Speaker 1: Thank you God. Stay standing. If you can, I should
Speaker 1: put your hand on your heart. Say Jesus, everything is yours.
Speaker 1: I hold nothing back. If you give it, I'll take
Speaker 1: it in Jesus name. Amen. Oh right, Amen, Amen. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad to be here. John. Are you in the
Speaker 1: house where you at? John? John? Can you do me
Speaker 1: a big favor? Can you just a little bit? I
Speaker 1: feel like it's either I'm gonna run over it or
Speaker 1: it's gonna trip me up one or the other. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But if you can this way, this guy's
Speaker 1: teasing me. Yeah, put her center. Thank you John, And
Speaker 1: then when you're done, please come back. I wanna chat
Speaker 1: with you for a second. I'm the new young adult
Speaker 1: pasture here and I'm super excited to do that. It's
Speaker 1: amazing journey. If you're eighteen plus in the building or
Speaker 1: watching online, or you know somebody who needs community, we
Speaker 1: want to get plugged in. We want to get connected.
Speaker 1: Starting in September. Tomorrow, September, isn't it. Starting in September,
Speaker 1: several times a month, we're going to go into the
Speaker 1: homes and we're gonna do like fellowship style worship, encountering
Speaker 1: God food. It's just gonna be tons of fun. So
Speaker 1: if you want to get information on that, come see
Speaker 1: me after service. That's perfect. John. Actually, when you were playing, man,
Speaker 1: I saw you playing and you were like, you were
Speaker 1: totally playing. You know what I'm saying. There's people who
Speaker 1: can play, right, there's people who could totally play. And Man,
Speaker 1: when you were playing, I was expecting that thing to
Speaker 1: do what it did last year. It didn't break if
Speaker 1: you weren't here. John was just totally worshiping like a
Speaker 1: year ago, and he was in the middle. I was
Speaker 1: standing right there and he was, and the whole thing
Speaker 1: just went kaboom and it just broke off. And then
Speaker 1: the Lord touched me when that happened, and he said,
Speaker 1: why don't you worship that way? And it just blew
Speaker 1: my mind and it set me on a trajectory somewhere.
Speaker 1: But as you were worshiping, I felt like the Lord
Speaker 1: was highlighting you to me. And I just felt like
Speaker 1: the Lord said, now is your season and there's a
Speaker 1: call on your life. Man. Everybody knows that your wife
Speaker 1: knows that you're not perfect. Nobody's saying that, but there's
Speaker 1: something in your heart, man, like when you're going for God,
Speaker 1: you're going one hundred percent. If you're making a mistake,
Speaker 1: you're going one hundred percent with it. True. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: God loves that about you because you're a one hundred
Speaker 1: percent and no matter what you're doing, Man, we just
Speaker 1: stretch your hands. Father, We thank you for John, and
Speaker 1: we thank you that the one hundred percent journey is
Speaker 1: just the beauty of who you've made him to be.
Speaker 1: And from this moment on, God, I thank you God
Speaker 1: that your voice will become so clear, and the destination
Speaker 1: of where he's headed will become so clear, and the
Speaker 1: steps you will take will have so much purpose in
Speaker 1: Jesus name, we bless him. Amen. Ah, Well, does anybody
Speaker 1: else want to move something on the stage? Now? I'll
Speaker 1: get it. No, I felt like that. Just God's so good. Well,
Speaker 1: if you're here for the first time, well, hi, family,
Speaker 1: I got some family here. Hi guys sitting in the back. Girl,
Speaker 1: that's so cool. If you're here for the first time,
Speaker 1: welcome to the unexpected. We don't know what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: except we want to see the Lord come through, encounter us,
Speaker 1: let us know who he is, and maybe give us
Speaker 1: a clearer picture of that so that we have something
Speaker 1: to pursue stronger, sharper, more bold, with more authority. Last week,
Speaker 1: if you were here, we talked about the God of
Speaker 1: my past. If you weren't here, just briefly. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: go through things in life and we have mountains too
Speaker 1: high to climb and too wide to go around, and
Speaker 1: the Lord and his Goodness sometimes takes us back memory lane,
Speaker 1: and he takes us to revisit not our past and
Speaker 1: sin or failure, but to revisit His glory in our past,
Speaker 1: and sometimes to remember, oh, yeah, I remember, God, you
Speaker 1: delivered me from so and so. You delivered me from sin,
Speaker 1: this bondage. You gave me a hope when I had none.
