Pr. David Gates
Understanding an Infinite God / Entendiendo al Dios Infinito
Sermón bilingue ( english / spanish)
Sábado Especial 22 Junio 2024
Red ADvenir Television Internacional
Understanding an Infinite God / Entendiendo al Dios Infinito
Sermón bilingue ( english / spanish)
Sábado Especial 22 Junio 2024
Red ADvenir Television Internacional
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AprendizajeTranscripción
00:00:00The world perishes with a youth absorbed and distracted by the addictions of alcohol, drugs, gambling, games, entertainment and spiritism, ending their lives.
00:00:26God calls young people to announce the last message to this world with the power and spirit of Elijah.
00:00:36With such an army of workers as our well-prepared young people could provide, how soon would the message of a crucified, resurrected and near to come be proclaimed to the whole world?
00:00:58Battles of faith, young people facing the final battle, in the spirit of Elijah, with the speakers Pastor Herbert Orellana, Gabriel Estebao and Michael Cheney.
00:01:22From the 28th of June to the 6th of July at 7pm Bolivian time.
00:01:32BATTLES OF FAITH
00:01:51BATTLES OF FAITH
00:02:10Happy Sabbath, greetings to each of you.
00:02:13Feliz sábado, saludos a todos ustedes.
00:02:16In the Spanish world we like to greet everybody with a Sabbath welcome.
00:02:27We also give each other a hug when we are welcoming and when we are saying goodbye to the Sabbath.
00:02:34When we were in Australia, we were saying goodbye to the Sabbath hours.
00:02:47And I noticed there was a lot of South Americans from Chile in the congregation.
00:02:53So I said, do you English speakers want to know how we say goodbye to the Sabbath?
00:03:05They said yes.
00:03:08So I invited all the Spanish speakers to come up to the pulpit.
00:03:12And we sang Día Santo del Señor.
00:03:18And we gave each other a hug and said, Feliz Semana, happy week.
00:03:25And we said, Feliz Sábado, happy week.
00:03:30And we said, Feliz Sábado, happy week.
00:03:36And we said, Feliz Sábado, happy week.
00:03:42They were very impressed and they liked it.
00:03:48Battles of faith is coming up.
00:03:54The battle is happening every day.
00:03:59God is winning.
00:04:02He's going to win the final battle too.
00:04:06And we are here to prepare for that battle.
00:04:11God is waking up His children all around the world.
00:04:16I mentioned earlier, Madison University.
00:04:24I've been mentioning it everywhere I go.
00:04:30There has been an explosion of interest in Venezuela, Guyana, and even Brazil.
00:04:34I have been notified that a president of a major evangelical church
00:04:44that is all throughout Brazil, and even in Bolivia,
00:04:52the president said, I want 100,000 people to come to my church.
00:04:58And I said, I want 100,000 people.
00:05:03I want 100,000 of my young people to be enrolled in Madison University.
00:05:12We had not been planning on that many.
00:05:18We hadn't been planning on Portuguese yet.
00:05:24So now we're scrambling.
00:05:29We're having to invest a lot of money in the webpage.
00:05:34We're having to hire a professional organization
00:05:40to handle the webpage programming.
00:05:49Because to register, to handle the subscriptions,
00:05:52to handle all the classes online is a big job.
00:06:03So we're going to join forces.
00:06:05Red Advenir, the television network,
00:06:07and Madison University is joining forces.
00:06:19So that we can reach the entire world
00:06:21with all our schools, all our networks.
00:06:27I am convinced the loud cry is beginning.
00:06:34The Christian churches are waking up.
00:06:42One of our board members in the Dominican Republic
00:06:48was invited to Alaska
00:06:52to preach in Alaska to a Lutheran church.
00:07:00And there were some Catholics present.
00:07:04And they invited him to present his material as well.
00:07:14The Lutherans said,
00:07:16we never heard anything like this.
00:07:20Righteousness by faith.
00:07:23The Lutherans said,
00:07:25we never heard anything like this before.
00:07:31Well, many Seventh-day Adventists
00:07:33are closing the door to the health message
00:07:35and the spirit of prophecy.
00:07:44Evangelical churches are opening the door.
00:07:50How sad.
00:07:52The door will be closed to those that would not enter,
00:07:54but it will be open to those
00:07:56that have never heard before.
00:08:04How sad to have known the truth all your life
00:08:06and be on the outside.
00:08:13Foolish virgins
00:08:17knocking on the door.
00:08:20And Jesus says, I never knew you.
00:08:25The Holy Spirit is being poured out.
00:08:30The loud cry is about to begin.
00:08:34Pentecost was just a few days ago.
00:08:39Did you prepare your heart?
