9.8.21 | Wednesday Service | Pursuit Yth

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[Applause] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] who's hungry in the world who's hungry for the lord tonight come on pick up your voice [Applause] up [Applause] open up the windows [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] jesus [Applause] [Music] just left our hands and worshiped [Music] god [Music] jesus jesus precious [Music] you are my treasure my great reward [Music] no matter how much [Music] jesus [Music] it's all i want to do [Music] [Applause] [Music] right here [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] tell me [Music] is [Music] i lived [Music] my [Music] just lift your own praise [Music] [Music] is [Music] out [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] little friends [Music] is [Music] if you want to touch from the lord come on just lift your hands to heaven oh you're saying lord touch me tonight jesus [Music] oh you're worshiping i just heard the lord say i'm coming in but it takes some time for my train to fill the temple heard him say i'm coming in my train is filling the temple but he said it's taking time because he wants to fill the whole room friend he wants to fill the whole room come on so would you just agree with me tonight would you say holy spirit fill the whole room say touch me tonight i'm here for you come on here comes the wave of his mercy come on just receive it just receive it here comes three two one come on just take it yeah a couple you started to cry it's okay that's just the presence of jesus in the room [Music] it was another wave come on three two one here comes just take it [Music] like alex what is this this is liquid love this is just the presence of god this is just the presence of the lord come on friend he's in the room [Music] so you guys like i've never felt the presence of god before i'm telling you he's in the room just lift your hands let him touch you tonight experiencing the lord is never on the issue of experiencing the lord it's never on his end friend it's always on our end it just means that we have an issue receiving because he gives freely to those who ask he says knock and the door will be open ask and i will give come on so friend where where are you at tonight come on just if you want if you're hungry for the presence of the lord just say lord i'm hungry it's too high fill me jesus come on just say just come on he can't resist hungry people friend he can't resist hunger come on the lord can't resist your hunger tonight friend well this is what the old people would call pulling on heaven while we're pulling on heaven tonight we're just saying god i'm pulling on you i'm not leaving i'm reminded of the woman who uh with the issue of blood who pushed through the crowd and said i'm not leaving without my miracle i'm not re i'm not leaving without healing virtue coming to my body come on friend who's hungry tonight not letting a crowd distract you come on pushing through the audience come on i just need jesus come on i don't care if i have to push through i don't care what it takes i don't care what it costs i just need to touch him tonight i just need to touch the hem of his garment i just need jesus tonight come on who is that tonight i'm telling you lift your hands to heaven that's you you're saying alex i don't care what it costs i don't care what it takes i just need jesus tonight come on hands going up all over the room that's you tonight come on just receive him tonight jesus we just invite you in lord we pull on heaven tonight because god we're a hungry people well we're a hungry people and god i thank you lord that it's the hungry who are fed it's the hungry who are fed it's the hungry who are fed so tonight lord we're pulling on heaven and god we thank you for what you've done gone over the past few days in our church but lord i thank you god that you've got a special place in your heart for teenagers god i think you've got a special place in your heart friend hear me tonight come on if you're under 18 hear me tonight there is a there is a special place in the lord's heart for younger people he cannot resist you friend so come on that's you you're just saying you're saying alex man i just need the lord if you've had anxiety this week come on it all melts away in the presence of jesus well if you struggle with depression this week i'm telling you it all melts away in the presence of god come on i'm telling you mental health issues don't stand a chance against the presence of the lord so come on if that's you clown look your hands to heaven come on you're saying alex man i just need jesus come on diseases are being healed now in the presence of god i see a shoulder injury being healed now in the presence of god i'm telling you move your shoulder around that's you just believe it just receive it just say god i'm receiving my miracle taking my miracle jesus seeing rage turn into peace rage turning into peace come on that's you just raise your hand at me if you've been struggling with rage if that's you just rave your hand at me when i see a couple of hands i see a couple hands yeah yeah right now right now in jesus name in jesus name i just released peace from heaven peace from heaven right now no more rage no more rage no more rage rage silence [Music] let's is it now peace comes down right now in jesus name there it is yeah take it [Music] mental health issues go right now no right no place you're trespassing on holy ground [Music] just take it just take it [Music] [Music] i'm telling you the presence of god is in the room friend what do you need what do you need from him i'm telling you people are receiving right up front club that's you you're saying alex i'm not waiting to the altar call at the end i need the lord now i'm telling you just push your way to the front say excuse me park me i need jesus come on excuse me pardon me i need jesus come on who is that who is that there's a couple people i think there's four people who need to come to the front right now there's four people there's four people come on i'll wait for you i'm gonna give you ten seconds to get to the front ten nine oh that's you just push your way to the front eight there's one [Music] seven six there's two there's three come on oh wait for one more i'll wait for you i'll give you five