Speaker 1: You freed me from this when I wasn't free. And
Speaker 1: you go through this memory of who God is. God
Speaker 1: takes you into your past to remember who he is
Speaker 1: and what he's done, so that when you come back
Speaker 1: through that journey you have the faith and you realize
Speaker 1: the mountain that was big actually isn't so big. And
Speaker 1: you say to that mountain, get up and be thrown
Speaker 1: into the sea. And it is so, it will, it
Speaker 1: will be done. And we talked about all that last week,
Speaker 1: and I don't have the time to really share more
Speaker 1: about that, because today we're going to talk about the
Speaker 1: God in my future. Say God of my future. Amen.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna dive right in, and i am gonna
Speaker 1: go fast, Okay, and it's on purpose. Don't try to
Speaker 1: retain it all, just taking what whatever the Lord's doing
Speaker 1: in your life, and we'll just go from there. Cool.
Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter eleven, Verse one. Please. Now, faith is the
Speaker 1: substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Speaker 1: One more time, faith is the substance of things hoped
Speaker 1: for and the evidence. Let's read all together. Now, faith
Speaker 1: is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of
Speaker 1: things not seen. A different translation says, faith is the
Speaker 1: confidence that what you hope for will actually happen. Come
Speaker 1: on the substance, it's the tangible thing that we have
Speaker 1: that gets us to what we're hoping for. Here, let
Speaker 1: me put it in a different way. We're all in
Speaker 1: a vehicle, and this vehicle is driving us somewhere. This
Speaker 1: vehicle is called faith, okay, and faith is driving you
Speaker 1: to your hope. Put it back on the screen, Thank you,
Speaker 1: my friend. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for.
Speaker 1: So the question becomes what are we hoping? Right, you're
Speaker 1: today looks like what you're hoping for now here in
Speaker 1: the West and in the US, and and just culturally
Speaker 1: we've we we use faith, or excuse me, we use
Speaker 1: hope and wish interchangeably as those the same thing when
Speaker 1: it's completely opposite. For example, something bad happens and you're like,
Speaker 1: I really hope it gets better. What you're saying is
Speaker 1: I really desire and wish for it to get better.
Speaker 1: That's not hope. Hope is it will happen. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of time. Like when my wife and I
Speaker 1: were going through infertility, I kept saying to her, this
Speaker 1: will happen, we will have a child. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's this month, next month, or the month after that,
Speaker 1: but my hope is confident it's gonna happen. And my faith,
Speaker 1: my faith day in day out. We kept trying, we
Speaker 1: kept believing, we kept praying until what we hope for
Speaker 1: came into fruition. So our faith is the vehicle that's
Speaker 1: driving us to where our hope is. So I would
Speaker 1: challenge you church to stop using hope blatantly or as
Speaker 1: though it carries no value. Hope is eternal value. Okay.
Speaker 1: The challenge is that in today's society, we don't know
Speaker 1: what we're hoping for, so we're confused. Like our hope
Speaker 1: goes as far as I hope I get my bills paid.
Speaker 1: I hope that my friend will be better to me,
Speaker 1: or I hope my kids will listen better, or I
Speaker 1: hope I get breakthrough in the financial realm, where I
Speaker 1: hope people can see me or love me or accept me.
Speaker 1: It goes so so low. We've diminished hope. And my
Speaker 1: goal this morning, in the next twenty minutes, and please
Speaker 1: Lord help me, is that we get a pretty clear
Speaker 1: picture of what hope is, so that maybe we walk
Speaker 1: out of these doors knowing who we are in the Lord,
Speaker 1: walking out with confidence we never knew we had, walking
Speaker 1: out with authority and believing for more than we've ever
Speaker 1: believed for in our lives. Amen. Amen, Pastors that can
Speaker 1: you help me? Please? Can you run somewhere from me?
Speaker 1: I don't I know. I'm known as like the prop guy,
Speaker 1: and I didn't bring any props today, but I figured
Speaker 1: we need a prop and I use it the first service.
Speaker 1: Can you go into the fellowship, Paul, You know those
Speaker 1: two trees that sit on the side. Can you bring
Speaker 1: one of them? Just bring one please? Thank you brother.
Speaker 1: I love Zach. If you don't know, Zach, you're missing
Speaker 1: out in life. Truly, you don't know. You don't know
Speaker 1: the most encouraging person you've never met, you know, isn't
Speaker 1: it true. He's like he just doesn't he doesn't quit.
