Come With Me // Judah Smith

hey thanks for being here it does not go unnoticed that you took time at a one of your days in life to gather with us and the big idea in this room is we need each other and you're gonna find out real quick I'm one of those Jesus guys and I believe Jesus is the savior of the world he's the superhero of my soul like he changed everything for me but that does not mean that you have to believe what I believe to completely belong in this space and in this community we got a lot more in common than we don't now a lot of you are like Judy you say this every week I'm gonna keep saying it every week for 23 years until I move to the desert with my in-laws and drink wine every night with my wife until then I'm gonna tell you every time we gather everyone belongs here and we just it's just like a it's a real honor that you're taking space in your life in your mind and your heart together with us so from my wife and I our family leadership team thank you we love you we do exist too to help you in any possible way that we can so so please keep us keep us posted out in the lobby again at all of our locations from here to LA to Seattle and even on online at our app there are people available to pray with you and help you I am so excited to share the story of Jesus with you kind of the big idea when we get together Church home is I'll share the story of Jesus and God's love for us and then the band will join us again we'll sing a few songs Ayden will be singing with the band and that's fantastic so that's that's that's a that's a plus just like make you do it you know but then yeah well sing and then we'll will conclude and it's always like a dream of someone like me who leads a community that that again community just it almost begins when our Gathering is over that we share meal together that we serve one another listen love care cry laugh that is why we're here and if you haven't noticed in this crazy wild town that we all love so very very much or in the crazy wild town of Seattle or wherever you live in the world we need each other we need relationship and so I'm praying that you find a place here you feel connected we've been doing the six week journey the six week journey and this is the final installment we've been looking at the subject of faith and oh man I'm so excited to share this message with you so go with me to Hebrews chapter 11 if you have a Bible if you don't no worries at all it'll be up on the big screens for your viewing enjoyment and we're going to read the final concluding section of this chapter we've been studying Hebrews 11 we've been learning about what is faith what does it look like to believe what does it look like to trust what does God do in in persuading us and showing us his goodness and so we're going to this letter written to first century Jewish believers who have come up under extraordinary persecution in some cases loss of life loss of business loss of income loss of stature social standing and it's all because these Hebrews have accepted Jesus as God they've accepted Jesus as the Messiah and the Savior this entire letter in its essence is written to Hebrews telling them don't give up don't go back to trying to relate to God by your own goodness and rules and regulations trust Jesus that he is the only one that forgives and he's worth following now easier said than done the recipients of this letter again are under extraordinary excruciating circumstances and situations it is a very difficult time to be a Jesus follower and so in Hebrews 11 what we now call chapter 11 the writer of Hebrews is doing a very course completely inspired by God he's going to go back to the beginning to the great Jewish heroes in the beginning of time and he's going to prove to his recipients and listeners that they actually those ancient heroes that you idolize and love from for instance the Torah they too desired to no Jesus see Jesus and experience Jesus in other words there's no going back there's only going forward so we're gonna jump in at the end and for sake of time and context just bear with me I'll try to fill in the blanks as we go this is week six it says this and what more shall I say for time would fail me to tell of gideon and barrack and Sampson and Jephthah of David and Samuel and the prophets through faith conquered kingdoms listen to this enforce justice obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions it's like what'd you do this week quenched the power of fire all right escape the edge of the sword were made strong out of weakness became mighty in war put foreign armies to flight women receive back their dead by resurrection some were tortured refusing to accept release people are like you can go now they're like no and it's this is amazing so they might rise again to a better life others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment they were stoned it was sawn in two this is quite a list they were killed with the sword they went about in skins of sheep and goats destitute afflicted mistreated of whom the world was not worthy Wow wandering about in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth will stop our reading there for now quite a quite an account we join me in prayer god I thank you for the moments that we share help me to clearly and concisely articulate what is here what you put in my heart thank you for it and asked just for your sense love grace and goodness Lord reveal yourself in these moments god I pray right now as like the combines about to happen for the NFL and mr. Snyder's there and Pete Carroll and like they're making decisions that they make the right decisions and that our team gets bigger stronger faster and that the team in Boston doesn't Eamonn oh man oh man oh man oh man um okay so so this passage we just read is the most unrelatable portion of scripture you could possibly