Dan Mohler Normal Christianity Part 2 of 3

Wow man was that awesome or what see I don't just appreciate good talent I appreciate hearts for God and that's what I that's why that's why the brother couldn't stop he's in love he's got a problem he's in love it's good man oh my goodness countless countless hours in my bedroom with nobody looking just spending time like that with Jesus I don't play an instrument but man songs just come and your love for him and just you don't it doesn't matter what you sound like it is real amen there's just something about you being alone and just having a song in your heart like that not letting life eat you up and your mind beat you up and some devil lie to you and get you praying from some place of despair but have you filled with life and filled with him and understanding how he sees you and what do you accomplish through the Sun and just singing out your salvation singing out the finished work of Christ there's something about it guys that's beyond sitting even in this worship service as awesome as this was I honestly feel like what God intended in corporate worship is a unison of the expression of what we all haven't know well there's a true synergism of like hearts coming together in the room and just singing out our love for him because we've been in love you see what I'm saying it's not a worship service man we're celebrating the beauty and glory of who he is and there's something about intimacy with God and there's something about you getting alone young man just told me he just said man I got alone and I laid on the floor with God and he met me there I just saw him and I'm like man that's what it's all about shutting yourself down enough taking enough time just instead all the struggles and this and that and antsy and technology and filling gaps and stuff in space just shut a door man get alone until you meet him there I'm serious transform your life direct you might not make you like me you don't get afraid I don't come out looking like that so don't don't don't don't don't compare ourselves among ourselves I'm having trouble but you know what I'm saying you become the best you in that place you'll become the best team in you and I'll tell you what's amazing how the lies get quenched in that place and how you find strength in that place and how your identity gets aligned and also and you start seeing the truth about your life you're calling it all the sudden your reason for being isn't a search anymore and a struggle or something that eludes you your reason for being is established and all the sudden you understand who you are in him and why you're alive and I'm telling you when you grow in that your feet are rock solid on the ground life's still coming and things are still happened and people still make unfortunate decisions and sometimes folks do crazy things but all sudden you see who you are and you understand truth and your response looks like Jesus no son you ain't trying to be ok anymore guys make it sense what I'm saying I'll talk about a little it break it down but it's relationship it's intimacy it's knowing him the changes our lives it's not listening to the Bible and trying to do it it's knowing him God reality changes your life knowing him changes your life when you see how he sees you it increases your understanding of identity the value of your life the purpose and potential of your calling and and what Christ likeness and Christ in me the hope of glory all those things aren't scriptures anymore all of a sudden they're your realities and I'm telling you it's what locks you in in the face of it all and I'll sudden you don't live up and down anymore you're solid and you're set and I believe it's for every Christian I don't believe we have to live up and down I don't believe this is the Christian life I don't believe it's Mountain Valley I believe we ascend into him and we grow from glory to glory we the day of the righteous grows brighter and brighter amen we're growing up into him in all things so I want that for every one of us the reason I travel into places and share and teaching I love Saturday mornings because they're usually small intimate crowds and they're usually early and there's just something special about the heart of being here I just appreciate you guys being here even if you're tired thanks for being here my preaching won't put you to sleep I hope if I see you sleeping I won't like no know your name but I'll say hey you say you and a green shirt stay awake man what I had a lady leaving service one time I said excuse me is it my preacher everybody was looking at I said come on are you born again she said yes never eyes like what's he doing to that poor lady it was 1,500 folks in the room and I just started preaching I didn't know God was gonna have me preach for over two hours right well he usually dies but not today we're just gonna stop close to noon but I said you're born again she said yeah said I read in Revelations you lie you frosty you can't look are you leaving cause of my preaching I said good go have a great day food that's a release ussin and I don't even know what I was doing to this lady I'll just mess than her oh never he's like why did he do that to that lady I realized two and a half hours later I'm still preaching and nobody left the room nobody moved everybody sitting I looked at him they're like listen I thought man this is powerful anointing of God is on these people no sudden it hit me I bet they gotta go to the bat I'll just stop right in the middle preacher says how many you guys got a P and two thirds of the people with so you better go look it was like I stopped that lady at the door nobody moved I guess they did want me to stop them I thought there was a good way to keep me the room I said Lord you are wise you are just watch it's just I don't know I guess it's probably gonna be pretty intense this morning since we're laughing so much this is the Holy Ghost anesthesia part this is where you get silly and dumb and don't realize you're getting cut it's what mornings I could feel it coming sure no I feel real happy in my heart that worship time was awesome there thank you guys so I I looked I said Lord we got three guys up there and they are bringing it man good because it was so full of heart you can hear people's heart in their instrument if you listen it's just they're not just playing I know some people love to play and they'll play all day but they weren't just playing yeah okay what do we want to do okay I mean I know where we're heading I actually do but I was just seeing where he wanted to start so I was listening I was just listening I heard his voice go to Roman's one with me real quick it's really important if you're ever gonna grow in intimacy and get to know God like I was just talking about our bedroom and stuff you got to get past your condemnation and shame and never let those things robbed you from his presence there the very reasons you should run to him and the instinct is to run away instead of run to come on you make a mistake and you feel bad and you lose your identity for three days three weeks three months you tell four people and think that's integrity and get them to pray for you and you cry every time at what point do you release yourself and say wait a minute my heart's ripped I wish I didn't do the thing I did it's time to move forward it's time to let God love me to forgive myself and receive his forgiveness and grow on and be wiser and sharper and smarter than I was before seek your condemnation and shame are never in the tool belt of God they're never things that heaven uses ever guilt condemnation and shame are the three biggest lies from hell they hinder and good hearts people that have made a mistake that see sometimes we think we are what we did when we really are what he did we have to stay in tune with what he accomplished not to enable us to stay the same to empower us to change so so you have people come to you and they cry because they've sinned and they've missed the mark but they're actually crying or they say man I need to confess to you man last night I did some honest talk to you talk to me they cry and they tell me what they did I'm so excited that they have the ability to cry over what they did cuz there was a time in their life they purposed to do what they did and we're planning on doing it again without even thinking and now they're crying something's changing we're making headway your hearts coming alive you see brother you can't no we need to knock it off yeah we're getting there we're really close here's the problem if you teach them in a way where they think they are what they did and you see them for what they did you're not even gonna be able to instruct him in truth and no grace will be there to change them see somebody comes to me crying for what they did in their sincere and I perceive that they're sorry in their heart can't go back and make it right you can't go back and redo it regret will eat you alive and if you identify yourself for the mistake you're gonna feel far from God and you'll put a veil over your face instead of be unveiled and have intimacy and you'll pray to him from afar so when somebody talks to me like that and cries over it the first thing I usually say is man I'm really excited to see how pure your hearts become and usually they don't understand that they're saying pure didn't you hear what I just said I did well I did hear what you said you did but I see who you are and the day you think you are what you just did is the day your identity gets in trouble and you'll Mar the identity of this tree and your fruit will look this way again and again and again and then your fruit will qualify the wrong identity and it's just a vicious cycle of torment because your hearts pure if the heart wasn't pure you wouldn't care if your heart wasn't pure if you just needed if you were just a hypocrite and your heart wasn't pure you'd just be in your heart whatever and you live in denial in secret you wouldn't be telling me and you wouldn't be weeping see they're good components for me as a pastor a friend a minister a brother whatever you want to call me at that point cuz I've recognized those things and we will build on them I'm gonna work with that I'm gonna say God you're up to something you're doing a work in the heart of this person but they're thinking they're only as good as what they performed or didn't perform no they have great potential and God's already has the attention of their heart he's captured em and he's changing them from the inside out so if you can begin to teach them who they are and show them why that's not profitable and why they're not created for that and how God sees them in the midst and and that they have greater destiny and you start imparting those truths you can walk somebody through those actions those repetitive actions by increasing their identity to where all the sudden the desire just dies because they realize who they are and all of a sudden healthy identity and knowing the truth about who they are and that they've become a product of what he's accomplished all of a sudden this whisper this poulos tendency guys because you've made the tree good and now the fruits good if the trees identified by the fruit of your life then your trees always in question no wonder our fruits up and down but if your trees identified by his finished work and your trees identified by what he accomplished and all sudden you see your value and your potential through him then you've just made a tree good make it a tree good isn't biting your lip and trying to do better making a tree good is seeing who you've become through Jesus Christ he says a good tree cannot bear bad fruit and we go huh or the fruit and judge the tree he says a good tree cannot bear bad fruit and we go home I go dream cuz that thing that violates your conscience pops right to your mind that thing you did two weeks ago you're still identifying with it when you hear a good tree cannot bear bad fruit you go then I wonder why I did that I mustn't be a good tree and then he says a bad tree can't bear good fruit and you go wait a minute I don't look completely bad there's some good things in my life and now you're confused and then he says therefore you know a tree by its fruit here's the problem the whole time he's talking he's not talking about fruit that's what we hear he's talk about tree a good tree can't bear bad fruit we instantly introspect our fruit and all look it outward he's talking about identity