Dan Mohler Weekend! Saturday Night - Night Two - (Dan Mohler) POWERFUL MESSAGE!

thanks for being here tonight i'm just excited there's such a hunger pastor's right there's a hunger there's a humility there's a receptivity in this house i really enjoy being here it's just fun it wouldn't matter if it was a receptivity or not i'm preaching the gospel you you give me a mic i'm going to manifest and preach the gospel uh people yeah people are like man when you travel you ever bump into resistance and stuff i said i don't even think about that stuff like the lords never like said they're resisting you know you just preach and but i found that people's hearts recognize truth they do they just recognize truth uh i've been in settings where people didn't want to hear i've been in services i've i go to man i've been in like boys homes and stuff i go to those places i go to recovery centers i've been in boys homes where teenagers where they don't want to hear you they don't want you coming to preach at them that's what they think you're coming to do and i mean they'll sit there like this and i just i have just not afraid of that and just have fun and preach i've watched boys melt in the truth i've watched lives change that way it's just fun man but you guys are easy like you guys are easy targets like you're sitting ducks right up on the front row girl yeah and uh so let's go somewhere with this tonight i'm really excited like here's what was coming on my heart over there i mean i really when i talk it it it it'll challenge you to call it'll it'll call for some change in things or just to really look at your own life right get your eyes off everybody else take accountability and responsibility and privilege for what jesus created you for and called you to here's the raw truth even if everybody around you i know this is kind of a bizarre example but even if everybody around you decided hey we're not doing jesus you still have to answer for your convictions and what are you going to do with what your heart believes you still got to walk him out or follow the crowd the last two sessions if you were here i did a third one but it was leadership it was it was a it was a big room though there's a lot of folks in there around so almost looked like this but uh i was impressed with that but but if this is your first second or third session listen we we've established something in the first two sessions that we are not just here waiting for a trumpet to blow so we can bail out and go to heaven we are here be here to be filled with holy spirit to be changed in our heart our nature our motives our reason for being like like if the gospel doesn't change and challenge and change the why behind your life you're missing the gospel if you have the same reason for being you always had but you've just added him you're missing the whole gospel like you don't ask him into your heart you give him your life and he gives you his and there's a whole new reason for being and you wake up with a whole different purpose in your life he completely changes your eye and makes it single and if your eyes single your whole body's flooded with light if your eye's not single if it's optional if it's multiple choice if it's wide view lens yeah but well you know but it ain't all like that brother if you've got some wider view than single darkness encroaches and if the light in you which means you're created for the light if the light in you is darkness the bible says how great is that darkness what's it saying just how optional and wide view lens is your view the fact that it's a single eye is incredible to me that if the eye is single pretty narrow right like like if your eye is single if you see through truth through him your whole body's flooded with light that's why i've been preaching the last two sessions you can walk through any challenge any circumstance any unlovely situation and not be moved by it because you see the truth and you're facing everything from the position of christ in you so you're never watch you're never a victim ever nobody's ever a villain there's misguided deceived terrible things going on on the earth if it's victim villain there's no winner you're there's no winner both sides are losing because the victim stays victimized they're stereotyped as a victim and all they get is the sympathy of men but they're left the same the villain has no chance to change because of what he's done neither one of those are the finished work of christ or anti-gospel i love what paul said i preached in a leadership meeting but i didn't preach the verse he he he i just preached the principle out that jesus came to his disciples and said peace be with you because he made peace through his blood romans 5 lays it out you you now you now have peace with god through the lord jesus christ being justified by faith because you believe it and now you have access into this grace in which you stand in hope of the glory of god sounds like it can't get any better but there's a verse three and not only that but you glory in tribulation i think we missed that revelation along the way i mean he's talking progressive you have peace with god through the lord jesus christ because you believe what he accomplished you have access into this grace in which you stand and not only that man you're in the world you're not of it you don't react anymore you don't fall apart you glory in tribulation because you have a higher way of living you see truth now and it ain't about you because you died you denied yourself you love not your own life unto death you've embraced his life in you and that's the hope of glory i i don't know a lot of people that have gotten this along the way glory and tribulation that's when we put in a prayer request that's when our demeanor changes that's when our countenance falls that's when we get tempted to question what he's doing and his love with glory and tribulation you want to read it with me to so you can just know that i'm telling the truth therefore having been justified by faith he's talking about he ends romans 4 is amazing that's why he says therefore because man he says you know oh that's a crazy section of scripture you want to see something amazing while we're here now i see what you're doing lord i'm sometimes i'm a big step behind i know to you it looks like i know what i'm doing i usually don't have a clue seriously usually i'm on a journey with you i'm just trusting that it will get there because he's got and but this when i was a big step behind now i'm going well that's phenomenal like i just caught up to the lord just now because i know what's on my heart i know i gave you some scriptures which is rare and i said can we use the screen if possible so i'm thinking we might be going there but now i'm starting this way and i'm thinking i guess we ain't going there and all of a sudden i look at therefore and i say well i don't like to start with a therefore because you got to know what it's there for so my eyes scrolled back and went duh now i feel like we're home the blood of jesus is so amazing let me read this and then we're going to back up we've been justified by faith and we have peace with god through the lord jesus christ is that what i quoted so it is in there isn't it oh my through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of god and not only that man we glory in tribulation knowing there's something we know we're not just like hey everything's falling apart wreck the car dude whoa silly it's not to watch knowing that tribulation produces perseverance perseverance character character hope see all this stuff especially if it's demonically devised is coming to break you but it runs the risk of making you if you're a believer i didn't say a church attender i said a believer satan is sure he can break you but every time he attempts to break you he's running the risk of making you he doesn't believe you believe what you say you believe look when you squeeze an orange what do you get see you said orange juice you didn't say juice you said orange juice why because you squeezed an orange this isn't rocket science look if it was apple juice that's weird if you squeeze an orange get apple juice you're calling a friend you're spitting it back in the cup as soon as it touches your lips because your mind knows it was arnie it would be strange to squeeze an orange and get a cup of apple juice why isn't it strange when you squeeze a christian and get everything but christ man that should be strange when you squeeze a little christ-like one and get everything but christ should be strange shouldn't i wonder if the enemies learned that i'll just squeeze them to reveal what they really believe don't believe see and don't see not impressed with their worship service i'll just squeeze them i'm not impressed with their service and ministry their position their title i'm not impressed if they wave one or two flags sing loud or extra loud because i'm going to squeeze them and find out what's really going down but wonder if he squeezes you and you're a believer and you love not your own life unto death and you don't take account of suffered wrongs i wonder if all you know how to do is love and stay in courage because of character and hope and hope doesn't disappoint because god's love is truly shed abroad in your heart through the holy spirit i wonder if adversity actually makes you shine i wonder if adversity doesn't make you fall apart i wonder if people acting out makes you draw on your love instead it makes you frustrated discouraged and ready to give up and can't trust people and i don't know if i can go any farther you all good yeah i'm just preaching scripture i'm just preaching the book i mean jesus said in me and me you got peace now in the world you've got trouble you've got tribulation in the world but be of good cheer i have we think that means he's stopping all the trouble he ain't even close to talking about that because he says in me you're a peace but in the world you have tribulation but be of good year i've overcome the world he said you have tribulation in between those two so wait a minute if you overcame the world why do i got tribulation he ain't talking about making your sea glassy he's talking about giving you the perspective that he had on the earth that he came and overcame the world and the world had nothing in him the ruler of this world came and had nothing in him are you with me come on we need to preach this stuff and get it because we get this idea when he talks like that he's just making all my trouble go away there ain't no scripture that says all your troubles going away and that shouldn't make you afraid when i preach like that that just locates where your revelation is look i ain't picking a fight that would be silly but i ain't afraid of one squeeze me you're just kidding jesus i've been saying this for 26 years if i was popping off i'd be crushed by now you look at me you can't see my background you can't see my past you can't see my history you can't see that my dad was alcoholic and never said i love you and i'd be nothing you can't see my mom was sick 40 years you can't see that my wife was in a coma and brain damage on life support you can't see my son ran off and did drugs and my daughter went awol you don't see none of that when you see me because you ain't supposed to because none of those things have a thing to do with who i am because none of those things can change who he is in me so when you see passion in a man and when you see fire in him and you see seriousness in his eyes maybe it ain't because glassy seas maybe it's because there's been fire and trial and trouble and you don't have a theology you have a revelation jesus is lord and his way is the way maybe what you see in me is because of trials not walking above the clouds maybe i bet you when shadrach meshach and abednego came out of that fire you think they were passive wow guys that was amazing didn't he look awesome in there he was really bright yeah i'm just really glad he came were you getting nervous not really but well little they came out of that fire guys come on but here's the cool thing about the bible it makes you very aware that there was no evidence of the fire on their life doesn't mean they weren't in it doesn't mean god didn't let them get in there but i'll tell you what jesus didn't put out the fire that would be to give the fire glory he didn't put out the fire the fire wasn't the issue compromise was the issue what they really believed loving not their own life unto death who's really lord to you that was the issue the fire wasn't the issue nebuchadnezzar a type and shadow of demonic power the hebrew boys the type and shadow of the new testament church to come loving not their own life unto death you're gonna bow you're gonna fear me you're gonna compromise or i'm going to kill you what's your fault so king we have no need to answer you in the matter if he saves his great and if he doesn't you need to know something you ain't the lord and we ain't bowing you know what that boy added he said nevertheless our god will deliver us from your fire they walked them boys to that furnace the command was so urgent from the king that thing was so piping hot you know what happened them two guards opened the door and got toasty bacon poof done in your bible consumed now i got a problem no i got a problem i got three hebrew boys bound head to foot and i got two guards that got toasty bacon and you ain't got nobody to put them in the fire how'd they get in there you know what i really believe brother i believe jesus or an angel i believe he said this is gonna be good boom somebody knocked them in the fire they didn't like okay we're supposed to do this he heats this way do you think