Speaker 1: He's just he's like, he'll find the goodness and he'll
Speaker 1: call it out. You'll be living like garbage and be like, dude,
Speaker 1: I could just see the man of God. You are man,
Speaker 1: You're just amazing, and you'll see it right, He'll see
Speaker 1: right through the ugly and see the beauty. And that's
Speaker 1: just it's a gift to God. So as he's bringing
Speaker 1: that for us to know and understand the hope of
Speaker 1: God and to what we have been called to, we
Speaker 1: have to go so where in history, we have to
Speaker 1: go back to the beginning, say beginning. Thank you, Pastor Zach.
Speaker 1: Just if you can place it right here. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for what Pastor Joel has to say about this tree.
Speaker 1: That's what happened in the garden. It fell apart. God
Speaker 1: planned the garden for goodness and it just okay, well,
Speaker 1: for us to understand why we even hope and what
Speaker 1: we're hoping for, we have to go to the original
Speaker 1: design and the intention of the author. Correct. So when
Speaker 1: we go back into the garden, this is what this
Speaker 1: tree represents, the garden of Eden where it began. When
Speaker 1: we go back into the garden, we find that God
Speaker 1: created man in whose image and in his image and
Speaker 1: likeness he formed them, and then he ordained a few
Speaker 1: things over man to be like. And first and almost
Speaker 1: he said, be fruitful and multiply. And then he said,
Speaker 1: I am giving you dominion, rule and reign over everything created.
Speaker 1: He said, plow this ground and make beautiful things. When
Speaker 1: God created Atom, he also brought the animals to Atom,
Speaker 1: and he said, what would you name them? Adam. So
Speaker 1: not only do we have the ability to rule, to reign,
Speaker 1: but we also have the ability to imagine with God,
Speaker 1: co labor with him in our original design. Like we
Speaker 1: put so much pressure on God to do the thing
Speaker 1: He's already done, and now it's our job to say, Okay, God,
Speaker 1: you've done that. You've given me the power, and now
Speaker 1: I have the authority to rule, to reign and make
Speaker 1: things happen. And so when Moses was leading Egypt out
Speaker 1: of or when Moses was leading the Israeli nation out
Speaker 1: of Egypt and the Egyptians came to kill them, Moses
Speaker 1: said to the people, watch what God will do. And
Speaker 1: then God said, why are you crying out to me?
Speaker 1: Take your staff, divide the sea? Walk. But so many
Speaker 1: times we're like, just wait till what God will do.
Speaker 1: Just wait, just wait on God. And there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with waiting. And if you're in that season God's leading
Speaker 1: you that way, please wait. But I'm telling you, when
Speaker 1: you understand the same power that raised him from the
Speaker 1: debt lives in you, You're gonna walk a different way.
Speaker 1: So in this garden, God created them to rule, to reign,
Speaker 1: to have dominion, to have authority, to expand. The idea
Speaker 1: beyond multiplying and expanding, was that as the garden grew,
Speaker 1: the entire earth would be filled with the knowledge and
Speaker 1: the glory and the splendor and the wonder and the
Speaker 1: majesty of this God we worship. Why because Adam and
Speaker 1: Eve in his likeness, cause him to go that way.
Speaker 1: We're created in his image. So lo and behold, we
Speaker 1: know that there was a satan. There was a deceiver Lucifer.
Speaker 1: And we all know the story the fall in the garden,
Speaker 1: how the serpent came and deceived Eve. Eve gave out
Speaker 1: of the fruit. They both ate, and when out of
Speaker 1: eight their eyes were opened, they began to see things
Speaker 1: they were never called to see. They began to feel
Speaker 1: things they were never called to feel. They begin to
Speaker 1: identify in ways they were never called to identify in.
Speaker 1: So if you tell me you're a certain identity, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily not believe you, but I know your
Speaker 1: true identity looks like something else. Okay, So they began
Speaker 1: to live away. They did it they were never called
Speaker 1: to live. And watch what happens when God comes into
Speaker 1: the garden to address the situation. I want to highlight
Speaker 1: what God says to the serpent. So if we go
Speaker 1: real quick, we're going Genesis three point fifteen. I believe
Speaker 1: the first one in Genesis says, I will cause thee
Speaker 1: God is speaking to the serpent, the devil. I will
Speaker 1: cause hostility between you and the one, between your off
Speaker 1: spring and her off spring. She will strike your head
Speaker 1: and you will strike his heel. He will strike your head. Guys,
Speaker 1: please understand from the fall from the very first breath
Speaker 1: of the fall of man, when we lost the image
Speaker 1: of God. One of the first things God says to
Speaker 1: the Satan, the one who took authority in the spiritual
Speaker 1: realm from Adam. He says, there is coming a day
Speaker 1: where my son will come and he will cross your head.
