Purified By the Word

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Living Hope SDA Church

Plenary

Mark Finley

A Prophetic Call to Faithfulness

Randy Skeete

Explaining the Impossible

Andrew Park

I Never Thought

David Shin

How to Gain the Victory Over Your Thoughts?

Dead Know Nothing

Living With a Stranger

A Church on Life Support

I think that was overly kind for for me and my wife she might be tuning in online my wife Nicole so I just want to say hello I love you I miss you And I have the privilege of sharing my testimony today.

So why don't we bow our heads for a word of prayer and ask for God's blessing.

Father in heaven, you know what I prepared.

But ultimately, you're the 1 who knows what needs to be spoken.

So I do want to claim the promise of Jeremiah 1 9 that you may put your words into my mouth and whatever you want to be spoken or not spoken that may be shared.

May your Holy Spirit have occupancy in my heart.

And I ask, Lord, that whatever is shared may be glorifying to your cause.

And you ultimately may be seen in all this.

It's about a three-hour drive east of there.

And the city that I grew up in, I spent the first 18 years of my life there.

Same school district, same friends, same neighborhood, same house, piano lessons every week.

It was just regularity and predictability.

That's really what described my growing up experience.

And I'm a second generation Korean American, so my parents came from Korea when they were younger.

And like most ethnic Seventh-day Adventists or Christians, you tend to go to church with your ethnic background.

And so I grew up going to the Detroit Korean SCA church.

And I remember every week, every Friday, we would go to church.

That was the biggest thing that I remembered.

And as I was in church growing up, Religion to me was very much obvious.

Whatever the teacher tells you, that's the truth.

Of course Jesus died for you, of course Jesus loves me, of course we're gonna go to heaven on a cloud, of course X, Y, and Z.

It was just a standard, obvious thing in my life.

And so religion was Sabbath school, you say for the divine service, you have potluck after church, and then there's choir practice and so the kids are playing out on the church grounds for the rest of the afternoon.

Go to someone else's house, and you spend the whole Sabbath with the church.

Even though I knew that Jesus died for me, even though I knew that we were gonna go to heaven on a cloud, I still didn't have my own personal experience with the truths that were being spoken.

I grew up going to public school, went to 1 school district, once again I shared that earlier, my entire life, K through 12, the same people.

And as I was getting older in elementary school, I started hanging out with the kids in the neighborhood.

And I also started hanging out with some of the kids at school.

And I remember 1 time in third grade, someone walked into school and he had an iPod.

Now back in the day there was no you have everything on there all you had was music you turn this circular thing and then you choose the music that you like and this was like the cutting-edge technology of third grade And so as I was obsessed with my friend's iPod, he would turn to these different songs, and that was the first time that I was introduced to rap.

There was this very popular rap musician, and I grew up listening to classical my whole life.

I thought the only genre of music was classical, and now I'm introduced to this very different style of music, which of course has profanity and a lot of other messages in it.

And I realized growing up, especially in my later years, I wanted to conform to whatever my friends were doing.

So whenever I was at school, I would listen to it on my friends' headphones.

When they started wearing Abercrombie, that was the biggest brand of clothing back then.

I thought, Mom, I need to get Abercrombie.

That is, If I don't have Abercrombie, I'm nothing.

And that same thing went for toys, playing cards, etc.

My life became filled with wanting to fit in with the people around me and being accepted by my peers.

And so imagine this elementary school kid who goes to middle school, he wants attention, and so he's really hyper, kind of like a class clown.

You may not be able to imagine that but I was in a lot of senses that kind of person and In terms of the values that were rising up in my life Acceptance by my peers was the highest value.

Religion started off obvious to me, but as I got older, religion became routine.

Sometimes it's inconvenient because my friends are doing other things on Friday and Saturday, but this is my life.

Now, we as individuals, human beings, We tie our value to the things that we do and the people that we are surrounded with.

So if you are a musician, oftentimes we tie our value to our musical capabilities.

If you are very determined to get into some kind of Ivy League school or do well in academics, we tie our value into our performance in our academics.

And in the same way, if you tie your value to your looks, if you think you're a good looking person, then your value is tied to your appearance.

Now here's the thing, when your value is tied to something that is externally based, that means your self perception and sense of self worth is going to be determined on something that is outside of your immediate control.

So you're the best looking person in the room.

Well, what happens when someone better looking walks into the room?

Your confidence just turned into insecurity.

Or let's say you are the most athletic person in the room, and then you go somewhere else, You find out, wow, I'm not as athletic as I thought when I compare myself to someone else.

I thought I was the best basketball player in my circle.

And I remember when I was in sixth grade, I found out about AAU tryouts.

And so I thought, I'm a pretty good player.

And after the tryout, I found out that I was cut from the team.

So seventh grade I thought, you know what, it was their fault.

That was a fluke, what happened in sixth grade.

We're playing, playing, playing, and after the tryout they posted all the numbers of people who made it to the third cut.

And I remember after school I went to the roster, I was looking for number 55 And I didn't see number 55.

And I realized the reason why number 55 wasn't on there wasn't because they forgot to put it on.

It was because I didn't make the team again.

Series

Plenary

I Never Thought

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

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Look Up and Live

The Healer and Restorer

41m

Morning Devotional

Victory in Jesus: Why?

27m

Power of the Everlasting Gospel

The Covenant’s Promised Blessings!

1h 18m

The Necessary Experience

1h 18m

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

Revival is Not for Sale

1h

Plenary

Learning to Carry the Cross

55m

Lost & Found

51m

WYC 2012 Breakout Sessions

Overcoming As Christ Overcame, Part 1

1h

The Wheel of Faith

6. Bare Naked

59m

A Call to Revival

When You Lose Your First Love

1h 15m

The Gospel Remedy: True Keys to Wholistic Healing

The Safeguards: Managing Stress

58m

Health Evangelism

The Hour of Victory- Part 1

1h 49m

Sound Doctrine