Have you been blessed this week?
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Amen.
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This morning we're
gonna have Wes once more.
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And I just want to
tell you a little about him.
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When I was in AFCOE in
2009, he was actually--
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he actually had
cancer at the time
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and it was at that time
that I really got to see a man
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who loves the Lord
with all of his heart.
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He was witnessing to
the people in the hospital
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and it was just
phenomenal to seeing someone,
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a man who loves
the Lord that much.
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And it's just
been a blessing to me
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to know him over
the last few years
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and to just see
his ministry progress
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as he has gone on.
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Good morning GYC. Good morning.
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Happy New Year. Happy New Year.
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Praise God.
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GYC, you have been
trained, you have been equipped,
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you have been prepared
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and now it is
time to go back home
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to your individuals churches,
to your individual campuses,
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to wherever you may be
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and start putting
these things into action.
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Have you sense God
calling you to something
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higher in your
life this weekend?
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Have you sensed God
calling you to action
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in your life this weekend?
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Praise God for that.
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I believe this morning
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that God is going to
bless us in a special way.
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I'm looking
forward after this meeting
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to Pastor John Bradshaw
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and you're gonna be excited,
you're gonna be inspired,
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one of my favorite
preachers John Bradshaw.
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And don't idolize him
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but he's one of my
favorite preachers.
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And so I'm looking
forward to after preaching
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getting to hear a good sermon.
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Now I need-- I need
your help with something.
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Can you guys--
are you guys willing
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to help me this morning?
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Amen.
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I'm flying home today
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and tomorrow is my
8th wedding anniversary.
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Eight years with
my beautiful wife
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and I'm so excited about it.
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And I'm wondering if you all
would be willing to wish her--
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I guessing me too,
a happy anniversary.
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She's watching right
now on the GYC website.
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How many of you be willing to
help me with that this morning?
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So on the count of
three I'm gonna say--
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I ask you to say
happy anniversary Marion.
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Can you do that?
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Ready? All right, dear.
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I hope she's watching
online. One, two, three.
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Happy anniversary, Marion. Amen.
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I wish you guys were that loud
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when you said amen
during our-- praise God.
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Thank you for that so much.
You guys did fantastic job.
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I'll invite you
wherever you are.
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We have a lot to
cover this morning.
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I want to invite you wherever
you're to just bow your heads
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and I'm going to
kneel this morning
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and ask God's
blessing to be with us.
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Father in heaven,
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we're delighted to be
here on this final day of GYC.
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It is bittersweet.
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We're sad to see it go
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but we're
excited at the prospect
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of what you're going to do in us
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and through us in 2013.
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Lord, we want Jesus to come.
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We want the Holy Spirit to
be poured out in a marked way,
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the latter rain.
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And we pray to today
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that our hearts would
be surrendered to You.
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We pray that our minds
would be committed to You,
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that our lives
would be passionate
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about serving
You and knowing You.
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And we pray today one final time
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that You would bless
us with Your presence
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and that You
would draw close to us.
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And we ask all this
things in Jesus name, amen.
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This weekend we've explored
the roots of the revolution,
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the driving
force of the revolution
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and the life of the revolution.
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We've seen how
the word revolution
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is really a word that
means "Revival and Reformation."
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Amen.
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That is what
revolution really is.
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Christ centered,
God centered revolution
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is nothing more then
Revival and Reformation."
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How many of you experienced that
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during your time
at GYC this weekend?
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How many of you
want that to continue
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as you go back home?
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Praise God.
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Every revolution that in history
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always has one of two faiths.
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One of two what?
One of two faiths.
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First it will either die
because the next generation
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is unwilling to sacrifice
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what the previous generation did
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or it will continue and grow
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because that same generation
is willing to sacrifice
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not just the same
amount as the pioneers did
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but even more.
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One of two faiths.
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No revolution can
continue in its strength
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without that generation
being willing to sacrifice
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not the same but more.
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The day finally
came in the Book of Acts
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when the original revolution
was drawing to a close.
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The apostles,
Peter, James, John,
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all these brethren
were getting up in age.
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The time would come
when they were ready
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to lay down their lives.
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Paul stood in Rome standing
erect with heavenly dignity
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and preached the
gospel unflinchingly
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to the Emperor Nero,
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the most powerful
man on earth in that day.
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And soon after Paul was beheaded
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for his faith in
Christ not long after that,
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Peter was crucified upside down.
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And many of the other
apostles were murdered
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and killed in various ways.
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John was sent to
the isle of Patmos.
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And the revolution
began to draw to a close
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and it was time for a
new generation to rise.
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A new generation to
take over were those
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who had faithfully
served were now gone.
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There was a young
man in the Book of Acts,
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his name was Timothy.
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How many of you
remember Timothy?
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The Bible tells us
that Timothy was like
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a son to Paul and he was the one
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that Paul had
selected among many others
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to continue that
revolution that had begun.
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And it would be up to Timothy
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to continue that
flame of the Holy Spirit.
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And before
Paul's death he charged
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Timothy to be faithful
and carrying on that flame.
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As my brother Adam pointed
out this past Sabbath morning.
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God has said faithful men
and women down through time,
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who have been willing to pickup
where the others have left off.
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Now we sit at
the edge of eternity,
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in the midst of Laodicea.
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A Laodicean Church
with the hopeful promise
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that one final time God
is going to do it again.
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Amen. Amen.
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We read a very
powerful quote from the book
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Christ Object Lessons, page 121.
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I want you to notice this.
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They are gonna be putting
it up on the screen for you.
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It says, "These
scenes are to be repeated."
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To be what, everyone?
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"To be repeated
and with greater power.
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The outpouring
of the Holy Spirit
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on the day of
Pentecost was the former rain,
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but the latter rain
will be more abundant.
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The Spirit awaits our
demand and reception."
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Imagine that, friends.
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God is not waiting
for some cataclysmic event
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to happen on earth.
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God is not waiting for the
pope to pass the Sunday laws.
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But God is
waiting for His people
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to get serious
about a revolution
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to get serious
about being on their knees
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and surrendering their
hearts and their lives to Him.
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God is ready,
willing and able to pour out
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the Holy Spirit on us today
if we're willing to receive it.
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Amen. Amen.
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In the final
revolution more must be done
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than was ever done before.
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More surrender, more prayer,
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more confession of
sin, more Bible study,
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more sacrifice than
any generation before,
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that is what must taken
place in the final revolution.
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We must receive the Holy Spirit
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as if we've never had it
like in times past before.
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Brothers and sisters,
today I'm more desirous
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to end this
revolution than to continue it.
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I'm more desirous to end
this revolution than to continue
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and I want it to be ended
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because I want
to see Jesus come.
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I had a friend
who just recently--
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he just
recently lost his mother.
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He's a pastor in Michigan.
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And I said to him, brother,
what can I do to help you?
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And he said get to work
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because I want
to see Jesus come.
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Get to work.
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Few people have displayed
more love for God's church
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than Paul did in his day.
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He sacrificed everything
in his life, everything.
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I can assure you that
if Paul was here today
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he would be
excited to attend GYC.
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How many of you
think that might be so?
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And if Paul were here
today I can assure you
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that I would sit down
quick fast and in hurry.
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I would sit down at his feet
and listen to his words, amen.
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How many of you
think you might do that?
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We wouldn't idolize him
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but we would
listen to his words.
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By the way, let me say
something else about that.
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You know, in Acts
Chapter 10, Peter,
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the Cornelius came
and bow down to him
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and he said stand up
for I myself I'm also a man.
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He refused to the praise.
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In Acts Chapter 12,
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King Herod sat on his throne
and he accepted the praise
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and he was killed
and eaten by worms.
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Brothers and sisters,
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you can ruin your preacher
by puffing him up, amen.
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Love him, appreciate
him and encourage him
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but don't puff him up.
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We're told that
the scenes of Pentecost
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and the advent movement
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will take place
again with greater power.
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This is what we're told by
our prophet through inspiration.
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Where do we find this power?
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Through
surrender of Christ first.
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But what about the
pillars of continued revolution?
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Do they change overtime?
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Do the pillars of revolution
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that took place
in the Book of Acts,
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do they change
with our generation?
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Do we have
revolution, evolution?
