Thank you Jesus for your goodness and kindness and love you give to each and every one of us. And thank you for my precious church family. God bless each and every one of you. Merry Christmas to all.💗🙏💗
YOU WANT JESUS TO COME BACK?? ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE READY ?? "When any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be BLOTTED OUT of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's remembrance. The Lord declared to Moses: “Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.” Exodus 32:33. " GC 483 "Sins that have NOT been repented of and forsaken will NOT be pardoned and blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness against the sinner in the day of God. He may have committed his evil deeds in the light of day or in the darkness of night; but they were open and manifest before Him with whom we have to do. Angels of God witnessed each sin and registered it in the unerring records. Sin may be concealed, denied, covered up from father, mother, wife, children, and associates; no one but the guilty actors may cherish the least suspicion of the wrong; but it is laid bare before the intelligences of heaven. The darkness of the darkest night, the secrecy of all deceptive arts, is not sufficient to veil one thought from the knowledge of the Eternal. God has an exact record of every unjust account and every unfair dealing. He is not deceived by appearances of piety. He makes no mistakes in His estimation of character. Men may be deceived by those who are corrupt in heart, but God pierces all disguises and reads the inner life." GC 486 DO YOU FORGIVE? ARE YOU PURE IN HEART,MEEK?? ARE YOU HOLY Heb 12:14
Please PRAY for ALL of the POORLY TRAINED & POORLY SUPERVISED SDA conference, pastors and sabbath school teachers who are infected & suffering from "here a little, there a little" bible ADVENTITIS!!
What a wonderful message for our time. The message and back story was shared at our church in Arizona by one of your members and we followed up to listen. Praise God! The Holy Spirit is working in your church and we shared the message with friends in California and Idaho to receive the blessing as well.
Your message started out so beautiful with Bible passages, why did you change and say we need to read another book, the Great Controversy to unmask all Satan's lies. Are you saying we can't find that in the Bible? I love your messages and then you get off track and lead people away from the Bible, God's word to a human that has proven she is not consistent! That she says one thing then a few verses over contradicts what she just said, plus contradicts what Gid says in the Bible..Why turn the people from God's word to hers?? I just don't understand...
You stated , 43:11 when Christ's character is perfectly reproduced in us, then He will return? that's not scriptural! Matt. 23:14 says: "and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Why do Adventists keep quoting from a woman and books that are in direct opposition to God's word?
You quoted EGW in Christs Object Lessons: when the character of Christ shall be perfectly ... then He will come for His own. Sir, that contridcts the Scripture Matt. 24:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come." Can you explain this please..
My heart is singing for my grandson, Michael, as he publicly makes his decision to follow Jesus. Praise the Lord for these 3 new "sons and daughters of God."
I praise the Lord for this beautiful church family! God bless all!! And thank you for all the beautiful testimonies! God bless you all and thank you Pastor Martin for your faithfulness!!
Romans 14 New International Version The Weak and the Strong 14 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. 5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. PARAPHRASE: SDA's have NO AUTHORITY to prescribe anyone else's diet, nor anyone else's day of worship! They are living in rebellion, to this new testament guidance.
Thank you for repeating this message Pastor Martin. God bless you and may God's healing hand be upon your wife Eva. And all those who are I'll. Happy Sabbath to all!!🙏🙏🙏
As i have read in Spirit of prophecy, Jesus says we must be born again every day. Because everyday is a new day. Every day we sin, everyday we must confess your sins. Every day we must be changed into Christ's likeness. We must become less, that he may become greater still, inside of us. We must experience His power everyday.
