August 12, 2018 - Tim Dilena - I Can't Go On One More Day

never felt this way I can't go on one more day anybody ever feel that way I don't want to talk to you about I feel like I can't go on one more day John felt that way in fact the economy back just that the at the drum 2009 took that turn and John felt like I lost his job and didn't even know what to do and found himself looking all over for a job and finally when even to the local Zoo in this small town and said do you have a job here I'll do anything I'll sweep do anything and they said we don't have anything except our gorillas just died and would you put on a gorilla suit until we get a real gorilla and he says if it pays something I am that desperate I'll do it and sure enough that's what he did and started to support his family until his local Zoo got a gorilla he said he got so into this job that he was doing everything he was going against the fence he was scaring kids he did everything in this job he said he climbed a tree one day and fell into the lion pit then all of a sudden the gorilla started to speak he started screaming get me out get and finally the lion came right on top of him as he screaming for his life and says shut up or we'll both lose our jobs [Applause] how many know not all things are as they up here you are looking at a fellow lion suit we're right here because we can pretend to be brave we can pretend to be religious we can pretend to be holy we can pretend all these things but sometimes we fall out of trees then we find out who we really are don't wait it was just right over there at eighth Avenue I took my lion suit off and I was talking to pastor Carter and I just finally took it off and I said look at me right on that Starbucks on eighth Avenue I said look at me I said I'm a fraud so I told him I said don't believe anything I've said I said I'm ambitious I'm prideful I'm arrogant and it when I took off the lion suit let me just tell you something it is liberating when you take off the lion suits it's also let me just say this it's hot in lion suits when you try to pretend to be something that you're really not see we call that hypocrisy we call that trying to put on different suits in different places in fact what's interesting is that the Bible is really clear in fact the Bible says in he pin in Romans 13 it says put on the Lord Jesus Christ that means when we become a Christian we have one suit that we wear and that is the Jesus suit put on the Lord Jesus Christ that means when I go to work I act like Jesus that means when I get on the subway the problem is is when we have a closet full of a whole bunch of different suits that we act a different way at work different way on the subway different way when we play softball different way in a cab and all of a sudden we act a different way in the church and the Bible says when you become a Christian you use that clothing and you only have one suit in your closet and it's the Jesus suit and we're supposed to look like him every single day that's really what the challenge is but I do I dress up sometimes in those lion suits and it gets hot and it gets tiring and it gets old trying to be something that you're not and that's why I think when I begin to find myself drawing closer to Jesus let me just tell you something I realized this that the older I've gotten in Jesus the longer that I've served him in all these decades I feel like I'm not getting weirder I'm just getting read more real with who you are and and that's why I want to take you to a passage of scripture that really I watched the man take the lion suit off I'm going now that's a real man it was the that's where he became real and it was his eighth Avenue Starbucks experience it was the moment that he just goes it almost seems like a very strange request from a very godly man and the strange request is all the way in the Book of Numbers chapter 11 and it's in verse 15 and it really is in the in in the form of a prayer the man's name is Moses and let me tell you his taking the lion suit off prayer and it was this this is what he prays this is Moses and he prays this God please kill me how many know that's pretty real when you come to that that's what he asked God that is the prayer in the Bible Moses says this he felt like he couldn't go on any longer and we've all been at that place before in fact David hit the limit when he says in some chop this down 107 verses 26 and 27 David has a phrase for it and he calls it coming to wit's end listen to what David said he says they rose up to the heavens they went down to the depths it's incredible imagery it's like roller coaster we're doing good we're doing bad we're doing good we're doing bad and then David says this they reeled and slag hurt staggered like drunken men and they were at their wit's end that's what David uses Moses says kill me David says I'm at wit's end I don't even know what to do anymore and the and what's amazing is is when you think about the man that are praying these kind of persons like Moses this isn't some man who is addicted to something he's not walking the streets he's not homeless this is Moses who has just successfully led three million people out of slavery and out of Egypt and it seems Moses finds himself at wit's end he finds himself at that place and says I don't even know if I can go on even another day and it almost seems like this internet it seems like this strange request because when I came to the end of reading the book of Deuteronomy listen to these words how the Bible describes Moses it says this there has never been another prophet like him for the Lord would talk to him face-to-face in fact the next siddhis 3311 and says the Lord would speak to me face-to-face just as a man would speak to a friend think how crazy this is a man who had talked to God face-to-face like a friend who knew God innama intimately would still go I can't even go on