FYI 2009: Awake!

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Florida Youth Initiative

FYI 2009 Plenary Sessions

Dwayne Lemon

From World-class Dancer to Word of God Preacher

Lessons from Our Pioneers

Is there anybody in this room that is still sleeping?

I don't know how anyone could come to meetings like this where you can hear a gentleman by the name of Peter Gregory open up the Bible and to expound from the epistles of John, take the Scriptures that were written so long ago and make them apply to us today right here in 2009.

I don't know how you can come morning after morning.

Listen to a gentleman like Benjamin Nguyen who would come before us and would share with us prophecy, the prophetic line of events and how they come in their order, to also talk about how we must apply this knowledge of the law that is in our minds and allow it to transition to our hearts.

I don't know how anybody can go to a seminar by a man named Jeff Arthur where we are learning 1 of the most important principles in the Bible, which is to understand the role of relationships and how we ought to conduct ourselves, whether it's dealing with courtship, the family, siblings, or even how we deal with 1 another as brethren.

I know that we love prophecy, and I don't know how it is that we can look at something like prophecy and not realize that in the book of Daniel, 1 of the things that the Bible shows us as it relates to Babylon and Daniel being there And how 1 of the very things that took place before everyone bowed down to the image was that music was played.

And how is it that we are able to listen to a gentleman like Shawn Myers, who was able to connect and show us the role of music in its counterfeit sphere as it relates to how the devil's gonna use it, but then in its true and most beautiful sphere of how God intended for it to be used.

How do we not understand that the very breath of the Christian is when we do the work of evangelism?

And we go to a class where a gentleman by the name of Scott Moore is able to show us all of the wonderful principles of evangelism, the reasons why, the how-to, and also all the divine mechanics that God has shown us through the last-day work of evangelism.

Brothers and sisters, How do you hear a message like what we heard yesterday from Brother Sizemore where he showed us very clearly where we are in prophecy?

How do we hear messages like this and still remain asleep?

Brothers and sisters, my heart truly prays that every single 1 of us are awake.

And at this time, God has commissioned me to give you something that you might go home with.

You know, Sometimes when people shake my hands, and I don't know, maybe some of you might have thought this to yourself as you shook my hand.

But sometimes people shake my hand and some of them say it with their lips, but probably others think it in their mind and they say, man, his hands are so soft.

But brothers and sisters, I always tell people if you really want to see the calluses, all you got to do is look at my brain Because I'm always thinking.

When I talk to people, I'm literally praying as I'm talking to them.

Because I'm counting on God for everything.

I'm like, Lord, Put the right words in my mouth.

Help me to express this thought properly.

And I've been praying about this last message because this is the challenge that I'm to give to God's people.

And brothers and sisters, you will find that in the ending of Jesus' ministry here on this earth, as Jesus saw that everything was about to close around him, Jesus gave some very important words of instruction to his disciples because he knew that soon and very soon he was about to depart.

And brothers and sisters, I believe that many of us are awake.

But I also believe that there's a chance that we might repeat history.

For history shows us over and over and over again about the stories of individuals who awoke when they were sleeping.

And so I want you to contemplate in your minds with me as we're going to review a brief little lesson from our pioneers.

And before I do that, I want to simply say this.

If there might be 1 person in this room that has heard the utterance of prophecy, you've heard about the mark of the beast, you've heard about the time of trouble, you've heard terms like death decree, and you've heard all these different things.

And sometimes, depending on where we are in our walk with Jesus, when we hear these terms, for many individuals, it doesn't bring up a longing to see Jesus, but it brings up a fear to say, Lord, can I make it?

When you hear about the blotting out of sin, God's people having victory over sin, When you hear about all these different things, sometimes, think about it, we grew up, some of us, listening to secular music and all these other things.

Some of us have been involved in all sorts of sports and different types of things.

We heard startling information even about our dress over this weekend.

And some of us sometimes will listen to these things and we'll say to ourselves, wow, you know what?

But I'm so thankful for a nice little quote that I remember reading and it was in a little letter called Life Sketches 196.

And in Life Sketches 196, the prophet of God says, we have nothing to fear for the future.

Brothers and sisters, we have nothing to fear for the future except that we forget the way God has led us in our past teaching and in our past history.

If we do not learn from what took place in times of old, we are assured to repeat history.

In fact, we are doomed to repeat history.

And so I want you to just gain this little lesson that I will share with you in these closing thoughts as we look to the lessons from our pioneers.

Before we do this, as much as possible, I'm going to invite you to kneel with me as we go before God in prayer.

As much as you are able to, let us kneel together.

Our Father in heaven, Lord, this is the final message to be given to your people during this wonderful FYI meeting.

We thank you for the great revivals that took place here.

Father, we thank you for truly opening our eyes that we were able to behold wondrous things out of thy law.

And Father, we come to you at this time because Lord, we know that History shall be repeated, but Father, we are careful to remember that there was a positive and a negative aspect to history.

Our desire is that our lives may testify of the positive side and not the negative.

And so, Lord, you give us your Word that we might be guided into all truth and that you may help us.

And Father, we commit ourselves into your hands at this time.

Please, Father, remove every distraction.

Help us to give unadulterated attention to the things that we are about to see.

And may we truly not only be awake, but by your grace and your power, help us to stay awake.

For this is our prayer that we ask, dear God.

And I start with myself, help me to stay awake.

For this is our prayer in Jesus' name, amen.

The same way that you heard a startling message, You heard wonderful truths as they were explained from the books of Daniel and Revelation.

And as I saw in your eyes, as I'm sure many of your instructors saw in their eyes, As I saw literally the light turn on in your mind and you saw something that woke you up and got you excited and serious about your walk with Jesus, there was a man who was part of the military.

And in 1874, this man who was once part of the military, he ended up hearing the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation.

If you can work the slide from the back, that's fine.

And brothers and sisters, Don't lose your focus on this.

This man was none other than a gentleman by the name of A.T.

Jones, he was in the military And he was doing as men in the military do.

But 1 day he caught wind of the messages of Daniel and Revelation, and that time came in 1874.

And Here it is that when he heard those wonderful messages of Daniel and Revelation, he stayed in the military for 1 more year, and then thereafter, he left that military and he continued to study Bible prophecy.

He was sleeping, but God's message woke him up.

And as Brother Jones was taking this message, brothers and sisters, he took that message so seriously in his heart that he began to advance quickly.

He started to memorize Scripture, and he was able not only to memorize, but he was able to explain it with holy ghost power to the point that 1 statement that was said about him by the prophet of God dealing with the success of Elder A.T.

Jones, She says, the Lord in his great mercy sent a most precious message to his people through elders who?

It says, this message, and this message was what message, brothers and sisters?

Righteousness by faith always belonged to the movement known as Seventh-day Adventist.

You can't faithfully preach the third angel's message and exclude righteousness by faith.

Because right there when it says, here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus, brothers and sisters, Right inside of that very text of Scripture, you find righteousness by faith.

Because Psalm 119, 172 says, all thy commandments are righteousness.

And if you and I are keeping the righteousness of God by the faith of Jesus, then that means all the patient saints are experiencing righteousness by faith.

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