Participants: Chris Shelton (Host), Kenny Shelton
Series Code: BTLP
Program Code: BTLP000078A
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00:41 Hello and welcome to "Behold the Lamb Presents."
00:44 I'm Chris Shelton, your host and I want to welcome 00:47 each and every one of you 00:48 to another insightful study of God's word today. 00:52 Today's message is the second message 00:54 in a three part series that we are simply calling 00:57 "The Godhead." 00:58 In part one of the series we looked at God, the Father 01:02 and we'll touch upon that just a bit more today. 01:05 But our main focus for today's study 01:07 will be upon God the Son. 01:09 And what better way to prepare our hearts for the study 01:13 then to read to you John 1:1-4. 01:17 "In the beginning was the Word, 01:19 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 01:23 The same was in the beginning with God. 01:26 All things were made by him, 01:28 and without him was not any thing made that was made. 01:32 In him was life, and the life was the light of men." 01:36 This is so beautifully begins to describe God the Son. 01:40 Pastor Kenny will share with us a fuller meaning of this, 01:44 these verses and much more today 01:46 as we begin part two of "The Godhead." 01:50 But first we are blessed with the song entitled, 01:53 "The Eternal Life" as played by Brother Ron Woolsey 01:56 from the 3ABN Worship Center. 04:39 Thanks for joining us again here at "Behold the Lamb." 04:41 And we want to say right up front 04:43 we just really appreciate you 04:45 and those of you who are viewing 04:46 and those who are writing 04:47 and those who are sending those love gifts 04:49 and you're praying, we appreciate you so very much. 04:51 We want to continue that line of thought 04:54 and that kind of line of study 04:55 that we're been doing in God's word 04:57 which we call present truth. 04:59 Well, this subject-- no exception, 05:00 we're gonna be talking about the Godhead. 05:02 Some of you maybe never heard that term before 05:05 but we pray and we do this three part series 05:08 that you will understand better the Godhead. 05:09 Why? 05:11 Remember for every truth, 05:12 God has-- the enemy has a counterfeit 05:15 and certainly has a counterfeit of the Godhead. 05:18 So we're gonna be looking at very closely this issue 05:21 based upon God's word in the Spirit of Prophecy. 05:23 And again we thank you for joining us, 05:26 thank you for keeping us in prayer. 05:28 Now always before we get into our study, 05:30 what do we do? 05:32 Yes, some of you've been writing and calling and said, 05:33 you appreciate, you know, 05:35 the prayer naturally before we open 05:37 the pages of God's word. 05:39 Because we want Him to speak to us, don't we? 05:40 We need to hear from God. 05:42 So I'm gonna kneel 05:43 and going to have prayer and where you can, 05:45 you can kneel with me there at your home 05:46 and some of you won't be able to-- 05:48 but you can pray along with that the Holy Spirit 05:50 will just open our hearts, 05:52 our minds and all the people around the world 05:55 that hear this message 05:57 that the spirit with the living God 05:58 will just touch their hearts 05:59 and bring them to the further cross. 06:01 Let's pray, shall we? 06:04 Our kind loving heaving Father, 06:05 we do thank You for the privilege 06:07 and it is the privilege to have prayer. 06:09 You said, we can come boldly to the throne of God 06:12 not because of who we are but because of Jesus Christ. 06:15 Lord, I thank You for that blood, 06:16 thank You for Calvary. 06:18 Today, we plea, we beg 06:20 for the power of the Holy Spirit 06:21 to consume each and every heart, 06:23 every life, how we need to hear from heaven. 06:27 Just pray the things of this world 06:28 will just go strangely down that we spend this time 06:31 in Your presence and we desire 06:33 to know what truth is 06:34 and we desire to follow that truth. 06:36 We need the Holy Spirit. 06:38 I ask that You'll forgive me of any sin, 06:40 anything in my heart and life that needs not be there. 06:42 Oh, Lord, we need to be clean. 06:44 Need to hear Your voice and I pray as You speak 06:45 to each and everyone of us that we will take the message, 06:49 this important message of the Godhead. 06:51 It is important 06:52 that we understand what truth is. 06:54 Help us we pray. 06:55 We commit ourselves in thy care and thy keeping. 06:57 Bless Your people, we pray in Jesus name, amen. 07:03 Again get a pencil and paper it's always good to have, 07:06 so you can jot things down. 07:07 I'm a thorough believer that you need to test 07:10 everything that's being said. 07:12 Regardless the man said, 07:14 well, I'm a preacher and I'm an evangelist, 07:15 I'm this, I'm that. 07:17 Well, that's wonderful. 07:18 But we need to what, 07:19 step in and we need to write things down, 07:21 we need to study. 07:22 The Bible said to show ourselves approved unto God. 07:26 Remember, we say at the beginning of the program 07:27 for every truth the enemy has what? 07:29 He has a counterfeit. 07:31 So this-- there's no exception. 07:32 So this we find as there's many counterfeits in the world today 07:37 and any many faced about this subject. 07:41 It can be cleared up, 07:42 all we have to do to study the Bible, 07:43 line upon line, precept upon precept. 07:45 And we'll been using Spirit of Prophecy, 07:47 I'm unbeliever in Spirit of Prophecy, 07:48 that will be new to some of you. 07:51 And we're not trying to scare you off 07:53 or make you afraid. 07:54 But wow, what a wonderful gift to God's last day church, 07:58 we need that desperately. 08:00 Well, you know, 08:02 in the first part this is the second, 08:03 so in the first part, 08:04 we came to grips with this that God has testing truths, 08:08 testing truths for every generation. 08:11 He always has, He brings out this truths 08:13 and He challenges us to accept them by His grace 08:17 and by His strength. 08:18 God has leading a people, 08:20 He's leading them step-by-step. Why? 08:23 So that He can test, prove what's really in the heart 08:28 'cause sometime we have a lot of lip service 08:30 and we do a lot of talking sometime. 08:32 But God is putting testing truths out there 08:34 to really see what you really think about 08:36 and what's really in your heart 08:37 and how you are going to respond. 08:40 There are things that we will hear like new light. 08:44 Oh, if you don't believe this and you don't accept this 08:46 and oh, oh, while you-- heaven will never be your home. 08:50 Remember we test all new light. 