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

Our great God, our dear, loving, heavenly Father, Lord, we give you praise and we give you thanks, for you are worthy of our praise and our thanksgiving.

And, Lord, you are also worthy of our trust.

Father, today, may we see a clearer picture of you, of who you are and what you can do in our lives.

Father, I pray that you please speak to our hearts, and may you pour upon us a full measure of your Spirit.

Lord, I ask that you please hide me behind the shadow of your cross, that I may not be seen or be heard, and even a desire to be seen or to be heard, Lord, please take that away.

That Jesus and Jesus alone be seen, be heard, be lifted up, and exalted.

This Lord we pray and we ask in the loving name of your Son Jesus all your children say, amen.

The Lord gave me the privilege to be a missionary for the past 8 years and 10 months.

And God has been so good because he has led me through each and every trip and he somehow compelled me to rely fully upon him.

No salary, no stipend, only depending on him.

And throughout my travel, as I walk along this path that the Lord has had me to take, there's 1 thing that I observe, especially when I go to countries that do not know Jesus.

I went to Korea, I went to Japan, people were so busy.

There's no peace, there's no joy in their faces.

And then I realized, wow, these are the people who need to know Jesus, amen?

The saddest thing is I go from place to place, travel from church to church.

Most of the places that I go to is our churches.

Most of the things that I do is Revival and Reformation.

And the saddest thing that I see is the similarity, the faces that I saw in Japan and Korea, I see in our churches.

We're supposed to be the happiest people on earth.

We're supposed to be the most joyful people on earth.

And it's this beautiful verses that says, John 15 verse 11, this things I have spoken unto you that your joy might remain, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

1 of my favorite verses, Psalm 16 verse 11, thou wilt show me the path of life.

Is fullness of joy, not just joy but fullness of joy.

At thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

And as our brother Samuel read a while ago, Hebrews 12, verse 2, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him, endured what?

Friends, this morning, I'd like to propose something, that there's joy in the cross.

Let me share with you the things that I have observed, the reasons why, being as a church, that we don't have the joy.

This is just Jem's little observation from a little missionary.

So, first 1, first thing that I'd like to propose is that we don't have joy, we don't have peace, that the Lord has already offered is because We plan for our own selves and not for the glory of God.

The way that we plan things is only for ourselves and not for the glory of God.

He's just there whenever we need help when our plans are not going our way.

Have you noticed when you plan for yourselves, anything that comes in between you and your plans, you just like.

And sometimes God is in between your plans.

If God is not the main reason for our plans of our lives, then there'll be no joy.

Friends, I have this beautiful thought here from Help in Daily Living.

It says, many are unable to make definite plans for the future their life is unsettled they cannot discern the outcome of their affairs and Often fills them with anxiety and unrest Who among you here is anxious right now?

Let us remember that the life of God's children in this world is a pilgrim life.

Friends, this is not your final destination.

And it says here, we have not wisdom to plan for our own lives.

How many of you here agrees that Jesus is our example?

Okay, only 1 third or maybe 1 fifth of the group accepts that Jesus is our example.

So would you believe that Whatever Jesus has shown us, we should follow.

Christ in his life on earth made no plans for himself.

Christ on His life on earth made no plans for Himself.

And day by day, the Father unfolded His plans.

So should we depend upon God, that our lives may be a simple outworking of His will.

As we commit our ways to Him, He will direct our steps.

And as I was reading this, I was also reminded by this beautiful verse.

I think most of you, if not all of you, memorized this verse, Proverbs 3, verses 5 and 6.

Let's just say in that first line, trust in the Lord with what?

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