SWYC 2011: Lest We Forget

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GYC Southwest

Our Position, Our Work

Dwayne Lemon

Part 1: What Time Is It?

Part 2: Holy Convocation

Part 3: Afflict Our Souls

Part 4: Fasting In the Day of Atonement

Part 5: Offering Made By Fire

Part 6: Do No Work

Let me say good morning and happy Sabbath to everyone.

I'm thankful to God for another opportunity that we can come together to study together.

There are many beautiful things that the Lord wants to share with all of us.

The key thing that you want to keep praying about, brothers and sisters, is that you want to ask God, Lord, get me ears to hear.

I believe that we are living in a time where it's not necessary to hear such new and startling messages but we're living in a time that we simply live up to the light of the messages we already have.

God is having a struggle with his people.

He has given to us so much light, but the problem is is that when we look at our lives many of us can see if perhaps not all of us can see that we are not living up to the light that we already receive.

And yet we come to meetings because we're looking for more light.

And God is saying to us, listen, if you can learn first things first, if you can learn to practice that which you already know, God says, then our minds and our hearts are now in a position that we can receive more because even God believes in making proper investments.

God knows that he wants to give truth to his people and he wants to give it in great abundance.

Brothers and sisters, don't ever forget this.

The truth that was designed to save us if we are not careful can be the same truth that can condemn us.

And this is why the Bible says to him that knows to do good and doeth it not to him It is said Jesus does not want to save and cannot save anybody in sin.

He can only save us from sin And this is why we're coming together, to press together, to study, so that we may understand what is thus saith the Lord.

And so you'll find that many of the things that I'm gonna share with you by the grace of God are simply gonna be heavenly reminders.

It's not my desire to try to give you something brand new and startling per se, but what I want to do is present the gravity of the importance of embracing that which God has already given to us.

And I believe that if we can do that, brothers and sisters, we can truly be prepared to receive higher light, better light, greater light, and ultimately be able to see the 1 who is light, that is none other than Jesus Christ.

And so as we prepare to go into our message this morning, I want to once again approach the Lord in prayer, and I'm going to kneel, and once again I'll invite you, if you are able to, you're welcome to join with me and kneel if you cannot then just please reverently bow your heads where you are but let us approach the Lord in prayer at this time as we study together.

Our Heavenly Father, Lord we are so grateful for the privilege and the opportunity of prayer.

You have told us that prayer is communication with God as 1 talks with a friend.

We thank you Lord that we can come to you because Jesus made it clear as he offered his friendship unto us for he said greater love has no man than this that when a man lays down his life for his friends and so father we come because we want to reciprocate that love and we want to lay down our lives before thee.

We truly, dear God, want to behold Jesus.

Our desire is that we may cooperate with him as he does his final work in the plan of salvation in the heavenly sanctuary.

And so may you speak to our hearts in a very marked manner.

May you do as your son David prayed so long ago and may you open our eyes and help us to behold wondrous things out of thy love.

And Father, I ask that you would please forgive us of our sins, Cleanse us, dear God, from all unrighteousness.

And help us to look to Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith, for we trust that by beholding him, we shall become changed into the same image.

And I pray, dear God, start with my own heart, for I give myself to you afresh, and I pray take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.

May the words that shall be spoken today first meet my own heart's need, And then I pray that it may touch the hearts of my brothers and my sisters.

And may we be 1 in Jesus, for this is our prayer that we ask in Jesus' name.

♪♪ Last night, we approached the Word of God to understand a little bit about time.

And I'm grateful for the privilege to study time.

There's much to say about things that are taking place in this world.

And I knew there was no way that I could package everything that I wanted to share with you in 1 presentation.

But I wanted to just bring us up to the point that we can see that in the midst of this economic crisis, in the midst of all these calamities that is sweeping this world by a storm, brothers and sisters, this is God's way of letting us know what's getting ready to come next.

And We saw clear as day that all of these things are leading to something.

It is leading to the last act in the drama.

That last act in the drama is none other than a passing of a national Sunday law.

And we saw the ramifications of the very fact that when a Sunday law is passed, that test is gonna come so hard to God's people as well as to the world, that brothers and sisters, we saw last night that even a great majority of our own people are gonna turn away from God's truth.

We're gonna see a large class of those who are professing faith in the third angel's message, and these same individuals will find themselves turning away from Jesus, the 1 whom they have professed to love and adore.

We're told that many a star that we have admired for their brilliancy will go out in darkness.

