iShare 2011

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Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

iShare 2011 Plenary Meetings

Michael Tuazon

I Dare You

Ricardo Graham

The Ownership Question

Peter Neri

Standing in the Gap

Arnold Trujillo

I Share What I Have

Anil Kanda

The Cutting Edge

Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer and let's ask Jesus to bless us with His Word.

Father in Heaven, we thank you so much again for the Word of God.

Thank you for these experiences you've given us this entire conference.

And Father, as we are ending this last meeting, we are praying and asking for something more than a message, More than a sermon, more than just a Bible study, Lord, we are praying that you would open up the gates of heaven and pour out such a blessing that every person who walks out of this auditorium, Lord, would be changed, because we have been in the presence of the Almighty.

Father in heaven, we pray that every person would know personally that they have been spoken to you, that they've been spoken to by you, God.

Father in heaven, we love you and we praise you and we thank you now for what you're going to do.

You know, the name of this conference is called iShare, and every time I think about iShare, I think technology.

It's not an iPod, it's called an iPhone what?

IPhone 4, it's pretty advanced, cutting edge stuff.

This stuff is top of the line until September.

And I have this, it's called an iPad and it's pretty advanced And I've used it about 4 or 5 times, thinking it's really cool.

But let me just share with you something more advanced than that.

I mean, these things, you can get them everywhere.

All right, we're going to be looking at a very interesting story in scriptures and I'm going to do my best to stay within camera focus.

I tend to move around but you can do some editing later on.

But everyone take your Bible and let's go to 2 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles chapter 26.

I woke up this morning and I felt very impressed to share this story with you because I believe that Jesus is trying to communicate something very special to each and every person here.

And we are going to look at the story of King Uzziah.

And if you're there, go ahead and say amen.

Now all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years old and made him king instead of his father, Amaziah.

Uzziah came to the throne at a very young age.

And this was a time when Israel and Judah were split.

And there was some very much instability that was taking place.

There would sometimes be righteous kings and unrighteous kings, kings that had fallen into paganisms, kings that had fallen into idolatry.

And whenever the king fell into idolatry, all the people would fall into what?

And so Uzziah came at a moment that was very much needed.

The Bible talks about him in that exact same chapter, and he begins to do so much reform, politics, he begins to change the defenses of the city, and the Bible says he prepared his ways before the Lord until something took place.

But when he was strong, his heart was what?

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up.

For he transgressed against the Lord his God by entering the what?

The temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

So Azariah the priest went in after him and with him 80 priests of the Lord, and I love what it says, valiant men.

The temple was set up, and only the priests were required to enter into the temple.

Only men who had been called by God, sanctified God, Levites, were required to go into the temple.

Anybody else would be destroyed either by God or by the people.

And 1 day this king, who gets very proud, decides that he's going to enter into the temple.

And as he rushes into this temple, wanting to see what's in its inner precincts, finding out what's really inside there, the mystery that was surrounding the inner parts of the sanctuary.

He goes in because he thinks to himself, I am the highest authority in the land.

And I love what the Bible says, that 80 priests, valiant men rushed in there as well, And they were stopping him.

And they said, this is not what you are supposed to be doing.

And they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, it is not for what you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, But for the what?

Priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense.

Get out of the sanctuary, they told this king.

He was the highest authority in the land.

But these men defended the honor of God, and they would not violate the, thus saith the Lord.

And they themselves knew who was responsible when someone entered into that temple.

You shall have no honor from the Lord God.

Verse 19, Then Uzziah became furious and had a censer in his hand to burn incense.

And while he was angry with the priest, leprosy broke out into his forehead before the priest in the house of the Lord beside the incense altar.

And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests looked at him, and there on his forehead he was, what?

Leprous, so they thrust him out that place.

Indeed, he hurried to get out because the Lord had struck him.

King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death.

This king walks in, he marches in, and he's trying to light incense, trying to take the place of the priest, and all of a sudden the priest jumped in, they said, no, you need to get out of this place, and all of a sudden his head gets struck with leprosy, and they can see it, and they rush him out, but even he himself realizes what's taking place, and he runs right out of that temple.

And the Bible says that he was a leper until the day of his death.

This was a king who was supposed to change Israel.

Folks, I'm going to say something to you, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart.

I believe Ellen White is true when she says many bright lights will go out in the end times.

There's going to be a lot of spiritual leaders you have trusted who are going to fail, but you are not to put your trust in men, but in the Lord Jesus.

This was the head of Israel, the head of Judah.

And now this apostasy took place and Jotham, his son, took over.

I want everybody to take your Bible and go to Isaiah chapter 6.

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iShare 2011 Plenary Meetings

The Cutting Edge

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Revelation Today Crusade

20. The Final Prophecy

48m

To Seek and to Save

28m

Talking Points, 3rd Quarter 2020: Making Friends for God

09-Developing a Winning Attitude

30m

Bold unto the Throne Seminars

Sanctuary in Relation to Mission

57m

Blessed to be a Blessing

48m

Surprised by Love

1h

Jesus On Prophecy

Blood on the Hands of the Remnant

1h 8m

General Sessions

Mission Program

59m

Recharged: Finding Your Safe Place

04 Longing for More

44m

Breakout Session A

Structuring Efficient Short-term Overseas Medical Missionary Trips

1h 1m

When the Earth is Filled with the Glory of God

1h 14m

Sound Doctrine