ASI Southern Union 2013: For Such a Time...

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ASI Southern Union

ASI Southern Union 2013 Plenary Sessions

Alistair Huong

When Men Have Labor Pains

Randy Skeete

Mine is Bigger than Yours

Frank Fournier

Identity Crisis

No Strings Attached

From my heart, I wish all of you a very blessed Sabbath.

Those of you who are present and your family members wherever they may be on the face of the globe, we thank God for this day.

It is universally disregarded and ignored.

But I'm very grateful that there are a few on the face of the earth that still regard God's Sabbath day very highly.

You are among that few and may God bless you and ever keep you faithful to His Word, faithful to His will because God has millions of people who give Him lip service.

As Isaiah prophesied, this people honoreth me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

I want to get right into the message with your permission.

And so I will ask you to do 3 little things for me because you look like cooperative Christians who like to put your guests at ease.

Favor number 1, I just gave my cell phone to a nice looking young man, I told him hold it for me even though it's turned off, I didn't want the risk of it turning itself on, you know how these smartphones are, and ringing during the service, I give it to him, now, if you have a cell phone, please turn them off.

Are you doing that or are you just looking at me?

Favor number 2, while I'm speaking, pray for me.

I want you to say, Lord, put your words in that man's mouth.

Jeremiah 1, verse 9, Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth.

And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

So please ask God, Put your words in that man's mouth.

And favor number 3, in conformity with Isaiah 118, come now let us reason together.

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus, a name you always accept.

I come to you, dear God, at your invitation in Hebrews 4.16 to come boldly to the throne of grace.

And I come to you in the spirit of the words of Peter, where shall we go, dear God?

So I come, dear Father, because I have nowhere else to go.

And I ask you in the name of your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is equal with yourself and who's 1 with us, who conquered death, hell, grave, sin, and Satan, whose sacrifice is infinite and covers not only this little world but the entire universe in his name.

Please, grant me your spirit, that the words I speak may be your words, dear God.

Grant me not simply the right words, but grant to me the right spirit, the right attitude, Father, that I may speak with compassion and with boldness.

Let the Spirit working through me reach the hearts of all those listening in person and when this is played in a recorded form.

Let the truth triumph, dear God, that you may be glorified and your people blessed.

I offer this prayer from my heart in Jesus' name.

Our subject for today, mine is bigger than yours.

John 19, reading from verse 5, and we're reading from the King James Version of the Bible.

And someone informed me yesterday very politely that I ought to slow down and give you time to write the verses down and record the references to the writings of Ellen White.

So I promised I will try, and the operative word is try.

So when you pray and say, Lord, put your words in that man's mouth, you may also add, Lord, help him to slow down so we can catch what he's saying.

The Bible says, Then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe.

And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man.

When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out saying, crucify him, crucify him.

Pilate saith unto them, take ye him and crucify him for I find no fault in him.

It is, as I pause in the middle of the reading, to observe that the greatest danger to Christ was the church.

3 times Pilate, a representative of the heathen, the pagans, the unbelievers, the world, 3 times between chapters 18 and 19, Pilate said unequivocally, I find no fault with this man.

The Jews said repeatedly, crucify him, crucify him.

Pilate said unto them, take ye Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault with Him.

Question for you, do you find any fault in Jesus?

Has he interfered with your dietary habits?

Has he interfered with your dating practices?

Has he interfered with the way you handle your money?

The Jews answered him, verse 7, John 19, we have a law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the son of God.

Now they said we have a law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the son of God.

I can almost hear Jesus saying in his heart, my father also has a law.

And by his law, Because of the way you've treated me, it is not that you ought to die.

Because your house has been left unto you desolate.

By my law and my Father's law you will die.

It is a statement of solemn disturbing fact.

By our law He ought to die because he made himself the Son of God.

When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid and went again into the judgment hall and saith unto Jesus, whence art thou?

Then saith Pilate unto him, speakest thou not unto me?

Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee, which was correct up to a certain point?

Satan said, but put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face.

And God said unto him, behold, all that he hath is in thy hand, only upon himself, put not forth thy hand.

And so yes, Pilate, by God's permission, that is why you and I ought not to be worked up so much by political parties in power.

We must remember the words of Jesus to Pilate in verse 11.

Jesus answered, thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above.

Jesus recognized that while Pilate had power, The higher power, the higher determining force over his life was his father.

And you and I must understand that it is not your degree that determines your life.

It is not your political affiliation that determines how long you preserve the comfortable life you enjoy.

The power that directs the life of a Seventh-day Adventist Christian is God.

And so we learn to say like Jesus, when the day comes when the power will speak with very clear and undisguised intimidation, we have a law.

And by our law, because you broke it, you are to die.

In other words, by the law, I can kill you or I can release you.

Your law governs the areas ruled by the Roman Empire.

And today, with our subject, Mine is Bigger Than Yours, we will examine a standard for such a time as this.

We live in a world swimming in immorality and licentiousness.

And every species of crime and wrongdoing imaginable and possible to the carnal nature, this is the world in which we live, which means the opposite sign of that coin is the law of God has been universally disregarded.

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