ARME 7: Waialua, HI - Nov 2011

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ARME Bible Camp

Ivor Myers

Secret Service

I appreciate the song that was just sung.

Second Chronicles, chapter 7, verse 13 and 14.

Second Chronicles chapter 7 verse 13 and 14 the Bible says here if I shut up heaven that there be no rain or if I command the locusts to devour the land or if I send pestilence among my people, read this with me if you will, if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

God says he will send the rain if his people who are called by his name will turn from their ways and seek his face.

I want to talk to you this morning and you know This final message is usually 1 that takes a lot of thought because this is your commission.

I don't know if you realize it, but today you are being deployed for service.

Heavenly Father, please speak to us today.

Lord, we Lord, we want to see and to seek your face.

Lord, change our lives and heal our land.

I'd like for you to open your Bibles to the book of John chapter 14.

John chapter 14, Jesus is speaking, and in John chapter 14, in John chapter 14, verse 1, Jesus says, let not your heart be troubled.

If it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also." How many of you are looking forward to getting to paradise?

How many of you are looking forward to that sweet experience of paradise?

What a time that will be When we will enter sweet paradise together I am looking forward to that time as Christians we are on a journey in Fact when you came here, we began a journey.

We began by going through the 23rd Psalm, showing that the Christian is on a journey.

And we saw that that journey began at the cross, amen?

We looked at the parallel of how Psalm 23 was showing the pattern of the sanctuary.

We looked at the altar of sacrifice and what it means for a Christian to give himself to Christ and to accept Jesus Christ.

We even had an appeal for baptisms and some people made decisions to be baptized.

Hopefully all of you have made decisions to be baptized, whether that is by water or by the Spirit.

We went into the concept of prayer at the altar of incense, and we saw how prayer equips the soldier of Christ.

It is his communication system in a foreign land.

We took a look at the table of showbread and we saw that as soldiers we must be equipped with the sword of God, with the word of God, we must be equipped with a knowledge of the truth that is found in the word of God.

Can you see the journey that we have been on?

Yesterday we looked at this blueprint and saw that God has a message for us to share with the world.

We are called to be the light of the world, and we discussed ways in which we can go out and share this message with the world.

We looked at the candlestick, and we saw that as God's people, We are called to witness.

You see, our mission is to get to paradise.

In the book of Matthew chapter 11, verse 12, Jesus is speaking and he talks about how the kingdom of heaven, those who want to get to the kingdom of heaven must take it by violence.

It simply means that you can't get to the kingdom of heaven without a fight.

That's why we're called to fight the good fight of faith.

So to get to sweet paradise requires a battle.

You are being deployed today, deployed for battle, deployed for service.

But it would be foolish of us to send you away without looking at 1 last part of that sanctuary found within the most holy place.

You see, our our camp has covered every other article and we have glimpsed at the most holy place.

But beloved, you got to understand that there is an adversary out there who wants to destroy you.

You see, the battle, believe it or not, was not so much at the camp.

Like, I believe that there were angels surrounding this tent and Satan could only do so much.

He couldn't even cause it to rain the way he wanted it to.

This was God's training ground, but now you're about to go out into the battlefield where it will be you by yourself.

You see, the devil doesn't really attack.

He knows better than to attack at the training ground.

Yeah, he, you know, he little skirmishes here and there, but it's when you get out there, that's when the battle really begins.

You come to camp, you get excited, I have never studied the Bible like I have and wait till I get home.

You get back into the same routine of things.

The Bible tells us in the book of 1 Corinthians, I want you to turn there with me.

Beginning with verse 11, the Bible says, Now all these things happened unto them, that is the children of Israel, for in samples, and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Just as we are on a journey to sweet paradise, so were the children of Israel on a journey to the promised land.

And the devil tried many things throughout their journey to get them to fail and to fall.

And We find that really these challenges, these obstacles couldn't really stop the children of Israel.

But there's a certain place where the devil seemed to have doubled his attack.

And it was right as the children of Israel were on the borders of the promised land.

You see, beloved, you and I are in a battle.

You and I are marching to sweet paradise.

But what I'm trying to warn you is that once you leave this place and once you go out there into the real world, into the real battlefield, Satan is going to double his attack.

I can imagine in the military, as they're about to go into the battle, everybody looks Because they know some of you, some of us may not make it back.

You see, beloved, God is trying to prepare us for Satan's doubled efforts.

The way I like to put it, beloved, is think of it as this.

Like, because you have come to this camp, because you have been equipped with the Word of God, because you understand the significance of the candlestick, because you have been trained through God's obstacle course, there is now a target on your back.

Satan is seeking an assassination attempt on your life.

The children of Israel are right on the borders of the promised land.

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