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I believe the
answer to that today
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is astounding no.
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The same pillars,
the same principles
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that they experienced to receive
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and experienced revolution,
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we must have the
same today, amen.
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And Paul charged these
with Timothy before he left.
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And we're gonna find today.
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We're gonna take a
look at those things
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which Paul charged Timothy with
to keep the revolution alive.
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And I believe
that these are things
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that will not just
keep the revolution alive
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but that will end
the revolution, amen.
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How many of you
want that to end?
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We're gonna look this morning
at this very powerful passage.
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I'm gonna invite to
turning your Bibles with me
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to the Book of 2
Timothy, 2 Timothy.
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If you read
through the Book of Acts,
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Timothy is talked
about multiple times.
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And this at the end of
the time of the Book of Acts,
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Paul gives his charge to Timothy
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to keep the flames going.
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What is the power behind
the power of the revolution?
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First-- Oh, I'm sorry 2 Timothy
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and we're gonna
begin in chapter 1
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and we're gonna
start in verse 7.
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Are you there? Amen.
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The Bible says,
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"For God has not
given us a spirit of" what?
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"Of fear, but of
power and of love
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and of a sound mind."
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Ellen White
says, that those things
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will be repeated
with great power.
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Verse 8,
"Therefore do not be ashamed
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of the testimony of our Lord,
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nor of me His prisoner,
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but share with
me in the sufferings
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for the gospel
according to the power of God."
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The what of God?
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The power of God it says,
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"Who has saved us and
called us with a holy calling,
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not according to our works,
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but according to His own purpose
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and grace which was given to us
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in Christ Jesus
before the world began."
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Paul says that there
is power in the, what?
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Hello?
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The power in the
gospel, Paul says.
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The everlasting
gospel, the same gospel
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that we find in
Revelation 14:6 and on.
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And, friends, Paul says,
do not be ashamed of what?
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Do not be ashamed.
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If you're not
ashamed of something,
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it means that
you're proud of it.
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Yes or no?
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Not proud in a wrong
way but in the right way,
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that you're happy, you're proud,
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you're thankful to
be called a Christian.
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You're thankful,
you're proud to be called
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a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian.
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Amen. Amen.
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We don't have to hide
it, brothers and sisters.
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Paul says, do not be ashamed.
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There is
revolutionary power in knowing
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who you are and who he is,
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understanding our identity
as God's last day people.
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Paul says that
there is power in that.
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There is power
in centering Christ
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in everything that we teach.
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Some people want to teach today
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that it's all
just about the cross.
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And we don't need to
focus on anything else.
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Have you ever
heard somebody say that?
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But let me tell
you what, friends.
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Everything that we
believe as Seventh-day Adventist
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is centered in the cross
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but it's not
only about the cross
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it's about the
everlasting gospel, amen.
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The three angels' messages
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which is more than just a cross,
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but it is centered
and routed in the cross.
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How many of you thankful today
for the everlasting gospel?
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How many of you won't
want to not be ashamed
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of the everlasting gospel?
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Amen.
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Where there is
revolutionary power
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when the gospel
takes route in our lives
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we will
experience apostolic power
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and apostolic love.
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We need to return
to apostolic love.
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How many of you
believe that to be true today?
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Paul says that we're
called with a holy calling,
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a sacred calling,
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a calling that it can
only be given by heaven
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and it's time that as
a group of young people
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it's time that as a generation
living in the last days
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that we step up and
rise to that holy calling.
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We must never be
satisfied with being ordinary
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as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians.
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God is not
accepting ordinary things,
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ordinary commitments.
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We must be extra
ordinary by His grace
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and by His power, amen.
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You may be
ordinary without Christ
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but you're extra
ordinary with Christ, amen.
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Secondly there's
power in faithfulness.
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I want you to continue with me
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we're gonna look at
several points through here.
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Verse 12 through 14.
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Paul says, "For this reason
I also suffer these things,
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nevertheless I am not ashamed,
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for I know whom I have believed
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and am persuaded
that He is able to keep
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what I have committed
to Him until that Day.
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Hold fast the
pattern of sound words
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which you have heard from me,
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in faith and love
which are in Christ Jesus.
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And that good thing
which was committed to you,
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keep by the Holy
Spirit who dwells in us."
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Paul challenges Timothy.
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He says, if you want to
keep the revolution alive,
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there is revolutionary
power in faithfulness today.
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How many of you
believe that to be so?
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Faithfulness to Christ.
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Reflect back on your life
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how God has led
you in times pass.
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Remember how He
answered divine prayers
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just at the right moment.
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Remember when God
answered your prayer in the way
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that you didn't think He should,
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but when you
looked back you realize
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that it was His
leading and it was His will
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and His will
turned out to be the best,
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not what you wanted.
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Remember the
divine interventions
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and providences and
moments in your life
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when God answered those prayers.
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Do not forget these things.
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Do not forget what
Christ has done for you.
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Do not forget how God
has been faithful to you
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down through your years.
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Be faithful to
God's faithfulness.
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Amen. Amen.
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Do not turn back,
do not be discouraged.
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Be faithful to God even when
others in the church are not.
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Be faithful to God when
even your own family members
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may turn against you.
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Be faithful to God
when you're by yourself
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and no one else is around
just as much as you would,
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when you're in the crowd of GYC.
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Only a faithful
church can win sinners
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to God's last day church.
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History is
littered with churches
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who have tried to
compromise their faith,
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compromise their message,
compromise their identity.
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History is
littered with these churches
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at failed attempts
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to truly win the world to
Christ through compromise.
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Do not compromise
yourselves, young people.
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Do not compromise your Savior.
Do not compromise His church.
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Do not compromise His message,
but be faithful in all things.
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Amen. Amen.
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Youth are going to
have to provide something
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that the older
generation did not.
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The older generation
as much as we love them
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have only gone halfway
in revival and reformation.
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God will never accept
half hearted commitments.
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Did you hear what I said?
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God will never accept
half hearted commitments.
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He wants your whole
heart, young people.
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He must have all
of your energies,
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all of your strength,
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all of your mind
and all of your hearts.
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He will not accept
half hearted commitments.
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It's the halfway stuff
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that is sabotaged our
church through the ages.
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It is the halfway commitments
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that is the reason
we're still here today.
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I want you to
notice the statement,
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very powerful from the book
Prophets and Kings, page 148.
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Very, very
powerful statement here.
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It says, "The whole universe
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is watching with
inexpressible interest
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and the closing scenes
of the great controversy
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between good and evil.
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The people of God are nearing
00:19:46.20\00:19:48.63
the borders of
the eternal world,
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what can be of
more importance to them
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that they be loyal
to the God of heaven?
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All through the ages,
God has had moral heroes,
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and He has them now,
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those who are not ashamed
to acknowledge themselves
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as His peculiar people."
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Brothers and sisters,
today be faithful to Christ.
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We're nearing eternity.
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And we do not have time
to be messing around anymore.
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By His grace be faithful.
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Do not turn back
because where in the world
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are you going to go
but back to the world.
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It's up to you
today. It's up to you today.
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It's in your hands.
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Thirdly, there
is power in training
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and being trained by others.
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Please look with me
in chapter 2 of Timothy.
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This is something
that was very powerful
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throughout the Acts moment,
throughout the Book of Acts.
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2 Timothy 2:2. Paul says.
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Let's read verse 1 also.
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"You therefore, my
son, be strong in the grace
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that is in Christ Jesus.
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And the things that you have
heard from me many witnesses,
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these commit to faithful men
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who will be able
to teach others also."
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There is power in discipleship
in your local church.
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Young people, you must get
involved in your local church.
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You must train and be trained.
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I talk to many
young people today
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and they say, the
church isn't relevance anymore.
00:21:31.36\00:21:34.60
You ever heard that argument?
You ever heard people say that?
00:21:34.63\00:21:37.70
The church is just
not relevant anymore.
00:21:37.73\00:21:40.48
It does not do anything for me.
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Maybe you said that.
00:21:45.61\00:21:49.87
If you say that
the church is relevant,
00:21:49.90\00:21:52.66
what you're really saying
is that you're not relevant.
00:21:52.69\00:21:57.35
Why?
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Because the church
is the bride of Christ.
