Brian "Head" Welch Story of Change

so I'm excited and I know Jared said this but we do want to be an honest church mean this church is you know we're brand-new we've been doing this for all of five weeks and we just want to be a place of honesty and authenticity and transparency and we admit we're imperfect that's why we're doing the whole comparison series saying hey waste wealth worth all been measured we're in Orange County how do we just talk honestly about our identity in Christ and the fact we're fulfilled by him that we live for him alone and we don't got to sit here and deal with society anymore and all the stuff it tells us we should be or could be and it's going to be a really fun series I'm excited to just get honest about it and share imperfections and the perfections bless you that are Jesus Christ so that's cool but here's the the really exciting thing tonight this is going to be an incredibly honest night because we have a special guest with us who a lot of you know and have heard of the thing about Brian is I was just talking to him before we got up here and and I'm and I know he would never want me to say this because he's here to serve but this guy has been on a 30 day tour across the country he finished the tour was back in Nashville at home and then and chose to fly all the way out here away from his family on Easter and from his little girl and then it's going to fly back home and he did it and this is what he said he said dude bro it's about souls that's what he said and I want to tell you that to me is honest and as much as we want to say he a man corn was great and platinum-selling artist that's great and all that the fact that we have a brother tonight who would fly all the way out here and say dude it's about souls means that's that's the kind of brother we want to get behind yo now let me say this too it's going to be an incredibly honest night it's going to be a night where I've asked Brian I said I mean I the interview thing we could do but I said dude I want you just to walk up and picture a generation right now and the stuff you've been through and just share your testimony you can say anything you want don't you whatever comes out of your mouth comes out of your mouth and by the time we're done I'm going to pray that the Holy Spirit moves and that people are touched and people realize the fact that God is the one who takes us from darkness to light God is the one who gives us hope in the darkest times and I believe in the next few minutes you're going to see a man come and share his story the old Jewish proverb said the only thing truer than truth is my story and I think that tonight is what we're about to see somebody who says this is my experience this is what I've been through I'm not polished I'm just real and I think we're all going to be touched incredibly by it so please would you do me a favor and welcome our new friend and family member Brian head about support yo hello thank you Happy Easter this place is a trip among around stayed only a dizzy up here and that band was awesome wasn't it that's not like me I love girl drummers they just rock yeah yeah the guy was all right on the drums but yeah so yeah thanks for coming tonight I'm stoked to be here it's been a crazy oh man sense but it's been like a six-week tour actually and man it seems like everything you try to do when you're doing good in the world it's like everything comes against you you know says it's like it's a lot of it's a struggle my back like went out on the tour and almost like if if my guys that weren't like really expecting the money you know I would went home like I couldn't move I was like you know but I got a miracle and and it just like it as good as new you know but now I got it's funny I got this pulled muscle in my back and and I couldn't have been my neck like that but then now it's over here so it's like how does a must as a muscle can it jump like to your around your skin it really oh we need prayer bro but yeah it's a it's honor to be here but you know my daughter I'm I got a small family it's me my daughter little 12 year old she looks 16 so she but she misses me but she's a she likes to chill with the with the girls anyway so she's like alright my dad you know so so I'm honored to be here though and yeah man thinking I'm just I'm back on the road touring and stuff like that you know I was touring a lot back in the corn days we just uh we had we had that dream you know so many people have when you're is you just want to you know I start playing guitar when I was a like 10 years old I just wanted to be I wanted to be that metal God you know and I just started I wasn't really popular it wasn't like tough I wasn't you know girls didn't like me that much and I was just like oh y'all I'm gonna get good at this guitar you know so I just practice and practice but I loved it because like the bullies would pick on me and I'd go home and I just you know I just go and get lost in my metal and I got so good at my brother like he was a New Wave guy with a flock of seagulls hairdo like that and and he'd come into my rooms what are you playing was that Van Halen who and he calls friends and replead of any own thing but he hate but he hated me but but you got proud of me at the same time you know and the bullies they even picked on me they would they would tell me to place ourselves like alright the guitar thing's working you know I could get the bullies to stop