✝️ Why people are Discouraged – Dan Mohler

do you know how many discouraged people go to church because we don't understand why God sent his son let me challenge you this morning you can't be discouraged unless your focus isn't on yourself your circumstances what it's costing you and what you have to do now because of this that or the other and if people are involved now your hearts even hardened you're mad at them and it's their fault and now you're a million miles away from the very heart of God that saved you from your sins how's that for straight talk look I've lived deceived enough in my life and I've hated enough in my life and I've been selfish enough in my life now the truths come their lights come and I finally understand freedom and they put me up here and give me a mic I'm gonna talk about it I'm gonna speak it from the rooftops and cut into religion and cut up this stuff that's a form of and not the power of all the sudden you can sing and wave two hands and do the flag thing and you still got animosity in your heart towards your spouse and that ain't cool and it doesn't reveal God and it messes people up and it's messing you up so I'm gonna talk about these things I'm not gonna point you out I'm going to say if it's you and the slipper fits kicked the thing off don't be sittin Arella and wear it kick it off and say that ain't my shoe to wear I was not made for animosity I was not made for rightness I was not made to be right I was made to be found right in the sight of God and I was made to live by his spirit and to make peace and walk in love and that ain't weak and that ain't a pushover that's Jesus yeah come on you ever get stripped naked and crucified for doing everything perfect you did things somewhat right and it was called wrong and you freaked out yeah come on when I got accused of something that I didn't say or do and they said that's what I meant and I didn't mean it I freaked out why cuz it's all about me and I'm mad that you're thinking that about me and judging me and not seeing my heart Jesus everything flawless and perfect and got treated like he was completely wrong and he never said a word I don't know about you but I'm gonna follow that which is in the end that's all that's going to matter and faith believes that and one day I'm going to stand before him and look into his fiery eyes and amazing eyes full of life and glory and I sure don't want to be going oops Jesus I too believed you more if it wasn't for so-and-so well why didn't you answer my prayer I mean if it wasn't for my spouse you know I tried a trial or you ain't even gonna be able to think that looking in the light of truth you just gonna go uh I believe lies i justified my flesh and I missed the mark of why I was here and I never walked out the things of the Spirit I did Church but I didn't become her I went to church but it was never who I was Wow and then hopefully you'll just cry and he'll drive every tear because he's merciful you just won't have a legacy like you could have but he'll still love you and hug you and receive you because he's amazing I don't know what that all looked like but I know I don't want to look in his eyes and go oops I know if it doesn't work then I don't want to let it work now if I won't be able to say it in that day why can I say it now and make it work and buy time that I don't have to give redeem the time the days are evil we're in the world were not of the world he who loves the things of the world does not have the love of the Father India and the things of the world the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh and the pride of life if you live in to be somebody in the eyes of men you're way off track if you're posting things to get a lot of thumbs up you better reevaluate you got one big thumbs up where it matters [Music] yeah you ought to be glad you know the old Roman days the Emperor you oughta be glad to god the universe Dinka you got the best like forever and you weren't even living likable and you stood before him and they stand there like this in the Roman days and everybody's holding their breath and the guy on his knees is like what's it going to be and gods not even thinking about it why because no matter where you've been no matter what you've done he knows who he created you to be and he knows what you'll look like if you ever get this and you surrender and he knows that loving you is where it's at because you have purpose you have potential and you have destiny right in front of you and on your darkest day he never lost sight of that and love has never failed on your deepest journey of rebellion and willfulness he said you're so much more than that you have such a greater purpose and I'm going to keep loving you and one day you'll see that sure beats being ticked off frustrated getting under his skin and him giving up on us that's what we've all done to each other we hear somebody's name we haven't seen him for four years we hear their name and all we think of is the thing we don't like about him and that's how we identify we ain't done nothing right and he sees us for how he made us you think I understand this that I'm gonna have an attitude today he said she said tit for tat and I feel no friends I'm a believer I'm a Christian and I'm gonna follow him and tomorrow