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You are the bride of Christ.
00:22:02.60\00:22:05.15
And if the church
isn't relevant anymore
00:22:05.18\00:22:07.69
than you're not relevant.
00:22:07.72\00:22:10.54
It is God who decides
the relevancy of His church,
00:22:10.57\00:22:15.20
not you and not me.
00:22:15.23\00:22:17.76
And let me say--
tell you what friends,
00:22:17.79\00:22:19.37
God has placed, we're
told the highest esteem
00:22:19.40\00:22:23.01
upon His church on this earth.
00:22:23.04\00:22:25.37
Amen. Amen.
00:22:25.40\00:22:26.73
How many of you can say--
00:22:26.76\00:22:27.90
it needs to be
louder than that, friends.
00:22:27.93\00:22:29.91
Amen.
00:22:29.94\00:22:31.68
The more you invest
yourself in the local church,
00:22:31.71\00:22:34.84
the more relevant it
will come, become to you.
00:22:34.87\00:22:38.37
Ask not what your
church can do for you,
00:22:38.40\00:22:42.49
but ask what you
can do for your church.
00:22:42.52\00:22:46.19
Amen. Amen.
00:22:46.22\00:22:48.31
That is when relevancy begins
to take route in our hearts.
00:22:48.34\00:22:53.19
When we invest ourselves
in the local church asking
00:22:53.22\00:22:58.63
what the church can do for us
00:22:58.66\00:23:01.05
instead of what we
can do for the church
00:23:01.08\00:23:03.38
or like the 12
disciples standing there
00:23:03.41\00:23:06.40
when Jesus ascended into heaven,
00:23:06.43\00:23:08.65
gazing up into heaven
00:23:08.68\00:23:10.54
and the angels had to bring them
00:23:10.57\00:23:12.08
back to attention and they said,
00:23:12.11\00:23:13.81
why do you stand there gazing?
00:23:13.84\00:23:16.21
They didn't say this
but what they meant was,
00:23:16.24\00:23:18.34
get yourselves to work.
00:23:18.37\00:23:24.02
Some of us are
just standing there
00:23:24.05\00:23:25.47
gazing into heaven
saying, oh, the church
00:23:25.50\00:23:29.08
is just not
relevant to me anymore,
00:23:29.11\00:23:32.28
it's because you have
not invested yourself in it.
00:23:32.31\00:23:35.39
The more you
invest yourself in it,
00:23:35.42\00:23:37.39
the more you will come to
love it as Christ loves it.
00:23:37.42\00:23:41.20
It is His bride
00:23:41.23\00:23:43.83
and He will see it
all the way through.
00:23:43.86\00:23:47.39
The way that
church functions the best
00:23:47.42\00:23:49.84
as when people are
investing themselves
00:23:49.87\00:23:52.26
in a sacrificial way.
00:23:52.29\00:23:53.54
And we've start
taking the focus off Christ
00:23:53.57\00:23:56.37
and off His church and
start putting on ourselves,
00:23:56.40\00:23:59.39
that's when problems begin.
00:23:59.42\00:24:02.86
So why is it that so
many of our churches have
00:24:02.89\00:24:05.07
so many problems?
00:24:05.10\00:24:07.81
Because we put
the focus on ourselves
00:24:07.84\00:24:10.44
and not on Him
and not on His church.
00:24:10.47\00:24:14.09
If young people
cooperate with the church,
00:24:14.12\00:24:17.54
some people think
it's too stiff to cooperate
00:24:17.57\00:24:21.17
with the
leadership of the church.
00:24:21.20\00:24:23.05
Some people think
that they need to do it
00:24:23.08\00:24:25.69
their own way.
00:24:25.72\00:24:26.86
But let me tell you something,
when God's body meets together,
00:24:26.89\00:24:30.30
Ellen White says, it
is as though God's voice
00:24:30.33\00:24:33.20
is speaking on earth.
00:24:33.23\00:24:34.95
And if it's the church body
00:24:34.98\00:24:36.40
that has elected
the church leadership
00:24:36.43\00:24:38.39
than it is our duty to
work with that leadership
00:24:38.42\00:24:42.11
and to come under its authority.
00:24:42.14\00:24:45.82
Some people think
that they need to go off
00:24:45.85\00:24:47.49
and do their own thing.
00:24:47.52\00:24:49.06
Some people thing
that we need to take action
00:24:49.09\00:24:51.28
and guess what, friends,
00:24:51.31\00:24:52.57
it may sound good on the outside
00:24:52.60\00:24:54.57
but that's exactly what
Lucifer thought in heaven.
00:24:54.60\00:24:59.80
We need to do
things differently.
00:24:59.83\00:25:01.79
We don't need to
follow the current leadership.
00:25:01.82\00:25:05.01
God has placed
leadership in that position.
00:25:05.04\00:25:08.36
King David said,
I will not touch Him
00:25:08.39\00:25:12.55
but so was
seeking to take his life
00:25:12.58\00:25:14.92
and we think that
we're going to rebel
00:25:14.95\00:25:17.88
or go against
the church leadership
00:25:17.91\00:25:20.21
to criticize
them to be negative.
00:25:20.24\00:25:23.60
Some people in the
church are more rebellious
00:25:23.63\00:25:27.66
against the
church and its leadership
00:25:27.69\00:25:30.03
than they are against the world
00:25:30.06\00:25:32.01
and the wickedness
in their own hearts.
00:25:32.04\00:25:38.16
Young people, work
together with your pastors,
00:25:38.19\00:25:42.58
elders and church leadership.
00:25:42.61\00:25:44.25
Get yourself involved.
00:25:44.28\00:25:46.05
Don't expect someone
to hold you accountable
00:25:46.08\00:25:49.51
but you hold others accountable.
00:25:49.54\00:25:51.73
Amen. In a
loving, respectful way.
00:25:51.76\00:25:55.55
Don't be afraid
to hold godly people
00:25:55.58\00:25:58.59
in the older generation
accountable to mentor you.
00:25:58.62\00:26:02.10
Go to them and say, I
want you to mentor me.
00:26:02.13\00:26:05.25
I want you to
teach me what you know
00:26:05.28\00:26:07.52
and how to
avoid making mistakes.
00:26:07.55\00:26:09.87
If there's one thing that
older people know how to do,
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.84
its avoid making mistakes
00:26:12.87\00:26:15.27
because they have made
a lot in their lifetime.
00:26:15.30\00:26:17.29
That's the best
way to learn, amen.
00:26:17.32\00:26:19.70
Don't be afraid.
00:26:19.73\00:26:21.31
If you don't know what
to do in your local church,
00:26:21.34\00:26:24.06
do the work that
lies the nearest.
00:26:24.09\00:26:26.10
You go into your local
church and you find that
00:26:26.13\00:26:29.95
there is no
greater that Sabbath,
00:26:29.98\00:26:31.21
grab those
bulletins and start reading.
00:26:31.24\00:26:35.39
You find that there's
nobody in the Sabbath school
00:26:35.42\00:26:37.55
making comments, make
comments in the Sabbath school.
00:26:37.58\00:26:40.80
You find that there is
a Sabbath school teacher
00:26:40.83\00:26:43.58
who is overwhelmed
00:26:43.61\00:26:44.64
because she's got
twice as many kids that day,
00:26:44.67\00:26:46.90
go in there and help her.
00:26:46.93\00:26:48.53
Do the work
that lies the nearest
00:26:48.56\00:26:50.41
and then God
will begin to use you
00:26:50.44\00:26:52.35
more powerfully and
more efficiently, amen.
00:26:52.38\00:26:57.44
If your pastor--
pastor sometimes get busy,
00:26:57.47\00:27:01.75
go to him and say I
want to do something
00:27:01.78\00:27:05.23
and ask him to teach you,
00:27:05.26\00:27:06.64
ask him to help you
and put you to work.
00:27:06.67\00:27:08.83
And remember
sometimes pastors get busy,
00:27:08.86\00:27:11.18
so you may have to be
like that persistent widow.
00:27:11.21\00:27:14.27
And if you're pastor
still won't put you to work,
00:27:14.30\00:27:16.88
move to Michigan, transfer
your membership to my church
00:27:16.91\00:27:20.38
and I'll put you to work.