Brothers and sisters, if ever there was a time to take your eyes off of man, it is now.

You do not want to fix your eyes on, quote-unquote, seventh-day Adventist celebrities.

You don't want to go ahead and start getting caught up in speakers and evangelists and preachers and teachers because, brothers and sisters, we are already seeing stars going out.

And I believe that we haven't seen anything yet.

We have to take our eyes off of men and fix our eyes on the man, Christ Jesus.

And brothers and sisters, we saw last night that understanding time helps us know what to do.

And that's the key, is that we understand what to do.

We saw that we need to awake to righteousness.

And we saw, brothers and sisters, that 1 of the key things I want you to understand, if I could put in 1 verse what the principle of righteousness by faith is all about, I would put it in Hebrews the 11th chapter.

In Hebrews the 11th chapter, I want you to turn your Bibles with me there.

If I could just put righteousness by faith in 1 verse, I would put it in Hebrews the 11th chapter.

And you'll find that in Hebrews the 11th chapter, the Bible tells us something about righteousness by faith that is an eternal principle.

And once we can understand this, I believe that we are going to better understand the things that I'm about to present to you throughout the remainder of our time together over these next few days.

The Bible says in Hebrews the 11th chapter, and if you're there, please say amen.

The Bible says in Hebrews 11 and verse 7, it says this, and I want you to listen carefully to what the Word of God is saying.

It says, by faith, Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet what did he do he moved with fear that's an action word is that right it says he moved with fear prepared an arc to the saving of his house by the witch he condemned the world and became heir of what?

The Bible makes it clear that righteousness by faith is not something that God does it all and man does nothing.

Righteousness by faith is not that man does it all and then he approaches God and asks for help when he needs it.

Righteousness by faith, brothers and sisters, has ever been and always will be cooperation between humanity and Divinity.

Divinity gives all of the resources, all of the powers, all of the strengths, everything that individuals need.

You and I must exercise the will and let God work in our lives for His glory.

And so it is that when we talk about understanding time and knowing what to do, we're not talking about doing something to make yourself right.

There's nothing you and I can do to make ourselves right.

But the 1 thing I do know is this, your doings and my doings can testify of that which is right already within my heart.

This is why a man cannot be saved by works, but he can definitely be judged by them.

Man cannot work his way into the favor of God, heaven forbid, but a man's works testifies if God is in the heart.

And this is why every time Story of Redemption says that Noah put that hammer to the ark, Ellen White says it was a sermon.

He showed by his works that he believed and trusted God.

He looked like a fool to the outside world.

And here goes this brother building a boat, getting ready for some serious rain.

He looked odd, singular, and straight-laced.

And the reason why I choose those 3 terms is because we're told in inspiration that every single 1 of God's true faithful soldiers in these last days by the world and perhaps even by many in the church will be looked upon as odd, singular, and straight-laced.

A fanatic is somebody who goes above what the Word of God says.

A fanatic can be someone who consistently falls short of what the Word of God says, but a fanatic is never somebody who does exactly what God says.

But do you know how few there are who live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God?

And so, brothers and sisters, what Jesus is saying is that we must live by his word.

And we discovered last night that time is almost finished.

And the question is, do you and I reflect the lovely image of Jesus as we should?

Go to the book of Revelation chapter 10 in Revelation chapter 10 You will find that that's the great mystery of God that that is that wonderful mystery of God that the Lord wants to do in yours in my heart He wants to reflect that lovely image of Jesus in us He wants us to be a bunch of little Jesus's walking all throughout this world.

Not people talking about Christ, but people reflecting Christ.

Series

Our Position, Our Work

Part 2: Holy Convocation

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Our Position, Our Work

Part 4: Fasting In the Day of Atonement

57m

Dwayne Lemon Revival

God’s Great Desire

58m

Persecution Within

1h

WYC 2012 Breakout Sessions

Fear God, Part 1

50m

Prepare to Meet thy God

4- The Plan of Salvation

1h 47m

Our Position, Our Work

Part 6: Do No Work

1h 29m

God’s Obstacle Course

1h 21m

Dwayne Lemon Revival

How to Have Religious Liberty Before Religious Liberty

1h 24m

Our Position, Our Work

Part 1: What Time Is It?

1h 17m

Shaken but Not Forsaken

When God Spared Not

34m

Shaken but Not Forsaken

Waking Jesus

28m

Persuaded

1h

Sound Doctrine