Now I'm going to come back to Luke chapter 16 at a later point in the sermon.
But what I want to preach about tonight is the false religion of the seventh-day Adventists.
And this is something that I've never really covered in the last seven and a half years
that I've pastored and I believe that it's my job as a preacher to expose false teachers
and false religion.
You know, the Apostle Paul talked about false teachers of his day, Hymenaeus, Alexander,
Pilate, and he said, For many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even
weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose
God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly thinks.
So Paul was often warning of false teachers and false prophets.
John did the same thing in the book of 1 John, in the book of 2 John, 3 John.
He's constantly warning about false teachers and false doctrine.
The seventh-day Adventists are a particularly dangerous group because on the surface they
look a lot like Baptists.
I mean, they look a lot like they have the same beliefs that we believe and what they
want you to think is that the big difference is that they're meeting on Saturday and we're
meeting on Sunday.
But let me tell you something, there's a lot more difference than that.
And in fact, in my sermon tonight, I'm not even going to talk about the fact that they're
on the seventh day, because you know what, that's the least of their problems.
Honestly, I don't even think that that's that big of a deal or even that important.
I mean the Bible says, one man esteemeth one day above another, another man esteemeth every
day alike, let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
And honestly, you can say till you're blue in the face, well Saturday's the Sabbath day,
the word Saturday is never even found in this book one time.
So I mean, you could just sit there and say, well the week starts on Monday and Sunday's
the seventh day of the week.
I mean, how can you really prove it any differently?
You say, well, and I've told that to Seventh-day Adventists and they said, well every calendar
in the world starts on Sunday and ends on Saturday.
Oh, I guess you've never been to Germany.
I guess you've never been to Norway.
I guess you've never been to Europe because in Europe calendars start on Monday and end
on Sunday.
And so, you know, all the Bible is saying is six days shalt thou labor, the seventh
is a Sabbath of rest unto thee.
I don't think it's really that important.
I don't think it's really a big deal.
We're probably not on the same weeks as the creation week.
So who knows which, you know.
But either way, I don't even want to talk about that.
I'm not interested in that subject.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
And you know, whenever I try to give the Gospel to people that are not saved, that are Seventh-day
Adventists, they always just want to get on that topic.
That's all they want to talk about is that Sabbath and Saturday.
But you know what, let's just not talk about that tonight.
Because I'm going to show you the false doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist church.
And this is not just something that they're being accused of.
This is directly from their website.
I mean, I went to Adventist.org, the official Seventh-day Adventist website, and I looked
at their fundamental doctrines and I'm going to prove to you how unbiblical and unscriptural
they are.
And I'm going to use a lot of Bible tonight, but before I get into the Bible, I just want
to give you the history of where this religion came from.
I'm going to give you the history, then I'm going to go through the beliefs, not from
some site that's making things up, but from their own website, showing you their false
doctrine and destroying it with the Bible.
It all goes back to the 1830s to a man named William Miller.
And this guy William Miller, in 1833, he started preaching that Jesus Christ was for sure going
to come back in either 1843 or 1844.
He said there's no doubt about it, I mean the Bible proves it, and he based it all on
a scripture in Daniel chapter 8 that talks about the temple being cleansed after 2,300
days.
And he said, well that actually is 2,300 years, and he did all this math, and he said Jesus
Christ will return in either 1843 or 1844.
This guy became a really popular preacher, he started having all kinds of followers,
and they started putting out all kinds of literature promoting this doctrine that, you
know what, the end is near, Jesus is coming in 1843 or 1844.
In May of 1843, there were already 21,000 copies of the various Millerite papers being
published each week.
21,000 of these newspapers are going out every week about how Jesus is coming in 1844.
In New York alone in the five month period ending April 1843, 600,000 copies of various
publications were distributed.
In December of 1843, a million tracts had gone out.
In 1844, May, they announced that 5 million copies of these Millerite newspapers and publications
have gone out.
This was a pretty big movement, I mean this is huge, right?
Five million documents are going out to all these different people, there's like 44 different
newspapers and magazines.
Well you're not going to believe this, but in 1844, Jesus didn't come back.
He never showed up, okay?
So then they kept pushing the date back, you know, it was like first it was going to be
March, and then it got pushed back to April, you know, and then finally it's like they
put everything into this date, October 22, 1844.
This is like the final date, it's for sure going to happen.
They ramped up the printing presses, they put out even more literature, and then this
has gone down in history as the Great Disappointment, when October 22, 1844 rolled around and nothing
happened.
Okay, so when nothing happened, finally a lot of people just became disillusioned with
Miller and decided, you know what, this is a fraud.
So they disbanded, he lost a lot of followers, but a lot of people just couldn't let it go.
They just are going to keep following this guy, William Miller, you know?
So they kind of broke into three groups, okay?
One of the groups said, well, on October 22, 1844 something did happen, just up in heaven.
The door was shut, quote unquote, and they said no one can ever get saved after October
22, 1844.
Okay, that was one group.
Another group, and Miller himself subscribed to that for like a few weeks, and then he's
like, no, that's weird, okay.
So then the second group, the second group just kind of said like, well, you know, we're
still going to keep following Miller, but we don't really know what's going on with
that date.
We're just kind of still waiting, maybe we just calculated a little wrong, and they just
kind of just stayed with Miller and just whatever, okay.
But then a third group broke off and said, you know what we believe is that basically
when Daniel chapter 13 and 14 talked about after 2300 days the sanctuary would be cleansed,
actually they said it's the sanctuary in heaven that would be cleansed.
So here's what this third group taught.
They taught that Jesus in 1844 on October 22, he went into the holy of holies in heaven
and started cleansing it.
And I mean he's still cleansing it.
I mean that's a serious cleaning project, and not only that, not only has he been up
there, but they said that he started doing this investigative judgment.
So the judgment of the saved began in 1844.
Look all it is, folks, is that it was a fraudulent date that was made up, that was not biblical,
nothing happened, so then they just made it up.
Well okay, Jesus in heaven went into the holy of holies and started judging Christians.
And he's still doing it to this day, and as soon as he's done, I guess that's when they
think the second coming of Christ is going to happen.
