I WILL GO. Ted Wilson | Global Campmeeting

[Music] [Music] what a privilege for us to worship god together as one heartbeat in this adventist global virtual camp meeting even though we may be separated by many kilometers although the covet 19 pandemic has isolated so many during this unusual time god brings us together electronically and most importantly through the power of the holy spirit binding us together certainly with all of god's goodness during this difficult time it is an opportunity to praise god even during the pandemic and the after effects to know that god will lead us step by step as he has been doing is cause for praise to our lord and coming king yes jesus is coming soon i believe it with all my heart as we look around us we see multiple signs of his soon return these signs are god's blessings to us now one of the greatest blessings is to study and read god's word the holy bible today we're going to be looking at the beautiful aspects of isaiah chapter 6 and understand that god has a plan for each of us and his people living at the end of time regardless of where we are living he's asking you to say yes i will go i will be part of god's great last proclamation to this world yes what a privilege to worship together as god's people even during this pandemic and all the challenges we face we are god's remnant people under his care as his remnant people we have a message and a mission and i know he's using every one of you as you humble yourself before the lord without a doubt we are living in the tips of the toes of that amazing prophetic statue found in daniel chapter 2. the next thing that happens is the coming of the lord in that prophecy that daniel saw the statue of nebuchadnezzar and those toes and feet that were mixed with iron and clay jesus will be coming represented by that stone cut out without man's hands that will come and smash the statue and set up the final kingdom of god that will last forever and of course that's all in god's plan and what a privilege to be part of god's worldwide work god calls all of us during this time of intense stress people have lost their jobs people are fighting covet 19 or some other illness people have become discouraged with all the restrictions placed on them frustrations have developed in families and with others people have become depressed many people have lost hope and have asked is this the end of the world is this one of the seven last plagues found in the book of revelation in the bible well it's not quite the end of the world and it's not one of those seven last plagues because they're very specific but i want to tell you something with absolute certainty this is a huge wake-up call for all of us for jesus is coming soon god is calling for you to be part of an amazing outreach in proclaiming the three angels messages of revelation 14 verses 6 through 12. telling people about the everlasting gospel powerfully shared by that first angel the amazing everlasting gospel that goes to every nation kindred tribe and people reaching out to people on a national basis across local communities across neighborhoods reaching people with that message of amazing events that will soon appear god is saying wake up everyone and worship god worship the lord not other beings or other aspects of life you see that first message tells us to worship god and give him the glory for the hour of his judgment has come what a precious message the everlasting gospel is the saving power of jesus christ who in that wonderful counsel with the father the son and the holy spirit three persons in one which we believe in the godhead the father the son and the holy spirit working together even before the establishment of this earth they knew because of their omniscience their all-knowing aspect because of this power they knew that the earth would fall because of the temptations of satan the great deceiver so the father the son and the holy spirit made a plan of escape and christ volunteered and he said yes i will go i will be the one to save the creatures that we created so jesus came to this earth he came in a humble way not to a five-star hotel but to a one-star barn and there he was born he grew up in nazareth lived a perfect life and conducted his ministry for three and a half years of unselfish service and then he died on a cruel cross for you and for me but he didn't stay on that cross he didn't stay in the grave he rose and he is interceding in heaven for you and me as our high priest praise be to god as hebrews chapter 4 verse 16 says you can come boldly to the throne of grace because we have a high priest who understands our own lives and situations praise the lord he is the creator he is the lamb he is the high priest and he is our coming king what a plan of salvation the gospel thank god for the everlasting gospel and then of course that second angel's message proclaimed in revelation chapter 14 verse 8 which indicates that babylon is fallen that babylon is full of chaos and confusion and that babylon will be completely distant from god and from his precious truth and that's what we have today then of course that third angel's message telling people to stay away from worshiping the beast and his image and not to receive the mark of the beast represented by sunday keeping a false day of worship which is in complete opposition to christ and his seventh-day sabbath the very day on which he asked us to worship him the seventh-day sabbath when you accept the mark of the beast or when it is placed upon you it is a sign of your allegiance to that which is false self-centered and satanic but when you honor god and by his power keep holy his sacred seventh-day sabbath you receive god's seal or his sign for his special seal is the seventh-day sabbath that's why we're worshiping on the seventh-day sabbath in honor of god's creative power and his re-creative power it is the sign of his authority as the creator and as our redeemer praise god for the holy sabbath day the seventh day of the week what a privilege to be able to proclaim god's true day of rest and to realize that in the three angels messages at the very core of those messages is the