@Rick H

Interesting message that you are working on.

Will it be live-streamed?

I am so thankful the good Lord has impressed statements like these on me, to daily seek the Lord to know my defects and surrender them to Him. It's terrifying where I could be if I didn't do that!

Ellen White
"As Christians we are less thorough in self-examination than in anything else; it is no wonder, then, that we make such slow advancement in understanding self." (5Testimonies p.332-333)


1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I am pained to see the little value placed upon men whom the Lord has used and whom He will use. God forbid that every man's mind shall follow in the channel of another man's mind. One man's mind may be, by some, exalted as being in every degree superior, but every mind has its peculiar weakness and its peculiar strength. One man's mind will supply another man's deficiency. But if all work in the one harness and are given encouragement to look, not to men to know their duty, but to God, they will develop under the Holy Spirit's guidance, and will work in unity with their brethren. One will supply another's lack.?Letter 50, 1897. 2MCP 427.2

Not to Shape Other Minds?God has given to every man an individual responsibility. ?Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.? Man is not to work out any other man's salvation. He is not to become the transcript of any man's mind. He is required to act in his capacity according to the ability God has given him. No man, whatever his experience, whatever his position, is to feel that he accomplishes a wonderful work when he fashions and shapes the mind of any human being after his own mind and teaches him to voice the sentiments he may express. This has been done again and again to the detriment of human beings.?Manuscript 116, 1898. 2MCP 427.3

Not to Be a Shadow of Others [See chapter 29, ?Dependence and Independence.?]?Oh, how much the workers need the spirit of Jesus to change and fashion them as clay is molded in the hands of the potter! When they have this spirit, there will be no spirit of variance among them; no one will be so narrow as to want everything done his way, according to his ideas; there will be no inharmonious feeling between him and his brother laborers who do not come up to his standard. The Lord does not want any of His children to be shadows of others; but He would have each one be his own simple self, refined, sanctified, ennobled by imitating the life and character of the great Pattern. The narrow, shut-in, exclusive spirit which keeps everything within the compass of one's self has been a curse to the cause of God and always will be wherever allowed to exist.?The Review and Herald, April 13, 1886. 2MCP 428.1

No One to Submerge His Mind?God permits every human being to exercise his individuality. He desires no one to submerge his mind in the mind of a fellow mortal. Those who desire to be transformed in mind and character are not to look to men, but to the divine Example. God gives the invitation, ?Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.? By conversion and transformation men are to receive the mind of Christ. Every one is to stand before God with an individual faith, an individual experience, knowing for himself that Christ is formed within, the hope of glory. For us to imitate the example of any man?even one whom we might regard as nearly perfect in character?would be to put our trust in a defective human being, one who is unable to impart a jot or tittle of perfection.?The Signs of the Times, September 3, 1902. 2MCP 428.2

Rules for Strong Minds?It is well for Brother and Sister _____ and Brother and Sister _____ to have strong minds. Each is to maintain his individuality. Each is to preserve an individuality that will not be submerged in the individuality of another. No human being is to be the shadow of another human being. God's servants are to labor together in a unity that blends mind with mind.?Letter 44, 1903. 2MCP 429.1

Individual Measurement?No man can grow up to the full stature of a man for another. Each must reach his own individual measurement for himself. Each is to grow up under God's supervision.?Manuscript 116, 1898. 2MCP 429.2

No Other Human Being Fully Shares Inner Life?Viewed from its human side, life is to all an untried path. It is a path in which, as regards our deeper experiences, we each walk alone. Into our inner life no other human being can fully enter. As the little child sets forth on that journey in which sooner or later he must choose his own course, himself deciding life's issues for eternity, how earnest should be the effort to direct his trust to the sure Guide and Helper!?Education, 255 (1903). 2MCP 429.3

Character Is Personal?Character is personal. We each have a work to do for time and for eternity. God abhors indifference in regard to the formation of character.?Letter 223, 1903. 2MCP 429.4

Recognizing Man's Rights?One of the very highest applications of these principles [recognition of personal responsibilities] is found in the recognition of man's right to himself, to the control of his own mind, to the stewardship of his talents, the right to receive and to impart the fruit of his own labor. Strength and power will be in our institutions only as in all their connection with their fellowmen they recognize these principles?only as in their dealing they give heed to the instruction of the Word of God.?Testimonies for the Church 7:180 (1902). 2MCP 429.5

Dependent Upon Christ?Each soul has an individuality. Each soul must live in hourly communion with Christ; for He says, ?Without Me ye can do nothing? (John 15:5). His principles are to be our principles; for these principles are the everlasting truth, proclaimed in righteousness, goodness, mercy, and love.?Letter 21, 1901. 2MCP 430.1

Individuality in Christian Experience to Be Preserved?Teach every soul to lean heavily on the arm of infinite power. There is an individuality in Christian experience that must be preserved in every human agent, and the responsibility cannot be removed from any soul. Each one has his own battles to fight, his own Christian experience to gain, independent in some respects from any other soul; and God has lessons for each to gain for himself that no other can gain for him.?Manuscript 6, 1889. 2MCP 430.2

Psalms 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave H7585 who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; H7585 neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Psalms 49"15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: H7585 for he shall receive me.
Ps. 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. H7585
Ps. 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, H7585 behold, thou art there.
Pr 15:11 Hell H7585 and destruction are before the LORD:

Matt. 5:29 &30 it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. G1067
Matt. 5:22 Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell G1067 fire.
Luke 12:5 Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; G1067 yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Didnt think about it, but yes they will live streamed on Youtube, we also have Conrad Vine coming. That will be interesting to say the least...

When are you scheduled to preach this message?