As a born again Christian we believe the atonement was finished on the cross . When my Lord and Savior The king of kings and Lord of Lords Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross willingly for the forgiveness of our sins . The Bible is clear on the subject Salvation is based upon Gods grace and the shed blood of Jesus . On the cross as Jesus was on the cross Jesus said it is finished . Meaning Jesus shed blood was the atonement for our sins he payed the price and settled our sin debt . Salvation is based upon Gods grace you cannot earn it or work for it or be justified by the Law . It is based on grace alone and not works . The apostle Paul said we are not justified by the works of the law but by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ . The thief on the cross did nothing to deserve salvation but by grace alone and repenting the thief on the cross said Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom . Jesus said today you shall be with me in paradise . Salvation is based upon faith alone in Christ alone and the Holy Bible is clear we are justified by grace . We cannot earn salvation or work for it because it is a free gift . It is grace by which we are saved thru faith in Jesus not by how much law we can keep . And anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved Romans 10:9 . Salvation is a choice each person has to accept that Jesus made possible . I personally believe Ellen white is a false prophet the world today is full of them preaching another gospel . Jesus warns us about false teachers with false doctrines I say this respectfully by the way . The Doctrine we follow can be the difference in heaven and hell . People can believe as they choose I personally choose to believe the Holy Bible and what it teaches about salvation by grace alone and faith alone in Christ . The sin debt was paid totally at the cross Jesus shed blood was the atonement for our sins . All we have to do is accept the free gift of salvation and ask Jesus to save us and make Jesus Lord of our lives .
WAS THE ATONEMENT COMPLETE OR NOT COMPLETE ON THE CROSS? The evangelical Churches furiously attack Adventist doctrine about Christ’s ministry in the heavenly sanctuary because they believe it denies the fact that the atonement was complete at the cross. To prove their point they quote the following scripture: “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation” (Romans 5:9Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) 11Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). Also even among Seventh-day Adventists, there are two groups that oppose each other with regards to the understanding of Christ’s atonement (reconciliation). Some of them claim the atonement was finished at the cross while others oppose this idea because they believe it contradicts the truth about Christ’s atoning work in the heavenly sanctuary which hasn’t finished yet. This lack of unity has been also contributed by the fact that in both, the Bible and Ellen White’s writings, we can find two groups of statements that seem to contradict each other, as they state that the atonement was complete and at the same time suggest it wasn’t complete. ELLEN WHITE QUOTES SUGGESTING THAT THE ATONEMENT WAS COMPLETED AT THE CROSS “[Christ] planted the cross between heaven and earth, and when the Father beheld the sacrifice of His Son, He bowed before it in recognition of its perfection. ‘It is enough,’ He said. ‘The atonement is complete’” RH September 24, 1901, par. 11. “Our great High Priest completed the sacrificial offering of Himself when He suffered without the gate. Then a perfect atonement was made for the sins of the people” 7BC 913.3. “Christ’s sacrifice in behalf of man was full and complete. The condition of the atonement had been fulfilled. The work for which He had come to this world had been accomplished” AA 29.2. “When Christ on the cross cried out, ‘It is finished,’ He addressed the Father. The agreement had been fully carried out. Now He declared, ‘Father, I have completed the work of redemption.’ ‘I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am’.” (John 17:24Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). Desire of Ages (498) “The Lord would have His people sound in the faith-not ignorant of the great salvation so abundantly provided for them. They are not to look forward, thinking that at some future time a great work is to be done for them; for the work is now complete” 1SM 394.3. ELLEN WHITE QUOTES SUGGESTING THAT THE ATONEMENT WAS NOT COMPLE AT THE CROSS “Instead of … Daniel 8:14Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) referring to the purifying of the earth, it was now plain that it pointed to the closing work of our High Priest in heaven, the finishing of the atonement, and the preparing of the people to abide the day of His coming” (Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 58). “Jesus entered the most holy of the heavenly (sanctuary), at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel 8, in 1844, to make a final atonement for all who could be benefited by His mediation” (Early Writings, p. 253). “Our Saviour is in the Sanctuary pleading in our behalf. He is our interceding High Priest, making an atoning sacrifice for us, pleading in our behalf the efficacy of His blood.” Fundamentals of Christian Education, 370. “Today He [Christ] is making an atonement for us before the Father. ‘If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.’” Manuscript 21, 1895. “As in the typical service, there