WYC 2011: Alive Again!

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GYC West

Plenary Meetings

Chester Clark

Contrition, Repentance, Conversion, and the Keeping of the Covenant

Eugene Prewitt

Reading God’s Requirements

Andy Im

Rachel Nelson

Steve Wohlberg

Question and Answer Session

Prayer, Praise, and the Preaching of Prophecy

Christ Our Righteousness

Light Before the Final Crisis

You know, I was thinking, I was reflecting this evening about the many times I've visited here at the Weimar campus and the many youth conferences I've been able to attend.

Though this is my first time to Western Youth Conference.

And I was thinking of the many sermons that I've preached, and I sort of realized I had this sort of sensation.

This is sort of marks an ending in my life.

I realize this is the last time that I'm going to be visiting Weimar, and my last youth conference.

And last time I'll be speaking to young people.

And in fact, this weekend will be my last sermons as a single man.

Because next Sunday, I'll be getting married.

And so I feel grateful to be able to spend.

I know that seems like quite an accomplishment, but I'm grateful to be able to spend this time with you.

Some people have said to me, you know, you're going the weekend before your wedding.

But The fact is that I had agreed to be here before I knew I'd be getting married next week.

So I'm trying to keep my commitments as I make new ones.

And I hope to be here many more times with the love of my life.

And she would like to be here today, but it didn't seem wise.

But her parents are here today, so I'm thankful to have my future in-laws visiting today, Mr.

Today we're going to be talking about revival and reformation.

We're going to be talking about what it means to begin a new life with Jesus.

And so as we do so, I think it would be wise for us to spend a moment to ask God's blessings, God's presence here among us.

Father in heaven, today we are grateful that you've given to us so many blessings.

Thank you for bringing us here to this beautiful place, this sanctuary in nature as well as in time, when we can come apart and We can focus on your word and on what you would have us to learn and to know and to grow in.

Today, I just want to pray that you'll be with these few minutes that we have together, that you'll be with my lips, that you will hide me behind the cross of Christ.

That Jesus might be able to be seen in a personal way.

That his voice might be heard speaking to each heart.

Lord, that we might be drawn closer to Him, closer to being prepared for His coming, and to be able to be revived, to experience that new life that can change the world.

If you have your Bibles, turn with me to the book of Judges, Judges chapter 2, and we're going to be looking here at the story of the children of Israel.

Judges chapter 2, This is taking place after the Israelites have entered Canaan, but before the death of Joshua.

Now, if you think about the context of this passage, you think about the context of what is going on here, You remember that the Israelites have seen a lot of things in their lifetime.

Although most of those who have, who actually left Egypt have already died during the 40 years of wandering, right?

There are still those who have seen the miracles as they've been through those 40 years in the wilderness.

They perhaps, they perhaps seen some of the other miracles that have gone on day after day.

They've seen the crossing of the Jordan River.

They've seen the miracles of the falling of Jericho and so forth and so on.

They've seen God doing mighty works, right?

So these people know something about God.

They know that they are believers in the true God.

They've seen their God compared to the God of the Canaanites and the Philistines and they have decided, they've had evidence to decide that their God is the true God.

And if you find here In Judges chapter 2, you read here these first few verses that even though they knew about the God of heaven, they knew about the God that they worshipped, they still had a problem.

So there was a special messenger sent to them.

It says, An angel or messenger of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt and have brought you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers.

And I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land.

You shall throw down their altars." That was the agreement that God had made with Israelites.

In fact, all the way back, If you look in Genesis chapter 17, you see the agreement that he had made with Abraham.

It was a covenant that had been made with Abraham and with his descendants.

But yet the last part of this verse says, But you have not obeyed my voice.

If we could try to understand what Israel must have been thinking, I suppose as they entered the land, I'm just giving them the benefit of the doubt here, but I suppose that as good believers in the true God, they had every intention of doing what God had told them to do, wouldn't you guess?

Wouldn't you think they had an intention of doing the right thing?

They intended to drive out the Philistines and the Amorites and all the rest of those who said should not stay in Canaan.

They intended to do that, but they hadn't quite gotten around to it.

You know, a child sometimes is told by his or her parent to do something.

If a child is told by their parent to do something, and they say, OK, I'll do it, but they keep playing or keep doing what they had been doing before.

They will in their own good time, When they get around to it, when it's convenient, when they feel like it, is that obedience?

But I think that's what the Israelites had done.

I think that's the situation they found themselves in.

I'm guessing because they were good people like you and I are good people.

They were believers in the true God, they knew about the God of Heaven, I'm guessing that they intended to obey God.

They just hadn't quite gotten around to it yet.

It wasn't something that was important enough to be high on the agenda today.

I mean, after all, they had their daily life to take care of, you know?

We tend to think of people in 2011 as being very, very busy.

Maybe we're busier than in previous eras.

But I think probably people in every age have always been busy.

And when you have to grow the food you're going to eat that day, it's a different type of busyness than we even ourselves have today.

And they were busy, and they hadn't quite gotten around to doing what God had told them to do.

And in fact, it hadn't quite taken a high priority in their life.

It hadn't come to the point where it was first place, because if it had been first place in their life, they would have already accomplished it.

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Plenary Meetings

Contrition, Repentance, Conversion, and the Keeping of the Covenant

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