GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

How to Study the Bible

AFY 2025: Vertical Vision: Learn to Look Up

Vertical Vision: Learn to Look Up

Three Angels' Messages Symposium 2023

Carlos Muñoz

Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

05 The Gospel and Difficult Bible Stories

Father, thank You for another beautiful day of life.

And what better way and what better day to spend than in Your presence, in the presence of the brothers and sisters of our church, fellowship, and especially, especially studying the Word of God.

And so we thank You for this privilege, this honor, this blessing, and we ask a blessing, the blessing that You promised for those that come to seek You, for those that want to know You, for those that want to draw closer to You, Father.

We ask for that blessing that You have promised to us and that we can rejoice in studying Your Word and getting drawn closer to You.

We thank You and we ask this in Jesus' name, Amen.

Let's see, how many of you were here yesterday?

Raise your hand if you were here yesterday at some moment.

How many of you is it the first time that you come?

So we have a lot of information to cover and let's see how much we can get through.

AFCO is the Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism.

I'll talk to you about AFCO a little bit more at the end.

But we're here because we're taught to have the topic or the study of how to study the Bible.

This is basically what our curriculum was.

We talked about contemplating the glory of God.

And this morning, we're going to talk about how to find the Gospel in difficult Bible stories.

It's not the only thing we're going to talk about, but it's going to be the practical aspect.

And so, yesterday we started off, I'm just going to do a review for those of you that were not here.

We talked about the purpose or the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

The reason why God has risen, lifted up our church is to preach and to witness, right?

It's the Christ in us, the hope of glory.

It's not just the preaching from a pulpit, even though the pulpit is an instrument, but God wants to reveal His glory through each and every 1 of us.

That we are transformed by the message, right?

And that others can see the glory of God.

But we see that our church is in a tragic state right now.

It is in a condition that is called the Laodicean church, right?

We are in the Laodicean church, or the other way of saying it, the church is asleep at the wheel, right?

I would say more than asleep, we're in ICU, alright?

Don't go by the numbers It's not quantity that God is interested in its quality that God is interested in sadly our Quantity has going up, but the quality of what the purpose of our church has sadly digressed, has sadly, it's in a state of chaos right now.

And if you're not aware of it, then good.

It's good to be naive or ignorant, right?

To not know what's going on, but we gotta be straight up about it, right?

And so God tells us very clearly how is God going to wake up this our sleeping church so that we can fulfill and finish.

Don't get me wrong, despite the church and the things that we see in our church, this church is going to finish this work, amen?

That's what the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy says.

And so, how's God going to wake up our church?

And we saw yesterday that I was asked the meaning of the what?

God is going to shake this church, right?

God is going to separate the tears from the wheat.

And there's gonna come a remnant out of the visible church.

It says, the counsel of the true witness of what?

And it says, the solemn testimony upon which the destiny of the church hangs has been lightly esteemed, if not entirely disregarded.

And so the message that God sends to revive, to shake the church in preparation for the latter rain, for the loud cry, is the Laodicean church.

The solemn testimony upon which the destiny of the church hangs." Those are big words.

The destiny of our church hangs on how you respond to the Laodicean message.

And so yesterday we jumped in, we laid the foundation of Revelation 3, 14-21, the Laodicean message, which is we saw Christ was there.

Where is Christ in the Laodicean message?

And we talked about that means He's not inside of our life.

And we said that there is a huge difference between Christ being part of your life versus Christ being your life.

The Laodicean message is saying in the Laodicean message, Jesus says, what if you stay in this condition what does he say I'm gonna I'm gonna vomit you right why because he's disgusted by us and remember he's not talking to atheists he's not talking to Satanist he's not talking to murderers he's not talking to Muslims He's not talking to any of those.

He's talking to us and we are the Laodicean Church, right?

And God is saying I'm disgusted by you because you are the instruments that I'm going to use to get this message out to reveal the glory of God to the world and look at the state that you're in.