But it's been a long time now that he's been doing this thing.
But look, there's no basis in scripture for that.
What does the Bible teach that, you know, after 1800 some years of Jesus Christ having
risen from the dead, all of a sudden he goes into the holy of holies and starts cleansing
it?
Why did he even need to be cleansed?
What are you talking about?
I mean the Bible's clear in the book of Hebrews that Christ has already entered into the holy
place, he's already sprinkled the blood on the mercy seat, he already did all that.
He didn't start doing it in 1844 just because your false prediction of Christ's return didn't
happen.
And look, that third group became the Seventh-day Adventists.
Now before that they were just known as the Adventists.
All of the Miller followers were kind of known as the Adventists.
And Advent means coming.
You know, Christ's second Advent means his second coming.
And the reason they're called Adventists is because they said he's coming back in 1844.
So even their name just reveals the fraud that they have subscribed to, because to this
day they're called Adventists, and now they'll tell you, oh we just believe Jesus is coming
back.
And you're usually called that because you say he was coming back in 1844.
That's why you were called an Adventist.
We all think Jesus is coming back, my friend.
You were called an Adventist because you say he's coming back in 1844, and it never materialized,
so you just made up a doctrine, just completely unscriptural, just oh he started this new
ministry of investigative judgment starting in 1844 because of the great disappointment.
Now out of that third group, there was a person who became a very preeminent person
in that third group, one of the top leaders, and that person was a woman named Ellen G.
White.
Her and her husband James White and a few other people were some of the key leaders
in this early Adventist movement that came out of this great disappointment, fraud, that
they continued believing in, even though it never materialized.
And from 1844 to 1863, Ellen G. White experienced between 100 to 200 visions.
So this woman, right after this fraud, she started having all these visions, 100 to 200
of them, typically in public places and meeting halls, and sometimes they usually occurred
at her house at night.
Now here's how someone described her visions.
This guy was in her presence 50 times while she had these visions.
His name was J.N. Loughborough, and this guy was with her, and so here's how he described
these visions.
Okay, so first of all, in passing into vision, she gives three enrapturing shouts of glory,
glory, glory.
But the third is fainter and more thrilling than the first, okay?
And her voice resembled one quite a distance from you just going out of hearing.
For a few seconds she would swoon, having no strength.
Then she would be instantly filled with superhuman strength, sometimes rising to her feet and
walking about the room.
She frequently moved hands, arms, and head in gestures that were free and graceful.
But to whatever position she moved to hand or arm, it could not be hindered nor controlled
by even the strongest person.
In 1844, she held her parents' 18.5 pound family Bible, that's a big Bible, 18.5 pounder.
She held out this 18.5 pound family Bible, oh sorry, in her left hand, that's even harder,
in her outstretched left hand for half an hour, and she only weighed 80 pounds.
So she just held it out there, so this is like her superhuman strength.
Listen to this, she did not breathe during the entire period of a vision.
Listen now, settle down folks, she did not breathe during the entire period of a vision
that ranged from 15 minutes to 3 hours.
So this woman literally, she wouldn't breathe for 3 hours, just no breathing, okay?
Now yet her pulse beat regularly, and her countenance remained pleasant, as in the natural
way, but she's not breathing for up to 3 hours at a time, okay?
I think I read this in the Bible, right, when the prophets had visions how they would like
stop breathing for 3 hours, hold books out.
But anyway, it says, number 4, her eyes were always open without blinking.
No breathing, I mean think about this.
I can't really demonstrate it, but anyway, her head was raised looking upward with a
pleasant expression as if staring intently at some distant object.
Several physicians at different times conducted tests to check her lack of breathing and other
physical phenomena.
She was utterly unconscious of everything transpiring around her and viewed herself
as removed from this world and in the presence of heavenly beings.
When she came out of a vision, all seemed total darkness, whether in the daytime or
a well-lighted room at night, she would exclaim with a long-drawn sigh as she took her first
natural breath, D-A-R-K, and then she would be limp and lifeless after spelling the word
dark, really loud and then falling over.
So oh by the way, Mrs. Martha Amidon added, there was never an excitement among those
present during a vision.
Nothing caused fear.
It was a solemn, quiet scene.
So all the spectators were very quiet and respectful during this whole process.
Okay, so during her lifetime, Ellen White wrote more than 5,000 periodical articles,
40 books, and reported over 2,000 visual or aural paranormal experiences, most of which
she was convinced were communications with supernatural entities, angels, Jesus.
She wrote over 50,000 pages, 50,000 pages this woman authored.
And the Seventh-day Adventists believe that this woman was a prophetess of God and was
inspired by God and that what she said and what she wrote was inspired by God on par
with the Bible.
Okay, now listen.
I'll prove that to you.
Now you've got to be careful because the Seventh-day Adventists will try to downplay.
They'll say, oh well, you know, yeah, we believe in the teachings of Ellen G. White, but they
say but the Bible's our final authority, you know.
Anything that Ellen White says has to line up with the Bible.
Now on the surface that sounds, oh okay, you know, it's just a teacher that they like.
But wait a minute, it goes deeper than that.
Let me, let me explain it to you.
First of all, this is directly from their website.
If you go to their website under fundamental belief number 18, it says, one of the gifts
of the Holy Spirit is prophecy.
This gift is an identifying mark of the remnant church and was manifested in the ministry
of Ellen G. White.
As the Lord's messenger, her writings are a continuing and authoritative source of
truth.
Did you hear that?
Her writings are authoritative source of truth which provide for the church comfort, guidance,
instruction, and correction.
They also make clear that the Bible is the standard by which all teaching and experience
must be tested.
That's the whole thing of number 18 of their fundamental belief.
Now think about this now.
We believe that the New Testament is the Word of God, right?
It's inspired by God.
All scripture is given by the inspiration of God and we believe that the New Testament
is the Word of God inspired by God.
But wouldn't you say this, that the New Testament has to agree with the Old Testament, right?
And that if the New Testament contradicted the Old Testament, we'd say, well something's
wrong, something's a fraud.
