AMEN 2010: Christ - Patient Restorer

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2010 Plenary Sessions

Allen Lloyd

From Fractured to Whole

Nebblett Family

Wholeness with God

David DeRose

Holistic Medicine in the US - Passing Fad or Permanent Fixture?

P. William Dysinger

Historical Perspectives on Adventist Medicine

Phil Mills

Restorer’s

Edwin Nebblett

Maria Nebblett

Wholeness with Your Spouse

Nicolae Dan

Is This the Time?

Raja Tooma

Going All Out with Witnessing: Is that Your Heartbeat Doctor?

Mark Finley

To Make Man Whole - Christ the Patient Restorer

Challenge to the students at AMEN conference 2010

Naren James

Why Media? Introducing the Life & Health Network

Wholeness with Your Family

Our Father in heaven, we thank you for the Sabbath day.

We pray that as we begin this morning, that you will teach us what it means to be holy.

So I just pray now that your Holy Spirit will be here, that you'll open our hearts to your message and to your word.

I just pray that again, that you would speak through Dr.

Neblett, his wife and their family as they bring your message to us.

What a privilege it is to be here with you.

We're very thankful for the opportunity that we have to share with you And we are praying that as you hear us, you don't hear us.

But rather, you hear the 1 that we choose, by God's grace, to abide in.

Because the Nebleth family is, I have news for you, not perfect.

But we want, by God's grace, to take the advantage of the power that he offers to every 1 of us to be victorious.

And that is what we want to share with you, is our struggles and, by God's grace, our victories.

Yesterday we talked about the importance of revival in our personal life, and some of those critical elements that are needed in order to have that growing intimacy with God.

Today, we want to share our experience a little more in depth in the context of the marriage relationship.

What does a marriage relationship look like when it is yielded to the Lord Jesus Christ?

You know Ellen White says that God intends that our marriages be an agent for the blessing of humanity.

So the marriage relationship is not just meant to bring the warmth of companionship, which I pray that it does, and to provide assistance for man in accomplishing the work that God has given for him to perform for his glory, but also to increase the usefulness and the happiness of both man and wife.

This is the way it was in the Garden of Eden.

God wants to make our union under Jesus Christ that work that will result in our homes being the happiest place on earth, the very symbol of the home in heaven.

But in order for our marriages to be all that it can be, bringing joy and fulfillment to both partners, both husband and wife, and to the children or anyone else in the home, it needs to be a marriage where each partner is fully surrendered to God and is experiencing revival and wholeness with God in his or her own life.

And instead of us being driven by self and our fleshly desires.

You know, the take-home message here is that a godly husband and wife are first a godly man and woman.

The best gift you can give to your spouse and The best investment you can make to your marriage is seeking to become more like Jesus, instead of trying to change your spouse.

In Desire of Ages, page 172, we read, The Christian's life is not a modification or improvement of the old but a transformation of nature.

There is death to self and sin and a new life altogether.

Romans 6 12 through 14 says let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies that you should obey it in the lust thereof.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God and those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

It is grace that is more than sufficient.

When we are dealing with the challenges of life.

For you know, as we share as a couple these practical illustrations today, our struggles and our victories, it is interesting that in marriage, which is 1 of the most intimate unions that God wants us to have is where our greatest joy and our greatest perplexities can arise.

We want to share in the context of this that yielding to the inclination to fulfill our selfish desires always leads to conflict and alienation.

On the other hand, learning by the grace of God to surrender in the moment of temptation or trial can lead to victory, peace, fulfillment, and wholeness in our marriages.

Although our main focus, however, today is to encourage married couples to cooperate with God, to make their marriages all that God would have them to be, the principles that we want to share of self-denial, humility, surrender, and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit will apply to everyone here and you can benefit to them in them in the context of any relationship that you might have.

Are you going on from victory unto victory in your life?

Or is victory something that you are experiencing more on a hit or miss basis?

Friends, God is longing to give us victory over every weakness, over every battle with the enemy, every battle with self.

He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Jesus promised us the gift which he knew would make the difference between success and failure.

The gift of which Ellen White says in The Desire of Ages, page 672, this promised blessing, claimed by faith, brings all other blessings in its train.

