3ABN Spring Camp Meeting 2013: Showers of Blessings

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Dwight Nelson

Near the Cross: The Eleventh Commandment

Father in heaven tonight we pray that the cross will be uplifted not only in song and in this message but in our hearts.

Speak to us father we pray in Jesus name Amen.

We receive a lot of calls and letters here at 3ABN.

A telephone call came through today and June Elliott was calling and she told me an experience about her mother.

I won't tell the whole experience, but her mother is Millie Ganeta and Millie was a devout Catholic but she began to watch 3ABN.

She watched all the different messages, But when Dwight Nelson was preaching on a subject that was very dear to her heart, she stood up in the middle of the sermon on the television in front of the TV and told her daughter, I'm going to be baptized.

She made a decision, the subject 1 you would not think would touch the heart.

It was purgatory, but it was something for which she had struggled and God gave Dwight the wisdom, the message to open up from God's Word that there was no purgatory and it calmed her heart and she made her decision.

Tonight as Dwight speaks near the cross, the 11th commandment.

Good evening, 3ABN family in Thompsonville.

What an honor to be here in this beautiful part of God's country.

Just the first buddings of spring, and you can see these just these manicured rows of fresh green sprouts.

Coming up, getting ready for the harvest.

And I thought to myself, God, this is what you need to see when you look down to this planet.

The Sprouts are coming up, and we're counting down to the harvest.

So it's an honor tonight to be a part of a ministry that is focused on preparing this planet for the harvest.

Is that kind of the thinking that happens here?

We're gonna get into the cross together, you and I.

But not before I thank my friend Jim Gilley for his kind invitation to come, and Camille, I see you sitting over there.

He helped raise over $4 million at the Pioneer Memorial Church to put on those.

If you've been to the campus church, to put on those wings.

So we got to know each other real well, and then he was helping.

He was actually overseeing the Faith of Today ministry, and I had a part of it, had the privilege of having a part with that for a few years.

And then I saw Danny Shelton behind the scenes here this evening just a few moments ago.

I got to quit hanging around with guys that go way back.

So, it's an honor to be here with the 3ABN team.

Been to this place a few times, and how God has used this dream planted years ago, raised up by the Holy Spirit for such a time as this.

I believe --" I'm not going to preach on the Second Coming in this series, But I believe Jesus is coming soon.

In fact, 2 weeks ago, maybe 3, my friend Thruster, Pastor Thruster, he's Icelandic, and he pastors the South Bend First Seventh-day Adventist Church.

He stopped by the office, plopped down on a chair in my office there at the Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University, and he said, Dwight, We just fell into conversation.

We were talking about an emphasis we've been having at Andrews and Pioneer over these last 4 weeks.

And coincidentally, our theme song at the end of every 1 of this little three-part miniseries, every installment, our theme song has been Showers of Blessings.

We're sensing, and I told Thruster the story, and I'm not gonna tell you tonight.

I really debated about bringing that series, but I think we need to get back to basics.

There'll be a time for the other, and you can go to our website, and it's there.

But, so, I was telling Thruster, we're claiming Isaiah 43, 19.

I thought this verse was all through the Bible.

I thought you could find these words everywhere.

Are you bringing your Bibles to these little evening studies?

Isaiah 43, 19, and I'll open my Bible when I get into my teaching in just a moment, but God's speaking to Israel.

He says, "'Behold, I will do a new thing.'" I'll do a new thing.

And we've been sensing in our hearts at Andrews University and the Pioneer Memorial Church that we desperately need God to do a new thing in our midst.

Now, you're not sure what that new thing is until you read the verses right after verse 19, and God keeps talking about water.

He talks about water in the desert and rivers in the wilderness.

As soon as He says, I'll do a new thing, He talks about water.

And if you go just a few verses down, there were no chapter divisions when Isaiah wrote that, you come to Isaiah 44, verse 3, where God says --" Now, listen to this promise.

Speaking of showers of blessings, God says, "'I will pour water on those who are thirsty and floods upon the dry ground.

I will pour my Spirit upon your descendants and my blessing upon your offspring.'" We have 3, 600 of the offspring of the church, our community of faith.

3, 600 children of the church who go to Andrews University.

We are burdened that God do a new thing in our midst for this generation just coming on board.

You have any children in your heart tonight?

Don't you want God to do a new thing in their lives?

Aren't you just praying for God to pour out His Spirit and somehow catch that young mind, turn that pretty heart, just coach that heart to turn toward Him.

You put your finger tomorrow morning when you get up early, you put your finger on Isaiah 44 verse 3.

You say, God, I need you to do a new thing.

You have promised to pour out your spirit upon our descendants and Your blessing upon our offspring.

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