Jeff Walper

Granite Bay SDA Church

Namaan’s Leprous Need & Elisha’s Double Supply

This was recorded at the Granite Bay Hilltop SDA Church, located in Granite Bay, California.

Hope you are blessed by the message and that it draws you closer to God.

Let's turn in our Bibles to 2 Kings 5, verse 1.

I want to study with you today the cost of medical missionary work.

Just this past year, Americans spent $5 trillion on health care, and yet the New England Journal of Medicine has pointed out, despite a significant rise in medical costs, there has not been a noticeable improvement in overall population health, but that isn't the price that I want to focus on today.

I want to study the price that Jesus Christ has paid as our Redeemer and as our healer.

I want us to better understand the heart of God as he relates to those who are suffering and what he would have us do as he pours out the Holy Spirit in double portion amount as we approach the end.

In order to do that we're going to look at a story in 2nd Kings chapter 5.

2nd Kings chapter 5 we read verse 1, Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria was a great man with his master and honorable because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria he was also a mighty man in valor but he was a leper So Naaman was a man of prominence.

And this describes many people today, would you agree?

You know, there's 1 thing you cannot buy.

But what I want to look at is, God is calling his church in the last days to embody the character and the heart of Jesus so fully that the Gospel Herald is gonna end with the greatest demonstration of the glory and character of God in the person of Jesus Christ inside his church.

I know, I know we're not going to be able to buy and sell.

I know we're gonna yield all national sovereignty to some global cabal, and that would include the Bill of Rights and your liberty of conscience.

And all that's gonna change, and we're already starting to sense some of those winds blowing.

But I want you to understand that the scripture says that the gospel herald is going to end with a bunch of Elijah's and Elisha's that exemplify the character of Jesus fully.

Not motivated by money, that filthy lucre, but motivated by the gospel, by the love of Jesus.

And they can't be bought, because they've already been purchased by the blood of Jesus.

And so here we find this problem with Naaman.

Naaman represents the secular people outside of the church.

God has his people out there that will listen to the message of the gospel.

Or maybe they have heard it, but they haven't seen it demonstrated.

A lot more is communicated by actions than just words, would you agree?

I don't want to denigrate in any way the importance of preaching the gospel, but let's never forget that demonstrating the gospel is what the Lord's waiting for.

He's waiting for his church to exemplify the gospel in their lives, in their actions, and how they treat others, especially the marginalized, the vulnerable, and the defenseless, even the sick.

Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and honorable because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria.

He was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper.

And the Syrians had gone out by companies and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid, and she waited on Naaman's wife." Now, I want to talk to you a little bit about little maid.

Little maid doesn't get a name in scripture, but she doesn't need 1 because her witness, wow.

I believe that, well let me just tell you a little bit about who Little Maid is.

The Syrian armies had gone up against Israel and none other than King Ahab died in that war.

And in that battle where Ahab, the ungodly, unfaithful husband of Jezebel, not a marriage you want to be in.

But, here Ahab dies in this battle with the Syrians, and surely Naaman was there in that battle, and little maid is taken captive from the war.

And she's brought back to Syria in little maid.

We don't know her exact age, but she's little and she's a servant.

And That's what the Bible wants you to know.

And she's there serving in this high-ranking official in the military of this country that just destroyed her country or killed the king and took her prisoner.

We don't know what happened to her parents.

But it's fascinating to me that little maid has no hint of bitterness or acrimony or anger towards her enemy.

Now, if you've been living on competitive sports and competition and combative, you know, culture, and this is what you call recreation, then you'll have a hard time loving your enemy.

You'll be pressed to fulfill this diminutive stature of little maid being a lowly servant in a foreign land.

It's interesting Ellen White tells us that as the judgments of God start to fall on the cities in the United States and great balls of fire that God's people are going to be scattered in the remote regions of the world and whether or not you don't want to go you're gonna have to go she says so you might as well go ahead and go and she says God's gonna have a work for you to do there and then she lists in about 3 different paragraphs there's gonna be 5 things that God wants you to prepare for he wants you to develop your voice that you can share the message of the gospel with influence.

And then she says that some need to learn every aspect of literature work, how to bind books and make literature.

