8 - No Turning Back

•Does God Care About My Health?

3 John 2 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

•John prays for health.

•Two types of health:

•Spiritual and Physical.

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Soglorify God in your body.

•What does God

•call our body?

•Temple of HS.

•God says,

•I own you…

•I bought you…

•I have say in

•how you treat

•your own body…

1 Corinthians 3:17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

•Serious warning.

1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

•If we can eat and drink

•to the glory of God.

•Could we also

•eat and drink against

•the glory of God?

•How can we honor

•God in our diet?

How can we honor God in our diet?

•There is a

•Bad,

•Good,

•Better,

•Best Diets

•I’ll start with ideal.

•If we are going to

•talk about ideal

•where should we look?

Genesis 2:9–10 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden…

A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.

•God created everything

•to be perfect.

•Perfect food

•and drink

•sources.

•Like looking at

•owner’s manual

Genesis 1:29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

•Perfect Menu

•What’s on the Menu?

•herbs = vegetables

•fruit

•seeds = seeds/nuts/grains

•Menu = plant based

•vegan

•What about animals?

•next verse.

Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

•Original plan

•all animals vegetarian…

•God’s ideal:

•plant based.

•As natural as possible.

•Good, Better, Best.

•Best = vegan, lots of whole food (balanced)

•Better = vegetarian

•Good = meat

•When did that start?

Genesis 7:1–2 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

•How did the animals

•go onto the ark.

•All movies and

•kids books show:

•Two-by-two

•Not exactly.

•two groups.

•Unclean- 2’s

•Clean - 7’s

•Why?

•Clean were used

•two purposes:

•Eating and sacrificing.

•Very first time,

•we know of

•eating meat.

•About 2000 years

•after creation.

•What is the context?

•Flood.

•What happened to

•all the plant food?

•So God says,

•you can eat meat

•but there are some

•rules.

Leviticus 11:2–3 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.

•God explains

•what foods are clean

•and which are not.

•Different groups

•First group:

•mammals.

Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

•Two rules:

•split hoof

•chews cud.

•First it must

•have a hoof.

•Any with paw, claws

•not clean.

•Those with hoof.

•must split.

•Cows, sheep, goats, Dear

•Not horse.

•Second rule

•chewing cud.

•Must do both.

•Rabbits

•chew cud

•but don’t have hoof

•Pigs

•have hoof

•but don’t chew cud.

Leviticus 11:4–8 Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof,

is unclean to you. And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.

You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

•Common thread.

•clean eat herbs only

•Unclean will eat

•meat dead or alive.

Leviticus 11:9 “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

•Animals in water

•two rules

•Fins and scales.

•One of these thing

•is not like the others

•One of these things

•is just not the same.

•One is clean

•other are not.

•Common thread

•unclean are bottom feeders.

Leviticus 11:10 But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.

•detestable..

“And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the falcon of any kind,

every raven of any kind, the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind, the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl, the barn owl, the tawny owl,

the carrion vulture, the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

•This lists families

•of birds species.

•Names what is not

•good to eat.

•Common thread?

•Birds of prey,

•Birds eating carrion,

•are unclean.

•These are all clean.

•except???

•These rules are not

•just for Jews.

•Noah existed

•before Jews

•before Babel.

•Bad, Good, Better, Best

•(balanced, healthy, whole)

•pesticides…

Leviticus 11:20–22 “All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you. Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground. Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.

•If there were some item

•you were sad

•you cannot eat.

•Cheer up.

•For dessert

•you can eat

•grasshoppers!

•Remember

1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

How Can Drink To the Glory Of God?

Or Not Drink to the Glory Of God…?

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things,

and your heart utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. “They struck me,” you will say,

“but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”

•accourate description

•of an alcoholic, right?

•Is this only talk about

•alcoholism and drunkenness?

•Or about

•“responsible use”

•of alcohol?

•Hard question…

•What is the definition

•of responsible?

•How much is

•too much?

•Bible says,

•drunkard goes to hell.