picking on me my brother likes me a little bit so yeah just I did it and I met the corn guys around I'd say probably I met the bass player feel t like 12 him and Jonathan Davis Jonathan he was just uh he was just this like really skinny little Duran Duran fan you know carried his books okay guys and he's like Penta is weird you know he's just really different and the bass player Fieldy he was I think using Duran Duran too and I told him I was like you need to get into Aussie and throw that dren Duran stuff away so uh you know I was the metalhead and these guys were all into the pop stuff I just remembered that that's crazy they owe me no but up yeah I think the the bass player actually even ran over Jonathan with a three-wheeler so we have history together like back in Bakersfield and we got into these little cheesy 80 metal bands when they crossed over to the real music to metal they started playing and and we got in these bands though you know we play one party and then break up but these guys were my homies you know there are my friends we we just loved music and we you know we drank a little bit but we didn't get into drugs we kind of shied away from drugs and people that did drugs because what we actually had a friend of our that started doing drugs and he quit playing his drums we're like man would a on a dummy threw away his drums you know his music for for drugs so we didn't we don't understand that but you know around when I was 18 or so um the guys two of the guys or actually three of the corn guys decided to quit playing like the just heavy metal straight metal music they got into like Chili Peppers and Faith No More and and just kind of like alternative stuff and I was like man I was I'm like I'm a metalhead I don't know what this funk stuff you guys are playing you know but they moved to Hollywood and I was like oh man my friends even they want to go make it so they're like they're going for their dream and I was like I'm just gonna stay here you know they're not gonna make it with that funk stuff then so uh I had a girlfriend at the time she ended up dumping me broke my heart and around that time first time I got suicidal man I was at home and my parents were like you graduate from high school get a job you know and and meanwhile like my heart's broken I heard my mom like talking to her her sister one day like through the walls the walls are so thin and she's like I don't know why this guy doesn't get a job he's all sad because his shauna dumped him and he deserved it and it's my mom I'm like I need comfort maybe I did deserve it but I needed comfort from her not her to be gossiping next room so I was like man that my I was like I really want to die now he's like so I what I did was I called my friends up I was like I want to come visit you know I went up there to the guys in corny until I moved to Hollywood tried to make it and you know I went in there then they knew I was just busted up and they're like once you move down here man you know you need to get away from Bakersfield Bakersfield California that's where we grew up but uh I don't know if I said that really but um so I moved down there and this is what I learned to do when your heart was broken I didn't have no other my parents weren't really there for me they didn't understand how hurting I was I drank every night I just got old English or st. IDEs or whatever was the cheapest at the store I drank what we would all drink and I'd watch them band practice and just like you know we were just laugh and have a hangover the next day you know and you feel that tingle whenever you start drinking and it feels good but then it always turns on in and and I don't know why the cycle just keeps going but that's all I knew and uh I lived out there for a little bit with these guys and you know long story short we we they kind of got out of the funk music and got back to reality Allison chains came out you know the whole like like different types of metal you metalheads maybe some of you growing with Allison chains what is that's a metal band and they were really good at the time in anyway so so I joined the band with them and because when they're in that funk period I was just like I wasn't even playing and I was just drinking and like working like for peanuts just barely making any money and when they asked me to join I was like dude I want to play again these are my best friends and now they play real music and like I want to play and I want to create with them so we did that and we got Jonathan Davis he lived in Bakersfield at the time he was a mortician assistant he embalm dead bodies and he was still that same little nerdy kid you know but he was just taller and he did weird stuff so but he was into music too and he was pretty freaky though like he would you know he would bring body bags home that still had stuff inside of him bring his friends would look to you this is the dead body was in year so and so he was in the creepy stuff like that but but we talked we called him up I was in the band and down in LA with these with the guys everybody except Jonathan Davis and we called him up because we saw him at a competitor club in Bakersfield when I was visiting my parents and this guy was just like just cool on stage I didn't know it was like that dude that same nerdy kid but but he just looked cool so we called him and we said amen once you come down here and try out for our band you know where you gonna go