Michigan Camp Meeting 2016: The Harvest is Great

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Christianity 24-7

Jed Genson

Jodi Genson

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Our Father which art in heaven, thank you that you have made the understanding of salvation as simple as ABC.

And yet a lot of times we just don't get it.

We don't understand how does this thing work?

And so as we go through this today, Lord, we pray for the gift of your Holy Spirit to come in to teach us because we want to know you.

You told us in John 17 3 that this is life eternal, that we might know you.

And so we're coming here today seeking you, that we might find you, and that we might have eternal life.

And we're seeking with our whole hearts, Lord.

You can have all of our habits and likes and dislikes, and we're asking that you take over and live in our lives.

Okay, for the benefit, how many were not here yesterday?

In order for us to be born again, that's what this is all about, we need to realize that we need a savior, Okay?

And so you might think, well I'm in the church, of course, I already realize that.

But we read yesterday several statements where it said many that come to Christ and are baptized are buried alive Because self doesn't die.

Because self doesn't die, then we have problems in the church because we're always being self-centered and fighting with each other about different things, color of carpet, copy machines, other menial tasks that has nothing to do with salvation.

And If you've been in a church at any length of time, if you've been in a board meeting any times, you know there's things that come up that are un-Christ-like spirits.

And so for you and me in this classroom, we wanna be like Jesus Christ.

We wanna learn how to live the Christian life 24-7, every day, every minute of the day.

And it is possible because Christ said it was possible.

Okay, I wish Jeannie wasn't showing up yet.

This lady I talked to today, and she was sitting right there, and she's coming today someplace.

And I don't wanna do it without her, but I might have to.

He's gonna get baptized sometime in the near future.

She became an Adventist 18 years ago, he never did.

And yet, now he's going, here she comes now.

And some of the things I shared yesterday, she said, would really have helped him is searching for God.

Jeannie, I'm talking all about you, and I didn't tell the whole story because I wanted to wait until you got here.

I just introduced you that your husband's gonna get baptized.

Maybe you want to fill in a little bit of the blanks here.

And I apologize for keeping everyone so late yesterday, so I'm gonna try to keep it shorter today.

I'm gonna tell a story that has something to do, I think, with your husband.

Well, my husband and I have been together for 40 years now.

I joined the church 10 years after we were married without him.

He had been on Adventist, raised up as an Adventist, and left the church before I met him.

So he was okay with me going to church or taking the kids, but he wouldn't come.

And he allowed me to put him in church school, and I had a daughter graduate from Great Lakes.

And he's just been kind of sitting back in the background all these years, not saying anything, and I'm always leaving the invitation open, you can come to church with me.

A few years ago, he had made a comment about not understanding the Bible, so I bought him the Ellen White children's version of the Bible.

He had it for about a year and then he started reading it from Genesis 1 and read the whole thing through.

And during that time, I had a car accident which scared him to death.

I was fine, but it was enough to scare him.

And I says, you know, I wanna be going to Wednesday night studies.

And our pastor does a wonderful Wednesday night study.

So he came once, kind of got his little bit of an interest and he went back.

He's been going back now for a year and a half.

And I wanna share that, I didn't share this yesterday.

You know, I said I'd been baptized 3 times, and I had enough baptismal certificates to paper a small building.

The last 1 I didn't even get it, but anyway.

So it's not baptism that gets us into the heaven, right?

And 1 of the reasons that I left as a young person, and we've got all kinds of statistics and stuff about our kids leaving, But 1 of the things that hit me was the inconsistency in the members, okay?

And you can't do that because we're all sinners.

We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.

We all have weaknesses and mistakes and failures.

Some of us understand walking with God a little better than other people and some people are out of control and some people aren't.

And so I would really recommend you get this little book called Steps to Christ.

After I read this, after I gave my life to Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit impressed me to read this book.

And since as a young person, I had Ellen White crammed down my throat, you know, like they always say, but Ellen White is our best friend.

I can't even explain how much she's helped me to understand Jesus Christ.

And so on page 71 it says this, When the mind dwells upon self, this is what Satan wants to get us to do, dwell upon ourselves, our own mistakes and failures.

Now yesterday we gave our lives to Jesus Christ, and we were complete in Him.

So now he wants you to look at yourself, your own weaknesses, failures, your guilt, what you've done in the past, and he'll bring up the past, and I shared that with you yesterday.

The text you want to look at there is Ezekiel 33, I believe it is.

I have to submit to her all the time because she's got this thing all together.

And in my mind it's up here and then she says, well, I already put it on the screen.

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