00:08:43Was your heart ready to receive
00:08:45the latter rain?
00:08:50Let us pray.
00:08:56Our loving Heavenly Father,
00:09:00we are here before you today
00:09:03and we have heard a solemn message this morning.
00:09:08And I pray that the second message today,
00:09:13that I pray that it will move our hearts.
00:09:17May the Holy Spirit speak to each of us.
00:09:23Help us to grasp a little bit
00:09:28of the infinite.
00:09:30We are not infinite.
00:09:32We don't understand infinity.
00:09:37But you want us to understand you.
00:09:43Help us to realize the shortness of time
00:09:48and the war that is being waged
00:09:50against your people.
00:09:56So we will not wake up
00:09:58so we will not have oil in our lamps
00:10:02so that we will be lost.
00:10:06Wake us up, Lord.
00:10:08Anoint us with your Holy Spirit now.
00:10:11In Jesus' name we pray.
00:10:13Amen.
00:10:18The sermon today is
00:10:22Understanding an Infinite God.
00:10:28Several weeks ago we had a sermon
00:10:30involving mathematics.
00:10:37I'm fascinated by mathematics.
00:10:40God is a God of math.
00:10:43But from the comments that people left,
00:10:45some of you do not like math.
00:10:52I thought I came to hear a sermon
00:10:54but all it is is a math lesson.
00:10:58Well, get used to it.
00:11:02Heaven is all about math.
00:11:06Music is math.
00:11:09Physics.
00:11:11Chemistry.
00:11:13That's God's creation.
00:11:15And they all have laws.
00:11:18And they reflect the character
00:11:20of our Creator.
00:11:23Today is not a study of math.
00:11:25But it does have some large numbers in it.
00:11:30Let's talk about infinity.
00:11:33This is a symbol for infinity.
00:11:38And behind it, of course,
00:11:40we have an infinite universe.
00:11:44Let's take that universe
00:11:46and let's just wrap it up
00:11:48into infinity.
00:11:50Can we define infinity?
00:11:55By definition, infinity is undefinable.
00:12:02Infinity is just an idea
00:12:04that has no end.
00:12:07In our world,
00:12:09we don't know anything like it.
00:12:13It's an idea that is
00:12:15endless, boundless.
00:12:17It is not a real number.
00:12:22Just an idea.
00:12:24It cannot be measured.
00:12:28Infinity is just an idea.
00:12:34But let's look at some big numbers.
00:12:39If you were to take
00:12:41a single bill
00:12:43and pile it up
00:12:44over and over and over
00:12:46all the way to the moon,
00:12:56you would need approximately
00:12:583.8 trillion.
00:13:05Let me see.
00:13:07Thousands, millions, billions.
00:13:09Yeah, 3.8 trillion bills
00:13:11you could pile them up
00:13:12and go all the way to the moon.
00:13:19That's a lot of money.
00:13:22But the national debt
00:13:23of the United States
00:13:24is much bigger than that.
00:13:31It gives you an idea
00:13:32of how much money that is.
00:13:36Let's look at a bigger number.
00:13:39How about all the grains of sand
00:13:41that are in all the world?
00:13:48What do you think about that?
00:13:52It would be approximately
00:13:54an estimate
00:13:587 quintillion
00:14:05400 quadrillion
00:14:11Okay?
00:14:13That's an estimate
00:14:14of how many grains of sand
00:14:15are in the entire world.
00:14:22It's amazing
00:14:23that it can even fit
00:14:24on our screen.
00:14:29How many stars are there?
00:14:33They say approximately
00:14:34the same amount as the sand.
00:14:41The scientists,
00:14:42some years ago,
00:14:46they proposed
00:14:48that the universe
00:14:49began in a big bang.
00:14:56They don't try to explain
00:14:57where the energy came from.
00:14:59It just happened.
00:15:07It exploded
00:15:08and there it is
00:15:09the universe.
00:15:14But there's a big problem.
00:15:18When you have a big bang,
00:15:21like when you have
00:15:23fireworks,
00:15:31pyrotechnics,
00:15:34when you have it,
00:15:35the fastest speed
00:15:36happens at the beginning
00:15:37and then it slows down
00:15:39and falls.
00:15:45So in the big bang,
00:15:48the highest speed
00:15:49is at the beginning
00:15:50and then eventually
00:15:51it slows down.
00:15:59But the scientists
00:16:00have discovered
00:16:01that instead of slowing down
00:16:02it's going faster
00:16:03and faster and faster.
00:16:09The universe is accelerating
00:16:10faster toward the outside.
00:16:20And in every direction
00:16:21we look,
00:16:22it's going away from us.
00:16:27That means we're near
00:16:28the center.
00:16:32And everything is going
00:16:33away from us.
