OYC 2012: Ready Always

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Oregon Youth for Christ

OYC 2012 Plenary Sessions

Justin Kim

Ready Always

Rob Norris

Parables in Marriage: Wedding Pictures

Parables in Marriage: The Wedding Garments

Janet Page

God Never Wastes Your Pain

Parables in Marriage: The Honeymoon

Forever Ruined for the Ordinary

Parables in Marriage: Children

Keep Coming to Jesus

Gracious Father, we thank you for the special music that was offered before you today is our prayer.

Father, in our hearts, stir within us a fire that causes us to sing praises towards your name.

May the word of God be vivified this night, not through eloquence, not through intelligence, not through study, but simply by your spirit we pray in Jesus' name.

Verse 15, please repeat after me, but Sanctify the Lord God.

Okay, I'm using the King James, there's nothing wrong with other versions, but just repeat after me, but sanctify the Lord God.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.

No one's going to hit you, just close your eyes.

Trust me, no one's going to, just close your eyes.

Some of you have a lot of anxiety issues, it's okay.

Or you're afraid of the dark, It's okay, just close your eyes.

Please repeat after me, but sanctify the Lord in your hearts.

Oh, I was wrong, Sanctify, I know, I know.

But sanctify the Lord God in your, But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.

Keep your eyes closed, but doesn't the meaning, just in a little bit, a little way, doesn't it change just a little bit when you emphasize each word every time you repeat it?

But be ready always to give an answer to every man.

You've got to dig down and get into the Southern Baptist roots of none of us here.

I'm going to ask that this week, if you get a chance, and we're here in nature, to memorize this text.

And if you've already memorized it, don't be hooty tooty snooty, memorize the next verse after it.

Remember something else, but use the opportunity because we are slitting this text together.

And this week is a week on apologetics, on giving a reason for your faith.

We have speakers here who, Sister Janet Page is going to talk about experiencing God.

It's the personal testimony, the experience that she has from her life is the best witness that someone can give.

A brother Stephen Dickey is going to share about, as a Muslim ministry, we have a mission to share even to peoples that we are not familiar with, such as the...

And then we also have a seminar on apologetics that I just mentioned over there today.

But we have a certain responsibility to share our faith.

But here's the thing, when especially young people, and I look out here and there's a lot of young people or a lot of young people at heart here in this room, We are afraid to share our faith.

Whenever I've been a pastor for 10 years now and I heard that, hey, let's go do outreach today, we're doing evangelism.

What always you have is the most bold people, the most courageous people that are like, yeah.

And these are the more sanguine, outgoing, social people who like talking.

They go and they're like, yeah, let's go do it.

And then the normal people, like me, who are a little bit more shy and rather sit in the book next to a fire and don't like people and just kind of like rather be in a fetal position in the dark, sitting inside on the second floor, they're like, ugh, I just, ugh, I don't, ugh.

And then if you're intelligent, you think of intelligent reasons why you shouldn't go to that outreach, right?

If you're not intelligent, you're like, man, I wish I can think of a reason.

But if you're intelligent, you're like, oh, yeah, I have leg surgery or I'm allergic to evangelism or it's not biblical to do evangelism, you find these weird ways to get out of it.

Now if you're laughing, you're laughing because this is you.

But the Bible says, give a reason for the hope.

And today, and I switched the messages around because I thought this would probably be a better message to start off with.

Today, we're going to read a little bit before verse 15, okay?

And whenever you, what you always want to do when you're reading scripture, we have a bad tendency to always look at 1 verse and take that verse out of context and we use it out of whenever we want to.

We want to see where the flow of 1 Peter goes.

And what you want to do is when you're studying scripture, you want to look for French fries.

There was a story and some of you may, I use this story And I just use this for political reasons.

It's a hodgepodge of 2 stories, and I put it together.

But basically, the story is we were going from New York to Berrien Springs 1 time.

You guys all know where Berrien Springs is?

All Evanists know where Berrien Springs is.

And we were going, and it's like a 1, 500-hour trip.

And what happens is, I don't know about you, but for me, and I don't know if it's the male mind or whatever, but when you start driving, you start driving and you do not stop.

And so when you're on a road trip, I don't like traveling with females because females like to stop every 10 minutes.

So I'm here and I have my friend and his little brother are with me and we're driving.

I got my sunglasses on, the ambient temperature is perfect, the angle of the chair is perfect, the angle of the steering wheel is perfect, and everything is perfect.

And once we go, we do not stop except for 1 reason alone.

Series

OYC 2012 Plenary Sessions

Ready Always

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Preparing and Passing Through the Time of Trouble

1h 6m

Last Day Events

A World in Crisis

1h 4m

Eric Walsh Weekend

03 Who Is the Man of Sin?

1h 1m

Christian Martin Weekend

How To Avoid Being a Good for Nothing Christian

50m

The Time Is Near

53m

From Tragedy to Triumph

53m

Righteousness by Faith

Righteousness by Faith and the Three Angels Messages

58m

When Lady Liberty Lays Down the Torch

49m

Plenary

Jesus Wins, Satan Loses

54m

Daniel Vis Weekend

01 The Final Warning Revelation 18:1

46m

Back to the Mission

The Battle Cry of the Remnant

1h 1m

Prophecies of Hope

5. UFOs, the Occult, and Christ’s Coming

48m

Sound Doctrine