Message Notes

YOUTH CONFERENCE 2020 30 November- 4 December 2020

Theme: “The LORD looks at the heart” 1 Samuel 16:7

SESSION # 1 MONDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2020

GOALS

A. Approach to YC 2020

1. The Scriptures

a) Understanding its Importance

b) Noting its Relevance

2. Reading the Scriptures on your own

a) How to read correctly

b) How to interpret properly

c) How to apply it meaningfully

3. Our problems and challenges in the reading of the Scriptures

a) We don’t read much of it

b) We can’t make sense out of it easily

c) We are unsure about how it is relevant to our life today

B. Understanding Life through the Lenses of the Scriptures

1. Appreciation why the Scriptures were written

a) Examples

i) Bad Examples were recorded too To teach us how to avoid mistakes 1 Corinthians 10:6

ii) Good Examples/ Testimonies To inspire us to have the same precious faith Hebrews 11:1-2

iii) Recorded in the Scriptures for our Instruction

iv) Recorded for our Inspiration

b) Possible Effect of the Scriptures

i) Converts/ Changes the soul Psalm 19:7a

ii) Makes one wise Psalm 19:7b

iii) Rejoices the heart Psalm 19:8a

iv) Enlightening the eyes Psalm 19:8b

v) Creating a reverence of God Psalm 19:9a

vi) Gives good warning Psalm 19:11a

vii) Good reward from God Psalm 19:11b

2. Our Challenge

a) Pursuing Wisdom Proverbs 2:1-11

b) Learning vital lessons

i) About God

ii) About Faith

iii) About Life

iv) About ourselves

c) Seeing ourselves in the mirror of God’s word

i) Identification

ii) Responding

d) Seeking to respond to God appropriately

i) Sincerely

ii) Earnestly

iii) Humbly

iv) Personally

v) Practically

INTERACTION

1. Questions

a) Natural

b) Arising from our reading of the Scriptures

c) Arising from the circumstances of our life

2. Responses to Questions

a) Reference to the Scriptures

b) Relevance of the Scriptures

c) Responding wisely

THEME OF YOUTH CONFERENCE 2020 “The LORD Looks at the heart” 1 Samuel 16:7

1. It is a great and glorious truth

2. But it is not confined to 1 Samuel 16

3. This is a truth we want to:

a) Discern its meaning

b) Discover the depth of its application

c) Develop an approach to life that has this truth factored in!