ASI Virtual Spring Chapter Conference | 01 - Dr. Neil Nedley & Doug Batchelor

[Music] we are empowered by lay driven leadership connecting lay ministries and business people to share Christ in the marketplace in support of the mission of the seventh-day Adventist Church [Music] I'm Steve Dickman president for Adventist Lehman services and industries better known as ASI welcome to our virtual spring conference for 2020 we're so happy you're watching tonight you're viewing us on Facebook live on wherever it may be from 3abn we are very happy that you are here with us and that you can be a part of the program tonight we have some exciting things planned a lot of people ask the question what is ASI anyway well let me say ASI was started as a result of some of the work done at Madison College Madison College was kind of mothered by Ellen White she knew that we needed a school to train young people to be spreading the gospel to the entire world as a result of that as I was born in 1947 is a department of the North American division of seventh-day adventists and we strive to engage lay businesspeople lay ministries and lay professionals in spreading the gospel to the world so thank you for coming to join us tonight it's our virtual spring conference and we're here together Lindy would you pray for us tonight as we begin our program I'd be happy to Steve father in heaven we are so grateful for this opportunity even though it's virtual we know that your Holy Spirit is going to bless abundantly each speaker each member in action each testimony I pray Lord in this special time of anxiety and worry and fear that the answers provided in your word by the speakers will touch hearts all over this world I pray for Jesus sake amen Thank You Lyndee we have a scheduled for this weekend joy joy is by the way joy is our one of presidents for one of our chapters which chapter you president for I'm president of the lake union chapter and I'm thrilled to be here representing six of our chapters you can see in the scene behind us we have six chapters all representing and coming together so joy share with us a little bit about the schedule for this weekend what are we looking at so the schedule is going to be packed with speakers that will inspire and challenge you as listeners so we'll be here for two hours this evening hope you can stay the whole time then tomorrow morning we will start with three action-packed two-hour sessions beginning at 8 a.m. 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. tomorrow we'll start the Sabbath with Pastor Mark Finley then on Sabbath morning we will be led in worship by elder Ted Wilson at 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 and then close out the Sabbath with Pastor John Bradshaw 4 to 6 p.m. Central Time we invite you to look at the schedule on ASI ministries org and also to share like and subscribe so others can join us for this exciting weekend thank you joy now we're here together Lindy I mean Andy I mean Lindy Andy I mean Lindy you have a twin sister Steve I have a twin sister what is her name and her name is Andy but you're not Andy I'm not Andy I'm Lindy but I'm very close to Andy okay now Andy is our vice president general vice president for ASI and you've been associated with ASI for a while so we praise God for that but tell us tonight we've got a theme for this weekend we've got a focus for this weekend what are we talking about so this weekend we are talking about the three angels messages in times like these there are two parts as you notice to this one of them is in times like these these are strange times they're unprecedented and their social distancing who would have thought that we would experience something like that there's a times of fear there are times of anxiety times of questions and we want answers we are very grateful that the Word of God has provided us with a message just for this time the three angels messages the gospel presented in a time of the end and we have wonderful speakers this weekend and tonight we have pastor Doug Batchelor as well as dr. Neil Nedley who will begin bringing to us trees and encouragement of the three angels messages thank you I appreciate that you're sharing with us there about the theme we were going to invite you our listening family to reach out to others who may need to watch this program give them a call let them know you're watching and invite them to join us Joey we've got some special music yes we'll be opening this evening with a song by Margie Salcedo rice and the song is perfectly focused it is I have fixed my mind and it's going to help challenged us to be not crisis centered but Christ centered I invite you to listen [Music] we have leads to my on another time on a No over time and here I mean to stand until God keys me [Music] I have fixed mine Oh [Music] Bert [Music] I have set my course on the narrow on the net I know that is closed for wheat [Music] come quickly [Music] for like art and I'm longing to be [Music] of menarche the trumpet it's blood [Music] we see [Music] first we [Music] no more [Music] when shall a son [Music] my [Music] [Laughter] to [Music] I have fixed on another Oh No [Music] mother [Music] [Music] one of the favorite parts of ASI for many people is the section we call members in action tonight we will feature four different ministries and find out what's happening in the field with members ASI members in action sharing Jesus sharing Christ in their marketplace joy you've attended ASI for a number of years how has the member how have those member and action stories impacted your personal life well they are fantastic because when you go to ASI it's like an army of engaged people that are all being called by God and challenged in their marketplace whether it's a ministry or a business and when you hear those stories it just it's exciting you feel like you're part of something bigger than you and you know the Holy Spirit is at work our first member and action story tonight comes to us from the country of Canada Curtis let niak operates a company there called spider controls this member and actions section today focuses on Curtis let Nick and the spider control company out of Canada Curtis thank you for joining us today and have just a question for you this afternoon Curtis first of all what is spider controls what do you do and how are you involved in spider controls well Steve we design and manufacture electronic control products for a number of different industries like marine applications RV specialty vehicle and heavy equipment and the electronic controls that we manufacture are installed in a number of different factory assembly lines and that's product that we design and manufacture here in North America and distribute throughout North America and around the world now Curtis this sounds like a really high-tech company and lots of high-tech employees there and I noticed you have one of your employees there with you today amber just Sharon's what is your job there at the plant what do you do so I an assembly technician I've been here for three and a half years now well ambert so you're working with spider controls an assembly technician but what is your journey on this thing because you've not you've kind of come to this point through an interesting journey and that's the story we're kind of sharing today where were you you know four years ago what was your life like so four years ago I was living on the streets I was just about Mother's Day I wanted to get clean for Mother's Day we had a dinner planned and so I did I got clean for Mother's Day and we went out for dinner and God intervened in my life and took me down a very different path praise the Lord for that now so you're living on the street you're abusing drugs you get clean for Mother's Day you go out to lunch with your mother and how does this relate to spider controls Kurtis tell us what how did you get involved in this story amber came to visit our church okay and so we had gotten to know that Amber maybe had a few needs just getting ready for winter and so our church family had had the opportunity to come to her house and help her get get the house ready for winter and in just spending time there the day that we were helping in Amber's house we could see that there was maybe a real desire that Amber had to to make a change in her life not only to come to know the Lord but also to to just make a clean break in her life in terms of her career and what she was doing and so we offered amber a job here just to try seeing how how some of the Assembly work hood we had would work for her and four years later she's here as one of our top assembly technicians hey man praise the Lord for that I'm just wondering today Curtis how does a company get a culture like that and what is the culture of your company that leads you to do things like that so Steve our model here we do design and build electronics that we believe that we're here to do much more than that and really God is designed each one of us to be serving and giving and that's when we'll be happiest and we've experienced that in our own family and serving through involvement with ASI and a number of other opportunities here in our local church and so on but it's it's something that we want each of our employees to have that opportunity to experience that joy as well in giving and so this has really become part of our culture here at Spyder controls and Amber has been a big part of growing that culture here in our outreach program that she's a big part of so amber you're not just a sembly technician you're also the coordinator for the outreach program there Spyder controls this amazing four years ago who would have thought but just share with us what kinds of projects you involved in what is Spyder controls doing in the local community to really reach out to the local community well I can show you what we're working on this month we have a COBIT care pack what it is a couple pairs of gloves we got a mask in there and we got some hand sanitizer so we're gonna make about a hundred of these and we're gonna send them to the local food bank and they're gonna put them in their hampers so you're involved in kovat response from spider controls you're the outreach coordinator give me another example I mean we've got a bunch of projects you're doing one every month or how does that work we do yeah we have a potluck and Curtis asked us to think of any ways we can help the community so I usually have