Michigan Camp Meeting 2024: As For Me and My House

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Things I Wish I Learned in My 20s

Jim Slater

01 Things I Wish I Learned in My 20s

02 Things I Wish I Learned in My 20s

Kameron DeVasher

03 Things I Wish I Learned in My 20s

04 Things I Wish I Learned in My 20s

Gem Castor

05 Things I Wish I Learned in My 20s

Gunthe Schwartz

06 Things I Wish I Learned in My 20s

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2024 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Dear Holy Father, thank you so much for this beautiful day.

Thank you for this particular seminar and for the people who've assembled in this room.

Bless us now as we study your word and this incredible theme of the great controversy.

Help us Lord to not only understand it as an intellectual concept but as a framework for our lives.

So Lord please send your Holy Spirit to teach us today for we pray it in Jesus name, Amen.

Alright, When I do this outside to a non-adventist audience, I will typically call it Questions Angels Ask.

Because they've never heard of the Great Controversy.

They might think it's the war in Gaza or Ukraine or something.

If you have your Bibles, you can turn there or, by the way, the first little section is going to be called, refer to it as, know your enemy.

Some days were full of healing, some days were full of parables, and I'm guessing that most days were a mix of all of them.

But on this particular chapter in scripture, there is, he told a parable, then again he told a parable, and then another parable, so there's a collection of parables.

And this one's kind of right in the middle.

Matthew chapter 13, starting with verse 24.

Jesus said, the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

So pause right there, and we're gonna break this down microscopically as our friend Randy Skeet would say.

A man, I'm not just asking myself, I want some retort here.

But, While men slept, and our first question should be in the back of our minds, hey wait a minute, we introduced a new character.

It just said, anyway, while men slept, Then it introduced another character.

His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.

So this is still in the owner's field, it's still his place, but at night time, I suppose when winter's sleeping, the enemy comes in, And in the exact same spot where he sowed all that good seed, he then sowed tares or weeds among the good crop.

And then he slithered off and went his way.

Now, when I was a child, we would do these, whether it was a, you know, camp meeting, vacation Bible school, Sabbath school, something, church school, whatever they would do, they would give you this, like, try to inspire you about gardening and they'd give you a styrofoam cump with a seed or something in it and I had this jack-in-the-beanstalk expectation.

I was put a little water on it, set it on the windowsill and boom!

In a couple of days of that, and I'm done.

If you were to sow good seed or bad seed, do you see the results quickly?

Thus the text says, but when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tears also appeared.

So it didn't pop up overnight, it wasn't the next day, it wasn't even maybe a week, it took some time before anything started to pop up, And at first it was indistinguishable from the suit.

So it took a while before you noticed that, hey, not everything's lined up and they've got a little different shape.

So the servants of the owner, now this is an interesting thing, the servants of the owner, I'm gonna go ahead and submit to you since we don't have time to break it down, that these are the men who were sleeping.

The servants of the owner came and said to him.

So the servants bring their questions to whom?

Because they don't know there's an enemy.

What were they doing while the enemy was active?

They were completely unaware that anything was happening.

All they know is there's an owner who has this field, He sowed good seed, and notice they weren't the ones who sowed the seed either.

They're hired to work the crop once the seed is sprouted.

So they come to him and say, sir, notice they're being respectful, kind, courteous.

They're loyal, but do they have questions?

Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field?

Notice, friends, there is a clear discrepancy between what the owner had said and what the servants can see.

He said, good field, good seed, everything's good.

They're like, yeah, you said good, but we see bad.

And I don't want to extrapolate too much from this right now but I'll tell you this is 1 of the main issues.

Whether you're Christian, Adventist, nothing at all about belief in God.

If there's a God who's so good and so powerful and all love, how can he have those good principles and those good attributes and those great qualities?

This is a lot of not good in his so-called field.

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