2009 MASC CAMP MEETING THEME:
"A Shelter in the Coming Storm"
DATE:
June 10-14, 2008
LOCATION:
Pinecrest Camp - Ozone, Arkansas
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SPEAKERS:
Mike Bauler
Shelem Flemons
Bill Hughes
Barry Mellor
John Skeete
Another year has come and gone and it is
camp meeting time again. As the world’s economic and political
situations have worsened and we have seen more and more evidence of a
move toward Sunday legislation, we realize that the final events before
the coming of the Lord are soon to break upon us.
“God has revealed what is to take place in the
last days that His people may be prepared to stand against the tempest
of opposition and wrath. Those who have been warned of the events before
them are not to sit in calm expectation of the coming storm, comforting
themselves that the Lord will shelter His faithful ones in the
day of trouble. . . .
“It is no time now [WRITTEN
IN 1885, AT A TIME WHEN RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WAS THREATENED, MUCH AS IT IS
TODAY] to allow our minds to be engrossed with things of
minor importance. . . . The Sunday movement is now making
its way in darkness. The leaders are concealing the true issue, and many
who unite in the movement do not themselves see whither the undercurrent
is tending. Its professions are mild and apparently Christian, but when
it shall speak it will reveal the spirit of the dragon. It is our
duty to do all in our power to avert the threatened
danger.
“The time is coming when God's people will
feel the hand of persecution because they keep holy the seventh day. . .
. The man of sin, who thought to change times and laws, and who has
always oppressed the people of God, will cause laws to be made enforcing
the observance of the first day of the week. But God's people are to
stand firm for Him. And the Lord will work in their behalf,
showing plainly that He is the God of gods.” Faith I Live
By p. 325
“The storm of God's wrath is soon coming upon
a guilty world, and can you endure the thought of coming up to such a
scene without a hope in God, and feeling that his withering frown is
upon you? If you want a shelter, you must seek it now,
and then you will be hid when the fierce anger of the Lord shall come.”
Youth Instructor, December 1, 1852 par. 5
"Says the prophet: ‘Who may abide the day
of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a
refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap; and he shall sit as a refiner
and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi,
and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an
offering in righteousness.’ Malachi 3:2,3. Those who are living upon
the earth when the intercession of Christ shall cease in the sanctuary
above, are to stand in the sight of a holy God without a mediator. Their
robes must be spotless; their characters must be purified from sin by
the blood of sprinkling. Through the grace of God
and their own diligent effort, they must be
conquerors in the battle with evil. While the investigative Judgment is
going forward in Heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being
removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of
purification, of putting away of sin, among God's people upon earth.”
The Great Controversy 1888 ed. p. 425
“A refining, purifying process is going on
among the people of God, and the Lord of hosts has set His
hand to this work. This process is most trying to the soul,
but it is necessary in order that defilement may be removed. Trials are
essential in order that we may be brought close to our heavenly Father,
in submission to His will, that we may offer unto the Lord an offering
in righteousness. . . . The Lord brings His children over
the same ground again and again, increasing the pressure until perfect
humility fills the mind, and the character is transformed; then they are
victorious over self, and in harmony with Christ and the Spirit of
heaven. The purification of God's people cannot be accomplished without
suffering. . . . He passes us from one fire to another,
testing our true worth. True grace is willing to be tried. If we are
loath to be searched by the Lord, our condition is one of peril. . .
“It is in mercy that the Lord
reveals to men their hidden defects. He would have them critically
examine the complicated emotions and motives of their own hearts, and
detect that which is wrong, and modify their dispositions and refine
their manners. God would have His servants become acquainted with their
own hearts. In order to bring to them a true knowledge of their
condition, He permits the fire of affliction to
assail them, so that they may be purified. The trials of life are
God's workmen to remove the impurities, infirmities, and roughness
from our characters, and fit them for the society of pure, heavenly
angels in glory. . . . The fire will not consume us,
but only remove the dross, and we shall come forth seven times
purified, bearing the impress of the Divine.”
ML 92
Let us
cooperate with God in this process of preparation that we
may find that shelter we need in the coming storm. |