righteousness of jesus christ his justifying righteousness righteousness by faith and his sanctifying righteousness when we allow christ's righteousness to work within us his power works to will and to do of his own good pleasure so that we might be wonderful letters as paul says written of god exemplifying his power so people can see in our lives the amazing opportunity of overcoming our sinful tendencies and the temptations of the devil completely through the power of god yes we will have temptations we're going to have sin all around us and we are sinful human beings we fall at times into sin but we have a savior who will pick us up and as we submit to his control of our lives take us on into glory all through his righteousness and that's the very core of the three angels messages christ's overcoming power in our lives as we completely submit to him moment by moment adding to the three angels is that fourth angel of revelation 18 1-4 which helps us to understand even more fully the call of the three angels messages to come out of babylon and confusion and stay true to god in his precious remnant church what a message you and i have to share in this age of confusion right now when everything that can be shaken seems to be shaking god is calling you to be a vital part of his last day proclamation he wants to use you he wants you a man or a woman a boy or a girl a teenager to be an example so each one who is completely submitted to jesus christ and wholly allows the holy spirit to work in your life in a powerful way and a wonderful way will be used by him you see god wants you in your daily life to be a witness for him and he's calling for you right now as you may know the world church has made strategic evangelistic plans for the future where everybody can be involved that's part of total member involvement for this quinquenium strategic plans we have kept the particular theme of reach the world as we had last quinquennium that's what our mission is actually the great commission of matthew 28 19-20 telling us to go into all the world to preach the gospel it's part of that everlasting gospel indicated in revelation 14 verse 6 that we are to be part of this amazing outreach to the world to the nation to the community to our families god is calling you into this wonderful participatory activity right now now in this special plan reach the world we thought we needed something very personal in it and so we thought about various additional themes we heard about a marvelous small short title or motto a motivating motto and a response that young people created in fact those young people were in argentina south america at universidad adventist del plata such mission minded and evangelistic enthusiastic young people young people focused on sharing god's word and the promise of jesus soon coming those young people developed a three-word response i will go now we heard about that and we thought wow that's a really great phrase simple forceful personal and full of commitment i will go so we had someone contact those young people asking if we could use that special motto for our worldwide program and of course the young people readily agreed for us to use it but i think they wanted us to let the world church know that young people came up with that beautiful motto so the motto became reach the world i will go you see in the book of isaiah chapter 6 we read an amazing story that developed in terms of isaiah's being called by god to proclaim a very special message the book of isaiah is a beautiful book with so many fantastic chapters in it that appeal to all of us and help us to know that god is constantly calling us all throughout our experience god says come to me and i will make you something special and show my truth through you now back to isaiah chapter six i want to begin with verse one and i want you to focus on this in a very special way now it says here in the year that king azaya died now that was giving the period of time and what was developing at that time i saw the lord sitting on a throne now obviously god took isaiah into vision he helped him to see the very throne room of heaven itself and it says this throne room was high and lifted up and the train of his robe filled the temple it was an amazing sight imagine entering the throne room of heaven isaiah was given that privilege through vision well what does it say next in verse 2 it says above it stood seraphim now these are angels all right and then it says each one had six wings now this is this is interesting six wings well what did they use six wings for well to cover [Music] his face with two of the wings with two he covered his feet and with two he flew well if you only needed two to fly why cover your face and why cover your feet you see this was a sign of great respect to the king of the universe as you may know i i grew up in cairo egypt i i love the middle east it's it's my home even to this day i love the culture the people the food the setting i love the desert i mean yes i like green trees and lots of nice vegetation and forests and the mountains and all that but i also love the desert there's something very special i suppose about where you have grown up you have an affinity to that setting now in egypt and in the middle east when you're visiting with someone if you're sitting in their living room you have to be careful about cultural practices and you've got to be careful about what you do and what you don't do now typically and i'll just use this as an example americans many times as you know are very casual they'll sit down in a chair and maybe they'll cross their legs showing the bottom of their shoes you would never do that in the middle east since the bottom of your shoe is dirty and offensive instead you want to show respect and that is what those angels are doing showing respect by covering their feet and their faces showing amazing respect to the almighty god well these angels cried one to another and in verse 3 it says they said holy holy holy is the lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory now if you want to read another beautiful rendition of this read it in revelation chapter 4.

