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Sermon Audio: Go Teach All Nations
by 3ABN Australia Radio
Sermon Audio: The gospel commission, “Go Teach All Nations”, is as enduring as Jesus’ promise to be with His church until the end of the world. It is the worldwide proclamation of the everlasting gospel that ushers in the return of Christ.We are pleased to bring you Christ’s teachings through sermon of Australian and international speakers.
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The Parable of the Wedding Feast: What the Wedding Garment Means
The parable of the wedding feast in Matthew 22 is the key Jesus used to explain how the Bible actually describes God's judgment — and it isn't the scoreboard of good deeds versus bad deeds that so many people picture. Pastor Geoff Youlden traces the heavenly court scene in Daniel 7, where thrones are set in place and the books are opened, and shows how Revelation 13 and 14 point to that same "hour of judgment," the message God's people are called to carry to every nation. From there the message turns to the wedding garment itself, the detail in Jesus' parable that decides whether an invited guest truly belongs at the feast. Drawing on Revelation 19:7-8, Pastor Youlden explains that the garment represents the righteous acts of the saints, and connects this directly to James' well-known warning that faith without works is dead. It's a practical, sobering look at what it means for genuine faith to actually show itself in a changed life. The message closes with a down-to-earth application: the same discipline we're called to bring to something as ordinary as daily habits and diet reflects this larger principle, that real faith always produces real fruit. Whether you're new to these teachings or have followed them for years, this episode is an encouragement to let faith and action walk together as you wait for Christ's return. Listen to the Full Series:Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content:Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction and the reality of judgment4:30 Daniel 7's heavenly court and the 1844 judgment9:30 Revelation 13-14 and the judgment hour message14:00 The parable of the wedding feast (Matthew 22)18:30 The wedding garment: righteous acts of the saints23:00 Faith without works is dead (James 2)27:00 Discipline, health, and living out real faith33:00 Closing prayer #FaithWithoutWorks #BibleTeaching #ChristianSermon
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Will Christians Be Judged If They're Already Forgiven?
Will Christians be judged, even after their sins are forgiven? Pastor Geoff Youlden tackles this uncomfortable question head-on, working from the Old Testament sanctuary service to explain what's really happening in heaven right now on our behalf. Youlden traces the daily sacrifice, where confessed sin was carried into the Holy Place and the sinner was cleansed, and the yearly Day of Atonement, where the sanctuary itself was cleansed and the accumulated record was placed on the scapegoat — not Christ, as is often mistakenly assumed. Anchored in Daniel 8:14 and Hebrews 9:23, he shows why the heavenly sanctuary must likewise be cleansed, and unpacks the doctrine of imputed sin using 2 Corinthians 5:21 to explain how Christ, and by extension the sanctuary, can bear sin without being sinful. The heart of the message wrestles with the tension so many believers feel: if forgiveness truly removes sin as far as the east is from the west, why does Scripture still describe a coming judgment? Using the picture of a courtroom where even a good judge owes the jury an explanation, Youlden argues that the record of forgiven sin remains available so the whole universe can see that God's forgiveness of habitual sinners like David is fair and complete. He closes with 2 Corinthians 5:10 and 1 Peter 4:17, both pointing to a judgment seat of Christ that believers — not just unbelievers — will stand before, and why that truth should deepen assurance rather than shake it, since forgiveness through confession is never in question. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 – Introduction: Why Jesus Ministers in the Heavenly Sanctuary 4:00 – The Daily Service: How Confessed Sin Is Cleansed 10:30 – The Day of Atonement and the Truth About the Scapegoat 16:15 – Why the Heavenly Sanctuary Must Be Cleansed (Daniel 8:14, Hebrews 9:23) 23:30 – Forgiven, Yet Judged: Answering the Big Objection 28:45 – The Courtroom Illustration: Why God's Judgment Must Be Transparent 34:15 – David's Sin and the Assurance of Forgiveness 38:00 – The Judgment Seat of Christ: 2 Corinthians 5:10 and 1 Peter 4:17 #Forgiveness #BibleStudy #SanctuaryDoctrine
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What Is Jesus Doing in Heaven Right Now?
What is Jesus doing in heaven right now? In this study of God's sanctuary, Pastor Geoff Youlden shows that when Jesus ascended after His resurrection, He didn't go straight into the Most Holy Place as many assume — He entered the Holy Place first, where He continues an active, ongoing ministry as our High Priest. Working through Leviticus 9, 2 Chronicles 7, and the story of Elijah on Mount Carmel, Geoff traces how fire falling from heaven has always signalled God's approval, then connects that pattern to the fire of Pentecost, which marked heaven's acceptance of Christ's death and resurrection. From there he opens Revelation 4 and 5 to picture Jesus ministering before the throne and the altar of incense, and explains why Hebrews 9:12 in the King James Version correctly places Jesus in the Holy Place rather than the Most Holy Place at His ascension. Drawing on Galatians 2:20, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 John 2:1 and Hebrews 7:25, Geoff shows that Jesus today serves as our advocate and mediator, interceding for us against the accusations of Satan. Using the picture of a bank manager who pays off every debt but still requires each person to personally come and ask, he explains that while Christ's death provided complete forgiveness for all sin, that forgiveness becomes ours only when we personally confess and ask for it — as David modelled in Psalm 32 and as Peter preached on the day of Pentecost. Listen to the Full Series:Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6…a142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content:Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes• 0:00 Introduction: God's way is in the sanctuary• 0:56 Fire from heaven: a sign of God's approval• 7:15 The sanctuary typology and the meaning of Pentecost• 13:05 Jesus pictured in Revelation before the throne• 18:28 Correcting a common error: Holy Place, not Most Holy Place• 23:43 The bank manager illustration: Christ's provision for us• 29:40 Jesus our mediator and advocate in heaven• 36:29 Forgiveness is personal: why we must confess• 44:53 The Pharisee, the publican, and the assurance of pardon This message was made available by the Victoria Park Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/@VicParkSDAChurch/videos #JesusOurAdvocate #HeavenlySanctuary #BibleTeaching
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The Incarnation of Christ: Why Jesus Had to Become Man
The incarnation of Christ is one of the Bible's deepest mysteries: how could Jesus be fully God and fully man at the same time? In this study, Pr Geoff Youlden opens John 1:1 and 14, Matthew 1:23, and Galatians 4:4 to show that Jesus existed as God before He took on flesh, then walked among us as a real human being — growing up, working as a carpenter, and living under the same conditions we do. But this message goes further than establishing who Jesus was — it answers why did Jesus become man in the first place. Pr Youlden traces six biblical reasons: so we could see what God is truly like, so He could die in our place, so He could sympathize with our weaknesses, so He could be genuinely tempted as we are, so Christ could live His life through us, and so He could serve as both our judge and our advocate. Along the way he ties the incarnation to the Old Testament sanctuary, showing how Christ "encamping" among His people points forward to the larger plan of salvation. Drawing on Hebrews 2, Hebrews 5, 1 Timothy 3:16, 1 John 2:1, James 1:13, and Galatians 2:20, this is a clear, practical look at why the doctrine of the incarnation matters for everyday faith — not just as a piece of theology, but as the foundation for understanding grace, temptation, and assurance in Christ. Listen to the Full Series:Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6…a142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content:Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes0:00 – Introduction: Did Jesus Exist Before the Incarnation?5:30 – Jesus Was Also Fully Human11:00 – Still Human After the Resurrection & the Sanctuary Preview16:00 – Reason 1: To Reveal What God Is Like21:30 – Reason 2: So He Could Die for Us26:00 – Reason 3: So He Could Sympathize With Us33:00 – Reason 4: So He Could Be Tempted Like Us39:00 – Reason 5: Christ Living in Us44:00 – Reason 6: Our Impartial Judge and Advocate This message was made available by the Victoria Park Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/@VicParkSDAChurch/videos #incarnation #Jesus #BibleStudy
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Christian Mental Health: Hope for a Troubled Heart
Christian mental health isn't a side topic here — it's the whole point of Jesus' words in John 14:1, "Don't let your hearts be troubled." Pastor Jacob Boehm opens with a story about how "camping" has quietly turned into a luxury lifestyle, and uses it to ask an uncomfortable question: are we treating this troubled, temporary world as if it's our permanent home? From there he brings in the numbers — one in five Australians experiencing a mental health disorder in the past year, nearly 40% of 16-to-24-year-olds battling anxiety or depression — and grounds the hope of heaven (John 14:1-3, Hebrews 11:13-16, Revelation 21) as a real, practical answer to a troubled heart, not a distraction from it. The message also pushes past comfort into consistency: do our actions — our search history, our group chats, our everyday choices — actually match what we say we believe? Boehm's answer isn't guilt, but grace: God isn't "fair" in the way we deserve, He's radically biased in our favor, and the Holy Spirit is given to walk that whole journey with us. Pastor Jacob Boehm preaches from Glenvale Seventh-day Adventist Church. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured 0:00 Intro: the luxury camping problem (and what it says about us) 5:03 John 14: "Don't let your hearts be troubled" 6:55 The mental health statistics behind a troubled heart 13:42 Hebrews 11: heroes of faith who looked forward, not back 17:10 Does your life actually match what you believe? 21:08 Is God fair? (Why that's actually good news) 26:59 What heaven will really be like — Revelation 21 31:54 Closing challenge: a moment of self-reflection This message was made available by the Glenvale Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page atwww.youtube.com/@glenvale.church #ChristianMentalHealth #HopeOfHeaven #FaithOverAnxiety
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The Sunday Law: What the Bible Actually Teaches
