Hartland Winter Convocation 2018: Preparing the Way

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Hartland Institute of Health and Education

Dwayne Lemon

The Necessary Experience

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

This is what God is saying to his people, that we are to say to the world, prepare your hearts, prepare your homes, for our Lord cometh.

You know, we have satellites that are getting almost everywhere around the globe.

I remember being in a church, predominantly Indian, in Maryland, and when I was there, I was giving the word, and I was teaching about the first, the second, and the third angel's message.

And as I was going step by step and point by point through those wonderful truths, I made an appeal to the congregation, had a large turnout that night, it was wonderful and many people gave their hearts to the Lord.

And so when we were done, the brothers came over to me and they said, oh, Brother Lemon, praise the Lord.

So many people gave their hearts to Jesus and I said, amen, you know, And I'm thinking I'm saying amen because I saw what he saw.

So, you know, I saw the people respond too.

He said, we, because they had these unique looking cameras.

And they said, no, we were providing a feed where individuals in certain Muslim, highly intense Islamic areas in India, where individuals are not able to openly, publicly worship the Lord Jesus Christ.

Individuals were meeting in a basement and 25 Muslim men gave their hearts to Jesus and accepted the third angel's message tonight.

And I thought to myself, I said praise God for technology.

Though it be a tool for much evil, thank God, it can be a tool for good.

As a result of the internet, as a result of satellites, as a result of faithful missionaries who understand that sometimes their mission is a one-way ticket to life.

There are many who have heard the everlasting gospel and have accepted it.

When we don't see a lot, some of us are YouTubers.

And we go to networks, and we feel like, oh, there's only a handful that are standing for the truths of this time.

But I thank God for volume 5 of the Testimonies to the Church, page 80, where it tells us very clearly that there are stars that during the daytime you cannot see them, but they're there.

But it's only at nighttime, that's when the stars shine.

You watch out and make sure you don't end up with the Elijah syndrome.

I'm the only 1 standing for the truth, Lord, and there's nobody else.

God says I have many lights that have not bowed their knees to Baal, and they will best be discerned when the night comes.

And my brothers and sisters, midnight is on its way.

That's why last night we were talking about prophecy.

Again, it's to the point that God is just constantly reminding us, time is almost finished.

And God's going to have a whole lot of lightbearers that's going to come out of the woodworks.

And a lot of the lightbearers are not necessarily the ones you're seeing on YouTube.

They're not necessarily the ones that you're hearing on AudioVerse.

They're not necessarily the ones that are in all of the great public places of the world.

We're told That the time is not far distant when the test will come to every soul.

The mark of the beast will be urged upon us.

And those who have step by step yielded to worldly demands and have conformed to worldly customs will not find it a hard matter to yield to the powers that be, rather than suffer derision, danger, Threatened imprisonment, insult, and death.

It says, at that time, the gold will be separated from the dross in the church.

True godliness will be distinguished from the appearance and tinsel of it.

And then it says those very startling words that I know makes me check my heart every day.

It says, many a star that we have admired for their brilliancy will go out in darkness.

Some of us have fixed our minds so much on people.

Young missionaries, they bless their hearts.

Now, I consider myself a young missionary.

And some of these younger missionaries, you know, I like them.

In other words, so easily bent 1 way or the other.

I meet young men that look, act, talk, walk, and even dress like the ministers they listen to.

They look, they act, they talk, they walk, they even dress like their ministers.

When they preach, they preach with the same movements like their favorite evangelists.

It's very typical in young people, especially when they don't have a foundation.

Especially the ones that have no foundation.

They don't know their own individuality in Jesus.

And so they act and function and talk and dress and preach and teach like the people around them.

And The problem is, is what if that individual that is so incredibly impressing and molding your mind, what if that's 1 of the bright stars that's going to go out?

That means we got young people that are preparing to go out as well, because they were not rooted and grounded in Christ, their righteousness.

And so God wants us to understand that the message is going out, the word is getting out, but obviously there's something still more that God wants.

And I would imagine you do, too, or at least you should, because we just read it in John 15.

You see, in fact, before we go to John 15, let's put a little bit more context.

Let's go to Revelation 18, and then we'll go to John 15.

Revelation 18 first, and then we'll go to John 15.

It is true that we are called of God to prepare ye the way of the Lord.

You and I are to prepare the way of the Lord.

In doing that, a great proclamation, as well as demonstration, is to be given.

Now, the Bible shows us the last proclamation, the last message by which we are preparing the way of the Lord.

It shows the last 1 that's going to be given in this Earth's history.

And the Bible says in Revelation 18, starting at verse 1, and after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become the habitation of devils and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth have waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies And I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues." This is the last effort of preparing the way of the Lord.

It's what God should be in pressing your heart and my heart to preparing to give.

That should be the number 1 thing in our mind is, Lord, how can you best prepare my heart, my home, that we might be fit to give the loud cry for the third angel's message?

This is the focus of the books that we read.

This is the focus of the schools that we set up.

Everything is designed to impart an education that we know how to function in this world, but more importantly, that we know how to receive the truths for this time and let it have its practical sanctifying effect on yours and my life so that whatever career or whatever it is that I do in life, I understand that I'm never an employee and I'm never simply a business owner.

I'm a messenger of light wherever I'm going.

Wherever I'm going, I'm a messenger of light.

You go to work, you understand I'm going to work to be a messenger of light.

You go to school, you understand I'm going to school to be a messenger of light.

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