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00:00Everything you're saying is a lot about righteousness by faith, and I know you study a lot of Ellen

00:10White.

00:11So when she says that if they had followed the 1888 message, we would have already gone

00:16to heaven, can you talk about that?

00:19I think that's really important how, if that's the case, why don't we study more of what

00:26they said?

00:27Have you studied that much?

00:29I don't hear you talking about that much, because I listen to you a lot.

00:33I'd like to hear more about that.

00:36No one can say why the church does not.

00:38Well, we can't say the church does not, because we don't know what the entire church body

00:41does around the world.

00:42Ellen White on two occasions said that Christ would have come back.

00:46After 1888, and shortly after, somewhere in the early 50s, she made a similar statement.

00:51Now when the Israelites went into the wilderness, it was not God's will they spent 40 years.

00:56He wanted to take them directly to Canaan land, unbelief allowed him to, caused him

01:00to curse them, it was a curse, and sent them back into the wilderness 40 years.

01:04The same with us, unbelief.

01:07Yes Ellen White said that, and it's tragic that the church did not respond as the church

01:13should have responded to the message of righteousness by faith, it didn't, and here we are today.

01:19There's nothing to prevent us from studying as individuals what was taught, you see, as

01:25individuals.

01:26You see, we're not saved as a church.

01:30Mind, character, and personality, volume 2, page 4, 23, paragraph 2.

01:34The gospel deals with individuals.

01:37I run across a lot of people, the church has no outreach program.

01:40The church, I say, well you do one.

01:44Do you need your family to tell you how to get along with your friend, or how to arrange

01:48an outing with a friend?

01:49Why do you need the church?

01:50The church doesn't help you sin, why does the church need to help you to do something

01:52that's right?

01:53Figure out something that you can do for God without the church.

01:57One day the church structure will no longer exist as it is, what will we do?

02:01Don't wait for the church.

02:02I can't answer why the church does not, nor can I say the church does not, because I don't

02:06know what the entire church does north, south, east, and west.

02:09Now it may not appear to be a popular subject, yes, but we must take individual decisions,

02:17make individual decisions to study that which tends to bring us to Christ, and that which

02:23may hasten the second coming of Jesus Christ.

02:25We must make personal decisions to do that.

02:28Yes, my brother?

02:29I think, rephrase, is this on?

02:31Rephrasing it would be, when the rubber hits the road, how do you overcome sin?

02:38Okay, alright, let's get to that.

02:39That's the 1880 message, what you basically preach, but I don't know why you don't bring

02:45Jones and Wagner into it.

02:46You don't know what?

02:48I don't know why you don't bring Jones and Wagner's name into it, because if you study

02:52what they've taught, you've got basically, she said, they said it better than she could

02:58have.

02:59So I think that everyone's arguing about, oh, they apostatized, all this.

03:05Leave that alone.

03:06That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

03:09We need to understand what they said so that we can become like Christ.

03:14Okay, alright, alright.

03:17Now when I preach about tithe, I don't mention J.N. Andrews, but he was the one who worked

03:21out the tithing for the church.

03:23When I preach about the state of the dead, I don't mention O.R.L.

03:26Grozier, who worked it, I don't.

03:29So if I talk about righteousness by faith, I don't have to mention J.N. Andrews.

03:33The only one I really mention frequently is Ellen White, but I can accept what they've

03:37said without mentioning a name or giving credit to them.

03:40Credit goes to God.

03:42Again, the question is, how do you overcome sin?

03:44By the righteousness of Christ, because the sinless life of Christ is the power that enables

03:49us, and that power is mediated through the word of God.

03:52When the sinner brought, let me pray again, Father, please be with me and all of us listening.

03:57Let truth triumph, I pray in Jesus' name, amen.

04:00You read Leviticus chapter one.

04:02Let's go to Leviticus one.

04:03Let's read from verse one, quickly, quickly, quickly.

04:05Who has it?

04:06Who has it?

04:07Where is Joshua?

04:08My friend, my little friend who was sitting right here.

04:12Oh, hi Joshua.

04:15I just missed you from right here, that's all.

04:17God bless you.

04:19All right.

04:20Joshua is my boy.

04:22Okay.

04:23Do we have Leviticus one?

04:25Who has Leviticus one?

04:28All right.

04:29Someone read first King James Version, and the Lord called unto Moses and spake unto

04:33him.

04:34You can come to the mic if you like and read.

04:35Out of the tabernacle of the congregation saying what?

04:42Speak unto the children.

04:43Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, if any man of you bring an offering

04:47unto the Lord, you shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd and of the

04:51flock.

04:52Pause.

04:53You've got to bring an offering.

04:54Don't go.

04:55Stay there.

04:56You've got to bring an offering.

04:57That's important.

04:58You have to bring an offering.

04:59Now, if his offering be a, verse three.

05:03If his offering be a burnt sacrifice to the herd, let him offer a male without blemish.

05:08Pause.

05:09Let him offer a male without blemish.

