Are You Living a Lie?

hey church i'm so excited to share this message with you here's the title it is are you living a lie right how intense is that i don't know am i uh we're gonna find out the truth is this sermon is dedicated in the next 20 minutes or 40. um we're going to find out if we're living a lie and what that means i want to show you a passage of scripture we're only going to look at about five verses that actually speak to this are we lying to ourselves are we lying to others are we the fraud are we the fake that we think we might be ah let's talk about it it reminds me of a time i was shopping with actually a friend and we were in the nice shoe section i say nice because we were looking at some expensive shoes and this is years ago i'm looking at these shoes with a friend of mine and by the way i didn't purchase anything in case you're worried that i bought two expensive shoes thank you preachers and sneakers um but i'm looking at these nice shoes and i'll never forget someone walks up to me and they said oh you you're a man of god and i was like what and they're like you you you can't be a man of god if you're looking to spend that kind of money on shoes and he walked away and i was like all right man god bless you know i'm like what a weird encounter and i went home that night and thought you know how like we dismiss people yeah man shut up and then later we're like maybe they were right you know like i definitely had that moment i was like my friend was like what what that was so mean it was so weird and we're like yeah that guy wasn't that guy wasn't right we can buy prod issues if we want even though like i can't afford them but like we can like and then i'll take them back later you know so that but i thought that night as i laid my head on my pillow like maybe he's right maybe like i'm not a man of god maybe i'm not like true maybe i'm not authentic ever had somebody question your validity question who you are like i don't think you're the real deal you claim to be this that and the other but you're a fraud you're fake uh we live in a world today where it seems like everybody is like giddy and excited to find out who's a fraud right it's like it's like yeah we we discovered so-and-so's not you know we we we caught them smoking cigarettes yeah you know like they're not real uh or whatever it is and so if you're like me in the middle of cancel culture some people say there's no such thing as cancer culture whatever kind of challenges we're facing together during this unprecedented extended season in human history i think we're all starting to ask the question am i the real deal am i living a lie am i duplistic am i one thing publicly and another thing privately am i not who i present myself to be if you're like me um i consider myself to be a generally pretty nice person now part of that is because i'm codependent i want people to like me um but i like making people feel good right it's a it's an enjoyable thing i want people to feel like they can fly in life i want people to get around me and be like all right let's do this you know get excited but but sometimes i get home and it's like i've been nice to everyone and now at home i'm going to be nice to no one you know talking about like it maybe it's your roommate or your spouse or your kids and you're like i was nice oh did it work now i'm gonna just be grouchy right and just that can make you feel like am i even actually true or am i just one person at work and another person at home maybe you yell at your dog and you think how do i yell at anyone why do i come home and yell at my my beautiful dog like am i a yeller like if you're like me if any of you have ever played golf with me you'd probably be like there is no chance this person in any way is a good person right as i'm breaking golf clubs and throwing them through the air you're probably like and i've had so many rounds of golf where i've gone home and thought i'm a terrible person i really am living a lie so what do you do with that what's your game plan what's your retaliation what's your response what's your what do you tell yourself when you see duplicity in your life what do you tell yourself when you see inconsistency in your life what do you tell yourself when you notice your own behavior becoming really really suspicious in public and really really sneaky and private what do you tell yourself no i'm not i'm just normal i'll tell you what i do most of the time is i compare myself and by the way i'm really good at not comparing myself who are better than me that's a waste of time because i'll feel terrible i find somebody really bad that's what i do oh wait that is social media sorry um wait that's what we all do right yeah is isn't life great there's always somebody that you perceive to be worse than you that you can go well at least i'm not you know how long that's been going forever adam blamed eve eve blamed the snake there's always somebody to blame somebody to point the finger at somebody say so if your primary course of action to deal with the duplistic questions of your own behavior is to find somebody worse off this sermon is definitely for you which is to say this sermon is for me it's funny people ask me sometimes like where do you get your sermon content how do you write you it's like uh from my own broken life it's actually really really easy i've never