Maryland Men of Faith 2025: Do Justly

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Maryland Men of Faith

Seminars

Joe Reeves

How to Make Disciples?

Ron Clouzet

The Experience of Personal Revival

David Buruchara

True Self-Care: Guarding the Man, Growing the Mission

Michael Verlus

The Last Man Standing

Eric Walsh

Sanctified or Sexualized

King, Priest or Coward?

What is a Man of God?

Alright, I hope it stays that way over the next hour.

In the morning I was at the nature center.

With the animals and So they had me downstairs with all the safari animals I'm from Kenya So I'm trying to figure out if that was intentional or what But I'm not there anymore so it's alright, it's alright.

They say I have a friend he told me that, he's also Kenyan he told me that he was in Kenya and an American friend sent him a photo of a lion in the zoo in the zoo and he said that's not a lion that's a loser the losers got caught if you want to come see real lions You're invited to Kenya amen But enough about Kenya So thank you for coming We'll we'll dive into today's topic.

It's called the just man's Kryptonite the just man's kryptonite.

Let's pray Father thank you so much for this gathering of men.

Thank you for the blessing of today's program.

We thank you for the message during the divine hour and the fellowship, the lunch.

And we pray that and we believe that all these things are for a reason for those who are here today that you would allow us to apply these things to our lives that you give us the grace the power and even now May your spirit speak to each and every 1 of us individually.

Speak to us and also may we may also speak through us that we may bless those who are not here today with a message in Jesus name Amen.

Now, if you're a good Adventist, you might not understand what the word kryptonite is so allow me to take some time to explain to you what it is.

It's not a it's not an element on the periodic table it's It's something else.

In order to explain kryptonite I must explain to you who these men are here.

I love Maryland Men of Faith because it is a multi-generational gathering of men.

And because of that, 1 of these men will appeal to you more.

Does anyone recognize the man on the left?

Yes, Christopher Reeves, the first Superman on scene on screen.

Millennials like myself might recognize Henry Cavill in the middle there.

And Just this recently, there was a movie that came out this year with David Corenzweig.

Now across all these men, the story is the same.

This comes from another planet and he has super strength, super speed, he can fly, he has x-ray vision, he can do all these amazing things.

But most importantly he has a good heart.

It's said that Superman would even save a little small animal if he had to.

He is 1 of the most powerful superheroes in the superhero world.

So kryptonite to summarize is this radioactive element from his home planet that when he is exposed to kryptonite he's not only he not only loses his power and is as powerful as any other human but he's sometimes even weaker than a regular human.

So obviously you can see here he's not liking it very much.

Kryptonite represents for Superman mortality.

It represents humanity and it represents his limits.

The question today is what is your kryptonite?

As a mental health therapist, I work with a lot of men I think I mentioned it earlier today during the teaser.

I see men of all walks Adventist, non-adventist, Christian, non-Christian people who struggle with addictions and non addictions And what's most interesting is when I work with men who are successful in the areas of ministry.

I work with pastors, I've worked with missionaries in foreign countries, I've worked with leaders.

And it's interesting to see that What you see in the public world is not what you see in the inner world It's interesting to see that there's unique weaknesses That people like like we all here men of faith struggle with silently and That is that is the kryptonite that I'd like us to explore today.

James White was what we call the Renaissance man.

He was an active father and husband, often taking up for his sick wife when his wife was unwell taking care of the kids he was a handyman and a builder from a very young age and all through his career he'd even when he ran the publishing house he would he would help fix up the printers I you know I somehow I someday hope to be a handyman and a builder.

In fact, he was called the man who could not wait.

It says, God forbid that I should fold my arms in lazy lock while sinners are sinking into eternal night this is the kind of preacher James White was he wasn't afraid to preach anywhere and to anyone And he traveled land and sea even at his own cost not paying himself a salary so he could preach the gospel.

He was a GC president 3 times and an administrator.

He started hospitals, he started schools, and he started a publishing house and ran it successfully with many employees.

He was an abolitionist, he wrote extensively against the ills of his time, such as slavery, and of course he was a writer and editor and published hundreds and hundreds of articles.

They don't make men like James White these days.

We don't see men who did as much as he did today and much of what we benefit from in the Adventist Church is due to the likes of people like James White would you agree?

In fact his wife at the end of his life said he had done the work of how many?

What do you say it was a pretty super man?

All right, but even James White had a weakness.

You know, they say if you really want to know who a man is, ask his wife.

There's no 1 who knows you better than your wife.

And so James' wife, who we all know as Elroy, said this, My husband's last sickness came upon him in consequence of what?

Bearing burdens which God had warned him he ought not to bear.

My question for you is are you bearing burdens which God has not told you to bear because this is what killed James White at the young age of 60 the young age of 60 we are fortunate to not only have the words of his wife but during his funeral we actually hear from Ellen about what he had said 2 weeks before his death.

He lived all this long life of doing so much for the Lord.

2 weeks before he dies, he comes to these realizations.

Do you feel like those realizations must be pretty crucial?

So he was walking in a garden and he would reflect often on his life.

I'm not sure if he knew he would be dying in 2 weeks.

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