what he's saying is if you know who you are your fruits accordingly whatever you see yourself to be is what you'll see on your tree what you become is what you'll produce come on so he says so make a tree good that's well buddy you need to knock it off you're a Christian you need to stop rib misrepresenting Jesus you're gonna stumble people man you need to knock it off sometimes you can't just tell somebody to knock it off because if they can't knock it off now they're really condemned now they can't even face you let alone God you keep teaching people who they are you showing why they don't have to live this way you showing why it's not profitable why it's a lie why it's buying the time they don't have you make a tree good guess what its fruit is guaranteed you make a tree good fruit well big guy or make a tree bag and it's fruit good one these are the words of Jesus in the Gospels he's talking about identity he's saying if you teach somebody who they are their conduct will be lived accordingly you know a tree by what it produces nobody had to see an apple on the tree and the apple tree didn't have to produce the Apple to finally believe it was an apple tree most folks growing up in life with don't take long you look you realize you see an apple tree you see it's an apple tree you expect it to grow apples but I promise you that apple tree and out there saying well lookie dad Apple I am an apple tree is produced in the Apple because it is an apple J if the enemy through guilt condemnation and shame can take your eyes off the finished work of Christ and what your hearts responded to from the beginning you got to get back to that hope and what you heard in the first place you got to walk out that faith let your heart stay established remain in your first love you make a mistake along the way thank God you have a conscience that's alive and recognises it for what it is but please don't run from God the day of fig leaves and naked and ashamed or over run to God and stay clothed you see what do you mean run to God run to God father I thank you for the light in my life that's revealing to me exactly what there were that is so not profitable that's not who I am nor who I desire to be father I have a greater destiny and who you are in these way greater than that father I thank you I haven't found a way to sin and stay the same or or or sin and be covered and excuse the things in my life I found a way to be free and look through truth and be truly free thank you for making me wise or sharp or smarter thank you for absolutely loving me you would talk like that in a moment of weakness what else did you do throw your way are your identity for three days live in a subtle condemnation or guilty conscience come on no you run to him you run to him what are they doing sin consciousness ran from him what does righteousness do well until you yeah but brother I've really messed up yeah and you really see it probably a good time to run to him I don't think you're using God I think you need father by God so probably better be on his lap than hiding in a corner yeah but I feel bad that's probably okay if you let it turn into condemnation it's deception if you let it stay godly sorrow and you run to him I bet you'll be changed come on guilt condemnation shame three major tools of the devil guilt is a subconscious confession that's you're not forgiving when you're living guilty what you're saying is I'm not forgiving condemnation subconscious confession my life is worthy to be judged when you're living in condemnation you're saying I'm judging oh I'm worth being judged he didn't come to judge you he came to save you when you live in condemnation you set yourself up for all kinds of lies and the devil's actions and all of a sudden something bad starts happening in your life and you say we'll see I set up for this I opened the door how many Christians have said I opened the door whoof you know you open the door close it close it well brother I opened the door I had this coming to me and all of a sudden you let this thing all play out because of a voice of condemnation from two weeks ago and now you're responsible for two weeks ago and this whole thing's happening because you opened the door what about repentance closing the door reaping what he sowed and saying BAM to that door come on if you're if you're sorry for your sin are you forgiven are you forgiven of all sin are you cleansed of all unrighteousness so where's judgment have a platform where does it have a Velcro to stick to you become a crystalline Christian Teflon pad man nothing can stick well because you're righteous in the sight why because true godly sorrow if you saw what you saw a minute ago you wouldn't gave yourself to what you gave yourself to you're grown wiser and sharper you just closed the door don't tell me that the devil now can work through unrighteousness when you've been cleansed of all unrighteousness well I had this coming brother I understand there's a place we reap what we sow only when there's no repentance and only when natural things are involved you break a law sometimes you have to go through the natural percussions of what you broke the law in but you can always stand before God and you can have audience with God and you can be loved by God even in the midst you see what I'm saying and I know people that have gotten oh I've had so many stories over the years in my life right a man called me one time and he said hey man somebody said to call you that you're a man of God when you pray God hears and God does things and I'm like okay what's going on man and he said well I got the police chasing me and then I can't go back to jail man I don't want go back to jail I'm here with my girlfriends and I got a run man and I just want you to pray that God don't let him catch me man so he saved so serious he said cuz I can't go back to jail man it'll kill me I can't go back to jail you gotta pray that God don't let him catch me so I don't go back to jail and I said no I can't pray that for you so what do you mean I said cuz you're on the run you're you're always gonna run you'll have to run your whole life I so want to talk to you about change and truth and uprightness will you talk about I started talking to him and he said you want me to turn myself in I said I want you from your heart to realize that it's time for change and you shouldn't have given your life to this stuff and you shouldn't have done these things and it's time for change man this isn't your normal resume this isn't what you're going to keep on living or you're gonna run the rest of your life and you're praying to God to help you to run no way I want to pray that God helps you for change I said here's what I want to do I want you to turn yourself in and this fall on the mercy God and Trust he turns the heart of the king in the hand of the Lord like a mighty river that he sees your true repentance he said I can't Irma and his girlfriend's in the back saying that man's telling you to turn yourself in yes hang up the phone just hang up the phone he's telling the hang of the fault I said listen don't hang up the phone she doesn't understand sir if you can put her on a threeway put her on I'll gladly talk to her and he started crying cuz God was working on his heart and he realized I'm gonna run for the rest of my life I'm gonna live this way I've been living this way I'll suddenly realize just how bad this was living this way and I said here's what I'll do I'll come and pick you up I'll take you to the Police barracks myself and I'll speak on your behalf and I'll tell them I believe you're ready for change but you come clean you turn yourself in if they have a warrant for you you go turn yourself in don't make him chase you I said that's fine favor with the judge it was really exciting I went and picked him up talked to his girlfriend she's bawling and I took him to the police barracks and he went in there now he's reaping what he sowed but for the first time in his life is hard sorry that is a big deal we don't get that we say all yeah you're sorry right what are you sorry why'd you do it well you ought to be glad God doesn't father you that way come on you I'll be real glad God doesn't think like that or he too never sent his son he'd be waiting for you to get it straight and we'd be waiting a long time come on come on I'm not in power and sin it is the thing I'm preaching crushing sin it actually puts such an integrity and honor in you that the last thing you want is living apart from God and live for the flesh like the last thing I want us to miss God it's not even a temptation some of this stuff that used to draw me all right now I look at anything what was I thinking of truth is I wasn't I didn't have any understanding I was living for me in fact I realized that the things I did was cuz I didn't know who I was it's not always because you have a demon yeah they're inspiring and whispering and enticing but most people aren't possessed they're just believing lives when you know who you are your value races and then you won't sell so cheap almost every addictive behavior is connected to a lost identity a low esteem a hopeless life a hopeless heart somebody that's been driven by life into a place where they've lost the value of who they are so they live up to the low value follow me if you can teach somebody through the blood and through the cross that they have greater value that God Almighty isn't just lonely looking for a friend he knows who you are and God Almighty thinks that Jesus's death is worth you living in him he must know something about us we ought to learn he knows what she looked like when Holy Spirit's inside of you and you're surrendered all you know is what you look like when nobody's looking he knows what you've looked like from the beginning when he made man in love and he's never let man change his mind but ever since he's been changing men's minds ain't that so man has not had the power to change her God is and God still changing who men are to this day this Gavin in and turned himself in it was really humbling I was never in that situation I'm usually never on come on see well God made us this way no no no no stop that's error man fell when we were born into the lie you were trained in home schooled in the wrong home the wisdom of the world became your teacher from the day you were born and you were taught to live for your rights from the time you can remember and you had lines that could be crossed and chips on your shoulder and we all need to say there what to save us from each other no to save us from ourselves I don't have a savior to save me from you so he protects me from you I have a savior so he protects me for me saves me for me so I can finally see you clear come on guys you know you can hear this it has to be the gospel or Jesus would have had an attitude in issues come on he came to his own and his own knew him not he told everybody in the city and they called him a blasphemer a demon-possessed Samaritan ir a-- ticked they fought him non-stop and all he ever did was good but he didn't let that stop is good to the point that he gave his life on a cross even death on a cross the most horrible hideous way to die he died that way he didn't say I can't believe you guys are doing this to me I did nothing but feed you guys and set you free and heal you guys you're gonna release Barabbas instead of me you gotta be kidding me I wish I wouldn't hit any of you you guys don't appreciate nothing you bunch of stiff necks I don't know why we love you in the first place come on make a great talk show the audience would be on his side and we'd all be villains nobody wins in that realm when it's every man for himself everybody loses because there's no love in self-centeredness come on don't tell me I have to be hurt don't tell me I'm in denial and don't let your human experience Trump the truth of God's grace don't tell me that I have to be offended the Bible says that I can love and love takes no account of the wrongs that it's done to it it didn't say the mistakes done to it it says the wrongs sometimes we can get over it when we knew they made a mistake but if we think they did it on purpose boy that's another issue why wouldn't that make you cry for them because if they knew who they were they wouldn't live that way why doesn't that matter more than what they did to you I'll tell you why because we're still alive and sometimes we get trapped incorporating Jesus into our life instead of him becoming our life and