in Bakersfield and he's like he's are gonna know man and uh after he thought about it he decided just to come down man we jammed and we just had something we clicked and then all of a sudden he was like he left his is a dead body job whatever you call it and he and he came and started working for pizza to be to try to be a rockstar that was you know he was like I'm just gonna try I got to give it my all I'm only 22 or something so we moved down there and we started writing songs start playing Orange County all around here just few minutes down the street is where we first got together and I forget the studio but it was like off the uh what is it the 20s 57 that's right all right 57 north anyway I'm just I'm just reminiscing forgive me but uh yeah we've created the songs around here in Orange County and we just start playing Hollywood stuff and and we would invite some industry people out we had a manager and they would come out and they just you know do pretty good they didn't like us but then the crowd started like getting big because we would get like kegs and rent buses and like charge our friends five bucks say come on you're gonna Hollywood with us and we'll bring them just a bunch of people and so the record company is going to this band Korn they're not very good but they're bringing all these people and like they're seeing this following grow up and they're like you know it's all about money so they're like you know we got a deal one day and we took the deal and we all because we all worked at Pizza Hut we were just barely you know we were all piled in one house just want to live the dream but we are all like working at Pizza Hut Jonathan was a he worked up to be a manager actually and uh it's it's dead bodies pizza pizza manager I don't know how this world works but uh how does that look on the application embalmer dead body and bummer filling out but anyway uh you got forgive me I go on rabbit trails but uh anyway he's to feed like the his drivers to because he's managing he'd give him speed to get him there like 20 minutes or less like to beat Domino's so it was just really twisted but we got out of that we got a record deal we quit the job and we hit the road we did our record we hit the road we got on it was a trip because our dream was like coming true you know and it was just a bunch of knucklehead kids just doing our thing you know and but we when we hit the road you know it was like the party it was just every night the drugs were every night and you know and and it just started like I don't know I started to become about a game you know I started to become about like just the girls and like you know and and who could do what and who could get this and and it was like all of the friendship was like put on the back a little bit but you know we got through we were just we were partying and just drinking hungover every day and and it was it was crazy because we were like you know I had Aussie I was born on my wall when I was a kid and we're opening for him like right before him and I'm going oh my gosh this is crazy this is like I never even thought this would be possible you know and you know he's on my wall then also Aziz coming in to talk to me in the dressing room and you know you know I don't I never knew what he said but I was like dude you are Aussie I don't care if you mumble whatever Aussie language you're so you're so cool but uh it was just surreal you know second record came out we built a following in the first record it came out hit number three on Billboard third record came out went to number one that's when the record company was like alright this band they've been touring their fan base keeps growing if we put money into him and just push them get MTV everybody involved like the bigwigs got involved you know and they're like we can just break him like Metallica level you know they that's what they're thinking so that's what they did the album came out we hit such a big time man it was like we couldn't even handle it all of us were like I mean Jonathan was like he almost killed himself he couldn't sleep he's just he was drinking JD and he was just losing and all of us were just we didn't know we're just these little kids from Bakersfield California you know and here we are like mega rockstars you know selling millions of albums and when you get that big man the drug dealers they'll come they bring their girls that they have under their control and it's just a it's just a it's a crazy dark world you think it's like all this fun and games and and and it is on the outside but I'm telling you it's like a trip man and you're just you're waking up sick every day and around that time you know we got so big and we had the same girlfriends that we had before we started and we all decided around like a two-year period to get married and we had kids and everything around a two-year period and I got married to this girl named Rebecca she was just just oh man she was a little skater girl that it was like kind of punk rock and she lived on the streets since she was 14 with just her friends and everything and and Hugh just wild but like we were it was really cool in the beginning because I gone out seriously with anybody since that one girl that like made me feel suicidal back in those eighteen so I was like I was like when I when I get involved and get really involved so it was cool for a little bit but then I started noticing this girl was like when