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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Don Mackintosh Weekend 2004

Don Mackintosh

Gnosis, Diagnosis, and Prognosis

The Invitation That Changed My Life

Triggering the Peristalsis of the Kingdom

Well, it's good to spend the weekend here in Loma Linda and what an encouragement it has been to me.

And I'm just so happy to meet so many of you newly that are my brothers and sisters in Christ.

I am just thankful to be able to send the word out that the Lord is doing great things here in Advent Hope.

I'm thankful for your spirit, for your testimony, for the energy you're bringing.

I didn't have a chance to visit other things that were happening on the campus this weekend, but I think that I was in the elite group here.

And so I'm very happy for the invitation.

Thank you so much whoever was involved in that for having me come out and share with you.

Tonight I want to just talk with you about the importance, I think, again, of maintaining our joy in the Lord.

The joy of the Lord is our strong salvation.

And to have the affections and have the feelings that go with the decisions we make.

You know, decisions are very important and I think that they are essential and I think that we need to operate on the basis of principle even without feelings but if feelings are not there, if the affections are not there, it can be a sign that there's a problem.

And so you know throughout scripture we are admonished we are commanded to have certain affections.

These are not things that are, what would you say, something that is an option that you can choose among.

And what the world needs are Christians that are happy Christians, lovable Christians, rejoicing Christians.

And You know, whatever fields you're in, whatever environment you're in, the power of 1, 1 happy person can make a lot of difference.

So before we begin, let's just ask the Lord again to be with us.

Father in heaven tonight, you know that we have had a feast this weekend of thinking about you and your love and your power and your might.

And we want to have affections and have emotions that go along with the decisions we've made we ask through your spirit that we will and we come in Christ's name Amen Psalm 100 Psalm 100 Psalm 100, Psalm 100 and verse 2, Psalm 100 and verse 2 Psalm 100 and verse 2 serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with singing this is just 1 of many many many text look at another Psalm 16 and verse 11 Psalm 16 verse 11 you will show me the path of life in your presence is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forever more.

We sang this song tonight, I will sing of his love to me.

I believe that song needs to start now, not in heaven.

And I believe our lives should be an expression of the joy of the Lord.

I think this is probably 1 of the most healing things we can bring to the world today.

And that the affections, the affections must be there.

When it comes to this type of thing the Puritans put it this way They said this to know God so well That delighting in him May be the work of our lives Do you like that?

Does that sound like a job you can keep up with?

The Bible commands zeal the Bible commands fear the Bible commands grief it commands desire tenderheartedness commands sorrow it commands brokenness and gratitude and lowliness and cheerfulness these are commands of the Lord When you look those words up and you study them through the concord you will find text that commands these things.

It's said of Jonathan Edwards that he would go out into the woods when his affections were wrong and he would stay out in the woods until he could come back with something of the joy of the Lord and he didn't have a laptop and he didn't have a palm pilot and he didn't have something else like that And so he would write these things that he found in Scripture or the thoughts that came to him because he didn't want to forget the joy Or the glories of the Lord and he would pin them to his clothes and then he would come back covered with sweat but full of the joy of the Lord Wow what an experience.

And our Lord was very, very interested in not only the decisions of his people as he lived here, but also their affections.

He knew when people were sad and he himself would weep and his emotions would come to the top and he would engage with his emotions.

And the wife says that he would speak with tears in his voice.

And you know I've worked with some people that have had the joy of the Lord.

Wilson was a mission doctor that came back to work.

He could see more patients in an hour than were there.

He was always ahead of the patients and he he he was an excellent clinician.

He knew what people needed but he connected emotionally with almost each patient.

It was amazing to me and he would be there, nice crisp lab coat and his hair nicely, you know, slipped back and when people would come and he'd say, what's the trouble?

I would be working out at the triage nurse.

There, you know, usually the physician was back in the ivory palace behind multiple curtains and telephones waiting to be called up, but not Dr.

He was always out there and as soon as he took care of the patients he'd come out and he'd come into the waiting room and he'd say, I'll be out to see you, tell me what's wrong and he would connect with people people would call up and see if he was on and when he was on they would come in and he understood them and they understood him And this was a very low economic place.

I mean, it wasn't because of the money, but it was because of the love of people.

And his life was filled with just affection for people.

1 thing he didn't like was people that weren't kind to other people.

And I saw that side of his affection as well.

Have you ever taken care of a sickle cell patient, you know?

Come in and they're asking for pain medications and I can remember as a new nurse I didn't understand that.

I thought that they they were maybe wanting more drugs than they could get.

It's kind of easy to say that when you've never had sickle cell.

Wilson looked at me 1 day and he said, did you give him a drink of water yet?

And he quoted a text to me about giving water.

And his affections were in, they were infecting affections.

When he would come in, you know, the nurses and the other staff, the x-ray department and everything else, they were all just wanting to get there.

Because he would ask about how's Timmy and how's Jane and how are things going?

Don't get me wrong, it was some kind of weepy hour long, you know, interaction, but it was just, how are you?

We need to have infectious affection that's divinely inspired.

Now 1 of my favorite passages in Scripture is Luke 24.

This is actually 1 of my favorite chapters.

I know this is from 3 Angels, we'll know that over the years.

This is probably the text I come back to time and time again in this chapter Jesus is very familiar with the people that he prayed for in John 17 and you know he laid down his life for us John 10 says that he could take it up that he would take it up again, but he was worried because of the affections of his disciples, because of their, They had made decisions but he was worried about the completeness of those decisions.

I think Jesus was just as eager to be popping out of that grave as anybody else.

Because he wanted to check on people you know to take care of rounds going up to heaven and I'm sure he was happy to see the folks there but he wanted to get the gown you know and make sure things were going okay.

Luke chapter 24 gives the story about how he rose again.

It's interesting about Jesus that the women who followed him many times were more in touch with Christ than the men.

And yet there was no hint of any impropriety.

And the women were there when he died in Luke chapter 23 they observed his body and how it was laid then on the first day of the week they came back to check and Luke chapter 24 and verse 9 they returned from the tomb and told these things to the 11 to all the rest that was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary, the mother of James and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles that Jesus had risen and the apostles didn't believe it.

Their words seemed to them, it says, verse 11, like idle tales and they did not believe it.

Peter arose and ran to the tomb, stooping down he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves and he departed marveling to himself what had happened.

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