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

Our Father in Heaven, I ask that you would bless me for your own purposes, that you would please speak through me this evening, that you would make your word to be understood, that you would use it to do the very thing you want to do.

I don't write the stories down, so I don't know when they happened.

But it was Blue Mountain Academy in Pennsylvania.

And I had a collection of boys there that I didn't know.

I asked them, do you know what Ellen White says about grace?

And I asked, do you know what she says about the seal of God?

I really don't remember the questions I asked them, but These are like the questions I asked them.

And after I asked a few of these questions about things that Ellen White has written about a great deal, I asked them, do you know what Ellen White wrote about bicycles?

They all knew what she wrote about bicycles.

Now, this is very interesting to me, because I've read.

I don't want to say I've read a lot in the testimonies because there is a lot in the testimonies, right?

And I know that if Ellen White has had this much to say about grace and this much about the seal of God, she has had this much to say about bicycles.

And it's very interesting to me that people would know that.

Isn't that interesting to you that they would know?

It's because there is a knowledge about inspiration that we learn from others.

And there is a knowledge about inspiration that we learn from our own study.

And for many people in the days of Jesus, that first body was much larger than the second.

That is what they knew from inspiration that they had gathered from hearing from other people, there was more of that.

Turn in your Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 28.

Tonight I'm speaking to you about reading God's requirements.

And part of me wants to give a Bible study about how to study the Bible, but that takes a long time.

But if I did, we would start in verse 9 and 10.

And we would start out with this idea, who will God teach knowledge?

Isn't that who you want to be, the person that God teaches?

The question, who will God teach, is answered by these 2 ideas.

It is those that are weaned from human dependence.

If we had a, well there is a baby here, I can hear it right there, okay.

If you have a baby and you don't feed the baby, What happens to the baby?

What if you don't feed him for a long long like weeks?

The baby will die isn't the baby entirely dependent on being fed?

Now if you invite me to your house for a meal that I'm able to go I will be thankful You have to invite my wife too, but we will be thankful.

But if you don't feed me, I'm not going to die.

That's right, I'll get some food for myself if you don't feed me.

And what I'm trying to do is illustrate for you Isaiah 28, 9.

It's the idea, God isn't saying that you need to be so independent that you don't learn from anyone, but if you want to be taught of God, you're going to have to be willing to go directly to him, to the source, for your help.

Because as long as your fear toward him is taught by the precept of men, there is too much room for you to be confused.

The second answer given in verse 9 and 10 is that you need to take precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little.

And despite the pundits who would say the opposite, God very plainly indicates that if you want him to teach you, you're going to have to compare scripture with scripture.

You're gonna have to do it, to take 1 piece and another piece.

Verse 11 and 12 is helpful if you want to give a Bible study on the gift of tongues.

It's quoted by Paul in his chapter on tongues, but we're not there either.

Verse 14 says, excuse me, verse 13, but the word of the Lord was unto the, Isaiah 28, just a moment.

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to 1 that has learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee.

And he says, I cannot, for it is sealed." This verse so illustrates the condition of many people.

They would like to understand the Bible, but the problem they have is they know they can't.

They tried it, they didn't get it, they read it, and it doesn't make any sense, and so their solution is to go to someone who has a lot of education, and they give it to him to explain.

And what he has to say about it is, well, in this verse what he says is it can't be understood.

Verse 12, and the book is delivered to him that has not learned, saying, read this, I pray thee.

Do you see here that these people are not ready to be taught of God?

What was the first condition of being taught of God?

It was to be weaned from human dependence.

Trying to find someone that will explain it to you.

Wherefore the Lord said, for as much as this people draw near me with their mouth, and their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men." Jesus quotes this verse in the New Testament.

The Bible indicates, for reasons that I think are well illustrated by the Blue Mountain Academy experience, that I cannot afford to have my fear toward God by third party.

My fear toward God, I can't afford to have that come by preceptive men.

They're likely to be confused themselves.

If I have a series of points I want to present to you, talking about the Bible, the first 1 is 1 you've known for a long time and you already know it.

And so all I can hope to do is make you think about it more.

And that is we need to study this book personally.

We have to go after understanding this ourself.

And he is willing to teach us if we are willing to be weaned, to be drawn away from dependence on someone else.

Turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 17.

Deuteronomy 17 is a chapter that shows that though David and Solomon were good kings in many ways, at least David for almost most of his life and Solomon for 2 parts of it, yet these men did not practice God's requirements the way that they could have.

Deuteronomy chapter 17, and we're going to look at verse 16.

Series

Plenary Meetings

Reading God’s Requirements

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Living by Faith

1h 7m

Where Is Your Faith?

1h

Righteousness: What Does It Look Like?

45m

Look Up and Live

What is Sin?

40m

Plenary

The Atheist Who Found God

42m

Called By Name

1h 11m

Why Am I a SDA?

1. Does the Truth Really Matter?

35m

The Wheel of Faith

6. Bare Naked

59m

Testimonies

The Role of Conscience

45m

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

Hollywood’s War on Truth

57m

Bible Weekend

02 Answering False Doctrines

43m

Seminars

Is Righteousness by Faith Possible for Me?

1h

Sound Doctrine