she get mad you know when you get in arguments and stuff he just normal people get in arguments she get she get mad at me and just like punch me in the face I'm like oh my gosh what are you doing because that's why she ran away from home and she was 14 because her family was like that and I'm like I tried to break up with her and it just I don't know she would come but we just it was a bad relationship that just kind of stayed you know and so it we ended up getting married it did get better and we had a daughter named Jenaya and man it was just that was awesome because actually before Korn we had she had got pregnant and we we almost had an abortion but she decided to find birth parents and and do the adoption thing and that happened right before Korn and so when we got married it was like a second chance our relationship survived and you know I had money now and and we just we tried to build a family but uh I don't know just a touring and that in the drugs and and everything just couldn't keep it together and even even after the baby was there I just I I tried to live this life you know and I wanted to be the Rockstar partier and I wanted to be a family guy and it just didn't work after a few years every five band members lost their marriages five five broken homes and mine was really ugly man my my wife got hooked up with all these skinhead dudes there's a skinhead gang in Huntington Beach and uh and they were just like ransacking my house it was like it seemed like every time I had like a high with Korn like something like was breaking my heart and stabbing me you know home so these skinheads were just ransacking my house they were trying to pawn my my out my gold necklaces and albums and stuff at a pawn shop my friend owned it so he's like he was like calling me going oh my god dude they're skinheads here trying to pawn her I'm like what so I got my friend it was like a nightmare you know you hear stories but uh I was living a nightmare I got my friend I was like dude you got to go over my house and he went grabbed a gun and he went to my house just to cuz he wanted to get these guy I told him get those guys out of there I wasn't even thinking about what could happen but when he got there no one was there but a babysitter and my daughter so I was like man I gotta get this kid so it was on a Metallica tour like the biggest band in metal you know we're touring with so I went at three-day break I went home and grabbed my kid and I took her and I was a single dad ever since then me and my daughter Jenna who's now 12 and you know my wife was just so on methamphetamines she got hooked on the speed real bad and and she just she didn't even fight me for the custody she said she wanted to but she was so drugged out she didn't show up so I got full custody I tried to live my life right for a while and you know single and in trying to to be the rock star try to make that work or nothing seemed to satisfy me you know it's just nothing made sense so I just kept I kept I kept trying new things out I got hooked on vicodin I got up to like 17 vicodin a day just to just you know to get a high and that last scared me so I quit that turn is an ex was deal coke and I swore I was going to do methamphetamines again because I saw what it did to my ex-wife but uh I got drunk one night it was in between tours and I just called one of my friends up and and he brought over some some meth and I did it I was like I'll just do it this weekend and then the next weekend came I did it and then all sudden it turned into everyday habit and I'm like going man why is my life like not making sense to me I'm like everything I try to do fails every time I try to get happy it fails every everything relationships family the corn guys everything like I couldn't buy my happiness couldn't buy my wives happiness and and I just didn't understand what life was all about so I just like you know I was looking at this kid singing man her mom jacked her and left now you know I promise man I wanted to kill them so I thought she's a biggest scumbag and Here I am snorting lines every day and I'm on a world tour with Korn none of the guys knew I was telling the people earlier you guys that uh you know the people would asked me you know are you okay are you okay I mean you're not looking too good you know you do are you doing too many drugs or something I'd say I say man I ain't doing the who me drugs missing okay okay cuz when you got that much power you know people just listen to you so it was like a it was a horrible dungeon like cuz you you're rich you're powerful you could buy all the drugs you want and when anyone tries to help you you like snap at them and then they get back so it was just really dangerous for me in and about two years I went through a a full world tour I packed my drugs in my bag I would hide it in like I take deodorant cartridges apart and put the like eight balls in there or whatever I'd put them in pills I put them anywhere I could to hide it so I could so I could just have my fix that have my it was like my my energy to get up in the day and it was scary man because I ran out a couple times and I have my my drug dealer sent over eight balls of meth over like stuffed in these ugly little candles that he was selling that he went weekers make stuff they think it's like the best invention so he made these like ugly candles he's like man this would be my business is gonna take off so I was like