The Sunday law is coming up everywhere right now — in the news, in Congress, in church foyers — but what does the Bible actually say about it, and why does it matter? In this message, Australian speaker Liz Branster traces the history of religious liberty in America, from A.T. Jones's 1888 stand before Senator Blair to the pressure building today, and asks what it means to stay "true blue" — unwavering in loyalty to God — no matter what the culture demands. Along the way, she connects the health secrets of the Blue Zones (including Loma Linda) to a longer thread: a blue sapphire foundation under God's throne, a blue ribbon Israel wore to remember His commandments, and the blood of Christ that heals what nothing else could. It's a call to stand on what doesn't change, even as the world around us does. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit doracreek.church Timecodes 0:00 Intro: what "true blue" really means 3:00 The Blue Zones: the health secrets behind Loma Linda 14:00 The Sunday law: A.T. Jones, religious liberty, and today's headlines 24:00 Set in stone: the sapphire foundation of God's throne 30:00 The blue ribbon: why God's people wore blue to remember 33:00 The woman who touched the hem — and the wound that heals #SundayLaw #ReligiousLiberty #BibleProphecy
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A Christian Testimony: From Homeless Addict to God's Servant
Cheri Peters shares an unfiltered testimony of ten years of homelessness, heroin addiction, and hepatitis — and the moment she encountered a God who saw past all of it. She talks candidly about learning to read, entering nursing school, and being asked by her pastor to help a mother caught in meth addiction, which became the first step in a ministry to people everyone else had given up on. The heart of her message is simple: God doesn't just forgive broken people, He uses them. From anointing her dying sister for healing to running a prison and horse ministry today, Cheri's story is a case study in what it looks like when someone truly believes that no one — not an addict, not a stripper, not a homeless heroin user — is beyond the reach of grace. Timecodes 0:00 Intro: the butterfly, the storm, and why we need to rest 5:00 Homeless, hepatitis, and losing her dad and stepdad to addiction 16:00 Finding Christ — and starting to minister to the "unlovable" 27:00 Setting the captives free: her sister's story of healing 40:00 The horses, the animated book, and God's rewards 50:00 Godly grief vs. worldly grief — learning to admit our sin 60:00 Bought with a price: closing appeal Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Dundas Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/channel/UCSa6hyDX…xUQwQUb4rA/videos #ChristianTestimony #AddictionRecovery #FaithOverAddiction
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Church Growth: The Biblical Model We've Forgotten
Why did church growth stall? Pastor Blair Lemke starts with a grammar puzzle — a misplaced comma in Luke 23:43 ("today you will be with me in paradise") — to show how easily we misread Scripture, then applies the same care to Ephesians 4:11-16. Depending on the translation, it sounds like pastors are supposed to do all the ministry themselves. But read in context, the passage says the opposite: pastors are there to equip members for the work, not replace them. Tracing Seventh-day Adventist history from 1886 to today, Lemke shows how the church's fastest growth happened when ministers weren't "settled" over congregations but were out evangelizing, while members ran their own churches — and how growth slowed as that model was quietly abandoned. His challenge: less preaching, more teaching; less watching, more working. Timecodes (real timecodes from the transcript) 0:00 Intro & the Luke 23:43 "eating grandpa" grammar illustration 3:42 What "today you will be with me in paradise" really means 10:29 Ephesians 4: how many jobs does a pastor actually have? 16:56 The pastor's real calling: evangelist, not settled preacher 19:00 What Ellen White said about equipping members 23:52 Adventist history: from evangelists to settled pastors (1886–2013) 37:23 Two fixes: less preaching more teaching, less watching more working 40:33 Closing appeal: pray for laborers Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Murwillumbah Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.facebook.com/MbahSDAChurch/ #ChurchGrowth #Ephesians4 #BiblicalMinistry
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Living Sacrifice: What Does God Really Want?
Not every sacrifice in the Bible was accepted. Terry Preston walks through three that were rejected — Cain's bloodless offering, Saul's disobedient "sacrifice" of the Amalekites' plunder, and Ananias and Sapphira's half-truth — and three that were accepted: Abraham on Mount Moriah, David's altar bought at full price ("I will not offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing"), and Solomon's Temple. The twist: all three accepted sacrifices happened on the very same mountain. From there, Preston moves to Romans 12 and the sacrifice God actually asks of us now — not an animal on an altar, but a living sacrifice that can, unlike a dead one, crawl right back off. It's a message about what real worship costs, and why God has never wanted ritual as a substitute for a surrendered heart. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Bunburry Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/@bunburysda1397 Timecodes 0:00 Intro: sacrifice through the ages, and an AI "sanctuary" experiment 6:23 Cain and Abel: the sacrifice missing one thing 12:56 Saul and the Amalekites: obedience over sacrifice 19:49 Ananias and Sapphira: the sacrifice that was a mirage 20:46 Abraham on Mount Moriah 23:45 David's altar: "I will not offer that which costs me nothing" 27:32 Solomon's Temple — built on the very same mountain 32:35 What does God actually want? The living sacrifice of Romans 12 #LivingSacrifice #Romans12 #MountMoriah
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Science Proves the Bible: The Health Laws History Ignored
Long before germ theory, Leviticus 13:46 told the sick to live outside the camp — and when medieval Europe ignored that principle, the Black Death killed one in four people. Dr. Eddie Ramirez walks through case after case where following a biblical health instruction — quarantine, burying human waste, washing hands before touching a patient — could have stopped a plague centuries before doctors understood why it worked. The centerpiece is the story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the physician sacked and ridiculed for telling doctors to wash their hands between the morgue and the delivery room — a practice already commanded in Numbers 19:11. Ramirez also compares the Bible's instructions to the genuinely bizarre remedies of Egypt's Ebers Papyrus, and closes with a look at flood legends found on nearly every continent, and how DNA migration data lines up with the biblical account of Babel and the dispersion from Mount Ararat. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Dundas Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/channel/UCSa6hyDX…xUQwQUb4rA/videos Timecodes 0:00 Intro: recent health research he's sharing on social media 6:00 Leprosy, the Black Death, and Leviticus' quarantine law 12:00 Cholera, sewage, and the sanitation law in Deuteronomy 16:00 Same-day burial and the hand-washing law that saved mothers in labor 22:00 Heart disease and the fat prohibition in Leviticus 7 26:00 How the Bible survived Babylon and Antiochus's attempts to destroy it 29:00 Gray hair, baldness, and Egypt's bizarre "cures" vs. the Bible 33:00 Flood legends from Hawaii to China to Mexico 37:00 Mount Ararat and the DNA migration map #ScienceProvesTheBible #BiblicalHealth #ChristianApologetics
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Grace vs Works: How Judgment and Salvation Fit Together
"Grace may forgive you, but the law still says you were speeding." Pastor Robert Stankovic opens with that traffic-stop exchange to frame the question at the heart of this message: if we're saved by grace and not by works, why does the Bible also say every person will be judged by what they've done? Working through Ephesians 2, 2 Corinthians 5, and the parables of the ten virgins, the talents, and the sheep and goats, Stankovic shows that grace and judgment were never in competition — Jesus is both the Lamb who takes away sin and the Judge who reveals what's really in the heart. Grace is the root. Works are the fruit. And judgment simply shows whether the root was ever there. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Bunburry Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/@bunburysda1397 Timecodes 0:00 Intro: the speeding-fine illustration of grace and law 5:00 Saved by grace: what Ephesians 2 actually says 9:00 Judged by works: the verses that seem to contradict grace 13:00 Reconciling the two: Jesus as both the Lamb and the Judge 18:00 Noah's ark: grace built it, judgment revealed who got in 22:00 The Passover and the bronze serpent 25:00 The thief on the cross: no time for works, only faith 27:00 The talents, the sheep and goats, and the ten virgins 33:00 Citizenship, adoption, and marriage: everyday pictures of grace and works 39:00 Closing: grace is the root, works are the fruit #GraceVsWorks #Salvation #FinalJudgment
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Bible Verses About Fear: 10 Promises to Overcome It
Pastor David Price has kept the same brown page of Bible promises taped to his study wall since Bible college — and in this message he shares ten of them, matched one-by-one against ten specific fears: criticism, disaster, a health diagnosis, panic attacks, fear of witnessing, feeling unready for Jesus's return, not finding a Christian partner, losing control of appetite, unpaid bills, and fear for an unsaved family member. Rather than generic encouragement, each fear gets a specific promise to "claim" — from Exodus 34:7's angel of protection to James 5's prayer for the sick to Isaiah 54's promise for the single and the searching. His core idea: fear is "false evidence appearing real," and the antidote isn't willpower, it's memorizing and standing on what God has actually said. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Wauchope Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/@wauchopesdachurch9482 Timecodes 0:00 Intro: the power of memorizing God's promises 8:00 Fear #1: I've been criticized and don't feel God's love 14:00 Fear #2: something is going to go badly wrong 20:00 Fear #3: a health diagnosis I can't control 30:00 Fear #4: panic attacks and anxiety 35:00 Fear #5: I don't know how to witness 38:00 Fear #6: I won't be ready when Jesus comes 40:00 Fears #7 & #8: finding a partner, controlling appetite 46:00 Fear #9: I can't pay the bills 48:00 Fear #10: I fear for my family's salvation 52:00 Closing challenge: pray down the promises #BibleVersesAboutFear #GodsPromises #FaithOverFear
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Vine and Branches (John 15): Growing in Christ Takes Time
"The closer you come to Jesus, the further away you'll feel." Pastor Brad Moodie opens with his brother's grief after ten years on the mission field, still feeling like the same "ugly, selfish man" he was before he left — and names something many long-time Christians feel but rarely say out loud. Working through John 15's vine and branches, Moodie makes the case that spiritual growth isn't something you can force any more than a plant can grow faster by pulling on its leaves. Growth happens when you stay connected — through prayer, Scripture, and confession — and the results are God's job, not yours. He also draws a careful line between circumstantial "misdirected growth" (honest mistakes God can redirect) and moral failure (which needs pruning), and gives a practical list of what good and bad "spiritual soil" actually look like day to day. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by the Wauchope Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/@wauchopesdachurch9482 Timecodes 0:00 Intro: his brother's 10 years overseas and still feeling unchanged 4:00 "The closer you get to Jesus, the further away you'll feel" 9:00 A warning for those who feel nothing at all 12:00 John 15: you are the branches 16:00 Why you can't force a plant to grow faster 21:00 Circumstantial growth vs. moral pruning 27:00 Good spiritual soil vs. bad spiritual soil 34:00 Closing: it's His job to grow you, not yours #AbideInChrist #John15 #SpiritualGrowth