00:27:20.41\00:27:25.15
Get involved, young people.
00:27:25.18\00:27:28.09
Many of you're
called to be leaders.
00:27:28.12\00:27:30.80
There was a young
lady in my church.
00:27:30.83\00:27:33.83
I got to my
church just this year
00:27:33.86\00:27:36.72
or last year now,
February of last year.
00:27:36.75\00:27:39.62
And about a week
after I was in my church
00:27:39.65\00:27:42.22
I got an email
from a young lady,
00:27:42.25\00:27:44.24
22 years old and she said,
00:27:44.27\00:27:46.47
the church is not
relevant to me anymore.
00:27:46.50\00:27:48.63
I've been
studying, I don't think
00:27:48.66\00:27:50.37
that the Adventist message
is valid and I'm wanting,
00:27:50.40\00:27:52.97
asking you to drop my church.
00:27:53.00\00:27:54.40
She says, I know what you're job
00:27:54.43\00:27:55.63
as a pastor to pursue me.
00:27:55.66\00:27:57.43
She says, but please don't.
00:27:57.46\00:27:59.16
I just want my
membership to be dropped.
00:27:59.19\00:28:02.42
And I called her
and I said, look,
00:28:02.45\00:28:04.40
why are you doing this?
00:28:04.43\00:28:05.46
She says, I just
have been studying
00:28:05.49\00:28:07.11
and I don't think
that these things apply.
00:28:07.14\00:28:10.18
We're free in the gospel.
00:28:10.21\00:28:13.15
And I said, sister,
I'd like to meet with you
00:28:13.18\00:28:15.02
and she says, no
I don't think so.
00:28:15.05\00:28:16.77
I said, listen, and I
prayed in that moment,
00:28:16.80\00:28:18.77
God gave me
wisdom in that moment.
00:28:18.80\00:28:21.51
I said, sister, if
you found something
00:28:21.54\00:28:24.17
that is the truth
00:28:24.20\00:28:25.23
and if the Adventist
Church is not the real church
00:28:25.26\00:28:28.56
then I also need to
know so that I can leave to.
00:28:28.59\00:28:31.90
Please meet with me
and let's discuss this.
00:28:31.93\00:28:35.43
And she said, okay, we'll meet.
00:28:35.46\00:28:38.05
And so we met,
she and I and my wife
00:28:38.08\00:28:40.48
met for three hours.
00:28:40.51\00:28:42.70
And at the end of that
meeting the Holy Spirit led,
00:28:42.73\00:28:46.08
I give no credit to
myself and all credit--
00:28:46.11\00:28:48.99
I only give credit to
myself when it doesn't work.
00:28:49.02\00:28:53.26
If it works God
gets the credit, amen.
00:28:53.29\00:28:57.27
And by the end
of that time period
00:28:57.30\00:28:59.47
that young lady was
in tears and she said,
00:28:59.50\00:29:01.19
I'll never leave
the Adventist Church.
00:29:01.22\00:29:04.25
She became our youth leader
and she's sitting right there
00:29:04.28\00:29:07.03
on the fourth row
at GYC here today.
00:29:07.06\00:29:09.49
Amen. Amen.
00:29:09.52\00:29:14.17
You're called to be
leaders, young people.
00:29:14.20\00:29:16.76
You may be busy with school,
you maybe busy with work,
00:29:16.79\00:29:20.44
but remember the sacrifice,
remember the sacrifice.
00:29:20.47\00:29:23.93
Don't take on so much
that you lose your mind
00:29:23.96\00:29:26.74
but take on more than you think
00:29:26.77\00:29:28.60
you're comfortable
with and watch God work.
00:29:28.63\00:29:31.92
He will do something
great in you and through you.
00:29:31.95\00:29:35.22
You think God can't use you?
00:29:35.25\00:29:37.34
You should have
heard my first sermon.
00:29:37.37\00:29:44.20
I wrote this sermon out
and I stood up to preach
00:29:44.23\00:29:48.16
and I thought I
was gonna collapse.
00:29:48.19\00:29:50.71
When it was time
for me, I was praying,
00:29:50.74\00:29:52.13
I was like Lord, let the
roof cave in or something,
00:29:52.16\00:29:55.31
like during the children story.
00:29:55.34\00:29:56.66
I was like, don't hurt anybody
00:29:56.69\00:29:58.92
but like, let there
be a fire or something.
00:29:58.95\00:30:03.29
And I finally got up to preach
00:30:03.32\00:30:04.82
and I went up and
I set my notes down,
00:30:04.85\00:30:07.12
I looked up and I was like this.
00:30:07.15\00:30:11.37
And I sat there
and I read the sermon
00:30:11.40\00:30:14.22
and every 15 to 20
seconds I would clear my throat,
00:30:14.25\00:30:17.84
I was like, I would say
like two or three sentences.
00:30:17.87\00:30:24.45
And the whole
time all I could do
00:30:24.48\00:30:26.22
is think about
preachers like Mark Finley
00:30:26.25\00:30:29.03
and all these different
guys, now they would stand up
00:30:29.06\00:30:30.99
and just preach to the people.
00:30:31.02\00:30:32.54
And as I was reading my
notes I just kept having
00:30:32.57\00:30:36.07
that thought in
my mind and I said,
00:30:36.10\00:30:37.81
I just want to preach like that
00:30:37.84\00:30:39.44
and I said, I'm going to look up
00:30:39.47\00:30:41.74
and I'm just going to
say whatever comes to mind.
00:30:41.77\00:30:44.42
I'm gonna push my notes aside.
00:30:44.45\00:30:47.05
And so I looked up and
my mind was totally blank.
00:30:47.08\00:30:54.25
And I sat there for 10
seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds
00:30:54.28\00:31:00.48
and I was like
nothing is coming to my mind
00:31:00.51\00:31:02.96
and everybody just, was
just looking at me like.
00:31:02.99\00:31:06.70
And so I just
went right back down
00:31:06.73\00:31:08.30
and starting
reading my notes again.
00:31:08.33\00:31:11.67
Young people, God will use you.
00:31:11.70\00:31:17.13
You can only
start where you're at,
00:31:17.16\00:31:20.43
but God will do
something powerful through you,
00:31:20.46\00:31:23.21
if you're willing to let Him.
00:31:23.24\00:31:24.73
Go back home and
tell your pastor.
00:31:24.76\00:31:26.75
Pastor, I know
you're not here every week,
00:31:26.78\00:31:29.92
let me preach for you on
a week that you're not here.
00:31:29.95\00:31:33.09
You may have never
written a sermon in my life.
00:31:33.12\00:31:35.20
There are plenty of
books to teach you how.
00:31:35.23\00:31:38.00
Don't be afraid,
trust God, try God
00:31:38.03\00:31:40.92
and He will do
something powerful.
00:31:40.95\00:31:43.01
He's not looking
for your ability.
00:31:43.04\00:31:45.01
He's not looking
for you eloquence.
00:31:45.04\00:31:47.02
He's not looking
for your excellence.
00:31:47.05\00:31:48.92
He's just looking
for your willingness.
00:31:48.95\00:31:52.03
Be willing, be willing.
00:31:52.06\00:31:55.52
Test Him, try Him,
00:31:55.55\00:31:56.72
God is looking for young people
00:31:56.75\00:31:58.60
who are not discouraged
by lack of participation
00:31:58.63\00:32:01.20
in the church or
flattered by a pat on the back,
00:32:01.23\00:32:04.25
but He's looking for people
who are serious about having
00:32:04.28\00:32:07.28
His presence in their
hearts and in their church.
00:32:07.31\00:32:10.96
Your local church,
friends, is important.
00:32:10.99\00:32:14.22
Resurrect the church.
00:32:14.25\00:32:16.08
Complacency is the worst--
00:32:16.11\00:32:19.05
it's like
experiencing spiritual death.
00:32:19.08\00:32:22.07
It is a death blow
to all spiritual growth.
00:32:22.10\00:32:26.35
Don't worry about
what other people think.
00:32:26.38\00:32:28.39
What other people think
is none of your business,
00:32:28.42\00:32:32.78
none of your business.
00:32:32.81\00:32:34.63
The only that
matters is the God of heaven.
