Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
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Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message?
Speaker 2: All right? Are you all ready for the word today?
Speaker 2: Let's get to it. We're starting a brand.
Speaker 3: New series called Fearless, So everybody say Fearless. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: this is about to be good, a cool thing if
Speaker 3: you don't know. I've got the opportunity every summer for
Speaker 3: the last six summers to preach.
Speaker 2: A series over the summer.
Speaker 3: And because during this time, our lead pastors, Pastors Michael
Speaker 3: and Natalie, take a sabbatical every single year to refresh,
Speaker 3: to reset, to get vision.
Speaker 2: Every time we come in January, we have a Word
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 3: Pastor Michael spends this time praying and fasting and getting
Speaker 3: that word for the year. And so one, I'm just
Speaker 3: grateful for our pastors. And I always love the summer
Speaker 3: because it's just a fun, wild time.
Speaker 2: So one thing I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 3: You before we jump into this message is this summer,
Speaker 3: would you be praying for our pastors as they are away.
Speaker 2: Resting and resetting. You have no idea.
Speaker 3: The toll it is to lead a global movement and
Speaker 3: do all the stuff, just the regular stuff, just raising
Speaker 3: your kids, making Peter butter, jelly sandwiches, you know, just
Speaker 3: regular life stuff. Meanwhile, also pastoring and covering all of us.
Speaker 3: So if you make a commitment to pray for our pastors,
Speaker 3: can everybody just say I will?
Speaker 2: All right? All right, all right.
Speaker 3: So we're starting a brand new series called Fearless.
Speaker 2: And the truth is there's this old.
Speaker 3: Preacher saying that I heard a long time ago, which
Speaker 3: is study yourself full, pray yourself hot, and preach yourself empty.
Speaker 3: And I'm about to do all three. So just prepare
Speaker 3: your spirits. I have so much information to share with you.
Speaker 3: You literally yesterday and my wife will tell you I
Speaker 3: was in our room for like three hours studying neuroscience
Speaker 3: and your brain.
Speaker 2: And how it responds to danger and fears.
Speaker 3: So if we have a nerd moment together and you
Speaker 3: check out, it's all right.
Speaker 2: I won't even hold you to it.
Speaker 3: Just go back and listen to it. But we're gonna
Speaker 3: start off. We're gonna read Psalms fifty six, So if
Speaker 3: you got your Bible, will go to Psalms, chapter number
Speaker 3: fifty six, and we will read that scripture Psalm fifty six.
Speaker 3: If you got it, say I got it?
Speaker 2: Great? Three people. I love that Three people.
Speaker 3: Y'all are like, oh, it's just a rhetorical question.
Speaker 2: Now I'm away for you. We a beout to read God.
Speaker 2: There you go. I love the trickle in got it?
Speaker 3: Got it? Come on, some of y'all you just typing
Speaker 3: it into Google. Man, shouldn't take that long. Come on,
Speaker 3: you have to forgive us. We had a power outage
Speaker 3: today at like nine to fifty five. All the power
Speaker 3: shut out, and so we don't have the massive sky Bible,
Speaker 3: as I call it, the back screen. So you have
Speaker 3: to really read it for yourself and see if I'm
Speaker 3: telling the truth. Okay, here we go, Psalm fifty six,
Speaker 3: first number one.
Speaker 2: We'll go one through four.
Speaker 3: The Bible says, Oh God, have mercy on me, for
Speaker 3: people are hounding me. You ever had anybody hound you?
Speaker 3: Come on, I feel like my kids was hounding me yesterday. Jesus,
Speaker 3: I was yesterday almost had one of those you just
Speaker 3: stop like that.
Speaker 2: You've ever done that one? No? Just me okay?
Speaker 3: Now, literally it feels like my whole body gets electrocuted.
Speaker 3: I'm like, come on, calm down, stop it.
Speaker 2: Okay. My foes attack me all day long.
Speaker 3: I am constantly hounded by those who slander me, and
Speaker 3: many are boldly attacking me.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 3: It's one thing if they're trying to be passive aggressive,
Speaker 3: but it's some people are.
Speaker 2: Like, that's what you're gonna wear. Okay. It's those type
Speaker 2: of people that get you.
Speaker 3: First number three says, but when I am afraid, I
Speaker 3: will put my trust in you. I praise God for
Speaker 3: what he has promised. I trust in God. So why
Speaker 3: should I be afraid? One of the most gangster lines
Speaker 3: right here. What can mere mortals do to me?
Speaker 2: It's a gangster all right.
Speaker 3: Here's the title of today's sermon, week number one, Fearless.
Speaker 3: The title is write it down. Born for danger, Born
Speaker 3: for danger. I was born for danger.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you what's something?
Speaker 3: Tea?
Speaker 2: How you doing? My lower up? Vadis get to see you? Hey,
Speaker 2: I just recognize my friends. Okay, Ah, I was born
Speaker 2: for danger. Okay, all right, we're gonna pray.
Speaker 3: Lord, thank you that we are all born for danger,
Speaker 3: and Jesus that we pray.
Speaker 2: Everybody said, all right, now let's get into it. Here's
Speaker 2: the thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know where you come from now,
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about like where you were born. I
Speaker 3: was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. So I was raised
Speaker 3: Bowling Green one fifteen Clearview Avenue. That's where my grandma stayed.
Speaker 3: That's where we spent the summers. We was wilding out
Speaker 3: back in the day when they just used to get
Speaker 3: on your bike in the morning, come back, get food
Speaker 3: at noon, and then go back on your bike until
Speaker 3: the street light came on.
Speaker 2: That's how I grew up.
Speaker 3: Now, ain't no way my kids getting on the bike
Speaker 3: to go down the street.
Speaker 2: What you crazy?
Speaker 3: No, you pedaling the circle in this driveway? That's exactly
Speaker 3: abby is way more great that could be?
Speaker 2: Like can we go on the street. No, you can't
Speaker 2: go on the street. What a car run you over?
Speaker 3: A car will literally hit you and you will break
Speaker 3: your neck and I'm gonna have to take you.
Speaker 2: I say it exactly like that. They're like, yeah, they're
Speaker 2: not gonna break our neck. And so but I grew up.
Speaker 3: And here's what I'm trying to get at is everybody,
Speaker 3: you have something in you that didn't start with you,
Speaker 3: and it's kind of your genes and your makeup and
Speaker 3: your family of origin, and there's just stuff about your
Speaker 3: DNA that makes you who you are. I got four kiddos,
Speaker 3: and they all look and act like me and my
Speaker 3: wife in different ways.
Speaker 2: And the other night, I gotta tell you a story.
Speaker 2: This is last time O. The night before, we're.