anyway I told him I go stuff some eight balls in there I ran out and he was like you know I'm risking this guy this guy's spun out of his mind he'll do anything the core and guy asked him you know and so he's like stuffing drugs he could have got put in jail anyway he sent me stuff and I would be all tweaking like because I was running out but I was like I need my stash and and I'd I'd watch it online like the candle go from like New York and get to London then you know and I'd be like okay it's getting closer and then they deliver it to my room I didn't know if they're gonna see it through those scanners or see eight balls and like bust me throw me in jail but it was just rock bottom rock bottom rock bottom around that time I had moved back to Bakersfield I had a home there in between tours I just go because my family is there they helped me with my daughter and I was hanging around with these guys that were like I don't know there were Christians but they never talked about it they this guy named Doug he was he was just um he had this company called trends and he built these big old monster trucks like he was just this guy gate right go ahead checked his Chuck out here you know get motorcycles and in in cars and everything and he made them look like these just awesome and I was like dude this guy I thought Christians like Ned Flanders like hey okely-dokely alright but this guy was just like wow you know I didn't know but he had an awesome family his kids were like got good grades his kids were were uh well just respectful and his wife was awesome great marriage and I was like man I need some of that I need to get sober like this guy have it together you know and so his wife was like the more spiritual one and so she she tell him you know in vitamins Church and he's like I don't want to go to church and but uh they did invite me one day and he ended up I was doing meth every night it was like towards the end of 2004 and he's like I'm gonna pick you up cuz he was just wild like high-strung guy and he'd like he got up at like 5:30 a.m. and until he's like I'm gonna pick you up for the 6:00 a.m. service it was like in my head I'm going on I'll be up anyway might as well cool okay so uh he picked me up and dude I'm just telling you like I was at my worst and like my daughter would be asleep and I'd just be doing drugs all night and and I was just at my worst and I stayed up all night that night and he came and picked us up and I put this hood on it put that covered my head just because I was like you know I want to go to church but I you know I was the corn guy and I didn't know about like if Christians thought that if they saw me like oh that's a evil rock star we got to save him you know because we're on a South Park episode like that and like the church people on that they were chasing it evil corned in South Park whatever that city's called and so I felt like that it was like vandal going to like I didn't know what to so I put the hood on I went and they were playing music like not as good as that but uh but anyway the music I just felt so much peace in there you know and I was like man these sober people got a lot of peace you know in their church I didn't had no idea what was coming and I just wanted to get off drugs that's all I went to church I didn't understand God was God I didn't know who could prove there's a god there's a bunch of clouds and can't see nobody you know you can't prove it so I just want to get sober that's it in the pastor when I got there the pastor was talking he's like men he's like yeah about 15 years ago I was just struggling with anger I was who I was with my my girlfriend at the time and not I one day I picked her up I threw against a wall in a fight and and I was like dude this pastors talking about throwing his girlfriend gets the wall I thought I they're all like priest and the holy rollers and all that and so I was like I connected with him I was like he's like man there's nothing that you have done that God can't change if you he is so real if you give him your life and talk to him every day he will start to transform me from the inside out and all the bad things in your life will start to follow away one by one and I was like either these people are like a cult and they're like believing this guy because you got to understand I was in corn I never even thought or hurt anything about Church all right all I thought about was like you know the Catholic stuff you know I didn't know about Christian or but this guy was saying that it was so real and I was like man I got to try it at least if not I'm gonna go to rehab I just need to get sober but man if this maybe this is why my life everything is like bad luck you don't sure the checks are great and the fans are awesome but inside I was a depressed miserable dude wearing a mask just medicating beer pills everything and I was sick of ellas tired I was weary man and when I got to that church I actually saw Matthew 11:28 on the screen and said come to me all who were weary and burdened and I will give you rest and I needed that for my soul because I was like I was almost given up man I was I couldn't buy my my my freedom I couldn't buy my peace and so I went home after that I received Christ that day but I went home and this is where it just transformed my life I started talking to I did what that pastor said I was like I'm gonna make this real in my life if God's not real then it won't work