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Dwayne Lemon

The Two Revelations

Well, let me go ahead and say happy Sabbath to everyone.

Very, very grateful to be here with you all.

Very thankful that the Lord has brought us all safely through another week, giving us an opportunity to come together that we can study his words of truth, receive it in our hearts, that we don't just leave more intelligent, but far more important than that, that we leave transformed.

And so as we prepare to study this evening, and of course, we are very grateful for all of those who have completed their courses and You stretch yourself I'm sure you your minds were taxed and I just want you to understand that this is the beginning of your work you know you're leaving the classroom you're getting ready to go into a very vicious field, and as Christ goes with you, you have nothing to fear.

And so we're gonna spend a little bit of time kind of talking about the Word of God, looking at what really does God want from you as you're getting ready to leave this place.

But it's not merely just to those who are students getting ready to go into the field, but this is for the staff who are here at Wildwood.

I believe the Lord has something for you, too.

I believe the Lord has something for you too.

I believe the Lord has something for every single individual.

The word of God should penetrate the preacher way before it penetrates the people.

And so I have seen how God has challenged me through this message.

And I pray that you receive the same challenge and seek the same source of strength to go forward and to be part of God's team in the finishing of his work.

As we prepare our hearts to receive the study this evening, I believe the best way to do that is upon our knees.

And so I'm going to kneel and pray, and I know we're very pressed in together, but if you can kneel, I'm gonna ask you to please kneel with me.

If you cannot kneel, then just bow your heads where you are, but let us go before the Lord and let's let him speak to our heart.

Our loving Father, we are very grateful for the wonderful blessing to be able to study your words of truth, to be able to be led by your spirit, to be able to edify and strengthen 1 another as we get ready to enter into the final scenes of the Christian race.

We pray, oh God, that you will please forgive us of our sins.

Let there be nothing in our hearts that would cause a disruption of what heaven wants to communicate to us tonight.

And I pray that you would please abide with us, Open our eyes, help us behold wondrous things out of your word, and Lord, teach us, and grant us heaven's most choicest blessings on this, your holy Sabbath day.

For we ask these things in Jesus' name, amen.

You know, I am very grateful to be here with my bride, Alexandra.

And anytime I get a chance, we have 4 very grown children.

I mean, you know, they're grown in height and they're also grown in age too.

We have 4 children, ages 19, 18, 17, and 16.

And that was not the plan, but That's the truth, nevertheless.

And you know, their minds are still very precious, still very young, and they still have tons of needs.

You know, they're not the 2345 like before, but now they are older.

And you know, living a life of homeschooling and doing all that we can to give our children what God has given to us, we cherish every moment that we can get when we can just be husband and wife and get away.

Even when it's on a mission, It has a different feel to it.

So I'm very grateful to be here with my bride.

And earlier today, at a certain point, I happened to click on a program that a friend of mine sent me.

And it was a program dealing with the atheist delusion.

And I was like, well, that's an intriguing title.

And he was going to schools and universities where a lot of people are secular scientists.

And of course, you'll probably find a lot of atheists.

And as he was there, he was challenging them on asking, do you believe in God?

And of course, they said, no, absolutely not.

And I must admit, I said, his method of challenging was very compelling.

I mean, the way that he just engaged them and was able to walk through step by step that in the beginning of the program, they were saying, no way, it's ridiculous, there is no God, we don't believe in God.

But in the end, every single 1 of them said, you know what?

I mean, he was super methodical as he brought them from that point to this point.

And then as my wife and I began to talk about it, you know, we talked about pros and cons.

And as we talked about the pros and cons, the pro was obviously he intellectually challenged them.

He got them to a place that he presented facts in such a way that they would have to realize it was absolutely foolish to believe in atheism.

I mean, he got them right where he wanted.

But then my question was, but honey, I said, here's the question.

What happens after these people say that Jesus is the Lord?

What happens after these people say, okay, yeah, we believe in God now?

Now, they have to live Christ-like lives every day.

And that is a whole different challenge that goes beyond the intellect.

You see, the more that I began to watch that program is the more I began to understand why it is absolutely imperative that God had to raise up the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

It was so clear to me Because our job is not to get caught up in apologetics just so we can intellectually prove people wrong while we go ahead and prove God, the Bible, and ourselves right.

I hope you understand that there's more to the work than that.

A lot of times we just want to prove the other's wrong and prove that God is right.

Now I don't know about you, but I'll go ahead and talk about this.

I've been married for 20 years, so I know a little something about marriage.

Husbands and wives, have you ever had a disagreement about something And either the husband or either the wife wanted to make clear that the position of your spouse is wrong and that your position is right.

Have you ever irrefutably established your fact that I'm right and you're wrong.

And if you've ever had that experience, the question is, how much more peace did it bring to your home?

Sometimes you can be right and you can be right in a very irrefutable manner, but you basically have accomplished nothing.

God has not sent us in the world to tell everybody else you're wrong and we're right.

God has a desire, and the desire of God should be the desire of all his people.

Because last I checked, correct me if I'm wrong, If you're watching me go across this podium up here, and if you see my head go right and my body go left, you all would probably leave this room because you probably say, there's some spiritualism in here.

You don't see a man's head go right and his body go left.

When the head, when the brain nerves, when the mind communicates to the body to pick up the Bible, The mind had to send that message.

It's amazing that once you stump your foot, your mind literally says, say, ouch.

I mean, it's amazing how the body is just so incredibly wired together.

The body does not move independent of the head.

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