00:32:34.66\00:32:38.87
Number four,
there's revolutionary power
00:32:38.90\00:32:41.82
in discipline and dedication.
00:32:41.85\00:32:43.55
Please look with me in verse 3.
Paul says, chapter 2, verse 3.
00:32:43.58\00:32:49.70
"You therefore
must endure hardship
00:32:49.73\00:32:52.10
as a good
soldier of Jesus Christ.
00:32:52.13\00:32:54.87
No one engaged in
warfare entangles himself
00:32:54.90\00:32:58.46
with the affairs of this life,
00:32:58.49\00:33:00.68
that he may please him who
enlisted him as a soldier."
00:33:00.71\00:33:07.15
Young people, it's
not going to be easy
00:33:07.18\00:33:09.72
but discipline yourself.
00:33:09.75\00:33:11.99
There will be trials
but discipline yourself.
00:33:12.02\00:33:15.47
There will be challenges
but discipline yourself.
00:33:15.50\00:33:18.79
There will be discouragements
but discipline yourself.
00:33:18.82\00:33:22.63
Look to Jesus.
00:33:22.66\00:33:23.71
There will be times
when you will feel like
00:33:23.74\00:33:26.38
you're all alone,
but look to your Savior
00:33:26.41\00:33:29.44
because He can
give you more strength
00:33:29.47\00:33:31.41
than anyone else around you.
00:33:31.44\00:33:33.66
Look to Him, press
through the darkness,
00:33:33.69\00:33:36.24
bust through the wall,
00:33:36.27\00:33:37.70
do whatever you
have to do by the grace,
00:33:37.73\00:33:40.57
the power and
the strength of God
00:33:40.60\00:33:42.91
but cling to Him
and move forward.
00:33:42.94\00:33:45.79
Don't walk away from problems
00:33:45.82\00:33:47.57
that are bigger
than your comforts.
00:33:47.60\00:33:49.61
There will be a temptation
to walk away from the church.
00:33:49.64\00:33:57.32
Many people face this today.
00:33:57.35\00:34:00.46
There will be huge temptation
to walk away from the church.
00:34:00.49\00:34:05.04
Remember how God has led you.
00:34:05.07\00:34:07.30
Remember the times
He has done these things
00:34:07.33\00:34:10.20
and get on your
knees and plead with God
00:34:10.23\00:34:13.53
until you've a breakthrough.
00:34:13.56\00:34:15.46
Do not walk away,
discipline yourself.
00:34:15.49\00:34:19.98
I believe in
God and His promise.
00:34:20.01\00:34:22.78
Many times I've
felt like walking away,
00:34:22.81\00:34:26.09
but I trusted
God and I pressed on
00:34:26.12\00:34:28.51
and I came out stronger by
His grace on the other side.
00:34:28.54\00:34:33.55
And you can too.
00:34:33.58\00:34:35.03
Every disappointment is
always God's divine appointments
00:34:35.06\00:34:39.54
if we're willing
to stick with Him.
00:34:39.57\00:34:43.05
Stick with Him, young
people. Stick with the church.
00:34:43.08\00:34:46.39
It may seem rocky at times
00:34:46.42\00:34:48.03
but God's going
to see it through.
00:34:48.06\00:34:50.09
Discipline yourselves to
walk step by step with Jesus
00:34:50.12\00:34:53.94
through that with
prayer and fasting,
00:34:53.97\00:34:55.71
He will bring you
out on the other side.
00:34:55.74\00:34:58.24
You must be disciplined,
you must be focused.
00:34:58.27\00:35:02.40
There is revolutionary power
in Christ centered holiness.
00:35:02.43\00:35:07.01
Look with me in verse 19.
00:35:07.04\00:35:11.12
We're gonna look
only at verse 19.
00:35:11.15\00:35:13.32
"Nevertheless the solid
foundation of God stands,
00:35:13.35\00:35:17.33
having this seal,
00:35:17.36\00:35:18.99
'The Lord knows who are
His,' and, 'Let everyone
00:35:19.02\00:35:22.95
who names the name of
Christ depart from iniquity.'"
00:35:22.98\00:35:28.74
Brothers and sisters,
today any concept of grace
00:35:28.77\00:35:33.40
that is
introduced into our church
00:35:33.43\00:35:35.97
that makes us feel
comfortable about sin
00:35:36.00\00:35:40.02
is not biblical grace.
00:35:40.05\00:35:45.33
Sin is not just
breaking the law of God,
00:35:45.36\00:35:48.84
it is breaking His hearts
00:35:48.87\00:35:51.80
and He pleads with
us today to lay it down.
00:35:51.83\00:35:56.81
I want to love Jesus
enough to say no to sin.
00:35:56.84\00:36:00.17
How about you?
00:36:00.20\00:36:02.48
We're not
merely called to preach
00:36:02.51\00:36:04.89
the character of Christ through
the three angels' messages
00:36:04.92\00:36:08.51
but we're called to possess it.
00:36:08.54\00:36:10.79
Amen. Amen.
00:36:10.82\00:36:12.14
And by the grace of God we can,
00:36:12.17\00:36:14.81
not in our own
strength but in His strength.
00:36:14.84\00:36:16.90
I don't want to
just be more like Jesus,
00:36:16.93\00:36:18.93
I want to be just like Jesus.
00:36:18.96\00:36:21.29
Don't beat yourself up, friends,
00:36:21.32\00:36:24.00
when you fall but
get up and run to Jesus.
00:36:24.03\00:36:28.42
Get up and run to Jesus.
00:36:28.45\00:36:31.87
The deeper we fall
in love with Jesus,
00:36:31.90\00:36:34.36
the more we'll fall
out of love with the world.
00:36:34.39\00:36:39.71
If you want to know Jesus,
you have to know all of Him,
00:36:39.74\00:36:43.99
not just the
part that you want to.
00:36:44.02\00:36:48.21
He is the author and
finisher of our faith.
00:36:48.24\00:36:50.60
He will complete the
work that He has done in us
00:36:50.63\00:36:52.95
and the battle is
not to the swifter
00:36:52.98\00:36:54.64
through the strong
00:36:54.67\00:36:56.27
but to the one who gains
the mastery over himself.
00:36:56.30\00:37:00.51
Young people, Christ wants
to remove the sin of your life.
00:37:00.54\00:37:05.24
He wants to give
you power over it.
00:37:05.27\00:37:08.30
Christ life is
our righteousness.
00:37:08.33\00:37:11.27
Christ death is our pardon,
00:37:11.30\00:37:13.53
but Christ in the
heavenly sanctuary
00:37:13.56\00:37:16.18
is our power over sin
and if you will come to Him
00:37:16.21\00:37:20.71
day by day, moment by moment,
00:37:20.74\00:37:23.10
He will give you
power, He will make you holy,
00:37:23.13\00:37:26.18
He will make you like Himself.
00:37:26.21\00:37:29.97
Somebody once wrote "I
would like to buy about
00:37:30.00\00:37:33.83
three dollars
worth of gospel, please.
00:37:33.86\00:37:37.54
Not too much, just
enough to make me happy,
00:37:37.57\00:37:41.65
but not so much
that I get addicted.
00:37:41.68\00:37:44.05
I don't want so much gospel
00:37:44.08\00:37:46.42
that I learn to really
hate covetousness and lust.
00:37:46.45\00:37:49.95
I certainly don't want so much
00:37:49.98\00:37:51.34
that I start to love my enemies,
00:37:51.37\00:37:53.39
cherish self-denial,
00:37:53.42\00:37:54.92
and contemplate
missionary service.
00:37:54.95\00:37:58.03
I want ecstasy, not repentance,
00:37:58.06\00:38:00.82
I want transcendence,
not transformation.
00:38:00.85\00:38:04.22
I would like to be
cherished by some nice,
00:38:04.25\00:38:06.55
forgiving, broad-minded people,
00:38:06.58\00:38:08.54
but I myself do not want
to inconvenience by the same.
00:38:08.57\00:38:14.09
I would like enough
gospel to make my family secure
00:38:14.12\00:38:17.22
and my children well behaved,
00:38:17.25\00:38:19.06
but not so much that I
find my ambitions redirected
00:38:19.09\00:38:22.20
or my giving
greatly-- too greatly enlarged.
