God will can enmity between us and the devil, a hatred for sin. He has to put enmity between us and Satan is because we have a tendency to be aligned with him thus it is important that we ask God to give us a perfect hatred for sin.

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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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We must recognize that in discussing this kind of topic as we tried to build a case last night, this could be the turning point in someone's life that turns them into a major Christian reformer.

This could be the preparation for someone to serve the Lord even as a prophet.

This could be the preparation of someone even going beyond what Mother Teresa had done.

Can you imagine how powerful her testimony would have been?

Had she done the things she had done and she had the peace of God at the same time?

But it's all marred at the end of her life.

All her legacy, all those things are marred by the fact that she had this constant abandonment and loneliness in her heart.

Which goes to show you, no amount of works will bring us peace.

However good and however inspirational they are.

People can even canonize you and make you a saint.

Martin Luther is recorded as having preached a sermon 1 time.

And while he was preaching his sermon, he was frustrated because they had, you know, the little indulgences outside, right?

You know, whenever a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from Purgatory springs, right?

So people had been hearing Luther preach, but They felt like, you know what, there was an opportunity.

Maybe I can add to the gospel that Luther is preaching.

So not only can I listen to the gospel and believe in Christ, but I can put my money in this coffer?

John from Patmos and you know you'll get some blessing from there.

In India they believe they have the tomb of Thomas, they believe in the Middle East that Daniel is buried there, so Muslims and Christians and Jews all fight over this space.

So you're thinking all these concepts were going on and Luther came to that service that day and he had to preach and he said, steps away from the podium which is very abnormal for a priest to do.

If you've ever seen a Catholic Church right they have the little lectern all the way sewed it up like above the congregation.

He preaches on the floor with the congregation.

And as he steps away from his podium, he's clearly moved by something.

And they describe the experience as Luther comes and he says, listen.

He says, you turn to relics, you pay your money, You think you have to do this penance and climb up this innumerable mounts of stairs?

Self-flagellate yourself when all along there is Christ Right there.

You just have to go to him why is it that we have to add to what Jesus does it is sufficient if it's not sufficient then why did he die Jesus didn't come down to pay 90% of the bill Work out the other 10%.

But Luther is looking at them and he says, you can't add to the sacrifice of Christ.

He says, you drop your coin in that coffer, you're saying his sacrifice is insufficient.

You go and touch that relic and these people are sitting there so moved by the fact that for us it seems so basic, it seems so assumed, but the reality is we don't have relics anymore, right?

John's garments or this was the Bible that Daniel had in Babylon.

All these other relics that we're like, oh wow, you know, I'm going to get a blessing from this because this thing is sanctified, set aside by God.

But we do have our own modern relics as well.

You think because you woke up and read your Bible this morning that recommended you to God.

Some of us think because we pray for 2 hours rather than the normal 30 minutes, right?

You sound like the Pharisee in the temple.

I thank you, Lord, that I pray 2 hours unlike the 30 minutes that these other people pray.

The Bible says he went to his home condemned, not justified.

But he's spiritual, doing spiritual activities.

I'm not an extortioner, I'm not an adulterer, I'm not like these other men.

But the man who sat afar off and said, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.

I'm preaching my sermon for tonight already.

It is the laying into the dust of the glory of who?

In doing for man that which it is not in his power to do for himself.

I told you I want you to memorize this quote before you leave This is what it is Whatever reduces man's glory and whatever God does for you that you cannot do for yourself Do you know you are in the realm of righteousness by faith.

You start preaching anything else that you can do for yourself that's not righteousness by faith, it's works.

And God doesn't do for men what man can do for himself.

This is why 1 of the famous reverends in New York City, he used to have this saying, right?

The best thing you can do for the poor is not be 1 of them That's the best thing you can do because if you're poor you're not helping anyone So in in this context right if I applied that to physical poverty and it is true the best thing you can do for the poor is not be 1 of them.

Because if you're poor, you ain't helping anybody.

But it applies equally to spiritual poverty.

So listen, the best thing I can do for the people outside in Eastern Canada is be filled with righteousness.

That's the best thing I can do for them is to have his righteousness and as I'm living that life out sanctified, this is what's awakening the hunger in them to desire righteousness.

And all they need is the hunger and thirst.

Once you have that desire that I want to live a better life, I want to do good, I want to live right by my wife.

As soon as you have the hunger and thirsting, He says, you are blessed.

That's not usually our message to people.

I want to begin with a story from Charles Spurgeon, but before I do that, let's pray together.

Father in heaven, we are about to embark upon the experience of the gospel in the Old Testament.

Father, most often our highest and most severe critics use this part of the canon of Scripture to discount the blessing, the blessed love, grace, and faith Lord that we speak of in terms of salvation and the God whom we love and worship.

We pray Father that you would raise up an Ebenezer today, that through the reflection upon these stories, as they reveal the principles of the gospel and of righteousness by faith in the Old Testament, that Christ would be uplifted, that Jesus would be seen, that we would be drawn to him, Lord, and that we would not resist.

But Father, that we may find ourselves coming before God, not just in brokenness and in contrition, but Father, in joy and in peace, in love, and in excitement of living life, abiding in Him.

This is our prayer, Father, and we trust that You'll help this to be our experience.

Take your Bibles, turn to Genesis 3 verse 15.

We're gonna start with our scripture reading.

He says there was a man who was a pastor over a church in England.

He remembered 1 day that 1 of his parishioners was a very poor woman and he had received several offerings in church So he said, you know what, I remember this woman has need.

I'm going to go visit her to go and help her meet her need financially.

So the pastor leaves the church, locks up, heads down, you know, to where she lives, knocks on the door.

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Plenary

Why Do I Love Evil?

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