GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

Last Day Events, The Remnant, and Church Organization

Mark Finley

Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

03 The Rise of a Prophetic Movement

Father, thank you for your love and your grace.

Thank you for the opportunity to study your word.

The same Holy Spirit that inspired the word is with us as we study it.

So I pray that you would be with us this afternoon.

Give us attentive minds, alert thoughts, and prepare us for the overwhelming events that are coming.

And we know that in Jesus, we need not fear that his love and grace are sufficient to get us through the crisis in Christ's name, Amen.

Well let's suppose you were taking your dream vacation in Europe And let's suppose that you had bought a Eurorail pass which enables you to travel any place you want by train.

And you're on the train traveling across Europe.

And as you're going, you've never gone this way before and you get a little bit concerned.

And you begin to think, did I get on the right train?

If I'm on the right train, Does this train go to the city that I want to go to?

And am I gonna have to walk the last 7 miles with my 3 suitcases?

Now, I know you're fit, but I don't know if you're that fit.

And so you begin thinking, I'm a little confused here, does the train stop short?

Or maybe the train veers off the track, veers off in a different direction, and maybe we go in the absolute wrong direction.

Or maybe there's a calamity up ahead and there's a bridge out and we're never gonna make it there.

But then you get out your Eurorail map and you say, wait a minute, as I look at this map, the train is exactly on the right track.

There may be a little bump in the road here or there.

Maybe some mountains we have to climb, but the train is going to make it.

If you understand that there may be some mountains, there may be some valleys, but the train's going to go to the final destination, you're staying on.

But if you think that the train's not going to make it to the final destination, You may jump off.

If you think that the train's gonna be in a big wreck, you may jump off.

Will God's church make it through to the final destination?

Or is it necessary sometime before the end to jump off?

What are the writings of Ellen White teach?

How indeed is God gonna purify his church at the end?

Well, let's start out by looking at a couple passages that are quite significant in Scripture.

And you'll notice there Jesus leads his disciples to Caesarea Philippi.

Capernaum is in Galilee in the north, Caesarea Philippi is further north than that.

Why would Jesus lead his disciples from Jerusalem to the Galilee, to Capernaum, and up to Caesarea Philippi?

Caesarea Philippi was an interesting city.

What 2 names do you see in the name of the city, Caesarea Philippi?

So 1 thing we know immediately are those, what nationality would those names be?

Caesarea Philippi, Caesar and Philip, what the nationality?

So immediately we know this is a Roman city.

There is a large Roman military garrison here.

The second thing we know about Caesarea Philippi is that was the center of Judaism.

The third thing we know about it, it was the center of pagan religions.

There was a temple dedicated to Pan there, the pagan god of nature.

So Jesus sets himself in the context or in the background of Roman military might.

He sets himself in the background of Jewish formalistic religion.

He sets himself in the background of Greek philosophy.

And it's in that context, what's going to change the world?

So Jesus leads his disciples there and he come.

He says to them, who do you say that I am?

Sidon and Peter says, you are Christ, the son of the living God.

And Jesus answers and says to him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you.

When you and I come to Jesus Christ as the Son of the living God, flesh and blood doesn't reveal it to us.

It's the Holy Spirit that reveals that to us deep within our own hearts, and it's the Holy Spirit that reveals the living Christ that changes our lives.

Flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in heaven and I say to you that you're Peter that is to say that your name is Peter but upon this rock this solid rock that I am Christ the Son of the Living God in fact Jesus makes a play on words your Peter Cephas that's the rolling or movable stone that name means, but on this rock, this solid rock.

Notice what he says, I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

1 thing we know for certain, and that is the church is not man-made, it's God-made.

And he says the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Isn't that incredibly good news that the gates of hell are not going to triumph against God's church or God's people?

At times do we see apostasy in the church?

At times do we see failure and sin in the church?

But let me ask you this, who built, who gave the instructions to build the ark?

Were all of those animals housebroken when they were brought on the ark.

Somebody knows where I'm going with this illustration.

Did some of those animals mess the ark up and was a little stinky?

You think that ark ever smelt like some poo or something?

But Noah says, there's too much stink on this ark, I'm gonna jump off.

And if he would have jumped off, he would have drowned, right?

There may be a little stink at times on the ark of the church that we are in, but God says the gates of hell will not do what?

How is God going to purify his church in the last days?

Biblical Faith - Secular World

Jordan Reichert

The Word: Is it Reliable? Is He Alive?

You know that I have nothing good except for what you're gonna do and so speak Lord may all of this of GYC not just turn into a preaching contest, but may we just be wanting to see you and to lift you up.

I pray that for the person in this room who can't stand you, but for some reason they're here, they would see how much you love them.

I pray for the person who has doubts that you would help remove some of those in our time here today.

Thank you for your word, the book form and the man form.

1st Peter 3 15 tells us, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.

If you're not going to do it in gentleness and respect, maybe silence is a little more golden at that moment, right?

The goal of talking about things like Christian apologetics, and I'm even hesitant of that word, is not to corner people, is not to fight people.

Nobody's interested in Jesus if you walk around throwing punches in his name.

