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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Eugene Prewitt Weekend

Eugene Prewitt

01 Reaching the Least Reached

02 Apostasy of Faithful People

Our Father in heaven, I ask that you'll bless us this evening as we talk about how to reach the least reached.

And I ask for the gift of your spirit to do this in the name of Jesus.

The last time I spoke at Advent Hope was before I moved to Malaysia.

And you're going to hear 1 in each of these 3 meetings.

And if you ever get a hunger to hear more of them, I now have a YouTube channel, something I'll probably never follow up with anymore, but during the pandemic, I put a lot of them up.

And when it's over, maybe never another 1.

But anyway, you can find that if you look for it.

1 day I was on my mountain in Malaysia, and I saw a dog.

Now, this is not surprising on the mountain.

The mountains in Malaysia are full of dogs.

Dogs in Malaysia don't belong to anybody.

They're fed by cars that drive by and throw bags of scraps out the window.

That's how people feed dogs there without getting ownership of them.

And even so the dogs start to be attracted to certain vehicles, they recognize the engine hum and know it has a bag of chicken heads in it.

And that's just difficult because dogs are very territorial and all the crazy ferocious dogs in that mountain are not going to let a newcomer in easy and as I approached her this new dog who I soon named Susie As I approached her she was ferocious she showed her teeth her canines those sharp ones she growled and she got very close I didn't feel the breath through my pant legs and she was just acting like a man-eating dog.

She was about medium-sized for a dog, you know, 5 times a Chihuahua size but half of a German shepherd, kind of like that.

And when I made friends with her, what happened is that she was converted.

I mean, the difference between what was before and what was after was as plain as the day.

That before, she was barking at every car, every bicycle, every pedestrian.

But after she learned to love me, she became sweet and adorable and no longer chased cars and wagged at pedestrians and ignored bicycles, except for a couple that had thrown rocks at her before she was converted.

But for the most part, she was born again.

And it reminds me of a passage that you know, 1 John chapter 4 verse 18, where it says, well, I'll read it to you.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.

What happened with Susie is that when she was afraid, she was vicious.

And you might not realize this, but many of the mean people you know in life, the ones that are ornery and argumentative and caustic, the ones that seem to just be always picking a fight with people.

Many of them, what's going on isn't that their hearts are so black, it's that their hearts are so yellow.

It's fear that causes so much of what looks like anger.

And when I broke through that fear with Susie, it was replaced with love, and love casted out the fear, and when fear went away, there went the ferociousness.

But I'm telling you, I say in evangelism, in personal ministry, Please push through apparent anger issues.

Don't push through them with your own fangs showing, but push through them with some persistent care.

The second thought comes from Revelation 14, verse 6 and 7.

And I suppose since you are watching on Facebook Live, that you might even be doing 3 things at once the way some silly people do.

But I hope you're going to concentrate for a few minutes and go pick up a Bible and turn to Revelation chapter 14 and let's look at verse 6-7 and just talk about part of it.

It says, verse 6, Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel, to preach to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people.

It's that first verse, verse 6, I want to speak to you about.

Let me speak to you about how they relate to Loma Linda.

You can't preach to every nation while you are.

While you are in Loma Linda, you can personally in person, preach to every tongue, every tribe, every people.

Right there in Loma Linda, in your hospitals and in your neighborhoods, you have people that are represented by every part of the planet, every language, so that you can reach out in Loma Linda to people that come from countries that are nearly impossible for us to reach in person.

I'm thinking right now of Morocco, Algeria, Albania, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bhutan, in some ways even Malaysia, certain parts of India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, you know these countries are places where the work is infantile.

I mean, it is so hard for us to do mission work in those places.

But those people come to the United States.

They come for treatment while they're in the...

And if you look out, you see someone from 1 of those places, your meeting with them may be the last time that they ever meet a Seventh-day Adventist.

It may be the last time that they ever meet a Seventh-day Adventist.

It may be the last time that they ever have a chance to make a contact that will help them prepare for the Mark of the Beast and the Seal of God.

And if I could say even 1 bit more about that, I would say, before I'm done this weekend, I wanna help you understand how every day I get new contacts in those countries.

And if you will, we can start to reach those least reached countries just from where we are, even in the pandemic.

So what I just told you is that you can reach every language electronically, you can reach every tribe electronically, you can reach every people group electronically and maybe even in person where you are.

And if those of you who are becoming doctors or are doctors, you even have more access to those nations and his positions than most people do.

There's something about being a physician that gives you access to many countries.

I'm thinking of Somalia right now, 1 of the least reached countries, Egypt.

The second part of the thought comes from Acts 17.

And if you have your Bibles turned there, maybe this is the third thought, because I forgot about Susie.

I'm going to turn in my Bible to Acts chapter 17 and help you learn something about how God is working.

This is a verse that has something to say about racial inequality, and I'm not speaking about that tonight, but it's here.

Verse 26, and he has made from 1 blood every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth.

And he has determined that their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.

Now that second part of the verse might seem odd to you, but yes it's true that God has determined a lot about where people live and where people go.

And look at his reasoning, the purpose behind the boundaries he makes for people groups.

So that they should seek the Lord in the hope that they might grope for him and find him, though he is not far from each 1 of us." Do you see God's plan in putting boundaries and determining where people groups go?

If you see it and your mind broadens a bit, then when you encounter that person from Yemen, you're not gonna be thinking that what an interesting coincidence, you're gonna be thinking God brought this person here so that they would have a chance in the dark to find the gospel.

You know, grope, that word grope or feel after him in the King James, that implies that you can't see well, that there's some darkness, but you're trying to find light.

And God brings people who are searching where they can find it.

Let me tell you a story, maybe 2, and then I'll tell you about some techniques.

So in Malaysia a few years ago, that's where I live now is Malaysia.

In Malaysia a few years ago, I met a very noble seeming woman.

The respect she showed to Heidi and I, Heidi is my wife, that respect was above average and her above average respect to me caused me to take above average interest in her.

And through my wife, we collected her WhatsApp number and I began to communicate with her over the course of months that turned into more than a year.

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