ain't the right day either does the gospel taught me this one thing if you can learn this one thing through this one session it'll pay great dividends if you just get one thing out of all I say this morning you just take this with you it will make such a difference in your everyday life you let the gospel teach you and through prayer you wake up and you establish this by saying it pin it on your mirror do whatever you got to do but get it in your heart this one thing that every day you wake up nobody owes you a thing that would challenge every hurt every offence every failed expectation it would take all the lines away and not the chips right off your shoulder nobody owes me a thing why because I owe no man anything but to love and it was the father's good pleasure to give me the kingdom so he gave me all things so I'm complete in him so now I'm not driven by need so now I wake up in the morning and I actually don't need you for me to be okay I need you to lock arms with me and be an army rising up and run this race and overtake the earth with his love and glory I need you to run with me but I don't need you to know who I am or be encouraged and because I don't need you to know who I am and be encouraged on finally position to love you because now you can't disappoint me hurt me break my heart and I don't have inner Turkey issues and I'm not Church shopping because I'm hurt and pastor is this and elder so-and-so is that and oh the devil's in that place no you're being real deceived he's a lot closer than that [Applause] you wake up in the morning nobody owes you a thing you'll finally understand what freedom is that we sing about Jesus never said if any man come after me let him pray a prayer that qualifies him for heaven he said if any man comes after me which I love that because everybody's invited If any man the word man means human all inclusive it's not gender if any man woman child come after me let him first deny I'm concerned we don't preach that I'm concerned because people have been legalistic that we push that out of the message because we don't want people to hear us legalistic so we just make it beneficial hey if you hit a tree on the way home do you know where you're going if not pray this prayer that's how we present the gospel that's never how Jesus presented the gospel jesus said this thing will cost you what you never were in the first place life for yourself so you can get back to why you're here in the first place Christ in you the hope of glory what's the first thing a Christian has to do if he's going to follow Jesus deny himself why if you read Genesis one man wasn't made for himself he was made for the image of God but because we compare ourselves among ourselves and we'll weigh ourselves by our own track record we forfeit grace and life change and transformation so we think we are who we've been instead of who we can become so it's putting off the old and putting on the new we hide behind language and we do church and the whole time we can become her not being mean I'm left being judgmental there's too many schisms among us sometimes there's too many inner issues there's too many people jumping ship and skipping and hopping and hurt 90% of counseling and pastoral counseling is people struggling with each other and it proves we do not understand why God sent his son and somehow we think it all revolves around me and we're all caught up in God loving me in a superficial way to feel special because we don't feel special God loving me but it's not stopping with God loving me it's me becoming that same love see the finished work of the cross is not when a man prays a prayer to go to heaven the finished work of the cross is when his nature's restored back to love because then he's back to the beginning and then Redemption has its way and you bought back to original value your confession to go to heaven doesn't change lives your love does your promotion and your income increase and your provision and protection doesn't change lives it just blesses you as an individual that's not the goal of your Christianity the goal of your Christianity is walking in love the goal of your Christianity is going to work with an attitude that Jesus would have if he was in your shoes and he is the goal of Christianity is being betrayed and not living like you were betrayed if God lived like he was betrayed he would need some serious counsel on the night Jesus was betrayed he didn't tremble in his bottom lip and cry and say how can you do this to me he didn't say I've been there for you all this time poured out my life I mean I came from heaven into Mary I became a man trying to help you don't you get it no you guys are doing this bucking for visit for position and you say you're gonna die for me hey what are you ready to die for me when I could struck you're all running you're outta here bunch of losers see we didn't learn that from him because we never saw that in him this is how you know if you know him not believe he died on the cross not go to church not do daily vows and this is how you know you know him that on the night you're betrayed you don't call a friend crying and tell them all about it because you've already laid down your life that's how you know you know him I'm not talking about serving in ministry feeding