read particularly New Testament it's like sawn into tortured like you're like I I can't really relate with that and though I do not even for a moment want to minimize in any way shape or form your journey and what you've gone through this is pretty extraordinary and I read past just like this and I'm not gonna lie to you alright there's that there's an emotion that I experienced it's a feeling that I get and I'm not proud of it I'm not saying that I should get this feeling or I should get this emotion but sometimes I read portions of Scripture like this I don't feel encouraged I don't feel encouraged like I can't imagine you you you brought your friend today at church home for the very first time whether in Seattle or here in LA or maybe you're watching on the app together and you're like you're gonna love our church is so great and I just read that list it's like the first time your friend's ever been in church they're looking at you like sawn into destitute flogged afflicted broken life sucked and you're like it's usually it gets better it gets better you know like yeah but I read about these people and I'm like I don't know if I can relate and I don't just mean by what they went through or their experiences I mean by this level of resilience this level of faithfulness I mean my my son Zion fractured his finger this week you're playing basketball and I like I'm I'm so emotional I'm like God where were you to protect my child you know it's like it's a fracture it'll be good in four weeks Judah I think you can calm down in and I read this list and I'm like can i all right I know preachers aren't supposed to talk like this but I'm like can i I don't think I'm like that totally alright I'll just say it plainly I think sometimes I I'm not as good as these people like these people are way better than me when it comes to them that's the climactic conclusion to our portion of Scripture right like I I have to go to the dentist and I'm crying out on the name of Jesus I'm like Lord you could just heal my teeth I don't need to go to the dentist if Lord you said if I just believe you can heal my teeth I don't want Lord I don't if your dentist out there and you and you can put people under and so I never remember getting work done I would like to come see you very very soon I just I read this and oh my can I is that level of faith in me and and and and that brings me to a portion of Scripture it's this little letter and it's only one chapter and it is it's the book of Jude and I want to read one verse to you because it's going to frame for us the next few minutes because because if you feel like you read about people that are so much better than you you say Judah I'm not real familiar with portions of scripture I so I don't really struggle from that ok ok but have you ever run into somebody that you're just like why are you so kind why are you so considered dr. John Perkins was here last week in LA and and and and and and we mentioned it into Seattle and everyone he's my hero and we're we're doing some work for a church on global in the app and we did a 3-hour interview and I'm crying and he's crying I'm looking at dr. Perkins in all the travesty and the in justices and the pain and the ridiculous things that have happened to his life and and I'm looking at him and I'm like why does your smile light up my home why are you so happy right I'm like dr. Perkins you should be so you should be justifiably mad at the world but you're not and I'm like I get mad at the world because the NFL is fixed personal opinion but I mean are you ever provoked like that by people that you're like you just must have a different kind of wiring you must have a different kind of praying you must have been pre packaged in a way that you were just gonna be kinder and sweeter you were gonna be someone with no offenses and you would always forgive and you would always love and you would always care I mean we're sitting there with dr. Perkins and Chelsey just finally says it she says how do you how do you even love look at her care about white people dr. Perkins how do you do it with tears coming down his eyes he speaks of the love of Jesus that transformed him on the inside and I'm like I know whatever you're doing I need more of that and so he brings us to this to this verse it says beloved this is Jude not writing it he says although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation but please hear this I found it necessary to write appealing to you listen now to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the Saints to contend for the faith here's my premise tonight I think just maybe we don't totally know exactly what the faith is I'm explaining this and we try to try to try to try to explain it and I think because we don't know what the faith is let me give an example the entire reason for lydic writing this small little power-packed letter is because in that day Jude observed or had heard that there were people in the church who were like hey there was two kinds of people there were people teaching a completely different religion and calling it Christianity and there were also people saying hey Jesus forgiveness we're all good let's just do what we want yes and the next verse says they're taking the grace of God and they're turning into sensuality since you meaning living by your impulses in your urges in other words in other words in other words claiming the name of Jesus the title of Christian but their life looks no different than anybody else and so the writer of Jude is saying hey hey hey hey hey I need you to contend for it watch not a faith singular the faith the faith here's what I'd like to suggest because we don't always know what the faith is I think without even without even knowing we settle for something less that has no inherent power to transform us from the inside out and so and