Amazing Facts

• Most of the time, people try to find time in their busy schedule for God.  For the converted man, the Sabbath is their schedule
• The Sabbath is not a rule – it’s a blessing!
• Matthew 15:3 – “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
• Matthew 15:8-9 – “These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.  And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men

Amazing Facts – session 27

http://www.bibleuniversity.com/Video/CourseID2/NR27.asx

• God forgives all types of sin – except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
• Jesus is a better savior than you are a sinner
• Ask God to reveal your sins to you – and then confess and forsake (repent)
• When God calls you, drop everything and obey, because He may not call you again
• When His Spirit is in you, it’s time to listen – the Spirit may quiet
• By persistently ignoring God, you grieve away the Holy Spirit
• Don’t wait until the rain starts to enter the boat – the door will be closed
• When God leads you to salvation, don’t even look back
• Walk in the light and God will provide more light
• Walk in the light – don’t just look at the light
• The sin God will not forgive, is the sin that you will not repent for
• Adultery can begin with just a lingering look
• When you reject truth, you reject Christ
• How would you act if you knew that Jesus was returning next week?
• Sanctification is a process – Give us this day our daily bread (‘I am the bread of life’)
• When Satan knocks, let Jesus answer the door

Amazing Facts – session 26

http://www.bibleuniversity.com/Video/CourseID2/NR26.asx

• We love God because He first loves us
• You can’t obey God if you don’t love God.  You can’t love God if you don’t know God.
• All love relationships need commitment (loyalty) and trust
• Our sins separate us from God – we naturally run from God
• Sin pleasure is temporary
• The Holy Spirit represents tremendous power;  God gives it for obedience and a pure heart
• God’s principles are for our protection and for our enhanced happiness
• If you’re truly a Christian, there’s a transformation that has and is taking place.  The things you used to love, you may now hate, and the things you hated you may now love.
• Stay as far away from the world as you can – don’t tip-toe with it
• Why would you want to fool around with playing on the edge of the will of God, when you could be so close to "falling off the cliff" and back into the world
• Proverbs 23:7  –  As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
• You become what you worship
• Music that you’re attracted to isn’t necessarily right for you – would Jesus listen to it?  Are the words and the music godly?
• Dancing is not evil – as long as it’s the type that you can do with the same sex (man with a man, woman with a woman – or not sexually oriented)
• Do the movies you watch, music you listen to, the way you dance make someone question your spiritual commitment?
•  People should not notice what is on a Christian, they should notice what’s in a Christian – even jewelry is worldly.  The purpose for clothing is modesty, not display.  Does God want us to wear our money?
• You would not even enjoy Heaven unless your heart is pure
• Act in love for God – make choices because of your love for God

Amazing Facts – session 25

• All (100%) of our resources (time and money) belong to God (we are ‘holding’ God’s possessions – He has entrusted us with His resources).  He asks us to show that we believe that by asking for 10% of our money and one day per week.
• Purpose of the tithe is to support God’s work through ministry
• The more that God can trust you to give, the more He will provide for you to give
• Sea of Galilee – full of life, fresh, resources in and out
• Dead Sea – dead, stagnant, resources only flow in
• Christians are meant to be channels
• Every time you give, you are starving the selfishness of your nature
• 90% of your money that God blesses goes a lot farther than 100% that’s cursed
• Trust the Lord – He will provide
• There is a biblical difference between tithes and offerings
• Tithes are commanded at 10%
• Offerings are the resources above and beyond the 10%
• Give so that people enter the Kingdom
• How much is a soul worth?
• God does not give us money to make us ‘successful’.  He blesses us with resources to relieve suffering
• Christians should earn all they can, save all they can, and give all they can
• Giving must be of the right heart – cheerful – not out of necessity or grudgingly
• Give God your very best – sacrificially – not your leftovers – don’t tip God
• Possessions can be converted into souls
• Malachi 3:8 – Will a man rob God?
• For a person who makes $50k per year, it takes faith to tithe $5k.  However, it takes no faith at all for a person who makes $200k per year to tithe $5k.  The ‘wait until I have more to give’ holds no weight
• God would perform incredible miracles for us if we’d only allow it
• Seek first His Kingdom and righteousness, and He’ll take care of your needs
• Wherever your treasure is, is where your heart is.  Don’t sit on your heart (wallet)