the hungry and giving showers to the homeless that's all good but you only know that you know him by your love that's the Bible it says he who loveth is born of God and knoweth God he who loveth not just doesn't know God doesn't say you don't lead worship doesn't say you don't light in it dinner it speak doesn't say you don't go on a mission trip annually but it does say if you don't love there's one reason not to you don't know him like you could and this is eternal life that you might guess what we've turned eternal life into a prayer that benefits me instead of a truth that transforms me be real careful you didn't get seduced by religion in this hour be real careful you don't end up in a group with tickled ears be sure that every morning you wake up you be with them that you don't let church attendants take the place of knowing him you don't let your service in ministry take the place of knowing him you will let your Christian t-shirt ringtone screensaver and bumper sticker take the place of knowing this is eternal life that you might know him the only true God and His Son Jesus Christ Jimmy said which tells me I can't know him without becoming more like him is if you don't love you don't know him not saying you don't see your need for Savior and weren't sincere and didn't get your sins forgiven not saying your name's not in the book of life but is that really our goal our name in the book of life or is our goal becoming what he created us to be in becoming what he paid for so how's the world benefit if you have eternal life and you're still angry at your boss and you still shut down your spouse somehow we got tricked into preaching a gospel that benefits me without transforming me deny yourself take up your now you're following Jesus what to pick up your cross you never let sin against you produce sin in you you never repay evil with evil you overcome evil with good it's you you you toned down a harsh word with a kind word you give your shirt and your tunic you go an extra mile because you've already laid down your life that's called carry your cross could you imagine Jesus thinking like we've been taught to think having the feelings we've been tricked into having through the motives we live by do you understand your emotions were not given by God the ones you grew up with were not from the Lord do you get that people say well God gave us emotions stop giving him credit for the chaos we grew up with God didn't make you to be angry frustrated jealous in unforgiveness antagonized ticked off competitive he didn't make any of that we became that when Adam got separated from God and we were all born into Adam so what was created to love became in need of love because it was cut off from the source of love so we were all born into the need of love from the time you can remember you needed support valued attention and people get crushed in that arena they either become broken and introverted and insecure or hard and a fighter by a very young age you're nothing more than what you became through how you responded to what you've been through and your story becomes your identity not the truth of why you're here that's why people cling to their past so tight because it's the only place they ever found any sense of identity whether good or bad it's all they know about them and in the gospel you got a call that dead you got to come out from that you got to put that off and you're gonna put him on old things passed away behold all things become new I'm not a little boy that was touch strong anymore I'm not a guy that didn't have a daddy that was there for me and had an alcoholic father I'm not a guy that lost the mother after 40 years of sickness I'm a born-again spirit filled man without his hues I don't have issues I have the kingdom of God on the inside of me and I finally understand why mercy woke me up this morning because it gave me one more day to shine to walk in love and live by the spirit and be more like him and if I loved him I'll live what he says yeah come on out start to feel the gospel a little right now I've been trying to be behaved for you I didn't want to scare nobody but you looked a little scared in the beginning so I said okay we'll just we'll just calm down Dan just relax see cuz I look intense to you I know I do people tell me all the time I can feel it on me I can feel him I face but I'm ten times more right now on the inside than you're seeing it's I'm serious I believe discussable he shed blood for me the god of the universe reduced himself in my eyes reduced himself made the sacrifice to become a fetus in the womb of a woman hung out there for nine months the god of the universe put himself inside the womb of a woman to become a man to fulfill what man failed to redeem my life when you think I'm gonna get a hurt by you and get my feelings offended are you kidding me the god of the universe put himself in a woman and fulfilled what man failed and said hey follow me I think I'm gonna I know I'm gonna you're not gonna find me down and out forlorn and telling my story cuz right now I'm telling my story this is my story this is my son this ain't my story well born in 61 grew up in the city had a rough experience with a babysitter I don't know why God let that happen my dad always drinking never there for