was a work of atonement at the close of the year, so before Christ’s work for the redemption of man is completed there is a work of atonement for the removal of sin from the Sanctuary. This is the service which began when the 2300 days ended.” Great Controversy, 421. IS THERE A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THESE TWO GROUPS OF STATEMENTS? Well, the answer to the question lies in the fact that those two groups of statements appear as if they contradict each other only because they deal with different aspects of Christ’s atoning ministry. The word “atonement” (or reconciliation) in those two groups of statements refers to different aspects of salvation from sin. In a similar way, the Word of God uses three different tenses (past, present and future) with regards to our salvation. It states that believers are already saved or were saved in the past tense, it says they are being now saved in the present continuous tense, and it also states they will be saved in the future. Does it prove the Bible contradicts itself? No, it only points to the fact that it refers to different aspects of salvation from sin. We have been already saved (past tense) from punishment and condemnation of sin (justification) because we are in Christ and not under the law but under grace; We are being delivered from the power of sin (from sinning) now in the present continuous tense (which is our continuous process sanctification); And finally, in the future, we will be saved, delivered from the presence of sin (from our sinful nature and the indwelling law of sin and selfishness) at the second coming of Christ (glorification). And it is exactly the same when we deal with the subject of atonement, which is synonymous with salvation from sin, and involves different aspects of the sin problem. MEANING OF THE WORD “ATONEMENT” SDA theology places a significantly broader definition on the word “atonement” than do other denominations. For most Christians, the word “atonement” means the work of Christ on the cross. For most of Adventists, the word atonement means two things: the atonement of the cross, and the final atonement. The atonement of the cross refers to the fact that at the cross “God was in Christ reconciling (atoning) the world to Himself” (2Cor 5:19Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). It means that at the cross God actually saved all sinners (the entire world) in Jesus from condemnation, and therefore, in this sense, the atonement was finished at the cross. That is why Lord Jesus cried out, “it is finished”. However, this salvation (atonement) is not automatically enforced upon anyone, because it is a gift and as it is with any gift, in order to enjoy it and make this salvation effective, it must be accepted with true faith which makes such believer spiritually alive (born from the Spirit). On the other hand, the atonement that was accomplished at the cross didn’t completely solved the problem of the power of sin and believer’s slavery to sin, the still ongoing presence of the sinful nature (including the “law of sin”) in the believers. The cross didn’t also solved the issue of responsibility for introducing sin in the perfect and holy universe and previously sinless planet earth, and responsibility for leading born again Christians to sin. It is the final atonement that is going to deal with these aspects of sin. And that is the very reason why both the Bible as well as Spirit of Prophecy (Ellen White) clearly suggest that the atonement in this sense is not complete yet. The final atonement refers to the time when God will clean us and entire universe from every aspect, effect and trace of sin, bringing the entire universe into perfect harmony as it was before sin appeared. Since Jesus’ death on the cross did not bring the universe into perfect harmony we can say that in a sense the atonement is not complete, and therefore, the same Savior continues His atoning work now in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary until it is finished in due time. However, speaking of the atonement in the sense of salvation from the condemnation and punishment for sin (from eternal death) which brings the sinner assurance of salvation, it is perfect, fully complete, and nothing can be added to it. The only thing we can do is to make sure we are born from the Spirit (spiritually alive) by accepting Christ’s cross and righteousness as our only ticket to heaven by true faith, and according to the Bible, we also must maintain the true faith till the end. Therefore, since there are certain aspects of sin the atonement which our Savior accomplished at the cross didn’t deal with it is not a denial of the cross to teach that Jesus continues His work of atonement in heaven. www.salvation1.com/articles/was-the-atonement-complete-or-not-complete-on-the-cross/
Ellen White I've been told could be heard from a half mile without a Mike or amplifier but we are difficult to hear a foot away from a microphone amazing facts.
Good Job Pastor Joe. The TRUTH is not popular, Enter by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Mathew 7:13 Lord, Let us all be more bold in our teaching about what happens to you when you die. If we stay silent when people speak false doctrine, then our silence is actually agreement.
Thank you Jesus for your goodness and kindness and love you give to each and every one of us. And thank you for my precious church family. God bless each and every one of you. Merry Christmas to all.💗🙏💗
Now we believe! Wonderful caption.
