⁸ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁰ But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11

Pastor Reggie Wooden, a Baptist minister with a PhD in theology, for years looked down on the Seventh-day Adventist church. He thought that he had a sound understanding of the faith, and along with many other protestant religions looked down on Adventists as a being a cult who were ‘nice but misled’.

At the tender age of 9, after feeling the calling of the lord on his life, when he truned 20 he entered the ministry after attending Bible College and seminary and became a Pastor. He grew up in a family that loved the lord and went to church every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening. After 20 years of Pastoring he decided to start a Christian school in Huntsville, Alabama. He says that the Adventist presence was high in the town due to Oakwood University being there, and so many Adventist children attended his school. He carefully watched these families live out their faith.

One day, he recalls, one of the parents came to him and said "Pastor Reggie, can I talk to you? I have read this book and believe everything in it but I might have it wrong and might be deceived. Could you please read the book (Ten Commandments Twice Removed) and at the end of the book, if there is anything wrong with it, would you love me enough to tell so that I can get it right?" Pastor Reggie says he thought to himself, right this is my chance to tell them, when all along on reflection he was being set up by the Holy Spirit.

After reading the book, in total, 5 times and also asking his wife to read it, the next Sunday he shared the Sabbath truth with his church, who all followed him into the message. This is only a precised version, but I urge you to watch his full testimony HERE. 

Friends, God is moving all around the world in more ways than we could ever imagine. Let us who experience weekly the blessings of the Sabbath not be afraid to share it.

Gaither Vocal Band sing ‘He is here’ Click on the picture to listen.