me I mean that's why I drink cuz he drank no that's a good reason not to drink well I just smoked pot because it was in the house all the time my parents always smoked it probably a good idea not to them what did it do to your family why do we need excuses to be the same when you're called for more and then we say well it's a generational curse no it might be a willful decision [Applause] you can't say whoa it's all I know you can't say that cuz he's knocking on the door of your heart he wants to introduce something new as soon as you open it he'll come in and sup with you this thinkin about a confession pastor is this thinking about oh I prayed the prayer no I became something different I remember the day I prayed the prayer no I remember the day I gave my life and he took it over it was 1995 and I'll never be the same I've never been the same since I'm more passionate and intense than I was then she well brother things wear off life gets to you time has a way of toning you down says who your experience everybody else's you try to tell Jesus that and talk him into that could you picture Jesus offended could you picture Jesus carrying the cross and he's beat beyond description they're still spitting on him it's pretty it's pretty degrading he's God he doesn't have to be there but I guess he does cuz he's loved because he can't change his mind he doesn't have options he doesn't seek his own so he can't be hurt by men cuz he loves men he can't be offended cuz he's loved it's not cuz he's Jesus it's cuz he's loved if it was cuz he's Jesus then I couldn't follow him but if it's cuz he's loved I could could you picture and get an analytical can you picture him second guessin could I've heard preachers say you can tell how God loves us cuz he could have come off that cross and he chose not to he could have come down from that cross and he chose not to where do you find that he could have come off that cross love never fails he's he's that change in his mind the forest he said saved others listen he'll men think saved others can't even save himself he's not here to save himself he's in his fight them and us saved others can't even save himself let him come down from the cross a few years three years he said he's the son of God oh he is he wasn't coming down wasn't an option he's not sitting there thinking should have shown that gazhams you're tempted you spit on me one more time you hit me with one more stick and I'm telling you you just at this pond so far I'm just about done Lord they just look at me wrong at this you see how silly it is when you put Jesus in that it sounds hilarious it sounds silly if it's in your life because you're made for His image and you're called to follow him and as he is so are you and this world and the things he does you'll do if you believe in your predestined to be conformed to the image of his son and he's the firstborn among many need any more scripture see I read this book right here and it showed me the way it really is and it trumped the way that seemeth right to a man so those feelings that want to come up and tempt you to be hurt and offended they get crushed by this higher truth you know sudden I realized I ain't got the same platform the same runways aren't in my life so we don't have the same flight numbers we don't have the same yeah could you picture this going up the hill and he just can't take no more and all of a sudden he just dropped us across he just says I can't do this anymore are you kidding me look what they're doing to me look look what they've done to me Father you know all I've ever done is good from the time I've been here I've done everything you've said I've healed the sick of cleansed are lepers I've raised their dead fed their bellies if they didn't change by now they're not gonna change remember Capernaum I mean I there wasn't one person left sick and all they're trying to do is to figure out what Devil's possessed me these people are whacked man I am NOT going through with this Barabbas they're screaming Barabbas Barabbas he killed a man he killed a man Lord I raised the dead and they want to do this to me he's in prison for conspiracy I'm trying to make peace and I'm the bad guy I've had enough these people are nuts and I ain't dyin could have been his story but I guess they couldn't have been not because he's Jesus coz he's loved don't you miss the point the goal of our instruction it's love not a sinner's prayer we go for instruction it's love not a sinner's prayer every person on the earth could pray the sinner's prayer in the world won't change but if we become loved it has to I just wanna make it to heaven brother stop you don't even know what you're saying die to that some people pray God it's getting darker why don't you come in I thought you would come by now it's getting darker Lord you got to come the Bible says he ain't coming cuz he's waiting for one more to change and be saved and you're praying to get out of here you're looking for a great escape you know what you're saying you said hey look if they can pray the prayer by now that's on them at least I prayed the prayer come and get me man I happen with me to hell with the rest of these people I can't take much more and you think that's spiritual that's selfish and deceived you're supposed to wake