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Christian Dating to Marry: Lessons from Song of Solomon
Most teenage relationships last about six months — and research shows most young people today aren't even dating with marriage in mind. Pastor Andrew Russell uses that research, alongside Song of Solomon's account of the Shulamite bride and her king, to make the case for dating with real intention: for the purpose of marriage, not just romantic experience. He walks through what it looks like to manage natural attraction wisely, why being "unequally yoked" (2 Corinthians 6:14) undermines a marriage over generations, and shares his own story of praying for a wife before meeting his own. His closing point: love that lasts isn't a feeling you find, it's a principle you build a life on — under God's blessing, the same way marriage and family were designed from Eden onward. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured This message was made available by Hoxton Park Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.facebook.com/hoxtonparksda Timecodes 0:00 Intro: what the Song of Songs is really about 6:00 The research on teen dating (and why most relationships don't last) 12:35 "Body count" and what the culture gets wrong about intimacy 16:00 What Solomon's response teaches about managing attraction wisely 30:00 Don't be unequally yoked — the woman at the well 40:00 Where do young people meet a good match? 48:00 True love is a principle, not a feeling — his own story 54:00 Closing: don't build a marriage on sand #ChristianDating #SongOfSolomon #BiblicalMarriage
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How to Trust God When Everything Feels Uncertain
How to trust God when nothing around you makes sense is the real question behind this message. In a world where most people say things feel like they're getting worse — housing stress, rising costs, constant bad news — Pastor Daniel Christie asks the church a hard question: is your faith solid enough to hold when the wind blows, or does it just sound solid? Preaching from Hebrews 11, Pastor Christie unpacks what biblical faith actually is — belief plus trust — and exposes two counterfeits that quietly creep into the Christian life. The first treats God like a fact to agree with but never actually leans on; the second treats prayer and good behaviour like a transaction that guarantees an easy life. Using the story of tightrope walker Charles Blondin, the mustard-seed principle, and the honour roll of faith in Hebrews 11 — where Abel dies, Enoch lives, Noah stays, and Abraham goes, all "by faith" — this message shows that real faith was never about how much you have, but who it's placed in. This is a practical call to move from choosing faith over fear in theory to actually acting on it — sitting in the chair, stepping onto the frozen lake, and trusting that God is good whether or not He fixes what you're facing. Presented by Pastor Daniel Christie at Glenvale Seventh-day Adventist Church, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Welcome & Introduction 0:37 Why So Many People Feel Hopeless Right Now 3:15 What the Bible Actually Means by "Faith" 9:40 The Counterfeit Faith That Believes but Never Trusts 19:50 Does the Amount of Your Faith Matter? 27:00 When Prayer Becomes a Transaction With God 33:00 Hebrews 11: Faith That Doesn't Promise an Easy Life 41:00 Closing: Building Your House on the Rock This message was made available by the Glenvale Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page atwww.youtube.com/@glenvale.church #HowToTrustGod #FaithOverFear #ChristianSermon
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The 5th Commandment: Why Honouring Parents Comes With a Promise
The 5th commandment is the only one of the Ten Commandments that comes with an explicit promise attached — and John Kitevski unpacks why. Continuing Gateway Church's series on the Ten Commandments, he shows that "honor your father and mother" isn't a soft suggestion: the original Hebrew word for honor means "heavy," carrying the sense of treating someone as weighty and highly prized, not second place. Kitevski calls this the "bridge commandment" — it looks back to loving God (the first four commandments) and forward to loving your neighbour (the last five), connecting the two. He walks through why the Sabbath commandment sits at the literal centre of the Ten Commandments by word count, why honoring parents applies equally to mother and father, and why Scripture never treats this as a childhood-only command — Paul lists dishonoring parents right alongside the sins of the last days. Along the way, he unpacks the example of Jesus honoring Mary even from the cross, and a story about Frederick the Great that shows what quietly honoring a parent can look like. This is a practical, Bible-based look at family, obedience, and what it means to raise — and be — children who honor their parents "in the Lord." Presented by John Kitevski at Gateway Seventh-day Adventist Church, Melbourne, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction: The Fifth Commandment 1:30 Why the Ten Commandments Reflect God's Own Character 6:00 The Sabbath at the Literal Centre of the Commandments 11:00 What "Honor" Really Means in Hebrew 18:00 The Bridge Commandment: Connecting Love for God and Family 26:00 Obedience, Consequences, and Raising Children Who Honor 38:00 Jesus, His Parents, and Honoring Mary From the Cross 44:00 Closing Story: Frederick the Great and the Page Boy This message was made available by the Gateway Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their YouTube page atwww.youtube.com/@GatewayAdventist/videos #5thCommandment #HonorYourParents #ChristianSermon
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What Paul's Final Words Teach Us About Discipleship
Discipleship is at the heart of what Paul left behind in his final letter, written from a Roman dungeon shortly before his execution. Johnny Wong walks through 2 Timothy 4 — Paul's last recorded words, passed to young Pastor Timothy — and draws out three priorities that shaped everything Paul cared about at the very end of his life. The first is the Word: Paul's charge to "preach the word" and be "thoroughly equipped," which Wong ties to the discipline of memorizing and rightly dividing Scripture, illustrated through the story of Bible translator William Tyndale, who asked for a Hebrew Bible from his own prison cell. The second is the team — Paul names 17 people in this one short passage, showing that even the apostle to the Gentiles never did ministry solo. Wong connects this to why Gateway Church is built around care groups rather than departments, tracing the church's own discipleship history back to a handful of young people in 1998. The third priority, impact, is what happens when the first two are in place — not something a person can manufacture on their own. Wong closes with a personal story about his aunt, who discipled him as a child and kept him in the Word until her final morning, tying Paul's ancient priorities directly to what it looks like to pass on faith to the next generation today. Presented by Johnny Wong at Gateway Seventh-day Adventist Church, Melbourne, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 A Dying Man's Final Priorities 4:00 Reading 2 Timothy 4 as if You Were There 8:30 Priority 1: Preach and Be Equipped in the Word 15:00 The Story of William Tyndale's Last Request 22:00 Priority 2: Why Paul Never Did Ministry Alone 30:00 How Care Groups Built the Gateway Church Movement 42:00 Priority 3: Impact Is the Spirit's Work, Not Ours 47:00 Closing Story: A Legacy of Discipleship This message was made available by the Gateway Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their YouTube page atwww.youtube.com/@GatewayAdventist/videos #Discipleship #BibleStudy #ChristianSermon
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Biblical Prophecy Explained: A Dream That Predicted COVID
Biblical prophecy explained through a true, personal story is the heart of this message from Alex Mapika. Preaching from Joel 2:28-29 and Isaiah 46:9-10, he starts with the classic biblical case for God knowing the future — Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2, where a statue of gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay accurately outlined the rise and fall of world empires centuries in advance — and Ellen White's visions during the Millerite movement's "Great Disappointment" of 1844. Then Mapika shares something more personal: a recurring dream he had for three years, starting in 2016, in which he traveled from Australia back to Zimbabwe and was unable to return home. He dismissed it — until 2019, when he actually traveled to Zimbabwe with his family just as COVID-19 emerged, was providentially pushed onto one of the last flights out before borders closed, and ended up stranded with his wife and daughter in South Africa for five weeks, staying — by what he describes as God's precise timing — just 20 minutes from the Australian Embassy that eventually became the evacuation meeting point. As soon as the dream came true, it stopped. The message isn't a call to chase predictions or dates; it's an invitation to trust the God who genuinely knows tomorrow, anchored in "the sure word of prophecy" rather than fear, speculation, or headlines. Presented by Alex Mapika at Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist Church, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction: A World Starving for Certainty 2:30 Why God's Ability to Know the Future Sets Him Apart 6:00 Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of World Empires 10:30 Ellen White and the 1844 Great Disappointment 15:30 A Recurring Dream That Started in 2016 24:00 Stranded: The 2020 Trip to Zimbabwe 32:00 Five Weeks Stuck in South Africa — and God's Timing 40:00 Anchoring Your Faith in Prophecy, Not Fear This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit doracreek.church #BiblicalProphecyExplained #BibleProphecy #ChristianTestimony
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How to Spot a False Prophet: The Bible's 10 Tests