Amazing Facts – session 27

• God forgives all types of sin – except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
• Jesus is a better savior than you are a sinner
• Ask God to reveal your sins to you – and then confess and forsake (repent)
• When God calls you, drop everything and obey, because He may not call you again
• When His Spirit is in you, it’s time to listen – the Spirit may quiet
• By persistently ignoring God, you grieve away the Holy Spirit
• Don’t wait until the rain starts to enter the boat – the door will be closed
• When God leads you to salvation, don’t even look back
• Walk in the light and God will provide more light
• Walk in the light – don’t just look at the light
• The sin God will not forgive, is the sin that you will not repent for
• Adultery can begin with just a lingering look
• When you reject truth, you reject Christ
• How would you act if you knew that Jesus was returning next week?
• Sanctification is a process – Give us this day our daily bread (‘I am the bread of life’)
• When Satan knocks, let Jesus answer the door

Amazing Facts – session 24

• There are a multitude of doctrines because people follow pastors rather than the Word of God
• Law and Prophets
• Jesus asks Christians to love one another
• The gift of prophecy is likened as to the eyes in the body of Christ
• A church without its eyes (prophecy) is blind 
• Christ is coming back for a church that is very like the church He left behind
• Before Jesus returns, there will be prophecy 
• Paul speaks of prophecy as preaching (one type of it)
• A true prophet:
  • Lives a godly life
  • Is called by the Lord
  • Speaks and writes according to scripture
  • 100% accuracy
  • Will have visions and/or dreams
• God doesn’t need more money or methods, He needs better men and women
• God works through people 
• Ellen White is the 4th most published writer of all time
• Frauds are usually greedy

Amazing Facts – Christian Media Ministry – 1/3/09

• In the beginning, the truth was communicated orally
• Then truth was communicated through His word
• Two types of communication from God:
  • General revelation
    • Nature (from microscopes to telescopes)
    • Providence (through things that happen – God’s appointments)
  • Special (prophetic) revelation
    • Dreams
    • Visions
    • Angels (face-to-face)

Amazing Facts – session 23

• The woman is the church
• The moon represents the Old Testament (the foundation of the church – Rev 12)
• Third part of heaven being cast to earth represents fallen angels (a 3rd of angels)
• 7 horns, ten heads = holy roman empire
• Bread represents the Word
• The only reason to join a church is because it is built upon the rock of the Word of God and Gospel of Christ
• A Christian without a church is like a nose without a body
• Whenever you find new light, there is always an initial struggle (imagine a bright light suddenly shining on you in a dark room – it takes time to adjust)

Amazing Facts – session 22

• Prophecy symbols:
  • Woman = Church
  • Harlot = Adulterous woman (unfaithful church)
  • In prophecy, King = government
  • Day = literal year
• Pure woman in Rev 12 is God’s chosen church
• Beast ridden by the woman is Rome
• All deception is cloaked in good truth
  • The hook is disguised by bait
•  Babylon = Confusion (languages)

Amazing Facts – Lesson 21

• There are two beasts (world superpowers) spoken of in Revelation.
• Roman papacy
• 7 heads and 10 horns
• 538-1798 (42 months)
• 538 = papacy gained an army
• 1798 = Deadly wound by the sword (Word of God – reformation),
• U.S.A. became recognized by the world as an independent nation in 1798
•  Rises up out of the sea
• Characteristics of a lamb and the Roman dragon
• Two horns like a lamb (freedom of religion and freedom of government – no pope, no king), but no crowns
• Will speak ‘as a dragon’ – will make laws governing how and when people will worship, just like in the Dark Ages.  A government speaks with its legislation
• Doug talked about the upcoming economic crisis
• It will make an image to the beast – not a statue – but laws and legislation