AdAgrA 2022: Sharing the Blessings

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AdAgrA: Adventist Agriculture Association

Evening Plenaries

Allen Lloyd

Optimizing Your Brain Through Agriculture

Christina Ford

Angela Ford

Our Little Roadside Farm

Dwayne Lemon

Lessons from the Soil

Roger Chene

Yasmine Chene

Country Living a Step in Faith

I pray that you all are experiencing the blessings of the Lord.

We have a lot to talk about this morning and I don't want to belabor the time or the point on anything.

We're dealing with lessons from the soil and this is really really an important message as are all the messages.

So let's prepare our hearts to receive the word.

I'm going to go to my knees for a word of prayer.

If you'd like to you can certainly join me.

If you cannot kneel you can just bow your head to where you are but Let's pray together at this time.

Our Father in heaven, we are truly grateful, Lord, for another beautiful morning.

And thank you for allowing us to get even a greater glimpse of the sunshine than yesterday.

We pray that we'll receive more and still more of it as well as its healing rays.

And Lord, as we are here tabernacling together, most importantly with you and your Spirit, we just pray that you might truly bless us and open our eyes and help us behold wondrous things out of your word.

And this is our prayer that we do ask in the worthy and mighty name of Jesus.

When we deal with the subject of lessons from the soil, I was trying to find a picture many, many years ago.

And, you know, I got a house filled with 20 year olds and I'm grateful for my children and I remember way back when before they even were hitting their teens our first gardening experience we had the privilege of getting a home out in the country in Georgia and when we were there you know we're I'm a city kid through and through.

I mean, I am from New York and I am a New Yorker.

And so I remember the first time using a chainsaw and chopping wood and trying to put it in a wood stove.

I'm like, what am I doing with a wood stove?

You know, it's like, you know, it's just, you kind of have to get around all of that.

And I remember when my boys, you know, we would have these raised beds, and we had to learn how to till.

I don't know if till is a bad word at this conference.

I heard my wife came back and told me something about not tilling.

So, I was like, all right, we're gonna have to talk about that.

You know, I spent all these years learning how to till.

But you know, it's like I remember, you know, my boys and everybody, we're all there just kind of working that soil.

And it was just kind of like this first experience for us, learning lessons from the soil.

And it was kind of like, before I was even looking into it.

We've always believed in true education as a family, but this was my first time becoming acquainted with the garden, et cetera, and agriculture.

And I realized there are lots and lots of lessons you can learn from the soil.

And so today, we're just going to review 3, just 3.

But please, I assure you, there's so much more.

You'll remember that we have the blessed herald, the first, second, and the third angel's message.

All of these messages are relevant today.

Even though we're living in the time of the great emphasis of the third angel, the first and the second are most certainly still relevant.

In that first angel's message, we know that we're told, you know, I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell upon the earth, to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come.

Worship him that made heaven and the earth and the sea and the fountains of waters." Now, this is not a suggestion.

God is calling his people to fear him, to give him glory, and to worship him who made, who created.

Now, let's go to Psalm 8, the 8th division of the Psalms.

And I want us to watch something, because there's a way, you know, you can tell people to worship God.

You remember I gave us a little assignment yesterday where I talked about how, you know, we need to talk about how can we use object lessons in the inner city, because I think we get it as far as in the country, but how can we go into an inner city and work with the people?

Now, yes, we're called to be like Enoch, You know, go into the cities and always bring somebody back home.

You know, people in the country, they make me laugh sometimes.

We make painstaking effort to get out of the city into the country, and then when we're in the country we spend more time indoors than outdoors.

And the same thing goes for conferences you know it's like no way the conference has to be in a country location and then people don't have enough time because there's meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting to even get time to enjoy the country location that we made painstaking efforts to get into.

Now, brothers and sisters, all I'm simply saying is if you're going to move into the country, you should do it under God's blueprint.

You should understand what God says, and he did not give us country home so we could be selfish with it We are supposed to understand that when we get out of the city into the country and we develop our little watch these words heavens on earth Is that what your home looks like?

If it doesn't look like that, you got more work to do.

That was always what God wanted for our homes, to be a little heaven on earth.

Imagine your home in the country is a little heaven on earth.

Now, when you go into those cities, you can say, hey, I need you to come with me.

And the people in the inner cities are like, where we're going?

That's what God wants for every single 1 of us.

I remember when my children were little, we were in our little country retreat there in Georgia, and I remember that we went out into the city and we did a health meeting.

And we did this message, health reform in the third angel's message.

It was a meeting for non-Seventh-day Adventists.

But we were going over some of these principles of the first, the second, and the third angel's message and why it's relevant to all people.

We had People from all sorts of backgrounds come out.

1 of them was a Muslim family, Sunni Islam.

And they came out there because the wife was sick and she wanted to know how to get help beyond what the doctors could provide.

And so here it is, we were doing the meetings and I said, how many of you would like a free one-on-one health and lifestyle consultation?

You already win most people when you say free.

Just letting you know, meet people where they're at.

If you just simply say free, automatically you peak their ears.

So that lady raised her hand, I came to her house, and I began to do a health consultation with her.

And as I did that health consultation, her husband sat in.

And as they were sitting in, I remember that we were talking about health and lifestyle and the ways that, you know, food affects the body and lifestyle, all these things, she was loving it.

She says, I've never heard this in my life.

And then I said, yeah, now, she said, so you're saying meat can cause a problem?

And I was like, well, here's some of the problems.

I showed her, I had some science books with me and everything, she looked at all of it, and then the sister said, so we need to get off the meat.

Series

Evening Plenaries

Lessons from the Soil

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

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Intensive: True Education in the School

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42m

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22m

Sound Doctrine