How to spot a false prophet is a question the Bible actually answers in detail — and Dr. Barry Wright walks through all of it in this message. Starting from Amos 3:7 ("the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets"), he traces the prophetic gift from Enoch, the first recorded prophet, through Moses, women prophets like Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah, and into the New Testament church, where prophecy is listed second only to apostleship among the gifts of the Spirit. Wright then covers what happened when the prophetic gift seemed to fall silent for centuries after roughly 300 AD, and how a wave of spiritual revival — and counterfeit spiritualism, beginning with the notorious "Fox sisters" hoax in 1848 — both emerged in the 1800s. He contrasts psychic Jeane Dixon, who claimed prophetic ability but failed the biblical tests for a true prophet, against Seventh-day Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White, walking through all ten scriptural tests for a genuine prophet — including that a true prophet doesn't lie, doesn't self-interpret prophecy, points people to their sins, and is measured against Scripture itself (Isaiah 8:20; 1 John 4:1-3; Matthew 7:16-20). He closes with secular newspaper tributes written at Ellen White's death in 1915, and an endorsement from a leading 20th-century archaeologist who independently investigated her writings. This is a Bible-based framework for discerning any prophetic claim — not a call to blindly trust or blindly dismiss, but to test everything against Scripture. Presented by Dr. Barry Wright at Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist Church, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction: Why We Need Certainty From God 3:00 Enoch to Moses: The First Prophets in Scripture 8:00 Women Prophets and the Gift in the New Testament 13:00 Why the Prophetic Gift Seemed to Go Silent 20:00 1848: The Rise of Counterfeit Spiritualism 25:00 Jeane Dixon: A Case Study in a False Prophet 29:00 The Bible's 10 Tests for a True Prophet 38:00 Applying the Tests to Ellen G. White 43:00 Closing: Secular Tributes and a Special Gift for the Church This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit doracreek.church #HowToSpotAFalseProphet #BiblicalDiscernment #ChristianSermon
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Why Did Satan Fall? What It Reveals About God's Character
Why did Satan fall from heaven, and what does his fall actually reveal about who God is? Kaysie Vokurka traces the answer through Revelation 12, Ezekiel 28's "covering cherub," and Isaiah 14's Lucifer, showing that pride — a distorted, inflated view of his own importance — is what turned an honored angel into the accuser we call Satan. But this message isn't really about Satan; it's about God's character. Vokurka builds a framework from 1 John 4:8 and Exodus 34:6-7, showing that biblical love (agape) is a blend of affection and benevolence, held together by complete selflessness — illustrated with a simple clothes-peg analogy for how God's tender and unchanging attributes work together rather than pulling apart. She walks through how Satan's rebellion warped that picture, how the same three-pronged distortion (doubting God's goodness, doubting His word, and offering a "better" way) played out in the temptation of Eve, and how many common ideas about God today — from cheap grace to an angry, hellfire God — are the same ancient distortions still at work. The message closes at the cross, where Vokurka argues Satan's character was finally unmasked and God's — both just and merciful — was fully revealed. Presented by Kaysie Vokurka at Waitara Seventh-day Adventist Church, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction: A War in Heaven 2:00 Ezekiel 28: The Covering Cherub 9:00 Isaiah 14: "I Will Be Like the Most High" 15:30 What the Bible Actually Means by "God Is Love" 21:00 The Marriage of God's Character (Clothes-Peg Illustration) 30:00 How Satan Twisted the Picture in Eden 37:00 False Pictures of God We Still Believe Today 45:00 The Cross: Where Satan Was Unmasked This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #WhyDidSatanFall #CharacterOfGod #ChristianSermon
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How to Study the Bible: 7 Steps Led by the Holy Spirit
How to study the Bible in a way that actually sticks is what Tom Kent walks through step by step in this practical, hands-on message. Rather than handing out another list of interpretation rules, Kent goes straight to Scripture to find what it says about studying itself, distilling it into seven simple steps: praying for the Holy Spirit's guidance, considering and memorizing the text, asking questions the passage itself answers, comparing Scripture with Scripture, asking how it points to Jesus, weighing the Spirit of Prophecy's counsel, and finally acting on it by faith. What makes this message different is that Kent doesn't just explain the method — he demonstrates it live with the congregation, working through Proverbs 3:5-6 together, reading multiple translations, asking simple but revealing questions of the text ("Who are we to trust?" "How are we to trust?"), and showing in real time how a familiar verse opens up when studied this way. Delivered as part of a week of prayer series titled "With the Lamb Through the Final Crisis," this episode makes the case that knowing how to study the Bible for yourself — rather than only listening to others explain it — is essential preparation for spiritually turbulent times. Presented by Tom Kent at Waitara Seventh-day Adventist Church, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction: Why This Topic Matters Now 3:00 Step 1: Praying for the Holy Spirit's Guidance 8:00 Step 2: Considering, Reading, and Memorizing 12:00 Step 3: Asking Questions the Text Answers 17:00 Step 4: Comparing Scripture With Scripture 22:00 Step 5: How Does This Point to Jesus? 25:00 Step 6: Weighing the Spirit of Prophecy 28:00 Step 7: Obeying by Faith 31:00 Live Demonstration: Studying Proverbs 3:5-6 Together This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #HowToStudyTheBible #BibleStudyTips #ChristianSermon
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Spiritual Gifts Explained: Why Every Gift Matters Equally
Spiritual gifts explained honestly — including one of the most misunderstood ones — is where Josh Gonzalez takes this message. Starting in Mark 10, he shows that Jesus deliberately redefined greatness as service, not status, before tackling a common source of confusion in 1 Corinthians 14: the gift of tongues. Gonzalez walks through what actually happened at Pentecost — the Holy Spirit giving the disciples the ability to speak real, existing languages so Jewish pilgrims from across the world could understand the gospel — and traces how, centuries later, this got mixed with mysticism and spiritualism in a way Scripture never describes. The real weight of the message is in 1 Corinthians 12: "there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit." Gonzalez argues that churches — including his own — regularly rank certain gifts above others, treating a gifted preacher as more "Spirit-filled" than the person who greets at the door, teaches Sabbath school, or serves lunch. Using the story of the first deacons in Acts 6, who were "full of the Holy Spirit" simply to serve tables, he makes the case that no gift is more important than another, and that leaving 80% of a congregation as spectators is a failure to understand what spiritual gifts are actually for. This is a challenging, practical call for every believer to identify and actually use whatever gift they've been given — not just admire the gifts of others. Presented by Josh Gonzalez at Ryde Seventh-day Adventist Church, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Jesus Redefines What It Means to Be Great 4:00 The Church's 20% Problem 8:00 What Speaking in Tongues Actually Meant at Pentecost 16:00 How Tongues Got Mixed With Mysticism 24:00 1 Corinthians 12: Same Spirit, Different Gifts 32:00 Why We Rank Some Gifts Above Others 39:00 Acts 6: The First Deacons Were "Full of the Spirit" Too 45:00 Closing Challenge: Faithful in the Little Things This message was made available by the Ryde Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page atwww.youtube.com/channel/UCshtx05J…uED0zRb0oQ/videos #SpiritualGiftsExplained #SpeakingInTongues #ChristianSermon
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Chronos vs. Kairos: How to Live in God's Time
Chronos vs. Kairos is the framework Bruce Novelly uses to unpack one of the Bible's most practical ideas: there are two different Greek words for "time," and understanding the difference changes how you spend every day. Chronos is clock time — repetitive, measurable, the kind we're now able to track down to the nanosecond. Kairos is God's time: rich, meaningful, unrepeatable moments that actually matter. Novelly grounds this in Luke 10, contrasting Mary, who chose to sit with Jesus in a kairos moment, with Martha, who was so buried in chronos busyness — cooking, cleaning, managing the schedule — that she missed the moment in front of her. He uses a simple illustration: imagine a bank account that deposits 86,400 seconds every morning and erases whatever you don't use by night — because that's exactly how time works. From there, he ties kairos time directly to the Sabbath, God's built-in weekly appointment for undistracted time together, and closes with two stories — a boy playing catch with God in the backyard, and a boy offering his father $25 in coins just to buy an hour of his time — that make the case for treating time with God as the most valuable thing we're given. This is a reflective, practical message about noticing and choosing the meaningful moments that busyness so easily crowds out. Presented by Bruce Novelly at Bunbury Seventh-day Adventist Church, Australia. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Our Strange Obsession With Time 5:00 Chronos: The Empty, Repetitive Kind of Time 8:00 Kairos: God's Rich, Meaningful Time 11:30 Mary and Martha: Choosing the Better Part 17:00 The 86,400-Second Bank Account Illustration 22:00 Why the Sabbath Is Built-In Kairos Time 27:00 Playing Catch With God 30:00 A Son's $25 for an Hour of His Father's Time 33:00 Closing: Living Today in God's Time This message was made available by the Bunburry Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit their Youtube page at www.youtube.com/@bunburysda1397 #ChronosVsKairos #GodsTime #ChristianSermon
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The Book of Amos Explained: A Famine of Hearing God's Word Is Coming
The Book of Amos explained through a warning many people miss: God's mercy has a limit. Speaker Tim Matsis walks through Amos chapter 8's vision of a basket of summer fruit, showing how Israel's religious outward appearance covered exploitation of the poor, dishonest business, and idolatry — a pattern still visible today amid economic uncertainty, civil unrest, and division. The core message centers on Amos 8:11's famine of the word of the Lord — a coming time when people will seek God's word and not find it. Tim traces this same warning through Romans 1, showing how turning from God leads a society step by step into deeper darkness, and reminds listeners that even prophets like Elijah and Elisha couldn't turn Israel back once the nation stopped valuing God's word. The sermon lands on a practical, urgent appeal: don't wait for a revival service or special ordinance to get right with God — do it today, before probation closes. This message is for anyone who senses the world spinning out of control and wants to understand what the Bible actually says is coming next, and how to be ready for it. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 A world on fire — where is this all heading? 2:10 Amos's vision: a basket of summer fruit 6:00 Israel's injustice, dishonest business, and empty religion 10:20 The golden calves and the cost of idolatry 15:00 Romans 1: what happens when a nation turns from God 20:30 Elijah, Elisha, and a people who stopped listening 24:00 The famine of hearing God's word (Amos 8:11) 28:00 Three ways probation can close — and the call to respond today This message was made available by the Masterton Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit mastertonsda.nz #BookOfAmos #BibleProphecy #ChristianSermon
