GYC 2013: Before Men and Angels

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2013 Seminar: Triple A: "Angels, Apologetics, and Adventists"

Anil Kanda

01-Richard Dawkins and the Sabbath

This message was presented at the DYC 2013 conference, Before Man and Angels, in Orlando, Florida.

For other resources like this, visit us online at www.dycweb.org.

Alright, I'm really excited about this seminar.

I was born and raised in Southern California, but my parents immigrated from Northwest India a year before I was born.

Well, the name of this seminar is called Angels, Apologetics, and Adventists.

Now you guys came to a good seminar, I'm not gonna lie.

I've preached a seminar before and I really believe that God has truly led in this.

However, if I was to go to any of the other seminars, it would be the ones after this seminar and I'll tell you why.

Because I'm going to be covering a variety of topics and somehow the PowerPoint has turned off certain things.

So if you think to yourself what in the world is he going to be talking about, the only way for you to find out is to come to that next seminar.

The next 1, number 3, is called From Krishna to Quicky Marks, How to Minister to Hindus, Indian people.

So you're just thinking to yourself, how do I witness to Mr.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, come out to number 3.

Number 4 is how to witness to evolutionists and philosophers in the classroom.

I take college classes at the local community college, and I do a lot of outreach there.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to share with you how you can reach out to people who may be skeptics of the Bible.

Number 5 we're going to cover Angelic Psychology 101, the mind of an angel.

And I think my most favorite topic is going to be number 6.

Lucifer and the Great Controversy, Mysteries of the Fall.

Mysteries of the Fall, you don't wanna miss that.

Now if you think you know about the origin of evil, ladies and gentlemen, you come out to number 6, you're gonna be blown away by some of the things we're going to discover.

All right, we're gonna start with a word of prayer.

We're gonna ask Jesus to send the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us to all truth because the Holy Spirit is the greatest of all teachers.

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

God, right now we want to give this time to you.

We pray, God, that the information would be useful and practical, Lord.

We don't want it if we can't use it for our lives.

So, Jesus, we pray that this information would help us.

Thank you God for your grace, for your love, for your mercy.

By the way, I also want to thank our friend right there.

When he was handing me my lapel, I was like, how old are you?

So, praise the Lord, God's given you a good mind.

Alright, think of it, just when it comes to good mind, Prospect Magazine, anybody ever heard of Prospect Magazine?

Okay, it's a Britain magazine, and they gained notoriety because what they did is that they took a survey of the entire world and they wanted to find out who were the top 10 thinkers in the entire world.

They did a survey of over 10, 000 people over 100 different countries, and they came to their top 10 people.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to share with you the top 3.

The first 1 is a guy by the name of Steven Pinker.

This individual has written various books, and he has actually done a lot of research and his conclusion is that humanity has become less violent over time.

The next guy, his name is Afghan Ghani or Ashif Ashraf Ghani and he is an Afghani diplomat and this individual has done a lot for global peace and he also tried to lead you can say the economic recovery for Afghanistan after the war.

However number 1 was none other than Richard Dawkins.

He is actually considered the world's greatest thinker in the world today.

This individual has written a few different books.

The ones that probably are the most famous are The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.

The God Delusion is probably his most famous 1.

It's a bestseller, and he has written so much about atheism.

He is considered the world's most famous atheist today.

He talks about his conversion to atheism.

This individual says this, the main residual reason why I was religious was from being so impressed with the complexity of life and feeling that it had to do with the designer.

I think it was when I realized that Darwinism was a far superior explanation for that.

Pulled the rug out from under the argument of design, and that left me with nothing." And he said he came to this conclusion when he was just a teenager.

This individual has spawned other atheists to come to the forefront as well.

You've heard of the 4 Horsemen of Atheism, this sort of militant branch of atheism.

Now, since Christopher Hitchens died, they're called the Trinity of Atheism.

And you have right there Richard Dawkins, Samuel Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett.