She says that it was the highest gift that he could solicit from the Father for the exaltation of his people.

I am so excited as I was listening to Pastor Finley last night and knowing the movement that is taking place in our leadership today to prepare us for the latter rain.

We're just beside ourselves with excitement.

We were listening to the Elder Wilson's message from the annual council just on the way here in the car.

And we're just rejoicing and praising God.

And it was so consistent as we were listening to that message with what the burden that God had put in our hearts to bring to you this morning that we are praising God.

And quote, sin could be resisted and overcome only through the mighty agency of the third person of the Godhead.

Do you want to become a possessor of that gift that will ensure victory in every area of your life?

Do you want to have such spiritual appetite that you cannot wait to get into God's word long before the dawn breaks.

Do you want to experience unity with your spouse so that your marriage can be all that God intended it to be?

A blessing for the uplifting of humanity.

We discussed some of the elements yesterday that are crucial if you long for a living, vibrant Christian experience.

We talked about the importance of saturating and renewing our minds with Scripture.

We talked about the power of prayer and how helpful it is to make lifestyle choices that are consistent with a vibrant spirituality, that are conducive to victory instead of creating that abyss between us and our God.

The active involvement of the Holy Spirit at every step in this process is critical and it is something that we want to dwell on and look at a little bit more in depth as we entertain the subject of a living experience with God that transforms not only our personal lives but our relationships, our marriages, our parenting and our relationships with all others.

Friends, a genuine experience with God is something of the Spirit.

It says in Desire of Ages, page 671, only when the truth is accompanied to the heart by the Holy Spirit will it quicken the conscience or transform the life.

The Spirit can take a Christian experience that is stale, that is a mere formality or a mechanical process and it can turn it into a real living, dynamic, loving, fulfilling, saving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

So let's look at what part do we have to play in becoming possessors of that gift.

Well, in a very practical sense, we must not only pray for the anointing and for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but we must learn to recognize the promptings of the Holy Spirit throughout the day and learn to yield to his guidance.

She says, there are many who believe and proclaim, believe and profess to claim the Lord's promise.

They talk about Christ and they talk about the Holy Spirit, but listen, they do not surrender the soul to be guided and controlled by the divine agencies.

Our part is to learn what it means to surrender in a very practical way.

And he will use us if we cultivate that habit of moment by moment surrender to his promptings, willing to deny our selfish inclinations and to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

If we are daily in the word, coming into his presence every morning as a sinner in need of a savior, which is what every 1 of us is, if we are taking time to behold Christ, not just in a 5 minute quick reading of a devotional thought, but tarrying in His presence, saturating our minds with the principles that address our very personal needs.

Our growing intimacy with God will prepare us each morning to be sensitive throughout the day to hear and empower to obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus, who is our perfect example, was perfectly surrendered to the will of his father every moment of every day.

And as he faced the hardest choice, death on the cross, his humanity shrank from it as our humanity would shrink from it.

He said, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me.

But then he immediately voiced his surrender.

Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.

Are we willing to follow Him in that moment by moment surrender?

He said in Matthew 16, 24, If any man will come after me, let him what?

Deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Friends, we have countless opportunities to do this throughout the day, to deny ourselves and surrender to His Lordship, to His guidance.

Such as when the alarm clock goes off in the morning, at that earlier time so that we can take time with him.

We have a surrender to make at that time, especially if you're not a morning person.

Such as when our spouse or when our child says something that provokes self to rise in us and we want to respond in agitation.

You know, the beautiful thing is he does not leave us to accomplish following him in those moments by ourselves because he knows that in our human flesh we are powerless to do that.

According to Romans, we are carnal, sold under sin, naturally subject to the lusts of our flesh.

But friends, Christ paid the wages of sin, not only to free us from the condemnation of the law, but to empower us, to make it possible by his grace that we can be empowered to walk in newness of life, being led of his spirit, instead of being in bondage to the sinful, selfish inclinations of our flesh.

So if we consent, he is willing to work in us both to will, to desire, and to do the will of God, Philippians 2.13.

So you see, we have a choice to make at the beginning of each day.

And then we have a choice to confirm, many choices to confirm that choice we've made throughout the day.

And it's a choice between the lordship of Christ, which leads to peace and freedom.

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