GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Last Day Events, The Remnant, and Church Organization

Mark Finley

01 Revelation’s Remnant

02 The Holy Spirit, Laodicea, and Revival

03 The Rise of a Prophetic Movement

04 The Shaking, the Sifting, and the Remnant Church

05 The Triumph of God’s End Time Church

Father, thank you for your love and your grace.

Thank you for the opportunity to study your word.

The same Holy Spirit that inspired the word is with us as we study it.

So I pray that you would be with us this afternoon.

Give us attentive minds, alert thoughts, and prepare us for the overwhelming events that are coming.

And we know that in Jesus, we need not fear that his love and grace are sufficient to get us through the crisis in Christ's name, Amen.

Well let's suppose you were taking your dream vacation in Europe And let's suppose that you had bought a Eurorail pass which enables you to travel any place you want by train.

And you're on the train traveling across Europe.

And as you're going, you've never gone this way before and you get a little bit concerned.

And you begin to think, did I get on the right train?

If I'm on the right train, Does this train go to the city that I want to go to?

And am I gonna have to walk the last 7 miles with my 3 suitcases?

Now, I know you're fit, but I don't know if you're that fit.

And so you begin thinking, I'm a little confused here, does the train stop short?

Or maybe the train veers off the track, veers off in a different direction, and maybe we go in the absolute wrong direction.

Or maybe there's a calamity up ahead and there's a bridge out and we're never gonna make it there.

But then you get out your Eurorail map and you say, wait a minute, as I look at this map, the train is exactly on the right track.

There may be a little bump in the road here or there.

Maybe some mountains we have to climb, but the train is going to make it.

If you understand that there may be some mountains, there may be some valleys, but the train's going to go to the final destination, you're staying on.

But if you think that the train's not going to make it to the final destination, You may jump off.

If you think that the train's gonna be in a big wreck, you may jump off.

Will God's church make it through to the final destination?

Or is it necessary sometime before the end to jump off?

What are the writings of Ellen White teach?

How indeed is God gonna purify his church at the end?

Well, let's start out by looking at a couple passages that are quite significant in Scripture.

And you'll notice there Jesus leads his disciples to Caesarea Philippi.

Capernaum is in Galilee in the north, Caesarea Philippi is further north than that.

Why would Jesus lead his disciples from Jerusalem to the Galilee, to Capernaum, and up to Caesarea Philippi?

Caesarea Philippi was an interesting city.

What 2 names do you see in the name of the city, Caesarea Philippi?

So 1 thing we know immediately are those, what nationality would those names be?

Caesarea Philippi, Caesar and Philip, what the nationality?

So immediately we know this is a Roman city.

There is a large Roman military garrison here.

The second thing we know about Caesarea Philippi is that was the center of Judaism.

The third thing we know about it, it was the center of pagan religions.

There was a temple dedicated to Pan there, the pagan god of nature.

So Jesus sets himself in the context or in the background of Roman military might.

He sets himself in the background of Jewish formalistic religion.

He sets himself in the background of Greek philosophy.

And it's in that context, what's going to change the world?

So Jesus leads his disciples there and he come.

He says to them, who do you say that I am?

Sidon and Peter says, you are Christ, the son of the living God.

And Jesus answers and says to him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you.

When you and I come to Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God, flesh and blood doesn't reveal it to us.

It's the Holy Spirit that reveals that to us deep within our own hearts, and it's the Holy Spirit that reveals the living Christ that changes our lives.

Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven and I say to you that you're Peter that is to say that your name is Peter but upon this rock this solid rock that I am Christ the Son of the Living God in fact Jesus makes a play on words your Peter Cephas that's the rolling or movable stone that name means, but on this rock, this solid rock.

Notice what he says, I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

1 thing we know for certain, and that is the church is not man-made, it's God-made.

And he says the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Isn't that incredibly good news that the gates of hell are not going to triumph against God's church or God's people?

At times do we see apostasy in the church?

At times do we see failure and sin in the church?

But let me ask you this, who built, who gave the instructions to build the ark?

Were all of those animals housebroken when they were brought on the ark.

Somebody knows where I'm going with this illustration.

Did some of those animals mess the ark up and was a little stinky?

You think that ark ever smelt like some poo or something?

But Noah says, there's too much stink on this ark, I'm gonna jump off.

And if he would have jumped off, he would have drowned, right?

There may be a little stink at times on the ark of the church that we are in, but God says the gates of hell will not do what?

How is God going to purify his church in the last days?

Series

Last Day Events, The Remnant, and Church Organization

03 The Rise of a Prophetic Movement

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Plenary

Peace in the Coming Storm

55m

Being Adventist

The Terrifying Tyranny of Adventist Eschatology

1h 7m

The Beatitudes

Blessed Are the Persecuted

29m

Perfection: A Conversation

1h 12m

Looking Unto Jesus

42m

Called to Victory

42m

Answering the Angels

05 Will Heaven Be Safe With Us in It?

1h 2m

God’s Prophetic Movement, Message, and Mission and Their Attempted Neutralization by the Devil

1h 11m

Trust God Through the Uncertainties of Life

Why Doesn’t God Do Something?

1h

Making Sense of Last Day Events

4. God’s Final Call

1h

Joy in Persecution

24m

Cross-Check: Finding Your Personal Story At the Cross

2. Cross-Words: Lord, Speak to Me… Please!

51m

Sound Doctrine