Okay, that's all they're saying about Ellen G. White.
They're just saying, well what she said has to line up with the Bible.
Just as we would say, well the New Testament has to line up with the Old Testament.
Or the book of Jeremiah needs to line up with the book of Isaiah because if there's a contradiction
it's not God's Word.
But look, they are saying that her writings are divinely inspired and that they are authoritative
and that they are the Word of God.
The visions that she had are the Word of God according to Seventh-day Adventists.
So they'll try to kind of spin that.
And say, well yeah, you know, we believe in her writings, but only so long as they
line up with the Bible.
Except guess what, they believe all of them line up with the Bible.
Because they believe that they came through visions directly from God where angels are
speaking to her and Jesus himself is speaking to her.
Therefore they put these writings, it says it right on their website, that they are authoritative
sources of truth.
So their authority is not only the Bible, it is also the teachings of Ellen G. White.
Now look, just on the surface from what I read to you, doesn't it sound like kind of
a hokey source to believe in?
From just what I read to you?
Just on the surface.
But not only that, if we look at her doctrines and her teachings, they contradict clear scripture.
And I'm going to get into four major, major contradictions with scripture in the teachings
of the Seventh-day Adventists and the teachings of Ellen G. White that prove that she was
not receiving these revelations from God.
Is there major contradictions of the Word of God?
But before I get into that, I just want to cover the issue that this religion is basically
looking to a woman as their leader, as their founding figure, as their authority.
I mean as this messenger from God.
I mean they believe that in the end times, God sent a woman to give all these volumes,
I mean look, how many pages, thousands of pages, that all these thousands of pages of
the scripture that they consider authoritative came through a woman preacher, a female preacher
who preached and stood in church and taught the Word of God and wrote all these writings.
Now here's the thing, a lot of people will point to the fact that well, in the Bible
there are some women who are called a prophetess, so therefore there's no big deal about Ellen
G. White being a prophetess in the modern era.
But here's what you have to understand.
There are two things that are contained in the Bible.
Stories and statements.
Everybody got that?
The Bible contains a lot of stories and the Bible contains a lot of statements.
Now look, what do you think we should look to first as our clearest instruction from
God?
A story or a statement?
Statement.
For example, we've got a lot of stories about people marrying multiple wives, but we have
a clear statement saying that a man and woman, that they too shall be one flesh.
And we have a clear statement saying not to multiply wives.
So just because we see a story of multiple wives and that's what people who condone polygamy,
that's how they justify it.
Abraham did it is what they say, even though that's debatable whether he had multiple wives.
David did it, Solomon did it, but that doesn't make it right.
So just because there were female prophetesses in the Bible, that does not mean that that
was God's perfect will being carried out.
That doesn't mean that God wanted it to be so.
Now let's get a clear statement from the New Testament on whether this Ellen G. White was
legitimate to be basically their authority preaching and teaching God's word, being their
main teacher.
I mean, she is their main preacher and teacher.
I mean, if I said, associate a name with Seventh-day Adventists, you're not going to say William
Miller, you're going to say Ellen G. White.
That's the name that is associated.
Look, on their whole website, in their whole statement of faith, that's the only person
that's brought up by name that they look to as a prophet.
Ellen G. White is the only prophet mentioned under section 18, the spirit of prophecy.
Go to 1 Corinthians 14, let's get a clear statement from the New Testament on whether
this woman was legitimate as a preacher.
Was she sent from God to straighten out the churches?
Was she sent from God to bring in new doctrine and to basically restore, according to them,
you know, Christians as a remnant to the doctrines of God?
Is this how God works?
Let me ask you this, is any part of this book written by a woman?
Was Genesis written by a woman?
Was Exodus written by a woman?
Okay, let's not go through the whole list, but you get the idea.
They weren't written by women.
I'm not down on women, I'm not against women.
I think women can be greatly used by God, but I do not think that God uses women to
found churches and found religions and to pen scripture.
I don't believe in it.
I don't believe that God desires women to be leaders of the New Testament church.
I don't believe it, okay?
The Bible says clearly in 1 Corinthians 14, 34, let your women keep silence in the churches,
for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience
as also saith the law, and if they will learn anything, let them have visions where they
don't breathe for 15 minutes and they'll learn something.
No, it says if they'll learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is
a shame for women to speak in the church.
And so right here we see clear statement from God, and this is never contradicted.
Never did God say, I want women to preach in the church.
Now of course God commands women to give the gospel to the lost out in the highways and
hedges, out amongst the unsaved to open the Bible and give the gospel to the lost.
Every man, woman, boy, and girl can do that, but in the church who teaches?
Men.
In the church who leads?
Men.
The Bible says that they are to keep silence, to be under obedience, and to ask their husbands
at home, because it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Why are the 7th of the Adventists not ashamed of a woman speaking in the church?
It's a good question.
She being dead yet speaketh.
Look at 1 Timothy chapter 2, 1 Timothy chapter 2, the Bible is real clear on this subject.
1 Timothy chapter number 2 verse 11, let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Let me read it again.
This is not Pastor Anderson being a jerk, this is Pastor Anderson reading the Bible.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor do you serve authority over the man, but to be
in silence.
Okay, it's really clear.
And if we look at every mention in the Bible of a prophetess, which I did in preparing
this sermon, you've got Miriam, the prophetess.
Now look, where did Miriam lead a great movement?
Where did Miriam teach new doctrine?
Where did Miriam stand up in a New Testament church and preach?
Where did she lead the Old Testament church in the wilderness anywhere, or teach them
anything?
I mean, all she did, the only time we see her prophesying, is when she basically just
sings a song.
In Exodus 15, she sings a song about the fact that they were delivered from the Egyptians
and the Red Sea.
She just praises God.
That's her prophesying, it's just praising God.
Later she challenges Moses' authority and is struck by God with leprosy.
Not one that was a leader ordained by God.
God ordained Moses to lead, not Miriam.
Then we see in Judges chapter 4, Deborah the prophetess.
Again not a leader of men, not a great public figure.
Now the Bible says she judged Israel, but here's the thing.