about this stuff my only guy thinks about this stuff i sit on my bed and i ponder i take my time i ain't interested in memorizing scripture so i impress you with my quotation i want to see i want to see what the spirit of the lord is saying somehow they got in that fire but it wasn't about the fire he to put the fire out he's lord of the fire he ain't going to honor the fire enough to put it out the fire ain't the problem at all it's what men see or don't see that's the problem not the fire and then we think the trial's the problem no it's how you processing and going through is the problem or not when those boys came out of fire you think they were calm they were so fired up preaching voice right there because what they said they believed became their heart knowledge and became their revelation and now they didn't have a theology and a precept they knew oh i guarantee you they were like nebuchadnezzar was so overwhelmed by it he just totally converted i mean he went to the extreme end like like when you take a standing god it changes things nebuchadnezzar goes from dude you're going to battle my 90-foot golden image you get it this big idolatry thing that's in front of you you're going to bow to it or you're going to die being afraid to die and i ain't bound to it but then you go and die boom they go in the furnace the fourth shows up like the son of god shadrach meshach abednego you all right there come on out of there they come out he said surely your god saved you from this fiery furnace and the king made a decree that anybody that didn't worship shall wreck me sex and then it goes god got thrown into the fire that's dramatic be honest with me how many times are we challenged and we let the challenge affect our faith our demeanor our encouragement question god now we got so many questions he clouds over the things we always said we knew damaging you saw what happened to john the baptist bless his heart jesus honored john the baptist right after it happened too john said jesus said what did you come out to see a man in fine clothing no and he begins to acknowledge john but he corrected john very strongly if you catch it nobody had a revelation about jesus like john the guy is curled up in elizabeth's womb like he's this little tiny in the womb mary walks in pregnant and he starts freaking out in the womb whoa presence of the lord jesus in the room it's in your bible the the baby in the womb started leaping for joy because he already perceived jesus in mary's womb so god hand raises him in the wilderness and gives him revelation and he begins to preach and jesus comes and he says there he is behold the lamb don't you think john didn't know who he was pointing to don't you think he was like now is that him behold the lamb of god i must decrease he must increase follow him he has prepared the way he just but he knew when he came for baptism he said am i to baptize you i'm supposed to isn't it you should be baptizing me do you think he knew who he was but when he's in prison when he's in prison when he's in prison for doing the will of god when he's in prison he calls two disciples said go ask him a question that i already know are you the one or should we look for another why does he have the question when he already knows because prison's questioning what he knows his circumstances quite if he's the one if he's going to open prison doors why am i behind one if he came to set the capsule free why did i go captive as soon as he came and his mind's confused and he's puzzled in natural thinking and he took life personal and questioned what his heart knew did you get that he took life personal and questioned what his heart knew he said two disciples to ask jesus a question that he already had the answer of that no man on the earth even came close to what he saw and yet a circumstance had the power to take that man and get that man to ask a question when he already knew come on i learned from this stuff that's intense and jesus his answer was amazing you go back and tell john what you both see in here and he talked about the blind scene and the lame walking and the poor having the gospel preached to them and he said blessed is the man who's not offended because of me or has no cause to stumble because of me what's he saying john was offended and it skewed his view of who i am and crossed over the knowing of his heart and ask a question of what he already knew and then he said what did you go out to see and then he honored john in front of the people and said up until that point there was no one greater but yet he said even the least of these in the kingdom are greater than he ain't that something i hope you're learning something from this hope it's not going to disappoint it's not going to disappoint why because the love of god has been poured out in our hearts by the holy spirit who was given to us the rest of that chapter is amazing we were we were without strength in due time christ died for the ungodly for scarcely for a righteous man would one dare to die right or perhaps for a good man would one dare to die but god demonstrates his own love towards us that while we were still sinners christ died for us much more having been justified by his blood justified just as if you never sinned it's justified that's what it means you're seen as if you never sinned oh we got to get this at the church this is what i want to talk about tonight so hang on too many people are guilty condemned and ashamed about their lives and because their identity gets robbed through the way they process their value gets robbed and then they live up to the low level in which they see themselves every addictive behavior you can track it to a crushed identity and the low esteem and self-worth issue every addictive behavior and then the more you function in the addictive behavior the more you believe your worst fears and the more you affirm the lie of what you believe so now you mark yourself by yourself with no hope for change ain't that something we shall be saved we've been justified blessed we shall be saved from wrath through him my goodness for if when we were enemies by the way our minds were colossians explains it we were reconciled to god while being enemies we were reconciled through the death while being enemies much more having been reconciled we shall be saved by his life and not only that but we also rejoicing god through our lord jesus christ through whom we now have received the reconciliation i want you back up to romans 4 because this is what i saw and i thought man now i'm set just totally set to talk about this talks about abraham at the end of the chapter it says that talking about abraham who knows he was an old fellow when sarah had isaac who knows that promise was out there for years and time was ticking and bless their hearts they mustered up the effort and gave it a good shot bless their hearts they tried man that's just some story i could see him coming in the tent i mean he's going on 100. sarah girl how you feeling [Applause] will you say we go for it give her another shot wrap our faith around what god said well wave i ain't quite feeling that today brother come on girl [Applause] well i guess we can try one more time you look at the man man in the bible it's it's rough the promiscuity mentality because this is all through the bible don't think it's normal it's all amplified because of the fall of man it's all man living by need it's not normal it's perverted it has nothing to do with love it has to do with desire watch this boy i get on some stuff i just scratch some stuff don't i this is sorry i just it just came like that bam and people see god literally has to do this with sarah and abraham he he he has to give life to the dead and call those things that do not exist and so they they did so look it's a faith it's a faith that it might be accounted to according to grace that the promise be short to all the seed he's talking about abraham in verse 16 of romans 4. watch this but also we're heading somewhere pay attention it's going to be good also to those who are of the faith of abraham who is the father of us all now look he calls those things that be not as though they are verse 18. now he's talking about abraham he's talking about when god promised him in genesis he's going to have a son him and sarah they obviously tried and tried and tried and no sun ever came and it looks like close to almost two decades could have possibly went by from the promise to the conception possibly watch this who contrary to hope contrary to hope in hope this is abraham this is romans chapter 4 guys contrary to hope in hope believed that he become the father of many nations according to what was spoken so shall your descendants be remember the promise stars of the sky sand of the sea your numbers he's like what now they're trying almost two decades later so here we go watch and watch verse 19 and not being weak in faith he didn't consider his own body already dead this is triumphant man faith folks love to preach this right because it's powerful watch watch since he was about a hundred years old and the deadness of sarah's womb didn't consider that don't matter he's god that's how we preach it right he didn't waver at the promise of god through unbelief but was strengthened in faith giving glory to god watch being fully convinced man this gets progressive you can preach this in the church fully convinced that he was that that that he that what he had promised he was able to perform and therefore it was counted to him as righteousness sounds powerful makes you want to say amen makes me feel like i can really lay into this and preach it but i'm setting you up because none of it happened like that you go back to genesis he absolutely wavered you go back to genesis he absolutely considered his own body you back to genesis sarah she said you know what abe this ain't happening man i mean i'm giving it my all but it ain't happening so we're missing something i'm with you sarah i don't know he says she said i'll tell you what why don't you go into haggar my maid servant maybe that's the way god's gonna give you a son what really you want me to go with hagar i think you should but i'm going to need to pray on that now you didn't need to pray on that sir really you want me going to haggard i think you should maybe that's how cause i ain't working with me maybe not let me back up hang on because it's going to end really good but contrary to hope believed in hope believed so he became the father and not being weak in faith he didn't consider his own body already dead of course he did of course he did is the bible lying no what since he was about a hundred year old and the deadness of sarah's watch he didn't waver at the promise if he didn't waver at the promise he wouldn't have went into hagar if he didn't waver at the promise when ishmael was born he wouldn't have said the god oh that ismail might stand before you god said absolutely not he's the son of your flesh it's going to be the son of promise you did that i'm going to do this that all conversation is in genesis the whole story is there oh i can feel some of you getting nervous where is he going with this now i'm not sure i even believe my bible but he was strengthened in faith giving glory to god being fully convinced that he what he had promised so that part came true here's what happened do you know sarah's in the patriarchs of faith do you know she's in the list in hebrews 11. sarah made the list of the patriarchs of faith like all these things that people did and all these exploits god loved sarah man he put sarah in the patriarchs of faith and here's what he said about her in hebrews he said by faith sarah received strength to conceive she made the list for that but when i looked at my bible she laughed cynically and lied in a three-minute moment hey i'm going to visit your wife in the time of season and your wife's going to conceive and she's listening through the ten she's a okay so your maid servant is going to find pleasure after all these years and all this trying and all this deferred hope and okay here we go i'm going to have a child she did that in the presence of the lord he said why did sarah laugh she said i didn't laugh so now she's lying and the lord said oh but you did laugh hebrews says by faith she receives strength to conceive and remembers her as an example what happened that's old testament romans is after the blood of jesus all romans records is that repentance and their response to repentance romans doesn't record all the stuff that genesis has all romans does is record who they are through the blood and through repentance and the fruit they produce to repentance because the facts say sarah laughed and sarah alive but eternity remembers her for repenting and saying shouldn't the laughs and the lie your god your faithful oops forgive me for my dilemma and my absentmindedness or whatever you want to call it i'm all in god and he said atta girl bam and all heaven remembers is the repentance and the fruit why is this important because you tend to remember your past sometimes you tend to say i can't believe it not this and now that that isn't in your resume that isn't written through the blood of jesus christ all that's recorded and all that's written is who you've become and what you walked out where you been and what you did he bought that he put it in a sea called forgetfulness come on read the story romans is in abraham in genesis romans is abraham after chapter 17 when god said stand before me and be found righteous and then they go back and forth and he says ishmael no and he reiterates the covenant and abraham obviously went duh i'm all in and romans writes about him all in and leaves out all the weakness of