actually sat in a room and thought i have nothing to say i'm always like i have plenty of brokenness in my own life to speak from and one of the reasons i'm preaching if not the primary reason i'm sharing this message is because i can't tell you how many times i have thought to myself i'm pretty sure i'm living a lie i'm pretty sure i'm living a lie and you know we think of all the you know judah's cheating on his taxes he is living a lie but but it can be an anger problem that tells me i'm living a lie right it can be a lust problem that tells me or anyone you're living a lie doesn't mean you gotta go to jail doesn't mean you have to be involved in legal activity so many things we do that we believe we're living a lie now here's the good news this sermon is going to shock you it's going to be awesomely shockingly refreshing in the passage of scripture we're going to look at we're going to look at these few verses we're going to discover what it means to live a lie and then we're also going to see some of the signs and signals of living in reality and living in truth listen to this this in essence is the message we've heard from christ and we're passing it on to you first john chapter five starting with verse five god is light he's pure light there's not a trace of darkness in him if we claim that we experience a shared life with jesus and continue to stumble around in the dark we're obviously lying through our teeth we're living alive we're not living what we claim we're living alive but if we walk in the light god himself being the light which is to say if we walk with god we walk with jesus we also experience a shared life with one another as the sacrificed blood of jesus god's son purges all our sin if we claim that we're free of sin we're just lying to ourself a claim like that is errant nonsense on the other hand if we admit our sins make a clean breast of them he won't let us down he'll be true to himself he'll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing if we claim that we've never sinned we out and out contradict god make a liar out of him and claim a claim like that only shows off our ignorance of god or that we're living a lot let me read this to you in the esv if we can guys we have that in the esv first sean chapter 1 verses 5 to 10 in the esv okay here we go let me read to the esv here we go this is the message we have heard from him and proclaimed to you that god is light and then there's no darkness at all if we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness we lie and do not practice the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of jesus and cleanses us from all sin if we say we have no sin well we're deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins some of you recognize that statement very famous and decleanses from all unrighteousness if we say we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us i think there's a little bit more i think that okay that that's the end fantastic walking in the light that's that's a great versus scripture too there's just more verses coming on the screen that i also think are fantastic um here's what we'll start what is walking in the light it's going to be really important for us to define this before we go any further if i asked you we won't do this right now if i asked you by raising of hand what does it mean to walk in the light here's probably some of your knee-jerk definitions you would give me you would give me something that's probably something to do with moralism walking in the light now this is very very prevalent in how should i say the western world sermons given by preachers like me we tell people walking in the light is walking in purity you're walking in the light but you're having sex with someone you're not married to you're walking in darkness and we all go you say you're walking in the light and you're addicted to nicotine and we all go who i am you say you're walking in the light and you're watching naked people have sex on the internet usually you need to be naked to have sex that was a little bit of comedy that was for free but anyways right and this is what we do walking in the light is being moral it never says that by the way walking in the light is here's other things we would say it is being distinctly different from the world church we are in the world but we are not of the world therefore we live by a higher standard god's standard and what we're communicating without meaning to is a thing called elitism and elitism is what a lot of christianity um it's how we promote pride without meaning to and what we tell ourselves is we're different and the reason we're different is because how we live right so what does walking the light means it means reading the bible every day you know what walking in the light means it means having a prayer time every day are you talking to god i bet you spent time on instagram today you know what i want church i want you to spend as much time with the lord as you do with instagram i heard one preacher say years ago if you if you stop putting your face in my space and put your face in god's space you'd see a difference in your life and we all were like wow that's what we'll do you know like and i don't blame preachers we're all trying our best here but oftentimes what we're promoting is not a focus on jesus but a focus on moralism elitism or worse