Religious Liberty in the Writings of Ellen White | Pastor James Rafferty 

That was an amazing sermon and this man needs to speak more, he is enlightened by God and has a message for our timeS. Thank you Pastor James, we need more preachers like you.

What a timely and powerful message- thank you pastor Rafferty. Your message has reminded me that there are thousands who have not bowed their knees to Baal nor kissed him 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for speaking up about this in our church. It was very hard to be feeling like a black sheep and to be turned away from help with the mandates. I lost my job as a nurse, but I have been brought closer to HIM who sustains me. HE doesn't let us down.. unlike people. Thank you pastor for speaking up, thank you!

Never heard a pastor preach a sermon like this, thank you

Thank you Pastor James. Senator Pauline Hanson and a handful of others in Australia have been a fighting in our Senate against mandates. They have been a voice to the victims of this terrible crime against humanity. May God bring them to stand with His holy people when the final test comes. I am still suspended from entering my workplace of 16 years because mandates are in place. But God has been wonderful to me. He has provided my every need and my faith has increased because of it. I wouldn't change a thing. Bless you.

Great great sermon overall, Praise be to the Most High!

Finally, someone, a man led by God has the courage to address the “elephant in the room” of the SDA church. I pray this is taken to heart and the division which now exists can be mended and repented of. Let’s humble ourselves and seek the truth of both God’s word and the lesser light. ❤

Dear Pastor Thank You for standing for us the members of the church,we knew something was wrong with the conference siding with the government and we never imagine this would happen to the people of God,keep faithful standing for the truth and that will gives courage

Amen James. God bless and protect you and your family and congregation. Miss you brother 🙏🙏🙏

Oh I cried! Thank you Lord for you are our solid Rock and thank you for Pastor James who spoke boldly up there!!! 🙏🙏 to God be the glory!!!

Thank God for your courage to preach this Amen!! Solid message!!

Thank you so much Pastor Rafferty. That was such a Spirit filled sermon that all Adventists should see. 😊

Praise the Lord,thank you James and Village church for speaking out in righteousness.

Thank you for this message. Very good. I’m in Australia & I worked as a CW in an aged care facility & was told if I didn’t take the jab then I would not receive any more shifts. Problem was my shifts were permanent. I had to resign. My friend with whom I worked did not resign but was told she could not come to work until she took the jab. She never took it & 6 months later she was removed from employment. I’m glad I never took the jab because God blessed me abundantly more. Many people I know who took the jab are now dead. The death rate has doubled here in Australia & 1/2 of those have received the jabs.

This is present truth and the message that we need in this day in which we’re living. Liberty of Conscience is being Threatened, just like the chapter in the Great Controversy states. The very next chapter, The Impending Conflict will be just that, a “conflict” that we need to be preparing for right now. We are living in perilous times and we need Christ in our lives now more than ever. Christ will help us through the coming conflict when we surrender our will to Him. He will send the Comforter and He will give us the strengths that we need to bring us through these times of trouble that are just ahead. We will have victory in Jesus if we continue in Him. And the victory that we have will be everlasting and eternal! Praise God!!

BEEN LISTENING TO THIS PASTOR FOR SOMETIME NOW; ALWAYS FOUND HIS MESSAGES TO BE ON POINT.THANK GOD FOR PASTORS LIKE HIM. JOHN 8:32 YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE. CONTINUE TO BE STRONG PASTOR JAMES! YOU ARE HELPING MANY PEOPLE TO BE STRONG IN THEIR CONVICT WHEN IT COMES TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FREEDOM. PREACHING THE WORD IN SEASON IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING. GOD BLESS YOU 😢.

What an amazing sermon. I wish my local church preached these messages

Thank God Pr James Rafferty for the courage and spirit led truth from this solid message. I am blessed.

There are few like you Pastor James. May you never miss out in the new Jerusalem!

What a privilege it is to hear such a message as this in such a time as this Gods people need to hear such a message and find hope and comfort.

Thank you Pastor,you strengthen my stand. Praise the Lord for your courage to preach this powerful message to the remnants. Praying for you.