flesh the deception and the ishmael part why because the blood of jesus christ speaks better things than the blood of abel so god almighty through his eternal word did not mark abraham for his weakness in the scripture in romans in new covenant testament language he marked him for repentance and faith ain't that something what's the point if you're gonna go close to god and have intimacy and relationship with him if if you're gonna multiply the beauty of who he is by getting close enough to him so that who he is comes inside of you and begins to give birth come on that's not weird that's spiritual and holy you ought to see me if you can see in the spirit you ought to see me right now about ready to deliver something and it's going to look just like the one i've been with it's going to look just like his daddy come on it ain't weird ain't sexual spiritual you you ought to hear how i would pray when i first got saved the holy spirit was leading me what how to believe write and pray right i'd run in my room father i'm just here thank you i'm here it's just you and me i'd close the door i said and i open myself up why do you and thank you for coming into me god coming into me and father i thank you for sowing the seed of who you are into me so that everything i give birth to looks exactly like you that's how i would pray when nobody was looking you know what people say man i see god in your life man i see jesus in your eyes man i see jesus in your countenance man it just seems like you really know the lord i've been with him his seed is in me everything i'm giving birth to came from him all of a sudden i'm a fruitful vine i'm multiplying and pleasing the father and the fruit remain you get it oh it ain't weird it ain't sexual it's spiritual trouble is we've been so contaminated and violated in our innocence through the sexual exploitation on the earth and the fall of man that we can't even see the beautiful holy thing sometime so here's what i'm saying if you're going to live out the last two messages you heard and some of you what you heard tonight you can't do it without relationship with him you'll never do it without intimacy with god it's your relationship with god it's knowing him that transforms you it's not getting convicted that transforms you it's knowing him okay i want to show you this and then we're going to move on are we okay are we good okay good thanks for that let's do this first john 4 will you look quick we make it a children's church song i grew up hearing this song when i was a kid beloved let us love one another you ever hear that song for love is of god and everyone that loveth is born of god and knoweth god he that loveth not knoweth not god for god is love beloved let us love one another first john 4 7 and 8. do you ever hear that song so if you didn't hear that song it's just scripture it's a scripture that they put in song form watch beloved let us love verse 7 first john 4 let us love one another why why in the world would i do that for love is of god and everyone not some everyone who loves there's a reason because they were born of god and they god now watch it gets interesting he who doesn't love just doesn't know him for god is love he didn't say you don't pastor he didn't say you don't travel and preach he didn't say you don't lead worship he didn't say you never went on a mission trip he didn't even say you don't believe in him i know because we say it doesn't say you were born of him or wasn't born of him look he just simply makes a statement if you don't love there's one reason not to if you don't love there's one reason you don't know him like you could which is telling me it's impossible to know him and not become more like you all of a sudden it's relationship all of a sudden it's intimacy we say jesus the way to heaven he didn't say that jesus never said that we say that and i understand the principle and i'm not saying it's wrong there's no way to go to heaven or have eternal life without jesus i get it that was never the point he said i'm the way back to the father he said i'm the way i'm the truth and i'm the life and nobody gets to heaven besides apart from me he didn't say that he said nobody gets to the father except by me so what is jesus the way back to the father we made jesus the way to heaven and then we don't have a good view of the father and then we have issues with god because the way our lives go in and then we remember how it was when we were six eight season between twelve and and also we got so many questions we can't even thank god for forgiveness of jesus we embrace the cross jesus you're awesome for what you did god's perplexing though where's he been in my life it just gets weird with people the way they process because we made jesus the answer to a thing we get called eternal life instead of a restoration of relationship that we were always created to have watch if you don't love it's not a slam it's sobering it's encouraging if you don't love there's a reason you don't know him like you could so don't fall out and fall apart and get angry get hurt get condemned get to know him because it's impossible to know him and not become more like him because that's the whole point but here's what happens man we let our church attendance take the place of knowing him you let your daily devotion take the place of knowing him you listen to christian music all day in your house and let it pipe in on that tv screen off that computer and never make contact with the lord but you sang about him and heard songs singing about him all day long and never made contact with him you can play sermons in your car all the way to work and never make contact with god and just hear things about him and never be with him and all of a sudden you take your worship songs and your sermon listening and it replaces knowing him and it takes the place of relationship your bible knowledge can take the place of knowing him some of the meanest people i've ever met know the bible more than anybody i've ever known some of the most judgmental people i've ever met or people that pride themselves in being bible scholars what happened they don't know him they just talk about the bible and knowledge has puffed him up but it's love that edifies so here's the bottom line of what i'm saying and don't be condemned by this be empowered by this the measuring stick of you knowing god the barometer of knowing god is your love not your commitment your love because if your love is clean your commitment's a guarantee if your love's on your devotion's on are you with me come on this is bible if you love you know him if you don't love you just don't know him because god is love so what he created us for love what's the whole goal of the gospel love what have we been missing our whole life love what have we been needing our whole life love why because we were cut off from it but we're created to be it so all of a sudden all we do is focus on god loving me instead of me becoming the love of god the goal of the cross is in you being loved by god the goal of the cross is paid in full when you become the love of god look the cross isn't paid in full when you pray the sinner's prayer let me just tell you something when you pray the sinner's prayer the cross isn't paid in full what he paid for is paid in full when you have an exchange of nature and you put on love and you become love he paid for you to be transformed you're not going to have intimacy in relationship with the lord if you don't see him clearly and see him the way he really is and watch and see the way he really sees you see abraham could be sitting on a log man he could be like man i blew it man i knew better than to go into hagar i knew in my heart why'd i do it man i knew it wasn't the answer what man i blew it he gave me this promise i can't walk nothing out next thing you know after another hour of analytical thinking he ain't worth nothing anybody ever do that to themself and yet the blood of jesus is calling you and speaking and calling you to a better thing that ain't you get over yourself stop feeling sorry for yourself stop being deceived knock it off because that ain't what god's saying about you while you were there sinner he came and he reconciled you while you were a sinner he didn't say clean up you stink while you were a sinner he said you're more than that now prove it i'll die so you can live i'll take that thing off of you you and me in colossians one were enemies and alienated by the wicked manner in which our minds functioned it says yet now he reconciled us in the middle of wrong thinking he said i'll pay a price to bring you home why to present you to present you ta-da holy blameless and above reproach in his sight that's colossians chapter 1. isn't it there pastor it's as if indeed if indeed you're not moved away from the hope in which you heard you hold on to that thing and believe it you know what's happened many of us go to church your whole life and never even hear that hope most of us go to church our whole life and never even hear that hope are never even told that god sees you as if you've never sinned that he's actually robed you and clothed you in righteousness that you have right standing with god and you're not judged you're forgiven you're justified just as if you've never sinned god sees you as if you never ate the fruit of that tree never listen to the voice of that serpent now the snake's still there the tree's still there follow him you might have missed it along the way and because you're sincere your heart broke and you said all man and you said god have mercy i don't ever want to man i don't want to yeah i know i love you oh god wiser sharper smarter more inspired clean now condemned clean why because first john 2 says and if you sin it doesn't say when. it says if preacher you're freaking me out what are you saying i'm saying the bible we're only freaked out because we've deceived ourselves with language preaching scripture based on our own experience instead of the word that changes us so we dictate our outcome and we don't let grace change us we label who we are based on who we've been and then we miss out on new life through jesus christ when somebody tries to talk about it they're a heretic when somebody tries to talk about it they're a blasphemer or a false teacher a wolf in sheep's clothing what a tragedy that you can't even preach the finished work without being criticized in the house of god because we've lorded our own experience above the grace that's here to change us he didn't say when you sin he said if you sin know this you have an advocate jesus christ the righteous and his righteous plea is a propitiation for your sins meaning mercy what it means is don't get condemned don't turn tail and run don't fall apart don't hide from god don't put on fig leaves you don't look good in fig leaves you look good in righteousness you look good in the garment of salvation you do not look good and guilt condemnation and shame you don't look good in anger and frustration nobody looks good in that do you ever realize how quick it is how easy it is to just get ticked off just to get aggravated in life do you ever realize how thin-skinned we are and how easy it is to just let somebody own you enough to tick you off and you think you're in control and everybody's owning you controlling your attitude dictating your responses you think you cut them off and every day you think you cut them off they're actually paining you every day through unforgiveness and 20 years later you ain't spoke to them for 20 years and you don't even realize but for 20 years they've been fashioning you through the thing that happened and you say you cut them off and yet they're they're they're they're they're their wrong doing is speaking so loud because it's dictated your responses your your attitude for 20 years and you think you're in control just because you haven't spoke to them for 20 years what they did is speaking loud and you hear their name 15 years later and you still feel angry you say i don't even want to talk about that person and yet you think you're winning and the whole time they're pottering you and fashioning you like clay just too easy to have a bad attitude that's a dime a dozen that's every man that ever walked the earth chip on your shoulder that don't make you amazing everybody's had one their whole life whether they knew it or not you're touchy you're going to be touched come on man i'm just preaching to you jesus sees us through his blood god the father sees us through jesus's blood as if we've never sinned i'm standing in your pocket telling you comfortable with me telling them this i'm glad you believe that you believe that don't you because it's scriptural what's holy blameless and above reproaching his sight me somebody help me if i'm deceived what's holy blameless and above reproach me in his sight how many christians have walked woke up and lived their day holy blameless and above reproach with the confidence that the word's true and the blood speaking better things and god actually sees them that way how many people have actually wrapped faith around this truth so grace can bring change or do we let what people say still speak louder than truth do we let things matter more than what matters most does our day decide how we're doing or does the gospel we believe already seal me that's why i'm aggressive that's why you see me passionate and and almost seem to some would use the word intimidating it's not meant to be intimidating i believe the gospel i'm blameless in the sight you can't talk me out you can't email me enough and call me a witch doctor enough to change my mind i'm blameless through the blood and he lives in me because he wants to not because i beg him he