After giving the early morning challenge to attendees at the GYCEurope Focus event in Leicester, UK, Sebastien Braxton then gives this as a follow up message. It’s one thing to get up early in the mornings but what do we bring to God when we come to Him? in this sermon he shares how we can add purpose and meaning to the time we spend with God and exercise faith in Him.

GYCE Focus 2016: Coming to Christ

<p>After giving the early morning challenge to attendees at the GYCEurope Focus event in Leicester, UK, Sebastien Braxton then gives this as a follow up message. It’s one thing to get up early in the mornings but what do we bring to God when we come to Him? in this sermon he shares how we can add purpose and meaning to the time we spend with God and exercise faith in Him.</p>

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GYC Europe

Sebastien Braxton

No, You Did Not!

Mighty God, everlasting Father, we are here 1 more time.

Some of us got up early in the morning, and We've seen your sustaining grace.

And so Lord, all we're asking is that you would show us the power of the Lord.

Father, that we would walk away tonight saying, if the Lord ever spoke by a man, He spoke by him tonight.

And Lord, this is only possible if we make a complete surrender of ourselves to you, that we fear no man.

And we fear no thing save sin, and to be unfaithful to Him who has given all for us.

Pour out your spirit upon this meeting, and we pray that Jesus would be lifted up, and that we would leave this place loving Him more, is our prayer from our hearts in Jesus' name.

When I was a child, I was not always a Christian.

And so when I was a child, I was a very violent child.

And I remember being in third grade, sitting in the back of the class as a class clown, making fun of the kids in the front, because you know back then it wasn't cool to be smart.

For some reason it was cool to be stupid.

So we're sitting in the back of the class clowning around, making fun of the teacher.

I'll never forget this lady as long as I, as long as we both shall live.

Blaney said, Sebastian, you know what, you're so concerned with Justin, why don't you come up here and sit next to him on the front row?

I'm like, kick me out of class, you know, send me to the principal's office, but now I got to sit next to this nerd.

It's like she knew it was going to be worse torture than anything else.

As we sat down, we continued on in our school work and part of our assignment required us to have some scissors to cut out some pieces.

As I was cutting, Justin realized he didn't have his scissors with him.

So Justin said, hey Sebastian, do you mind if I borrow your scissors?

He says, yeah man, I'll give you back your scissors.

So he takes the scissors, And I'm still waiting to finish my project and the teacher says look you guys have 1 more minute to finish this Before we're gonna move on so I said hey man.

Those are my scissors So you're gonna need to give me back the scissors.

You can explain to her that you forgot your scissors.

He said, look, man, I'm not giving you back your scissors till I'm done.

I said, Justin, you need to give me back my scissors.

The teacher is literally 5 feet away from us.

He says, look, I'm not giving you back your scissors.

Now, I grew up in Chicago, so you can imagine, people are a little aggressive, you know.

And so, back in my day, insults were a little different than they are today, you know.

You want to insult somebody, you put a hashtag on it, you know.

It's like, oh, thanks, great job, hashtag average, you know.

Back in my day, you say things like, your mama, right?

So I said, look man, I'm not gonna ask you again.

He said you ain't gonna do nothing your mama I was like Lord, I just got off a suspension So I kept quiet, you know like the t-shirt says keep calm So I asked him again politely Justin if you don't give me back my scissors.

Then I looked at him, he looked at me, and he said, your daddy.

The teacher started screaming, Sebastian, go to the office.

My mom just so happened to be on lunch break, came by the school.

And in my school, they had a room for parents to beat their kids.

You can go and take Sebastian over there.

I'm like, ma, he, no, I told you about being violent.

Then to come to find out, I see my father's face across the window.

My dad opens the door, my heart is just like pumping out my chest.

I'm like, it's over man, it's getting dark.

Well, you know when your dad's asking you, right?

You can't make your subject and verb agree.

We had, what had happened was I, we, just get it out.

I'm like, well, he said this, and then they wouldn't give me back my scissors, and da-da-da-da-da.

And then he said, your mama, and I tried to wave.

Then he says, your dad, and I punched him in the face.

He said, well, at least we know who he loves.

My parents started arguing, I left the office and went back to class.

I remember that conversation because of how many times I heard that phrase, no you didn't.

And it struck me as a kid because, you know, it was always something you always felt like only girls say that kind of thing.

Right, you know, you think of the girl waving her head like this in a zigzag fashion, right, like her stuff is loose, like it's like a whip, you know.

And I remember growing up and thinking that at the time, right, I was a victim, you know, and I was the 1 who was shocked because no, you did not is a shock that comes upon a person.

It's the only thing you can say because you cannot believe the person just did what they just did.

So I remember when I got older, I became the perpetrator.

And so you know, any girl back in the day, black girls used to spend a lot of money to get their hair done.

And so I remember we were all, Maybe they still do, I don't know.

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