ASI Virtual 2020: Three Angels' Messages - In Times Like These

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Rodney Bowes

Steve Dickman

Dwain Esmond

Patti Guthrie

Andi Hunsaker

Jill Morikone

ASI Spring Chapter Conference - Sabbath School

Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Welcome to our ASI virtual conference here at 3ABN.

We're so glad for you to join us and we're here this morning, Rodney Bowles, Andy Hunsaker, myself, to share Sabbath School with you.

We're very excited about the messages we've been hearing over the past couple of days And we just pray that if you have missed some of the programs that we've already shared that you'd go online and watch the ones that are already there.

We've had some tremendous blessings yesterday.

So we're really thrilled about this morning.

We're here to discuss and learn about the 3 angels messages.

That is the message that God has given our end time, an end time message for the world.

And we're wanting to understand what that is.

And so we hope you will be blessed and by the meetings that we have today.

Our schedule is, of course, we're having Sabbath school now.

There'll be a break at 10.15 Central Time.

We'll begin again at 10.30 with our worship service.

And then this afternoon, we'll be back again at 4 p.m.

For our afternoon meeting and that will be our last session.

So we're really thrilled that you're here joining us this morning and we'd like to just remember the Lord here and I was thinking about the Sabbath and the blessing that it is and share this text with you in Ezekiel 20 verse 12.

The Lord says, Moreover, I also gave them my Sabbaths to be a sign between them and me that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

If we had always remembered the Sabbath, we would have never forgotten God.

And today our world more than ever needs to remember the Sabbath and the Lord of the Sabbath.

I'd like to invite you to bow your heads with me as we begin with prayer.

O loving, kind, and heavenly Father, we thank you and praise you for Jesus, who loves us and gave his life for us, who's the creator of the heavens and the earth, and who is intimately connected with each 1 of us around the world, longing to abide in our hearts and to bring us home with him.

We long for that Sabbath when we'll be together in heaven, united as a family once again.

And today we pray for your blessing as we are here in this world and that you will draw very close and we thank you for the Sabbath in Jesus precious name.

So we're going to be having a special treat for this morning with the music and Andy, I'd like for you to share if you'd be willing what we're going to be having.

Well this weekend obviously is a result of the pandemic that's happening in our world.

And we have a very special treat for ASI specifically and I want each ASI member to feel very loved.

Weimar Institute under the direction of Erwin Nanasi has produced a couple of videos for us specially.

The first 1 we're going to hear just in a moment is It Is Well With My Soul.

And we as Seventh-day Adventist Christians can have the assurance that it is well with our souls.

And so I'd like you to enjoy this version that they've done for us in this time of isolation and quarantine, this music.

♪ When peace like a river flows by ♪ When peace like a river attendeth my way, ♪ Ever attendeth my way ♪ When sorrows like sea billows roll ♪ Order my Lord ♪ thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul.

My sin, O the joy of this glorious thought, My sin not in part, but the whole, is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more.

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, oh my soul.

Piano plays softly piano plays softly And Lord, he's the day when my faith shall be sight.

The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend.

And the Lord shall descend, even so, It is well with my soul.

It is well, it is well, it is well with your soul.

It is now time for us to travel to the Amazon jungle, 1 of the most remote areas in the world for our members in action.

If you have not heard the stories that Brad Mills has told, you are in for a special treat.

The Amazon Basin is truly 1 of the most remote areas, 1 of the frontiers where there are very few people who have heard the 3 Angels messages.

And Amazon Lifesavers is 1 of the ASI ministries that is taking the Gospel to this remote area.

May you be blessed as you watch this members in action segment.

Hello ASI, I'm Brad Mills and I'm speaking to you here from the base of the Amazon Lifesavers Ministry.

We are right next to the bank of the Amazon River here in the city of Manaus, the country of Brazil.

And we are standing in front of the School of Missions.

I just wanted to share with you so that you could see it with your own eyes.

This School of Missions behind us we inaugurated in 2015 with the help of ASI.

But of course you guys remember we've been an ASI member since 2010 Working in this Amazon area bringing God's light to unreached villages in this whole region over the years we've built up the school we have our dorms built our kitchen built our staff housing and then of course our School of Missions.

And this School of Missions is where we train a group of pioneer Bible workers each year.

People come, they spend 2 to 3 months living here, studying every day, that they can be prepared to go out into unreached villages and plant churches, taking the hope of the soon coming of Jesus.

And of course we still have our boat ministry.

We have our boats here being prepared right now, which are right here in front of us.

Our boats that are working to go out and reach people, open up villages with medical missions as we take care of the physical needs, we're able to open up the doors to put in Bible workers to live in those villages.

And so we've been working for many years, putting in people in the villages, planting churches and bringing the hope of Jesus' return.

For example, this last year we had Bible workers living in an unreached indigenous village where today, at the end of the year of last year, we were able to inaugurate a new church in that village.

And now we have a small center of influence in that village with people helping with musical lessons and classes for the young people to bring them in and continue bringing more people into the church.

We just wanna thank you ASI for all you've done in partnering with us over the years so that we can make this come true and continue shining Jesus' love in the Amazon.

We're joining today Brad Mills live from the Amazon.

It's exciting to be a part of ASI Spring Virtual Conference.

We're here recording this, but what are the challenges you're facing in the Amazon as you think about taking the gospel to the Amazon?

Talk to us about some of the challenges there.

It's the largest state in the country of Brazil, and it actually takes up a big chunk of the whole country.

And for you to get an idea of what that means, we travel by boat out into remote areas.

And if you leave the city of Manaus, which is our capital city, a big city, You can travel by boat for 30 days and still be in the state of the Amazon to get to the very last county that we are planning to reach here in the Amazon.

It's a big place, a big challenge just getting there.

So aside from the challenge of geography, I'm sure there are a lot of other challenges in the Amazon basin as you're attempting to take the gospel there.

And so it would be no surprise that among those challenges, God would do miracles and there would be opportunities for change as you're attempting this impossible task.

Tell us a story about somebody's life who's been changed by the work that Amazon Lifesavers is doing there in that area?

GARCIA, Amazon Lifesavers Foundation Director, Amazon Lifesavers Sure.

I will tell you a story that I was personally involved in.

We have Bible workers right now all over the jungle.

But I myself had the opportunity with my wife to live in front of a village.

This village was only 35 hours of boat travel from the city of Manal.

We were working in this area, doing medical care, making friendships with the people, and that provided us the opportunity to get Bible studies.

And I remember 1 day as I sat in this little wooden hut on the bank of the river there studying with this family, 3 of the daughters, it was 12 kids, 3 of them were studying with me and they called me uncle, it's a term of endearment, and they said to me 1 day, uncle, they said, we have prayed for years that God would send someone to teach us the Bible.

And right then in that moment, you realize the plans of God are so much bigger than we imagine.

How is it possible that God brought me from Tennessee so many years ago to this jungle village and allowed me to work with these girls and bring them the gospel?

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