SWYC 2019 Reloaded: The Power of Truth

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GYC Southwest

Plenary Meetings

Anil Kanda

2019 Lost in Translation

Father in heaven, we just thank you so much again for today.

Thank you for the promise of the Holy Spirit bless us and speak to us personally and corporately in Jesus name Amen Now I want you to do something before we jump into this message.

I want you to turn to your neighbor right now, and I want you to say these words.

Neighbor, you are right where you need to be.

And if that wasn't a pleasant thing, turn to the other neighbor and I want you to say that again.

Let's start off with what Ellen White says right here, because this is going to be the umbrella for this entire message.

Notice what she says here with very succinct language.

Truth to be kept ever before the mind in the searching of the scriptures.

Every other truth is invested with influence and power Corresponding to its relation to this theme in other words.

There's a greater emphasis and Obligation upon that truth as it moves closer in relation to the center, which is Jesus Christ I'll continue It is only in the light of the cross that we can discern the exalted character of the law of God.

Hanging upon the cross, Christ was the what?

This is our message, our argument, our doctrine, our warning to the impenitent, our encouragement for the sorrowing, our hope for every what?

And it begins to add sort of a reprioritization to all the things that we believe in that Christ is the center of all things.

In other words, it's not Jesus that leads us to the Sabbath.

It's not Jesus that leads us to the sanctuary or Jesus that leads us to the state of the dead.

Sure it leads us to a bigger picture of who Jesus is.

The Sabbath leads us to a bigger picture of who Jesus is.

And all truth in the entire universe hinges upon the 1 who is called the truth.

Now that's what's so powerful about Jesus.

Take your Bible we're going to take a good look at a very interesting story in Scripture.

It's a story in which Jesus gives some parables.

And in Luke chapter 15, Jesus begins to communicate the goodness of God towards humanity.

We're going to dive into the Scriptures and when it comes to the study of Scriptures we don't want to be mere complicit readers, we want to be conversant readers.

In other words, we want to be suspicious of the text.

We want to study it out, we want to dig deep, we want to let the Word of God speak to us.

Luke chapter 15 starting with verse 1, notice what the Bible says right here.

Then all the tax collectors and all the sinners drew near to him to hear him.

And the Pharisees and the scribes complained, saying, this man receives sinners.

Now that word receive in Greek actually has to do more than just mere acceptance It has to do when someone brings you into the family That is the way that calm that word is commonly used when somebody brings you close into the family where they become like blood to you.

This man receives sinners and eats with them.

So he spoke this parable to them saying and what Jesus does next is that he begins to give 3 parables.

The first parable is the parable about the lost what?

The second parable is the parable of the lost what?

The third parable is the parable of the lost what?

And what's so interesting, when you study out these 3 parables, there are 4 themes that begin to emerge from the study of these 3 parables.

And it is the theme of being celebrated or celebrating.

And what's so powerful about these 3 parables is that the first parable is the story of a sheep that leaves the fold.

The second parable is the parable about something that was lost inside the house.

And the third parable brings together the first 2.

And you have 2 that are lost, 1 outside the house and 1 lost inside the house.

And it's through these 3 parables that God is launching into this in-depth understanding of how He really cares about sinners.

It's such a powerful thing when you study out these 3 stories.

At the end of each 1 of these parables, you get this sort of buildup that begins to happen.

At the end of the first parable, the lost sheep, Jesus says, and all of heaven rejoices.

And in the second parable, he gets into the parable of the lost coin and he says, angels rejoice.

And then in the third parable, the implication is the 1 who rejoices more than all of heaven, more than the angels themselves, is the Father.

And not just the Father you know who else you and it's so powerful because in this trajectory Jesus is communicating Something so amazing about the gospel to every son and daughter of Adam What we're going to be doing is we're going to understand First why Jesus gave these parables.

Let's go back to verse 1 Notice what the Bible says right here, that all the tax collectors and sinners drew near to hear him, and the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying this man receives sinners and eats with them.

Now I want you to notice 2 assumptions that the Pharisees had.

The first assumption was this, that they were not sinners.

Because they say in their thoughts and in their words, this man eats with those kinds of people and those kinds of people are sinners, which means we are not sinners.

So they have this ideology that those people are sinners but not us.

And then the second thing Jesus, the Pharisees and Sadducees do is this.

They make an assumption about the nature of God that God would not want to be around sinners.

And so what Jesus does is he launches into this threefold attack.

He begins to veil his thrust in parables.

And parables have 2 purposes, to reveal truth to those that are looking and to conceal truth from those that have no interest.

And in these parables we begin to understand something about the immensity and the dimensions of the love of God for every single person.

Let's go back to the scripture, Luke chapter 15.

Luke chapter 15, and we're going to be taking a good look at verse 8.

We're going to be taking a good look at the parable of the lost coin.

The parable of the lost coin and that is going to be our focus.

Or what woman having 10 silver coins, if she loses 1 coin does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it.

Series

Plenary Meetings

2019 Lost in Translation

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Don’t Lose Heart

50m

General Sessions

Touched by Grace: Heaven’s Revelation of Jesus - Sabbath School Discussion

57m

Morning Devotional

Gracious

46m

Plenary

Kia Kaha

59m

Plenary

Samson, Sex and Salvation

1h 13m

The Power of Grace

41m

Jesus On Prophecy

The Cornerstone of Bible Prophecy

52m

Testimony

1h 5m

Sanctification

45m

The Power of Perspective

Two Covenants

57m

A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

19 Restore To Me The Joy

43m

The True Medical Missionary

56m

Sound Doctrine