They call Richard Dawkins the skeptic, Samuel Harris the scholar, Christopher Hitchens the rebel, and Daniel Dennett the philosopher, the 4 horsemen of atheism.

What's very interesting, is that this is actually going the next step, and you now have atheist churches that are popping up.

Not just in England, but actually in California.

They started a few down in California, and they're trying to raise more and more money.

Now you're thinking to yourself, what in the world would they be doing at a church?

It's very funny, I was looking at their services, you know what they actually do?

That's exactly right, they sing 80s songs.

It's like what else are they going to be doing, you know what I mean?

02-Ellen White and UFOs: The Truth is Out There

You know, it's a, you know when you pastor a church and you have sound difficulties, what's so funny is that, you know at my church, when something messes up in the sound, we have our AV booth on the balcony.

Everybody just stops and stares at the balcony.

And right now sound didn't work, so I just stared at young Solomon right there.

All right, you guys enjoy your morning seminar, whatever it was?

We're gonna start with the word of prayer, then we're gonna begin this presentation with the Holy Spirit.

Father in heaven, thank you again for this special time.

Thank you for being such a gracious God to us.

We just want to pray and ask that you'd reveal your glory to us.

And Lord, we pray that you would open up the heavens and show more and more about this great plan that's taking place.

Thank you so much, Jesus, for being part of our lives and for providence in bringing us here to understand this message.

All right, name of this presentation is called Ellen White and what?

I know half of you guys are very curious, wondering what in the world I'm going to be talking about.

Probably another quarter of you are probably thinking to yourself, I'm going to find out if he's an apostate, maybe a little crazy.

You don't have to worry about the craziness.

I am a little bit crazy, I can tell you that.

But I really believe that this is going to be a very unique message and it's going to expand our horizons.

It's going to expand horizons about the Gospel.

Now, if you look in the handbook, it gives different titles than what I'm actually presenting.

I shared a little bit earlier, some of the titles have been changed.

The very next seminar after lunch is called, From Krishna to Quicky Marks, How to Minister to Indian People.

Patel living next to you and you're thinking to yourself, how do I reach them?

The next thing we're going to be covering after that is how to witness to evolutionists and philosophers in the classroom.

I'm going to share a little bit about my classroom experience and some of the things you can do to reach people in the secular classroom.

The third thing we're going to cover angelic psychology 101 the mind of an angel the mind of an angel you don't want to miss that and the last topic which I think is going to be my favorite Lucifer and the great controversy mysteries revealed about the great rebellion mysteries revealed about the great rebellion in fact I'm also going to have 1 of my good friends, Nicole Parker, assist me with the Q&A time afterwards.

But what happened in 1997, apparently strange lights began to appear over the skies of Arizona.

Not 1 person saw it, not 2 people saw it, not hundreds of people saw it, literally thousands of people actually saw these strange lights in the sky and they formed a triangular shape.

These lights then jetted all in different places.

In other words, they were not stationary.

My uncle, who actually passed away, was in Arizona at that time, and he saw the exact same lights.

Was anybody there in Arizona when it took place?

Okay, well, I'm going to give each 1 of you guys an opportunity to see those lights right now, because it was recorded.

This is what thousands of people saw in 1997 over the skies of Arizona.

I muted what the guy was saying because it was a lot of curse words.

And what's so interesting about this is that a lot of people in our world today really believe in UFOs, they believe in aliens, and they believe in all sorts of unusual things.

And more as astronomy has discovered new things in outer space, they begin to become more and more justified about their beliefs in aliens and UFOs.

In fact, Huffington Post did a survey about people in the United States who actually believe in UFOs.

According to the new survey, 50% of Americans think that there is some form of life on other planets.

In the Huffington Post YouGov poll, a quarter of Americans said that they think aliens have visited Earth.

That's a quarter of people in the United States.

The rest of the respondents were not sure.

