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In this video, we ask some questions about the implications of Jesus' quotation of lost Scripture as recorded in John 7:37-38.
The Gospel Is Better Than Most Realize!
Monday's SS lesson reads:
"Now, it is true we are judged by works—but not in the sense that works save us. If so, then faith is made void (Rom. 4:14). Instead, our works reveal whether we truly have been saved (James 2:18)."
[Sabbath School Quarterly Lesson, Monday, March 15, 2021]
Honestly, I used to be so confused by this. It seemed to me like we needed to have good works, as James said, but it was sort of like icing on the cake, if you know what I mean. I thought that Paul, in some places in his writings, was saying that it was okay to have sin in our lives as long as we believed in Jesus and received His forgiveness.
But we have come to understand that this was not what Paul was saying. While it is true that all of us HAVE sinned, it is not true that we all must therefore STAY in sin. God gives us His grace, which is unmerited favor and unconditional love, because He does desperately love us - no matter what. But this is not enough to save us. We are saved BY grace – that is, because of love, God does not leave us to our own devices, left to experience the effects of sin without any help, but instead sends us messages of truth that will purify us from sin if we will receive these messages intellectually and apply them to our lives spiritually, as Ellen White said in the previous quote. This is what imparted righteousness is. God imparts or gives righteousness to us in messages of truth. But you can see that grace alone does not save us...we need to take these gracious imparted messages of truth, battle to understand them in our minds and hearts like Jacob wrestled with the angel, and then apply them to our lives, and therefore become like Israel. This is what redemption is. (See Ephesians 2:8-9)
And yes, redemption obviously necessitates forgiveness of our past sins, but this occurs only when we have OVERCOME sin. Once we are no longer a danger to ourselves and others, we have righteousness imputed, or ascribed, to us.
Through imputed righteousness, we are accounted righteous because we now actually are righteous. And this is what Paul was saying.
Romans 3:24-26 reads,
"... justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood [or his life], through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were PREVIOUSLY committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." [Romans 3:24-26]
To have faith in Jesus is to trust in his ways...to trust in his life...to follow his example, understanding that it is only through selflessness that we can have eternal life.
The Gospel of Justification by Faith, as we have just seen, is about having our sins taken away once and for all and to live Christ's life from that point on; truly being a changed person who really does follow Christ moment by mo
The everyday, common use of computers and the internet is very much a higher dimensional activity. Its also generated mirrors of our inner selves.
Start at about 4:00.
The art is from Ulla Thynell here:
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God wanted His people to build a sanctuary on earth for the purpose of relationship. Yes, God wanted to have a close relationship with His people on earth, and that is why He wanted them to build Him a dwelling place, that is, so He could "tabernacle" which means "dwell" among them (Exodus 25:8), and even walk among them.
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Materialism is the belief that all that exists, and anything that even could have existence, even heaven and God, is made up of matter, and thus everything that has existence is subject to both space and time – and has a location within space and time. The idea that something could exist outside of matter is called "immaterialism." "Spiritualism" is another term defined the same way. The idea that God, or anyone, could be everywhere at once is one of the spiritualistic ideas the pioneers were opposed to.
Again, the SDA pioneers belief and position that God is not everywhere, but is instead localized in a particular place was part of their overall view that everything (including God) is physical.
The SDA foundation for faith and hope was based on material reality, the same basis for hope given in the scriptures. Again, we invite you to investigate these articles by our SDA pioneers for yourself.
Please see the study, "Materialism, Our Forgotten Foundation," by Trent Wilde: http://www.bdsda.com/materialism-our-forgotten-foundation-2/
Sabbath School Q2 2021: The Promise - Week 11
A Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on the Sabbath School lesson.
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Did God Create Time? Today we talk about the idea that god created time, the idea that God exists outside of time, and the nature of time as presented in the bible - and also as presented in the writings of Ellen White and the other SDA pioneers.
As we'll see, scripture presents God as being within time just like all of us are. But many have the idea that God created time, and exists outside of time, in non-time, even though there is nothing in scripture even implying any of these ideas.
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"Materialism, Our Forgotten Foundation," by Trent Wilde http://www.bdsda.com/materialism-our-forgotten-foundation-2/
A.C. Bourdeau, "The Hope That Is In You," Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, June 8, 1869. http://www.bdsda.com/the-hope-that-is-in-you/
"The Book of Jeremiah is a Montage," by Trent Wilde http://www.bdsda.com/2021/08/18/the-book-of-jeremiah-is-a-montage/
Sabbath School Q3 2021: Rest In Christ - Week 10 A Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on the Sabbath School lesson.
