SWYC 2006: Let it Rain!

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GYC Southwest

SWYC 2006 Plenary Sessions

Ray DeCarlo

The Early Rain

Richard O'Ffill

Fatal When Taken as Directed

Eugene Prewitt

Message to Laodicea

The Active Ingredients of the Christian Life

Isaiah 58

The Latter Rain and the Seal of God

How to Keep the Devil from Answering Your Prayers

SWYC 2006 Question and Answer Session

The Loud Cry

The Shaking and The Judgment

How to Overcome Temptation

A Call to Unity

SWYC 2006 Testimonies

What was Accomplished by the Death of Christ

The Final Conflict

Well, before I begin, I'd like to just say how thankful I am to have the opportunity and the privilege to be here.

It's always an opportunity to receive a great blessing when we come together to worship the Lord, to seek His counsel.

I only hope and pray that each of us will earnestly seek the Lord at this time because I don't think I really should have to elaborate in too much detail what is really taking place, not only in this country, but around the world.

I think if you're just half awake to what God has said in the Holy Bible and the spirit of prophecy, you will come to see that we are at the end of time.

And so it should place upon us a sense of urgency where we should begin earnestly to rearrange our lives and set our priorities.

Now, I'm going to be sharing with you some very important statements from the pen of inspiration.

And I want to make something very clear before I begin.

I want to be able to clarify my position on the spirit of prophecy.

Now the reason I say that is because I think it's of the utmost necessity that you know where I stand on that issue.

The reason I say that is because I'm the 1 going to be speaking to you.

I believe that we as a people have a God-given right to know where the speakers stand on certain issues.

And we ought not to be apologetic when We ask them, what's your position on X, Y, and Z?

Now, I've always believed that if after you receive an answer, you can't quite figure out what has just been said.

Sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes it leads you to the conclusion that you didn't get a straight answer.

The gospel is not complicated, the spirit of prophecy is not complicated.

Truth is simple, clear, precise, to the point.

Anything that is given to you that causes your mind to be confused and to question what has just been said, you know full well you didn't get the truth.

You know, we want to be able to at least show you we've got a college education, at least our diploma didn't go to waste.

But I want to do my very best to stay away from pontificating.

I want to be able to just simply share to you what God has shared with me.

Now before we begin, though I know we've already had prayer, I'm going to ask you to pray with me now.

You know, I know and I'm sure you're aware of the fact that the Bible says we ought not to covet our neighbor's goods.

Of course, that's obviously the fundamental principle is dealing with selfishness, greed.

But the Bible does say we should covet spiritual things.

So there is an element of a desire, a thirsting, a hungering after something that doesn't belong to you that's good.

And that, of course, is coveting, as I said, spiritual things, being filled with the Holy Ghost, coveting to have the mind of Christ, or coveting to be kind and thoughtful and considerate, and you know, the character of the Lord Jesus.

We should, you know, do all that we can to strive to reach those expectations.

You know, if you don't ask, you don't receive.

But all I want you to remember to pray for yourselves and pray for 1 another.

And as we do that throughout this weekend And we anticipate the blessings of God.

God will give us precisely what we anticipate if we place ourselves in a position where He can bless us.

Father in heaven, once again, we thank you for the privilege we have to come together to worship you.

And Lord we pray that you will guide us, that our minds, dear Lord, will be opened to understand the truth, to embrace what we hear, and Lord to follow and to obey.

Now please dear God give us we pray the outpouring of thy Holy Spirit help each 1 of us to recognize our true condition not to see ourselves as we want ourselves to be, but rather to see ourselves as you see us.

And help us, dear God, I pray, that this weekend will not be Just another 72 hours that has been spent in vain.

Let it be productive for the kingdom of heaven.

Now, Lord, please, once again, through the name of Jesus, through his atoning work, forgive us of our sins.

Help me to speak the words that is essential for eternal life.

May your angels watch over us and keep us.

Now the theme of our weekend together is on the preparing for the latter rain.

When Norman called me, he shared that with me and I was very much pleased by that theme.

He also added that You may preach whatever the Lord leads you to preach.

And I always enjoy when people tell me that, because I must be honest, I don't really like being told what to preach.

I must also be honest with you, even if you did, I don't really think I'd do what you would tell me to do.

I believe that you should do exactly what God tells you to do.

You know, you may anticipate 1 thing, but sometimes we anticipate something that God is not wanting you to anticipate at all.

Blessings sometimes come in very strange and odd ways.

But whether they come in strange ways or whether they come in the way we anticipate, let them come.

Now I'm going to read to you some statements from the Spirit of Prophecy on the latter reign.

And as I mentioned to you, I want to be able to clarify to you my position on the servant of the Lord, at least in terms of the concept of the Spirit of Prophecy.

Now, as Seventh-day Adventists, we are greatly privileged in many, many ways.

And in 1 particular way is the gift of the Spirit of Prophecy.

Now today we have come to a position in our beloved church where there are those who are very cynical, very skeptical in regard to the spirit of prophecy.

They have relegated her writings to, you know, good counsel.

Some even go as far as say, well it's just good advice.

Some have said, well, you know, if she were alive today, she would, she would have written the great controversy differently.

She would have been, you know, she wasn't able to see what we see today.

And often when I sometimes hear those kind of comments, I wonder, well, well, well, of course, she's not alive in our day.

But that doesn't preclude her from speaking about our day.

I mean, simply to say that because she didn't live in our day, therefore it excludes her from terms of the relevancy of the writings for our day, well, then you're going to have to exclude the Bible.

If all that the spirit of prophecy is, is simply good advice, good counsel, nice, you know, opinions, then that's not divine inspiration.

Believe it or not, once in a while, I can give you good advice.

May not be as often as I like, but once in a while I can give you good advice.

But that doesn't make me the son of a prophet, doesn't make me a prophet.

The Holy Spirit clearly is the author of all gifts.

Now we know that from 1 Corinthians chapter 12, Romans chapter 12, and Ephesians chapter 4.

These 3 chapters constitute the spiritual gift chapters.

Now, there is no 1 chapter in the Bible that deals with all the spiritual gifts.

You put them together and you've got pretty much every spiritual gift lined out.

Now what's interesting in that, if you turn with me quickly in your Bibles, now you did bring your Bibles.

I mean, you didn't come here to hear me, I hope.

Because if you did, you're going to be disappointed.

You came, I hope and pray, to hear the words of life.

Now in 1 Corinthians 12, I want to show you something about spiritual gifts.

Now, as I mentioned to you, they're in those 3 chapters.

And there are various gifts laid out in administration, hospitality, pastors and teachers, and prophets, and various gifts of healing and speaking in tongues and so forth and so forth.

And there are others as well as I mentioned.

But all these worketh, all these gifts operate or function.

Series

SWYC 2006 Plenary Sessions

The Early Rain

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

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