GYC 2011: Fill Me Our Earnest Plea – Live Streaming
December 29th, 2011 |The 2011 GYC conference has concluded but you may now watch sermons of this event at the GYC website here – http://gycweb.org/resources/
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The 2011 GYC conference has concluded but you may now watch sermons of this event at the GYC website here – http://gycweb.org/resources/
A free GYC sponsored revival event is coming to Los Angeles this coming January.
Speakers include:
Lunch and light supper will be provided on Saturday. What makes this event even more exciting is that there will be an organized outreach event to distribute 2,000 copies of The Great Controversy throughout Los Angeles. But this will only be accomplished if God’s people unite to accomplish the work under the guiding of the Holy Spirit. The Lord needs workers in these last days, will you be one of them? It is written…
“The Great Controversy should be very widely circulated. It contains the story of the past, the present, and the future. In its outline of the closing scenes of this earth’s history, it bears a powerful testimony in behalf of the truth. I am more anxious to see a wide circulation for this book than for any others I have written; for in The Great Controversy, the last message of warning to the world is given more distinctly than in any of my other books.” ~ Colporteur Ministry p. 127, Ellen White
“The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” (Matthew 9:37-38)
Join us all day Saturday, January 28th and from 7-9pm Friday January 27th at…
777 West Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
What happens to babies that have passed away? Will God send infants to heaven, hell or someplace in-between? How does God judge a child and how will He judge us? Opinions abound, but the words of Jesus are truth. And so today we desire to hear not the theories of men, but the words of God. So let us study the Bible for in it contains the answers to these important questions. But before we do so, let us ask the Lord to teach us, let us pray.
Dear Loving Heavenly Father,
We humbly ask for your Holy Spirit to teach us today. Please Lord grant us a true understanding of how you judge children and how we will be judged. Open our eyes so that we see wonderful things from your word. May your love and compassion be revealed to us today, and may your love dwell in our hearts. Help us now and we thank you for doing so. We pray all these things in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, amen.
Imagine if one day a group of police officers showed up at your door. They quickly handcuffed you, you were taken to a courtroom and declared guilty of war crimes. “War crimes, I’ve never fought in a war!” you plead. The judge responds and says “your great grandfather committed war crimes in World War 1 and we are punishing you for the crime, I hereby sentence you to death”.
Certainly a human judge would never make such an unfair sentence. How could you be judged for a crime that occurred when you never even were alive? Yet would God throw someone in hell because of the sins of their parents, or grandparents? Or because of the sins of Adam in the garden of Eden? Does the guilt of one generation pass on from generation to generation through a bloodline? The Bible gives us the answer in Ezekiel 18:20 when it says Read More »
“After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory.” (Revelation 18:1)
Servants of God, with their faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration, will hasten from place to place to proclaim the message from heaven. By thousands of voices, all over the earth, the warning will be given. Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, and signs and wonders will follow the believers.” (The Great Controversy p. 611-612, Ellen White)
It doesn’t take a Bible scholar to know that certain actions if not repented of, will disqualify us from entering heaven. If for example a person secretly gave me a small dose of poison every day, and after two weeks of drinking such a substance I died, certainly God would consider that person a murderer. Now let me ask you a question, if that person became a baptized Christian, but they still continued to poison others unrepentant, would they enter heaven? No? But what if this individual goes to church every week and reads his Bible yet they continue to poison people. Could they enter heaven? You’re correct they must stop poisoning people and repent in order to enter the kingdom of God for it is written “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” (1 John 3:151)
The shocking reality is, today there are multitudes of professed Christians who are poisoning people. They know if they continue to do so, that person will die, yet they do it anyways. Because they are addicted, they have attempted to justify themselves, saying “well it won’t keep me from heaven”. But as we agreed already such is faulty logic, dangerous logic.
These professed Christians are using deadly substances arsenic, methane, methanol and stearic acid 2. The worst thing is these professed Christians are using this poison on themselves. Cigarettes come with a warning from the U.S. Surgeon General stating that using such will kill you. God also gives an even greater warning in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, it is written…“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 3
If someone were to enter a church and start smoking, certainly people would be outraged. That smoker would almost instantly be thrown out of the church. Of how much more value in God’s eyes are you compared to some walls of a building! Of how greater magnitude then is the sin of defiling yourself with cigarettes than it is to pollute a building? 1 Corinthians says you are the temple of God. How then shall anyone justify defiling the temple of God? “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him.” Let us be perfectly honest with ourselves, those who persist in the use of tobacco cannot enter the kingdom of God for “there shall in no wise enter into it (heaven) any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie” (Revelation 21:27 KJV). If we do not overcome sin in this lifetime, sin shall overcome us and we will find ourselves in the wrong resurrection. “But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope” (Ecclesiastes 9:4). Where there is life there is hope. The good news is the Bible says where sin abounds grace does much more abound.4 But where is our hope?