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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