another day I can't even do this anymore not all things are as they appear a friend of God wanting his friend to end his life this is Moses taking off the lion suit going this is who I am this is the real person we may look lying let me just tell you this the men that stand up here pastor car door Pastor David pastor Patrick all the men and that will stand up here all of us passed the Teresa that we all may stand up here and look like lions but I could just tell you underneath we're just normal men real people we we're fearful we're scared sometimes sometimes we've become insecure sometimes we're wondering what tomorrow will look like we just it just ghost that and sometimes we get to that point of wit's end that feels like god I don't even know if I can go on anymore and underneath these Lions suits you just kind of realize just one little moment one little bump something comes out arrogance or pride or or or insecurity that's what happens because always remember this you can hide it whatever's inside of you is gonna come out just let it get bumped one and it really does come out it's like you could have this bottle of water and everything looks great until you bump it and then what's in there actually comes out if there's anger in there trust me someone is gonna bump you and it's going to come out it just really does that's that's what happened to Moses because if you asked Moses how did this come out of you because when you look at all the way up to this point everything seemed to be going good you know what brought him out of it here's what's crazy and I want to take him to numbers 11 Church people brought it out of him seriously Church people brought it out of Moses this was his battle they were complaining they were ungrateful and all of a sudden he just couldn't take it anymore in fact numbers 11 in chapter verse 1 starts off that they're out of there at a funeral for thousands of people that literally were judged for complaining on how hard their life is and while they're there at the funeral of those that just died from a plague for complaining they were complaining at the funeral that they're at because they were complaining this is this is and then this is where Moses just loosely gets bumped their complaint you ready for this this is what I want you to see their complaint is that we don't have enough of food with their complaint was we don't have a big enough variety of food this is what that says the Bible tells us this in verses 4 through 6 they were saying the miracle food is not enough we want a better variety of miracle maybe gluten-free low carb paleo manna but not the same thing every single day and this is what they tell Moses we remember listen to these words the fish we used to eat for free in Egypt isn't it amazing how selective our memories there are wait and then he goes on we use the melons cucumbers garlic for the Italians and onions all in each and they any and they emphasize free I I want to go let me help your memory cuz you didn't eat it at a table with waiters and a tablecloth you ain't that food in chains you ain't that food with 400 years of slavery with people telling you what you're supposed to do you didn't eat free food you just forgot what kind of situation and lifestyle and when people forget or let me put it to you this way when people begin to begin selected in their memory once in a while we need God to jog us a little bit to say I know you may think it's a little bit hard being a Christian but do you remember what it used to be like when you weren't a Christian and so they kind of skewed and kind of slanted the story a little bit and all of a sudden the weeping pea of the people in verse 10 listen close it wasn't normal weeping it was selfish weeping it was ungrateful weeping I always remember these words whenever I find myself because I've been in that situation where the miracle is not enough I want a bigger variety of miracles in my life and I think of the words of GK Chesterton the great the great Christian writer from the UK of decades ago said either I will take things for granted or I will take things with gratitude and so many times I take things for granted I take things like they're just normal in fact one one of my favorite poets named George Herbert said it like this he says thou has given me so much give me one more thing give me a grateful heart and that's what I need because so many times I can find myself complaining but let me read to you their complaint and what happened to Moses when he got bumped when the lion suit comes off and he just goes I can't take this listen to these words numbers 11 verse 10 Moses heard all of the families standing around their tent doors weeping and the anger of the Lord grew hot Moses too was highly displeased verse 11 Moses said to the Lord why are you picking on me give me the burden of these people are they my children am I their father is this why you have given me the job of nursing them along like babies until we get to the land you promised when am I supposed to get where am I supposed to get meat for all of these people for their weeping saying give us meat I can't carry this nation by myself the load is too heavy listen to verse 15 if you're going to treat me like this is his prayer if you're going to treat me like this then please kill me right now at least he said please it will be kindness let me out of this impossible situation because all of a sudden he realizes I can't go on this strange request is really not that strange at all it's really a man who's just taking off the lion suit go and this is what's going on in my life let me read to you God's response to please kill me here it is verse 16 the Lord said to Moses gather for me seventy men from the elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting then I will come down and speak with you there and I will take the spirit that is upon you and I'll put it on