Speaker 3: Sitting at the dinner table and we're going around and
Speaker 3: this is just a random family activity.
Speaker 2: We're making up jokes and.
Speaker 3: Riddles, just making them up on the spot, and people
Speaker 3: got a guess.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie it. I was crushing it. I was.
Speaker 3: I was doing so well. I'll give you one right here.
Speaker 3: I'll see if I remember it.
Speaker 2: Well was uh, okay, what has I but no face?
Speaker 2: What has uh? What was it?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Runs but has no legs? And then what was the
Speaker 2: last one?
Speaker 3: I don't remember the last part, But.
Speaker 2: Anyways, anybody got a guess?
Speaker 3: A shoe eyelets on the shoe, runs but doesn't have legs,
Speaker 3: stinks and doesn't have a nose.
Speaker 2: Boom, That was it? Shoe. I'm great a riddles. Okay.
Speaker 3: Anyways, so we're doing riddles. Some of y'all get that.
Speaker 3: Next week that's how good that riddle was. Man, I've
Speaker 3: got so much time. Okay, uh, so we're doing riddles.
Speaker 3: Abby goes, Now, listen, here's the thing. We've all got
Speaker 3: our strengths. Clearly, I'm up here doing mine. So Abby goes.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying the riddles aren't her strength, but.
Speaker 2: So Abby goes to do her riddle and we're all just.
Speaker 3: Staring at her like I don't even what are you?
Speaker 3: And the kids are doing this as well, and so
Speaker 3: we're like, you gotta add that state.
Speaker 2: She only had one identifier, she didn't even have three.
Speaker 2: It was just like, what is high but not low?
Speaker 2: I don't know what she said, but it was rains
Speaker 2: but no clouds. I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I still don't even remember what you said. See it's
Speaker 3: bad right now, it's bad. Then it was bad now
Speaker 3: she said it's a.
Speaker 2: Shower, rains but no clouds, a shower.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, that's how.
Speaker 3: I felt when she did it the first time. So
Speaker 3: but I promise I'm going to preach, but just wait.
Speaker 3: So she does that exactly how that just.
Speaker 2: Went, where y'all are like, what, I don't we do that?
Speaker 3: And Luna Rose Metcalf who has strong Metcalf DNA, and
Speaker 3: I mean that in her soul. She is a strong
Speaker 3: black woman in her soul. On the outside, she's blonde hair,
Speaker 3: blue eyes. Oh look, the screen's back.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So but Luna, right when Abby says a shower, she goes,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, that joke was so dumb.
Speaker 2: She said, this girl is so dumb.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately I busted out laughing early and I was like, Luna,
Speaker 3: you cannot say that.
Speaker 2: She's like, what that joke was so dumb?
Speaker 3: And I wish I could say she didn't get that
Speaker 3: from me.
Speaker 2: But she did, because that's what I thought when she
Speaker 2: said it. That is such a bad joke. But that's
Speaker 2: just looked like that came up out of her soul.
Speaker 2: She did. Ain't nobody teach her that, and she ain't.
Speaker 2: I'm not out out here, call up here. She just
Speaker 2: felt that. And what I'm getting at is there.
Speaker 3: Stuff that is in your lineage that only in the
Speaker 3: right circumstances will it present itself. And I want to
Speaker 3: let you know in case you don't know that the
Speaker 3: history of the church is.
Speaker 2: A people who were born for danger.
Speaker 3: Now I know this isn't something that we commonly talk
Speaker 3: about because we think we're just supposed to be in here,
Speaker 3: and we sing her songs. And then we got out
Speaker 3: in the world and we live very shy, quiet, don't
Speaker 3: interrupt anybody, don't be weird, don't be strange. And then
Speaker 3: we come back and we do our thing all over again.
Speaker 3: But this heritage of this movement started with people who
Speaker 3: could care less about danger because they knew where they
Speaker 3: were going when they died.
Speaker 2: And I am afraid the core element.
Speaker 3: That makes the church the church has gotten lost in
Speaker 3: the last two thousand years. The origin in this movement
Speaker 3: was not made in pews. It was made by people
Speaker 3: who were writing in prison saying they're.
Speaker 2: About to kill me.
Speaker 3: But before they do, let me tell you something. To
Speaker 3: live is Christ and to die is Gain, so they
Speaker 3: can take my life.
Speaker 2: You're born from danger.
Speaker 3: This was not born from just some cute little things
Speaker 3: that we do on the side. It was born from
Speaker 3: people like a young man named David. David's who we
Speaker 3: read in this scripture, who's a young shepherd boy and
Speaker 3: there's a giant who is attacking God's people, and he
Speaker 3: rolls up as a teenager while all of Israelites the
Speaker 3: best warriors are hiding.
Speaker 2: And he says, who is this and listen to how
Speaker 2: gangster this is? He says, who is this? Uncircumcised philistine?
Speaker 2: He really cooked that man.
Speaker 3: It's like God's up, but he rolls up on a
Speaker 3: giant kills him. Born from danger, Born from danger. God
Speaker 3: named Moses. Born from danger, goes up to Pharaoh call
Speaker 3: himself a god at the time. This is why God
Speaker 3: deals so harshly with Pharaoh, by the way, because some
Speaker 3: people have beef with like the ten plagues and like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, God, such a terrible god. No, Pharaoh
Speaker 3: was one of the only people in ancient times that
Speaker 3: compared himself and said I am a god.
Speaker 2: There is no other god. Did it? Wasn't the claim
Speaker 2: that they worshiped other gods.
Speaker 3: Pharaoh thought he was God. So God said, oh you
Speaker 3: think you are a god? Okay, bet, I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: your river, I'm gonna take your food, I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: your stuff. And just to remind you, nobody else, there's
Speaker 3: no other God like me. Born from danger, girl named
Speaker 3: Esther who rolls up on the king. Born from danger,
Speaker 3: you go to the New Testament. Born from danger, Jesus
Speaker 3: Born from Danger.
Speaker 2: Paul all the scriptures we love to read. He's writing
Speaker 2: from prison. They're throwing him in jail. He's about to
Speaker 2: get out. Born from Danger.
Speaker 3: There's apostles who they boiled them in hot oil and
Speaker 3: they wouldn't die. Ship them to an island. They won't die.
Speaker 3: Born from Danger. Early Church history, if you study early
Speaker 3: church history, there's a girl named Perpetua, and she's in
Speaker 3: the colosseum, like the Roman colosseum, and they tell her
Speaker 3: she's a high Let me give you the context. She's
Speaker 3: a high Roman official's daughter. She gets into the movement
Speaker 3: of Christianity, and to prove a point, they say, we
Speaker 3: don't care who your daddy is. We're killing all Christians.