Speaker 1: Do you know? Do you know what it means to
Speaker 1: strike ahead? It means to give a death blow. From
Speaker 1: the very beginning, God is saying to us, Yes, you've fallen,
Speaker 1: Yes you fell sure, yes you're not living to your
Speaker 1: full potential. But if you look ahead, there's coming a
Speaker 1: day where there's one that will strike the head of
Speaker 1: the one who deceived you and took your place of authority.
Speaker 1: Real quick. I'm gonna go real, real, real, real quick.
Speaker 1: Genesis five twenty nine. Please lameck. Okay, who's lamex? We
Speaker 1: all know Enoch? Who knows Enoch in the building. Enoch
Speaker 1: is a guy who lived three hundred and sixty five years,
Speaker 1: And when he lived three hundred sixty five years, he
Speaker 1: lived in such close relationship and union with God that
Speaker 1: one day he was no more because God took him. Okay,
Speaker 1: three hundredsand how many days in a year? Three sixty five.
Speaker 1: Enoch lived three hundred and sixty five years, representing one
Speaker 1: day for every year, in such close proximity that he
Speaker 1: was no more Enoch. It gives birth, not him, but
Speaker 1: his wife gives birth to a man named metthus Lah
Speaker 1: say methuse law Methuselah is the longest recorded individual we
Speaker 1: know scripturally. He lived nine hundred and sixty nine years.
Speaker 1: Some of you don't want to live another day, okay,
Speaker 1: But he lived nine hundred and sixty nine years, and
Speaker 1: he through him gives birth to a guy named Lameck. Lameck,
Speaker 1: a guy who grandfather walked in such close proximity, whose
Speaker 1: dad walked so long. Lamck begins to utter prophetic utterances.
Speaker 1: And when Noah the scriptures say nay meg name or
Speaker 1: Lamik named his son Noah, for he said, may he
Speaker 1: bring us relief from our work and painful labor of
Speaker 1: farming this ground that the Lord has cursed. What is
Speaker 1: Lamix saying? He's saying, May there be one that comes
Speaker 1: in the likeness of the one who steps on the
Speaker 1: serpent's head and bring us relief from this curse that's
Speaker 1: been released. So Noah, we know this to be true.
Speaker 1: There was a flood, and Noah was ordained by God
Speaker 1: to fulfill this word. And see, all these people in
Speaker 1: history got glimpses of this hope, glimpses of this hope
Speaker 1: that you and I carry. And so Noah builds this arc.
Speaker 1: And in the arc, oh, such a beautiful story. There
Speaker 1: is eight individuals. And so when the water for forty
Speaker 1: days rains like crazy, water is coming out of the ground,
Speaker 1: it's Mayhem for forty days, and the water covered the earth.
Speaker 1: And God reveals to you and I that the only
Speaker 1: way from the old to the new is through baptism,
Speaker 1: when He baptizes the world. All of this a foreshadow,
Speaker 1: all of this a foreshadow of what's to come. How
Speaker 1: many in the arc eight? What does seven mean completion?
Speaker 1: What does eight mean? New beginnings? Oh? Lord, just way
Speaker 1: too many things to ignore, way too many things, and
Speaker 1: all these stories. Can you pull up Hebrews eleven? Is
Speaker 1: it thirty nine or something like that? Watch this. All
Speaker 1: these people earned a good reputation because of their faith.
Speaker 1: Remember faith as a substance of things you're hoping for.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Yet none of them received all that God
Speaker 1: had promised. So all these people, seeing the Christ coming,
Speaker 1: that he's coming. We know he's coming. So we're doing
Speaker 1: things today that's leading us to tomorrow, and one day
Speaker 1: we will see. Maybe we won't experience the fullness of it,
Speaker 1: but we will see it. Hebrews. Actually, this is not
Speaker 1: this is not back there. But I gotta read this.
