GYC 2014: At The Cross

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Plenary

Natasha Dysinger

Keynote Address

Christian Berdahl

From Broken to Breakthrough

Stephen Bohr

Unquestioning Surrender

The Risk of Eternal Loss

Michael Hasel

The Bible, Christ, and Culture

David Shin

The Key of the Gospel

David Caukill

Get Off the Couch and Do Something

Downward Mobility

Kameron DeVasher

Counting the Cost

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

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Thank you young people for that beautiful music.

If you know anything about our ministry, you know that music is 1 of my little hot buttons.

Before we begin, I'd like to have a word of prayer.

Gracious Heavenly Father, we come before you on knees bowed and hearts bowed.

And we ask, Father, that you would bless us now as we go through this testimony of how amazing you are.

Lord, you said, if I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me.

And so This testimony is not about me, Father, it's about you.

And we want to meet you at the foot of the cross this morning.

So please, Lord, bless us with the Holy Spirit now.

No matter what you have gone through, no matter what you are going through, and no matter what you will go through, if you are the surrendered child of God, you will get through it.

And that's good news this morning because I know a lot of us are going through trials and tribulations.

If there's only 10 of us having trials, then we're probably not doing something right in our Christian walk.

I told a brother last night, he said, how are you?

I said, I'm blessed, but I'm trial laden.

And he said, then you must be doing something right.

Because friends, when we come to Jesus, when we meet Jesus at the foot of the cross, the devil puts his cross hairs on you.

And that's the only reason that he hates you.

What he wants to do is to dive into God's heart and he wants to tear it apart and he does that every single time that we surrender to the devil and not Christ.

The devil takes a little piece of God's heart, if you will, because he's taking each 1 of us.

Maybe you want to be the man or the woman that stands for God even though the heavens fall.

You might say, but I'm going through stuff you don't understand, Christian.

I'm going through some things that are so hard right now.

With God on your side and you surrendered to Him, you can make it through.

I stand here as living proof you can get through a lot of junk.

And by the time I'm done with this testimony this morning, you're gonna see that that's true.

Not maybe, not sort of, not maybe someday, but today, right now, with God, you can make it through.

I don't know what it is you're going through, but God knows, and that's the 1 that really needs to know about it.

If you have your swords with you, you may start wielding them now.

There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man.

So in other words, there's nothing that you're going to go through that Probably somebody else already hasn't.

But God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able.

In other words, God is so good at helping us through our problems.

No matter what problem we have, He's going to help us through it.

Faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you're able.

But with the temptation will also make a way to escape that you may be, " what?

So if God is saying you can bear it, if God is saying that you can get through this, then maybe you're the 1 that's wrong.

Because God said it and I believe it, and that settles it for Christian Berdahl.

If we are the surrendered children of God, notice there's a key phrase there, Not proclaiming just to be a child of God, but if we're truly coming to God and saying, not my will, but your will be done.

If we're truly surrendered, then there's power in the Word of God for us.

If you've given your life to Jesus Christ, I hope you have.

If you haven't, this will be a great weekend to get on your knees and ask the Lord to do for you what He's done for many of us in this room.

So if we're surrendered and we've given our life to Christ, Christ will never allow, God will never allow anything to come to us that our measure of faith cannot handle.

So Maybe you have little faith right now.

Well, God's not gonna send out of balance huge trials that you can't handle.

In fact, friends, when you become a Christian, trust me, you're going to have trials and you're gonna have issues.

But don't fool yourself into thinking that the world doesn't have problems.

And so I understand what it's like to be fully in the world And it wasn't trouble-free.

I had just as many problems, but I had no helper.

But now as a Christian, I have an ever-present help in Jesus Christ.

That is so amazing to me that God has given His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

And while we're here on this planet, we're going to have trials.

And it really becomes a choice to say, well, are we going to be big boys and big girls and just say, okay, we're gonna have trials, stop whining and complaining about it, and let's go forward in spite of those trials.

That was a great, perfect place for a hearty amen.

In fact, a lot of people wanted to stay up until the stroke of midnight just to say, Happy New Year!

In fact, I hope and pray that this is the most connected year of your life with Jesus Christ.

Because if you're the most connected in 2015, then you're going to be the most successful for God.

Most surrendered, the greatest servant than you've ever been.

Maybe you've been a heathen and a mess this whole past year.

Well, today is a new day and today we must choose Whom we will serve.

I Want to live my life for Jesus and I know that I can live a life to glorify him because he's promised this and This is only going to happen if we meet Jesus Christ at the cross?

Are you daily meeting Christ at the cross?

Or are you waiting and you're only meeting Him, oh, every seventh day?

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