Look at how you have been negligent and ineffective in the work that I have called you to do.

And so we saw that Jesus says, I am at the door.

04 What Are These Genealogies in the Bible There For?

Father thank you again for the blessing and the privilege and and for continuing To inspire us we thank you for the spirit who makes this possible because without the spirit there would be no discernment there would be No understanding and then we have the spirit because we have Christ And So we thank you father for all of this and as we continue to study and now we go as do a study into the genealogies We ask that for your blessing and your guidance and we ask this in Jesus name Amen, amen.

So this is what I put together for the Sanctuary in Laodicea at number 1.

Listens, we hear, we're exposed to the Word of God, we're exposed to the glory of God.

That means then we open the door and we repent, right?

Then number 3, you mentioned he dines with us, right?

I think my sister over here, she was sitting around here, she was saying, right, he dines with us, he feeds us, and then we also were dining together, there's a what?

I know, I come across people sometimes that they say, oh, pastor, I've been praying and praying and I don't feel like God is listening to my prayers or answering my prayers And I said, okay, and I said so are you spending time in the Word of God and like well, no You know, I don't have a lot of time and I'm like, okay, I'm like, well, That's not a that's not a fellowship.

That's a monologue You're talking to God praise God because prayer is important, but now you got to start listening to him Amen now you got to start listening to him.

He's gonna speak to you, too so there are many Christians that I what I found is we sometimes tend to overemphasize 1 over the other.

And when you're balanced in your prayer and your study life, that's where I've seen probably the most balanced Christians, right?

And in my own life, because I tend to primarily, my inclination is towards the study, right?

And so when I started to balance those out or sometimes I do and then I'm like, right?

They go hand in hand, the study and the prayer.

And remember what Sister White say in Great Controversy?

That's the number 1 prayer is Lord help me to understand your Word.

Then I have the candlesticks is receive the gold refined in fire, the white garments, the eyesalve, the righteousness of Christ being seen in us, right?

The spiritual discernment in regards to that.

The veil is Christ overcome as Christ overcame in the flesh.

And then number 7, sit on the throne, right?

There's no 1 way to do this and as I mentioned before you can do this in your local church at a youth gathering for a prayer group for a small group you can just go through the Bible and find different Bible stories and just you know find different ways to come up whether it be the sanctuary or whatever it else.

Now we're going to talk about genealogies.

How many of you studied your Bible and then you come across a genealogy and then you're like and this guy be got this guy and this guy be got and you're like Boring.

Open your Bibles with me to Genesis chapter 3, please.

I'm going to give you the foundation of the genealogies, And then we're going to do 2 exercises, 1 together, and then you're going to do 1 in groups or by yourself, however you want.

Genesis chapter 3, when you're there, say Amen.

All right, notice what it says in Genesis chapter 3.

Just so you know, my favorite book in the Bible is Revelation, but my favorite chapter in the Bible is Genesis chapter 3.

Genesis chapter 1, 2, and 3 are the core.

And this is what I say, the rest of the Bible is commentary on Genesis chapter 1, 2 and 3.

I wish we had time to study Genesis chapter 3, we just don't have enough time.

But here's Genesis chapter 3, has what I call the mother of all prophecies and notice what it says in Genesis chapter 3 verse number 15 and I will put enmity between you who's you Satan he's talking to Satan I will put enmity between you Satan and between the woman.

Which in that case, who are God's people in this context?

And they're the first 2 church members, are Adam and Eve.

If God says I'm gonna put enmity between you Satan and between Humanity, which is what Adam and Eve represent.

If God says I'm gonna put enmity between you Satan and the woman or humanity, my people, what does that imply?

Okay, That means that there is harmony between the devil and humanity.

After the fall, humanity is now in harmony with the devil and sin.

And I'm going to put enmity because enmity is not there if he says I'm going to put it.

Now if there is harmony between humanity and Satan, then that means there is enmity between humanity and God.