More of what we're doing here today, what I hope you walk away with is here is maybe hopefully some helpful information for you to take, ready for it, into your relationships, into the people that you talk with, to Steph who works at the post office, and she gives you your packages.

To your grocer, to the person you interact with.

This is stuff for you to take into your relationships.

If there's no relationship there, then don't hit people over the head with all the reasons they can trust the Bible, unless they come right up and ask you.

I'm gonna jump forward to this part right here.

This is a favorite quote of mine by Ellen White.

She says, the strongest argument in favor of the gospel is what?

Look at the opening statement, only through a living faith in Christ as a personal Savior is it possible to make our influence felt in a skeptical world.

If you have a connection to Jesus, that's gonna shine.

If you don't, doesn't matter how much you know.

No trivia test to get into heaven, right?

Nobody has ever, I don't think anybody's ever been forced into the kingdom of God by being intellectually convinced.

However, what we're gonna do today is try to give you some tools that you can use in conversations with people or maybe even just for yourself because you're like, hey, you know, I want to believe I'm a Christian person but sometimes I struggle with that myself And sometimes we just want to be like reminded, you know what I mean?

We want to be reminded of where we stand.

And so hopefully this is helpful for you, but then it can be beyond for somebody else.

Imagine right now that on the way here on a plane, somebody said to you, hey, I see that you have a Bible there.

Don't you know that's been changed through the centuries and you can't really trust it and it's not really a reliable thing?

People think that's God's word, that's crazy.

We got a lot we're going through in this 1.

I hope you're ready for some learning or some review.

Any people out here who love, like you love, trying to drink from the fire hose of information?

That's what we're going to be doing a little bit of this.

Now, really quickly, just for the sake of fun, let's take 1 person's response.

Here's the microphone So yeah, if you didn't hear he said for the New Testament There's more ancient manuscript evidence for the New Testament than many other works of history.

We're gonna get into that hardcore fun stuff.

Who has read some stuff about this before?

Yeah, in the house they're all representing.

This is kind of 2 things we're gonna be looking at.

The 2 questions we're looking at, or statements that I'm gonna be talking about, is the Bible is the reliable, authoritative word of God.

All right, 1 person believes that, sounds good, right?

There was a man named Jesus of Nazareth who really lived in history and he rose from the dead.

First part, so what you're gonna face a lot of times is people have a lot of objections to it.

Probably the most popular 1 nowadays is this idea of when we talk about the truth whether it's like hey this is the truth and other things are not you know the Quran is not the you know very you know other other texts are not this is people say well that's really exclusive That's really narrow or to say that you know there's only 1 God and it's the God of the Bible or to say You know Jesus is the way the truth in life and the only way to come to the father is through him A lot of people say that's that's really narrow.

That's really exclusive There's a problem with that The fact is that every religion and every faith system, and even not a faith system, all has some amount of exclusivity.

Let's pretend that I'm a person, a secular person, walking down the streets of Orlando, and I don't really have any particular religious convictions or faith.

That's the lens through which I see the world and I might think possibly that I'm Oh, I'm a really I'm a tolerant enlightened person, but watch this I can only be respectful and say oh You should respect other people's faiths.

I can only be respectful of their faiths if I pretend like they're all wrong and I'm right.

So really every, there's no such thing as not having some level of exclusivity, but the reality is Jesus calls us to that.

There was a man attested to in history who said he was 1 with the Father, who said he was alive before he was born, who said he was gonna die and rise again, and according to a whole lot of data he did it.

He also said things like, I am the way and the truth in life, nobody comes to the Father except through me.

So you know, common objections people have, that's 1.

Another 1 people say, oh well Jesus never existed.

By the way, that 1 is academically like untenable nowadays.

I'm not gonna go heavy into it right now, but just Google historical sources for Jesus and you'll have a really fun time.

Addiction in the Last Days: Breaking the Invisible Chains on the Mind

Eric Walsh

03 The New Drug: Pornography and Sex Addiction

And again, this is probably 1 of the more challenging topics even for me to speak on.

If I'm going to deal with this topic Sometimes when I'm at a church, the car starts having the rental car has problems.

The devil really does not like for this subject to be broached.

The scripture for this third session, Matthew 5 and verse 27 says, You've heard that it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not commit adultery.

But I say unto you that whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

So our message for this third session is the new drug, pornography and sex addiction.

Father god, we thank you for this opportunity to study a word and to deal with these challenging issues.

I am asking in a special way lord for holy ghost power.

I ask again lord that you just make me a nail on the wall.

A rusty sorry nail lord but upon that nail, I ask that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Let me not be seen or heard lord instead father, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

All right, come on in have a seat and here's where we're gonna go.

If you have your Bible you want to jump to 2nd Samuel chapter 11, 2nd Samuel chapter 11 and I will read the Bible says and it came to pass after the years was expired at the time when kings go forth to battle that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rama but David tarried still at Jerusalem.

So before we get into this subject of sexual addiction pornography David is David.

David's the guy who when he would return from battle with Saul, the women would sing, David has killed his, Saul has killed his thousands, but David has killed his tens of thousands.

