Carlos Muñoz

GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

How to Study the Bible

Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

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.

02 Contemplating the Glory of God

Father, thank You again for the blessing and the privilege, and as we go into our next section, and continue to see and learn the relevance, the importance, and the how of studying Your Word, we ask Your blessing for those that are here, those that maybe are on their way, those that will be listening, and we ask this in Jesus' name, Amen.

For those of you that are new, we just did an introduction, a prophetic introduction to why and the key and the importance to the Word of God.

We'll review a little bit about that right now.

We're gonna be talking now about contemplating the glory of God.

I'm gonna give you a practical exercise in regards to that.

We're gonna then, in the afternoon at 2.30, we're gonna then look at the Sanctuary and prophecy as a model to study the Bible.

How can we see that and I'm going to give you another Practical application to this then we're going to look at Bible genealogies in our fourth lesson right Bible genealogies This person begot that person this person begot that person blah blah blah blah blah come across Bible genealogies, right?

We're gonna do a study on Bible genealogies and I'm gonna give you also a practical exercise that's gonna blow your mind away.

And then tomorrow morning, we're gonna talk about the gospel and we're gonna talk about some difficult stories, how we see the gospel in these difficult stories.

And so for those that just arrived, we went into the Laodicean message.

We studied the Laodicean message because we see that Christ says that there's a problem in the end, right?

It says the Laodicean church is lukewarm.

How am I going to recognize my condition?

And we saw that the key was that Jesus was on the outside.

And so because that means that we know of Jesus, right.

We know about Him, but we don't have a personal relationship with Him.

The way I'm gonna get you to open your eyes, the way I'm gonna get you to see your true condition, because you're self-righteous, you're living in sin, and you're unaware of it, right?

And that's why I need to judge cleanse you.

That's what the vindication of the judgment is, to cleanse you from sin so I can take you home, right?

I want you to have a relationship with you.

I want you to know me personally because you don't know me.

You only know of me because other people tell you about who I am.

Other people talk to you about me, but you don't know me personally.

And so the key then to all of this, my brothers and my sisters, as we are looking at for those that just arrived, we're just giving you a quick review, is that Jesus is telling us what?

I want to sit down and dine with you, right?

Satan well knows that all whom he can neglect, he can lead to neglect prayer in the searching of scriptures, will be overcome by his attacks.

So when you neglect getting to know Christ, when you neglect it, whether it be because you don't want to, or whether it be because you just don't know how to, right?

You're giving Satan power, because if Jesus is not in the inside, he's on the outside, then who's on the inside?

He's not talking to to Muslims He's not talking to atheists.

He's talking to us the Laodicean Church And that's why this message Satan hates the Laodicean message Because he knows it brings revival it's going to bring the shaking and the latter rain Continues to say no man is safe for a day or an hour without prayer, right?

We talked about that doesn't mean you're on your knees all day Just means you're connected to God constantly talking with him right in prayer wherever you are whatever you're doing, especially Primarily number 1 should we ask the Lord for what?

Our number 1 prayer, my brothers and my sisters, every day is, Lord, help me to understand Your Word.

Because when you understand Your Word, His Word, you understand Him.

And then notice this, what does this show?

Never losing sight of our dependence upon God your your daily relationship with God through the prayer and study of the word shows your dependence and your need on him and that's the problem with self-righteousness is that what I got this I'm in control don't worry about this Lord now we were talking about those that the ones that are in jeopardy The first presentation was about those that have absolutely no relationship with God and the numbers show very clearly.

There are some of us that have no relationship with God but we do very good at playing religion.

We do all the right things, we have our SDA checklist, right?

We don't eat these things we do this We were not like the people in the world Right we make a list of the do's and don'ts and we said that that's the Pharisee that does that that's legalism that self-righteousness And I told you throw out your little SDA checklist.

Now for those that just came in, don't say, oh Carlos is saying we shouldn't be doing those things.

I said the focus should be why are you doing those things.

Because you could be doing the right things for the wrong reasons and vice versa.

So if you didn't catch the first presentation, then go back and when they put it up on audio verse and listen to it before you go about talking gossip about me all right and so we're talking about this being self-righteous right trying to earn our way to heaven but what's the problem we're blind we don't see the problem we don't see our true condition right And we're blinded because we think we're doing X and Y and we know this and right now again the knowledge is not the problem but it's not the main thing the main thing is the relationship.

With the relationship comes the knowledge.

Now we're gonna talk about the second group.

Second group are those of you that come and you're like, oh Carlos I read my Bible every day.

I'm not like these Seventh-day Adventists who don't read their Bibles right.

You want to know how I was doing marriage counseling a couple of years ago.

And this brother had had married this this lady and he had been raised in the church.

She was new in the church and they got married and their marriage was in chaos.

And so they come to me and says, could you give us marriage counseling?

01 Is Jesus an Unwanted Guest?

AFY 2025: Vertical Vision: Learn to Look Up

Vertical Vision: Learn to Look Up

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.