And the carnal mind is enmity against God.

I'm gonna put an end to this situation, right?

How does God put enmity between humanity and the devil?

The cross of Calvary is what breaks the power of the devil, right?

That's what all prefigured in Genesis 3 15.

This is the mother of all prophecies because this prophecy runs through every single Bible story.

Every single Bible story God is saying, the seed, the Messiah, the Savior is going to come.

And He's going to put an end to you, Satan.

You have, when God tells that to Adam and Eve, who's listening?

So there's gonna be someone that's gonna come out of this woman and he's the 1 that's gonna put an end to me so who comes out of Adam and Eve first who are the 2 first Cain and Abel and so the devil looks at Cain and Abel like mmm all right Cain's mine but I don't like Abel so what is Cain what does the devil do he uses Cain to kill Abel and so then the devil says problem solved uh-uh But then the Bible says in Genesis chapter 5 that who came next?

03 The Sanctuary and Prophecy

Father, thank you again for the blessing and the privilege.

And as we come to continue to learn how to study your word from different angles, different perspectives, different strategies, we just ask for your blessing.

I ask a blessing for those that are here, those that are coming, and those that will be listening to these presentations later on.

We're gonna be looking now at the sanctuary and prophecy.

I'm gonna give you some angles in regards to that.

We're gonna then look at the second afternoon hour on Bible genealogies, all right?

Bible genealogies, You probably think it's the worst thing in the world when you're studying the Bible.

And I believe that too, until I opened my mind.

I said, God, you have your Bible genealogies here for a reason.

I want to see your glory in your Bible genealogies.

And God has blown me away with the genealogies.

And then tomorrow morning, we'll look at the Gospel through some difficult stories.

And I'll also help you tomorrow morning, I'm going to talk about creating the environment to spend time with God, right?

You have to create the right environment.

Like any relationship, you want to really to grow.

You have to, I'm a very, I'm a very, what you would say, I'm a very methodical person because my mind easily drags off I'm easily distracted by anything and so I have to create the right environment to spend time with God I have to be very intentional very purpose-driven in regards to everything the music the environment the setup because if not it's very hard for me to focus.

And God has obviously helped me in regards to that a lot more.

So That being said, if you have questions, as I mentioned this morning, you were...

I'll take any questions here in person, right, about what we're talking about.

You can email me your question if you don't want to make a question out, or if you want to just ask me a question in general, I'm also here afterwards, or you can send me a question and I can do the question out loud here.

And then also if you want to, you're interested in being part of that Zoom study group that we're gonna develop after this, where we'll be able to have more time to develop, you can email me and just ask me that and I'll send you also all my PowerPoints, my prayer and study plan, resources galore.

If you want to, if you want to go deep into the Word of God, I'm gonna give you stuff that'll keep you busy for the rest of your life, all right?

And so that's why we are here in this sense.

And so we were talking this morning, I'm sorry, it's as I said I was having issues with my PowerPoint so I'm using, what do you call this?

And so it doesn't convert sometimes directly but this morning we were studying the Laodicean message right the message that God has sent to prepare the church for the shaking for the latter rain and we saw that this message is not going to be accepted it's going to be rejected it's going to be pushed back And we saw this morning when we studied why that is, right?

Because it points to our self-righteousness.

It points to our mindset of we're doing X and Y, trying to obtain, or trying to gain favor, or trying to earn our way to heaven.

And we're unconsciously, we're blinded to the fact of that right and the Laodicean message is trying to open that up and show us in that sense and we saw that the Laodicean message what is the key that Jesus is where Jesus is on the outside where does he want to be on the And where does he want to be specifically on side?

When we're playing religion because we have our little SDA checklist, but we are disconnected to God, right?

We're just following a list of things that they have given us and I'm not saying that those lists of things to do and don't do are not wrong, but we talked about the motivation, the intention.

