GYC West 2014: I Am The Conflict Continues

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GYC West

Evangelism and the Great Controversy

Michael Tuazon

Empowered but Powerless

How to Give Bible Studies

Search for the Lost

Candice Tuazon

How to Share Your Personal Testimony

So let's go ahead and begin in Revelation chapter 14.

Revelation chapter 14, very familiar passage.

Revelation 14, verse 6 and 7, the 3 angels' message.

The temptation is to go through all of the angels' message, talk about the prophetic eschatological ramifications that this message has, talk about our duty and our job to do a word-by-word study.

That's my temptation when I go here, but we only have time to just go through what the 3 angels message and evangelism, how that relates together.

So Revelation 14 verse 6, some of us probably have this memorized, and I saw another angel fly in the middle of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people." The very beginning of the 3 Angels message starts with the gospel.

And you are to not just study the gospel, you are to share the gospel.

When we look at the 3 angels message, we sit around and we do a Hebrew, Greek, Old Testament, New Testament study on word for word and everything else.

Now that's fine, But if we are not sharing the gospel, there is no power.

The power comes in sharing the gospel in our lives.

Verse 7, saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to Him for the hour of His judgment has come and worship Him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water." I love this passage because it gives the timing.

Time is necessary when it comes to decision-making.

For example, how Many of you woke up maybe at 03:30 in the morning.

You woke up at 03:30 in the morning and do you know that feeling?

You don't know what time it is and you are hoping you have more time to sleep, right?

You wake up and right before you look at your clock you know that if it has 6 on it or 7 you know you're in trouble.

But if it's in the twos and threes you know you can still sleep, right?

And It's interesting because if it's 3 in the morning, you look at it and you have relief.

Get your drink of water, maybe use the restroom, go right back to sleep, right?

You know you have another couple hours of sleep.

However, if it is a work day and you look at the clock and it says 630 or 7 or whatever it is, depending what time you have to be at work.

The moment you look at that clock, you know that the hour of judgment has come, right?

You know that because of what time it is, you need to get moving.

That's why when you're listening to a sermon and it gets past 1230 or so, you are starting to get a little antsy, right?

Time dictates our behavior versus being at 11 in the morning or 1130.

With that being said, God gives us this message and then He gives us the timing and He says, fear God for the hour of the judgment is coming.

What are you like an hour before the final exam?

What are you like in the hour of judgment?

God is saying we need to do desperate things.

We need to do whatever we can to get the message out because the hour of judgment has come.

Now, we're going to do a quick study on what it means to fear God.

Fear God and give glory to Him for the hour of judgment has come.

Now we're going to do a quick study on what it means to fear God.

Let's go in our Bibles to Proverbs 8 verse 13.

A quick little word study on what it means to fear God.

There's a couple of definitions for fearing God.

Proverbs chapter 8 and verse 13 tells us what it means to fear God.

The Bible says this, The fear of the Lord is to do what everyone?

Hate evil, pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way and the forward mouth do I hate.

So when the Bible says fear God, what's another definition for fearing God?

Let's go to another place, Exodus 20 verse 20.

Moses said unto the people, Fear not, for God is come to prove you and that his fear may be before your faces that you what sin not so the first definition of fearing God means to hate evil and to sin not right in other words you have a healthy respect or reverence for God that you don't want to sin.

If I can use an illustration, I'm sure many of you remember what it was like growing up, and I'm sure many of you had the healthy fear in your hearts about your father.

When I was growing up, I remember there was a time when, you know, obviously I would receive punishment, And I was getting older and bigger to the point where my mother really couldn't spank me.

But my mother would say something and she would say these words, wait till your, right, right till your dad, wait till your father comes.

And Something about that phrase struck fear in my heart.

Not that I was naturally scared of him, but because I knew I had a healthy respect and reverence for him.

And in that way, we are to have a healthy fear and respect and reverence for our Heavenly Father.

Because we fear God, we reverence Him, that causes us to not sin.

Now let's go to our next definition of fearing God.

Now that we know that we are to hate evil, Psalms 111 verse 10 gives us another definition, or I should say not another, it continues on.

You have the phrase fearing God multiple times in the Bible.

In Psalm 111 verse 10 it says, the fear of the Lord is to what everyone?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

It goes on and says, a good understanding have all they that do his commandments his praise endures forever.

So It goes along with keeping the commandments.

Now that I fear God, I hate evil, I sin not, I want to learn more about God and His character and get wisdom.

And so if I fear God, I hate evil, I love Him, and when I love someone, I want to learn more about them.

And as you learn more about God, you get wisdom.

Now that you are learning and growing and getting wisdom, What do you do with that wisdom?

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Evangelism and the Great Controversy

How to Give Bible Studies

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Parent Conference

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Evangelism and the Great Controversy

Search for the Lost

52m

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1h 10m

Emmanuel Institute - Ignite Your Church

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Annie Morgan, Kevin Sears, & Wes Peppers: Unashamed in Your Neighborhood

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56m

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50m

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart

How Prophetic Preaching Touches the Heart - Part 2

54m

Jesus in Our Doctrines

1h 6m

Personal Evangelism

Watching and Observing

1h 12m

Emmanuel Institute Bootcamp

6. Timing and Signs of Second Coming

1h 28m

Witnessing to the Wealthy, Worldly, and Well-Educated

1h 26m

Amazing Disciples

15. Giving Bible Studies

53m

Plenary

Eager to Preach

39m

Sound Doctrine