"Raising the Right Arm" Prophecy & Medical Ministry Camp Meeting

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Uchee Pines Institute

Plenaries with Dwayne Lemon

Dwayne Lemon

The Prophetic Relevance of the Medical Missionary Work

The Sacredness of the Laws of Health

What is the Medical Missionary Work and What It Is Not

The First Work in Medical Missionary Lines

Purify Our Motives

Father in heaven, thank you so much, Lord, for the wonderful opportunities to speak to your people.

I thank you for this privilege, Father, for it is a privilege.

But, Lord, I also know that I have no power in and of myself to even articulate that which is needed most.

Therefore I commit myself into your hands and I pray that you'll take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.

I pray that you'll speak to my mind and speak through my mouth that it might minister to the heart needs of my brothers and my sisters.

I pray that you'll give them ears to hear, and that as a result of our time together in the meditation of your word, we will come out of this place better than when we came in.

I have had the privilege over the past few years to go to different institutes.

I've been to several institutes within the United States of America, and then I've had the privilege to go abroad.

Many of these institutes were either our schools where they train gospel workers.

That can be things like an Amazing Facts or there's a wonderful school like Wachita Hills Academy and College and many, many others.

And then we have places that are medical missionary training institutes like Uchi Pines, like Wildwood, like Meet Ministry and many, many others.

Been overseas and got a chance to see some institutes over there.

And I found that the same problems that we're having here in many respects, you also see them happening abroad because America is typically where everybody loves to look and to copy.

And 1 of the things I really notice is that there's a lot of similar weaknesses and similar challenges.

And you get to a place that God has really transitioned my mind.

And what has happened as of late is I find that when I rose up on December 19, 2016, when I rose up from that surgical table and God spared my life and restored me, et cetera, I was really more inquiring now, Lord, what do you want?

And I love going to young people, because there's a lot of buzzwords in Adventism.

When you say present truth, that can mean something completely different to me than it is to you.

So these become buzzwords that we use a lot that I'm discovering we really don't know what we're talking about a lot of times.

Then on top of that, there's another real major buzz term that's used in Adventism.

You know, we gotta do what's called finish the work.

Some of the questions that I ask both youth and adults is what do you mean by finish the work?

Or what work is it that needs to be finished?

What do we need to do to get Jesus to come back here and take us out of this planet.

And a lot of times we say we need more outpost centers, especially the younger generation, you hear that a lot.

We need more outpost centers, we need blueprint schools, we need this, we need that.

And I'm thinking to myself, we had blueprint schools.

When I was at the Mountain and Mountain Mission working with Toccoa Missions, Elder Sandoval mentioned that I was working with Toccoa Missions.

But there was a time that I was part of Takoa missions and we were over in Harrisville, New Hampshire, and I remember being on Mountain Mission.

And some of you who are of the older generation, you know about Mountain Mission.

And the big old mansion that was on the property there, et cetera, and you know, when I look at that mansion, it's desolate.

And it's interesting because to Coa Mission, it's not there anymore, it moved on to another location, And now there's a non-believing man who owns that very property and is using it more so for glory of self than glory for God.

I remember when I was walking through the mansion, and I mean, you gotta walk carefully in that mansion because the floors are all brittle and everything.

You could literally fall through the floor.

And so we would walk on the beams and what have you, and you would go into a room.

And when you would go in the room, there would be these boxes filled with books.

And we would go in those boxes and open them up, and there would be these old books.

When I opened up this directory, you know what it was?

It was a directory of all of the outpost centers in the United States.

It was a directory that went as far back as probably about 1940, something like that, 1940, 1950.

And when you look at how many Outpost centers we had, how many hygienic restaurants.

When you look at all these things that we had, I wonder how is it that heaven holds back tears?

Because when you count it today, you can almost count it on 1 hand.

And so, in my mind, I'm like, Father, we've had outpost centers.

You go to where these places were, and it's quote unquote Gentiles that own it now, non-believers, heathens, doing whatever they want, when they want, how they want.

The remainder of these schools, you go into them, and you constantly see a gross level of apostasy.

It's like a microcosm of places where you can really find what God is looking for.

When I saw this, this is what began to cause me to say, Father, what do you want?

Because if the work could simply be finished by establishing more outpost centers, well, it should have been finished a long time ago.

It's spelled out in very, very clear language.

In Proverbs, the 23rd chapter, I want you to see what the Bible says, and I think that this is the most important thing.

Yes, it is true, God wants more schools, sanitariums, various outpost centers.

Yes, the Lord could certainly benefit from having more of those.

Some people are now doing it from their homes.

They're making little home sanitariums, and they're doing home schools, and home this and home that, and all that's fine.

But the question is, have we really met what God wants?

It's spelled out very clearly in Proverbs 23.

The Bible says in Proverbs the 23rd chapter, consider verse 26.

And the Bible says, my son, what does God want?

Give me thine heart and let your eyes observe my ways.

You see, until God has your heart, you will corrupt the outpost center.

Until God has our heart, we will corrupt the school.

Until God has our heart, my brothers and sisters, we will corrupt the sanitarium work.

We heard the good side about Kellogg, but there's a bad side, isn't there?

And unfortunately, that bad side testifies to what can happen to the heart and how much havoc can take place in the movement when God does not have the reins of the heart.

And so when I begin to look at my own life, I'm very, very carefully asking God, what is it about my heart you don't have?

That's like the mass assessment for Dwayne Lemon.

I mean, if anybody knows me, and there's 1 person in here that does very well, and that is my bride from my side.

And my wife will tell you that that is the theme of my thought processes.

I'm just like, does the Lord really have a heart?

We talk to them every evening, and they tell us about how the Lord is blessed as they went knocking on doors, going in businesses, and providing truth-filled literature, and they talk about how wonderful some of the other missionaries that they're shadowing and how they're getting the books out there, et cetera.

And when it's all said and done, I'm on the phone, I'm like, praise the Lord, It's a blessing.

Dad, we went, we knocked on the door, the person slammed the door in our face.

We moved on to the next person and we just started going.

And my children are telling these stories and I'm just like, man, amen.

But then when it's all said and done, in my mind I'm saying, what did you behold about Jesus in these experiences today?

Because it's only by beholding him that we can become changed and have his heart.

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Plenaries with Dwayne Lemon

What is the Medical Missionary Work and What It Is Not

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Parent Conference

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Excellent Service

2h 2m

Our Urgent Call: LIVE the Three Angels' Messages

Medical Missionary Work and the 3 Angels’ Messages

1h 18m

The Present Present Truth

40m

Breakout Sessions C

A Special Key in Developing the Mind of Christ

1h

GYC 2011 Seminar: The Prophetic Significance of the Early and Latter Rain

The Sanctuary and the Early and Latter Rains, Part 2

1h 17m

SWYC 2010 Breakout: Health

The Holy Spirit’s Work -- and Yours

55m

Our Call to Medical Missionary Work

1h 23m

Medical

Touched by Grace: Building Community Through Compassionate Outreach and Church Planting

57m

Leading Souls into the Truth

1h 5m

What Is Revival and Reformation

What Is Reformation? Part 2

55m

Morning Devotional

Prophecy and Medical Missionary Work

1h 1m

Sound Doctrine