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Eastern Canada Youth Conference

Seminars

Valmy Karemera

Adventism in Conflict: Church Issues in End-Time Perspective

Robert Blais

What is Righteousness by Faith?

Scripture Our Only Safeguard

How Does Righteousness by Faith Work?

Jonathan Zita

Family in End-Time Perspective

Is Righteousness by Faith Possible for Me?

Leaving the Cities: Why, When, How?

Wesley Sifflet

Time of Trouble: Who Am I?

Aboubacar Sidiki Camara

The Omega Apostasy

Yesterday, as I was flying here from my leg from Detroit to here, sitting next to me was an engineer from 1 of the tech companies in California.

And so he started asking me what I do, where I live, and those kind of questions, you know.

And at the end of the day, so I told him what I did, and he shared with me what he did.

And so we started discussing about faith, life, and all that kind of stuff.

And then at 1 point, he asked me if I meditated as a way to find this truth that we are all after.

He told me in a nutshell, his definition of meditation is to concentrate on his breath.

And I told him, you know, for me, the type of meditation I do is reflect on the word of God.

And you can see that from that point on, we started to diverge our points, but the conversation continued.

So here with me, I have a piece of paper.

I have here with me a piece of paper where he took pretty much half of our flight, explained to me what Hinduism was, trying to convince me of the Hinduism.

So I saw it as an opportunity also to share with him about Christianity and especially about Adventism.

But interestingly, 1 thing he did, he started off by showing me that Hinduism believes in something called Consciousness, something that you and I would call God.

And consciousness is the energy that created nothing And then from nothing created something.

So everything that exists that was created out of nothing.

And consciousness is the power behind that.

Do you see how closely it looks to Christianity?

Because we believe that God created out of nothing and everything came out of nothing.

This statement is taken from the great controversy, page 593.

It says, in the last days, will the counterfeit so closely resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures?

In the last days will the counterfeit so closely resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

But yet without the scripture, we cannot distinguish between the true and the false.

So as I sat there, I saw How so close is the system he was sharing with me?

And then I sat there, I imagined myself, what if I knew nothing about scripture?

But as our conversation continued, I asked him a question.

So in your system, in your belief system, How do you explain suffering?

And basically his response was, suffering, it depends on how you see it and how you define it.

For example, he said, if you look at a mother having a baby, I just said a baby, amen?

If you look at a mother having a baby, There is pain involved, but there is also joy.

So his view was that it all depends on how you see it.

I say, suppose somebody is holding you on a gunpoint.

They just finished raping your wife and they threatened to rape your daughter.

It was an opportunity to share with him the gospel of Christ.

And so here we are discussing issues in the end times.

It may be your coworker that are struggling with these issues.

They're struggling with these, not only your coworker or your classmate, it may be your church member.

So if we narrow down our conversation and bring it home to our church, our church is facing so many issues, so many issues.

But as I commenced saying, a crisis can be defined in different ways.

In fact, in the New Testament, the word judgment is also, is where we get the word also crisis.

The time of judgment is the time of crisis.

So I thank God that we are living in the time of crisis.

I thank God that we are living in a time of crisis.

The time of crisis, yes, it has bad connotation to it, but it's also a good time because it is a time to do what?

It is a time not to waver between 2 opinions.

It is a time that you and I choose who we want to serve.

It is the time to choose, the time of crisis.

It is the time that you and I make a choice between God or the world, between serving God faithfully or serving God or serving the world.

This morning I was listening to the doctor they brought from Liberia who had the Ebola.

He's a Christian doctor and he's a missionary doctor.

And he gave a press conference when he was released from the hospital, from the Emory Hospital.

And he said, you know, I thank God for, when I went to serve God as a missionary, he's not Adventist, but he said, when I went to serve God as a missionary, he's not Adventist, but he said, when I went to serve God as a missionary, I didn't expect this, but I remember contracting this disease and laying there for 9 days, I believe, in Liberia, And he said, God, I want to be faithful to you.

But I want you to use this disease as an opportunity for me to glorify your name.

And you can go there, and you can Google it, and you see a YouTube video.

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