Don't think that the Internet is going to finish the Gospel of Herald.

She says some, and I've heard people say, oh well that's 1800s.

God doesn't need you to contextualize his message to some foregone historical era called the Victorian Age of Western civilization.

He says that you need to have a knowledge of literature, not only to disseminate it, but also how to bind books and make literature.

She says that some need to know how to make literature.

She says every Seventh-day Adventist church member also must be trained as a medical missionary.

And then she says you need to learn how to build simple small homes and plant gardens and grow your own food.

That's in the context of great balls of fire falling as judgments upon the cities of the United States, and it'll spread from city to city unless they humble themselves and repent.

We're going to be scattered in ways we don't anticipate, like Little Maid.

I'm sure she woke up 1 day and she never anticipated, oh, I'm going to be taken captive today and taken away from my family, and then I'm gonna be serving maybe the very man that harmed my family.

And I'm gonna have compassion for him Because Jesus lives in my heart.

You know, that's the call of the Christian.

Paul says in Galatians 2 verse 20 that, I'm crucified with Christ, therefore I no longer live, but Jesus Christ lives where?

Sometimes we get so familiar with scriptures and different verses that we forget the application and the true meaning of what they're saying.

It's Jesus who's living in the Christian, the true Christian.

Well then how does Jesus treat his enemies?

With acrimony and bitterness and anger and rancor and just...

You no longer live if you follow the Lamb.

Well, little maid is there and she said in verse 3, under her mistress, would God my Lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria, for he would recover him of his leprosy.

So little maid had compassion, she had love for even her enemy.

Lord help us to be like Little Maid, to love our enemies.

We won't go to Matthew chapter 5 verse 45, for 44 and 45, but it bears meditation that we are called to love our enemy and to pray for those who spitefully use us and see all manner of evil against us.

That's what it means to be a child of God.

That's why you need to prayerfully repent of watching competitive sports, because it is turning you into a beast and not lamb-like.

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The Way, the Truth and the Life

In John chapter 13, verses 34 to 35, we have Jesus there reclined on the Passover table.

We have his faithful disciples, 12 of whom he has already ordained as the Apostles of the Church, and he knows that his hours are short to be able to give some of that last very important precious counsel to his disciples.

And so in those 2 verses in that very deep and important chapter as the Apostle John records for us, Jesus says to them, a new command I give you, love 1 another.

As I have loved you, so you must 1 love 1 another.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples if you love 1 another.

The last supper was completed on that foreboding Thursday night.

Jesus was on, Judas I should say, was on his way to the religious leaders to betray his Lord to his arrest and death.

Jesus' mind was inevitably becoming focused on the most immense task a human being has ever faced.

He was to lay down his life for his children, for his sheep the very next day.

He himself was going to bear the sin and guilt of all the world upon himself.

That all who would choose to repent, all who would agree to come to God by faith might be granted eternal life.

And knowing the beginning from the end, knowing the number of hairs that are on each of our heads, knowing the sinful nature that has taken such a deep root in our souls, He gives His followers of faith a new commandment.

Now, we must not mistake this to be a new commandment in regards to God's revelation for indeed in the very first author of the Bible, that of Moses, God had made it very clear that we are to love those and even those who do not love us, that we are to love our neighbors as ourself, that we are to love the Lord our God with all our mind, our soul, and our strength.

Now God had already revealed it, but the problem was that his disciples had been brought up in a Sabbath school and in a synagogue where the teachers had not taught them this essential truth.

And so for them it was a new commandment, a new commandment I give to you Jesus, that you love 1 another.

And if you in case you're wondering how I desire for you to love each other, love each other in the same way that I have loved you.

1 of the most foundational proofs and witnesses that we are truly with Christ is that we are found loving 1 another.

And regardless of the existence of the different, Now listen carefully friends, and regardless of the existence of the different church organizations that may contain, and do contain I should say, many of Christ's followers, even today Christ has called us to love 1 another.

And so friends, even as I went back and I reviewed this counsel of Jesus, Jesus spoke to me and he said, not only am I to remember to love everyone within the Granite Bay Church, everyone within the Northern California Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, everyone that I meet around the world in this great remnant movement of truth as God has given to us, God has called me to love all fellow believers as Jesus has loved me.

