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
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna jump into the message today.
Speaker 3: If you got your bibles, open up your bibles to
Speaker 3: the Book of John. The Book of John, chapter number ten.
Speaker 2: The Book of John. A little bit about John.
Speaker 3: He's one of Jesus' disciples and he's a little prideful.
Speaker 3: You won't catch this unless it's in the nuance of
Speaker 3: how he writes. But in one of his stories, he's
Speaker 3: talking about him and a friend. We're running to get somewhere,
Speaker 3: and he talked about himself.
Speaker 2: In the third person. He's like, but then the other
Speaker 2: disciple beat Peter to the tomb. But he's talking about himself.
Speaker 2: It's just random fact he'd be doing.
Speaker 3: He calls himself the one Jesus loved, so he'd be
Speaker 3: in the joint.
Speaker 2: He'd be like, yeah, you know, James.
Speaker 3: Was there, Peter was there, The one Jesus loved was there.
Speaker 3: But you can't do that write in your own letter.
Speaker 3: That's crazy. John's the best. But John chapter number ten,
Speaker 3: Verse ten is going to kind of be our starting
Speaker 3: point today. If you got it, say I got it.
Speaker 3: If you don't, don't worry. We got you all right.
Speaker 3: Could you throw that up on the screen for me?
Speaker 3: John ten ten says, this funny story. Actually, I grew
Speaker 3: up in a church. My dad was a pastor. It
Speaker 3: was called Abundant Life Church, Abundant Life Christian Church. I
Speaker 3: don't know they had some more spiritual words in there,
Speaker 3: but this was the anchor verse. So John ten ten
Speaker 3: and the NIV, this is what it says.
Speaker 2: He throw it up there for me. It says this,
Speaker 2: the thief.
Speaker 3: Comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
Speaker 2: But I have come that they may have life and
Speaker 2: have it to the full.
Speaker 3: This is what Jesus is saying. He says, there's a
Speaker 3: thief and he's here to steal.
Speaker 2: Stuff, to kill and destroy.
Speaker 3: But the reason I showed up, the reason I'm here,
Speaker 3: the reason I stepped out of heaven and into human history.
Speaker 3: He explains, in these words, I came that they may
Speaker 3: have life and have it to the fool.
Speaker 2: Look at the message.
Speaker 3: Eugene Peterson, I was a professor. He kind of paraphrase it.
Speaker 3: This way, he says, a thief is only there to
Speaker 3: still kill and destroy. I have come so that they
Speaker 3: can have real and eternal life, and look at this language,
Speaker 3: more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
Speaker 2: Jesus is setting some context here.
Speaker 3: If you want to know why I showed up on
Speaker 3: the scene, why I stepped out of perfection and gold
Speaker 3: streets to relate to you.
Speaker 2: Why I put on this flesh suit.
Speaker 3: Why I had to deal with people that I was
Speaker 3: there when they were created.
Speaker 2: Why I stepped out of heaven.
Speaker 3: The reason I'm here today is just to let everybody know.
Speaker 3: He showed up so you could have more and better
Speaker 3: life than you've ever dreamed of.
Speaker 2: That's the point. Why is Jesus here.
Speaker 3: Jesus tells us himself in John Tinton, I showed up
Speaker 3: so you could have a better life than your dreams.
Speaker 3: So you wouldn't escape life to dream, but you would
Speaker 3: live your dreams while you're awake.
Speaker 2: I gotta calm down. I'm not even supposed to be
Speaker 2: preaching yet.
Speaker 3: Okay, the title of my sermon today, I'm taking notes.
Speaker 2: Write it down.
Speaker 3: Better than dreaming, better than dreaming, better than dreaming, better
Speaker 3: than dreaming.
Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, we thank you that you are here.
Speaker 3: You are here with us in this moment, and I
Speaker 3: pray that you would reveal yourself in a way that
Speaker 3: we cannot ignore, a way that changes us, a way
Speaker 3: that helps us see you differently, a way that changes
Speaker 3: how we see ourselves.
Speaker 2: And Lord God, we love you. So you let me pray,
Speaker 2: and everybody said amen.
Speaker 3: When we jump into John chapter number ten, Jesus talking
Speaker 3: to a religious group of leaders who are in summary,
Speaker 3: super lame. They're super lame. They think they're really cool.
Speaker 3: They've memorized a lot of the Old Testament, and they
Speaker 3: think because they.
Speaker 2: Know a lot about God that they know God. But
Speaker 2: these are two different things.
Speaker 3: You can know a lot about God and still not
Speaker 3: know God. How do we know this because they knew
Speaker 3: the most quote unquote and they killed him. They had
Speaker 3: the first five books in your Bible, they had that
Speaker 3: memorized since they were teenagers, and they still couldn't see
Speaker 3: God when he was walking around healing people doing miracles.
Speaker 3: So you can know about God and still not see God.
Speaker 3: But Jesus is talking to them, and the context of
Speaker 3: this scripture is Jesus heals a blind man and the
Speaker 3: Pharisees or.
Speaker 2: These religious group leaders. They go and they.
Speaker 3: Start interrogating the blind man. Why because they're not concerned
Speaker 3: with the miracle. They're more frustrated about Jesus's method of
Speaker 3: how he gets to miracles. This is something that still
Speaker 3: happens today, and I'm not gonna go on a whole
Speaker 3: rant with it, but people will be more frustrated with
Speaker 3: the method of how people get saved than the actual
Speaker 3: fact that five hundred and twenty four people are getting saved.
Speaker 2: Still happens today.
Speaker 3: They frustrated because Jesus, You're not supposed to do it
Speaker 3: like that. That's not how people are supposed to get saved.
Speaker 3: And so Jesus goes on this whole rant as he
Speaker 3: normally does.
Speaker 2: He's kind of like.
Speaker 3: Talking to the crowd, but he's also taking direct shots.
Speaker 2: At all the Pharisees. It's very gangster of Jesus.
Speaker 3: But he does this whole illustration about sheep and he's like,
Speaker 3: there's a sheep gate and I'm at the gate and
Speaker 3: other people are trying to get in the gate, and
Speaker 3: if you come and it's stuff that doesn't make sense now,
Speaker 3: but if you were a shepherd back then and you know.
Speaker 2: It made a lot of sense. And here's the connection.
Speaker 3: Have you ever, I don't know if you've heard the
Speaker 3: scripture of the twenty third song.
Speaker 2: Some of y'all, you know, if you played any.
Speaker 3: Type of sports in the two thousands, you probably have
Speaker 3: that tattooed on your.
