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Don Mackintosh: Something Better -- Present Reality and Adventist History

Don Mackintosh

A Revival of Restoration (Health) Ministry

A Revival of Adoration Ministry

A Revival of Proclamation Ministry

Father in heaven, we're thankful today we can again come together and we can spend some time together.

We ask a blessing on our time together and we ask that your spirit would be with us.

We thank you and we come in Christ's name.

I've been talking about little vignettes from Adventist history and what we can learn from those lessons.

And the 1 I want to start out with today is a guy by the name of, this afternoon, is S.N.

Haskell was, he was an early Adventist pioneer and administrator.

And he was so effective as an administrator that at 1 time he was the president of a conference on the East Coast and California at the same time.

He's like kind of my miracle guy, you know, like, wow, if I want to grow up, I want to be like this guy who could like be a conference president, I think it was like in Massachusetts or somewhere, at the same time in California.

He married a lady that he was deeply in love with, but who was crippled, or disabled, as they would say in California.

And so she was disabled and she helped him start a lot of stuff though.

Started the, Like the Adventist book centers, you've heard of those.

The literature ministry, a lot of that, started all that.

The school in South Lancaster, he was an educator, started a bunch of schools.

And Alan White liked, of course, the Haskells, they were close friends with them.

And what they kind of did was they kind of like, they kind of encapsulated the REAP concept.

Haskell would cook, you know, and the aroma would go out, people would come in and they'd have health classes and different things and they'd have students in their homes.

So restoration then led to education, they'd educate the people.

Haskell was this guy, I remember his story about how he was at a camp meeting once and he was preaching and he was teaching and the rain started to come down.

And the rain started coming down, and nobody could hear what he was saying.

We had this church in Wichita, Kansas, and it was a metal church, and all the hail came down during 1 of my sermons.

No, but I kept preaching anyway and no 1 could hear me.

But afterwards someone came and told me the story of Haskell and how, you know, when that had happened, he just started to call the people to the middle of the tent, and then he would call out a text, and then everyone would tell everybody the text, and he preached the sermon just by text because they couldn't hear him.

So the progression of the text are the things that led it.

And of course you have Haskell's handbook.

How many of you have got that little book?

And Mark Finley tried to copy him but wasn't quite as good.

Other people try and do it but nobody can kind of kick it up like Haskell did.

Even today, people, today they write books like his, you know, like they're trying to write Daniel and Revelation.

He wrote that already, books on the sanctuary.

And he wrote those books, and of course, he and Ellen White were very close.

He had a strong regard for the Spirit of Prophecy, and also, actually, personally, for Ellen White, because after his wife died, and her husband died, he asked her to marry him.

But she said, no, we're too good of friends.

Which is a good line, Ladies, if you're ever thinking of 1.

So, we're too good, we're too good of friends, right?

But Haskell was also this person that could be called upon who knew the Bible and the spirit of prophecy very well.

And they had this problem in Indiana, you know.

Okay, so you don't mind if I say sometimes they have problems in Indiana.

So they had this problem in Indiana, what's called the Holy Flesh Movement.

And this is what happens when people get this hyper view of being perfect.

You know, If they're perfect, then everything they do is perfect.

And if they happen to want your flesh and their flesh, then they're still holy.

And so if someone says they're perfect, this is a problem with it.

Because The longer they say, the more danger you're in.

Now that doesn't mean people can't be perfect.

It's just that God in his wisdom doesn't let you know about it.

He kind of keeps that from you because it might mess you up.

I mean, that's like this is much more true than it even sounds.

I mean, it's kind of funny too, but it's really not.

So, but sometimes things that are true Can still be funny.

I was wondering just before lunch about you know, the the you know What was his name?

He goes up to Mount Carmel and the prophets The prophets are calling out to their God.

Maybe he went on vacation So why don't you should jump higher or cut yourselves more?

Anyway, I thought that was funny when I read it the first time I mean it is true.

And it's also kind of Well, maybe not funny buddy because you know you had there was a serious thing going on But I still you understand what I'm saying.

So anyway, Haskell could be called upon at these certain times.

I'm not even to my PowerPoint yet, which should concern some of you.

And in Indiana, they had this Holy Flesh going on, and people were getting into all kinds of crazy stuff, all right?

I won't go into it all, but you kind of figured out with Holy Flesh, right?

Like, they were looking at other people's spouses and all kinds of stuff.

And Ellen White says, get over there and help him out.

And when they heard Haskell preach, it was like a clarion call.

They could really understand what he was saying, and there was nothing left undone.

And you know, Ellen White wrote of that time period, the things that you've heard that are happening in Indiana, the same things will happen at the end of time.

There was all kinds of music she said was wrong, and there was all kinds of things going on.

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