Speaker 1: This is just way too good. This is the moment
Speaker 1: for it. Hebrews. I gotta where you at Hebrews. One, one, one,
Speaker 1: you gotta hear. This is just way too good. Long ago,
Speaker 1: Listen carefully, God spoke many times and in many ways,
Speaker 1: through our ancestors and the prophets. These final days, he
Speaker 1: has spoken to us through his son. God promised everything
Speaker 1: to the Sun and as an inheritance, and through the
Speaker 1: Sun he created the universe. Listened very carefully. The sun
Speaker 1: radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character. The
Speaker 1: sun radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character
Speaker 1: of God. So all these people are getting glimpses into
Speaker 1: this sun that's coming. Remember when, oh Lord, remember when
Speaker 1: Jesus was on the mountain of Transfiguration, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden there was Moses and and these two what
Speaker 1: do they represent? They represent the law and the prophets,
Speaker 1: you know, just a crazy thought. You don't have to
Speaker 1: go deep into this one. But you know how God
Speaker 1: does not live in time, right right? And you know
Speaker 1: how God, you know, he could transport people from one
Speaker 1: area to Okay, we're not gonna go there. But God
Speaker 1: does not live in time. So God is outside of
Speaker 1: time and we're living in a time zone. But there
Speaker 1: was a moment that happened on that transfiguration a mountain
Speaker 1: where Jesus transforms into something Elijah, Moses show up, and
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if back in history when Moses was a
Speaker 1: live that's actually when he showed up. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Because God's not living in time, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to get We might get in trouble with
Speaker 1: that one, but listen, that's not the point. The point
Speaker 1: is that when Jesus shows up in the natural, he
Speaker 1: expresses the very promise that God has released. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna skip that one for the sake of time. Luke
Speaker 1: chapter ten. We're gonna go right into the life of Jesus. Luke,
Speaker 1: chapter ten, verse seventeen. When the seventy two disciples return,
Speaker 1: they joyfully report to him Lord even the demons obey
Speaker 1: us when we use your name. Yes, he told him,
Speaker 1: I saw Satan fall from heaven like a lightning. Why
Speaker 1: is Satan falling from heaven because heaven has been given
Speaker 1: to Satan in this realm. When Satan deceived man, they
Speaker 1: gave over their authority to rule into rain. So Satan
Speaker 1: took that place. And what Jesus is saying when I
Speaker 1: have come, I have give watched this. This is so
Speaker 1: so good. Look verse nineteen. I have given you authority
Speaker 1: over all the power of the enemy. You can walk
Speaker 1: among snakes and scorpions and crush them. This this just remind
Speaker 1: you of something spoken in the garden. Oh this is
Speaker 1: just so good. I don't know if anybody gets kiddy,
Speaker 1: but when I see these kind of things, I'm like,
Speaker 1: ooh so good. It gives me like this confidence that
Speaker 1: what I believe is real. Like how many of us
Speaker 1: come here. You don't want to just hear a good mess.
Speaker 1: You need something that's gonna walk out there with you
Speaker 1: and break the neck of the enemy. And your life
Speaker 1: and your kid's life, and your financial life, and your
Speaker 1: relational life and your marriage. You need something that's real.
Speaker 1: You need something that's powerful. You don't need just somebody
Speaker 1: saying to have a good week, see you next week.
Speaker 1: You need a living gospel that transforms everything. Wooh, thank
Speaker 1: you God. Watch this verse twenty. But don't rejoice because
Speaker 1: evil spirits obey you. Rejoice because your names are registered
Speaker 1: in heaven. So a lot of us take this as like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's not about what you can do for the Lord,
Speaker 1: it's about actually getting to heaven. False. What is Jesus
Speaker 1: saying saying, don't rejoice because you have a hand that
Speaker 1: can do something. Rejoice because you've been restored to the
Speaker 1: original identity in Christ. Because when your name is registered
Speaker 1: in heaven, that's God saying I have given you all
Speaker 1: that is mine. I have returned you to the original
Speaker 1: purpose that I have ordained, that you would be fruitful,
Speaker 1: that you would multiply, that you would have dominion, that
Speaker 1: you would rule and rain cover the earth with the
Speaker 1: whole glory of God. Matthew twenty eight real Quick twenty eight,
Speaker 1: verse eighteen. You know that Jesus came, He lived a
Speaker 1: perfect life, he died a gruesome death, and then when
Speaker 1: he was buried for three days, he raised from the
Speaker 1: dead by the power of the same spirit that lives
Speaker 1: in us. And when he raised from the dead, Jesus
Speaker 1: came and told his disciples, what I have been given
Speaker 1: all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go, Can
Speaker 1: you say go one more time? Go therefore, go and
Speaker 1: make disciples of all the nations. He didn't say go
Speaker 1: and try. He didn't. So he didn't say go and hide.