Thank you Pastor Joe for such an encouraging message. May God continue to bless our church. And may Jesus come soon!🙏💙🙏💙🙏
YOU WANT JESUS TO COME BACK?? ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE READY ?? "When any have sins remaining upon the books of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be BLOTTED OUT of the book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book of God's remembrance. The Lord declared to Moses: “Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book.” Exodus 32:33. " GC 483 "Sins that have NOT been repented of and forsaken will NOT be pardoned and blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness against the sinner in the day of God. He may have committed his evil deeds in the light of day or in the darkness of night; but they were open and manifest before Him with whom we have to do. Angels of God witnessed each sin and registered it in the unerring records. Sin may be concealed, denied, covered up from father, mother, wife, children, and associates; no one but the guilty actors may cherish the least suspicion of the wrong; but it is laid bare before the intelligences of heaven. The darkness of the darkest night, the secrecy of all deceptive arts, is not sufficient to veil one thought from the knowledge of the Eternal. God has an exact record of every unjust account and every unfair dealing. He is not deceived by appearances of piety. He makes no mistakes in His estimation of character. Men may be deceived by those who are corrupt in heart, but God pierces all disguises and reads the inner life." GC 486 DO YOU FORGIVE? ARE YOU PURE IN HEART,MEEK?? ARE YOU HOLY Heb 12:14
I DOUBLE DARE any reader to get JOE MARTIN to read my post on HOPE below!!!!!!!!!!
hear a bit.
HOPE???? READ ROMANS 5:4 and 1 JN 3:3!!! GET REAL!!
Please PRAY for ALL of the POORLY TRAINED & POORLY SUPERVISED SDA conference, pastors and sabbath school teachers who are infected & suffering from "here a little, there a little" bible ADVENTITIS!!
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Thank you and God bless all. ❤🙏❤️
finally I found it.
29 seconds?
EMPTY church due to the "SHAKING"
The video now serves as a security device
SDA pastors need to understand what BROW-BEATEN" means!
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What a wonderful message for our time. The message and back story was shared at our church in Arizona by one of your members and we followed up to listen. Praise God! The Holy Spirit is working in your church and we shared the message with friends in California and Idaho to receive the blessing as well.
Your message started out so beautiful with Bible passages, why did you change and say we need to read another book, the Great Controversy to unmask all Satan's lies. Are you saying we can't find that in the Bible? I love your messages and then you get off track and lead people away from the Bible, God's word to a human that has proven she is not consistent! That she says one thing then a few verses over contradicts what she just said, plus contradicts what Gid says in the Bible..Why turn the people from God's word to hers?? I just don't understand...
You stated , 43:11 when Christ's character is perfectly reproduced in us, then He will return? that's not scriptural! Matt. 23:14 says: "and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Why do Adventists keep quoting from a woman and books that are in direct opposition to God's word?
You quoted EGW in Christs Object Lessons: when the character of Christ shall be perfectly ... then He will come for His own. Sir, that contridcts the Scripture Matt. 24:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come." Can you explain this please..
HAPPY SABBATH
wonderful to hear Norm Haas sing. He's still has an awesome talent. Thank you,
All the time
Amen3
Pastor Joe u the man!
Then began men to call on the name of the Lord.
Well done brother.
My heart is singing for my grandson, Michael, as he publicly makes his decision to follow Jesus. Praise the Lord for these 3 new "sons and daughters of God."
I praise the Lord for this beautiful church family! God bless all!! And thank you for all the beautiful testimonies! God bless you all and thank you Pastor Martin for your faithfulness!!
Romans 14 New International Version The Weak and the Strong 14 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. 5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. PARAPHRASE: SDA's have NO AUTHORITY to prescribe anyone else's diet, nor anyone else's day of worship! They are living in rebellion, to this new testament guidance.
Thank you for repeating this message Pastor Martin. God bless you and may God's healing hand be upon your wife Eva. And all those who are I'll. Happy Sabbath to all!!🙏🙏🙏
As i have read in Spirit of prophecy, Jesus says we must be born again every day. Because everyday is a new day. Every day we sin, everyday we must confess your sins. Every day we must be changed into Christ's likeness. We must become less, that he may become greater still, inside of us. We must experience His power everyday.
Happiness to your sabbaths
Loveland s.d.a.church
I’ve read all 5 books of the Conflict of the Ages series and they are a tremendous blessing and gift from God.
