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GYC 2011: Fill Me

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2011 Seminar: The Spirit-led Discipleship

Sebastien Braxton

The Love Factor, Part 1

Vikram Panchal

The Love Factor

Discipleship: Revolution, Part 1

Discipleship: Revolution

Discipleship: Explosion, Part 1

Discipleship: Explosion

This message was presented at the GYC 2011 conference.

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And of course, as much as possible, I always encourage people to move as close to the front.

So we shouldn't be resistant to drawing closer to 1 another all these empty seats here and there like salt and pepper.

I won't make it mandatory because I understand.

And the Lord will work on your heart in his own time.

Secondly, I just want to give you a little bit of a trajectory of the layout of the land, where we're going to be going this week.

I am extremely excited by this subject when we chose it as a seminar to say how can you talk about the Holy Spirit and not talk about discipleship and being spirit led.

The Holy Spirit, first of all we're going to deal with the idea.

Vikram and I will be going back and forth and Vikram, you saw him on stage last night if you were here, and he's right up here up front supporting me and giving me moral courage to press on.

I'll be doing the first sessions of each section will give you a little break in the vehicle will finish out and so I'll be dealing with first of all personally what does it mean what are the conditions that we need to fulfill to be filled with the Holy Spirit, personally.

Vikram will be dealing with the corporate infilling of the Holy Spirit.

Then in the second module this afternoon, I'll be beginning to talk about Christ and Spirit-led discipleship, as illustrated in Jesus's life.

And then Vikram will be looking at a case study of Paul's life, and we'll be going back and forth again from seminar 2 to seminar 3.

In the third module, we'll be dealing with very, very deep practicals.

We'll go through some, I'll be looking at an exegetical study of the book of Matthew and to show that the way that the book of Matthew is structured is designed to show us what Christ sought as to be paramount to what he needed to teach his disciples.

That the disciples were the core of everything Jesus did.

So that's kind of where we'll be heading on.

Vikram will be also ending in that third module.

We'll be talking about Bible memorization, getting the word in your heart, because thy word hath I hid in my heart that I might not, what?

Yes, there's no better way to not be filled with the Holy Spirit than to keep sin in our lives.

So practically, we need to have practical ways to combat the sinful tendencies, cultivated or hereditary, albeit there's still power through God to overcome those things.

And that is really where Vikram and I want to end this seminar is on that.

So with that being said, this morning, I'm going to have a quick word of prayer.

We will look at the 5 commissions in the New Testament of what did Jesus tell his disciples to do before he left.

And in that commission, we'll use that as a launching pad into the qualifications of being filled with the Spirit.

So that's what we'll be looking at, all the 4 commissions, the 5 commissions in the New Testament, and then we'll look at a verse in Ephesians chapter 5 and begin to develop that and to process what are the conditions of being filled with the Holy Spirit.

So let's go ahead and pray together as we get started.

Father in heaven, these young people could have chosen any seminar and we know Lord that it is not because of any wisdom that we have above any man, but that there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets, who is concerned about the condition of his church, and especially young people whom he has called at such a time as this.

And we pray that that would exactly describe what's going to take place in these next 50 minutes.

That we would be used, that we would not use God or His word, but that his word would speak clearly to every soul.

Father, you know that I am but dust in your sight and I ask that you would breathe upon me breath of God and fill me with life in you.

Speak through me and speak to me That we all may be blessed and that Jesus may be uplifted is our prayer in Jesus name Amen Take your Bibles and turn to the gospel of Matthew chapter 28 Matthew chapter 28 So we're going to be looking at the 5 commissions and what exactly did Jesus command us to do.

If you're not there you can say have mercy.

Matthew 28, we're going to start in verse 18 to 20.

And what we want to look at is, what did Jesus command his disciples to do?

So whenever you're studying the Bible and you want to get the action of a passage, you look at the verbs in the text.

You want to look at what is the action taking place.

Verbs like is, be, went, present, beseech.

Those verbs give you action in the Bible, what is taking place.

And most things in the Bible are describing the actions that's going on.

So adjectives, adverbs, nouns, who's receiving the action, who's committing the action, but the verbs give you the action.

And so, when we look at Matthew 28 and verse 18, the Bible says, And Jesus came and spoke to them saying, all what?

Power, if you have the King James, if you have a new King James or NIV, it'll say all authority.

He says, all power or authority has been given to me in heaven and where?

Now, in the Bible there are 2 different words that are mainly used for the concept of power and authority.

The first word is the 1 that many of you probably are familiar with.

It comes from this Greek root called dunamis.

Now, you in English is upsilon in Greek, and it's usually spelled as a Y.

So if you're ever reading a Greek Bible, it'll look like it says dynamis, but it's actually pronounced dunamis.

This is 1 word you'll find in the Bible for power.

Now the next word that we have in the Bible is the Greek word exousia.

Okay this is a root and this deals with authority or the right to do something.

Power, or the newer translations use the correct, which would be authority.

That means Jesus says, I have every right.

We usually use this to say Christ has the power, but it's not dealing with the power, it's dealing with the right, the position.

Now let me explain what I mean in practical terms.

In Matthew chapter 8, you remember that a centurion came to Jesus.

And this centurion came, and he said, Lord, my servant at home is sick.

And while his servant was at home is sick, the Jews commended this centurion to Jesus and said, look, you should heal his servant because he helps the Jews, he supported the synagogue, on and on and on.

He says, Lord, you don't have to come to my house, just speak the word, what?

The next statement of the man was I am also a man set under authority.

I speak to 1 to say go and what does he do?

So now the man, the centurion doesn't have to physically act on his word.

So being set under authority means whatever you say, everything in this realm, let's say for him it's in the Roman army, but Christ says all authority is given to me in 2 places.

Series

GYC 2011 Seminar: The Spirit-led Discipleship

The Love Factor, Part 1

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WYC 2010: Evening Meetings

The Rest of God: The Creator’s Calm

1h

Opening Our Hearts

42m

Trust God Through the Uncertainties of Life

What Am I Suppose to Do?

45m

In the Spirit and Power

1h 22m

Breakouts

1. Desiring God

50m

Kneeling in Consecration and Standing Tall for Christ

All

39m

Prayer

04 Prayer

53m

Communication That Carries Us Through

1h 5m

Ignite Your Spiritual Experience!

No Limits! Thriving in Relationships

1h 8m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

2. Encountering God

1h 5m

Something Bettering

41m

Adventist Fake News

Game On, Game Over, Gave Up

49m

Sound Doctrine