And so do you love your Baptist neighbor?

We must not forget as we're going to touch on even again today in today's important message and topic that indeed many of God's, in fact, I would dare say that the vast majority of God saved, Holy Spirit filled, heaven bound believers are outside of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

Now God tells us that's going to change as time goes on.

But friends, there are many believers outside of our organization.

And God has called us to love them even as Jesus has loved us.

But Jesus doesn't hold tight on his counsel that evening because he knows that his time is short.

He knows that the counsel he shares is precious and so he goes on to them and tells them, let not your heart be troubled.

And he tells them that where he goes, he will come again and receive them to himself.

And then after that he says, and by the way, you know where I'm going and you know the way.

Now as we read the rest of the passage, of course, it tells us very clearly that the disciples weren't quite on the same page as Jesus, that it actually turned out to be a setup.

But he was doing it in a righteous way because indeed Jesus was setting them up so that he might further impact them with 1 of the most, in fact, I would say the most fundamental truth that God has ever given to mankind.

And so Thomas speaks up for the group and he tells Jesus and he says, listen, not only do we not know where you're going, but because of that, we don't know the way.

Many of you have come to see it, accept it, understand the depth of it, and understand that it indeed is the most fundamental truth ever given to mankind.

Jesus takes this opportunity to drive home this fundamental truth with a dogmatism that makes the average modern mind cringe at the hearing of such a statement.

Come with me to John chapter 14 and verse 16, verse 6 I should say.

We're going to the Gospel of John and we're going to spend some time there so just if you're using a paper copy of the Bible, Keep your thumb in John because we're going to be jumping back and forth a little bit.

We're going to John chapter 14 and verse 6.

Thomas speaking in verse 5 for the disciples, Jesus responds and says, I am the way.

Now remember Thomas said, listen we don't know where you are going and we certainly don't know the way.

And Jesus says, well this is where I am leading up to.

No 1 comes unto the Father except through me.

No 1 comes to the Father except through me.

And so according to Jesus, how many can come to the Father without Jesus?

Now he's not doing that because he wants to be exclusive.

He's not doing that because he wants to be mean to those who want to find their way into heaven through other avenues, through other people, through themselves, or what other different ways that they've been sold on making their way to heaven.

But Jesus knows that there is only 1 way that we can succeed in getting to heaven.

And that's why he is so dogmatic about it, because he says, listen, you might have a map and you might be given 6 different maps, and those 6 different maps will show you 6 different ways, but only 1 map is gonna get you there.

There's only 1 hope that we have, dear friends, and that is through the person of Jesus Christ.

And that's why Jesus says, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life, no 1 can make it to the Father except through me.

Reminds me of a documentary that I watched several years ago.

It was released in 2004 by Frontline and this particular episode was entitled, The Jesus Factor.

And the main topic or the main subject of that particular episode was a documentary on President George W Bush and as many if not all of you know George W Bush was a very overt open Christian he was not shy about his faith he was very open about it he would even share it sometimes in his political debates and campaign debates and such.

And some of those clips were shared during this documentary.

Bush, well, I should say there was a, as you watch these documentaries, quite often you have different friends of the family that are being interviewed on that particular person.

And so as this 1 gentleman was being interviewed, a friend of the family, he was recalling an experience that he had with the family of the Bushes, and he was enjoying some iced tea or whatever it was out on the lawn or the yard of either George W.

Bush's lawn or his parents' lawn because it was George W.

Bush as well as his dad, George Bush Sr., President Bush Sr., And then we also have the ex-First Lady, which was of course George W.

Bush got into this conversation with his mother and within the family, how is it that we make our way into heaven?

How is it that a person is saved and makes his way or her way from this life into the eternal life of heaven.

Bush, well he knew the Gospel, he knew the statements of Jesus and he said, well listen, the Bible makes it very clear that no 1 can come to the Father except through Jesus.

Well his mother was on a different page and she said, well you know I actually believe that I don't think that's true.

I think that as long as we desire and make an effort to be a good person and we do our best in this life, then we go to heaven.

Bush goes, listen, we can all do the best we can, but none of us can merit heaven.

And so they went on on this debate until finally, of course, being the family that they are, they had connections.