As a born again Christian we believe the atonement was finished on the cross . When my Lord and Savior The king of kings and Lord of Lords Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross willingly for the forgiveness of our sins . The Bible is clear on the subject Salvation is based upon Gods grace and the shed blood of Jesus . On the cross as Jesus was on the cross Jesus said it is finished . Meaning Jesus shed blood was the atonement for our sins he payed the price and settled our sin debt . Salvation is based upon Gods grace you cannot earn it or work for it or be justified by the Law . It is based on grace alone and not works . The apostle Paul said we are not justified by the works of the law but by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ . The thief on the cross did nothing to deserve salvation but by grace alone and repenting the thief on the cross said Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom . Jesus said today you shall be with me in paradise . Salvation is based upon faith alone in Christ alone and the Holy Bible is clear we are justified by grace . We cannot earn salvation or work for it because it is a free gift . It is grace by which we are saved thru faith in Jesus not by how much law we can keep . And anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved Romans 10:9 . Salvation is a choice each person has to accept that Jesus made possible . I personally believe Ellen white is a false prophet the world today is full of them preaching another gospel . Jesus warns us about false teachers with false doctrines I say this respectfully by the way . The Doctrine we follow can be the difference in heaven and hell . People can believe as they choose I personally choose to believe the Holy Bible and what it teaches about salvation by grace alone and faith alone in Christ . The sin debt was paid totally at the cross Jesus shed blood was the atonement for our sins . All we have to do is accept the free gift of salvation and ask Jesus to save us and make Jesus Lord of our lives .
WAS THE ATONEMENT COMPLETE OR NOT COMPLETE ON THE CROSS? The evangelical Churches furiously attack Adventist doctrine about Christ’s ministry in the heavenly sanctuary because they believe it denies the fact that the atonement was complete at the cross. To prove their point they quote the following scripture: “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation” (Romans 5:9Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) 11Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). Also even among Seventh-day Adventists, there are two groups that oppose each other with regards to the understanding of Christ’s atonement (reconciliation). Some of them claim the atonement was finished at the cross while others oppose this idea because they believe it contradicts the truth about Christ’s atoning work in the heavenly sanctuary which hasn’t finished yet. This lack of unity has been also contributed by the fact that in both, the Bible and Ellen White’s writings, we can find two groups of statements that seem to contradict each other, as they state that the atonement was complete and at the same time suggest it wasn’t complete. ELLEN WHITE QUOTES SUGGESTING THAT THE ATONEMENT WAS COMPLETED AT THE CROSS “[Christ] planted the cross between heaven and earth, and when the Father beheld the sacrifice of His Son, He bowed before it in recognition of its perfection. ‘It is enough,’ He said. ‘The atonement is complete’” RH September 24, 1901, par. 11. “Our great High Priest completed the sacrificial offering of Himself when He suffered without the gate. Then a perfect atonement was made for the sins of the people” 7BC 913.3. “Christ’s sacrifice in behalf of man was full and complete. The condition of the atonement had been fulfilled. The work for which He had come to this world had been accomplished” AA 29.2. “When Christ on the cross cried out, ‘It is finished,’ He addressed the Father. The agreement had been fully carried out. Now He declared, ‘Father, I have completed the work of redemption.’ ‘I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am’.” (John 17:24Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). Desire of Ages (498) “The Lord would have His people sound in the faith-not ignorant of the great salvation so abundantly provided for them. They are not to look forward, thinking that at some future time a great work is to be done for them; for the work is now complete” 1SM 394.3. ELLEN WHITE QUOTES SUGGESTING THAT THE ATONEMENT WAS NOT COMPLE AT THE CROSS “Instead of … Daniel 8:14Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) referring to the purifying of the earth, it was now plain that it pointed to the closing work of our High Priest in heaven, the finishing of the atonement, and the preparing of the people to abide the day of His coming” (Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 58). “Jesus entered the most holy of the heavenly (sanctuary), at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel 8, in 1844, to make a final atonement for all who could be benefited by His mediation” (Early Writings, p. 253). “Our Saviour is in the Sanctuary pleading in our behalf. He is our interceding High Priest, making an atoning sacrifice for us, pleading in our behalf the efficacy of His blood.” Fundamentals of Christian Education, 370. “Today He [Christ] is making an atonement for us before the Father. ‘If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.’” Manuscript 21, 1895. “As in the typical service, there was a work of atonement at the close of the year, so before Christ’s work for the redemption of man is completed there is a work of atonement for the removal of sin from