ECYC 2012

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Eastern Canada Youth Conference

ECYC 2012: Plenary Sessions

George Cho

Life is a Mission, Not a Trip

Benjamin Ng

The Fear of God

Dwayne Lemon

Messenger Without a Message

The Tree of Life

Daniel Cho

To Be a Servant

A Special Work of Reform

The Almost Christian

Valmy Karemera

The Mind of a Servant

Let's turn our Bibles to Judges chapter 14, verse 1.

Those of you who are new to ECYC, we're very Bible-based.

And so you're gonna have to bring your Bible to each session, to each seminar, because we go directly from the Word of God.

If it's not from the word of God, we find it as useless.

So please bring your Bible study session, we'll be using it.

Judges chapter 14, verse 1, we come to a character that's really well known to each and every 1 of us.

Verse 1, it says, Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines.

And so it says here that Samson went down to Timnah.

And so if you just stop there, you might think, oh wait, that's a really good thing.

I guess Samson is gonna go down to Timna and start destroying the Philistines.

But what does the Bible say he went down to?

Samson's life was supposed to be a mission, but he lived his life more as if it was a trip.

There's a, see me, my sister, we have this thing.

You guys hear this, yeah, I went on a mission trip.

We really don't like that term because we believe there's a difference between A mission and a trip.

So if I say a trip, what comes to your mind?

Vacations, hotels, sipping something on the beaches of Jamaica.

Now If I say mission, what comes to your mind?

I think of like the military, you know, the Green Berets.

These people who have a specific goal and they're disciplined, okay, that is a mission.

Samson, he was born to fulfill a specific mission, but his life was lived more like as if it was a trip.

I remember several years ago, we went to Cambodia on a mission trip.

And I remember there was several teams that came together, these Korean teams that came together to do the mission trip mission, sorry.

And I remember that some of the missionaries, we're supposed to be exemplifying Jesus, but some of the missionaries, they would go out late at night, and they would go to, I'm not sure what they were doing, but I heard that they were going to the bars, and they're going out and hanging out and doing some things with illegal substances.

And so for them, they're taking this mission more as if it was a trip, while others were taking in their life, their this, the trip to, the mission to Cambodia, as if it was a mission.

But the question to us is, how about you and I?

Are you living your life mission-focused?

Or are you going through life as if it was some kind of journey where you could indulge in pleasure seeking?

You know, the irony is that those who live their life mission focused are the ones who get the most enjoyment out of life.

So when we say, you know, trips are bad, You know, it's like, oh, the Christian life seems to be a drag.

Those who live their life fulfilling the purpose, the mission that God's given them, are the most richly blessed and the most fulfilled.

I Remember, how many of you guys like working out?

Some people go to the gym on a mission, yes?

Then there are others who go to the gym for a trip.

And I'm sorry to say, but it's typically the dainty, delicate Asian girls who seem to go to the gym as if more, as treating it as if it was a trip.

And so, you know, sometimes You're at the gym, you see these guys, they're lifting heavy weights.

And they're going to get bigger and stronger because they're lifting heavy weights and working hard.

Then there's other people who are working out.

It seems like they're not doing anything.

I remember at the Good Life that I go to, we saw there was a bunch of Korean guys there.

And they would do 1 set, and then they'll sit there.

They'll look at the TV, and 10 minutes go by, and they're still sitting there.

There's another girl, she's on the, you guys know the leg abductor thingy?

The 1 where you move your legs like this?

Remember, she's sitting on there, and she was on her phone the whole time.

I went through several machines, and already she's still on the phone.

Some people go to the good life, to the weight room, treating it more of a trip than a mission.

Now who is the 1 that gets the most fulfillment out of that, the ones who work hard or the ones who just kind of fool around?

And I think it's exactly the same thing in the Christian life.

Christian life is not about having fun, yet those who fulfill the purpose in life are the ones who are enjoying their life the most.

And that's the thing I want to talk about today.

Samson should have lived his life purpose-driven, but he lived his life more for enjoyment, and at the end of it all, he lost it.

He failed, and God had to use some radical means to get him back on track.

How about you and I, as Canadian, average young people, here at ECYC?

What kind of experience are you gonna leave this place with at the end of these 4 few days that we spend together?

Let's all bow our heads for prayer before we start.

Our Father in heaven, Lord, we want to thank you so much for bringing us here.

And Lord, each moment is fraught with eternal consequences.

I pray, Lord, that the 4 days, the several days that we spend together will not go to waste.

I pray, Lord, that you please be with each 1 of us here.

May we not leave this conference the same person that we came in.

Lord, as we sit here tonight, I ask that you please speak through me.

A sinner, I ask that you please place your words in my mouth.

Lord, we come from various backgrounds, from various places, our lives are all different, and we come with all these distractions.

I pray that you please help us to leave these things aside, clear our minds so we can hear your voice, your Spirit speaking to us.

This we pray in the mighty name of Jesus, our Lord and our Savior, we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

The Bible says, The angel appearing to the mother of Samson, she says, for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son, and no razor shall come upon his head.

Series

ECYC 2012: Plenary Sessions

Life is a Mission, Not a Trip

Transcript

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ECYC 2012: Plenary Sessions

To Be a Servant

42m

“Stolen Valor”

38m

A Season of Preparation

37m

Bold unto the Throne Seminars

Sanctuary in Relation to Mission

57m

Jesus On Prophecy

Blood on the Hands of the Remnant

1h 8m

Witnessing on Campus

Willing to Be Led

56m

ECYC 2012: Plenary Sessions

The Tree of Life

48m

Hands-Free Operation

56m

WYC 2012 Morning Devotional

Fruits and Gifts, Part 2

43m

Dave Fiedler: Core of the Controversy

Omega - Nothing New Here

1h 27m

No Safety In Politics

1h 1m

Plenary

Now is the Time

1h 23m

Sound Doctrine