Speaker 1: He said go and make How many of us know
Speaker 1: that this is not a suggestion, This is not a
Speaker 1: maybe yes, maybe no. This is a do it because
Speaker 1: it's on your life to do it. Go and make
Speaker 1: the disciples of all the nations. So what we have
Speaker 1: here is we have the Gordon. We have people showing
Speaker 1: up throughout the Gordon, or throughout history looking forward to
Speaker 1: the time when Jesus shows up. How many of us
Speaker 1: know that Jesus is the living, breathing Word of God.
Speaker 1: So the Word shows up, he makes the menifest presence
Speaker 1: of God in the very character and nature of God
Speaker 1: redeems us back. And then what he does is he
Speaker 1: gives us a commission. So many of us are stuck
Speaker 1: in win is the end happening? Is it happening tomorrow
Speaker 1: or is it happening in two years? Is it happening
Speaker 1: in ten or is it happening in one hundred? Listen,
Speaker 1: nobody knows, but we know something. I need some shoes, Dennis,
Speaker 1: Can I use your shoes again? Please? My brother, You
Speaker 1: all need to see this. Praise the Lord. You see these,
Speaker 1: This is your hope. It's right there. Second, God redeemed
Speaker 1: something that happened here through the cross, and he says, go,
Speaker 1: this is your assignment right here. Go and you don't stop.
Speaker 1: Can you pull that verse back up in Matthew twenty eight,
Speaker 1: You don't stop until the nations have been disciples. We
Speaker 1: don't let go until everything falls under the submission of Christ.
Speaker 1: Don't you tell me that it's gonna get worse when
Speaker 1: the Lord said, go make disciples. Don't you tell me
Speaker 1: that this sickness is gonna have you when in Mark
Speaker 1: he says, those that believe will lay hands on the
Speaker 1: sick and they will recover. Don't you tell me you're
Speaker 1: diagnosis when there's a better and bigger word. Your diagnosis
Speaker 1: is a shaky ground. But the Word of God is
Speaker 1: a solid foundation. We have more hope in the surroundings
Speaker 1: of our current existence than the Word that is eternal
Speaker 1: through time. And faith will always drive us to what
Speaker 1: we're hoping for. So if you and I see the
Speaker 1: words of God and we say, God, you said that
Speaker 1: the nations will be disciples God, you said, and Mark,
Speaker 1: let me pull it up real quick. These the miraculous
Speaker 1: signs will accompany those who believe they will cast out demons.
Speaker 1: You said that the demons will be casted out. And
Speaker 1: I won't stop, I won't quit, I won't let go.
Speaker 1: I won't give in until every demon is gone, until
Speaker 1: every sick is healed, until every nation is disciple. And
Speaker 1: that's the hope of my calling. But we're so petty
Speaker 1: sometimes it's just true, especially in the West. God, just
Speaker 1: keep me through this day. I'm not saying your day's
Speaker 1: not hard. I'm not. It's real. It's real. Life is real,
Speaker 1: Like last night, somebody in my neighborhood got shot, like
Speaker 1: it's real, like life. I'm not saying what you're going
Speaker 1: through doesn't have validity or doesn't have meaning, or it's
Speaker 1: not waightful or not hard, or I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: at all. I'm just saying the ones from the beginning
Speaker 1: who saw whatever they saw, no matter what they went through,
Speaker 1: did not change the outcome of their life, and that
Speaker 1: was the reputation they earned that when we hear their stories,
Speaker 1: it empowers something in us that you and I can
Speaker 1: walk in more freedom, more strength, more ability. And now
Speaker 1: that the Christ has come, the same one that rose
Speaker 1: from the dead lives in us. We're unstoppable. What if
Speaker 1: we start believing that? So it doesn't matter if we're
Speaker 1: right here in this journey and at the on the
Speaker 1: other side of that, you know what's happened, you know
Speaker 1: what's coming. Jesus is coming. It doesn't matter if we're
Speaker 1: here or we're here because nobody knows, or we're right here,
Speaker 1: nobody knows. That's not our quest. Our quest is to
Speaker 1: keep our eyes on the Christ. Keep our eyes on
Speaker 1: the Christ. Keep our eyes on the Christ. Oh Lord,
Speaker 1: where should I go? Lord? Real quick? I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: briefly make some comments practically how we overcome. First John
Speaker 1: chapter five, the scriptures declare that anyone who believes that Christ,
Speaker 1: you don't have to put it up on the screen.