So the answers are going to be between 2 minutes tops.

Try to keep in that time range so we can get as many as possible.

So if you have 1 more extensive answer, then connect with the speaker afterwards.

So that way we can get through as many as possible.

Eric, is self-gratification or masturbation a sin?

I was expecting this question after the message last night.

In Matthew chapter 5, Jesus has a statement where he says, if a man looks at a woman and lusts after in his heart, he has committed adultery with her already.

In order for that act of self-gratification to take place, it means that a man or woman has to, in their mind, conjure up the type of situation that would make sexual pleasure possible.

Now, I've heard Evangelical marriage folks say, well, you can do it and just, if you're married, plug your wife or your husband into the thoughts.

But I still think it's dangerous, because then the mind wanders.

There's a safeguard in not allowing these thoughts into your mind, because all sin starts in the mind and ends in the hands or the feet with us doing it.

So yes, it is a sin, and partly and mostly because you have to think about that sin, and it has to be deep inside of you for you to carry out that act.

Oceana, I have a friend who hates whenever I speak about religion.

Well, they hate whenever you speak about religion.

That probably means they really need Jesus a lot.

And sometimes it's hard to bring it up because you don't want to hurt the friendship.

And so, firstly, what I try to do is I go to my mentors and I say, here's the situation, how can I bring Jesus into it?

And I don't try to like come at it from a point of let's do a Bible study, but in the little parts of the day, bring Jesus into how you act, the way you talk, and I think they're going to start seeing it and want to learn more about it.

Sometimes you're the only sermon that anyone will ever have is by the way you act.

How do you live a successful life while still doing ministry and God's work?

It seems hard to balance both, So how are you able to do that?

So I think We have to start with the idea of a successful life is Something that involves doing ministry.

So to me your life is not successful if you're not actively pursuing ministry and what you're doing And I think sometimes we try to separate them, but they actually need to be integrated.

Ellen White says in Desire of Ages that Jesus was just as much fulfilling God's purpose for his life in the carpenter's shop as he was when he was healing the sick and giving sight to the blind.

So this lets you know that while God was here for 33 years, 90% of his time was spent in a carpenter's shawm.

And that was considered successful, because he was doing what God had called him to do.

So I think we have to separate the idea of financial wealth, which is what I understand to be behind the question, or to be excelling in your career, if you have a career, or in my case, being an executive or a consultant.

So I think we have to stop separating those 2.

And Colossians 3.23 tells us that we should serve as not unto men, but as unto God.

So to me, the balance always starts with Priority, not equality.

And that's why I say ministry is intrinsic.

So for me, I plan my schedule around rest and my family.

So my wife and I, we have a date night every week, we have a family night.

I have my time that I take for myself and time that I'm not available, and then everything else is planned around that.

And because I put that in the schedule first, it will always be there as a priority.

And that to me is what we may call balance, but balance is not equality, it's priority.

Pastor Doug, if you have a big decision to make, how do you know you are following God's plan?

You want to be in the middle of God's will, 1 of the most important questions.

Probably the first priority, if you want to know that you're in God's will, is if you're willing to do God's will.

Because if you're willing to do God's will, and you submit, then God becomes responsible to let you know what that is.

So if you're fully surrendered, and most of the time when we're saying, Lord, I don't know what your will is, the real battle is, are you willing to do it once you do know?

And that evidence, of course, God's Word will often guide you.

Sometimes it's a question you might not find an explicit answer in the Bible.

In those cases, you look for Christian counsel.

You pray, of course, that God will guide you.

Providentially, doors open and doors close.

You know, Amazing Facts gets a lot of invitations to do meetings and we can't fill them all.

And we're praying all the time saying, Lord, what do you want us to do?

If we're willing to do what he wants, and he does that with our lives as well.

David, how does a parent rein in their child's social media use if they haven't beforehand without creating resentment and rebellion?

Shares a story of how his son was rebellious and was about to go out clubbing 1 night, and he was tiptoeing across the living room, and he heard a voice in an adjacent room, so he went over there, put his ear on the door, and he heard the voice of his father praying.

And his dad was saying, Lord, I want my son back.

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Presenter

Carlos Muñoz

All Recordings

03 The Sanctuary and Prophecy

48m

02 Contemplating the Glory of God

1h 8m

01 Is Jesus an Unwanted Guest?

1h 3m

AFY 2025 - Question & Answer Panel

58m

01 The Vertigo Illusion

54m

20 Earth’s Final Events

1h 21m

19 Mark of the Beast

1h 13m

18 Revelation Reveals the Bride of Christ

1h 33m

17 Babylon’s Original Sin

1h 21m

16 Revelation’s Lake of Eternal Fire: The Good News on Hell

1h 19m

13 USA in Bible Prophecy

1h 9m

12 The Image of the Beast

1h 15m

Sound Doctrine