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To Be In the Book of Life
Paul Godfrey
Audio: mp3
How do we know if our names are written in the book of Heaven? I hope that by the end we can know whether or not our names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. There have been many people who have named the name of Christ who have started following the Lord and never finish. The Bible says that if you were to put your hand to the plough you mustn’t look back. Jesus requires of someone who follows Him, a disciple, to have his or her names written in the book of life. We can’t start building the tower and then fail to finish it. The Bible tells us to count the cost. Considered the effort that is involved to achieve Heaven. Many people consider the costs and many don’t consider the cost. Nevertheless they follow and confess Jesus Christ and their name is registered in the book of Heaven. This name can be blotted out. There is a doctrine that teaches once saved always saved but the Bible does not teach such things. We have security in Jesus Christ and while ever we yield ourselves to Him we are safe. Read the rest of this entry
How to Give God the Glory
John Thiel
We are called to give glory to God. The angel that has the everlasting gospel to preach to all the earth is recorded as saying;
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Revelation 14:7 Read the rest of this entry
Sin in the Camp
Camron Schofield
The year is closing and a new year is about to open upon us. One year’s worth of probation is passing behind us and before us we have one more year. One more year, we can only hope that God will grant us one more year. Perhaps it will not be a full and complete year. Perhaps it will be only a few weeks, we don’t know and because we don’t know, we are to realise that we live in a very solemn time. Read the rest of this entry
How to Have Kindness
Paul Godfrey
Jesus is tenderly calling, calling us to enter in at the strait gate to enter into His love. He is calling us with this tenderness. My question is, do you hear Jesus calling you tenderly? Do you hear Jesus calling you to enter into these characteristics of love that we have considered? Do you hear Him calling? It is my prayer that we will hear Jesus calling us to enter in at the strait gate. We have looked at a few character traits and the last one was patience, how to obtain patience. There were five main instructions that the Bible brought out and that was to connect patience with the other fruits of joy, peace and trust. As you seek for the joy and peace and trust, this is one step of obtaining patience but the second one we considered was knowing Gods will and knowing God so you could say with the scriptures, I know that all things work together for good. I know that everything I go through is actually positive working and because we know that, we can have patience. The third instruction that the Bible ruled out was being temperate. We are to add temperance to patience and self-control both in diet, in the natural but also in the spiritual. The fourth one was patience which is gained by experience and experience is gained by patience. The Spirit of Prophecy says that if we want to cultivate patience, we need to practice patience. Read the rest of this entry
Pain with Hope or Hopeless Pain
John Thiel
Pain with hope, or hopeless pain, which one will you choose? As sinners, you and I are destined for redemption. Every inhabitant on this planet must pass from death unto life and there is not one person who must not pass from death unto life.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
And [that] he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 Read the rest of this entry
Hypocrisy – It Means me
Camron Schofield
Audio: mp3
Christ gave his disciples a warning;
Luke 12:1 Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
The leaven of the Pharisee’s. Leaven is like a yeast. You start with a small bit and as you add it to the bread it pervades and causes things to grow. Hypocrisy if it is not dealt with will leaven the entire being until we grow up full of air, full of pride, full of air like a puffy loaf of bread. In order to make a good loaf of bread you have to give it a good punch and knock the air out of it. However, no hypocrisy can be tolerated in heaven therefore He says beware of the leaven of hypocrisy. We often like to examine ourselves and say that was the leaven of the Pharisee and I’m not a Pharisee so therefore I don’t need to beware of the leaven of hypocrisy. Well the Pharisees didn’t realise they were hypocritical. Read the rest of this entry
The New Covenant Christian
Paul Godfrey
Audio: mp3
Are you a new covenant Christian? Are you born again? Are we under grace? Are we in the faith? Scripture asks us to take the Word of God, read it and assess our position individually. These are the questions we want to think about today. There is a principle that we need to understand in the Bible. Jesus gave us a parable to dwell upon. Read the rest of this entry
True Repentance and Man’s Response to the Cross
John Thiel
Jesus the ladder of Jacob’s dream was the communicating link between divine and fallen humanity. The base of the ladder including man in his fallen experience communicates him step by step with the sinless nature of the divine. Our nature and condition is likened to a pit.
