Your best Pathway to Health: Christ's Method Alone

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Your best Pathway to Health

Don Mackintosh

Staying Focused

It's a blessing to be with you today, and really, the Word plants the seed, right?

Let's just bow our heads and ask the Lord to be with us as we get into the Word tonight.

Father in heaven, Lord, we're thankful for your Word.

Scriptures say that you send your word and it brings healing.

We ask that your word would bring healing to us today and to our hearts and would embolden and empower us.

We're tired after working today and yesterday, but it's a good kind of tired, and we ask that you would buoy our spirits up.

Tonight I wanna look at Daniel chapter 9 with you, health evangelism.

Over the last few years, you know, since really ASI Pacific Union, when we started there in San Francisco long ago, And as Randy mentioned, I guess the small part I had to play was trying to challenge the Pacific Union with a rather inflammatory sermon, which I thought would be my last speaking appointment for ASI.

And then Leila said, would you join the board?

Of course, I didn't do that because I was on a couple of those already and I didn't want to get overboard.

But we went to San Francisco and it was amazing there in San Francisco.

I think It shocked me actually to see what happened.

I still remember a young man that was talking with me and he said to me, why are you here?

I heard you had something to do with this.

He said, this is a place where people get hurt.

This is a place where people are injured.

No 1 in this section of the town is up to any good.

Of course, we were in a pornography, a building that had a pornography studio in it, and I didn't really realize that until my students had showed up at the wrong side of the building.

And I was trying to see how to explain that to Dr.

Bivens, but anyway, I said, you're on the wrong side of the building.

This man said, this is a place of darkness.

He came to me a couple days later and he said, this was a place of darkness.

I can't believe that no 1 has been hurt, and you have turned this place and your team into a place of light.

You know, I've been working with the Lifestyle Counseling and Coaching booth with Karen and Henry, my co-leaders, and the rest of our team from Weimar and then some folks that have joined us.

It's kind of like working at Weimar here.

But as we've talked to people, we see them right at the end.

We were gifted to be able to have education, this and that, and we want to give back.

Then others say, well, it's because of what Jesus did.

You remember in Acts chapter 10 verse 38 where it tells about how Jesus was anointed.

God, Acts chapter 10 verse 38, God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost.

How did you know that he was the anointed 1?

Well, because he went about doing good and healing.

And really that gave more evidence than a dove coming down on a voice from heaven or a sermon.

It was those first 3 and a half years of ministry that really showed who the Messiah was.

But there was another reason that he went about doing good.

16 times in the book of Matthew it says that it might be fulfilled.

And then in Luke it talks about how the Spirit of the Lord would anoint him and he would heal the brokenhearted and the recovery of sight to the blind and all those different things.

And then you remember how John's disciples were wondering whether or not this was the Christ or another would come.

And in Luke chapter 7 and verse 22, Jesus answered and said to them, go, go your way and tell John what things he have seen and heard, how the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised.

So in other words, there was a promotional element as well back then.

It says that they blazed it abroad what happened.

Have you ever noticed how Jesus would heal people and He'd say, Don't tell anyone!

I mean, that's like setting someone up for disobedience.

Because after you have just been healed, you want to tell someone.

I don't think many people listen to that command.

Of course, that had to do with his time and his hour that needed to come.

What I want to look at tonight though is this idea, why was it that Jesus did this?

He did it not only because he loved, but he did it to fulfill all righteousness.

There was a plan that God had ordained ahead of time, a prophetic plan.

And that prophetic plan is what I want to talk about tonight.

All of you Adventists should know about this plan.

And most of you will have 5 fingers, right, I hope, or 4 fingers and 1 thumb.

And you know, I want to look at those 5 points tonight because my contention is that this prophetic plan that we see in the 2300-day prophecy, which many of us know about from the book of Daniel, is not just a prophetic plan, it's also a practical plan for evangelism and how to revive your church, your life.

And those 5 points will be the points we cover in our brief time together.

457, the command to rebuild the temple or the sanctuary.

And then 27 AD when the Messiah came and was baptized, and then 31 when he died, and 34 when Stephen was stoned, and then finally 1844.

There needed to be a restoration at the very beginning of God's sanctuary.

This was the whole idea of the prophecy, that a sanctuary needed to be restored.

You know, I was thinking about the first time the sanctuary was mentioned in Scripture.

Genesis chapter 3 and verse 24, it says that he, that is God, placed cherubim to keep, and the word there, keep, means to guard.

In other words, kind of like, you know, I used to work as an emergency room nurse and work with the paramedics and we would intubate people.

And we would put a tube down someone's throat.

And when someone was burned, when I used to work with the burn team, we wanted to get that down as rapidly as possible because if the swelling went up, it would cut off their airway.

But if we got that tube down, we could keep the way open.

And this is the old idea there in Genesis chapter 3 verse 24.

He placed, the word placed means to dwell or tabernacle, literally.

He placed cherubim there to keep the way open.

How many are thankful that God keeps the way open?

And as we've ministered today, if we give people a breath of the Holy Spirit, if with a word or a deed they say, there's hope in this world for me, there's a God who cares for me, we're keeping the way open.

And this is why God wants to restore a sanctuary system, or a sanctuary net.

He wanted to restore the sanctuary in the prophecy of Daniel, because the sanctuary literally was a center of healing.

And what really brings this out is when you look at the book of Leviticus.

Now Leviticus is in the center of the Pentateuch, the first 5 books of the Bible.

It's right in the middle and it is actually the center chapter that I want to consider with you, chapter 16.

So right in the midst of the Pentateuch, right in the middle of Leviticus, chapter 16.

And you'll see here, I think they have a graphic showing this chiastic structure.

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