Michigan Camp Meeting 2019: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart

Daniel Towar

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart - Part 1

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart - Part 2

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart - Part 3

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart - Part 4

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart - Part 6

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart - Part 5

Father in heaven, we want to thank you today for Jesus.

Many of us are here because we heard a gospel appeal, a presentation.

Maybe it was during an evangelistic crusade like it was for me, and we made a decision, we came forward, we raised our hand, we stood, maybe it was as recently as last night as Elder Finley again gave an excellent appeal.

And Father, we want to serve you with all of our heart, with all of our soul, with all of our mind.

We pray that your blessing would be in this class today.

Okay, so who preached powerful biblical appeals?

And we're gonna find out there is a theology about appeals within the Bible.

We've had an excellent appeals seminar here at camp meeting and it's been taught night by night by Elder Finley and on Sabbath morning.

He is, I believe, personally, this is just my opinion, I told you not to say that, right?

But I believe that, It's okay to say I believe, by the way.

While you're preaching, if you want to make a point in a good and positive way, when you say I believe, that's good.

But if you say in my opinion, That doesn't carry any water, okay?

And don't say okay after your sentences either.

So he's been giving an excellent appeals seminar because he's been doing this night by night.

It's worthwhile being there again tonight because you'll hear, Believe me, it's his fifth night, or fifth out of 5 presentations, and you won't want to miss it.

If you can't be there, listen in on the radio, get the tape, it's not a tape anymore, I believe you can download all these digitally, if I understand correctly, from camp meeting this year.

Elder Finley talked with us this morning.

He said, I'm going to give you a million dollar tip.

He said, all you have to do is find $1 million bill crossing the street in front of you, if there was such a thing, you would pick it up and you'd be an instant millionaire.

And he said, for some of you here, this will be worth more than a million dollars.

He said, you need to sow seed to be successful evangelists.

Secondly, he said, only God can grow the seed, and he gives you results in proportion to how much seed you have sown.

He can't bless something that you haven't sown.

So sow the seed as far and wide as many different ways as you possibly can, and then pray earnestly and let God grow the seed.

And he has, this is mine now, but he has his angels and his Holy Spirit, and he blesses people that work for Him.

Sometimes you'll sow a lot of seed, but there's other seed that God is aware of and He will bring people who didn't receive the handbill.

He'll bring people who've been thinking about this for years.

I talked with a young man, I told you the story yesterday, going to the early morning meeting together.

The Lord was working on his heart for a long, long time.

There is a seat right here for the A student.

I thought, Olga has the guaranteed A here.

God blesses in proportion to the amount of seed you sow.

And that will guarantee you a lot of interest in various stages of growth.

And there will be people in various stages of growth all the time.

If you do enough sowing and praying and trusting in God, and you keep having an evangelism calendar, you will win many souls.

You know what the Finleys do at their church, Living Hope Church in Virginia?

Every Monday, they have a health class for their community.

And that's a tall order, I know, but if you invest big and dream big, you're gonna reap big.

So every Monday, and I know it's a preaching class, so I'm preaching, okay?

Every Tuesday, they have a Bible study class for the community, they advertise it.

Every Wednesday, they have prayer meeting.

Every Thursday, if they have any business of the church, well, not every Thursday, but they reserve Thursday for board meetings or business meetings, something like that.

And on Sabbath morning, they come early and they pray.

Okay, but I believe it's Sabbath morning.

They pray early that the Holy Spirit will be there that Sabbath.

And they have a burden for their community.

He said the other day, I can't remember which 1, but he said he wanted to go to a small church, 30 members.

But really, when you think about it, those are the secrets, and that's what they're doing.

And I know evangelism works because we've always had evangelism as a pastor, and I've never been in a place where we didn't baptize souls from evangelism.

Continue going to the meetings, and if you really want a good seminar tonight, go to Elder Finley's meeting.

Every appeal is sowing seed, every appeal.

And the Lord grows the seed every time an appeal is responded to.

In another burden, I said the last couple days, I guess I'll just keep saying it again because I hope someone here will take an interest in this and I'm hoping someone who is listening where's that recording device I know it's around here somewhere.

Everyone who is listening, listen to this.

Well, you maybe didn't know that, but there's 184 churches.

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