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How to Stop Sinning Over and Over Again: Abiding in Christ (Part 2)
How to stop sinning over and over again — not through gritted teeth and willpower, but by abiding in Christ. In this second part of a two-part study, Geoff Youlden picks up the "true gospel" framework from part one and gets practical: since our own efforts can't produce righteousness, where should our effort actually go? Geoff unpacks Galatians 2:20 ("I have been crucified with Christ… Christ lives in me") to show that victory over sin isn't a matter of white-knuckling temptation, but of daily communion with God that gradually makes sin hateful to us — illustrated through his own fig tree, which bears fruit naturally simply because it's watered and cared for. He also works through Luke 17:3-4, on forgiving someone who sins against you seven times in a day, as a mirror for how impossible obedience feels in our own strength, and 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 on bringing every thought into captivity to Christ. The practical takeaway: spend time with God's word every day, because sanctification and justification were never meant to be separated. This message is for anyone who has confessed the same sin over and over and wondered if real change is even possible. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Abiding in Christ: where real fruit comes from 3:30 Galatians 2:20 — "no longer I who live" 7:00 Can Christ living in me produce anything but victory? 10:30 The fight of faith vs. the fight of sin 14:00 Luke 17: forgiving seven times in a day 17:30 The fig tree illustration: fruit that comes naturally 21:00 "Sin will become hateful to us" — communion with God 25:00 Bringing every thought into captivity (2 Corinthians 10) 28:30 Why sanctification and justification always go together This message was made available by the Stanmore Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.stanmoresdachurch.net #AbideInChrist #VictoryOverSin #BibleTeaching
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What Is Justification by Faith? The True Gospel Explained (Part 1)
What is justification by faith — and why isn't it the whole gospel? Pastor Geoff Youlden opens with the picture of a free house with no deposit required, but a repayment plan so large it would bankrupt you: a picture, he says, of what happens when Christians only grasp part of the gospel. If the free gift of salvation is real but daily obedience feels impossible, what's actually missing? Geoff lays out three components he says make up the full gospel: justification (God treating us as though we'd never sinned), sanctification (God giving us power to actually live differently), and glorification (Christ's return). Drawing on 1 John 1:9, John 15's vine and branches, and the story of Nicodemus in John 3, he makes the case that the fruit of a changed life doesn't come from our own effort — "without me you can do nothing" — and that a Christian's growth is meant to be as gradual as a seed becoming grain, illustrated through the prodigal son's slow journey home even after his heart had already changed. This is Part 1 of a two-part study; Part 2 builds on this foundation to show practically how a life of obedience becomes possible. Recommended for anyone who has wondered whether faith alone is really enough, or where good works fit into salvation. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 A free house with an impossible repayment plan 3:00 Three parts of the gospel: justification, sanctification, glorification 6:30 1 John 1:9 — forgiven and cleansed 9:30 Was Jesus our example in justification, or something else? 13:00 Nicodemus and the need to be born again 16:30 Growth is gradual: the seed, the blade, the grain 19:30 John 15: abiding in the vine 23:00 Galatians 2:20 introduced — to be continued in Part 2 This message was made available by the Stanmore Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.stanmoresdachurch.net #JustificationByFaith #TrueGospel #BibleTeaching
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Is God Real? The Evidence for God's Existence
Is God real? Pastor Lyle Southwell tackles this head-on by pointing out something both believers and skeptics often miss: the evidence for and against God's existence is exactly the same evidence — what differs is the interpretation. Building on a previous message about the vastness of the universe and the complexity of a single cell, Lyle contrasts a materialistic worldview (we're just matter and energy) with a God-based worldview that includes the spiritual, using an everyday object — a vase — to walk through the evidence anyone would use to conclude something was designed, then applies that same evidence to a flower and to DNA. Along the way he tackles a common misunderstanding of faith itself, using Hebrews 11:1 to argue that biblical faith is never blind belief but is grounded in real evidence — the same way we believe in wind we cannot see. He walks through staggering figures from researchers like Dr. Hugh Ross, Sir Fred Hoyle, and Roger Penrose on the mathematical odds of a life-supporting universe forming by chance, and closes on 1 John 4:16 and Genesis 1:26, arguing that love itself — something matter and energy can't produce — points to a triune God who created the world so He would have people to love. For anyone who has been told that faith means believing without evidence, this message offers a clear, reasoned apologetics case for why God's existence — and His love — hold up to scrutiny. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Recap: the golf ball, the stars, and the cell 3:00 Two worldviews: everything is matter, or there's more 6:30 What the Bible actually means by "faith" 10:00 Who made the vase? Building the case for a Creator 14:00 The flower, the cell, and irreducible design 18:00 DNA: the most compact information storage known 22:00 The staggering odds of a life-supporting universe 27:00 Love, the Trinity, and why the universe exists at all This message was made available by Adventist Streaming. For more resources like this, visit www.adventist-streaming.org #IsGodReal #ChristianApologetics #BibleTeaching
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The Soul Sleep Debate: What Really Happens When We Die?
What really happens when we die? Jason Thomas tackles one of the most debated questions in the Bible — often called the soul sleep debate — starting from Genesis 2:7's definition of a "living soul" as body plus breath, and Ecclesiastes 9:5's declaration that "the dead know not any thing." Rather than just stating the doctrine, Jason works through the actual objections people raise against it: Elijah asking for the widow's son's life to "come into him again," the soul that "mourns" in Job 14, the souls crying out from under the altar in Revelation 6, and the common misquote that "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." Each objection is answered by going back to the Hebrew word nefesh and its range of meanings, and by reading contested passages in their fuller context — including 2 Corinthians 5, where Paul actually says believers are "willing rather" to be absent from the body, not that death itself is instant heaven. Jason also addresses the claim that Jesus "preached to spirits in prison" after His death, tracing it instead to the Holy Spirit's work through Noah, and closes with Acts 2:29-34's plain statement that David "is not ascended into heaven." This message is for anyone who has heard conflicting answers about death, heaven, and the soul, and wants to work through the actual biblical texts for themselves. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Why the state of the dead matters 2:30 How man was created: body plus breath equals a living soul 5:30 What happens at death: a reversal of Genesis 2:7 9:00 "The dead know not any thing" (Ecclesiastes 9) 13:00 Objection: Elijah and the widow's son 17:00 Objection: a soul that "mourns" in Job 14 20:30 Objection: souls crying out under the altar (Revelation 6) 25:00 "Absent from the body, present with the Lord" — what Paul actually said 30:00 Did Jesus preach to spirits in prison? 34:00 David "is not ascended into heaven" (Acts 2) This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #SoulSleep #StateOfTheDead #BibleTeaching
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Who Is Azazel? The Scapegoat, the Day of Atonement, and the Investigative Judgment
Who is Azazel? Edwin M Cotto works through Leviticus 16's scapegoat ritual on the Day of Atonement — where two goats are chosen, one sacrificed as "the Lord's goat" and the other, the goat "for Azazel," sent alive into the wilderness — to answer a question that's sparked real debate: does the scapegoat represent Christ, or does it represent Satan? Responding point-by-point to a specific written objection from a critic of this view, Edwin walks through the Hebrew text of Leviticus 16 and 17, showing that the two goats can't both represent the same person, that the "atonement" made upon the scapegoat is a different act than the atonement made by the sacrificed goat's blood, and that the goat for Azazel bears sins already dealt with rather than making any sacrifice itself. He connects the ritual's structure to Revelation 20, where Satan is bound and cast into a "wilderness" for a thousand years, arguing this is the New Testament antitype of the scapegoat being led away. This message models how to research a difficult biblical topic — checking Hebrew wording, historical context, and parallel passages — for anyone wrestling with questions about the Day of Atonement, the investigative judgment, or how to answer a specific doctrinal objection. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction: who is Azazel? 3:00 Leviticus 16: two goats, two destinies 7:00 Responding to a critic's written objection 11:00 Does the Bible use "Jewish mythology" to explain Azazel? 15:30 Leviticus 17: goat demons and the Hebrew wording 20:00 Does Azazel make a "sin offering"? Reading the small words 25:00 What "atonement" means for the scapegoat vs. the Lord's goat 30:00 The scapegoat and Satan bearing his own sin 35:00 Revelation 20: the antitype of the scapegoat ritual This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #WhoIsAzazel #DayOfAtonement #BibleStudy
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Faith vs Works: Being or Doing? What the Bible Says About Salvation
Faith vs works: are we saved by what we believe, or by what we do? Pastor Wayne Humphries opens with real survey answers from university students asked "do you believe you will go to heaven?" — nearly all of which describe personal goodness rather than Christ — before showing that neither pure "being" nor pure "doing" is what the Bible actually teaches. Wayne traces the "doing" side of the Bible through the Ten Commandments, Leviticus 25, and the cloud that led Israel through the wilderness, then the "being" side through Psalm 119's delight in God's law and Matthew 5:17-19, where Jesus says He came to fulfill the law rather than destroy it — illustrated through a memorable speeding-ticket analogy. Using the picture of a rowboat with two oars, he argues that faith and works aren't in competition; a life that only pursues one or the other just goes in circles, while both together — being and doing in harmony, as seen perfectly in Christ — actually moves a person forward. The message closes in John 14 and 15, on abiding in Christ and bearing fruit, and in Galatians 5's fruit of the Spirit, making the case that obedience motivated by love for what Christ has already done is the only kind of doing the Bible actually calls for. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 A university survey: "do you believe you'll go to heaven?" 4:00 The "doing" side: the Ten Commandments and Israel's obedience 9:00 The "being" side: Psalm 119 and delighting in God's law 13:00 Matthew 5: did Jesus come to destroy the law, or fulfill it? 18:00 The speeding ticket illustration 22:00 Jesus as the perfect blend of law and grace (John 1:17) 26:00 The rowboat illustration: two oars, being and doing 30:00 Abiding in Christ and bearing the fruit of the Spirit (John 15) This message was made available by Pr Wayne Humphries. For more resources like this, www.hiswordrevealed.life #FaithVsWorks #ChristianLiving #BibleTeaching