perfectionism or perfect right and that's where the cultural cliches have all stemmed from sunday best right show up on sunday with a blessed god hallelujah amen praise the lord brother and sister kind of attitude and what is that that's perfectionism by the way the underbelly of perfectionism is this little thing called denial that's what it's called yeah and we've promoted that a lot in our gospel preaching which is like you say you got a problem that's not who you are let me tell you who you are and we all just kind of like deny what we're actually dealing with no i don't struggle with that i don't struggle with that i'll struggle with that now it gets real worse when someone's like now we want you to be on stage and now that we're here we're like yeah no i don't struggle with that i don't have any problems and it's why our culture is still in shock and awe when someone who stands here deals with everything else that you do sitting there and we're all like now there are things that can disqualify me from teaching the bible let me say it like this if you can't lead yourself with the help of jesus and his leadership the bible says you shouldn't lead others because you're going to hurt yourself and others right so there's certain things that that you should be confident that i'm being held to by a board of elders and a team of leaders and accountability by the way don't ever have a pastor who doesn't have a pastor don't ever have a leader who isn't being led that's a scary scary slippery slippery slope right so like we understand there's checks and balances here but this concept that i'm walking in the light as it pertains to my morals or my elitism or my perfectionism is not at all what first john is talking about walk in the light don't walk in darkness now let's look at it again if we could put it up on the screen in the esv uh first john chapter one verse five this is the message we've heard from the claim do you god is light in him is no darkness at all if we say we have fellowship with jesus while we walk in darkness we lie and we do not practice the truth but if we walk on the light of season light we have fellowship with one another okay let me define for you in in uh statements i've never said before let me define walking in the light here's my first first episode of walking the light it is bringing all of you to god and other people all of you all of you a friend of mine told me a story recently that really stuck with me they were grieving a divorce and their friends called him and said can you come over tonight and that person who had just gotten through a divorce thought no i don't want to go hang and their friend said this bring all of you to our home wow she said what she said are you sad bring your sadness we just want to be with you she said she came to the dinner and sat in the corner sad and they said that's okay just be sad but be here with us now that's not the christianity i'm familiar with the christianity i'm familiar with is come over suck it up and walk in the light get over it and have some faith now come over here and pray with us right that's called what walking in the light we're gonna walk in the light hey are you struggling i am but that's not who i am i'm walking in the light right and so we don't the walking and lightnings bring all of you yeah and sometimes that's sadness sometimes that's weakness sometimes that's brokenness proclivities to take bring all of you yeah okay the goal is to build a church where people can bring all of themselves that's the goal the goal is to build a community where people don't have to leave parts of themselves at home to get in the door yeah so good come on now right now i'm looking in the studio but i'm also looking on camera is there anything you didn't bring today to this experience because you thought well that doesn't fit so it's called duplicity we do it all the time we're like okay now i can't don't bring that part of you all right well here we go oh this is such a good this is awesome right like don't bring all of you walking in light means bringing all of you walking in the light means telling on yourself i'll prove to you in a second telling on yourself that's what walking in the light is again it's actually if you think about it it's the opposite of moralism elitism or perfectionism it's actually before anybody else tells utah yeah i gotta i got a problem with gossip i gossip so much like i gossip about gossip you ever met someone and they're like i think you're gossiping about someone's gossiping this is hilarious it's ever happened to you like did you know like sarah is always gossiping and i am sick and tired of her gossiping she's such a big mouth a blabber mouth she gossiped about me she got something about amanda she does about everybody like she's just a big gossip and you're like what are we gossiping about gossip this is hilarious right like it means telling the truth yeah it's yeah it's i got a problem with that oh isn't it amazing how it just takes all the power out of it yeah yeah i i lie so much and when i say so much that's a lie i mean all the time you know like like it's just it's just telling on yourself walking on the light is this is who i am yeah and i'm gonna tell you i mean if you don't like that or you're offended by that i i can't change that because that's who i am walking in a light also means welcoming the