a new idea lined up for the group so one of the ones we did was as soon as we heard about kovat and the problems we started gathering money for our local food bank so we did a food drive Dress for Success is a company in red for women who are looking for work and we bought them a new printer and some ink and we gathered a bunch of clothing for the ladies go to interviews we have also done meals at the ronald mcdonald house and helped gather supplies for them and then there's many mission trips that we've been a part of and Curtis has helped us along with that so we've done the Philippines and Cambodia and the Dominican I'm just really impressed by all the things that are doing amber as well as what Spyder controls is doing Kurtis let me bring this question back to you as we get wind this down this afternoon how has this impacted your family I know you've been involved in ASI for a number of years and you are our vice president for membership actually for ASI national but how has this idea of using your business as a platform for ministry change the life and impacted your family so through ASI seven or eight years ago we attended our first ASI and it's where we gained a lot of connections and opportunities to to just understand how a business can make a difference in the marketplace and in the world and so really it's shaped the way that our business functions and serves in terms of why we exist and what motivates us to continue being in business and not just being in business to be growing and profitable but also to be using those as opportunities to serve whether it's in our local community involving our staff in that and in really looking at different mission opportunities around the world and it's been just a joy not only for our family but as a as a staff and team here at spider Controls Thank You Curtis what a blessing this members in action no one can say anything but praise the Lord and it what Curtis has done is a biblical principle and it writes me of a text in Romans 4 verse 17 God who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did exactly what happened to Amba is what the faith of Jesus is what Curtis that faith he put in her that was inspired in him by the Lord and by the word praise the Lord our next members in action story tonight comes to us from the state of Kentucky I'm Andrew Schmidt and I'm from Lexington Kentucky we have a small business that we make machines for the textile industry we make machines that put on buttons and snaps onto garments pants tarps my father actually started in New York City with his father and mother and they didn't have hardly anything but they worked really hard saved and started a little machine shop in their basement and my grandfather was very sharp mechanical and he and my father was able to design small machines and get some business that grew into larger accounts and business and eventually moved to Lexington I think my parents placed a desire in our hearts my brother and I we saw growing up dad's passion for sharing Christ dad took us when we were younger out sharing literature and we would go door-to-door and actually knock on the door and someone come to the door and he would offer a book and offer for Bible studies and there were times that they took him up on that offer and we would go back every week obviously as I grew older I realized as well that in the business they always took advantage of being able to talk to people or share a little book here there when my father when we started sending equipment out he sent a lot of it up and so as he was in the factory he would you know have opportunities to share books with the mechanic so with the owner so he's always seen that as just a way to pay it forward for God I mean God is basically in essence gave him or them the business the brains and everything and I think through his example he showed us that whenever you can you want to give back to God you know we have on our music that's put on hold we have Amazing Grace and Christian music that's usually playing and I picked up the phone before and the lady on the other end said you know what that was amazing grace I haven't heard that since I was a little girl my grandma used to take me to church and I haven't been to church I was a little and it made me realize I need to get back to church so just you know those are simple simple things you can do but they make an impact and with God's blessing they reach the right people we have placed this business into God's hands and he brings people and I feel like we have the opportunity and also the responsibility to let them know who Jesus is and what he has done for them in other words it's not so much important but I say but what they see in me that's important God has brought us where we are okay he has helped us he has given us the business and the opportunities and so wherever we we have that business we share what we what is given us the way we look at our business as we realize that God is the last whether it was through my grandfather and father and the ideas and the engineering in the marketing and getting customers all that is not because we're so smart but it's God's blessing and so whether you have a you're a doctor or a car manufacturer or whatever you do I would say you know God gave you that God blessed you with that and the least you can do is give back we have a sphere of influence that other people don't have we have relationships with our customers with our vendors that our pastor doesn't have and the Evangelist does not have and God asks us to take the tools right where we are not lay them down and go to church and work for him but right where we are to pick up our whatever we have in our hand and be able to use that to share for him [Music] you what a powerful testimony you know the Schmidt family invites us to ask the question of ourselves what do we have in our hands that we can use for the Lord can we give our business our ministry our lives to the Lord Jesus Christ like they have shown and I promise you God will bless it's my privilege tonight to introduce dr. Neil Nedley our next speaker dr. Nedley is the president of Weimar Institute he's a speaker an author a father and a lay evangelist you will be impressed I invite you to listen well I know many people are struggling dr. Nedley has helped thousands out of depression and anxiety and I know he has been given a word from the Lord that will speak to your heart this evening thanks for inviting me to speak on medical missionary work in the end time this is a crucial topic and it really gets to the core of why Christ has not come yet it's not because he's waiting for the next pandemic it's not because he's waiting for the next economic collapse there are reasons that have to do with God's people are self-regarding why he has not come yet and I would like to propose that it's because his people including myself have not been following the model of what Christ did on this earth there are three things three main areas of what Christ did when he was here and Matthew 9:35 tells us Jesus went about all the cities and even the smaller places the villages he taught so education was part of it he preached the gospel of the kingdom was a major part of it and He healed this is the third element much of Christianity has gotten the education part down they've gotten the gospel part down but the healing part is something that we have viewed as maybe optional and should be put in a corner somewhere but we need to realize that Christ actually spent more time doing healing than he did preaching he was healing every weakness the Bible says every infirmity and then he told his apostles first the twelve and then later the seventy to go and preach as they went around the towns and villages and the first thing he told him to do was to heal the sick cleanse the lepers and then he said freely you have received freely gift that he didn't say those to the left of Peter and John are gonna be involved in preaching and those to the right of Peter and John are gonna be involved in healing he wanted all of his followers to be involved in both aspects after 1863 when the health message was given to the inspired prophet the only pioneer that was a prophet she was actually shown in vision that Christ did not wish the medical missionary work to be separated from the gospel work or the gospel work separated from the medical missionary work these are to blend together the medical missionary work is actually regarded as the pioneer work if you want to be a pioneer for the Lord embrace medical missionary work learn more about it learn how to incorporate it because this is the means of breaking down prejudice and as the right arm that's the strong arm it is to open doors for the gospel message in our churches today I'm not sure we're quite ready to advance in exponentially taking our soul saving message to the entire world by missing this element much of our churches if they are doing healing it's not connected at all with the gospel or they're doing gospel work and not healing work and so in many ways the right arm is withered in Christ is waiting for that to change the number one problem in all of the world is actually not kovat the number one problem in all of the world is actually not problems with immigration or even climate change if you just watch the news you'll miss what the number one problem is the number one problem isn't even this battle between you know socialism and capitalism and you know all of these things not that they're not important all of these things are important and there are truths that are critically important for us to understand in all of those areas but all of those areas sink into insignificance to what the most quoted researcher in all the world states is the number one problem and that is lack of self control dr. Baugh Meister makes an eloquent case that this is by far the number one problem in all of the world and it does impact these others areas if we don't have self control in our life we're more likely to get kovat and we're more likely to succumb to Kovan with severe permanent damage or even death if we're not on a proper New START program which can of course help us greatly in avoiding it as well is helping our immune system and when we take a look at heart disease the number one cause of death we know how to prevent this disease we know how to even eliminate it through diet and lifestyle why is it still number one lack of self-control eighty