AMEN 2012: Testimony

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2012 Seminars

Jennifer Schwirzer

Cutting Edge Counseling: Clinical Experience in the Healing Power of the Gospel

Michael Orlich

Adventist Health Study

Keith Hanson

Joel Sabangan

Spirituality in Patient Care

Rachel Nelson

The Making of a Medical Missionary

Joe Nozaki

Legacy

Rod Willey

Sleep Apnea and Drowsy Devotions

He had come over from Japan around the turn of the century.

But then, before he got to Canada, the ship propeller fell off.

My father came from Japan around 1900, shortly after that, to study advanced farming.

So then about 700, 800 miles off of Canada, the ship fell off with no radio and storms coming in.

The passengers, there were about a hundred of them, they didn't believe in God.

But no matter who it was, they were praying to some god.

And after about 7 or 8 days, they thought they would die out there.

The winds were blowing them toward Alaska.

But a ship must have heard their little horn because they had no radio at that time.

And so, so they're towed into Vancouver and they took another ship a couple of weeks later down to down to San Francisco.

Imagine coming in 1900 to learn advanced farming.

So he thought he better learn the language.

Smith, a devoted Adventist school teacher who taught the Japanese immigrants every day.

But on Friday she gave free Bible lessons.

So my father, he thought, well, I'm a Buddhist, I'm not going to change, but I want to know what's making her tick.

But out of that, I think 4 of the 5 or 6 young people became pastors and dad became 1.

He died at a little over 100 years of age, but his burden over and over again, he says, in Japan they have less than 1% Christians.

We need to do something." That was a burden of his life.

And he wrote 5 or 6 books and he distributed them to Japan, South America, and to America, having to do with Bible doctrine.

And our church is a God's remnant church, experiences of people who became Christians, etc.

So he published around 200, 000 of them and distributed them.

So I was looking at the internet the other day and I was thinking, I wonder how many religions we have in America or in the world.

And 1 article said, well, there are 22 major religions.

So, in this world of confusion, we have been commissioned by God.

And here I'd just like to read a quotation by Mrs.

Abraham's affection for his children and his household led him to guard their religious faith, to impart to them a knowledge of the divine statutes, as the most precious legacy he could transmit to them and through them to the world.

So the prophets of old imparted these divine statutes after Abraham and even beforehand And Jesus came and he gave the same commission to us.

And this Abraham felt was the most precious legacy that he could have his children to tell us.

So I'd like to relate a few things, a few stories.

You know, I arrived here last night, and I'm sorry I missed it, but at least I had the CD of the program that Pastor Wilson gave.

But in trying to follow the medscape, I missed a couple of freeway.

I had to make a left turn, but I couldn't because there are cars in the left lane.

So I missed a freeway and I missed another freeway.

So this morning my brother-in-law, who's my classmate in Escondido, he, we left early this morning to get here for breakfast.

But we watched that medscape turn right here, turn left, turn right, here left, so many miles.

But we finally got here without any mishap.

In the world with over 30, 000 religions in the world, we're privileged because God has chosen us a spiritual legacy.

White says, a knowledge of the divine statues is the most precious legacy that we have.

Of all these 30, 000 religions, God has chosen us.

And I'm so thankful that we have the privilege of doing what little we can.

I personally feel that what I've done, I'm 85 now and I'm still in part-time practice.

But it's less than a drop in the big ocean of people in the world today.

And yet, I'd like to mention just a story that Marjorie Lewis Lloyd in 1980 by the Pacific Press, she told a story of a cat with a kitten in the nap of the neck.

And she was at 1 of the busiest corners, street corners in the world, and that's Broadway and 42nd Street.

So the cat would step down and then step back because there's buses, taxis, cars just whizzing by.

And the police saw that and he quickly put his hands out and stopped the traffic.

And the cat scampered across that busy intersection.

So, as Lloyd mentioned, in the same way, this cat didn't know that the laws of the city of New York and the state of New York were behind the cat so that it could go to safety.

So as we think of our awesome God in heaven, he's holding his hands out to guide and to protect us.

And I'm sure that in each of our lives we have noticed time and again how God has intervened here in each of our lives.

Every morning I say the Lord's Prayer and contemplate.

You know, when we talk about our Father which art in heaven, it includes everyone, doesn't it?

The patients, the children, the older folk, everyone that we meet, that we come across is very important.

Some of the obnoxious patients that we might have, they're lonely because they were brought up that way.

And so we have to show them the love of Jesus.

And once they're 1, they'll bring many more people because they aren't used to being treated that way, isn't that right?

What a privilege we have, our Father in Heaven.

When I graduated from Andrews, before it was called the Manual Missionary College, back around 1950, and at that time I had a chemistry teacher.

And he told us this experience that in Battle Creek when he was there many years before when Ms.

White was there, they were singing, holy, holy, holy Lord.

She says, when we sing holy, holy, holy, We're in the presence of an awesome God.

Revelation 4.8 says, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

And so it's amazing that he has chosen you and me to be his representatives on earth.

And to carry on the divine statutes and to share this with other people.

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I like that part because in Romans 8, 26 and 27 it says we don't know what we should pray for.

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Legacy

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