SWYC 2018: Abiding in Christ

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GYC Southwest

Workshop: Dealing with Conflicts In Ministry

Dwayne Lemon

Dealing with Conflict and Adversity in Personal Liberty

Dealing With Conflict and Adversity in Ministry in the Home

Dealing With Conflict in Public Ministry

Peter Chung

Andre Waller

Questions and Answers in Conflicts in Ministry

Loving Father, we are truly grateful once again to come together as a family to study your wonderful words of life.

Lord, I pray that you might please abide with us and help us that we can learn how to put our trust in you and to allow you to be the solution to our problems and to know that as Jesus abides within our hearts, we are able to do so in Jesus' name.

1 of the things that I wanted to talk about in this session is the reality that when we accept Christ and we become a part of his church, you will find that sometimes what will happen is like I said, the first conflict is gonna be with self.

And the best way to overcome self is to constantly keep Christ in the forefront of your mind.

You gotta watch his life, and you gotta look at him.

Go to Matthew 11, and here's 1 of the chief things.

And it's really unfortunate because now that I do Bible work with others, etc., you know, and prepare people for baptism, I really take a different approach than probably what's traditionally done.

It is not that it's an issue to teach people the Sabbath, to teach them the spirit of prophecy being the testimony of Jesus, to teach them the sanctuary and to teach them the various reforms from dietary reforms and of course, dress reform and Sabbath reform even, as well as education reform, recreation reform, and the list goes on.

These things still need to be taught to new believers, no question about it.

But these are some things sometimes we don't spend enough time on.

Look at Jesus's instruction in Matthew 11.

In Matthew the 11th chapter, right, look at verse 28 and the Bible says in Matthew 11 and verse 28, Jesus says, come unto me, how many?

Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and then he says and I will give you rest.

After he makes that promise he then gives this command.

He says take my yoke upon you and do what?

Now do you know Jesus actually told us what he wants us to learn?

He said, take my yoke upon you and learn of me, then what does he say next?

What do you think Christ wants us chiefly to learn of him?

How many of you have gotten a lot of studies on humility when you were joining the church?

What is 1 of the number 1 problems that we have in the church?

Now Jesus said, take my yoke upon you, learn of me, for I am meek and I am lowly in heart, and that's how you'll find rest unto your soul.

The more that we understand and learn the humility of Christ, that's why I keep going back to it, How does God say I'm willing to be destroyed so that I can save evil people?

That's why the Prophet of God says we're gonna spend eternity trying to understand the love of God.

That's crazy, because that was the only thing I knew what to say.

I don't understand why you would do that.

God is simply saying, because I am the embodiment of love.

And then Jesus says, now I want you to learn this about me.

Because my brothers and sisters, when you come into the church, when you come into the faith, when you accept these truths, make no mistake about it.

Number 1, you're gonna go through conflict just with yourself.

This is why you got to compare Scripture with Scripture.

You remember in our last session we looked at Matthew 16 and verse 24 where it says, if any man will come after me let him do what?

I taught this before but it's worthy to look at it again.

You see, the reason why repetition is so important with God's people is because we have a natural tendency to forget.

We have a natural tendency, God's people have a natural tendency to forget what God has said.

And it's for this reason that the Bible is just loaded with repeats.

The book of Deuteronomy is known as the book of repeats.

Because we need to have things stated over and over and over again.

And so Matthew tells us, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

It says in Luke 9, right there in verse 23, and he said unto them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.

It says in Luke 9, right there in verse 23, And he said unto them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, What?

You cannot take a break from self-denial.

Now what is going to motivate you to do that?

You got to keep the true education in front of you.

You got to keep the key source, the chief source.

That's why my appeal, I think more people should have stood up personally, but that's why in my appeal I said, how many of us have failed of allowing Jesus to stay in the forefront of our minds etc because you have no idea how easy it is to not put him in the forefront.

It's very easy to put Jesus in the backdrop.

It's like really easy and so a lot of us have learned to do that.

And so we put them in the back and we say, I got this.

I'm taking control of this situation right now.

And we go in and a lot of times a lot of damage takes place.

I want you to learn my humility and I need you to take up your cross and I need you to do it every single day.

Because the human mind has a natural tendency to forget.

Human mind has a natural tendency to forget.

I stand in agreement with Pastor Morah that there are a lot of people who profess present truth.

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