I'll go try something else so I just said Jesus if you're real you know I I went to my drug closet and I snorted a line and he said bring all your stuff to the Lord and I showed him I was like look at what I'm doing I'm ruining my life and if you don't take this stuff from me I am gonna die my daughter's gonna end up without a dad and you know what I just got real with them some people think it's it's whatever but I I brought all my baggage to him you know and I said take this from me and just to let you guys know like a couple weeks long story short like I was thumbing through the Bible see my kevie every time I opened it it was like it was reading me I wasn't reading it you know like everything was like pertaining to my life you know I open it up and go what is this thing alive you know and and so I just started seeing not seeing these signs and then one day I was like when I was reading out still doing the math a little bit and and I was just reading through and I just felt this presence like wrap around me and pour into my soul it was just he was just like it was from another realm it wasn't from here it was from the invisible God came in and touched my heart and it was the most beautiful feeling like I'm a metalhead like guru you know but I'm not ashamed to say is the most beautiful feeling I've ever felt in my life and it was so impactful life-changing and I didn't know what to do after that but I was like I want this I mean I knew what I knew I was going to throw away the drugs that's for sure because I was like God just revealed himself to me and I'm gonna go after this with everything I am but I didn't know I was gonna do with my career or whatever I actually went to that dude's house and I that Christian God that took me to church I was like man what do you what should I do and he's like he's like man just would you live your life what you know just you go back to core maybe you could change some you know stay in core basically and when he was telling me that I got is overwhelming knowing in my heart that I was going to go home that day and quit corn to just tip so I could stay home with my daughter race her and not give her to all the nannies anymore and just look at her and tell her a dad that you're gonna have a parent here all the time and and I'm not and I just felt the Lord saying do you want to follow me somewhere that not everyone's going to understand people are going to make fun of you and that's it's not the cool thing to do but you know do you want to follow me and do you want to surrender your whole life to me and it was real man and I felt that question and I was like yes yes I will do that and I lay down my life that day man and I've been walking it ever since and it's the most awesome thing in the world man it's my calling some people don't have the calling that I have but I have the calling there's another guy in corn got saved and he's a he's impacting the place in there you know I mean and as other family members that get saved so things are happening shaking but I know what the Lord has called me to do and this is it and it's been the best of times and some of the hardest times of my life but I got the eternal peace knowing that I'm supposed to be where I am but man I'm telling you it's not easy and I don't have all the cash like I did and I have had people take advantage of me and I did throw away the money because I treat it like the drugs because it made me a horrible person the drugs may be a horrible person the money made me a horrible person so I start giving it away and I gave away so much and I'm like dang would it give that away because I got the problems like going on right now with that but I'm telling you he's teaching me to walk by faith you don't live by the world this stuff is going to crash down you see the economy is shaky and people are getting all fearful and everything but man I'm telling you those who are rooted in the trust and love of God that he will provide everything you need then everything that can be shaken will be shaken your soul and your fear will be shaken out of you so that you will never worry about anything ever again because you just fully trust and that's how it is man that's that's the best thing ever but uh I just want to tell you guys like this once scripture just I just hit me earlier before I go but uh you know Jesus was hanging out with his disciples and he was like he told him like they're sitting there so he's raised me from the dead he healed people and everything and he goes it's better for you that I go away and you know he's talking about going to the cross and dying and they're like what do you mean your your your God right here for us he's like no it's better for you that I go away so that when I go the Holy Spirit's going to come and he will be poured inside of you so it's not Jesus living on the outside doing all that it's the Holy Spirit living inside so when Jesus went to the cross died for our sins and went up there now Jesus through the Holy Spirit is poured out and that's how we were able to have him live inside and he directs us and he and he speaks to us and he loves honor that's the love that I felt that day the Holy Spirit and it's like it's the most awesome thing it's heaven it's heaven it's a deposit the Bible calls you know the Holy Spirit is a guarantee the deposit that we know what we're getting it's not just like oh I believe in Jesus so I'm gonna you know it's not that