How a connection with Christ is necessary to keep your faith alive and how it has an influence on how you treat patients

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network Australia

Eddie Ramirez

The Key of Spirituality

Tomorrow, we'll be dealing a little bit with the lifestyle side of things.

Yesterday, we learned why your testimony is such a good tool for evangelism.

And today, we're gonna learn about spirituality.

Many of you have leadership qualities, but sometimes if the spirituality is not present, you can be the worst problem in a church instead of becoming the biggest blessing.

Therefore, we need to learn to team with the Lord so that those talents that He has given us, as we team together with Him, they can become a big blessing.

There's many people that have been asking how to contact.

I have a very active Twitter account that I keep up, E-D-D-I-E, R as in Robert, D as in day, M, D.

And this also, this YouTube page where I have many, many videos, I try to use many of those videos to refer my patients to them.

Sometimes in the doctor's office, you don't have the 45 minutes to explain everything.

Don't worry if you see some in Chinese and Russian.

There's some more that will be coming in your language.

Before proceeding, let us stop for a moment and let's ask that the Lord may be able to communicate with us this morning.

Our Heavenly Father, we're grateful to be here this morning.

We're grateful for this beautiful place and for the desire that you have put us to learn more about you.

I pray, Lord, as I open your word that it may be you who is speaking to us.

Put aside this earthen vessel and may you inspire our hearts.

Regarding spirituality, Regarding spirituality, we need to understand that our belief system is not fantasies.

See I believe that sometimes when you are only giving half your heart, you are missing half the blessing.

See, the bigger your need for the Lord in your heart, the more you can open that heart.

If you believe you just need a little bit of the Lord, that's how much you will receive.

And you know, we know in Ephesians that there is a real battle going on.

When I got to Desert Hot Springs, as I was telling you last night, I read a very interesting book by the name of Deceive by the New Age.

And that really opened my eyes to understand that there is really a battle behind the scenes for your heart.

And that battle, Ephesians 6, 12, tells us about it.

We're not battling against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual host of weakness in the heavenly places.

And see, God has given us a fantastic tool to be able to connect with him.

And that tool is called your imagination.

See, many times the doctrines that you learn in the Bible, let's say the doctrine of the sanctuary, the doctrine of the judgment, I don't see the judgment taking place, but God has put in our minds the ability with our imagination to go and see these things.

But at the same time Satan has taken that imagination and in many instances has poisoned that imagination.

So instead of glorifying God, it goes against his will.

I love this quotation from the book of education on how we need to live what we believe.

It says there, an important element in education work is enthusiasm.

On this point, there is a useful suggestion in a remark once made by a celebrated actor.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had put to him the question, why actors in a play affect their audiences so powerfully by speaking of things imaginary, While ministers of the gospel often affect theirs so little by speaking of real things.

Quote, we do submission to your grace, reply the actor, permit me to say that the reason is plain.

We on stage speak of things imaginary as if they were real and you in the pulpit speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

1 of the big things that happened in my life was when I was studying with Louis Torres.

Whenever you take the class of evangelism from Louis Torres, you will see that the first step that he is gonna take you is to introduce you to understand why your devotional life is so important.

See, I grew up with the idea that the Bible was boring.

And yes, if you read the Bible superficially, it can be boring.

But as you get and start reading those stories of inspiration, this becomes actually quite exciting.

And there is plenty of evidence to believe in the Bible.

Sometimes we don't go into it because we think, well, what if this is not true?

Let me start by showing you why you can believe in the Bible.

Why this is a book that stand test after test.

I don't have time to go very deep into it, but we will just go briefly.

For example, when you check things like archeology, as you get the science of archeology and try to make this and check against the Bible, you will see that things match.

In fact, the Bible is full of prophecies.

As you read in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, to prove if the Bible is real or not, you just have to go back to those prophecies.

We have history to see if things came to be.

In Ezekiel 26, we find, and they shall make a spoil of thy riches, And make a prey of thy merchandise, and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses, and they shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the water, and I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the song of thy harps shall be no more heard." Ezekiel 26, 12, and 13.

Now please notice how it is very specific, this prophecy.

It says they're going to be destroyed, but not only they were gonna be destroyed, but the stones and the timber were gonna go where?

You know, as you analyze history, you will see that this is exactly what happened.

In fact, you can even go today there to Tyre and see that with your own eyes.

As the Romans were conquering that part of the world, they needed to continue conquering another part.

There was a little island and they had to make a bridge.

They got the parts of the buildings, threw them into the ocean, and made a bridge in order to get there.

The prophecy fulfilled exactly as it was said.

Nineveh, I noticed something very interesting with Nineveh.

In fact, If you ask somebody secular about Nineveh, you know what they're going to tell you?

You know about Nineveh because you have read the Bible.

But see, the prophecy was very clear about Nineveh.

Saphaniah 2, 13 and 15, And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh what?

This is the rejoicing city that dwells carelessly, that said in her heart, I am and there is none beside me how is she become a desolation a place for beasts to lie in everyone that pass it by her shall his and walk his hand see we knew from the Bible record and other historical sources that Nineveh existed.

Yet in the 1700s nobody knew where Nineveh was.

It became a desolation not until they started bearing down, making holes in the ground.

And still you can go on Google Maps is Still Nineveh is a desolation today in Iraq.

The prophecy said this is gonna happen and that's exactly what happened.

And I will turn the fortunes of Egypt to the land of their origin and there will be a lowly kingdom.

It will be the lowest of the kingdoms and it will never again lift itself up above the nations.

And I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

Exactly as the Bible predicted, Egypt, even though they have big population resources, have not been able to progress.

And you will see the challenges that they are facing today.

In fact, when they had the war between the Egyptians and the Israelites were very little tiny country compared to Egypt.

The Israelites were able to dominate the Egyptians.

The Key of Spirituality

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