them and they shall bear the burden of the people with you so you will not bear it alone now listen Time Square church really closely this is how amazing God is God takes the wrong request and answers it with the should have been requests let this is how amazing God is his praying killed me God goes I'm gonna give you 70 men think how amazing that is think how incredible God is to say I'm not to give you what you want I'm gonna give you what you need and I thank God that he hasn't done that for all of us that he hasn't given us what we want or we all would have been married to our third grade teacher but thank God he just goes no no no no no that's not here is what you actually need tozer said it this way nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it if God answers your prayer it's because God is good not because of your goods that's why we get prayer answers and God who is so good goes listen because I'm good I won't kill you but I'll give you what you need so you can continue on keep this in mind first of all God knows what I need better than I know what I need always remember that number one God knows what I need better than what I know what I need I just ran across this I can't even tell you where I ran across it it was just this little blurb in a book called a civil war soldiers prayer near the end of the Civil War listen to these words I asked God for strength that I might achieve he made me weak that I might lean upon him I asked him for help that I might do greater things he gave me infirmity that I might do better things I asked for riches that I might be happy he gave me poverty then I might be wise I asked for power that I might have the praise of men he gave me weakness that I might feel my need of God I asked for all things that I might enjoy life and I was given life that I might enjoy all things I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for that's God saying I won't give you God saying I know what you need better than you know what you need sometimes and the emphasis is on sometimes what I think I need matches what God thinks and he but it doesn't happen all the time this is important Moses thought he needed death and God knew he does did some really really good people around him the absence listen to me close time scriptures because I want to I want to approach a hurdle but I don't have an answer to your hurdle the absence of good men can bring a leader to suicide the presence of the right people can add years to your life right men you get more life wrong men you want to end your life let me say that again you have the right people in your life it extends your life you have the wrong people in your life you want to kill you and then at the same time that's what happens with Moses kill me because I can't take this any longer let me put it to you this way the wrong people make him want to die and God said the right people in your life will make you want to live and here's the challenge for us here at Times Square Church because you will not add right people if there's a great place to add right people to your life it's right here in this sanctuary but you're not going to add the right people to your life when Pastor Patrick or Pastor David says turn around and greet three or four people it's not going to happy not going to go oh we have a deep relationship now it's not going to have one handshake doesn't fix that and the challenge is is everybody in here wants to be first in line at the parking garage get on your train before anybody else does and get out of the building and what you're doing is you're thinking I'm making my life easier and you're missing important relationships that can extend your lives in here today and and I talk about relations I'm not talking about man I've been wanting to find my husband I'm not talking about that right now I'm talking about relationships that add life refreshing relationships and you have to think for example why not grab some coffee come back at one o'clock and be part of the winner cutting okay maybe right now okay here's some of the hurdles because we do have things for you here that a ministry that is starting to grow that is clean eating some space and margin for good relationships there's the one o'clock I know there's services and I know that's good but we've got to find you've got to realize how important the challenges not to run out of here but to say let's pause even for five or ten minutes and maybe there'll be subtraction in a friendship or a relationship what better place to find great Christian people than right here because we need the right people in our lives we need that when Moses had them it added not you know many years 40 years 40 years he goes I'm gonna give you 70 people it's gonna add 40 years to your life if he doesn't have the right people he wants to die I am Telling You I am so grateful for the right people in my life I am so grateful for the people that I have around me for people that tell me the truth I would I've been with people recently that they have no no truth tellers in their life so they just think everything they do is right I need who tells you the truth who do you have in your life that goes you shouldn't say that you shouldn't treat your wife like that you shouldn't say the who do you have in your life this is so important to understand and I can't emphasize this enough Moses wanted to die God goes you don't need to die you just need the right people that are part of your life see coming to church is not just about I sit here I sing the songs I listen to the choir - Lena preaches I get spit on in the first three rows and then we walk out of here that's not simply life-changing God brings us together so you can begin to find strength in godly people that are walking in the same direction and the challenge is I'm telling you the challenge is when that curtain comes down we boat for the door instead of