came to me he knocked on the door of my heart he drew me because he wanted me because why i got lost through adam and he wanted to birth me again through christ because what was a flesh is flesh but what's of spirit is spirit [Applause] if you don't see yourself the way god sees you you won't be unveiled in your communion with god you'll still feel uncertain unsure you'll have blocks in your life you'll get stopped in your wordage you'll go 20 minutes to try to get past yourself to get to him instead of just walk in a room and close the door and say hey i'm here i so appreciate the way you love me preachers are so afraid of this kind of preaching because they say you're just going to empower people to sin and get away with it they're just going to think they can just do anything that is the last thing i'm preaching did you hear me imply anything like that i'm calling you to sanctification in holiness i'm i'm calling you to a life that's set apart see because you can't sincerely live in righteousness without that revelation producing holiness the bible says so so you're not biting your lip to be holy the truth is empowering you to live holy when you believe you're a son you'll look like sonship when you believe you're forgiven your life will look like forgiven as a man thinking so he is the eye is the lamp of the body when we see him as he is we'll be like him any man that says he abides in him ought to walk even as he walked predestined to be conformed in his image romans 8 2 peter 1 great exceedingly great and precious promises by which through them we partake of his divine nature he's not talking about full vats and barnes and provision he's talking about life change he said i gave you promises to assure you can be changed don't let anybody talk you out of it ain't nobody talking me out of it i've been with him way too many days i've heard his voice way too many times he's held me way too much for somebody's theology to talk me out of what i live he sees me holy blameless and above reproach in his sight because he wants to through the blood you know what that does to me that makes me want to live the best possible life in christ i can that makes me love him all the more because now i see his first love i'm not puzzled by the cross i'm not why did he do that for me i get it now and i see his first love and i love him do you get it if you don't believe you're clean you won't have confidence in his presence watch this there's no way you'll get alone with him corporate worship will be your best corporate prayer will be as close as you get your needs list impersonal prayer needs list will be your prayer life just praying for stuff that you care about but wow father thanks for loving me i so appreciate how you see me through jesus you're the confidence and strength of my life man you've watched me and made me clean it is amazing to wake up today knowing today is a gift that you've given me another day through mercy to just be more like you there's no good thing you held back from me holy spirit i welcome you and i love living in you and i am so glad you're living in me i appreciate our relationship thank you for never changing your mind thank you for being a rock no turning no shifting of shadow god that my life would be as steadfast as i see you god would you let me rightly represent you thank you for the honor that's how i talk to him when you ain't looking now you see what's wrong with me you ain't talking me out of it not that you're trying but don't think people haven't tried set you straight because they don't agree with your theology well make me take a little closer look at the life and let's get past theology and talk in the bible over coffee let's talk about validly loving people amen it's crazy how a theologian type mindset a walk by a thousand people in a day and never consider loving them and get upset and offended because they cut them off or stepped them from and never even consider loving them but then challenge a preacher that's preaching something they don't agree with but walk by everybody that needs truth [Applause] you just be really careful that you never let your heart slip into some critical spirit deceived never never land because if a man loves he knows god and if a man doesn't love he might know all about him theologically but if he doesn't love he might quote every scripture that was ever written but if he doesn't love he doesn't know him guess what jesus said i'll just read it right out of the bible so you know i ain't misquoting it i don't i think you all you all like you all you have no problem with me quoting nothing look what jesus said let's do it this way wow and i was going to touch john 3 for for a reason but we can save time and just go right to the nitty gritty of it jesus spoke these words and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said father the hour has come glorify your son why is he glory hungry glorify your son is he glory hungry is that a vanity thing is that a vain request glorify your son that your son may glorify you don't you love that watch this and as you have given him meaning me this is jesus talking as you have given him authority over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as you have given him and this is eternal life it's amazing he never said it was a street corner prayer he said this is eternal life that they may know you eternal life is knowing him it's being restored to the eternal one and death being swallowed up by life he has the keys remember eternal life is knowing him the only true god and jesus christ whom you have sent do you see what jesus called eternal life relationship and oneness with the father i asked these uh i asked pastor if these fellows can put if the people can put the scriptures on the board somebody wave your hand if you're going to be able to do that are you going to be okay with that do you have new king james version i'm getting picky now the only reason is because it's what i quote out of and if i'm looking and i'm quoting they'll see what i'm saying new king james first john chapter one start in verse five if you could here's what happens i'm gonna talk to you about something it's imperative that you understand righteousness in your life he rules his kingdom by the scepter of righteousness he loves righteousness more than his companions that's what he says about jesus he loves right standing with god he says he never leaves me i always do what he asks me the bible says if you love him you'll keep his commandments why because you love him he's not saying if you love me you'll keep my commandments what he's saying is if you love me you'll do what i say to do because you love me and he says his commandments aren't burdensome because they all have to do with love he made man to love people he said behold i give you a new commandment he says wait a minute yet it's not a new commandment it's the one you had from the beginning he said i'm just here to restore what always was you don't know this because you were born into adam but i need you born again because you're on the earth for a whole different reason than you've pursued you've been trained by a lie you've been overcome by the wisdom of men the way that seems right to man has been your school you've been homeschooled in the wrong home i came to bring you home you won't put that up there can you put that up there for me see you can never have intimacy and close relationship with god in the way that your life's transformed if you're sin conscious if you're always fighting this battle with sin if you're condemned because of sin if you're identified through sin if if if if you're weighing your life by sin you have to go through jesus you have to come through righteousness like i say it this way i think you'll get this if if you don't start where he finished you'll never run well so tonight i'm going to show you where he finished he finished leaving you clean holy blameless and above reproach in the sight of the father if you don't start there and stay there and believe there you'll never run well give condemnation and shame are three major tools of the devil and there's three things that stop the church all the time he did not come to condemn the world but that the world might be saved through him so when i read in my bible he did not come to condemn the world did not is loud to me so if he did not come to condemn the world if i'm living in condemnation i'm outside of why he came he said in john 12 i didn't come to judge you i came that you might be saved but you'll have my word which will judge you in that day he just wants us to believe he wants us saved he didn't come to show us where we're not and what we're getting wrong he came to show us who we are and how he loves us and he says but i'll tell you what you're going to have this word the standard of truth it'll judge you in the day and he's coming in that day riding on a horse marriage of angels and saints he's going to have a sword hanging out of his mouth he's going to have written on his thigh king of kings and lord of lords he's coming with a sword man hanging out his mouth he's going to smite the nations with the sword he said i ain't here to judge you i'm here that you be saved i'm here to tell you guys you're a whole lot more to me than you realize here's what we think the cross says a lot of preachers will preach this jesus hanging across i hope you're happy i hope you see what your sin did to me i hope you're really sorry come on i gave my life aren't you ready to give yours why don't you knock off the craziness look what you're sending to me i had to die because of you people have preached that that's what the cross is saying to try to compel you to service see if you don't have relationship with god but you have convictions in god you'll be reduced to serving him instead of knowing him let me show you what the cross says i love you i've known you from the beginning you don't know who you are but i have always known who you are i never lost sight of you my love has never failed i know what you can be i know what you'll look like when i live in you and your surrender you're worth paying for i love you people come unto me if you're heavy laden if you're burdened come to me i'll give you rest learn of me take of me eat of me my yoke is easy my burdens light i love you that's what the cross is saying no preacher in my life ever preached the gospel that way to me not one preacher in my life i wonder why i wonder why we're not preaching that when it's all through scripture i wonder why we're just militant he died for you are you ready to die for him you need to give your life hey the lord sees everything you're doing in secret if your mind be posted on a poster board would you be embarrassed i never saw people say you got to watch this love thing brother there's judgment of god you can't show me one scripture where the judgment of god leads men to change not one i challenge you you can't show me one scripture where the reprimand of god transforms me but i can show you his goodness well and i can show you his love absolutely does so i'm going with that camp because that's the word of god you can come up with all your examples of judgment you want but i have saw men transformed you can go to leviticus you can go to the book of judges and it's a sad story man bondage cry out deliverance bondage cry out deliverance after chapter because there's no relationship so estranged jesus called god his father and they wanted to kill him twice as much hearing on the sabbath was bad enough call god your father you're really done now dude who do you think you are but when he taught you to pray said pray saying power he's saying look guys he's not just my father he's your father too you don't even know where you came from and where you're going but i know and that's why i'm here because i love you you've been sheep astray without a shepherd but i'm here and he who has ears to hear let him here you know what we've done we've taken this book made professions out of it we've made offices out of it we've made theologies out of it we've made colleges out of it and we've just bought time that we don't even have to buy and we've turned this bible into a big debate forum and a whole bunch of camps and we're doing everything that paul said never do i'm of paul i'm of apollos i'm of cephas he said no that's sectarianism and you're carnal and you're deceived but we've done it and we boast in it don't you do that you're of christ and the way you know you're of christ is because you look like him because you're pursuing him and you know him and you know them by their love when you preach this sin free thing people freak out it's not people there's a there's actually i'm convinced there's a deceptive a demonic spirit where men actually you know there's a thing in the bible says that people will get so deceived they'll actually kill people and believe they're doing god a favor when they take it in their hands to take a life they feel like hey in the long run i did god a favor and exposed to them and got rid of them because they were causing so much taking life in their own hands so sure was paul sure when he was carrying them letters to damascus was paul sure when he was holding the closest stephen was paul convinced he was working for god was paul way super way deceived was he a high standing leader and authority in the church was he sure he was right was he doing what he was doing with zeal and confidence he was dead wrong wasn't he oops boy that should humble every person on the earth and stop finger-pointing let me show you scripture because people do this they say brother if you say you have no sin you're deceived and the truth's not in you and what they're making the scripture