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
What is it like at the bottom of a pit? Jesus knew;
Psalms 69:12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.
Jesus the ladder was passed down, the base of which came to rest in the mud of sin. When Jesus felt our sin, He was different to us in that He was a ladder – we are not. In Himself divinity did not cease when He became sin. We who are sin may connect with Jesus on our level but in so doing the connection with the divine immediately takes place. To find the point of contact is the pressing quest of the Christian as in Philippians. Read the rest of this entry
From Defeat to Victory
John Thiel
The night is dark and I am far from home. Is that true?
Is the night dark? We live according to the Word of God in a time of gross darkness. The danger for us is that we may not know it, but because we have living truth that has been given us through the three angels’ messages we become more conscious of it. So indeed, you and I, who dwell under the three angels’ messages are aware of the fact that we must be of the number that are recorded in Revelation 14:1-5 Read the rest of this entry
The Seal of Consistency
John Thiel
Those who are under the three angel’s messages, must be found among the 144,000. It is more now than at any other time since 1844 that this predominating thought must be governing us. I must be among the 144,000. I must be among the church triumphant. Read the rest of this entry
Church Contentions
Paul Godfrey
Audio: mp3
1 Corinthians 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. Read the rest of this entry
Knowing Your Creator
Stuart Kinnon
Audio: mp3
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Of all the things that God could have said in the first sentence of the Bible, I believe there could be none more important. Right here we are told three major things. Who created the earth, His authority and position as creator and His dominion which is the heaven and the earth. This verse which is read quite frequently is thrown about left and right by Christians. There are many, many verses that speak of the creation of this world. I’d like to turn to one well-known verse in Exodus. A lot it said in the Bible about God’s activity at the beginning of earth’s history. One well-known verse shows what He did and why He did it and what He did after He did it. Read the rest of this entry
The Abnormality of Normality Part 1
Paul Godfrey
I have a question I want to ask. Are you normal? We think we’re normal and everyone else is a bit weird. Although intelligently we are all a little weird we act as if we are the only normal people in the world and everyone else is a bit strange. To be normal is something we strive for. The fact is, if something happened to us physically we would worry about what is going on until the Doctor says oh that is just normal. Then we sigh in relief thinking we’re normal and not weird after all. We find a great comfort in knowing we are not alone or odd and being with a crowd. There are some people that like to think themselves as a nonconformist. Even non-conformists have certain conformity to be able to be non-conformist. If you don’t meet that non-conforming conformity you are not a non-conformist you are really conforming to everyone else. Whatever the dynamics are in society, we always want to be normal with some people we can associate with and that is why Jesus says broad is the way and wide is that road that leads to destruction. We think if everyone is doing wrong and we will just be one in the crowd, who will pick me out to be punished more than anyone else? I remember when I was at school whenever I was in trouble I felt so much comfort in being in trouble with someone else. If I was there by myself it was never as fun as when I was there with someone else. I would take comfort with someone else being with me in trouble and we do this in society. We generally call normal whatever the populace is or does but if that is the case then fidelity in marriage is abnormal and it is not normal for a Christian to really follow Jesus if we go by the populace. We go by the majority saying what everyone does that is the norm. Read the rest of this entry
How to Overcome Sin
Paul Godfrey
Sometimes it is easy to forget the things we learn and read and when we get into a trial, sometimes the how to’s of overcoming disappears and all of a sudden we think oh what was I meant to do again? Or, how does this work? I want to refresh the things we have shared before that we never lose sight of how it is we can follow the Lord. We see our high calling in Hebrews. Read the rest of this entry
Feeling after God
Camron Schofield
Scripture Reading: 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
“Never a weakness that He doth not feel, Never a sickness that He cannot heal; Moment by moment, in woe or in weal, Jesus my Savior, abides with me still.”
