Category Archives: Sermons by Paul Godfrey
03 The Numbers Game
The Third Woe
By Paul Godfrey
mp3
We continue our study on the seven woes to the Pharisees and it is important to study these woes because Jesus was talking to his disciples and he said to them, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.
Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
A strong rebuke to the leaders in the days of Jesus. We know that all things happen for an example upon whom the end of the world has come. Hypocrisy the leaven of the Pharisees hasn’t actually left our world. We want to identify exactly what Jesus is saying. It is not too hard to understand exactly what he is saying. He is saying woe to the leaders because they compass and go around sea and land to make one proselyte and do we know what a proselyte is? A proselyte is someone in the days of Christ who was a gentile. To be made a proselyte was to come into the Jewish faith. They had to be circumcised but not only circumcised but they had to go through the doctrines that the Pharisees held and consent that they were true and to be willing to participate of the rituals of their faith and of their religion and then they were no longer a gentile. They were a Jew in the full meaning of the word. They were no longer classified as the seed of Abraham. Woe to the scribes and Pharisees, they go about to make one proselyte and when he is made you make him two fold more the child of hell than yourselves. Read the rest of this entry
Dealing with Feeling
By Paul Godfrey
Luke 9:23 And he said to [them] all, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Read the rest of this entry
05 Ready When You Are
Rebuilding Adventism Seminar
Study 5
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: 05 Ready When You Are
Jesus is coming. Do we want to be like Nehemiah? If we do it requires a strong decision to build up the old waste places. We will experience opposition if we do this work. The purpose of this seminar has not been for debating controversial issues but to set in a brief way the movement God has ordained to come out of the world. God is building His church upon the eternal rock, the rock of ages, Jesus Christ. This rock is in opposition to worldly customs and practises. Read the rest of this entry
04 One Thing after Another
Rebuilding Adventism Seminar
Study 4
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: One Thing after Another
God has a church and that church is the pillar and ground of the truth. That truth has been given in its appointed time and the possibilities were there for Christ to come back but man has sought to make improvements in various ways. While the testimony of Jesus was active in his church much advancement came but it was held in check. When the testimony of Jesus, the Spirit of Prophecy was silenced and Ellen White was laid to rest then the mice come out to play. In our last study we read a prophecy of what would happen if the desired changes would take place. Read the rest of this entry
03 Mans Improvements
Rebuilding Adventism Seminar
Study 3
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: Mans Improvements
Man always wants to make good things better but it never works. God’s eternal purpose was to bring a people out of the world in practise. They would be different in the way they looked and acted and their amusements would be different. He wanted to give them the truth that they would hold it up so all the people from the four corners of the world would see it and be drawn out. A step by step chain of truth has progressed since the closing of the 2300 days. Read the rest of this entry
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06 The Harvest
Living Faith Seminar
Study 6
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Harvest
We must by willing to take up our cross and deny ourselves and follow Jesus for the path of faith requires a lot of hardship. We will be tested and we tried just like Jesus. Although we are crucified with Christ nevertheless we live yet not we but Christ lives in us. The life we want to live must be lived by the faith of the Son of God. If we will not live by faith we will be overwhelmed by the troubles that Christians and non- Christians alike will receive. No one is exempt. The Christian also receives chastening from God the Father for it says that any branch that brings forth fruit is pruned so it can bring forth more fruit. God’s obedient children are still under the discipline of the loving heavenly Father. That discipline is difficult. We have the privilege of reading the things that will be done to us. We will receive persecution and dark experiences. If we read our Bibles we will see the things written a foretime are written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope (Romans 15:4) Jesus prayed to His Father that He would send another Comforter the Holy Ghost. Do you know why the Holy Ghost is a Comforter? It’s because He will show you everything Jesus has said and when he comes he will: Read the rest of this entry
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05 The Fight of Faith
Living Faith Seminar
Study 5
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Fight of Faith
We cannot be justified by faith until we have received the seed into our hearts. Even though the seed has not grown yet into a tall plant to bring forth fruit, everything is there. As we receive the Word of God in its entirety whether we know everything or not, by that surrender and the willingness to follow the Lamb wherever He goes we are justified. Read the rest of this entry
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The Source of Loneliness
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Source of Loneliness
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Read the rest of this entry
02 A Glorious System of Truth
Rebuilding Adventism Seminar
Study 2
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: mp3
The Sabbath day was given to us by God for a purpose. One of the purposes is to know he created the world in six days. It is to remind us from where we came. We can read that in Exodus 20. In Deuteronomy the reason for keeping the Sabbath is because the Lord bought us out of Egypt. The Sabbath is meant to do two things, not just to dwell upon God’s creation and his power in the origin of our world, but also to dwell upon the fact he has and is bringing us out of the world, out of Egypt. The Sabbath is a day to remember these things. He said remember the Sabbath to keep it holy because he doesn’t want us to forget the Sabbath. The LORD is really helping us with our memory. He says remember a day so we can remember our creation and our exodus out of Egypt. If we can remember the day we can remember everything else. The Bible says in Daniel 7 the dragon power will cast the truth to the ground and it will practise and prosper. As the saints were speaking together one of them asked how long would this go on for. The answer given was 2300 days then the sanctuary will be cleansed. The papal system over a period of generations pulled the truth of God down to the ground in the mind of the people. It wasn’t until the protestant reformation that there was the sound of hope. One by one the different truths started to come in their order. The truth never was restored by the protestant reformation in its entirety.
