God is love – we sing it, preach it and powerfully proclaim it, but for some people the question remains: ‘Does God really love me?’
The unequivocal answer is an emphatic ‘YES!’ answers Dr Patrick Johnson, a long-serving minister of the Gospel well-versed in Scripture, who has also been on his own faith journey and taken a long, hard look at this vital question for himself.
The question is, ‘What is God really like?’ Do the three angels’ messages of Revelation 14 show Him to be an angry, vengeful God, a God to be scared of? Or do they rather portray a God we can run to, a God who longs to protect us and save us . . . a God we can trust?
This question is of crucial significance, and the correct answer to it will have eternal ramifications for your own life.
Laying the foundation
- Why the three angels?
- Jesus’ methods
- Audience
- Questions for discussion
>Section one– the first angel
The first angel’s story – judgment is good news
- Who is on trial?
- How are we judged?
- What’s God’s main objective? 32 What does His posture say about Him?
- Conclusion
- Questions for discussion
Going deeper – the investigative judgment
- Which judgment is being referred to?
- What is the sanctuary?
- What is recorded in the books of heaven?
- What would need cleansing?
- 1844
- Conclusion
- Questions for discussion
>Section two – the second angel
The second angel’s story – the system is broken
- Arbitrary power
- Force
- Anger and fear
- Conclusion
- Questions for discussion
Going deeper – the end of sin
- God is a consuming fire
- Eternal torment
- Conclusion
- Questions for discussion
Going deeper – the law of God
- What is love?
- The law of love
- The law of worship
- The law of trust
- The law of the Sabbath
- Conclusion
- Questions for discussion
>Section three– the third angel
The third angel’s story – what’s the worst thing God can do?
- Jesus in the garden
- Jesus on trial
- Jesus on the cross
- Conclusion
- Questions for discussion
Going deeper – the experience of salvation
- Salvation = reconciliation
- Sacrifice
- Ransom/redemption
- Acquittal in court
- Revelation of God’s character
- Conclusion
- Questions for discussion
Ending
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