ECYC 2014: Revive Us Again

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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

Just before I begin, I just want to let you know my name is Robert Blaise and I'm originally from Montreal, now I live in British Columbia and I'm part of a ministry called Unit Ministry and if you're interested you can go on our website which is unit-ministry.com.

It's a little out of date, we had a problem with our server but eventually we'll fix it and it'll be up to date.

So this morning for the next 3 hours we'll be talking about righteousness by faith.

Now as I mentioned a little bit yesterday evening, it is such a broad topic, There is so much things to talk about that 3 hours will be very difficult to cover everything.

And so we'll have to be choosing what we'll talk about.

So you might start your dinner, your lunch a little late, but I can't stop you from leaving and I'm not going to be angry if at 12 o'clock you can't take it anymore and you have to go.

So, but I want us to get as much time together so we can cover as much things together.

So before I begin anything else, let's have a word of prayer together.

Lord, we come to you this morning because you are, Lord, the source of all things.

You are the source of our lives and you are the source of our ways.

And Lord, you are the source of righteousness.

And this morning as we come to you to open the scripture and the words from the Spirit of Prophecy, we pray and ask Lord that you will guide our hearts and our mind that we may understand this very important doctrine.

And I pray Lord that you will be fulfilled today and that all that we'll be doing, thinking and speaking about will be for your glory.

Please Lord, edify your people that are here and help us Lord to do all that you require of us.

I pray and ask also that you put your words in my mouth Lord, because I cannot speak on this matter unless You, Lord, be the 1 speaking.

And I pray that You will also forgive our sins, Lord, that we may all be united and 1 and not divided and not separated from You.

And I thank You, Lord, for being faithful to us, and I pray that You will help us to be faithful to You as well.

And I pray all this in the most beautiful name under heaven and in heaven that is the name of Jesus.

So how many of you have heard of the expression righteousness by faith?

Righteousness by faith is 1 of those doctrines that is so important, it's kind of like the glue that binds all other doctrines together.

And as you're going to see as we go through so many verses today, you will start noticing that righteousness is actually everywhere in the Bible.

Righteousness by faith is not pervasive but it permeates everything.

And so what we're going to do is we're going to try to move logically and our methods will be Bible We're gonna look at the Bible and we're gonna let the Bible speaks for itself And then we're gonna console the spirit of prophecy and then we're gonna start thinking Right, we're gonna use our logic And maybe if we have time, which I don't think we will, we might look at other sources.

I hope we'll have some time at the end to ask some questions.

And I know this is a large commitment, because it's a three-hour session.

I know you might go elsewhere to look at other seminars and that's fine, but I just want you to understand that things will be moving and building on each other.

And so you will only get the whole and full pictures at the end of these 3 hours plus.

All right, okay, and we're not here to debate because if you know anything about righteousness by faith, it is 1 of the most debated topics in the Adventist church itself and also in the rest of the churches.

It is highly misunderstood and highly misrepresented from our people sitting in our pews, to our pastors, to our scholars, to our theologians, our conference presidents, and anybody has an opinion.

But what we're interested in is what the Bible has to say.

And so that's what we're going to do today.

Now 1 thing that I'm going to spend a lot of time with is defining terminology.

A lot of the differences that we have is because we don't understand what things mean.

What is the response that we usually get?

And if I would ask you, can you give me Bible for it?

Then it would be a little more difficult, right?

And 1 of the things with grace is most people will say, well it's an unmerited favor, right?

Or it's a gift from God that we don't deserve.

And then I would ask the person, okay, so grace is a gift.

And then the person will say, well it's grace.

And at the end of the day we're not going anywhere.

We just know that it's a gift and it's free.

So we need to, and we're going to look at grace by the way and a lot of other things we're going to look at tons of words and the idea is for us to get a better understanding of righteousness by faith So before we go anywhere we need to figure out.

Makes sense By the way, we'll have 9 sections all right, so we'll try to get through all of this.

So it's important to know righteousness because Jesus himself told us that we ought to seek first his righteousness, seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

We'll be moving quite fast and I know the slides will be on the screen so if you take notes of at least the references you can go back and study for yourself and you ought to do that because we will not exhaust everything.

You need to go and study these things on your own.

So Jesus tells us that we ought to seek His righteousness.

So righteousness is something that we search for.

The Bible also tells us in 1 Peter 2.24 that we should live unto righteousness.

So righteousness is something to live for.

And in 1 John 3, 7 John tells us that he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as He is righteous.

So righteousness is also something that we do.

And by doing this righteousness we are righteous.

In 2 Peter 2.21 we read, For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

So here we read that righteousness is a way of living, it's a way of life, it's something that gives you direction.

And it also tells us that it is connected with the holy commandment, right, with the law of God.

If you're a little confused there, just please pop a hand because we're here to understand and to learn.

In Romans 6, 16-19, we read, Romans 6, 16-19 we read, Right, So in order to have righteousness we have to obey.

And the other thing is that we have to be a servant to it.

People don't like this idea of servanthood, and it's because there's a lot of stigma attached to it, which is understandable.

You serve sin, or you serve righteousness.

It goes on saying that when you are free from sin you can become the servant of righteousness.

But if you are a servant from sin, what does that mean?

You are free from righteousness, which is not a good thing.

Christ's Object Lessons tells us righteousness is right doing and it is by their deeds that all will be judged.

So righteousness is something that we do.

In First Selected Messages 225 we read, When the judgment shall sit, and the books shall be opened, and every man shall be judged according to the things written in the books.

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