If you are not connected to Christ, if you don't have a relationship with Christ, those things that you do and don't do are meaningless, Alright?

They're meaningless because none of those things are gonna get you into heaven.

It's, it's, why are you doing the things that you're doing?

Or are you doing it because you're trying to earn your way to heaven?

And as the message says, we're blinded to our self-righteousness and our legalism.

Let's just read this quote again from great controversy.

Satan knows well knows that all who he can lead to neglect prayer and the searching of scriptures will be what overcome by his attacks.

I told you the devil does not care that you come to church, that you're baptized, that you give tithes and offerings, that you come to GYC.

The devil doesn't care about those things.

What the devil does not want you to do is have a daily relationship with Christ.

That's what he doesn't want because he knows that's where the power comes.

So he wants us keeping, He wants to keep us playing religion, but He does not want us to have that connection with Christ, which is the key for the power of God to be manifested in our lives.

It says, no man is safe for a day or an hour without prayer, right?

We're not talking about being on your knees all day.

We're talking about constantly speaking to the Lord.

The trains are packed and I'm sitting there and I'm just talking to the Lord, right?

While you're driving, while you're cleaning, while you're whatever, you can always be connected to God.

And notice this says, especially, primarily, most importantly, should we ask the Lord for wisdom to what?

I'm sorry, the main, the number 1 prayer is that Lord help me to understand your word because this is where God reveals himself to us, right?

That is the purpose of this book as we saw.

And so I gave you the Bible verse that I found is the most important, most relevant, most important Bible verse.

Why do you spend daily get into the Word of God and that Bible verses 2nd Corinthians 3 18 beholding?

The glory of the Lord for those that were here this morning.

That's what this book is here for This is not to carry it around and let other people think look I'm a Christian the purpose of this book is To contemplate the glory of God.

This is not to carry it around and let other people think, look, I'm a Christian.

The purpose of this book is to contemplate the glory of God.

To open it and say, Lord, I want to see your glory.

Amen tomorrow morning I'll talk about the environment where I every day that I'm right before I jump into the Word of God I read this Bible verse now I have it memorized but I read it and I open the word and I say Lord I want to see your glory And that's what God most wants is to reveal Himself to us.

But we have to put ourselves in the right place so that can happen.

The right attitude, the right time frame, the right mindset.

And so I say, Lord I want to see your glory.

And when we see the glory of God, what happens?

From glory to glory, day by day, hour by hour.

Doug Batchelor

Sebastien Braxton

Daniel Hudgens

Oceana Munsey

David Shin

Eric Walsh

Amazing Facts

AFY 2025 - Question & Answer Panel

We're coming to you from Granite Bay Hilltop Church with speakers who are passionate about you and God's Word.

Together, we'll tackle today's challenges, uncover real hope, and discover how faith can guide your journey.

Your Amazing Facts Youth Journey starts now.

How many of you are enjoying yourself today?

If you did not, you have not been paying attention.

So I'll just ask everybody to introduce themselves in case there's somebody here that maybe doesn't know who the speakers are.

Everybody just say your name and then we'll have a word of prayer and we'll jump right into our Q&A.

So if we'll start with David, David, you wanna introduce yourself?

David Chin, and I work at Weimar University, just 30 minutes from here.

Eric Walsh, I'm a physician and part-time pastor.

Daniel Hudgens, and I work here at Amazing Facts.

Doug Batchelor, 1 of the pastors at Granite Bay Hilltop Church.

Sebastian Braxton, North Carolina, and I'm an entrepreneur.

And so we're going to have a word of prayer as we start.

So Oceana, would you lead us out in prayer?

Dear heavenly Father, thank you for this day that you've given us, this Sabbath.

And Lord, as we dive into these questions, we ask that the Holy Spirit would guide us and that they would be clear and the answers would be from you.

Amen, So just to say up front, because we have a number of questions, we have a number of speakers, we're going to try to get through as much as possible in 1 hour.

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