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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Laodicea Study

Justin Kim

Gold Tried in the Fire

Chester Clark

White Raiment Part 1

White Raiment Part 2

Joshua Ahn

Bailey Gallant

Laodicea Study Recap

For the next about 30 minutes or so, maybe 20, maybe 40, depending on our time, how elastic it is, I'll be giving a recap from this day, and then tomorrow we'll be going through a similar format, but with Pastor Chester Clark on the White Raiment.

Before we start, I'd like to ask that you bow your heads and we'll get started for this recap part.

This is the official conclusion of this seminar portion of this day.

So if you can Bow your heads, please, let's pray together.

Gracious Father, we're experimenting with the format and we thank you for your goodness.

And we thank you that you have been in the midst of us, speaking to us and using small groups.

Father, Lord, we ask as we focus and concentrate for the next 30 minutes or so, we ask once again for your Holy Spirit to speak to us in a way that you've never spoken to us before.

Once again, please open your Bibles to Revelation chapter 3, verse 14 through 22, where we see the message to Laodicea.

I want to give you 5 points on this gold that we've talked about, this faith.

In verse, let's see, verse 18, I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire.

This book of Revelation gets all of its cues from the rest of the Old Testament and rest of the Bible.

I am good friends with Sebastian Braxton, who will be preaching later on today.

And I remember when he first took me to a Middle Eastern restaurant.

And there was, I forgot what we ate, falafel probably, or something, some kind of wrap.

And then there was this red spice on top.

And me, this is about what, 20, 25 years ago, and I don't know, I didn't know what this red spice was.

Hey, friend who is introducing me to this new cuisine.

And he looked over and with all seriousness and with all scholarly dignity, oh, that is a red spice.

And he did not realize the obviousness of that answer.

And he was convincing me that that was the real name, that was Red Spice.

On top of your hummus and your baba ghanoush.

You should have this with your inside group.

And so next time, from the next 25 or whatever years that we've been friends, every time we go out to eat, whether there's red spice or not, I just say the word red spice and he busts out laughing and those who know the inside joke know the inside joke.

And then when you're from you get together and be like, oh yeah, banana!

And everyone else who's not part of the inside are like, what are you talking about, banana?

Revelation will take all these motifs from the Old and the rest of the New Testament.

So Revelation in a sense is the pinnacle book to understand.

It is the the ultimate book that Seventh-day Adventist should understand especially in these last times.

But in order to understand the book of Revelation, you need to understand Genesis to Jude.

So here, when we see that Jesus is saying, by of me, verse 18, I advise you, and you can do that with every verse of Revelation.

It's taking red spice, it's taking bananas, it's taking French fries from all over the Old Testament.

You cannot impose meaning into the frogs.

We've got to find where frogs are described in the Old Testament.

Anyway, in verse 18, I advise you to buy from me gold.

If you have your Bibles, you can turn there.

But it gets it from Isaiah 55 where the Lord says, come, buy of me, and buy that which you cannot buy with money or with, and Isaiah's criticizing Israel, like hey, why are you buying things that money cannot buy?

And it goes into his prophetic element there.

The whole point is this, Jesus tells us that we need to buy faith and love.

The whole point of why we need to buy this from the Lord Jesus is we have to acknowledge we have no faith or no love to begin with.

Laodicea to a certain degree thinks they have enough merit, enough love, enough faith, so they don't need to abide.

They don't have to have a transactional interaction with the Lord Jesus because they think, I'm good.

We need to get to a point where we see this backdrop.

When I first saw this backdrop, I thought, this is really weird, it's very science fiction-y, it's a black hole, what is this a picture of?

And last night's message, The heart is desperately wicked.

Where every individual, not as a corporate entity, we need to come to a point where each 1 of us says the goodness in my heart looks like that black hole.

I have no faith, I have no love, And because I am in a state of nothing, I must go to the source who has that." Now, intellectually, theoretically, theologically, you may be all aware of this, but this needs to come out in the practical, spiritual life as affected in the holiness and sanctified living that we have.

Jesus says, buy of me, get it from Jesus Christ himself.

All it takes is you call him up and make the transaction.

You send it through, you know, Cash App or Zelle or whatever you want, get it to the Lord Jesus and there is no fee to get these things.

Number 2, the gold tried in the fire is faith that works by love.

This is Colossians and this is the quote that I mentioned in the question that you answered this afternoon.

Only this can bring us into harmony with God.

We may be active, we may do much work, but without love, such love as dwelt in the heart of Christ, we can never be numbered with the family of heaven.

Now I've used these terms faith and love and if we're not careful because of cliche Christianity we're like oh he's talking about faith, he's talking about love, oh we know this, I got this, I've learned that since I was in in cradle roll or beginner whatever.

Biblical faith is radically different from regular faith.

And when I talk about faith in the lowercase f, we can have faith in all sorts of things, right?

You can turn on your phone, you have faith in your phone, You have faith that Apple makes good products or you have faith that Samsung makes good products.

You have faith that you'll wake up in the morning.

You have faith that you know that when Marvel says we have the next 5 years of movies planned out, you have faith that Marvel will continue with that plan with the whole, you know, whatever.

When Facebook says we're going to change our name, you have faith that they will follow through and expect that.

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Laodicea Study

Gold Tried in the Fire

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