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Little Creek Adventist Fellowship

Brian Hindman

Transformed by the Truth

And in Psalm 100 verse 5, we read, for the Lord is good.

His mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations.

That means every generation that comes after the parents and the grandparents and the great-grandparents, his truth continues on and is valid and is just as effective and just as powerful for their lives as it was in the generation before them.

And I am thankful for that today, very much so.

Psalm 145, 17 tells us that the Lord is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His works.

I asked Brother Lee, when he communicated with me months ago, if I could even give a seminar in the afternoon and just have more time to talk.

And he was gracious enough to grant that, and I thank you for that.

This afternoon I'm gonna be addressing 7 different attacks that have come in and that are threatening, I believe, God's truth in these last days.

It will be based on the Scriptures and on the spirit of prophecy.

So I hope you will come and be a part of that this evening or later this afternoon.

Hopefully it won't be this evening by the time we're done today.

But our subject today is transformed by the truth.

And it's my privilege to share a large degree of my personal testimony with you.

And I just, I have to say, you know, God is so good that since I have surrendered my life to him, the opportunity to speak for him has come up more and more frequently.

This year, as Lee mentioned, I was given the opportunity to speak at GYC.

They had 5, 000 to 6, 000 young people there in Orlando, Florida.

2 weeks ago, I was the young adult speaker at the Potomac Camp Meeting up in Virginia.

Then, a couple of months ago, I was asked to speak for the 100-year anniversary of Mount Pisgah Academy.

We had over 1, 000 people there for that.

But, that does not compare to coming home to speak with you guys.

I grew up here in Raleigh for those of you that don't know me very well and this is a homecoming for sure for me.

And I just, I want to share with you, just before we get into the message today, a few of recollections of my time here in Raleigh.

We moved here, my dad was the pastor in 1982 to 1989 and there is on the left I don't know if you can see it that's Lee on the left side and me out in front of our the side of the school little grade school there on the bottom is a picture of the last day of school, 1988.

And I'm afraid to ask how many of you weren't born then, looking around and seeing so many young people.

But anyway, that was our valiant little school there.

And I had such a blessing growing up and Learning my times tables.

Griffin She taught me my times tables Thank you in second grade and she had such a good way with her and I just want to thank her and praise her for her patience with me as a rascal, as a stubborn and obstinate and well, difficult to deal with child.

My hat's off to those in elementary education.

I teach in high school and there at least you can reason with them most of the time but elementary school well anyway Mrs.

Simmering my piano teacher thank you for putting up with me I wish I would have stuck with it my son we have him playing the violin and I'm gonna ask him to come up in a few moments at the end as we close with a hymn and play his violin.

But I wish I would have stuck with piano.

She was patient with me, and even though I was not very good of a student, She still was positive and encouraged me and I thank you for that Mrs.

But 7 good years in the Raleigh area and thank you for allowing me to be here and share what what God has done in my life recently in fact.

Well I want to talk to you today, our subject is transformed by the truth about Jesus Christ.

Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

No man cometh unto the Father but by me, John 14 6.

And I don't know how many of you recognize this picture up here, but this is a picture.

Does anyone recognize this picture at all?

Ellen White said this looks the most like Jesus Christ of any picture that she ever saw.

And so we have this picture is hanging at the White Estate up in Washington, D.C.

And when I had the privilege, I've been there several times of visiting.

And my attention was, of course, direct to that picture.

A prophet who saw Jesus in vision said this looks the most like him.

And 1 of the things that really arrested my attention is how humble and lack of display and glory, you might say, how just plain Jesus looks.

And then my mind was turned immediately to the scriptures in Isaiah 53 which says and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him." Well, what is the real beauty of Christ?

He did not want to come with outward display because he did not want us to be attracted merely to external things.

He wanted us to be attracted to his inward character.

And so I submit to you today that it is character that we most need to concern ourselves with as we look at Jesus Christ.

And I wanna talk to you about how Jesus has transformed my life.

Some of you know that I'm adopted and I'm an accident.

When my mom was 15 years old, biological mom, I was born.

And most 15 year old girls aren't ready to be a mother, but my parents that adopted me, Charles and Linda, they had had several miscarriages, and so they didn't think they'd be able to have a child.

And so They adopted me, and I am very, very thankful for that.

My life could not be put on a more direct path towards the heavenly kingdom than to be adopted by Charles and Linda Heineman.

My mom from cancer 12 years ago and my dad 2 months ago from a sudden heart attack at the age of 71.

He was still pastoring here in the Carolina Conference, 2 churches up in Boone and Banner Elk.

And I fortunately had the privilege of speaking in 1 of his churches just a couple weeks before he passed away.

And I'm thankful the Lord worked out that privilege for me that we could share that extra time together.

But more on that later on in my testimony.

This is a picture of my dad and me as a youngster.

And do accidents happen in a person's life?

I am not here by the will of any human being.

But Jeremiah 1 verse 5 tells us, Before I formed you in your mother's womb, I chose you.

And I often feel as I have studied my scriptures and studied the word of God.

Did God have a plan for me even before I was even born?

Even though I was not born by the will of man, but hopefully by the will of God.

John 1 12 says being born not of the will of man or the will of the flesh but born of God.

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