ECYC 2015: Christ In Me

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Eastern Canada Youth Conference

Plenary

Sebastien Braxton

What Is Righteousness by Faith?

Why Do I Love Evil?

When Temptations Return

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It is a blessing not only to be alive, but not just living, but having eternal life.

The day that you immediately give your life over to Christ.

You just go to sleep and then he wakes you up when it's time to go home.

And so oftentimes, you know, we, as I was telling some of the leaders outside, we kind of lose the joy of salvation, look a little serious sometimes.

So it's okay to loosen up and smile every once in a while.

I promise I won't take advantage of you if you smile.

But nevertheless, it is a joy just to be back in Canada.

I remember when this movement and conference was beginning, 2009 actually, and had the privilege to come in and speak there the first time and have been excited about all the things that you guys have been doing here in Canada and the missions.

And so it's just great to be back again and to be willing to have me here.

Before we get started, I also want to kind of talk a little bit about righteousness by faith right out the gate.

You know, it's 1 of those topics that no 1 really wants to touch.

When we used to plan seminars for GYC, it was a little interesting choosing who was going to talk about salvation.

If you had a seminar on that, sanctification or justification or 1888, you know, these things are very hot topics in the church.

We're not necessarily debating about salvation, but on the higher ivory towers of life, the scholars are debating about this issue.

It's very, very minute, the points and what specific terms you use and at what point does justification become sanctification.

And what does that mean to sin and was Paul converted in Romans 7 and we go on and on and on down the line but I Want to let you know my intentions in terms of going forward this weekend I want to start off first with Jesus's teaching.

To me, if you want to understand anything clearly, just look at what Jesus says.

And I believe that Mary's counsel in John 2 is the best counsel you can ever receive, which is whatever he says to you, do it.

That's the best counsel you can ever receive.

And if that's carrying water pots, then carry water pots.

But sometimes we're so much burdened by the menial, apparent menial tasks that Jesus asks us to do, when in actuality, he's inviting you to be a part of a miracle, a story that will always be told.

We don't even know the names of those guys that carried those water pots.

But they knew, their family knew, and of course, who knows what their children went on to do for the Lord.

But I want to first talk about Christ and his teachings about righteousness and faith and all those things.

Then I want to kind of continue on to talk about righteousness by faith in the Old Testament.

Tomorrow morning and then tomorrow night we'll go into the gospel from the gospels.

I don't know why people don't like to use the gospels to preach the gospel.

We like to go to Paul, but it's called the gospel of such and such.

And so I wanna talk about the gospel in the gospels.

And then My last message, I'll deal with the whole 1888 and our pioneers.

A year and a half ago, I was sitting at dinner with some friends, having some Thai food, and my meal got ruined very quickly as this discussion came up of 1888.

The brother's looking at me, he's like, man, you know, don't you feel like our whole church, we just need like a corporate repentance, like go to a field and just like repent publicly as a church, you know, with the leaders, all of us there.

And I'm like, I don't believe that the church fully rejected it and I don't believe the church fully accepted it.

But I said, which is why I'm starting with 3 quotes from Adventist authors at different times in the church to show that the continuity of righteousness by faith has always been in our church.

Even the great controversy before 1888, when these visions were given, it's saturated with righteousness by faith language.

That was the book that converted me into the church.

And righteousness by faith was the most powerful truth I've ever heard in my life, to date.

And what I mean by powerful is the ability to transform an individual's life.

Every major figure in Christian history, the turning point to where they became the people we now admire them to be was the point of their conversion.

And I'm going to talk about that a little bit later in this message.

So to talk about this experience of righteousness by faith, it is not happenstance that when you trace people who inspire you, who touch your life, it is oftentimes rooted in the experience of salvation in their life.

Listen, you don't start giving certain kinds of messages unless you've been through something.

People think, You know, people come to me about mentoring them and preaching.

I'm like, listen, I can teach you, teaching you preaching is like teaching you how to play pool.

Hit the ball on the top, the middle, or the bottom.

But while it's simple, you know, these things will take you a lifetime to master them, but I said at the end of the day, there's certain things I can never teach you.

I said unless you've been through something, there's just certain things a person cannot teach you.

And Sister White talks about this in Ministry of Healing.

Some people have never been touched by trials or burdens.

So as soon as something difficult comes, people come and say, oh, I got victory over this.

I'm like, if that's the most difficult thing you're dealing with in your life, You're going to have a hard time relating with the world.

My best friend was shot at night, 50 bullets.

My lunch lady was killed for talking against games.

Seeing women raped, seeing kids picked up, my babysitter was jumped walking me home from school.

Those are just a few of my experiences in the city.

And then you come to the church and people are like, you know I'm struggling with impatience.

I got victory over impatience and I'm not doubting anyone's victory.

But what I'm saying is I need to know Christ can do more than just handle impatience.

I need to know that Christ can restore my lost childhood, my innocence.

You know, sexuality is also a meaningful topic for me too.

You go in the city, your parents are not around.

Single moms, they're working all day long.

So you're left to the devices, as that quote said, as a mother, do you let them hang with these kids in the city?

Your friends are who live nearby and who knows what kind of stuff is going on in their house.

So you're sitting there thinking, playing house is such a very innocuous game, right?

You're the mama, I'm the papa, it's the kid, we do the dinner, okay, it's time to go to bed.

This girl took me behind the door, started explaining to me, this is exactly how you have sex.

Did you know based on behavioral and criminal science that when a child is exposed to sexuality before their time, this is where deviance begins.

And the earlier they're exposed to sexuality where they don't understand it, the more deviant they will be.

So when we talk about getting victory over things, we need to be very, very keen on the fact that the people we're trying to minister to are dealing with a lot more than the things we talk about getting victory over.

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Plenary

What Is Righteousness by Faith?

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