Speaker 2: Ribs or something like that. But it's like a very
Speaker 2: specific call. But somebody in here is like, dang it,
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: But one of the things that starts out and says,
Speaker 3: the Lord is my shepherd. So when Jesus starts talking
Speaker 3: about he's the real shepherd, that he's the good shepherd,
Speaker 3: everybody in the crowd says, is he saying what I
Speaker 3: think he's saying. Everybody knows there's a connection that's deeper
Speaker 3: that's happening right now. He is making a claim to
Speaker 3: be somebody who we've been looking for for hundreds of years,
Speaker 3: and he's saying, yeah, I know you've been looking for him,
Speaker 3: but it's me.
Speaker 2: Just make the pharise. He's very, very angry.
Speaker 3: But then he backs up and he uses this verse
Speaker 3: verse number ten, and he says, the enemy or the
Speaker 3: devil with adversary, he has three goals in your life
Speaker 3: to steal to kill and destroy it. Now, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna spend much time on the devil because he don't
Speaker 3: need no time and just a little bit of vice.
Speaker 3: Don't give the devil any of your time. It's a
Speaker 3: waste of your time to get him your time. It's
Speaker 3: just it don't make no sense. And some people love
Speaker 3: to be like, oh the devil, be quiet. The devil's defeated.
Speaker 2: He's dead. He has literally no powers at all.
Speaker 3: I don't give the devil the pleasure of even getting
Speaker 3: the opportunity to use my vocal course to talk about him.
Speaker 3: He just ain't that important. But for two seconds, let
Speaker 3: me explain.
Speaker 2: This scripture to you.
Speaker 3: Still kill and destroy here's the easy illustration. I went
Speaker 3: down the whole rabbit hole of the original language just
Speaker 3: to give it to you simply where you can understand.
Speaker 3: Still kill and destroyer is like these three steps. If
Speaker 3: I got the.
Speaker 2: Password to your phone.
Speaker 3: That was I stole your password, so now I have access.
Speaker 3: Nothing's changed, you don't know it, but I have an
Speaker 3: access point to something you desperately need. That's the steal
Speaker 3: to kill would be like if I went into your
Speaker 3: phone and I deleted all your apps in all your contacts.
Speaker 2: So it's still a phone.
Speaker 3: It looks like it functions, it turns on the same way,
Speaker 3: but there's something that is missing that is primary to
Speaker 3: its immediate fund and purpose. It was created destroyed after
Speaker 3: he does all that, your.
Speaker 2: Phone is destroyed.
Speaker 3: Not in the sense that it's crushing that got ran over,
Speaker 3: but it can't be used for its intended purpose.
Speaker 2: This is what the devil tries to do to you.
Speaker 3: So he doesn't start off with trying to destroy you completely.
Speaker 3: He starts off by just trying to steal a little
Speaker 3: bit of your connection and communication in your marriage. Then
Speaker 3: he kills your intimacy so that y'all still technically married,
Speaker 3: but there's no life actually happening in the middle of
Speaker 3: your marriage. So then he can destroy the ultimate purpose,
Speaker 3: which is for you to be a picture of God
Speaker 3: on earth. You still married, you still find you still
Speaker 3: look good on the outside. But he's stolen, he's killed,
Speaker 3: and he's destroyed. He is he's slow with He doesn't
Speaker 3: come out yelling at you in a red pitchfork and
Speaker 3: being like I'm here to take.
Speaker 2: Your purpose, give it over.
Speaker 3: That's why I be so interested Christians me sometimes man
Speaker 3: just begiving me because we be missing the plot. Sometimes
Speaker 3: we're like, oh, man, you watching that show you going
Speaker 3: to head there's demons and devils jumping off that TV
Speaker 3: into your soul. Maybe maybe I'm not saying there's not,
Speaker 3: but I'm saying when you when you stop being kind
Speaker 3: and you lose joy, you don't realize the Bible says
Speaker 3: the joy of the Lord is your strength. So if
Speaker 3: he can take your joy, you can't get stronger. So
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you gotta be you gotta be aware.
Speaker 2: Of the enemy's taxes.
Speaker 3: He still kills and destroyers. But then Jesus he summarizes
Speaker 3: his whole mission and he says, the reason I am
Speaker 3: here is so you can have a better life than
Speaker 3: you've ever dreamed of. Now it's interesting to me, Jesus,
Speaker 3: does I mean, if I'm reading this scripture, I don't
Speaker 3: know what it's about to say Jesus like, this is what.
Speaker 2: The enemy does.
Speaker 3: Now I'm about to tell you why I am here,
Speaker 3: and I'm not going, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: He's here to beat up the devil. He's here to
Speaker 2: make sure I go to heaven. He's here to.
Speaker 3: Make sure I'm always healed. He's here to answer all
Speaker 3: my questions. He's here to do what I need him
Speaker 3: to do when I need him to do it. He's
Speaker 3: here to make me feel good here.
Speaker 2: He doesn't say any of that. I'm here so you
Speaker 2: can have a good life. Now.
Speaker 3: I know some of you are like, that's not spiritual enough.
Speaker 2: That can't be that simple.
Speaker 3: In today's time, where there's no peace, no clarity, full
Speaker 3: of anxiety, full of fear, full of worry, full of
Speaker 3: all these things.
Speaker 2: I want to submit to you this morning.
Speaker 3: The life that Jesus is presenting could be the most
Speaker 3: spiritual act ever, you having a better life than you
Speaker 3: could dream of.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: I get this because we are trained spiritually to want
Speaker 3: super deep like.
Speaker 2: Stuff where we go, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: So when you just say, like Jesus here so you
Speaker 3: can have like a super fulfilling life, you're.
Speaker 2: Like, what what does that? What does that mean?
Speaker 3: I'm about to walk you through it here. But here's
Speaker 3: my submission today. When Jesus says I came that you.
Speaker 2: Might have life and life to the full, the language that.
Speaker 3: He's using is I am here so that you can
Speaker 3: have an exceeding and obnoxious, overflowing amount of fulfillment and
Speaker 3: satisfaction in your life. The word picture is like it's
Speaker 3: just an exorbitant amount, Like it's so much you cannot contain.
Speaker 3: It's it's you have a little cup and you just
Speaker 3: pour on it for fifty years and then another fifty
Speaker 3: It's it's so much life, so much peace, so much joy,
Speaker 3: so much love, so much patience, so much peace in
Speaker 3: your life. He says, That's why I'm here, so you
Speaker 3: can have a full.
Speaker 2: And satisfying life. What kind of life. Let's just start
Speaker 2: off with the fruits of the spirit.
Speaker 3: What if he just said, I want you to have
Speaker 3: an exceeding amount of love, joy, and peace, an overflowing,
Speaker 3: obnoxious amount.
Speaker 2: Of love in your life. That's why I showed up.
Speaker 3: So you just have so much love you don't even
Speaker 3: know what to do with it. People bump into you
Speaker 3: and they feel love. People look at you and they
Speaker 3: just think, I don't know what that is. But I've
Speaker 3: never seen somebody that seemed to that present with me,
Speaker 3: that God showed up so that you could have more
Speaker 3: joy than you know what to do with. Not so
Speaker 3: you're scratching and clawing and fighting for these little moments
Speaker 3: where you kind of have peace.