•At what point

•do you become drunk?

•What blood alcohol

•level can you have

•and still drive?

•0.08%

•What blood alcohol

•level can you have

•and still go to heaven?

Doesn’t Bible Say Some Wine Is Okay?

•Short answer

•NO.

•Long answer:

•Only one word

•for “wine”

•in Bible.

•Fermented or

•fresh squeezed

•both “wine.”

Isaiah 65:8 Thus says the Lord: “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, and not destroy them all.

•When is there

•a blessing in it?

•NIV translates

•“juice.”

•Jesus did not make

•water to wine.

•He made water to juice.

•Not a drunk party.

While I’m Making Some Changes, Is There Anything Else I Should Avoid?

•All drugs.

•All drugs are

•mind altering.

•(not medicine)

•They are addictive.

•(addiction in general)

•Street drugs

•alcohol

•tobacco

•caffeine

•Ask your doctor…

•Jesus cares about

•your body.

•When Saddam Hussein

•president of Iraq,

•rebuild ancient Babylon.

•Name printed on bricks

•But he didn’t realize

•he was attempting impossible.

•Why?

•Had Money

•No enemy

•Geographically fine

•his own backyard

•Jeremiah 600 B.C.

Jeremiah 50:3 “For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.

•“Babylon will never be rebuilt.

•It won’t be inhabited.

•People will flee Babylon

•and they won’t

come back.”

•Ten verses later,

•Jeremiah wrote,

“Because of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation.”

•If you to visit Iraq today,

•go to the ruins of Babylon,

•you would see

•prophecy true today.

•Revelation says

•Babylon come back again.

•How do we understand this?

•Jeremiah said no.

•Revelation says yes.

Revelation 14:8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”

•Babylon is back!

•Revelation uses

•OT imagery.

•Tells us,

•got to the story

•in the OT.

Daniel 5:1–2 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

•What do we see?

•King of Babylon

•Having a big party.

•What does he do?

•Brings vessels of gold

•from Israelite temple

•to drink wine in.

•What next?

Daniel 5:4–5 They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.

•Got drunk

•desecrated God’s stuff

•praised false gods.

•Then what?

•Handwriting on wall.

•Nobody could understand

•King’s mother said,

•there is someone…

•They call Daniel.

•Explain Context of Party…

•Daniel reads word:

Daniel 5:25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.

•Daniel explains meaning

Daniel 5:26–28 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 5:30 That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.

•When we come

•back book of Revelation,

•we see a clear parallel.

Introduce

two women

•First woman:

Revelation 12:1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

•Have you ever

•seen a woman like that?

•This is a symbol.

•Of what?

Jeremiah 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion To a lovely and delicate woman.

Ephesians 5:25–27 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

•Jesus often calls

•Himself the Bridegroom.

•Church is the bridge.

•Final wedding is

•spoke about in

•book of Revelation.

Revelation 19:7–8 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

•Clearly a woman

•is the church.

•But there are two

•women in Revelation

•First woman,

•pure woman.

•Which means:

•pure church.

•Other Woman

•Rev 17

Revelation 17:1–6 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.

Revelation 17:9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;

•Now who is

•this woman?

•Prostitute

•Impure woman

•= impure church.

•This wording should

•sound familiar by now.

•Lots of phrases

•Sitting on

•Beast 7 heads 10 horns

•Antichrist beast

Official Colors are

purple and scarlet

•What church?

7 heads = 7 hills

City of 7 hills = Rome

“drunk with the blood of the saints”

killing martyrs.

•In bed with Kings

•of the earth.

= Political Superpower.

•cup filled with

•abominations/impurities

= filled with sin

and falsehood.

•Shouldn’t be hard to guess

•who this is.

•This is, once again,

•Catholic Church.

•Let’s look at history.

•Babylon was built

•over location of

•tower of Babel.

•Remember Story?

•God confused languages.

•Babel means confusion.

•Babylon – connected

•to confusion.

•This is not

•physical city.