Praise God for this message. Thank you Pastor James Rafferty. May God continue to speak through you and work through you in might ways. 🙏🙏💛

Wow! A pastor willing to stand during Covid for Religious Liberty! Wonderful! When all was completed in the courts he won!

Thank you for calling out the sin and hypocrisy in the church. We need to stop the gaslighting and dissembling, to confess our sins and repent for what we did or stood by and kept silent while it was done. This is not over. The spirit of persecution will be back around and probably very soon. We MUST do better as a church. So help us God!

Praise the lord for bravery and yet with wisdom and discretion to avoid misunderstanding and premature persecution

PRAISE THE LORD FOR YOU, PASTOR RAFFERTY! God bless you. Stand strong! Please pray that the eyes of Ted Wilson will be opened and his heart humbled to correct the damage he did to my sister & brother-in-law & other family members by not giving them support and a way out of this evil tyranny!

Excellent sermon that all church and hospital leaders should watch with prayer and fasting.

Truth spoken from the pulpit. May God continue to bless his faithful ones.

I hope we will many more preachers like you. May the Good Lord strengthens you spiritually and physically.

Thank you Pastor James for courage to say it out loud!! God bless you!!

Happy Sabbath to Pastor James and family thank you for standing up for "Thus saith the Lord" and not thus says man. God will supply all your needs. Remember Jesus Christ had nothing so count it all joy, now you can feed God children who are thirsty for truth and righteousness ❤. God bless you and family in Jesus name 🙏

Praise the Lord God still have his anointed ones🙏🏽

Pastor Rafferty has been studying Daniel and Revelation for years. Village Church, please consider asking Pastor Rafferty to speak at the next Daniel 11 Symposium. 🙏

God bless you Pastor for having bravely spoken those words that some pastors are afraid of to speak . These words should be heard from our leaders to keep us informed well and not be deceived. Truly God is using you and few others to speak openly. May the Lord protect you and your family.

Amen! Force is not of God Help us Lord to Stand

AMEN Pastor James. I am so blessed to hear you speak up about this! Praise the Lord!

Praise GOD 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!!! God is in control of everything❤❤❤.

Finally, a pastor speaking out against the SDA conference. If the conference can't stand for this liberty, just wait until the real time comes--sadly, I think they will be a tare. Shame on them for not supporting their flock and people losing their jobs.

Happy Sábado. This is a God filled message.

Good information for an Australian,great Depth of determination.

LORD thank you! For this great message!! May you Lord continue.... to hold these men of God in your Mighty Hands please! Continue... to put your Faith in them strengthen them now I pray as you strengthen us too now. we want to have that Faith just as the 3 Hebrew boys and Daniel to stay faithful you and be true. Lord we love you and we trust you with our life. Holy spirit Please! Live out your life in us and through us that the character of Jesus christ be seen in us and through us. Is my asking with thanks giving in Jesus Name Amen 🙏.

Thank you for your standing on this matter, may God abudancely bless you and your family in Jesus name Amen!

Thank you so much for this sermon James!!! I think many of us (hopefully most of us Americans) were thinking but have not said much about what just occurred the last 2 years!! Thank you for preaching this and saying what most of us are thinking! Shameful of the SDA church for their stance on this topic

Preach brother preach 💜💜💜

Thank you James for this encouraging message!!! Blessings!

This is a message to recommit to God Almighty. The message of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is necessarily tough and goes against the zeitgeist of the day. Bless this last day message. Praying for our strength to hold on. Anywhere with Jesus we can safely go. I will go now and pray for me. Help me Jesus. Thank you for this gentleman with a spine of steel for Jesus.

AMEN! Thank you GOD and EGW for reminding us through Pastor James of these bedrock principles. Thank you Pastor for doing the work for this MESSAGE for our last days here in this crumbling world. Again I say Amen !

Thank God for him speaking up against our church’s violation of religious liberty!

Thank you ,most of my people trusted most of the leaders. God bless you Pastor James

Thank God for using you pastor, may He continue to guide you.... powerful indeed.

This message is so impactful and rich in history, and Spiritual teachings & truth that I had to listen to it many times over to get a fuller sense of the message in its entirety! 🙏✝️🙏

Praise God, thankful for this message. My second day straight watching it again for the second time to capture this awakening message. I’m thankful for the Testimony of Jesus, SOP, which helps me to understand underlying workings that are not characteristic of God.