When it came time to do the office of a judge and to deliver the people, she called Barak,
and I'm not going to call him Barak, I don't care what anybody says, but she called Barak
and she told Barak, you're supposed to do it.
She told him to lead, him to take the public leadership, and he was basically timid and
cowardly to do it, so Barak said, I'm not going to go unless you go with me.
So then Deborah told him, she said, well I'll go with you, but because of your, and I'm
paraphrasing, but because of your faint heartedness here, you're not going to get the glory for
the victory, the victory is going to go to a woman.
Now look, was that woman Deborah?
No.
Her husband was Jael, because what happened is Sisera, the leader of the enemy host, in
the midst of the battle, he escaped.
He fled away on foot, he ran away, and Sisera, he came to the tent of Jael, her husband was
an ally of Sisera, but she didn't like Sisera.
So he came in and he asked for water, she gave him milk, she brought forth butter in
a lordly dish, she treated him nice, fed him and put him in bed and patted him and kissed
him on the cheek, then when he fell asleep, she came back with a tent spike and a hammer
in her hand, and Jael hammered that spike through his head and killed him.
So basically it goes down in history that he was defeated by a woman.
So look, can you see here how it was God's will, in fact, God is using Deborah the prophetess,
listen to me now, to rebuke Barak, because God's will was that a man would go and lead
and fight the victory, and basically when that man failed to do so, basically his punishment
was he's not going to get the victory, and his punishment was that our horrible president
would be named after him.
I mean think about it.
I mean I think if Barak would have had the guts to do what he was supposed to do, he
probably wouldn't have an idiot like Obama named after him, but because of his cowardice
and his weakness and his lameness, he had to be named after this president, this joke.
So here's the thing, and he lost the victory because Jael got the glory of killing the
enemy.
He didn't do it.
Barak is not a cool guy.
That's why no one names their kid Barak, except crack whores or whatever.
That's the only person who names their kid Barak that I've ever known.
But anyway, so here's the thing, they name their kid after some of the other judges.
They might name their kid Peter, James, and John, but they're not going to name their
kid Barak or Barak.
But anyway, what I'm saying is that that wasn't God's perfect will.
That was the children of Israel in disobedience, and Isaiah 3.21 teaches that when God's people
are in disobedience, part of that judgment is that women and children will rule over
them.
That's not God's perfect will though.
Again don't go with the story, go with the statement.
The statement says that men should lead.
Have women led throughout history?
Yes, but was that God's perfect plan?
Is that what God had in mind?
No, it was a result of failure of man.
The failure of men to lead.
And by the way, who do we blame for women taking over in America?
The men.
Men are stronger than women.
Therefore if women are ruling over us today in America, whether it's in your own house
or your own bedroom or whether it's in the White House or whether it's in Congress, it's
because you failed.
We failed because it's men that are to blame.
If you blame women, you're a weakling.
It's men's fault.
We allowed it to happen, period.
Men became sissy and emasculated and effeminate, women take over.
It happened in the Bible, it's happening today.
Does that make it God's will?
No.
And does that mean in the New Testament God's going to send some female prophet to straighten
us all out and write 500,000 pages that we're supposed to accept as God's word or up there
with God's word or, hey look, authoritative source of truth.
No.
It's not biblical, I don't believe in it.
Some of the other, I've got to hurry up, I'm running out of time, I'm on the first point.
But there are other mentions of prophetesses, hold of the prophetess.
This is a time when they couldn't even find a Bible in the children of Israel.
They're searching, they can't find a Bible anywhere.
Finally they're like, we need to inquire of God.
All they can find is a prophetess that's living in some college and they go to her.
Hold of the prophetess, okay.
Then we see a prophetess, Noah-diah, in the book of Nehemiah.
This was a wicked prophetess that was preaching lies and false doctrine.
Her name was Noah-diah.
Then we see that, of course, King Lemuel receives prophecy from his mother, which is
basically just giving him advice on not drinking and not being around the wrong kind of women.
Then we see in the New Testament, Luke chapter 2, Anna the prophetess, again not a leader
of men, again not preaching to great crowds, just a woman who just prays in the temple
and says some things about baby Jesus.
And then we have, of course, Jezebel the prophetess in Revelation 2, another false
prophetess.
So look, I don't see anything in any of those stories that contradicts the clear teaching
of scripture, or the fact that some of the early deacons, their daughter was called a
prophetess.
I don't see anything that contradicts when the Bible says let women keep silence in the
churches.
I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence.
So let's go into some of the key false doctrines of Ellen G. White.
Let's just go through the four biggest ones, just to prove that this was not of God.
Number one is that she taught the indivisibility of the body, mind, and spirit.
Here's from their official fundamental beliefs, and you say well why is that important?
Well you're going to see why, it's very important.
So listen to this, under fundamental belief number seven from their own website, The Nature
of Man, it says man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality.
First of all, that's already false, because the Bible teaches that man was made in the
image of God, that woman was not made in the image of God, because if you study 1 Corinthians
11, it says men should have short hair because they're made in the image of God.
And then in the Genesis account, it says, so God created man in his own image, in the
image of God made he him, male and female created he them.
Anyway that's not a big deal, but it's just something that's not right.
But anyway, man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality.
And you say well why is that important?
Because God is a man.
So if man's made to look like God, or man's made in the image of God, if you say woman's
made in the image of God, it's like you're saying that God is both man and woman and
he's not.
God looks like a man.
He doesn't look like a woman.
He's Jesus, the man Christ Jesus, okay?
But anyway, it says this, man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality,
the power and freedom to think and to do.
Though created free beings, listen to this, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind
and spirit.
So they're saying that the body, the mind and spirit cannot be divided.
Now the reason that this doctrine is so important is because this leads to two other of their
major false doctrines, soul sleep and annihilation, okay?
And this is where it all goes back to, this indivisibility of the body, soul and spirit.
Now let me ask you this, is it biblical to say that the body and the spirit cannot be
separated or that the body and the soul cannot be separated?
Well James 2.26 says, for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works
is dead also.
Now that right there defines death as being the body without the spirit.
See when the spirit leaves the body, the body is dead.