00:16:36And it's going faster
00:16:37and faster.
00:16:40In order for something
00:16:41to accelerate,
00:16:42it requires increased energy.
00:16:50Where's that energy
00:16:51coming from?
00:16:53It didn't just happen
00:16:54in the past.
00:16:55It's happening right now.
00:16:59Energy is pouring
00:17:00into the universe
00:17:02to make it accelerate
00:17:03as it grows.
00:17:05Energy is being
00:17:06put into the universe
00:17:08to make it accelerate
00:17:13to help it accelerate.
00:17:16Science has no answers,
00:17:17only questions.
00:17:23Here's another big number.
00:17:2910 to the 90
00:17:37That's how many
00:17:38individual particles
00:17:39are in the entire universe.
00:17:5010 to the 90
00:17:56That's in the entire universe.
00:18:00The known universe
00:18:01as far as we can imagine.
00:18:06You want a bigger number?
00:18:10We haven't even talked
00:18:11about infinity yet.
00:18:14Look at this one.
00:18:18That's one yeast cell.
00:18:25Just one.
00:18:27One of the simplest cells
00:18:28that we can imagine.
00:18:34But it has a fully
00:18:35functioning system.
00:18:42Transportation of energy.
00:18:47Replication.
00:18:49It's alive.
00:18:52Now, look at that number.
00:18:54The particles in the universe
00:18:55are 10 to the 90.
00:18:58The particles in the universe
00:18:59are 10 to the 90th power.
00:19:05What are the chances
00:19:06that all these proteins
00:19:08would come together
00:19:10and form the right combination
00:19:11to have one yeast cell?
00:19:24What are the chances?
00:19:26Let's look at it again.
00:19:30I want to see the cell again.
00:19:3279 billion.
00:19:39Not 90.
00:19:42All the particles in the universe
00:19:43are 10 to the 90.
00:19:50The chances that individual proteins
00:19:52will come together
00:19:53to form a yeast cell
00:19:54is 10 to the 79 billion.
00:20:02Scientists would have us believe
00:20:04it all happened by chance,
00:20:06accidentally.
00:20:15Let me tell you a story.
00:20:19Some years back,
00:20:21a tornado swept through
00:20:22a small town.
00:20:27All the wood and bricks
00:20:29and all the electricity
00:20:30went flying everywhere.
00:20:38That's what it looked like afterward.
00:20:43All the pieces of all the houses
00:20:45are right there.
00:20:49Two weeks later,
00:20:50another hurricane.
00:20:55It picked up all those pieces
00:20:57and when it passed by,
00:21:02all those pieces fell together
00:21:08and that's what was left.
00:21:15It built a house
00:21:19from all the pieces
00:21:21and then using
00:21:22artificial intelligence
00:21:27that house built another house.
00:21:31A little smaller,
00:21:32but it was cute.
00:21:35Then it built another house.
00:21:38It was a little bit different
00:21:39than the other one
00:21:42and it built another one.
00:21:46It didn't come out so good,
00:21:47a little bit lopsided.
00:21:54You say,
00:21:55Uncle David, please.
00:22:00A hurricane,
00:22:01I mean a tornado
00:22:02built those houses?
00:22:05Yeah, all the components
00:22:06were there.
00:22:07It just picked it up
00:22:08and boom, built a house.
00:22:13Uncle David, please.
00:22:14That's unbelievable.
00:22:18I would never believe that.
00:22:20You're right.
00:22:21I don't believe it either.
00:22:26But the chances
00:22:27of that happening
00:22:28are so much greater
00:22:29than building
00:22:30one single yeast cell.
00:22:40But that's what
00:22:41they would have us believe
00:22:44and the yeast cell
00:22:45is a very simple cell.
00:22:50It's not even a cell
00:22:53of an animal.
00:22:56It's a yeast cell.
00:23:01So what are we to believe?
00:23:04Are we going to believe
00:23:05that even though
00:23:06there's more particles,
00:23:09that the chances
00:23:10are much higher
00:23:11than even all the particles
00:23:12in the universe?
00:23:15That the chances
00:23:16of that happening
00:23:17are much lower
00:23:18than all the particles
00:23:19in the universe?
00:23:26The particles in the universe.
00:23:32Let's look at Psalms.
00:23:34Psalm 103, 10 to 12.
00:23:39God has not dealt with us
00:23:40after our sins,
00:23:41nor rewarded us
00:23:42according to our iniquities.
00:23:50For as high as the heavens
00:23:51are above the earth,
00:23:52so great is His mercy
00:23:53toward them that fear Him.
00:23:56For as high as the heavens
00:23:57are above the earth,
00:23:58so great is His mercy
00:23:59toward them that fear Him.