Do we abide with him? It pays for us to go over the experience of the Israelites as today we are modern Israel. The experience that Israel made is identical to the experience that Gods people in the last days will make. Read the rest of this entry
The Lord and I
John Thiel
Psalm 16:11 Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.
Audio: mp3
In this study it is my purpose to bring everything that I have ever preached in the past down to a living companionship with God. The term I just expressed, everything I have ever preached, it is something I’ve appreciated from the book Ministry of Healing; Read the rest of this entry
Finding True Fulfilment in a Relationship with God
There are all sorts of things in the world today that make you sad. One thing today is family dysfunction. There is global disaster where ever you look. We are protected here in Australia but in many places there is constant conflict and difficulty. There are many social disappointments even in the church. When we have looked for something to satisfy our selfish desires, we become disappointed with our desires of relationships that don’t work out as hoped. The wars in the world destroy natural and social events. There is a great amount of social insecurity. Where do these things come from? What is the source of these disasters and disappointments? The curse causeless does not come.
Take Time to Be Holy
John Thiel
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Read the rest of this entry
God Dealings With the Nations
By Camron Schofield
Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Scripture Reading: Acts 7:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
17:25 Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: Read the rest of this entry
The Church Triumphant in Prophecy
John Thiel
Previous studies have shown that to be candidates of the church triumphant we need to reach certain qualifications of which these qualifications were enlarged. We also saw the need of submitting to the counsel of men and women of years of experience in the Lord if we will be of such a church. This study concludes this focus with a study of the church triumphant in prophecy. As previously studied, this church is a very difficult one to join and be part of. We tend to be in a time right now that is very perplexing. We live in perplexing times when it comes to identifying God’s church today and recognising such a church. The perplexing detail is expressed in Matthew 24. Jesus is speaking in reference to our time; Read the rest of this entry
The Spirit of Submission
John Thiel
Scripture Reading: Psalm 25:4 Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
25:5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
“Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom, lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead Thou me on!
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see,
The distant scene; one step enough for me.” Read the rest of this entry
By Their Fruits
By Paul Godfrey
What is acceptable worship to God? Ever feel like you can’t come to God because your just too bad, too sinful? If so you will be blessed by this sermon;
Membership in the Church Triumphant
By John Thiel
Ephesians 5:25 Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Read the rest of this entry
Candidates for the Church Triumphant
By John Thiel
Daniel 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words [are] closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. Read the rest of this entry
Misusing the Testimonies of God’s Love
In our last study ‘Gods Letters of Love through the Spirit of Prophecy’, there were letters that didn’t sound like love. They were very sharp and cutting and we saw that we must understand that the one who is speaking to us in those letters is the one who has great love and compassion for us and we can make a correct conclusion from those statements. Indeed it is possible to misuse the testimonies of God’s love. We saw previously that God’s love to his church was demonstrated for the people living at the very end, a special love at a time when the winds of strife are let loose. They are being held back as God’s people are not all sealed and they would not be able to survive through those terrible times. To assist in this work of being sealed for that terrible time we read 1 Corinthians; Read the rest of this entry
Experimental Religion
By Camron Schofield
The words of Christ how readest thou is spoken to each one of us individually today because we are all in danger of not understanding the English language that is written in the word of God. What is in the Bible is so plain and simple that a child can understand it. But the problem is as the child grows up, it grows up under a world of philosophy and theology and loses his simplicity of reading God’s word. I want to state right at the start that I am not seeking to lay down any regulation or rule or any such thing. What I am seeking to do by the grace of God is to simply draw our minds into a situation and a state of mind where we will get into more of a habit to think and to think again. God is different to what the natural man thinks He is and His workings are mysterious and except He makes them plain, we cannot understand them. It is my belief that the following question is asked by the whole world;
Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? Read the rest of this entry
Consider Your Ways
By Manuel Bellina
What were the first words that God spoke to Adam after the fall? Read the rest of this entry
Give Ear O Ye Heavens
By Camron Schofield
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Read the rest of this entry
For Lack Of Knowledge
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: For Lack of Knowledge
Israel [is] an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. Hosea 10:1-2 Read the rest of this entry
