KwaSizabantu Youth Conference
12 Dec 2002 - Day 7

2002/12/12 - 19:00
"We will all appear before God" - Erlo Stegen
Isaiah 1:19 & 20

Isaiah 1:19-20 "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."

The Lord has spoken to you through His servants. If you do what you have been told, you will live, but if you rebel and be disobedient, you will be destroyed. Violence results from disobedience to God's Word. God hears every word you whisper, every thought you think. Even if you are active in the church, it will not help anything, unless you have a living relationship with Jesus Christ. If you are not in Him and He in you, woe to you.

There was a certain pastor who had a terrible dream one night. In the morning his wife noticed that he was troubled, but he tried to hide it from her. Eventually he told her the dream. He dreamt that he stood before the Great White Throne of God Almighty. The Lord asked him where his church members and family were. As he looked to his left he saw them all in one long line walking towards a bottomless pit. His wife and children were in that line as well. As they fell down, their cry was bitter and stung his heart. He remembered those that made a mock at sin, flirted around with the opposite sex, slept in church, and lived a lukewarm Christian life. He saw all these things in his church and family, but did not deal with them thoroughly. Then the Lord said to him, "You, join the queue now". As he said these words to his wife, he fell over backwards on his bed and died.

John Harper came from a Christian family and met the Lord when he was only thirteen years old, in 1886. He lived an upright, pure life and loved the Lord. When he was 17, he started to preach. His heart was on fire for God and shortly there were 500 members in his congregation. In 1912 he and his daughter of 6 were of those that boarded the Titanic on its launch. His wife had passed away shortly after giving birth to his daughter. When the Titanic hit the iceberg and started to sink, he placed his daughter in one of the life-boats to be taken care of. He ran to the front of the ship with his life-jacket on, and cried, "All women, children and the unsaved, please go to the life-boats". Shortly afterwards the gigantic ship broke into two, and the people started to jump overboard. He jumped overboard as well and swam from person to person, asking them if they are saved and if not, led them to the Lord. He came to a young man on a piece of floating debris and asked him about his salvation, to which the man replied that he was not interested. John Harper then took off his life-jacket and threw it to the man, saying, "Then you are not ready to die; I am ready." This act brought the young man to repentance. Later he told the story of how he got saved through John Walter's heroism. All together 1528 jumped, of which only 6 were saved by life-boats, this young man being one.

Such are the lives of those that truly know the Lord. They lay down their lives for their fellowmen. Those that are saved have a passionate zeal for the unsaved.

What will your future be like? When you stand before the Judgment Throne of Christ, you will have to give account for yourself - also for this message you have heard today. God has no pleasure therein that the wicked should die but that they may come to repentance and live. God's invitation today is that you may obey and live, Isaiah 1:19-20 "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."

(At the end of the service approx 1000 - 1500 responded to an altar call.)

(Here is an mpg video clip of the youth singing - approx 30 s: )

"ready for home"

2002/12/12 - 15:00
Testimony service

One young man gave a touching testimony of how God helped him during the Youth Conferences at KwaSizabantu since 1997. He grew up in the church, and his father taught him the ways of God. He served in the church, but was a complete hypocrite. He would lead the singing in the church, but flirt with the girls, smoke secretly and commit all kinds of sins. His sins lead him to a conflict with another person, where he eventually got shot in such a way that he was confined to a wheel-chair. While he planned revenge in 1997, he tuned into Radio Khwezi, where a certain story gripped him and he heard about the Youth Conference at KwaSizabantu. He decided to come, and right from the first day he began to make his life right with God, confessing his sins. God worked in his life, and revealed him all his sins since his youth. He wrote everything down and brought it to the light. All his plans of revenge changed and he prayed for the man that shot him. God heard his prayer, and that man made peace with him, asking forgiveness for what he had done.

2002/12/12 - 10:00
"Pure in heart" - Joseph Chauke
Mt 5:8

Our lives are very short here on earth; therefore make right your life with God. Come to the One Who says: "Come, let us reason together". "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God".

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