say out of context is that you're always guilty of sin always and the bible totally teaches the opposite if you're holy blameless and above reproach are you guilty of sin if you're righteous in a sight if you're justified are you guilty of sin so let's see what it's really saying this is the message which i've heard from him and declare to you that god is light god is what light where does he live in us and in him is no darkness at all you can just scroll with me thanks thanks for doing this if we say that we have fellowship with him so we say we have communion and co-union abide and dwell in him and walk in darkness well come on we're lying we're not practicing the truth we're hiding behind a confession but if we walk in the light which means it's possible if we walk in the light as is there a comparison here okay so is it possible if the bible's saying if we walk in the light of season the light is it possible to walk in the lightest he's in the light oops this is so good this is going to get so good i'm telling you if we walk in the light of season the light guess what we have we have fellowship co-union koinonia communion intimacy with one another and the blood of and the blood of jesus christ his son cleanses us from all sin next verse if we say we have no sin look the blood of jesus just cleansed us of all sin he says if we say we have no sin he's not saying in the moment he's saying if you say you have no need for the blood well what blood why do i need the blood come on if we don't need the blood christ died in vain every man sinned and fallen short of the glory god guys i'll come over here a little too i know you're over here what watch we got the word on this side this side has the word what if we say we have no sin we're deceived we deceive ourselves and the truth's not in us people take one line and make a doctor out of it and say you always have sin he just forgave you of all sin but look at verse nine what a good whoa this is good if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness okay you were just forgiven of all sin and you were just cleansed of all unrighteousness so if you cleanse a man of all unrighteousness what's left righteousness if all unrighteousness is gone then the only thing that can be left is righteousness so now in the next verse he clarifies verse eight when he says if we say we have have no sin he repeats the phrase but he clarifies it what if we say we have not sinned he's not talking about a minute ago an hour ago or this morning he's talking about your need for the blood if you say you have no need for the blood and you say you have never sinned well then you're making him a liar because he said you all sinned and fallen short of the glory of god and his word isn't in us okay chapter two verse 1 if you can do that because it's the next verse it's all one letter anyway we just made chapters chapter 2 verse 1. thanks you got to see this this is amazing you know what people do they take the word holler when that's up there take your time guys first john chapter two verse one people take the word out of context piece it together uh uh some of these these movements out there that we call calls they knock on your door they sell their product and tell you what they believe and they'll give you a little pamphlet they knock on my door they give me their little pamphlet i know the word so i just asked for a pen and i just wrote where all the scriptures came from and where they took them from and i quoted what they mean in their context so all they did was take four scriptures to say something that the bible's not even saying so they took four scriptures pieced them together out of context to make a statement that isn't even the bible and these kids are selling it and i called them on it and they shook and they shook in their boots and i mean we had quite a time with those boys and they're backing off my porch trembling i'm not joking and i said look you don't even know what you believe i crawled over my railing and went down after them as they're walking down the street i love them i was i wasn't mad at them i said listen to me boys you ain't even sure what you believe right now don't you dare knock on one door of my neighbors or my neighbor's house because you don't even know what you believe you go get a revelation and i was just on them next day senior elders knocking on my door i said you know i'd love to rejoice and be glad you're here but i know why you're here you're only here to hear what i told them boys so you can better train them against a fella like me it's the only reason you're here they put their heads down i said it's true but let's let's do this thing come on in you know what they did you know what they did it came to my home group it was powerful i wish it would have turned out better but watch this i've lived in the same house for 35 years they left my home group that night they never came back watch this since that day i've never seen them in my neighborhood i've seen them in other neighborhoods i've never seen them in my neighborhood since that day because i still live there they blackballed me i talked to somebody that came out of that movie and they said oh i have an x they're telling them stay off your block because of you because they don't know how to address you now i wish it was a different reason but can we do that first john 2 no i'll just quote it it says little children i write these things so you do not sin oh look at this these guys are on it watch see see tell me i didn't read this bible my little children these things i write to you so you may not sin well brother you're always going to sin he says if you say you have no sin you're deceiving the truth ain't in you he ain't talking about that he talked about the act of sin in the moment he said the reason i'm writing this i'm revealing righteousness i'm telling you the blood of jesus has washed you and cleansed you that god is light there's no darkness in him at all and if he lives in you you can walk in the light as he's in the light and you have fellowship with one another and his blood has made you squeaky clean but if you say you have no need for the blood you're deceived you need to repent but if you confess your sins and see your need for the blood he will cleanse you of all righteousness but if you say you haven't sinned and have no need for the blood well the truth's not in you my little children the reason i'm writing this to you is so you may not sin he's not saying but you know you're always gunning if you say you don't you're lying see how powerful it is to read it in context i write these things to you so you may not sin and if not when and if not when and if anyone sins we have an advocate he's with the father he's jesus christ the righteous and he himself is the propitiation for ourselves watch this this is why you can pray for somebody out there that's not a believer that's why i can say healing on the street that's why anybody can be touched by god why because the blood is speaking better things he didn't come to judge the world but save the world now they still have to repent and get born again don't you just say everybody's all right there's movement out there says everybody's already saved stop that it's always repentance it's always changed the way you think because if you don't repent your life will never change you can't incorporate him into your life he becomes your life it has to have change watch but his propitiation the mercy that's crying out it's not only for ours and our sin but also for the whole world that's why you can walk up to an unbeliever and talk to them get talking and say man can i just pray for you yeah pray for him walk it because mercy triumph's over judgment because the blood of jesus is speaking better things how do you think jesus healed all these people before he ever went to the cross and shed his blood it's called mercy triumphing over judgment he didn't even shed his blood yet people are you with me there was some dude out there it's fascinating he's guesting out devils in jesus name he ain't one of the disciples the disciples are wigged out they're like should we tell this guy to stop he ain't running with us who does he think he is he said don't tell them to stop ain't nobody gonna do a good thing in my name and soon after be against me let him go this dude got a revelation he's out there guessing how devil's in jesus name before the cross because of the authority of who he was and he recognized and perceived he was the son of god so did you did we clear this up when somebody says well brother if you say you have no sin okay watch this hebrews chapter 10. can we go there i think pastor gave you that on your list can we go to hebrews 10 is it a problem good wow okay now this seems a little wordy but we'll explain it watch for the law the law having a shadow of good things to come the law that's like killing the little critters splitting the turtle dove taking in the lambs the sheep right and and and and doing the sacrifice stuff they were doing like there was all kinds of sacrifice animals but there's an annual atonement where where the priest would come and go into the tabernacle that was made through the vision right that moses got and and it was crazy you guys know the story they tie a rope to the dude he wore bells on his garments because if you stopped hearing the bell something went wrong and he's dead imagine if you're the next priest in line and you're like ding ding ding yes ding ding ding please ding ding ding ding silence on the rope nothing i think we lost freddy yeah it's too quiet pull him out billy get ready bud this happened and then they put the garment on billy chummy and dallas wasn't ringing [Applause] and he's taking the blood of bulls and goats in there it's a shadow it's just a shadow it's just a form of the good thing that's coming it can never do what the thing that's coming can do so when it tells you what this one couldn't do it means the one that's coming can you'll see that for the law having a shadow of what things good things to come not the very image of those things can never with these same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year make those who approach complete or perfect for if that was so would they not have ceased to be offered everybody with me okay for the worshipers uh-oh once purified would have no more consciousness of ah that's bible so the goal of the one that's coming is to make you never again conscious of sin the first one couldn't do that because every time they went and sacrificed it was a reminder of sin god they would have had no more consciousness so the goal of the new covenant is to get rid of the consciousness of sin and the old thing couldn't do that but in those sacrifices there's a reminder of sins every year for it's not even possible that the blood of bulls and goats can take away sin that means it is possible that the blood of jesus can therefore when he came into the world he said who said he said sacrifice and offering you did not desire but a body you've prepared for me in burnt offering and sacrifices of sin you had no pleasure and then i said behold i have come in the volume of this book it is written on me to do your will o god previously saying sacrifice and offering burnt offerings and offering for sin you did not desire nor have pleasure in them which are offered according to the law then he says behold i've come to do your will of god watch he takes away the that he may establish the so he takes away the one that couldn't to establish the one that can are you with me this is huge by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of jesus christ what for oh my goodness and every priest is standing ministering daily offering repeatedly to say aren't you glad we aren't in that thing you all say you're animal lovers we'll see we'd see if you were in that thing conscious of sin condemned by sin you have all your little pets you'd have a whole bunch of pets because of sin you'd have to take your little pets down into the basement if you lived in that covenant that's what they did they had to go to market and purchase some little critter and go you see oh i love my kitty no you love your computer and now your kitty you got hammy he's sitting on the wheel he's like the only one left in the house and he sees you sit down at your computer and that little pop-up comes up and you're like oh and hammy's just standing against a glass little eye [Laughter] all sudden you're a click hammy's like now you hear yoga down this down into the basement with hammy that would be terrible but every priest is standing minister in daily these same offerings repeatedly these same sacrifices all it does is keep the consciousness of sin alive and what you are what a man thinketh what a man think it's as a man thinketh so he is you see the demonic strategy that has blurred the gospel try to make you to actually wow brother we're always going to sin what are you saying you don't sin you're saying you're perfect i ain't saying none of that i'm saying what the bible says i can walk in a consciousness of righteousness so grace can empower me to be what jesus paid for that's all i'm saying well what are you saying you never sinned i never even said that i don't want to sin i could go without consciousness of sin believe me for a day for sure i don't even talk about it because then people really throw the heresy flag because people believe they're sinning while they're breathing and when you're wearing that garment your sin conscious and you're not living in the second covenant you're living in the first so why aren't you in your cats and dogs because if you're not letting the blood of jesus do what it does then i guess you ought to