GYC SE 2013 Campus Revival

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GYC Southeast

Peter Chung

Ivor Myers

Subodh Pandit

Andre Waller

Mock Trial

So happy to be having Sabbath school with all of you here.

We're so excited again to see so many students out this morning.

This is going to be a very special Sabbath school.

Would you just bow your heads with me as we pray?

Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you so much for this opportunity to come here to this campus, Lord, and to just minister here with your young people, Lord.

And we just ask that your Holy Spirit would be here with us as we have Sabbath school this morning Lord.

We know that this will be a rich blessing to each and every person here.

So we just thank you ahead of time for what you're about to do.

How many of you, like me, were born and raised in the Seventh-day Adventist church?

You know, I'm fourth generation Seventh-day Adventist, and I married a pastor, and I'm a pastor's wife.

But to be honest with you, I sometimes on some of our topics could not explain all of the things that we believe as Seventh-day Adventist all on my own.

And 1 prayer meeting, we were at our church and we were reading a book called Last Day Events.

How many of you have heard of that book, Last Day Events?

There's a chapter in there called The Devotional Life of the Remnant, meaning those who will be living right before Jesus comes.

And there's something in there that really struck me.

She was talking about when we'll be put on trial for our faith, and she says that we will have to be able to defend our truths all by ourselves.

We may not even have the Word of God right there in our hands.

And that really just struck me in a different way.

I mean, I knew about that, but when I read it that night, It was just like God was speaking to my heart and was saying, you know what?

I know what I believe and I believe in it, but you need to be able to teach it and you need to be able to defend it all on your own without the help of your husband and with not even a Bible in your hand.

And as we...I started talking to my husband about this and I thought, you know what?

We were...just had already had several Army Bible camps and we thought, you know, it would be really, really neat if we put this into our Sabbath school time at Army.

And you know, you come to these type of meetings and we have Sabbath school and you see chairs up there and usually the speakers come, they sit down and you get to ask them a whole lot of questions, right?

Well, this morning, that's not going to be the case.

We are going to put on a mock trial for you.

So, we are going to have a judge, we have prosecutors, we even have a bailiff to make sure that you stay in line.

So the prosecutors are going to ask you questions that are doctrinal in nature, and you have to defend why you believe what you believe as a seven-day Adventist, and you can only go by the word of God, and you have to use scripture.

You can't just say an opinion of what you heard your mother and father say.

So you have to be able to defend your faith.

This is what really touched me that night.

She says, the servants of Christ are to prepare no set speech to present when brought into trial for their faith.

Their preparation is to be made day by day and treasuring up in their hearts the precious truths of God's word and feeding upon the teachings of Christ and through prayer strengthening their faith.

Then when brought into trial, the Holy Spirit will bring into their remembrance the very truths that will reach the heart of those who shall come to hear.

God will flash the knowledge obtained by diligent searching of the scriptures into their memory at the very time when it is needed.

So at this time, we're going to start our program.

The Superior Court of the State of Tennessee, County of Hamilton, is now in session.

The Honorable Judge Alistair Hwang presides.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the court.

I will say that normally in the court system in the United States, you are innocent until proven guilty, but not so here.

There is very little, if any mercy, it depends on your prosecutor today.

But the accusers of the brethren here are going to challenge you, and we want to make sure that you are not helped by those in the audience.

So make sure those of you out there, we are not going to allow you to interfere with this mock trial.

Gentlemen, first prosecutor, Myers, take the stand please.

Okay, so I understand that you Seventh-day Adventists are quite big on the fact that we're to keep the Sabbath.

I'd like for you to open your Bibles, if you have them, to the book 7.

The Bible here clearly states, and upon The first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight.

It is a known fact that the early church did not gather together on the seventh day of the week, but they gathered together on the first day of the week.

In the light of such scriptural biblical evidence, why do you persist on keeping the Sabbath?

Can you explain this verse to me without any help from the audience.

And in Acts, Paul is actually talking about how after Sabbath, on technically Saturday night, because if you look, it went on till midnight, which would be the end of the, well, the beginning of the first day.

He had been preaching on the Sabbath beforehand, and it just moved into the first day of the week.

Technically, if you're worshiping on Sunday, it would actually be past midnight, but it says that he preached till midnight and then moved on his way.

So technically, it wasn't really, it was the first day, but it wasn't the whole first day.

And he had just got done preaching the whole Sabbath.

I mean, it wasn't a Sunday sunrise worship service.

It was he had just got done with Sabbath and now he was just trying to keep going with his teachings.

Does that answer satisfy the prosecution?

Okay, defendant number 1, you may be seated.

Okay, prosecutor Chung, please step up to the stand please, and present your question.

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