so here's here's here's where the rubber meets the road in my life I wonder sometimes why haven't certain appetites in my life sensual appetites selfish appetites why have they not changed more am i the only person who has ever considered themselves to be a follower of Jesus and had an internal dialogue wondering why I still want a freak out in traffic because that's what Judas st. jude's saying hey you got people in community who like a Christian Jesus was up but they use it like a credit card right I do what I want and then I swipe but I might cover do what I want bye pop get out of jail free card Jesus now listen tonight I am NOT interested in contending whether or not you're gonna spend eternity with God that salvation what I'd like to contend now these were extreme cases of false teachers and false followers we may not be false teachers and false followers but I wonder if we can learn from this extreme letter and extreme example I wonder if the reason that compromise comes easy sometimes is because we miss appropriate misunderstand what the faith is to begin with and my faith becomes more of a label than a leading and I want I want to talk about that because I think maybe that's where the discrepancy is I'm gonna tell you something right now I'm not going to put my life on the line for a concept you're not gonna saw me in - because of a a formation for offensive football in the NFL no no no I believe in that no no that's a concept it's an idea it's these people list it out lions and tigers bears and Goliath sand saws and floggings and beatings in what's that face what's that face do I know that faith Jude seems to say you know I want you to contend for the faith what is the face why we're on topic well D faith is what church do you go to well you know D faith is like the faith is like you know like we're we're good people and you know we don't we don't do a lot of bad stuff and you know we we have like conferences and we give money to charity so is that's the faith but the people were dying for this they were dying for this the faith what is what is the faith so we've looked up the most dominant word in the New Testament in greek and and and the literal word used the most for faith the word faith and all the New Testament it literally basic I mean very brief and clearly means persuaded we've established the fact that faith is to be persuaded we've also established the fact that you can't persuade yourself to believe in the saving power of Jesus by yourself because that would be saving yourself and so who does the persuading Jesus does the persuading faith by definition is divine persuasion it is when God persuades you in case you haven't noticed the persuasion has already begun God's already you you you you found yourself in church even if by accident you're like dude I thought this was like a thing this is not a thing this is church bro divine persuasion he first of all let's stop there just for a moment he says I want you to contend for the divine persuasion I want you to contend and here here boy we ready intersection right now we've got to ask ourselves in this modern era with all of the bells and whistles and technologies and advances and opportunities in the globalization and the Information Age and all that is happening we've got to ask ourselves are we still contending for the faith not a version and not a parody but the faith what is the faith let me be clear the faith is not mind over matter the faith is not mere principles concepts labels and ideas the faith is an encounter with the Living God who persuades you like only he can we're talking about the faith and this is the kind of faith that will change your appetites and the trajectory of your lifestyle this kind of faith produces in someone not this idea of what can I get away with and still be you know Christian that's not the question you ask the questions more you ask is how can I become more like Jesus and I'm not saying your desires are always like that some days your desires are not like that some days you get all mixed up you start cheering for the wrong team football crazy right but but what's the faith well it means divine persuasion let me give you three ways God has persuaded us it's the essence of his persuasive number one God has given us on a vent to persuade us God has come as a person for he is a person to persuade us and lastly he leads us he Woo's us he nudges us to persuade us I would like to propose to you that we have traded those three things for three substitutes instead of an event instead of an event instead of allowing what are we talking about Christianity is an event please hear me it's an event it is not an idea I won't talk about this form we've taken what is an event like ladies and gentlemen I'm standing on this stage telling you that I am persuaded that an actual event happened on this planet it was so fantastic it was so phenomenal it was so extraordinary it was so unbelievable it was so beyond anything we'd ever seen before the temple torn that the the curtain tour from the top to the bottom the earth shook everything went dark the the elements on earth respond to the fact that the Creator had given his life it was the entrance of a new world order it's an actual event just like when the Seahawks won the Super Bowl in the ticker tape parade hit me in Jersey okay it actually happened I'm not here tonight to espouse an idea what do I mean by that I'm not here trying to give you good advice that's not my message there's plenty of people that can give you good advice my message is not good advice my message is not a concept my message is like what if we tried this and bettered humanity that's not my message I'm bound to the story I'm bound to an event I'm bound to the fact that God came as a baby he lived a sinless perfect life for three and a half years he did the unthinkable he