08:52 They say there's new Solemn said, "under the sun." 08:55 So it's maybe new to us or to new to sometime 08:58 when you get into the some subject matter here 09:00 but we need to realize that it's in God's word, 09:02 it's established in God's word. 09:04 So new-- and theologically you're looking at 09:07 there's going to be doctors, 09:08 there's going to be teachings 09:10 and that going to be counseling on the rise. 09:13 And so we need to be in focused with the Holy Spirit, 09:15 focused with the Word of God. 09:18 There are others who are going to come by 09:19 and they're going to say, 09:20 well, you know, these are some old truths. 09:22 Well, Praise God. 09:23 But sometimes with those old truths, 09:24 they're throw in some-- 09:26 listen carefully some old traditions. 09:28 But we're not worried about traditions 09:29 because Jesus said "In vain do they worship Me, 09:32 teaching for doctrines the commandments of men 09:34 or men's traditions." 09:36 So we need to be careful about all of these teachings 09:39 because they're going to be on the rise 09:41 and the Godhead issue 09:43 has been on the rise for a long, long time. 09:46 Now many who watch, many who watch, 09:51 you know, time from programming as it goes on, 09:54 you realize that we say things many times 09:57 and it's not to meant to be difficult, 09:58 it's not meant to be the heart or we have a burden 10:02 to get this message out 10:03 because there either is a truth or it's a life from the devil. 10:06 And you'll say, well, 10:08 we can't be deceived on this issue. 10:10 You remember-- just think about this. 10:11 There will be millions that will be deceived, 10:14 the Bible says, here in the last days, about what? 10:16 The message that being presented. 10:19 You say, well, how can that be? 10:21 Listen, our parents Adam and Eve in the garden. 10:26 They received a lie instead of obeying what is truth. 10:31 They were deceived in the garden. 10:33 So now think you're beyond that 10:35 or I'm beyond that we need to be in the Word of God. 10:37 Remember Adam and Eve 10:39 then exchange the truth for a lie. 10:42 So remember if this is not the truth 10:44 then it has to be a lie. 10:45 So the Godhead issue at least in the-- 10:48 we talk about in the beginning of the early advent, 10:51 Adventist believers. 10:53 Many, many, many, many, many. 10:55 Now we're talking about the 1840s 10:57 and middles and so on so forth. 10:58 So this Godhead you will say, 11:00 well, that last couple of years 11:01 it's been going on 11:03 since the beginning of the early Adventist, 11:06 from beginning time for century. 11:08 So we can look at this subject 11:09 and we need to dissect it properly. 11:12 So we realize that the-- 11:13 they called about the Arian, the issue. 11:16 And we found out that which many times 11:19 this has been taught by our pioneers. 11:23 They had the Arian belief, 11:25 they had the teaching they came out 11:26 on a different denominations and different churches. 11:29 And, so this was kind of in their mind 11:31 and their headset. 11:32 Well, let's think about this for a moment. 11:35 If this is so and I call the Arian, 11:38 I call it a heresy, not a truth. 11:42 What you might want to say, 11:43 well, what does that really mean? 11:45 Well, first of all if we look at the Arian heresy, 11:47 it denies the deity. 11:49 What? Of the Holy Spirit. 11:52 Also it denies Christ. 11:54 They say that Christ there was the time when Christ was not. 11:58 There was a time that He came into being. 12:00 Is that what the Bible really teaches? 12:04 Well, many of our pioneers believed 12:05 that in the beginning 12:06 but as a spirit of prophecy and further study, 12:09 they change their commitment 12:10 and they change their doctrine and their teaching. 12:13 Praise God for that. 12:14 If you have your Bible, 12:15 please I want you just turn with me John 8:12. 12:20 I've got here in my Bible, 12:21 I hope you have your Bible and you look this up to. 12:24 I love this passage John 8:12. 12:28 Jesus said, notice, "I am the light of the," what? 12:33 "I am the light of the world." 12:36 Jesus was making a statement here, 12:37 "I am the light," notice this, "of the world." 12:41 Christ declared at this point 12:43 and time His oneness with God and His relationship to man. 12:49 But how interesting this was in John Chapter 8, 12:52 as you look at this, 12:53 all kind of things were going on 12:55 when Jesus was making these statements. 12:58 We've realized there if we look in John Chapter 8 13:01 and which some of the later verses 13:03 in there 44 on down to the end. 13:06 They-- as He talk to the Jews, 13:08 they said to Him that He is devil. 13:11 Can you possibly imagine that people on earth 13:14 and talked and walked with Jesus? 13:16 Can you possibly imagine they call Jesus, 13:18 well, He must have the devil? 13:20 Jesus said, I don't have a devil. 13:24 He said, if you need to keep My sayings. 13:26 They said, oh, wow, what do you mean 13:27 going to keep your sayings? 13:29 He said, keep My sayings, you'll never die. 13:30 And so there was a process that was going on. 13:32 They said, well, you think that you're, 13:34 you know, Abraham, you're better than Abraham. 13:36 And he said before Abraham was I am, I am. 13:42 Wow, what a thought. 13:45 Thought what He was doing here? 13:47 The oneness with God, His relationship with man. 13:50 In fact, in John 1:4, "In him," 13:54 I think this was read in our opening. 13:55 "In him was life," the Bible says, 13:57 "and the life was the light of men." 13:59 Remember, and Jesus was life. 14:03 Think about what we've talked about as the pioneers 14:05 were trying to decide for what truth 14:08 on this subject of the Godhead. 14:10 I don't like it by the way, 14:12 I don't like it to call the trinity. 14:13 I'll just be honest with you. 14:15 I believe that's another word for the catholic faith. 14:16 And so I like the word Godhead 14:18 because Godhead is used three times in scripture 14:20 and we'll see where those places are uses it. 14:24 And so we look at the John 1:4, 14:27 "In him was life and the life was the light of men." 14:31 So in Him was life. 14:33 Was there ever time that the, 14:35 you know, Christ was not with the Father? 14:39 Was there ever a time? Was He created? 14:43 Well, that's the issue. Some people say, yes, He was. 14:46 And He came into being of sometime 14:47 in the history of the world. 14:51 Is that what the Bible really teaches? 14:54 First of all we just read, in Him was life. 14:56 What does it mean is life? 14:58 I mean, just a little bit of life 14:59 or that mean something 15:01 that He's had from all eternity. 15:02 John 1:1, 2 remember, 15:05 "In the beginning was the," what? 15:07 "Was the word, the word was with God, 15:09 and the Word was God. 15:11 The same was in the beginning with God." 15:14 See Christ here we see made all things. 