NEC 2014 Camp Meeting: Transformed Agents

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NEC Youth

Kameron DeVasher

Ministry of Angels

This entire week, the theme for camp meeting, not just for this particular department of the youth, but all throughout the camp, but we are here in this youth division, has been transformed agents.

And I have been impressed that every message presented has worked together in such a way that we've impressed upon you, at least it has been my prayer that the impression has been made that we need to be transformed, not merely informed, but transformed into the agents that God wants us to be.

And I will tell you this week, I love the great controversy presentation.

If you've missed the rest of it, I'm sorry, but very quickly we understand from the parable of Matthew chapter 13 that Jesus gives that the destruction of Satan, the elimination of wickedness and evil and this planet and this universe is not an instantaneous thing it's a process step by step the Lord is taking his time to get it right so that when the final destruction of Satan and all of his followers who choose his way over God's will even they will be forced not by repentance but by the sheer weight of evidence, to admit, to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Now I pray That we see these things now before they're presented and panorama above the New Jerusalem at the end of the Millennium I Pray that we see in God's Word his plan of redemption and choose this day whom we will serve.

Amen So have we have we've come to the conclusion of that process from Satan's initial casting out from the courts of heaven, then from his being cast out from the sympathies of heavenly beings 4, 000 years later at Calvary.

Prayerfully by the Lord's grace, we are now casting Satan out of the sympathies of our hearts as well.

And someday, after Christ comes, after the work of judgment has been complete, every knee shall bow, and Satan will have lost what used to be universal influence, now he will stand alone, and even he will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

We have completed that cycle, we've looked at that from Scripture.

Now There's plenty more we could say about it, but I have a burden on my heart this morning to shift from transformed.

Most of it, you know, there's 2 words, transformed agents in the theme.

And for most of this week, most of the time we have spent together has been talking or dealing or referring to the transformation process.

We're not merely transformed for the sake of transformation, we're to be used of God to transform others.

We're not just transformed, but we're transformed agents in his service.

That's the burden of our message this morning.

But before we begin any study of God's word, we should always begin with a word of prayer.

Heavenly Father, I thank you, and I Thank you for life itself.

You did not have to create us, yet you did, and you certainly did not have to redeem us.

But through this power of your word, you sent forth that Same creator to now become our savior.

And Lord, we are doubly yours, once by creation and once by redemption.

And as we Come together now for a study of your word.

We would ask that you send the power of the Holy Spirit.

Not necessarily to give us a new sensation, but to give us a deeper appreciation for Jesus Christ and his mission for our lives.

Help us to truly be your transformed agents for we pray it in Jesus name, amen.

Please turn with me to the gospel of Luke.

Luke chapter 11, we'll begin with verse 1.

The gospel of Luke, Matthew, Mark, Luke chapter 11 beginning with verse 1.

Here Jesus was with his disciples and he was coming out of a season of prayer and apparently our Savior was a praying man Apparently he would spend long hours in prayer.

He would spend nights an entire prayer and As he comes out he says here chapter 11 verse 1 apparently his disciples noted this and they asked for instruction in prayer.

Now it came to pass, Luke 11, verse 1, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, that 1 of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

Now this is, you have to understand, the same Jesus who said, do not pray in vain repetition.

I don't believe he was giving this template to be a formula.

You say these words and the words themselves have the power, but the concepts, the format, he says pray with this mindset, pray with this idea, With this thought process notice what he says here when you pray say our Father and where is our father in heaven?

Now I know this seems elementary But God is in heaven and we are on earth.

Yes So he says our Father in heaven Hallowed be or what name and of course name is synonymous with character He basically says our Father you are indeed.

Holy you are righteous You are love and we pray to you now.

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth, how?

Where you dwell in heaven, there is a way in which your will is done, and it was the prayer of Christ's heart that that way would be reflected here.

That what happens there would be seen here.

Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be your name, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Now, when you see on earth as it is in heaven.

Now, when you see on earth as it is in heaven, there's 2 ways you could read as it is.

1 way you could read it at the same time that it is.

So as that is happening, let this be happening as well.

But I believe that Christ had something more in mind than just make sure that the timing is at the same time.

That the way you operate in heaven, oh Lord, would be seen in your operations here on earth.

That the way you work there would be the way we work here.

That your will would be done on earth as it is in heaven.

So it would behoove us if the prayer of Christ's heart to his Father was that the Father's will would be done here the same way that it's done there for us to stand how Christ operates, how God operates his government there.

If we're going to see it here, we need to understand the template of how it works there.

Revelation chapter 4 gives a beautiful picture of the throne room, the government seat of God.

Revelation chapter 4 and verse 1, after these things I looked, writes the apostle John, and behold, a door standing open, where?

And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this.

A very simple rule of thumb, if you ever see a door standing open in heaven and a voice tells you come up here, go.

Verse 2, immediately I was in the Spirit and behold a throne set in heaven and 1 sat on the throne.

This John is seeing the throne room to which Christ was sending up his prayer to our Father who art in heaven.

And he who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne in appearance like an emerald, around the throne were 24 thrones, and on the thrones I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white robes and they had crowns of gold on their heads.

And from the throne proceeded lightning, thundering and voices.

7 lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the 7 spirits of God." Now we'll pause here.

Nowhere in the book of Revelation do you find the term Holy Spirit, but repeatedly you find reference to the 7 spirits of God, and as this is a book of prophecy and imagery, we understand that numbers and colors and those types of things have significance.

This is the number of God, 7 is a cycle all throughout, not just the book of Revelation, all of Scripture, and this is an indication of divinity, yes?

This is the Holy Spirit standing before God the Father.

We have the 24 elders enthroned around the central throne, And he goes on in verse 6, Behold the throne, before the throne, there was a sea of glass like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were how many?

4 living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.

Before him is the Holy Spirit, represented as 7 spirits of God.

We have the 24 elders on their thrones, and we also have the 4 living creatures.

Now, The only thing missing in Revelation chapter 4 is Jesus Christ.

There's no Jesus in Revelation chapter 4.

Chapter 5 in verse 1, and I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back sealed with 7 seals.

Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?

And no 1 in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to look to open the scroll or to look at it.

So I wept much because no 1 was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at it.

But 1 of the elders said to me, Do not weep.

Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its 7 seals." By the way, this is an answer to 1 of the questions.

How do you know that Jesus Christ is divine?

God the Father, and what question was asked?

And no 1 was found in heaven and it was in God the Father's hand By the way, does that mean that God the Father is unworthy of anything slow down But is it possible that God the Father and God the Son have different jobs?

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