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Eastern Canada Youth Conference

ECYC 2011 Plenary Meetings

Valmy Karemera

The Prerequisite of Empowerment

Andy Im

The Lostness Monster: The Empowerment of Identity

Mirriam Norte

The Joy of Full Surrender

The American Facade: The Empowerment of Purpose

Mark Johnson

Outreach Charge

Possessing the Land: The Empowerment of Destiny

Well, I want to go ahead and start and if you don't mind, I'm actually going to come down here a little closer to you and speak from this area.

Before we have a prayer, I just want to go ahead and say a few things.

If we could go ahead, Let me get started here.

We're gonna talk about the lostness monster.

And typically, you wouldn't associate the lostness monster with empowerment.

Would you use something positive like empowerment with something seemingly so depressing like lostness monster?

And I'm gonna share with you this morning a little bit about how we can be empowered through right identity.

And I pray and that this message will be a blessing to you as it as it has been to me.

But I also want to speak a little bit about revival and reformation.

We're hearing a lot about revival and reformation these days.

How many of you are hearing a lot about that?

And sometimes we don't know exactly what that means.

Ellen White says in First Selected Messages, page 121, that a revival is needed, that a revival of true godliness, she says, among us, is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs.

To seek this should be our second work, our first work.

There must be earnest effort to obtain the blessing of the Lord.

Not because God is not willing to bestow His blessing upon us.

God is so eager, way more eager than we possibly can be to pour out His blessings.

The reason why it hasn't been poured out yet, ever since the days of the pioneers until now, is because we are unprepared to receive it.

And I'm gonna share with you the very last slide of this presentation, why it is we're unprepared in the context that I'll be sharing today.

She goes on in Review and Herald, February 25, 1902, a revival and a reformation must take place under the ministration of the Holy Spirit.

Revival and Reformation are 2 different things.

Revival signifies a renewal of spiritual life.

How many of you have come to this conference to be revived with spiritual vitality?

A quickening, This is only something that God can do, not man.

And we're going to see that in today's message.

A quickening of the powers of mind and heart, a resurrection from spiritual life.

Again, the emphasis is resurrection, something that you and I cannot and are unable to do.

Reformation, on the other hand, signifies a reorganization, a reshifting, a change in our ideas and theories, habits and practices.

And notice what she says here, Reformation, Reformation will not bring forth the good fruit of righteousness, even though you can reform and do all the right things.

It will not be the good fruit of righteousness unless it's connected with the revival of the Spirit.

Unless we're truly converted and the Spirit is actuating that revival, Reformation will only be legalism.

Just going through the forms and you want something better.

Revival and reformation are to do their appointed work, and in doing this work, they must blend.

Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.

Heavenly Father, we just invite your spirit once again to speak to our minds but not just our minds we pray for you to speak to our hearts to convince us of what you would have us to be convicted of.

And Lord, we pray that you would speak, help the words that come out of this mouth to be your words and not my own.

How many of you have used this expression before?

How many of you, and we hear a lot about this today, words that connote self-expression, like be real.

And we've all used these expressions before.

And the question that I'd like to ask you this morning is Who is that you that you let out when you are real?

Who is that you that comes out when you are?

This morning we're gonna have a reality check and and so we're gonna see what scripture has to say about what comes from our insides.

What is the only thing that can come and derive from mankind.

In Romans chapter 7, verses 18 through 20 and 23, We're going to go through these really quickly.

And so Just follow along Paul says I know that what are the next words?

Nothing good dwells in me Nothing good Dwells in me Paul's about to beat beat us up here.

But we don't have the ability to carry out those desires.

The good that I want to do, those are the things I don't do, but the evil I do not want to do is what I keep doing.

And the sin or the power, he comes to this realization that the power of sin, this law of sin, is present within him.

And it makes him captive, captive to this law of sin that dwells in my members.

When someone says be real, what is the real you that comes out?

Job 14.4 puts it this way, Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?

Jeremiah 17, verse 9, the heart is deceitful above all things.

Did you know that your heart, your very core self, lies to yourself, as well as to others?

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.

Who can know it?" Now that's the most profound question of this passage here.

You may be thinking, well, I know myself.

Friends, if you think that you know yourself, I can guarantee you that you have no clue, no idea what you're about because The power of sin and who we are goes so much deeper, so much deeper than what we often observe and see to ourselves.

By the way, this blindness, this unawareness, is really the crux of the Laodicean message.

The faithful and true witness, Jesus Christ, and he's the true witness.

See, We lie, we deceive ourselves, but Jesus is true.

And this is His message to the Laodicean church, to us as Adventists living at the very end of time.

There's a profession that we are in the right place.

See, their claim, our claim, is that we are rich.

But in fact, we're neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm.

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ECYC 2011 Plenary Meetings

The Lostness Monster: The Empowerment of Identity

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