Camp Meetings bring with them a specia anticipation. Each person with a knowledge that, by the end of the weekend, they will have heard something more and deeper of the Revelation of Christ IN them.
Something Paul has written that they may not have fully grasped till now will be revealed. But there will be something “more of Him“ for each one of us. In our diversity the Holy Spirit meets each person at their point of growth and need; and so we come with that secret longing to know Him more. And KNOWING that the Holy Spirt will meet that need as Warren opens the Word to us.
This awareness underlies all the greetings and Fellowship that transpire over those 3 days.
Every gathering for a tea or a lunch between the Family is centered on sharing knowledge and experiences with one another. All Christ centered amongst the tears and the laughter.
This time at Pine Lodge was no exception. Airport pick ups ran smoothly with everyone stopping on the way back to Pine Lodge to get goodies for their Cabins. Folk from up country rushing to have their first look at the sea. Unpacking and getting ready for the Feast of the Word to start early Thursday.
Despite a throat infection that made things uncomfortable for him, Warren delivered God’s Word and his subject for this Camp was IT IS FINISHED.
Starting with God’s Plan in Eternity Past, to have His people who would be In Christ (Eph. 4), and the necessity to have Jesus shed His Blood to give God the right to place each one in Christ and the right for Him to be a Father.
At the Cross Jesus refused the vinegar and gall that they offered to Him. He knew He needed to be in His right mind throughout. There could be no mistakes. He was subject to the Plan of God, and not to Humanity. He HAD to die as we were all in Him and all sin in us would die to God. His death had to be perfect because, after the Cross, sin does not exist. It had to die at the Cross.
He died to be my Life. It’s a whole new Life because Salvation is not me being corrected, a bad life made good. It’s the end of an old life, and we experience nothing that was not in God’s Plan.
His words took into consideration our own efforts to please Him. We are complete in Christ. They took into consideration our ethnicity. We are a whole new Race of Born Again Believers. We are perfect IN Christ. His death was our death; His resurrection was our resurrection; His Life is Our Life.
No new thing has been added since He said the words "It is Finished." He could have died anytime on the way, but He held on and only "gave up the ghost" when He knew that the plan was full and complete, never to be added to. Salvation had been bought and paid for. The only event still to happen that completes the plan is the Rapture of His Church, the "going Home" of the Saints.
Only Paul tells us the significance of the Cross. The only one who tells us of the end times. He didn't start new churches. He just said, Follow me as I follow Christ, because only Paul was given the Gospel to the Gentiles. And he gives it to us.
Sunday arrived all too soon. Ten wonderful teaching sessions were behind us and we made our way home, having truly feasted on Him.
It is hard to convey to others who have never attended a Camp Meeting, what a rich time it is, but we urge everyone to find the time and resources to "come join us" next October as we Fellowship with the Father and the Son.
Denise Hayes