SDA’s Visitation

I use to be a black preacher but now I am an Adventist preacher. There

was a time when my preaching was caught up more with style, not
substance. Back then I felt like I was a giant in the pulpit but looking back
now I was just a mere homiletical(art of preaching) hitch hiker. I am here
today to preach an Adventist Sermon, a sermon that only be preached in
an Adventist Church. After all I am Adventist preacher and I am in an
Adventist Church. So if you don’t feel like saying amen this morning it’s
alright. Now this is only part 1, part 2 will be this afternoon right after the
fellowship meal.

Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the
things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Luk 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a
trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Luk 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee;
and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not
the time of thy visitation.

SOP QUOTES
1. “Abraham could not explain the leadings of Providence; he had not realized
his expectations; but he held fast the promise, "I will bless thee, and make thy
name great; and thou shalt be a blessing." With earnest prayer he considered how
to preserve the life of his people and his flocks, but he would not allow
circumstances to shake his faith in God's word. To escape the famine he went down
into Egypt. He did not forsake Canaan, or in his extremity turn back to the
Chaldean land from which he came, where there was no scarcity of bread; but he
sought a temporary refuge as near as possible to the Land of Promise,
intending shortly to return where God had placed him. {PP 129.1}

The woman urged her case with increased earnestness, bowing at Christ's feet, and
crying, "Lord, help me." Jesus, still apparently rejecting her entreaties, according to
the unfeeling prejudice of the Jews, answered, "It is not meet to take the children's
bread, and to cast it to dogs." This was virtually asserting that it was not just to
lavish the blessings brought to the favored people of God upon strangers and aliens
from Israel. This answer would have utterly discouraged a less earnest seeker. But
the woman saw that her opportunity had come. Beneath the apparent refusal of
Jesus, she saw a compassion that He could not hide. "Truth, Lord," she answered,
"yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." While the
children of the household eat at the father's table, even the dogs are not
left unfed. They have a right to the crumbs that fall from the table abundantly
supplied. So while there were many blessings given to Israel, was there not also a
blessing for her? She was looked upon as a dog, and had she not then a dog's
claim to a crumb from His bounty? {DA 401.1}

Many Adventists Brace Themselves Against the Light

There is to be in the [Seventh-day Adventist] churches a wonderful manifestation of the
power of God, but it will not move upon those who have not humbled themselves
before theLord, and opened the door of the heart by confession and repentance.
In themanifestation of that power which lightens the earth with the glory of God, they will see
only something which in their blindness they think dangerous, something which will arouse their
fears, and they will brace themselves to resist it. Because the Lord does not work according to
their ideas and expectations they will oppose the work. “Why,” they say, “should we not
know the Spirit of God, when we have been in the work so many years?”—TheReview and
Herald Extra, December 23, 1890.

A Famine for the Word

Those who do not now appreciate, study, and dearly prize the Word of God spoken by His
servants will have cause to mourn bitterly hereafter. I saw that the Lord in judgment will
at the close of time walk through the earth; the fearful plagues will begin to fall. Then those
who have despised God’s Word, those who have lightly esteemed it, shall “wander from sea to
sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the Lord
and shall not find it” (Amos 8:12). A famine is in the land for hearing the Word.—Manuscript 1,
1857. {LDE 234.3}