it's a real relationship connection with heaven now as we walk in the earth that's what I want you know I don't I don't want God to get me sober and say oh thanks God I'm gonna go play those songs when I was high on meth you know the rest of my life now I'm gonna give everything to them and connect with heaven while I'm on earth that's just who I am and you know I just want to encourage you guys to uh to just dive in deeper with God man there's there's like gods like an ocean you know you can put your toes in the little it's too cold you know or you can dive into it and just get everything and that's that's where the fun starts man and I'm telling you if my message you're talking about if my my daughter is here like a room full of people you know her age I would say I test drove the world I had every toy you can imagine I bought everything I ran out of stuff I ran out ideas to buy if you're chasing things of the world you'll never be satisfied I was never satisfied that's why I got to the into my gutter I was like nothing's going to by me I ran out of stuff to buy got my fat 22s on my Bimmer I got my car my pools everything and on those lonely days you're looking at the $200,000 pool going man just you know that's not it you know what I mean so I'm take it from me a lot of you won't get all those toys I gave them up like there were just nothing because they that's what they are now at the end of the day they're nothing they won't not they will not satisfy us so that's what I that's my wisdom for if I could share anything but I thank you guys for coming out tonight and happy Resurrection Day this church rocks give it to the pastor down you got one of those those headlights yeah hey I'm on it can you hang out with me up here can you hang for a bit I'm going to read I'm gonna read real quick the verse that Brian was just talking about for you guys I want you to hear this in John 16 she slipped at disciples and he said there's so many things I want to tell you but you just can't understand it now and when the spirit of truth comes he will guide you into all truth I think it's important to just like just to read it and to grab on to it tonight and to realize the fact that what you've heard tonight is personal experience but its truth it's just completely raw uncut unadulterated truth it's a man who is standing up here saying I've had it all I've been through it all but you know what I've learned that I need it all from him and I don't want anything else and tonight on Resurrection Day on Easter 2011 I just want to ask you this question do you know that truth do you know the truth you know because when Jesus came and he came back to life he was walking down the road with a couple guys who were really hurting and you might remember on the road to Emmaus for seven miles and then he stops and they say well he says I'm going to go on they say no come with us come hang out with us and he goes to their house and he has dinner with them that's Resurrection Day that's I'm God King of Kings Lord of lords and I'm going to go out and I can take over the whole world and I can do whatever I want because I've defeated death I have defeated evil and then he says but I'm going to go to your house and I'm going to dine with you and I want to have dinner with you and then as he prays it says suddenly their eyes were open and they saw that it was Jesus they saw the truth on Resurrection Day do you realize the fact that the king of kings and Lord of lords the one who defeated death defeated the gates of hell tonight says I want to do dinner with you I want to walk and sit with you I want to take you out of all the stuff that you've had and I want to give you just this intimate loving relationship where you and I can talk and you and I can interact and no matter what you're going through you won't be lonely again and you won't have NEET again and I will fill you because I'm here to love you that much that's what Easter is tonight you saw a man who's standing up here proudly proclaiming the fact that God came into the home of his soul to do dinner with him and to love him and he needs nothing else and I want to ask you tonight will you proclaim boldly and stand boldly for that same God who wants to do it for you do you know the love of God tonight I love the fact that Brian was so honest tonight and I love the fact that he would stand for a loving God and right now I'm going to ask if you're here and you've never met Jesus and you've never met and realized just how much he loves you the fact that it came and died on that cross for you that you will not just make this to Easter where you came and heard someone talk you'll make it to Easter where you came and you made it a walk and all of a sudden God moved into your life and you realized hope you'd never found and you walk out with a life dedicated to Jesus Christ so I'm going to ask you tonight our brother Brian is willing to stand for Jesus his life is in the hands of Jesus he's been saved and loved and moved and cared for by Jesus Christ tonight are you ready for the same thing are you ready to give your life to him to commit your ways to them your money your wealth your stuff the degrees the offices the school the education the family and say Jesus I'm Yours please come into my life right now I'm going to go ahead and pray a prayer Brian's up here I'm up here and I'm going to ask that right now if tonight is your night to fall in love with God