Speaker 2: He said, I want you to have an abundance of peace.
Speaker 3: I want the world to be following apart and you
Speaker 3: not think nothing of it.
Speaker 2: Because you know who holds the future.
Speaker 3: Now, the question is if this is what Jesus is promising.
Speaker 3: Here's the question. I've asked the time into my life,
Speaker 3: and I know people in here are asking why am
Speaker 3: I following Jesus? And I still don't feel that way.
Speaker 3: If the whole reason like his, the whole reason is
Speaker 3: I can have a lot of love, a lot of joy,
Speaker 3: a lot of peace, a lot of patience.
Speaker 2: And I feel like I got a little bit here
Speaker 2: and there.
Speaker 3: What's the distance? What's the gap? What's the delta? Why
Speaker 3: is it that the whole reason he showed up is
Speaker 3: something that we can barely seem to find.
Speaker 2: I want to present to.
Speaker 3: You today that you can live this life and it's
Speaker 3: easier than you think.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me, let me, let me get.
Speaker 3: Myself together here because I'm sometimes I have so much
Speaker 3: to say and it would just be too much.
Speaker 2: Let me give you this point.
Speaker 3: Here's kind of the anchor point of the sermon.
Speaker 2: Write this down.
Speaker 3: The fulfillment we seek is usually found in the action
Speaker 3: we avoid. The fulfillment we seek is found in the
Speaker 3: action we avoid.
Speaker 2: Here's here's the whole sermon. I'm gonna give it to you, and.
Speaker 3: Then I'm gonna prove it to you for the next
Speaker 3: twenty minutes, and then I'm gonna really prove it to
Speaker 3: you for the last Like ten. Okay, there is a
Speaker 3: difference between accepting grace and acting on grace. And you
Speaker 3: can live your whole life having accepted the grace of
Speaker 3: God but never acted on the grace of God.
Speaker 2: And I want to present to you this morning.
Speaker 3: The reason John ten ten feels like a such outlandish
Speaker 3: idea is because many of us live a significant amount
Speaker 3: of our life having accepted Jesus but never acted on
Speaker 3: the grace he gave us. What I mean, if I
Speaker 3: gave you one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: You could accept it and never spend it. And this
Speaker 2: is what you would do. You would walk around like,
Speaker 2: sh I got a hundred million dollars and people be like,
Speaker 2: how much money?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: You was what you were checking your bank account? Siri,
Speaker 2: read to me my bank account number. They have twenty
Speaker 2: eight cents. No the other account. The other.
Speaker 3: What you would do is you would start to get
Speaker 3: prideful because you think that since you accepted it and
Speaker 3: it's in your account, you know how to use it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm about to I'm about to get into it.
Speaker 3: This is how we get spiritually obese, because oh, I
Speaker 3: was listening. I was listening to the sermon and it
Speaker 3: was so good. It really just spoke to my heart.
Speaker 3: And here this happens all the time. And please, if
Speaker 3: this is if this has ever fault happened to you,
Speaker 3: I love you.
Speaker 2: But here's what be happening.
Speaker 3: Man, past a child, that was the best sermon you
Speaker 3: ever preached. Sometimes I'd be like, I don't know, but
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I hear in the middle of church,
Speaker 3: we mean saying something, ooh that's so good man, I
Speaker 3: needed that. But just because you heard it and you
Speaker 3: felt it doesn't mean you did anything with it.
Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm being super I'm super wool man, and I'm trying
Speaker 3: to keep.
Speaker 2: It calm, kind and collected and confident. I'm going through
Speaker 2: my frame. Croc, come on, man, I'm locking in. Man.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, it's very easy to.
Speaker 3: Be in church and thinking because you hearing what Jesus
Speaker 3: does that you do what Jesus did. It's very easy
Speaker 3: to watch your favorite preacher and say, man, that was good,
Speaker 3: and you never do nothing with what they said.
Speaker 2: It's very easy. I'm saying it's very easy because I
Speaker 2: do it all the time. We'd be like, whooh man,
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: And sometimes I'll be saying to myself, don't tell me
Speaker 3: you love it. Show me you love it by changing
Speaker 3: something in your life.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I really needed that. Tell me how much.
Speaker 3: Show me how much you needed it by what you
Speaker 3: did differently on Monday because of what you heard on Sunday.
Speaker 3: It's so easy because many times the fulfillment we seek
Speaker 3: is in the action we're avoiding. So we think that
Speaker 3: just hearing information and hearing people talk and hearing people
Speaker 3: pray is the same as actually doing it. But this
Speaker 3: is how you get this delta and this internal frustration
Speaker 3: because you feel like you should be further along because
Speaker 3: you got so many notes, and you got so many
Speaker 3: prophetic words, and you got so many revelations, and you
Speaker 3: have so much power written down in your phone.
Speaker 2: But then you look at your life and you barely.
Speaker 3: Got any peace, you barely got any joy, you barely
Speaker 3: got any love, and now you mad because it was
Speaker 3: like I was at church and I wrote it down
Speaker 3: and I felt the goosebumps, and they went to the
Speaker 3: chorus and they said, just y'all sing it, and I
Speaker 3: sang it, and I did.
Speaker 2: It and I felt it. But I went to work
Speaker 2: and felt the same.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's an opportunity to close the distance between what
Speaker 3: you've accepted and what you're acting on. Because here's the deal.
Speaker 3: Your life is not changed by the truth you accept
Speaker 3: to and believe. They are changed by the truth you
Speaker 3: accept and then act like you believe them.
Speaker 2: There's a difference.
Speaker 3: Your life is not changed by just accepting. There's a
Speaker 3: transformational thing that happens. Yes, but if you really want
Speaker 3: the full life here on earth, it's gotta show up
Speaker 3: in your actions. Because here's the deal. Accepting grace gets
Speaker 3: you into heaven. And let me just say this, if
Speaker 3: that's really you was all trying to get out of this,
Speaker 3: you good, You into heaven.
Speaker 2: Bam, he's going to hell. Now you're going to heaven.
Speaker 3: But your life on earth, like you know, like the
Speaker 3: seventy eighty ninety, well, however many years you got accepting grace,
Speaker 3: it secures your eternity and so if you're just trying
Speaker 3: to live like a super mediocre life and just make
Speaker 3: sure you make it into heaven, I don't.
Speaker 2: Want to take that from you.
Speaker 3: So if you're just like Charles, I'm really only in
Speaker 3: here to secure my past so that when I die,
Speaker 3: i'm in the line. That's the only reason I come
Speaker 3: to church. That's the only reason I read my Bible.
Speaker 3: That's the only reason I pray, that's the only reason
Speaker 3: I give. That's the only reason I do anything. Is
Speaker 3: because I just didn't want.
