Presentation given at the AMEN Australia 2018 annual conference held in Adelaide, Australia, www.amenaustralia.org.

AMEN Australia 2018: Healing, Surviving, Thriving

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network Australia

Andrew Jasper

Maintaining Life Balance

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

For he who has entered his rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from his.

Heavenly Father, thank you for the Sabbath and thank you for a place to see the sunset way up high off the ground.

Thank you for the peace, the rest that is ours, not only on this day But as we take its benefits with us into the week, we can hide its precious gem in our heart, in our minds.

Thank you for a place to come and relieve us of our burdens and our cares.

We can more fully take up your yoke, more fully learn of you who is meek and lowly of heart so that we can find rest for our souls, for truly your yoke is easy and your burden is light.

Speak to us now from your word, in Jesus' name, amen.

I'm not sure if that was supposed to be consecutive and progressive, but it could make sense because as we heal and give, sometimes we get to points in our life where we merely survive.

And the question is how do we get back to thriving?

The Sabbath is our antidote for the pressures of life so that we can have balance in our life.

God is speaking words that make things out of nothing.

And then he comes to a patch of ground in the garden.

The scripture says he made man out of the...

You ever tried making anything out of dust?

What do you have to do to make something out of dust?

So you're telling me God got down on his hands and knees in the mud, and he made Adam.

And there he is, formed, fashioned, but dead?

And God breathes into him the breath of life.

And after following 2 doctors tonight, I'm a bit intimidated.

Brother Butcher was supposed to have this talk and he needed some time off to keep life's balance, I'm sure as he was preparing this talk, it finally hit him.

I can't go and do this talk, I need this.

Praise God for a conference president who finally could say, I'm sorry, I can't make it because I need to be with my family.

Maintaining life's balance, not dead, not non-living, but with the breath of life.

Adam becomes a living soul, a living being, alive.

And so his blood vessels start pumping, his brain nerves start functioning.

Because this is the third talk tonight, right?

The Sabbath is a time to remember the God who made something out of nothing, because that's what he wants to do inside of us.

When we're in survival mode, tempted to burn out, It's almost as if we have nothing left to give.

And that's where God could start to bring renewal on the inside.

You're getting to the And let him restart your life.

The created world that we see today abounds with mysteries, And the Sabbath brings us back to reflect on the Creator's handiwork and power and mystery of life.

Even where there is no life, there is still wonder and enchantment.

Take for instance our closest sun, the star.

I had the wrong switcher in my hand and I was wondering why it wasn't working.

You get on that big blue jet and you're traveling over the Pacific or over the Atlantic and you're up there for hours.

If we want to put that in full screen, let's take a look at what this looks like.

You could put 100 planet Earths across the diameter of the sun.

So you thought your overseas trip was huge and massive this ball of fire up in the sky 93 million miles away sorry for those American measurements still haven't stopped to calculate the kilometers This thing puts off 5 million tons of matter every second.

Great weight loss program for New Start participants.

Shooting out its beautiful energy, 360 in every axis, most of it which never benefits our planet, but a small sliver gets to our planet, heating and maintaining our life, that for all intents and purposes to our visible eye is the only lonely planet with life.

If you're to look in astronomy today, the largest star today, this shows up really good tonight.

In churches, this is often blasted out, blanched out by the sunlight.

There's the sun, there's Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The largest star on record now would fit somewhere between the orbit of Jupiter and Saturn.

I wonder how much energy that puppy puts off every second.

I'll get you to say amen here in just a minute because as you go outside and look at the Milky Way that density of stars right in the wings of our own galaxy And then you realize that when the telescopes look into that mass, you find out you're not looking at stars after all.

Some of those are actually whole galaxies of other stars.

And so the astronomers estimate, conservatively, somewhere in the order of 100 sextillion stars in our known universe at the present moment.

How much power and energy and force and heat is being put off by all of that mass of energy, and the Bible simply says, oh yeah, he made the stars also.

Almost as if it were a cosmic sideshow to the great God of heaven.

Who is it that has invited us into this space called Sabbath?

I tell people, and I get crucified for it sometimes, I believe in the Big Bang.

That's not even alive that's just chemicals forces laws of physics it's fascinating it's not even alive come with me to something that actually lives I'm bunch front of a bunch of medicos here, and I'm gonna talk about the eyeball.

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