15:18 The Bible teaches that Christ made all things. 15:20 It stands to reason to me if, 15:22 you know, it says Christ made all things 15:24 that He had to exist before all things. 15:28 That makes sense to you. 15:29 Sure, He had to exist 15:31 before all things if He made all things. 15:34 Let me make this statement here. 15:35 God, we talked about the Christ was God essentially. 15:39 And in the highest sins the Bible teaches. 15:43 He was God from all the eternity. 15:46 Yet, a distinct person. Yet, one with the Father. 15:52 You see that blows some minds 15:54 and it shouldn't as we go on 15:55 and do the study here together, the Godhead. 15:58 What about the Godhead? 16:00 What consistent of? 16:02 Some people say, well, it just two, two individual. 16:04 The Godhead that my Bible teaches 16:06 is there's three in the Godhead. 16:09 The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 16:12 Now remember in order to be able to try to change 16:15 that you have to change the Word of God. 16:18 You have to try to change the Word of God, 16:20 if you're trying to say there's not three 16:22 there's just two 16:24 and that there is no Holy Spirit. 16:26 And you are trying to take for those of you 16:28 who understand the subject here 16:30 and you've been studying along or maybe Adventists belief 16:33 we need to look at 16:35 very carefully here the Holy Spirit. 16:38 Is the Holy Spirit part of the Godhead or is it just, 16:42 you know, the Father Spirit or is the Jesus Spirit? 16:45 A surface reader may come up will that 16:47 but I'll pray that we come to little better conclusion 16:49 based upon God's word as we study this together. 16:52 We said, Christ made all things, 16:54 we know, and then we have the Godhead here, 16:56 Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. 16:58 Notice, so the word Godhead is found how many times? 17:01 Three times in the Bible. 17:04 Let's just go over those quickly. 17:05 Have your Bible jot these things down, Acts 17:29. 17:09 Let me read that to you, Acts 17:29. 17:12 Now remember Godhead here in the original language 17:15 means divine or God like. 17:18 Hope that make sense to you. 17:19 Notice, it says here, 17:21 "We are the offspring of God, 17:24 we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, 17:28 or silver, or stone, or graven by art or man's devices." 17:34 So we see when we look at 17:35 we don't try to create a doctrine or teaching 17:37 or something that's not even found in the Bible 17:39 but the Godhead, 17:40 Godhead the word God is in the Bible. 17:43 So we're looking at it and what it means. 17:45 Second, Romans 1:20, divinity. 17:49 That's what Godhead means in this passage. 17:51 Says, "For the invisible things of him 17:54 from the creation of this world," 17:56 pay attention notice, "are clearly seen, 17:59 being understood by those things that are made, 18:02 even his eternal power," 18:05 notice "eternal power" and what? 18:07 "Godhead, so that they are without excuse." 18:11 Wow, what a thought, well, without excuse. 18:14 Power, Godhead, there's something going on here 18:17 that we need to understand. 18:19 In Colossians 2:9, the third time 18:23 that Godhead is used and the word Godhead here 18:26 means deity or God like. 18:28 Okay, deity or God like. 18:31 And this was read and notice what it says, 18:33 "For in him dwelleth all the fullness 18:36 of the Godhead bodily." 18:39 In him, who? In Christ. Is that what it says? 18:44 Dwelleth all the fullness and if you look 18:46 at that word fullness, it's interesting. 18:48 It talks about what fills up or the contents of the Christ. 18:54 All of it dwelleth in Christ. 18:56 Notice, so in Christ then is all the glory, 19:00 then now the Father. 19:02 All the glory, the Father what? 19:04 In Christ Jesus, interesting. 19:06 He as the Jesus Christ 19:08 is the expressed image of His Father. 19:11 The attributes of God, you're seeing are seen in Christ. 19:17 Christ dwells in the fullness of the Godhead the Bible says. 19:22 What did that do? 19:23 That enabled Him to live, you know, without sin. 19:27 How wonderful that is and that's challenging us today 19:31 that God is calling us through His son, 19:33 through the power of the Holy Spirit 19:34 to live the life. 19:36 What? 19:37 About sin by the grace of God same way that Christ 19:41 gained that victory. 19:43 So the question might be for us today, 19:46 do we want to be partakers of this fullness? 19:51 Do you really want it today? 19:52 Are you really excited about it today that you've 19:55 come to know God better? 19:56 You come to know Christ better? 19:58 And all that surrounds the Godhead, 20:02 the power was available to us today, 20:04 the victory that God wants to give you and me 20:07 through Jesus Christ his Son. 20:09 Why? 20:10 So we may be overcomers that's what the Bible teaches. 20:13 One man said, one time, he said, 20:15 everything begins with God. 20:18 Well, that's pretty good wouldn't you think? 20:20 Everything begins with God. 20:23 So we think of God, we think of eternity, eternal. 20:27 We think of God, 20:28 we take-- we're thinking about the rule of the universe. 20:32 We think of God, 20:33 we think about the self existing one. 20:36 We think about the ancient of days. 20:39 Oh, that gets us excited, doesn't it? 20:42 And, yet the Bible teaches that Christ 20:43 has one with the Father. 20:46 We're gonna get more detail, Christ, one with the Father. 20:48 How can this be? 20:50 But God and Christ are two distinct personages. 20:56 Two distinct, not the same, two distinct. 20:59 Wow, read I think John 7:17. 21:05 It gives you little more information on it. 21:08 So we think of God, I think about One who, 21:10 you know, He says, He dwells in the light unapproachable. 21:14 God, magnificent, ancient of days. 21:18 He's invisible the Bible teaches the mortal eye. 21:22 He is filled with infinite love 21:24 and I think this ought to hit home for some of us 21:27 God is filled with infinite love for His creation, 21:30 for His creatures. 21:32 Praise God for that. 21:34 God is one of the three eternal heavenly dignitaries, 21:38 notice that. 21:40 God is part of the three of the highest powers of heaven. 21:45 God is one of the three living persons 21:48 of the heavenly trio. 21:50 You can read those 21:51 and certainly in Evangelism page 615 so on. 21:54 Inspiration, when I say inspiration 21:56 we're talking about the spirit. 