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Power of the Hour

Anil Kanda

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Eternity Future Love?

Deadly Wound of the Health Message

Well, I'm going to be sharing a very special message, something that God was really leading me to last year, and I really hope and pray that it's a blessing to you.

Also for Sabbath afternoon, I'm gonna be talking about a very special topic.

I'm gonna be talking about our church history and sort of the development of the health message and its downfall.

We're gonna be taking a good look at the history of J.

Harvey Kellogg and why that is so relevant to us today.

So If you have some time, please come on out for that.

If you were an employer or you claim to be an employer and you had no employees, would you actually be an employer?

If you had no kids, would you actually be a parent?

If you had no church members, would you actually be a pastor?

Jesus would not have said, I am the Lord of the Sabbath if the Sabbath was not existing anymore.

Because He is not the God of the dead, He is the God of the living, friends.

That's why He is the Lord of the Sabbath.

You see, friends, the Sabbath is meant to be a day of life.

Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer and let's jump into this message.

Father in heaven, we just thank you again for the beautiful Sabbath, the music, Lord for bringing us here, for whatever purposes you have for us, we pray and ask that our hearts would be open to receive the present blessing.

That is our prayer in the name of Jesus we pray amen.

All right I want to share something with you.

I don't see anybody here who's a call porter.

No I know Souls West is over here but I used to canvas and you know a little bit I'd go door to door and you know when I was a pastor I'd go door door and we do surveys and many people did not like that.

You knock at people's door and they would say things like, hey I'm not interested.

Or sometimes people would say things like, I'm a pagan.

Or my favorite was this, yeah I'm an atheist.

As if I'm supposed to be scared, ooh an atheist.

You know, I'm an atheist, run for your life, right?

You know, and so when I was a call porter and when I was going door to door, I would come across people with a variety of beliefs, a variety of beliefs.

And in a world today that is growing increasingly secular and got various aberrations of religion, there is a lot of people today who are claiming to be atheists or people who are claiming to be non-theist.

Individuals who say, I don't believe in God or I don't believe in that concept of God or I'm not a religious person.

In fact, 1 day I was doing some research on atheism for a seminar I was doing and I came across an atheist blogger.

Thank you for the Webster's Dictionary definition.

It's someone who writes blogs online or just, or sort of, sort of, you could say like a daily journal entry of their life, right?

And so this atheist blogger was writing about things that would convince her to believe in God.

She says, look, I'm an atheist, but if I was to be a believer in God, there would have to be several criteria that would have to be met in order for me to believe there is a God.

Number 1, I'd have to see accurate prophecies in sacred text.

Number 2, I would have to see accurate science in religious texts.

Number 3, I would have to find a successful religion.

And by the way, you know how she defines successful religion?

The adherents of the religion are healthy and happy.

Number 4, inexplicably accurate information gained during near death.

In other words, she wants to know what happens when you die.

Now let's just think about this, friends.

She is looking for somebody or something that apparently can explain to her accurate prophecies.

She's looking for sort of a message that harmonizes with the data that is found in the world around us.

She is looking for a religion in which the inheritance would be happy and healthy.

And she is looking for information about what happens to people when they die.

Let me ask you a question, where might she find something like this?

I remember when I was reading this I thought to myself, you know it's like she's an unbaptized Adventist.

She's looking for a religion that helps us, you know, harmonizes with the data that's found in the world.

She's looking for a religion in which the adherents are supposed to be healthy and happy, right?

She's looking for something that explains what happens after death, and she's looking for a clear message.

When I read that I thought to myself, she's looking for Adventist.

And I was so blown away when I learned about this and I thought to myself, man, if I could only talk to this person or give her a glow pamphlet or something.

But anyways I thought to myself there are a lot of people today who claim to be atheists.

Did you know there are various kinds of atheists that exist in our world today?

It's not just people who say you know what I do not believe in God's existence.

For example there are those who say we don't need God's existence like Stephen Hawking says that right?

You have other individuals who say, you know what, there is no such thing as love in this world.

And so you have various forms of atheism that exist.

Do you know the Bible tells us at the very end of time the love of many would what?

So what is happening at the very end of time?

This image or picture of God is being wiped out right at the very end of time.

The time when Earth's sort of narrative is in the darkest part of history.

Friends, This is super important because what this world is really craving for is biblical love.

By the way, if you ever read the book Acts of the Apostles, the very first chapter Ellen White makes this comment, very interesting, very intriguing.

She says, eventually will be made manifest in the church the full display of the love of God.

In other words, she is saying that God will take the church and he will use it as a place, an environment, an atmosphere, an arena to display his love to the entire universe.

It's a powerful thing when we begin to understand this.

The book Education tells us that Satan himself is seeking to disprove the very concept of love in this universe.

She says these words, unselfishness, the principle of God's kingdom is the principle that Satan what?

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