Undivided Loyalties! | Dr. Conrad Vine

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Philippians 3:20

But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we’re expecting a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:13-16

So when the dragon that is Satan saw that he’d been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. But the woman was given the two wings of a great eagle so that she could fly from the serpent into the wilderness to her place where she is nourished for a time, times and half a time. Then from his mouth the serpent poured water like a river after the woman to sweep her away with the flood. But the earth came to the help of the woman. It opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

Revelation 13:11

Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

Revelation 13:15-17 (paraphrased in sermon)

The prophecy of Revelation 13 declares that the power represented by the beast with lamblike horns shall call the cause the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the papacy, symbolized by the beast like unto a leopard. This prophecy will be fulfilled when the United States shall enforce Sunday observance which Rome claims as the special acknowledgement of her supremacy.

1 Corinthians 15:24

Then comes the end when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed every ruler and authority and power.

Luke 23:42

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

Isaiah 11:1, 5

A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist and faithfulness the belt around his loins.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is just in all his ways and kind in all his doings.

Isaiah 11:6-9 (paraphrased)

The wolf shall lie down with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze. Their young shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the asp’s hole, and the weaned child shall put its hand in the viper’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel blew the trumpet and there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world, that is the kingdom of Satan, has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he that is Christ will reign forever and ever.

Isaiah 25:7-8

He will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces.

Memorable Quotes

“We are to be the best possible citizens in our respective nations. We are to pay our taxes on time. We are to obey the speed limit. We are to obey all the laws of the land.”

“Despite the fact we are citizens of earthly nations, we’re also citizens of a heavenly nation, and that is the kingdom of God.”

“The 30-year war was the last major attempt by the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire to impose Catholic rule on Europe by force.”

“The age of reason and the enlightenment took off in Europe. Towards the end of those 150 years, you have three major revolutions: the industrial revolution, the French Revolution, and the American Revolution.”

“The Puritans were not seeking religious liberty for all. They were seeking religious liberty for themselves and the ability to control their own patch of land.”

“The first amendment is perhaps the single most important bulwark against tyranny in our world today. It’s not the American military, it’s the first amendment.”

“America is a land of refuge for God’s people. But the same America will become the persecutor of God’s people.”

“As our nation transitions from Revelation 12 to Revelation 13, we need to make that transition so that our primary loyalty is to the kingdom of God rather than to any earthly nation.”

“There has to be no love for the desires of the flesh in our hearts. There has to be no love for the desires of wealth or the accumulation of possessions. When we have gods in this world that have a hold upon our hearts, we’re not going to make it through the final crisis.”

“We are Seventh-day Adventists. We live for the coming kingdom. We are champions of the coming king of kings and the coming kingdom.”

“The kingdom of God is going to be based on righteousness and justice… The Lord is just in all his ways and kind in all his doings.”

“The kingdom of God is a kingdom not of war but a kingdom of shalom — peace, reconciliation, and healing.”

“The kingdom of God is a kingdom of unspeakable joy. The lame shall leap like a deer, the tongue of the speechless will sing for joy, and death will be swallowed up forever.”

“We pray for this kingdom daily: ‘Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ We proclaim this kingdom to the ends of the earth.”

“God has chosen us here today to be his champions to shine like the stars of heaven, to shine the light of the gospel in how we live our lives, and to win as many souls for Christ in earth’s final and darkest hour.”

“My challenge to you today is have undivided loyalties. We are first and foremost citizens of heaven above, from where we are expecting our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“He will be with us. He will speak through us. If people see the love of God in our eyes and hear the love of God in our voices, they’ll be one for the coming kingdom.”

Other Quotations

Ellen G. White

“Thus it was that Gustavos II, the king of little Sweden, came to the deliverance of the oppressed nations. It was a herculean task which he had undertaken with slender means and a small army. He must encounter an enemy that possessed exhaustless resources and unnumbered forces. But faith that God, whose cause he was undertaking, would sustain him urged him forward to become the defender of Protestantism.”

“The United States is a land that has been under the special shield of omnipotence from great controversy.”

“The Lord has done more for the United States than for any other country upon which the sun shines. Here he provided an asylum for his people where they could worship him according to the dictates of conscience. Here Christianity has progressed in its purity. The life-giving doctrine of the one mediator between God and man has been freely taught. God designed that this country should ever remain free for all people to worship him according to the dictates of conscience.”

“The dignitaries of church and state will unite to bribe, persuade or compel all classes to honor the Sunday. History does repeat. The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth. Even in free America, rulers and legislatures will yield to the popular demand for a law enforcing Sunday observance. By this decree enforcing the institution of papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation shall disconnect herself fully from righteousness.”

“When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hands of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when under the influence of this three-fold union our country shall repudiate every principle of its constitution as a Protestant and a republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near.”

“We as a people have not yet accomplished the work which God has committed to us. We are not ready for the issue to which the enforcement of the Sunday law will bring us. It is our duty as we see the signs of approaching peril to arouse to action. Let none sit in calm expectation of the evil, comforting themselves with belief that this work must go on because prophecy has foretold it and that the Lord will shelter his people. We are not doing the will of God if we sit in quietude doing nothing to preserve liberty.”