going let's pause today let's find out a name because this is easy to do god bless you good to have you today god bless you good how about today we do this let me give you a simple step hi my name is Tim what's your name and where are you from sitting on that night that damn that's I'll start I'll start with that what is your name start there hey so great to have you are you from there do you've been coming to this church long ask some questions who knows what God can do today you may leave with some good people in your life and say hey see you Tuesday were you gonna sit I'm sitting in the South section of the sanctuary around row 8 okay I'll see you there why not why not do something something like that doesn't sound too holy listen you can be holy and die fast or you can have some really good people and live a long time I want to find some good people in my life I don't want to die alone right people gives me longer years I don't know about you I'm not into dying right now and some of you for some of you this is going like I've got to just come to the altar and I get that spirit of suicide off of me see this is where we mess this thing up God goes you want to get that spirit of suicide get the right people in your life because I said are you going like why are you angry I don't know but I'm telling you this is really important today this is I'm telling you listen to me TSC this is important for us to understand because we're wanting this thing someone to lay hands on us get this thing off me that's why the second thing is this drop this down I believe God answers our prayers but we're just not alert to how he answers them I want to die get this spirit of suicide God goes it's not a spirit of suicide the issue here is you've got some wrong people in your life so I'm gonna fix the relationship thing and I'm gonna add some ego like I have nobody here look at the people here what do you mean you have nobody this is what God has done God put this together saying I believe God is always answering our prayer it doesn't look like what we asked him but he's doing the right thing instead of what I said he's doing what I need it and some of us are missing the answer that he's provide there's a story of the woman who was going to the store for her daughter's medication and locked her keys in the car and she has to get home to get this and she was just an older grandmother type she was in her late seventies I don't even know what to do and it was one of the older cars where there was no clicker how many remember a long time ago there was buttons you need to pull up anybody remember those things and then this is was his little bit after the Fred Flintstone and feet moving the car and so she just did what we used to do growing up he tried to get a coat hanger pin and try to how many remember those days coat hanger and you're trying to lift the thing and this she's 78 years old she just couldn't do it so she just stopped sat on the curb with a hanger that was extended in her hand just because God please send me somebody I've locked the keys in the car I need somebody to show up so she just bowed her head and asked God within five minutes this harley-davidson pulls up this guy is just looking rough dirty and I mean and all of a sudden he says ma'am can I can I help you and she's her eyes were big and she goes okay he says I locked my keys in the cardigan he goes let me have the hanger within 15 seconds the door was open and she goes you are a godsend he goes ma'am this listen he says I'm not I'm not a great man he said I just got out of prison for stealing cars and he says I can't do this all of a sudden all of a sudden she lifted her voice and she goes Lord not only did you send someone but you sent a professional [Applause] sometimes God answers in ways we would not expect we just have to be alert he answers with answers here's the thing I want you to understand most of our prayer week Retton prayer requests requests are telling God how we want him to answer us that's what most of it is God this is what's going on I need you to do this and I need you to do this and we're upset because when he doesn't do what we want but he does what he's supposed to do because he's good we missed the answer kill me God goes you get 70 men but that's not what he requested see and there's things that you've requested and you don't think God answered it he just went around and did the right thing that you didn't ask and you should have been asking and so when people sometimes say to me I prayed and God didn't answer me I go wait wait one second let's relook at this God didn't answer what you forecasted and you commanded him to do but you have no idea if he answered in the way that is the right thing to do see we're upset with God because he didn't do what we wanted him to do but God is always looking out for his people because he is a good god that's what he is that's what he does see I love the Sermon on the Mount when Jesus said your father knows Matthew 6 8 he knows even before he you ask him he knows and I love that it says not that God knows I love it says your father knows and that's important because if you're his child he knows what's best for us I know it's best for my children and before you even ask him he's going and before horan let's put it this way before you even ask him to do the wrong thing or the the prescribed thing God goes no no I know the best way to answer this Moses says I need to die now please and God says you don't need to die you just need the right men in your life in fact you need 70 men in your life and so here's what I should be praying God this is what I'm asking for not telling you but this is what I'm asking for but since you're my father you answer this the best way that you see fit for my life and the problem is that you're sitting here some of you are in the balcony in the annex at the New Jersey campus and you're