we if we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness we lie and do not practice but if we walk this is all we language walking in the light is a wee effort i need you i need the we in my life yeah walking in the light means people can walk up to you and say can i be honest with you yeah no i'm not talking about random strangers and i i have had the most sweet well-meaning christians confront me in the oddest of places last summer i was a pool with my family and someone confronted me about one of my sermons and i'm like no thank you no thank you like i don't this is not the time for the place and what was your name again like i'm not talking about random confrontations from people you don't know i'm talking about the we you do know who you won't listen to one of the ways you know you're not walking in the light is that you are the only person that's right that you know [Music] you're the only person that's right everyone is wrong but you that is not a good space to be in there has gotten out listen there are some people that are wrong in your life but not everybody not everybody are you willing to listen to your friends are you willing to listen in community are you willing to someone say hey can i challenge you on something you're you right it's like someone coming to me and say hey you have an anger problem on the golf course no i don't and now i have an anger problem off the golf course right it's like no i welcome the we yeah i'm gonna bring all of me and i'm gonna tell on me that's called walking in the light now walking in the light we are convinced looks again i'll put it in we're like what are you doing i'm walking in the light i don't drink i don't smoke i don't curse i don't cheat what are you doing walking on the light walking in the light wait and i've done that a million times and this is how we tell the world come be christian with us it's so fun it's the best we're totally free what are you barely staying married how are you totally good great why would you ask i'm awesome everything's awesome god's big god's good i'm great do you love marriage i love my marriage i love my wife i don't think about any other women just her only her ever ever that's what i'm it's yes i'm superhuman why because i'm a christian okay do you read your bible all the time i know a lot of the bible what are you doing i'm i'm walking in the light and then we're like walking in darkness what's walking in darkness it's the people who do orgies they're walking in the darkness people watching rated our movies walking in the darkness people who wear hats in church walking in the darkness friend of mine had a budweiser t-shirt on the other day walking in the darkness and we laugh but that's still being taught it's crazy walking in the darkness now is like a modern cultural definition like like somewhere in the bible god was like and those beer t-shirts will be the undoing of the gospel of jesus christ [Music] here we go again putting people in bondage when the scripture is trying to set people free walking in the light is just like this is me this is what i deal with i'm not saying that you walk in to a restaurant with your friends and being like i've been looking at pouring for the last hour and a half [Music] are you guys having the steak or the chicken you know it's like all right man like maybe not start out with that right like i'm not talking a lack of discretion but i'm talking about building a church that's in the light walking in darknesses religion tradition customs hiding covering up pretending play acting he says let's walk in the light he's in the light let's let's live like this now so much more we can say about walking the light and walking in darkness but i want to give you two signals and signs two indicators to know whether or not you are bringing all of you whether or not you're telling on yourself whether or not you're welcoming the we here's how to know you're practicing this there's two signs there's two sides first john chapter 1 verse 4 which i didn't give to the team says we're writing this letter because we are so joyful and we want you to have joy we want you to have joy and then here it is [Music] we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete it actually one translation says we're writing these things so that our joy might be shared with your joy and we might all have true joy true joy so the first sign that you're walking in the light is you will experience a shared joy you'll share joy you'll share joy and the truth will make you free it'll make you free it'll make you free you know what we keep telling ourselves once i become perfect i'll be happy [Music] no you won't you'll become a jerk i've met people who think they're perfect they are no fun to have dinner with and who's fun to have dinner with people are like i'm a nightmare and god still loves me man what are you gonna get tonight let's go all night till the sun comes up right they're like i'm an absolute walking scandal and god still forgave me and loved me this is the best life you ever met someone who's so perfect they think god owes them well i been faithful for 27 years that's why god's blessed me now you think that's what this is all about you think this is a transaction with god and he's the cosmic banker and we come and say i have made enough deposits i would now like my withdrawal please and he looks