up every day to shine as a light and live in the spirit and walk in the spirit and not fulfill the lust of the flesh and over a man starts with the reality of the love of God not begging to get out of here and escape and God you gotta get me a new job I can't stand my co-workers if you love me you'll give me a new job no if you love you'll see your co-workers different and you won't want a new job you won't want to run an escape you'll remember these words forgive them father they don't know what they do oh they know what they do they do it on purpose they they they antagonizing me they just push in my buttons well why don't you go buttonless [Applause] it's like the lady come up to the order on a Sunday morning from a pastor she's really buttering him up she said pastor here so assist a man of god you're so spiritual man when you pray God just moves you I just need you to pray with me he's is this okay and she's really buttering him up he said she was really complimenting him he wasn't making fun of her he just telling me a funny story he said she said I need you to agree with me for my husband she said that man he won't come to church he makes me so angry he just does everything in his power to get on my nerves and to get to me he has learned how to push every one of my buttons and he does it on purpose and I just want to pray that God calm and just make him change did knock him off the horse just change his life would you pray with me my pastor goes I'll tell you what I think I have a different line of prayer I want to pray over she says what is it pastor because God hears you when you pray what do you want pray I want to pray that you go buttonless if you being okay depends on somebody else treating you different it's idolatry Jesus isn't even Lord and now you're only as strong as men's weakness and you're only as good as you're being treated and rather than as good as he is in you and all of a sudden life is speaking louder than truth and what matters most ain't even considered because you're letting all this matter more I don't think this is unreachable I think in that day we'll find that this was very reachable if we really live surrendered and have communion with God but I look for the day and I'm gonna keep preaching till I see the day when we gather in houses like this without offense without judgment without anxiety and fear and despair and discouragement because life has lost its voice in power the giver of it is who reigns in our lives and all of a sudden we ain't prayin for a better day we're living for a transformed one and all the studying come hell or high water we don't change because we shine and people do me wrong and I do them right people do me right and I do them right people betray me and I walk in love people don't betray me and I walk in love how you doing brother doing great man life is good in God that sure beats well really going through and it just keep me in prayer brother and all of a sudden we give ourselves away when you ask us how we're doing we share our two biggest challenges and throw in a keep me in prayer and all of a sudden we reveal that we're only doing as good as it's going instead of as good as he is in me and why come on you can't not hear what I'm saying it's too simple an eight-year-old could understand what I'm saying and it's all Scripture I've tied it in with lots of Scripture so that was our last two services so I just recapped and so now I'm gonna start kidding I'm kidding let me close with this let me close to this the only way you're going to live this life is relationship with him it's Holy Spirit changing your life you have to be willing you have to be willing to lay down your life you have to throw away your rights how can we deny ourself and still have so many rights I'm confused confusions not of God I shouldn't be confused but I'm confused how can we have so many rights when we've denied ourselves and we seek first the kingdom why is it always he said she said not feel relation that well they should have known better when they were saved longer than me well honey sometimes it's like we're looking for trouble how wonder if you woke up everyday in your marriage and you actually believed in your heart your spouse do you let's play a bigger picture wonder if your spouse actually grew into that revelation and your spouse believes the same thing heaven would probably be in your home like you wouldn't have theology and plaques that quoted Scripture he would be there Jesus your kids would probably your children would grow up to know that God is instead of know about him because if you take your children to church and you don't pursue Christ's likeness and live Christ likeness when you leave all you're doing is teaching your children Christianity is attending a church but you have this great privilege making him known even to your children and everyone around you you have this great privilege of becoming something not serving something becoming something that cannot be denied that's how you teach your children the way to go and when they grow old they won't depart because they had it right in front of them and deep in their heart they don't know that's just beats freaking out you said and I'm so mad at you why can't you listen to me you're gonna respect me boy I've told