00:38:22.23\00:38:25.66
I would like about three dollars
00:38:25.69\00:38:27.67
worth of the gospel, please."
00:38:27.70\00:38:32.20
Does that fit some of us here
today, brothers and sisters?
00:38:32.23\00:38:37.79
Christ wants your whole heart.
00:38:37.82\00:38:41.31
I want the whole
Bible to be my book.
00:38:41.34\00:38:45.17
I want the whole
Christ to be my Savior
00:38:45.20\00:38:48.72
and I want Him to
have my whole heart.
00:38:48.75\00:38:52.95
How about you this morning?
00:38:52.98\00:38:55.57
There is power,
revolutionary power,
00:38:55.60\00:38:58.63
in servant, leadership.
00:38:58.66\00:39:00.77
Look with me in
chapter 2 verse 24.
00:39:00.80\00:39:05.27
The Bible says,
00:39:05.30\00:39:06.72
"And a servant of
the Lord must not quarrel
00:39:06.75\00:39:10.46
but be gentle to
all, able to teach,
00:39:10.49\00:39:13.66
patient in humility correcting
those who are in opposition,
00:39:13.69\00:39:18.05
if God perhaps will
grant them repentance,
00:39:18.08\00:39:20.95
so that they may know the truth,
00:39:20.98\00:39:22.85
and that they may
come to their senses
00:39:22.88\00:39:24.41
and escape the
snare of the devil,
00:39:24.44\00:39:26.31
having been taken
captive to do his will."
00:39:26.34\00:39:29.94
The Bible talks about
what it takes to be a leader,
00:39:29.97\00:39:32.73
not somebody who is bossy,
not somebody who is directing,
00:39:32.76\00:39:36.20
not somebody who is pushy
00:39:36.23\00:39:37.65
but somebody who
is gentle and patient
00:39:37.68\00:39:40.37
and able to teach all, amen.
00:39:40.40\00:39:43.12
Somebody who is able to
be compassionate and loving
00:39:43.15\00:39:46.16
but at the same
time unflinchingly,
00:39:46.19\00:39:49.05
unwilling to
compromise principle.
00:39:49.08\00:39:54.57
God is calling
you to be a leader.
00:39:54.60\00:39:56.64
True leadership trains leaders.
00:39:56.67\00:39:58.55
It does not suppress
others for its own advancements.
00:39:58.58\00:40:02.61
It is not threatened by talent,
00:40:02.64\00:40:04.71
success or
ideas of other people.
00:40:04.74\00:40:08.76
True leaderships
surrounds itself with those
00:40:08.79\00:40:11.18
who have the potential to
do greater things than itself
00:40:11.21\00:40:14.45
because Jesus said,
greater things will you do
00:40:14.48\00:40:18.07
than what you've seen Me do.
00:40:18.10\00:40:22.67
It is not view
itself as the only one
00:40:22.70\00:40:24.96
who can do anything
because Jesus himself said,
00:40:24.99\00:40:27.92
I and Myself can do nothing.
00:40:27.95\00:40:31.53
It is willing to step
down when God's will shows it
00:40:31.56\00:40:35.29
and willing to step up
when God's will calls for it.
00:40:35.32\00:40:40.74
It is patient and
loving, leading with gentleness,
00:40:40.77\00:40:44.26
yet holy firmness
and determination.
00:40:44.29\00:40:48.61
Godly leadership leads
others upward in its decisions.
00:40:48.64\00:40:53.26
There is no honor
in higher position,
00:40:53.29\00:40:56.08
young people, only a
greater responsibility to serve.
00:40:56.11\00:41:01.43
Do not think
that you're something
00:41:01.46\00:41:02.95
because God's church
elects you to an office.
00:41:02.98\00:41:05.87
Do not think
that you're something
00:41:05.90\00:41:07.63
because you're a GYC officer.
00:41:07.66\00:41:10.18
Do not think
that you're something
00:41:10.21\00:41:11.88
because you are in
some leadership position
00:41:11.91\00:41:14.82
that God has called you to.
00:41:14.85\00:41:16.48
When you rise to
higher leadership,
00:41:16.51\00:41:18.57
you're called to
higher servanthood.
00:41:18.60\00:41:22.52
Amen. Put others above yourself.
00:41:22.55\00:41:28.83
Be godly leaders
00:41:28.86\00:41:30.35
even when you're not
called to be a leader.
00:41:30.38\00:41:34.05
Much of the older
generation, young people,
00:41:34.08\00:41:36.33
do not expect much from you
and I would say for good reason
00:41:36.36\00:41:40.98
because many of us have lived
up to the lower expectation.
00:41:41.01\00:41:45.13
Do not satisfy-- be
satisfied with mediocrity
00:41:45.16\00:41:49.23
but rise to the
call of God in your life.
00:41:49.26\00:41:53.97
Prove them wrong. Live
for the higher calling.
00:41:54.00\00:41:57.23
Live for the higher
expectation, be leaders.
00:41:57.26\00:42:00.75
Young people, not followers.
00:42:00.78\00:42:03.11
The world needs
leaders to lead them to Christ.
00:42:03.14\00:42:07.86
The church needs leaders
00:42:07.89\00:42:09.82
who will lift
Christ and Christ alone.
00:42:09.85\00:42:13.29
Be that leader,
God is calling you.
00:42:13.32\00:42:16.26
Number seven,
we're going to pass by
00:42:19.97\00:42:22.00
because we've
already talked about it
00:42:22.03\00:42:23.27
but you can write the text down.
00:42:23.30\00:42:24.79
2 Timothy 3:14-17.
00:42:24.82\00:42:28.41
There's revolutionary power
and the commitment to scripture
00:42:28.44\00:42:31.73
and your devotional life.
00:42:31.76\00:42:33.96
This was crucial and the life
of the Acts of the Apostles.
00:42:33.99\00:42:39.14
Paul said, I die how often?
00:42:39.17\00:42:41.68
I die daily,
00:42:41.71\00:42:43.27
those who are willing
to be crucified each day.
00:42:43.30\00:42:47.55
We're gonna move on to
the last one, number eight.
00:42:47.58\00:42:50.19
There's revolutionary
power in proclaiming
00:42:50.22\00:42:52.48
God's last day message.
00:42:52.51\00:42:55.75
Timothy Chapter
4, 2 Timothy 4:1-5.
00:42:55.78\00:42:59.76
The Bible says, "I
charge you therefore before God
00:42:59.79\00:43:03.68
and the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:43:03.71\00:43:05.41
who will judge the
living and the dead
00:43:05.44\00:43:07.39
at His
appearing and His kingdom.
00:43:07.42\00:43:09.39
Preach the word!"
00:43:09.42\00:43:15.97
I thought you would say, amen.
00:43:16.00\00:43:17.61
Amen.
00:43:17.64\00:43:19.76
I thought it would
be louder than that.
00:43:19.79\00:43:21.46
Amen.
00:43:21.49\00:43:22.55
I still thought
it would be louder.
00:43:22.58\00:43:24.33
Amen. "Preach the word!
00:43:24.36\00:43:27.41
Be ready in
season and out of season.
00:43:27.44\00:43:29.72
Convince, rebuke, exhort,
00:43:29.75\00:43:32.03
with all
longsuffering and teaching.
00:43:32.06\00:43:33.94
For the time" Let me just,
00:43:33.98\00:43:35.78
I'm not changing
the Bible, friends.
00:43:35.81\00:43:38.36
But let me just make a
little adjustment here.
00:43:38.39\00:43:41.10
The time has come.
00:43:41.13\00:43:44.35
"When they will not
endure sound doctrine,
00:43:44.38\00:43:46.10
but according to
their own desires,
00:43:46.13\00:43:47.99
because they have itching ears,
00:43:48.02\00:43:49.53
they will heap up
for themselves teachers
00:43:49.56\00:43:51.72
and they will turn their
ears away from the truth,
00:43:51.75\00:43:54.36
and be turned aside to fables.
00:43:54.39\00:43:56.23
But you be
watchful in all things,
00:43:56.26\00:43:58.48
endure afflictions,
00:43:58.51\00:44:00.13
do the work of an evangelist,
and fulfill your ministry."