Among those who said that life exists on other planets 45% said that aliens have visited Earth Aliens have visited Earth.

So you see in the United States ladies and gentlemen, there are a lot of people who believe in UFOs There's a lot of people who believe in aliens, life on other planets, and there are many who believe that their neighbor might be an alien in disguise.

But ladies and gentlemen, as we continue to learn more and more throughout this presentation, we're going to understand the truth behind these things.

Stephen Hawking, who's considered probably 1 of the greatest thinkers of all time, said this.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly what?

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

In fact, he's written other articles as well.

He's afraid that if we contact outer space aliens, that they may not be as friendly as we may think they may be.

1 of the world's greatest thinkers said we should not be contacting aliens because they may be aggressive and they may steal the resources of our world.

Very interesting thoughts that people have, even some of the most wisest men in the world.

Well ladies and gentlemen, as I said before, astronomy has definitely opened up more fields of research in outer space.

As telescopes have become more and more advanced, as probes have become more and more advanced, we are seeing more out into the universe than we've ever seen before, ladies and gentlemen, and it is utterly astounding.

Do you understand that in astronomy, what we can actually observe and what they are making theories about on those observations is what they call the observable universe.

They're not referring to what they call the rest of the universe, or what's termed as the zenith universe.

And so when they're making all these calculations about galaxies and about planets and stuff, they're many times not taking into account the rest of the zenith universe, only that which can be observed through satellites, through probes, through telescopes.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are different models of the way this universe works.

In fact, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Telescope, when it became more and more advanced, they took snapshots, and what they found in that picture right there, ladies and gentlemen, They surmised there are over 10, 000 galaxies in that picture alone.

They took a smaller picture, a clip of that 1, and in that they counted over 3, 000 galaxies that they actually believe are out there.

Now some of you are thinking to yourself, there is no way they could tell by that grainy, pixelated picture that there are that many galaxies.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, more and more astronomy is becoming advanced.

But what's interesting is we've already been given the truth about these things.

The Hubble Space Telescope site estimates that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.

By the way, does anybody know the difference between a galaxy and a solar system?

Let's do a little bit of education in astronomy.

Can somebody tell me what a solar system is?

03-From Kishna to Kwikee Markets: How to Minister to Indians

How many of you guys are a little slow after lunch?

I had to go out there and try to jog, try to walk, pray.

I am just out of it right now, especially after you do 2 seminars and then eat and just like, I just want to lay down on that bed.

So if I fall asleep while this is taking place, 1 of you Indian People are going to have to step in for me on this 1, okay?

Why don't we begin with a word of prayer?

And let's ask Jesus to bless us with His Holy Spirit.

Father, we thank You so much that faith is the victory.

In regards to how we feel, Lord, we just thank You that you have said in your word, you have commanded our strength.

And so Jesus, we look to that promise and ask that you would empower us, invigorate our minds, and we pray, Father, that this message would be ordained of heaven.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, just telling you about all the future topics that are coming up.

We have 1 more topic today and that's how to witness to evolutionists and philosophers in the classroom.

You're gonna learn some practical tools that can make you an effective witness in the secular classroom, that intellectual arena where many people are afraid to enter into to be a witness for Christ.

Tomorrow, we're going to cover Angelic Psychology 101, the mind of an angel, the mind of an angel.

And Saturday, we'll be doing Lucifer and the Great Controversy, Mysteries Revealed about the Great Rebellion.

I know many people have asked questions about the rebellion.

Wait a minute, did the rebellion take place after creation?

Did the rebellion take place before creation?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to answer a lot of those questions.

You should be here anyways, but come to the seminar if you can.

The Bible says in Revelation chapter 14, verse 6, The Pledge of Allegiance for Seventh-day Adventists, right?

Who here can recite the 3 Angels Message?

The whole thing without looking at your Bible right now, or your iPhone, or your iPad?