angry with God because he didn't answer what you told him to do but you haven't looked for what he could have probably done already because you've been so upset that he didn't do what she told him to do and God goes no no because if I would have done what Moses once I would have killed him but I know better than just to give him what he wants or what even we want and that's why finally let me show you a contrast here and let me close here today listen things go really bad when God lets you be God let me say that one more time I heard you here it is things go will chop this down things go really bad when God lets me be God when he lets me get what I want and that's the contrast of this chapter the contrast of this chapter is God answering the should have been request I want to die I'm gonna give you 70 men and I want you to see what God what God shows us for just a brief moment when he begins to let people get what they want instead of what God thinks is best and this is huge we get a glimpse of what happens when people decide for themselves and we leave God out it's in verse 18 of numbers 11 it's God giving people what they think is best for them here it is this is the other side when God lets you be God numbers 11 18 for you have wept in the ears of the Lord oh that someone would give us meat to eat this is that this is what they wanted to add to their variety of miracle food for we were well-off in Egypt therefore the Lord will give you meat and you're gonna eat you asked for me he says then meet it shall be and they got me God sends quail in verse 31 now a wind comes out from the Lord drove drove quail from the sea because Moses goes where we gonna get him are we gonna slaughter he says no no let me give them what they just asked for and show them that when you're God you really make a really bad god lose what he says a wind goes out for the Lord drives the quail from the sea it scatters them up to two cubits two cubits that's almost seven feet deep all around the camp as far as a day's walk that means seven feet of quail for a day's walk God goes you you won't get what you want here you go seven feet of birds think how insane that is now here it is all that day at night all the next day that people went out and gathered quail no-one gathered less than 10 homers then they spread them all out around the camp but while the meat was still between their teeth and before they could even consume it the anger of the Lord burns against them and struck them with a severe severe plate be careful of thinking you know better than gods I want this job I praise to this job and God didn't give it to me you really don't know what God may be held from you by not giving what you want I wanted that man I wanted to marry him and then you moved him away he moved out of New York and that was the man I'm so but God goes you have no idea what that lazy man I want to move I want to get out of here I want to start and you have no idea god we want a child we've been praying for a baby why can't I get pretend you don't even know God goes I don't wanna fix your marriage before I give you a family oh I knew that wouldn't go over too well but let's go on you have no idea I have no idea that when we're in charge of her own week we request we may be scripting our demise and that's exactly what he was showing them he says I want you to see what happens if I give you what you want what would happen just think about this what would happen if God answered every prayer that we prayed think of it for just a moment by answering every possible prayer God would in effect abdicate his throne and turn the world over to us history shows how we've handled the limited power granted to us we have fought at wars committed you a genocide messed up the environment destroyed our foresters in fact someone asked Gandhi if you were given the power to remake the whole world what would you do first he says I would pray for the power to become renounce the power that was just given to me because I wouldn't even know how to handle the power think what happens on the limited power that we have it was Amy Carmichael them the the amazing missionary to India who really started the the rescue in the sex trafficking industry decades ago in India it was Amy Carmichael I was reading her biography she said for years she prayed God I hate my brown eyes I want blue eyes I want blue eyes and he said God never answered my prayer I prayed every day for almost a decade change my eyes from brown to blue I hate my eyes and she wrote later in India an older woman thank God for not answering her prayer for blue eyes would have made all those orphans and all those children then frightened of her cuz she would have look like a foreigner many many years ago and God kept her brown eyes to even bring a calmness to the children that may not sound two important today but when I was reading that I'm going that's God not answering our prayers and really you just I listen he's not a theologian he's just a country singer but Garth Brooks I think had a best when he says just because God doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayer it really is what is dangerous is if you and I got everything we asked for and kept got out of it God sees the bigger picture God answers like a father not like some genie that you say it and he does it you're not in charge he's in charge he sees the larger picture God doesn't answer every request because he doesn't answer every request because we don't answer every request as a parent and this is what's amazing one one begins to feel God come up seventy elders that's when God answers and then you see another request that's answered when the people become God and God's no longer God God just steps away for just a moment and all of a sudden God goes this is what happens when you get what you want this is what happens seven feet deep of birds and he goes you don't get