Speaker 1: I'll just paraphrase. You can look it for yourself. Anyone who,
Speaker 1: anyone can overcome this world if they believe that Jesus
Speaker 1: is the son of God. And Jesus was revealed in
Speaker 1: three by three witnesses, by his blood okay, by the
Speaker 1: spirit who testifies about him, and by water okay, through baptism.
Speaker 1: Those three things. Anybody who believes in the sun must
Speaker 1: acknowledge these three witnesses who do not lie. The blood,
Speaker 1: the water, and the spirit who testifies. Okay, these three things.
Speaker 1: Later on in Revelations, we can actually pull this one
Speaker 1: up Revelations. I believe it's twelve. Is it up there?
Speaker 1: Tell me if it's up there, I'll just read there.
Speaker 1: Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens.
Speaker 1: It has come at last the salvation, power and the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God and the authority of His Christ. For
Speaker 1: the accuser, the devil, the lucifer, the one from the
Speaker 1: beginning that deceived us of our brothers and sisters, has
Speaker 1: been thrown down to the earth. And the one who
Speaker 1: accuses them before, that's the one who accused them before
Speaker 1: God day night. Next verse. Watch this, and they have
Speaker 1: defeated him. Not they will not, they mu right, not,
Speaker 1: they have to try. But they have defeated him by
Speaker 1: the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony.
Speaker 1: Don't skip the last one. You skip the last one,
Speaker 1: you lose every time. And they did not love their
Speaker 1: lives so much that they were afraid to die. The
Speaker 1: blood Jesus is revealed through the blood. What's the next one?
Speaker 1: The word of their testimony. That's what the spirit brings
Speaker 1: to reveal Jesus. And that they didn't love their lives
Speaker 1: unto death. That's water baptism. What happens when you're baptized.
Speaker 1: You let go of your old life. You die to
Speaker 1: all the fears, all the insecurities, all the past, all
Speaker 1: the demons, all the wrongs, all the hardships, and your
Speaker 1: race to life to a brand new creation. That is
Speaker 1: how you overcome. That is what we need to look
Speaker 1: forward to real quick. Hebrews chapter twelve, Verse one. Therefore,
Speaker 1: since you and I are surrounded by such a huge
Speaker 1: crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us
Speaker 1: strip off every weight. Oh there is a distinction here.
Speaker 1: I want you to catch this. Let us strip off
Speaker 1: every weight that slows us down, especially the sin. So
Speaker 1: weight doesn't necessarily mean sin. Well, don't judge me. I
Speaker 1: can do this. I'm not judging you. But if this
Speaker 1: is you should probably listen right I don't care. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can drink that and nothing's bothering you, but I
Speaker 1: know somebody else can't. And if you're the one who
Speaker 1: can't and is bothering you, you should probably listen. Stripping off
Speaker 1: every weight that holds us back. I want to watch
Speaker 1: this next part, especially the sin that so easily trips
Speaker 1: us up, and let us run with endurance the race
Speaker 1: that God has set before us. How many of us
Speaker 1: know what the race is? We talked about that just
Speaker 1: a second ago. It's seeing the nation's disciple, it's seeing
Speaker 1: every demonic spirit cast it out. Pastor Dwayne mentioned a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, we are all full time ministers. We're
Speaker 1: actually all paid full time missionaries ministers. That's because wherever
Speaker 1: you go and all that you do, you are a Christian.
Speaker 1: You know what a Christian is, a christ like one.
Speaker 1: You know what Christ did everywhere he went. He'll the sick,
Speaker 1: cast it out, the devil's preach the gospel, love the people.
Speaker 1: He was hanging out with the broken. He wasn't scared
Speaker 1: of what they might think about him. He wasn't scared
Speaker 1: to get his hands dirty. He got in the mud
Speaker 1: with the prostitute. Oh that's our Jesus. We do this
Speaker 1: by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates
Speaker 1: and perfects our faith because of the joy awaiting him.
Speaker 1: If I can print a picture on your mind this morning,
Speaker 1: so many times we're used to hearing beholding God, and
Speaker 1: it's true, you need to behold the beauty of Jesus
Speaker 1: because when you see him rightly, you can see and
Speaker 1: reflect what you see. Okay, but this is talking a
Speaker 1: bit about a different situation to follow Jesus, keeping your
Speaker 1: eyes on him running a race. By keeping your eyes
Speaker 1: on Jesus, that means you're looking at the back of Jesus.
