou shall not." It's the grown up Jesus that 47:41 says you got to turn your back on the world 47:43 and turn your face toward me, I had no 47:45 problem with the baby because the baby can't 47:48 hurt you. It's the grown up Jesus, the walking, 47:51 talking, living, loving and dying Jesus that we'd 47:53 all want. That right. That's right. Because we 47:55 don't want the laws and we don't want the rules. 47:59 So, stay in the crib, that's right, stay in the 48:03 manger, like the swaddling clothes, 48:07 but I don't like those gray clothes that were 48:09 there on Sunday morning. 48:14 Living lawless sinful lives. 48:19 The third of the big three is Hamartia, 48:23 translated missing the mark, or the wrong path. 48:28 Hamartia is most inclusive of all the 48:31 words. Consequently it is the word that is most 48:34 often translated sin. It is the word that is 48:38 used in First John chapter 3, verse 4. 48:40 It is the most inclusive. It, it deals with moving 48:46 away from the way of righteousness. In First 48:50 John chapter 3 verses 4 through 6, the word 48:54 Hamartia in those two verses is used six times. 49:00 Harmatia is combined in this definition with 49:05 Anomia. Anyone the Bible says who practices 49:10 sin, Harmatia, who practices missing the 49:14 mark or going the wrong way, the Bible says in 49:18 Greek 'Te Kan Anomia Poieo,' also practices 49:24 lawlessness. Kan Hamartia for sin going your 49:30 own way is Anomia, lawlessness. 49:35 So, if you practice sin you are lawless, 49:40 you are moving against the law of God and God 49:44 himself. How could one third of the heavenly 49:50 host that was lied too and deceived have 49:55 possibly known that their malignant 49:59 experiment would result in a voluntary death 50:03 of the creator and commander Jesus Christ 50:05 who they love instigated by one who had been 50:10 closest to him of all the creative beings. 50:14 No way they could have known that. 50:17 And as the light went out in the heart of 50:21 Lucifer, it was replaced by a darkness that 50:27 delighted in death. I am in John chapter 8, 50:32 verse 44, the word of God affirms he was a 50:36 murderer from the beginning, and does 50:41 not stand in the truth because there is no truth 50:47 in him. That's right. When he speaks a lie, 50:52 he speaks from his own resources, for he is a 50:55 liar and the father of it. As it were the ultimate 51:03 spiritual black hole no life, no love and no 51:11 light, caught in a self spun web beyond all hope 51:17 of redemption, such brothers and sisters is 51:22 the legacy and the nature and the destiny of sin 51:30 and sinners. What will sin do for you, 51:36 let's take a look at what it did for it's author 51:42 and I must admit to you that when I read this 51:45 particular passage from early writing page 152, 51:49 it gives me the creeps. I discovered this years 51:54 ago and pulled it up again two weeks ago 51:57 when I was writing, I usually after Erma 52:00 goes to bed I step a little while and I write 52:02 some in the quiet. But when I wrote this 52:04 passage I made sure she was up and in the room 52:06 with me. I don't want to be alone when I read 52:10 this. It's Ellen White's description of Satan when 52:16 she saw him. Early writings page 152. 52:22 I was shown Satan as he once was, a happy, 52:26 exalted angel. Then I was shown him as he now 52:31 is. He still bears a kingly form. His features 52:36 are still noble, for he is an angel though 52:40 fallen. But his expression, 52:44 the expression of his countenance is full of 52:46 anxiety, care, unhappiness, malice, 52:52 hate, mischief, deceit, and every evil. 52:58 That brow which was once so noble, 53:02 I particularly noticed his forehead, 53:06 it commenced to recede from his eyes. 53:11 I saw that he had so long bent himself to evil 53:14 that every good quality was debated, and every 53:18 evil trait was developed. His eyes were cunning, 53:24 sly, and showed great penetration. His frame 53:30 was large, but the flesh hung loosely from his 53:34 hands and face. As I beheld him, his chin was 53:40 resting upon his hand. It appeared or rather he 53:44 appeared to be deep in thought. A smile was 53:49 upon his countenance, which made me tremble, 53:53 it was so full of evil, and Satanic slyless, 53:57 slyness. This smile is the one he wears just 54:01 before he makes sure of his victim, 54:06 and fastens the victim in his snare, 54:11 when he does so, this smile grows horrible. 54:19 Revelation chapter 12 verses 7 through 11 and I 54:23 will keep just a little bit for the sake of the 54:24 time. For the Bible says war broke out in 54:27 heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the 54:30 dragon and the dragon and his angels fought but 54:33 they didn't prevail nor was a place found for 54:37 them in heaven any longer, so the great 54:40 dragon was cast out, that serpent called the 54:43 Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; 54:45 he was cast to the earth, and his angels 54:47 were cast out with him. Verse 11, 54:51 but they overcame him. They overcame him. 54:57 Amen. Yeah. By the blood of the Lamb and 55:00 the word of their testimony, let us close 55:04 Revelation chapter 6 beginning at verse 17, 55:09 for the sake of time I have to jump just a 55:11 little bit, but God be thanked the Bible says 55:16 that though you are slaves of sin, yet you 55:19 obeyed from the heart and from the doctrine to 55:23 which you were delivered and having been set 55:26 free from sin, you became slave, praise God, 55:30 of righteousness. What fruit did you have there 55:35 in the things of which you are now ashamed, 55:40 for the end of those things is death. But now, 55:48 having been set free from sin and having 55:57 become slaves of God, 56:04 you have your fruit to Holiness and the end 56:12 everlasting life. Amen. For the wages of sin is 56:24 death. That's right. Amen. 56:27 But aren't you glad it doesn't stop there. Amen. 56:30 Aren't you glad there is another line, aren't you 56:33 glad that Paul doesn't leave you in the sin 56:36 hole. Amen. Because the wages of sin is death 56:40 and all of us have sinned. So, why aren't 56:45 we dead? Because there is one more lie, 56:54 just one more lie. But the gift of God. 57:07 Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. The gift of God, 57:13 Amen, is eternal life, Amen. Amen, through 57:19 Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. 57:26 And amen, shall we pray. Father God, thank you 57:32 for the victory that we have in Jesus. Amen. 57:35 For sin shall not have dominion over us, 57:38 oh no. Because we've been bought, 57:42 we have been washed, we have been redeemed. |
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