GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Why am I a Seventh-Day Adventist?

David Wright

01 Does the Truth Really Matter?

02 Isn’t Loving Jesus Enough?

03 What Makes You So Special?

04 What Makes the Devil Angry?

05 What’s Wrong with Being a Cultural Adventist?

I don't know if you like to travel, if you like the outdoors.

How many of you have been to Grand Canyon National Park?

But if you go to Grand Canyon, you have a lot of signs that say, what goes down must come up.

And there's lots of warnings and trying to talk about what can happen.

And do not attempt to hike from the canyon rim to the river and back in 1 day.

Each year, hikers suffer serious illness or death from exhaustion.

Apparently, this girl did run the Boston, which is not an easy task.

And then she went down to the bottom unprepared, and she became exhausted and died.

And so let's put this on a sign so other people won't die from the same thing.

Over the edge, death in the Grand Canyon.

2, 3 people a year die due to falls in the Grand Canyon.

Despite all the signs that they put out, do not enter, dangerous overlook.

Is 3000 feet to the bottom and no undertaker to meet you, take no chances.

There's a difference between bravery and just plain ordinary foolishness.

And there's the people sitting on the edge.

The signs are there as a safeguard to protect you and me from Danger.

And so we're looking at why am I a Seventh-day Adventist.

We just did the first 1, does the truth really matter?

What makes you so special will be this afternoon along with what makes the devil angry and then what's wrong with being a cultural avidness.

But today or for this section, part 2, isn't loving Jesus enough?

There was a group that had this tag that was just Jesus period, all period.

Aw, isn't that nice but then what if somebody said well what's your wife's favorite food oh no don't get into those specifics I don't want to know that what color eyes where she liked to go what makes her happy what what What really brings a smile to her face?

No, no, no, just Jesus all, just Elizabeth all.

So I mean it sounds good on the surface, but there are so many aspects of Jesus that can be fleshed out only as we read God's Word.

In fact, knowing God, I think, is the ultimate that God has called us to.

And all of these signs along the way are things to help us not to fall off the path, if you will, and get distracted to get tripped up and all these other things.

But the relationship that God wants to have with us is at the core, Right?

And at what point have we known enough about Jesus?

I mean, it's almost like, wasn't there a meme or commercial or something?

Honey, I finally came to the end of the internet.

Or the end of the social media thread or stream or whatever they're, I don't know, do you ever reach the bottom?

And how much more infinite is God, right?

The present truth, the special message given to our world, even the third angel's message, comprehends a vast field containing heavenly treasures.

No 1 can be excusable who says, I will no longer have anything to do with these special messages.

She says I won't have anything to do with our unique message.

No 1 can preach Christ and present the truth as it is in Jesus, unless he presents the truths that are to come before the people at the present time when such important developments are taking place.

To me, it's a very clear statement that just preaching Jesus only.

Somehow I'm getting some feedback from something.

I don't know what it is Maybe there's nothing to be done It's not okay.

Others would say the Seventh-day Adventist Church has too many doctrines Do you think that's the case?

And to that I would simply ask, what do you know about the will of God for your life that you wish you didn't.

Evangelicals have Jesus, but they're rejecting the truth as it is in Jesus.

They rejected the doctrines or teachings of Jesus oftentimes.

They reject the careful study of God's Word.

So the reality is, Protestants have Jesus long before Adventism came on the scene.

If Jesus is all you need, then why raise up another denomination?

What is it about Adventism that's so important if Jesus is all?

So here comes Adventism and says Jesus all I Submit to you and this isn't new either the 5 S's of Adventism I don't know if you've heard about them the sanctuary the state of the dead second coming the Sabbath and the spirit of prophecy It's not an exhaustive list, but those are really the 5 that make us unique, if you will.

And my question is, where you're attending church, do you hear those 5 S's spoken of regularly?

There was a study that came out within Adventism and on the state of the dead it was alarming to me how many people did not have a clear understanding of where grandma is.

And so do you hear those distinctives often enough?

I'm going to skip through some of these very quickly, but the 5 S's of Adventism, the first being the sanctuary.

Evangelicals look to the cross as the sole basis for salvation, But what model did God give us to understand salvation?

Justin Kim was talking about that earlier.

This is the model God gave and to just go to the cross and say everything was done at the cross is not complete.

You know, the sinner's guilt was symbolically transferred to that perfect lamb.

The perfect lamb was slain and his blood caught in a basin.

Series

Why am I a Seventh-Day Adventist?

02 Isn’t Loving Jesus Enough?

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Mark Howard: White Out? Whatever Happened to the Gift of Prophecy?

Betrayed with a Kiss

1h

Plenary Sessions

The Thing the Devil Hates

50m

SWYC 2007 Plenary Sessions

Changing The Times

1h 10m

Why Am I a SDA?

1. Does the Truth Really Matter?

35m

The Papacy and the Global Economy

1h 15m

Christian Martin Weekend

How To Avoid Being a Good for Nothing Christian

50m

Come Lord Jesus

05 Heppenstall vs Andreasen on the Atonement

58m

How the Three Angel’s Message Works

55m

The Great Apostasy

58m

He Shall Lift You Up

From Danger to Safety

51m

Prophetic Movement at End Time

1h 3m

Revelation Made Simple

18. Revelations Spiritual Revolution for a New Millennium

57m

Sound Doctrine