seconds there it is god right now right now jesus receive the reward of your suffering lord your lord saying that he's his pride he's already paid for this my stripes already paid for this so just take it just take what you need i hear the lord saying there's an open heaven over you so right now in jesus name anxiety goes now in jesus name [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] we want more [Music] we want more of you god we want more [Music] we want more of you god we want more [Music] we want more of you god we want more [Music] oh there's a there's a handful i see about 10 people who say alex it's hard for me to hear the voice of god i've heard it once before but i haven't heard it in a long time if that's you would you shoot your hand to heaven that's you say alex i've heard the voice of god before but i haven't heard it in a long time one is really high really high really high let's hear the lord he's saying he's saying it's easy to hear my voice in my presence it's easy to hear my voice in my presence so right now andrew i'm praying for you right now in jesus name god i just baptize him in fire right now in jesus name god right now i just declare a fresh anointing comes three two one now in jesus name [Music] fresh anointing fresh fire come on that's you would you do a physical sign just a physical act this kind of it's going to it's going to make a difference in the spiritual i'm telling you can you just just take your hands like you're right like there's something in your ear just act like you're pulling it out i know it's going to it's you're like why am i doing this i don't know i just started following the lord i'm just going with what i feel like he's saying to do sometimes he says to do things in the physical because it breaks something in the spiritual so if that's you're saying alex i've heard the voice of god before but i haven't heard it in a long time just begin to pull that out like do a physical act like you're pulling something out of your ears i just believe the lord is unstopping your ears so right now for all those friends i unclog your i unclog your ears now in jesus name spiritual ears let's say open up spiritual deafness goes now in jesus name in jesus name spiritual ears open up now in jesus name i hear i hear the lord saying that i'm healing spiritual deafness i'm healing spiritual deafness people who think that the lord the lord doesn't speak like that anymore he's removing your doubt now in jesus name and so right now in jesus name i take authority over all spiritual deafness anything that would try and clog their ears i take authority over you and i also hear the lord saying that some of you guys that you don't think that you can hear the lord's voice because you're so in tune to the demonic the only thing that you can hear is demonic voices who am i talking to tonight there's three people there's three people that i'm talking to the only voices you hear is demonic that's you just come out of your seat come to the front i want to pray for you those voices stop tonight come on that's you if you're if you're tired of hearing demonic voices in your head i'm telling you the lord wants to set you free tonight there's three people who is that who am i talking to there's one right here here's another one coming forward there's another one one more i think there's one more come on if you're to be honest with me you say alex i i hear a lot i just hear voices and it's not like i'm going crazy they're telling me that i'm i i specifically hear one that's suicidal thoughts but it's not like it's not just like uh like like what you would consider like a mental illness it has a has a very dark evil to it who am i talking to who is that suicidal thoughts they're telling you to kill yourself but you know it's a demonic thing come on who is that who am i talking to give you five seconds three two okay there it is i knew there was one more come on come on give it up for the lord come on lord's revealing things tonight right now suicidal thoughts loose your stronghold now in jesus name take authority over the spirit of death the rest over you caleb i say loose your strong cold now in jesus name loose him and let him go you have no right you have no place in jesus name take a big deep breath for everybody out now in jesus name and god i just unplugged his ears now in jesus name ability to hear the voice of god like never before i hear the lord saying that i'm reigniting spiritual dreams you've had them when you were eight years old he's calling them back now in jesus name so holy spirit we just speak and release now god spiritual dreams and visions i hear the lord saying i'm not just opening up your ears i'm opening up your spiritual eyes as well you're gonna see things over people you're gonna see demons just coming and like poke their head out of people's heads and it's not going to be scary but it's going to be like i know that i know that i know that they need to deliverance and god's going to give you wisdom on what to do with it god's also saying right now that you've got a a gifting a gifting for for dreams but not just dreams that you dream but also dreams interpretation you have a really strong gift for interpreting dreams and you've had a couple of dreams that you've interpreted i think it was from your mom i think there was two of them and god's saying right now i'm unlocking that i'm amplifying it now in jesus name in jesus name come on you're on the screen can you just nod your head if any of this is making sense is this making sense yeah yeah yeah see you guys we're not i'm not just making stuff up the lord is in the room the lord is in the room and he is speaking right now so right now i declare fresh baptism of the holy spirit and fire activation of gifts now in jesus name in jesus name power god's gonna hit you three two one there's a touch more there's another wave here goes five four three two one there's another wave one more here it comes three two i'm gonna blow on you it who else was most frightened for demonic entities stylish your mouth now in jesus name get out of her ears lose her now let him let her go in jesus name you have no right no place here in jesus name lose her now and let her go in jesus name up and out now in jesus name take a big deep breath for me sweetie can you look at me can you stand up for me i was