there are only 11 verses in that chapter you can read it later today it's an amazing chapter because it tells about what true worship is and an understanding of how to worship god in order to truly bring glory to him and and not to yourself in verse 4 of isaiah 6 it indicates the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out and the house was filled with smoke now get the picture okay i mean this is an amazing experience isaiah was having so many sensory impressions a huge throne the robe of the lord is filling the entire area these angels are crying to each other showing great respect saying holy holy holy and and then there's all this shaking going on because these voices are so powerful and then smoke i mean this is an amazing experience isaiah was just overwhelmed well i would be and i'm sure you would be too well it says then in verse 5 that it was just too much for isaiah and he just says woe to me for i am undone because i am a man of unclean lips he felt like he didn't belong there probably thinking i don't understand why god has brought me here because i just feel so unworthy i'm sinful what am i doing amidst all of this amazing throne room activity well verse 5 continues with isaiah saying and i dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts isaiah was so impressed and was in complete awe he felt his worthless condition because he was a sinner now you know i i don't know what you're experiencing right now perhaps you may be a bit discouraged today maybe something has happened in your life that has distracted you from looking to christ and the beauty of knowing him or maybe you've got some health challenge or maybe you have a problem in your home perhaps there's a really fractious situation where you work or perhaps you are working from home and are having problems maybe there is something that's really troubling you you may just feel like isaiah very much undone and you may also identify with isaiah saying what was me you know i'm i'm undone i'm i'm i'm just feeling really low well the lord knows exactly what's happening to you right now and he knows how to remedy that situation you see even before isaiah could even put more thoughts together it says in verse 6 that one of the seraphim one of those angels flew to isaiah having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the use of tongs from the altar verse 7 says and he touched my mouth with it you see god knew that isaiah needed to be encouraged and that he needed to be purified that he needed to be justified and sanctified through the righteousness of jesus christ so this coal was taken off the altar and symbolically was a cleansing of his sins now you don't take a hot coal and put it on tender sensitive lips but this was a figurative understanding that isaiah was being purified by god and what did the angel say to him behold this has touched your lips your iniquity is taken away and your sin purged oh isaiah was so excited because let me tell you as you know yourself in your own personal experience when you confess your sins god is faithful to forgive us of all our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness just as first john chapter 1 verse 9 promises us now coming back to those three angels messages the righteousness of jesus christ is the core of those three angels messages turning people back to the true worship of god and not to some kind of religion that mixes error with truth not some religion that is humanly focused not some religion that has so much humanism in it that it doesn't have anything about god or very little no it's all about god as we focus upon christ and his righteousness so isaiah after having this amazing experience and feeling the burden rolled away off of his shoulders here's a voice and it was the voice of the lord in verse 8. the lord is speaking to you and to me right now as he spoke to isaiah god said whom shall i send and who will go for us i think the last word there is very important now in the english language and it may be different in other languages it has the us capitalized which signifies that this pronoun is referring to god himself now it didn't say just who will go for me it says who will go for us it means the father the son and the holy spirit three persons in one now i can't explain that no one can but i believe it i accept that the father the son and the holy spirit are three persons working together as one in a powerful way so they say who will go for us then i said this is isaiah is saying this now here am i send me in essence i will go the lord is calling you today in this very difficult and tough time so many challenges that we're facing uncertainty and an unknown future humanly speaking god is calling you to share with others the wonderful good news that christ has a way of escape for