do something else come on i'm on you now you want to criticize a man because he has no consciousness of sin your bible says you're not supposed to so maybe that's the difference between a believer and an unbeliever in the word i'm not seeing an unbeliever in jesus an unbeliever in the word the sign follows those that believe you know why there's not a lot of science following there's not a lot of belief so we have to come up with a theology that defends are no signs because there's no belief next verse [Music] but this man don't you love this but this man after he offered one sacrifice for sins forever all i'm doing is reading you the bible this is not hard to understand this is not my sermon this is the word of god posted on the wall he offered one sacrifice for sins what and sat down at the right hand of god from that time waiting till his enemies or made his footstool this will be the last verse for by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being set apart for a holy purpose let's do romans 6 and i'll be done and then we're going to pray for some things you all good all right it's 908 are you hanging in there you all right you can see i'm wearing down i hope we get done soon i could do this for like 15 straight hours and not even blink we'll just let people fall out the window and just hope they get up i just promise you some man said i don't want to wear you out i don't i want to honor you i don't want to schedule you too much i said what wear me out on a weekend have me preach all day and wear me out preaching friend i don't think so so he took me serious so guess what he did i was a whole way out in in california and uh oh i was in where was i it doesn't matter it's like san diego presbyterian church sat eight hundred people they packed the place you know what he did had me start at eight in the morning on saturday eight i said eight he said yeah we're a morning culture out here we'll be up and rolling people get up and go to their starbucks well they call it saint arbucks we're gonna go to our saint r box and we'll be at service starting me at eight o'clock i'll preach till nine five minutes stretch and potty break 905 boom until 1005. five minute stretch potty break guess how long i preached on saturday alone not to mention friday and sunday at three locations nine hours saturday i preached the gospel i was a madman i i had to go to bed by faith i thought i'll never sleep again i laid in my bed nine hours of the gospel i didn't even know what to do people were coming up to me brother you've been pouring out we just went stop don't you pray that stuff over me i don't even know what to do now you just want to pray that god fills you stop it i went to bed i'm not joking i'm like lord jesus why because you do everything by faith i wasn't one bit sleepy but i laid down in bed lord i just thank you oh my guess what about five hours later it's all the time five hours later [Applause] it's my life this is about five hours later it's so fun romans 6 he ends romans 5 making a statement where sin abounded grace did abound what so where sin abounded grace what came way greater so that's why he starts this off like this you understand it's all one big letter we made chapters it's all one big letter what shall we say then where sin abounds grace abounds more what shall we say then shall we continue in sin that grace may bound some people say you don't have a choice that you always have to continue in sin because it's your nature and it's your demise and you'll always have to continue in sin well you might as well cut out half the new testament watch certainly not now here's what we don't understand because we preach the gospel that benefits us instead of transforms us so because we preach a gospel that takes us to heaven and fills our vats and barns it leaves our identity bankrupt and our life unchanged and then we don't have a conviction in our life because we don't have a revelation of what we're created for how shall we see most people when they get born again they ain't told that they're dying to sin they're told they're going to go to heaven if they pray the prayer and if they hit a tree on the way home tonight they'll be glad they got in in the nick of time buddy isn't that how we preach it listen to me guys if you don't know where you're going if you would die tonight if die tonight you don't know where you're going just slip up your hand right now and i want you to pray this prayer of me that's how we preach the gospel and you can come out of a bar five weeks later with a woman on your arm that ain't your wife and have no conviction it's possible but if you preach this it ain't possible to not have no conviction i know god works with things and there's mercy and people got saved and transformed by telling them that i get it you don't have to fight with me over this but jesus did not tell us to preach the gospel that way jesus told us to preach repent for the kingdom of gods here he talked water baptism all through the book of acts they never even preached salvation without water baptism because it's always about dying to live as soon as they got saved who can forbidden water what shall we do we're cut to the heart repent and be baptized for the remission of your sin that means the removal all through the new testament saved baptized filled with that mighty holy ghost saved baptized filled with that mighty holy ghost one place they were filled with that mighty holy ghost and baptized you see where peter's mind was seeing that they've received the same spirit we have who can forbidden water that they should be baptized and they were all put in the water dying to live watch this how shall we who died to sin died to sin well brother you can't die to sin you're always going to sin sins in your life and you're sinning every day you're probably sinning now and you just don't realize it i had somebody sit me down and say you don't understand sat me down i said i need to explain something to you you don't have the sensitivity of the lord there's things in your life that violate him that offend him that you aren't sensitive to you're constantly guilty of sin because you're at such a low level of discernment and you're always guilty of sin how shall we who how can i die to sin and believe what they're trying to tell me first peter 2 he bore your sin and my sin and his body on a tree that we having died to sin how can i die to sin if i'm always boasting in my ability to commit it and calling it humility how shall we who died to sin live in it any longer or do you not know that's an important phrase you'll see it about four times means you better know or do you not know maybe you don't know do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into christ jesus were baptized into his death what's his death we'll see it in a minute therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death must be important twice in two verses that just as christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father see it ain't just about dying it's about living even so we should walk in the newness of life for if we have been united together here's three times in two verses united together in his death then certainly we shall be in the likeness of his resurrection dying to live knowing this second time you better know that your old man was was was was crucified with him that the body of sin might be done away with that we should no longer be i looked up that word slave you know what it means bound and chained to serve one's will watch this let me read it that way that we should no longer be bound and chained to serve sin's will next verse for he who has died not he who has accepted jesus into his heart and prayed a prayer to go to heaven but he who has died he who has died he was understands that the life he was living was zero because it was void of god void of truth it was built on a lie he who has died to the old and lives to the new he who put on christ who's a new wine skin he who has died has been freed does the bible really say this are you sure you got is this the bible do you got the bible up there all right they're assuring me it's the bible somebody that has a bible check in romans 6 and make sure it says this for he who has died has been what johnny does it say that that you're freed from sin well you're always going to sin you're a captive to sin man it's in your nature you're sinning right now probably you just don't even know that is a wow isn't it see you're way too late to talk me into that crazy deception stuff i enjoy waking up in the presence of the lord knowing i'm right with him i enjoy him wrapped around me in his love whether i feel it or not because my heart knows it i enjoy having confidence and coming boldly into his presence because i have a mediator jesus christ who has passed through the heaven and he's seated at the right hand of almighty god i enjoy my relationship with god and you are not going to talk me out of it he who has died is what he's what whoa now if we died with christ we believe we shall also with him i'm coming over here these guys are pretty stirred up oh third time you better know knowing knowing knowing the christ having been raised from the dead come on he dies no more oh death he has the keys remember no longer has so nobody took his life he freely gave it he ain't dying no more once for all here's the baptism into his death remember we were buried in the baptism of his death now he's going to explain what we were buried into and what the baptism of his death means watch for the death that he died were buried into the death of jesus christ right baptizing the death that he died look at this he died to sin once for but the life that he lives he lives to god likewise because we're one covenant he came and did this for us to restore humanity he never talks about jesus without bringing us in because he sees us as one likewise you also because you're following jesus you also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin you have a brother we're always going to sin what are you trying to say you're perfect and you don't sin i don't like the way you're teaching and you're freaking me out because everybody sins man we sinned all day long dude and we need the blood of jesus and he died because we're always sinning you ever hear people talk like that does the bible teach that i showed you first peter 2 i showed you colossians 1 i showed you first john 1 i showed you hebrews 10 and i'm showing you romans 6 and there's more i think i've showed you a lot and i'm reading it boldly right off the wall all i'm doing is reading scripture it's not hard to interpret likewise you also wreck how can i reckon myself dead to sin and in a false humility boast in my ability to commit it continually see when he's talking about dying to sin he's talking about its stain its memory its impulse its desire its condemnation its regret he's talking about everything that sin brings you die to it all and you don't see yourself for where you've been you see yourself for where he's been and the christ in you becomes your hope of glory you reckon yourself dead indeed indeed dead indeed don't you like that added word he just said don't reconcile if you reckon yourselves dead to sin he said indeed dead indeed that's emphasis to sin but what but alive so wonder if you wake up alive unto god in christ jesus wonder if you wake up forgiven washed and clean wonder if you're waking hours you actually wake up and you're already wearing your righteousness because you went to bed in it and you never again are living naked and ashamed you are clothed and robed in him i wonder if you wake up and you know you're accepted into beloved wonder if you just wake up and know you're clean and holy and blameless and above reproach wonder if you don't go out of your door and try not to sin you actually have a free mentality from it and sin hasn't even crossed your mind because you're consumed with the righteous judgment of god and all of a sudden righteousness is producing its fruit to holiness and you're living in a manner that you were always told isn't even possible which means the people that are teaching that are living the way they're teaching but they're right here standing and they're defending their life with their theology with no possible ability to change how's that for strong i had a pastor come to me one day because i said you don't see no secrets to me there ain't no secrets there ain't no closets hearing nothing hidden and i was preaching he said you have to be careful with that man everybody has their stuff you can't stand up there and say you don't got no secrets everybody got their stuff i said man you're freaking me out pastor so what's your stuff i said because the only reason you have that theology is because your life defends it so you better talk to me man i'm staying in your house you better come clean what's your stuff we had a powerful weekend by the way i didn't say it because i'm mad at him trying to rescue him from deception he's using his personal life to define theology save the life of jesus to find truth next verse please thank you guys therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body why because it'll start identifying you identify with it that you should abandon its lust will the desire come will the lust come will things come come on temptation is in sin guys hello temptation isn't sin jesus was tempted at all points he had the opportunity to do whatever he just didn't do it temptation is in sin don't get that confused temptation comes and it's in the line of sin man just rejoice and worship jesus and just talk to him while you're driving keep your hands on the wheel and keep watching the road you know don't have an accident