SWYC 2015: Christ Our Righteousness

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GYC Southwest

Breakout Session #3

Dwayne Lemon

Jesus’ Work in Health Evangelism

We thank you so much for the privilege to come together as a family that we may study your word, that we can receive the truth as it is in Jesus Christ.

We thank you that we can look to Jesus as our example, even as we see the end of the world approaching, as we see a final crisis that is soon to come upon us, we are grateful that we don't have to look to man, but we can look to the man, Christ Jesus.

And I believe that by beholding him, we all can become changed into the same image.

And so grant us your Holy Spirit, we pray, and truly open our eyes and help us behold wondrous things out of your word is our prayer that we ask in Jesus' name.

The Bible presents a position that God's people were going to fall into.

We have been given the greatest investment of heaven.

Heaven has invested unto us what is known as the mighty cleaver of truth, which is the first, second, and third angels message.

There is no other message that can make the work come to a close.

It is only the 3 angels and the reason we know that is because when you study Revelation 14 it was after the 3 angels messages were given that you see in verse 14.

Turn there with me in Revelation 14 and look at verse 14 and you will see that the Bible shows that there is only 1 true gospel message that is designed to bring something very special about.

I want you to see how the Bible defines it.

As we look at Revelation 14, we're going to consider verse 14, and let's notice what the text says.

Revelation 14, and we are looking at verse 14, and if you're there, just please say amen.

You know, If you look at Revelation 14 carefully, especially from verse 6 onward, it's fairly chronological because you have a first angel, you have a second angel, you have a third angel.

And after the third angel's message is given, if you look at verse 13, it introduces martyrdom.

It talks about people who die, people who die, but the Bible counts a blessing upon them.

Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for though they sleep, their works do follow them.

So we have to understand that the reality is, is that there is going to be a repercussion as it relates to the world and the church when God's people stand for truth.

And there will be some who will even have to have their blood spilled that it will continue to be, as it were, a fertilizer to the generation that's going to behold these events and be thou faithful unto death.

You know that's the only reason why God allows Christians to constantly be killed is so that it becomes an encouragement to the next generation to stay faithful also unto death.

It is only after the close of probation, it is after we get to Revelation 15 8 when the sanctuary is now filled with smoke and no man can enter therein and the intercessory work of Christ is done.

And now Revelation 22 kicks in, which says, "'Let him who's filthy be filthy still.

"'Let him who's holy be holy still.'" If you're alive at that time, good news, you are not gonna die.

Those are gonna be the individuals that's gonna make it all the way through to see Jesus come.

Now, understanding that, verse 13 makes it clear that yes, martyrdom is gonna be part of the package.

But then verse 14 says, it says in verse 14, "'And I looked and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud 1 sat like unto the son of man, having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, thrust in thy sickle and reap, for the time has come for thee to reap for the what?

So the harvest, when you go to Matthew 13 and verse 39, the harvest represents the end of the world.

So literally the 3 angels' messages is the last gospel message to be given to the world, to prepare the world for the end so that we can be ready to go home with Jesus.

This is the investment that God has given unto us.

And when God gave this message to us, we have to understand that in this message is contained every truth that we need to know how God's work can be finished.

So it becomes imperative for you and I to study this work.

But the problem is, is that while God gave us this incredible investment, he also reveals to us a reality of our response to this investment.

In Revelation, the third chapter, we see how God's people are going to respond.

We know that the first angel's message deals with judgment.

The third angel's message also deals with judgment.

It shows us how to stand true to God at knowing that the investigative judgment is going on.

So when you think of the 3 angels' messages, it's very much centered around the judgment of what's going on in heaven in the most holy place of the heavenly sanctuary.

Now, why this is interesting is because God has a message to the people of the judgment.

And when you look at God's message to the Laodiceans, the Bible says in verse 14, it says in Revelation 3 14, and unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, these things say at the amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.

He says, I'm gonna spew you out of my mouth.

And then he helps us understand why he has to give such straight counsel.

Verse 17 says, because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art what?

Wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

That's why I told you yesterday, I believe that the Laodiceans, they don't know their true condition.

A lot of us, we don't know our true condition.

And it's very easy to think we're doing okay, when in fact, we're doing absolutely horrible.

And so it is that we have to look at things with eyes out, that discernment that only God can give that we may have an understanding of our true condition.

And when that comes in, we will stop listening to ourselves and we'll start listening more to God.

Now, knowing this, The Bible gave a picture of the last days and the condition of the church.

In the midst of understanding the judgment, living in the time of judgment, knowing what God requires of us in the judgment, at the same time, God says, well, I'm gonna spell out what brought us into this Laodicean lukewarm condition.

It's spelled out in the book of 2nd Timothy chapter 3.

The Bible says in 2nd Timothy the third chapter, and this is on the screen, it says, this know also that in the last days, what kind of times?

And I believe it's perilous because the church was called to be the light of the world, but based on this, I see more darkness than light.

This know also that in the last days, perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves.

This says covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despises of those that are good, traitors, heady, and high-minded, and what is the reality?

You know, parents, we all have a work to do.

Sometimes we can look at our children and we can see they love pleasure more than they love God.

And we know that if our children are in that condition, we know there is no hope of salvation for them.

We have to train and direct and instruct our children in such as the fear and admonition of the Lord that a time comes that they will prefer to pray than to play.

And I'm not talking about all their lives because recreation, recreation is actually necessary for the people of God.

I am not saying that having true recreation is a bad thing.

There's a time to do things, but there's something wrong when a child can sleep through church and stay awake watching television program after television program after television program after television program.

There are very clear signs that our children can give us that they love pleasure more than they love God.

An individual is in a lost condition when we see ourselves in that place.

Christ doesn't want this, but it becomes our reality.

And the sooner we accept our reality, the sooner we can say, you know what, I do love pleasure more than I love God.

I do love to feed myself, do what I want to do than what God wants to do.

As a matter of fact, Lord, I'm starting to be honest with myself to the point to say I really don't love you.

I really don't have a desire to know you.

He says I would that thou were Cold or hot it is better to be cold and recognize Lord.

I don't love you I don't want to serve you actually don't want to do your will but I know that you are loved So I'm gonna ask you to do for me what I can't do for myself, put your love within my heart.

Series

Breakout Session #3

Jesus’ Work in Health Evangelism

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Morning Devotional

A Challenge to the Consecrated Physician

1h 28m

Plant-based Evangelism

50m

GYC SE 2013 Plenary Sessions

Sin is a Four Letter Word

55m

ASI 2012 Seminar: Evangelism

Bible Studies Made Easy

1h 22m

The Now of Prophecy

40m

OYC 2011 Seminars

Kellogg vs. The Ministry: A Century of Collateral Damage

56m

Effective Evangelism

Effective Evangelism - Part 1: Proper Preparation 1

1h 1m

Plenary

The Tyranny of the Urgent: When Your Best Is Not Enough

56m

Certainty in Uncertain Times

10. Where Do I Find Power to Overcome?

59m

The Method

51m

The Science of Surrender

56m

Jessica Trinh Weekend

I Will Bring the Blind

54m

Sound Doctrine