all of us and that soon he is coming to take us home to be with him will you respond affirmatively positively will you say yes lord i will go i will do everything i can to share with my neighbors with my friends with my loved ones with those i work with this precious wonderful message you see god wants you to be involved he could have asked the angels to do the work that's what we're told but he decided that we needed that participation in his whole plan of salvation and what a blessing it is to be part of it that is what total member involvement really is now let me read you something from the spirit of prophecy from last day events page 75 and it says everywhere there is a tendency to substitute the work of organizations for individual effort i mean let me comment on that oh well maybe you're thinking let the conference do that let the evangelist do that let the mission do that why not let the teachers do that in the school i don't need to do that so we get organizations to do what should be done in an individual way now the quotation goes on to say multitudes leave to institutions and organizations the work of benevolence they excuse themselves from contact with the world and their hearts grow cold you see when you're not involved in helping somebody else your heart gets spiritually cold then it goes on to say they become self-absorbed and unimpressible it means god has a hard time touching them in sensitive situations he goes on to say love for god and man dies out of the soul well i want to tell you we're facing some very big challenges ahead we know that from the books daniel and revelation and matthew chapter 24 and other places in scripture and of course that wonderful book uh the great controversy and the lord wants you to be of good courage to stay connected with him through bible study through the study of the spirit of prophecy through prayer and then saying in response to the holy spirit's promptings lord yes use me i will go i will do whatever i can with the talents you have given to me in closing let me share if you have it close by you can reference it or you can certainly access it online it is the spirit of prophecy compilation of ellen white's writings in the book entitled christian service that's the name of the book christian service it's an amazing book with marvelous counsel on so many aspects of serving god in these last days of earth's history i strongly recommend that you get a copy and read it or access it online after having read it myself i have all kinds of notes and underlinings in the book it's an amazing book covering so many different subjects let me read to you just a little bit on page 158 we read 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 now the covet 19 pandemic that the world has gone through was not an easy situation at all it is difficult but let me tell you we're going to be facing a lot harder situations in the future as we know as i've mentioned from the books of daniel revelation and the great controversy if you haven't read that book recently the great controversy please read it my wife nancy and i have been reading some of the last portions of the book looking at some of those amazing things that are going to happen and we will continue to read from that book and i encourage you to do the same we know that we're going to face many miserable troubles and trials ahead but don't get discouraged god is with us emmanuel that's one of the words that's one of the names for christ god is with us he's going to be with us as matthew 28 20 tells us to the end of the world he will be by our side even in the most difficult situations so that god's work can continue now let me read another one on page 136 of christian service there are stormy times before us but let us not utter one word of unbelief or discouragement let us remember that we bear a message of healing to a world filled with sin-sick souls there are so many people who need to hear the good word of the lord from you they need to understand that you have a strong belief in god and that you're not discouraged let's not utter one word of unbelief or discouragement for the lord wants to use you and me in a powerful way all through the power of the holy spirit now talking about those angels in isaiah chapter 6 and those amazing seraphim that were flying and serving god and helping isaiah listen to this in christian service on page 258 cherubim and seraphim those that were referenced in in isaiah 6 and angels that excel in strength stand at god's right hand all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation and that means you and me and then this last quote before i ask you again are you willing to go it says on page 260 in christian service again that beautiful book i hope you'll access that book and read it here it is on page 260.