This preacher is stating everything that he should be no one else wants to speak about! Praise God for a Pastor that refuses to be a, dumb-dog!! 🙏✝️🙏

Awesome preacher and evangelist. You’re one of the best in the world 🌎 👍🙏🇺🇸

Amen Brother Rafferty. All glory, honor, and praise to GOD. Father in Heaven, please help me... Please, Father in Heaven, sanctify me through and settle me in the Truth, in Jesus Christ's holy name I pray - Amen.

Praise the Lord, The Lord blessed you speaking the truth, Pastor James.

Thankyou Pastor for your courage. Great sermon!🙏

I was one of the lucky ones that didn't have to get the jabs to keep my job and it was business as usual; where I work. But if they would have said I had to get it to keep my job, I woukd have quit. I feel so bad for those that were doctors, nurses, etc. Firefighters, thatnlost their jobs abd ao many loat everything as a result. I was so shocked that the Conference didn't back anyone uo or help their own brethren. It was a really terrible time. But a forrunner for the time of trouble to see where we stand and if we will let someone force our conscience. Great sermon this is, thank you for speakiing truth.

God bless you and your family and continue to speak up the true about what time we are and what will happen very soon.

I have decided to follow JESUS; It Is Written & Thus Saith The LORD AMEN XOXO 👑👏🙏

I hope you become the president of the SDA church one day. We need people like you as a leader. Standing up when the world is against us that is the test.

Praise the Lord truth couldn't be better spoken these are serious times nd no blood must be on your shoulders

Thanks for this message when I listen to it I shared it with those who are in my phone 📞 blessings 🙏🏿🙏🏿

God bless you and your family!

Thank you for having the courage to speak this...

Praise God for HIS Love, the truth shall never be Compromised or hidden from your people. Thank you Pastor for confirming what many of us held on straight from GODS truth. HELP US HOLY SPIRIT. Your truth will set us free.

Thanks Pastor for the timely message. Watching from Fiji and Happy Sabbath church family

Excellent sermon. Thank you for speaking the truth. God Bless You.

Thank you Pastor for speaking and challenging the fact and real truth o f what had happened. May church members stand up and keep the faith no matter what comes from the leadership. Sta n d firm and hold fast till He comes.

19:50 Amen! The time of no buy or sell will be a blessing to get our minds off of things of this world, and get out and spread the Three Angels' Messages that we should be doing now. 29:15 Amen! When the conscience is forced, there is no Holy Spirit. Now apply that to the Church's official stand on abortion! 39:25 "Medical institutions bearing our name m-- unborn babies." Wow! This is straight truth that hardly any SDA will admit, let alone let it escape their lips in front of others! I'm amazed and praising God for this straight truth. How can the Holy Spirit ever be poured out on our SDA church when we officially support ripping Jesus apart in the womb?! May God richly bless you, Pr. Rafferty, and may our church leaders heed your call, and may we individually heed and follow it.

Thanks pastor on the enlightenment, God is indeed in control of his creation.

Thank you!! Restrictions on religious freedoms was what I thought we were waiting to stand up to.

All due respect brother Rafferty EXEPT for Black people whilst we're talking freedom we were the economic engine of this so called "Great Country "but I still appreciate your love for the Gospel

Thank you so much for your clear and straight words and all the great statements! God bless you!

MERCY !! AMEN 🙏🏽 BELOVED. THANK YOU PR RAFFERTY

Amen Brother James.

Excellent sermon Pastor

Truth, hope the G C is listening

They would not understand. They're on the wrong side. Powerful sermon. Thank you

Amen, amen and amen!

Wonderful support and truth. Well done 👏 ✔️

❤Amen. God be with us!

Thank you I needed that not necessarily the reinforcement of everything. I’ve been talking about for the last few years just the encouragement that somebody highly visible like yourself is preaching the truth filled message for today in James Rafferty you’re a great example!

Amen Pastor l am so encouraged and revived May the good Lord continue sustaining you until your life work is done serving God in your generation.

