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

Gracious Father, we ask for strength and wisdom and grace.

Thank you for the privilege of this conference.

Father, do not pass us by on this Sunday.

We ask that you bless us now with your spirit and the reading of your word.

Some quotes I'd like to start off, we will go to scripture.

John Stott, a very famous preacher, said this, quote, Before we begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

Martin Laurie Jones, another very famous non-Adventist evangelical preacher, says this quote, look again at the cross my friend, take another survey, examine it again with greater depth and profundity And having seen the grace and mercy and the compassion and the kindness of God, look again, and this is what you'll see.

You'll see the justice of God and His holiness.

It is the place of all places in the universe where these attributes of God can be seen most plainly.

Ellen White, Manuscript page 31, in Manuscript 31 I should say, the 1 great central truth to be kept ever before the mind in the searching of the scriptures is Christ's and Him crucified.

Every other truth is invested with influence and power corresponding its relation to this theme.

It is only in the light of the cross that we can discern the exalted character of the law of God.

The soul palsied by sin can be endowed with life only through the work wrought out upon the cross by the author of our salvation." Manuscript 49.

Hanging upon the cross, Christ was the gospel.

This is our doctrine, our warning to the impenitent, our encouragement for the suffering, the hope for every believer.

If we can awaken an interest in men's minds that will cause them to fix their eyes on Christ, we may step aside and ask them only to continue to fix their eyes upon the Lamb of God." You know our theme here at GYC Canada is to take the Adventist gospel to all of Canada.

I mean, well, we are different from the Evangelical.

We believe in the same gospel as the Evangelical Church.

We believe in the same emphasis, but where is the difference?

The Evangelical churches see the cross as their primary lens and the all in all and the end of all things.

Adventists look at salvation through the lens of the heavenly sanctuary.

What is the bloodline of the heavenly sanctuary?

It is the blood of Jesus made possible by the cross of Christ.

So we believe in the same gospel but we take almost the kind of kind of like you know you gotta zoom out with your 2 fingers and see how this works out.

As we looked at on Friday, Saturday and through Sebastian Braxton's messages Christ not only died for you but he died for the issues of the universe to vindicate the character of God, of which we play just a very small part, but a very important part nonetheless.

Regardless, Christ's hanging upon the cross is still the gospel that we believe.

The Jews believed Jesus was a subversive preacher and he's charged with theological blasphemy.

Caiaphas was in charge of the trial and they said, look this guy is annoying.

Our Jewish narrative will crumble if he continues.

We've come up to this point and we come at this this kind of legal standing and if he continues what we've worked up to will be demolished.

They said that Jesus was a revolutionary activist charged with political treason and sedition, challenging the authority of Caesar.

Pilate, the Roman procurator, was in charge of the trial and they said this, if he continues what he's going to do, our Pax Romana, the longest this world has ever seen peace, this will crumble and he's annoying, we got to get rid of him.

This unholy alliance between the Jews and the Romans occurred where Jesus was a threat to law and order, Jesus was a threat to the status quo, Jesus was a threat to their narrative.

And so this morning's sermon title is an interruption to narrative.

Lewis calls Jesus the transcendental interferer.

Question, has Jesus threatened your narrative?

Is Jesus convenient and comfortable for you?

Has he blessed your education and your finances?

And now is he going to bless your marriage and your children and your mortgage and and your things?

Does he fit perfectly into your narrative?

Because everywhere in Scripture for everyone else he was very inconvenient to the point where they wanted to kill him.

So if Jesus is too comfortable and too...

If he dovetails into your life Maybe something is wrong.

Maybe you believe in a different Jesus than the Jesus of the Bible.

The method to remove Jesus was the crucifixion.

It wasn't something that was peaceful and some quiet death.

It was humiliation by being stripped naked.

His hands were nailed and roped to the horizontal wooden beam.

His feet were attached to the vertical pole.

He was publicly ridiculed, naked, embarrassed in front of everyone.

There was no loincloth, as many crucifixes portray.

There was the daytime heat, the torture of the sun.

There was the nighttime cold, and with the blood all around him it cooled and caused hypothermia." Interestingly, the Bible does not mention any of this information.

Only, the Bible says, they crucified him.

All 4 Gospels, Matthew 2735, they crucified him.

This is the study, the word study for this morning.

You ever talk to some people and be like, well they're out there.

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