say you were drunk in the holy ghost no you were distracted and deceived sorry god did not wreck your car who knows my buddy todd white anybody know todd so todd's daughter's in my car and we're going to the kingdom living school and i picked her up because i was taking her to school every morning and we're going down the road and i had a song playing and we're talking and the song just started singing the finished work and it grabbed me and i just kind of like lived like nobody was in the car because i'm a certain way you think i'm ramped up i am so calm in front of you i am so composed you have no idea i would offend people if they saw me in secret i would offend most christians if they saw me in secret because i'm pretty expressive and i'm not ashamed of my love for god but i'm not here to stumble you i'm here to teach you and if i'm besides myself it's for god but if i'm a sound mind it's for you but i forgot that sound mind thing in the car and i'm not telling you to ever do this but she can tell you this she sat and watched this and it was funny because i thought man this must happen all the time she's sitting there in that song i play and we were talking and i said who and i repeated it i said something and i got one of those little holy ghost things going on and he was like love you and i'm like yeah me too and it just happened man and the songs and i started talking and responding to god and next thing i know i'm like god and my eyes were closed i totally wasn't even thinking about driving she's sitting there going we went at least a quarter mile i think my eyes were closed the whole time i was looking up for something talking i was so overwhelmed i started crying i got loud she's just sitting there watching my intimacy with the lord and then thank you god i just started driving and everything was just cool i'm driving and she's just sitting there i said hey man it just happens to me girl usually when i'm alone but hey and she said no that was okay she said i was just like you weren't even looking at the road you didn't have either hand on the wheel we went over a quarter mile we went a long way and your truck was perfectly straight and going down it was like jesus was driving he said he does it all the time i said he knows how to drive like like if he's gonna do that to me and i can't help it i'm not doing it like hey i'm drunk in the lord i didn't even think about it i got overwhelmed i'm like if he's going to do that to me he'll drive the car she's like why i saw that like he drove the car i mean she said we weren't like i never like regrouped i just and then i'm like yeah and she's like she'll tell you about it don't present your members as instruments of unrighteousness watch this that doesn't mean just don't do the act of sin watch this don't present your members don't see yourself as sin waiting to happen don't see yourself for what's not in your heart don't present yourself as an instrument waiting to fail and sin waiting to happen man i can show you a scripture in the beginning of your bible where god came to cain and said why is your countenance fallen and he talked to him and he said don't you understand sin is crouching at your door and its desire is is for you and you should master over it old testament god was saying you've got conviction in your heart don't tell me you're helpless does cain still need the blood of jesus to be cleansed of the sins he committed but he's saying the sin that's crouching at your door stop saying you're already toast you should rule over that thing man because you have healthy conviction in your life and you've known me he told cain that in genesis 4. ain't that song see we don't preach this stuff we just say oh well brother we're all sinners oh he's gonna sin it's amazing he loves us and now we turn god's love into a mystery instead of a revelation now we can't even see his first love so we're compelled to serve him and we feel like we owe him instead of know him that is good man but we're going to present ourselves to god as being alive from the could you picture yourself waking up like this every day like just waking up like this and pressing through the feelings and you know you woke up went to the bathroom twice and now you don't feel rested your alarm screaming at 5 30 and you're like oh dude 5 30 no way and you're like god i don't know what i'm going to do today i got so much on my plate i don't know if i'm going to god you got to do something if you don't touch me man i ain't going to make it i'm not even called in and you call that prayer no no no can you back up for me please watch this you present yourself to god so you're laying in bed and you're being real you're not stuffing this thing you're not you're not being hypo spiritual you're going man you know what i can sleep another two hours man and i don't feel like getting up but you know what your grace is amazing and life's a gift and man i used to dread my job but you know what i realize it's a mission field and it's a platform to shine without projecting just to live in the beauty of who you are in me god you know what i'm getting up i'm heading to that bathroom i'm freshening up i'm washing up you are so good and all of a sudden you're presenting yourself as a member of righteousness and you realize you're right with god and he lives in you and everything's going to be fine i'm telling you if you'll start living like that you've got feelings you've got flesh you don't feel like getting out of bed i'm telling you in no time without realizing it you'll wonder what you were thinking you'll be in the bathroom you'll have a skip in your step you've been brushing your teeth looking at me i'm like hey man i've talked to myself so many times in the mirror dude that's amazing look at you i see your eyes are lit up man i see jesus in your countenance man it's absolutely obvious to me you understand he loves you you're wearing everything he accomplished and paid for dude that is amazing i've gone out of my bedroom caught myself in the full-length mirror and said what it ain't vanity it's not some weird thing i walk right up to myself you know how many people won't look in the mirror because when they when they see look into their eyes they see what they think and what they remember they don't see what he said so they don't even like who they are so a mirror is an enemy they can't look in a mirror and say you're so precious to god man god loves you he gave his life for you you are so worth his blood to him they can't say that because they don't believe that because their life has identified them and valued them instead of his life so they find their value through their life instead of his i had an administrator once at work at the office she took three days three days to be able to eyeball herself in the mirror and not look away and feel weird for three days she'd look in a mirror and try to talk to herself and preach truth and she'd get weirded out and look away and couldn't believe it took her three days to break through that thing i was in an order praying for a lady one day and i said oh my goodness you've dreaded the mirror you ain't been like a mirror mirror on the wall girl you have avoided you've run from a mirror because every time you look in the mirror what you see in the mirror reminds you of so many things your mirror has been your enemy she was bawling i said here's what i need you to do right now because you're so loved by god jesus loves you you go into that ladies room and you look dead straight in that mirror right into those eyeballs that you see looking back at you and you say you are valuable and precious to god and she took off running crying she came out of there freaking out she couldn't stop looking in the mirror she said she said so many good things into the eyes that she was looking at because revelation hit her heart it's powerful i've walked by that full-length mirror are you kidding me dude and if you fish bump yourself in the mirror he'll never play you never pull back [Applause] it's always solid fist pump he's right with you whatever you do it's like he knows what you're gonna do he could do some crazy thing he's gonna do it the guy in the mirror he's on it it's like you're one you get right up to your eyeballs you say man that's incredible the revelation of righteousness i see in your eyes like the glory of god is in your countenance sir i can tell that you have believed the finished work of christ in the gospel of jesus i can see god on you man in fact i don't even know what you're doing i've done this point blank just like this i don't even know what you're doing standing here man the whole world out there needs what i see in you dude i can tell you this right now this is an easy one you are going to have an incredible day man now you think i'm going to leave that place and get caught up in he said she said well i feel i don't know why you had it well how come well then he's there whatever you think i'm going to live there when i'm living here do you think this even has a remote temptation when i'm living here what's it called presenting myself as being alive from the dead and my members an instrument of righteousness next verse for sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace so it's not about condemnation and failure it's about becoming but paul knows what people will think when he writes like this so he says what then shall we just keep on sinning because we're not under the law and under grace of course not we already established that do you not know fourth time he's asking if you know that to whom you present yourself a slave to obey you are that one slave whom you obey whether it's sin leading to death or obedience leading to righteousness but god be thanked that though you were a slave to sin yet you obeyed from the heart this form of doctrine to which you were delivered people go to church their whole life and never get delivered this doctrine i went to church so i was 20 and nobody even scratched the surface of what i'm preaching to you right now so i quit going to church by the time i was 20. because all it did was remind me of my sin made me feel bad for the cross and he had to die for me and i can't get it straight so i acted like i didn't care and i gave up inside and i just deceived myself and i ran off and went in other directions nobody ever told me this and delivered this doctrine in my whole christian life holy spirit came into my bedroom and showed me it's in the word and changed me uh oh are you serious we're doing this again and having been what wow you became chained and bound to do the will of righteousness you've been set free from the law of the spirit of life through christ has from the law of sin and death you've been set free from sin you've become a slave to righteousness to serve its will i speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh for just as you presented your members as a slave to uncleanness and lawlessness leading to even more lawlessness because as a man think it's so he is so the more you yield and think this is who you are the more you wear that garment the more you stay in that garment so now present your members as a slave to righteousness for what holiness for when you were a slave of sin you were free in regard to righteousness what fruit did you have when you were living that way and the things which you're now ashamed for the end of those things is death but now third time having been don't be afraid of that you might want to repeat that with me having been and having became a slave to god chained and bound to god to serve his will you have your fruit too so what's the fruit of believing the righteous judgment of god holiness so the preacher that's afraid to preach righteousness because it gives people permission to sin isn't preaching righteousness clear people are so afraid of grace and preaching grace because somebody preached it perverted so then what do we do quit preaching grace put a red flag out so the new believer hears the word grace and shuts down because of the perversion and now we're in the pendulum syndrome and this camp is going oh and then this camp is reacting whoa whoa so we're going to get tighter we're going to get looser and jesus is right here in this beautiful happy place going hey guys let me just help you with something holy spirit taught me this a long time ago here's how you know if grace is perverse when you're hearing it preached if it's apart from transformation if you preach grace apart from transformation you're preaching the wrong grace because the only reason for grace is to transform you because it's god's working power and ability on your behalf to accomplish and become what you can never be on your own so if you preach grace as a permission slip to stay the same you're perverting grace if you preach grace as a reason to be transformed that's the grace of the bible grace apart from transformation is perversion grace is not a permission slip to sin hey i know we shouldn't do this yeah i know i really like you yeah i think i love you yeah but we shouldn't do this yeah i know but you know what god will forgive me and then you talk to him about it hey don't be judging me god forgives me hey don't that's twisted you hear me there's not one thing you heard me preach in three sessions that gives you a permission to live that way but man do i preach righteousness clean and holy and above reproach so when you really understand the beauty of the message that we're talking about watch this then you become chained to god and you have your fruit you know them by their so you'll see what a man understands about righteousness by how he conducts his life you'll see how well he knows god by how well he loves you see how you know