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Trusting God in Hard Times: Why We Worship Him Anyway
Trusting God in hard times starts, Sam Walters says, with having your own why — not just a habit of church attendance, but a settled reason for worship that can hold up when everything else falls apart. He opens with his own story of nearly walking away from church as a teenager after being mocked by friends, and with Job's response to losing everything in a single day: he "fell down upon the ground and worshipped." Sam gives three reasons the Bible gives for worshipping God, built around the heavenly scene in Revelation 4 and 5: God is worthy because He caused everything to exist (Hebrews 3's builder-is-greater-than-the-house argument), because He cares — even when, like a newborn, we can't yet understand that care — and because He can actually intervene in real situations, illustrated through personal stories of an unexpected exam recovery, a head elder's cancer diagnosis, and a young relative unexpectedly asking to return to church. This message speaks directly to anyone facing uncertainty, waiting on an answer to prayer, or wondering whether trusting God is worth it when life gets difficult — closing with an invitation to bring specific requests to Him in prayer. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 A story about almost walking away from church 4:00 Job: worship after losing everything in a day 7:30 Signs of the times and the call to worship 10:00 Reason one: God caused everything to exist 14:00 Reason two: God cares, even when we can't feel it 18:30 The prodigal son and a wrong view of God's character 22:00 Reason three: God can — real stories of answered prayer 27:00 An invitation to bring your own requests to God This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #TrustingGod #ChristianEncouragement #Worship
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How to Be Content: Why Nothing Else Satisfies but Christ
How to be content is the question Pastor Ashley Smith tackles head-on, opening with John Piper's line that "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him." Using Jesus' parable of the rich fool in Luke 12 and the story of the rich young ruler, Ashley shows that contentment built on possessions is a mountain with no summit — illustrated vividly through King Solomon, who reached the peak of wealth, relationships, and power described in Scripture, only to write in Ecclesiastes that "everything is wearisome" and nothing at the top satisfies. The sermon turns to Matthew 6:25-26, where Jesus points to birds fed by the Father as proof that our value is declared by God rather than earned by what we have, and to the Apostle Paul's own story in Philippians 3 and 2 Corinthians 11 — a man who walked away from wealth, status, and religious credentials, and traded them for hardship, yet called it worth it. Ashley closes with a study of the Greek word logos (used in John 1 for "the Word") to argue that the reason for all existence isn't a philosophy but a person — Jesus Christ — and that real contentment, per Philippians 4:11-13, is found only in Him. For anyone chasing the next promotion, purchase, or relationship hoping it will finally be enough, this message makes the case that true contentment was never about having more. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him" 3:00 The rich fool and the rich young ruler 7:00 Solomon: reaching the top of every mountain 11:30 "Everything is wearisome" — Ecclesiastes on a life without God 15:00 The birds of the air and declared value (Matthew 6) 19:00 Paul's story: trading status for suffering, and calling it gain 24:00 The Greek word logos: the reason for everything is a person 28:00 True contentment (Philippians 4:11-13) This message was made available by the Murwillumbah Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.facebook.com/MbahSDAChurch/ #Contentment #ChristianLiving #BibleTeaching
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Lessons From the Book of Acts: A Lineage of Faith for Hard Times
Lessons from the book of Acts open this message from Pastor Daniel Przybylko, who traces his own family's four generations of faith before turning to Scripture to show that every believer today is part of the same story. Comparing three key sermons in the Acts of the Apostles — Peter's message at Pentecost (Acts 2), Stephen's defense before he was stoned (Acts 7), and Paul's sermon on his first missionary journey (Acts 13) — Daniel identifies a consistent three-part pattern: each preacher points back to God's faithfulness to His people through history, centers everything on the death and resurrection of Christ, and closes with a direct appeal for the listener to respond. He then follows that same pattern forward through church history, from the early apostles through the Reformation and into more recent times, arguing that today's believers are simply the next chapter of the same book — the story isn't finished being written. Along the way, Daniel shares a personal story about his wife preaching near where a missionary was martyred decades earlier, and reflects on how challenges and even persecution have always accompanied genuine gospel growth. This message is for Bible study groups, church leaders, and anyone wanting encouragement to keep proclaiming their faith boldly in increasingly uncertain times, drawing hope from a lineage of faith that stretches back thousands of years. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 A family lineage of faith across four generations 5:00 Peter's sermon at Pentecost (Acts 2) 9:30 Stephen's sermon and martyrdom (Acts 7) 14:00 Paul's sermon on his first missionary journey (Acts 13) 18:30 A three-part pattern: heritage, Christ, and appeal 23:00 From the apostles to the Reformation to today 27:00 A personal story of mission, risk, and reward 31:00 An appeal: believe it, live it, share it This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #BookOfActs #BibleStudy #ChristianFaith
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The Mark of the Beast Explained: Sunday Law and the Coming Global Crisis
The mark of the beast isn't a barcode or a microchip — according to Bible prophecy, it's tied to the union of church and state, and Pastor Andrew Russell shows exactly how current Sunday law developments are setting the stage for it. Continuing part two of "The Loud Cry," this message walks through Revelation 13 and 18, explaining why the image of the beast represents a religious-political alliance and how recent U.S. legislative moves — from the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 to state-level Sunday rest bills — echo warnings written in the Great Controversy over a century ago. Drawing from Daniel and Revelation, Andrew Russell traces the loud cry of Revelation 18, the meaning of "Babylon is fallen, is fallen," and why Sabbath reform has to begin at home before it can be shared with the world. He also touches on the growing push for religious liberty restrictions tied to Sunday legislation. The message closes with the true story of Samuel Mitchell, the first Seventh Day Adventist to die under a Sunday law in the United States, and a direct challenge: are you prepared to stand when your faith is tested? Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Intro & the two classes in the great controversy 2:30 Sabbath reform begins in the home 5:15 The loud cry of Revelation 18 9:00 Great Controversy on the fall of Babylon repeated 13:20 The Sabbath as a sign of sanctification 17:45 The image of the beast: church and state united 22:30 Sunday law developments: Heritage Foundation & Project 2025 27:10 Sunday legislation in America today 31:00 Persecution and the loud cry's final work 36:00 Samuel Mitchell: the first Sunday law martyr 39:00 Closing appeal: are you prepared to stand? This message was made available by Hoxton Park Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.facebook.com/hoxtonparksda #MarkOfTheBeast #SundayLaw #BibleProphecy
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What Is Babylon in the Bible? Understanding the Three Angels' Messages
What is Babylon in the Bible? Pastor Andrew Russell answers that question directly in this opening message on the three angels of Revelation 14, showing how "Babylon is fallen" describes the moral and spiritual condition of churches that reject present Bible truth — not just an ancient city. Working chronologically through Revelation 14:6–12, Andrew Russell traces how the first angel's judgment-hour message found its fulfillment in the 1844 Advent movement, why the second angel's cry that Babylon has fallen points to churches that turned away from that message, and how the third angel's warning about the mark of the beast connects directly to the Sabbath and the authority behind it. Along the way, he unpacks statements from the Catholic Church itself describing Sunday as "the mark of her authority," and lays the foundation for understanding the loud cry of Revelation 18 — continued in part two of this series. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening prayer & the loud cry introduced 2:15 The three angels' messages explained 5:40 The first angel: the judgment hour message 9:30 William Miller and the 1844 movement 13:50 The second angel: "Babylon is fallen" 18:20 What Babylon represents in Bible prophecy 22:45 The third angel: the mark of the beast 27:10 Sunday as Rome's "mark of authority" 31:30 Sabbath reform and the call to be ready This message was made available by Hoxton Park Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.facebook.com/hoxtonparksda #Babylon #BibleProphecy #Revelation14
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The Hosea and Gomer Bible Story: A Love That Won't Let You Go
The Hosea and Gomer Bible story is one of the most emotionally raw pictures of God's love in all of Scripture, and Henk Viljoen walks through it in detail in this message. God tells the prophet Hosea to marry a woman who will betray him — not as a strange request, but as a living picture of His relationship with an unfaithful people. Henk Viljoen traces Gomer's three children and their prophetic names — Jezreel, Lo-Ruhamah ("not loved"), and Lo-Ammi ("not my people") — showing how each one mirrors Israel's spiritual condition and even connects to the three messages of Revelation 14. When Gomer eventually sinks into slavery, Hosea does the unthinkable: he buys her back. This message applies that picture directly to anyone who feels like they've wandered too far, showing that God's unconditional love pursues, redeems, and restores — even after repeated failure. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Introduction: the book of Hosea 3:00 God's instruction to marry Gomer 6:30 The meaning of the children's names 11:00 Jezreel, Lo-Ruhamah, and Lo-Ammi explained 15:40 Israel's unfaithfulness and God's response 20:15 Reconciliation and the allure of the wilderness 25:00 Restoration: "you are my people" reversed 29:30 Gomer sold into slavery — backsliding 33:00 Hosea buys her back: a picture of redemption 37:15 Applying the story: God's love that won't let go 40:30 Closing appeal and prayer This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit doracreek.church #HoseaAndGomer #GodsLove #BibleStudy
