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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

I'm very excited about this presentation because it is dedicated to a friend of mine.

His name is Seth and he was 19 and he loved GYC.

And he tried to encourage as many people as he could to come.

His sister is here, and I'm very thankful for that.

And so, of course, first and foremost, this presentation is to Jesus and to each 1 of you and everyone who will hear it.

And secondarily, it's for our memory of Seth because he was killed in a motorcycle accident when he was just 19.

In fact, I would never have met Sierra or her family had it not been for Seth, their brother.

We met when I was in school at Stanford and I had the opportunity to see them at church, take them out to a meal.

I still have his tie that Sierra gave to me.

So this session is going to be dedicated to him.

And I pray that you would receive a blessing as well.

Before we begin, I would like to ask the Lord to be with us.

Loving Father in Heaven, what a joy it is to be here with you.

And I just pray that you would help us to remember the lessons from Seth's life and I pray Lord that you would give us grace and strength as we learn about 1 of my other friends.

I pray Lord that You would be seen and heard and felt today and not myself.

I pray Lord that every 1 of my friends here would see Jesus, for in His name we pray, amen.

I'm gonna share with you what the 3 most powerful words I believe are in the Bible.

Now, I'm going to have some of you think about maybe some Words that are powerful to you.

But I'm going to share with you what I believe is stronger than Any of those things that have more power to change someone's life and bring them to God than even those words.

Before I begin, I want to introduce you to a friend of mine.

He was an Academy student and he was 15 years old.

Now unfortunately, Sean was diagnosed with osteosarcoma.

Now unfortunately, that's a very quick, very aggressive form of cancer.

But thankfully, he dropped out of Academy, got treated and was cured.

Sean was not just a fighter, he was a scholar.

Even though he had missed a year of academy, he ended up going back and he finished everything in 2 and a half years.

All of Academy, he crammed in the 2 and a half years.

And he also had a family, it was very loving.

Now I met Sean, unfortunately, as a result of a night at work.

I was in the emergency room and usually what happens is the patients will come to triage.

The nurse will assess them and she will decide how serious they are.

She will put them in order and then put them in a room when we're ready to see them.

1 of the nurses came up to me and said, I think you need to see a patient outside in the waiting room.

That kind of scares me because they don't say that usually.

So I went out to the triage and I saw a young man who was kind of pale, breathing hard, and his name was Sean.

And I asked him, the question that I ask every patient, what seems to be the trouble, why I can't breathe?

And he said, well, I've had cancer in the past, and what has happened is I've had fluid accumulate in 1 side of my lungs, and that's what it feels like now.

I said, go ahead and bring him back to this room.

We weren't ready, but I just brought him straight back.

And after a while I noticed that he was having more and more trouble breathing.

And I said, Sean, Do you think you're going to need me to help you breathe a little bit?

I'd already put him on some oxygen and that seemed to be helping, but he seemed to be getting worse to me.

He's like, yeah, I think I'm going to need some help.

So my plan was to put him on the ventilator And then after that, drain the fluid in the lung, help to re-expand it.

Is that when you come into the hospital, in order to draw blood to give you medications, what do we need to do?

None of the nurses were able to find a single vein on his body.

They couldn't understand why it was going on.

They said, we can't get an IV in this young man.

And I can tell you that I looked around him and there was no veins.

And so at that point we're left with a very few options.

I can go for a subclavian line underneath your clavicle or your collarbone.

I can go into your internal jugular vein here in your neck.

Or I can go into your femoral vein here in your groin.

I decided since I didn't need to do this right away, I would just go for the femoral vein.

Now I can tell you I've done hundreds of these lines and I couldn't find it.

And I can tell you that at 1 point I thought I had struck his bladder because I drew back yellow fluid.

And I'm like, uh-oh, I think this is urine, but it wasn't.

He had so much what we call edema or fluid in his soft tissues that I had just gotten a pocket of lymphatic fluid.

And at this point I actually prayed in the emergency department.

And I asked Jesus to help me to find the vein.

And what was wrong is young and healthy people, you can actually feel your own pulse.

It's like about this far away from your finger.

I had a 6 inch needle and I had to bury it all the way to the hub to find his vein.

But I finally struck it and then I fed my catheter in there, we put an IV into his femoral vein and we gave him medications to slowly start to relax him so that we could put the breathing tube into his trachea and let him rest.

So I did that, I put the breathing tube in, intubated him, put him on the ventilator and unfortunately I had to see other critical patients, so I had to transfer up to the ICU.

But something that I do with all of my patients that are critical, and whom I've had a time of special bonding with, I had a chance to actually pray with Sean and his family before he went under.

To pray that God would heal him and bless him and guide him.

As I like to follow up to see how they're doing.

So before I came on shift, I came a little early and I went up to the ICU to see Sean.

We had prayed for God's special blessing and healing upon him and his family.

And when I got up, I saw his family there, and I went over to Sean.

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