Salvation Past
The Seven S's of Adventism - Salvation • Sermon • Submitted
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· 3 viewsSalvation is for those who are lost. But how did we get lost in the first place and how does the plan of Salvation solve the problem of the great controversy?
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Campfire Conversations
Questions
Who is God?
Who am I?
What am I doing here?
Why bad things happen?
How God judges?
Answers
Salvation is for those who are lost?
How did we get lost?
Creation of Lucifer
Creation of Lucifer
“Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God:
“You were the signet of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God;
every precious stone was your covering,
sardius, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle;
and crafted in gold were your settings
and your engravings.
On the day that you were created
they were prepared.
You were an anointed guardian cherub.
I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God;
in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created,
till unrighteousness was found in you.
Key Points:
perfection
perfect beauty
Garden of Eden
Created being
guardian cherub
Holy Mountain of God
Blameless until
“wickedness found in you”
Who is this?
Who matches description?
No earthly king.
Lucifer
Fall of Lucifer
Fall of Lucifer
How was wickedness suddenly found in
Isaiah explains:
“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
You said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
Key points:
“Morning Star”
What happened?
How wickedness found in him?
He developed “I” problem.
I will:
ascend to heaven
above stars
set throne high
sit mount assembly
far north
height of clouds
like Most High
How did this happen?
Not overnight.
Process.
Cast Out
Cast Out
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created,
till unrighteousness was found in you.
In the abundance of your trade
you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,
and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I exposed you before kings,
to feast their eyes on you.
By the multitude of your iniquities,
in the unrighteousness of your trade
you profaned your sanctuaries;
so I brought fire out from your midst;
it consumed you,
and I turned you to ashes on the earth
in the sight of all who saw you.
Key Points:
abundance of trade...
Trade what?
not money.
not services
IDEAS!
Great Controversy Chapter 29—The Origin of Evil
Little by little, Lucifer came to indulge a desire for self-exaltation.
...
Great Controversy Chapter 29—The Origin of Evil
Instead of seeking to make God supreme in the affections and allegiance of His creatures, it was Lucifer’s endeavor to win their service and homage to himself.
This lead to...
“Cast out of mountain of God”
Most ironic phrase:
War in Heaven
War in Heaven
Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
War in heaven...
Who is Dragon?
Who is Michael?
Both have angels...
How many angels?
And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
Dragon = Satan
Lucifer while sinless was called
“morning star”
Stars = angels
1/3 angels with Satan
How?
abundance of trade
ideas
What ideas?
God is not good.
God is not fair.
God is withholding.
What obey.
Do what you want.
Great Controversy Chapter 29—The Origin of Evil
But a note of discord now marred the celestial harmonies. The service and exaltation of self, contrary to the Creator’s plan, awakened forebodings of evil in minds to whom God’s glory was supreme. The heavenly councils pleaded with Lucifer. The Son of God presented before him the greatness, the goodness, and the justice of the Creator, and the sacred, unchanging nature of His law.
Did God try?
...
Great Controversy Chapter 29—The Origin of Evil
But the warning, given in infinite love and mercy, only aroused a spirit of resistance. Lucifer allowed jealousy of Christ to prevail, and he became the more determined.
Free will
Free will
At this point,
many ask,
Why?
Why not crush him?
What message sent?
Free will.
3 choices
Robots
Servants
Free
Back to story:
Cast to earth.
Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
Meantime
during rebellion in heaven.
something else happened.
Creation of Humanity
Creation of Humanity
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Key Points
“Let us”
“In His own image”
Council of God
Great Controversy Chapter 29—The Origin of Evil
In all the councils of God, Christ was a participant, while Lucifer was not permitted thus to enter into the divine purposes. “Why,” questioned this mighty angel, “should Christ have the supremacy? Why is He thus honored above Lucifer?”
“In His Own Image”
Gift to humanity
made like God.
Didn’t last long:
Fall of Humanity
Fall of Humanity
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Key Point
Abundance of Trade
“Did God really say”
question
trust
“You will not die”
God is lying
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
God is withholding
good from you!
Was God withholding?
Yes!
What?
evil!
Sheltering Kids!
That day,
humanity fell
image of God broken.
What a mess:
Lucifer
1/3 angels
cast out
Adam and Eve
cast out
earth broken
Don’t Worry
God foresaw all
God had a plan!
Plan of Salvation
Plan of Salvation
The plan of Salvation
not just about
me and you
but also
entire universe.
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
How does God
restore heaven
restore Eden
answer accusations of Satan
Save Humanity
What accusations?
God is not love.
God is not fair.
God’s law is not good.
It is impossible to keep law.
We should be free.
Back to Story...
That day...
Adam Eve naked
Make clothes
fig leaves
hide from God
God finds...
(attitude of Go
removed from garden
The teaches
law enforced
wages of sin death
no easy solution
God makes new clothes
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
That day
first animal death
Process of Sacrifice
story of salvation
Somebody must die!
I will!
Creator for Creation!
God knew
God foresaw
God planned
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
The Cross
The Cross
Solves all problems
Answering accusations of Satan.
Penalty Paid
Salvation Offered
Freewill protected
Universe See
GOD IS LOVE!!!
Where are we today?
Already but not yet.
Next week
Next week
Salvation Present
Can God really save me?