Present Truth
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· 63 viewsThere is a process in ministry to others. Jesus Christ first connected with people, then met their needs, then won of their affection, then taught them present truth. What does it look like to teach present truth today and to follow Jesus method?
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Apocryphal Story:
There once was an agnostic farmer who wrote to the editor of SDA periodical, Review and Herald. He said; “In defiance of your God I plowed my fields this year on Sabbath, I disked and fertilized them on Sabbath, I planted them on a Sabbath, I cultivated them on Sabbath, and I reaped them on Sabbath. This October I had the biggest crop I have ever had. How do you explain that?" The editor replied: “God does not always settle his accounts in October.”
Just because
Judgment doesn’t
occur instantly.
Doesn’t mean
it won’t come.
The bible says:
judgement hour.
How do we relate to that???
Good News
Good News
Journal of Adventist Mission Studies, Vol. 8 [2012], No. 2, Art. 5
Growth Rate SDA vs. World
Growth Rate SDA vs. World
Growth Rate Graph
Growth Rate Graph
Non-SDAs Globally
Non-SDAs Globally
SDAs Per Million
SDAs Per Million
Growth Percentage By Decade
Growth Percentage By Decade
Settled Pastors
Past 50 Years Growth Rate
Past 50 Years Growth Rate
Satisfied?
Lull us to sleep
secure and sleepy?
Self-congratulations?
Nebuchadnezzar
and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
Dangerous times
Bad News
Bad News
“There are more people on earth today who are not Adventists than there were a hundred years ago”
Growth Rate better
But still losing
Maybe 2045
1% total Population
Worst News
Worst News
Our Mission Field
US
11% Adventist in US.
World Growth Rate 1%
Global SDA Growth Rate
From 2.2% to 1%
US PopulationGrowth Rate 2.5 %
SDA Growth Rate in US
2.5%
Good news
fastest growing church
in US.
Bad News
we are not gaining ground.
Our growth
mostly immigration
Both US Population
And SDA growth
Natural Born Citizens
Not producing children
Not producing souls
What hope is there of “finishing the work”?
What hope is there of “finishing the work”?
Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Movement vs. Church
Movement vs. Church
The reason
such high growth rates.
WE ARE NOT A CHURCH!
We are a MOVEMENT!
What?
Churches:
Good Music
Good Food
Good Fellowship
Good Entertainment
Good Mood
Good Vibes
Movement
Special Message
Must Share Truth
Must Grow
Must Evangelize
Why?
Present Truth
Present Truth
We have PRESENT TRUTH.
What is that?
I’m glad you asked...
Bible Study:
Different Periods of Time
Present truth:
For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,
What was it like?
Yes
Wickedness
Unprepared
More...
Judgement Time
Noah
Noah
Serious Judgment
Do or Die
Get on the boat
boat of faith
die in flood.
Present Truth
you don’t accept
you are lost.
Physically
Eternally
Lot
Lot
Fire Coming
Repent
Get out of city
Leave or Die
don’t look back.
Minority
Minority
8 people on ark
3 left Sodom
Who is among minority here?
Who will
change priorities
seek and save lost?
Not popular message.
Not many receive.
Not many preached.
An umpire named Babe Pinelli once called Babe Ruth out on strikes. When the crowd booed with sharp disapproval at the call, the legendary Ruth turned to the umpire with disdain and said, “There’s 40,000 people here who know that the last pitch was a ball.” Suspecting that the umpire would erupt with anger, the coaches and players braced themselves for Ruth’s ejection. However, the cool headed Pinelli replied, “Maybe so, Babe, but mine is the only opinion that counts.”
God’s Judgments here
May not be popular
But it matters.
Last Days
Last Days
Judgment Time
And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Judgment HAS come.
Present truth message.
You have a message
of life.
World is dying
for what you have!
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
“when I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.
There is a famine
Biblical Illiteracy.
Spiritual Blindness
Blind Guides
leading the blind.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;
because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
The message for this time
PRESENT TRUTH!
World is ignorant
carnal security
What will you do about it?
Moments of Truth
Noah
Lot
Cain and Able
true worship
Passover
blood on door post
Mount Carmel
Yaweh or Baal?
Joshua
“Choose this day”
Jesus
“His blood be upon us and or children”
Today
3 Angels Messages
Never Comfortable moment
Never easy messages
Messages of Warning
Appeals of Mercy
Testimonies for the Church, Volume 5 Number Thirty-Two—Testimony for the Church
The work which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity she will have to do in a terrible crisis under most discouraging, forbidding circumstances.
It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning; they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits, who believe that it is a joke. - (Soren Kierkegaard).
Are we not serious?
Ellen White
“running from house to house”f
But I’m and Introvert
But I’m and Introvert
Let me ask you...
At beach
saw shark
kids playing.
I’m shy.
I’m embarrassed.
Don’t want to hurt feelings.
No!
Why?
Life or death issue!!
What about eternal
life or death?
I’m introvert
like alone time.
Can’t be quiet.
Why?
Jeremiah
Don’t prophesy...
“FIRE IN MY BONES...”
Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will not be judged by how much I have done but by how much of me there is in it. No man gives at all until he has given all. No man gives anything acceptable to God until he has first given himself in love and sacrifice. — A. W. TOZER
Advent Movement
Advent Movement
You are SDA
You pledged yourself.
Share this message.
Message of love
Message of warning
Message of Life
Appeal
Appeal
Who is in the minority here?
Who will change priorities?
Who is willing to give all to save but one?
Not okay with carnal security?
Meet in office.