gonna pray for you okay [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] well i think there was one more that needed prayer right here cool awesome come on lift your hands to heaven come on let your hands to heaven he gets all the glory tonight fun come on keep your attention on the lord he gets all the glory tonight jesus is so worthy come on can we just think of a sound of just praise and adoration come on god's already moving god's already moving god's already moving god's already moving come on would you just repeat after me say come holy spirit come on blow us away come in greater measure come and fill the room come and fill my life come and touch my spirit burn us up lord burn us up lord burn us up lord burn us up lord burn us up lord come on where are the hungry people at who's holding for an outpouring of the lord foreign [Music] freedom [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is just tell me is is [Music] [Music] tell me [Music] [Music] no matter how much [Music] oh [Music] is house [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] i've tried so hard to see it it took so long [Music] perfection could never [Music] and raise them to go [Music] [Applause] [Music] i am [Music] [Music] say [Music] i am [Music] is [Music] [Music] you've conquered [Music] come on sing it out [Music] jesus has given me when i lift my voice [Music] jesus has given me [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus had given me [Music] you've won i am who you say i am [Music] [Music] with the one who [Music] [Music] you've won [Music] depression vows [Music] just open up your mouth and start worshiping him lift him up lift up [Music] crashing [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus had given me [Music] it up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i [Music] my [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] it out [Music] undefeated [Music] [Music] lord right now we just thank you god for who you are guys thank you for what you've already done but god i also thank you the night is young god thank you lord that there's still more to be poured out god thank you there's miracles in the room god thank you there's signs and wonders in the room why is your lord saying there's healing for you in the room come on there's people in here with some injuries god's saying i've got healing for you in the room so god right now we just set our gaze on you jesus set our gaze on you jesus you know i don't want to draw attention to anything that doesn't deserve our attention i want to give context to something that happened a little bit earlier uh we had someone start manifesting and all that just basically means is there something inside of them that needed to come out and it was trying to come out and so i'm just mentioning this because i just wanted you to kind of notice something it started screaming and it was just kind of trying to cause a scene why because the enemy is always after our attention he's always after our attention and that's why when that started happening we're like we're taking it up why because who deserves the glory in this room who deserves the honor in this room who deserves all of our affection in this room come on there's only one reason we're here well we didn't you come here to see a personality we didn't come here to see a band play we didn't come here for the lights we came here for him to meet with one person and his name is jesus come on he sits on a golden throne he's in he's enthroned with rainbows and light come on telling you friend there is only one reason we came and it's not because there's anything special about us or anything special about our youth ministry but friend there's everything special about this jesus well there's everything special about him come on can we just one more time you just lift your hands to heaven come on can you just low on him for one more time come on just for a couple more seconds come on just tell him who he is come on what has he proven himself to be for your life funny is a miracle worker come on tell him that he is fine if he's a provider tell him that he is come on if he loves you tell him that he does that's all that's all worship is i'm just reminding him of who he's already proven himself to be for me god i thank you lord that you are so good god when i'm unlovable you are love god when i and i don't want myself god you still want me god when i when i when i think that everybody else has turned their back on me god you've always remained faithful jesus you're so good why does anybody love him tonight [Music] [Applause] you can make your way back to your seat tell someone hey thanks for coming to youth tonight oh well welcome to youth this is your first time i just want to let you know it's like this every week um and uh who who who came to uh vision weekend at all over the last several days awesome awesome you know uh i love it when the lord comes close and he just starts just moving in our midst there's just something so spectacular uh did anybody get baptized division weekend come on would you stand up i want to give you a round of applause come on if you got baptized division weekend come on come on you can do better than that guys they got baptized they're never going to be the same their life is forever changed come on that's awesome you can sit down man i am just so proud of you if you got baptized and if you came at all i just want to say thank you so much for coming and just really believing in what god's doing here in the northwest and uh i just want to kind of brag on our team for a second our youth team because um what we're experiencing in um in a lot of ways and what i believe is an outpouring of what's already begun um in here in this in this environment we've been having outpouring on wednesday nights for months months not not weeks not a couple days the past several months we've been having outpouring uh we've had people um we had someone just in 2021 i wrote a little thing about this on my instagram but i just started remembering all the miracles that we've seen just in 2021 uh we had someone who was completely blind in one of their eyes their eye opened up we had someone they had an ability to perceive light at a distance and uh and they were able to stand on the front of the stage and read a lot a clock of digital clock at the back of the