21:58 Inspiration with the Spirit of Prophecy 22:00 speaks of one God, stay with me on this. 22:03 It speaks of one God. 22:05 It does not teach three God's but notice, 22:10 at the same time we will see that one God then includes, 22:15 notice this, the Father, the Son, 22:17 and the Holy Spirit which are mysteriously notice 22:22 that beyond the human mind, 22:24 mysteriously-- 22:25 remember all three personalities united as one. 22:30 Well, that's difficult for us to get to our head, isn't it? 22:34 Think about it. 22:35 All three, three persons distinct 22:39 in the Godhead mysteriously combine 22:42 and put together as they become one. 22:45 Wow. 22:47 Let's just examine just a few statements. 22:50 You have your Bible again John 8:59. 22:54 John 8:59, Jesus said, now notice this, 22:59 this starts to fit "Jesus said unto them, 23:02 Verily, verily, I say unto you, 23:05 before Abraham was, I am." 23:11 Notice what Jesus just said, He said, I am. 23:15 What a thought? 23:18 Go back in Old Testament, do you remember? 23:20 And let's think about that for a moment. 23:22 God was referred to as, I am. 23:25 Here Jesus was saying before Abraham was, 23:27 I am, what? 23:29 Because the Jews were giving Him 23:30 a quite of going over here, 23:32 they want to stone Him, they want to kill Him. 23:34 Because He said before Abraham was I am. 23:37 Oh, so you are greater. 23:39 They picked up stones, 23:41 they were gonna cast and kill Him 23:43 that He escaped out of their midst. 23:45 Very interesting. 23:46 On that passage of scripture, 23:49 I want to read something from "Desire of Ages" 23:51 I think its beautiful 469 and 470. 23:53 If you follow along, notice this. 23:56 It said, "Silence fell upon the vast assembly. 24:01 The name of God, 24:03 given to Moses to express the idea of," what? 24:06 "Of the eternal presence, had been claimed by," 24:11 notice, "His own by the Galilean Rabbi." 24:14 Jesus had claimed the same name. 24:18 This was bothering people. 24:20 He had just announced Himself 24:22 Jesus did to be the self existent one. 24:26 Not coming into being at sometime 24:28 or some point in history. 24:30 Eternal, self existence. 24:32 Notice, he who had been promised to Israel. 24:38 Micah 5:2 tells us, "Whose goings forth" 24:42 talk about Christ "Whose goings forth has been 24:44 from old and from days of eternity." 24:48 The King James Version in the margin 24:50 will say there from everlasting. 24:54 So there's something about when you say, 24:56 well, Christ came into being 24:57 He was at that's not a truth. 24:59 He says always been. 25:01 Jesus right here when He said, 25:03 before Abraham was, I am. 25:06 Think about it. 25:08 Jesus claimed here at to be one with God. 25:13 And because He said, He was one with God, 25:15 they wanted to stone Him, they wanted to kill Him, 25:17 they were going to take His life if they could. 25:20 Now notice with me if you compare 25:22 some scripture in John 10:33, 25:25 the Bible says and it says, and because thou, 25:29 "Because that thou being a man, makest thyself God." 25:33 They looked at Jesus and said, 25:35 you are a man, you are making yourself as God. 25:38 "Desire of Ages" 470 makes this comment on that. 25:41 It says, "Because He was," interesting "Because He was, 25:45 He avowed Himself to be, the Son of God." 25:49 Wow. 25:50 So we have the Father and the Son 25:53 are all of listen-- one substance. 25:57 Jesus said, not just what He said in His word, 25:59 "I and my Father are one" in John 10:30. 26:05 Say, we can't mistake what's being said here. 26:08 Jesus said, "I and my Father we are one" 26:11 the same substance. 26:13 "I and my Father." Listen to the statement. 26:16 This might jar you just a little bit 26:18 but maybe you need to jot just a little bit 26:20 to get us think here little bit. 26:22 This was found in little magazine article 26:24 called "Signs of the Time" in 1120, 26:26 notice this in 1893 this was written. 26:30 "The words of Christ were full of deep meaning 26:33 as he put forth the claim" 26:35 notice "that he and the Father were one substance, 26:41 possessing the same attributes." 26:44 Wow. 26:46 Attributes is what? 26:47 But be characteristics. 26:50 Him and the Father two separate entities beings 26:54 but yet they were one in substance. 26:57 They possess exactly the same attributes 27:00 or the same characteristics. 27:03 Wow, that's pretty heavy duty. 27:05 So again we look at the I am, 27:08 refers then this will blow some of you're mind 27:10 that I am refers to both Christ and God, 27:14 the heavenly Father. 27:15 Both are self existent. 27:18 I am, though is what? Is one. 27:21 Wow. 27:23 Little book called "Education" helps us to understand 27:25 as we look page 178. 27:28 Now this is going to have reference to, 27:31 you can look it up when you have 27:32 time to Ezekiel Chapter 10. 27:34 They were wheels you remember and angels 27:36 and things that were going on. 27:37 So listen carefully at this. 27:39 "Heavenly being, sustained and guided 27:42 by the hand beneath the wings of the cherubim, 27:45 were impelling these wheels, above them," 27:48 notice "upon the sapphire throne, 27:52 was the Eternal One." 27:55 Now let's ask a question what-- 27:57 how many sat upon the throne? 28:00 Let's hear your answer. 28:01 How many sat upon the throne? 28:02 We have to say there was one that sat upon the throne. 28:06 It says, the Eternal one. 28:08 But the Eternal one is also the great I am. 28:12 Wow. 28:15 I think we've already seen as we look here the I am, 28:18 includes Christ, 28:20 it must includes Christ as well as the Father, 28:22 as we've studied and you can study it 28:24 in John Chapter 8. 28:26 So the Eternal one then must include 28:28 both the Father and the Son even in these passages. 28:31 Let me give you a couple more jot them down 28:33 and read these when you have the opportunity. 28:35 Ezekiel Chapter 1, read verses 4 and 26. 28:39 And then in Ezekiel 10:8, 28:43 you'll see how they come together here. 28:45 Now let's get some more illustrations here 28:47 and let's try to put it together. 28:48 Little complicated probably for some 28:50 but if you really begin to ask the Holy Spirit to help you, 28:52 it begins unwind and you begin to see 28:55 how simple this is. 28:57 God notice who gave the Ten Commandments, 29:00 let's go that. 29:01 Included notice, included both 29:03 the Father and the Son, interesting. 29:07 Wow, what does that mean? 29:10 God who gave the Ten Commandments 29:12 has spoken off as number one what? 29:14 The Eternal one. 29:16 Read that "Patriarchs and Prophets" in 329. 29:20 So this eternal one once again is what? 29:22 Both the Father and the Son. 29:25 Now let me read you another quote 29:26 from "Evangelism" 616. 