He's supposed to be in battle, leading the people as the king, and instead he's back at the palace.

Verse 2, And it came to pass in the eventide that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

Now you know David had many women, wives, so he probably, he may have even gotten off a bed with 1 of his wives.

The Bible says David goes to the roof of the palace, looks off the roof, and sees a woman there washing herself the Bible says she was very beautiful to look upon this is a rooftop experience but not the good kind David sees this woman and he is instantaneously attracted to the woman.

The Bible says and he sent and inquired after the woman and 1 said is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam 1 of David's counselors the wife of Uriah the Hittite his 1 of his main soldiers they're like wait a minute don't you know who this woman is I mean literally her father is someone you know her husband is someone you trust don't do you realize who you're talking about and the Bible says and David sent messengers and took her and she came in unto him and he lay with her for she was purified from her uncleanness.

That means the bath that she was doing at the beginning of the story was the bath that would happen after a woman would come off her monthly cycle.

It was a statement that she could be she was she was often more fertile.

And also her desire levels might be higher.

And so she was purified of her uncleanness and she returned unto her house.

Most a lot of men don't want to hear this 1.

And the woman conceived and sent and told David and said I am with child.

Can you Imagine the shock that ran through King David.

Here's a man who brought down a giant with a stone, and all it took for him to be brought down was for him to look inappropriately at a woman.

So for us, the smartphone has brought in digital rooftops.

You have a way to stand on the roof like he did and look out and see what you ought not see.

And you don't have to climb on top of your house, you no longer have to be a peeping Tom, you don't have to go to the store and buy girly magazines, all of it can be done with a simple device.

How do people go into these forms of sin?

It is often connected to a societal problem.

Ezekiel 16 49 says, Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom.

What was the number 1 sin of Sodom pride that interesting fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy she was idle They were laying around on their bed up on a rooftop like David when they were supposed to be doing something look at verse 50 and they were haughty and committed abomination before me a Bible.

Then God says, therefore I took them away as I saw good pride and idleness leads to abomination The practice of abomination.

Now I don't have time to get into it but We know there was something they call the sexual revolution.

In fact, it made it so that basically trying to describe sex to you as if it's just a physical activity, like going to play ball or do gymnastics.

And in that process, many have been deceived.

Why is the intimate act of sexual relations sacred?

Because it is the only way God designed for procreation to happen.

This is puberty trends and this is up to 2000, but you can see Germany, France, United States.

You go back far enough, young girls would not start menarche.

Menarche is the age at which a girl has her first period.

It would not happen till they were over 16 years of age.

If you go back far enough, how old would a young lady be when she got married?

So by the time she was able to have children, she was getting married, her desire, hormonal desire, matched about that time.

Over time what's happened is the age of onset of puberty has fallen precipitously so that today in America, the average age a girl starts menarche, has menarche, is 12 years old.

The average age for African American girls is 9 years old.

So you say, man, these girls look more like women than girls.

Well, we know less body fat, It's the fat cells leptin that release, is released that triggers the body to go into puberty.

And so that's 1 of the things that has changed.

So that goes back to the kind of the modern standard American diet, Western diet.

Exposure to sexual content might stimulate this to start earlier.

If you've ever had chickens and you put chickens under lights, the chickens make eggs faster, sooner, right?

So some have argued maybe it's the electrical lights that everybody's always under lights now.

I don't know if that's true but it's an interesting theory.

In fact I said that at a Jamaican church, where most of the people were Jamaican here in the States, but a predominantly Jamaican church, I said that in church.

I was talking about how some people think of the electric lights and a Jamaican man stood up, started storming out of church.

He said, I'm going home to cut off the lights, I have 3 daughters.

As you go into puberty, it is a sign that you are able to reproduce, or coming towards the age of where you can reproduce.

Rebecca Wong

Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Not Home Yet

It's good to see you all here today, many familiar faces and many new faces.

Just as a quick word of introduction, my name is Rebecca.

I am from over yonder north in Northern California, a little town called Colfax, which is just 2 exits down from Weimar.

I see some familiar faces here from the Weimar area.

I'm an ESL professor at American River College, and I also am an artist.

So in between my semesters, I started an art company where I'm teaching pop-up art workshops, art classes for kids, summer art camps, and also I use this art company to fuel and to support overseas mission work.

So I actually literally just got back a couple days ago from Bolivia, where I was serving at an orphanage and teaching art classes for kids, which has been so much fun.

I'm honestly still in recovery from my last trip.

There was a little bit of jet lag and a little bit of exhaustion.

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03 The Rise of a Prophetic Movement

1h 2m

The Word: Is it Reliable? Is He Alive?

52m

03 The New Drug: Pornography and Sex Addiction

59m

Not Home Yet

44m

02 The Holy Spirit, Laodicea, and Revival

52m

02 The Brain on Drugs: How the Devil Chains the Mind

59m

04 The Problem of Evil

29m

The Antidote to Pain

42m

01 Revelation’s Remnant

54m

01 A Generation Addicted: Drugs, Demons, and a Rising Death Toll

55m

04 Unity Through Humility

26m

The Day That Changes Every Day

28m

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