whether we realize it or not people actually owe us everyday without saying it and we're set up to be failed and disappointed cuz it's still about us even though we sing it's all about him come on guys I know this is straight but you can hear it you can take it the last thing I need to do is sing holy is the lamb and fail to pursue to become like him by a spirit listen it's gonna be tired alright it's this MRR when I say so what's your name Kolby so Kobe says Mandan I know but you don't know what I just been through man it's a normal language people do I'm just saying Kolby would do it in fact you probably wouldn't that's why I'm using him well you don't know what they put me through man and that really hurt no man he should have never said that well he's the one that kicked this thing off anyway man why didn't you did you even talk to him why you owe me and all the sudden what he's saying is Kolby right now is a product of whatever marked it and yet Mark's not Lord Jesus says so why is Kobi letting mark have so much influence in his life that the acting mark did is now defining Kolby for who knows how long in his life come on the guy that did the things not Jesus he's not Lord so why is he governing Kobe's life why does Kobe have a rational psychological justification for the flesh when he says he lives by the spirit why does he all of a sudden look less than Jesus because of the action of a man what about the actions of God aren't they the most influential of all shouldn't they dominate a man's life isn't he the great Potter aren't we his workmanship then why is everybody else having a piece and a shot at us why do we let everybody else start forming us and fashioning us through these degenerate feelings and emotions things of war I can't just turn it off and be a robot no you get your emotions renewed by your heart becoming loved in prayer the way you feel your emotions and your attitudes the ones that were given by God can get realigned and restored and made new all things become new don't tell me that our emotional makeup is from the Lord because it is wacky our emotional makeup is wacky guys excited one-minute depressed another you sure you're in love and now you're not sure you think they're the best and now you think they're the worst come on you're like our whole life our emotions have been wacky yeah thanks getting a little encouragement here I'm not preaching negative I'm just telling you it's it's been a rat race in a whirlwind man and then we study out you women and now you got labels well it's your cycle it's this it's your hormones it's this and now women got excuses if they're not careful for being unpredictable and you are just supposed to understand me even though you'll never understand and then we get reduced to can't live with them can't live without them yes we all just gotta keep on live in some way come on you know I'm telling the truth we've all said and heard this stuff and you do enough studies and get enough natural knowledge all the sudden you have permission to live in the fall you study a fallen person and say this is who I am instead of look at Jesus and say that's the real me come on come on if you can't find it in his life why do you accept it in yours if you can't hear it in his mouth why's it in our tongues come on man he made us for His image he said all things are new he said follow me think I'm gonna we always think it's miracles and wonders and signs it's the journey of the miraculous no it's the walk of love following him is the walk of love I tell people strongly there's there's supernatural schools all over the country it's almost turned into a supernatural school craze right now it's this they're everywhere ministry schools ministry schools and they're all about the supernatural being used doing the stuff doing the stuff I tell people don't you even think about doing the stuff if you're not pursuing as hard to become laughs it'll mess you up so bad it's like giving a kid a let's stick a dynamite something's gonna blow up you got to let your identity it rest on how God prophesied through you or who got healed through you and you're gonna get in high mindedness and something's not gonna be cool all the gifts work through love they don't work because you need to be used by God to affirm yourself spiritual you know look spiritual to others it's always about love it's always about the sake of the people it's always about manifesting Christ to his fullest even through the signs and wonders the signs and wonders aren't something to play with they're not something to pursue so you feel affirmed they flow through the river of life it's the excellent way it's love you said you get him knowledge of all mysteries not some it's first Corinthians 13 you have knowledge of all mysteries not some you have faith to move all mountains not some come on that's a spiritual icon that's the closest thing to Jesus we've ever seen all knowledge all mysteries faith to move on - we're all in line for impartation it's the keynote speaker at the world conferences and the Bible says if he has not loved he's got nothing he's missed the whole point we're impressed with his gift God's impressed with his heart I want you prophesied I want you praying for the sick it's our birthright and it's our gifting I want the miraculous I really do I've been privileged to see some of it most of all I want us to become love peace that day if you've read everybody's mail and you're hurt by your neighbour what have we accomplished so you can read everybody's now and you have an attitude like a person that's not born again yeah you're just in touch with your gift and it's without repentance and you're identifying through it instead of his heart and everybody's esteeming you cuz you're spooky and you read everybody's mail but you're offended and you talk down on people and you've got self-righteousness in your heart come on that's not cool I'm not judging anybody I'm saying that happens don't ever let that happen are you guys okay come on let's just sobering stuff come on because it's it's it's ensnaring you know God all of a sudden he speaks to you even wanting to be used by God and now all sudden you share some crackling crystal and people go dude that was amazing and you're like how did you know that that was so spot-on give him a word well next thing you know you become the mail reader now everybody's asking you for words if you're not careful and you don't have relationship with God all the sudden you just identify with how God uses you I'm telling you subject to some real crashing and burning you'll be secure in your gifting you can't prophesy to feel better about yourself ever you prophesy because God loves the person he has a word for him and due season he wants to encourage him with that word that's all it's how simple it is that's all it is and you're just privileged to speak it in the moment because you know him yeah when I teach spiritual schools and stuff and then we'll get into the gifts and we'll do the spiritual training you won't activate and do stuff and demonstrate but it better be laughs that it flows from amen it says you can give all your goods to the poor not some all which the godly commandment to give to the poor he said we'll always remember the poor he uses a commandment and says you can give all your goods to the poor and your body to be burned and if you don't have love you've got nothing how's that possible the poor at least have your goods huh but you've got nothing why because you had to do it for yourself in some way you had to do it to find something for yourself esteem from them feel good about yourself you let your left hand know what your right hand was doing in other words you find your identity through your giving oh I'm a giver no loves giving it oh I like when we preach like this and people are just laughing and they leave and don't even know they've been cut they're like but then they just think different in their day and their conscience is different and Holy Spirit has an eternal voice in the area you in part see the words alive do you know why I'm always excited the number one reason I'm always excited cuz it can't fail the sower shows the word and people invite me and give me a mic every week so I just listen no but yes I'm not even like wonder if they received me I wonder if that came out clear I wonder if they want the gospel the word is alive you don't get nothing if you don't so nothing grows if you don't sell I've shown so much heat in my life we've got to get something I'm just excited you know there's a Johnny Appleseed story grow I'm just Danny gospel seed man often everywhere I go I'm serious wouldn't it be amazing if a co-worker would change just cuz he's see in your life not cuz he's hearing your doctrine Jimmy people have argued their doctrine with co-workers trying to change their mind it's frivolous if they don't see what you're saying in your life why would they want what you're saying all of a sudden you reduce it to a theory a theology to them it's just a philosophy it's a way of thinking it's just reduced to a belief system instead of the power of God to transform why do they want your belief system that's insulting to some people they think you're proud to assume your belief system over them if they can't see your life changed well if you have the same anguish same stress you're just busted on the same guy and you're sarcastic and laughing at the same filthy joke but you have a belief system they don't have and you're pushing your belief system when there's that's offensive to people because they don't see anything in your life that inspires them to even consider what you're saying it's not about your speech it's about your life left you want to be an epistle written on a man's heart and I'll tell you at your jobs and your families and the places where you're around people on a steady basis is the greatest points of impact and influence you say yeah but I've blown it there you only blown it if you fail to rise up into what we're talking about and you just see yourself as blowing it then then you're just putting in time and man that's sad no wonderful people need to see the beauty of repentance and true transformation and change and they can't forget what you did a couple months ago but they can't deny what you're becoming and all of a sudden six months from now they can't even remember six months ago because they're absolutely touched by your life no sudden a year from now six months before that whole situation whenever it would have been then a year before is it even thinkable because you're so in front of them let's stop thinking that it's hopeless then we've to late and we've blown our testimony you'll only blow your testimony if you fail to see who you've really become and walk that thing out in a daily way you follow me listen you know how I come to little towns and places like this because I've found that there's only a fraction of folks what pastor was saying what Dale was saying about the big conferences and stuff the Lord told me a couple years ago I don't want you doing any conferences I don't I don't I don't want you to do any mixed meetings with other voices I just want you to go to places that are inviting you get to as many as you can and pour out your heart four or five sessions whatever they give you and leave a deposit in these churches and I said okay so that's what I do why you got the family here this is your sphere of influence this is your home this is where you make a difference so if I can come to a church and get the family here and and just a few of you really say wow I'm going after this and the rest you see manna here would saying yeah I want to grow in it and and you and you and you hear it but understand just a couple of you just just start living this way an impact and other people see how your life's changing and how your and all the sudden somebody's touched by you being touched and they're touched by them being touched next thing you know one plus one plus one you started to add up some touches and influence and people and it's not just some outpouring from heaven you're the outpouring I'm not just waiting for some outpouring thank God man if God would just do an outpouring and everybody be in love with him today that would be awesome but wonder if you'd wait your whole life praying for that waiting for that when you were the outpouring the whole time yeah no one together we're a majority I say one in Christ is a majority man if I could just get two or