Restoration: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:01 Okay again we thank you for joining us on another exciting session of being established in present truths remember in Ecclesiastes it says that God has a purpose he has a plan and he does it at the time and the seasons that he’s planned for it we also learned that the children of isachar had understanding of the times to know what Israel God’s people ought to do and God wants us to know in our generation what to do we’re going to be talking about restoration in this session we taught you in the last session that there was a great falling away that happened just before the uh well the restoration is going to take place just as the new nations.

▶ 0:54 Are uh discovered in Acts 3:14 you denied and killed the prince of life whom God raised from the dead that’s Jesus Christ I know that you did it in ignorance as did also your rulers your leaders he’s talking to the Jewish people at the temple but those things which God foretold by the mouth of all his prophets that Christ should suffer he has thus. Fulfilled so he is setting up the idea that God foretold everything that happened to Christ and why it happened to Christ and that came to pass then he says repent for this reason and be converted that converted there means turn to morality turn to doing what’s right repent means to turn from wrong converted means to turn to right that your sins may be blotted out so how do you get your sins blotted out by repenting and turning to Bible morality so that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord that he may send Jesus Christ who was preached to you before whom the heaven must receive or retain until the times plural of restoration of all things spoken which God spoke by

▶ 2:25 the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. So after the falling away we’re going to see a time of restoration restoration means to bring something damaged back to its original condition or something lost like the sheep that were lost were brought back to the shepherd they were restored so what can be damaged or lost Hebrews 5:13 and Hebrews 6:2 all on the milk of the word are unskilled in the word of righteousness okay righteousness. Morality for he is a baby so he’s going to be talking about baby doctrines leaving the elementary the baby doctrines the the kindergarten doctrines of Christ let us go on to perfection completion.

▶ 3:22 Maturity not laying again the foundation the foundation is the basic things that hold up maturity. Righteousness now what are these basic. Principles that he is going to restore that were damaged repentance from dead works see you turn from things you’re doing that bring eternal death faith toward God not faith in your church not faith in an author not faith in a music group faith in God faith toward God not your opinions doctrines of bap baptism baptism of water baptism of the Holy Spirit baptism into the body of Christ are all foundational baby doctrines laying on of hands for healing laying on of hands for Holy Spirit baptism and laying on of hands for impartation of blessing.

▶ 4:17 Is all foundational teaching baby teaching resurrection of the dead when Christ comes all in the graves will hear his voice and come out of the grave some to everlasting life life t some to shame and contempt and the last one is eternal judgment there’s only one judgment and it’s eternal either in the lake of fire or with Christ in a new heaven and new earth now that’s what can be destroyed and be. Lost restoration begins in 1170 ad by a fellow by the name of Peter Waldo he was a rich man he could afford a Bible he bought it started reading it and he came up with we need to get back to the Bible the Bible is the only source of church doctrine and authority not the pope not the church only the Bible the scriptures we got to get back to the scriptures so the first thing God restored was the word of God he said this Bible’s got to be written in the common language for common people you see uh.

▶ 5:29 Psalms 138:2 says you magnified your word above all your name the pope in 500 ad ban the Bible copies of all languages but Latin in 1229 because of this guy Pope Gregory [unclear] 9th b— the Bible from common. Man and the first thing God restored is your need to read and study and obey the Bible consistent Bible morals was his next thing he saw in the scriptures which is repent turn like it said there repent and be converted turn from sin and turn to right the third thing God restored was relationship with Jesus he said people need a relationship an encounter with Jesus Christ which is eternal life in John 17:3 this is eternal life that you may know God and his son Jesus Christ have a relationship with them Waldo rejected five of the seven sacraments he rejected praying for the dead and dead saints transubstantiation.

▶ 6:40 Purgatory a temporary abiding place of punishment that’s the eternal judgment was restored he had he uh rejected Catholic abuses are torching people and murdering them and their authority he instituted Saturday worship he took a vow of poverty even left his wife big big mistake he said preachers are not to marry that’s what the Catholics said and they were persecuted in 128 John Wickliffe and John [unclear] both embraced those his doctrine the king kept growing until finally in

▶ 7:18 15178 Martin Luther restoration really begins to advance on October the 31st Halloween night Halloween day the fifth thing restored is the just shall live by faith not penance not given money to the coffers and so forth but it’s by faith in Jesus’s death burial and resurrection that people are saved Hebrews 11:1 says faith is we’re going to give the Bible definition of faith the substance the reality of things hoped for okay I hope for heaven I hope for eternal life I hope for God to bless my life but that faith that he put in me to be persuaded of that is the reality that they exist the evidence the proof of things not seen what’s not seen well God’s not seen I didn’t see my sins God did uh I didn’t I can’t see eternal life I can’t see heaven I can’t see the lake of fire uh I wasn’t there to see Jesus’s death but because God put the faith in me it’s the proof.

