ASI 2020: Three Angels' Messages - Our Urgent Calling

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Plenary

Julia O'Carey

Members in Action

Tamyra Horst

Called to Share the Message?

Dee Casper

The Faith of Jesus

Rodney Bowes

Steve Dickman

Michelle Doucoumes

Curtis Letniak

Sabbath School Panel: Spirit-Empowered Witnessing

Mark Finley

An Overview of Revelation in the Word

Closing Charge

Good morning and welcome to our ASI Sabbath School.

It's such a blessing to be together today to study the Word of God.

I have with me a panel that we are going to be engaged in an interactive discussion.

And I want to explain a little bit about how that's going to work because we want you to have your Bible open and also respond to some questions that we have.

So we have a website that is going to be put on the screen and we're going to show you exactly what to do.

You go to slido.com, you're going to put in your participant ID.

You can see it's a 1-97-94 and you're going to be able to interact with our Sabbath school class.

So at this time, I'd like to ask Michelle Dukamas to have our opening prayer before we get into our study.

Father in heaven, Lord, thank you for the chance to join together on the Sabbath.

Thank you for a chance to study your word, Lord.

As we are studying about the Holy Spirit and witnessing today, we need your Holy Spirit.

It's not something we just want to talk about.

And so I want to pray for that right now that you would join us here on this panel and you would join all of us that are that are watching that are participating from wherever we are that you would guide these Discussions and let them be for your honor and for your glory.

So we pray this and thank you in Jesus name.

Amen Amen, What a powerful lesson this has been.

And as we are going to get into our lesson study, Steve is going to read for us the text that is the memory text, Steve.

So Rodney, our memory text today comes from Acts chapter 4 verse 31.

It's a very familiar passage of Scripture.

Many probably have this memorized and could probably repeat it with me, but I want to read it today from the New King James Version.

And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

And they spoke the Word of God with boldness.

So I want to ask everyone here on our panel, have any of you ever had an experience where you prayed and after you were done, the room was shaken.

I'm going to, Rodney, I'm going to be the first to admit no.

Was it a physical shaking that took place, do you think?

Well, let me tell you just a little story of an experience that I had that was the closest thing that I had to this experience.

We were doing a Friday night Bible study.

I was leading out and we were looking at John chapter 10 verse 10, where it talks about how Satan comes to steal and to kill and destroy.

And immediately when I read that and I said, we have an enemy, Satan is really out to get us.

So that was a shaking experience, but I too have not had that experience that we read here in Acts chapter 4.

But that's what God is really wanting us to be involved in.

Now I'd like for us to put up a poll question.

We want to get some audience interaction here.

So again, we want you to go to slido.com and put in your participant ID 19794.

We can have that question up again and we're going to encourage you to respond to us.

The question is, how do you feel about taking the 3 angels' messages to every person on the planet?

C, I pray for the Holy Spirit to use me to accomplish this.

So we want you to be thinking about that, respond to that.

We're going to come back to that in just a moment.

But the whole question is based off of Sabbath afternoon's lesson study where we looked at the Gospel Commission.

Renella, when you hear Gospel Commission, what do you think of?

Well, I think of Jesus' words, of course, when he says, go into all the world to preach the gospel to every, you know, to all nations.

And I think, you know, of course, of Revelation 14, and the part that stands out to me most is that we're supposed to preach the gospel as a witness to all nations.

So Mark chapter 16, verse 15, we alluded to Mark 16, 15, preach the gospel to every creature.

Now, Curtis, there was a challenge that these early believers had and the lesson brings it out very well.

What was the challenge that these early believers faced?

Well, it seemed that it was just too great of a task, really, to take this message to the whole world.

In fact, if you look in Matthew 28, 17, where just before the gospel commission came, it says, some doubted.

And this even relates to our poll question here that we just read.

Does it seem like this is, you know, too great of a task to take this message to the whole and this was perhaps what they were feeling like at this time.

But then it goes on to say, all power is given me in heaven and in earth.

But then at the end it says, lo, I am with you always, even to the end.

So as we're thinking about that early commission, what were those disciples lacking?

Let's just name some of the things that they were lacking.

Well, they probably didn't have all the money they thought they needed.

They probably didn't have as many people as they thought they needed.

They probably lacked the transportation methods.

What about a few languages they were missing?

What is our challenge as a church trying to take the 3 angels' messages to all of the world?

If we look at this and compare ourselves, let's say, to the early church, generally speaking there's a lot more of us.

There's millions of Seventh-day Adventists scattered around the globe now.

We now have all the modes of transportation possible.

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Members in Action

1h 56m

Called to Share the Message?

1h 28m

The Faith of Jesus

2h 3m

Sabbath School Panel: Spirit-Empowered Witnessing

1h 27m

An Overview of Revelation in the Word

55m

Closing Charge

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