at the ledger and he goes wow you really have it says here you have committed 18 years without nicotine 22 without alcohol oh is it true you've gone nine years without using cuss words wow now i'm not saying there are plenty of people that god's like hey i want you to stop smoking cigs so that you can breathe deep and live long you know like whatever i'm not saying if god isn't trying to help you quit nicotine or you're just tired of slipping curse words in places and people are like it's getting old and you're like oh god's like all right let's drop a few of these you know and i don't mean like drop them i mean like get rid of them you know like i'm not i don't want to lessen what god is challenging you know let's let's drop a few of these you know that was funny so and i'm not lessening any of those things but i just think it's hilarious that this is how we define these eternal mysterious wonderful beautiful truths given to us first sign you'll know you're walking the light is you'll have a joy that isn't based on your performance it's based on your forgiveness you're forgiven it's forgiven like and the fact that you're forgiven just makes you happy you're just like this is crazy this is wild this is wild i'm not planning on sinning again but i know that i will and it's totally already forgiven oh my word this is awesome let's let's go get some pizza it's a shared joy you sit around with other people who share the same joy of forgiveness and you're just like are you happy because i'm happy can i be really honest with you there has been extended seasons of my life that the primary if not exclusive source of joy was almost only that i was forgiven ever had a season so bad things go so wrong that you're like i have nothing to actually be happy about and then you go well there is this little thing called sin that i've been forgiven of you know what let's have a party tonight you know like that's that's worth having some good food with some good friends have you got nothing else to talk about if all seven of your closest friends have lost their job due to covid go somewhere and talk about how free you are because of his forgiveness what are you doing living in the light living in the light it's what i'm doing i'm walking in the light you'll have shared joy it goes on in first john chapter one and it says if we say we have if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not is if we confess our sins he's faithful just to forgive us our sins and cleanse from all righteousness if we say we've not sinned we make them a liar and the word is not in us and that is the end but if you go to one the verse is before that i believe there it is there it is proclaiming god is light in him there is no dark if we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness we lie and do not practice truth but if we walk in the light as he is in life but if we walk in the light as he's in the light if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with another [Music] we have fellowship with one another here's the two signs of walking in the light you thought it was smelly nice looking nice and being perfect not at all you'll have shared joy and shared fellowship share joy and shared fellowship now i want you to think about this for a moment and i promise i'm done the most boring dinners i've ever had the most lifeless encounters i've had is with christians crippled by customs traditions rules and regulations that like a tightrope we're trying to adhere to and the happiest moment of our life is scarfing down a hot fudge sundae as we try to cope with how we're trying to live up to moralism elitism perfectionism what are you doing walking in the light walking in holiness purity holiness means consistency you know what holiness essentially is it's every day walking in the consistency of the gifted righteousness that god has given you every day i'm righteous every day i'm loved every day i'm is and the two things slipped in here by john in his first letter is we're writing this because we want you guys to share our joy it's so fun oh by the way if you walk in the light that word fellowship means it's konani it means um it's like a deep camaraderie have you ever had anyone ever ask you hey do you feel this now if you're like me and you're emotionally driven that's one of the highest most valuable questions you can ask me do you feel me right now i love that question because i'm like i feel you like people will say am i making sense and my answer will be like it doesn't matter i feel you right shared fellowship is hey i i just feel you i feel you i got a connection and it's deep and it's meaningful it's lasting and i love it it's shared you ever gone home after a day surrounded with people and never felt more alone church isn't supposed to be like that you know it's not supposed to be like that you ever been to an outrageous party that you were really looking forward to and you went home sadder than when you got there and you're like how do i feel worse because sometimes those parties are as hollow as a chocolate easter bunny they're empty sh this this fellowship is not based on drinks music and a few moments of attraction with someone at a party it's like i i feel you there's a deep gratitude that we connect on there's a deep joy that someday when all of this is said and done we're gonna go home [Music] it's hard down