percent of cancers Harvard tells us are due to not putting into practice in our life the things that would be healthiest for us and then we have addictions at an all-time high alcoholism going up sexual addictions technology addictions our young people over eighty percent actually fit the definition of addiction to technology they go on to technology to do something useful but they can't stop themselves from doing something that's not useful this is a problem and it does adversely affect their performance their social life their mental health and we could go into so many other issues from rape to murder to all of the problems not all the problems but most of the problems in the underlying world are due to lack of self control and this is why we really need both the health message both medical missionary work and the gospel now I'd like to tell you a couple of stories these are just recent stories that happened at weimar Institute we held a depression and anxiety recovery program during kovat and that's an essential service mental health issues are actually exploding getting worse under kovat and one of the participants that came was an atheist she could not overcome alcoholism on her own and she had tried programs she had tried a a in fact three years earlier she had been to a a and she walked out saying this is not working and if you would leave God in the higher power out you'd be able to help a lot more people she was an atheist and did not like that aspect two things so how did she end up at Weimar well she is a very successful businesswoman and had some clients very sharp lady and very attractive and one of her clients told her if she really wanted success in this area she needed to go to Weimar this client actually made the first call to the Nedley Hill solution screener that does the screening for depression and anxiety I'm Sarah and so while she was with this lady the phone was then handed over to our recent participant and she went through the interview and of course during the interview she is told about the fact that this is a Christian based program she said at that point she was frustrated with her years of problem drinking that she thought if it requires Christian principles and maybe there is something to this then I'm willing to do it but she looked at the statistics she looked at all the other programs that could be available for alcoholism and realizing that this would actually get behind the issues of alcoholism as well and why she was driving that way and mental health issues she decided to do it and also said it was by far the cheapest program as you know hard to deal with alcoholism it requires three to six months and a treatment center often forty-five thousand dollars and even then it's not over a fifty percent chance of long-term success and so she came here and we of course did the medical evaluation the mental health evaluation we actually found some things brain chemistry wise that were insightful for her to understand and then also the way we're thinking we teach them the ten different ways of distorted thinking and towards the end of the program we teach them the principles behind the Ten Commandment solve the ten different ways of distorted thinking one of the ways of distorted thinking is called called disqualifying the positive and it's something that even most Christians do and so I actually go through this section because I'm showing how science has shown us that the principles behind the Ten Commandments if we keep them are going to help us become healthier and they'll have us live more vibrant life so the first session I do it's kind of a worship shut session on Friday evening I'm going over the first four commandments and we got to this commandment remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy and we read the commandment we ask them what is the principle behind this commandment and the word that was chosen was holy being set apart and then we went into the cognitive distortions what could be the cognitive distortion they couldn't quite figure out what the cognitive distortion would be that this commandment solves but we then went into the scientific analysis and the scientific analysis was studied not too long ago in a controlled study where we were looking at Sabbath keepers versus those who kept Sunday or did not keep any day and so there were two different control groups and I mentioned there's actually more Sabbath keepers in the nation than there are Sunday keepers there's more people go to church on Sunday but they don't keep the day holy and so the difficulty in the control group and then we we went through it this was actually a study that was done as a result of Dan Buettner asking the question could the Sabbath keeping experience of Adventists actually help them in addition to their diet and exercise and so in order to find this out of course we have to do a study design and we had to also define what Sabbath keeping was which was not not reading secular magazines not watching or listening to news or sports programs not attending secular concerts or theatrical events not working and not engaging in commercial activities from Friday night till Sabbath night and in addition it was also looked at in regards to not only what they were not doing but what they were doing and then they put the groups together and started to do some statistical analysis they found out there was a significant co-relation between sabbath-keeping and what else mental health they went on to say greater sabbath-keeping was associated with more religious coping more religious support healthier diet more exercise which in turn were associated with better mental health and of course they were learning about how diet and exercise is so important in regards to mental health however pairwise comparisons showed that both religious coping and religious support each had a significantly greater effect than what greater effect then diet or exercise on mental health we know those true are crucial in regards to mental health but there was something that was even more important in this study and that was sabbath-keeping now it did show that Sabbath keepers have bad things happen to them as well they lose their jobs they can be fired for unfair reasons they can have divorces due to a spouse that doesn't have self-control they can have all sorts of bad things happen to them but when they are true Sabbath keepers they seem to be able to live above the fray it doesn't get them down it doesn't cause them to crash and start thinking of options that are the most terrible options imaginable in order to cope and so I mentioned if we're going to be teaching diet and exercise this is why we actually bring up the Sabbath because if Sabbath keeping has that much importance on mental health we want to teach them everything that can help their mental health and we also want to model it and we talked about how the next day we're actually going to even I go to church avoidance of non Sabbath activities in the study performance of spiritual activities which is what we were doing then on that Friday night as well as what we would be doing the next day and going to church in performance of communal Sabbath activities were all independently associated with improve mental health but keeping the Sabbath out of social pressure due to your shame avoidance performance of secular activities on the Sabbath or electively thinking that helping people by working for them without pay on the Sabbath like painting their house these were all independently associated with an actual decrease in mental health and so it's not just the Sabbath keeping but also why we are doing it not just the social if it's for social pressure or duty shame avoidance it didn't seem to help but when we were we were not doing those activities that the commandment forbids and actually performing activities that draw us closer to God and closer to other believers and understanding more of his principles it was a great determinant in regards to positive mental health and why did Jesus himself say about the Sabbath when he was here he said the Sabbath was made for man we often don't think about it but the Sabbath is a health principle it's something the Lord gave us to enhance our health and if we are doing that we're actually more likely to incorporate the other New START principles in her life so when people know about the Sabbath but they don't keep it what's the issue it's actually a cognitive distortion it's a distortion called disqualifying the positive because they're thinking that if I do what I want to do on the Sabbath I'm going to be happy I don't want to follow this set of not doing things and God wants me to be happy so let you know I'm sure he's doesn't mind if I just do what I want to do but God is saying trust me I made you I designed you I know what's best for you and those who actually taste and see and keep the Sabbath commandment live happier lives mentally more healthy lives and so many people have wondered why is it that the Prophet told us that the third angel's message was the health message in Verity the third angel's message has to do with this final conflict is it going to be God and his inspired writings that are overarching got a principle in life in other words the first commandment is thou shall have no other gods before me is that are we really going to keep the first commandment and have our priorities straight or are we going to incorporate not just the Bible but the Bible and tradition well I didn't mention about the Bible and tradition in that talk we had Sunday keepers there where at least Sunday worshipers I don't know if they were Sunday keepers I don't think they were sunday keepers we had people from all different walks of life we had the atheist there and interestingly after that message she of course raised her hand in front of everybody and said you know I'm reading this commandment it says the second thing why is it that many Christians most of them worship on the first day how did that start so that's when I went into the Council of Trent where the decision was made is it going to be the Bible in the Bible only or Bible and tradition as far as our rule of faith and practice and the Council of Trent decided since even the Protestants who were saying the Bible in the Bible only we're worshiping on a day that did not have to do with the Bible that they were actually also doing the Bible in tradition and so and then of course