As followers of Jesus, Seventh-day Adventists are counter-cultural. The "C" in our HAYSTACKS series stands for "Counter-cultural."

Inevitably we are producers, maintainers, participants in culture. Yet God sends us as missionaries into the culture. We are not non-cultural or a-cultural, but counter-cultural. We are live demonstrations, a divine invasion, soldiers marching through Satan's culture. We are not a gaggle of "No's" sent running through the earth, but a battalion of "Yes's"--agents demonstrating a different way.

Outline:

• Introduction
• Three primary prophetic agents
• Dragon
  • Spiritualism
  • Secularism
    • France revolution atheism
    • Germany 1844 Marx & basics communism
    • Frankfurt school and critical theory
    • Cultural Marxism
• Our work for this time
• Conclusion

Sometimes people claim others are judgmental, but they're not judgmental. Sometimes people claim others are judgmental, and they are. How can we tell the right and wrong exercise of judgment? How do we correctly identify illegitimate judging by others, or, the legitimate use of judgment?

Our heavenly Father never sleeps. Jesus sees ahead. The Holy Spirit stands beside you with you in this place in your life right now. Nothing sneaks up on God. You experience surprise, I do; God sees it before. Nothing in this week's news surprised Him; nothing tomorrow.

Let us join together in opening the Word of God to Luke 17:11-21. I will read.

• Introduction
  • James on Faith and Works
  • Paul on Faith and Works
    • Steps in Paul's Romans Salvation Argument
    • Summary of the Argument in Romans Four
    • Count Reckon Impute, Credit, Compute
    • Galatians 5:6
• Conclusion

• Introduction
• Author, Date, Purpose
• Sin and Righteousness
  • Sin
    • James on Sin
    • Paul on Sin
  • Righteousness
    • James on Righteousness
    • Paul on Righteousness
• Conclusion