▶ 8:31 That these things are real Romans 4:20 Abraham was strong in faith being fully persuaded that what God had promised God was also able to perform that’s where our faith should be in the power of God to perform his promises first cor 1 Corinthians 2:5 your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power the supernatural ability of God to perform his promises he said if you would confess and repent that he would save you he said that he had finished the good work he began in you in Philippians and your faith should be in the power of God to do what he said not in your faith not in someone else’s faith not in the church’s your faith in the church but in him now Christian brethren.

▶ 9:31 Said we got to go a little further and they were mockingly called Anabaptist which means re-baptized. Or that or against baptism they were against infant baptism not water baptism we’re going to find new truths were rejected and opposed by the old reformers Luther, [unclear] and Calvin and those other ones they opposed other truths God were restoring in 1524. The Anabaptist says you got to get water baptized after you repent not as a baby and in Acts 2:38 the Bible says be repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sin forgiveness of sins deliverance of sin pardon of sin and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promise is unto you to your children and to all that are far off as many as the Lord our God shall call now there’s two promises here in this verse one is the gift of the remission of sins if I confess and repent and turn to Christ my savior the second one is the free gift of the Holy Ghost which they haven’t saw yet they only saw water baptism the seventh thing God restored is separation of church and state Thomas Jefferson didn’t come up with this idea the Christian brethren did they said civil

▶ 11:03 authorities have no authority over the church and Ephesians 5:23 Christ is the head of the church not religions or religious leaders Acts 5:29 we must obey God rather than men they told that to Jewish. Leaders some of them shook fell and danced in the spirit some spoke in the languages some experienced physical healing uh and some of these groups these things were done just like the Quakers later the Methodists and uh those in Ukraine had a little dose of this they also said we’re not out to just reform the medieval church the Catholic church we’re out for the restoration of the New Testament church and the new covenant and that is Bible Hebrews 8:13 from Jeremiah 31:31.

▶ 11:59 And that he says a new covenant he has made the first covenant obsolete so we are not under the works of Moses’s law anymore Hebrews 8:10 and 12 this is the covenant I will put my laws in their minds write them upon their hearts and Ezekiel says I’ll give them a new spirit a new heart and they will follow my word you see they will all know God I’ll be merciful to their sins and I’ll remember them no more so here we see a pattern of future. Restorations eternal internal problems come divisions come and extremes come they start praying and prophesying naked they called it the naked. Truth some of them not all of them just some of them see it split off into groups they begin to follow prophets that told them to give up their properties their fortunes their assets because the second return is any minute the kingdom of God is coming thousand-year reign and the new Jerusalem is going to be here on earth some accepted polygamy some divorced and abandoned nonap non- Anabaptist spouses and married an Anabaptist spouse see you’re getting extremes here you’re getting diversions and divisions some started communes and lured many of the poor to share the rich man’s wealth the rich had to give up and help the poor of course immediately the poor want to become a Christian.

▶ 13:34 And these things go on today by 10 years plus or minus Christian brethren and the reformers started splitting into many different groups and doctrines of men replacing most of the restored truths with the doctrines of men in a short period of time they rejected their opponents they separated from their opponents and they persecuted their opponents loving God loving your neighbor and loving yourself gets lost amid. Theology all right they got into hair clothing jewelry nonviolent as part of extreme holiness we can’t go to war because that’s violent so they would let an intruder come into the house rape their daughter take their belongings because they wouldn’t do violence. Nonsense.

▶ 14:27 Restoration we move on up to 1881 in 1870 a fellow by the name of Dr. [unclear] he was actually a a doctor of medicine but he prayed for his patients and a lot of them were. Healed A b. Simpson the head of Missionary Alliance church went to one of his meetings heard the teaching searched the scriptures he had a heart problem and he prayed for healing and God healed his heart and he spread divine healing throughout the world. In Mark 16:18 they shall lay hands on the sick and they the sick shall recover Matthew 8:16 Jesus cast out spirits with his word and healed all that were sick that it might be fulfilled which Isaiah the prophet spoke saying he took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses divine healing.