00:44:00.16\00:44:04.17
You have a calling to ministry.
00:44:04.20\00:44:06.18
And God has called
you to preach the word
00:44:06.21\00:44:08.47
not just from your
lips but in your lives.
00:44:08.50\00:44:14.07
Preach the word.
Be a living word.
00:44:14.10\00:44:16.10
Be a living
epistle like Paul says.
00:44:16.13\00:44:20.37
Do not fluff up the truth.
00:44:20.40\00:44:22.68
Do not puff up the truth
00:44:22.71\00:44:24.86
but preach the truth with power.
00:44:24.89\00:44:28.12
Do not puff it up or
let me just see what I said.
00:44:28.15\00:44:31.53
Do not fluff it up or
puff it up but lift it up.
00:44:31.56\00:44:34.71
Amen.
00:44:34.74\00:44:35.83
That is what we're called to do.
00:44:35.86\00:44:37.70
Be faithful young people,
00:44:37.73\00:44:39.67
and you will
receive a crown of life.
00:44:39.70\00:44:42.03
God is fulfilling
prophecy through GYC.
00:44:42.06\00:44:48.09
And He has called you
to come along for the ride.
00:44:48.12\00:44:52.31
But He doesn't just want
to fulfill prophecy at GYC,
00:44:55.84\00:45:01.95
He wants to
fulfill it in your life
00:45:01.98\00:45:05.28
wherever you're at
home and your local church,
00:45:05.31\00:45:10.09
at your
university, in your home,
00:45:10.12\00:45:14.75
wherever you are.
00:45:14.78\00:45:19.53
Very powerful statement here.
00:45:19.56\00:45:22.56
It says, "There is no limits
to the youthfulness of one
00:45:22.59\00:45:27.68
who put himself aside,
00:45:27.71\00:45:29.74
makes room for the working
00:45:29.77\00:45:31.26
of the Holy
Spirit upon his heart
00:45:31.29\00:45:34.76
and lives a life
holy consecrated to God,
00:45:34.79\00:45:38.16
enduring the necessary
discipline imposed by the Lord
00:45:38.19\00:45:41.73
without complaining
or fainting by the way."
00:45:41.76\00:45:45.82
I said it yesterday and
I'll say it again today.
00:45:45.85\00:45:48.35
If you're willing to get
yourself out of your life,
00:45:48.38\00:45:52.88
God will fulfill the Book
of Acts through your life.
00:45:52.91\00:45:57.18
He will finish
the revolution in you
00:45:57.21\00:46:01.43
and then through you.
00:46:01.46\00:46:04.67
Philip Brooks said, "Do
not pray for easy lives.
00:46:04.70\00:46:09.07
Pray to be stronger men.
00:46:09.10\00:46:11.20
Do not pray for
task equal to your powers
00:46:11.23\00:46:14.62
but pray for power
equal to your task."
00:46:14.65\00:46:18.97
Amen. Amen.
00:46:19.00\00:46:20.87
God wants to use
you today young people,
00:46:20.90\00:46:24.12
in a remarkable way
and in most powerful way.
00:46:24.15\00:46:28.49
He wants to end the revolution.
00:46:28.52\00:46:31.07
He wants to end
the great controversy.
00:46:31.10\00:46:33.81
He wants to end the sickness
00:46:33.84\00:46:36.31
of this world
through your lives.
00:46:36.34\00:46:40.18
Will you not
stand and be the light?
00:46:40.21\00:46:43.30
Will you not stand and
show Christ to the world?
00:46:43.33\00:46:46.57
Will you not stand and carry
His gospel into all the world?
00:46:46.60\00:46:50.40
Will you not be
filled with His Holy Spirit?
00:46:50.43\00:46:52.81
Will you not be
completely surrender to Him?
00:46:52.84\00:46:55.42
Will you not be completely
committed to His will for you?
00:46:55.45\00:47:01.98
I want to tell you
a story as we close.
00:47:02.01\00:47:04.56
We've a picture here.
00:47:04.59\00:47:05.81
I believe if they
can put it up there.
00:47:05.84\00:47:09.07
When I was in
Ukraine just a few years ago,
00:47:09.10\00:47:11.72
there was a young lady
who was coming to my meetings.
00:47:11.75\00:47:15.62
Her name was Vera. There she is.
00:47:15.65\00:47:20.00
Vera was 17
years old, 17 years old
00:47:20.03\00:47:24.79
and she was ready
to give up on God.
00:47:24.82\00:47:27.71
She was going to leave
God and the concept of God,
00:47:27.74\00:47:31.20
she was gonna
move to another town
00:47:31.23\00:47:33.31
and she was going to get
a boyfriend and get a job
00:47:33.34\00:47:35.86
and she was just
gonna live life for herself.
00:47:35.89\00:47:39.89
And she had some
kind of back injury
00:47:39.92\00:47:41.75
and she had to come
to the particular town
00:47:41.78\00:47:44.10
where we were at
to receive treatment.
00:47:44.13\00:47:46.24
And the doctor
said, I cannot treat you
00:47:46.27\00:47:48.47
until four months
because I've so many patients.
00:47:48.50\00:47:51.48
And so she had to
wait for four months.
00:47:51.51\00:47:53.76
At the end of those four months
00:47:53.79\00:47:55.34
she was in town
for a doctor's visit
00:47:55.37\00:47:57.77
and our meetings were
starting that Friday night.
00:47:57.80\00:48:00.88
Isn't amazing how God
will arrange things, friends?
00:48:00.91\00:48:04.02
As she was
walking down the street
00:48:04.05\00:48:06.16
to her doctor's appointment,
00:48:06.19\00:48:07.82
one of our students came by
00:48:07.85\00:48:09.50
and gave her an
invitation to the seminar.
00:48:09.53\00:48:13.76
She looked at it and she said,
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.74
huh, since I'm going
to be in town anyway,
00:48:15.77\00:48:19.51
maybe I should go ahead
and attend these meetings
00:48:19.54\00:48:22.22
and I'm going to give
God one final opportunity,
00:48:22.25\00:48:27.02
one final opportunity.
00:48:27.05\00:48:28.86
And so she came to the meetings
00:48:28.89\00:48:30.16
and she came every single night,
00:48:30.19\00:48:33.80
every single night
00:48:33.83\00:48:35.33
and her life was
radically changed.
00:48:35.36\00:48:38.36
There was one particular night
00:48:38.39\00:48:39.75
when she was
walking across the street
00:48:39.78\00:48:42.26
and there was a
car coming at her
00:48:42.29\00:48:45.97
and she looked up just in
time to see it almost strike her
00:48:46.00\00:48:49.67
and she said, Lord
Jesus, please help me.
00:48:49.70\00:48:51.58
That's all the time
she had and she said,
00:48:51.61\00:48:53.57
that car stopped
right in front of her,
00:48:53.60\00:48:57.88
one inch from striking her.
00:48:57.91\00:48:59.97
That night she gave
her heart wholly to Jesus.
00:49:00.00\00:49:03.74
And she was
baptized, you saw the picture,
00:49:03.77\00:49:05.58
but she didn't stop there.
00:49:05.61\00:49:07.66
She was traveling 50 kilometers
00:49:07.69\00:49:10.45
back and forth to the
meetings by bus every night.
00:49:10.48\00:49:14.35
The next day she came
00:49:14.38\00:49:15.64
and she brought
her mother with her
00:49:15.67\00:49:17.63
and her mother
attended the meetings
00:49:17.66\00:49:20.45
and she was also baptized.
00:49:20.48\00:49:22.91
She went and
knocked on the door,
00:49:22.94\00:49:24.46
we've a picture of this as well.
00:49:24.49\00:49:25.65
She went knocked on the door
00:49:25.68\00:49:27.35
and actually met a
man who was elderly man,
00:49:27.38\00:49:31.63
you see there's name is Eugene
00:49:31.66\00:49:33.00
and he's holding a
newspaper in his hand
00:49:33.03\00:49:35.23
and this man was
declared to have deadly cancer.
00:49:35.26\00:49:39.20
And the doctor said to him,
go home and get prepared to die
00:49:39.23\00:49:43.49
because we can't
do anything for you.
00:49:43.52\00:49:46.02
He said that's not
good enough for me.
