Sermons

The Last Great Day—an annual Holy Day of God—teaches us the Truth about God’s righteousness and His desire to save everyone, even though some will reject God’s call to salvation. We read that in the “Second Resurrection,” billions of people will stand before the Great White Throne to be “judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.” But how will that judgement take place? 

On this Last Great Day of the 2026 FOT we can feel quite sad. It’s been a wonderful week and Fall holy day season, and we know that we are heading into a period with far less connection with one-another. Still, it need not be like that—we do not need to lost touch with our Brethren, and certainly not with God, Jesus Christ, and our obedience to the Father. How do we therefore maintain that Feast of Tabernacles sense and dedication? In this Sermonette we will cover several examples and scriptures that can assist in our spiritual energy and commitment.

The sermonette, “The Battle Within,” is about the Christian’s continuing struggle against the self, or “old man.” Its specific focus is what I call our “matter-spirit bias”: the pull toward the physical, carnal way of thinking rather than God’s spiritual way.

Every institution we rely on today exists because the human heart is deceitful, and trust has to be built, policed, and paid for at enormous cost. The Kingdom of God will replace this system entirely. When God writes His law on human hearts instead of stone, obedience becomes willing, judgment becomes perfectly righteous under Jesus Christ, and deceit disappears, so the world becomes safe, peaceful, and abundant without any of that overhead. We don’t have to wait for that Kingdom to begin living by its standards and already see blessings flow from living that way now.

The Hebrew expression “Hinneni,” which is regularly translated as “Here I am!”, is used both by God Himself and by various figures in the Bible.

We will first explore the profound significance of this expression and then, using two biblical figures as examples, take a closer look at the deep insights it offers for the life of a Christian and for their relationship with God and with other people.

God is going to completely replace all governments with a completely new and perfect government – one that will rule the people correctly unlike our present failed systems.

Who were Christ’s 12 disciples and did He choose them randomly? Was there a specific purpose for each of them and how does that reflect for us today? Are we also chosen for a purpose today?

We explore how God deliberately uses repetition, patterns, and recurring themes throughout Scripture to deeply etch His message into our hearts and reveal essential truths. By understanding repetition as a divine teaching tool, we learn how form highlights meaning and invites us into a deeper, lifelong engagement with the Word of God.

Everything we go through now is training. The hard things, the tedious things, the things we don’t understand in the moment are for our learning. We may not always see why we experience what we do, but we can trust that God is preparing us for a purpose far greater than we realize. We are not only being raised up as children of God, we are being trained as kings and priests, to serve under Jesus Christ when He returns. The Feast of Tabernacles pictures that future time, when the nations will finally be ready and willing to learn the truth, and we will be the ones teaching them, drawing on the very experiences, sufferings, and lessons we are living through right now. We don’t have to wait until then to see the value of our training. Every trial we face today is already shaping us into the kind of teacher who can help others come to salvation, with the same understanding and empathy Christ Himself gained through what He suffered.

Does God call all people to salvation today? Christ’s ministry as a human being demonstrates that He made no effort at that time to lead everyone to the Truth, to impress the masses, or to draw all people to Himself. Rather, the Bible speaks of two harvests and two types of rain. The masses—the world—will be called to salvation at a later time, but not now. And this realization has consequences for the Work of the Church of God today.

How could ancient Israel ensure that it would be able to rejoice in a blessed harvest during the Feast of Tabernacles – a joy that God expected of His people?

In answering this question, we will also explore a spiritual dimension that the unique weather patterns of Israel reveal for all mankind, one that will lead to truly great joy among all people with the beginning of the Millennium.