room um they were only able to see about five feet in front of them with light um we've seen uh arthritis be healed in our youth ministry we've seen a crooked teeth move i've never seen that in my life until this year and so really what i just want to just acknowledge and just give glory to the lord on is that he is so faithful that he always has more to show off like god has been pouring out and students can i just challenge you for a moment god has been pouring out and we've seen things we've never seen before but we're only scratching the surface we're only scratching the surface come on does anybody believe that tonight come on anybody believe that we're only scratching the surface if you have your bible if you have your bible open up to luke chapter 15. uh we're starting a new series tonight uh we were going to do a series on mental health and i know some of you guys are really excited about that so if that was you guys wants to say i'm so sorry it's coming next month okay uh but in light of what we've been experiencing uh this past weekend and really what god's been stirring in our church as a whole i was like god what do you want me to talk about um because i just didn't feel like mental health was the one to talk about for this month and so i just felt like the lord stirred on my heart and put on my heart to talk about the supernatural everybody say the supernatural the supernatural is honestly the most regular experience that a christian can have like i'll say it this way the supernatural is the most natural expression that a believer can have because nothing about our faith is natural nothing about your faith with the lord is natural it's all supernatural it's all spiritual it's all outside of our bodies it's all in the it's all in things that we cannot see and cannot fully comprehend friend we are living our faith is not a natural faith it's a supernatural faith i was talking to my brother about this uh and he he sent me this text i want to read it to you because i just i was just so shook uh when he told me this because uh he was just like he's dead on on what he said and so this is what my brother said my brother's name is ryan i think he might be watching on the live stream can we say hi hey hi ryan can everybody say hi ryan yeah cool ryan if you're watching i love you um and he is the cute one so uh everybody's like we know uh okay i'm offended okay so this is what my brother said he said i heard god say i am a supernatural god nothing about me is natural i created you supernatural i was born of a virgin supernatural i heal supernatural i bring peace it's supernatural i redeemed you it's supernatural i died for all sins it's supernatural i died and rose from the dead it's supernatural and then he said this if you do not love the supernatural you do not love god because i am a supernatural god if i were a natural god i would not be capable of anything the word natural and god do not go together that is an oxymoron i am able to do anything because i am supernatural i exceed the natural and i do what men cannot do and will never be able to do by themselves because i am supernatural does anybody believe in a supernatural god we don't serve something natural we don't serve something natural friend you're like i want a god that i can touch but afraid of god that you can touch is lacking in power you want a god that's here right now present and it will do everything that you want him to do but friend a god that you can control doesn't deserve your worship friend we serve a supernatural god and because he is supernatural it demands our attention and our affection friend this is our jesus he is not natural he's supernatural so we're gonna be going through the supernatural the next several weeks and tonight we're going to start with supernatural mercy supernatural mercy luke chapter 15 says this starting in verse 11. i think it's gonna be on the screen and he said and jesus said there was a man who had two sons always say two sons oh that wasn't very good say it like you're excited to be here on a wednesday say two sons that's better okay who's excited being youth tonight come on come on who's expecting god to do something incredible in their life tonight come on who's who's tired of dry dead religion who's tired of churches normal who's ready to see an outpouring like we've never seen before come on get on your feet if you believe that we serve a supernatural god deserving of supernatural worship deserving of everything we have to give come on we don't just serve a regular jesus all right sit down everybody say two sons there was a man who had two sons and the younger of them said to his father father give me a share of the property that is coming to me and he divided the property between them full stop says that the son said dad give me my inheritance that i will receive once you die even though you're still alive this is him saying dad you're dead to me act like it spoiled brat someone someone knows okay good good i i don't even know how to respond so call me self-guard he's saying dad you're dead to me now give me what's rightfully mine and he says not many days later the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country and there he squandered his property or wasted his money in reckless living and when he had spent everything a severe famine arose in that country and he began to be in need so when he so he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country who sent him into the fields to feed pigs they always say pigs and he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate but no one gave him anything this guy's got his inheritance from his father has wasted it and is now working for a man who owns pigs but he is so hungry he's saying just let me eat what the pigs eat but the pigs won't even let him eat friend you thought you had a bad because you couldn't pass your math test you're like well i don't even have math tests yet okay okay okay school just started alex who started school last week anybody start school last week who started school today anybody's first day of school ooh my homies anybody start school tomorrow the rest of you guys i love it i love it i love it and so this guy's got a really bad story and then it says this but he came to himself everybody say he came to himself guys do don't have to do this every time say it like