They're saying, well the body and the spirit can't be separated.
It's what Ellen G. White taught.
Now, how many times in the Bible, I don't have time to read all these, but when the
Bible wants to tell us that somebody died, you know how it says that they died?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve times in the Bible.
If it wants to say so and so died, you know what it says twelve times?
He gave up the ghost.
You know what ghost means?
Spirit.
He gave up the ghost.
As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
That's why when it says that Abraham gave up the ghost, the spirit left his body.
He gave up the ghost.
Now, it says in Acts chapter 2.31, he, seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of
Christ that his soul was not left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption.
Now look, was Jesus' body in hell?
But the Bible says his soul was in hell.
His body was where?
In the tomb.
Now, in the story that we read in Luke 16 about the rich man and Lazarus, remember how
the rich man went to hell?
And remember how Lazarus was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom?
Let me ask you this.
Was their body carried there?
No.
Because look, when somebody dies, their body is still here.
We bury it.
It doesn't go anywhere, does it?
I mean, when somebody dies, do they just magically disappear like a sci-fi movie?
They just kind of fade away and they're gone, you know?
No, when somebody dies, their body remains.
And what the Seventh-day Adventists teach is that, well, the body and the spirit cannot
be separated.
Can you show me that in the Bible?
No, you can't.
I can show you 12 times where somebody gave up the ghost.
I can show you where Jesus gave up the ghost.
I can show you where Abraham gave up the ghost.
I can show you where the body without the spirit is dead.
And that's exactly consistent with giving up the ghost.
I can show you where Jesus' soul was in hell, but his body was in the tomb.
So this indivisibility of the body-minded spirit is a false doctrine.
It leads to two other false doctrines.
The first is soul sleep.
Go to Philippians 1, Philippians 1.
Now look, they teach that her writings are authoritative sources of truth.
Why are they teaching things that are contrary to the Word of God?
Why are they being brought by a female preacher when that's not how God ever worked in the
Bible in the past?
To bring major revelations, to lead new movements, to start churches?
Didn't happen.
Why is it contradicting the Bible on the divisibility of the body, mind, and spirit?
Why is she teaching soul sleep?
Soul sleep is a doctrine that says, well, when you die, you're just completely unconscious.
You're just...
Like you know how your body's just laying there?
Like you go to a funeral and the body's just laying there?
The soul sleep doctrine basically teaches that your spirit and soul are right there
with it, just laying there, just unconscious, just gone.
Let's see if that's consistent with what the Bible teaches in Philippians 1.21, for
to me to live is Christ and to die is gain, but if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit
of my labor.
Yet what I shall choose I want not, for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire
to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better, nevertheless to abide in the flesh
is more needful for you.
Now look, living here is being compared to abiding in the flesh, right?
I mean look at these scriptures, 21 through 24.
If you're alive, you're abiding in the flesh.
You're living in the flesh, right?
If you depart, that's death, because he said for me to live is Christ, to die is gain.
For the believer, death is a departure.
It's a departing to be with Christ.
Let me ask you this, is the body departing?
No.
But the soul departs to be with Christ.
He didn't say I have a desire to lay in the earth.
I want to lay in the earth sooner, because I'm just sick and tired of living, I just
want to lay there already.
Now you know, you need me here to abide in the flesh with you, but I just want to lay
in the earth already.
No, he said I have a desire to depart to be with Christ, because departing is departing
what?
Departing the flesh.
Departing up the ghost.
Departing to be with Christ is far better than living on this earth.
That's why to die for the believer is gain, because we'd rather depart the body, depart
the flesh, be with Christ, but he said I need to abide in the flesh to help you.
Look, this is not what Ellen G. White taught.
It's not consistent with scripture.
Here's another scripture that defeats soul sleep, and there are many, I'm just showing
you a few.
Turn to 2 Corinthians 5.
While you're turning there, I'll start to read it, verse 6, therefore we are always
confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
Now look, is that saying, man, we're never going to be separated from this body?
No, while we're at home in the body, we're absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith
not by sight, we are confident, I say, and willing, rather to be absent from the body
and to be present with the Lord.
Look, how can we be absent from the body if their fundamental belief, number 7, says that
it can't be divided?
How are you absent from the body and present with the Lord?
Doesn't make any sense, because it's not biblical.
And he says, wherefore we labor, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
Go to Luke 16, Luke chapter 16 is another place where we see people departing their
bodies.
We see a rich man die, he departs the body, and he goes to hell.
We see Lazarus die, he departs the body, he goes to be with the Lord in heaven.
And he is leaning upon Abraham's bosom, Abraham's bosom is a body part, not a place.
A bosom is a body part.
Look it up every time it's used in the Bible.
It is not a place, it is a body part.
Okay, John leaned on Jesus' bosom at the Last Supper, okay, all throughout the Bible, I
don't have time to go into that, but anyway, the 7-day Adventists teach a false doctrine
known as annihilation, and I think this is probably one of the most serious of their
false doctrines.
It's a very serious doctrine, because what they teach with this doctrine of annihilation
is they teach that hell doesn't last forever.
In fact, they don't even believe that the unsaved even go to hell when they die, they
believe that they just sleep, you know, because there's no separation of the body.
But that at the second resurrection, they believe that that's when people will be cast
into the lake of fire, cast into hell, and that they will just burn up.
Like they just burn up and it's over.
Now where they get this doctrine is not through scripture, but rather through logic.
They use logic saying, well, if you're in hell and you're consciously existing for hundreds
of years, that means you're alive, according to them.
According to them, if you're in hell, existing consciously, that's eternal life.
That's the immortality of the soul.
And by the way, is this sounding familiar with the Jehovah's Witnesses?
That's because the Jehovah's Witnesses pretty much just took everything the Seventh-day
Adventists taught and just took it further.
See honestly, the Jehovah's Witnesses are just the Seventh-day Adventists times two.
You know, the Seventh-day Adventists are like halfway between a Baptist and a Jehovah's
Witness.
You know, that's why it's a little bit harder.
Like you look at a Jehovah's Witness and you're like, whoa, their doctrine is really bad.