the Sanctuary. This is the service which began when the 2300 days ended.” Great Controversy, 421. IS THERE A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THESE TWO GROUPS OF STATEMENTS? Well, the answer to the question lies in the fact that those two groups of statements appear as if they contradict each other only because they deal with different aspects of Christ’s atoning ministry. The word “atonement” (or reconciliation) in those two groups of statements refers to different aspects of salvation from sin. In a similar way, the Word of God uses three different tenses (past, present and future) with regards to our salvation. It states that believers are already saved or were saved in the past tense, it says they are being now saved in the present continuous tense, and it also states they will be saved in the future. Does it prove the Bible contradicts itself? No, it only points to the fact that it refers to different aspects of salvation from sin. We have been already saved (past tense) from punishment and condemnation of sin (justification) because we are in Christ and not under the law but under grace; We are being delivered from the power of sin (from sinning) now in the present continuous tense (which is our continuous process sanctification); And finally, in the future, we will be saved, delivered from the presence of sin (from our sinful nature and the indwelling law of sin and selfishness) at the second coming of Christ (glorification). And it is exactly the same when we deal with the subject of atonement, which is synonymous with salvation from sin, and involves different aspects of the sin problem. MEANING OF THE WORD “ATONEMENT” SDA theology places a significantly broader definition on the word “atonement” than do other denominations. For most Christians, the word “atonement” means the work of Christ on the cross. For most of Adventists, the word atonement means two things: the atonement of the cross, and the final atonement. The atonement of the cross refers to the fact that at the cross “God was in Christ reconciling (atoning) the world to Himself” (2Cor 5:19Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). It means that at the cross God actually saved all sinners (the entire world) in Jesus from condemnation, and therefore, in this sense, the atonement was finished at the cross. That is why Lord Jesus cried out, “it is finished”. However, this salvation (atonement) is not automatically enforced upon anyone, because it is a gift and as it is with any gift, in order to enjoy it and make this salvation effective, it must be accepted with true faith which makes such believer spiritually alive (born from the Spirit). On the other hand, the atonement that was accomplished at the cross didn’t completely solved the problem of the power of sin and believer’s slavery to sin, the still ongoing presence of the sinful nature (including the “law of sin”) in the believers. The cross didn’t also solved the issue of responsibility for introducing sin in the perfect and holy universe and previously sinless planet earth, and responsibility for leading born again Christians to sin. It is the final atonement that is going to deal with these aspects of sin. And that is the very reason why both the Bible as well as Spirit of Prophecy (Ellen White) clearly suggest that the atonement in this sense is not complete yet. The final atonement refers to the time when God will clean us and entire universe from every aspect, effect and trace of sin, bringing the entire universe into perfect harmony as it was before sin appeared. Since Jesus’ death on the cross did not bring the universe into perfect harmony we can say that in a sense the atonement is not complete, and therefore, the same Savior continues His atoning work now in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary until it is finished in due time. However, speaking of the atonement in the sense of salvation from the condemnation and punishment for sin (from eternal death) which brings the sinner assurance of salvation, it is perfect, fully complete, and nothing can be added to it. The only thing we can do is to make sure we are born from the Spirit (spiritually alive) by accepting Christ’s cross and righteousness as our only ticket to heaven by true faith, and according to the Bible, we also must maintain the true faith till the end. Therefore, since there are certain aspects of sin the atonement which our Savior accomplished at the cross didn’t deal with it is not a denial of the cross to teach that Jesus continues His work of atonement in heaven. www.salvation1.com/articles/was-the-atonement-complete-or-not-complete-on-the-cross/
Loveland SDAChurch of the new year
Takes good sense to preach given by the mind of Jesus a sermon with this name an answer to prayer.
Ellen White I've been told could be heard from a half mile without a Mike or amplifier but we are difficult to hear a foot away from a microphone amazing facts.
Jesus is there seen days a week I need Him at rest and at work the Sabbath is a good day but better with having God's presence always.
great to be able to see/hear our pastor even if I am not able to be there.
The audio is bad. It sounds as if people are gargglig under water and they need to speak up, we cannot hear what is said. Have a good day.
Amen!
too quiet
Can you tell me plainly about THE FATHER?
happy sabbath
Good Job Pastor Joe. The TRUTH is not popular, Enter by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Mathew 7:13 Lord, Let us all be more bold in our teaching about what happens to you when you die. If we stay silent when people speak false doctrine, then our silence is actually agreement.
Good sermon Joe!!
Good Morning Dan