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

Father in heaven, we thank you that you have blessed us to make it safely through another week.

We thank you for your amazing grace and your tender mercies.

And Father, we ask you to please forgive us of our sins, to send us your Holy Spirit, that he may come and teach us and open our eyes and help us to behold wondrous things from your word.

And Lord, I ask that you'll do something special in this group tonight, something that mere humanity cannot do, but only divinity and humanity combined can do.

I thank you, dear God, for hearing this prayer, and I trust that you have answered it, for I ask it in Jesus' name.

1 of the great things that is the focus of God's people in these last days is to receive the outpouring of his Holy Spirit.

While we have received showers of blessings at different times, there still is a great outpouring that the Lord wants to give.

The latter rain should be the focus of every 1 of us because it is through the power of the latter rain that we are able to give what the Bible refers to as the loud cry.

The loud cry work is a work that must be done.

And this should be the focus of everything that we do is, Father, how can our conferences, how can my morning manna, how can my morning and evening worship, how can my midweek services, how can my efforts in the work, how could all these things better prepare me to be a recipient of your Holy Spirit through that wonderful Lateran experience that I may give the loud cry?

And You will find that there are many different ideas and thoughts and concepts that comes up with this, but I want to share a quotation with you from the Spirit of prophecy that says in the Youth Recorder 310, it says, Every truly converted soul will be intensely desirous to bring others from the darkness of error into the marvelous light of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, every truly converted soul.

It says, the great outpouring of the Spirit of God, which lightens the whole earth with his glory, that's Revelation 18.

It says, the great outpouring of the Spirit of God, which lightens the whole earth with his glory.

It says, the great outpouring of the Spirit of God, which lightens the whole earth with his glory, will not come, will not come until we have an enlightened people that know by what?

That know by experience what it means to be laborers together with God.

You know, in the business world, they have something called the 80-20 rule.

And in the business world, the 80-20 rule simply means that 80% of the work gets done by 20% of the people.

It's a shame because that which should have hopefully just been reserved in secular business, we are now seeing in the church as well.

80% of the work done by 20% of the people.

And we do not understand that if we do not play our part, brothers and sisters, did you know that it's an issue of salvation for you?

In other words, if we are going to think that we're going to leave it up to the leadership to let them go ahead and do the work, while we sit back and just watch the results, brothers and sisters, you might be losing a lot more than just an opportunity.

Christ wants us to understand that there is a work for every single 1 of us to do.

It's not that God cannot turn Canada upside down.

If Jesus can work through 12 human beings and then even 1 of them became the ultimate apostate, but yet God was able to work through a small number and turn the world upside down, what in the world could God do with all of you in just the country of Canada?

If we could just simply capture the vision and see ourselves through the eyes of Christ and what he can do in us and through us for his glory, You would be amazed at what God can do with such simple instruments like you and I.

I want to finish this quote because I'm building here.

It says, when we have entire wholehearted consecration to the service of Christ, God will recognize the fact by an outpouring of his Spirit without measure.

You see, right now we've been getting measurable pourings, but God longs for the day that he can do an outpouring of his Spirit without measure, that the world can be lit up with the glory of God.

This is what Christ is waiting for, and the problem is not with Jesus.

It goes on to say, God will recognize the fact by an outpouring of his Spirit without measure, but this will not be while the largest portion of the church are not laborers together with God.

I often thought about what is it that God cannot do?

And I would often say God cannot, that is an oxymoron statement.

God can do anything, but then God told me God cannot do something.

It says, God cannot pour out his spirit when selfishness and self-indulgence are so manifest.

God actually cannot pour out his Spirit if self remains the focus.

And this is why we need to come to that cross and we need to behold it in such a way that by beholding Jesus we can actually become changed and get to a point that we can realize that I can count my life but done for the glory of God for his work being done and for his work being finished in this generation This is the message that came to you last night.

Your life has to become a mission, brothers and sisters.