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The Longing of Your Heart
By Paul Godfrey
Jesus tells us of things that receive blessings. One of those things is recorded in Matthew 5.
Matthew 5:6 Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Read the rest of this entry
The Name of God
By Paul Godfrey
There is a great blessing bestowed upon those who read and understand the book of Revelation. If we do this as it is in its purity we will be richly blessed but if we take something from this book, our names will be taken from the book of life. If we add to it, God will add to us the seven last plagues. In other words the book contains a huge blessing for those who read it as God intended and there is a huge curse upon those who disregard and change it. That should make us tremble. The Bible has a huge amount of power that we don’t want to disregard or read superficially. One major theme in the book of Revelation is the revelation of God’s people. As we look at the future written in this book, we can identify political financial and religious events so that we can identify where we are in relation to this book. Revelation 13 is a prophecy of the image of the beast that exercises all the power of the beast. History tells us that this beast is very terrible. The image of the beast exercises all the power of the first beast. It will command that all that don’t worship the beast to be killed. There will be no mercy in that decree. Then we come to Revelation 14:1.
01 A Divine Movement
Rebuilding Adventism Seminar
Study 1
By Paul Godfrey
Do you want to be a Nehemiah? Nehemiah built the walls of Jerusalem and fulfilled prophecy. It wasn’t an easy task. He had a difficult time and if we desire to be Nehemiah’s we need to understand a little of what he went through. The Spirit of Prophecy tells us there is need of Nehemiah’s in the church today. Read the rest of this entry
False Sanctification
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: False Sanctification
The scripture declares that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it. Are you deceived? Do we know that our hearts are deceitful above all things? We acknowledge that many people in this world are deceitful. Do we acknowledge that our own hearts are deceitful above all else? There are many conspiracy theories going around today. We don’t trust people. Someone may knock at our door and we look at them sideways. We may get an email from someone we don’t know and we are afraid of picking up a virus and we don’t trust people. We think we might be deceived by everything that comes to us. Yet we trust ourselves so much. Everything else comes secondary to the deceit that lies in our own heads. An atheist was telling me that we cannot trust anything, not even our senses or perceptions. He said you sitting next to me might not really be there and my mind may be playing tricks on me. He believed that nothing was absolute, even gravity. He said we just perceive that it is. He saw that the mind was so deceitful to the extent that his own heart was deceiving him that nothing was true. Our perceptions are not reliable. There needs to be something outside our perceptions that gives a benchmark, a truth to things that are not generated from our own head or someone else’s head. This perception is what Satan has worked upon to create so much confusion in the world. This was done through a serpent. Read the rest of this entry
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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
We need Jesus for the Bible says without him we can do nothing. Not a little bit, but nothing. It takes a bit to realise this fact because our natural heart believes it can do something. The something we think we can do is actually nothing. The Bible says we have sold ourselves for naught therefore we have nothing. Let us never think that nothing is something. If we think that something is nothing then the something is actually nothing. In Revelation chapter 3 is written the preparation we need to be fitted for the latter rain. Read the rest of this entry
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Receiving the Latter Rain
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: Receiving the Latter Rain
Revelation 3:18 I 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. Read the rest of this entry
The Patience of the Saints
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Patience of the Saints
Jesus Christ is my hero. As we look at the Bible, the photograph of his character we catch a vision of his character and we love him. He has such tremendous beauty in his character. He has such patience. Think of the time he was talking to the disciples when there were children around and they were making a lot of noise. The disciples are getting irritated and tell the children to go away. What does Jesus say? Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for such is the kingdom of heaven. He has such patience where it would annoy adults. There is another story where he was getting jostled by the crowd around him and there came a woman who touched the hem of his garment and he stopped and said, ‘who touched me?’ for he felt virtue go out of him. He was sensitive and patient enough to notice the touch of faith. This attribute is one that draws me to him when I consider my own shortcomings and failures in view of his patience. How do you feel when someone is impatient towards you? It really cramps your growth. When people in church are un-Christlike others get irritated and then they themselves become un-Christlike. We read in Revelation at the end times God’s people will be restricted from buying and selling and at that time the patience of the saints will appear. I pray that we can all admire Jesus more and be like him. God is love. Everybody likes love. What is one of the biggest ingredients in love? Read the rest of this entry
02 Shutting up the Kingdom of Heaven
The First Woe Part 2
By Paul Godfrey
A woe depicts sorrow. In the case of the Pharisees it also represented depending doom as Jesus revealed in Matthew 23 when he pronounced these scathing truth’s to the religious leaders of his day. They came in forms of woes and in many instances these woes refer to weeping and gnashing of teeth. Weeping and gnashing of teeth is always associated with religious professors because they will have the greatest suffering if they don’t live up to the light they have.
