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Red Bluff SDA Church

Martin Kim

Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things

I'm glad to see so many of you with us on the Sabbath.

It's always a blessing to look out and see so many faces, a sea of faces.

My message this morning is titled, Expect Great Things, Attempt Great Things.

Father in heaven, this morning we come anticipating a great blessing for you, our great God.

Once again, I just pray that you'd rain down your spirit upon us.

Pray that you would speak to our hearts and that we would not leave this place just as hearers of your word, but that we would be doers of your word.

Please make your strength perfect in my weakness.

William Carey is known as the father of modern Protestant missions.

William Carey went to the country of India and served there for 41 years.

And while serving as a missionary overseas, he translated the Bible into, guess how many languages?

Not only that, He translated parts of the Bible into 29 languages or dialects.

And this is an individual who never went to high school or college.

Brown University was so impressed with his work that in 1807, they conferred a Doctor of Divinity degree on him.

His motto was, Expect great things from God, Attempt great things for God.

Do you believe that God wants us to expect great things and that he wants us to attempt great things?

Do you know of people that have expected great things and have attempted great things for God.

Do you know why it is that some people will go out to attempt great things for God?

Where there is great conviction, there is great reaction.

So the people that have gone out and attempted the most for God, or the people that have made the greatest sacrifices for God, were those who went out because they were greatly convicted.

My prayer this morning is that you will be greatly convicted by this message.

Now, in Hebrews 11, verse 1, we are told, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Very simply, faith is the assurance or confidence that God will fulfill his word.

Think about all the amazing promises in God's word.

This morning, Psalms 81, verse 10 was read.

God says, open your mouth and I will fill it.

It said open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Now I've heard that that is 1 of the dentist's favorite promises.

It also happens to be George Mueller's favorite promise.

George Mueller 1 time, there was a news reporter that wanted to make fun of Mueller.

Mueller, how does it feel to live hand to mouth?

George Mueller thought about that question with a smile on his face.

George Mueller was a man who expected great things.

In Hebrews 11 verse 6 it says, But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

Argue diligently seeking him, believing that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

So I want to share with you a personal experience that I had.

It was through this experience that God taught me that he wants us to expect great things.

It was back in 2008, my wife and I needed to move from the state of Washington to the state of Michigan.

Our original plan was to fly out there, find a little place where we would live, fly back, pack up our stuff, and make the trip out there.

But the Lord was teaching us little by little to trust him more.

And we believed that we could just commit it into our Father's hand, trust Him to provide us just what we needed when we moved out there.

And so we began praying that God would provide for us a little place out there in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Now about 2 weeks before the actual move, we went down to Central California Conference for their camp meeting at Soquel, and my wife got up very early on Sabbath morning to go hear the morning devotional by Elder Rotsara, who used to be the president of the Southern Indian Ocean Division, a man of faith.

And his messages that morning was all about faith, about walking by faith, talking faith.

And he ended his message with this very inspiring story about Alexander the Great.

And according to the story, this is the way the story went.

Alexander the Great was a very compassionate king, and once a year he set aside a day where he would show his compassion to the people in his kingdom.

So all these people that had needs, they would come together, get in a line, and 1 by 1, they would present their needs to the king's servant.

The king's servant would take each request, take it over to the king, and let the king know what the request was.

And 1 by 1, the king would grant the request.

So people that had need for clothing, for food, for medicine, they would all come.

Well, this 1 individual came, and he told the king's servant, what I would like is a palace.

Now, the king's servant was hearing this and thinking, no, no, this is not a good request, and was trying to dissuade this individual, but he was very persistent.

Well, the king was watching this conversation.

And he asked the king's servant to come over.

And the king's servant says, king, you don't want to know.

And to the surprise of the servant, the king says, request granted.

So that caught the servant by surprise and said, King, may I ask why you granted him his request?

All these people, they ask me for little things like food, clothing, medicine, which can easily also be supplied by someone else.

But Only this man has asked me for something that only I as a king can give him.

This man makes me feel as though I am a king.

She was saying, God, I've been asking you for a little home out there in Bering Springs.

And so I'm like, okay, we're going to start asking God for a palace.

We went back home and eventually we packed up that that U-Haul and on Monday morning we were beginning that long trek out to Berrien Springs.

Took us 4 days to travel out there and and as we're traveling we are telling God, God we want a palace.

And by faith we're thanking him for that palace.

Well we got to Bering Springs on Thursday evening and on Friday we're going to spend the night and on Friday morning we're going to go out looking for that palace.

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