GYC 2007: Be

<p>Free sharing permitted under the Creative Commons <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/">BY-NC-ND 3.0 (US)</a> license.</p>

Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Tim Riesenberger - Christinity 101: How to Give Your Life to Jesus

Tim Riesenberger

WDJD

In the Wilderness

In Gethsemane

On the Cross

The Truth That Transforms the World

The (Almost) Irresistable Witness

It is very true that in times of extremis, in times of desperation, in times when you have lost everything in your life, it is very easy to turn to God, is it not?

When you have no answers from your doctor, when you have no answers from your pastor, when your own parents don't know what's going on, when perhaps you yourself don't know what the problem is, You turn to God, don't you?

Now I can tell you that that is true in the medical field.

And the reason they come to see me principally is they want to know what?

Or they want relief of pain and they do know what's wrong.

Those are the 2 common reasons that I see people in the emergency room.

But what do you do when you don't have an answer for them?

What do you do when there's no treatment?

Now that's very easy to do when there's no answers, when you're in serious or critical condition.

But what about something that affects 60 million people, It is life-threatening, but it has no symptoms.

There is something that I see every day in my practice.

And how many symptoms does high blood pressure have?

How many people do you think even know that they have high blood pressure?

My mother called me up 2 days before presenting the seminar And she said, Tim, our best friend was exercising in the gym and he dropped in.

This guy was the best man at their wedding.

He was in perfect health, he exercised every day, lived a clean lifestyle.

They called me about 4 or 5 times in 1 day.

And I said, well, I'll tell you that as far as heart attacks go, because that's what they're saying this was, the first and last symptom for one-third of them is sudden death.

Most of us think, well, did he have chest pain?

You know, maybe this guy was not living a good lifestyle.

Unfortunately, his was 1 of the cases where death was the first and last symptom.

He had something going on that he didn't know about, that no 1 else knew about.

And I'm here to share with you that in our lives, it would be better for us to have the symptoms.

It would be better for us to perhaps have chest pain.

It would be better for us to have paralysis when the cancer of sin has found its way into our hearts.

But the problem is, there's often no symptoms.

So while they're setting that up, I'm going to share with you that it's probably better that we would have symptoms because it would lead us to seek help.

I can tell you a story of what happened to me that changed my heart.

How many of you have been to South America?

I can tell you that I was there and I was asked by a friend of mine to come do some medical work, common requests that I often have.

We went there to a very remote village in the middle of nowhere.

Took us about 3 hours from the nearest city.

There was no running water except for an hour a day.

There was absolutely nothing there as far as modern conveniences.

What we did as far as medical work consisted of my stethoscope, some water, some charcoal, and what we could get a hold of as far as poultices or whatever, maybe some cabbage.

A lot of what I did was really just lifestyle.

You could probably project it on the wall better and we could turn off all the lights.

I can tell you that when I got to the village, there were tons of people that wanted to see me.

They hadn't seen a physician or a nurse in their whole lives.

They described different symptoms, and most of the problems were fairly simple.

And I ended up giving them just a lot of counseling about the 8 laws of health, natural remedies, how to change their lifestyle.

Some of them were a little bit more complicated.

Something that I noticed throughout all of the times that I was with the people is that they were always trying to get ahead in line.

There were so many people and they would try to find creative ways to sneak to the front of the line.

1 time I took a break to go to the bathroom And I don't know if any of you have ever gone to the bathroom in the United States, but if you're a girl, then it's considered rude not to talk to the person who's trying to talk to you in the bathroom.

Now, if you're a guy and you're sitting there at the stall, you look straight ahead, you don't look to the right, you don't say, hey, how's it going?

You don't talk to the person in the stall next to you.

You just go about your business and then you can talk after you leave, right?

Or maybe when you're washing your hands, that's right.

But I can tell you that that was not the case there.

I had several people follow me into the bathroom.

And I'm sitting there relieving myself and they said, Doctor, una pregunta.

I thought, dude, I'm going to the bathroom.

Now I can speak Spanish fluently and I didn't say that to them and I said well why don't you wait until I come back to the clinic and then we can get you back in line and then I'll answer your question when it's your turn.

But there was 1 person that wasn't like that.

There was 1 person who never came to the front of the line.

In fact, when it was her turn, she'd walk back.

She was 15 and her mother was the 1 that was bringing her to be seen by the doctor.

And every time she'd bring her to the front, she'd say, No, I'm fine, there's lots of people a lot more serious than I am.

No, no, there's so many people that want his attention.

So she was the only 1 who wasn't trying to cut.

And she kept saying, oh, you know, there's so many other people here, they're a lot worse off than I am.

Well, eventually we got to the end of the day.

I had gone all day without eating anything.

Series

Tim Riesenberger - Christinity 101: How to Give Your Life to Jesus

WDJD

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Testimony

So You Asked Now What?

58m

The Commandment of Love - Part 1

1h

Keys of Revelation

16. The Day the Devil Dies

57m

The Myths and Reality of the Old and New Covenants

The Myths and Reality of the Old and New Covenants, Part 2

1h 33m

Mark Finley - The Shaking and the Sifting: A Biblical Approach

True and False Revivals, Part 1

1h

His Heart Was Different

26m

Healing From Bad Religion and Church Hurt

Case Studies and Q&A

1h 12m

Revelation of Jesus Christ

1h 17m

Ron Clouzet ~ A Voice Behind You: How To Know God's Will For Your Life

Suspended Judgment and Other Great Habits

1h

Why So Much Killing in the Old Testament

22m

A Strange Request

1h 2m

Restoration 2025: Revelation of Healing

08 Revelation’s Lamb Part 2

48m

Sound Doctrine