Seventh-day Adventists, it's a little easier for them to creep in, kind of like, yeah,
I'm just like you, we're like you, we believe in the same stuff as you, it's just that whole
Seventh-day thing.
No, it's more than that.
It's that woman who didn't breathe for three hours that we have a problem with.
You know what, you want to, hey look, you want to put your feet up all day Saturday
and take it easy?
More power to you.
It's that woman who didn't breathe, that 80-pound woman who didn't breathe for three hours and
that held a gigantic Bible out like a body builder for 30 minutes straight and taught
that you can't separate the soul from the body and hell's not eternal and soul sleep
and all this unbiblical junk.
That's what we have a problem with.
In this story, and we already read the whole chapter at the beginning of the sermon, but
we see this guy, and I'll just quickly touch on it, but he basically says in verse 24,
look at verse 23, in hell he lift up his eyes being in torment and seeth Abraham afar off
and Lazarus in his bosom and he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and
send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am
torment in this flame.
Look this back in Jesus' day.
There's already somebody in hell.
He's already burning in hell.
Look, this isn't something that you just get thrown in, you burn up and it's over.
This guy's begging for a drop of water.
He's tormented, ongoing in the flame.
Now Seventh-day Adventists, go to Revelation 14.
Seventh-day Adventists will say, well that's a parable.
Here's the thing, parables are used to teach some truth.
What truth is that teaching us?
What does that represent?
I mean, if you have a parable, it represents something, you know, okay the sower, he sows
the word, the seed represents the word of God, the different types of ground are different
people who hear the word of God.
Okay, what does a guy on fire begging for a drop of water represent?
Saying, go back.
Go back.
And you say, well, no, no, Jesus is just time warping.
He's talking about stuff.
No, no, no, he's telling him go back and talk to my brethren that are still alive on the
earth right now so that they'll get saved.
I mean, look, there's no way around it.
This guy's in hell, he's got brethren on this earth that he wants saved.
He's trying to send Lazarus, it's all passive.
First of all, no parable ever uses a name.
Parables are always just like a certain man.
Here he says a man named Lazarus, it's a real guy.
But look, if it's a parable, what does it represent?
I mean, what does it represent?
Ongoing pain and suffering, on fire, burning.
What does that represent?
Laying in the dirt, asleep.
I mean, when I'm asleep, I'm not begging for, I'm not one of these people that gets up and
gets a drink of water every five minutes all night.
You know how people do that?
I don't do that.
If you think that's what this parable represents, you're crazy, alright?
But anyway, look at Revelation 14, verse number 10.
It says, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without
mixture into the cup of indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of their lamb, and the smoke
of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day nor night,
who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever would see what the mark of his name."
Oh, you say it's symbolic.
Of what?
You have people being tormented day and night, they have no rest, it goes on forever.
What does that represent?
Just being gone?
It's not a very good representation if it represents annihilation.
I'm not seeing it, my friend.
Let's just take it for what it says.
People are going to burn in hell forever, and they're going to be tormented forever,
they're going to suffer forever.
Look, Jesus taught this.
He said, if thy hand offend thee, cut it off, it is better for thee to enter into life maimed
than having two hands to go into hell in the fire that never shall be quenched.
He said, well, you know, the fire is never going to be quenched, but they burn up.
Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
You know, that's the worms that shall feed sweetly on them.
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, it's better for thee to enter into the kingdom
of God with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
Matthew 18, 8, you don't have to turn there, wherefore if thy hand or foot offend thee,
cut them off and cast them from thee, it is better for thee to enter into life hauled
or maimed rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Matthew 25, 41, then shall ye say also unto them on the left hand, depart from me, ye
curse it into everlasting fire, prepare it for the devil and his angels, no, no, no,
Pastor Angel, you don't get it.
It's just the fire that's everlasting, but the people burn up.
Okay, then why did he say in verse 41, I'm sorry verse 46, these shall go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.
Look, what does everlasting punishment mean?
It's a punishment that lasts forever.
I mean that's what it says, that's what the Bible says.
Go to Revelation 20 and let's examine this faulty logic that the Seventh-day Adventists
use, not a Bible verse, but rather just logic, to say, well, if they're in hell burning,
that means they're alive.
If they're conscious, that means they're alive.
If they're burning, they're alive, and therefore that would be eternal life.
And we know that only the saved, because Ellen G. White claims that she got this doctrine
from John 3.16.
That's where she says she got it.
Ellen G. White says, well, I got the doctrine of annihilation from John 3.16, because it
says, you know, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
And if the people are burning in hell, that's not perishing, they're still alive if they're
burning in hell.
But let's see if the Bible agrees that a person who's burning in hell is still alive, because
that's what she says.
That's her logic.
Look, what does perish mean?
Perish just means die.
Don't get some complicated definition of perish.
When the Bible says perish, it means die.
So you're not going to die, but you're going to have everlasting life.
But she says, oh, but if you're burning in hell, if you're conscious, if you're speaking,
if you're feeling the pain, she says you're alive.
Let's see what the Bible teaches, Revelation 20.12.
And I saw the what?
Look at Revelation 20.12.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.
Well, if you're standing before God, you're not dead, you're alive.
If you're standing before God being judged, no, the Bible says you're dead.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and
another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those
things which were written in the books according to their works, and you say, well, they came
back to life.
No, listen, the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up
the dead which were in them, and they were judged out of a man according to their works.
Look, when the people are in hell, they're called the dead, and when they're brought
out of hell, they're still dead.
And when they stand before God, they're the dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
They're not alive, but just, well, I think that if they're talking, there must be death.
No, I don't care what you think.
You don't even know what death is.
Death is when the spirit is a part of the body.
That's physical death.
Physical death is when the spirit departs the body.
That's the death of the body.
The body dies when the spirit leaves the body.
You know how the soul and the spirit dies?
By going to hell, because when it goes there, it's considered dead.
Doesn't mean they're not conscious.
Doesn't mean they're not begging for a drop of water.
You say, I don't get it.
Well, it doesn't matter whether you get it.
Some people don't get things just because they're not saved, and the natural man receiving
not the things of the Spirit of God, their foolishness on him, neither can he know them
because they're spiritually discerned.
