YP Talk—Stan Froese
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Let's pray.
Our God and our Father, we give thanks for this time to be together.
Young people starting out in life.
And.
With a life to live.
Someone worth living for now. Help us as we open the scriptures that there would be some encouragement for each one of us on the pathway here.
And we ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
I guess you've never been in my shoes. None of you are 61 years old.
But I wanna tell you, it was a thrill to be here to hear you sing. I used to love to sing at your age, and I still love this thing and I'm just glad it's not passe.
It thrills me to hear you sing of the Lord Jesus and of these things that are so important.
And so necessary for us. So thank you for letting me be here. Now what I want to share with you tonight, I really want to just kind of reinforce some of the things that we've heard already yesterday and today.
And I wanna do it with about four.
Scriptures. But I want to point out this little book to you. It's titled Blind Chain.
And I don't know if you've ever had this experience, but I wanna give these books away. I re I bought them so I can get them, give them away and they only had two.
But the first people that come and ask for them, they're yours. Umm, but those that book there, I read it and it, it made me think, am I really a Christian? Have you ever had that experience where you read about somebody that's so committed to the Lord Jesus?
It just made me think, man, I'm a chicken.
I'm a coward.
Well, I'm not gonna tell you all what's in that book, but if you get a chance to read about Blind Chain, do it.
Let's uh.
Open up to Romans chapter 12 to start with. Am I being heard all around the room?
Thank you.
I want to read the 1St 2 verses of Romans 12.
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God.
That He presents your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable.
Service and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
A living sacrifice.
This man here was both a living sacrifice.
And he gave his life.
For Christ, right now, we're living.
A living sacrifice has one problem, and that is.
He can quit being a sacrifice.
He can say I'm done.
I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.
The mercies of God, His compassions are that we do that.
Is my life gonna be significant for myself, for you, for anybody else, if I don't, in some measure at least, live as a sacrifice?
If I live for me.
I'll be no blessing to you.
If you live for you, you'll be no blessing to me.
And so it's by the mercies of God that he beseeches us, that we give our bodies, present our bodies, a living sacrifice.
Wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
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He gave so much for us.
We can go for him.
Or we can hold back, it says be not conformed to this world. That's a negative thing.
The leading principle of the world is I live to please myself.
By the mercies of God, He is beseeching us not to do it.
Not to live for ourselves.
Conform to this world.
But now we get to the positive, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. And that's what I had mostly that I want to focus on is the renewing of our mind.
Let's go to Colossians chapter 3.
Colossians 3.
And we'll just read verse 10 and have put on the Newman, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
God is not only given us a life to live, but He's given us an object for which to live.
And he wants us to have a proper.
Umm, if that knowledge would be according to who is our object that that didn't make much sense, I'm sorry. Umm, let's try it again.
Well, let's look at the verse renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him. You know, if you make somebody or something, let's leave it to somebody as an object in your life, you're going to become like them.
You'll admire them, you'll pick up their characteristics in some way or another.
And I want to show from with some other scriptures that in.
Being renewed in knowledge after the image of him that has created us.
That's a good thing.
We have a good and perfect object before us in that one. Let's go to 2nd Corinthians.
Chapter 4 no.
Like chapter 3?
I only got one more verse after this so hold on.
The last verse of 2nd Corinthians 318.
But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Notice it doesn't say we might be changed.
If you have the Lord Jesus, and this needs to be more than just a cliche to us.
Before us, I'm talking about just simply sitting down and thinking about him.
Reading the scriptures and being thrilled at what they say about him.
It can happen.
And you don't have to be 61.
And that's a whole lot better if you do it a long time ahead of that.
To sit down and think of the Lord Jesus, what he's done for you.
I remember one time having the opportunity. I was sick.
And I had a lot of time.
And I sat there thinking of one verse and the Lord just filled my soul with that one verse. I wish it happened more, but I look back and the chills are going up and down my arms just to think of it.
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The Lord Jesus was made especially precious to me through that one verse.
Psalm 69, verse 20. Look it up some time, think about it.
It says, we behold him the glory of the Lord, we are changed.
It will change you.
And God in his mercies is a saying, Do it.
Be renewed.
Because as.
Mark Rogers was saying in the gospel last night, there's a battle going on.
And if we're not serious, we're gonna go down in the battle.
And at very best, we will just squeak by in this life, our life. No real true sacrifice.
OK last verse is in chapter 4.
OK, there it is, verse 16.
For which 'cause we think not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
We had some exhortation already about reading our Bibles, about praying.
The Word of God is telling us we need to be renewed day by day.
That's where we'll get the energy to actually lay our life down as a living sacrifice.
We'll have right motives for life.
I have found in my life in trying to testify to others that when I am personally enjoying the Lord Jesus myself and what He's done for me, then it's not so hard to risk being sneered or mocked.
But if I want to do it in my strength.
I'm a coward.
May God give us to get into the Word ourselves.
To be renewed day by day.
And by his grace.
To present our bodies of living sacrifice.
Thanks for your kind attention.
And come and see me if you wanna stand. You wanna go ahead and give thanks for the refreshment again. I don't think they heard anything. OK, Thanks. The Lord our Father. We give thanks for this opportunity.
To hear your word one more time.
Give us ears that would hear it and apply it to our own hearts. Bless each one of these young people.
They might give their hearts to you that they would live for you.
Be willing.
To use the energy, the intelligence that.
The gifts that they've been given.
To lay all down.
At Jesus feet.
We pray this giving thanks for this opportunity for further fellowship and for.
Uh, refreshments too. Give thanks for them in Jesus name, Amen.