Speaker 3: So they come to her and say deny your faith
Speaker 3: or will throw you in the colosseum or in the arena.
Speaker 3: She says, I'm sorry, I can't do that.
Speaker 2: So they take the government's daughter thrower in the arena.
Speaker 3: She's standing there. The gladiators are fighting. They stab her.
Speaker 3: She stands there, pulls the knife in a little closer
Speaker 3: and says, thank you.
Speaker 2: Now, help me reconcile that movement.
Speaker 3: With a bunch of people commenting back and forth in
Speaker 3: the comments.
Speaker 2: And that's supposed to be brave. That's what our faith
Speaker 2: has become. Our faith hasme.
Speaker 3: I come in here, I sing my songs, I go
Speaker 3: argue on the internet. Nobody at work knows I'm saved.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be too weird. And now I'm
Speaker 3: a part of the same movement. Baby, No, no, don't no.
Speaker 3: Not the same thing. Not the same thing. You were
Speaker 3: born from danger. Now, when I originally said that, some
Speaker 3: of you had issue with that because because you think danger, Like, bro,
Speaker 3: we're supposed to.
Speaker 2: Be Oh, what's happening where y'all lefting at?
Speaker 3: Sermon title goes here? Yeah, hey, give us a second.
Speaker 3: We had a power outah. But when I said born
Speaker 3: from danger, some of you are are danger adverse.
Speaker 2: You're like, I don't mess with danger. We don't do danger.
Speaker 3: Why because as a kid, we are all reminded and
Speaker 3: think if.
Speaker 2: It's dangerous, we don't want to do it. Because y'all
Speaker 2: want to do dangerous things. Because when you're afraid, it's
Speaker 2: because it's dangerous.
Speaker 3: My daughter Blue, she was on the back of the couch,
Speaker 3: standing on it. They're jumping off. We clearly have no
Speaker 3: rules in our house. We gave up rules a long
Speaker 3: time ago.
Speaker 2: And they're standing on the couch, they're.
Speaker 3: Jumping off, and Sonny, she's thinking, I cannot jump, I
Speaker 3: might fall. So the assumption is it's dangerous, you don't
Speaker 3: want to do it. And here's the connection. Many believers
Speaker 3: and many people think, if I want to have less fear,
Speaker 3: I need to have less danger in my life. That's
Speaker 3: how you control your fear, because things are dangerous make
Speaker 3: you afraid.
Speaker 2: But here's what I can't reconcile.
Speaker 3: Why would the marker of our movement being God calling
Speaker 3: us to do dangerous things? Things meaning like all of
Speaker 3: jesus friends were murdered because they, like Stephen stoned to
Speaker 3: death for his faith.
Speaker 2: So clearly dangerous, clearly and over three hundred times the
Speaker 2: Bible says, do not be afraid.
Speaker 3: Why is it the mark of our faith is for
Speaker 3: us to live a dangerous life, meaning dangerous relationally, because
Speaker 3: we're not connected. Dangerous in how we live, dangerous in
Speaker 3: taking risk, dangerous and starting things people.
Speaker 2: Won't start, standing up. When people won't stand up.
Speaker 3: We are called to live a dangerous life, and he
Speaker 3: calls us not to be afraid. Here's the connection. I
Speaker 3: want to say, this will kind of act as like
Speaker 3: a core point, and then I'm gonna We're gonna go
Speaker 3: through the Bible. Here's the idea. Danger is inevitable. Fear
Speaker 3: is optional.
Speaker 2: Danger is inevitable.
Speaker 3: There is something in your life that will be quote
Speaker 3: unquote dangerous.
Speaker 2: What do I mean by that.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about evil caneval I'm talking about in
Speaker 3: some theory, it'sous to get married because you don't know
Speaker 3: if you could trust that person, so you don't know
Speaker 3: how it's gonna go. You in theory, is dangerous to
Speaker 3: try to have friends because you don't.
Speaker 2: Know if they'll be with you or they'll a bandy.
Speaker 3: It's dangerous to have kids because what if something happens
Speaker 3: and it goes wrong. It is dangerous to do I'm
Speaker 3: talking about there is danger in life.
Speaker 2: But you being afraid is optional. You have the choice
Speaker 2: whether you want to be afraid or not.
Speaker 3: Now I know it's like, what do you What does
Speaker 3: this man say?
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go. We all ready for the nerd part
Speaker 2: of the sermon.
Speaker 3: Okay, she said, we'll try I love that. Okay, here's
Speaker 3: the thing. Uh, there's a scientist, neuroscientist named Joseph. I'll
Speaker 3: spare his last name because I mispronounce it. Every Diman
Speaker 3: said for the last forty years, he's stead of your brain.
Speaker 3: Here's how people traditionally understand fear. Fear happens in your amygdala,
Speaker 3: which is your reptile brain, just instincts. That's what people understood.
Speaker 3: When you're afraid. Your brain says, oh my gosh, we're terrified.
Speaker 3: Palm sweat, heart races, adrenaline, and you do a couple
Speaker 3: of things fight, flight or freeze. There's a new in
Speaker 3: the added fawn, which is like people pleasing. Is anybody
Speaker 3: ever heard of this fight or flight? Anybody just heard
Speaker 3: that term? Okay, So that's how people understand fear. When
Speaker 3: you're afraid, your body immediately goes into that thing because
Speaker 3: it sense is danger. Here's what his research has been
Speaker 3: proven over the last forty years that your body processing
Speaker 3: danger and you being afraid are two totally separate things.
Speaker 2: You can be in danger and not be afraid.
Speaker 3: Here's what fear is. Fear is not just the awareness
Speaker 3: of danger. It's the awareness that it's happening to you.
Speaker 2: Here's what I mean by that.
Speaker 3: If you go into the woods and the bushes.
Speaker 2: Rustle, danger. Your brain's gonna.
Speaker 3: Go whoa hold up, Hey, what is that?
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: Boom, heart rate spipes, your palms start sweating, and you
Speaker 3: go into one of three.
Speaker 2: Some of you are like, I'm about to fight a bear.
Speaker 2: Some of you all like I'm running.
Speaker 3: Some of y'all freeze and you don't even realize what's happening.
Speaker 3: That's the danger part. So danger is information. Fear is
Speaker 3: the meaning you assigned to that information.
Speaker 2: Danger says something's gonna happen. I need a run.
Speaker 3: Your brain says it's a bear. It's gonna eat me.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna die. And when the bear eats me, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna die. Then who's gonna take care of my kids?
Speaker 3: And then I'm gonna do? And then anxiety is you
Speaker 3: continuing to build out that scenario. I'm really trying to
Speaker 3: help you because this is gonna all click danger, this
Speaker 3: is this is strange. I don't know how this feels.