I did mention before that that we love Christians of all types no matter what their beliefs no matter what day they worship we want us all to embrace the principles of abundant living that Christ has given us and then I went into that simple explanation but the next morning she wouldn't let it go on the hike at 6:00 a.m. where she and a lot of the other participants were hiking on their own she kept talking about if we're going to follow the only portion of Scripture that God wrote himself why wouldn't we keep the Sabbath that morning she made a commitment that she was gonna follow God in all aspects of her life and she said she just felt the presence of God here was a previous atheist now making commitments to go all the way to put all on the altar of sacrifice and let God into her life do you think she's going to be successful in long-term results you bet she is there will be temptations to go the other direction there will be issues that we'll be trying to tempt her in regards to the re-entry aspects of life but do you see why the medical missionary work is so important for reaching people this is someone that would have never gone to an evangelistic series this is someone who would have never gone to you know a traditional way of hearing the gospel but because of the health needs what a difference was made in her life and her heart and mind was completely open she actually asked that afternoon to get baptized into Christ Church and our pastor she's so new to everything but he he said that she's one of the sharpest individuals ever that she studied the Bible with he assigned her because does counseling three different counseling sessions for each of our participants because there's many spiritual issues she wanted to know some of those apologetic questions at first but then she was very interested in reading everything that he assigned her and she was very discerning and she seemed to understand the meaning of all of that and so we know that soon she will be entering the watery graves of baptism once she fully understands what what she's about ready to do and make that full commitment but on the other hand the Sunday Keeper or the Sunday worshiper who was there who was very much an evangelical Christian more of the Pentecostal aspect of things she was also equally blown away by the medical missionary program she wanted her husband who was a physician to come at the end of the program and see what was happening in fact that physician is now wanting to rotate with me in the next program he was so excited to hear and see things and he also was blown away by the beautiful music here it weimar part of improving the mental health was him singing and those participants started to participate in that aspect because it helps the the all aspects of the brain when we're doing that and singing hymns that are uplifting and he especially asked our pianist to play a special number at the end of the graduation as we all sat and AW and our hearts were uplifted to God and so yes the medical missionary work and the gospel combined our powerful influences and it if we accept the principles of each of those Commandments will have all sorts of power to be able to resist the common ways of distorted thinking we're told if the soul is to be purified and ennoble and made fit for the heavenly courts there our two lessons to be learned in everyone what are those two lessons self-sacrifice and self-control we have so many health problems in this world due to lack of self-control and we have so much lack of God's love in our life and that's why we're not willing to self-sacrifice but it turns out if we're willing to put our all on the altar as this woman did if we are willing to accept God's self-sacrificing love in our life that will give us the power of self-control if we don't have self-control that means there's a corner of selfishness somewhere we haven't put all on the altar of sacrifice and that's why Christ healing message medical missionary work when it's done in accordance with his will will encircle this globe quickly if we just reach one soul every week and that soul reaches another soul every week within three years over eight billion people will be reached and Christ will indeed come I want to encourage each one of you to go for physical mental emotional and spiritual health to be comprehensive and lifelong and that demands the gospel to be complete Ellen White predicted we shall see the medical missionary work broadening and deepening at every point of its progress because of the inflowing of hundreds and thousands of streams until the whole earth is covered as the waters cover the sea this is why Christ has not come we're not to this point look at what she says is going to happen and this is why we Meyer exists this is why ASI exists weimar exists to train people to fully embrace all three of Christ's ministry methods and use his methods to bring about the loud cry that will circle the globe and the three angels message is intimately connected with it as Ellen White says the third angel's message is the health message in Verity may God bless you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] [Music] beautiful music and a wonderful presentation by dr. Neil Nedley I'm just thinking this afternoon how amazing it is that we have this wonderful council we have this wonderful idea that we're to engage in the work that Christ engaged in follow the methods that Christ followed and do the work that he did this amazing opportunity for us as human beings actually called to do the kind of work that our Savior did Andy you're here with us I mean Lindy the twins are here but only one of them's here Lindy you're a physician right so how what do you think this medical missionary work idea you know I've been impressed that the Ministry of Jesus Christ was not just preaching it was healing and it was primarily healing and I believe that dr. Nedley is spot-on and I support what he said right now we're going to go to a members and action story about Weimar Institute hi I'm dr. Randy Bivens and I'd like to welcome you to ASI members in action I'm the chief operating officer here at Weimar Institute forty-two years ago we had our first lifestyle program in a building that's just right beside me and as a result of that one of our guests coined the term new start all of you may know new start it's actually a trademark product of Weimar Institute from all that period of time people have asked don't you have a shorter version we now have an 18-day program and it takes a long time and there's always been a demand to have a shorter version the kovat virus pandemic has actually forced us to do what we probably should have been doing a long time ago and that is produced a short online program that's available and we have a short promotional video I'd like to show you now life is like a race sometimes it seems like you're carrying more weight than anyone else on the track your daily responsibilities work family you keep it all together for a while but then it just becomes too much the race well it seems endless but then you find yourself falling hard so you find ways to cope so you think sometimes it just seems like it's easier to stay down than to get back up again whatever has knocked you down your health habits feelings of hopelessness we understand the good news is your current circumstances don't have to define the rest of your life we here at Newstart online want to give you the tools to help you get back up and get going again to take one step and then another in another until before you know it you're on your way toward your personal best because we believe the race is not really about being number one it's about what's number one in your life so contact us for how you can get back on track and run your race better than ever before because it's never too late to make a new start now so as you can see for this program it's it's engaging it's like a mini version of being here on campus we have 32 hours of content we actually have a lot of cooking recipes we have videos of cooking and we think that this is going to be a tremendous product especially when people are still sheltering in place that may still be at home they could actually watch this in addition for the people who might be thinking about coming to an 18-day program we're saying listen we're why don't you go sign up for this program watch all of its content it's 8 sessions long 32 hours of content and at the end of that you would have a much better idea of what our residential program looks like and then if you decide to come to our residential program we'll take all the money that you spent and we can actually then just give it back and put it toward that full program what does this have to do with members in action and ASI well that's a really good question it turns out in the last year and a half if you take the New START guests and the depression recovery and anxiety guests that come here for residential programs we've had over 100 baptisms what's amazing about this is those people have paid us to allow us to evangelize them I can't think of a better evangelistic tool than to go through a new start online program to get a really good idea in fact pastor McIntosh does all of the spiritual applications as 8 different sessions I can't think of a better evangelistic tool than to use medical evangelism and weimar Institute to help achieve your goal and we're we're thankful that you're you're joining us and we're happy to be SI members and we've been the recipients of many ASI gifts and we can thank all of the ASI family for all that you've done for us [Music] [Music] Jesus Christ came that we may have life and have it more abundantly and what a better way to to appreciate that than to participate in the principles of new start I want to thank Randy Bivens and and the people at Newstart for having this wonderful program I know many people have been there they've benefited and their lives are transformed by the health principles taught there we are about to have another members in action and this one will be done by two of our ASI members Steve Dickman ASI president we'll be interviewing Rodney BOS who is the VP for evangelism and this is a very wonderful and inspirational interview and so Steve and Rodney this is your time we have here this afternoon an opportunity Rodney to share a little bit about the story of an organization that both of us love is called light l IG HT what is light tell