Michigan Camp Meeting 2017

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Preview and Preparation: The Coming Crisis

Royce Snyman

1. An Overview of the Crisis Ahead

2. Reformation- The Laodicean Message

3. The Sealing and the Latter Rain

4. A Church Shaken and a World in Crisis

5. Victory and Deliverance in Jesus

Father in Heaven, thank you that we have this wonderful privilege to study the Word of God, and we also have the gift of the Spirit of Prophecy that has been provided for us to guide us and to prepare us for the coming crisis.

We pray that Your Spirit, most importantly, will be present in this room today and that You will guide what I say and what we hear.

May we learn together, may we be prepared together for the return of Jesus and we thank you in his name yesterday we spent some time talking about preparation for the final crisis in the light of the events going on in the world today.

We spent the early part of our time talking about the events that go back to late 1700s and early 1800s that are clearly marking a delineation between what has gone on before and entering into the last days, the final days before Jesus returns.

As you will recall, especially those of you who are studying, and I know you all are, studying the Sabbath School lesson, you know that this issue of delay in 1st Peter and 2nd Peter is discussed and this delay, this delay that's going on has people challenged trying to figure out how is it that this delay still means that Jesus is coming.

But Peter reminds us that with God, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as as a day.

For you and I who just in that little brief period of time of 60 or 70 years or by reason of strength more, it Seems like this is forever.

But when we live 80 years or 90 years, this is not forever.

There are some chairs over on the far side, over here, so there are some places.

With God, time doesn't work like it does for us.

And He is wanting us to know, don't give up, it's coming.

You know, we're like little children waiting for Christmas.

It just, you know, I mean we've been waiting for 10 days already, where's Christmas, you know?

So we talked yesterday about the events that are going on now that really help to put it into perspective that there are things happening now so quickly that we as Seventh-day Adventist Christians need to be paying close attention because things are happening so quickly.

The stress I placed yesterday is we're not saved by events.

The events will not save us, our knowledge of the events will not save us, we may die in our knowledge of the events, we might die eternally with a knowledge of the events, because it's not the events that save us, it's Jesus who saves us.

But in His mercy and His kindness, He wants us to know that His promise in John 14 is going to be fulfilled and is in the process of being fulfilled.

And we're almost there when it will be finally fulfilled and Jesus will return.

His promise is valid as truly as the miracles he performed on this earth as truly as the people he saved from sin is his promise that he is wanting to save us from sin as well.

Today I want to take us into a part that you may say, you know, I was going to ask you so I guess I will.

You really want to go on with this class?

Now It's time to start thinking seriously about what Jesus wants to do in our hearts and lives.

It means every 1 of us are going to need to change.

And it means that people like me who stand up and teach classes about needing to change are also going to need to change.

So today we're going to be talking about the Reformation that's needed and the Laodicean message that we are told is going to bring about this final Reformation.

This is the part that we really need to understand.

We're going to get into some of the things that come on the heels of this in our days that follow.

You've seen the outline in the little booklet that's out there what we're going to be doing.

We're going to be talking about more about the shaking and those kinds of issues that go on within the church.

We're going to be talking about the events that surround the return of Christ and all that goes along with that, but we must first recognize that there is a Reformation to come and if we are to be prepared we must be part of that Reformation.

The Reformation must be going on in our hearts and our lives.

Ellen White says this in second volume of Spiritual Gifts, she says, I saw that the testimony to the Laodiceans applied to God's people at the present time.

Yes, at her time, and yes, in our time as well.

1 of the things that I learned by studying the material that Ron Duffield has prepared and is sharing here on the campground as well, is that God wanted to do something special with his people back in 1888 and the years that follow.

And so when she makes a statement like this, she's talking about them then that she wanted, that God wanted to do that work for.

And now you and I are still here, that means he still wants to do that work.

That means now is the time for this to happen.

She continues to say it was designed to arouse the people of God to discover to them their backslidings and to lead to zealous repentance that they might be favored with the presence of Jesus.