Speaker 2: To go to hell.
Speaker 3: And so Jesus said that if I believed in him,
Speaker 3: then I'll go to heaven.
Speaker 2: And that's really all I want. I don't really want
Speaker 2: the peace he has. I don't want the joy he has.
Speaker 3: I would actually like to believe in him and go
Speaker 3: to heaven, but still be anxious like all my friends,
Speaker 3: and be worried about the future, and just try to
Speaker 3: control my kids because I'm afraid.
Speaker 2: And I'd love to be terrified.
Speaker 3: Politically and just use it to like control things. And
Speaker 3: I'd love to fight with people in the comments, and
Speaker 3: I'd love to tear people down, even Christian people. I'd
Speaker 3: love to just keep tearing them down, and my friends
Speaker 3: look at my life and I say, I go to church,
Speaker 3: but then they don't see anything. And I'd love be
Speaker 3: trying to act like two different people, So like at
Speaker 3: church on Sunday, I'd love to show up and acting
Speaker 3: my life is great. But then I'd like the rest
Speaker 3: of my life just to do whatever the heck I
Speaker 3: want to, because all I was really concerned about was
Speaker 3: just getting into heaven.
Speaker 2: But I don't want to really do any of like
Speaker 2: the stuff, you.
Speaker 3: Know, because that's just it's a lot, and I just
Speaker 3: I really only have what time will you be done preaching?
Speaker 3: Because I gotta It's just I already got my cards,
Speaker 3: So I don't really know why I need to go
Speaker 3: to church if I got the.
Speaker 2: Card into heaven? What do I need you for? What
Speaker 2: do I need church for? What do I need friends for?
Speaker 2: Why should I why? What does it matter who I
Speaker 2: have sex.
Speaker 3: With or how I talk to people, or if I
Speaker 3: look my waiter in the eye.
Speaker 2: Why does that really matter?
Speaker 3: Because I'm going to heaven and I got my cards,
Speaker 3: So I don't really know why you're telling me to
Speaker 3: read this book. I don't really know why you talk
Speaker 3: about these tribes and I got a text tribe to
Speaker 3: eight too, eight two eight two. I don't get it
Speaker 3: because I got my pass and I'm good and that's
Speaker 3: all I wanted from him. I'm not saying you say
Speaker 3: it like that, but I do know we all live
Speaker 3: it like that, because accepting grace changes your eternity, but
Speaker 3: acting on grace changes your reality. Accepting grace will get
Speaker 3: you into heaven, but you gotta act on grace if
Speaker 3: you want to get Heaven into you. Accepting grace will
Speaker 3: have you feeling good in a moment, but acting on
Speaker 3: grace is how the early Church started a movement.
Speaker 2: There is a difference. If you're just here to come
Speaker 2: to church, check your box and feel good, that's cool.
Speaker 2: You can just accept the grace.
Speaker 3: But if you are here to see blind eyes opened,
Speaker 3: if you're here to see dead people walk out of tunes, if.
Speaker 2: You're here to see atheists say, oh my gosh, holy,
Speaker 2: holy holy.
Speaker 3: If you're here to find purpose that the world can't
Speaker 3: give you. If you're here to walk on water, if
Speaker 3: you are here to see something different. Friend, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to go from looking and observing and one day
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to act.
Speaker 2: On the grace he gave you.
Speaker 3: And this is how we have different experiences in our
Speaker 3: Christian walk, because we have some people that look like,
Speaker 3: how'd it be happening for them?
Speaker 2: How they be hearing God so much?
Speaker 3: How is because there is a step you can take
Speaker 3: to act on what you believe in.
Speaker 2: So here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you three three ways that you can
Speaker 3: act on grace, and I promise you'll change your life,
Speaker 3: not because I said it, but because the.
Speaker 2: Bible says it. But first, let me read you this scripture.
Speaker 2: Let me read you James. James is the brother of Jesus,
Speaker 2: and so he's got some.
Speaker 3: Stuff to say about his brother, which if I was
Speaker 3: writing a book about my brother, I'd be just in
Speaker 3: there talking trash like, yeah, he is God and everything
Speaker 3: jump shot was broke.
Speaker 2: Just throw some little jabs in there, okay.
Speaker 3: James, Chapter number one in the twenty second verse, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna read it to you out of the message.
Speaker 2: Could you throw that up there for me? Look at
Speaker 2: what this says.
Speaker 3: Don't fool yourselves into thinking you're a listener when you're
Speaker 3: anything but letting the word go in one ear and
Speaker 3: out the other. Act on what you hear, go to
Speaker 3: the next one.
Speaker 2: What does it say? It says those who.
Speaker 3: Hear and don't act are like those who glance in
Speaker 3: the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no
Speaker 3: idea who they are or what.
Speaker 2: They look like. Now, let me give you the go
Speaker 2: back to that one real quick.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give you a little context on why
Speaker 3: that's important. Because mirrors weren't accessible like they are now.
Speaker 3: If you go back in that time, it was very
Speaker 3: rare for you to have a mirror. It was polished
Speaker 3: bronze that someone had to work hard, really really really
Speaker 3: intentional to get a little reflection.
Speaker 2: So what the scripture is saying is if.
Speaker 3: In this time, if you looked at a mirror, you
Speaker 3: had to stare at that thing for a long time.
Speaker 3: You had to intently look, you had to look at it.
Speaker 3: So and then you get a picture of yourself. And
Speaker 3: it says you spend all that time looking in the
Speaker 3: mirror and.
Speaker 2: You walk away and forget. What does this tell me?
Speaker 3: It's not ignorance, it's unwillingness.
Speaker 2: It's not you unaware, it's just your they're unwilling.
Speaker 3: So it's not that you don't know you're unkind of people.
Speaker 3: You just don't want to become kind because you looked
Speaker 3: in the mirror, you saw it, you saw it was there,
Speaker 3: and you said, you know what, I'm good, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Oh goodness.
Speaker 3: The next scripture, what does it say, but those who
Speaker 3: catch a glimpse of the revealed council of God, the
Speaker 3: free life, even out of the corner of his eye,
Speaker 3: and sticks with it, no distracted scatter brain, but a
Speaker 3: man or woman of action. Here's the connection to John
Speaker 3: ten ten. That person will find delight and affirmation in
Speaker 3: the action.
Speaker 2: What you're looking for. It's in what you are avoiding
Speaker 2: doing right now. So the peace you're.
Speaker 3: Looking for, it's in the action that scares you the most.
Speaker 3: It's in the thing that you won't do. It's in
Speaker 3: the thing that you're worried about doing. And it's so
Speaker 3: easy to get so much information around a thing and
Speaker 3: still not.
Speaker 2: Do a thing. But I'm gonna give you three ways
Speaker 2: to act on the grace, because acting on grace works.
Speaker 2: Here's the first thing.