you mean it come on work with me a little bit say he came to himself okay okay okay y'all need a red bull or something all right he came to himself he said how many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread but i perish here with hunger i will arise and go to my father and i will say to him father i have sinned against heaven and before you i am no longer worthy to be called your son treat me as one of your hired servants and he arose and came to his father but while he was still a long way off everybody say a long way off his father saw him and felt compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him and the father said to him and the son said to the father father i have sinned against heaven and before you i am no longer worthy to be called your son but the father said to his servants quickly bring the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring the fattened calf and kill it and let us eat and celebrate for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is now found everybody say supernatural mercy i want to tell you a story i was about eight years old maybe ten i i say eight because the rest of the story will sound ridiculous if i was ten um because i will sound very young uh and so i'm hoping i was eight but my dad did my dad was a youth pastor when i was growing up and uh i guess it's a family business you know whatever but um uh but my dad was a youth pastor growing up and he did these things called youth rallies and and his youth rally at this time was at this high school and it was in the high school arena and it was so cool my dad was in there he had this band going and all this kind of stuff but i was like i was like eight years old so i'm like i'm kind of bored like i want to go like like not be doing this you know i want to go play with a ball you know i want to go do something other than just watch you guys have worship practice i was eight years old uh but i was just not interested and so me and my brother uh went and we found this um this practice gym on the opposite side of the school i don't know why the school just let us have the whole school but somehow me and my brother ended up on the exact opposite side of the high school now this was a 4a high school this is a big boy a big boy high school and so this high school had about 1800 students at it and so me and my brother we go from one side of the high school to the exact opposite side of the high school i mean it's like a mile hike and then we ended up in a practice gym because we found a volleyball all right we're like awesome we made it this is going to be the greatest time of our lives so we just start hitting the ball back and forth kicking it you know like a soccer ball we're just having fun and this ball goes into this hallway with this these these little doors and stuff i mean obviously the hallway just go out the door into this little room and and i i said ryan go get it and then he said he said okay and so uh he goes into the the spot and at this time my brother is like like five years old you know he just really was right over there he's like yeah i'll get the ball and then and then um he's like i can't see it can you help me look for it and i was like yeah sure so i go in there um and i and i pop open the door and i go in and then we can't find the ball and the door closes behind me and there's three doors they're all locked we are on the opposite side of this gym of the school no one can hear us no one knows where we're at no one even knows that we left all right and we ended up in this little dungeon inside of cleburne high school and first if you go to cleburne high school and you're watching online why are you watching this you know but um uh uh that's in texas y'all wild uh but anyways they were we ended up in this tiny little room and the only thing in there was a piece of paper a pin and a trash can the volleyball was nowhere to be found we never found the volleyball and i just remember uh it went really quickly from like okay let's open all the doors let's try and open the doors to uh okay let's just scream for help to we're dying in here to the point and this is why i say i hope i was eight years old because otherwise this sounds ridiculous if i was 14 dear god but we found we took the piece of paper and the pin and we began to write a little letter dear whoever finds our bodies we're so sorry we couldn't find the volleyball my name's alex this is my brother ryan we're dead you know done and like i'm like my brother was like all right but but put ps i miss i love my mom and dad you know i was like i was like p.s i love my mom and dad i'm so sorry we're dead now you know i just remember being so like hopeless in that situation like like like i remember feeling so stupid like i should have known better right like i should have known better i should have known not to let the door close like i should have known not to go away from my dad like i should have known not to run to the opposite side of the school like i should have known i should have known i should have known i should have known not to go get play with that volleyball i should have known not to go chase it i should have known as soon as my brother couldn't find it to go back to my dad i should have known that my dad not to let me know where to go i should have i should have known i should have known i i think tonight i want to i want to reveal to you something that the lord has never said you should have known in your life if you have a voice that speaks to you and it says you should have known better automatically you can know it's not the lord because the lord has never said that the lord never says you should have known when god finds you he says come home son he says i love you daughter he says he says i i'm not mad at you son when the father speaks to you friend he doesn't come with guilt and with shame but instead with conviction and with grace to come back home friend he never says you should have known but instead he says did you know franny you don't you're not getting it you're not i'm preaching better than you're letting on i'm already we're five minutes in and i'm already preaching better you're letting on here's the deal god doesn't say you should have known he said did you know because see god says did you know that i still love you you're in the middle of your mess