reached the unreachable he moved towards the marginalized he had a value to women and children and different ethnicities this is Jesus it was an event it happened and then he did not he was not taken and murdered he gave up his life he said no one takes my life I lay it down and he hung on the middle cross and there was one who mocked him and there was one who believed in him and for six hours his lungs filled with blood until he suffocated and then he was buried in a rich man's tomb and for three days followers like you and me freaked out and thought it's over many of whom thought they would overthrow Rome and actually have a palace of their own and now he's gone but on the third day hundreds of eyewitnesses accounts Jesus comes walking in the city again and through the streets and he's got piercings in his hands and he's got a scar in his side it's Jesus it's it's it's an event it's an event Christianity is an event it's a story I'm not I'm not we're not we don't don't let it it's not just an idea I'm not here saying let me give you some good advice see we've turned Christianity into something that we agree and then conform to oh hey that guy was convincing look around the community and go alright I think I can figure out how to conform here I agree with that that makes sense oh my gosh really great okay okay I gotta look like that dress like that talk like that and that's why some of you walk into churches you like the same it's a parody of the faith we don't mean it to we I'm not questioning anybody's motives but we we make Christianity an idea it's it's an event an event is a happening and then from there we where there's the witnessing and then there there's the spreading of the news that's Christianity it happened bunch of people like it happened hey have you heard have you heard have you heard have you heard my brothers and sisters this book is the passing down of the news I am here not just because of a book I'm here because real people throughout the corridors of history as eyewitnesses have passed down the event the disciples says in acts 4 they said we're gonna we're gonna tell everybody that we saw we saw the resurrection we're gonna tell them that's how it began have you heard have you heard we've turned it into preaching and and and and singing songs together and going that's good I fit here I dressed the right way I actor right way but but but but but but but because she and II was was news for the streets and and it was this it actually it actually happened I don't a job is not the back let me give you all some advice about life no I I got a story to tell because it happened and people witnessed it and we got to spread the news I want you to contend for the faith another concept it's it's not only an event but it's also a a person the faith is a is a person I need you here it's not a principle it's it's it's a person so we are we're gathered around a singular person not a collection of principles that make us feel better than other people um I tell you what I'm gonna talk to some Christian somebody like I'm glad I'm out of Christian tonight I'd say that right now this is crazy but once again we turn it into principle well ask good preacher keep the standard high for one of those moral communities nothing wrong with morals but that's not the essence of Christianity Jesus confused people a lot with who he loved their morals were an absolute nightmare the essence of Christianity is not we're all here and we're not having sex ha ha ha ha to God be the glory it's a person and we all received from his fullness John 1:16 from his fullness grace upon grace grace is not a concept or principle grace is a pulley is a person it's the fullness of who Jesus is you received from Jesus grace upon grace upon grace upon grace without it here's why compromise comes easy for us sometimes we make grace a principle and not a person and you can abuse a principle a lot easier than a person and so again forgiveness becomes our unlimited credit card hey we're all doing this by the way if you're like dude if this is really intense I know this because I do this ok just everyone just relax it is it's like all right good ah ha and part of that is like you are you are forgiven are you were already forgiven but we abuse it and we don't see much growth and traction and transformation and development because we don't understand what the faith is and so we settle for something so much less and you know over the years I'm 40 now so i'ma tell you the truth over the years over the years you would be shocked how many people will ask me following a sermon or or or sending an email now I just don't stick around and don't read the emails but I kidding come on I love you but um did you - when are we gonna move on leapin you know like jesus loves me this I know you know Jesus like you know just you know some more meat and upon further investigation what they mean is some more principles for living and here's the problem with principled church i'ma tell you the truth you separate principle apart from the person of Jesus principles have their place but Christianity is first a person here's the problem principles will make you feel better about you following Jesus makes you real clearly I need Jesus you hanging around Jesus it's like okay okay I fit in great here if everyone's a train wreck so am i let's go but you remove principles from the person and now you got peacocks running around town we're talking about NBC it's like the logo but like that's what came to mind peacocks we need you got proud proud people walking around like let me say it like this I got some friends who have pro athletes so go Judah we drop in neumes know you know but well I don't show up to a golf course with a pro golfer and be like yeah been hitting pretty good I do some like hey and in proximity to a in proximity to a real professional