It's not I don't want to know about my sins but I need to know about them and I need to zealously repent and I need to be prepared.

Ellen White says in volume 1 of Selected Messages, page 121 up here on your screen, it says, A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs.

That is a very well-known statement, but I dare say we're not taking it as seriously as we need to.

We're not realizing that this is exactly what God wants to do for us, is to bring in among us a revival of true godliness.

I am concerned, you should be too, that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is dealing with issues that have nothing to do with a revival of true godliness.

Some of the things that are being thrown around in the church, and I haven't identified what they are, I just said some of the things that are being thrown around in the church are not the kinds of things that are needed here.

God wants this is our greatest need, and he wants to help us.

This should be the work that we are seeking to have happen in our lives.

There must be earnest effort to obtain the blessing of the Lord, not because God is not willing to bestow His blessing upon us, but because we are unprepared to receive it.

This should be getting our attention, it should be our concern, It should be the matter of our devotional life every day.

And I don't mean to obsess about it, but I mean it should be the focus and our understanding that this is indeed our greatest need.

Ellen White says, and I wish I had time to go through every single statement in depth, but we do have the references here you can look them up and that will be able to give you some guidance.

But she says in Christian Service page 42, Reformation must accompany revival.

There are a lot of things that go on pretending to be, a couple more chairs needed, I think, out there, there's 1 more left.

Okay, we're good, I'll let people find it.

When you're at the door and you see people point them towards the chairs that'd be great.

A revival of true godliness may be our greatest need, but that revival includes Reformation.

Reformation doesn't only imply change it means change.

There is going to need to be a change in our hearts, in our minds, and what is that change?

That's what we're here to talk about today.

Ellen White tells us, Great Controversy, page 464, that the greatest revival since Pentecost is coming.

Don't you want to see that today in your church where you live, worship, and serve?

Don't you want to see that in your church, the Seventh-day Adventist church, in Michigan, in North America, in the world?

Then it needs to be the focus of our prayers.

It needs to be where God is leading us some of the challenges we need to keep in mind in relationship to Reformation and to change that God wants to bring about is the devil gets this too.

He's had 6, 000 years whatever to study it.

You know, and he's got a pretty good brain to go along with it.

So he studied this all out, and he's been planning all along his steps in relationship to what he needs to do to counterbalance that.

In the Reformation that we call the Protestant Reformation that came about, Satan knew it was coming, Satan saw it as it arrived, Satan had already prepared the ground to be able to work with it.

And some of the things we're talking about here is exactly what he did.

But We turn around and we call what happened next, especially as the Roman Catholic Church responded to the Protestant Reformation, we call that the counter-reformation.

What the Roman Catholic Church did in order to try to push back the Protestant Reformation.

Well, God knows what he is seeking to lead his people to and Satan has an idea of what it is that God's going to do and so he's already preparing his counter-reformation for our own time.

He's not only pushing back the Protestant Reformation in 2017 in a very real way, but he knows there's a real revival just like Pentecost and a reformation just like Pentecost that's about to come and he's preparing the ground now for that.

He uses things like as he did in history, he uses obstacles that can be brought into the way.

Paul says, Ellen White, in Great Controversy 396, wherever the Apostle raised up a church there were some who professed to receive the faith but who brought in heresies that if received would eventually crowd out the love of the truth.

This is the challenge that we are facing today in a very real way in Michigan and the United States.

It's happening in alarming ways and it's going to start becoming even more visible in the days ahead.

A former Seventh-day Adventist minister, who even happened to pastor in Michigan some years ago, no longer in Michigan, and that's all I'll say about that part of it, posted something on the internet recently and said, people are gonna be shocked because I'm telling you what I believe and there are other people like me who believe what I believe and you're going to be surprised.

And what he believes is not what Seventh-day Adventists believe.

Series

Preview and Preparation: The Coming Crisis

2. Reformation- The Laodicean Message

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