us a little bit about light and how that kind of pulls together light is a supporting ministry of the seventh-day Adventist Church that is passionate about helping every member of the church take hold of medical missionary work or health evangelism so what does light stand for light is the lay Institute for global health training okay what is the mission of light how does how does light present itself to do what are you trying to do for the world our goal is to show the Ministry of Jesus Christ in practical ways okay so you're showing the Ministry of Jesus Christ we just had this lecture talking about the Ministry of Jesus Christ we we heard from dr. Nedley about the methods of Christ the ministry of Christ so what is what does that look like when you put it in practical terms for a training well lights specialty is training we have developed a curriculum it's about a hundred and twenty hours and we do it all around the world it's mainly done in churches and we have classes on health and spiritual subjects so you have these class on health and spiritual subjects and you're training people and you have this desire to activate every seventh-day adventists as a missionary and spreading these principles to others so who comes to your classes we have a wide variety because our goal is for every member to take hold of medical missionary work so we have doctors who come we have special tracks for those in the health professions and then we also have a large number of people that I guess you could say the layperson those who don't have a medical training so what does a doctor to learn when he comes to your program the biggest thing that many physicians and nurses have really gained is the evangelistic side of things many people practice medicine but they don't have the evangelism part they have the medical but not the missionary so they really appreciate seeing practical ways to bridge the gap between the two okay so let's talk a little bit about then what does the you know the person from the Pew not a physician but a person from the Pew how does that program look for them that's really a fun audience to work with I've done several trainings myself and we've had people from the housewife to the mechanic to the farmer through everyone in between and it's been really fun to see people learning how to cook learning the benefits of exercise learning hydrotherapy we have a whole session on end time prophecy it's a blending of the gospel and the health work together so as people begin to learn these principles what changes are they making in their lives people are kind of going through a new Start program they're seeing that their own health is improving and many people get really excited about starting community health clubs doing community health Expos doing lectures in their churches reviving the health message that God has given to the church so Rodney what area of the world is your focus you work with the light organization and we've talked a little bit about light now and I know they've kind of divided up and they have what do you call it divisional division directors yes four different parts of the world what's your focus area so I have Africa that's the continent of Africa that's a pretty big folk it's part of it and then India and Asia so let me understand this about half of the world is is your focus for encouraging people to do this kind of tram what's so exciting is that the way we've organized it is that we have regional directors who work on the ground so I'm not traveling every weekend out of the year just a few so I imagine this this virus idea the pandemic we're currently experiencing has kind of slowed things down a little well how are you delivering this training to church members now so for the majority of places around the world the trainings have stopped but in Nigeria we have a training going on where they're practicing social distancing all the students are 6 feet apart and it's going on with 30 students but the majority of people right now are learning online we have an online course ok so they actually someone can go to the online course they can get this material they can get the training right there online and finish finish the course right there online right just go to lighting the world dot o-r-g and you can sign up today so I'm just wondering as we're kind of finishing up here Rodney you you've you've worked the world with this tell me a little story about somebody's life who's been impacted by going through this training and just because we're gonna watch a video in a minute but I want to get an introduction to this how does this actually change people's focus well I will use this as a segue for the video because Joshua is the person I want to focus on Joshua came from India he learned about medical missionary work came to Wildwood took our course at Wildwood and he got a vision to change his entire country and so now that's what we're gonna be looking at we're gonna see what the course did to Joshua in 2011 yes today was conducted for every 10,000 people in India there are only 20 health workers that includes physicians nurses and therapists it's a big problem in India I had a privilege of going and attending Wildwood lifestyle center in Georgia USA and I did my six-month program and I advanced course there which has really transformed and touched my life and I could see how powerful this medical missionary work could be used reach out to other people and touching their life and changing their life and I see people coming with so much of suffering in the lifestyle centers their life have been transformed in a short time of our 10 days or 21 days and when they go back I could see such an impact and I wanted to have the same thing happening right here in India where there is so much of suffering in disease people are actually dying with a sickness which they could easily prevent or easily they can reverse and it's not because the resources are lacking but because the basic knowledge is not there for them so one of our dreams as we work with light and health coaching in India is that more of this basic health care knowledge of how to take care of our bodies what foods to eat simple remedies of hydrotherapy and massage for the people who work all day and night and have tired bodies all these things that we have grown up with and we are exposed to can also be shared with them through the training of light material that way they can also live healthier lives and they will also have true and proven methods that God has given us to more whole and fulfilling lives that are free from the suffering and disease that the people here face we train and equip people to become as medical missionaries we have them go and establish their own center and build Network among all the other ministries as well that are doing a light affiliated schools our institutions our vision in restoration health care in lifestyle coaching is to branch out to every state of India Nepal and Bhutan to make health care accessible to everyone that is in need of help we want our claims to be personally connected with our coaches that we can able to impact their life not just on physical level even in their spiritual and also in their mental aspect as well this is a enormous field that needs to be reached the only way we could reach is Christ's method alone the Savior mingled with men as one desire they are good he showed his sympathy for them minister to their needs and won their conference then he bade them follow me and that is exactly what we want to do with the help of our trainees and our centres I'm wondering today listening friend and maybe you're watching on 3abn maybe you're listening on some of the device but if you're watching this story I want to ask you a question what difference can one person make when you look at what's happening in the country of India with the training that one individual received and went home with a burden to change his country it's amazing Lindy you've been here with me observing this program participating in this program and we have some more special music and another speaker elder Doug Batchelor is going to speak for us here in a few minutes but I'm wondering as we're listening today and I want to ask our listeners to think about this as they are listening as well what are you learning what is your takeaway today because this is more than just listening this is an active thing that we're doing here we are here to inspire people to do something besides what they are doing maybe you're listening from your home today and you're thinking I really don't know what I can do why want you to think back about what you've seen so far and I want you to listen to the rest of this program because at the end of today's program I'm going to ask these ladies here that are joining me as I co-host joy I'm gonna ask a question and I'm gonna say what did you learn today what did you learn from these presentations so this like the open book quiz you can get ready for this now so what did you learn and what commitment are you going to make going forward good so listeners I want you to ask the same question to yourself what have you learned today and what commitment are you going to make going forward elder Doug Batchelor will speak for us immediately following the wonderful music that we're gonna hear by Jennifer Love Mountain she's going to sing for us tonight you thought of us [Music] [Music] look on Jordan's face the torture Center believes the weapons drawn and raised the chill the friends were fled in fear the south of Peters tears the way the people cheered crucified a nightmare coming true what was a fad was going through [Music] [Applause] [Music] the hands the eye macht answer each [Music] [Applause] you raged against the silence [Music] but when you ask to tell you [Music] [Applause] so [Music] first you had to find someone to share the joy [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi friends welcome to this special series of presentations that are for the ASI members and the reason this all came together is because just before this global pandemic took everyone's life and turned it into a yard sale there are a lot of regional ASI meetings that were scheduled across the country to bring together and to inspire the ASI members and others to get involved in soul-winning well of course all of that needed to be postponed and so we want to thank ASI and for 3abn working together to make these programs available