Amen to Almighty God's Spirit speaking to His Church, His beloved Bride!! And Father Let the Church " Hear what the Spirit says to the Church. Thanks God and Your willing messenger to deliver such impactful content. Help me & us to humbly receive and live this message! Have mercy on us 🙌🙏

SPOT ON!!! Praise God!!

Wow!! Powerful!

Powerful sermon!!! Thank you pastor!!

The protest continues by God's grace 🙏

Amen, LORD!!!❤❤❤

Praise the Lord above for His liberty

It's sad but true that only FEW courageous men are willing to call out the church for their mishandling and double standards concerning religious liberty and mandates. Anyone else would have been considered an offshoot or church bashing for simply speaking the truth as it is. Saints, get your heads out of the sand and wake up before it's too late. You're not saved by a church or the conference. you're saved by grace through Christ. Have mercy.

Oh lord, open our eyes

The heads of denominations were coerced to make similar statements as the GC. This was done in order to deny religious exemptions from the experimental j@bs. In order for employees to get religious exemptions at local hospitals, they had to state that they were “Christian“ (Not affiliating themselves with any denomination) in order to have the approval. One hospital chaplain mentioned that they were tasked to look at the statements made by the heads of denominations when determining religious exemptions. If the denomination stated that they were for the Biologics, the religious exemption was denied if the employee affiliated themselves with that particular denomination. Religious liberty was maintained for those who claimed that the Holy Spirit convicted them to not take it. Not affiliation with a denomination, not with a pastors letter, nothing like that. Title VII protects employees with their own personal religious conviction, not the conviction or stance of the denomination that they belong to. This is important to remember for the next go round…

Canadian here, what the church and the majority of Adventists did was so very wrong. While I didn’t lose my SDA job here in Alberta, because the SDA conference here didn’t mandate it, (Burman did) but they did tell their pastors that they could not write letters of exemption…so just as guilty. Money. It’s all about money and I understand university presidents and hospital CEO’s need to make tough decisions or the fall out means 100’s and 1000’s of Adventists lose their jobs. But to just give in and not even fight for liberty of conscience!?! What a gross neglect of Adventist principles. I am so disappointed and continue to be in my church family. So many people I know lost jobs and their life was turned upside down, all because our church made the wrong choice and chose force and coercion which is and was clearly Satan’s way. We didn’t even run with the footmen…God help us and may more Adventists swallow their pride and step up and say “I was wrong, please forgive me for how I contributed to this evil.”

Thank you right on .amen”

I am so glad that someone shared this video with me. Now I am sharing it with all SDA’s that I know! Thank you Pastor Rafferty🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

Thank you pastor. You were talking about our religious rights to worship according to the dictates of our conscience being taken away, this is happening now. I have to say that our rights to worship according to the dictates of our conscience has already been stripped from us in the church. We are not allowed to sing hymns that glorify the Lord. "Satans chief work is at the headquarters of the SDA faith." 4 T 210." Galatians 2:4- " And that because of false brethren, unaware is brought in, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they may bring us into bondage." We are forced by the tares in the church to listen to this so called worship team that sings this worldly music. And this satanic YOGA has been brought in also. And we have to listen to their worldly plans of gatherings for pleasure, telling people to spend their money to go sit with the world at Satan's sports, games of life. "Satan uses men and women to solicit sin, to make it look attractive. 5 T. 137" God says come out of the world and touch not the unclean thing. Wasting Gods money that could be used to get his truths out to others. Coffee and tea drinking is a sin. CD 425. CCH 101.6. They have set up a cafe in the church. They have been warned, given proof, but says they are only words. The sayings and doings of man are being preached, and not the truths. Early Writings 273. Gods sanctuary has been turned into a lunch room, a concert hall, a business room and a theater as spirit of prophecy says. Ev 501. CS 201, 202, 9 T. P. 91. CG 543. The place to be used to come and worship God only, has been desecrated. Communion has only taken place twice in a little over 4 years. I love Walter Veith because he exposes everything that is going on in the church and the world. Satan has tried to destroy him and his family so many times, but God wouldn't allow him. God please help us.

Well done James

God to praised and honoured.