you're like wow I'm really good when I play with rye but I'm not so good when I play with this person you know it's like it's a matter of perspective but boy you remove yourself from the perfect one from God in the flesh righteousness personified we start comparing ourselves amongst ourselves we start getting our pet principles by the way we don't live out all the principles we just get the few we care about we live those out and we don't want to talk about the other principles so we live out these principles and we go oh oh oh oh you do that oh yeah I stopped doing that 84 God set me free bop bop bop do you think you'll ever get free what I learned is if you tarry with the Lord and he'll set you free Terry means you'd okay means wait but in the presence of Jesus focusing on Jesus he's the great leveler you're like oh man I can't believe he still loves let's see for gifts he's amazing and it produces really enjoyable people to be around in general because we're just like all right we're all just criss-cross applesauce in front of Jesus just like me duck duck goose am i right you know like I don't know what that means but pastor Jenson here I'm kind of getting a panicking you know but lastly and now I'll end with this Christianity is a it's a leading right it's a leading it's a leading it's an event it's a person and it's a leading first of all these things are very much alive it's not a to-do list it's not rules it's an event that changed the world it's a person who in his fullness his essence is goodness and grace and you're around him and you're like I can I get a hug in its a leading he doesn't just leave us there and I read this and and you know I've been in church awhile and everybody in church has heard it you you know you're a guest today here in Seattle or LA wherever you are um there's this famous Jesus called everybody with follow me follow me follow me but I love how the message Bible says in Matthew 4 Jesus says they translate like this come with me come with me what's that I want you to come with me what's Christianity it's when you go with Jesus bear with me I love you enough to tell you the truth without even knowing it we've turned Christianity into a label not always but sometimes we fathers and what's a what's a what's a label a label is a look a label is a subculture and a label is a connection point now bear with me god help us if the faith has become a look a subculture and a connection point we all look pretty similar it's a subculture when did we become a subculture what are you well I like skateboards I like Jesus samesies I'm not saying we start running our mouth in the streets be like hey God - bigger than a skateboard I don't you skater die you're like no I don't nothing wrong with skateboards but when did Jesus become a subculture oh you're not get this group and this screw in this group you know you got the modern hip cool Christians yeah we're just we're cool we got a look we got a subculture and this is where it gets real sticky because we're like but everybody's getting together Oh a connection point it's a label it's tough out there right come on the toolkit and there's an element of that but and the leading fades and now we we we keep working on our look we kind of we kind of fit in our subculture we kind of go alright alright you got it's you know it's what we do and and we just kind of live there and then we well we got each other I got each other yeah go to each other's conferences and hang out and Jesus is like um come with me I'm not saying Jesus didn't lead us to do conferences and gather in the sub on tonight but it dawned on me if we're not careful the faith for us becomes hey Jesus come with me and Jesus is like say what's that like the most insulting thing someone did that the other day I was like I don't think humans get to do that anymore I don't think we can do this ever we're just gonna go ahead and outlaw that okay there's one principle in church how I'm okay but like Jesus yeah come on come on what what do you what are you doing well I'm I'm God I know come on Judah I'm I'm God what's your point I lead the world oh don't yell how do I say this Judah I have a plan and that's an understatement oh but I I have a plane to and I I totally agree with your ideas I love your principles and I totally rep your label can you we're good come on Oh son I you come with me well but what if we don't do stuff I don't want to do like what if they use saws and stuff you know just come with me like are we building a church that responds to that or have we deduced this whether intentionally or unintentionally to an idea of principle and a label which at the end of each day we're basically yo Jesus thanks for rolling with me first of all you help this day the day that I had made the day that I had designed you made it better I appreciate that I like having you along for the ride tell you what but we got to go back to the Incarnation Jesus shows up at approximately thirty years old and every time says come with me where are we going you'll see okay and and so we see these 12 guys in there I don't know if they were always lined up you know just behind them like somehow somehow I crave that but I feel like I've let sorry substitutes slip in and no wonder compromise comes easy it's an idea it's a principle it's a label that doesn't transform me on the inside gives me a connection point make it maybe gives me a place that makes me feel good nothing wrong with that but am I do I have a messiah did I did I like do you know the term Christian wasn't even used for approximately 13 years we were called people of the way for 13 years what are you doing I'm in the way not in the work with me here I'm following the way you know that we didn't title ourselves Christian observers title us Christians observers you guys look like little Jesus people you remind us