now through broadcast satellite online so that people can still get the encouragement as we look forward to the time when we can come together nationally during our convention you know well if you're in TV broadcasting something everybody understands is the phrase primetime and that's what I'd like to talk about right now is primetime primetime according to a definition is a regularly occurring time at which a television or radio audience is expected to be the greatest or the most receptive you know amazing facts there's a few programs that broadcast during the graveyard shift but most of the time we shoot for primetime hours where we can have maximum input and what I'd like to share with you right now is I believe that God's people and the church is living during a prime time opportunity especially in the backdrop of this incredible upheaval in our world that's been caused by the pandemic you know one of the greatest lost opportunities in history was back in 1274 when the brothers niccolò and Maffeo polo they were in china there was the great mongol empire and they met the great Kublai Khan who is the son of Genghis Khan and in that meeting he was impressed with their religion of Christianity and their beliefs so when they were done with their trading there in this vast empire the king said go back to your great High Priest the Pope and have him send a hundred of his priests to come to our country and teach us about Jesus and Christianity well Nicola and Matteo they went Matteo's the way we would say Maffeo they went through this very difficult long journey from China came back to Venice and then ultimately went to Rome and pled with the Pope they said this is vast empire much bigger than Europe and they're pleading for a knowledge of the truth send a hundred priests and the whole country will turn to Jesus well they were so involved with internal battles fighting between two popes about who the real Pope was and other wars that were going on in Europe they basically dismissed them but they persisted sit you've got to send some priests in some priests this is the greatest opportunity for evangelism in history finally they said ok we'll send you two monks and these two friars these two monks went with the Polo brothers along with Marco back towards the Mongol Empire and they got discouraged along the way when they entered some war-torn country and by how hard the journey was they turned back one of them died on his way home no priests ever came and the whole history of the world would have been transformed if they had taken that invitation seriously you know I can read in the Bible about a similar story where there is this incredible lost prime time opportunity you read about it in Isaiah chapter 39 good King Hezekiah was he was terminally ill the prophet Isaiah had come to him and said set your house in order fix up your will you're going to die well Hezekiah didn't want to die and he turned his face to the wall and he wept and he cried and he prayed and and God heard his prayer and he sent Isaiah the prophet back and said I've heard your prayer I've seen your tears I'm going to add to your life 15 years and as a result of that God also gave him a sign the son went backwards 15 degrees and time was basically went in Reverse I won't go into what that miracle may have involved but there were some very observant astronomers in the Babylonian Empire and the Babylonian Empire was well you know where some of the great minds and they had understood math there and they had been involved in great building projects and there was a great deal of sophistication and genius in that Empire and they saw what happened and they inquired and to find out what was the cause for this miracle they said well it was a God Jehovah of the Jews that did this wonder because of their king he was sick and he prayed and God healed him and gave him a sign so they sent some ambassadors with the gifts and they came to Hezekiah with a message from their King and that's where our story takes up Isaiah 39 at that time marrow dak valid an the son of Ballad and king of Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah pray I heard that he had been sick and had recovered now they sent his messengers these emissaries to find out about the God that had the power to make the Sun go backwards but Hezekiah miss this great opportunity and instead of pointing them to God like when the Queen of Sheba came to Solomon he pointed to Jehovah but instead Hezekiah took the glory to himself and he missed this opportunity listen to what happened here Hezekiah was pleased with him he was impressed he thought well it's from a great Empire from Babel and they've come to visit me I'll see if I can impress them equally and it says he showed them the house of his treasures the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment and all his armory all that was found among his treasures there was nothing in his house or all of his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them except they he did not show them his God how tragic then Isaiah the prophet went to Hezekiah and said what did these men say and where did they come to you from Hezekiah said they've come to me from a far country they came to me from Babylon he said what have they seen in your house Hezekiah answered well seen all that's in my house there's nothing among my treasures I've not shown them then Isaiah said to Hezekiah hear the word of the Lord behold the days are coming when all that is in your house that your fathers have accumulated to this day shall be carried to Babylon nothing will be left says the Lord and they'll take away some of your sons who will descend from you that you will beget and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon that literally was fulfilled with Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah you see it's sort of a law of life that if you have a treasure other people are going to want your treasure and jesus said our treasure should be stored in heaven God should be our treasure and if we treasure our treasure people are gonna say what is it that's making them so happy what is it that's making them prosper they're gonna want our treasure hopefully your treasure is God and people are gonna want to know about your God because it gives you joy it's what you value well Hezekiah valued his earthly treasure he had taken his eyes off the one who had just done this incredible miracle for him and he was focusing now on his earthly treasure and they wanted his treasure years later Babylon came back they weren't interested in the God of Israel they wanted the treasure of Israel and they took all their earthly treasure and carried it off you know if Hezekiah had recognized this opportunity for sharing his faith instead of the Babylonians conquering Israel Israel would have conquered Babylon with their God terrible missed opportunity right now friends we are living in a prime opportunity for sharing our faith the world around us is asking what is going on the whole world has been turned upside down because of this pandemic it's been affected socially and medically and economically in every way you could probably devise and people's hearts are open you know they say that people are especially open to the gospel during some key times in their life usually it's times a great transition or change one would be a birth a death a marriage a divorce a move a crisis a sickness the loss of a job and I've thrown in a global pandemic which actually can lead to some of these other things but right now the world is very sensitive to spiritual things I've got friends and neighbors that are not believers and they started asking me questions I've got some family that have started asking me questions about my faith I know people that were once walking with the Lord that drifted away and out of the blue I got a phone call and they said pastor Doug what in the world is going on what does this mean is this the fulfillment of prophecy and what a tragedy if we should miss this opportunity to be telling them about yes Jesus is coming soon now I realize that people in the world they're going to scoff and there's even some in the church that are gonna scoff the idea that this pandemic might be a sign that we've entered a new chapter and I know there's gonna be plagues through history I expect we're gonna come out of this other side of this but nothing's gonna be exactly the same it seems like ever every time there's a major crisis like 9/11 we lose certain freedoms which all leads toward the ultimates oppression that happens with the beasts power in the end 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 1 beloved I now write to you this second epistle in whoa both which I stir up your pure Minds by way of reminder that you should be mindful of the words that were spoken of by the holy prophets that's in the Old Testament of the commandment of us the apostles that's the New Testament and the Lord and Savior Jesus God Himself knowing this first that scoffers will come in the last days the prophets hold the New Testament have said in the last days there's gonna be people in the world and in the church they're gonna scoff at those that say Jesus is coming soon how sad if Adventist should come to the place where we're not excited about the imminent advent of Jesus there is a mobilizing inspiring truth the Bible calls it the Blessed hope that were to look forward to with joy he says scarper is gonna come walking after their own lusts they're focused on their earthly pleasures saying where is the promise of his coming for since the father fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation well friends don't be thinking that Jesus has forgotten to return and that he's late I'd like to submit to you the Bible tells us Christ foretold there would be the appearance of a delay prior to his coming when he gives the signs of the second coming that you read about there in Matthew chapter 24 he concludes by saying if that evil servant says in his heart my lord delays his coming he warns do not think this is taking longer than we thought maybe the Lord is delayed or maybe he's forgotten or maybe we've got a long time we'll get comfortable down here we'll eat drink and be merry Jesus said if that servant begins to eat and drink with the drunken and smite his fellow servants the master of that servant will come in a day that he's not looking for him in an end a that he's not aware of but the