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

Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you Lord for this opportunity to spend time together with you.

We ask, O Lord, for forgiveness of our sin, especially my sin, Lord.

You know what I have done against you, what I have done wrong to others, and I ask that you will hide me behind the cross.

Thank you, Father, for the forgiveness that you give and the reconciliation we can have with each other.

And Lord, as we open your word this morning, I pray for eyes from the Holy Spirit that you will help us to see your truth.

Thank you, Father, for answering this prayer.

As mentioned by sister, she said that I graduated from a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences.

And my father, he actually also has some science background too.

He has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering, a Master's of science in explosives engineering, and a PhD in nuclear engineering.

My mother, who sat just there, she graduated with a bachelor of science in chemistry.

So science and the love for discovering more about the world around us is in my blood.

1 of my favorite quotes from Sister White is the very last sentence from The Great Controversy.

And it says, from the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things animate and inanimate in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy declare that God is love.

So I have some photos for you and I want you to say out loud the first thing that comes to mind.

Double helix I heard some of you are also science students.

What comes to mind when I see DNA is the immense amount of information, the sequence of adenosine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine, and all that coded in DNA.

It's amazing that God can use such a small structure to develop such a complex being such as humans and bananas.

The amount of patterns just behind making the structure of a snowflake.

I wish someone else would open it for me.

This is an adaptation from an article I read by the editor of Savisco Quarterly, Clifford Goldstein.

He wrote about a grapefruit, but I like pomegranate.

And when you open the pomegranate, you find the seed.

And when you open the seed, what's inside?

If you look inside the seed it's just white nothingness but you are all smart.

So if you take the seed and you plant it in dirt and you water it what happens to the seed?

No you have to wait And then these bulbous fruits form.

You have to open it up and you get the delicious, juicy pomegranate.

And this is cycling through my mind when I look at a photo of a pomegranate.

How amazing is God that the cycle from seed to fruit is right there before us.

What comes to my mind is how does the tree bring up the water from the ground all the way to the top.

Another thing that comes to mind is where did the tree come from?

It's so small, but the mustard tree is so big.

Now if you think about it, surely there's not a big hole in the ground that all of the mass from the soil became a tree, right?

But the tree's mass actually comes from carbon dioxide.

And the last photo we have is of Earth and the outer space, what comes to mind.

I think of how these giant spherical bodies are orbiting the universe or our solar system.

He has provided these natural laws and all of nature abides by these natural laws.

God created us, so what law do we abide by?

What's the theme actually for GYC Canada?

So when I first saw the theme for this convention, law and love combined, I did what any sensible person would do and I looked up the words law and love in my Bible and some of the verses that came up were from Psalm 119 verses 97, 113, 163 and 165.

Oh how love I thy law, it is my meditation all the day.

I hate vain thoughts, but thy law do I love.

I hate abhor lying, But thy law do I love.

I hate abhor lying, but thy law do I love.

Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.

Another translation reads, nothing shall cause them to stumble.

So as I look through these verses, I'm trying to think of someone in the Bible who stumbled because in my personal testimony, I stumble as well.

How many of us stumble in our walk with the Lord?

So let's find someone in the book of Matthew chapter 26.

We'll look at an individual who stumbles as well.

You can Open your Bible to Matthew chapter 26.

I will have them on the screen with some highlighted words just to jump out at you.

Then saith Jesus unto them, all ye shall be offended because of me this night.

For it is written, I will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

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