Matthew 24:48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
24:49 And shall begin to smite [his] fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for [him], and in an hour that he is not aware of,
24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Read the rest of this entry
01 Beware of Hypocrisy
The First Woe Part 1
By Paul Godfrey
A Warning
Often on the gate of a yard you will see a sign saying ‘Beware of the Dog’. Most people are often wary of the dog because if they go in they expect the dog to come out and eat them up. It is very unwise to neglect a warning sign.
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Read the rest of this entry
05 The Dopamine Driven Church – As You Think In Your Heart
‘Let This Mind Be in You’
Study 5
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: As You Think In Your Heart
As You Think In Your Heart
It can be a reality that we can be in heaven together but it might not be too. I hope that we are. It’s a burden that I have for myself to be in the kingdom and anyone that I can help to be there too. The fact is we aren’t there yet. We’re still in a war. This war has only intensified since the cross of Christ. Read the rest of this entry
19 A Perpetual Covenant
THE CONSUMMATION OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: A Perpetual Covenant
We should strive to be among the 144,000 and because that is what we need to be doing, we need to be acquainted with the experiences of the 144,000. The beginning of Revelation 7 is given to the sealing of the 144,000.
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Did Jesus Need to Study the Bible?
By Paul Godfrey
We need to look to Jesus in order to know how to exercise faith.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Read the rest of this entry
03 The Ground Work of Faith
Living Faith Seminar
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Ground Work of Faith
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
To plant a seed you need to prepare the ground. Are we wiser in planting seeds than in preparing our hearts? Read the rest of this entry
01 What is Faith? Defining the Terms
Living Faith Seminar
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: Defining the Terms
It is my personal desire to be ready when Jesus comes. I desire that we can all be translated. The day of the Lord is something that Christians look forward to but it is actually a day of wrath. At such a time when the consequences get unleashed upon the heads of those who do not regard God, it is a dreadful day. It’s called the day of God’s wrath. It’s a day of darkness. Who shall abide in the day of His coming? Who shall stand at the day of His appearing? There was a man who was translated, Enoch. He had this testimony, that he pleased God. Of all the times, it is best to please God in the day of His wrath. By faith Enoch was translated. If we desire to be translated, it must also be by faith.
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: Read the rest of this entry
The Exhaustless Word of God
By Paul Godfrey
You can’t exhaust the word of God. There’s a temptation for us to not to meditate on things long enough, because we think that the Bible is exhaustless. Do you find fresh thoughts on texts?
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. Read the rest of this entry
Enough about Saturday, What about the Rest?
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: Enough about Saturday
The Sabbath Rest
It would be a fearful thing to have been observing the Sabbath day all your life and find out that you never entered into the rest. There are people who say that we don’t need to keep the Sabbath day because that’s works. Well if you don’t enter into the rest it is works. But if you have entered into the rest, then it is not works, it’s rest. No one can conclude that resting is working because it’s not, it’s the exact opposite of it. Nevertheless there are people that know that fact and endeavour to observe Saturday or Sabbath and yet failed to enter into the rest. Therefore that is then works. The rest I want to talk about today is more than the mere physical rest than the Sabbath day because it is standard practice for Seventh Day Adventists to stop their daily labour on Friday after noon and observes the day of physical rest from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset but the rest that the Bible is talking about is far more than that. It includes a double application, a double blessing on the Sabbath day which is physical to testify to the spiritual. Therefore we need to fear lest we fail to enter into the rest. Read the rest of this entry
The Perfect Will of God
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Perfect Will of God
A man had two sons. The eldest after much persuasion received permission to undertake and engage in some perilous activity. In doing so, the eldest son almost lost his life. As he returned he repented against his constant persistence against his father’s will. The second son seeing the activities of his older brother ventured off to the same thing. The father rebuked his son and told him not to go. He scorned the rebuke. The young son said my brother has done this. The father said such was not my perfect will.
16 The Time of Trouble
The Consummation of the Everlasting Covenant
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: The Time of Trouble
It is said of the 144,000 in their description that these are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. It is one thing to have tribulation but another thing to come out of it. We can all go into it, it is not too hard to do that but to come out is a different story. Read the rest of this entry
Be Ye Transformed
By Paul Godfrey
Audio: Be Ye Transformed
Christ or Barabbas? Which do you want? Jesus is the Word of God. There are many books to occupy your mind with. You could spend your whole life studying the Bible and never finish getting things out of it because it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. Read the rest of this entry