Oh, wow, you guys are really putting me on pressure.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, Revelation chapter 14 verse 6 is definitely the Pledge of Allegiance for Seventh-day Adventist, but what's so interesting is how this message starts off.

Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven having the what?

Everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth, right?

Well ladies and gentlemen if we're only preaching the gospel to a select group of people we are not preaching the 3 angels message because the 3 angels message goes to intentionally every nation, every tribe, every tongue, and every people.

Every single type of people group this gospel is going through ladies and gentlemen And I know 1 of the reasons why you guys are here is because you want to learn wait a minute How can I minister to Indian people?

Well, you'll learn some more some interesting tools for that.

Very precious to God is His work in the earth.

Christ and heavenly angels are watching in every moment.

As we draw near to the coming of Christ, more and more, still more of missionary work, will engage our efforts.

The message of the renewing power of God's grace will be carried to every country and climate until the truth shall what?

Now when you think of truth belting the world what comes to your mind The truth shall belt the world Okay Anybody else Armor of God, Okay, what else?

I seriously think of something that is constantly being hit.

You know, when I was younger, my mom used to take the belt out.

And if you got Indian parents, I mean, it's not like you call, you know, CPA, you know, you don't call CBS on them and things don't like, I mean, so like, when I think of the truth shall belt the world, instantly pain comes to my mind because I remember this.

But what's happening is that the truth is just hitting the earth, and it's just going all around the earth.

Of the number of them that shall be sealed will be those who have come from every what?

Every nation and kindred, tongue and people.

Country will be gathered men and women who stand before the throne of God and before the Lamb crying, salvation to our God which sits upon the throne and to the Lamb.

But before this work can be accomplished, we must experience here in our own country the work of the what?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, if we want to be a better witness for Christ, what do we need to be praying for every day?

It begins in our heart, ladies and gentlemen.

Now, if you take a good look at every 1 of these pictures, they are a reference to the Old Testament stories that really reveal how God had a plan for the heathens.

For those who were not of the Jewish faith or even of the Christian faith in the New Testament God ultimately had a great plan to reach them.

Here you have the story of Naaman, the story of Nebuchadnezzar, the story of Ruth.

You have the story of the Queen of Sheba and other stories, Jonah and Nineveh.

You have these stories that are just laced throughout Scripture of God giving the message to Israel so that the gospel could go to the entire world.

And if we forget that message, ladies and gentlemen, we will end up the same way that Israel of old ended up and that was eventually becoming corrupt and stale and no longer fulfilling the purpose that God had set up for it.

When you take a good look at the promise of Abraham, the promise of Abraham was that he would see his seed out in the stars, and he would see a picture, sort of, you could say, of all the descendants that would come from him.

And ladies and gentlemen, what is so remarkable, when you take a good look in our world today, I mean, the very fact that Abraham had this experience, when he was looking up at those stars you know what he was seeing?

Ladies and gentlemen, Abraham was seeing all the spiritual descendants that would come from him.

The very fact that God gave this promise to Abraham was a surety, was a very beautiful promise that he was going to have descendants or those who would be saved of every nation, tribe, tongue, and people.

Abraham was seeing you, ladies and gentlemen.

He was seeing you as his spiritual descendants that would come.

And what is so remarkable, ladies and gentlemen, is that that promise is still needing to be filled today.

When you take a look at the world around us, you find out about a certain group of people.

A certain group of people called Indians.

04-Evolution, Philosophy, and Apologetics: Outreach in The Classroom

This message was presented at the GYC 2013 conference, Before Man and Angels, in Orlando, Florida.

For other resources like this, visit us online at www.gycweb.org.

I'm noticing that the more I'm doing these seminars, the more deeper my voice is becoming.

So hopefully by the end of GYC, I will sound like a man.

Alright, have you guys been blessed today?

Feel free to do a little bit of stretching.

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GYC 2013 Seminar: Triple A: "Angels, Apologetics, and Adventists"

01-Richard Dawkins and the Sabbath

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