it for a day you don't get it for three days read the chapter says you don't even get it for a week one month you're gonna have seven soon as you cleared all those carcasses out the next morning seven feet deep again God goes that's why I'm in charge that's why I know it's best for your life see we we so many times get angry with him because he doesn't fix the situation but he when we don't begin to realize how wise God really is and I know there are people that thinks if I could just see this change in this this fix and let me close with this because the best place to see what God where God wants best for our lives is just in the word himself I was reading a article on the plane I think it was on a plane where they took all of these these people that decided to use their phones for a test and said we want to see how many touches society puts on that cell phone every single day when you when you watch it's amazing to watch just in New York City nobody lifts their heads up anymore nobody engages anymore everything is that you're running into cars you're running to people you just people just don't think and and and this is what they said they said an overuse he says this is what the article said they said and so they they tracked it on their phones they said the biggest users will have at least fifty five hundred touches on their phone every single day 5500 that's a slide that's a hitting an app that's hitting something on their phone said but the average person that's maybe sitting in this place is close to 3,000 times we're looking down you can't know what God wants for you if you're looking at a device all day long the best place to find out what God wants for you and from me is in God's Word itself actually we find out can you imagine can you imagine if we gave that many touches to the Word of God over our cell phone because what we do is we'll we'll formulate what we think is best just from what we see all around us instead of going god what's your heart what's your mind what do you want for my life so if we could just for a moment let's put a touch on what the Bible says now listen and this is where we close as the band comes listen here's what we finish because here's what God says we think God fix this I need cheaper rent I need a better job I want to move uptown I want to move downtown I want to move out to Long Island I want out of the city God I need and God goes let's start with what's best and you don't need because what we want we want God to fix and God goes I don't want to fix I want to renovate the whole thing and we want God to fix our lives and God goes I'm not fixing your lives because that's you being in charge when I'm in charge God goes I'm gonna renovate your lives how does he do that you ready for this listen close now what he does by that is starting off with them important relationship you can never have and that's by being born again you have to start there because they see God to you is just fix this if God is this fix this fix this God says you want to start the best place to start is you've got to start with a relationship with me and if you're here today listen to me close and if you're here to understand born-again it's a it's it's literally everyone here has a birth date we know that birth date the day that we were born jesus said in John chapter 3 you don't just need a birth date you need a second birth date because jesus said these words Jesus who cannot lie said these words unless a man or a woman is born again he can never enter the kingdom of heaven that's what Jesus said that's not Times Square it's not a denomination it's not a path jesus said that so for me to try to fix my life without starting at the first thing is me being in charge with we're here today and go I don't need to be born again I just need this note you're saying I rather be God than him be God Jesus who is God in the flesh said the first starting place is a second birth date if we don't start there than God then God goes okay let's see what happens when you're a god and you call the shots we end up with seven feet of carcasses every single day but God goes start by letting me come into your life not fix your life let me renovate your life this is what's so important people want to skip that step and go I'm going to church I'm a good person Jesus cousin this is what Jesus said there is no one good except God so if you're here today and go I was to ask you how do you get to heaven I'm a good person someone's not telling the truth okay look at me for a second because if that's what you see if I was to ask you today how do you get to heaven I've got to be a good person listen to me annex New Jersey podcast tomorrow if you're here saying I have to be a good person then somebody's not telling the truth either you're not telling the truth or Jesus who cannot lie is not telling the truth if Jesus said there's no one good starting with me except God and you go me being a good person is what gets me to heaven so here's what I have either I'm not telling the truth or Jesus is not telling the truth I'm sorry I got to go with Jesus on this one I do so if you can't get there by being good let me tell you what Jesus does he says I'm giving you a way to get there I'm giving you a second chance it's called being you're born once and you get to be born again how does that happen pastor Tim it's as simple as this it's as simple as ABC ABC that's what we tell our kids that's simple song ABCs we make it as simple as we can a I admit I'm a sinner I'm not good that's why God came that's why he sent his son to die in my place because I'm a sinner I'm broken on the inside I can't there's not a promise there's that a program there's not a priest a pastor or rabbi that can fix your inside only one person can fix you on the inside and that's Jesus himself it's the only person and you have to start with there's something not right I'm wired