good servant if he's giving his fellow servants their meat in due season this is the meat we should be studying and sharing with others that servants gonna be rewarded then right after that you go into Matthew chapter 25 Jesus tells a parable of the ten virgins and in that story it says that all ten he got five wise five foolish a hundred percent of them were sleeping just before the cry announces the bridegroom is coming but you notice what it says while the bridegroom was delayed there seems to be the Lord is prophesying the appearance of a delay you remember there was a time of testing that happened for the children of Israel Moses went up the mountain to commune with God he said I'm coming back he didn't say exactly when like Jesus said I'm coming back he did not give us the day in the hour and they got tired of waiting and they said you know Moses was old tall mountain we can't go up the mountain maybe he's had an accident we need to pick another leader maybe pick another god and during that time of delay when Moses was delayed the Bible says they were being tested and many of them failed the test with the golden calf could it be that God's people are in this time of testing right now do not be discouraged friends it's like the book Habakkuk tells us though the vision delay though it Terry wait for it it will not delay it will surely come the Lord is trying to warn us do not think that I've forgotten you need to hang on and continue to believe Jesus is coming soon I do think that there are signs that God is giving us no man knows the day of the hour I don't think you can predict the year but there are signs and especially as seventh-day Adventist Christians I think we ought to recognize what some of these signs are get the stock market gyrating up and down so that it's giving people virtual whiplash you have a chorus of voices around the world that seem to be calling for some kind of Sunday legislation or Sabbath legislation let me just read you that ought to get our attention right let me read you something here of course the Pope in his encyclical called la da da say in 2015 he said on Sunday our participation in the Eucharist has a special importance Sunday like the Jewish Sabbath is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God with ourselves with others and with the world this is an encyclical that says we need to worry about the environment climate change global warming and maybe the world needs a Sabbath so he kind of let that out of the bag back there in 2015 now since the pandemic people around the world can't help but notice air pollution has dropped dramatically co2 emissions have dropped the people in India amazing facts has some missionaries in India they said the streets are quiet you can hear the birds singing there's no honking people in India are seeing the Himalayas they've lived their whole lives where they could see the Himalayas but the air has never been clear enough and so for the first time in 30 years people are saying what's that oh that's the Himalaya Mountains because the water is clean they said in Venice they didn't know there was fish in the water they can look down the water so clean they can see the fish so these people are noticing these improvements listen to what the response is you can read them here's Michael Brown writing in the Christian Post the shut down we need perhaps a Sabbath in a weakly divine rest as inconvenient as this period of enforced shutdown has been it's also been a time of reflection a time of growth the time of deepening some are even referring to the shutdown as a time of divine reset and it's changing their lives for the better what if God intended for us to have a divine reset every week what if that was one of the very purposes of the Sabbath of course this pastor here is talking about Sunday the Pope is saying that his global shut down the environment is revolting from it all he says a pandemic could be nature's response to climate change the earth is punishing us a separate note on Earth Day the Pope said nature will not forgive our trespasses we're gonna be in big trouble if we don't give nature a break so don't be surprised if you don't start hearing not just the benefits in the family for unenforced weekly day of rest but the environment as well here's one from a radical environmental proposal a day of rest this is the Baptist message magazine last week as environmentalists around the world celebrated Earth Day I was intrigued by the potential of a biblical solution to the problem of air pollution a day of rust the concept of a day of rest is nothing new to people of faith we're familiar with God's six days of creation it's forming the heavens and the earth and fashioning all the creatures of the air the land the sea as well molding man into his own image likewise we know our Heavenly Father established the seventh day is a time of rest could something as simple as observing one day of rest every six days work a difference in our air erisa coming from a pastor in our air quality reduce the dire ecological impacts from pollution that many scientists are predicting he's saying this 40 day pandemic resting what if we had 52 days a year spread it out though once a week he goes on to say chick-fil-a has done quite well by closing on Sundays generating more sales per store in six days then it's three closest competitors come mind achievin seven say you know there'd be benefit now I frankly think these are some great arguments for sabbath-keeping but you watch and wait what day is gonna be suggested I here's another one from February 26 2020 this year earth needs a Green Sabbath day every week we should take a day of rest we should not shop or drive commerce transportation and construction if it would pause everyone would rest for an entire day scientists have begun to recognize behind the technological Sabbath when cities in Israel shut down for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur nitrogen oxide pollution plummets that's one day the difference one day of rest can make scientists have determined that a day of rest would reduce the carbon emissions dramatically I'm just quoting a few highlights excerpts from a whole kaleidoscope of articles people have been sending me and that I found that are coming up around the world from Christians Protestants Catholics Jews atheists environmentalists people from all over the world are saying hey maybe it hasn't been so bad for us to take one day a week for our families rest the company's rest the workers rest the environment a Filipino priest Michael Valenzuela said so maybe one way to look at this current crisis this to see the planets desperate demand for a Sabbath a cessation from unbridled consumerism and the parasitic activity that work becomes in the pursuit of profit when it becomes our primary goal climate lab or climate colab it's an MIT collective intelligence one the emission-free day per week can make a profound impact on changing the climate that study done by Green Sabbath dot o RG the Boston Post Joseph Tortelli April 2020 let's give serious thought to reinstating at least some of the time-honored Sunday closure laws sort of one day per week modified stay at home request such action would rededicate our society to a regular day of rest family meals Civic Association religious observance by rededicating each Sunday as a common day of rest we could say that life in America is much more than never pausing Commerce and ever grinding bureaucracy friends this is just a few samples this is an opportunity for people to wake up to recognize that Jesus is coming soon not only that you can also see and I think you should just as sort of a side note remember the Pope had scheduled May 14 as a day when he was inviting leaders of the world both educational and otherwise to come together matter of fact I think I've got that reference here yeah Pope summons world leaders a global compact on education is an initiative promoted by the Vatican and Pope Francis who's invited leaders of the world religions international and humanitarian organizations as well as representatives of all branches of civil society to commit to shape the future of humanity by forming mature individuals who can overcome division and care for the planet you know it seems like we keep hearing that echo well that date because of the pandemic has now been moved to October 11 through 18 they're going on where there's a global compact to re-educate the world on how we can save the planet you know friends I just see signs all around us and there's some positive signs that it should be exciting you know Jesus says in Matthew 24 verse 14 the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations then the end shall come and right now through the internet you know we're just praising the Lord I'm sure that a lot of the media ministries are experiencing the same thing we are here at amazing facts where we're just seeing exponential growth of interest 50% growth in the Bible school people wanting to study the word in a lot of the online training in the the youtubes and the websites and the the studies that are going out people are suddenly taking a great interest and the gospel is going through satellite television radio the Internet not to mention the live missionaries we're seeing the gospel going to all corners of the earth there is scarcely a place on the planet we've had email from Antarctica stations in Antarctica there's scarcely a place on the planet that is not hearing it now it doesn't mean everyone's gonna believe Jesus said it will go as a witness to all nations then the end will come I think we're living in a generation that can see the fulfillment of this prophecy but if this does not excite us what is it gonna take if this is not primetime for preaching the gospel what is it gonna take and I'm afraid friends if we wait too long we may be losing our best opportunity Jesus said we've got to work while it is day right now I know that some things are restricted but the some of those restrictions on church and public evangelism they're gonna be lifted but Sunday there's gonna be restrictions that are gonna make it very difficult Christ said John 9 verse 4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day the night is coming when no one can work John 12 35 then jesus said to them a little while longer and the light is with you walk why you have the light lest darkness overtake you he who walks in darkness does not know