29:28 Notice what it says here. 29:30 Some of you may have never read this before others 29:32 who are new and watching maybe 3ABN and so on, 29:35 so maybe a little bit and you say, 29:36 oh, I don't quite get just jot things down 29:38 begin to really study to show yourself approved unto God. 29:41 This is beautiful little book called "Evangelism" 29:43 page 616 makes this comment. 29:45 Notice, when, notice when they, 29:49 "When they came to Sinai, 29:52 He took occasion to refresh their minds 29:54 in regard to His requirements. 29:57 Christ and the Father," 30:00 listen carefully "standing side by side upon the mount, 30:06 with solemn majesty proclaimed the Ten Commandments." 30:12 Interesting as you really begin to study 30:14 'cause if you're surface reader 30:15 say oh, yeah, these grants were given 30:17 by the Father or say, well, Jesus gave. 30:19 Notice, they were standing side by side, they are one, 30:22 inseparable and thought were action deed. 30:26 What a God that we serve. 30:30 What a loving Savior that we have as we focused 30:33 on the second person of the Godhead 30:36 even little bit more here today. 30:39 Interesting in 1 John 5:12, notice the Bible says this, 30:44 "He that hath the Son hath life," 30:47 I might you heard that I am sure. 30:49 "He that hath" what? 30:50 "Hath the Son," hath what? 30:52 That says to me if you don't have the Son, 30:54 you don't have life. 30:56 See some of you think you're going through this world 30:58 and if you don't have Jesus Christ 30:59 as your Lord and Savior, you really don't have the life. 31:02 You're just existing. 31:03 The Bible says, "He that hath the Son hath life." 31:06 And certainly more than reference to this life 31:09 but and the life to come. 31:12 Jesus warning to get to us and He's warning to speak to us 31:16 and He makes it plain here in John 11:25. 31:20 "Jesus said, I am the resurrection, 31:23 and the life." 31:26 Do you realize these words? Have you ever thought of it? 31:28 These words could only be spoken by deity. 31:32 Well, He couldn't be in created, 31:34 He couldn't be, 31:35 you see come and existence at some point of time, 31:37 some kind of an essence, a created being. 31:40 These words could only be spoken by deity 31:44 on the resurrection of life. 31:46 "He that hath the Son hath life." 31:49 Only a person who was equal with God 31:53 could make this statement. 31:56 Interesting "Desire of Ages," page 785 says. 32:00 Notice, oh, I loved to hear about the resurrection. 32:02 I loved to hear about Jesus coming out of the tomb. 32:06 You know, I love that song, 32:07 "I serve a risen Savior He's in the world today." 32:10 Some of you need to be serving. 32:11 Some of you need to make that decision today. 32:14 We're talking about something here 32:15 that maybe just might overwhelmed the mind at times 32:18 but I wanted to come close to you, 32:20 I want you to be able to understand 32:21 the relationship of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 32:25 How would all three are working 32:28 for your salvation and for mine. 32:31 They're interested in you. They're interested in me. 32:34 They each have a job to do. 32:37 Now notice "Desire of Ages" 785, 32:39 it says, "When the voice" notice this 32:42 "of the mighty angel was heard at Christ's tomb." 32:45 Notice what the angle is saying? 32:47 "They Father calls Thee," notice, 32:52 "the Savior came forth from the grave," 32:56 listen "by the life that was in Himself." 33:02 Did you get it? 33:04 He said, I am, people have Me they have life. 33:07 Notice how He came out thy Father calls thee 33:11 and notice Savior came forth of the grave. 33:14 Right, He came out of the grave 33:15 in the life that was in Himself. 33:18 Now you say, well, I'm not sure but listen. 33:21 "Now was proved some truth of these words" 33:25 in John 10:17. 33:28 Listen carefully in John 10:17. This was beautiful. 33:31 We just read something might blow some minds and say, boy. 33:34 Notice, I, Jesus said, "I lay down My life, 33:40 that I might take it again." 33:43 Jesus said, I lay it down no man can take it. 33:46 I lay it down and I will take it again, 33:49 notice this. 33:51 And then John 10:18 says, notice this, 33:54 how your Lord and your Savior mighty and powerful. 33:57 Says here "No man taketh it from me, 34:01 but I lay it down myself." 34:04 Notice this, "I have power to lay it down, 34:07 and I have power to take it up again." 34:10 What a Savior you serve. No man can take His life. 34:15 No power that can defeat Him. 34:19 And He said, I willingly lay down Myself, what? 34:21 Because without Him, 34:23 you and I won't have a chance for salvation. 34:26 I willingly lay down My life, no, no man can take it. 34:31 And then notice what it says here 34:33 "I have power to lay it down 34:34 and I have power to take it up again." 34:37 Notice He's taking about full humanity 34:39 and He's talking about full divinity together 34:45 but yet separate. 34:47 Full humanity and divinity. 34:51 See divinity didn't die 34:53 at the cross, you can't kill it. 34:56 That's why He said I have power and its inside. 34:59 Notice this, I love that passage. 35:02 See this prophecy when we read it fulfils 35:05 what Jesus said to the priest 35:07 and the rulers were always at Him, 35:09 always attacking Him when they said, 35:11 this is John 2:19, listen carefully what it says. 35:15 Jesus said, you remember He said, 35:17 "He said, destroy this temple, 35:20 in three days I will raise it up again." 35:23 Oh, they be, oh, yeah, right, oh, 35:27 took us what was that 46 years, 47 years 35:30 to built this temple in three days 35:32 you are gonna built it again. 35:33 Can't you see Him hackling and laughing 35:35 at the King of kings and Lord of lords? 35:40 It was certainly taking about His death and His burial 35:42 and His resurrection in three days. 35:43 He came back. Praise God, He came back. 35:45 What? 35:47 He won the victory over the devil. 35:49 He's given you and me and you another opportunity, 35:51 a second chance 35:52 and many of you're blown in that second chance. 35:54 Oh, you can see it. 35:56 The great I am always been, always. 36:02 Destroy this temple I'll raise it up. 36:04 "Desire of Ages" 530 makes a comment on this. 36:09 Now notice it says, 36:10 "In Christ is life, original," 36:16 somebody stay with me, 36:17 somebody's not going to get this. 36:19 "Desire of Ages" page 530, are you still there? 36:21 "In Christ is life," that just what the Bible is what-- 36:24 "That He hath the Son hath life." 36:27 1 John 5:12. 36:29 Now Spirit of Prophecy, "In Christ is life, 36:31 it's original, it's unborrowed," 36:34 He didn't get it from anybody, "and it's underived." 