WYC 2013: Always Ready

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GYC West

WYC 2013 Plenary Sessions

Chad Kreuzer

Did God Actually Say? Always Ready with the Word

Sean Nebblett

The Power of the Personal Gospel

Anil Kanda

Who is the Lord? Always Ready for the Greatest Minds

Natasha Dysinger

The Power of the Pure Faith

Subodh Pandit

Good News

The Power of the Pure Heart

Fadia Kreuzer

What Shall I Do? Always Ready to Face Materialism

The Supreme Transaction

May We Know? Always Ready for Scholars

Joshua Nebblett

The Power of the Word Driven Life

How Can God Know? Always Ready for the End

And I am blessed every time I get to come back.

I am reminded about all my experiences at Weimar, where I made some of the most loyal friends that I've ever had, and they're still good friends today.

And they're pastoring during Bob work, evangelism, or 1 is actually finishing up his PhD down in Southern California, and we talk every other day.

You make some of the best friends you have when you're doing ministry, amen?

Weimar is very special because I went to Weimar, I believe it was 3 years after I became a Seventh-day Adventist.

And when I went to Weimar College, I got a good taste of healthy Adventism, surrounded by some good people, good teachers, wonderful experiences, got to be out here in nature.

I was born and raised in Southern California.

The biggest things we saw were pigeons and dogs.

Coming here, I saw a mountain lion, bears, you name it.

But being out here again just reminded me of many experiences.

Some of those experiences was going into the cafeteria and being a pastoral student and a young single pastoral student, you're oftentimes looking for a mate.

And so me, like several other pastoral students, we would take our Adventist home and our child guidance and we'd walk into sort of the cafeteria and we'd be like we're reading it just like this, hoping that some young single lady would see it.

And then we'd try to make eye contact with them so they could see that we are a family individual, family type person.

So these are the things that I remember coming back to Weimar College.

I'm taking off tomorrow, Maybe even tonight, I'm not quite sure, but I will be back Saturday night for the presentation.

And that's going to be about how to reach the scholarly mind.

I actually felt impressed to take a class at the local college, and it was a philosophy of science class, and I'm going to be sharing the experiences that God led me into as I took that class.

But before we go any further, why don't we bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Father in heaven, we thank you so much for this time.

And Lord, our heart's desire is, our heart's desire is openness to your spirit.

God, we need you to touch not only our mind but our hearts.

We need you to change our characters, to bring our finite self into contact with your infinite greatness so that we may be changed.

God, we are praying especially for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

We pray and ask that when we are done with this message, we will have known we have sat at the feet of Jesus.

This is our prayer, Lord, in the name of Jesus.

All right, we're just going to make sure this clicker is working.

Well, I just had a birthday about a few days ago.

You know, every time I go home to my family, they always say to me, look at him, he's not married yet.

And they'll say things like he's got more gray hairs than the gurus.

They'll say all sorts of things like that to me.

And so, every time it's my birthday, I get to reflect upon the years that have come.

Age 34, I was born and raised in Southern California.

My parents immigrated from Northeast India or Northwest India, Punjab.

I grew up in a Hindu family with a Sikh background also.

And about 13 years ago, God led a young man to start giving me Bible studies, and we were both baptized in the year 2000.

But as I was thinking about my age, I was just looking back in all the things that I have encountered in 34 years of living, 34 years of living.

I have seen so many different things in my short life, and I just wonder about the things that are gonna take place in the future.

You know, just looking back, it seems like I have seen nations rise and nations fall within my 34 years of life.

I have seen some revolutions and counter-revolutions that have taken place.

I've seen wealth disperse and wealth lost during my time.

I've seen an entire nation come under fear because of planes that hit 2 buildings.

I've seen so much in just my short life, and I look at my life and I think to myself, Things are changing very rapidly, very quickly.

Just think about your life, maybe about 10 years ago.

Think about all the things that have taken place.

We are not living in the same America that we were living 20 years ago.

And anyone who's over the age of 25 will admit that.

We are living in a completely different world like never before.

Think about all the things that have taken place with the Internet, the advancements that have happened in our lifetime.

We have seen an entire generation go from playing out in the streets to being confined in their rooms on their iPhones and on Facebook.

You take a good look at what's happening in the world and it is unusual.

We are a generation that have experienced advancement so rapidly in our time there is no other generation that even compares to the XYZ generation.

We are living in some very unusual times.

And it's times like this that God is calling us to bear a message like never before, to present the gospel clearer than it's ever been before.

You know, we have more Bibles than we've ever had in all the history of humanity.

Right now, we have more Bibles than all the generations that have come before us.

We actually know more about the Scriptures than Abraham did.

We have more knowledge about who God is, more than even Moses himself, even more than Nehemiah.

Even the disciples did not understand the things that we understand today.

We have more information about who God is, yet the world is even more ignorant than it has ever been before.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special message to present and God is wanting us to understand some very special things about these messages.

Everybody take your Bible and let's go to Proverbs chapter 22.

I'm going to show you a very remarkable verse.

God has a high and holy calling for every 1 of us.

And there are going to be people within this group who will be privileged with what Proverbs chapter 22 says.

Make sure you are picking up your Bible and you are turning pages, because if you're not looking at your Bible, you're looking at me.

Go all the way to verse, Proverbs 22, go to all the way to verse 29.

This is what the writer of Proverbs is saying.

He's like, look, have you ever seen somebody who is excellent at what they do, who is thorough, who is diligent at what they do, then watch what he says next.

Series

WYC 2013 Plenary Sessions

Who is the Lord? Always Ready for the Greatest Minds

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

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Recorded

Plenary

The One Thing Jesus Can’t Give You

55m

Restoration 2023

The Atheist Who Found God

50m

The Oil Crisis

1h 28m

Why Did God Kill His Own Prophet?

53m

The Big Questions (Evening Meetings)

9. A Poisoned Lottery Ticket Winner

1h 38m

Accessing the Supernatural: From New Age to Scripture Memory

58m

The Close of Probation

The Close of Probation- Part 1

28m

Keys of Revelation

15. The Return of the King

1h

Plenary

Truth Only

51m

Plenary

Salvation to the Uttermost

1h 2m

Creations Crown

48m

How to Stand at the end of Time

1h 6m

Sound Doctrine