GYC 2014: At The Cross

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Cross-Check: Finding Your Personal Story At the Cross

Sebastien Braxton

1. Cross-Check: Did I Do That?

2. Cross-Words: Lord, Speak to Me… Please!

3. Cross-Hairs: Why Am I Struggling with This Sin?

4. Cross-Roads: I Just Don’t Know What to Do!

5. Cross-Fire: God, Why Didn’t You Come Through For Me?

6. Cross-Movement: I Want It To Matter That I Lived

This message was presented at the GYC 2014 conference at the Cross in Phoenix, Arizona.

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All right, anybody here for the 10th time?

So this is actually my 11th or 12th, but I don't wanna give away my age.

Just know I didn't pay the $100 surcharge.

So anyway, I just want to welcome you all to our seminar this morning.

For the next 2 days, my intention is to take us upon a journey in looking at the cross in a different way than we typically look at it, which is predominantly for theological benefit.

To say that this is what Jesus did for us, he died for me, or this is the implications in terms of the sanctuary, or the impact that this has upon the great controversy.

All those things are very important, and we should pursue them theologically.

But my intention in this seminar is to do what I've entitled it, which is a cross-check.

And when you cross-check something, you kind of go back and you compare different things to see, like, wait a minute, did I miss a detail that I didn't catch before?

Or Maybe I realized that this person was actually there at the same time in the same place.

And this is oftentimes how police catch criminals who thought that they slipped under the radar.

And in the same sense, this seminar is not so much to implicate you and myself as criminals, as much as it is to say there's a story that is being told and that story is your life and that story at 1 point was Jesus's life and his story ended in a very tragic way At least it seemed on the surface.

And what we discover is that just like Jesus found his story in the stories of others, that in the same sense, our story can be found in Jesus' story.

In fact, not only can it be found there, but we find that your story, my story, Christ's story is a tale that has already been told.

And that is my goal in these 6 sessions, is to show us that much of the things that we experience in life, much of what Jesus experienced, particularly around the crucifixion, is a tale that's already been told.

And we're gonna find, I believe, by God's grace and through the leading of His Holy Spirit, that that tale is being told again in you.

And our goal then as Christians, when we talk about uplifting the cross, when we talk about sharing the cross, it is to help others to also find their personal story in the cross.

And so with that being said, I'd like to pray to begin and then we will immediately dive into our topic.

This is abuse to a preacher, but nevertheless Jesus says, Father forgive them for they know not what they do.

Mighty God, everlasting Father, what an amazing privilege to be able to have the space, the time, the word, and the spirit to be here right now, to study that which we will continue to study through eternal ages.

It is our prayer, Lord, that as we reexamine the details, as we reexamine the general principles, as we reexamine the big story, the big picture, Father, that you will help us to find our story in Jesus' story.

We thank you for your promise to speak to us if we would come to you in humility and with openness of heart and mind.

Grant us this request, not for our sake or because of our own righteousness, but for your mercy's sake, is our prayer in Jesus' name.

Take your Bibles and go to Matthew chapter 23.

I hope you brought your Bibles, we're gonna use them.

I don't know, I feel uncomfortable without it.

Matthew chapter 23, when you're there, you can say amen.

Okay, if you're not there, just say have mercy.

Matthew chapter 23, we're gonna begin in verse 32.

Alright, the Bible says, the words of Christ in red, fill up then the measure of your father's guilt.

Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men and scribes.

Some of them you will kill and crucify and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city.

That on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth.

From the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Now, the word archetype is a technical word in certain fields.

It is a word that is used in behavioral psychology.

It is a word that is used in terms of analyzing literature.

And it's also a word that is used even in other areas that I don't want to get into, which are of no interest and use to us at this time.

But an archetype in a very simple definition is a constantly recurring pattern in life or in literature.

Now the word archetype comes from 2 Greek words.

Maybe you know this word because of the archangel, right?

So we come to 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 16, and it says, And he will come with the sound of a trumpet and the voice of the archangel.

The word arch meaning first or the ruler.

But now The second part of it, the type, or what we call in Greek the toupon, is the model or the pattern.

And that's the noun form, the adjective is archetypos, which basically means this is the first model or the first pattern.

This is the principle pattern from which all others are copied.

You see an archetype are the things that stories are made of.

When you think of an archetype I want you to think in your mind of Superman.

Think of the fact that There's a hero and there's a villain, right?

And this is the archetype that the hero is always perfectly good, right?

He's so loving, he's so patient, he's always willing to sacrifice, or she.

And so you have the fact that This is who they are.

He's perfectly evil, always bent on destruction, always bent on selfishness or greed or power at any cost.

There is nothing he is not willing to do to accomplish his end.

So now this is what we call an archetype in terms of the characters.

There's a hero, there's a villain, there's the trickster, there's the outcast, right?

The person that doesn't fit in but they're like the diamond in the rough.

No 1 ever knew that they were actually the coolest person in school but no 1 just ever knew about them.

We graduate from high school, go to college and now she's the prettiest girl at the University of Maryland and we're all thinking, man why was I so mean to her in high school?

There's also archetypes in terms of images.

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