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How to Evangelize: Sharing the Everlasting Gospel Before It's Too Late
Learning how to evangelize starts with understanding exactly what message we're sharing, and Pastor Gary Webster lays that out clearly in this call to action. He opens with Ellen White's challenge that God's people have been given "the last warning for a perishing world" — but points out that many believers never share it simply because they don't fully understand what the three angels' messages actually are. Gary Webster walks through Revelation 14 message by message: the call to fear, glorify, and worship God as Creator; the fall of Babylon and false doctrines — the immortal soul, Sunday sacredness, and eternal torment — which he argues are actually fueling modern atheism; and the third angel's message, which he ties directly to justification by faith in Christ's righteousness. The message closes with a direct challenge to stop staying quiet about what we believe and start sharing the gospel with the people around us. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening prayer and Ellen White's challenge 2:30 The first angel's message explained 6:00 Fear God, glorify Him, worship the Creator 9:15 The everlasting gospel: Christ and Him crucified 12:40 Justification explained (the acquitted schoolboys) 16:00 The second angel: Babylon's false teachings 20:00 How false doctrine fuels modern atheism 23:30 The third angel and justification by faith 26:45 Sharing Jesus: a call to action 29:30 Closing appeal and prayer This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #Evangelism #ShareTheGospel #BibleProphecy
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Is Genesis Literal History or Myth? Defending the Book of Beginnings
Is Genesis literal history, or just myth and legend, as some modern scholars claim? Dr. Barry Wright tackles that question directly, showing why the book of Genesis is the foundation the rest of Scripture stands on — and why it has come under more sustained attack than perhaps any other book in the Bible. Barry Wright traces the rise of "higher criticism" from the 18th century onward, referencing the well-known 2012 debate between Cardinal George Pell and Richard Dawkins over whether Genesis is historical or mythical, and answers three common challenges: attacks on Mosaic authorship, on Genesis's scientific accuracy, and on the reality of sin as deliberate disobedience. From creation and the Sabbath to the flood, the Tower of Babel, and Joseph as a type of Christ, this message shows Jesus on nearly every page of the book of Genesis and explains why treating it as sober history — not legend — matters for the whole plan of salvation. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening prayer and the search for truth 3:00 Higher criticism: attacks on Genesis since the 1700s 6:30 The Pell-Dawkins debate on Genesis 9:45 Challenge #1: was Genesis written by Moses? 13:20 Jesus affirms the books of Moses 16:30 Genesis as the "seedbed" of Scripture 19:45 Creation, marriage, and the Sabbath instituted 23:30 The origin of sin and the first promise (Genesis 3:15) 27:00 The flood and the beginning of nations 31:15 The story of Joseph as a type of Christ 35:30 Why Genesis matters for the whole gospel 38:45 Closing prayer This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit doracreek.church #BookOfGenesis #Creation #BibleStudy
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Victory Over Sin: What Crossing the Jordan Really Teaches Us
Getting victory over sin isn't just about being forgiven for the past — Tim Matsis shows from the story of Israel at the Jordan River that it takes ongoing faith to actually reach the promised land. He starts with Israel's failure at Kadesh Barnea, where 10 of 12 spies talked the nation out of entering Canaan, and traces the 40 years of wandering that followed simply because, as Hebrews puts it, "they could not enter in because of unbelief." Tim Matsis draws a direct line from the Red Sea (a picture of baptism) to the Jordan River (a picture of glorification), arguing that the same faith that trusts Christ for forgiveness of past sins must also be trusted for victory over sin and temptation today — what the Bible calls sanctification. Using the story of Joshua and Caleb, the only two who reached Canaan, this message challenges listeners to keep believing God for real, ongoing change rather than settling for wandering in the wilderness. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening story and prayer 3:00 Israel at the banks of Jordan 6:15 The twelve spies and the report from Canaan 9:45 Unbelief and forty years in the wilderness 13:30 Why they couldn't enter: Hebrews 3:19 17:00 The Red Sea as a picture of baptism 21:30 One faith for forgiveness and for victory 25:45 Continuing in faith: warnings from Hebrews 3-4 30:00 Sanctification: growing more like Jesus 35:15 Only two enter Canaan: Joshua and Caleb 40:00 Crossing the Jordan: a picture of glorification 44:30 Closing appeal: "who will come and go with me?" This message was made available by the Masterton Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit mastertonsda.nz #VictoryOverSin #Faith #BibleStudy
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Soul Winning: Why Finishing God's Work Starts With You
Finishing God's work isn't complicated — it just requires people willing to actually do it, says John Bradshaw in this message. He argues that most of what the Bible teaches about salvation and mission is simple, not complex, and that soul winning gets stuck not because the theory is hard, but because so few believers are actually engaged in personal evangelism. John Bradshaw walks through the calls of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Jonah, contrasting those who said "here am I, send me" with the one prophet who ran the other way, and points out that Jesus' own ministry began with Him opening His mouth and speaking to people — not simply living a quiet example and hoping others noticed. He shares his own story of leaving a successful radio career to work in a hospital laundry before entering full-time ministry, illustrating what it looks like to tell God, "I'm willing for you to use me." The message closes with a direct challenge: the work will not get finished until someone is willing to yield and go. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening prayer 2:30 Why finishing God's work is a simple matter 6:00 Getting the basics right 9:30 The real needs of a hurting world 13:15 Why political solutions aren't enough 17:00 People need to be convinced, not just observed 20:30 Jesus opened His mouth: the ministry begins 24:15 Isaiah's call: "here am I, send me" 27:45 Jeremiah's call and Jonah's refusal 31:30 The disciples called by the lake 35:00 John Bradshaw's testimony: laundry to ministry 40:00 Yielding to God: the key to soul winning 43:30 Closing challenge and prayer This message was made available by GYC. For more resources like this, visit https://gycweb.org #SoulWinning #Evangelism #GreatCommission
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How to Resist Temptation as a Christian: Lessons From Marie Durand's Prison Cell
How do you resist temptation when the stakes are life and death? Leah Hodge tells the true story of Marie Durand, a young Huguenot woman imprisoned for 38 years in France's Tower of Constance for refusing to renounce her faith, and draws out practical lessons for facing pressure today. After tracing Marie Durand's imprisonment during the persecution that followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Leah Hodge connects her story directly to the coming mark of the beast crisis, arguing that resisting external pressure starts with resisting temptation from within — using James 1 to show that the real source of temptation is our own heart, not just outside forces. The message walks through practical, Bible-based steps for building daily resistance: confessing unconfessed sin, watching and praying, memorizing Scripture as "the sword of the Spirit," and staying active in service rather than idle, closing with the same single word scratched into Marie Durand's prison floor: resist. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening prayer 2:30 Marie Durand and the 1260-day prophecy 6:00 Persecution of the Huguenots in France 9:45 The Dragonnades and Marie Durand's family 13:30 Imprisoned in the Tower of Constance 17:15 "Resist" carved in the prison floor 20:30 Applying her story to the mark of the beast 24:00 The real source of temptation: James 1 27:30 Sins of the flesh and the tongue 32:00 Four steps to resisting temptation 36:30 Confession, prayer, and Scripture memorization 40:15 Aggressive service instead of idleness 43:30 Closing appeal: "resist the devil" This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit doracreek.church #ResistTemptation #MarkOfTheBeast #BibleProphecy
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How Was the Bible Written? Revelation, Inspiration, and Illumination Explained
Here is a link to download the Powerpoint that was used with this sermon: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i…tpof=true&sd=true How was the Bible written, and does it matter whether we understand that process? Alan Fisher breaks down the difference between three often-confused terms — revelation (God speaking to a prophet), inspiration (the prophet writing it down), and illumination (the Holy Spirit helping us understand it) — and shows why mixing them up can shake a person's confidence in Scripture entirely. Alan Fisher compares three views of how the Bible was inspired — word-for-word dictation, thought inspiration, and a more skeptical "encounter" view — and uses a side-by-side look at the four Gospels to show why differences between writers are complementary, not contradictory, much like four photographs of the same car taken from different angles. He also traces the practical ways biblical writers worked, from Luke's careful research to secretaries like Baruch and Tertius, closing with William Miller's own testimony of finding, through careful study, that the Bible truly is "a system of revealed truths." Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening prayer 2:30 Revelation, inspiration, and illumination defined 6:00 How God has revealed Himself to prophets 10:00 Three views of inspiration: dictation, thought, encounter 14:30 Comparing the four Gospels 18:45 Why differences in Scripture are complementary 22:30 How writers researched, compiled, and used secretaries 27:00 Why this understanding matters for our confidence 30:30 William Miller's testimony 33:00 Closing prayer This message was made available by the Dora Creek Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit doracreek.church #BiblicalInspiration #BibleStudy #WordOfGod
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The Investigative Judgment Explained: Is It Really in the Bible?