▶ 15:25 Is a Bible doctrine and restored then you got the restoration of the Holy Spirit baptism with evidence in Acts 2:4-8 they were filled with the Holy Ghost began to speak with other languages as the spirit gave them utterance not their spirit given them utterance but God’s spirit and the crowd said how do we hear of man in our language wherein we were born we do hear them. Speak in languages the wonderful works of God William Seymour in 1906 and they were called the Pentecostals and in their meetings in 1906 the Germans the immigrants that were there the Germans Italians uh Puerto Ricans they heard tongues in their languages and they heard the interpretation that was accurate in their languages and God from Azusa Street began to spread the baptism of Holy Ghost throughout the world William Seymour was a black.

▶ 16:31 Man whites didn’t accept blacks ruling over them at that time he also had women leaders in the church which women weren’t accepted to be over a man at the time but when the Holy Ghost come nobody cared people came from all over the world for this visitation of God. 1948 the Latter Rain there were four streams of this visitation the evangelicals or Billy Graham was an evangelical fundamentalist Percy Crawford was a fundamentalist and then you got the Pentecostals [unclear] Roberts who went out and had healing meetings uh Percy Crawford was the first radio ev evangelist that brought a lot of youth to Christ he was a fundamentalist which had nothing to do with evangelicals were for ecumenical you just come together and and accept differences but let’s worship God together and Billy Graham was one of the evangelicals.

▶ 17:36 So restoration number 11 Ephesians 4:3 keep the unity of the spirit there is only one church one body restoration number 12 five offices were given to mature the saints who the saints edify the body of Christ till all come to the unity of the faith the stature of Christ the fullness of the stat of Christ and no more children tossed by the doctrine of men body. Ministry number 13 Hebrews 13:15 by Christ therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God. Continually okay he inhabits the praises of his people God begin to reveal these. Things number 14. 1 Corinthians 14:1 desire spiritual gifts especially.

▶ 18:37 Prophecy there’s prophecy there’s three kinds of prophecy edification exhortation to the body of Christ which almost anyone can do there is the office of a prophet where they predict and give a sign and it comes to pass very seldom you see this and then you got prophecy for uh confirming a position in the body of Christ they’re imparting gifts to the body of Christ they call that personal prophecy and this is what they made popular’s personal. Prophecy the latter rain. People restoration number. 15 a spotless and wrinkl— glorious church Christ is coming back for Matthew 16:18 I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it God is building a powerful church not a wimpy church Revelation 7:9 and 14 there was a company in heaven that you could not number of all nations all nations that weren’t even discovered till 1500s who came out of the great tribulation came out of what.

▶ 19:47 Ah and all these people have us missing the tribulation but the church comes out of the tribulation by the lamb’s blood that’s how powerful the blood of Christ is okay he can get us through any situation any problem in a few short years and I liv through this season evangelicals integration of all churches and people the Latter Rain’s personal prophecy and the Pentecostals physical healing were distorted with men’s. Doctrines just like the past seed of faith you give and God’s going to give back to you pressed down, shaken together you’re going to be rich by giving to my ministry grace and faith all you need no works at all you name it you claim it you get it.

▶ 20:41 Prosperity positive thinking possibility. Thinking purpose-driven thinking psychology phony salvations phony healings phony prophecies and phony second return guesses replaced the restoration doctrines the emerging and the seeker friendly churches came to please the people what do you want we’ll give it to you and now Christianity has declined to we’re down from 85% Christians to 70% Christians and if it wasn’t for the illegals from Mexico coming in as Catholics it would be less than that. What does this mean to us today Isaiah 46:9 I am God there is none other I am God there is none like me I declare the end from the start the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done I declare them and they get done young people the fact that the New Testament predicted the these things and brought them to pass is proof that the Bible is a book of supernatural truth don’t let anybody tell you that it’s.

▶ 22:11 Not the last days salvation season many false prophets boy we got them antichrist Christian persecution and martyrs the falling away the restoration the refreshing the knowledge increasing Israel becoming a nation wars famines plagues and earthquakes and no one knowing the time they all missed it is proof that the Bible is. Supernatural hallelujah also 1 Corinthians 15:8 he Christ was seen by me Paul said as by one born out of due time okay I wasn’t in the right season but I got it anyway very important verse in other words you don’t have to wait for the next restoration season in God you can seek him and experience and obtain these things now all right the next restoration season will be good for the multitudes but you don’t have to wait God will restore you he will refresh you even if you thought you were eliminated for rejecting and failing Christ before oh I failed Christ so many time I don’t care how many times you think you failed Christ he will restore he will birth you even out of the time that you. Missed. Amen Bible morality is. Unpopular. But the results are indisputable.