GYC 2011: Fill Me

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2011 Plenary Sessions

Justin McNeilus

Wednesday Keynote Address

Janet Page

Thursday Plenary

Kameron DeVasher

Fitting In To Heaven

Charissa Fong Torossian

Friday Morning Devotional

Jan-Harry Cabungcal

Friday Plenary

Killing the Fat King

Saturday Morning Devotional

Elizabeth Asefa

Daryl Cheng

Natasha Dysinger

Sean Reed

Saturday Sabbath School

Dwight Nelson

Saturday Worship Service

GYC 2011 totalCHURCH Plenary

Respectable Conventionality

Sunday Morning Devotional

Sebastien Braxton

Sunday Committment Service

Thursday Morning Devotional

This message was presented at the GYC 2011 conference.

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It's so quick how you revert back to just shyness.

Last evening, we had the opportunity to talk together.

We talked about the great purpose of our life, the life that we've been given here, this life of probation, this temporary life that we have has 1 underlying theme, 1 central objective, and that is the restoration in the human soul of the image of God.

And 1 of the many passages we looked at was 1 John, chapter 3, and I'd like you to go there tonight or at least bring it to recollection from last night, we read how, Behold, now we are the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.

But we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him for what reason?

What was the reason given why we know we will be like Him when He returns?

And everyone who has this hope in Him does what?

Notice that the hope of seeing Jesus as He is compels us to purify ourselves as He is.

Of course, as we noticed last night, that harmonizes beautifully with the words of Jesus in Matthew chapter 5 and verse 8 when He said, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

This is the promise that we've been given.

That's the high ideal of the Christian walk to become like Christ so that we not merely live to the second coming, but live through the second coming.

God has more in mind than simply getting us into heaven, but He actually wants to fit us into His kingdom.

Our message is these final 2 evenings of GYC will tackle what I believe is the biblical truth of just what the purity of character looks like in real life.

If you notice, last night was a bit academic.

I just wanted you to see a new framework, a new vision for what salvation looks like.

Not just getting in, but fitting in, not just living to, but living through.

But tonight we're going to begin to unwrap that over the next 2 nights.

And please don't think that at the end of tonight is the entirety of the lesson, because it continues tomorrow evening.

So we want to unwrap this a little bit and see the truth of God's Word.

So as we begin his study of his Word, let's begin with a word of prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you for GYC, But not just for the institution, not just for the movement, not for the program, but Lord I thank you for the people that you have brought to GYC, here in person and on the television.

You understand our need better than We understand our need.

We don't even see our need, and Lord, we need the eye salve that you can offer.

Please, Lord, help us to not only see our problem, but through your grace and by the power of your Holy Spirit, help us to see our solution is available in Jesus Christ.

We're going to be spending a significant amount of time in Judges chapter 3.

Our message tonight is entitled Killing the fat king.

The first few verses give us some context of what we're talking about.

Of course you know the time of judges was after the deliverance of Israel, of course, from Egyptian bondage, but before there was a monarchy in place, there was the time of the judges.

And Genesis chapter, I mean, Judges chapter 3 in verse 12 gives us 1, the beginning of a story of 1 segment of that time period, 1 segment of their experience.

Starting with verse 4 we read these words, and the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord.

So the Lord strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.

Then he gathered to himself the people of Ammon of Amalek went and defeated Israel and took possession of the city of Palms.

So the children of Israel served Eglon, king of Moab, 18 years.

This is the context of our story this evening and I want to kind of flesh this out a little bit.

Who are these people who are now ruling over God's people.

The Moabites, the Ammonites, the Amalekites or Amalekites.

I don't know the right way to say it but I'm going to go with some of those.

But you understand in the text these are the 3 powers who are united against Israel.

The Moabites and the Ammonites have an infamous history.

They were the descendants of the incestuous relationship, the union between Lot and his 2 daughters.

Later in their history it was the Moabites who hired Balaam to put a curse on Israel.

And as we know, the Lord interceded to defend his people as long as they were faithfully being his people, and thwarted their efforts.

Generation after generation, they became more and more hardened to the Lord, and their hatred against Israel deepened.

Now, it was the Moabite king, Eglon, holding God's people under his, as the Bible is going to tell us, fat thumb.

Finally, also aligned with the Moabite king were the Amalekites.

They had the unique infamy of being the first people to mount a military campaign against the nation of Israel after their deliverance from the land of bondage in Egypt.

And of course we know about this first military engagement.

This is the 1 where the Lord told Moses to go up on the hill and hold the staff over his head and as long as the staff was up Israel would have victory.

You remember the story and again the Lord intervened to save his people.

As long as they were being faithfully his people the Lord intervened and fought their battles for them so here we have 3 foreign powers who have a pretty sour history with Israel but now apparently according the text Israel has done evil in the sight of the Lord it's okay you've chosen the king you want to have.

And it must have seemed almost absolute that these bitter enemies of Israel were holding power over God's people.

Instead of conquering, they were continually conquered by foreign power, pagan power.

It must have been a very discouraging time for the nation of Israel let's go to verse 15 But when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man.

By him, the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon, king of Moab." Now, as for the identity of this Ehud character, the central character in this story, the deliverer of Israel, we actually know very little about him from Scripture.

In fact, that's the only verse that gives us any background on this man.

And if you type in his name, again in the CD-ROM or the app in the Ellen White writings, you'll come up with 1 reference.

Everything we know about him is found in Judges chapter 3 and verse 15.

So let's see what we can find out about this guy.

He was left-handed, he was from the tribe of Benjamin, and he had the unenviable job of transporting the tribute.

What's another, what's a common popular word, what's the modern word for tribute?

The tax of Israel to Eglon, king of the Moabites.

This is what the Bible records about him.

Left-handedness in Scripture is not necessarily something to be...

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