Look, the body, the soul, and the spirit, and the concept of eternal damnation, eternal
death, eternal punishment, eternal suffering in hell, whether you understand it or not,
it's a doctrine of the Bible.
We've just seen several scriptures that very clearly laid it out.
And look at Revelation 20.10.
While you're in chapter 20, it says, and the devil that deceived them was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are.
Now they were cast in a thousand years earlier.
It says they are still there.
These guys have been in hell for a thousand years, and listen to this, and shall be tormented
day and night forever and ever.
Now look, isn't the beast the man of sin?
Any human being?
Okay, what about the false prophet?
Was he a human being?
Yep, and where have they been for a thousand years?
The lake of fire.
It says they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.
There's no annihilation in this verse.
Not only that, but the devil is going to be tormented forever and ever.
You know what?
Not the Jehovah's Witnesses, although they're very similar.
The Seventh-day Adventists believe that the devil will also be annihilated and cease to
exist.
They don't even believe he's getting punished forever.
They don't even believe the Antichrist is getting punished forever.
They think everybody's just toast, annihilated.
And then the fourth doctrine, so just to give you a quick review of just really bad doctrine,
the indivisibility of the body, soul, and spirit.
No way to reconcile it with scripture.
Foreign to scripture.
Soul sleep, foreign to scripture.
Annihilation, not biblical.
But lastly this extra biblical doctrines that just have no base in the Bible like this investigative
judgment starting in 1844.
Just a cover up for a fraudulent date setting.
I mean Harold Camping said some date that didn't happen.
I mean look, people do this because it gets people all excited and they sell everything
and they donate and they put out five million papers.
I mean look, if William Miller hadn't have said Jesus coming back in 1844, we wouldn't
even know his name.
He wouldn't have had five million pamphlets go out.
These guys are just frauds that just do it for filthy lucre's sake or just fame, glory,
I don't know.
I don't know why they do it.
Here's just some weird stuff too, just some other weird quotes by Ellen G. White.
And by the way, here are some quotes what she said about hell.
How repugnant to every emotion of love and mercy and even to our sense of justice is
the doctrine that the wicked dead are tormented with fire and brimstone and eternally burning
hell, that for the sins of a brief earthly life they are to suffer torture as long as
God shall live.
Oh, it's so repugnant to my sense of judgment.
I don't care what your sense of justice is.
God's the judge.
Not you, Ellen G. White.
But I saw, this is one of her visions, remember?
But I saw that God would not shut them up in hell to endure endless misery, neither
will he take them to heaven, for to bring them into the company of the pure and holy
would make them exceedingly miserable.
He doesn't take them to heaven because he doesn't want them to be miserable, but he's
not going to send them to hell either.
But he will destroy them utterly and cause them to be as if they had not been.
Then his justice will be satisfied.
He formed man out of the dust of the earth and the disobedient and unholy will be consumed
by fire and returned to dust again.
That's not biblical doctrine.
This is not what the scripture teaches.
Ellen G. White is therefore a false prophet.
Just some other weird things that they teach is that they teach that Jesus is Michael the
archangel, sort of like the Jehovah's Witnesses, because a real big part of Seventh-day Adventist
belief is what's called the Great Controversy, that all of human history and all of the creation
is this battle between Jesus and the good angels and Satan and the bad angels, but in
the Bible it's Michael and his angels that fought against the dragon.
The dragon fights against the dragon.
So they fix that by just saying, well Michael and Jesus, you know, same thing.
Well no, Jesus is not Michael the archangel.
It's not biblical doctrine.
And then here's a really weird quote.
Let me just close on just a really weird quote from Ellen G. White.
Listen to this.
"'But if there was one sin," this is about the people before the flood, "'but if there
was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood,
it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God and
caused confusion everywhere.
Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in the ark.
The confused species which God did not create, which were the result of amalgamation, were
destroyed by the flood.
Since the flood, there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen in the almost
endless variety of species of animals and in certain races of men.'"
What?
What are you talking about?
First of all, amalgamation is a word that's not about people or animals.
It's about mixing metals together.
You know, who's ever heard of teeth fillings that are called amalgam, right?
Umm, it's when you mix metals.
So she's using a word that is not the right word, okay?
And this is, you know, I mean this is authoritative source of truth, my friend.
"'The problem before the flood was the amalgamation of man with animals, and it created all these
weird species of animals that God did not allow onto the ark.
But then after the flood, there's been more amalgamation, as can be clearly seen in all
the species of animals.'"
I mean, you can clearly see that there are a lot of species of animals that God just
didn't make, right?
I mean, right?
We can all see that, right?
What?
No.
Well, what about those certain races of men?
You know, where you're kind of like, is there an animal mixed in there?
What in the world are you talking about?
And then when you bring this up to Seventh-day Adventists, they'll just say like, oh, well
she wasn't a racist because she was against slavery and she loved black people.
But wait a minute, she's still writing this weird stuff.
I'm not saying she's a racist, I'm saying she's a lunatic.
I'm not saying she's racist, I'm saying she doesn't know what amalgam means, or what amalgamized
means, or what amalgamation is, or what in the world is she talking about animals being
amalgamated with humans?
Before and after the flood.
Look, I thought the big sin was violence.
That's what the Bible said.
The Bible said, read Genesis 6, he said, I'm going to destroy the earth because the whole
earth is filled with violence.
He says it's violent.
That's what the Bible, it doesn't say, I'm so tired of these weird species of animals.
You know what I mean?
What in the world?
I mean, a duck-billed platypus?
Are you serious?
I mean, what in the world?
I mean, God's up in heaven.
You think I created a duck-billed platypus?
Are you not an anteater?
Are you serious?
I mean, what else did God not make?
What in the world?
Okay, look, if this is who you want to follow, if this is who you think, I mean if you just
say, Pastor Anderson, you're wrong, Ellen G. White had the spirit of prophecy, you know,
October 22nd, 1844 was legit, Jesus is cleaning up that sanctuary right now, he's doing an
investigative judgment on your life, indivisibility of the body, soul, and spirit, soul sleep,
no hell that's eternal anyway, and you know, mixing of animals and people as can be seen
in some races.
