Taking God's Three Angels Messages as Medicine for Your Life Today
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The First Angel's Message
The Everlasting Gospel: Today I thank God for His everlasting
covenant, the intention of His heart before the world began, to save me
through the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Because of Christ's redemption, I
am a new creation
of infinite worth. I am deeply loved,
I am completely forgiven, I am fully pleasing,
I am totally accepted by God.
I am absolutely complete in Christ.
As a child of God, fully acquitted and adopted into His family, I
will…
- Fear God: The power of
the fear of God overcomes all other fears - fear of failure, fear of
punishment, fear of the judgment, and fear of the future. I reject the
lies of Satan that I must by my own good works earn salvation and avoid
punishment. I accept the truth that Christ's atoning death for me is
sufficient to save from all sin.
- Give glory to Him for the hour of His judgment is
come. Because of Christ's gift of salvation, I need not fear the
judgment. Therefore, I give glory to God because He has provided an
Advocate who took my place and who presents me faultless before God's
throne. I repent of detracting from God's glory by attempting to earn
salvation, which is His free gift to me. I acknowledge that legalism is
the adherence to standards for the purpose of exalting myself. With
Paul I declare "God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of
Christ my Lord" (Gal. 6:14). I will also seek to give Him glory
through unity with -and love for- fellow Christians (John
17:20-26). I believe that God is most glorified when I am most
satisfied in Him.
- Worship Him who made heaven and earth as I
rest on the Sabbath-day as His sign of the security of Christ's gift of
completed salvation for me - a true celebration that I am not saved by
mo won works, but by His work. I accept the truth that worship is the
God-ordained way whereby the fullness of heaven's resources flows into
my life to fill me to overflowing. When I worship I give a deposition
(testimony) to declare my agreement with the witnesses in heaven's
courtroom that…
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Worthy is the Lamb who was
slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and
strength,
and honor and glory and blessing. |
Jesus Christ can only
receive these as I give them to Him. Thus worship is
God's appointed path for the de-centralization of self, and for
the fullest realization a solid self-worth that comes from
'Christ-worth.' To worship is to serve God with my
praises and the needs of people with His sufficiency. I will daily
come before Him to receive the fullness of the benefits of His
covenant, His last will and testament.
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The Second Angel's Message
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Because Christ so loved me that He gave Himself for me, I no longer fear
rejection. In Christ I am fully accepted, and I renounce Babylon's
seductions of…
- Looking for love in all the wrong places.
- Trying to fill my cup from fountains that do not satisfy.
To "come out" of Babylon means that…
- through the power of the everlasting gospel Jesus sets me free from the bondage of arrogance and pride.
- I believe that Jesus Christ came to “heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free” (Luke 4:18,19), and I ask Him to heal all my hurts and fix all my broken places (Luke 4:18,19).
- I come out of the bondage of bitterness and unforgiveness by forgiving others as God has forgiven me. I give up my right to hurt those who have hurt me. Through the power of Christ
I break all strongholds of Satan over me as I escape the prison-like cycle of resentment, resistance, and rejection, which leads to rebellion, to experience genuine freedom.
- I reject Satan’s lies about God and about myself, and I replace these lies with God’s truths that set me free.
- I give up my dependence (addiction) on possessions, people, places, position, and power to satisfy my deepest needs.
- As I receive the gift of the Holy Spirit by faith, God pours His love into my heart. Because I experience the security and joy of being His special treasure,
I will, therefore, not need to look for love in the wrong places.
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The Third Angel's Message
I reject Satan’s lie that the Creator-Redeemer God is not an adequate God.
Because His Son Jesus Christ is more than all-sufficient, I choose not to seek personal
significance and identity through substitutes (idols) that do not satisfy. This means that…
- no longer will I seek to control others, nor will I use the methods of the beast
(force, fear, threat, coercion, intimidation, manipulation etc.) to do the work of the Lamb.
- to prevent Satan from gaining a foothold in my life, I will let go of anger and forsake wrath,
lest his footholds become strongholds that hold me captive.
- I will worship the Lamb as all-sufficient Provider and all-powerful King, and trust Him for everything,
relinquishing control through daily surrender to Him. When I worship the beast, I become beast-like. Any idol
(substitute or replacement for Jesus Christ) will eventually become a ‘beast’ that will destroy me and damage the lives
of others.
I will express my dependence on God's covenant by…
- The patience of the saints as well as patience with the saints, as I accept difficult situations without
giving God a deadline to remove them. I will trust God that all things
work together for good to those who love Him (Romans 8:28).
- Keeping the commandments of God, not to earn salvation, but to protect
the free gift of salvation already provided through His covenant. I will
not take pride in my law-keeping, but I will use the law a diagnostic tool
to daily show me my need of a Savior.
- The faith of Jesus as I confess that my salvation does not rest on my
performance of the terms of a contract, but is based on fully trusting in
Christ's covenant faithfulness.
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