where he's going friends now is when we've got to get the message out and let people know Jesus is coming and then you know there's some great quotes in the spirit of prophecy we have no time to lose this is the book of Angela's and page 30 we have no time to lose the end is near the passage from place-to-place to spread the truth will soon be hedged with dangers on the right hand and left everything will be placed to obstruct the way of the Lord's messengers so they'll not be able to do that which it is possible for them to do now again page 31 book evangelism the work which the church has failed to do in times of peace and prosperity she will have to do in a terrible crisis under most discouraging forbidding circumstances a little further down that page the days in which we live our solemn and important the Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth plagues my pen demyx judgements are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God the calamities by land and sea the unsettled state of society they forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude you know now we have an opportunity to spread the gospel and as they begin to ease these restrictions I would say friends do all you can to share the gospel even now there's so much we can do to strengthen our own faith the whole purpose of the gospel is that we come to Christ and then we go for Christ surrender fully to Jesus during these precious hours of opportunity the doors of probation are still open for God's people but they will not always be if there's anything in your life that is not right with the Lord what are you waiting for you know I think the Lord is giving us warning how quickly the world can change how quickly we can lose our freedoms and even be imprisoned in our own homes and I think this is just a foretaste to wake God's people up then don't miss that cry behold the bridegroom comes and take advantage of that opportunity to lead other people into the wedding feast you know I remember hearing a story when that years ago I remember reading this when I was a kid that in North Dakota in the middle of winter a school bus taking children home got caught in a terrible blizzard and it was whiteout conditions the driver kind of slid off the road into a snowbank and the bus was stuck well he realized that probably everyone else was smart enough to get off the road and and he probably ought to go look for some help so he told the boy named Tony who was like 12 or 13 years old he says you're in charge it was an elementary school he said you're in charge he said watch over the other kids I will leave the engine running and I'm gonna go see if I can get some help and get his towed out bus driver went tromping off through the snow and he disappeared not long after he left something happened and the engine stopped and Tony tried as he could he flooded it or something but he couldn't get the engine to start again so the heater stopped and immediately the temperature in that school bus began to plunge to super zero and the kids were developing ice on their breath and it was extremely cold and they some of them started falling asleep and they were freezing to death Tony realized what was happening and he went from one young student to another and he shook them and he made him get up he made the move around he talked to him he said we need to sing when they fall asleep sometimes he'd even slug him and he'd shake him so you got to get up you've got to keep moving and he continued to move the kids and wrestle the kids until pretty soon the driver came with a plow truck and and they were all rescued Tony was later hailed as a hero and he said I'm not a hero said if the truth be known all the work I had to do to keep the others awake I was keeping myself warm in the process friends the more we do now in sharing our faith with others don't wait until you feel like you're perfect before you share your faith say Lord how can you use me now I mean all of us we can pray for God's work we can invest in God's work but there's more we can do we could be learning how to give Bible studies to others you can take the online Affco program and study so you know ways to share your faith and to do missionary work but we won't always have these opportunities Romans chapter 13 verse 11 and do this the Apostle says knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of our sleep for now our salvation is near than we first believed the night is far spent the day is at hand therefore let us cast off the works of the darkness that's the worldliness let us put on the armor of light again Paul says in Ephesians 5 verse 16 seeing then that you walk circumspectly not as fool's but as wise redeeming the time you know that means making the most of the opportunity of the time because the days are evil we've got a short time left friends now is a time for us to get the message out and share the good news with our friends we need to be excited about the truth that Jesus is coming again I know it may seem like he delayed but I think we're gonna find out the Lord is right on schedule that angel is going to declare soon time will be no more you know what it says really soon Galatia be no longer Jesus said I will come again he's gonna come again he wants you to live eternally but we need to be fully surrendered to him to come to him and then go for him and that's our prayer for you at here at amazing facts let's pray for each other the other ministries I want to thank you for this opportunity to share look forward to seeing all the different ministries at the National Convention let me close by praying for you father in heaven we just want to thank you Lord for this opportunity that we have now in these precious hours to share the gospel with the world and we pray Lord that will help recognize the different windows that you give us to share our faith whether it's with our neighbors around us in our family where we work online to be speaking up for you we know we're living in just very challenging times and I pray that we can all be found faithful Lord we thank you for your goodness and we just pray for the baptism of your spirit in our lives and on the church in Jesus name Amen [Music] I hear the Savior say thy strength indeed a small child of weakness watch and pray find me that all and know Jesus pain [Music] to him my sin had left a crimson stain he washed it white Oh Oh indeed I find thy power and I know can't change my levers of this heart of stone [Music] since nothing good ever wear may thy grace to clean I'll wash my garments wine [Music] all to him I owe sin had left a crimson stain he washed me white as snow [Music] before the throne I stand in him come please I'll lay my trophies down town had Jesus me [Music] to hear my [Music] left a crimson stain he cost me why does had left a crimson but he worst me white as snow [Music] [Music] you thank you for that wonderful music just really jesus paid it all that kind of brings the summary to our story tonight thank you very much pastor bachelor for that challenge and we've been talking here this evening and you've been listening and watching and I gave a quiz to my co-host here lyndie what is your takeaway well I have three takeaways Steve and the first one I got from the testimony the mi the members in action that Curtis presented it demonstrated a significant part of the third angel's message which is the faith of Jesus and when we appreciate what Christ did for us on the cross we see and treat people the way he would secondly the third angels message it is a unique powerful message of quality in an endtime setting and then when that's linked with the right it is powerful enough to bring on the latter rain and the second coming and we need to immerse ourselves deeply in understanding this message thirdly from the new start members in action taking care of our health is a witness to all who observe us and look at us joy so my story points were that you have a sphere of influence I have a sphere of influence the schmitz in Ohio they have a sphere of influence it may be like Joshua taking on a whole nation of India this global family of faith we all have people we can impact secondly this is prime time for you to share the love of Jesus and his health plan for abundant life with the world don't miss this prime time opportunity third by fixing our mind on Jesus just like we spoke about in the song the very first song we can ask Jesus to give us the gift of the Holy Spirit to fill us and give us the gift of self-control and his spirit of self-sacrifice these are the two powerful forces that are going to equip us to bring the everlasting gospel to the world Steve what were your three points so what I'm taking away from this is that we need to be encouraging the medical missionary work we don't often do that you know we kind of almost treat that as a secondary work but it's a primary work in getting the gospel to the world to encourage the medical missionary work secondly I don't want to miss any opportunities so I take that point away that often we're missing opportunities but I don't want to miss any opportunities thirdly we need to take more risk on people people are a vital part of everything we do and sharing the good news with them sometimes means we need to take a risk with them so I'm committed to that but you know we don't just want to stop there what is your commitment joy so I started this year with a commitment to prayer and Bible study and I can't imagine doing anything other than starting every day with prayer and Bible study so I commit to keep that going Lindy I am committed to seeing and treating people the way Christ saw them and treated them thank you for sharing your commitment and as I've pondered this question and thought about it I think this I think all of us need to be recommitting our lives to the call of Christ to take the gospel to the world listening friend maybe tonight something that has been said something that has been shared has impacted your life maybe you're sitting there thinking I wonder what God is calling me to do well there's a verse of scripture we find in Matthew chapter 28 and he's giving a commission to his disciples and he says go ye therefore and teach all nations basic concept here is that all are called join me today in a commitment to do for others join us tomorrow morning at eight o'clock as we continue our program [Music] you

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