of him really yeah so our observation we call you Christian we didn't give ourselves that title the title we gave ourselves was the way how active is that what are you I'm a person of the way whoa I'm not sure we should go back it's kind of creepy but there's some accuracy there I mean I'm part of the way he's the way going his way just following the way ate up newsflash your life isn't like without problems yeah I know maybe you should stop following oh I he's the only one that's ever been able to forgive ever give me true meaning and purpose ever give me true belonging do you have you so you know so have you met him have you met him not have you heard our sermons have you have you have you ever bit what have you seen our charge much I'm not against any of these things I'm preaching right now folks think about it but is this the consistency so we've said separatism we've we've separated our devotional life from our public life that's not Bible partly Western ISM it's just like hey man I get this thing oh is there Sunday and then that do me you know you're Christian yeah yeah yeah Jesus where you at let's roll and I'm just saying I'm not I yeah I believe yours pretty attorney when Jesus don't get me wrong that's not the point the point is this it's in the secret privacy of our own homes and we sit there and go I don't want to get cut into for an idea I call myself a Christian but I'm not dying for this and so life happens Bible says it rains on the just and the unjust which is to say bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people and life's gonna happen to us all and I wonder do we know the faith have we been persuaded by the actual events have we been persuaded by the person have we been perceived persuaded by the leading you failed his nudge have you felt his wooing have you felt yourself at times in the midst of compromise and something deep within your soul called the voice of God says this is not who you are this is not what you want you've tried this before you're gonna be empty tomorrow that's the faith the faith is not all man I'm gonna see other Christians and they're gonna find out I did this oh that's mere conformity any subculture can do that talking about a resurrection talking about a real king who walks through walls and shows you the holes in his hands and the piercing in his side I'm not giving my life for a label or a principle or an idea or good advice or sound wisdom or high standards no I can't do it I'm exhausted by all that I need God to persuade me again and so at the conclusion of these six weeks I feel like Jesus is saying hey church home come with me come with me is it going to be is it gonna work out come with me is it is it gonna be everything I planned come with me come with me come with me and I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I understand where church home is going and all but it's we're just gonna rethink some of this we've got millions of people in this city alone that don't know the man we we just gotta get the news out man by whatever means possible no matter who gets the credit we got one shot at this you let Judah are you having a midlife crisis just shut up and let me preach come with me and I'm just gonna go ahead and answer for church home from Seattle to LA to anyone who considers themselves a part of our community around the world it's the only way we're going it's the only way we're going so on the way come with me world's changing Church world's changing Church always has culture comes and goes technology comes and goes but it is prudent upon those of us following the way to say God by whatever means possible is shortest and help us to tell your story it was an event there was witnesses and now we're asking people have you heard we got to get the news out come with me and I I didn't I didn't plan this I this is I didn't plan all these sermons out and all this stuff but I'm just telling you God is speaking to some people in this church and that come with me is for you and for the rest of your life there are people in here you have experienced that come with me Jesus kind of lifestyle Jesus still loves you still forgives you it's fine you're okay but do you want to go to a whole nother chapter where you say Jesus I yield I'm telling you the bit one of the biggest part of Christianity is listening it's yielding okay God ah alright and that's how I got to this city and it's not I got tricked I'd what didn't I didn't it wasn't so humble I yielded I got tricked and here we are still we're doing church still someone saw me today they're like oh you got that thing on Wednesday I'm like I think it's a church now if that's okay to say it can't just be a thing I got come with me church home come with me there's some of you starting a whole new chapter in your life there's some people in this church it is time for you to believe that there is a God who has plans that are beyond your wildest dreams it is time for you to buy it is time for you to sell out time for you to go god I'm gonna put my hand in yours I'm gonna trust whatever may come I'm with you where you're going I'm going your kingdom come your will be done your plan and your purpose there will be a day church home we will all be together and that's called eternity where there will be a new heaven and a new earth and there will be no more tears and there will be no more crying and there will be no more division and there will be no more injustice and there will be no more hate and there will be no more armies and rumors and wars and guns and fighting and murders and killings but until then we're in a broken system on a broken planet full of broken people who need to hear the good news and there's just nothing more important than that and God will use you I don't even like that water God will use you in the wildest two places come with me some of you got