05:13Okay.

05:14A male without blemish.

05:16Now, how will he know the animal is without blemish?

05:20Come on.

05:22How will he know the animal is without blemish?

05:24He looks at it.

05:26He examines it.

05:27Now, verse four.

05:30And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering.

05:33Where does that happen?

05:35Where does that happen?

05:38In the outer court.

05:39Yes.

05:40Who is there with the person who brings the lamb?

05:42The priest.

05:43What does the priest also have to do?

05:46He has to examine.

05:47Now, listen to me carefully as we talk about how do you conquer sin.

05:51Two living beings enter the outer court.

05:54The sinner and the lamb.

05:57Are you following me?

05:59Which one does the priest examine?

06:02The lamb.

06:08I'm talking to myself again.

06:10Which one does the priest examine?

06:12The lamb, not the guy.

06:16Your salvation is based on how good you are.

06:19It is based on Jesus.

06:21But you have to bring him.

06:25Now, for God so loved the world that he gave, what do you call that?

06:30A gift.

06:32Yeah, okay, but I want the word gift.

06:33You're right, but I want gift.

06:35Christ is a gift to the world.

06:37Are you following me?

06:38Not to be given back to God.

06:43So you bring the gift.

06:44This is Christ.

06:47The priest accepts Christ at the higher level.

06:52When you bring Christ to God, God accepts Christ and consequently accepts you.

06:58Why?

06:59Because you brought Christ.

07:00You don't hand Christ to God.

07:02It's not a long-distance transaction.

07:04You have given your life to Christ.

07:06That's essential.

07:07You bring to the father the life of Christ.

07:10The righteousness of Christ, which is sufficient for the father.

07:14The LMI said it's not important what God thinks of you.

07:18It's important what he thinks of Jesus.

07:21But you've got to bring Jesus and hold on to him.

07:25So that you are accepted in the beloved.

07:30Are you listening to me?

07:32You bring Jesus.

07:34And the man or the woman who brings Jesus can never be rejected by the father.

07:39If you give yourself to him and accept him as your savior,

07:44then sinful though your life may have been, for his sake,

07:49for his sake, you are counted righteous.

07:52Christ's character stands in place of your character,

07:56and you are accepted by God just as if you had never sinned.

08:01Steps to Christ, page 62, paragraph 2.

08:03You bring Christ.

08:04But when you bring Christ, you're saying,

08:06I accept the righteous life of Christ.

08:09I accept Christ's life of submission to the father.

08:12I accept Christ's life of unselfish service.

08:15I accept all of that as mine.

08:18You don't hand Christ to God and say, here he is.

08:22By bringing Christ, you accept, you believe that Christ can do for you.

08:27His righteousness is sufficient for you.

08:30Because it is not your righteousness.

08:32Because the righteousness that qualifies you for a place in God's kingdom is sinlessness.

08:37The life of Christ had no sin.

08:40That animal had no blemish.

08:42The sinner had to bring the animal, and the animal was accepted.

08:46Bring Christ to God.

08:48How do you do that?

08:49By surrendering to Christ.

08:51And the person who is in Christ is accepted by the father.

08:57But by bringing Christ, you're saying, I surrender to Christ.

09:01I accept his righteous life as everything the father desires.

09:05And if that's genuine, that righteous life in Christ works itself through you.

09:11That's the way it was for Christ when he was on the earth.

09:14John 14, verse 10.

09:15Believest thou not that I am in the father, and the father in me?

09:19The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the father that dwelleth in me.

09:25He doeth the works.

09:27When you accept Christ, it's Christ in you, and you in Christ.

09:31As long as that union exists, you're safe.

09:35And if it is genuine, and the only way it can exist is if it's genuine, the life of Christ will express itself through you.

09:43Victory over sin is the righteousness of Christ.

09:49As a practical principle in your life, and that power is the word of God.

09:54Are you with me?

09:55The word of God.

09:56Because God created by his word.

09:58God speaks righteousness by his word.

10:01God heals by his word.

10:03He casts out demons by his word.

10:06Christ himself is the word.

10:08To bring Christ is to bring the word, the word of righteousness, the word of life, the word of victory, the word of everything.

10:15Bring Christ to God.

10:17Don't bring a church.

10:18Don't bring a doctrine.

10:19Bring a person.

10:21That person is both man and God.

10:23And you come with Christ to the Father.

10:25You say, Father, I come in the name of Jesus.

10:28Holding on to Jesus.

10:30Don't let go.

10:32That power of Christ will transform you.

10:36But as Jesus said in John 15, abide, abide, abide, abide.

10:42Keep holding on.

10:43That's the secret.

10:44Keep holding, keep holding, keep holding.

10:46And that keep holding is done by constantly being in the word of God and in prayer.

10:51Keep holding on to Jesus.

10:53That which thou hast, hold fast.

10:55We're told in Revelation twice.

10:57Hold fast.

10:59Because the devil will try to break that bond between you and your Savior.

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