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

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Keys to Successful Devotion

Joong Ho Shin

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 1: Why & How to Meditate on the Scriptures

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 2: How to Pray 1

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 3: How to Pray 2

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 4: Personal Worship 1

Keys to the Successful Devotion - Part 5: Personal Worship 2

Our Father in Heaven, we are grateful that you gave us your Word.

This afternoon, in a short period of time, we will discuss, we will see why meditation of your world is so important, and how to do it is more important, as far as our daily walk with you is concerned.

So we ask that your Holy Spirit be within us and amongst us, so that it will enlighten our ears and eyes and our thoughts, so that we can understand this subject better, so that it will improve our Christian work in every way.

So this series, the theme is from Matthew 24.

This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in what?

In all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come, Amen.

So as a witness, witness, what is witness?

Witness is somebody who saw something Or somebody who can really represent that incidence or that person.

In Christ Object Lesson page 69, it says, when the character of Christ is what?

Correctly reproduced in his people, then the Christ will come to get his people to him.

So there are 2 things, Matthew 24, 14, it says the gospel, this gospel, which is for us, this gospel is the 3 angels' message.

That gospel has to be reached all over the world as a witness.

Witness has to have a character of Jesus Christ.

That's where Christ's object lesson, page 69, comes.

When the character of Jesus Christ is correctly reproduced in his people.

If I read the first sentence, I think you can quote it.

It would be well for us to spend a thoughtful hour once a week, each day, you got it, in contemplation of the life of Donald Trump, We should take it point by point and let the what?

This is a very important point that she's making.

Imagination, the holy imagination, grasps each scene, especially the closing 1.

Why do we need to contemplate the life of Jesus Christ?

When you hear the word meditate, what thoughts come to your mind?

Like a ponderer, you park your thoughts in 1 place and think about it.

When you're quoting your future wife to me, and you contemplate, you think about her all the time.

So, those of you who have handouts, how many of you are missing?

So it says, meditate implies definitely focusing of one's thought on something as to understand in what?

I used to explain as a meditative word, also comes from regurgitate.

Those of you living in the plain field of Michigan, you see these cows, they're vigorous.

And during the day, they go around and they eat whatever they can, all the grasses.

And then, in the cool of the day, they kneel along onto the tree.

Those of you who do not have a Hands up, please raise your hands.

Then how many chambers does a cow's stomach has?

So they go in, and then they bring it back.

We have a couple of memorizing scripture sessions going here.

And then you memorize, and you keep reading, and you memorize, then what?

And then you bring it back and you meditate.

And there is an importance of this meditation in the Bible.

There are many words, many places it says that.

I will meditate in 5 precepts and have respect unto thy words." It's all about the scriptures, the One-Line Clearing.

Everything, each word has a statue, laws, ways, and different words, the words, and it has that, but a couple of verses does not have those words in it.

Princess also did sit and speak against me, but thy servant did meditate in thy statue." Thy word.

If the youth, all of you are youth, young in heart, will draw from the storehouse of the Bible the treasures it contains, if, there's a big if, if they will, in other words, if we will meditate on the pardon, peace, and everlasting righteousness that crown our life of self-denial.

If you want to follow me, Deny yourself once a week, daily.

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