AMEN 2015: CrossTraining

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

Plenary

Todd Guthrie

At the Crossroads: The Cross, the Healthcare Crisis, and Power for Lasting Change

Peter Landless

Learning to Carry the Cross

Don Mackintosh

The Cross: It’s Prophetic & Healing Significance

Kelly Kinsley

The Message of the Cross

John Shin

Great Is Thy Faithfulness: My Journey into Medicine

Eric Walsh

Crossfit: Training for Eternity

Mark Finley

The Cross Connection: How Love Flowing From the Cross Changes Us and Our Patients

Well, let's pray again before we look here at the cross, its prophetic and practical significance.

We've been counseled a thoughtful hour a day, but we do ask that you'd Bless our 40 minutes we spend now, and we come in Christ's name, amen.

The news has been filled with those who have dedicated their life to medical missionary work, and interestingly enough, some are within our own denomination recently.

And even today I just pulled up a number of articles from the last 24 hours and almost every major network is talking about Seventh-day Adventists.

I read through a number of articles over the last couple weeks.

And these are the things that have been talked about in these articles.

The Bible and its authority, creation and evolution, salvation, prayer and the devotional life, the second coming, the Sabbath, the Mark of the Beast, the Sanctuary, 1844, William Miller, the state of the dead, hell, spirit of prophecy, separation of church and state, Catholicism, Islam, evangelicalism, Catholicism, Seventh-day Adventism, vegetarianism.

So how many of you recognize just from what I have shown you that really it's kind of crazy to think, well, I'm not going to talk about my faith because no one's ever heard of it.

You know, the easiest thing to do right now to witness is to say, so, have you heard of Dr.

Now, if you're a cardiologist, someone might have a heart attack.

Or someone might be calmed by that, I don't know.

But I'm telling you, in the last 72 hours even, I have had absolutely no problem talking to anyone about the tenets of Seventh-day Adventism.

Landless, even the New Star Program is easy to talk about.

Seventh-day Adventist Church, this is just this morning, is having a moment.

It's almost like we shouldn't be having this moment.

And then even more rebukes actually in the article.

The denomination is not well known, and neither are its teachings.

Church officials are hoping to change that by unveiling a new website.

Here's what Adventists believe in some of their beliefs.

And I've seen this in at least 30 articles, a discussion of the prophetic heritage of Adventism and William Miller.

Now this is fascinating to me, that it would be so easy to witness.

How many of you are collecting the newspapers right now?

So you can show people, did you see this?

And I want to talk about that prophecy, I want to talk about its practical implications.

My big message today is that we have been very successful as a church, although in some sectors this has even been under a less appreciated, we have been very successful in talking about the prophecies.

How many of you have ever heard a discussion of Bible prophecy?

Have you ever seen any slides with this on the slide?

Maybe not the 1844 part so much because sometimes they just kind of don't talk about that as much.

Of course, when I worked at an evangelism school and was in charge of the stable of evangelists, I'd say, you need to talk about that.

Since the time of my great-grandfather, who was a contemporary of Ellen White, and who worked with HMJ Richards, who was the founder of Voice of Prophecy, since that time, when evangelistic campaign was 9 months long, 5 nights a week, and I have all the notes to show it, since that time when an evangelistic campaign was to raise up a church, not to do bypass surgery on a church, Since that time until now, we have lost the practical application of prophecy, largely.

Last week I was asked to come and do some health things with someone doing a prophecy seminar.

And I said, sure, I'd be happy to do that.

I said, you know, your generosity is underwhelming.

And I realized that this individual and many others don't understand the power that we have with the right hand to open the door.

And if I don't get to say this, I'll say it now, we need a renewed paradigm of evangelism in the Adventist Church.

And it has to morph to where the medical missionary part actually leads.

In fact, we're told that there'll come a time when it will be the only work being done.

How many think we should be learning how to do that right now?

And I have to also say, if I don't say it any other time, that if you are led by the Lord to effectively reach people in meeting their physical needs, they will open up emotionally, they will then share their thoughts, so their physical needs are met, then they will emotionally begin to open up, and they will start to change their thoughts, and they will ask you about the spirituality.

In fact, I've had people during this last 10 days, Dr.

Nelly mentioned we were working in a depression recovery program, we had 20 or 22 folks in that.

And I had 5 of them ask me to be baptized or rebaptized.

I was talking to Alan here in the second row.

Alan was at breakfast with me and was it Jim?

This is Alan and Jim, they're from Canada.

We were talking about how he came into the church.

Jim does dental mission trips and they take people on mission trips.

Alan said, I went to a cooking school, and the food was so good, and the people were so loving that I asked, during the sixth cooking school, how is it that I could become a part of your church?

Well look, I think that is an excellent approach.

How many of you like people saying, what must I do to be saved, rather than what hinders you?

Look, 16 times in the New Testament it says, what must I do to be saved?

They were so gripped with the medical missionary work in the early church, that was cross-based by the way, that they would ask to join the church and say, what must I do?

Rather than make a presentation and say, okay, are you willing to do this and this and this?

How many think that this is a little bit better?

Now, you've got to understand, I love public evangelism and I'm not trying to diminish it, but I'm saying we need to have a new renewed paradigm.

Oh, this is such a great prophecy when you really look at it.

The cross and its prophetic and practical significance, this is the give me 5 principle.

It starts 457, which is the cleansing of the sanctuary.

It ends 1844, the rebuilding of the sanctuary and cleansing it as well.

And then right in the middle, 27 AD, what was 1 of the first acts of Christ's ministry?

He said, look, don't just do sanctuary work to sell lambs and things that go with the service.

And then what was the last part of that 490 prophecy, 34 AD?

Stephen dies and he points to the sanctuary as He's dying.

Sanctuary, sanctuary, and then right in the middle of the cross.

Now let's look at the practical application of this.

See the sanctuary according to Exodus 25a, let them make me a, that I may dwell among them.

The sanctuary is coming near people that are flawed.

There were those that weren't totally converted.

That's why it took 40 years instead of 10 days.

And God said, you know, I want this sanctuary to be among you, that I could dwell among you.

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The Cross: It’s Prophetic & Healing Significance

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