00:24:02And as far as the east
00:24:03is from the west,
00:24:04so far has He removed
00:24:05our transgressions from us.
00:24:14Now, we can measure
00:24:15how high the heavens
00:24:16are above the earth.
00:24:18But have you ever measured
00:24:19how far the east
00:24:20is from the west?
00:24:27How many know
00:24:28how far away the east
00:24:29is from the west?
00:24:35It's infinite.
00:24:38You can go east
00:24:39all your life,
00:24:40and you'll never reach the east.
00:24:42You can go west
00:24:43all your life,
00:24:44and you'll never get there.
00:24:56That's how far
00:24:57God has taken
00:24:58our transgressions
00:24:59and removed them from us.
00:25:07So if God is infinite,
00:25:09and He created infinity,
00:25:14how are we to understand that?
00:25:17Can you understand infinity?
00:25:20Nobody can understand.
00:25:23Not even our theologians,
00:25:26our church members.
00:25:28We can only attempt
00:25:32to understand a little bit.
00:25:35But we're always fighting
00:25:36over trying to define God.
00:25:38And put Him in a box.
00:25:44We can't understand
00:25:45only a little bit.
00:25:50Let's see what Jeremiah said.
00:25:54And I will give them,
00:25:55God told Jeremiah,
00:25:56I will give them a heart
00:25:57to know Me,
00:25:58that I am the Lord.
00:26:03And they shall be My people,
00:26:04and I will be their guide,
00:26:05and they shall return to Me
00:26:06with their whole heart.
00:26:09God wants us to know Him.
00:26:14He says,
00:26:15He will give us a heart
00:26:16to know Him.
00:26:19An infinite God,
00:26:20and yet we're going
00:26:21to get to know Him.
00:26:26Jeremiah 9.24 says,
00:26:30I will give them
00:26:31a heart to know Me,
00:26:33that I am the Lord.
00:26:35Jeremiah 9.24 says,
00:26:38But let him that glorieth
00:26:39glory in death,
00:26:40that he understandeth
00:26:41and knoweth Me,
00:26:48that I am the Lord
00:26:49which exercise loving kindness,
00:26:50judgment, righteousness
00:26:51in the earth.
00:27:00For in these things
00:27:01I delight, saith the Lord.
00:27:05He wants us to know Him,
00:27:06His character.
00:27:10He wants us to be like Him.
00:27:13So not to define God
00:27:14and say this is the way
00:27:15that God is.
00:27:23It's for us to try
00:27:24to understand by looking
00:27:25at His creation.
00:27:35To understand His character.
00:27:38To look at Jesus.
00:27:40And when we see Jesus
00:27:41then we understand God.
00:27:45Jesus was loving and kind,
00:27:46so is God the Father.
00:27:53He's also a just God
00:27:54and so the Father is just.
00:27:58So we can study His creation.
00:28:02We study His word.
00:28:05We study the life of Jesus.
00:28:08And we understand more
00:28:09about our Creator.
00:28:14God defined,
00:28:15He created all the laws
00:28:16of chemistry, physics.
00:28:21Math and biology.
00:28:24It's part of His character.
00:28:27The entire universe
00:28:28runs in an orderly,
00:28:29exact manner.
00:28:35But He also has a moral law.
00:28:41Look what the
00:28:42Great Controversy says.
00:28:47No error accepted
00:28:48by the Christian world
00:28:49strikes more boldly
00:28:50against the authority
00:28:51of heaven.
00:28:52None is more directly
00:28:53opposed to the dictates
00:28:54of reason.
00:28:55None more pernicious
00:28:56in its results
00:28:57than the modern doctrine
00:28:58so rapidly gaining ground
00:28:59that God's law
00:29:00is no longer binding
00:29:01upon men.
00:29:05Every nation
00:29:06has laws
00:29:07which command
00:29:08respect and obedience.
00:29:11All nations
00:29:12have laws
00:29:13which biblically
00:29:14command
00:29:15respect and obedience.
00:29:18All nations
00:29:19have laws
00:29:20which literally
00:29:21command
00:29:22peace.
00:29:24All nations
00:29:25have laws
00:29:26which give
00:29:27forgiveness
00:29:28and mercy
00:29:29to all human beings.
00:29:31All nations
00:29:32have laws
00:29:33Toda nación tiene sus leyes que exigen al respeto y obediencia. No government could exist without them.
00:29:38Ningún gobierno podría subsistir sin ellas. And can it be conceived that the
00:29:43Creator of the heavens and earth has no law to govern the beings He has made?