36:38 Underived, you say, well, I-- that means His life, 36:42 the power He has in His life did not come 36:43 from any other source it was in Him. 36:46 It's always been in Him. Beautiful, in Christ is life. 36:50 Today, in Christ is life for you and for me. 36:54 In Christ its original, it's unborrowed, 36:57 He didn't take it from anybody, 36:59 it wasn't given to Him by anybody. 37:01 The divinity of Christ to the believer today 37:05 I'm telling you 37:07 is the assurance of eternal life. 37:08 That just thrills my heart today. 37:11 Divinity of Christ, who He is and the power 37:15 it gives me assurance of eternal life, 37:18 hope for eternal life. 37:20 How beautiful that is John 1:1 as we read notice, 37:24 "In the beginning was the Word, 37:26 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 37:31 How can we miss construe? 37:32 How can we take this and through it out? 37:34 What kind of Bibles, you know, believers are we? 37:37 Are we really line upon line and precept upon precept? 37:40 The Bible says, now remember don't go beyond this 37:44 and say, well, yeah, but here it's talking about 37:46 when the earth was created. 37:48 It didn't say that. 37:49 We can't go that. We can't go that route. 37:51 We've got to go back and say what the word? 37:53 "In the beginning was the Word, 37:56 the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 37:58 Who was the word? Certainly, Jesus Christ. 38:00 Praise God for the word that we have here. 38:03 But it says, He was what? 38:05 In the beginning. Wow. 38:09 I can't put numbers on that I'm sure 38:13 and I sure love Titus 2:13, the Bible says, 38:16 "We're looking for that, that blessed hope." 38:19 Any of you're looking for that blessed hope? 38:21 What is the blessed hope? 38:22 That's a coming of Jesus, isn't it? 38:24 To take us home. 38:26 This could not take place at all 38:28 unless Christ was willing to come down, take on humanity. 38:33 Live the victorious life 38:34 where I failed, where you failed, 38:37 all on the condemnation of death 38:40 until Jesus came and shed His blood on Calvary 38:43 and He invite you to take His life, He offers it to you. 38:46 A free gift, why not, covered by the blood, 38:49 whiter than snow. 38:51 I look forward to that blessed hope, 38:53 that glorious appearing the Bible talks about here 38:56 of the great God and Savior. 38:58 Notice this, it says, great God and Savior Jesus Christ. 39:03 These are things that should excite your heart. 39:07 You know, little article on the "Signs of the Times," 39:09 jot it down August 29th, this was written in 1900. 39:13 Please listen carefully as I read it to you. 39:15 Because we're talking about the pre-existence of Christ. 39:18 We're talking about that never was the time 39:20 that He didn't exist. 39:21 And that's way beyond your mind, 39:23 don't try to think you can think it through 39:24 and you can count some time here because you can't. 39:27 It's impossible, 39:29 it's mysterious to us in this the flesh. 39:33 Notice what this article says, 39:35 "In speaking of His pre-existence, 39:37 Christ carries the mind through dateless ages. 39:42 He assures us that there never was a time 39:48 when He was not in close fellowship 39:51 with the eternal God." 39:54 See why don't we drop some of these preconceived ideas 39:56 and some of these thoughts. 39:58 They're never was a time that Christ 40:01 was not in close relationship with the eternal Father. 40:06 So why are we trying to say 40:07 that whether was the-- He didn't say that. 40:10 The Bible does it say, we even reading passages, 40:12 He's always been. 40:15 There never was a time notice. 40:18 "He whose voice the Jews were then listening 40:22 had been with God as one brought up with Him." 40:26 Interesting. 40:28 "Desire of Ages" 207 again says, 40:29 "Jesus claimed equal rights with God." 40:34 Think about it. 40:36 "Jesus claimed equal rights with God." 40:40 Wow. 40:42 "In doing a work equally sacred, 40:46 and of the same character." 40:49 Oh, wow. 40:50 "With that which engaged the Father in heaven." 40:55 In John 5:18, 19 this becomes clear to us. 40:59 Notice this, "Therefore the Jews sought 41:02 the more to kill Him, 41:04 because He not only had broken the Sabbath," 41:06 talking about Jesus here. 41:08 Again the Jew right people on His path 41:10 all the time trying to get rid of Jesus, 41:12 our Lord and Savior. 41:14 The Jews sought the more to kill. 41:15 Now notice so we get this squared away, 41:18 the Jews understood 41:19 what we're talking about right here. 41:21 They understood it very well. 41:23 And most of us say, 41:25 well, I'll tell you I'm not sure what-- 41:26 they understood it knows, they sought to kill Jesus 41:29 because He had not to them had broke, 41:31 Jesus never broke the Sabbath. 41:33 He is the author of Seventh-day Sabbath. 41:36 He honored it. He kept it. 41:38 I've kept my Father's commandments He said, 41:40 the Jews said, while You broken it. 41:41 Why? 41:43 Because He did some healing. He did some good things on it. 41:46 But notice the article goes on, 41:47 "but said also that God was his Father, 41:51 making himself equal with God." 41:54 So the Jews said, you said that He is your Father 41:58 and because you said, 41:59 He is your Father then that made, 42:01 you say, you are equal with God. 42:03 Wow. 42:07 Interesting in the Bible 42:08 as very, very cleared Philippians 2:6. 42:11 "Who, being in the form of God, 42:14 thought it not robbery to be equal with God." 42:19 That's what the Bible says. Equal with God. 42:23 Wow. 42:24 And verse 19 goes on of John 5:19 say this. 42:30 Now when they confront to Jesus with this they said, 42:32 well, You, think You are equal with God then. 42:34 Well, we need to stone You, we're gonna kill You, 42:36 You broke the Sabbath anyway. 42:39 But Jesus answered and He said in the face of this mob, 42:43 "He said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, 42:46 The son can do nothing of himself, 42:50 but what he seeth the Father do, 42:53 for what things soever he doeth, 42:56 these also doeth the Son likewise." 43:00 You see the one and the same. 43:03 Jesus came down here and what? 43:04 He emptied Himself completely of self 43:06 and He was filled with the Father. 43:09 So we say, you know, 43:10 and the disciples said one time, 43:11 well, show us the Father, He cried-- 43:13 I'm sure too it went down His cheek 43:14 He said, I-- have I been with you so long. 43:19 Have I been with you so long and usually say show us 43:21 the Father have I not shown you that? 43:24 Jesus came to show us what? 43:26 The Father and what the Father is like. 43:30 Jesus came and represented the Father 43:32 as we'll get into the Holy Spirit 43:34 came and represented the Son. 43:37 How interesting this is? 43:40 Jesus said, I can't do anything on my own. 43:44 One thing I do is-- 43:46 that's what the Father has shown me. 43:49 Here was the big problem. 