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

First thing I want to do is I want to thank the Western Youth Conference for inviting me to be here.

I've been blessed to just be back at Weimar, the place where I used to teach and where all my students used to call me Pastor Steve.

Remember all the days of hiking out in the woods and I had a long walk yesterday and just reliving past memories from the 1980s and it's just great to be back here at Weimar.

I'd like to ask the ushers to please stand and pass out the cards.

We are going to just make this opportunity available to you.

If you are interested in Bible studies or preparing for baptism, There's a number of options there on this little sheet.

And so you can think about that and perhaps fill it out during the meeting and then at the very end, we will be collecting those.

I'm also, just to give you a heads up, going to give an appeal at the end and ask those of you who have not made a 100% decision to give your entire heart to Jesus Christ to just stand to your feet.

Now this is not a renewal of a commitment to everybody, so I'm not expecting everybody to stand.

If you look into your heart and you know that you haven't really made a full commitment to Jesus, this is your opportunity.

This is another chance for you to make a choice to give your life to Jesus.

2 more things, 1 of them is what you see on the screen here, this website.

We are very, very excited about this site.

Let me just tell you briefly how this happened.

After the earthquake that hit Japan, I had a strong conviction.

And I've been convicted many times of many things, and I think I know enough to know when the Lord is talking to my heart.

And he was just really convicting me that he wanted a track to be written about disasters that could be given out just widely.

And within a short time after that conviction, Nelson Ernst and I were on the phone, he's working with GLOW at the Central California Conference, and we got into a discussion about possible tracks, and I didn't mention it, but he did.

He said, Steve, we need a track about disasters.

And that was, to me, the double whammy, the double confirmation that the Lord was definitely talking to me.

And so I began to work on this and I prayed and as I did, I really just sensed the Lord guiding my little hands as I worked on my computer and began to type this up.

The track will be available in about a week.

They have printed a million copies, first print run.

They will be available from Glow and also from White Horse Media.

White Horse Media has created this website.

It has 4 different covers, which I think is unique to the Glow tracks.

1 cover is a cover of an earthquake, 1 is a fire, 1 is a flood, and 1 is a tornado, and I think a hurricane 1 is coming.

And the idea is that whenever these big disasters hit, for people to take these tracks and pass them out like the leaves of autumn.

Of all the things that I've ever written, and I've written about 25 books, I just have this conviction that more people are gonna read this track than anything else that I've ever written.

Now, as I worked on it, Nelson asked me to do something that I would not have thought of, but it was a God-given instruction.

And he said, Steve, as all these disasters continue to increase, eventually people are gonna say that these disasters are hitting the world because God is punishing the planet for not keeping Sunday.

And we don't want our track to contribute to that movement.

And so he said, squeeze the Sabbath into the track.

And so that was a Holy Spirit-led suggestion.

And as I prayed, I wanna tell you, this is not a track, but it's just 1 of the glow tracks.

This little track on disaster, which has the same, it's the same material with all 4 covers.

It's got a powerful quote right from Ellen White, right in the track, just a quote from her that fits in perfectly how the angels are loosening the winds.

These disasters are because the Holy Spirit is being withdrawn from the world.

Science seeks to explain all of these things, but the true reason is that we're getting closer to the coming of Jesus Christ.

Then it lists the reason why all these disasters are coming is because humanity is breaking the law of God.

The 10 Commandments, so the 10 Commandments are listed right there 1 by 1, including the seventh day Sabbath.

And then Jesus Christ is lifted up as the Savior to take away our sins of breaking God's law.

His love is exalted that he feels with us, he hurts with us when people go through these kind of disasters.

And then there's that 1 section about Sunday that if you hear in the days ahead misguided religious leaders saying that these disasters are because God is punishing the world for not keeping Sunday.

It's the seventh day, Saturday, that is really the Sabbath of the Lord, not the first day of the week.

And finally, there's a strong appeal to people to give their lives to Jesus Christ right now, because tomorrow we may be dead.

So I tell you, it's just, it's powerful, and it'll be out Thursday, and we encourage ministries and churches and organizations to pick these up.

They're not expensive, and just to give them out.

I believe it's 1 of the easiest ways to share the essentials of the Third Angel's message widely to a public that is very, very interested in why these disasters are taking place.

So the door is just wide open for these kind of things.

They're gonna be translated into languages all over the world, and we're very, very excited about it.

And even if you're shy and you don't want to, you know, go out and give it out to somebody at the cash register or at a gas station, you can always take these tracks and stick them in your phone bills, your electric bills, your trash bills.

Every bill that you don't pay online that you put a check in should have a track in it.

Because 1 of these days you could meet someone in heaven who say I work for AT&T and when you paid that bill or Pac Bell, I got a track and I accepted Jesus Christ because of that track.

I can't wait to get my hands on these myself and pass them out.

Now 1 more, where's my little pointer here?

I've got 1 more resource that I wanna share with you that White Horse Media just produced.

I think anybody who's involved in any kind of evangelism or ministry with people in the world, you must be aware of the fact that our church is fiercely being attacked on the internet with tons of websites that are against the Sabbath, against Seventh-day Adventist, against Ellen White, and the battle is on.

And how many times have we had people coming to our meetings or given a Bible study and then had the person grow cold because their mother or father or friend directed them to some website and their minds were poisoned against Bible truth.

Well, White Horse Media has just filmed, and it's being duplicated right now, a brand new resource, which is called Agents of Satan.

It is a television series that is being made into a DVD.

We filmed it actually in Charles Lawson's living room.

He was very involved with the Final Events DVD.

We have a television studio in Idaho where we live, but because of we still need some more funds, so it's not quite ready, but we wanted to do this project so bad that we set up all the cameras in his living room and just turned his house into a production center.

And his wife, Junie, you know, couldn't wait until the series was over so she could have her house back.

I don't know if you know who Pastor Mark Howard is in the Michigan Conference.

He's done a lot of research on the spirit of prophecy.

And so the 2 of us did this together, and this is the cover of the DVD.

The first part is called, Satan's War Against the 10 Commandments.

Second part is Satan's War Against the Sabbath.

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Series

Plenary Meetings

Christ Our Righteousness

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Attachments

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

01 The House That God Built

1h 3m

Is God Enough?

1h 11m

Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sanctuary

20 The Judgment Continued Phase 2

50m

Jesus on Prophecy

09 Revelation’s 1,000 Years and Hell

1h 3m

How to Defeat Babylon

54m

Broken but Loved

1h

The Strength of Allegiance

The Strength of Allegiance Part 1

59m

Burying the Canoe

56m

The Stress Factor

52m

What You Desire Most

28m

Song of Songs

39m

Who Then Can Be Saved?

46m

Sound Doctrine