AMEN 2006: The Right Arm, the Right Approach, Right Now

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2006 Plenary Sessions

Lorayne Barton

Serving God, Saving Souls: The Purpose of Medical Evangelism

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 1

Don Mackintosh

God’s Right Arm Revealed

Rod Willey

Pews to People

Arthur Weaver

Health Education as Introductory Contact

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 2

Ted N.C. Wilson

The Spiritual Foundation of the Right Arm

God’s Right Arm Resurrected

Naren James

Sam Soler

From Medical Practice to Ministry: The Experience of the Bluegrass Clinic

Mark Finley

Healthful Living through the Eyes of Grace

Jerry Finneman

Donn LaTour

Allen Lloyd

Phil Mills

Medical Ministry Panel Discussion

AMEN 2006 Progress Notes, Part 3

God’s Right Arm Connected

Zeno Charles-Marcel

Do You Want to be Well? The Challenge of FAITH in Clinical Practice

I meant to work on my message yesterday, but it was so exciting I couldn't go back up to my room.

As I listened to the reports And as I listened all the way to last night, and I thought, it's just going to calm down in the evening.

It was like an extensive surgery yesterday, wasn't it?

A re-anastomosis of the brachial plexus was occurring.

And it was a complicated surgery, but it appears to have been at least partially completed and we have to do everything we can to make sure that no infection sets in.

Post-operatively we do what needs to be done.

I just need to pray again here this morning.

And this podium is very developmentally challenged.

But let's just pray together and ask the Lord to be with us.

Father in Heaven, today we come again on this last day of this conference.

And I, again, feel totally inadequate, and I thank you for that feeling.

I thank you for that assurance you give me that it is not by my might or by my power but by your spirit.

I'm thankful each time I'm reminded of that, that it is only your righteous hand that can uphold me and each of us.

And today we want to consider to reprove what you've given.

Holy Scriptures are profitable for doctrine, for correction, for reproof, and today we want to, again, look at your Word to reprove it and draw life from the tree of life.

Bless us as we look at your Word this morning, and we come in Christ's name.

The right arm, excuse me, revisited was our first topic, and we saw in that first time together that the right arm is God's arm of creation memorialized in the commandment in Exodus.

And we also recognized it is his arm of redemption memorialized in the commandment in Deuteronomy.

In our second time together, we recognize that God wants to resurrect that arm, and He loves to resurrect things on the Sabbath and the man that he healed in Mark chapter 3 is also the same man in Luke chapter 6 verse 6 he healed that right hand on the Sabbath, and that man's ability was resurrected, and he was reconnected.

And I believe yesterday the Lord did some resurrection work here.

I believe that he worked through many different people and I believe that your prayers and the prayers of others moved the arm of faith yesterday and moved your arms too as you put in those pledges at the 11 o'clock hour and then gave your names in the evening.

But it's really his arm if we're surrendered to him.

So today I want to talk about the third aspect, the right arm Totally reconnected.

I suggested yesterday something quite provocative, that the right arm could receive a mark.

And some of you came to me very convicted about that.

I heard how some of your ministries actually started because of the fact that you dedicated all of your Sabbath money to the Lord.

And I recognize that that message is a message for this time.

The right arm, we learned, had been severely damaged in the beginning.

We showed you how that was her right hand that took the fruit, And how God tried to damage and still tries to damage the right arm.

I mean the devil tries to damage the right arm.

And in Genesis chapter 3 we see God's first farewell sermon.

He never wanted to preach a farewell sermon this early, but there he had to preach a farewell sermon.

Because Eve had taken that fruit and then handed it to Adam and sin was spreading and there in Genesis chapter 3 We find that they separated themselves and the Lord they hid from him.

That right arm that had reached out and was separate and caused a separation then led to the actual separation where they were hiding and God had to come after them.

Verse 22, Verse 22, the Lord God said, Behold, man has become like 1 of us to no good and evil, and now lest he put out his, his, his, what do you suppose, hand, his hand, his right hand, and perhaps, we know it was the 1 they used to send he he put out his hand and and take also of the tree of life and eat and live what therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden a severing to till the ground from which he was taken he drove out the man the word drove out that word drove is the word for divorce in the Bible I hate goddess drove out a separation How many of you have ever known someone that has experienced a divorce?

Drove out the man and he placed cherubim at the east of the Garden of Eden and these cherubim were to guard with a flaming sword which turned every way the way to the tree of life.

1 angel, 1 angel and might and power could take out a lot of people.

And in those cherubim, bema is plural, was plural, was a flaming sword.

My little nephew collects swords and knives.

I don't know, I have something in my mind that maybe malfunctions, but when I see a sharp instrument, I always begin to think what that could do to me.

And I went into his room and I see this thing and I go, oh man.

And I think, man, that could cut my finger off.

You know, you're thinking about that, the severing that could happen once I was over in Scotland on my honeymoon.

And you usually only do that once, Praise God, right?

And I was over there and I was in this, I don't remember the name of it, but it was right off that street that goes up to the castle.

And I was in this place, and it had all of these swords and all of these different things there, and they were all on the wall, and I just kept thinking, what if they fall off?

So there was this sword there that was turning every way to guard The way of the tree of life.

You know, it's interesting to me at a medical conference, I've not been to too many, I may not be invited back after what I'm about to say, But I listen to doctors talk to each other and dentists, and they tell me that the Lord is blessing their practice.

There are all kinds of sick people coming to them.

I think we should be careful about how we talk about that.

The only reason we should say the Lord is blessing our practice is not because of the finances that come in, but because of the salvation that goes out.

When we say the Lord is blessing my practice, it should never mean numerically, financially.

It should always mean numerically, salvation-wise.

Because what is the reason you have a medical practice?

What a terrible thing, a farewell sermon.

You know, I'm preaching a series of farewell sermons at my church.

I've been there 13 years and I'm leaving.

That's very hard for me to leave that church.

And the tears that I have over that are nothing compared to the tears of Christ when he had to preach this farewell sermon.

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God’s Right Arm Connected

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