a go you hear me I'll be the first pastor in your life to tell you got to go what do you mean you got to go dude I thought you wanted me to stay in church you gonna be in the church and that's what's important the church the church God's church I said about collecting people it's about telling the story of Jesus so we can fill eternity with forgiven recipients of his love Jesus I love you and I appreciate you if you got if you got a friend tonight I know I'm intense but this is what church home is about and I want to say this that if God is not God I pray to God this ship sinks fast because of all people we are most foolish sitting up in here saying he died and rose again if it's just a concept no sink or swim I'm betting on him God let God be God let God be God will you will you will you attempt something with God that would be so crazy that it won't work unless God is God could we do something like that can we try something that while we're trying it were embarrassed trying it cuz we're like oh this is crazy come on church home come on from Seattle to LA to wherever you are in the world come with me Jesus says that's where we're going that's what we're going into the unknown god I thank you so much for the faith for the faith for the faith I found it necessary to write to you Church home appealing you to contend for the faith that was once and for all delivered to the Saints lore we we accept the faith the event the person and the leading and I just pray not my plan not my will but your will your will your will man I I don't know what's happening there in Seattle I don't know what's happened here in LA I what's happening online but I just know God's talking to some people right now and believe that always happens to an extent but God's just there's some some trajectories that are about to change and it may not be the more comfortable path and the easier path but oh you be well assured it will be the most fulfilling path okay Jesus we want to walk behind you lead the way lead the way we pray that and probably don't even understand the implications of it but we actually don't want to run our life we tried that have failed the designer and creator of all things that's you so we trust you with our days we trust you with our decisions our career we trust you not our will your will be done if you're here and you say Judah in Seattle any one of our locations here in this room or watching online right now and you say Judah I want to become a follower of Jesus for the Bible says God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life if you want that everlasting life if you want that forgiveness that only Jesus offers I want to include you in this prayer there is absolutely no pressure please hear me I only want you to respond if you know that you know that you know Jesus is God and he's the only one that can forgive you of your sins if you believe that on the count of three I'm going to ask you all over to lift up your hand and put it right back down and I ask people to respond on the outside because I believe when you respond on the outside to what's happening on the inside it becomes all the more real to you you know who you are 1 2 3 if that's you eat your hand up all over Seattle to LA online thank you thank you thank you thank you God you see these hands we say yes to your free gift of forgiveness we cannot earn or deserve we just accept it for the gift that it is and it's our honor and our privilege to follow you for the rest of our days and into eternity if you're here and I know that I'm doing my best to explain this but if you're here and you're listening I know God's talking there's some people it's the cry of your heart it's as if you can sense the wooing the invitation of Jesus come with me come with me if you feel like Judah I've been doing a lot of come with me Jesus I've been living a lot of days like yo Jesus roll with me follow my plan Judah I want to experience the adventure of following Jesus I want to know the faith that transforms from the inside I want this adventure to begin unlike never before it's my desire it's my passion would you shoot your hand up all over say man that's me that's me that's me I'm with you Jesus I'm with you Jesus god I don't know how this works I don't understand all the spiritual implications but on behalf of the board of church home the eldership the finance team every single pastor volunteer and church member on behalf of each and every one of them on this night at the end of the conclusion of this week's six week journey in 2019 I want to again tell you this is your church this does not belong to a board it does not belong to a man it is not a brand we are your people you are our Savior you are the reason we are here so we say God with what we call church home your will be done and your kingdom come and let no man stand in the way of what you want to do in and through our lives collectively as a community God would you supernaturally allow us to get the news out wider broader further than ever before the news of the event the person in the leading this is our prayer I don't know how that all works that's what I got Lord we love you we trust you and what we don't want is our plan we want your plan and we thank you for it in Jesus name if you're physically able and willing would you stand with us and all of our locations and let's use music as a platform to connect with God come on church home hey thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video we really hope it encouraged you and maybe gave you a little something to think about through the day hey if you want to watch more you can subscribe and please watch the most recent video we love you we believe for great things for your life

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Length: 55min 49sec (3349 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2019