Speaker 3: Fear says, yeah, but let's make up a story about
Speaker 3: that that includes our involvement.
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna go to our scripture.
Speaker 3: I promise it is all gonna come together at the end,
Speaker 3: because you're all staring at me like I stared at
Speaker 3: my college teacher when I went for one month and bailed.
Speaker 3: But we're gonna do it. Here's the thing we're in
Speaker 3: Psalms fifty six. The context of this, which is important
Speaker 3: for you to know. He's writing this, my foes are
Speaker 3: attacking me. I'm getting hounded, but I won't be afraid.
Speaker 3: The context is Samuel twenty one, the story of David.
Speaker 3: He's on the run from a guy named Saul. All
Speaker 3: you need to know about that saw hates him. He's
Speaker 3: on the run. Guess where he runs to. He runs
Speaker 3: to Goliath's hometown. So the guy he killed, y'all remember
Speaker 3: he slung the thing bam, knocked the guy down.
Speaker 2: He runs to his enemy's hometown and is.
Speaker 3: Hiding because he's terrified he's gonna get killed. That's what
Speaker 3: Sosng fifty six is. So when he's riding, my foes
Speaker 3: are attacking me. I'm scared. He is in his enemy's hometown, terrified.
Speaker 2: And here's what the Bible says.
Speaker 3: This is hilarious to be because when you picture him
Speaker 3: writing this scripture, you don't picture this part. But the
Speaker 3: Bible says, in order for the king not to kill him.
Speaker 3: He starts acting crazy. Y'all don't know this, okay, let
Speaker 3: me read it to you. Let me read it to you.
Speaker 3: Let me read it to you. Let me read it
Speaker 3: to you. Let me read it to you. Hold on,
Speaker 3: where's it at? Samauh okay? First, sam of yo, look
Speaker 3: at this.
Speaker 2: So David escaped from Saul and went to the king
Speaker 2: of Gath as Goliath. You see the connection there. But
Speaker 2: officiers were unhappy about this. Isn't David the king of
Speaker 2: the land.
Speaker 3: Isn't he the one that people were honoring with dances, singing?
Speaker 3: Saul has killed this stout. David's tens of thousands. Come on,
Speaker 3: somebody all heard that. Remember the named David, y'all? Remember
Speaker 3: that that's what that is. David heard these comments and
Speaker 3: was so afraid, so he pretended to be insane, scratching.
Speaker 2: On doors and drooling down his beard. So I get
Speaker 2: the picture. I can't not pass this.
Speaker 3: He's literally like when when my enemies.
Speaker 2: Are attacking it.
Speaker 3: He's acting crazy, y'all thinks is as funny as I
Speaker 3: think this for this is hilarious. Superhero David is acting
Speaker 3: insane because he's in a dangerous situation. But here's the
Speaker 3: proof of the neuroscience. He says, I can be in
Speaker 3: a dangerous situation, meaning I'm in the enemy's camp and
Speaker 3: they're about to kill me. Yet when I am I
Speaker 3: will not be afraid. When I am in danger, I
Speaker 3: will not be afraid. Here's all I'm trying to say
Speaker 3: to you. Danger in your life, however you interpret that.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about driving fast. I'm not talking about
Speaker 3: doing something stupid. I'm talking about whatever you interpret as risk,
Speaker 3: whatever you interpret as a threat.
Speaker 2: Some of you, it feels dangerous to.
Speaker 3: Actually step out and start the business God calls you
Speaker 3: to start.
Speaker 2: Some of you.
Speaker 3: The honest truth of why you're single is because it
Speaker 3: feels dangerous to trust somebody because you saw your parents marriage.
Speaker 3: So you cover it like, oh, I can't sing, I
Speaker 3: can't find the right person. The truth is you're terrified
Speaker 3: to commit the danger of being the only different one
Speaker 3: in your family. You were raised in a completely different religion,
Speaker 3: you were raised in a completely secul their environment, and
Speaker 3: it feels dangerous to actually claim your faith. The danger
Speaker 3: at your job actually standing up for your faith, the
Speaker 3: danger of God tells you to pray for somebody, and
Speaker 3: you go up to them and you just pray for them.
Speaker 2: The danger of.
Speaker 3: At your school starting a Bible study, whatever you interpret
Speaker 3: as danger, it's inevitable. But you do have a choice
Speaker 3: on whether you're afraid or not. Here's here's the idea
Speaker 3: with fearless. The goal is not for you to be fearless. Actually,
Speaker 3: fearless would would low key be idiotic. Let me just
Speaker 3: explain this for a second. If you go into the
Speaker 3: woods you see a bear, it's not the time.
Speaker 2: To be fearless. I'm fearless. I'm gonna fight this bear.
Speaker 3: No, you're gonna We're gonna be praying for your family
Speaker 3: because you're gonna be gone. Man, you don't need to
Speaker 3: be fearless, But because of Jesus, you have the option
Speaker 3: to fear less than other people. You do not have
Speaker 3: to live your life afraid. And here's the summation of
Speaker 3: of this sermon series. I wrote a book, God Chose Me.
Speaker 3: Here's the connection. What good is it if God chose you?
Speaker 3: If you are too afraid to do what He chose
Speaker 3: you for? So here's the that's really the whole sermon.
Speaker 3: When we spend a lot of time God Chose Me.
Speaker 3: That's just to get you confident, secure, you know your love,
Speaker 3: you know you're but you can be chosen and still
Speaker 3: never do what He chose you to do. You can
Speaker 3: be valued by God, love by God, secure in God,
Speaker 3: and live your whole life afraid of what people think
Speaker 3: about you, Afraid of losing something, afraid of how your
Speaker 3: life's gonna turn out, afraid of risk.
Speaker 2: So you live your whole life loved, but.
Speaker 3: Never actually living, secure in your faith, but never actually
Speaker 3: stepping out. And what I'm trying to get at in
Speaker 3: this sermon and really in this series is you will
Speaker 3: never experience the fullness of the life God has for
Speaker 3: you until you stop letting your fear control your life.
Speaker 3: You have to stop letting fear control your life. And
Speaker 3: I know traditionally we're like, oh, I'm not afraid, there's
Speaker 3: no us. But what I'm talking about over the next
Speaker 3: couple weeks, we're gonna talk about four core fears.
Speaker 2: Here's my theory.
Speaker 3: Everybody in this room, there's one of four fears that
Speaker 3: you have. It's the fear of man, which is what
Speaker 3: a people think about me.
Speaker 2: Your whole life.
Speaker 3: It boils down to what a people think about me.