•Spiritual symbol

•= spiritual confusion.

•We see this today.

•Christian world

•is confused.

•If you ask

•ten different people

•what happens

•when they die,

•plethora of answers

•“Here are five Christians.

•They all read

•the same book,

•But they don’t agree.

•Topics like:

•hell

•second coming

•all have different opinion,

•Reality

•Christianity in confusion..

•Bible says,

•“inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication”

•What happens

•when you become drunk.

•Are confused.

•do dumb things.

•Don’t know what

•you are doing

•but often think

•you are fine.

•Babylon =

•false church

•Wine =

•false teachings

•That create confusion.

•In Rev 17:5

•Babylon is called

•the mother of harlots.

•That means,

•she has daughters.

•daughter harlots.

•Catholic church is

•Mother church.

•Mother of false churches.

•Mother of false teachings.

•Daughters =

•Churches that came

•from her but still

•have her teachings.

•And her confusion.

Revelation 16:13–14 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

•The last days

•filled with lies

•and deception.

•Let’s review some

•of the deceptions.

•What happens

•when a person dies.

•The Bible is

•abundantly clear.

•Sleep

•Babylon say:

•Heaven

•Hell

•Purgatory

•reincarnation

•etc.

•Sabbath:

•Babylon says:

•Sunday

•from sun worship.

•Or just pick one

•Or it doesn’t matter.

•Bible says

•Sabbath is 7th day.

•1000 year

•Babylon say:

•On earth

•with new temple.

•Hell

•Babylon says:

•burns forever

•Bible says:

•Antichrist:

•Babylon says:

•Antiochus IV Epiphanes

•Nero

•Future Atheist Ruler

•Bible says,

•Roman Catholic Church

•Babylon is

•filled with confusion.

•Chapter 18 goes on

•to say this

•about Babylon

Revelation 18:1–5 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory. And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.

For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.” Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

•Harsh words

•pretty bad.

•Not my words

•God’s words.

•Babylon is fallen

•because she is

•counterfeit.

•False teachings

•confusion.

•God has solution:

•COME OUT!!!

•To where?

•hold that thought…

•Let’s look at

•other woman.

Revelation 12:1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

•Pure woman

•= pure church.

Revelation 12:5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,

•male child

• = Jesus

•Church existed

•started then…

•Next?

Revelation 12:6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.

•There is that

•time period again.

•1260 years.

•Time antichrist reigns.

•This pure church

•is in hiding

•during reign of

•the false church.

•538 -1798

•and earlier

Many Christian

martyrs.

From disciples.

to

Waldenses,

Albigenses,

Huguenots,

Anabaptist

Crusades

Spanish Inquisition.

•Why did they kill

•so many people?

•Defending false teachings.

•In those dark days.

•God still had a light.

•Same for end of world.

Revelation 12:17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.

•Woman = pure church

•Dragon = Satan

•Failed to kill Jesus

•Failed to kill woman.

•At the end,

•woman’s children

•last people.

•Remnant…

•Who are remnant?

•God has always had

•a remnant.

•Story of Joseph

•helping family

•during famine.

Genesis 45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

Noah

Lot

•Elijah, Ahab, Jezebel

•Worshiping Baal

1 Kings 19:18 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

•Remnant after

•Assyrian captivity.

Isaiah 10:20–21 In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

2 Kings 19:30–31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.

Nehemiah 1:3 And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame...

Matthew 7:13–14 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Romans 11:5 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.

•Dark ages:

•Waldenses,

•Albigenses,

•Huguenots,

•Anabaptist

•Dark ages:

•Waldenses,

•Albigenses,

•Huguenots,

•Anabaptist

•Time of reformers.

•At the end,

•there will be

•remnant.

•The church comes back

•from the wilderness.

•During

•time of compromise,

•clinging to the Bible.

•reject false doctrines

•Let’s identify her.

•What are her

•Characteristics?

•GOD’S LAST-DAY CHURCH:

1.Keep commandments

•straight forward.

