GYC Canada: The Cross Connection: Love & Law Combined

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GYC Canada

Plenary

Justin Kim

Mercy and Truth are Met Together

Amara Sims

Testimony: Woman on a Mission

Sebastien Braxton

The Story of Redemption: The Love and the Law Combined

Gem Castor

The Joy of the Cross

Christ’s Life; Our Life: The Law and the Gospel

The Cross and Salvation: The Plan of Salvation

Final Charge: Take up Your Cross

I hope that you have come to this conference with a very special mindset.

I know for some of us, maybe you're like me, you've been to a lot of events.

You've attended a lot of revival meetings.

Listen to messages on YouTube or AudioVerse or whatever platforms you choose.

You have copies of sermons downloaded on your phone, CDs in your car.

But there's something different when the people of God decide to get together to seek God.

And that difference starts in the mindset of those who attend.

There's a reason why there are not thousands of people here right now, because it's not their mindset.

Their desire is not to be ready for the coming of Jesus their concern is not to make sure that they are firmly grounded in who God is and his purpose for their lives.

And so if you're going to come to this place, you need to be 100% here.

And not only 100% here, 100% committed to obtaining whatever God has in store for you this weekend.

But it's interesting, if a sermon is boring, people will complain.

But if the sermon is fire, they don't want to surrender and come up for the appeal.

If the message is average, we go home and talk about it at potluck.

But if the message is radical, it's for someone else.

So my challenge to you, as I challenge myself, speaking at every single event that I have the privilege unworthy though I be My prayer to God is that God would change me.

How can you come into the presence of an almighty God and leave the scene?

Then you haven't been in the presence of God.

There were many people touching Jesus when the woman with the issue of blood touched the hem of his garment.

Many people were touching Jesus but not all were coming with the touch of faith.

Not all believed that in this small little band of youth and young adults, here in Ottawa, that the God of the universe would show up and that he would do something special for those reaching out after him in faith.

I don't know what you need from God, but you know.

You know where you are spiritually you know what lays before you when you leave this place it's nice to be around fellow believers who are on fire for God, but not all of us come from churches like that.

We know what's waiting for us on the other side of Sunday.

A church where everybody is not so committed to spreading the gospel.

Some asking that you would be praying in your mind.

God, don't make this a regularly scheduled program.

Now, the 1 other thing I have to ask you is this.

How many of you, honestly from your hearts, You say, Lord, I need to take my spiritual life higher.

So now that our hands are up, we know what we're praying for, right?

We say, I need to take my spiritual life higher.

So now you know what to pray for, for me tonight, even as I'm speaking.

Now you know what to pray for every other speaker every other seminar every other activity that's going to happen this weekend Lord put something in that man or woman's mouth to take me to the next level with Jesus.

I know amen is not a black word, you know, it's not even an American word.

Because when sin is done, I know I'm going to say amen.

You could have paid, you could have been average for free.

You could have been lukewarm for cheaper watch this live stream online it's true why pay and come and go home to sing so if that's not the case brothers and sisters we got to come with the cupboards of our hearts wide open for whatever God wants to put in the pantry.

We got to come with a willingness to say yes, Lord, when he's calling us to a radical form of surrender.

In some part of our lives that we've struggled to let go.

So allow me to open with those remarks from my heart.

I've been attending GYC conferences for 17 years.

I may be dating myself, because some of you are probably 17 or less.

But it's also unfortunate, because when I was your age, I didn't think I would be able to say that.

And maybe heaven knew that we needed you, this generation, these youth, at this time.

Father in heaven, our time is short, but we are thankful for any moment in the presence of our Maker.

We have not come to hear the words of a man, But we have come to hear the Word of God.

Our desire, as we raised our hands to heaven, is that we want to take our spiritual lives higher.

To just be almost persuaded but not fully.

But Lord we didn't come to GYC Canada for an easy experience.

We've come for revival and for a deeper experience with our precious Lord.

So Lord we pray that the sweet sweet Spirit of Christ would abide upon this place.

May He speak through me and may He speak to me that Jesus may be seen is our prayer in his name.

In Plato's master work, The Republic, Glaucon, who in real life is actually Plato's older brother, he tells the story of a man who found a ring that could make its wearer invisible.

His name was Gyges and he was a shepherd.

Now after an earthquake, Gyges ventured into a chasm deep into the earth where he found the corpse of a giant who was wearing nothing but a single golden ring.

Gyges snatched the ring And he returned to the flock.

Now as soon as Gyges realized, as he played with the ring, the ring's power, he arranged to become 1 of the messengers sent to report to the king.

On arriving there, he seduced the king's wife.

And then he attacked the king with her help, killed him, and in this way, took over the entire kingdom.

Glaucon finishes his story by saying, I believe that everyone, when it comes down to it, would behave like Gyges.

Everyone, no matter how apparently good, no matter how seemingly just, would ultimately succumb to the temptations of the ring.

The story raises questions about the dark side of humanity.

You see, what if a person knew for certain, you see right now we may say, well, invisibility ain't gonna work, we got DNA evidence now.

So what if you knew for certain that you could get away with anything and face no consequences?

Is there anything that you would do that you might call evil.

And even if you wouldn't do it, would you even contemplate the idea?

Would you flirt with the idea of what you would do with the ability to be invisible?

It speaks to the fact that in each and every 1 of us, there is a dark side.

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