GYC 2013: Before Men and Angels

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

GYC 2013 Plenary Sessions

Justin McNeilus

GYC 2013 Keynote

James Black

Natasha Dysinger

Mark Finley

Bill Knott

Israel Ramos

Paul Ratsara Sr.

Ted N.C. Wilson

Sabbath School Church Leaders Panel

GYC 2013 Sabbath Divine Service

David Kim

Congenital Christianity

Anil Kanda

GYC 2013 Final Charge

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

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You sounded much older than the way you looked.

I actually went to the very first GYC, year 2002.

And I decided that during some of the seminars, I was going to skip them and go hang out with my friends.

So me and my friend decided after 1 particular speaker was continuing with his sermon, we decided that we were going to go outside and take a walk.

Our minds could not last more than 10 minutes during a sermon.

What happened is, we were walking around the trails and there we saw this fenced off area that said, do not trespass.

We jumped over the fence and we decided to take a walk.

We went walking for miles, like sheep without a shepherd.

We were looking at some of the hills and we were watching all these things and we were just like, nature is so beautiful.

And as we continued to walk, all of a sudden, a snowstorm came in.

And this snowstorm just really poured out so much snow, it was crazy.

I never forgot that, like, we couldn't even see anymore any of the buildings, nothing man-made, and we got lost.

In fact, what was so funny, I thought to myself, I am not going to die out here.

And so we were out there and we were just, we were getting very irritated at each other and there we were and we were just thinking to ourselves, oh I wish we never skipped these seminars.

Ladies and gentlemen, you skip a seminar, and may be at the peril of your own life.

The other thing I learned is God got us back, but we kept walking in the direction.

I mean, we had no idea where we were going.

And we began to pray, Lord, please show us where we should go.

And we just continued walking and walking and walking.

And it just seemed like for miles we were walking.

And finally we saw those buildings And we went in there and we were so happy to see everybody at GYC again.

I just thought about this lesson when I was backstage and that is this.

You skip those seminars, God may have you up here presenting a sermon.

Better watch out, the Holy Spirit is watching you.

Why don't we start with the word of prayer and let's ask Jesus to bless us with the Holy Spirit.

Father in heaven, we Thank you so much for this time, and we pray and ask that you would bless us, God, that you would invigorate us as we are preparing to head home.

Lord, we pray that you would end in just a powerful way this conference.

All right everybody, take your Bibles, your iPhones, whatever it is.

We're going to be looking at a very important verse.

Take your Bibles, go to 1 Peter chapter 1.

1 Peter chapter 1 is a very beautiful chapter.

You're going to be learning about a very special group of beings.

And if you're there, go ahead and say amen.

Peter here is talking about the gospel, and he's talking about the grace of God.

The prophets have inquired and searched carefully who prophesied of the grace that would come to you.

Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ was in them was indicating when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, But to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven now watch his caveat he adds at the end things which angels desire to look into Peter says something so remarkable about the gospel.

He says this is something that unfallen angels love to look into.

In fact, Hebrews says that they love to spread the gospel as well.

They love to look deeper into the gospel.

But now let me introduce you to another entity.

Take your Bible and let's go to 2 Corinthians chapter 4.

Look what the Scriptures are saying, chapter 4, starting with verse 3.

Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are what?

Perishing, now watch verse 4, whose minds the God of this age has what?

Blinded who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

Now notice this, the Bible then introduces us to another entity and this entity is purposed to make sure that the gospel should never be known.

So you have 1 group that is determined to see that the gospel go forward, you have another group that is determined to see that the gospel go forward, you have another group that is determined to see that the gospel is never given.

And the reason why, ladies and gentlemen, is because when the gospel goes to the entire world, the end will come.

If you take 1 country and they're warring with another country and that country develops a weapon that will end the world, ladies and gentlemen, the other country is going to do whatever it takes to see that that country never transports that weapon.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the midst of this war.

And when the gospel goes to the entire world, the war is over.

He wants us to spread this message in a very powerful way.

Now I love what Jeffrey said, if you take your Bible go to Ephesians chapter 3 he talked about a very powerful verse.

Ephesians chapter 3 Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, General Electric Power Company I'm trying to think of an Indian rendition of that, I can't.

Okay, Ephesians chapter 3, Are we all there?

You're going to see something very powerful.

Series

GYC 2013 Plenary Sessions

GYC 2013 Final Charge

Transcript

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1h 6m

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59m

Evening Plenary

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1h 9m

Plenary

The First Angel’s Message

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Arise, Go

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Burying the Past, Starting Over

56m

The Price of Blood

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The Secret of Christian Endurance

39m

Transformed

Conformation or Transformation?

1h 17m

Plenary

Truth Only

51m

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