00:29:47¿Y es posible imaginarse que el Creador del cielo y de la tierra no tenga ley alguna
00:29:52para gobernar los seres a los cuales creó? Would we know the results of making
00:29:57void the law of God? ¿Queremos saber cuál sería el resultado de la abolición de la
00:30:02ley de Dios? The experiment has been tried. ¿El experimento se ha hecho ya? Terrible
00:30:08were the scenes enacted in France when atheism became the controlling power.
00:30:12Terribles fueron las escenas que se desarrollaron en Francia cuando el ateísmo
00:30:17ejerció el poder. It was then demonstrated to the world that to throw
00:30:21off the restraints which God has imposed is to accept the rule of the cruelest
00:30:25of tyrants. Entonces el mundo vio que rechazar las restricciones de Dios que
00:30:31Dios impuso equivale a aceptar el gobierno de los más crueles y despóticos.
00:30:37En la revolución francesa, cualquiera denunció a cualquiera. Sin justicia fueron llevados a la guillotina y se cortaron sus cabezas.
00:30:41Cualquier persona pudo condenar a cualquier persona. Sin justicia fueron llevados a la guillotina y se cortaron sus cabezas.
00:30:47Human blood ran down the streets of Paris. La sangre humana se corría en las calles de Paris.
00:30:51Human blood ran down the streets of Paris. La sangre humana se corría en las calles de Paris.
00:30:56Human blood ran down the streets of Paris. La sangre humana se corría en las calles de Paris.
00:31:00There was no justice. No había justicia.
00:31:06In the world today, many many countries are traveling down the path of injustice.
00:31:12En el mundo de hoy, muchos países están viajando el camino de la injusticia.
00:31:19There's web pages that can rate all the countries according to their judicial system.
00:31:22En el sitio web, uno puede ver cómo la gente ha visto los países, sus sistemas judiciales, cómo son corruptos.
00:31:29En el sitio web, uno puede ver cómo la gente ha visto los países, sus sistemas judiciales, cómo son corruptos.
00:31:34On the top of the list, the best judicial system today is Sweden.
00:31:39On the top of the list, the best judicial system today is Sweden.
00:31:44I was sitting on an airplane when I came back from Brazil the other day.
00:31:48I was sitting on an airplane when I came back from Brazil the other day.
00:31:53On my way to Santa Cruz.
00:31:55On my way to Santa Cruz.
00:31:56There was a Bolivian lady arriving from Sweden.
00:31:58There was a Bolivian lady arriving from Sweden.
00:32:01To Bolivia.
00:32:02To Bolivia.
00:32:03And she told me that during the pandemic,
00:32:06And she told me that during the pandemic,
00:32:08in Sweden,
00:32:09in Sweden,
00:32:10nobody was forced to wear a mask
00:32:13nobody was forced to wear a mask
00:32:15or receive the injection.
00:32:18It was left to everybody's conscience.
00:32:26Sweden is at the top of the list of human rights.
00:32:34And according to that list,
00:32:38Mozambique is at the bottom.
00:32:42And all of the other countries are rated.
00:32:47And all of the other countries are rated.
00:32:50In some countries, you have to buy justice with money.
00:32:53In some countries, you have to buy justice with money.
00:32:57You know how that is. It happens in all the countries.
00:33:00You know how that is. It happens in all the countries.
00:33:05Let's look about God and how His government is.
00:33:08Let's look about God and how His government is.
00:33:10Exodus 34.7
00:33:12Exodus 34.7
00:33:14God is merciful, but He will not clear the guilty.
00:33:26Nehemiah 9.17
00:33:28He's ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.
00:33:37Psalms 46
00:33:38He's our refuge and strength, the present help in trouble.
00:33:45Psalms 71
00:33:47In Him we can put our trust.
00:33:52Isaiah 26.3
00:33:55He will keep us in perfect peace if our mind is stayed on Him.
00:34:06Psalms 121
00:34:08My help comes from the Lord.
00:34:10My help comes from the Lord.
00:34:13He preserves us from evil.
00:34:16He will preserve our soul.
00:34:19Psalms 34.7
00:34:21He gives us angels to protect us.
00:34:27Psalms 103
00:34:28He forgives all our iniquities.
00:34:33He redeems our life from destruction.
00:34:37And He gives us good food to fill our mouths.
00:34:41John 3.16
00:34:45God so loved the world that He gave His only Son.
00:34:50John 10.10
00:34:54I am come that they might have life and might have it more abundantly.
00:35:00John 10.14
00:35:02He is the good shepherd.
00:35:06Genesis 22.14
00:35:08And here is Jehovah Jireh.
00:35:14He will be the provider.
00:35:17Philippians 4.19
00:35:20God will provide for all our needs.
00:35:24Matthew 6.33
00:35:27Take ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
00:35:35Psalms 81.10
00:35:38Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
00:35:45It makes you think of a little bird who opens its mouth.