Speaker 3: How do I know because you're doing people pleasing, so
Speaker 3: you don't say stuff you really want to say because
Speaker 3: you're afraid of what they think. You don't do what
Speaker 3: you want to do because you're afraid with You don't
Speaker 3: go where you want to go, because you're so everybody.
Speaker 3: It's either the fear of man, it's the fear of loss,
Speaker 3: what if I lose what I love?
Speaker 2: How do I know that one?
Speaker 3: Because you're usually a little controlling. I don't want to
Speaker 3: lose my kids, so I control them. I don't want
Speaker 3: to lose my money, so I can.
Speaker 2: I don't want to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to, so I'm afraid of losing, so
Speaker 3: I control.
Speaker 2: The fear of man, the fear of loss, the fear
Speaker 2: of failure, what if I don't have what it takes.
Speaker 3: I understand this one because if you struggle with this one,
Speaker 3: you'll act like you don't want to do stuff that
Speaker 3: you really want to do, and you'll be like, oh, no,
Speaker 3: I could have, but I just didn't want to know.
Speaker 3: The truth was you were terrified you were going to fail.
Speaker 2: So you never started.
Speaker 3: The fear of man, the fear of loss, the fear
Speaker 3: of failure, and this last one, the fear of inadequacy.
Speaker 3: What if there's something fundamentally broken with me? All of
Speaker 3: your fears, We'll go down into one of those. You're
Speaker 3: afraid of what people will think, you're afraid of if
Speaker 3: you do it, you won't have.
Speaker 2: What it takes. You're afraid that something on the inside
Speaker 2: of you is broken, or you're afraid if you try
Speaker 2: you'll lose something. So what do we do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna shortcut the next four weeks, so I'll probably
Speaker 3: have to rewrite the next four sermons. But when you
Speaker 3: replace all of those fears, not to remove them. I
Speaker 3: hate to inform you to this. God doesn't want.
Speaker 2: You to remove those fears.
Speaker 3: You have to replace them.
Speaker 2: Okay, I am this. Okay, here we go. There's two
Speaker 2: types of fear in the Bible.
Speaker 3: And I'll save you a lot of my nerd stuff
Speaker 3: because I can see you guys aren't tracking today. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is. I mean, you need to
Speaker 3: sleep better next week because you're not tracking. And it's okay,
Speaker 3: but don't come back here like this next week.
Speaker 2: Lock in. Come on, I do this every time I preach.
Speaker 3: You're like, what no, but you're thinking caps on? Come
Speaker 3: on now, two types of fear. I'll save you all
Speaker 3: the boring Hebrew. One type of fear is oh like,
Speaker 3: oh no. The other type of fear is all like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh. There's a difference. There's oh no, what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen? Then there is the awe of something. So
Speaker 3: when you have the fear of man, which is, oh no,
Speaker 3: what do they think about me? When you have the
Speaker 3: fear of losing, of what's gonna happen? When you have
Speaker 3: to you have to replace that fear with a different fear.
Speaker 3: This is where the scripture calls the fear of God.
Speaker 3: Here's how you replace these fears. One fear says, what what.
Speaker 2: Am I going to do?
Speaker 3: And what do they think about me? What if they
Speaker 3: don't accept me if I do this? Here's a better
Speaker 3: fear to replace. That is what if you spend your
Speaker 3: whole life being loved for someone you never were. I
Speaker 3: see your fear, I'll raise you a better one. What
Speaker 3: if I don't have what it takes? What if you do,
Speaker 3: but you were so afraid to try you never found out.
Speaker 2: What if they think I'm weird?
Speaker 3: What if your prayer worked and their family line was changed,
Speaker 3: but we don't know because you never did it. God
Speaker 3: is not asking you, oh, I'm just gonna take all
Speaker 3: these away. No, I want to give you a better fear,
Speaker 3: which is when you fear and you are in reverence
Speaker 3: of me. Not fear like you're terrified, not fear like
Speaker 3: oh God, he's gonna hurt me, but a fear that
Speaker 3: understands my dad can handle this.
Speaker 2: There's a different type of this. I was talking. I'll
Speaker 2: never forget this.
Speaker 3: I was having a conversation with Belle and Avia pastor Michael,
Speaker 3: the two daughters, and randomly they'll come over to our
Speaker 3: house after church, and I was wearing a hoodie and
Speaker 3: it said fear of God.
Speaker 2: She's like, what does that actually mean?
Speaker 3: And I was like, you know, how like if you
Speaker 3: in a troubling situation, like maybe something's going on, your
Speaker 3: fault is oh, if.
Speaker 2: I go get my dad, this is going dad. I say,
Speaker 2: you know that feeling, but you also know when Dad
Speaker 2: saying Isabella.
Speaker 3: You also know like, hey man, lock in, but you're
Speaker 3: not scared, but you are a little like, hey.
Speaker 2: Let's lock in.
Speaker 3: There's this beautiful place with God where you know you're loved,
Speaker 3: So you're not afraid in that regard, but you do
Speaker 3: understand he is God, and this is a beautiful place
Speaker 3: to understand of God.
Speaker 2: Job learns this place of God in the Bible.
Speaker 3: Job is complaining because God stuff's happening in his life,
Speaker 3: and he's like, God, why are you doing this?
Speaker 2: Why are you doing that? Blah blah blah blah, And
Speaker 2: so Job kind of.
Speaker 3: Starts firing back off at God, and God kind of
Speaker 3: just lets him do his thing, and then God kind
Speaker 3: of crosses over into the fear of God. Said, He says, okay, Job,
Speaker 3: real quick, brace yourself like a man. Where were you
Speaker 3: when I put Leviathan in the ocean? Where were you
Speaker 3: when I hung the stars in the sky?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 3: And this is God flexing saying, hey, before you get
Speaker 3: out of a lineman start demanding stuff from me, just
Speaker 3: remind yourself that's my breath you got right there. I'm
Speaker 3: the one keeping your heartbeat right now. So just calm down,
Speaker 3: all right, We're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 2: We're gonna close this thing down.
Speaker 3: Here's what we're gonna do. Man's first fear. We'll shut
Speaker 3: it down. Go ahead and send the keys because we're
Speaker 3: gonna get out of here.
Speaker 2: I'm serious.
Speaker 3: What come on, man, y'all expecting me to be way
Speaker 3: too professional up here.
Speaker 2: Y'all gonna really have to okay, Man's first fear. Adam
Speaker 2: and Eve are in the garden.
Speaker 3: God creates everything, perfect, perfect, beautiful. They have purpose, not
Speaker 3: having to strive for anything, not having to make anything happen.
