GYC SE Conference 2021: If Not Now, When? If Not I, Who?

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GYC Southeast

Plenary Sessions

David Wright

How to Know God’s Will for Your Life

Who Invented Sex?

The Thing the Devil Hates

A Father’s Love

Are You an Evolutionist?

Never Enough

Tonight I'm going to ask a question, what makes you angry?

I'm going to ask that question a little bit on the lighter side to begin.

But 10 little things that might make you irrationally angry.

Number 1, when your internet connection drops.

Second 1 on the list that I found, when someone tries to talk to you when you're on the phone with someone, And you're trying to do 2 things at once and can you just wait and maybe you have the earbuds in they don't even know And they just keep talking and Stubbing your toe That one's never fun.

I always get very frustrated at that I always think my toe will fall off yet.

I still have all 10 number 4 forgetting your password Isn't this getting a little bit ridiculous?

I mean there's passwords for everything, everything, everything.

Number 5, people who tell you to calm down or cheer up when you're neither angry nor upset.

Anyone who puts empty cartons back in the fridge.

You thought there was more left until there's not.

Number 7, anyone pushes the elevator floor button after watching you just push it just 2 seconds ago.

Your elevator button push was not good enough Let me make sure it's pushed Number 8 people who are completely unprepared for situations that they know are going to happen Isn't there 1 of these in every class?

Yeah, it's called finals, like that's the whole week, dude.

Number 9, people who take up 2 parking spaces.

At number 10, I have to resonate with having kids at home stepping in something wet after just putting on a clean pair of socks.

I'm going to transition to this question.

I suppose we could answer that in a variety of ways, but probably there's a common theme or thread for all of these answers we could come up with, and that is whatever brings an individual closer to Jesus makes the devil angry right anytime a person is baptized it makes the devil angry the fact that you're here tonight makes him angry But there's 1 more specific thing I want to look at tonight that we find in scripture.

It says, Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea!

For the devil has come down to you having great wrath.

The devil's upset because he knows that he has a what?

Let me just ask, Do you get the sense with all the things happening around us that the devil is angry?

Do you get the sense that he knows he has but a short time?

Do you get the sense that this is not business as usual?

Skipping to verse 17, it says, And the dragon, the devil, that serpent of old, was enraged with the woman, which is God's church, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, or some versions say the remnant.

And here are the characteristics of the remnant, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ here the devil is upset he's enraged he's filled with wrath at God's church at end time.

They have these 2 things And it makes him so angry.

Keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.

Those are 2 characteristics of God's last day people that are unique to Seventh Day Adventists.

I mean you go through the phone book and how many are worshiping on the seventh-day Sabbath?

And of the few that might be some seventh-day Baptist or something, how many have the testimony of Jesus?

Let's flesh that out a little bit further.

Revelation 19 10 tells us, for the testimony of Jesus is, we could put an equal sign there, the spirit of prophecy.

Sometimes people say, well, you know, I'm not sure how I feel about the spirit of prophecy.

But we have throughout the Bible prophets.

And we are told that God's end time church will keep the 10 Commandments all 10 and Have the testimony of Jesus and the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy So the idea of having a prophet is a biblical idea, especially for God's last day church.

Amos 3 verse 7 says, Surely the Lord God does how much?

Nada or nothing unless He 19 Nada, or nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants, the prophets.

God wants us to be prepared for what's coming.

Matthew 7 15 says, Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

We have true prophets at the end of time.

There is a true genuine if you will, but then there's also going to be counterfeits.

So how are we to know Which is the true and which is the false?

Accepting the counterfeit is certainly a danger, but rejecting the genuine is a danger too, right?

I mean, if we have money up here and I have, I don't know, I've never seen a thousand dollar bill But maybe I have a bunch of hundred dollar bills And I pass them all out and I say 1 is real and 1 is false you certainly want to know which 1 is real And you'll probably stay up late tonight trying to figure it out so you can spend it.

So how do we know what the genuine is and not reject that?

How can we tell the difference between the true and the false?

I put together these are biblical tests of a prophet.

This is not unique to me and if you want to go back and study this I would encourage you to take a picture of this and this would be a great study.

We have the verses there but for the sake of time I'm gonna make some assumptions that perhaps you're aware of the tests of a prophet.

If not, take a picture and go back and study, that's fine.

But prophetic accuracy, Jeremiah 8 verse 9 says, if a prophet makes a prediction, it's gonna become true, it will come to pass 100% of the time.

Why, Because a true prophet doesn't guess at the future.

God tells him what's going to happen and sure enough, it happens.

There is a thing called conditional prophecies.

Remember Jonah and he went and he preached and then they repented and so the thing didn't happen.

That was 1 of those if you don't do such and such then but they did and so it didn't.

But unless it's a conditional prophecy it's a hundred percent accuracy.

There's all kinds of people, Gene Dixon and all these others that have made predictions, Nostradamus and all the rest, and they tout, oh, 60% accuracy.

You and I can guess at 50% accuracy sometimes, And if I have the devil in my back pocket who has access to every conversation on the planet You don't think he can guess more accurately So who cares about 60% accuracy?

Prophet of God's 100% the second 1 on the list biblical faithfulness in Deuteronomy 13 1 to 4 it says if a prophet makes a prediction and then it comes true and then he says now that I have you all on my side let's go after other gods and the verse says have nothing to do with that prophet.

1 John 4, 1 and 2 it says test the spirits.

There's many false prophets but a true prophet will confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

If they're saying no Jesus isn't who you need.

He doesn't do anything for you false prophet The fourth Commandment keeping or keeping the commandments of God Isaiah 8 20 says To the law and the testimony they speak not according to this word, how much light is in them?

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Plenary Sessions

The Thing the Devil Hates

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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

24 The Sanctuary and the Testimony of Jesus

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Revival Plan-The Elijah Solution

The Elijah Solution - Part 1

1h

Why am I a Seventh-Day Adventist?

02 Isn’t Loving Jesus Enough?

1h 2m

Jesus On Prophecy

Hallelujah, Here Comes the Judge

59m

The Supremacy of Scripture

1h 11m

Why am I a Seventh-Day Adventist?

04 What Makes the Devil Angry?

57m

How to Encounter a Personal Relationship with God and Receive His Blessings

Hollywood’s War on Truth

57m

Why Am I a SDA?

1. Does the Truth Really Matter?

35m

A Mighty Fortress

47m

The Papacy and the Global Economy

1h 15m

The Spirit of Prophecy Matters

1h 5m

Sound Doctrine