00:49:46.05\00:49:48.16
He went home and
he opened his Bible
00:49:48.19\00:49:50.45
and he began to pray.
00:49:50.48\00:49:52.44
And they said, he
would be dead in three months
00:49:52.47\00:49:56.65
and that picture was
taken 15 years later.
00:49:56.68\00:49:59.99
That newspaper
clip he held in his hand
00:50:00.02\00:50:02.22
was an article that
they wrote about him.
00:50:02.25\00:50:04.58
She brought him to the meetings
00:50:04.61\00:50:07.06
and he gave his life
to Christ and was baptized
00:50:07.09\00:50:09.96
into the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:50:09.99\00:50:12.16
That fall she came to
our school as a student
00:50:12.19\00:50:16.80
and she brought her
sister to the meetings
00:50:16.83\00:50:19.67
and her sister was baptized.
00:50:19.70\00:50:22.21
Seventeen years old this girl.
00:50:22.24\00:50:24.63
Then after she
finished the school
00:50:24.66\00:50:26.51
she went back
to her local church
00:50:26.54\00:50:28.99
and she began to teach classes
on how to give Bible studies
00:50:29.02\00:50:32.81
to about 40 young people.
00:50:32.84\00:50:35.11
And to this day
00:50:35.14\00:50:36.17
she's a faithful
worker in Ukraine.
00:50:36.20\00:50:38.95
If God can do that
through a young person,
00:50:38.98\00:50:42.25
what can He do through you?
00:50:42.28\00:50:45.14
What can He do in
you, young people?
00:50:45.17\00:50:48.16
Don't go home
and just be the same.
00:50:48.19\00:50:52.19
You've received
the training at GYC,
00:50:52.22\00:50:54.15
you received the message,
you received the inspiration,
00:50:54.18\00:50:57.15
go home and do something.
00:50:57.18\00:51:01.01
I've to close, but
I've to read this quote.
00:51:01.04\00:51:04.69
It is so powerful and
this is my appeal to you today.
00:51:04.72\00:51:09.73
We're gonna ask to
put it on the screen.
00:51:09.76\00:51:11.79
Acts of the Apostles page 507.
00:51:11.82\00:51:15.33
It says, "What the church
needs in these days of peril
00:51:15.36\00:51:19.56
is an army of
workers who, like Paul,
00:51:19.59\00:51:22.39
have educated
themselves for usefulness,
00:51:22.42\00:51:25.26
who have a deep
experience in the things of God,
00:51:25.29\00:51:28.14
and who are filled
with earnestness and zeal.
00:51:28.17\00:51:31.74
Sanctified, self-sacrificing
men and women are needed,
00:51:31.77\00:51:35.65
men who will not shun
trial and responsibility,
00:51:35.68\00:51:39.20
men who are brave and
true, men in whose hearts
00:51:39.23\00:51:43.43
Christ is formed
'the hope of glory,'
00:51:43.46\00:51:46.23
and who with lips
touched by holy fire
00:51:46.26\00:51:49.66
will 'preach the word.'
00:51:49.69\00:51:52.81
For want of such workers
the cause of God languishes,
00:51:52.84\00:51:55.75
and fatal errors,
like a deadly poison,
00:51:55.78\00:51:57.87
taint the morals
and blight the hopes
00:51:57.90\00:51:59.69
of a large part
of the human race."
00:51:59.72\00:52:01.68
Notice this last paragraph.
00:52:01.71\00:52:03.91
"As the faithful,
toil worn standard-bearers
00:52:03.94\00:52:07.47
are offering up their
lives for the truth's sake,
00:52:07.50\00:52:10.54
who will come
forward to take their place?
00:52:10.57\00:52:16.24
Will our young
men accept the trust,
00:52:16.27\00:52:21.81
holy trust at the
hands of their fathers?
00:52:21.84\00:52:24.85
Are they prepared
to fill the vacancies
00:52:24.88\00:52:28.04
made by the
death of the faithful?"
00:52:28.07\00:52:32.13
Will you rise, young people?
00:52:32.16\00:52:35.48
Amidst, will you
answer the call to duty?
00:52:35.51\00:52:39.66
Amidst of world
that is perishing.
00:52:39.69\00:52:42.56
Will you answer the call?
00:52:42.59\00:52:43.79
Will you end the
revolution, not continue it?
00:52:43.82\00:52:49.00
It is up to you today.
00:52:49.03\00:52:51.25
My appeal this
morning is very simple.
00:52:51.28\00:52:54.55
If you want to
end the revolution
00:52:54.58\00:52:57.54
and enter into
eternity with God,
00:52:57.57\00:53:01.34
surrender your
life to Him today.
00:53:01.37\00:53:04.08
Answer the call of duty.
Answer the call of service.
00:53:04.11\00:53:08.14
Answer the call of
holiness and righteousness
00:53:08.17\00:53:12.12
and let nothing
stand in your way.
00:53:12.15\00:53:15.57
Maybe this weekend
there's been something
00:53:15.60\00:53:18.60
that God has been pricking
in your heart all weekend.
00:53:18.63\00:53:22.21
And you've
continued day after day,
00:53:22.24\00:53:24.94
appeal after appeal to resist
that thing in your hearts.
00:53:24.97\00:53:30.33
Maybe you've said
no God, maybe tomorrow,
00:53:30.36\00:53:33.03
maybe tomorrow but
today is the last day.
00:53:33.06\00:53:35.49
This maybe the last sermon
00:53:35.52\00:53:36.83
that some of you will ever hear.
00:53:36.86\00:53:41.57
Would you not surrender
00:53:41.60\00:53:43.76
that thing to God
in your heart today,
00:53:43.79\00:53:46.06
and answer His call
to end the revolution?
00:53:46.09\00:53:51.78
My sister is going to
sing and as she sings--
00:53:51.81\00:53:57.24
if you want to make that
commitment with your life,
00:53:57.27\00:54:00.71
if you want to lay down all,
00:54:00.74\00:54:03.28
I'm going to invite you
00:54:03.31\00:54:04.46
wherever you're to
get up out of your seats
00:54:04.49\00:54:08.58
and comedown right
here and say Jesus,
00:54:08.61\00:54:13.11
the answer is yes.
00:54:13.14\00:54:15.20
Today Jesus, my life is Yours.
00:54:15.23\00:54:19.09
Today my heart is
consecrated to You.
00:54:19.12\00:54:22.28
Young people, will you rise?
00:54:22.31\00:54:24.45
Will you answer
the call of those
00:54:24.48\00:54:27.01
who have gone before you?
00:54:27.04\00:54:28.71
Time just drifts away
and I look back on the years
00:54:51.29\00:54:58.69
With memories of
happiness and bitter tears
00:54:58.72\00:55:06.32
Through it all
there is a common thread
00:55:06.35\00:55:10.41
That cannot be ignored
00:55:10.44\00:55:13.86
You were there
00:55:13.89\00:55:15.66
Teaching me to be
Your servant, Lord
00:55:15.69\00:55:22.46
All along Your hand
00:55:22.49\00:55:27.76
Has been guiding me
00:55:27.79\00:55:30.75
Shaping my life to
be a beautiful song
00:55:30.78\00:55:38.37
All along You've led me through
00:55:38.40\00:55:45.74
Things that You knew
00:55:45.77\00:55:48.44
Would make me strong
00:55:48.47\00:55:54.93
Your love has
been there all along
00:55:54.96\00:56:00.95
Every joy and pain
had a reason of its own
00:56:06.16\00:56:13.47
Now I realize
that I was not alone
00:56:13.50\00:56:20.47
The changing seasons of my life
00:56:20.50\00:56:24.07
Were not left up to chance
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Lord I know You were working
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To fulfill Your plan
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All along Your
hand has been guiding me
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Shaping my life to
be a beautiful song
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All along You've led me through
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Things that You knew
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Would make me strong
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Your love has
been there all along
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Tomorrow when I turn around
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And look back at today
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I will understand Your purpose
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And my thankful heart will say
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All along Your
hand has been guiding me
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Shaping my life to
be a beautiful song
00:57:33.30\00:57:40.59
All along You've led me through
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Things that You knew
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Would make me strong
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Your love has
been there all along
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Your love has been there
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All along
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