here isn't it yeah i feel that i feel that it's a good meal it's a good meal i feel happy i don't really have any circumstances that make me feel that way i just feel happy that i'm forgiven i feel happy that i can connect with you on such a deep spiritual level the bible says if you walk in the light there'll be two things that will surface in your life a shared joy a joy that's not exclusive to you but it's like you share it with other people [Music] my closest friends it's barely a day that goes by we don't say something to the effect of [Music] we're forgiven loved [Music] think about what this nation has been through i think about the dark knighted soul i think about black and brown people in our country i think about how long the road is still ahead of us i think about the injustices i think about the marginalization i think about the broken systems i love this country but i certainly do not love all of her history or even some of her current systems and structures and constructs some cases i despise them but there's a joy i share that has nothing to do with the united states of america it has everything to do with my god who is light who welcomes me to bring all of myself to tell on myself and enjoy the community i'm in and i must admit there has been nights where the only thing that gave me joy when everything felt pointless to hear what i'm saying like everything feels pointless everything feels fruitless that i've gone i am so forgiven [Music] that's amazing wow and that might not always be the story our culture tells but you know all are forgiven if they'll only receive and we share that joy we share that joy and as bad as it gets here on this plagued planet we share that joy and we share that fellowship and we share that connection we share that i think of black men and women in this country enslaved and oppressed not that long ago in this country and i have learned from my black friends that i think one of the ways and i will never understand the endurance of a black and brown person in this country but i've heard stories of how black dads and mothers and sons and daughters shared a joy that lifted them beyond the horrors of slavery and it was there was a king beyond this country beyond this world who's a forgiver and a lover and an acceptor and that joy helped our brothers and sisters endure outrageous injustice still does this is deep man i want to walk in the light i don't want to play games we're going to need these verses to endure it's a joy we share and it's a fellowship we share we share i feel you we're forgiven right and it's just we have fellowship with one another and the blood of jesus his son cleanses us from all sin [Music] all sin that's the gift i give you that's the gift i give you church i don't give it you understand what i mean as a preacher it's like that's the gift i'm presenting that's the gift i'm trying to simply remind you that is ours and available let's share this joy and let's share this fellowship and there's not a single thing i'm not saying that there's going to be circumstances that are so excruciating there's no way to put it in words but when i look at my bible when i look at human history and i look at the atrocities that average men and women just like me and you have endured i look back and i think oh god help us to uncover again this level of enduring faith that says i'm going to walk in the light i'm going to walk in the light because he's in the light and what that yields to me is a shared joy and a shared fellowship that no circumstance can serve up only jesus came you start thinking about well i start thinking about kids moms and dads out there you know i'm talking to what will i pass on to my kids what kind of message and gospel will i give them i want to give them this walk in the light son dad i'm trying no no it's not what you think i didn't mean try harder i didn't mean do better i mean bring all of you have you got to sit in the corner and be sad bring all of you bring all of you how do you feel well i've learned not to answer that question honestly now with god he wants you to how do you feel insignificant lost overlooked not valuable bring all of you walk in the light right and isn't that what we're trying to build again we're trying to build a church in the light i don't know if you've figured this out but it's a lot easier to build a church in the dark it's a lot easier now long term it's not easier when things are really hard it's not easier [Music] but sometimes it's just easier it's less messy you know if we all just like as soon as the camera's done here in the studio we all are just like man everything's great we're all good yeah everything's perfect no i'm great i'm so perfect everything's great said like that's true of no one ever we can walk in the light as he's in the light and what it what does it yield shared transcendent joy and deep fellowship and connection i started to think oh that's right those are some of the things we need most as human beings i need to feel connected and i want to feel happy i want to feel joyful we think to do that we have to not tell everyone the truth or no one will connect with us and we have to deny the plight and condition that we really are live a lie live in denial so we can pretend to be happy i'm exhausted with that are you i look into the future of our church church home church at home one