A deeper look into the Master’s Method, True Medical Missionary work.

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Uchee Pines Institute

Mark Finley

The Cross, 3 Angels and Healing Grace

Father in heaven, we thank you with all of our hearts for the opportunity to serve you.

The greatest desire of our life is to be your servants, to be in your place at your appointed time to minister to the people that you bring within our pathways.

As it was written of Jesus that he wanted to do the will of the Father and that his great desire was to see people whole, Jesus said in John 10, verse 10, I've come to give you life and give it more abundantly.

And Lord, help us to be ministers of that abundant life in a broken world.

Help us to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and be kind, compassionate, loving, and helpful to others to reveal your love in a world of selfishness.

My topic tonight is the Master's Methods.

Lewis Evans told the story about visiting a friend in Korea.

His friend was a surgeon who had made significant money in the United States, but who then was impressed by the Holy Spirit to move away from his medical practice and go out to Korea and minister in a very small village.

Evans went out to spend time with his friend and it just so happened that day that his friend was performing a very delicate operation on an old native Korean woman in a tent, in a makeshift tent.

The operation would take approximately 7 hours.

Evans tells the story, he said the odors were oppressive.

And this dedicated medical missionary servant of God operated on that woman for 7 straight hours.

He made the slit in the stomach, went in and delicately looked at the tumor, ultimately removed that tumor so very carefully.

At the end of 7 hours this missionary physician pulled off his mask, looked at Dr.

Evans and said, she is gonna be all right.

They sewed up the woman and then came back to the humble, simple office of this medical missionary physician.

And when they got back to the office, Dr.

Evans said, I looked at my friend and I said, I have a question for you.

How much do you get for an operation like this out here?

You know, if I would have done that operation in the States, it would have been a 40, 50000 dollar operation.

How much do you get?" And this medical missionary said, well, to begin with, I get this.

And he pulled out an old dented copper coin from the third drawer down on his desk.

And he said, you know this woman came in here about 2 weeks ago, and I examined her and I sensed that this was a life and death situation.

That she was gonna die if she didn't have this operation.

And she said to me, well, Doc, I don't know if I can afford it.

And she pulled out all this old dented copper coin.

And she said, this is exactly what I have, Doc.

And he said, you know, it just so happens that that's just enough.

Evans and he said, first, I get this old dented copper coin.

But he said, then, most of all, I have the priceless awareness that for 7 hours these hands become the hands of Jesus healing 1 of his needy children.

Every time you reach out unselfishly and touch somebody for Christ, You have the joy that Jesus is working in your life.

You have the priceless awareness when you minister to others that Jesus sees through our eyes, he listens through our ears, he speaks through our voice, he loves through our heart and He touches through our hands.

Somebody said that anybody wrapped up in themself is a very small package.

And 1 of the greatest impacts of medical missionary work is simply this, that in a world of selfishness, where people are grasping and wanting to get, to see someone coming to them with no personal ulterior motives, but simply wanting to serve, simply wanting to touch, simply wanting to bless.

When a neighbor is sick and you bring them a loaf of whole wheat bread that's homemade, and you bring them some soup, vegetable soup, and you touch them for Jesus in a unique way that opens their hearts for the gospel.

I can remember a time when my wife and I were visiting our friend Paul Harvey.

Some of you may have heard of Paul Harvey.

Paul Harvey was 1 of the most well-known and listened to radio commentators in America.

My wife and I got acquainted with him through the It Is Written telecast.

His aunt had become, his wife's aunt was a Seventh Day Adventist and when Paul and his wife visited Arizona where they had another home beside Chicago where his major radio network was, they would often visit the Camelback Seventh Avenue Church.

On 1 occasion, my wife and I were going to Paul's office in Chicago to visit him, and Tinney had made beautiful loaves of homemade bread.

It's amazing how a loaf of homemade bread, something that simple, breaks down prejudice.

You don't have to be a physician to be a medical missionary.

You don't have to be a nurse to be a medical missionary.

It's unselfishly serving in the name of Christ for Jesus' sake to bless others.

So we went into Paul Harvey's office and I knew his secretary June pretty well And I said, June, Teeny and I are here.

And she said, you know, he's meeting today with 3 or 4 of the top Republican operatives because they certainly wanted his support with the national radio program when it came to elections.

She said, he's in there meeting with some of the top brass of the Republican Party.

And she said, but let me tell him that you and Tinney are here with the bread.

So she went in and said, Paul, Mark and Tinney are here with the bread.

He leaves those top brass in the Republican Party because he wanted a loaf of bread you see So he came out and spoke to us and he said oh He said you know I'm so glad you guys came by we spent a few moments with him had prayer gave him the bread It is amazing how simple acts of kindness open the hearts of people.

Every time we meet the needs of another, we are reflecting the ministry of Christ.

Every time we unselfishly minister by somebody's bedside and offer prayer with them, we are representing the grace of Christ.

Every time we kindly serve, people see the reflection of Jesus in us.

Every time we go out of ourselves with compassionate concern to reveal Jesus' love to the people around us, hearts are touched and lives are changed.

You see, you and I have not been called simply to get up in the morning with some common occupation and eat our granola or our oatmeal or our organic mangoes or our organic strawberries grown on the farm of Uchi Pines and then go to work for the day and then come home that evening.

In the great controversy between good and evil, what Adam and Eve sinned, this world was broken by selfishness.

And God calls us to look beyond ourselves.

Men and women in this world are looking more than anything else, more than anything else, for a revelation of the character of Christ, the unselfishness of Jesus, the kindness of Jesus, the compassion of Jesus.

A little boy in New York City was in Harlem.

He came from a poverty-stricken home, and a preacher was standing on the street corner with his Bible open preaching about the love of God.

And the little boy from the back of the crowd put his hands over his mouth and he yelled out, Mr., I want to see love with skin on it.

The great need of our world may be less sermons and more love with skin on it.

Because as we minister to people, it's at that point their hearts and minds are open to the gospel.

You and I have been called by the Master as a visible manifestation of unselfish love in an age of selfishness.

Now you've been called by Jesus himself to break down prejudice, to soften hard hearts.

That's what medical missionary work is all about.

It breaks down prejudice, it softens hard hearts, it opens closed minds, it ministers healing to people with broken spirits and diseased bodies.

When we follow in the footsteps of Jesus, we meet people everywhere in Jesus' name.

Now I want to take you on a journey with me through the Gospel of Mark.

And we're going to take our Bibles out as well, if you have your Bible.

We're going to take a little journey through the Gospel of Mark.

So here's your quiz for the Gospel of John rather.

We're going to go through the Gospel of John.

What are the first words spoken by Jesus in John chapter 1?

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