them by their fruit wow in the end what's the end of this thing everlasting life we're going to live forever in his presence forever and ever amen praise be to god amen amen amen so uh that's just it's 9 40. are we messed up are we cool are we bad or where we are where where are we okay i just want we just want to pray for a couple things quick can we do that last night last night we prayed for some things we had an article we prayed for redemption and things you brought into your life we prayed for it to leave and i got this little word at the end even about tormenting the sleep messed up sleep and i said you know hey that's a word i see that all the time listen i didn't pray for y'all remember i said have communion talk to god yeah yeah i see dj and miss kim she's nervous because i said you're going to testify she said no well i said i'm putting a mic right here this girl came to me at the leadership luncheon and dj confirmed it she said i can't even tell you when i ever slept at night didn't you tell me that and she said it was torment dj said she would be like in her sleep seeing people talking freaking out she said i remember it from as far back as a little girl having that experience and she doesn't know of one night she's ever slept without disruption am i telling it right i'm just protecting her she was nervous to get up here but you could come up here and shout it out she's like you slept last night for the first time in your life i said i said did you commune with god she said i just talked to him and i she said i put off aside my meds and i just said yeah and i just followed what you instructed and jesus was like oh girl i love you sleep so i told her tonight you just and all of a sudden see well jesus wants his relationship he just doesn't want us to keep praying for our needs to get met sometimes we even praying for healing it's so impersonal praying for blessing it's so impersonal sometimes we're just trying to get something from god it's like we're rubbing the lamp and hoping it falls we're reading this like principles and we're like holding god to what he said and what about laying in your bed father i know you love me tonight i'm just making it all about your love you if you didn't love me see because what you could say is well if you love me why am i tormented every night of my life no no if you didn't love me you'd never sense your son thank you and i'm going to camp there and stay there and tonight i'm going to sleep just because of you she pushed the meds aside and she slept for the first time in her life i had another lady where's the other lady she came up to me and said just so you know i slept like a log who's my log she's got to be here i know she's here she got to be here she said i slept like a log was there anybody else who was here last night that raised their hand with that sleep thing was your experience what was your experience you slept and you had pain you had no pain all night long so you couldn't sleep because pain would come while you were sleeping you communed with the lord last night you talked to him and you just slept and it woke up and had no pain anybody else were you raising your hand sleep did you talk to the lord what was your experience she said i can't sleep because the pain tried everything different pills different stuff for whatever um see see she went to bed by faith she started to talk to god that's what say that's me and she said next thing i know it was 3 30 in the morning and you didn't have no pain you just slept through the day wow it's beautiful anybody else have a testimony of just communion with god and concerning the sleep thing yeah you slept very good she had a totally different experience than what you would have been familiar with before last night beautiful anybody else you what happened man change [Laughter] somebody else back there yeah apathy that's a backslidden state so you had like sleep apnea did you have any experience with that last night after you prayed and you slept let me ask you this do you ever have nights where it's just okay and you don't have that or is that a regular thing the apnea oh okay yeah yeah right but you didn't have nothing last night okay uh yeah yeah dear jesus huh that's when you know your buddy oh beautiful see what the lord that's great thanks for sharing it who sees that's powerful what the lord was teaching last night is relationship not just praying for needs of getting on a prayer list we're so impersonal sometimes i'm not against prayer list but i've seen an unhealthy thing with prayer last prayer change prayer change can be fear lines i know people don't like you talking like this because they gave their life to a prayer chain their whole life and stuff but i'm telling you it can be fearless like you can get you can let a prayer chain take the place of communion in relationship you can like say the more people praying the better and i'm like no one can move any mountain in faith do you mean the more praying the better sometimes you have a church of a thousand praying because they're afraid so and so it's going to die and then when they die their theology is in question and god couldn't mean well you can't tell me one of us out of a thousand didn't at least have a mustard seed brother how many times do we pray inspired by the problem how many times do we put on the identity of the problem and pray from the place of trouble a whole lot especially if you've lost somebody in your life especially if you went through the pain of watching somebody go that you've prayed for and say you stood for and then it happens to somebody else you know and it's like here we go again i went in a room and lost a good friend of mine and we had a couple hard hits in a row man and i just laid on my bed and cried because i was going over there every day and the lord said you know why you went over there every day because you saw him dying and you knew he was dying in your heart and all your tenacity and all your intensity and all your emotion and all your what seemed like confidence to everybody listening was because you were afraid here we go again he said all your motivation was motivated by the fear of him dying i sleep on my bed and cried like a baby and said help me jesus to growl because we all know this in our heart guys i could ask i don't care what denomination you come from if jesus walks in a room and touches that man what happens they ain't even nobody even has to think to answer that and yet he lives in us and says the things i do you'll do a few so it sounds like i'm believing and i'm actually fearing my friend dying because i just went through the pain of losing one and all my inspiration was coming from the fear of him dying too peter looks like he's a noble friend lord none of this shall come upon you he says get behind me satan you're a stumbling block to me sounds like he's being a devoted bud what's he saying you're the best thing that ever happened to me and you ain't going nowhere ain't nobody hurting you because you do something for me he said peter you have in mind the things of man not the things of god stumbling block to me peter ain't that something communion and fellowship if you have a physical condition you haven't seen change you've been challenged with something man my mama it was one of the biggest challenges of my life she was sick 40 years of my life she died at age 68. when i was young i carried my mom to bed i changed my own mom's diapers that's humbling for your mama so don't tell me i don't understand don't think that we always just see the victory and manifestation of what we call the victory i see the victory of the cross i see the victory of right perspective i pray for the sick you can't tell my mother died of sickness at 68 and we never saw change in her body you don't see it change one thing i believe about jesus's life i don't let my mom's scenario change the gospel i didn't covet my mother and take my mother into my heart and let pain challenge god and be angry at god now i ain't praying for nobody because my mom died that's so self-centered deceived it's ridiculous stop i'm not gonna do that i'll tell you what because my mama died there's some mamas that lived because i ain't turned in tail there's humility factor in that and there's not letting what happened to my mom decide what jesus's life reveals i'm not finding truth for my mom dying or living i'm finding truth through jesus christ and i'm going after this thing and i can pray for 16 people with cancer and unfortunately see them all die and the bible tells me to lay hands on number 17. now i don't tell them i'm over 16. and i don't make that an issue hey listen can i pray for you i've been going for a breakthrough i prayed for 16 people in a row they all died but i feel like i really need to pray for you they'd be like don't you touch me no ah you're not inspired to pray for them because of your track record you're inspired to pray for them because of jesus's life and words because of the love of god towards people so we're going to pray real quick it's getting so late and i apologize i'm just i don't understand time sometimes i feel i feel like i know i got four sessions and it sounds like i got a whole lot of time but i feel like i'm barely scratching the things in my heart half the time but i feel like if you give me four sessions i'm honored to be here i feel like when i leave i feel like i've had opportunity to leave a deposit but if you notice i say a whole lot in my little time frame i figure they record it you can go back and get it if you want it but i i'm like i'm not a one point two point sermon guy i'll preach 25 things in 23 minutes and i still feel like it ain't enough sometimes so it's hard for me to stop the gospel never stops in me i mean i'm preaching the gospel in my mind when nobody's around i'm talking to him all the time about it it's never ever gotten old him loving me is never old him dying on a cross for me is as fresh as it was 26 years ago i don't know how to calm down i'm as wired as i've ever been i tell people what you see in me you'll see the next time you see me i might even be a little worse because i know him more it's never gotten old knowing him he's amazing i believe he wants to heal some folks tonight i believe he always wants to heal folks i believe folks going to get healed tonight we're going to pray we're going to do this as quick as we can here's what i need we're all called to pray for the sick do you understand that the sign follows the believer not the pastor the sign doesn't follow the apostle or the prophet alone it doesn't say the sign follows the gifted it says the sign follows the believer so everything in life that's not god is out to determine your belief system every strategy of hell is to decide is out to decide what you believe to get you to analytically assess when your momma dies like mine and try to get you to come up with some line of thinking that trump's believing that you actually come out of it worse than you came in it because you've assessed what happened instead of assessed more who he is listen everything on the earth is vying for your belief these signs follow those that so if belief is where the signs follow everything trying to shut down the signs isn't worried about the signs it's worried about what you believe and if you believe something about god because of how life unfolded you're going to find you were deceived what you believe about god is because of jesus's life and word are you with me every person in this room is called to and anointed for praying for the sick i promise you everybody in this room not everybody i've laid hands on has jumped up and shouted hallelujah and walked without pain and walked without immobility there's things i haven't seen in my life i'm growing you're growing we're growing but there's way too many things i have seen because i put myself in the position for it and i've seen way too much to change my mind oh i get it my mama died but god ranks a little higher than that how about it if it wasn't for him i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him i'd have no mama if it wasn't for him i wouldn't be living forever in his presence i'm not going to covet life i'm going to covet to give it up give her of it and i promise you we're on that level and he's my friend and my father and that's not offensive to him he is not ashamed to call me a brother phew so i'm gonna lay my hands on the sick you're called to lay your hands on sick the reason christians don't pray for the sick the number one reason they're afraid nothing will happen it's not usually their belief system or their theology the number one reason people pull back their hand and don't lay hands on sick because they're afraid nothing will happen and because they're afraid nothing will happen they don't pray for the sick so they always have what they fear they always have nothing i don't know if you know who randy clark is but randy's an awesome man i heard him say this one time i was doing a conference with him he invited me to come and and it was fun and he made a statement that stayed with me all these years he said look i don't have the answers about all this there's things i haven't seen there's things i've seen he said it can get complex it can seem like a mystery but he said here's what i know i just know the more people we pray for the more things we'll see that's what i know and i went that just works for me not how come and why what am i missing well god can't and how come and now you got all these mind-wrenching debates over a cup of coffee and you're not doing anything with conviction or laying your hands on the sick because you're in quandary you

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