Forward to Zion: Ohio Hometown Camp Meeting 2011

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Forward to Zion

Alden Ho

Ellen G. Why?

The message this morning is, as I told you last night, the title was actually not something that I creatively came up with.

The title was actually a friend of mine and he was gonna write a book with it, but he never came out with a book.

And so that's how the title comes up, LNGY.

I think it's very fitting because if you look out there now, the number of websites that are out there that are anti-Ellen White.

There's a lot of them out there and we know that Satan is doing his utmost right now to try and dissolve the spirit of prophecy.

So without any more delay, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer, shall we?

Lord, as we come to you this morning to be able to understand this important fact of the spirit of prophecy and why it is important for us today, we ask that your Holy Spirit will be with us in our thinking so that we might be able to see clearly these truths that are very, very clear.

God, indirect my words in Jesus' name, amen.

When we look at what the Bible says, I'm gonna be directing you for this presentation directly to the screens the entire time.

And it says here that the path of the just is as the shining light that shines more and more into the perfect day.

The way of the wicked is as darkness and they know not at what they stumble.

Well, we find that Ecclesiastes tells us, the wise men's eyes are in his head and the fool walketh about in what?

How many of you have stubbed your toe at nighttime while you're looking around for something?

That's why God gave us toes, so that we can find our furniture at nighttime.

You see, that's exactly what this verse is saying.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walketh about in darkness.

So, there's been a lot of foolishness going on here.

But we find that if we have the light, then we don't have to walk around in darkness at all.

And this is what John is saying, Then Jesus said to them, A little while longer the light is with you, because he is a light.

Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you.

He who walks in darkness doesn't know where he's going.

But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and doesn't know where he's going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus also tells us here in the book of John, and then Jesus said to them, "'I am the light of the world.

He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.

Well, we find that if Jesus is the light, and he is the life, that we find also that the commandments that God has given us in Proverbs 6, verse 23, they tell us that, for the commandment is a lamp and the law a light, reproves and instruction are the way of life.

Well, we find that in our time period right now, Satan has targeted his fiery arrows towards us because we find Revelation tells us, and the dragon was enraged with the woman and went to make war with the rest of her offspring who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

We also find that the corresponding verse to this, you all know that you have Revelation 12.17.

What's the other 1 we always quote at the same time with this?

Revelation 14.12, which says, Here is the patience of the saints.

Here are they that keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus.

This is 1 of the identifying marks of the remnant church today.

1 John tells us, Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

He who says, I know Him and does not keep His commandments is a liar and the truth is not in Him.

So what do the commandments do for us in our relationship with Jesus Christ?

The question that we must ask is, does this bind the commandments and the testimony together?

Well, when we look at what it says here, the prophets of God wore his witnesses or spokesmen of his testimony, sorry, and the testimony that they bore was his message of wisdom in life.

Isaiah is directing men to the word of God as the standard of truth and the guide to right living.

Revelation 19.10 tells us, "'And I fell at his feet to worship him.

But he said to me, see that you do not do that, for I am your fellow servant and of your brethren, who have the testimony of Jesus.

Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Paul writes here in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 4, and he says, Always, whenever I mention you to God in prayer, that in everything you are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank God always concerning you for the grace of God, which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by him, and in all utterance and in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So you see, this blessing that comes upon us is you have to measure it in proportion and basically what its meaning is, we are rich in the proportion to the degree in which this gift is confirmed in our hearts and in our lives.

So that we find that these 2 things, the testimony and the commandments, have to be put together.

Not only those who are settled are sealed in regards to the Sabbath, but we find that those will also be sealed in regards to the testimony.

So the question we pose to this is, will we view the testimony as a love letter to his end time people?

The testimonies today are this extra bit of light towards us.

Now I want to tell you a story here about Kruger Park.

A number of years ago I was at Kruger Park in South Africa.

And the conference decided, we want to take you on this, go on this to Kruger Park.

So my friend who's a pastor, he came with me.

And they decided, we'll go on a night tour.

Now, we're talking about lions here and animals that are nocturnal.

When do you think that they hunt most of the time?

Now, I figured, okay, we're going to be going out, it's going to be 1 of these fortified trucks that have like, you know, windows, glass, safety glass, mesh, the whole thing.

I sat in this very, very long pickup truck, basically, a flatbed truck that had been converted.

And I noticed that there was, I was sitting above the back wheel and there was just a bar that went right about here.

And there was another bar right about here.

And I'm thinking, Lions can jump much higher than that.

I wasn't feeling so comfortable with that, so I looked at the front of the driver and I noticed next to the driver there was a big shotgun next to him.

So I looked around my chair and there was no shotgun next to me.

And I started thinking, this is, they're hunting at nighttime.

And as it started getting darker and darker, the driver turned on the 2 spotlights.

Up at the front, he had a fixed light here and a fixed light here.

And he gave us, in the back, 2 portable lights.

And if you see something, he would stop and say, OK, I want you to look over here.

And we were waiting for this big cue of seeing a lion, these 2 bright light eyes looking at us.

We're driving along at about 15 miles an hour.

And all of a sudden, he slams on his brakes.

And he shuts off his lights really quick.

When I turn on my left light, I want you to see what the light's pointed at.

And it was probably really the distance from here to those trees right in the back here, and so we looked and we saw a tree.

He says, no, no, no, no, look a little closer.

I can't see anything, so I pull out my big camera lens and I take a picture and I blow it up on the back of the screen and I see an eye looking at me.

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