Sermon Tone Analysis

I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome

 

Rev 3:14-22

14And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

22He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches

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I’m glad to be here this evening it has been a while.

Today my topic is I’m gonna sit at the welcome table .

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I suggest to you today that anything worth while is worth fighting for.

Fight until the end, never give up.

For Jesus will captain the ship we definetly can make it.

It’s only a few that will make it.

You have to be determined by the grace and power of God to make it in!

You can’t afford to be caught offguard led astray.

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Let us pray

 

I’m gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days.

I want to talk to you this evening about eschatology.

The second coming of Jesus Christ, the last days.

I really want to see Jesus don’t you.

I know that there is going to be great rejoicing in heaven.

There’s going be a banquet table.

And guess what food is going to be served!

And if any of you remember me you know I love to eat.

It’s going to be a great getting up morning!

 

\\ “The dear saints have many trials to pass through.

But our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, will work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory--while we look not at the things which are seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

EW p.13

 

Ellen Harmon, age 17, received her first vision at the home of a friend (Elizabeth Haines) in south Portland, Maine, in December 1844.

At the time, Ellen was an invalid and did not expect to live long.

Received just weeks after the "great disappointment," this vision provided encouragement to many disheartened adventists.

It pictured the advent believers walking on a narrow pathway high above the world.

The light of the "midnight cry" (the message of Christ's imminent return) lighted the path from behind, while Christ was at the head of the path leading His followers to the Holy City.

Ellen saw some falling off the path through discouragement or disbelief, but so long as the advent people kept their eyes fixed on Jesus they were safe.

I want you to know that in order for you to make heaven your home you have to realize that the devil is not going to make it easy for you!

You will have to go through some adversity sometime, you’ll have to face some trials, you’ll have to stand firm against temptation.

But anything as wonderful as glory and sitting with Jesus must be worth it all!

We got some folk talking about how the church has deteriorated.

How the Holy Spirit is not with the church any more.

How the leaders are corrupt, how the ministers aren’t right and the members are miserable.

More than ever we have people starting their own little offshoot churches—with people who are going to be more serious about God.

They break away in these new churches and when they do guess what they find?

Corrupt leaders, faulty ministers and miserable members!

All have sinned and come short!

(Beast)

 

 

 

Organized, unorganized it does not make a difference!

I can’t take the beaucracy of the conference.

God has a people in which all heaven is interested, and they are the one object on earth dear to the heart of God.

Let every one who reads these words give them thorough consideration; for in the name of Jesus I would press them home upon every soul.

When any one arises, either among us or outside of us, who is burdened with a message which declares that the people of God are numbered with Babylon, and claims that the loud cry is a call to come out of her, you may know that he is not bearing the message of truth.

Receive him not, nor bid him God-speed; for God has not spoken by him, neither has he given a message to him, but he has run before he was sent.

It will be found that those who bear false messages will not have a high sense of honor and integrity.

They will deceive the people, and mix up with their error the Testimonies of sister White, and use her name to give influence to their work.

They make such selections from the Testimonies as they think they can twist to support their positions, and place them in a setting of falsehood, so that their error may have weight, and be accepted by the people.

They misinterpret and misapply that which God has given to the church to warn, counsel, reprove, comfort, and encourage those who shall make up the remnant people of God.

For years I have borne my testimony to the effect that when any one arises claiming to have great light, and yet advocating the tearing down of that which the Lord through his human agents has been building up, they are greatly deceived, and are not working along the lines where Christ is working.

Those who assert that the Seventh-day Adventist churches constitute Babylon, or any part of Babylon, might better stay at home.

Let them stop and consider what is the message to be proclaimed at this time RH 1849-1915

 

Why even complain about God’s church?

Man folk are waisting their time with the wrong message and the wrong burden for these last days!

Why complain?

Just open up your eyes and act like you know something about prophecy?

Something about last day events!

The Bible says that the devil is mad at the church!

 

1 Peter 5:8

8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour

KJV

 

When have you known a period in the churches history that God never had trouble with His people?

Dan 12 says there will be a time of trouble .

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It’s gonna get worst before it gets better!

You aint seen nothing yet!

If you can’t take what’s going on know How in the world!

The leaders, the leaders aren’t right!

Didn’t you ever read that Jesus said the wheat and tares would grow together?

Honey, my example does not sit in an office in Manhasset, New York or In an office in Takoma Park, Maryland.

He is just a man—dust may let me down he may fail me.

But my example sits on a throne in glory!

And guess what He’s never failed me yet!

He’s the leader of this church!

Enfeebled and defective as it may appear, the church is the one object upon which God bestows in a special sense His supreme regard.

AA p.12

He said watch and pray not watch and complain!

Because the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak!

More short, short, short skirts, gossiping, backbiting, hyprocrites, damable doctrinces more sleeping (spiritually), more husbands straying eyes, temper, more music that appeals to the baser passionsnow, more women and wives with unbridled passion.

We need now more than ever before the Holy Spirit in our lives.

No wonder Paul said “I die daily”

 

Zechariah 3

KJV

 

Heb 13:17

17Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

KJV

 

On the river or on the bank, whether he’s wheat or tare, touch not the Lord’s anointed.

I don’t have card b. to disregard the rules but like anyone else .

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Matt 18

 

Calling conference – call someone and invite them to church!