GYC Conference 2024: Wherever He Goes

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Learning How to Learn Faith

Tim B. Kwon

01 The Power of God

02 Science of Learning

03 Laying the Glory in the Dust

04 Hall of Failure

05 What Moses, Elijah, and Paul Had in Common

Gracious Father in heaven, Lord, we thank you so, so, so, so much for this GYC session, Lord.

We thank you for each and every person that is here and in the different seminars, Lord.

We know that you have a blessing in store for each and every 1 of us, and Lord, we want to receive that full blessing in its fullness, Lord.

So Lord, be with us, open our minds, open our thoughts, and may we be able to see Jesus a little more clearly today as a result of having been here.

All these things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

So, today I'm not gonna be showing Bible verses on the screen.

Please open your Bibles to 1 Thessalonians chapter 1.

And before I start reading First Thessalonians, First Thessalonians is actually 1 of the first letters that Paul writes, actually 1 of the first New Testament books to be ever written.

And Thessalonica is a very unique city for Paul because if you read Acts chapter 17 it talks about what Paul does in Thessalonica and Berea actually 16 and 17 talks about what Paul does in Thessalonica and Berea and Paul was in Thessalonica for a very short time.

How many Sabbaths, does anybody remember how many Sabbaths did Paul preach while he was in Thessalonica?

So he was there for 3 weeks, 3 or 4 weeks at the most.

And while he was there in Thessalonica for such a short time, he was actually able to start a church.

I don't know if there are any church planters out there.

I don't know if I could start a church in 4 weeks.

But Paul starts a church in Thessalonica in 4 weeks, and he has to leave, he's kicked out of town, and now he's kind of doing a warranty service, if you will, by writing letters to the church.

And this is what he writes in chapter 1, verse 5.

He says, for our gospel, we've been talking about the gospel, so for our gospel did not come to you in word only.

Yes, the content of the gospel is absolutely important, true, but it did not come in word only, but also in what?

In power and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.

So Paul is saying, yes, I did preach the content of the gospel and it's a beautiful message and that was awesome.

You love the message, that's true, but that really was not enough for me to start a church there.

You heard the message, but not only that, you actually saw what kind of people we were.

And that was in some sense even more important than just hearing the message itself.

And before we read Romans chapter 6, I want to do a recap 1 more time.

According to Paul, what's the gospel again?

Okay, so let's come to Romans chapter 6 with that in mind.

Okay, whenever Paul says, do you not know, He's saying something that he knows that the church knows and he wants to emphasize it.

Do you not know that as many of us were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death?

Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life.

Verse 5, for if we have been united together in the likeness of his death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection.

So yesterday we've learned about knowing the gospel, and that's important.

We need to know the content of the gospel, We need to know the spirit of the gospel.

But more important than just knowing the gospel, we have to think about the gospel.

Because having some knowledge somewhere in your brain, that's good, but that's not gonna actually affect you.

What actually affects us is what we think about.

So that's why we talked about spending that thoughtful hour each day on the life of Jesus Christ.

But when I started the practice of thinking about the life, particularly the death of Jesus Christ on a daily basis, when I read the Bible, when I read Bible stories, when I hear sermons, it touches me in a very different way.

And I've preached at this church, I was invited to this church twice over 2 years, and each time I went, I cried, and the pastor's wife's a friend of mine, and she asked me, hey, Tim, are you high on estrogen by any chance?

What happened is that I've been dwelling on the life of Christ and what it does is the stories of the Bible really touches me in a very deep way.

So it's important to know the content of the gospel.

It's important to think about the gospel.

But what Paul is saying here, it's not important, it's not enough to know the content of the gospel, something that happened 2, 000 years ago, to know that Jesus died first.

Yes, know that Jesus died, that's absolutely great.

Yes, think about the death of Jesus Christ, but here he's saying, yes, think about Jesus, look upon Jesus on the cross, but after that what we should be doing is we should be going up on the cross to die with Jesus, to join with Jesus on the cross.

That's what we should be doing on a daily basis.

He doesn't say, I think about Jesus daily.

He thinks about the crucifixion of Jesus daily, but not only that, he joins with Jesus daily on the cross, and when he does that, he's really, truly, truly dead, and what happens?

When he joins in the death of Jesus Christ, he joins in the burial of Jesus Christ, and by doing so, he joins with Jesus Christ in his what?

If we die with Jesus, we are resurrected with Jesus.

He says here, we are pressed, hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed, we are perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed.

He says, always caring about in the body, in my body.

The death or the dying of the Lord Jesus.

When we die with Jesus, when I am crucified with Christ, what is the result of that?

That the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.

So when we die with Christ and we are buried with Christ, we are then risen with Christ, and then what happens?

Series

Learning How to Learn Faith

03 Laying the Glory in the Dust

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Attachments

GYC 2008 Plenary Sessions

The Fear of No Fear

55m

Morning Devotionals

Into the Wilderness

1h

Steve Wohlberg ~ The Shaking in Our Heads: Current Issues in the Church

The Character of God Controversy, Part III

1h

Richard O'Ffill - God the Comforter: the Holy Spirit's Role in Your Life

God the Comforter, Part 3

50m

God of the Philosophers or God of the Bible?

The Trinity of Love: How Scripture Teaches the Trinity and It Matters More than You Ever Dreamed

52m

Unveiling the End Times: Religious Liberty and the Quest for Truth

03 The Supreme Court and the Mark of the Beast

56m

The Most Fulfilling Life

02 Cultivating Contentment: Discovering Fulfillment Through Gardening

55m

GYC 2011 Seminar: Revival & Reformation

Revival & Reformation: God’s Perspective, Part 2

1h 5m

Plenary

The Flip Side of Service

1h 30m

A Call To Arms: How to Fully Engage In God's Church

6. The Moment of Truth: Helping Your Friends Make Decisions for Jesus

43m

Ron duPreez ~ No Matter What: How morality impacts your mortality

Mutiny Over Music

1h

Jay Gallimore and Paul Ratsara - The Heart of a Servant: Models of Biblical Leadership

The Heart of a Servant, Part 2

1h

Sound Doctrine