00:35:51James 1.17
00:35:56Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.
00:36:00Hebrews 13.5
00:36:06I will never leave you, and I will never forsake you.
00:36:12Jesus came to reveal the Father and His character to us.
00:36:18Loving, patient, and selfish.
00:36:24He is the God of love and patience.
00:36:30Always thinking of others.
00:36:35He gave His life for us.
00:36:38Just because we can understand some things about God, doesn't mean that we understand God.
00:36:50Throughout eternity, we will always be learning and never understand completely.
00:37:00Infinity means you can never measure.
00:37:10Billions of years in the future, you still have to be learning about an infinite God.
00:37:201 Corinthians 2.9
00:37:24As it is written, eye has not seen, ear has not heard, neither has intelligence.
00:37:30These are the things that God has prepared for those who love Him.
00:37:43So how can you define God?
00:37:47Why do we spend so much time arguing about how and who He is?
00:37:50We should study.
00:37:54We should stretch our minds trying to understand.
00:38:00But we will never, throughout eternity, completely understand God.
00:38:08So let's get used to it now.
00:38:12Let's get used to it now.
00:38:14Let's keep studying.
00:38:17Let's keep learning.
00:38:21But let's not be critical.
00:38:25Fighting with each other.
00:38:29There are several things that have divided the church over the years.
00:38:37Some people have said, God does not execute a death sentence.
00:38:41God does not execute a death sentence.
00:38:45Some people have said, God does not execute a death sentence.
00:38:51But in the flood, He did.
00:38:56Satan himself was worried for his own life.
00:39:04In Egypt, God sent an angel to destroy the firstborn.
00:39:06In Egypt, God sent an angel to destroy the firstborn.
00:39:12And for Hezekiah, one angel executed 185,000 soldiers in one night.
00:39:24And in the very last judgment, all sin and sinners, root and branch, will be destroyed.
00:39:26And in the very last judgment, all sin and sinners, root and branch, will be destroyed.
00:39:36Satan will not destroy himself.
00:39:40Fire from heaven will destroy him.
00:39:44The glory of God is a consuming fire.
00:39:49And when that glory fills the earth, all sin and sinners will be consumed.
00:39:57We don't understand.
00:40:00We can try.
00:40:03God is love, and God is justice.
00:40:08The second thing that has divided the church is the nature of Christ.
00:40:17At a general conference session where I had a booth one time,
00:40:23a booth is a stand.
00:40:27I was talking to all the people.
00:40:31I was giving away some books.
00:40:35The people on this side said,
00:40:38That's a good book, but the appendix is wrong.
00:40:45And the people on this side told me,
00:40:49The appendix is correct.
00:40:52The rest of the book is wrong.
00:40:57How do you get along with both sides?
00:41:05These people on this side, Adventists, said,
00:41:08Jesus could never have sinned.
00:41:16And the people on this side,
00:41:20He was born just like us, with a tendency to sin.
00:41:23Actually, neither side is right.
00:41:29I'll discuss that in some other sermon some other day.
00:41:35We must be very careful when discussing the nature of Christ.
00:41:42We have to be very careful in talking about the nature of Christ.
00:41:46We have to be very careful in talking about the nature of Christ.
00:41:49Again, we should not try to put it and define it exactly,
00:41:53because it's very mysterious and difficult how the Incarnation took place.
00:42:03But it's a miracle to which we owe our eternal life.
00:42:11But it's a miracle to which we owe our eternal life.
00:42:19The third point that has divided the Church,
00:42:24Who is the Holy Spirit?
00:42:27You heard his sermon this morning already.
00:42:33We can have different opinions,
00:42:38but we can still be brethren,
00:42:42because neither you or I or anybody really understands.
00:42:49We can have an opinion,
00:42:53but we just don't understand.
00:42:56The theologians don't understand.
00:42:59The church members don't understand.
00:43:03But let's be Christians first of all.
00:43:09We have some members that are on one side
00:43:13that won't even talk or look at the other people that are on the other side.
00:43:16They look the other way when they come by.
00:43:24You consider the Holy Spirit to be this,
00:43:27and I consider it to be that, so I won't talk to you.
00:43:37I think that's the wrong spirit, don't you?
00:43:39Whatever your opinion of the Holy Spirit is, be a Christian.
00:43:49Have a sweet spirit.
00:43:53Otherwise you might be on the wrong side.
00:43:59There is a Catholic definition
00:44:03about the Trinity
00:44:06we do not accept.
00:44:10There's a Protestant Adventist understanding.
00:44:18And then the third question is,
00:44:21is the Holy Spirit a person or just an influence?
00:44:29We don't want to accept the pagan
00:44:32tradition of the Catholic Church.