wrongly on the inside God goes I come in and renovate that I'm coming in not to fix your life I want to fix you from the inside out which begins to fix your life and second it's believing that Jesus died in my place my sin deserved death but God loved me so much he says I will die in their place and see then confessing him as Lord saying you're the boss now when I'm God I make a horrible god but when you're God you know the best from me better than anybody else knows I want you to bow your head here today in the balcony main floor annex new jersey campus and don't make the mistake of numbers 11 then mistake of numbers 11 is thinking we know better than God I want quail I want variety I'll fix my life I just I have a child our lives will be better if I have a husband my life will be better I get this job this promotion this raise make this much money and what we're doing is we're forecasting it says it says it's as its as silly as asking for quail every single day and God goes you've missed the miracle when your God when I'm God when God allows me to get what I want it always goes bad and God just gave us that little glimpse in numbers chapter 11 but today today in this place there are people that are willing to go you know what God if you said I have to start with born again and we're not talking about becoming a member of this church we're not saying you got to become Protestant or a Catholic or Giudice a any of that we're gonna use Jesus as terms today jesus said you must you must be born again so if he said must let's not make optional what Jesus says is absolutely the most important decision you can make today the most important thing you can make the decision you can make today is to say I am going to let God be God and if he says start with the relationship with him but don't have a relationship when I come to church and it doesn't give you a second birth second birth is when you say I want you to come into my heart I am a sinner and I need you to be in charge of my life it's just a simple prayer and in fact I want to pray a simple born-again prayer that says god I'm tired of trying to get things fixed I need to start step 1 which is I want to be born again today born again you can know today when you walk out of this place that I'm going to heaven not some of your going like I'm goin downtown I'm going to eat at this Italian restaurant I'm going back to New Jersey but you want to know today if life is done I know I'm going to heaven why not because I'm good not because I went to Times Square not even because I was baptized those are all good things but I'm going to heaven today because today was my second birthday I was born again on this day and if you're here with every head bowed anacs new jersey if you're watching at some of our house house meetings around the world around the united states if you're here right now with every head bowed and every eye closed and said pastor Tim when you pray that born-again prayer I want to be part of that today is gonna be my second birthday I want today to be that day that I take that second that step I decided today I'm not God he's got it if he says a relationship with him is best than today I choose God I choose a second birth I choose to be born again if Jesus says it I believe him if you're here today and say when you pray that prayer I want to be part of that would you raise your hand right now no hesitation hold it as high as I can as you can I want to make sure I see every hand hold him up I hold him up I and keep them up because I want to make sure I see every hand that's up that says I want to be born again today I want my life to be absolutely changed here's what I want you to do if you've raised your hand you got some amazing people here that are gonna get ready to cheer for you I want you if you raised your hand without any hesitation standing your feet right now quickly just stand up if your hands raised stand up as high as you can because I want to make sure we see you and we're gonna get ready from balcony stand up stand up annex stand up this is so important if you're standing up here's I want you to do if you're standing up right now I want to come down I want to pray with you quickly just get out of your seat come down here as fast as you can just come on down they're gonna cheer for you as you come down we're so excited this is an exciting day for you this is such an exciting that nothing makes me more happy than to watch people get born again because she's starting a brand new life what you decided with this let me tell you what you decided you decided today I'm not gonna be God we do a horrible job at being God don't we and so some of us have been here and some of you have been here had been angry with God you didn't answer my request how do you know because I asked this and he did and he didn't do it no no he does what's best and thank God he doesn't let us be God here's what I want us to do everyone at this altar listen to me for a second we're gonna pray a prayer and all this is the prayer is is to say God I'm inviting into my life this is an RSVP to God to say you died on the cross for me I'm just letting you know I'm not good but you are can we pray with them today come on let's all pray this together say these words with me dear Lord Jesus I believe you're the Son of God I believe that on the cross you took my sin my shame and my guilt and you died for it you faced hell from me so I wouldn't have to go you rose from the dead to give me a place in heaven a purpose on earth and a relationship with your father today Lord Jesus I turn from my sin to be born again say this with me now God is my father Jesus is my Savior the Holy Spirit is my helper and heaven is my home in Jesus name and everybody said amen come on

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Length: 47min 57sec (2877 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 14 2018