Speaker 3: The first thing that acting on grace does is it
Speaker 3: works in me.
Speaker 2: It works in me. It changes how I think.
Speaker 3: When you go from accepting grace to accepting and then
Speaker 3: acting on it.
Speaker 2: It starts to work in you.
Speaker 3: The scripture that this church has founded on Romans twelve,
Speaker 3: it says, don't conform to the pattern of this world,
Speaker 3: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. One
Speaker 3: translation says, by changing the way you think, so you
Speaker 3: can accept grace and still think crazy, perverted thoughts, crazy,
Speaker 3: just wow, I'm going to heaven. But everybody I see,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking the most ratchets stuff about because you haven't
Speaker 3: acted on the grace you've accepted.
Speaker 2: When you act on it, meaning you.
Speaker 3: Start saying, Okay, I don't want to just accept this,
Speaker 3: but I want to align my life to this. What
Speaker 3: does God say? What does his word say? Think on
Speaker 3: these things that are pure and right and holy and upstairs.
Speaker 3: When I start to act on his grace, it changes
Speaker 3: the way I think. And if you want to do
Speaker 3: something different, you're gonna have to think different. You're gonna
Speaker 3: have to think because you're doing will always revert to
Speaker 3: your thinking.
Speaker 2: So you can try to if this is what we do.
Speaker 3: Because I know back in the day you got saved,
Speaker 3: it was slam all your CDs, throw all your bad
Speaker 3: stuff and come on. So you alln't know about that,
Speaker 3: but I remember seeing some people they were smashing CDs
Speaker 3: at the altar, and that's how we.
Speaker 2: Knew you were going to heaven.
Speaker 3: I'm never listening to Guns n' Roses ever again.
Speaker 2: Really, that's okay.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's that simple, but because what we do is
Speaker 3: we maximize on doing something different. And I'm not saying
Speaker 3: you shouldn't do something different, but I'm saying, if the
Speaker 3: grace hasn't acted in you and it's changed the way
Speaker 3: you think, you being fake and what you're doing any ways,
Speaker 3: because you don't even really want to do it, and
Speaker 3: you're thinking about doing what you don't want to do
Speaker 3: while you're doing what you think you're supposed to be
Speaker 3: doing it, And that's why you frustrated. I'm trying to
Speaker 3: help you. This is why you.
Speaker 2: Be like, I mean, I hate this is so dumb.
Speaker 2: I don't even want to be doing this. Why am
Speaker 2: I here?
Speaker 3: Because you haven't changed how you thought about it. So
Speaker 3: when I accept grace, it empowers me to live a
Speaker 3: new life. When I act on grace, it's me drawing
Speaker 3: on that power to saying, God, help me stop thinking
Speaker 3: about me the way I think about me and.
Speaker 2: What do you say about me?
Speaker 3: So I feel unqualified, but you say that I am
Speaker 3: called a qualified and I have everything I need to
Speaker 3: live the life you've called me to live.
Speaker 2: Let me remind myself of that every single day. I
Speaker 2: want to act on that.
Speaker 3: I want to live that way, I want to talk
Speaker 3: that way. I want to see something different in my life.
Speaker 3: When you start acting on grace changes the way you think.
Speaker 3: And if you don't change the way you think. I
Speaker 3: already said it, but I cannot stress. This is why
Speaker 3: it can be so demoralizing trying to make progress in
Speaker 3: your walk with Christ because you haven't acted on it yet,
Speaker 3: you haven't moved into it yet. The next thing that
Speaker 3: the scriptures say is that if you want to act
Speaker 3: on grace, the way it works is it works in you,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 2: It starts working on you.
Speaker 3: This is what you do and how you live, and
Speaker 3: how you treat people, and how you talk, and how
Speaker 3: you move and how you move through the world.
Speaker 2: And here's what I am saying. I am saying you
Speaker 2: first say.
Speaker 3: I want to accept the grace, but I want to
Speaker 3: act on the grace and I want that to work
Speaker 3: in me. And now I want to start changing how
Speaker 3: I live.
Speaker 2: What do I mean?
Speaker 3: I mean if the Scripture says that the fruit of
Speaker 3: the spirit, the proof of the spirit, the proof that
Speaker 3: God is with you, that you have surrendered your life
Speaker 3: to Him, is love when it starts working on you.
Speaker 3: The proof that you love Jesus more is not that
Speaker 3: you pray loud. It's not that you come to church.
Speaker 3: It's not that you know worship songs. The Bible says,
Speaker 3: it's your super loving.
Speaker 2: That's how you know you're acting on the grace He
Speaker 2: gave you. Is you are super loving. You are super patient,
Speaker 2: super patient. Show up to get your food. It's late,
Speaker 2: it's wrong, not even your order, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: don't even worry about it. I got time, don't even
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. We just we've had a busy day.
Speaker 2: Don't even worry about it. Don't even worry about it.
Speaker 2: Here's an extra tip.
Speaker 3: But I didn't even get your order right, It doesn't matter,
Speaker 3: It's fine, don't Hey, you're doing a great job.
Speaker 2: I see you. God loves you. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: Then you get in your car and it's traffic. Poof
Speaker 2: good thing. I don't live a hurried.
Speaker 3: Life, and I got plenty of time to wait here
Speaker 3: and and.
Speaker 2: Listen to some music. I can listen to a good thing.
Speaker 3: That's the spiritual thing. That's what the Bible says. You're
Speaker 3: super joyful.
Speaker 2: So you all, you have a smile on your face
Speaker 2: and you're a hap.
Speaker 3: People look forward to being around you because of how
Speaker 3: much joy you have. That's the most spiritual thing.
Speaker 2: The Bible says. Peace. You're peaceful.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, did you see the news? My answer
Speaker 3: is hearts of all. No, No, I didn't see it.
Speaker 3: I didn't, so sorry. I was too busy wrestling a
Speaker 3: three year old and my friend's kid taught my son
Speaker 3: how to do a chokehold, and so I'm wrestling. I'm
Speaker 3: waking up to a headlock in an armbar by a
Speaker 3: seven year old.
Speaker 2: So no, I didn't see the news. Because the truth is,
Speaker 2: this is this is all the news I need to
Speaker 2: be concerned about. Now listen.
Speaker 3: Please don't hear the reverse of that and be like, oh,
Speaker 3: you should just be ignorant. And no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm saying, I'm I know how much information I need
Speaker 3: to act on and have peace in my life. And
Speaker 3: the truth is, some of y'all know a lot, and
Speaker 3: it ain't doing nothing but making you anxious.
Speaker 2: You ain't doing nothing but get more worried.
Speaker 3: It's not that you go to look at the news
Speaker 3: so you can intentionally pray and plan and pray. It's
Speaker 3: just so you can talk about it with your friends
Speaker 3: and post about it and infight somebody, and then just
Speaker 3: be up late at night worried about, Oh my god,
Speaker 3: we're all gonna die.