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Most people believe that there is a non-physical component to reality. Materialism, on the other hand, asserts that matter is all that exists. What is the truth and why does it matter?
First video in the "Principles of Truth" series.
This video discusses the argument for the belief that all that exists is made up of matter. That belief is called Materialism.
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Monologue about "waking up" and modern man being a slab of beef headed for the meat grinder. Whatever - gimme some Cheetos.
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This week we thought we would talk about a foundation - if not THE foundation - of the SDA movement that has been forgotten about. In fact, it is the foundation upon which all the pillars of our faith rest. But in spite of that, as we will show, Satan has buried this forgotten pillar under a pile of rubbish called "Spiritualism."
Now most SDAs understand that the doctrine of the conscious state of the dead is spiritualistic. We should all know that the deceased do not have disembodied spirits. Today we are going to learn **why** the belief in the "conscious state of the dead," or "the immortality of the soul" is a form of "spiritualism". It is this aspect of our faith - the understanding of the root problem with spiritualism - that has been "forgotten" over the last century or more.
Uriah Smith taught that the idea that the soul is immortal was the fundamental problem underlying that idea. That is, the idea of "immateriality." The belief in immateriality is the belief that something that is not made of matter exists - like the common idea of a soul, for example. Uriah Smith said immateriality is preposterous because "all nature is material," and also for the reasons that something not made of matter is impossible to comprehend, and that scripture expressly presents to us the materiality of human nature - and actually of all things. The prefix "Im" means "not," and the word "material" means, well, "material," or "matter" - you know, physical stuff. Today the word "material" and "materialism" are linked more popularly to the idea of accumulating worldly goods. But back in the 1800's, at the time Uriah Smith was writing, "materialism" more commonly meant the belief that all that exists is made of matter, or "material." Notice also that Uriah Smith attributes even the thoughts of the conscious mind to matter also. He said that "we do claim that all vital and mental phenomena result from material causes." The pioneers believed that consciousness is a function of certain material organizations. It is a process of the physical brain. Some SDAs today use the phrase "soul sleep" to express the Adventist position on the state of the dead, but this really isn't the best expression since it might convey that the soul is something separate from the body and that it continues to exist, albeit unconsciously, when the body dies. The early SDAs rejected the idea of a separate soul altogether, which is probably why Ellen White and the other pioneers didn't use the term 'soul sleep' to express their views. They understood that when the brain stops working, the mind ceases to exist (See Psalm 146:4).
Now, the early SDA pioneers wrote a ton on the topic of spiritualism and immateriality – that the issue with spiritualism, again, is immateriality. In fact, it's clear from reading their writings that they equated spiritualism with the belief in anything immaterial. And actually, this is just what spiritualism means in philosophy, as it says in Encyclopedia Britannic
The world’s largest non-polar desert, is actually the widespread burial grounds of countless, mysteriously unknown, ancient ruins
Cosmic Disaster, Solar Micronova, Superflare, Magnetic Reversal, Crustal Displacement, Ice Age, Tsunamis, Volcanoes... it's all here, it's all been done before and it's all coming again soon.
Science tells us these magnetic events come on a cycle, we are due up again now, and shocker... the magnetic field is shifting and accelerating. This is not a coincidence.
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“Princes of the Yen: Central Banks and the Transformation of the Economy” 『円の支配者』reveals how Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda and desire of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this.
Based on a book by Professor Richard Werner, a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan during the 90s crash, during which the stock market dropped by 80% and house prices by up to 84%. The film uncovers the real cause of this extraordinary period in recent Japanese history.
Making extensive use of archival footage and TV appearances of Richard Werner from the time, the viewer is guided to a new understanding of what makes the world tick. And discovers that what happened in Japan almost 25 years ago is again repeating itself in Europe. To understand how, why and by whom, watch this film.
“Princes of the Yen” is an unprecedented challenge to today’s dominant ideological belief system, and the control levers that underpin it. Piece by piece, reality is deconstructed to reveal the world as it is, not as those in power would like us to believe that it is.
“Because only power that is hidden is power that endures.”
A film by Michael Oswald
You can follow Richard Werner (Author of the Book) on Twitter at @ProfessorWerner
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97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process.
When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like