2.Have Testimony of Jesus

•What does that mean?

Revelation 19:10 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

•testimony of Jesus

•= spirit of prophecy

•Explained

yesterday

(go watch)

•For now,

•It is a church

•that understands

•prophecy.

and has prophets!

•What else can we

•find about them?

•Verse 9-11 talk about

•people who receive

•Mark of the Beast

•Verse 12 talk about

•people who don’t

Revelation 14:12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

•As you notice.

•This is same people.

•Remnant are people

•who make through

•without Mark.

•But this passage

•has a lot to say

•about last-day events.

•This is the message

•of people who make

•it through.

•Let’s read

•whole thing.

Revelation 14:6–7 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

•The is call

•3 angels messages.

•Each angel

•flying over world

•speaking in loud voice

•with message

•Each is warning

•about end of world.

•Question:

•literal or symbolic?

•Angel with megaphone?

•Possible but not likely.

•ἄγγελος

•can mean

•angel or messenger.

•I suggest it

•best means

•messenger here.

•Who is the messenger?

•The one who gives

•this message to the world.

•Let’s look at the messages.

•Message:

•eternal gospel.

•for everyone

“every nation and tribe and language and people”

•fear God

•= respect and honor

•give glory

• = worship Him.

•judgment has come

• = we live in judgment hour

“worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

•Interesting quote from OT

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

•Quote from 4th

•commandment.

•LXX

•Warning to worship God.

•in the way

•he commanded

•at creation.

•Sabbath Worship.

Revelation 14:8 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”

•Great warning.

•Babylon has fallen.

•Come out of

•her false teachings.

Revelation 14:9–10 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

•Don’t receive

•Mark of the Beast!

•Or you will

•Go to hell.

•By the way,

•1st message is

•Sabbath.

•2nd message is

•come out of Babylon

•3rd message is

•Don’t get Mark of Beast

•Sunday worship enforcement.

Revelation 14:12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

•God gives solution

•to all warnings.

•Be part of the

•Remnant group.

•Be part of the

•144,000

•Because they:

•Keep the Commandments

•and Faith of Jesus.

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

•message about dead

•sleeping and resting.

Revelation 14:14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

•Message about

•Jesus coming

•soon!

•Remnant are the

•messengers with this message.

•They are the ones

•preaching this message

•all over the world.

•GOD’S LAST-DAY CHURCH:

1.Keep commandments

2.Faith of Jesus

3.Church of prophecy

4.Preach 3 angels messages

5.Worship God – Sabbath

6.Judgment is here

7.Come out of Babylon

8.Don’t get Mark of the Beast

9.Dead are sleeping

10.Jesus is coming

•Who fits those

•characteristics?

•Seventh-day Adventist Church

•No other.

•Back to Babylon…

•God says,

•come out of her.

•Don’t drink her

•wine any longer.

•Don’t participate

•in her sins.

•Don’t receive her

•plagues.

•Come where?

•By now,

•I think you will know

•what I’m going to say…

•Come into the remnant…

•I say this with

•utmost humility

•not with arrogance.

•Come out of Babylon.

•Come out of

•spiritual darkness

•and confusion.

•Enter the light.

•But some say?

•How?

•How can I do that?

•What has been

•method of entrance

•into the body of

•Christ since beginning?

•What was the process

•by which the new people

•were added to them?

•We call that Baptism.

•There is a direct link

•between baptism

•and joining the church

•the body of Christ.

•Let’s talk more

•about baptism.

Matthew 28:19–20 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

•Jesus said,

•“go make disciples.”

•How?

•Baptizing them

•and teaching them to

•observe all

Jesus’ teachings.

•So, we have been

•learning Jesus’ teachings.

•Then we baptize.

•How do we do that?

Ephesians 4:4–6 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

•According to God

•There is only

•One True:

•Body = church

•Spirit

•Hope

•Calling

•Lord

•Faith

•Baptism

•God

•Only One God

•Why are there so many

•Churches?

•Because Satan agenda

•create confusion.