three to agree we're really rolling now I believe one in Christ is a majority I worked in secular workplaces two times since I've been saved once for two and a half years and once for six months and I could stand here for hours and talk to you about fun awesome testimonies and how light shines and one in Christ is a majority and how just the presence of a surrendered life in the workplace in the beginning made everybody freaked out and totally uncomfortable because I was totally different made up challenged still threatened so they group up and persecute and condemn make fun of my picture and my name's on the bulletin board every day with cartoon pictures and things and come on what what am I losing I'm so full of peace it's ridiculous I'm free they're mocking what they don't understand I go to bed at night and actually feel good about my life in him I wake up in the morning and I'm blessed to look in the mirror and see it's me and he's there whoa you look deep in your eyeball and he's in there yeah good mornin good mornin ain't even a persecute me and have no revelation no experience in God and don't even know him and you're a threat to me your persecutions a threat to me are you kidding me that's silly I know him hey it's Dooley I'm untouchable now so they persecuted me it never stopped for two years bulletin board stuff an intercom yeah hallelujah brother what am i losing because they hallelujah brother I'd call it a number on the intercom for a forklift they'd hear my voice and somebody go and say Amen but cynically or hallelujah brother Mike okay now I'm hurting no you could cry for them you would think man they don't know and all of a sudden you understand forgive anything in a little way forgive them father they don't have a clue they don't sudden you're not hurt by them you start hurting for them and when you pray it has a whole different sincerity it's not cuz you're offended and you wish God would change him and straighten them up you're praying because they don't see they're living in that place and you understand you used to - you're not proud now you're broken and you want them to have that same ah and you're alone praying and all your prayers are coming from the pure swell they've ever come from you're not offending that God I wish they'd stop picking on me I hear the term emotionally abused a lot in the church and I'm thinking man you can only emotionally abuse somebody that doesn't know who they are you try to emotionally abuse me you will get emotionally abused how are you gonna mostly abuse me I know who I am now and I'm alive to love you and you don't owe me a thing so how can you fail me and disappoint me I don't get my identity from you I love you I get my identity for me so that I can finally see you clear come on what else I can't love my neighbor as myself but I love my neighbor the way I love me and it might be dysfunctional no son that might be nitpicky and fault-finding and critical and self-condemning and now I see what's wrong with everybody instead of their destiny no sudden I'm loving my neighbor as myself though the more clear review I get of me the better view I have of you because if he sees me that way sure sees you that way because what he did he did for all and I don't have special dibs on God we were created to be his yeah who keeps your heart soft it never gets hard you never get angry or arrogant towards folks you never live with an inner pride you understand everybody's worth the blood of Jesus to understand the pride is a wretched terrible thing because it lowers people and falsely exalts you pride is enmity to God it's the total opposite of the kingdom and of love self-righteousness is in the same lines it says we were all alienated and enemies to God in Colossians 1 by the wicked works in her mind by the way our minds worked what made us alienated was our minds worked on a different channel you might not have committed adultery you might not have robbed a bank you might not have killed a human being but it was enmity to God because it was self-centered to the core and you could say to somebody I love you and you could feel like you hated him the next day if their love failed your expectation you could be best friends for five years and now you have a fallout and you don't even want to see their face what kind of friendship is that it's a self-serving you for me I'll do for you don't let each other down we need each other to survive it's not even friendship its usury and needing on another you can't tell me you're my best friend and then you're gonna hate me because I failed your expectation when love doesn't know anything anything but to love and you owe nobody nothing but to love and and now you got the base great makes a great talk show but all you have is villains and victims and everybody loses in villain victim because now you're stereotyped and identified by what they did they're judged for what they did and everybody loses back to the world as if Christ never died when this stuff happens in churches and it doesn't have to and it doesn't ever have to happen here you can live free in your heart you can love one another the rest of your days on this earth I promise you can live without a fence till he comes the Bible talks about us living without offense till he comes the Bible says if you love your brother you have no cost to stumble because of him you can't say well I feel this way because he well how would you feel if he did that to you well of course it hurts well don't be so insensitive you need to understand my feelings no that's what I'm trying to kill and crucify your misguided feelings because the feelings you relate to they came from Adam not Jesus God didn't make you that way you became that way through the wisdom of the world that's fact no I said they left me stay with him and I talked to God I said yeah I really encouraged him on the phone and he was on the run and I just said listen man he broke down cratis I think this guy's ready for change I know you guys see all kinds of stuff and criminal stuff and he probably your biggest challenge is not letting your heart just get hard and think everybody's up to an agenda but I think he's sincere and I think he's going to well he said man I hope you're right thanks for telling me that I'm glad he turned himself in it's just better man so that's what I told him I watched him do his mug shots his fingerprints and we were there and they ended up releasing him and told him that he had to appear before the judge and whatever a week two weeks whatever it was and what do they call it arraignment or whatever we had to face whatever they were gonna do and he said you may not go home they said yeah but you need to report it into the courts the state misses and he's like I'm just released and they were like yeah he's just freaking out he's like looking at me he's crying I said harder the King hand of the Lord it's okay come on so I'm preaching to him the whole way home and I get him he starts coming to church he stands before the judge the judge gives him some volunteer service to the community and says to keep doing well glad you turned yourself in I'm believing this is a turnaround for your life I'm gonna charge you to serve some community service so back into your community and stay on this track you're on son that's so good repentance is a big deal guys come on here's a problem that's right to teach love so much when you get hurt by somebody you can't even see their repentance you're too busy beating her and they long changed in which they didn't hurt you and somehow you try to feel like they got a make up for it in the can they cried bitter tears and they can't change what they did and you're still sitting there hurt holding them in the identity of what they did wrong when they wish it could die and then we mark them for what they did and when we hear their name all we can think of is what they did wrong and how they heard us it's the peril of unforgiveness that keeps offense alive unforgiveness renders it powerless as if it never happened or forgiveness unforgiveness keeps a lot of forgiveness Renne it renders it powerless as if it never happened isn't that what the gospel did for us come on we're sitting here with the kingdom of God in us with the Spirit of the Living God inside of us we're sitting here with everlasting life and if we really ever get it we're never gonna die come on it's all because of him and how he sees us and you think I'm gonna have an attitude towards you now that I get this are you kidding me you're worth the blood of Jesus you have a destiny in the store of humanity every human being has the same price tag there's no price checks barcodes higher lesser values every person worth the blood you win a Walmart you got all different prices and values and different things on shelves and counters you've got products galore man they got computer stuff and they got logs of just prices and no store humanity one price everyone wears the same tag you're always this blood that means there's no high life there's no low life there's no hotshot there's no scum there's people with potential and destiny all worth the blood of Jesus Christ to God the Father then I get that now I get that every person I ever see is worth the same no matter how they're living what they're doing or what they're giving themselves to so your enemy is not flesh and blood your war is not flesh and blood the war is a demon war against the kingdom of God it's darkness somehow trying to fight against light and you get privileged to run the race worthy of a prize and fight on behalf of the king fight what not the devil and people fight the good fight of faith and believe the truth of who you've become now that he came and you walk in the light as he is in the light and you don't let anything on your heart but the truth of who he is you don't let anything decide who you are but what he's accomplished through his son and all of a sudden love ravages you and you look through his eyes no sudden you see what he's always seen and you go whoa now I get it you don't see the hustle and bustle you don't see the arrogance and the push and shove and the me first and you last and you'll see all that you don't walk in a room and get first impressions anymore hangover it's not Jesus it's not God well just stay away from me just his way it's that person now you just get under my skin the whole point is getting new skin you are so self-righteous that is that you look at somebody because that personality waiter coming across and they're not your preference they're not your flavor they're not your appetite and all of a sudden you're more of a person than them and they're less of a person than you and when you talk to them you talk down on them because they're not what you are they're not what you like come on that's weird wonder if God had that mentality and you were in the outcast group what if God didn't look through unconditional love and just say hey I know who you are in your great diversity you all have the same destiny walking in my life and you some like it fast in this room some like it slow some like it loud some like itself that doesn't make us different what makes us different if is if we don't become loved in our great diversity we can find true unity we can all wake up for the same reason to be like him every one of us can wake up for the same goal to be like him not to get our way not to catch a break not to have a good hand deal the how it dealt out you don't wake up for favor you wake up for him you wake up to be like yeah and then all those other things are so healthy and they're so fun and the little kisses on the cheek and just what relationship looks like with God but the goal of our instruction is love the reason we're alive is to be like him we've got to get that as a church and give our hearts to that and understand that he believes it's possible and he's God not that he's right yeah you know the Bible says in 2nd Peter 1 that you have divine promises you have exceedingly great and precious promises that through those promises it doesn't say you have full vats and barns that through those promises you partake of His divine nature what God's saying is I have given you the grace available and necessary to make you like me if you yield and surrender oh he wants this year yes your sincerity right so say you're super sincere and then you're walking through life and all sudden you find yourself over here and go man what was I doing over there man I'm glad you saw that I'm