to realize his love for you that wherever you are you'll stand up you make your way out of an aisle and that you'll come and stand here with Brian and I and that you will make a bold commitment tonight to say Jesus my life is yours there's no going back Easter 2011 if that's a commitment for the first time because you never knew his love for you or if that's a recommitment saying I've been far away from you God and I'm not going back because my heart is yours and my life is yours then I'm going to ask you to come to and we're going to pray that prayer together and I want to praise God for those of you tonight they're saying that story is now my story the story of Christ alive in me right now if God's calling you just come come here to the front of the stage as God moves and I want to praise God for those that will to give your life to Him to surrender everything to him if you'll come and stand with us please come right now praise God we cheer on the gods calling you guys please come right now if God's calling you that's awesome come on up if you're leaving things in your past tonight if you've got a slavery to bondage if you've been struggling in things and there's addictions in your life and you want to get rid of just come up and stand with us tonight and say Jesus I'm yours my life is yours I don't want to go back anymore declare it boldly and proudly come on forward face God guys so okay take your time and if you're sitting in the seat and you're saying man this is hard this is scary that's okay if you're holding on the seat in front of you saying I can't do it it's the Holy Spirit of God propelling you to go ahead and make the walk or wait for you praise God just any others I want to wait for you I'm not going to let this time go by because I don't want you to go home tonight thinking man I should have done that I wish I would have done that because right now we're going to pray a prayer of dedication if God's calling anyone it's okay we'll wait for you people will let you out of your aisles I promise it's not weird praise God you doc each other okay we're going to keep waiting we're not going to end this night early if someone's holding on and you're thinking man it's okay guys you keep playing games father please right now Holy Spirit move over this place and if there are men or women or hold on saying you know what I've done it my way please right now break through the walls break through the barriers and let this be a place of safety and a place of honesty in a place of love if there's a and brokenness that their struggles if there's areas that another sexual morality break through the bonds tonight and allow us to be a place where people will stand and proclaim them back you are a god and that we love you okay we'll wait guys praise God you coming as gods oh that's awesome in God your brother he's wait Oh God for mr. 2011 we let go of ourselves and we just surrender everything father please right now there's anyone left the guy was a girl who think man I'm lonely about myself but he realized tonight that they have a family that we're here to support them to lift up their arms to walk beside them and if they have a story that is unique and a destiny that is fulfilled and prepared to you god please call them forward tonight to commit their lives to you please my name is you guys come forward stand just a few more minutes and God's calling anybody a couple more seconds I don't want to rush this those they're both crazy for all you guys standing behind me let's do this together okay this was a bold move it is too occurring just took a lot of courage I'm so proud of you go ahead and just save me for commit your life commit your walk and your journey to God say no going back it's all about my future and I want to tell you gentlemen I am honor to stand on a stage you guys I know Brian is due to say you know what we are soldiers of the King come on out no going back I stand for him no matter what this world throws at us it's all for him and for his glory and ladies whatever you've been through understand tonight you are a princess of the King you are loved by him or forgiven by him and wherever you've been to let's pray this prayer together sake Jesus Christ son of God I've made mistakes in my life and I've had pain but I believe that you died for me and I believe that you rose again you're in heaven today and now you're taking my Inn I give my life to you make me the person you've always wanted me to be and give me the life always call me to live I'm Yours I say guess you I pray this in your name amen praise God you guys no prize right now it's you guys good we've got some people that want to pray with you my friends family staff members if your Bible talk to you about the next step I know maybe even Brian would love to give you a high five and a hug if you guys can just make your way along back there to the cross they're right back there waiting for you and I'll come over to second I'd love to talk to you a little further let's cheer a lot and just praise God for this on the

Channel: Shawn White

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Keywords: brian, head, welch, korn, testimony, god, jesus, christ, christianity, love, and, death, chemicals, paralyzed, whip, it, whosoevers, the, abandoning, between, here, lost

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Length: 43min 45sec (2625 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 11 2012