Speaker 2: What's happening. I'm trying, my goodness, I want to run because.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to explain to all of us that the
Speaker 3: most spiritual thing, the thing that changed the world, the
Speaker 3: way this went from one guy in twelve of his
Speaker 3: friends to thousands of people was an actual power that
Speaker 3: separated them from everybody else. And as long as the
Speaker 3: church looks exactly like the world, what business do they
Speaker 3: have coming here? Why in the world, why you should
Speaker 3: come to church with me? Why you're just talking about
Speaker 3: how mad you are your spouse and you hate them?
Speaker 2: You don't why?
Speaker 3: What? What do you you hate your spouse? You're rude
Speaker 3: to your family. I never see you post all the time.
Speaker 3: I've never seen your wife. Where are they? We don't
Speaker 3: see your family? Your kids look at you and crouch.
Speaker 3: Why in the world would I ever want what you have?
Speaker 2: Oh, these people don't want God.
Speaker 3: No, they don't want your version of God because you've twisted.
Speaker 2: It so bad and he thinks they're mad at them.
Speaker 2: They want God. Let's be clear.
Speaker 3: But if you don't ever do anything with this grace,
Speaker 3: long suffering, you keep a good attitude at a job
Speaker 3: where they mistreat you, that's how they know you got
Speaker 3: something different.
Speaker 2: I'm faithful. I'm faithful. I do what I say.
Speaker 3: When I say I'm gonna do so, I do it
Speaker 3: because I'm a faithful person. This is the I promise you.
Speaker 3: This is the life Jesus is talking about. You got
Speaker 3: a lot of love, You got a lot of joy,
Speaker 3: and a lot.
Speaker 2: Of peace, patience, kindness, kindness.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many friends I have that
Speaker 3: their story of why they don't mess with God is
Speaker 3: because a Christian was unkind. They have no problem believing
Speaker 3: that Jesus was God, no problem being interested in a
Speaker 3: God who gives them grace, mercy, and power to become
Speaker 3: and live the life they're dreaming of. What they have
Speaker 3: problem with is people who say they believe that and
Speaker 3: are rude to them.
Speaker 2: For how they look. That's what they got problems with.
Speaker 3: So if you are supposed to represent him, I can't
Speaker 3: get to hear through you. You seem like an obstacle
Speaker 3: not helping me get there. So I would rather just
Speaker 3: distance myself from your whole joint because y'all are so
Speaker 3: mean and so judgmental, and you fight amongst yourself all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: I don't want that.
Speaker 3: This is part of the rise of why people love
Speaker 3: God and don't go to church.
Speaker 2: This is a part of it because depending.
Speaker 3: On what they wear, you're gonna look at them weird. No,
Speaker 3: I won't you look at me weird?
Speaker 2: Sometimes? Get out of here. Why this child's gone on?
Speaker 3: I am I'm so serious right now.
Speaker 2: I'm so serious because.
Speaker 3: I have friends that I love so much, and to
Speaker 3: be honest with you, to be honest with you, this
Speaker 3: is not this is a reflection of my own work.
Speaker 2: But I be nervous.
Speaker 3: I'd be trying to control who they meet first, because
Speaker 3: I know, if you meet the right person, this will
Speaker 3: go good. But if you meet the wrong person, it'll
Speaker 3: mess up all of this.
Speaker 2: And why do we gotta do that? Why can't we
Speaker 2: trust that, like, oh, you could come in and you
Speaker 2: could meet anybody. I could never be here.
Speaker 3: You could go to a different church and be beautiful.
Speaker 2: But I don't be thinking that. I'll be thinking, Okay,
Speaker 2: just come on.
Speaker 3: This day, and I need you to insu this friend
Speaker 3: that's super kind, and I need you to insuce this other
Speaker 3: friend that I know will be patient with you. And
Speaker 3: I need to make sure there's nobody around that's gonna
Speaker 3: look at you weird because you're still trying to figure
Speaker 3: some stuff out, and so just and that's because that's
Speaker 3: the story of.
Speaker 2: The church for a long time.
Speaker 4: It's because we've accepted all this grace, but we are
Speaker 4: not acting like the guy we're supposed to represent. I
Speaker 4: have a friend, his name is Alec, and he's a
Speaker 4: cyclist and.
Speaker 2: And he was in town this past week. He lives
Speaker 2: in Canada.
Speaker 3: There is a race and when I got into cycling,
Speaker 3: I immediately found like all the coolest racing teams in America.
Speaker 3: And one thing they do is they they sell like
Speaker 3: their jerseys, and so I immediately was like, I'm buying
Speaker 3: all the dopest stuff. So I got like, I had
Speaker 3: no idea what I was doing, but I showed up
Speaker 3: and the first ride I went to.
Speaker 2: Everybody thought I raced for this team, and.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, no, I just I just bought
Speaker 3: the jersey online. And so we had a race this
Speaker 3: past week and I had on one of these guys
Speaker 3: there's a team out of London and they're so sick
Speaker 3: and so dope, and.
Speaker 2: So I showed up.
Speaker 3: I had the jersey on, and my friend Alec was
Speaker 3: there and he's a pro cyclist. And so when I
Speaker 3: showed up, all these people who normally don't they ever
Speaker 3: talk to me, they like rolled up.
Speaker 2: And they're like yo, hey, bro like, and they were
Speaker 2: talking to my friend Alec and they're like, what are
Speaker 2: you doing here? And he was like, oh, I'm here
Speaker 2: for my boy Charles bl blah blah blah. And then
Speaker 2: they were like, oh what up, bro like and the.
Speaker 3: Man get out here. But uh, I've been here for
Speaker 3: six months. You never said nothing to me.
Speaker 2: But but this is this is funny. I'll promise it's
Speaker 2: gonna make sense.
Speaker 3: I get I get in the race and it's like
Speaker 3: forty or fifty guys and I'm locked in and then
Speaker 3: at like five life laps to go, so maybe like
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes we've been going twenty eight miles an hour
Speaker 3: in a mile loop for an hour, and my heart rate,
Speaker 3: I'm not lying to you, was two o two. My
Speaker 3: heart rate is like what? And literally another guy attacked
Speaker 3: and went and it was like five of us all
Speaker 3: the way down to the end, and I just didn't
Speaker 3: have it.
Speaker 2: At at five laps to go, I just gave up
Speaker 2: and pulled off.
Speaker 3: The road and rolled up to Alex and Alec and
Speaker 3: he was he was like, bro, what happened?
Speaker 2: And I was like, man, I just didn't have it.
Speaker 2: I just didn't have it. I just completely gave up.
Speaker 2: And he's here's the funny connection.
Speaker 3: I got home and I took off the jersey and
Speaker 3: I thought, this is why people don't be liking when
Speaker 3: you roll up in a jersey that you can't.
Speaker 2: Back up so lot.