glad you see it you say man I seen it a day too late I wish I've seen it earlier well thank God you saw him I'm glad you saw it start there man God you got truth in my heart there's a time in my life I too kept living that way I wouldn't even blinked you've got my attention your father and me you're changing me you're maturing me it's not about failing it's about growing and I'm growing up into you man I'm excited God keep on father and me I believe you're gonna keep me and I have a greater faith in you to keep me than me to miss it cuz you're my father I'm telling you a lot of Christians don't talk like that to God they don't even think like that let alone talk like that just driving in your car you're my father I appreciate you fathering me I appreciate your wisdom in my life and I appreciate you leading me Holy Spirit have your way in me and reveal Christ not just to me but through me and bless the world because my heart is blessed just driving down the road that sure beats worrying about traffic and who's gonna treat you right what the boss is gonna say if Joe's gonna act up beside you today now you're praying for everything around you to come into place so your days smooth that is not Christian prayer that is self-centered deception I know that was sharp that's why we laughed earlier that's why you didn't hurt so bad you're still under anesthesia come on you're self-centered stuff gone along you're gonna let me work in this place I feel so defiled I'm cetera here and the f-word god I thought you loved me why don't you do me a new job what is that why is that normal that is self centered missing your identity missing why you're even in the work place they said I was not a Christian job no I asked God to fog you and chained you in that job till you get a revelation [Applause] keep you there for life stop praying for your boss to change start giving him the incentive to change by looking at your life seeing your attitude and in his heart knowing he's doing you wrong and you don't even blink in his heart knowing that he's playing you and using you and you don't even blink cuz you do what you do under God and you make a statement to him that's convicting his heart sudden he's laying on his bed one night just rethinking through and just in inventory in his heart why cuz your light is shining and all things in the light are exposing the darkness and things like that and all of a sudden he's gone man I don't need to treat him that way you know that and I'll sudden they're changed why just because of your attitude not because you're evangelistic prowess and not because of your school of ministry technique just because of your attitude I'll send their transformed just because of your love love is evangelistic guys it scares me we always talk about evangelism and reaching out and reaching our community and outreach you're probably going out with good intentions and very dull sword lets you change life be your evangelism let your attitude in public be your evangelism why is it just hard to be friendly why is it just hard to be nice without trying your hearts blessed Jesus is inside of you everybody's a friend no brother and I put up my walls and guard myself to get keep from getting hurt no that's the point why are you hurt you only heard if you're thinking for you and now everybody's an enemy and a threat to you so you got to build a little fortress around yourself and you quote God's your defense no you're defending yourself the reason God's your defense is you changes your perspective on life and it defends you from ever being hurt people are not your problem loving yourself and thinking for you is the problem do we need to tell some jokes and get back in anesthesia so we need to get back to the anesthesia are we okay okay I didn't hear anybody groan but it was close it was close I felt like the scalpel touched in America when we here hey are you saved yeah I'm saved are you safe we're thinking did you pray the prayer and the word saved means saved healed delivered protected preserve made whole and kept safe and sound so God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever would believe in him would never perish but that through him would be healed delivered protected preserved made whole and kept safe and sound any of whether any one of those words you could pull out and it fills the blank he did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but through him the world might be made whole that the world might be kept safe and sound that the world might be delivered it's all the word Sozo we think it means did you pray the prayer get your name in the book and what he's actually saying is through him you get restored and all things become paul saying i am not ashamed to tell you there's a gospel that saves you by grace through faith i'm not ashamed to tell you that there's a man that did something that brings salvation to every man and here's why for in the gospel the righteousness of god is revealed from faith to faith a man looks at the cross and believes and realizes wow god didn't curse his son guys gotta cross anywhere well we'll make one who sees a cross there's a cross see see there's a cross you see it okay I want I want you to see that it's a visual say that's a tree say that's a pole anything hanging on a pole has been cursed by God anything hanging on a tree has been it's an old Levitical law right so there's a pole Jesus is hanging there did God curse his son on the cross it's not what he cursed he made his son to be sin and God cursed sin in the flesh and since you'll have no dominion over me God made his son what was killing us put it on a cross and cursed it and now we're set free the law of the spirit of life through Christ has made me free from the law of sin and death yea the blood of Jesus was shed to forgive the act of sin the body of Jesus was beaten to take away the penalty of sin and man goes free the salvation of the Lord has come he didn't persist son on the cross he made his son to be sin for he that knew no sin was made to be sin that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus righteousness has two meanings the the work of righteousness means any expression of the nature and character of God righteousness means to stand and be completely right accepted and received in the sight of God without any guilt condemnation or shame the power of the gospel is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus so what you become through him coming what you become because he came is the strength of the gospel you believe in that is what changes your life it gives you access to God it gives you the right to stand before him and pray and receive you see that you have a high priest Jesus the Son of God he's passed through the heavens you come boldly not arrogantly you come boldly into the throne of grace because you understand he loves you now based on your performance based on what he accomplished that humbles your heart that changes your performance coolness is simple grace teaching there's people have their teaching grace that doesn't have transformation attached to it that's perversion oh well god just loves me oh well God just knows my heart hey well don't judge me you're not my judge it's grace apart from transformation is a perversion of the gospel it's you claiming to be something without a heart to be changed by him you know everybody's loved everybody's just loved being loved by God's not the goal the goal is you becoming that love the cross of Christ isn't fulfilled when a man prays a prayer to get his name in a book called life the cross of Christ is fulfilled when his nature is restored back to life and when the fall of man is he raced and we're all brought back to the begin where the image of God is what we've become the pure in heart shall see God blessed are the peacemakers for they are the sons of God the meek shall inherit the earth don't tell me we can't live this way he created us for it and he gave us the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead to quicken us and live in us and flow through us come on man I did not pray a prayer to go to heaven I gave my whole life to him so he becomes Who I am on the inside I did incorporate him into my life he became my life I'm not a Christian for me I'm not a Christian for what he can do for me I'm a Christian for his image and his great name and I'm a Christian to love you like he's loved me that's a reason for being if I settle that in prayer and I commune that to God and I'm used that in my mind and heart guess what happens I start believing it and it becomes the reality of my expression my mode of my desire and I don't even have to check in with it it's just to have become a little sudden I'm not trying to live the Christian life I've become yes I love preaching the gospel it makes me happy because it's not just the doctrine or a theory it's it's my it's the joy of my life see you don't live with me I do you just see me on a weekend and see me all excited cuz I'm always excited but but I live with me so when I preach this stuff I'm either a wretch and I'm I'm not relating what I experience and I'm just preaching high-minded and I'm a twisted man or I'm preaching out of what I've become and what I've tasted and seen is good it's why you see passion in me I don't have a doctrine I have a relationship and a life in Christ that's why there's passionately that's why I can't do anything about my expression does not preach it my doctor to get it not ashamed of the gospel because I'm not ashamed to tell you that if something a man did that can make a man stand right before God and the just shall live by faith and it is written the just shall live by faith and which revealed from faith to faith for as written the just shall live by faith so guess what you and I do we believe he loves us and that his cross is enough we believe that what he accomplished paid the price for us to stand right before him if we slip if we follow up in a weakness if we do something we say hey man last night or two nights ago or whatever we say we say something like that in our time and we say well my life is more than that and God I thank you for loving me giving me wisdom and increasing my understanding because my desire is to know you and become everything you created me to be okay you get that what you did you shouldn't have done you get that they stopped talking about that and let's turn that into truth and let's turn that into grace that empowers me to be different you don't need prayer anymore you don't need to tell another person you don't need to relive it a week from now because if that thing keeps mauling you a mess up with you in your mind it'll-it'll wrongly identify you and after a while your heart will fall and sink and grow weary and next thing you know you're doing the same thing that you swore you wouldn't do and you're back in that cycle and then your mind says see you'll never get it right you're just a loser you're not for real you're just a hypocrite now the trees in big trouble and the fruit follows see what happens it's called condemnation it's one thing to be sorry but if it's sorry to condemnation is deception if it's sorry to transformation and change to repentance it's the wisdom of God whoever got a bad thought in their mind now that they were saved and they felt bad for thinking it whoever got a tract of mine or saw a picture that they didn't want to see but they saw it and felt bad for seeing it anybody ever have that stuff go on in their heart in mine anybody ever driving and something that you remember from 10 years ago that you wished you to forgot just comes to you like it was yesterday and you didn't conjure it you were meditating on it you weren't dwelling on it and when you saw it you were kind of shocked and wished you didn't see it that ever happened to anybody did anybody have a flashback dream and you wake up in the morning and we should ever had that dream and didn't want to have that dream ever again here's what people do when that stuff happens to him they take it personal mark their own heart and think it's them and then they're asking for prayer and think they need delivered and they're going to deliverance meetings and they're trying to get this thing cast out of them it's nothing that's in you it's a flashback it's familiar spirit it's just a memory the fact that it bothered you is good news because it means you're not the person you're thinking about remembering or see you ought to go right into a place of worship and