43:51 The nation of the Jews called God, 43:53 notice the difference in the one word, their Father. 43:57 The Jews called what? 43:59 The whole nation called God, their Father. 44:02 Jesus said, My Father. They want to kill Him. 44:07 See, they wouldn't have been so mad I don't think 44:10 they would have been so mad at Him, 44:12 if He had said, the same relationship 44:16 I have the same relationship with Him as you do. 44:19 But see, He didn't. 44:21 And Jesus certainly wouldn't go and lie. 44:23 But then they began to accuse Him of what? 44:24 Of blasphemy. 44:27 This was-- this you remember 44:28 this showed that they understood Him 44:31 and making the claim 44:32 that He was the Son of God in the highest sins. 44:37 They understood it. He said, wow. 44:41 Then Jesus, He began to answer this charge of blasphemy. 44:45 He said, you know for doing this the work 44:48 of which you accuse Me. 44:50 Notice He says that I am the Son of God. 44:53 What does He mean? He said I am the Son of God. 44:56 One with Him in nature, one with Him in wheel, 44:59 one with Him in purpose. 45:02 Wow. 45:03 Two distinct entities, powers. 45:09 Think about that. 45:11 Yet, they were one. 45:13 Jesus has simply said, 45:15 "the Son can do nothing of Himself 45:17 but what He sees the Father do." 45:20 When Jesus came to serve, 45:21 He came for you and He came for me. 45:26 He came to redeem this world. 45:29 So Jesus came, 45:31 He surrendered self completely to the Father's will. 45:37 He depended upon the Father's power. 45:41 Christ was emptied of self. 45:43 Filled with the Father. 45:45 Isn't that interesting why He says to you and to me 45:47 that our biggest enemy once again is self. 45:49 He says to deny self take up the call. 45:52 He knew, He knows today you, me, 45:54 all of us every person on this planet, 45:57 your biggest enemy is yourself. 46:00 Self gets in the way. 46:02 Jesus said, emptied Himself of self 46:03 and He was filled with the Father. 46:06 In fact, remember what Jesus said, 46:07 we'll show you, "For as the Father," 46:09 notice this "For as the Father hath life in himself," 46:13 notice, "so hath he given the Son 46:15 to have life in himself." 46:17 Wow. 46:20 So Jesus has life within Himself. 46:25 And that's why Jesus said, verily, verily, I say unto you. 46:30 Wow, what a courage it took for her Lord and Savior 46:33 stand in the midst of His murders throne 46:37 and say to them, 46:39 knowing how they felt about Father Abraham. 46:43 He said before Abraham was, I am. 46:48 Interesting. 46:49 The name of God, I am. 46:53 What is He expressing? 46:54 Eternal presence. 46:56 But now Jesus comes along, He claims what? 47:00 Oneness. 47:01 Himself to be self existent. 47:06 Think about that. 47:08 He now claims that it was too much for them to deal with. 47:12 But now Jesus as we continue, Jesus now becomes what? 47:16 Flesh for us. 47:20 He became flesh. 47:22 He took our nature. 47:25 Jesus, our Lord, our Savior. 47:27 How wonderful. 47:29 He took our nature. 47:31 I want you to concentrate on this 47:33 for a little bit of time 47:34 that we have here because this is so, so very important. 47:37 There's misconceptions about this, 47:39 about the nature of Christ. 47:40 It's not to be just a whole big study on it at this point. 47:42 But I want you to listen carefully. 47:44 Bible says in Hebrews 2:14. 47:48 "Forasmuch then as the children 47:50 are partakers of flesh and blood, 47:53 he also himself," Jesus, 47:55 "likewise took part of the same." 47:58 Now why are you saying, it was different. 47:59 It wasn't quite like it. 48:01 The Bible said, it was the same. 48:04 That what? 48:05 "That through His death he might destroy him 48:07 that had power over death, the devil." 48:11 Praise God. 48:12 Jesus came and took what? 48:14 Took the flesh. Our nature. 48:18 He lived the life, human nature, imagine. 48:22 Hebrews 2:16 let's go, "For verily he took not on him 48:25 the nature of angels, 48:27 but he took on him the seed of Abraham." 48:30 Making it clear 48:32 how Jesus put Himself out there for you and for me 48:35 with the chance of never going back to heaven, that's right. 48:40 Oh, what a thought. 48:42 "Signs of the Time," May 29, 1901 says this. 48:47 "He" Christ "was to take His position 48:50 at the head of humanity by" notice this here's the key 48:55 "by taking" notice this 48:57 "the nature" so that man's nature 49:00 "but not the sinfulness of man." 49:03 He took man's nature but not the sinfulness of man's nature. 49:08 So I-- Hebrews 2:17 says, 49:11 "Wherefore in all things it behoved him 49:14 to be made like into his brethren." 49:18 Why do we read things like this 49:20 and then we say, yeah, but He had an edge. 49:23 He had something that we don't have. 49:25 He had powers, He can have that we didn't have. 49:28 Fully human, fully divine, a separation. 49:32 Remember, Jesus used nothing, nothing. 49:35 That's not available to you today to have in me. 49:38 Not one thing that He used, 49:39 if He did, He could not be my example. 49:41 He could not be my substitute if He had an advantage over me. 49:44 He fully took notice this, He took our nature 49:48 but not the sinfulness of that nature. 49:51 "Manuscript 21," 1895, notice this. 49:55 Says, "He came as a helpless babe, 49:57 bearing the humanity we bear. 50:00 He met man as man, 50:03 and testified by His connection with God that divine" 50:06 notice this "divine power was not given to Him 50:10 in a different way to what it will be given to us." 50:14 Wow. 50:15 "In His humanity He understood all the temptations 50:19 that will come to man." 50:21 You remember reading that in Hebrews 4:15, 50:24 tempted in all points like us. 50:26 Yeah, but He couldn't have it. 50:27 The Bible says, we need to come to grips with that 50:30 and say, thank You Lord. 50:32 Hurrying right by, "Manuscript 1," 1892, 50:35 "He" Jesus talking here, 50:37 "was connected earth with heaven, 50:41 and finite man with the infinite God. 50:45 Jesus," notice this "the world's Redeemer, 50:48 could only listen, could only keep the Ten Commandments 50:52 in the same way that humanity can keep them." 50:56 There's not excuse. 50:57 He was giving nothing special. 51:00 He was willing to comedown here 51:02 because He loved you so much and He loved me. 51:04 It's good to know His nature, 51:06 it's good to know 51:07 that we have such a powerful, powerful Godhead 51:11 that's working in our behalf. 51:12 Christ, Jesus, 51:15 part of the Godhead, Holy Spirit. 51:18 Jesus sinless took our nature 51:22 and He took it in our deteriorated condition. 