00:44:40We have to be careful and we have to study.
00:44:45But someday Jesus will explain it to us.
00:44:52We can only take what is written
00:44:55and attempt to understand the best we can.
00:45:03We can never accept human tradition.
00:45:06It has to be God's Word in the spirit of prophecy.
00:45:10We have to accept the Word of God.
00:45:13Jesus told the Pharisees,
00:45:16in vain you worship me,
00:45:19teaching the doctrines and commandments of men.
00:45:25I discovered a book written by a friend of mine.
00:45:31My father referred to that book this morning.
00:45:34It was not a Trinitarian,
00:45:37anti-Trinitarian book.
00:45:44It was about the real issue
00:45:47is the Sonship of Jesus Christ.
00:45:54Lucifer said that Jesus was not
00:45:57really the Son of God.
00:46:00And he was jealous of that angel,
00:46:03the archangel called Jesus Christ.
00:46:10He refused to accept the counsel of God
00:46:13and he started a war in heaven.
00:46:19He refused to accept the Son of God
00:46:22and he started a war in hell.
00:46:25He refused to accept the Son of God
00:46:27and he started a war in heaven.
00:46:33If you want to read those books,
00:46:36they are very important.
00:46:39You can find them right here.
00:46:42You can go directly to Prophecy Waymarks
00:46:45or you can click those other websites
00:46:48and go directly to the book.
00:46:54English, Spanish, English, Spanish.
00:46:57You can find them right there.
00:47:02Let's look at history a little bit.
00:47:08Right after the Second World War,
00:47:11Germany was divided into four different pieces,
00:47:14eventually into two, East and West.
00:47:22The blue part was West Germany.
00:47:24It was free and part of Berlin was free
00:47:27and the rest of it was East Germany, communist.
00:47:39In August of 1961, a wall was built
00:47:42to keep Eastern Germans from escaping to the West.
00:47:54Anybody caught trying to cross the wall
00:47:57was immediately shot.
00:48:09A year later, in 1962,
00:48:12a young man called Peter Fechter
00:48:21jumped over the wall and tried to escape.
00:48:25He was shot in the hip.
00:48:35But he didn't die right away.
00:48:39He called for help. He was bleeding to death.
00:48:48The Western Germans saw him bleeding
00:48:51and calling for help.
00:48:55The Eastern German soldiers refused to help him.
00:49:03And for hours, he slowly bled until he died.
00:49:13That wall was hated by the Germans.
00:49:16Finally, in 1989,
00:49:23President Gorbachev started loosening the restrictions
00:49:26to Russia, the Soviet Union.
00:49:29And eventually, East Germany decided to do the same.
00:49:37The wall, the wall,
00:49:40the wall, the wall,
00:49:43the wall, the wall,
00:49:46the wall, the wall,
00:49:49the wall,
00:49:52the wall, the wall,
00:49:55the wall,
00:49:58the wall,
00:50:01the wall,
00:50:04hated by everyone,
00:50:07was attacked.
00:50:10Get rid of that wall.
00:50:13It separated families.
00:50:17It separated East from West Germans.
00:50:24It was a great day of rejoicing when that wall came down.
00:50:28It was a great day of rejoicing when that wall came down.
00:50:38Today, Satan
00:50:41is carefully selecting
00:50:44leaders around the world
00:50:47to direct his final attack against God.
00:50:55He's a mighty angel.
00:50:59He's working with government leaders around the world
00:51:05trying to place the most corrupt and evil people
00:51:08in charge of the world.
00:51:20Satan is studying Scripture.
00:51:25He wants to know how much time he has
00:51:28He wants to know how much time he has
00:51:34He carefully studies history.
00:51:40He watched from creation
00:51:45as sin brought in death and pain,
00:51:48idolatry.
00:51:55He thought he was going to die in the flood
00:51:58but he was spared.
00:52:03He saw the wars
00:52:06and then it was time for Jesus to be born.
00:52:12Four thousand years.
00:52:15Then persecution.
00:52:18Spanish Inquisition.
00:52:21Wars of today.
00:52:24Pain, misery, death.
00:52:31Flooding, deserts, bombs.
00:52:36Gaza.
00:52:39Pandemic.
00:52:46Many, many people dead.
00:52:50Special weapons.
00:52:54Designed to kill.
00:52:58Leaders are uniting
00:53:01over the opposition to God's law.
00:53:08Satan looks at the clock and he says
00:53:11my six thousand years are almost finished.
00:53:20He's getting desperate.
00:53:24Woe to the inhabitants of the earth.
00:53:27Revelation 12.12 says.
00:53:33End of the sea for the devil has come down to you
00:53:36having great wrath because he knows he has but a short time.