And Mom Bush gets on the phone with Billy Graham, and Billy Graham happened to be available, and she says, well, this is the debate, this is where I'm at on the debate, and this is where George W.

So Billy Graham answers and said, you know what, I think that the mother's right.

You know, don't worry about it, just be a good person, love your neighbor, and don't worry about it.

And of course, that kind of cinched up the debate in the mother's mind, but George W.

Bush, I've got to give him credit, At the end he says, no, you know what?

I'm going to stick with what the New Testament says.

No More Corn: Finding Freedom from Pornography

Mark Finley

HopeLives365

The Sabbath vs. Sunday: The Coming Global Conflict

What if the next major crisis isn't economic or military, but religious?

Most people don't see it unfolding, but it's taking place right before their eyes.

In this presentation, we're going to probe what's really going on behind the scenes and how the stage is being set for the greatest religious crisis in history.

Reveal to us through your word divine truths, enable us to understand the events, the overwhelming events that are now taking place to prepare for earth's final crisis.

Let's suppose that you have tickets to the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, and the concert is just absolutely amazing.

The orchestra is world-class, the music is breathtaking, And then somebody jumps up in the middle of the concert, as you've been sitting back enjoying that beautiful music, somebody jumps up and says, fire, fire, fire.

First, the guy is crazy, an absolute lunatic.

Secondly, it's a terrorist who wants people to jump up out of their seats so he can mow them down with his AK-47.

But thirdly, that there is a real fire that's taking place.

Now if the person is a crazy man, you want the police to carry him out.

If the person's a terrorist, you want the police to take him down.

If the person is genuinely calling out fire, and there is a fire, you want to call him a hero.

You see, warnings are only valid if the situation, if the crisis is real.

In the book of Revelation, God gives to us the final warning in Earth's history and this warning is real.

It's not something that is mythical, some pipe dream.

It's a very real, authentic warning given by God in love for his people in the last days of Earth's history.

And the reason God outlines events in history is because he wants us to be prepared for those events.

You know in John chapter 14, you remember it was John the Revelator that wrote the book of Revelation.

But notice what we read in John chapter 14 in here and verse 29.

Jesus says, now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it does come to pass, you might believe.

So Jesus says, I've told you things before they come to pass so that as they come to pass, your faith will be strengthened and you will believe.

In 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5, the Lord, again, through the apostle Paul, tells us that we need not be sleeping on the knife edge of eternity but that God will reveal to us the events that are taking place so that we can prepare for them.

We're looking there at chapter 5 and verses 1 to 5.

But concerning the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you for you yourselves know perfectly the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night when they say peace and safety sudden destruction comes upon them but You don't need to be in darkness so that the day would overcome you as a thief.

You're sons of the light, sons of the day.

Now listen, therefore let us not sleep as others, but as watch and be sober.

So there are Events that are coming upon our world that are overwhelming.

Soon a crisis is going to break that is unimaginable.

God has warned us of these things in his word.

He longs for us not to sleep, but to watch, to be alert, and to be awake.

With that background, let's delve right into the Book of Revelation.

What are these events that are coming upon our world?

The great theme of the Book of Revelation is worship.

Satan desires to have the worship that belongs only to God.

God longs for us to come and worship Him.

Jesus longs for us to come with our hearts open in worship.

Satan desires to usurp the throne of God and command worship.

This conflict of worship that is the heart of the great controversy between good and evil, the heart of this conflict between Christ and Satan, is clearly outlined in Revelation chapter 14.

So we jump there to Revelation the 14th chapter.

We're going to look at the conflict that's coming, the events that lead up to that conflict, and notice what's really going on behind the scenes.

Revelation chapter 14, we start with verse 6.

I saw another angel flying in the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the earth.

God's last day message is an urgent message, the angel flies.

It's an eternal message, the everlasting gospel.

And it's a universal message, it goes to the ends of the earth.

Then it says, fear God, respect God, take God seriously, Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come and worship him that made heaven earth sea and the fountains of waters.

Worship him in the light of the judgment, in the light of the second coming of Christ.

There is a call to take God seriously, to give him glory, and to worship the Creator.

The basis of all worship is the fact that God has created us.

Revelation 4.11 says, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power because you created all things.

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