praise then thank God instead of feeling dirty instead of saying oh man why am I thinking that you ought to just look to God and say father I thank you you've changed me forever you're just driving in your car and you get a bad memory you get a thing a thing of regret that you would have happened three years ago and you wished you never did and it comes back every one so on to haunt you and then you go for prayer I just want to forget this I just do be free I just want to be free you are free because you don't want to be that person anymore and you wish you never did that in the first place you are already free you know I want to stop thinking about it stop that that's not the goal not remembering it is not the goal that's not the sign of freedom believing what you remember is a problem believing what you become is an answer so watch this wonder if it's just the devil wonder if it's familiar spirit one of it's just a flashback from human nature here's the thing it's common with the attempt to break you but it runs the risk of making you if you walk in truth so David's driving his car and this thing just comes to his head and he's been walking with Jesus he's been clean he's not been meditating on this stuff he's not been opening up old doors he's just driving in his car going to work and this thing just comes right through him just like a movie or just like a yesterday and he's this doesn't even acknowledge it you don't fight the devil you don't put him on the stage he's a cut off withering branch coming to nothing stop putting him on a stage don't even talk to him he's cut off man he has no hope don't let him steal yours come on he wants to reproduce himself after his own kind in people made in the simultaneous truth so David's driving in his car and this thing comes his mind and he says father I thank you you've changed me forever I thank you I'm a brand new man in your sight you've given me wisdom and understanding and your nerd my heart in god I just thank you for loving me unfailingly and putting that love inside and that thing that reminded David sitting there going wow I didn't say that you know what the devils used to he's used to speaking lies to Christians and Christians graying out and getting depressed discouraged and calling for prayer so he just speaks them all the time oh so you're doing good well remember when well what's your life really matter well you don't amount to nothing well how are you changing the world silly stuff comes to follows you're all excited talents to testify and how people are you've become in God it's just so good to live with yourself in him and finally without vanity you actually like who you're becoming to be and you're encouraging your girlfriends and now you're driving home and that thing from age 18 just flashes in you and comes to you and tries to defile you and if you're not careful and strong and truth you steal my joy no he's already got it come on don't you're driving in your car enough that vile thing comes and then it'd be nice if you'd never remember it again but be nicer is if you believe the truth when it comes because if you submit to God you're resisting him and guess what he'll do the best way to get it out of you just keep submitting to God so that thing comes into filing it's something you wish you never remembered and it was something you thought you'd never do but you did it and and you're changed if you could go back you would never do it again but you sure do remember it God knows you're changed and you know you're changed and you know you didn't conjure that picture and as soon as it comes you rejoice father I thank you for the testimony time tonight I thank you you've purified me and cleanse me that I'm your girl not saying that little things sitting there on your shoulder gone Wow I'll send God starts coming in the car and he's got a bail cuz he's getting the wrong kind of heat he goes back to the devil boss I told him everything he told me to tell them and they started to worship God and declare their identity and destiny it's that God started to come into the live the devil says you fool you couldn't have told him what I told you when you tell Christians that stuff they get depressed discourage and call for prayer not this Christian they just rose up like they knew who they become through Jesus come on man see you don't have a problem you have an answer Christianity is not troubleshooting let's Christ any hope of glory you have an answer we're not people with 10 crises and problems or people with an answer in a victory in him I got a close I got a oh I got a stop real quick Colossians 1 I'll squeeze it in we got one minute hurry turn fast Colossians 1 are you there it's right after Philippians that's after Ephesians come on get there it's right before Thessalonians you are there aren't you no I'm not the wind blew and you verse 21 in you who you who were once were once not anymore you were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works just selfish thinking is wicked don't think it's just murdering the doctor guys thinking for yourself is is enmity to God it's a wicked thought it's he says ah unbelieving heart is evil wicked heart it's unbelieving it's that means you to God it can't receive the kingdom you get it when you think for yourself it's anti love there's no selfishness in love there's no love in selfishness it be like Jesus carrying the cross he's total expression and epitome of love he's love made flesh it's amazing he's carrying the cross the last man on the earth that decided to deserves to die is the greatest case of injustice ever that man killed Christ but it was all set up that way because he's the lamb slain it's amazing and he's carrying the cross and love doesn't know how to change his mind and preachers say well he proved his love because he didn't come off the cross he couldn't come off the cross love doesn't fail he's not thinking of coming off the cross it's not an option I'd be nervous if he had that option he doesn't have that option but here's what he can't do he can't get halfway to Google and analytically start thinking about releasing Barabbas and all the people he healed and all the good he did and multiplying the food and then feel his body and look at what they did to him and think you punchy inconsiderate and on sudden he drops the cross halfway to go golfing and I'll tell you what he would have a right in the way we were trained no son he starts yelling at the people look at what you've done to me what have I done to you I've healed your sick I've set people free I fed you when you had no food I've done nothing but bless you and love you from the time I've come to the earth and you've just pushed me and shoved me and tried to kill me and blast me me and now look what you did to me you people will never change I've healed thousands of people if the things were done one by one that I did and written in a book the world won't contain it and this is what you do to me if you didn't change by now you're never gonna change well that's intense ain't it love doesn't even know how to think that way the only reason I know how to is because we were trained by it and I can use it as an analogy love just knows how to die for others lay down its life and not say where and they love speak louder than words that's the Jesus I serve he's the one that I'm friends with that's the Jesus that lives in you what a gospel you know what alienated us our minds weren't thinking like that come on you put the average pastor for three days in Jesus's shoes and he's a hurt minister God moves through him powerfully and they critique criticize and control now you're two years in and you got testimonies galore and they're just fighting you tooth and nail come on people that you healed people that got healed relatives don't come on don't be deceived there was a ton of folks and right before he was crucified they were wrong in him in Jerusalem it's blind eyes miracles I mean to a day before he was taken to Pilate he's in the Bible he's doing all these things and a couple days later in darkness and confusion they're going boo leathers crucify him I heard a pastor a good friend of mine say it last week at his church he got up and said it at Easter and I slipped out was powerful that's what I'm gonna say that this is the first time that I remember just repeating somebody's stuff on purpose I'm doing it he said what the people cried out in hate jesus answered in love they said let his blood be on us and on our children they said it in hate and he did it in love feel that all over and you think I believe this and I'm going to have an attitude with you and I'm gonna have a he-said she-said mentality and well brother I'd be more encouraged if they wouldn't treated me that way no not today friend not tomorrow either the Gospels come and everything's changed now in five minutes late I'm just gonna read this quick now I'm done we're gonna pray your wicked works in your mind alienated you yet now he has what reconciled that means to be made friends with even though your mind work wicked you were made friends through the death of Jesus Christ what in the body of his flesh through death you were reconciled in the body of his flesh through death Jesus crucifying his son while you and I were in that state is evidence to us that he knows a better way for us a better truth for us he knows us more than our wicked minds he's saying there's a better truth for you you're worth dying for here's the price paid I love you you're more than that so while you were yet a sinner and while I was yet a sinner he what sent his son while we were enemies through wicked minds and our minds working in the wrong way he reconciled us why we were in that state he made peace through his blood he reconciled us in the body of his flesh through death why to present us holy blameless and above reproach in the sight guys be real with me he's talking about seeing you as if you never sinned holy isn't sin consciousness blameless isn't guilty blameless is as if you've never sinned come on get real with me the blood of Jesus is so amazing the cross of Christ and the sacrifice of the Lamb of God is so amazing that it allows you and me to stand before God with a clear conscience as if we've never sinned and the Bible teaches us synthetically if you don't start there you'll never run well you'll just do Church and you'll live up and down and your emotions and feelings will stay the same but if you start there watch this holy is this my is this my opinion or is this right in your Bibles does any of your scriptures say this too or do I have a different Bible does your Bible say this holy blameless and above reproach we're in his site so don't be afraid to approach him look this should inspire you even if you make a mistake you ought to run to one so lovely not to use his love to stay the same but the tap into his love to be changed come on you ought to run to him you ought to run to him in a moment of strength you're to run to him in a moment of weakness you ought to run to him because he ran to us when we were very unlovely but he saw who we were come on we're holy we're blameless and we're above reproach period that's what the blood does watch if indeed you continue believing it and that what it says if you continue believing it watch grounded steadfast and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel in which you heard I'll be honest nobody ever told me what I'm telling you when I was 33 and Jesus saved me nobody ever told me what I just told you nobody ever told me what I told you now I know you've heard it before I got to know some of the men you're hanging out with but watch this it's up to you to continue believing it grounded and steadfast and it never moved away from this hope which you heard which was preached to every creature under heaven of which I Paul became a minister what's he saying I mean you got to walk this out by faith you're gonna believe it never let anything change your mind the work of Jesus was enough to finish you can't say we don't know what it was like when I was growing up you're not growing up you're 34 and he's in you stop saying when I was growing up well you don't know what it was like and my daddy was this and my dad never stopped God's your father and he revealed his love through Jesus stop trying to find a love of God through a dad I wish your dad loved you I really do mine drank my whole life mine was an alcoholic mom was sick for 40 years of my life you know we all have a