and he says did you know that i saw mercy for you he you're in the middle of your mess and all the voices inside your head are saying you should have known better and then all of a sudden god's voice speaks to you says but did you know that i still have grace for that did you know that you haven't sinned too far did you know that you haven't run too far away from me did you know that i still got uh that my cross still cries a better word for you did you know that my blood is still been chasing you down did you know that i've still got grace for you did you know that i'm still pulling you back home did you know that even though you left me i've been chasing after you did you know that even though you've been running the opposite direction i've got grace and i've got mercy and i've got doors that are already opening up to bring you back home did you know see the devil says you should have known god says did you know so my question to you is who do you sound like who do you sound like friend can we just make it really crystal clear that you going up to sinners hello i don't know why i did that let's make it crystal clear you going up to sinners saying you should have known you sound a lot more like the father of lies than the father of truth friend if you want to be a good witness then you gotta sound like the lord not like the one that's been lying to them the whole time can i help you tonight no one needs you to tell them that they're sinning because think about it when you sin you know it's not like someone says hey did you know that's a sin and you're like what you're like oh i've been feeling so guilty and so shameful and like i'm just dirt i didn't know no fred we need to be a church we need to be a youth group that extends the mercy of god to those who have been lying to themselves about the whole thing see friend a religious spirit is what a lot of christians end up sounding like let me prove it a religious spirit hates supernatural mercy because it thinks that you have to act in order to deserve a religious spirit if you're taking notes write this down i'm preaching real good tonight i brought a word i brought a word for somebody tonight i brought a word for you tonight the religious spirit hates supernatural mercy because it thinks you have to act a certain way act in a certain in a certain manner act do a certain thing in order to receive an exchange friend can i challenge you for a moment that maybe your walk with god is actually a lot more like you going up to a vending machine and then you start pounding it when it doesn't give you the treat as soon as you put money in and you wonder why what you're wondering like why why am i not why am i getting closer to the lord why is my feel so distant from god because friend you're treating him like a vending machine you're putting expectation on the lord he never put on himself friend a religious spirit loves to make everything understandable because it bows at the altar of understanding a religious spirit bows at the altar of understanding how do i know if i have a religious spirit well let me help you so i'm here right you know it's gonna i'm here to help i'm here i'm a friend right i'm in your corner i'm just gonna help you how do i know if i have a religious spirit you know that you have a religious spirit if when you think about your walk with god you create equations of how you can get closer to him friend hear me tonight the mercy of god has already found you it's already declared you blameless it's already called you home it's already said you're more than enough and friend if god can do that when you're in the middle of your mess how much more can you do it when you're pursuing him friend i'm just telling you for a fact god is not impressed by you trying to worship harder worship bigger and trying to do some sort of spectacle just so you can move the heart of god to do something friend we're not in a revival right now because of something that we did we're in a revival because of god's mercy that is decided for whatever reason in spite of us to pour his presence out in spite of everything that's wrong here and spread of in spite of ego in spite of clout in spite of all this other stuff and frank god has decided in his mercy to show us just so his goodness to us friend it's nothing that we've done and so friend there's no equation to get god to do something for you and so frank can i just set some of you guys free tonight can i just set you free tonight from a really bad thought process that if you've got an equation and what do i mean by equation if you say alex i have to pray for this amount of time i have to read this many chapters in my bible have to do all these different things just so that i can be forgiven friend you're already forgiven and and here's the other thing the religious spirit loves to hold on to its old sin but jesus doesn't do that scripture says this says that when we ask for forgiveness first of all it says the lord gives liberally to those who ask secondly it says that when we ask for forgiveness it says that he takes our sin and chooses not to remember it against us or hold it against us and then it says that he throws our sin as far as east is from west meaning he's throwing it in eternity's distance and then it says that he throws it also into a sea of forgetfulness where he's not able to remember it again is god forgetful does he have like amnesia is he just forgetful no god says in my mercy i'm choosing not to remember that against you a lot of us our walk with the lord as us asking for forgiveness that the lord never even can remember the sin for to give you forgiveness for you're saying god can you forgive me for this he's going for what i've you've already asked me for for what because frank god's mercy is so much bigger than you give it credit for but here's the reality the devil has a religious spirit why because he always stifles the supernatural the devil operates in judgment and in doubt and the devil shifts attention from mercy to failure but friend mercy always triumphs over judgment does anybody believe that tonight the mercy triumphs over judgment luke chapter 15. you know so it says that the son says dad you're dead to me give me my money he goes out he leaves and then here's what it says he says but when he came to himself everybody came to himself when he came to himself