•Also one Baptism…

Matthew 3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.

•John didn’t want to

•Jesus told him to.

•John did it.

Matthew 3:16–17 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

•Notice what happened.

“came out of water…”

•If he came out

•he must have been…?

•In/under water…

•Where was this?

•Jordan River

•Why there?

•John explains:

•John 3:23,

"because there was much water there."

•“baptize,” =

•‘baptizo,’

•transliteration

•Meaning:

•immerse,

•to dip under

•submerge

•Not:

•pour

•sprinkle

•shower

•Where did we get

•these new idea from?

•You guessed it:

•from Babylon.

•Until 12th century

•event Catholic Churches

•baptistry tanks.

•Then the began to

•teach the idea

•of original sin.

•This idea is

•we are born in sin

•If we are not baptized

•you go straight to hell.

•Part of this idea

•may have been

•based on this verse:

Mark 16:15–16 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

•Notice what is say:

•If you believe

•you should get

•baptized.

•How are you

•condemned?

•If you don’t get

•baptized?

•No,

•If you don’t believe…

•There is nothing

•magical about

•waters of baptism.

•Not Holy Water.

•Spiritual change

•not physical…

•How can we know

•if we are ready

•for this monumental

•step in our life?

•Acts 2:38 says to

““repent and be baptized.

•It's confessing your sin

•AND

•forsaking your sin.

•Both.

•Belief

•Not just believing

•in the idea or notion

•that there is a God.

•Belief is choosing

•to put God first

•in all things

•by faith.

•Matthew 28:19,

•"Go therefore and teach all nations,

•baptizing them…”

•Can a baby

•meet those criteria?

•Learn, repent, believe?

•Child baptism is

•unbiblical and impossible.

•Okay,

•that is what

•baptism is not.

•What is it?

•What happens at Baptism?

•We have assurance that

our sins are forgiven.

•The spirit is given to us.

•We are adopted into God’s family

•(church membership)

•What about re-baptism?

•Acts 19

•some people who

•Didn’t understand

•reception of HS

•missing some things.

•They were re-baptized.

Acts 19:5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

•Many ways

•baptism like marriage.

•When you are

•in love.

•Want to spend

•rest of you life

•with that person.

•Have a ceremony

•To tell every

•what you are doing…

•Nothing magical

•about ceremony.

•The ceremony

•does not promise

•perfect marriage.

•50% of them

•end in divorce.

•Not God’s plan.

•If they do,

•not the end.

•People get

•remarried.

•Marriage starts

•the family

•Baptism start

•joining family.

•Rebaptism is allowed.

•When you left family

•Cheated on God.

•Or did not understand

•the truth.

•Baptism Represent:

•Dying to our past sinful way of life.

•Burying our sins in the watery grave.

•Rising out of the water to walk in a new life.

•God says,

•Babylon has fallen

•has fallen.

•Come out of

•her my people.

•Does this mean

• God has people tonight

•in the churches that

•He calls Babylon?

•overwhelming majority

•of God’s people

• in those churches,

•don’t you?

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

John 10:16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

•In these last days

•God is calling his

•sheep into the

•one true fold.

•Now let me

•be honest.

•I do not

•believe.

•That everyone

•in the SDA church.

•Is going to make

•it through last day.

•While every person

•not currently member

•of this church.

•Going to get

•Mark of the Beast

•Lady left UK

•vacation at

•Granada

•God on plane

•Grenada.

•Got another

•plane going

•to Spain.

•Maybe you have

•been on the wrong plane.

•So He says,

•“My people,

•come out.

•Don’t stay.

•Come out.”

•Tonight,

•do you want to

•follow Jesus?

•I choose to follow the teachings of Jesus as found in the Bible.

•I choose to be part of God’s last-day remnant people.

•It is my desire to be baptized.

•It is my desire to be re-baptized.

•I have some questions I would like to discuss.

Closing Song

There are a few

who will be

baptized soon.

The water will

be warm.

Why not join them?

Closing Prayer