story it's not our story that changes this is his story he pulls me out of darkness into the light he takes me out of that into him he can't make up my dad can't make up for being an alcoholic Jesus farm made up for it by showing me what true love is and God revealing what a father is through his son I don't try to find the love of God through my dad I find the love of God through Jesus it's the biggest mistake we make on the in the church we always make it about our dads and I can't relate to a loving father because I never had a loving father you're not supposed to relate to having a loving father because you had a loving father you relate to a loving father because he gave his son it's a psychological thing and it's nares people all the time look it doesn't matter that my dad never loved me or said he loved me it doesn't matter that I had to pick him up in the bars and drive him home and he couldn't walk it doesn't matter that he said I'd never be nothing he was wrong I'm not trying to get a dried drink from a dry cup I'm drinking from a well that never runs dry I get one drink from him and I'm satisfied forever and I'll never thirst again come on god forbid that now you're a Christian you're still thinking back there matters that much it matters that he's come matters that he's here now come on be real with me if everybody's story is so important yeah but you know what I've been through but Dan you're being a little insensitive because I've been through worse than you well the person over the RO might have been worse than you and the person back in the corner might have been worse than now so now we're reduced to all making our stories matter so much that all we can do is establish who's been through the most l and then sing it's all about heaven on the earth come on I'm not being insensitive I'm saying let's stop letting that former thing identify us we're not Lot's wife we're his wife that's stop looking back come on I'm preaching good Oh care enough dog man I'm done man I'm so not done I never done I just stop I'm like that worship leader he is never done if a pastor don't walk up on him come on man he put he'll put every pastor in his life in position to cut him off and I'm alright with that I love your heart I love your heart you just be alright when they cut you off yeah cuz some worship leaders ain't alright when they cut role thing I was just getting in a roll three hours later no we're flowing together we're after a common cause and so honor to him so that's why I let you roll like that and I said this guy's alright he's just gonna David said you gotta let it up to Dan he ain't never cut him off didn't you dare you can't do that Danny gonna cut him off I'll sit down with you all day in that arena worship begins when the nature of God is known when you know who he is and you developed relationship with him worship system on taneous result of your heart it's not worship service your heart loves him amen I'm done this was just a teaching time you guys get something right like I dumped the milk truck you should have drank a cup can I pray something over you cuz we're gonna break and I think we got some lunch with the young guys here we gonna talk some stuff get down and clean you're gonna fine father just thank you for your love would you guys mind standing up just honored him stretch out I know you had you sit in a long long time don't you just stand up we'll just close in prayer you okay if we just close in prayer I mean you can minister you could do a lot of things but I feel like just leaving in the strength of that teaching and just letting your hearts keep working that and commune that and fellowship that with one another and go have some lunch have a great afternoon in him amen father I just thank you for your love your words your truth man it's not about where we've been and what we've done it's not even about who did what and who didn't do what it's about what you have done father I thank you that you just put that in us so strong that that a word of a man and action of a man would never Trump the Word of God the action of God that the finished work of Christ what you accomplished would be so dominant in our hearts that nothing else would be able to enter in and have voice or have influence Lord God not because we're just strong-willed or narrow-minded or in denial but because we actually see the truth and the truth has made us free in that season my dad didn't have anything to give me and if I need him to and I need him to make up for what he didn't then you didn't finish the work on the cross I need to jump through some hoops God you don't have to put all this ducks in a row you just came and blew through it all and said this is who you are because this is who I am now stand and be my son and I'm saying yeah thank you for loving me so father I thank you for it I ask for grace in this room I said you give strength for every person in this place to look up and not look back and I think you look out that the finished work of Jesus the blood of Jesus is enough we have every answer in you and we just thank you you make all things new so bless the people but understand and continue let hearts be strong and your life revealed in US and through us in Jesus Holy Name Amen man [Applause] saying the Bible is very clear it uses some extreme examples and says if we do these things without love that's why it's never Christian works it's never just Christian function let's not reduce relationship with God and transformation to serving the Lord and doing works for the Lord that's in the Old Testament that's called a concubine a concubine was in the castle man was in the kingdom serving the king waiting on the king and every once in a great while because he might I had a hundred some two hundred from Sullivan by 700 combines I don't know every once in a while he'd remember one of them are thinking one of them or look at one of them sweeping a floor and go hmm and he called her name and they'd spend a night in his chamber that's a Christian concubine that's somebody that's doing a work for the Lord that takes the place of knowing the Lord so they serve him and serving him takes the place of relationship and every once in a while they brush against his glory or he brushes against them in a service or a moment of prayer or and then they live for six months from that experience and they keep serving the Lord it's concubine you're his bride he loves you you love him you don't serve the Lord he said you're not my servant you're my friend our Christian life still has an expression it there's works behind it but it all comes from identity and knowing him it's not to please him it's because we're in him you follow me come on if it was a work thing Corinthians wouldn't read the way it reads it would tell you to prophesy and move all mountains and that would be your acclaim and your affirmation this has become love that's your affirmation I turned you I'm gonna go I'll wrap this up you guys all okay you're getting something out of this okay good good I'm not looking to be encouraged so I'm always encouraged I just hoping you guys I'm making sense to your hearts I feel I feel calculated it feels right even though I I never see them as rabbit trails man I'm just go wherever you want me to go gone cuz you got to realize there's an X amount of people in the room and it sounds like a rabbit trail to one and its life to another I just believe this I've learned this a long time if you gonna give me a microphone I'm gonna shoot a machine gun and go preach you a three-point sermon I'm empty in the clip I'm serious if you're gonna put a bunch of faces in me I'm gonna I'm gonna a load and then I'm coming right back and then I'll do that about four more times and if you shoot enough rounds you hit everything in the room everything you hit everything and then and then you got ten people come up and go if that was for one person it was for me this whole message was for me and I'm thinking I preached 40 different things and 10 people are going that was for me I'm thinking it's because one of those 40 things was right where you're at and God hit the mark because he knows you and loves you he'll leave the 99 to go get one of course he'll sidetrack me for a second to go BAM if it speaks to your heart it's not a distraction it's called the love of God get back to the point brother we've been on the point the whole time this guy came up to me after a service one time and he was really disgruntled all these people were like thank you oh my goodness that was so good that was so clear you know you always say this my life will never be the same and I've been changed I'm like man I hope so I mean I'm not saying that in a mean way it's just 20 years from now I won't see you on fire for God you know so go for it but this guy come up and he waited till last he said well I said hey buddy how do you know well you just you did me a row in service today I said excuse me yeah you did a big injustice I said man what's going on he said you couldn't just give me a glass of milk you dumped the whole truck how am I supposed to drink a whole cup a whole truck of milk that's what he said do you hear our minds have been trained to work negative to find the negative in something when it's all good I said well buddy listen man I kind of laughed I wasn't tried to demean him it was just like wow you could yeah you're being so deceived I'm like buddy you don't have to drink the whole top just drink a cop drink the cup that satisfies and if you get thirsty you got a whole truck I said your minds program to work in a way that sounds negative so you're sitting there hearing all this gospel message in your mind is critically geared to find out what's wrong with what just happened so you sit like your gods assessment crew trying to figure out he keeps talking he'll slip up come on I promise you I read the giftings in the Bible no one is God's assessment crew there's no one that's God's critic or God's Assessor some people go big they've reduced their hearing here to the level that they'll go to church with a friend to listen to somebody they never listen to it they heard something say go check it out you said it last night now you said you're either here cuz you know and you want to be or you're suspicious well when you're suspicious you run a risk because sometimes the best you can do is just get to the car and see an offense so would you think of that guy instead of come to hear from the Lord to open your heart to Holy Spirit - so what'd you think of that guy next thing you know it's just about what you assess what you feel what you think about what you hear from the Lord how's your heart convicted did you hear any truth when you challenged or were you just trying to find out what was wrong and see if you approved you gotta be very careful with that stuff this man wasn't evil he's just misguided in his thinking and he thought that the service was an injustice cuz he had a pastor or a leader at one point probably tell him you don't give people too much it wants you give him just enough they can chew on but I got 50 50 people in front of me right now 60 people whatever I got in front of me and and you might not necessarily be chewing on what the other one needs a you on and you might not necessarily drink with the other ones drinking you might already drank it you you follow me okay it's gonna win - Holy Ghost I did a wedding once the Holy Spirit came over my shoulders when they were doing their vows like a wind swished my hair he brushed by a backslidden man and another backslidden man that were in the wedding party and they went out this is phenomenal they were both backs Jesus goes boom love you boys hey he's amazing I feel him right now I really do he comes over and he look he's like he's like two new bands a smoke he's not smoke he's the Lord but it was like two bands of smoke and it went this way around the bride and groom came by three times three strands of court Oh tied him and went out over the people like a fog and turned into rain I walked it's almost a complete Catholic congregation they were sitting it on when they did the reception of the bride and groom after after we you know pronounce them man wife and stuff well they were just because I had taught him that when they give themselves to vows to Ernest hardens promises to one another give their life to one another you're not praising her you're not saying wow you make my wheels spin you know when I look into your eyes I get this that no