00:53:44Very short.
00:53:47How does Satan know that?
00:53:50Because he studies Scripture.
00:53:54Because he looks at history.
00:54:00But someday soon
00:54:03he will be chained
00:54:06to this earth.
00:54:09I saw an angel come down from heaven
00:54:12having a key to the bottomless pit
00:54:15and a great chain in his hand.
00:54:20And he laid hold on a dragon,
00:54:23which was a devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
00:54:31And cast it into the bottomless pit.
00:54:34And shut him up and set a seal upon him
00:54:39that he should deceive the nations no more
00:54:44till the thousand years should be fulfilled.
00:54:48And after that he must be loosed for a short season.
00:54:54Satan knows it is almost over.
00:55:04Jesus left us an order before he left.
00:55:07An order.
00:55:14Go into all the world and teach all nations.
00:55:17Go into all the world
00:55:20and teach all nations.
00:55:24Baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:55:30And teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded.
00:55:36Our mission today is to fulfill that commission.
00:55:42First angel's message.
00:55:46Everlasting gospel.
00:55:50Second angel.
00:55:53Babylon.
00:55:56Third angel.
00:55:59Warn the world about the mark of the beast
00:56:02and how to avoid the consequences.
00:56:06When Peter Fechner was dying
00:56:12somebody should have gone and picked him up.
00:56:19Nobody would have shot him
00:56:22if a West German would have gone over
00:56:25the East Germans would not have shot him.
00:56:32The police had orders, don't do anything.
00:56:38So if somebody would have gone and picked up Peter
00:56:41nobody would have shot them.
00:56:47If Jesus Christ would have been in Berlin that day
00:56:49he would have walked over there and picked up Peter
00:56:52and brought him back and everybody would have clapped.
00:57:02Peter would have been saved.
00:57:09There are people dying all around us today.
00:57:15Someday all of this mess will be clear.
00:57:20But we don't understand.
00:57:24The disciples did not understand Jesus' mission.
00:57:28John the Baptist did not understand.
00:57:33Martin Luther did not understand.
00:57:38He said, sola scriptura, Bible alone.
00:57:44The Bible alone.
00:57:47But he never accepted the seventh day Sabbath from the Bible.
00:57:53We have much to learn and much, much to unlearn.
00:58:00Maybe we see things in different ways
00:58:03with those around us.
00:58:10But we don't have time to argue.
00:58:12But we don't have time to argue.
00:58:16Let's stop acting like enemies
00:58:19and behave like we're on the same team.
00:58:29We are on the same team.
00:58:32We all plan to go to heaven, don't we?
00:58:36We're going to be neighbors in heaven, aren't we?
00:58:39We're going to be neighbors on earth.
00:58:44We have to act like neighbors here if we're going to be neighbors there.
00:58:53At the end of a thousand years,
00:58:56the new Jerusalem will descend to this earth.
00:59:00God's saints will be inside.
00:59:02The final sentence will be declared
00:59:05and justice will follow.
00:59:14The sentence will be declared and justice will follow.
00:59:21All sin and sinners will be destroyed.
00:59:28God wants everybody in the world to be saved.
00:59:32God wants us all to be inside.
00:59:36So let's put aside some of our personal opinions.
00:59:43Things that are infinite we cannot understand.
00:59:50And let's get on with what we do understand.
00:59:55God's special blessing will be upon us.
00:59:57God's special blessing will be upon us.
01:00:00Let's save people's lives.
01:00:05Let's save lives.
01:00:08Let's preach the health message.
01:00:11The three angels message.
01:00:14Let us do everything we can
01:00:18so that people will be inside the new Jerusalem.
01:00:21Jesus will say, thank you.
01:00:27That's what I want to hear.
01:00:30Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
01:00:37Enter thou the joy of thy Lord.
01:00:41Amen.
01:00:44May that come soon, Lord Jesus.
01:00:51Let us pray.
01:01:00Thank you for that infinite loving character you have,
01:01:03Heavenly Father.
01:01:11Thank you for giving your only begotten Son
01:01:14that he might live and die for us.
01:01:17So that we might be participants of the divine character.
01:01:25And that we can work with you together to save souls.
01:01:32Fill us with your Holy Spirit.
01:01:35There's a lot of things we don't understand today.
01:01:40But one thing we do understand.
01:01:42You want us to know you.
01:01:46Help us to share what we do know with others.
01:01:51So that they too can be saved.
01:01:56We love you, we thank you.
01:01:59In Jesus' name.
01:02:02Amen.
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01:02:52With such an army of workers as our well-prepared youth could provide, how soon would the message of a crucified, resurrected, and coming Savior be proclaimed to the whole world?
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