ASI Virtual 2020: Three Angels' Messages - In Times Like These

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Shawn Boonstra

Rodney Bowes

Patti Guthrie

Andi Hunsaker

ASI Spring Chapter Conference - Friday Morning

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♪♪ Good morning, friends, and welcome to our second meeting of the ASI Virtual Spring Convention.

We are so glad that you have joined us today.

Last night's presentations were so amazing.

And it was so incredible to see God's hand at work in all of the presentations.

The messages were so powerful both from Neil Nedley talking about medical missionary work and the benefits of the New Start plan.

They were incredible and we were so blessed by Pastor Doug Batchelor's message that inspired us for such a time as this.

This is the message that we have for this time.

The 3 angels messages is what the world needs to hear.

I'd like to invite you to pray with me as we begin today's message.

Heavenly Father, thank you so much for the benefit of knowing Jesus Christ.

Thank you for the power that you have given to us through the Holy Spirit, that we are able to be partakers of the divine nature.

I pray that you will bless our meeting today, that you will inspire us, that you will encourage us, and that you will make the gospel message more real in our lives today in Jesus name.

Well I want to just remind us all that the reason that we are here today is that there is a pandemic.

Typically we have several chapter meetings each spring.

There are 8 chapters representing 8 unions, but unfortunately due to the pandemic, those meetings were canceled, but we were not allowed about to let Satan defeat us.

And so we decided to approach 3ABN who graciously allowed us to share their venue and have allowed us to be here.

But you know, 1 thing we want you to take away from this particular weekend is that we're not defeated by a pandemic.

We as Seventh-day Adventists, we as ASI members need to remember that we have much more to fear than a pandemic.

And we want to use this time to recommit our lives to Jesus Christ.

We want to use this time to really search our hearts and decide whether or not we are going to cooperate with the Lord in the message that he gave us for this time, which includes the health message.

And for this reason, if you'll notice, our program is structured around health and the gospel, the 2 going together.

And you'll see today as we go through the program that we will be having several members in action that are health-related, as well as our first talk which will be on health.

And then we'll move into a spiritual talk, but the 2 go hand in hand.

I just want to ask Patty, Patty, what do you have to add to this theme that we have, the 3 angels' messages in times like these?

I think that we are living in very unusual times, Andy, And the coronavirus has given us all an opportunity to step back and reflect on some things we don't have time normally to think about.

We're busy traveling, we're working, and now we've had time to be home.

And I know for many people, we felt like that's really a burden and we're eager to get back to our busy lives.

But I think God has given us time to prepare for what's coming on our world and also to bring comfort and a message of hope to the people in our lives.

Rodney, any thoughts on in times like these?

What does that what does that theme mean to you?

Well, you know, the message from Pastor Batchelor last night really spoke to me when we were discussing that it's time to wake up.

And that really resonated with me because as I look around and as I'm honest even with myself I'm sleeping and it's a time to wake up to the reality of my own spiritual condition as well as the condition of the world around us.

There is a world that needs to be warned.

And we will we want to bring out in this time things that we should be doing differently.

We know that this pandemic is significantly affecting people that are overweight or have obesity problems.

And we, as we discussed in our time this morning, we will be hopefully inspiring each of you to search yourselves to recognize things in your life that you may do that will help us get to where we are able to hear the Holy Spirit and to respond to His call in our lives.

We also want to make sure we have a spiritual awakening.

What is the meaning of the 3 angels' messages?

Is that just something in Revelation 14 that we just say the words and we don't really know what it means.

So we hope this weekend and today, as we go through this program, that this will not just be some ritual, but it'll have meaning for you.

Rodney, why don't you take us into introduction of what's gonna happen next?

Sure, we want this to be very interactive.

So I'd like for you to take out your cell phone at this time.

We want to encourage you to study the book, Ministry of Healing.

If you will just text ASIHEALTH to 58632, you can participate with us.

At this time, we hope and pray that you will be blessed by this beautiful song.

Come now, fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace.

Sing my grace, streams of mercy never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.

May I steal Thy goodness' fruit While the hope of endless glory Fills my heart with joy and love.

And I hope by thy good pleasure, safely to arrive at home.

Jesus saw me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God.

He to rescue me from danger interposed his precious His precious blood.

Oh to grace how great a debtor Daily I am constrained to be.

Let my goodness like a fetter Bind me closer still to Thee Prone to wonder, Lord, I feel it Prone to leave, O God I love Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.

Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it, seal it for His courts above.

But we don't want to just go to the courts above by ourselves.

And what we want to do now is start our Members in Action.

And so our first presentation this morning will be from Eden Valley, and it'll be a nice video showing the farming work that they're doing there.

We're going to be focusing, as I mentioned, on health and wellness.

And truly, the plant-based diet is the way to go.

And Eden Valley has a wonderful farm and they'll be showing it to us and showing us the wonderful beautiful vegetables.

Don't run out and eat anything but wait now and you'll see this wonderful Members in action from Eden Valley.

You know, we're really living in some strange times.

And I don't think the world has, in modern times, has seen anything like this happen.

You know, big businesses, small ministries, and everything in between.

In Colorado, the state stay-at-home order came on March 26th.

And we were in the middle of a lifestyle session.

Some of the other states, I think federally, the stay at home order had already gone on.

And so for that session, everyone who were to fly in canceled.

And we only had 3 lifestyle guests for that session.

And we didn't know what the next session or the session after that was going to be.

And so, but we prayed, we really prayed about it.

And we felt that God was opening doors for us to keep our lifestyle program going.

1 of the biggest challenges during this time was to know what to do with the farm.

Because we have a fairly robust farm program and we have 5 farmers markets to supply and we had plans to plant the seeds and to till the ground and to get the greenhouses going, but we didn't know how much to do.

We didn't know how long this thing was going to go on.

So again we prayed and the farm manager and us we decided let's just go on like everything's going to be okay by June when the farmers market starts.

And so they planted lots and lots of things.

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