AMEN 2013: Following the Leader

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2013: Plenary Sessions

Mark Finley

John Osborn

Remote Area Medical: Volunteers Mobilizing Healthcare & Conference Summary

Des Cummings

The Patient Experience 1

The Patient Experience 2a

The Patient Experience 2b

Mark Ranzinger

Following the Lamb

Robert Hayes

Healing the Right Arm

Larry Cohen

Iron Heart

Jerry Page

Final Breakthroughs

Don Bovell

Fred Hardinge

Kelly Kinsley

AMEN Short-term Missions

I have been sensing inside of me a stirring in the last 2 days, a deep movement.

Ratzinger, it's definitely not the physical 1 you described so graphically last evening.

But that stirring that all of us as recovering Laodiceans ought to have.

Everything in our life, Whatever we do is really secondary to his mission, to serving him, whether we're a preacher or whether we're a doctor or a medical professional or a spouse or whatever.

I've heard so much good about Amen over the years.

Mark and Tini Finley have been a real mentor team to Janet and I for many years, and of course you hear about Amen when you hang around with them.

But also, I've been on the WMAR board for some years now, and the precious world-class team on there is Amen.

I believe in it, And it's what we're trying to do for the world in terms of Adon Macintosh and Neil Nedley and others working together with now pastors around the world and the rest of you included as well.

So let's pray for each other and work for that.

But we're not here to talk about all that this morning, but to hear what the Lord might say.

And I've really prayed, got people, prayer partners praying for me around the world today, that he will say something to all of us, including me.

And so I'd like to invite you just to pray silently for a moment as well and ask him to speak to your heart.

In Luke 11, he has a whole chapter talking about the importance of asking for the Holy Spirit, persevering in prayer, all of those things.

But right now, will you just give him permission based on that promise that when we ask, the Holy Spirit will come.

He'll speak to us, he'll comfort us, he'll instruct us, he'll even reprove us where needed and help us.

So just in your own way, invite the Lord to speak to you in this next time.

Our wonderful Lord, It continues to amaze us that you would humble yourself to be in a place like this, to be in our midst, to love us, to pursue us, to constantly be after us in our lives.

We don't understand it, but we're so glad.

Crucified with you so that you can speak to us.

A young man loved to drive his sports car really fast on curvy mountain roads.

I should ask how many of you have sports cars.

He was doing it again on a beautiful day and coming to a blind curve he couldn't see around, all of a sudden, a woman driver, sorry ladies, came flying around the curve and almost went off the cliff.

And at the last moment, she corrected, came back, and was headed right straight for him.

It looked like it was going to be a head-on.

But at the last minute, she corrected again and went around him.

And as she flew by him, she yelled out of her window, pig!

He was infuriated to think that this woman, who almost hit him in his lane, would call him a pig.

And was congratulating himself on being so quick to think something mean to yell at her, pursued on around the blind curve and hit the pig standing in the middle of the road.

I like that illustration because it reminds me of my God.

He always sees around the curve, isn't that right?

He sees everything and He's also a God of grace, the wonderful gospel, that he's always trying to warn us when we're in danger, trying to prepare us for what's coming in our lives and in the world.

He sent us the prophecies and the prophets.

He sends us friends sometimes to tell us what's up.

He's always trying to help us not hit the pig in the road.

Sometimes the prophet's words seem harsh to me.

They seem like he's yelling at me almost.

I don't like it cutting across my life and what I want to do.

You know, they say in the Chinese language, there are 2 picture characters for the word crisis.

I probably shouldn't say this, but I can't help it.

When Rahm Emanuel was the chief of staff for our new president and they came into office, he said, this terrible financial crisis, you can't waste a good crisis.

And people that are wise in crisis know that there is always an opportunity hiding there, too.

Financial crisis, many people get rich there, don't they?

And I'm not going to go into the Obamacare thing.

We need to pray for each other and pray for our country, don't we?

That we can come through and be the kind of country that we should be for God.

But when I think about that, I think about the crisis we're in.

Do you believe we're in the final crisis?

And I probably shouldn't talk about the signs.

I should call Mark up here to preach if we're going to preach about the signs.

But I'm a fool, so let me stumble into it anyway.

The signs are famines and disasters, natural disasters, a lot of those going on, right?

And there's all kinds of men failing, hearts failing them for fear, right?

Terrorism, all of that, we can go on down the list.

Sin doesn't need to get a lot more worse for Jesus to come, does it?

I think he will soon have to apologize to Sodom, won't he?

Everywhere I go, each country seems like they've just passed the new law.

And again, we love homosexuals, but the laws now, and I'm on a committee at the General Conference, the laws that are pressing in on Christians to be politically correct, to be even civil rights issues, so we have to hire people who have views that we don't believe in.

That's the next step for our country and other countries.

And then you've got, of course, the religious world.

The pope with his encyclical several years ago that we need to get back to Sabbath keeping, right?

And also the encyclical in 2008 that said we need a moral religious power to run the economy of the world.

Since then, they've put out a resume saying they think they might be a good choice for that.

Series

AMEN 2013: Plenary Sessions

Final Breakthroughs

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Ignite Your Spiritual Experience!

Unleashing God’s Power!

1h 12m

Recapturing the Wonder of Adventism

Recapturing the Wonder of Adventism, Part 3

53m

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior

Sanctuary, Salvation, & Our Savior - Part 5: Sanctuary Under Siege

1h 12m

Plenary Sessions

We Will Remember God’s Mighty Acts

1h 8m

The Midnight Cry and the Loud Cry

42m

Medical Missionary Work: The Present "Present" Truth

5. Top 10 Things a Young Person Can Do to Achieve Maximal Mental and Physical Capacity

1h

The Key to Finishing the Work

The Ultimate Call

59m

Part 5 - Crossing the Jordan

1h 9m

The Three Angels' Message

07 The Fourth Angel’s Message

1h

Plenary Sessions

Revelation’s People of Destiny

1h 7m

The Science of Surrender

56m

Finding the Book of the Law

54m

Sound Doctrine