when he awoke and when he had this realization see friend first thing that i want you to recognize from this text is that he had to realize that he was lost isn't it funny how we'll be driving in a car how if you have your driver's license you might notice her or if you have a dad who loves to take road trips you'll know what i'm cause you'll know exactly what i'm saying uh when your dad's driving you and then all of a sudden your dad your dad's like i think we might be lost can i give you a secret your dad knew he was lost 20 minutes ago 30 minutes ago an hour ago two hours ago he knew he knew for a while but he had to come to a realization watch this he had to realize hey i might be lost friends some of you guys you're saying alex i'm not lost tonight it's just because you haven't had a realization moment you haven't come to yourself because see friend i remember one time i went to this baseball game my cousin he was driving me home and and he went the opposite direction on a freeway we ended up at an airport i've never seen before i've still never seen i have no idea where we ended up we drove for an hour and a half the wrong way and then we and then and then we saw this airport and i said joel where are we at and he said i don't know i think we might be lost friend we were lost for an hour and a half but we had to have a moment where we realized it friends some of you guys you've been lost for a long time you just haven't realized it yet and tonight it's time to realization it's time to have a realization moment and then it says how many of my fathers hired servants i i just love this because when i read this the lord he's like he's like he remembered his father he remembered his father's house see you're saying oh my father's servants aren't begging for bread my father's servants actually have extra bread and here i am eating with pigs it says that he remembered the servants in his father's house friend i just want to challenge you tonight it might be time for you to remember the goodness of your father's house and some of you guys you're like god is dead to me god is not any i wrote him off a long time ago and even if i wanted to come home he wouldn't let me but fred i'm telling you can you for a moment tonight remember the mercy in your father's house can you remember the goodness in your father's house can you remember how good he used to be to you because he friend even though you said that he was dead to me friend eventually you get hungry and friends some of you guys tonight you're saying alex i'm tired of always feeling spiritually empty i'm getting hungry i'm hanging out with pigs i'm hanging out with people i shouldn't be hanging out with i'm trying to eat slop trying to act like it's a feast but even the things that i'm trying to partake in not even the pigs will share with me anymore nobody wants to share partake with me anymore friend maybe it's because god's allowing you to get hungry enough so that you'll finally come back home friend maybe god's been orchestrating things all along and maybe you're saying alex my high doesn't hit like it used to my things don't things don't feel like they used to man my relationship like with my girlfriend doesn't fix my anxiety like it used to and friend i'm just getting a little bit hungry alex i'm getting a little bit hungry my spirit's starting to get a little bit hungry and god might be calling out to you friend and he might be saying it's time to come home so he said i will arise and go to my father and i will say to him father i have sinned against heaven and before you i am no longer worthy to be called your son so treat me as one of your hired servants friend he realized what he used to possess and then he came in just wanting to serve at his father's house friend people who have a lifelong change what i've noticed is every time the common denominator is humility in this realization that i don't deserve this friend this is the mercy of god i don't deserve this so it says he arose and he came to his father but while he was still a long way off everybody say a long way off his father saw him felt compassion and ran and embraced him and kissed him friend he was a long way off what that means to me is by the way just let's take a pause for a second because i'm about to make a really good point if you need to go to the bathroom give me 10 minutes hold it no moving for the rest of the service cool cool and i was a long way off long way off i was reading this and the lord spoke to me he said alex he was a long way off and i was able to notice him because i was looking for him he was a long way off i i had this picture when i was reading this story today of the father walking his son to the edge of his property i just had this picture of this property that just just kind of dips down and then just kind of has some hills and stuff and just keeps going i just saw the lord making his home on that hill on the edge of the property watching his son go over the hedge and walk away said you know what i believe he's coming back i believe he's coming back i'm gonna make my home on this hill because i believe he's coming back friend hear me tonight you might have walked away from the lord might be messing with stuff you know you're not supposed to but friend if you make a decision to say jesus i'm coming back home even if you feel like you're a long way off the eyes of heaven roam to and fro looking for the good and for the evil says he's looking for someone to bless pour out his goodness on the thousandth generation friend he's been looking for you he's been looking for you say alex man god doesn't want me man my whole life just resembles the pig pen i'm a mess but friend if you just come in the right direction i'm telling you you might be a long way off but his eyes are burning and then it says that the father sees him felt compassion or for the sermon tonight felt mercy and ran to his son friend you might be saying alex all i got is the strength to take one step towards jesus tonight well guess what friend the lord's willing to make up all the distance and he's running after you tonight because this is supernatural mercy it's not natural mercy it's supernatural mercy because friend he was looking for him the whole time when the son left the father watched him leave made a hill amid a home on the hill and the father was