you once I've told you a hundred times get to your room mom dad get to your room and inadvertently in their little minds somehow they think God's the same way and they see that look in your face and somehow they think it's on his you have this great privilege of making him known but you don't know him how can you make him know and if all you relate to is the way we've all been then how can who he is become relevant in your everyday life if you say stuff like yeah but brothers sometimes I mean we all have our moments and you know we're all just and all of a sudden we find our truth through each other instead of through him and deny grace that changes us I promise you I didn't wake up to fail today I didn't wake up to sin I woke up to be his boy I woke up to be accepted in the beloved and righteous and pure in his sight I woke up to love I woke up to shine I didn't wake up to need you I woke up to love you I ain't expecting to fail and if I would which I ain't expecting to I would just run to him and thank him for the revelation showing me the difference making me wiser sharper more complete and powering me and even in weakness I'll get to know it more and let the weak say I am strong you rhythmic that sure beats condemnation guilt and shame looking in the mirror and only seeing your faults that sure beats crying for three days and talking about a four or five times in a row and now you're worse than you were that's four beats giving up sure beats growing weary in well-doing you're with me so the only thing that's gonna take you there is communion with God the only thing that's gonna take you to commune with God is understanding how he sees you right now through his son he doesn't see you for sin he doesn't see you for where you've been they sees you for her son has been I'm telling you his door is open his arms are open and he's waiting to receive you and love you not to empower you to stay the same to empower you to change if you didn't he didn't he didn't create a path in a way to help you sin and get away with it he's showing you a way to live free from it's consciousness it's awareness it's driving its desire he will empower you to put off and put on and live in righteousness yeah you have every right to approach him the only one that can keep you from him as you and believe in lies it doesn't even matter where your morning was it matters where you are now and that you go to him and that you make it right with him and that you begin to let him father you and you put off these things call itself so you can put on the kingdom of God and then you commune with him and you tell him you're willing to live this way and you want to live this way and you ask Holy Spirit to keep helping you and teach you to live this way and if in anything else I'm living otherwise please reveal it unto me because I know you love me and your way is right and righteously true and yours commune with him and you care and you're serious and in that day in that day this isn't this isn't controlling this isn't judgmental in that day this is reality guys in that day we're gonna find out who really believed in who really gave their life to him because your life lived reveals what you believe not your search attendance now your mission trips the way you conduct your life reveals what you believe if you leave a service like this and you stay offended well then I guess you made a clear statement if you leave a service like this and you don't even consider past hurts and unresolved conflicts in dealing with them and push them aside well then I guess you're making a strong statement so I guess now you're trying to justify staying the same and just to find not being more like him and I guess that'll be decieved in the end because if what you're living isn't producing the fruit of who he is then we're living deceived and you know them by their and in this the father's well pleased that you bear much and that's your fruit yay come on it's a solid gospel it takes out every excuse for the flesh so today it marks your heart and says okay am I ready to live by the spirit or am I not I've asked the Lord a long time ago I said Lord if I'm gonna preach and share in front of a lot of people like this I need you to do me a big favor for my own heart and conscience would you empower me to preach clear and and so clear that when unfinished a man would only have two choices he'd either say man I hear what you're saying and I want that man or he'd say man I hear what you're saying I just don't want it well please don't let him leave and say what's he saying and I honestly don't think that happens I don't think there's anybody out there Sam what's he trying to say that his right thank you it is simple and if it wasn't simple we wouldn't get it so he made it simple because He loves us if this was only for the wise I wouldn't be in people say well you seem wise I am a not a wise man I am just sure about what I'm talking about so what you see is confidence because I'm sure but believe me when he snatched me out of darkness I was way far from wise I'm so uneducated it's ridiculous I can read I can write and it stops right there but I'll tell you I'm having the time of my life in him [Applause] you

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Published: Wed Jul 10 2019