Nearly 2000 years after Pentecost, the church still has not received the latter rain. Why is God waiting? Or is He ready to pour out the Holy Spirit, but we’re not? Who is waiting on whom? Discover what it takes to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Not just for a moment. Filled until Jesus returns.

GYC 2011: Fill Me

<p>Nearly 2000 years after Pentecost, the church still has not received the latter rain. Why is God waiting? Or is He ready to pour out the Holy Spirit, but we’re not? Who is waiting on whom? Discover what it takes to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Not just for a moment. Filled until Jesus returns.</p>

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2011 Seminar: If I Go, He Will Come

Wes Peppers

What On Earth Is HE Waiting On, Part 1

What On Earth Is HE Waiting On, Part 2

What On Earth Are YOU Waiting On?

What On Earth Are WE Waiting On?

This message was presented at the GYC 2011 conference.

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I believe that God is preparing to do something magnificent in the world.

You know, when we say that, often young people look around and they say, you know, maybe God's going to do something wonderful in the world, or maybe He's going to do something wonderful in the life of the person next to me, but He's probably not going to do something wonderful in my life.

But I want to tell you today that God is going to do something marvelous in your life here at GYC if you will allow Him to do it.

And I believe, I've been traveling, I don't say this boastfully, but I've been doing work all around the world in the last 3 years.

And what I can see is this, that God is preparing a group of young people to do His last day work.

God is preparing the hearts of young people all around the world to receive His Holy spirit.

And let me tell you, I've been doing in the last 3 years, I've been doing several evangelistic meetings in different areas in Ukraine and in Central and South America and different other places in the world, been preaching in India.

And what I found is that God is not just preparing young people in the church, but He's bringing young people from outside the church into His church all around the globe by the hundreds.

And I'm just telling you, the events that we see happening in the world today, I can tell you that there is no greater time in earth's history than to be living right now.

It is a privilege and the day that we live in to be a Seventh-day Adventist Christian.

And maybe some of you young people today are still trying to find yourself within that realm, But let me tell you, everything that you may not know exactly what you're looking for in life, but I can assure you, as a young person, I was 22 years old when I accepted Christ, everything that you've been looking for in your life, you will find in Jesus Christ.

And every ounce of truth you could hope to know, you can find, well, I wouldn't say every ounce of knowledge, because we don't know everything, but the greatest truth in the world is found in the Seventh-day Adventist church.

And I'm telling you, friends, it is so exciting.

You're going to see that in our study this morning.

How many of you believe that we should be a church hopper?

They wake up on Saturday morning and they say, Oh, what church are we going to go to today?

Well, they say, well, who's speaking in such and such a church?

And, you know, maybe if Ivor Myers is speaking in that church, that's where we'll go.

Or if Doug Batchelor is speaking in this church, that's where we'll go.

Not at all, because we need to be in a family, in a home church, right?

It is not healthy for you to be a seminar hopper.

I want to encourage you to stay, because what I'm going to be sharing with you is going to build on each other.

Now, of course, I can't force you to stay, even though I'm going to lock the doors and put chains on you.

You're still free to go if you can escape.

But I want to encourage you to stay because I'm telling you, there's such a rich blessing.

If you go to each 1, yeah, you're going to get a blessing.

But you're not going to be able to build on that experience.

And what we're going to share, I'm going to share in these first 2 sessions.

That's called, maybe we just won't even take a break.

How many of you feel like sometimes you need a break and you need to sleep?

And so that's always what I like to say, you can sleep when you're dead.

But all joking aside, guys, what I'm going to share with you in this first session is powerful.

Because you're going to see the experience of the disciples and what they went through to experience the early rain.

Then we're going to look at the, we're going to parallel that with the experience of the early Advent believers and see what they went through to experience the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

And then we're going to compare that to what do we need to do as the final generation to experience the Holy Spirit.

And let me tell you, we're going to touch on some issues that our church is facing today, such as evolution and other things, and you're going to be amazed to see how God's going to pull it all together.

And you're going to see an overall picture today.

Then this afternoon, we're going to look at the role of the Holy Spirit in the sanctuary.

And you're going to see that there were 3 temples in scripture that will reveal the glory of God.

I'm not going to tell you what they are now, but you've got to come back this afternoon.

And then we're going to look at a practical application of how, what do I need to do in my life to experience more of the Holy Spirit?

And then tomorrow, we're going to look at some practical steps for witnessing and prayer and other things.

Well, who is this guy standing in front of you?

You may not even know who I am, and that's OK.

And how many of you have ever heard of AAFCO before?

It's Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism, a powerful four-month training school.

And it's a blessing to have worked there in the last 5 years and others want to share a role brief history of my testimony like 3 minutes is that okay I did not grow up in the seventh day of the church I did not grow up in the Seventh-day Adventist church.

My family didn't go to church when I was young.

But growing up, I did go to church sometimes with my grandparents.

And when I got into high school, I actually, I'm going to show you a few pictures here, I got involved in football.

I didn't know anything about anything, really.

And my freshman year, I became, I was, you can see me, this is here when I had some hair.

I was actually a really good student and I got involved with football because I wanted to, ultimately I wanted to play college football.

And as I began to, as I continued in my high school career, I got bigger and bigger and bigger, and stronger and stronger and stronger.

And I don't recommend this, but I took this stuff called calf starter, and it actually causes you to gain weight.

It's supposed to be for cows, but I was taking it.

And I just got bigger and stronger until my senior year.

I was bench pressing 450 pounds and squatting almost 700 pounds.

And the Bible tells us in Jeremiah, let not the mighty man glory in his what?

And even I was kind of like the high school star around campus, and even though I was the star of the community, my own heart was empty.

And in my senior year, let me just tell you, my senior year I was even All-American playing football, and I was All-State, you can see here, it was in the newspapers, and I was being recruited by several different universities and something happened my senior year in high school.

Series

GYC 2011 Seminar: If I Go, He Will Come

What On Earth Is HE Waiting On, Part 1

Transcript

Description

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

GYC 2012 Evening Devotional

Even a Glimpse

49m

GYC 2011 Seminar: If I Go, He Will Come

What On Earth Are YOU Waiting On?

2h

Becoming Useful for God

53m

Men of Prayer, Men of Power

1h 50m

The Science of Surrender

56m

Plenary

The Beast and the Beauty

1h 34m

The Secret of Christian Endurance

39m

Winning Postmodern Souls to Christ

Strategies on how to Reach Postmoderns

1h 2m

Paul Ratsara: Power Spirituality

Power Spirituality: Part 4

55m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

2. Encountering God

1h 5m

Closing Arguments

1h 10m

Transformed to Stand

1h

Sound Doctrine