I mean, come on, it's the elephant in the room, folks.
We all see that animals, you know, like, you know, I don't know, chihuahuas, I mean, what's
going on with, God didn't create that, okay, I mean, if you're going to put, if you want
to follow this woman, this prophetess, then you know what, you need to go join the Seventh
Day Adventist Church, because they are following this woman and her teachings and her writings,
they consider them an authoritative source of truth.
Now let me ask you this, do you believe that Seventh Day Adventists are pretty much like
Baptists at the end of the day?
Now look, I didn't even get into the fact that every single scripture that I found on
their website was from the NIV.
That's a bad sign.
I mean, I went to their page on what Adventists believe and it's all NIV scriptures, I went
to their official statements of the church on social issues, you know, and I mean, I
could go on and on.
I mean, I have all kinds of information here about the Seventh Day Adventists, but I think
you get the idea, friends.
Now a lot of people will say, but wait a minute, Pastor Anderson, are the Seventh Day Adventists
saved?
Are any of them saved?
Because you know, when you talk to them, you'll say salvation by faith and they're like, amen?
You say you can't lose your salvation and a lot of times they'll be like, yep, you can't
lose it.
It's almost like they talk out of both sides of their mouth because on parts of their website
they're saying it's by faith and you can't lose it, but then on other parts, although
they never really came out and said you couldn't lose it, but they just made it sound that
way, but when you look at other parts of their website, it's like, well Jesus in 1844, he's
seeing who's keeping the commandments.
He's seeing who's keeping the Sabbath.
He's going to decide who's really saved and who's really going to make it into that kingdom
of God.
So it's kind of like on one end they're saying it's by faith, but by the way, every time
they say it's by faith, they always say, well, but you know, the works, it's evidenced by
the works.
You have to have the works or it proves you don't have the faith.
So they kind of water it down.
But then on the other hand, it's like Jesus is up in heaven investigating us on whether
we're keeping the Sabbath.
And then the other thing that they often in their publications talk about is they say
that worshipping on Sunday is the mark of the beast.
So if it's just believing in Christ is going to save you, but then it's like, well if you're
worshipping on Sunday, you're receiving the mark of the beast, it's kind of like, okay
is salvation by grace through faith or not?
But you say, Pastor Anderson, you know, is a seventh-day Adventist saved?
Well I'll, let me put it to you this way.
Let me just put it to you this way, okay?
If you confront a seventh-day Adventist with these scriptures or with this sermon that's,
you know, giving these scriptures, and if you open your Bible and show them the clear
scripture about the Spirit departing the body multiple times, show them the clear scripture
about Paul departing to be with Christ, departing to be with God, and they look at that and
say, I'm still going to go with my seventh-day Adventist belief, that person's not saved.
Because that shows you where their faith and trust is.
Look, if your faith and trust in the Bible, when somebody shows you something crystal
clear in the Bible, you're going to believe it.
Because he that is of God heareth God's words, ye therefore hear them not because you're
not of God.
So if you can sit there and just show them these clear scriptures and they walk away
saying, nope, I still believe in annihilation, I still believe in soul sleep, I still believe
in the indivisibility of the body, soul, and spirit.
All that comes down to is just that the Bible isn't what they're trusting.
Ellen G. White is who they're trusting.
The seventh-day Adventist religion is who they're trusting.
They do not have the Spirit of God.
Taking them into all truth, they don't hear God's word.
They're listening to the voice of strangers.
Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice.
A stranger will they flee from, for they know not the voice of strangers.
Listen to me.
Ellen G. White is a stranger.
She did not bring the message of the shepherd.
She brought a false message, a false doctrine, okay, that on the surface, look, everybody
claims they believe it's by faith on the surface.
When the rubber meets the road with these people, it's like, are you keeping the Sabbath
or what?
That's where the rubber really meets the road with these people, you know, since 1844.
That's what Jesus is looking at, and he's looking at your works, he's looking at that
pork sandwich that you ate, he's looking at your clam chowder, and he's not impressed.
And also she promoted being a total vegetarian, not just a, you know, I thought they just
abstained from pork.
She promoted being a total vegetarian, which, and again, I'm not against you if you're vegetarian,
that's fine if you want to be a vegetarian, but you know what, the Bible does not teach
you to be a vegetarian.
The Bible teaches you to also eat meat, that's why you have fangs in your mouth, you know.
But anyway, the Bible clearly commands people to eat meat in certain places, you know.
So what I'm saying is that, you know, all this dietary stuff that she had, and she said,
you know, a lot of the stuff she said was good for your health, like, sunshine and fresh
air and exercise and clean water.
Oh wow, you're a genius, you must add a revelation from God.
Wow, you must be getting visions from the Almighty if you figured out that sunshine,
clean water, and fresh air are good for you.
Oh, you figured out that, you know, alcohol and drugs are bad for you?
Okay, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
So look, obviously I believe in being healthy too.
You know, I mean, okay, so what?
But you know what is more important than bodily exercise?
You know, being exercised unto godliness and following the scripture.
And so, you know, the Seventh-day Adventist religion is a false religion, and it is, you
know, when you talk to Seventh-day Adventists, here's my advice to you, this is just my personal
opinion, that was all Biblical doctrine, here's my personal opinion.
When you talk to Seventh-day Adventists, get off the Seventh-day thing.
That's not their, I don't care.
I mean, look, go to church on Thursday.
You know, who cares?
I mean, that's not their biggest problem, folks.
And that's what they're going to try to talk about.
I always try to get right off that and I always get right on the subject of heaven and hell.
That's where I go.
I go straight to the subject of salvation by grace through faith and eternal life and
if they say, oh yeah, that's what I believe, you know what, I show them clear scriptures
on soul sleep, clear scriptures on hell, clear scriptures on dividing the body and the soul.
You know what?
That's their problem.
That's more important.
That's just my opinion.
I think you're going to make more progress with them than just arguing about Saturn-day
versus Sunday.
You know what I mean?
It doesn't really matter.
You know what I mean?