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Circumstances and Consequences

Seminar 216-03
June 3-6, 2009
Seminar Topic:

The Two Witnesses – Part III

Larry Wilson

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The Ten Commandments

 

Hebrew 8:10   “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

 

Hebrews 8:11   No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

 

Hebrews 8:12   For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

 

When God’s law is written in the hearts and minds, here’s the result:

 

Psalms 40:8   I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.

 

During the Great Tribulation, God will fulfill this covenant.

 

He will take away our sinful nature and replace it with a sinless nature – like Adam and Eve had before the fall.”

 

This process is called “The sealing.”

 

Here’s the problem and the process:

1.   Every person will hear the demands of God once the 144,000 begin their work.

2.   Every person will have to decide whom they will obey: God or man.

3.   God will test every person to see if he is firm in his decision.

4.   God will remove the carnal nature from those who pass the test of faith and seal in them a sinless nature.

 

Hebrews 8:10   This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 

 

Hebrews 8:11   No longer will a man teach his neighbor or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

 

Hebrews 8:12   For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

 

1 John 3:2   Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is [meaning He will not have to hide Himself from us as He did with Moses].

 

Here’s an interesting matter:

 

At the present time, we can understand and love the law of God, but we are cursed with a carnal nature that fights selflessness. We have a carnal nature that loves selfishness and self-indulgence.

 

Me first.

 

Me most.

 

Me best.

 

Me is my first love and my number one concern.

 

Those who know and follow Christ hate their carnal nature, but like it or not, it is in us and it constantly contaminates us. It ambushes us, it torments us, it humiliates us, and it beats us up and mocks us.

 

It is our number one enemy.

 

God knows all about this.

 

He alone can fix the problem.

 

Through the ages, people have been led to believe they can overcome their carnal nature.

 

It is true that we can overcome certain temptations through the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

But, no one can consistently win the game of overcoming. No one ever has but Jesus.

Jesus lived without sinning.

 

We can’t do this. No one has ever done this but Jesus.

 

Yes, you might go a day or two without sinning (commission), but watch out, the carnal nature will ambush you before you know what hit you, you might sin (omission).

 

Sin can be:

 

An action

 

1 John 3:4   Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.

 

An act of omission

 

James 4:17   Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.

 

After being a Christian for 30 years, the apostle Paul lamented this ongoing conflict inside his body:

 

Romans 7:15   I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do.

 


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