ARME 3: Leoni Meadows, CA - Aug 2010

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ARME Bible Camp

Don Mackintosh

A Revival In Preaching

Now, isn't it been a blessing to have a blend of, what are we looking for here in this conference?

In other words, when you leave, you can't have too much of 1 and too little of the other, right?

You got to have something to take home that you can do, that you can do, right?

So it was in that vein of thinking that was recently reintroduced to me.

That last night the Lord saw fit to allow me to have back pain all night, can you say amen?

So I was able to put together actually some new slides for today's lecture.

So right after this, I'll probably die of exhaustion.

But at least it's good for you folks, alright?

Now if you should happen to want some of these slides, good luck.

But what I'm going to do with them is put them up on the website, my website, at afco.com, and it'll be under the director's materials.

Now, I did 3 presentations here, 1 on the heart.

That was the least attended but the most important presentation that the Lord made to me personally here at Army.

And I would recommend that you really watch that, listen to it on AudioVerse, whatever you wanna do.

And then the 1 that I did just before lunch was probably the second most important, and this is the third.

So just recommend you to go to the site and get those.

I ask in that heart presentation, what makes a good preacher?

How many think there are good preachers, first of all?

No minister should be measured by his ability as a speaker.

So maybe you all are out there saying, well, I wanna go to that church, I wanna do this and do that because I think that speaker's good.

And I've measured his ability and that's why I'm going there.

But no minister should be measured by his ability to speak.

And by the way, we're going to talk about preaching here, so I'm putting it in perspective.

Because it is the pleasant part of the work and it's comparatively easy.

You know, I absolutely happen to think that there are entire ministries that are built around this when this is not the metric God wants.

The Lord does not see as man sees, for man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

Look, if this Army Conference you did just 1 simple thing, and that was to give God your heart, that would be the most important thing.

And that would make you the most effective.

And that's probably what we should spend the most time about at Army, because it is the most effective.

You don't have to know much if you've given God your heart.

In fact, you don't even have to even be able to speak, and God can use you if you've given Him your heart.

I had a teacher in school, and they all had problems with me.

I don't know what was wrong with this teacher.

And, you know, but this 1 teacher, she really had, she really got to my heart.

She'd just look at me, and then I'd start to cry.

Because the way she looked at me, I just did not want to displease her.

She didn't say anything, but That lady was connected with God.

How many wanna have that kind of connection?

Where, you're so connected with God, you just look at people and they just go, how can I join your church?

So here's someone that's preaching excellent discourses.

I mean, Everything I'm about to teach you, they learn.

But out of the desk, he hasn't carried out the principles he preached.

So you can actually be an excellent preacher and be offensive to God.

He can talk fluently and make a point plain, but his preaching has lacked spirituality.

If you have people that pride themselves on the big words they use when they preach, array of words.

It doesn't matter if God doesn't have the heart, if the Spirit's not with them, right?

So if you miss everything else, if you miss the rest of this lecture, that's the most important thing.

Our first work should be to bring our hearts in harmony with God.

Sure, preaching is the God's ordained means to bring the gospel to people, right?

But if our hearts not with God, Doesn't matter.

So that's, I mean, if you get that, I mean, I'm not saying you can leave now, but I mean, that's the big thing.

Now, having that in mind, then, I do want to talk about preaching.

And right away, preaching is, by the way, just like a Bible study.

So the same thing you do in a Bible study, when you're doing a Bible study, you're doing like a Nicodemus sermon.

And by the way, any preaching, preaching is, by the way, Ellen White says, is only 10 percent of the work.

90 percent of the work is coming close to the people you preach to and doing a Nicodemus-type Bible study with them.

So what you're learning right now in Army, if you're learning, well, look, I just want to learn how to study the Word and share the Word, it's the same thing a preacher needs to know how to do.

And by the way, when you become a bishop, it says in the Bible, I read through all Timothy last night too because I had some time to kill.

When you become a bishop, it's defined by your ability in the Greek tenses of the word to love visitation.

That means a true preacher is 1 who loves not just articulation, but loves visitation.

And they love people to come to their homes.

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