51:25 Read that first "Selected Messages 253." 51:28 He took it in his fallen condition, 51:31 "Early Writings 150," "Desire of Ages 112." 51:35 Why? Why did He do all this? 51:39 To satisfy the demands of God's broken law. 51:42 What would it take to redeem us from that? 51:45 It would take one equal with God. 51:48 One that possessed the same attributes. 51:52 One that would represent God to follow man 51:56 so in order for Jesus to me man substitute. 51:59 Notice this, He must have man's nature fully. 52:04 Wow. 52:05 And yet, at the same time partakers of divine nature. 52:10 Hebrews 2:9, we're winding down but notice. 52:14 "But we see Jesus," oh, I like Hebrews 2:9. 52:17 "But we see Jesus," 52:19 notice "who was made a little lower than the angels 52:23 for the suffering and for death, 52:24 crowned with glory and honor, 52:26 that he by the grace of God 52:28 should taste death for every man." 52:30 He was willing to go to Calvary for you. 52:32 He's willing to go to Calvary for me, 52:34 for the world because there's not hope without Him, 52:37 if you don't have Him in to day the day 52:39 and the one to know that He came down here. 52:42 We would see Jesus. 52:43 Why He came down to be lower made than the angels. 52:47 Angels would have to help Him. 52:49 "Patriarchs and Prophets, 65" says, 52:52 "As Jesus would take our human nature upon Him, 52:56 His strength" notice this "would not be equal to them," 52:59 we're talking about the angels here. 53:02 "But that angels were to minister to Him, 53:05 through His death, fallen man might be reconciled to God." 53:10 Through His death. 53:11 Friend, don't let His death just go in vain. 53:14 The cross of Calvary, 53:15 if we do not accept that would it not be in vain? 53:19 Would you not accept it today as your Lord and Savior? 53:22 Christ existed from all the eternity, 53:25 "Acts of the Apostles 389." 53:26 Bible is clear. 53:30 I want to pray with you 53:31 because of the last couple of minutes we have. 53:34 More information here 53:35 but we need to concentrate on today seeing Jesus 53:38 just a little clear then we've never seen Him. 53:41 What He was willing to give up 53:42 come down here to take man's nature. 53:46 Deteriorated after 4,000 years. 53:49 He had no edge. 53:51 He didn't have to accept-- 53:53 exercise any power that we cannot have today. 53:56 He kept His Father's commandments 53:57 just exactly the way by God's grace today 53:59 and we can through His power, His Strength. 54:02 Next time we're gonna be talking about the Holy Spirit, 54:06 third person of the Godhead. 54:09 This is really the big issue. 54:11 This is really 54:12 what's going on in the minds of many people today. 54:14 Say, we just don't understand it. 54:16 Well, we want you to understand it based upon what? 54:18 The Word of God, the Spirit of Prophecy. 54:20 This will help us, this will help us to see. 54:24 Beyond a shadow of a doubt, 54:25 they were three distinct entities in the Godhead. 54:30 Yeah, one in purpose. 54:31 Can we pray about that today? 54:33 Those of you who made that decision, 54:34 I know you made one. 54:37 See, how much He loves you, He died for you. 54:39 He said, I'm coming back. 54:40 How much He gave up. 54:42 But He says you are worth it. 54:43 Let's pray about that today, shall we as we kneel? 54:47 Our Father in Heaven, we thank You for Your word, 54:49 we thank You for Your Son. 54:52 We thank You for the Holy Spirit. 54:54 Thank You for God, our Father. 54:56 We pray in a very special way 54:57 as we've heard the word spoken from on high today. 55:00 We've read from Your word 55:02 that we will accept this truth and be glad in it. 55:04 Thank you for those who have made that commitment 55:07 to follow You right now 55:08 closer than they never had before. 55:09 So I pray to you, bless them in a very special way. 55:11 Thank You for hearing, thank You for answering 55:13 prayer today and for Your power in Jesus name, amen. 55:18 Now we realize the subject is 55:19 probably pretty difficult for some but continue to study. 55:22 If we can help you in anyway, you be sure 55:23 and call with your questions your comments 55:25 and we do enjoy hearing from you. 55:27 And, you know, if we've blessing in any way to you, 55:31 now please, you know, don't forget, 55:32 you know, be able to sit down and send little love gift 55:34 to Behold the Lamb that we may continue 55:36 to bring these programs to you. 55:37 We love you, God bless you and we'll see you next time. 55:42 Hello and welcome back, friends. 55:44 What a beautiful study and understanding of Christ. 55:48 You know that there are millions to this day 55:50 who think that Christ was just a good man 55:53 who once lived and performed very loving deeds of kindness. 55:57 He did become a man 55:59 but He was indeed so very much more. 56:02 We need to know this so that, 56:04 that it will strengthen our faith 56:07 and the saving knowledge of God 56:09 who is lovingly calling each and every one of us 56:12 to serve Him with our whole hearts. 56:15 In closing allow me to read this paragraph 56:17 as found in the book, the "Desire of Ages" 56:20 and it's on page 17, 56:23 "It is God's design that this longing of the human heart 56:27 should lead to the one 56:29 who alone is able to satisfy it. 56:32 The desire is of Him that it may lead to Him, 56:36 the fullness and fulfillment of that desire. 56:39 That fullness is found in Jesus the Christ, 56:43 the Son of the Eternal God. 56:45 For it was the good pleasure of the Father 56:48 that in Him should all the fullness dwell, 56:51 for in Him dwelleth 56:53 all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." 56:57 Friends, look to Jesus to fill your every longing. 57:01 He's just waiting. 57:03 He's just waiting to hear from you. 57:06 And if this series of messages 57:08 is something that has touched your heart in a special way 57:11 and you would like to add them to your study library, 57:15 please contact us here at Behold the Lamb Ministries. 57:18 We will be more than happy to mail this series out to you. 57:22 We're just asking for a love gift of $23 or more. 57:26 Simply contact us by calling Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:29 at 618-942-5044, that's Central Standard Time 57:35 or you may write to Behold the Lamb Ministries, 57:38 PO Box 2030, Herrin, IL 62948. 57:43 Email your order 57:44 at BeholdtheLambMinistries@ yahoo.com 57:47 or you may also order these messages 57:49 on our website at www.BeholdtheLambMinistries.com. 57:55 Until next time, friends, 57:57 may our precious Lord continue to richly bless you and yours. |
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