Fresh Manna 2021

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Strong Tower Radio

Fresh Manna by Moise Ratsara

Moise Ratsara

Staying on the Wall

Seeking the Lost

Power in the Blood

A Certain Message for an Uncertain Time

A Guide to True Love

Praying for Rain

The Reward of the Faithful

Unmoved Part 2

What To Do When Things Don’t Go Your Way

When Jesus Meets Your Greatest Fear

End Time Thinking

When God Meets You

Fresh manna fell to the ground as a gift from God while the Israelites were in the wilderness.

It was fresh from the ovens of heaven, Baked by the master baker himself.

How the Israelites must have anticipated the taste and the smell of each morning's delivery.

Just like the Israelites, you too can now experience the taste and the smell of fresh manna.

Today, you'll be listening to Moise Red Serra, pastor of the Kalamazoo Filipino Company and Kalamazoo Seventh-Day Adventist Churches.

You know, it is a great joy to be in the house of the Lord.

It is a great joy to be gathered with people, brothers and sisters, who seek to listen to God.

Today we are continuing our series through how to not be deceived at the end of time.

Last Sabbath, we talked about end time thinking and we saw that end time thinking is being captivated by the Word of God.

Having our minds and thoughts stayed upon God and what He's doing in His Word, that is 1 of the surest way to be ready and to not be tricked when Jesus comes again, to not be deceived.

We also saw that the state of the last day church, which is found in Revelation 3, is called Laodicea.

It is a state of deep deception where they think they are rich and clothed and all those things, but they are naked, blind and poor.

And we saw that the only way for us to not be self-deceived again is to be captivated by the Word of God, to know the mind of God, what He thinks, what His feelings and thoughts are, so that we might not end up like the Jews who were deceived and who put Jesus on a cross.

Today I felt impressed to switch what we were going to talk about.

I was planning to talk about the issues of the great controversy, and we'll talk about that next Sabbath.

That will be more of what we call theological presentation, which is involved on the main issues such as the Sabbath, the law of God, the character of God, and all of those issues that we are going to face and we'll have to make a decision.

But today I want to talk about staying on the wall And I invite you to have a word of prayer with me Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for the ability for us to gather here You know our heart, you know our desires, you know our hopes and fears and dreams But today father we ask that our mind will be captivated by the Word of God.

I remember in times past, I used to volunteer for a non-profit.

And this non-profit, some of you might know it, called GYC, it gathered about close to 5, 000 people on a given Sabbath once a year from all over the world.

It was a powerful movement and we were young people and we were very passionate about taking the gospel to the entire world.

I happened to serve as president at the time for a couple years, and as we were serving there, we had a very hard situation in 1 country.

The young people were doing whatever they could to share the Word of God, but some people in high places were not happy at the fact that they were doing evangelistic work.

They thought that they were not mature enough or could not handle the process of sharing the gospel.

They needed more years and they were discouraging them and spreading all sorts of lies against them.

They were saying that they were fanatics, that they were young, they were new converts, they did not know how to do all these things, They did not know how to do all these things.

They did not know how to organize themselves.

There are offshoots there, you know, all sorts of different things.

And the young people in this 1 area were becoming very discouraged.

There were doctors, some psychiatrists, other things, some plumbers, carpenters, but they were in a third world country and most of them did not have a lot of means.

And they were sacrificing all of their means in order to carry the work of the gospel.

But now there were charges pressed against them.

That they were doing a wrong work, that they were not ready for that work.

So I remember going, you know, to 1 of the brethrens in the higher ups flying all the way to Washington DC to meet with a person and to talk to them about this situation because it's very tragic especially with young people, they're little things or this was not a little thing, but certain things can really discourage them.

So I went over there and I met with this guy and he told me a parable that I'll never forget.

He said, Mo, you need to stay on the wall.

I said, okay, what do you mean by the wall?

He says, you need to stay on the wall, because if you come down from the wall and fight with the pigs, they're going to love it, and you're going to stink.

I looked at him, and he said the parable again.

He says, Mo, you need to stay on the wall because if you come down from the wall and fight with the pigs, they're going to love it and you're going to stink.

What he was saying is that the temptation was to go full blast and go against those people to consume our time fighting controversies.

But what he was saying was that don't worry about all those controversies.

Focus on being faithful and doing the work.

There's something my friends, nobody can debate success.

You can say whatever you want, but when a person is faithful, when a person is staying on the wall of faith, Whatever is going on around with the pigs, stay on the wall.

It was 1 that at the time I did not understand, but soon after understood because those people that were spreading false rumors and discouraging the young people, soon they were all replaced.

We did not get into controversies that were not useful.

And that was a lesson that today we want to talk about because you and I today are engaged in a very big warfare and there are many things that can consume our attention and many things that the devil is throwing at us some of them even look urgent.

But Jesus in his word as we're going to see today, he's saying to stay on the what my friends?

Let's go to Philippians chapter 2 and see what this is all about.

Philippians chapter 2 verse 5 to verse 8.

Thank you again Elder Joe for the reading.

And here Jesus, through the pen of Paul, writes something very important.

It says, Therefore, if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affectionate and mercy, fulfill my joy by being what, my friends?

Having the same love, being of 1 accord of 1 mind.

Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in loneliness of mind.

Let us each esteem others better than himself.

Let us each look out not only for his own interest, but also for the interest of others.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant and coming in the likeness of man.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross." Jesus was so consumed by his mission that he stayed on the wall of faith even if it led him to a cross.

There's a battle going on right now for your attention, for your worship.

At the end of time, the battle that is going to keep us the most busy is the battle of the great controversy, the battle over worship.

Who has the best of your emotions who are you working for are you spending the rest of your time fighting with the pigs or are you spending your time being faithful a watchman on the wall Today we're going to focus on a more specific verse and we're going to tie in with Philippians 2 but that will be later.

I'm just asking you for now to just remember this verse.

In there it is 1 of Paul's last messages to 1 church that was experiencing a lot of tribulations.

And he wanted to warn them about something.

In there, he wants to warn them to stay on the wall of faith.

In verse 1 he says, But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord succumbs as a thief in the night.

For when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them.

As labor pains upon a pregnant woman, they shall not what my friends, they shall not escape.

But you brethren are not in darkness, so that this day should not overtake you as a thief.

You're all sons of the light and sons of the day.

We are not sons of the night nor of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

For those who sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as the helmet of hope of salvation.

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we shall live together with him.

Therefore comfort each other and edify 1 another, just as you also are doing." In this verse here, Paul is talking about the day of the Lord.

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Fresh Manna by Moise Ratsara

Staying on the Wall

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