Speaker 3: Everything is perfectly provided for them where they are. And
Speaker 3: the Bible tells us that Adam and Eve. We don't
Speaker 3: get this directly, but it's an inference based off of
Speaker 3: what happens in Genesis chapter three. The snake comes to
Speaker 3: the woman, Hey, why don't you eat from that tree?
Speaker 2: And the woman goes back and forth. She's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: We're gonna die if we touch it, which is interesting
Speaker 3: because God didn't say you'll die if you touch it.
Speaker 3: He said you die if you eat it. Which the
Speaker 3: thread of this is humans love to add on to
Speaker 3: what God said, and when you start adding on to
Speaker 3: what God said, it always gets you in trouble. That's
Speaker 3: just a separate little bit there.
Speaker 2: She touches the apple.
Speaker 3: The Bible tells us they both suddenly are aware that
Speaker 3: they're naked.
Speaker 2: They've always been naked, but all of a sudden.
Speaker 3: They take off running and they sew up fig leaves
Speaker 3: and cover themselves up.
Speaker 2: The Bible tells us in Genesis three.
Speaker 3: That Adam heres God walking in the cool of the day. Now,
Speaker 3: this is so interesting and the language is just beautiful
Speaker 3: here because the original.
Speaker 2: Hebrew word is the same word for spirit. It's ruach.
Speaker 3: And this word when the Bible says that the spirit
Speaker 3: of the Lord was hovering above the waters, it's the
Speaker 3: same word that means they hear the wind of God
Speaker 3: coming through the trees.
Speaker 2: This is the language.
Speaker 3: The garden starts rustling, and they can't see anything yet,
Speaker 3: and they don't feel anything yet, but they feel this noise.
Speaker 3: And here's what happens. What does your body start doing?
Speaker 3: Well before this moment, they would have ran to that noise.
Speaker 3: Why because fear is not a part of the picture
Speaker 3: at this point. Fear is nowhere to be found. So
Speaker 3: when the bushes start rustling, I know who's there. I
Speaker 3: know my father's there. I know I'm safe here. I
Speaker 3: know I'm secure here. But what does the Bible? The
Speaker 3: Bible says that they sowed fig lees and God.
Speaker 2: Can't find them. Adam and Eve, where are you?
Speaker 3: When God asked a question, he's not asking for himself
Speaker 3: he's asking for you.
Speaker 2: Do you know where you are?
Speaker 3: And the Bible says they come out and this is
Speaker 3: the first mention of the word fear in human history.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry God, I was. I was afraid because I
Speaker 3: was naked, and so I hid. Now, if I'm God,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, thank God, I'm not God. But as I
Speaker 3: read the story, I'm thinking, what you mean, you afraid
Speaker 3: because you was naked?
Speaker 2: You always naked.
Speaker 3: Why of a sudden you always been naked, but all.
Speaker 2: Of a sudden, now you're scared to be naked. Then
Speaker 2: here's what I realized.
Speaker 3: And if maybe you were a little more locked in,
Speaker 3: I would explain the science to you, but we can't
Speaker 3: go there this week.
Speaker 2: But it blew my mind.
Speaker 3: I thought this was true based off my reading, praying,
Speaker 3: and studying of the scripture. Then I spent five hours
Speaker 3: studying science, and science confirms your brain understands your fear
Speaker 3: this exact same way. And here's the idea. Fear is
Speaker 3: what happens when your self awareness outpaces your God awareness.
Speaker 2: Fear is what happens up until this point. They're not
Speaker 2: self aware, they're not self.
Speaker 3: Conscious, they are naked and free, They're not insecure. They're
Speaker 3: not worried. They're not afraid of what people think. They're
Speaker 3: not afraid of how they look. What does Adam think
Speaker 3: about me? What does she think about me? Did I
Speaker 3: name this animal?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Am I doing? They're not aware of that? Why because
Speaker 3: their self awareness is so low and their God awareness
Speaker 3: is so high that they can't even have time to
Speaker 3: think about themselves.
Speaker 2: But when does fear show up?
Speaker 3: Fear shows up when you start thinking about you more
Speaker 3: than you're thinking about God. So you start thinking, I
Speaker 3: can't raise these kids, How am I gonna do it?
Speaker 2: And what happens if the thing goes out?
Speaker 3: And what happens if the business doesn't work out, and
Speaker 3: what happens if I can't take it?
Speaker 2: And what happens if they don't love me? And what
Speaker 2: happens if they leave?
Speaker 3: And what happens is But when you will stop for
Speaker 3: one second and remind.
Speaker 2: Yourself, I don't have to think about me. It's not
Speaker 2: my breath in my body.
Speaker 3: This wasn't my idea, this isn't my church. These aren't
Speaker 3: my children, this isn't my plan. If it was up
Speaker 3: to me, I would have been dead and gone a
Speaker 3: long time ago. But thanks be to my God, who's
Speaker 3: keeping me alive, who's put breath in my body, who
Speaker 3: takes care of my children, who bottles up every one
Speaker 3: of my tears.
Speaker 2: You want to know why you're afraid.
Speaker 3: Is because you underestimating God and you're overestimating yourself. You're
Speaker 3: thinking about what you would do in this situation. And
Speaker 3: let me tell your friend, you don't having to raise
Speaker 3: the kids. That's why you're afraid, because.
Speaker 2: You know you. I was having a friend with a
Speaker 2: conversation with a.
Speaker 3: Friend and we were talking about raising kids, and her
Speaker 3: kid is going to high school, and she said, because
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about what I was doing when I was
Speaker 3: that age, and if they're doing what I was doing,
Speaker 3: we're all cooked. Please don't be doing what I was
Speaker 3: doing when I was doing what I was doing.
Speaker 2: And that's what fear is. Fear is God says, start
Speaker 2: the business. And instead of thinking of.
Speaker 3: The fact that an eternal, infinite, not bound by omnipresent,
Speaker 3: omniscient God is talking to you bowl of dust with
Speaker 3: his lungs in it. Instead of thinking about that, you
Speaker 3: think about, well, I hang out no money.
Speaker 2: Wait. Wait, the guy who.
Speaker 3: Spoke the stars has taken an idea out of heaven
Speaker 3: and handed it to a bucket of dust on borrowed
Speaker 3: breath who he saved because he wanted to when you
Speaker 3: were not thinking about him. And you want to talk
Speaker 3: about made up green pieces of paper that we've assigned
Speaker 3: as how we do what we do or not? Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I think we've got an out of order. Hey,
Speaker 3: I need you to go up and pray for that person.
Speaker 3: But God, what if they think I'm weird?
Speaker 2: Wait? Wait, wait, wait a second. That it can't be.
Speaker 2: That can't be what we're thinking about. That can't be.
