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PERSECUTION BY
SARDIS MINISTRY
But there is another type of
subject: I found years ago up
in Eugene, Oregon, before we
started Ambassador College
and before I ever moved down
to Southern California, Pasa-
dena, that just taking one
chapter in the Bible and going
through that chapter verse by
verse, could form a very good
sermon, the material for a
good sermon.
Now once I remember up in
Eugene, Oregon, I had not had
time to prepare a sermon. I
was caught short and didn't
have time. So I quickly told the
congregation that Sabbath that
I would take a chapter in the
Bible and go through it. I said,
"Now why don't I let one of
you select a chapter, and I will
go through it and expound it."
Well, there was a Sardis minis-
ter there; and he did not like
me. I have told you the Sardis
ministers persecuted me. The
Sardis brethren all loved me,
but their ministers did not.
They felt competitive, and they
did not like me, and they
persecuted.
This man was sitting in the
front row. He said, "Mr. Arm-
strong, may I suggest that you
preach on the first chapter of
Isaiah." I said, "Fine, alright."
You know for the minute I
didn't know why he wanted me
to preach on that. I just
remembered one thing,
"though your sins be as
crimson, they shall be as
snow."
I knew that was in
that chapter, and the rest of it
for a minute I just did not
remember. But I knew he had
some motive. I didn't know
what it was, but he wanted me
to preach on that.
Now, I had been taking the
truth about God's
annual Holy Days
to the Sardis
people; and they
had rejected it.
And he wanted to
lay a trap for me
just like the Phari-
sees did for Jesus.
He wanted to trip
me up and trap
me, and he
thought he had me
there.
So it came to where God says,
in the 1st chapter of Isaiah as I
was going through it, that God
hated ... and wherever it is.
Well, why don't I just turn to it
for a minute? That is not what
I intended to preach on today
at all, and I'll get to something
else in a minute; but let's go
back to that just a second. I
want to show you, it is rather
interesting and I think if we
just get to something interest-
ing like that for a change it will
be a little bit of a change in
sermon material here; and I
think it'll be good for all of
you.
Isaiah the 1st chapter, I didn't
have it marked because I
hadn't intended to use it. But
he says here:
Isaiah 1:11
“(To)
what
purpose is the multitude
of sacrifices
[And by the
time I got to that point, I
believe that's the place, I was
emphasizing the word
"your."
It was their sacrifices
that God was against.]
unto
me saith the Lord: I am
full of burnt offerings of
rams, and the fat of (fed)
beasts; and I delight not in
the blood of bullocks, or of
lambs, or of
(he)
goats.”
Now, let me see. Yes,
verse
13:
Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more
vain oblations; incense is
an abomination unto me;
the new moons and Sab-
baths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away
with; it is iniquity, even
the solemn meeting. (14)
YOUR new moons and
YOUR appointed feasts
my soul hateth: they are a
trouble unto me; I am
weary to bear {4} them.
"Your appointed feasts,"
and I put the
"YOUR".
They
were their. They were not
God's appointed feasts!
And did I wallop that minister
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