of the reasons i'm passionate about this model that will gather people in church buildings but will also gather people in church living rooms dorm rooms parks the dream of a church where some people come in their pajamas [Music] you know and maybe that's in the studio maybe that's in a building maybe you show up in your pjs and everyone's like i don't think you can do that and then we all go i guess you can you're like who says you know like a dream of a church where people roll out of bed their neighbors come over they grill some burgers and they they live in the light they live in the light and they share a joy and a connection that only jesus delivers that's what i dream of i think it's possible because god said so and i think we all crave it don't we if we're honest are you living a lie are you living a lie you know how you live a lie right you don't bring all yourself [Music] you don't tell on yourself and you don't welcome the we that's how you live the life is you just say hey you need to know i i've been dealing with depression for 22 years what [Music] i know i know i should pray more i should ask god to take it away i wasn't going to say that you weren't because that's what all christians tell me no i was just going to say thank you for bringing depression with you tonight to my home because that's all of you you're not going to tell me how to do better no i don't know how to defeat depression but we'll have some pizza and if you want to i'd love to pray with you at some point [Music] but when we pray will it all go away ah probably not oh what do you mean we're gonna pray oh we'll ask god to take it away but if he doesn't let's have pizza again and then let's pray again okay well well i gotta tell you something sure what's going on i'm i'm addicted i'm an addict okay that's all right well it's not okay it is okay i'm not saying that i don't want it out of your life but thank you for sharing and [Music] that's what i dream of i do a church like that i dream of barbecues like that again i'm not saying we all walk in the door and you know say i'm a i'm a thief hide everything i'm going to steal your house you know like but how far does this go hey last week i came over to your house and i i stole this because i steal things and i don't even know why you can have it no i don't want to have it all right what else don't you want me to leave nah now mess with my kids yes absolutely you know but right like i dream of a place where we can just bring all of us how did we become the place where people don't bring all themselves how did the bar become the place how did we lose that well not supposed to be us wasn't weren't people supposed to stumble in and out of church nobody stumbles in and out of church anymore we stumble and have bars it's the kind of church we're gonna build a church where i fit in in a church where you fit in let me pray for you jesus i thank you so much for you i love you [Music] i love your light your light is not humiliating your light is healing [Music] it frees us to be us to bring all of us to you and to each other thank you god thank you god thank you god i just pray over our church all over the world no more hiding no more hiding no more hiding we don't want to hide we want to be fully here with you and with each other you god i pray for healing for people all over the world from this studio [Music] and around the world heal the broken heal the hurting heal the lonely [Music] heal those who feel they don't count and they're not valuable heal the damaged heal those who have been left to die [Music] heal is god heal [Music] the us is we all got stuff we hope no one ever finds out about heal us thank you god if you're here and you're watching in this studio or anywhere in the world and you would like to receive the free gift of forgiveness that only jesus offers you do not have to deserve it earn it warn it just accept it accept him the prize of the whole earth if you would like to receive the forgiveness that only jesus offers because only jesus paid for it and purchased it it's yours all your air all you're wrong all your sin all your shortcomings completely covered in a moment if that's you just you just lift up your hands and that's me yeah and by lifting your hand you are indicating to yourself that what you're feeling inside is real and you're forgiven forever just like that no matter how you feel you're forgiven forever now let us live in the light for the rest of our lives thank you jesus thank you jesus and lastly [Music] i declare and i pray that this church god the community that you have given me leadership and authority in i exercise that now in the name of jesus and we declare that this church will be a church of light it'll be a church where people can bring all of themselves it'll be a church where people can tell on themselves and it'll be a church where we embrace each other each other's input each other's challenging statements and phrases we declare this is the kind of church we're a part of the kind of lives we're gonna live thank you god it's our privilege and our honor to follow you and to be in a family like church home in jesus name amen

Channel: Churchome

Views: 8,401

Rating: 4.944056 out of 5

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Id: RnnQ8JsKna0

Length: 49min 32sec (2972 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 05 2021