Speaker 3: God can't be trying to somehow supernaturally speak to you
Speaker 3: about someone you've never met and giving you a prophetic
Speaker 3: word or a word of knowledge from heaven that Susky
Speaker 3: has opened up and.
Speaker 2: Imparted into your spirit.
Speaker 3: Go tell them, no matter what people say, they are loved.
Speaker 2: But God, what if that's weird? And what if that's strange?
Speaker 3: You have no idea that their parents spent their whole
Speaker 3: life tearing them down, and instead of having God use
Speaker 3: you and passed through you and prove to you and
Speaker 3: them that He is real, we're over you're thinking, But
Speaker 3: what if it's weird? And what if it's strange, and
Speaker 3: what if I'm wrong? And if what if? What if
Speaker 3: God is God? Let's go down that road for a second.
Speaker 3: What if it's not an accident? What if it's not
Speaker 3: just a happenstance. This is why it baffles me people
Speaker 3: arguing that the whole universe is there was a random
Speaker 3: explosion and your life is just chance.
Speaker 2: I will, let's let's go down that road.
Speaker 3: I don't know about the whole God thing because the
Speaker 3: seven days of creation, I don't. I'm not arguing that.
Speaker 3: But you're telling me that your whole life is an accident.
Speaker 3: It's just a random explosion, and you know, explosion monkeys us.
Speaker 2: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. That's so dumb.
Speaker 2: And I love you if you believe that, I do.
Speaker 2: I love you, and it's dumb. It's dumb.
Speaker 3: What if.
Speaker 2: Outside of time there was a God who.
Speaker 3: Was like, Okay, I got I gotta I got everything,
Speaker 3: or got the trees, I got the fish, I got
Speaker 3: the But there's something there's something I need, There's something missing,
Speaker 3: there's something missing where there's nobody to enjoy all of this,
Speaker 3: and I need to. What if he was thinking about
Speaker 3: you back then, you don't ever think about that, because
Speaker 3: he's all knowing and he stands outside of time.
Speaker 2: Chance is three. He's thinking about you.
Speaker 3: He starts with Adam, but he's thinking about you.
Speaker 2: And the whole story of man.
Speaker 3: Is God trying to invite us into an impossible life
Speaker 3: and us being so terrified of what the other created
Speaker 3: piles of dust think about us.
Speaker 2: Come on, just do it. But what if they come on?
Speaker 3: Just trust me, What if they come on, you can
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can't. And God is begging
Speaker 2: and pleading, just like.
Speaker 3: He did in a dangerous situation where there was a
Speaker 3: storm and.
Speaker 4: The disciples are on a boat and it's obviously dangerous,
Speaker 4: but someone in the boat realized I can be in
Speaker 4: a dangerous situation.
Speaker 2: But fear is a choice. And if I look out
Speaker 2: on the water and that man that called.
Speaker 3: Me when I was nobody says, step out of this boat,
Speaker 3: what business do.
Speaker 2: I have sitting in this boat listening to you? And
Speaker 2: here's the thing Peter always gets so much flack.
Speaker 5: Peter couldn't keep his eyes off Jesus. He couldn't keep
Speaker 5: his eyes on Gee. He didn't, he didn't. I mean,
Speaker 5: if that's what it's a problem. You got to keep
Speaker 5: your eye. That's the problem. You've you've never got out
Speaker 5: of your boat.
Speaker 3: Who are you talking You've You've never gotten out of
Speaker 3: a boat ever in your life.
Speaker 2: You've never don't come over here talking to me. You've
Speaker 2: never gotten out of a boat.
Speaker 3: And here's here's my plea is we will read this book,
Speaker 3: believe this book, but then not live how the people
Speaker 3: were reading lived. Think the book's broken, and leave your faith.
Speaker 2: But you can't.
Speaker 3: Extract the message from the method. So you can't take
Speaker 3: out the boldness that Paul walks with when he says,
Speaker 3: before I was born, God chose me. You can't just
Speaker 3: extract that and put it on a T shirt and
Speaker 3: not be willing to go to jail for what you believe.
Speaker 3: And I'm not talking about, oh, it's proof that you
Speaker 3: love God because you go to jail. Know what I'm
Speaker 3: saying is, if you're arguing with praying for a friend,
Speaker 3: you're a.
Speaker 2: Little disconnected from what he meant.
Speaker 3: If you're worried about what people are gonna think when
Speaker 3: you say I'm gonna I'm gonna quit this and I'm
Speaker 3: gonna step into this, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Why would you do that.
Speaker 3: If if he's asking you to do it, just I
Speaker 3: promise you it's worth it. I promise, I promise, I promise,
Speaker 3: I promise you don't have to be so afraid. So
Speaker 3: I'm twenty seven. I read it when we started. Somehow
Speaker 3: I'm sweating so much. These glasses are fogging. I don't
Speaker 3: even know how that happened. The Lord is my light
Speaker 3: and my salvation. So what am I afraid of? Here's
Speaker 3: what he's saying.
Speaker 2: When it gets dark, I got a light, and when
Speaker 2: I die, I'm with him. What I need to be
Speaker 2: afraid for.
Speaker 3: You know, that's the only really like ace car we got.
Speaker 3: The whole idea is supposed to be, we live so
Speaker 3: boldly because we know the thing that humans are terrified
Speaker 3: of the most dying we ain't.
Speaker 2: Got to be afraid of.
Speaker 6: That's really supposed to That's the central idea of this
Speaker 6: whole message. You being salvage the salvation of your soul
Speaker 6: is supposed to produce boldness on the earth because you
Speaker 6: know my.
Speaker 3: Eternity is secure, so I can live how I need to.
Speaker 2: Right here, I prayer.
Speaker 3: For everybody is that whatever you have deemed too dangerous,
Speaker 3: whatever you have deemed too much of a risk.
Speaker 2: The thing you want to do but you're afraid to
Speaker 2: do because what.
Speaker 3: People might think if you do it.
Speaker 7: That thing.
Speaker 3: All I'm saying is is if you get out the boat,
Speaker 3: we do have proof you can walk on water. We
Speaker 3: do have proof. If you start the business, there's proof
Speaker 3: it can work. If you work on your marriage, there's
Speaker 3: proof God can restore. If you share your faith, there's
Speaker 3: proof God can use it. And I just don't want
Speaker 3: to get to the end of my life with a
Speaker 3: bunch of man I wonder when would have happened. If so,
Speaker 3: here's what I do. I'm gonna pray, and here's what
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pray for. I'm gonna pray that God would
Speaker 3: allow us in the next seven days, next seven days too,
Speaker 3: by any minuscule amount, become less aware of ourselves and
Speaker 3: more aware of Him, just any point zero zero one percent,
Speaker 3: if we could just a little bit less aware of
Speaker 3: our faults are fit and a little more aware of Him.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing. Your self awareness, or your awareness
Speaker 3: in general, it grows by what you give your attention to.