Is the investigative judgment actually taught in the Bible, or is it something invented? Jason Thomas takes on that exact question directly, working from Daniel 7, Revelation 14, and 1 Corinthians 4 to show that Paul himself expected to be investigatively judged — using a Greek word that means to scrutinize or examine before rendering a verdict. Jason Thomas connects the judgment scene in Daniel 7 to the sanctuary's Day of Atonement, explains why the 70-week prophecy of Daniel 9 (which clearly points to the Messiah) is tied to the larger 2,300-day prophecy that lands on 1844, and shows how this judgment work is really about blotting out sin — the same thing Scripture calls justification. Along the way, he answers the most common objections people raise: that judgment isn't part of the gospel, that the righteous aren't judged, and that the investigative judgment isn't biblical at all, closing with an appeal to be found among those Revelation describes as receiving judgment in their favor. Listen to the Full Series: Catch every message in the Go Teach All Nations collection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65y7saKkuQ1OhnYa142gWoTlMc4NBguh Discover More Christian Content: Explore more sermons, Bible teaching, and faith-building programs from 3ABN Australia Radio: https://www.youtube.com/@3abnaustraliaradio885/featured Timecodes 0:00 Opening prayer 2:30 Is there a judgment to come? (Acts 24, Acts 17) 6:15 Paul's own expectation of judgment (1 Cor 4:4) 10:00 The judgment scene in Daniel 7 14:00 The three angels' messages and the judgment hour 18:30 The sanctuary and the Day of Atonement 23:00 The 70 weeks and 2,300-day prophecies 28:30 Why the prophecy points to 1844 33:15 Blotting out sin: what justification really means 38:00 Common argument: "judgment isn't part of the gospel" 42:00 Common argument: "the righteous aren't judged" 46:00 Closing appeal and prayer This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au #InvestigativeJudgment #BibleProphecy #1844
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The Divine Investigation: How Christ Examines the Seven Churches for Salvation, Not Condemnation - Edwin M Cotto (Sermon Audio) Go Teach All Nations
Join Edwin M. Cotto from the Advent Defense League as he delivers a powerful message on Christ's investigative judgment of the seven churches in Revelation. This compelling sermon explores how Jesus examines each church not to condemn, but to call believers to repentance and restoration. Through personal testimony and biblical exposition, Pastor Cotto reveals how God's investigation serves to identify and remove the "elephants in the room" - those persistent sins that separate us from Christ. Drawing from Revelation chapters 2-3 and Psalm 139, this message demonstrates that divine judgment begins with mercy, offering hope and transformation to lukewarm Christians. Learn why the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia received no rebuke, while others were called to repent from false doctrines and spiritual compromise. This sermon challenges listeners to overcome besetting sins through daily communion with Christ, preparing for the New Jerusalem where only the purified will dwell. Perfect for Seventh-day Adventists and Christians seeking deeper spiritual growth and biblical understanding of end-time prophecy. This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au
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Biblical Mental Health: 7 Proven Strategies to Overcome Depression and Anxiety Through Faith-Based Wellness - Dr Geraldine Przybylko - GTAN2542
Discover the powerful connection between faith, lifestyle, and mental wellness in this transformative episode featuring Dr. Geraldine Prijbulko, Health Strategy Leader for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Learn evidence-based strategies for overcoming depression, anxiety, and stress through a biblical whole-person health approach. Dr. Przybylko shares inspiring testimonies from Papua New Guinea's first 7-day wellness retreat, where participants experienced dramatic weight loss, reduced diabetes symptoms, and significant improvements in mental health. Discover how plant-based nutrition, exercise, quality sleep, and spiritual practices can naturally combat mental health challenges affecting nearly 1 billion people worldwide. This episode explores the "Seven Dimensions of Wellness" - a comprehensive framework combining biblical principles with modern lifestyle medicine. Learn practical cognitive reframing techniques, the importance of social connections, and how volunteering can reduce depression while boosting life satisfaction. Perfect for anyone struggling with low mood, seeking natural mental health solutions, or wanting to support others in their wellness journey. Features real-world applications of neuroplasticity, circadian rhythm optimization, and the surprising mental health benefits of high-intensity exercise.Whether you're a healthcare professional, church leader, or someone seeking hope and healing, this episode provides actionable strategies for renewing your mind and transforming your life through faith-based wellness principles. This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au
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Purpose, Principles and Perspective - Sam Walters - GTAN2541
From Drifting to Driven: Breaking Free from Spiritual Compromise | Book of Esther Bible StudyAre you hiding your faith at work? Have you compromised so much that you feel trapped in your own decisions? This powerful sermon explores the Book of Esther to reveal why Christians drift in their spiritual walk and how to overcome it. Key Questions Explored:• Why do we hide our religious identity in professional settings?• How can past compromises affect future generations?• What does it mean to truly live differently as a Christian?• How do we break free from the "concrete of compromise"? Discover:✅ The 3-step process from drifting to driven (Reach Up, Reach Out, Decide)✅ Why Esther's story mirrors last-day events✅ How to embrace your Christian identity without fear✅ Practical steps to uncompromise your compromises✅ The power of prayer, community, and choice in spiritual growth Perfect for: Christians struggling with workplace faith, young adults facing peer pressure, anyone feeling stuck in spiritual compromise, Bible study groups, Seventh-day Adventists, and believers seeking authentic Christian living. Transform your spiritual walk from nominal to powerful. Stop hiding and start thriving in your God-given identity! This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au
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Give Me This Mountain - Pr Daniel Przybylko - GTAN2540
Have you ever faced a mountain in your life that seemed impossible to climb? Discover the inspiring story of Caleb, a biblical hero who faced insurmountable odds with unwavering faith. What can we learn from Caleb's wholehearted devotion to God? Are there mountains in your life or community that need conquering? Join us on this faith-filled journey as we explore how to overcome life's challenges with determination and trust in divine guidance. Can you imagine the possibilities if we all dared to dream big and stand together? Tune in and find out how you can say, "Give me this mountain!" This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au
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Pentecostalism, Politics and Prophecy - Lea-Anne Smith - GTAN2539
SHOCKING: How Christian Nationalism & False Prophets Are Reshaping America | End Times Prophecy EXPOSEDAre we witnessing the fulfillment of Revelation 13 in real time? Discover the explosive connection between:✅ Trump's presidency & the New Apostolic Reformation✅ 500+ false prophets who predicted his 2020 "victory"✅ January 6th insurrection & spiritual warfare tactics✅ Project 2025's dangerous religious agenda✅ The rise of Dominionism & the "Seven Mountains" strategyMIND-BLOWING REVELATIONS:• This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au
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The New Apostolic Reformation - Lea-Anne Smith - GTAN2538
EXPOSED: The Dangerous Movement Infiltrating Christianity Through Worship MusicWhat if the Christian songs you're singing contain hidden theology that contradicts biblical truth? Are popular worship leaders like Bethel, Hillsong, and Elevation teaching doctrines that could deceive even the elect?Discover the shocking beliefs of the New Apostolic Reformation - the fastest-growing movement in Christianity that's spreading through contemporary worship music. Learn about: ✅ Dominionism - Why they believe Christians must take control of government, media & education ✅ Post-Millennialism - How this theology destroys the urgency of Christ's Second Coming ✅ Signs & Wonders Deception - Supernatural schools teaching occult practices as Christianity ✅ The Passion Translation - A corrupted Bible promoting dangerous end-times theology ✅ Bethel Church Exposed - Grave soaking, dead raising teams, and New Age syncretismIs this the great deception Jesus warned about in Matthew 24? Why are angels telling these leaders that denominations are "of the devil"? Could this movement be preparing the world for the final spiritual crisis? This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au
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Truth, Discernment and the Cosmic Conflict - Lea-Anne Smith (Sermon Audio) Go Teach All Nations
Are we living in a world of deception, where truth is overshadowed by grand displays and experiences? Dive into a journey from the relics of World War II in Papua New Guinea to the spiritual warfare waged through the pages of Scripture. Discover the origins of the cosmic battle between good and evil, and explore how truth is continually under siege. Why did the war between heaven and earth begin, and what is the role of worship in this conflict? How does syncretism obscure divine truth, and why is it crucial to remain grounded in the Word of God amidst the allure of experiential spirituality? This powerful message challenges us to love the truth, understand its protective power, and recognize its vital importance as we approach the end times. Are you ready to embrace the truth that sets us free? This message was made available by the Waitara Seventh-day Adventist church. For more resources like this, visit www.waitarachurch.org.au
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Sermon Audio: The gospel commission, “Go Teach All Nations”, is as enduring as Jesus’ promise to be with His church until the end of the world. It is the worldwide proclamation of the everlasting gospel that ushers in the return of Christ.We are pleased to bring you Christ’s teachings through sermon of Australian and international speakers.
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