I give my life to you to honor you and to love you like Christ would love you to adore you like Christ adores his church I give myself to you to love you to bring out the best in you all the days of my life she says okay she says like to honor you and love you and give you my life to be a woman of God in your sight always care for you and even if there would be a moment of weakness or a moment of misunderstanding I just vow to keep my heart before the Lord in relationship and position to love to always work through and to always make peace and I vow to always be a friend wedding it's not whoa you're hot yeah you are - man I wish you'd get this over with got honeymoon Dakota it's not like that it's I give myself to you I give myself isn't that what we have with Jesus you can do that with communion even as you gave your body and your blood or God the best I understand I give myself you're in a bedroom and nobody's around and I just give myself to you then I thank you God for being the example that I follow your body given my body given your blood my blood and ain't nobody in the room so you're either out of your mind you need to get a life or this thing is real I'm banking on real pick it all my chips on real we'll find out someday but I'm thinking I'm on to something you know how Holy Spirit did that in their wedding cuz I said when you get to the vows it's when Holy Spirit is so excited to come and I'm sorry she start bawling couldn't get her back we lost her in the counseling she's just done I'm like I looked at him he went we didn't know what to do she's lost I let her cry for a long time and then I stepped in honey are you okay is this a good cry what's good I don't like you thinking what did you say she looked up and could hardly say it she said I never thought he'd be excited to be at my wedding I said are you kidding who there's faith and love and surrender that's where he is that's that's what he's all about that's when you as a human being with a will and a personality you're surrendering and submitting yourself to him and him to you so one plus one can be a stronger one that's the highest expression of God on the earth it's faith its covenant it's love you better believe he's excited to be there I said he will come and when when you exchange your vows and your sister plays on that piano and you position your hearts before him and I'll give you time to be quiet and I'll explain to your family what you're about to do so they don't miss the moment it's not just Ken and Barbie five on each side great picture so many great pictures have been there's been no marriage you're not five on five for a picture you know why there's a wedding party if you're young here and you're not married and you're thinking somebody get married let me just help you with something you're five on five three on three four and four why did you realize they're friends with integrity and friends of honor and what they're doing is they're bearing witness of your union that day and that they're gonna see to the best of their ability that your union is nothing but blessed fulfilled and what you vowed it to be and they'll do their part period that's where the best man is that's what a maid of honor is it's not six months after the marriage so how's it going man well I don't know man she's just she's so overbearing I didn't see it before but see dude I was worried about that man I thought you were that is not a best man it's not a best man a best man sister man I don't know and I'm having a hard time man just I don't he won't come home from work and you only the marriage six-month cuz she just I don't know she feels controlling sometimes I just feel like I don't even want to be with her man and the best man sis what are you talking about this isn't even about her to you I stood there on that day when you gave your life to her in the presence of Almighty God man come on now what are you talking about you can't even let this stuff get in your heart and now all of a sudden you got a judge stereotype now you're looking through the screen you might even be exaggerating that she might not even be doing it to the extreme you think you're just looking at her that way man what are you doing I can tell you haven't been growing spirit yeah where are you at with Jesus right now have you haven't been seeking the Lord you just saying god help me change her when that's the best man you call him to truth and you say look I stood there that day when them tears rolled down your face and you looked in her eyes and said I'd give myself to you that's before the Lord and that was before me your friend you ain't copping out that easy bud I won't even listen to you talk about her like that man come on this isn't you talking you've loved your heart to get hurt come on let's pray right now that's the best man that's why that wedding party's there they're witnesses before God that this is a covenant in the Union in his presence we turn it in a Ken and Barbie and hoopla and pretty and frills and wound garters and flowers man have fun have a knockout day but don't miss the point you know what I did four years his way I get the mom and the dad to come down with the boy and the girl I don't just have the daddy with the daughter cuz you can have him giving her away a mamasan uh-uh see my baby she huh you're gonna have in-laws turn outlaw real quick nope I get that mama to come up here with her baby girl and her baby boy and that daddy and I say who gives these two in marriage and I'll make sure that I teach him I sit down and have one whole session with the parents to talk about giving their children so they don't hold on and cross lines that this now becomes the highest covenant relationship in their life and it's no longer mom and dad it's the marriage and you're there to love them and serve them and be there for them and to honor that and never interfere with that I teach the parents that and I tell them if you can't see that and agree with that then you shouldn't be there giving them away and taking all the pictures of me and sentimental you should be on your face before God getting a hard adjustment I'm good I won't let you be religious go through the motions and miss the heart so I get them parents to come down and I say who gives these to a marriage and in unison they say we do and I watch all their lips make sure yeah excuse me ma'am I do oh you don't want in-laws turning out locks I don't know how I get on this stuff anybody thinking to get married sometime down the road this is good help right be honest is there a single person sitting here you would say that just helped me and I just thought about that what you just said especially the girls are here see cuz I'm gonna have the guys later I'm gonna get get with you guys in a minute I don't want any girls cutting their hair short and putting on guys shirts trying to sneak in the meeting either we got the check um buddy I don't know you have to figure it out okay I can do this in 20 minutes we're gonna quit at 12 that won't only hit a limit god that's not religious Romans 1 did I turn you there a long time ago why don't we go there it's pretty good you know what's cool it still reads the same it says the same thing it would if I don't read it right away that's the thing you can bank on with the word heaven a nurse gone passed away but his word stays the same did you ever notice the biggest trial of your life you open the Bible which says the same thing it said before the trial hasn't changed then we probably gotta lock in huh hang on didn't that cool that's stuff sweet to me man I love that I open the Bible 20 years later and it's the same God's still talking the same he didn't say well you know I used to love you well I know I said that but you know since then I've changed my mind a little things have changed and I mean we all grow and shift you know I know what I said but I never bumped into that in the word so I just learned you can just put all your trust in him you just put it all on him amen y'all know that stuff sounds foolish and simple when you think about it it's profound man he'll never change if he said I love you it's the way it is forever it's up to you to walk in that and receive that belief that to live by faith in the midst of feelings don't you let anything talk you out of it remember condemnation was worthy of judgment I didn't finish the last one Shane I just saw it I didn't finish it you know what Shane says guilt condemnation shame guilt not forgiving judgment condemnation worthy judgment shame you know what it says it's still Who I am when you're living in shame what you're saying is subconsciously is the thing I'm ashamed of is still me that's why you're ashamed come on if it's not you anymore than why are you ashamed of course you wish you didn't do it but get over that part regret produces death godly sorrow brings life amen so Paul says in verse 16 I'm not ashamed of the gospel he's not talking about I'm not ashamed of the gospel Christ we already had worship it was awesome I thought my brother came alive back there I thought he couldn't take it no more I thought he's just this little sax buddy gentle voting fish well I can't take it Lord I thought you just broke out that I look darn sure Monica's still there but I realize you were just trying to catch up on worship watch it you guys all right this might be busy might be tight here see ya anesthesia it's rolling we just got four I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ he's not talking about I'm not ashamed to stand on the street corner with a bullhorn or we're a Christian t-shirt he's talking about in a in a culture of Judaism that was law and works and earning your way to God I'm not ashamed to preach that a man can be safe by grace through faith that's what he was being punished for and beat for and whipped for and stoned for guys he was being hammered for coming against the legalism that was ruling the earth the reason he was being beaten isn't just because he was saying Jesus is Lord he was saying that Jesus paid the price for all men and that Jesus alone makes a man right in the sight of God that's what he was being beaten for now listen if that's what he was being beep for the devil is bent on making that thing not a reality in the hearts of men he doesn't want people to believe the gospel even today you preach the gospel that man saved by grace through faith in that he's based he's righteous based simply on the work of Jesus yeah but folks need to change but they needed it but they got it is and we fail to start where he finished because if you don't start where he finished you'll never run well you'll try to accomplish something he already did it's not about you changing your life it's about him changing your heart it's about his love changing your heart in your mode of changing it's about your reasons for being change it's about you waking up in the morning for a different reason than you ever woke up before waking up to know him to grow in him to manifest him to love one another man when God starts working that in you your whole life strength he can change your perspective he changes your whole life the eye is the lamp of the body if your eyes single your whole body's flooded with light it doesn't say unless of course you're challenged with many issues if you see clear you live clear a period if your eyes single your whole body's flooded with light unless of course your spouse just did you wrong it doesn't say that it says if you see clear you will be clear a period let's stop selling cheap when we're not for sale I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ it's the power of God to salvation for everyone who what so it's the power of God to salvation but the ones that we receive it walk in it and enjoy it are the believers amen for the Jew first and also the Greek now watch for in it what's what's it the gospel that's right for in it we're in the gospel the reason it's the power of God unto salvation the reason the gospel is so powerful to bring salvation to men only when we say salvation no in this country it doesn't mean go to heaven I mean saved healed delivered protected preserve made all kept safe and sound it's an all-inclusive word Soteria the word saved as sozo means the same thing healed delivered protected preserve made whole kept safe and sound it has more of a connotation to the life that now is than the life to come it's absolutely salvation

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Published: Fri May 01 2015