Now, understanding this reality, we know that God wants us to do a great work, but now I want you to turn your Bibles to the book of 2 Samuel chapter 18 with me.

In 2 Samuel chapter 18, it is true, God wants us to go out.

God wants us to tell others about his soon coming and about the realities of the events that will come before he comes, because you do understand something's coming before the second coming of Christ.

I am often challenged when I see us as God's people.

We talk so often about the second coming of Jesus, and we're trying to say that Jesus' coming is soon.

But, brothers and sisters, if the second coming of Jesus is soon, then that means that Revelation 13 is even sooner.

And that's a final crisis, brothers and sisters, that I don't understand why it is that many a times we don't talk enough about the crisis.

We try to make the Word of God fight itself.

Oh, don't talk about the crisis, just talk about Christ.

You read Mark the 13th chapter and you tell me what he's talking about.

He says, "'When you shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place.'" You know, that that time be to do, and Jesus gives all sorts of instruction on how to prepare for the final crisis.

Now, brothers and sisters, if Jesus found it relevant enough to make me aware of it, I, as God's minister and servant, must make you aware of it.

If Jesus is coming soon, that means that crisis is even sooner.

And brothers and sisters, there's a reason that crisis is called a final.

Right now, many of us are going through life and we're going through pop quizzes.

We're going through some various challenges in all different shapes, forms, and sizes, But when that final crisis hits, brothers and sisters, there's a reason it's called the final, because if you fail that test, there's no rebound.

And Jesus loves us way too much to not make us aware of how to prepare for that final crisis.

In 2 Samuel, the 18th chapter, I want to show you something because we have a people who named the name of the remnant that need to be prepared, and then we have a world outside of the remnant church that also needs to be prepared.

We have to prepare those within the church.

We have to prepare those without the church.

And, brothers and sisters, this cannot come by might nor by power, but only by God's Spirit.

But when we get ready to do the work as God laid it out for us to do.

Did you know that God gave a story in the Bible that you and I would do well to pay attention to it?

Now, it is because of time that I'm going to go ahead and give you a little bit of the backdrop, but I want you to listen carefully to what's taking place.

Rebellion kicks in in King David's house through his son Absalom.

Absalom turns against David and of course there's a whole story.

Unfortunately, David finds himself on the run, but eventually all things work out where David is able to have a little bit of solace, but his heart is concerned about his son now.

And now it gets to the point that Absalom, he's reigning and he's gloating over his victories over his own father, so he thinks, and eventually he finds himself on the run and Joab and his associates are pursuing him and Absalom gets his hair stuck up in the tree and he's caught and of course Absalom dies.

After this takes place, I want you to see what the Bible says in 2 Samuel chapter 18 verse 19.

The Bible says in 2 Samuel 18 and verse 19, it says, Then said Ahimeaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies.

So, Ahimeaz, he wants to go ahead and go to King David to tell him what just took place as it relates to his son and all these other events.

It says, And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day.

But this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead." Did Ahimeaz understand that the king's son was dead?

Joab told him to his face, the king's son is dead.

Verse 21, then said Joab to Cushi, go tell the king what thou hast seen.

And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab and ran.

Series

ECYC 2012: Plenary Sessions

Messenger Without a Message

Transcript

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Parent Conference

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The Almost Christian

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Do You Love Me, A Question to Seventh-day Adventists

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Identity Matters

53m

Philippians

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The Three Angels' Message for the Millennial Generation

2. Fear God and Give Glory

1h 23m

Experiencing Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

4. How to Prepare for When Michael Stands Up

50m

WYC 2012 Breakout Sessions

Overcoming As Christ Overcame, Part 2

53m

Morning Devotional

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1h 10m

How to Experience Peace During the Final Storm - Part 3

1h 4m

Don’t Miss Your Flight

45m

Keys of Revelation

16. The Day the Devil Dies

57m

Morning Devotional

Radical Faith

38m

Sound Doctrine