Speaker 3: I thought that because I showed up wearing this jersey,
Speaker 3: and here's the connection, people thought that meant something about
Speaker 3: my heart cycling It's all about your heart rate, because
Speaker 3: if your heart rate gets to a certain point, it
Speaker 3: don't matter how strong you are, you just can't go
Speaker 3: with everybody else. So they saw me on the outside
Speaker 3: and I look clean, and I looked like I was
Speaker 3: about to win. But the truth is, when it came
Speaker 3: down to it, I didn't have anything to offer. No lie,
Speaker 3: I told Alex. I was like, bro, I put I
Speaker 3: took all the jerseys, all my dope jerseys.
Speaker 2: I put them. I put them away. I'm not wearing
Speaker 2: them until I get stronger. I felt so embarrassed. There's
Speaker 2: none of those people. Literally at the end of the race,
Speaker 2: they're like, what happened, man? I was like, my leg
Speaker 2: really uh? It was immediately started lying, you know, a cramp.
Speaker 3: You know. I got hit by a car actually in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, So my hip kind of acts up
Speaker 3: when I really get going. It's always good to have
Speaker 3: that that really did happen to me, so I can
Speaker 3: pull that up as an.
Speaker 2: Excuse at any moment.
Speaker 3: What happened, Well, I got ran over by a reindeer,
Speaker 3: so it's kind of weird. Here's my closer I today,
Speaker 3: Acting on grace works in you, works on you, and
Speaker 3: then and then the most beautiful thing is it starts
Speaker 3: to work through you. It starts to work through you.
Speaker 3: It starts to work through you, meaning the people around
Speaker 3: you start to realize there's something different about you. There's
Speaker 3: something I don't know what it is, but there's something.
Speaker 3: They just seem like there's something different about them. It's
Speaker 3: just kind of how they I don't know, but there's something.
Speaker 3: And how they talk there's something, and how they they look.
Speaker 3: They're always excited to see me. I know, we be
Speaker 3: at work and the boss be yelling, but they don't
Speaker 3: seem to get worked up. There's something different because you
Speaker 3: accepted his grace, but now you're trying to act on
Speaker 3: his grace and you wanted to show up in your life.
Speaker 3: And all I'm saying this morning is my most beautiful
Speaker 3: moments with Jesus have not happened in this church in
Speaker 3: a building. They've happened when I was outside of the
Speaker 3: church trying to act on.
Speaker 2: What I've accepted.
Speaker 3: It was in the function of telling my friends about
Speaker 3: God and that I was anxious and depressed, and He
Speaker 3: did something about it then, like really, I was like, yes,
Speaker 3: And you don't have to be if you don't want
Speaker 3: to be anxious anymore, here's the cool thing you don't
Speaker 3: got to be.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, what I gotta do.
Speaker 3: All you gotta do is you just talk to God
Speaker 3: and you there's a thing called prayer, and when you pray,
Speaker 3: it's like you trade all your.
Speaker 2: Anxiety and just gives you peace. Well, what I gotta do?
Speaker 3: Nothing really, just you just every day. You just got
Speaker 3: to learn how to keep giving it to him. Really,
Speaker 3: that's yes, that's the Oh my god, it's the best.
Speaker 3: And then when you get overwhelmed, you remind yourself that
Speaker 3: like he he's in control anyways, and.
Speaker 2: You didn't get yourself there.
Speaker 3: And it's like when you get super pressurized, you remember,
Speaker 3: like he's got a plan that's so much bigger than
Speaker 3: my plan.
Speaker 2: And what in the world isn't so great? It's been
Speaker 2: an acting.
Speaker 3: It's been acting and out where it shows up around.
Speaker 2: And it shows up through my life. We're about to
Speaker 2: get out of here. And my prayer is that.
Speaker 3: If you have ever felt that way, he felt like, man,
Speaker 3: I'm following Jesus, but.
Speaker 2: I don't feel fulfilled. My encouragement.
Speaker 3: Is to take one truth about Jesus that you've accepted.
Speaker 3: Maybe he's a healer. Maybe you've accepted that he gives
Speaker 3: second chances. Maybe you've accepted that he's a friend that
Speaker 3: sticks closer than a brother.
Speaker 2: Maybe you've accepted that he gives peace in the middle
Speaker 2: of the storm.
Speaker 3: Maybe you've accepted that he's a strong tower and those
Speaker 3: who run in are safe. Maybe you've accepted that the
Speaker 3: Gospel can change your heart. Maybe you've accepted what I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is for you, but one truth
Speaker 3: you've accepted, and this week.
Speaker 2: I want you to spend the whole week acting on
Speaker 2: that one truth.
Speaker 3: So if God is a healer, what would I be
Speaker 3: doing in my week differently than I don't.
Speaker 2: Do right now? Oh that's a dangerous that's.
Speaker 3: A that's a dangerous that's a dangerous Christian right there?
Speaker 2: If I knew God.
Speaker 3: Healed anybody, anybody's sick in here?
Speaker 2: Anybody not feeling good? Is there anybody who doesn't? You're good,
Speaker 2: You're fine, you're hippis? Or what is it? What's what's
Speaker 2: hurting right there? Oh you're left? Okay, your left?
Speaker 3: This is because that sounds crazy. But that's the thing
Speaker 3: you'd be shouting about in the book is that they
Speaker 3: walk past.
Speaker 2: People and their shadows healed people. So if we're trying
Speaker 2: to live like that, you can't just read himok. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's good. You gotta walk out.
Speaker 3: And be like, oh, man, if I see somebody who
Speaker 3: ain't feeling good.
Speaker 2: I promise you, I'm about to pray for.
Speaker 3: Them so fast because I'm trying to act on what
Speaker 3: I've accepted. If you knew that God could give peace
Speaker 3: in the middle of the storm, how would you be
Speaker 3: talking to your family that you ain't talking to him
Speaker 3: like right now? If you knew that God had the
Speaker 3: whole world in his hands and he had a plan for.
Speaker 2: Your child before you knew them, he knew them.
Speaker 3: How would you talk to your kid if you knew
Speaker 3: God had them and they're okay, and He's got a
Speaker 3: perfect plan for their life, and he's gonna protect them,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna keep them, and he's got more than
Speaker 3: enough grace for every mistake they'll make.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna keep them. And I'm gonna raise them
Speaker 2: in the way they should go. But I trust my God.
Speaker 2: How would you raise your kids if you were acting
Speaker 2: on what you said you've accepted.
Speaker 3: How patient would you be if you knew that He's
Speaker 3: a God that gave mercies new every morning?
Speaker 5: How would you talk to yourself differently? If you knew
Speaker 5: God was pleased with you. He's pleased with you, He's
Speaker 5: pleased with you. If you acted on that. How would
Speaker 5: you show up? What type of husband would you be?
Speaker 5: What type of wife would you be?