searching for him as soon as he left supernatural supernatural mercy friend began looking for you and watching for you as soon as you left the house of god and friend the eyes of the lord have been going to and fro and as soon as you decided i don't want the lord i have hatred towards him i have animosity towards god god's just a a cheat god doesn't have my best interest in mind god doesn't want relationship with me as soon as you made up your mind on that friend at that moment he had mercy for you because see friends supernatural mercy looks till you begin to make a walk back supernatural mercy didn't wait or supernatural mercy waited to kill the fatted calf what does that mean alex the fatted calf was symbolic of a party meaning this that god in his goodness did not have a party when you left like you thought he would but instead he had a party and was waiting for you to come home to the point that he said i'm saving the party for later no keep fattening the calf servants are coming back he's never coming home sir he's not coming back he's already gone he's already too far gone nobody ha he's probably dead in a ditch somewhere he's probably wasted all your money and good riddance too he doesn't deserve any of this and the father says back to the servants no don't kill the fatted calf i'm still preparing for him to come home i'm still preparing for him to come back into my house i'm still waiting i'm still watching because i've still got mercy for him because he prayed goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life can i have two can you guys just come up on stage for me right here goodness everybody say goodness everybody say mercy goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life just follow me guys just follow me what does this look like well this looks like when i'm going through and i'm like i'm like you know what i'm going gonna go to a place i know that i don't need to go to as a christian as a bible believing christian i'm gonna go i'm gonna go to a place i know i shouldn't go to i'm gonna partake in all these things but friend as soon as you decide you know what i don't want to go this way anymore when i turn around it's not judgment and anger that found me it's goodness and it's mercy so no no no you don't get it you don't get it yet you don't get it yet because see because see here's here's me when i was struggling with the porn addiction and i i didn't think i would ever get free when i thought that i was gonna be single for the rest of my life because i could not get free from this thing when i went or maybe for some of you when i was smoking weed like crazy and i was shooting things up that i knew i shouldn't have been shooting up when i was throwing my life in the gutter when i was sleeping with people i wasn't married to when i was getting covered and guilt and shame when i struggled with my suicidal thoughts when i thought that my mental health was going to be all that i know i'm just getting caught in all my mess i'm just living in this pig pen and i just don't like what my life looks like i don't know where to go anymore but i'm just dragging my life through the mud and friend at this moment when you feel worthless when you feel empty when you feel like i've got nothing left to give at this moment friend when you're at your lowest low i can just simply turn around friend hear me tonight you can just simply turn around and it's still goodness and it's still mercy and it's still goodness and it's still mercy come on friend it's still goodness it is still mercy come on you need to hear this tonight it's still goodness it is still mercy it's still goodness it is still mercy it's not wrath it's not judgment it's goodness it's mercy it's the goodness of god that draws me into repentance it's the mercy of god that gives forgiveness of sin it's goodness and mercy so me and my brother are trapped in this annoying stupid little room we screamed we cried we wrote our death letter convinced utterly convinced no one is going to find me here so we heard a knock at the door through this little window i see my dad's face he said alex i was looking everywhere i was looking all over this place for you guys i was looking high i was looking low i was looking at every bathroom i was looking at every classroom and so sorry it took me so long to get here but it's because i was looking everywhere else for you friend hear me tonight you might be saying god you're five minutes too late you're ten years too late god i i don't know why it's taken you so long but friend maybe it's because he's been looking everywhere for you maybe he's been looking high maybe he's been looking low maybe he's been sending people and sending little things just so you could end up in this room tonight but friend hear me tonight the mercy of god has been chasing you down tonight he's inviting you into relationship with him see friend my dad was looking the whole time tonight if you don't know jesus i don't care what you mess with i don't care if you messed with it before you came in this room tonight if you need forgiveness and you need this supernatural mercy i also don't care how old you are if tonight you're saying alex i need to get my life right with jesus i need this mercy if that's you tonight when i count to three with every head lifted and every eye open would you just shoot your hand right up in the air so i can see you one jesus loves you so much two your life will never be the same three is that anybody in here not tonight need the mercy of god you're saying alex man i need i need forgiveness see that hand one two three four five six seven eight anybody else nine anybody else ten i see you over there anybody else need the mercy of jesus eleven i see you anybody else say alex man i need jesus i need jesus come on if that's you tonight would you just repeat this prayer to make on everybody in the room repeat this loud enough so you can hear yourself say it repeat after me say this say dear lord jesus i'm a sinner i need your forgiveness i need your mercy come and save me i believe you died on the cross i believe you rose from the dead and i believe in you come and make my heart your home come and save me be lord of my life in jesus name amen come on can we give it up for the people who say yes to jesus pretty cool you

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