Michigan Camp Meeting 2018: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Plenary

Jim Micheff

As a Witness

Ron Kelly

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You know how easy it is for us to put words together and have them come out of our mouth and profess certain things.

And Lord, even in your scripture, you told us that we don't even know what to pray for.

Except that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us.

And pleads with us with groanings which we can't even understand.

We want Jesus to be high and lifted up, and we want a clear picture of Him that we might catch a glimpse of His holiness, of His purity, of His goodness, of His perfection.

Not so that we can be discouraged, but so that we can be encouraged because He is saying that we can be like Him.

So we thank you for hearing and for answering our prayer in Jesus' name, amen.

I love this theme, As a witness, we came up with it as a team, and I thought tonight I want to come right behind this theme, so that's the title of the sermon tonight.

When I was growing up young, my father was a literature evangelist, and he would come home and he would tell us of the different experiences that he would have.

He would tell us of how he would come and just he would just be driving down the road and he would be impressed to go to a certain house and he'd knock on that door and a person would come and there was just a divine appointment there and he would lead them to Christ.

And they would kneel down and he would lead them through a sinner's prayer and he told us about that.

I was 7 years old and my heart started to burn within me.

I want to be a witness like Dad is a witness.

And I started to think of different ones.

No, they go to church, I see them in church.

Well, who do I know that doesn't go to church?

And then I remembered, my mom baked bread and she baked it for several neighbors within our block and the next block.

Brown was a nice man and we'd often visit with him.

And when I delivered the bread, and I thought, you know, he doesn't go to church on Sabbath.

And so 1 Sunday morning, I asked my mom, I says, Mom, can I go down and visit with Mr?

He says, why don't you come up here and visit with me?

And so I sat next to him and I'm thinking, now how do I witness?

And as we're sitting there back and forth, I'm thinking, how can I witness?

Well, I know he doesn't go to church on Sabbath, so that's not a good thing.

And so I waited till he was done talking, and then I said, boy, Mr.

Brown, it sure is a hot day today, isn't it?

Brown says, boy it sure is Jimmy, it's really hot today.

And I said, it sure is, but it's not as hot as where you're going.

Brown looked at me with an inquisitive look and I said, well Mr.

Brown you don't go to church on Sabbath so I know you're going.

Now there was a few words We were not allowed to use in our home But I thought because I needed to have some strong emphasis that it would be okay in this case and so I said to mr..

You don't go to church on Sabbath, so that means you're going to Well now you know mr..

Brown didn't respond the same way dad had said so many people responded.

He didn't ask me to have prayer with him.

He didn't ask me to lead him in a sinner's prayer.

In fact, he didn't ask me anything at all.

He just looked at me with those little eyes that came down and his face turned red.

And then he looked at me and he said, Jimmy, you go home.

Well, I stood up, I thought, am I in trouble?

And I turned around and looked at him, he says, yeah, go on, go on home.

And I walked to the edge of the porch and I turned around and looked at him, he says, yeah, go on, go on.

So I took my steps down, walked down the steps and I started for heading home and I said to myself, boy, I don't like this witnessing thing.

And so I went home And I came in the door and mom said, Jimmy, what's the matter?

And I told her, I said, mom, I don't like this witnessing thing.

Dad comes home and he tells us about all these stories, but it doesn't work for me.

And she said, well, Jimmy, what happened?

I said, well, I went and witnessed to Mr.

And she said well what what did you tell Mr.

And so I told her and she said oh no Jimmy that is not witnessing.

We've got to share love, God's love for people.

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