Speaker 3: If you and this is where I'm saying that John
Speaker 3: ten ten life, it's in that.
Speaker 2: It's in the action that we sometimes avoid.
Speaker 3: Every head bow, every eye closed, two groups of people.
Speaker 3: If you're in here or under the sound of my voice,
Speaker 3: you're watching this, you're listening to this, and the idea
Speaker 3: of that super fulfilled life like tons of joy, tons
Speaker 3: of peace, and overwhelming sense.
Speaker 2: Of gratitude and love.
Speaker 3: If that feels really far away, it feels a distant,
Speaker 3: it feels like, man, I experience that sometimes but not
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 2: But I want that life. If you're in here and.
Speaker 3: You want to try to take the step of acting
Speaker 3: on grace, you want to see what this book talks
Speaker 3: about show.
Speaker 2: Up in your real life. Every head bout, every eye close.
Speaker 3: You're saying, I want to act on grace more. If
Speaker 3: that's you, I'm gonna ask you just to slip up
Speaker 3: your hand.
Speaker 2: I want to say, I pray for you.
Speaker 3: You want to act on grace more? God, you see
Speaker 3: our hands and we want to be stuck saying we
Speaker 3: believe something that we haven't done. Help us to do
Speaker 3: what we have confessed to believe. Help us to be
Speaker 3: people who have faith that moves past just a moment
Speaker 3: and shows up in our action. God, would you change
Speaker 3: the way we think?
Speaker 2: Would you help us change the way we think? Would
Speaker 2: you help us change.
Speaker 3: How we think about ourselves, think about our friends, think
Speaker 3: about our family?
Speaker 2: Would you help us to act on your grace?
Speaker 3: Every hand down, every head still bowed, everybody is still close.
Speaker 3: If you're in here, there's a beautiful first step you
Speaker 3: can take, and that is to accept the grace. And
Speaker 3: the good news is that's really your only part in
Speaker 3: this puzzle is to accept. You ain't got to work,
Speaker 3: you ain't got to strive, You ain't got to pretend,
Speaker 3: you ain't got to prove it. You accept the grace
Speaker 3: of God. Last weekend we celebrated Easter, and the story
Speaker 3: of Easter is the good news of the Gospel. And
Speaker 3: here's the good news. The good news is God has
Speaker 3: paid for all the mistakes you have ever made, will
Speaker 3: ever make, and have thought about making.
Speaker 2: He's already paid the price. So why does he have
Speaker 2: to pay the price.
Speaker 3: Because it's clear when we sin, when we make a mistake,
Speaker 3: there's a cost associated with it. Just like if you
Speaker 3: make a mistake or you lie in a relationship, it
Speaker 3: strains the relationship.
Speaker 2: That is a cost. And Jesus died on a cross to.
Speaker 3: Pay the ultimate price for our sin so that we
Speaker 3: have to live in shame, that we don't have to
Speaker 3: live in guilt, that we don't have to live under
Speaker 3: pressure and performance, but we can live under his grace.
Speaker 3: And if you're in this room, or you're watching online,
Speaker 3: or you're listening to this, this is the moment where
Speaker 3: your life will change forever if you want to accept Jesus.
Speaker 3: And I'm not talking about no fake get into Heaven card.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about I.
Speaker 3: Want my life to look radically different. I want peace
Speaker 3: and I want an abundance of it. I want love
Speaker 3: and I want an abundance of it. I want joy
Speaker 3: and I want all of it. I'm not talking about
Speaker 3: settling for pretending and raising your hands and doing just
Speaker 3: the bare minimum. I'm talking about you are sick of
Speaker 3: your old life and you want a brand new start.
Speaker 3: Today this is your moment. This is what Jesus is about.
Speaker 3: He's always loved you, he's always been there for you,
Speaker 3: and today is that day. If you want to accept
Speaker 3: Jesus as your Lord and savior. I'm about to count three.
Speaker 3: And when I count to three, if you want to
Speaker 3: make that decision, I want you to raise your hand. Now.
Speaker 2: Here's why you're gonna raise your hand.
Speaker 3: You're not raising your hand for anybody else around you.
Speaker 3: You're raising your hand to let your mind, your soul,
Speaker 3: and your body. No, I don't just feel this on
Speaker 3: the inside, but I'm gonna act on it on the
Speaker 3: outside because I know that this is a faith about action.
Speaker 3: So if you want to accept Jesus as your Lord
Speaker 3: and savior, I'm gonna counter three. Then you're gonna raise
Speaker 3: your hand.
Speaker 2: One. He loves you.
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 2: Today is the day of salvation. Do not weigh another day.
Speaker 3: Three, right now, in this room and online, lift your
Speaker 3: hand if you want to accept Jesus.
Speaker 2: I got you. I'm so proud of you. I see you, sister,
Speaker 2: so proud of you, so proud of you. A family
Speaker 2: back here together, right here on the front road.
Speaker 3: I see you, so proud of everybody here online, everybody
Speaker 3: out loud.
Speaker 2: Would you pray out loud.
Speaker 3: Together, everybody repeat after me, say Dear God, I love you,
Speaker 3: Thank you for loving me. Dear Jesus, I admit I've
Speaker 3: made mistakes, Save me, change me, make me new, and
Speaker 3: your name.
Speaker 2: I pray. Amen.
Speaker 3: Hey, can we celebrate people who just made that choice.
Speaker 2: So proud of you. Hey, listen, here's a couple of.
Speaker 3: Things before we get out of here, and just a moment,
Speaker 3: our worship team is gonna sing and we're gonna have
Speaker 3: some team members come up down to the front. If
Speaker 3: you need prayer for anything, nothing too big, nothing too small.
Speaker 2: You need prayer for anything in your life or.
Speaker 3: Something powerful that happens when we pray. Some of you,
Speaker 3: maybe you gotta head out. You're gonna grab your kiddos
Speaker 3: and have but maybe some of you're gonna stay. Our
Speaker 3: worship teams just gonna lead us in worship. The Bible
Speaker 3: says that God inhabits the praises of his people. Something
Speaker 3: beautiful can happen there. But I want to encourage you
Speaker 3: to join us for family dinner tonight if you have
Speaker 3: space and time. And then the last thing, if you
Speaker 3: gave your life to Christ, let us know. Text the
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Speaker 3: can scan the QR code.
Speaker 2: But we're so proud of you, Lord God. I thank
Speaker 2: you for today. I thank you that this week we
Speaker 2: are acting on what we believe.
Speaker 3: We thank you for your grace, for your love and
Speaker 3: your mercy. It's in the beautiful name of Jesus we pray,
Speaker 3: and everybody said amen, Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, thank you for joining us today. If you said
Speaker 1: that prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's
Speaker 1: the best decision you could ever make. We want to
Speaker 1: celebrate with you, and we have some tools to help
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Now go out out and live a
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