Speaker 1: What is that saying? That means he's going ahead of you,
Speaker 1: and he's leading the way. He's leading the way. And
Speaker 1: so if I can imprint a picture, no matter where
Speaker 1: you are in your situation of life right now, no
Speaker 1: matter how much you believe in Him, no matter what
Speaker 1: you're going through right now, if you can, for a
Speaker 1: moment even close your eyes as I'm speaking, just begin
Speaker 1: an envision in front of you, maybe not the face
Speaker 1: of Jesus, but the back of his head, and you
Speaker 1: see him walking, and I just want you to begin
Speaker 1: to in envision which way is he going? Is he
Speaker 1: going to the left or is he going to the right.
Speaker 1: Is he stopping and waiting or is he going Is
Speaker 1: he bending down to get to work or is he
Speaker 1: walking to get to another location. Let's let me tell
Speaker 1: you something this morning that if you keep your eyes
Speaker 1: on Jesus, he is your reward. He is your reward.
Speaker 1: Just stand to your feet. The prerequisite for a life
Speaker 1: living full of hope is denying yourself in the west
Speaker 1: where the center of our world and it inconvenience is me.
Speaker 1: I'm out. I would challenge you this morning to lay
Speaker 1: down your life for the sake of your King. I
Speaker 1: would challenge you this morning, if you're here and you
Speaker 1: don't know this King Jesus, that you would come and
Speaker 1: be introduced to him. Last week I made a call.
Speaker 1: There was four individuals that responded to give their life
Speaker 1: fully to the Lord, and I want to make a
Speaker 1: similar call. There's a word over this morning that that
Speaker 1: people are going to come into the hands of Jesus.
Speaker 1: So we're going to start singing and we're going to
Speaker 1: start praying, and the Destiny team is going to be
Speaker 1: up here. But if you know you need to give
Speaker 1: your life to the Lord and submit not to your
Speaker 1: own desires, not to your own future, but a real God,
Speaker 1: a living God, the one who breathed you into existence,
Speaker 1: the one who formed you, the miracle you are in
Speaker 1: your mind womb, the one who knows you're tomorrow, the
Speaker 1: one who knows exactly how you feel right now that
Speaker 1: if you would yield your heart your mind to him
Speaker 1: this morning, I would challenge you to surrender it all.
Speaker 1: But on top of that, when the Destiny Team comes
Speaker 1: up front for those who don't know what they're hoping
Speaker 1: for and they just need fresh revelation for their own
Speaker 1: personal life, on top of the great commission, would you
Speaker 1: come and get prayed for? The Destiny Team operates in
Speaker 1: the prophetic and they will speak a word over your life.
Speaker 1: There's things that will shift. I feel the grace this morning.
Speaker 1: So two things. If you're giving your life to the Lord,
Speaker 1: full surrender or rededicating or more fully surrendering to him,
Speaker 1: please come up. But also if you just need a
Speaker 1: simple shift, God, give me a vision, give me a
Speaker 1: clear picture of God, give me something to grab onto
Speaker 1: and run with endurance with. Would you come up? So,
Speaker 1: Destiny Team, would you come. We're gonna pray us out
Speaker 1: and as they worship, don't be in too much of
Speaker 1: a rush. If you gotta go, you gotta go. Which
Speaker 1: would you submit to the voice of God that may
Speaker 1: be speaking to you right now. The way he speaks
Speaker 1: many times is through conviction. You're convicted to do the
Speaker 1: right thing in life? Would you do that? Father? I
Speaker 1: thank you this morning, this afternoon for your beautiful presence. God.
Speaker 1: I thank you for each individual at the sound of
Speaker 1: my voice. I rebuke every lie in their minds. God,
Speaker 1: I rebuke every deceitful thought that might hold them or
Speaker 1: hinder them from your presence, from your goodness. God, I
Speaker 1: thank you that this morning the morning of rejoicing and
Speaker 1: being glad. God, I thank you that this morning is
Speaker 1: a morning of celebration. We're celebrating the Lord this morning,
Speaker 1: all your faithfulness, all the good things you're doing, all
Speaker 1: the wonderful things that you're about to do. In the
Speaker 1: name of Jesus. We love you God, and we accept
Speaker 1: everything that you're about to do. Amen.