Seventh Day Adventi

st #Realtalk
What it takes being a BELIE
VER
• You will experience/suffer persecution.
Matthew 10:22 "and ye shall be hated of all men for
my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shal
l be saved"
Paul's Demonstration: Charac
teristics of True Believers
• True believers were delievered from spiritual death.
Eph. 2:1 "As for you, you were dead in your transgres
sions and sins"
•Death "Separation"
•Transgression "Committed in open violation of a kno
wn law"
SABBATH
• Exodus 20:10-11 "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD
thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor t
hy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:For in six days the LORD
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and reste
d the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day,
and hallowed it."
• Exodus 31:14-15 "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is hol
y unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death:
for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off fr
om among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seve
nth is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any
work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death."
Before the sabbath
begins the mind as
well as the body sh
ould be withdrawn
from worldy busine
ss. We should each
sabbath reckon wit
h our souls to see
whether the week t
hat has ended has
brought spiritual ga
in or loss. (6T 356.
3)
Those who are not fully
converted to the truth, f
requently run their min
ds freely upon world bu
siness, And although th
ey may rest from physic
al toil upon the sabbath,
their tongue speak out
what is in their minds; h
ence these words conce
rning cattle, crops, losse
s and gains .All this is sa
bbath breaking. (Gospel
Workers 92 208.1)
The Church Yesterday and Toda
y
• No buying on sabbath- many justification (Food)
• Sabbath is sunset to sunset- today until second serv
ice only)
• Preparation for the sabbath (food, shoes,Clothes, a
nd household needs)
• No secular activities on sabbath
-Reading Newspaper (facebook, etc.)
-Business talks (Livelihood)
The Church Yesterday and Toda
y
• No to dancing
• No movie (going to cinema)
• No secular songs in church- upbeat religious songs
are acceptable
• No recreation on sabbath- sleeping time
• Church discipline. No more reminders and ensure f
or erring members. "There are no more sins in the c
hurch"
"Breaking One means breaking Ten"
James 2:10 "For whosoever shall keep the whole law,
and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Matt. 5:19 "Whosoever therefore shall break one of t

hese least commandments, and shall teach men so, h
e shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:
but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same sh
all be called great in the kingdom of heaven.