Speaker 3: So what I give my attention to is what I
Speaker 3: become aware of.
Speaker 2: Me and a friend. We're joking.
Speaker 3: But the New York Knicks won the finals.
Speaker 2: And his go next and his awareness.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to his, But his algorithm
Speaker 3: is only the videos of the eighteen easy crackhead Knicks
Speaker 3: fans that are beating up people. It is terrible, completely terrible.
Speaker 3: I ain't seen that. All I see is New y'all,
Speaker 3: New y'all, like people are singing in the streets and flying.
Speaker 3: But you know, your algorithm is just a reflection of
Speaker 3: your attention.
Speaker 2: So there's also my friends algonam.
Speaker 3: He's got videos of health and fitness and all these
Speaker 3: everything that I don't have, because when I give more
Speaker 3: attention to.
Speaker 2: It shows me more of your life. Works the same way.
Speaker 7: If you give more attention to God, you see more
Speaker 7: of it. If you give more attention to His goodness,
Speaker 7: you see more of it. If you give more attention
Speaker 7: to hope, you see more of it. If you give
Speaker 7: more attention to the grace of God, you see more
Speaker 7: of it. If you give more attention to.
Speaker 3: The generosity of God, you see more of it. This
Speaker 3: is why you can't trust everybody that tells you that
Speaker 3: the world is terrible and it's bad. And we're all cooked.
Speaker 2: That's what they're giving attention to.
Speaker 3: But as for me and my house, what I see
Speaker 3: is it's darker, and that means the light is even brighter.
Speaker 2: There's never been a better time for the church to
Speaker 2: stand up.
Speaker 3: There's never been a better time for truth and goodness.
Speaker 3: Everybody's standing all over this room. I'm gonna pray for
Speaker 3: you that you will become more aware of God and
Speaker 3: less aware of your self.
Speaker 2: Every head bow, every eye close.
Speaker 3: Lord, Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you for thinking about us, for thinking about us.
Speaker 3: You think about us an eternal God, a gracious God,
Speaker 3: a God with no start and no end.
Speaker 2: We are on your mind.
Speaker 3: So much so that you invite us into your plan,
Speaker 3: so much so that you invite us into your plan
Speaker 3: and equip us and empower us for the plan.
Speaker 2: You gave us.
Speaker 3: Now what I'm asking, would you help us get our
Speaker 3: eyes off ourself and our eyes on you, Our eyes
Speaker 3: off our deficiencies and our eyes on you, Our eyes
Speaker 3: off our insecurities and our eyes on you.
Speaker 2: May we become more aware of you.
Speaker 3: The every head bowed, every eye close. Before we get
Speaker 3: out of here, If you're in the room, and you've
Speaker 3: never accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior. If you're
Speaker 3: watching online, you've never accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior.
Speaker 3: This is the ultimate moment of God awareness. It is
Speaker 3: you realizing I will always be afraid as long as
Speaker 3: I'm the source of my strength. I will always be
Speaker 3: insecure as long as I am the source of my future.
Speaker 3: But when you realize there is a God who loves you,
Speaker 3: who cares about you, who has a plan for you, you
Speaker 3: can surrender your life to his will. You can have
Speaker 3: a fresh start and a new source of hope.
Speaker 2: And his name is Jesus.
Speaker 3: If you want to accept Jesus today, in this room
Speaker 3: or online, every every eye close, I'm gonna count to three,
Speaker 3: and if you want to accept Jesus, I'm gonna ask
Speaker 3: you to bravely, boldly raise your hand. It's a brand
Speaker 3: new start for you today. The Bible says that he
Speaker 3: who knew no sin became sin so that we might
Speaker 3: become the righteousness of Christ. I'm gonna count the three
Speaker 3: and if you want to accept Jesus as your Lord
Speaker 3: and savior, I'm gonna ask you to boldly raise your hand.
Speaker 3: One he loves you.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 3: Today is the day of salvation. Don't wait another day.
Speaker 3: Three right now in this room online, shoot your hand
Speaker 3: up boldly, raise it high, don't apologize, don't worry about nobody.
Speaker 3: I got you, sister. I see you right here, right here,
Speaker 3: so proud of you. I got you a family right there,
Speaker 3: a mom and a son together.
Speaker 2: Come on, what are we talking about? Beautiful?
Speaker 3: I got you over here, brother, So proud of you,
Speaker 3: so proud of you.
Speaker 2: I see you, sister, so proud of you.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody out loud, together as a family.
Speaker 2: Let's pray together. Everybody say, Dear God, thank you for
Speaker 2: loving me.
Speaker 3: I admit I've made mistakes. I need you save me,
Speaker 3: change me, transform me. I'm yours and Jesus same. I
Speaker 3: pray Amen. Hey, can we celebrate and cheer for people
Speaker 3: who just decided to give their life to Jesus. Hey, listen,
Speaker 3: if you just made that choice, best choice you could
Speaker 3: ever make. I would encourage you to text the word
Speaker 3: save to the number that comes up on the screen. Also,
Speaker 3: tell somebody, just somebody in your row. Hey, I raised
Speaker 3: my hand and it was me.
Speaker 2: I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I'm just new, but to tell somebody and if somebody
Speaker 3: tells you, here's the first rule, don't be weird.
Speaker 2: Second rule, give them a hug, tell them you love them,
Speaker 2: encourage them. But we're so.
Speaker 3: Grateful for you and so happy of what God is
Speaker 3: doing in your life. Hey, listen, over the next couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, I really believe God's gonna help us to
Speaker 3: walk out of fear and into a beautiful life, and
Speaker 3: so I would encourage you join us.
Speaker 2: Every single week is gonna be amazing. But I want
Speaker 2: to take a moment.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pray for you, and if you need prayer
Speaker 3: for anything at all, some of our prayer team is
Speaker 3: gonna be.
Speaker 2: Up here at the front. There's nothing too big, nothing
Speaker 2: too small.
Speaker 3: But we want to agree with you in prayer and
Speaker 3: just agree and believe with you for.
Speaker 2: What you're believing for. But I worship team's gonna sink.
Speaker 2: You can feel free to stay in worship or you
Speaker 2: can head out. But got to thank you for who
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 3: Thank you for your grace, for your love, for your mercy.
Speaker 3: I pray Lord Jesus that this week we will become
Speaker 3: more aware of who you are, your goodness and your grace.
Speaker 2: It's in the beautiful name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: We pray and everybody said, amen, Amen, Amen, we love you, we.
Speaker 2: Love you, we love you. Thank you for joining us today.
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