Do Not Drift - Christine Caine

hey church how you doing I am so fired up to be here I couldn't wait to be here with y'all and you they tell me that the 11 o'clock is the most holy service at all of the Seacoast services because you know with God it goes from faith to faith from glory to glory so the 5:30 last night is good and the 9 o'clock was gooder but the goodest is the 11 a.m. are you the most holy congregation in all of sick y'all are not you're the most backslidden you just woke up half an hour ago that's what the issue is some of you still haven't gone out from last night but we're so glad you're here it is our joy I'm so grateful that it worked out that we could be here this weekend I feel like I'm just with family and in case you sort of not aware you'll have a cray-cray Australian aunt and that would be me and you know how it Christmas you always have those crazy relatives that come in once a year on that person okay so if you don't like me it's okay come back next week the real pastor will be here and you will be fine life will be as normal but God's been doing some amazing stuff I am still wide-eyed I just said you know to Pastor Lisa I looked around and I went are you still like in awe of what God has done because you know when I first when I was here last year I think it was last year this was still kind of being constructed and then we come back and I look at your new house and I'm like y'all have been renovating and you have done a kick devil butt job this is unbelievable and so I am just so grateful I love growth and I love expansion and I love a house that is full of vision and that is prepared to make room for what God wants to do you want to thank God that you under such great leadership in such a great house that has so much and so I love that and I'm hoping all of you in the back you know that's the very holy section if the rapture happens when I'm preaching you're going first right there it's fantastic so I hope you'll are going well I am here with the single most ravishing piece of masculine footpaths pastor Greg's looking at me thinking I'm talking about him but I'm actually talking about my husband the single most ravishing piece of masculine flesh on planet earth I've been sleeping with him for 23 years and since the time we were married not before in case you're wondering but anyways so you want to stand up honey this is my husband Nick everyone and say is awesome they told me I'm allowed to be a little bit naughty with the 11 o'clock because the holy people were all in the nine o'clock so that's okay and then we have two daughters and I think we've got a picture of my Katherine Bobby and my Sofia Joyce and they are the love of my life now because my husband is number 14 of 15 children yeah all the women just cross their legs and the men are like no no no television in that part of Australia in case you're wondering was on the Dark Ages but my mother-in-law fully did not think you were a chick until you popped out like number 10 and so I would take Catherine and Sofia and I would go this is Catherine Bobby my alpha and this is Sofia Joyce my Omega and they are the beginning and the end of my childbearing years and that's kind of where it all guy I mean I didn't pop out my first till 35 and my second till 40 so honey you need a Purple Heart when you pop out a kid at 40s so it is all done but they are that joy in my life and I've told every service I've got to tell you're my eldest one just recently got a boyfriend which you know was always going to be an interesting thing to navigate any parent of daughters I love all of you that have got sons but I'm just gonna tell you what we do with your sons so my daughters when the boy wanted to date my daughter my husband made him make an appointment with our secretary so that he would come to our office remembering that we put human traffickers in jail and so it was in that office and then he made him wait for 30 minutes and then brings him into his office and again I was saying this in every service because it makes me feel so joyful that I can actually say it because I'm in the South because I was raised in a stray or and I live in Southern California so I can't even say what I'm about to say out loud so it's beautiful to be able to say it out loud here so my husband made sure that he strategically placed him under all of the animal heads that are in his office and it was so awesome and then he had printed out some paperwork that said that only 1.2 percent of all high school romances end up in marriage so my husband's like opening dialogue with this poor boy was Jackson looking at the data objectively there is a ninety eight point eight percent probability that you will not be marrying my daughter therefore the purpose of this meeting is because I want to hear from you what your plans are about dating somebody else's wife how many think my husband's a good father right yes said the poor dude the fact that he didn't have to change his underwear after that is a big thing and he made it through that meeting so they've been he's still alive and it's wonderful so it's it is a new season for us I love it I love parenting and I love parenting well changing chicks and so they're they're great but anyway we're gonna dive too into the word today I mean this is the last service for the day you got nothing going at lunch now and the football finished yesterday so we finished worshiping one Idol we're gonna do another one today so some all she just said that in their self who do you all go for in football you know what we're gonna go to the Bible right now because I was um I thought there'd be more unity in the room I did not realize there was not that unity and I know nothing about American football so I don't know I'm just gonna stick to the Word of God and we're gonna all be Christians right now so I have no idea you know we just had a walk for freedom for a twenty one which was just phenomenal the Lord has blessed us in the last decade I'm telling you this because you don't realize how much your church has been instrumental in the work of a twenty-one particular here in America you started our East Coast just say you because Lisa but through the support of this house started our East Coast office which you know no we have an office in Charlotte and DC and it is amazing what God has done and the amount of people that we've been able to help and now you know a 21 is in 15 countries around the world and we just had our global war for freedom last weekend with 500 cities of the world hosted walks in 50 countries for 24 hours every three seconds I walk started somewhere in the world and tens of thousands of people walked for freedom with a firm commitment that we are going to abolish slavery everywhere forever in our lifetime and we are going to do it and it's gonna happen so I'm telling you that biggest I'm giving you a year's notice because the Charleston walk is gonna be the biggest walk next year and so Lisa is organizing that so in Hebrews chapter 2 the Bible says therefore he go therefore whenever there's are therefore you ask what's it therefore and so therefore comes out of Hebrews chapter 1 because I won't have time to read it or we understand Hebrews chapter 1 just let me bring you up to speed is a chapter it's beautiful actually ties in wonderful with the series that were currently in as a church out of the book of Colossians and it talks about the supremacy and the sufficiency of Jesus Christ and you know what that we can never hear this enough as followers of Jesus that actually our whole sufficiency is in him that he is supreme he is the name that is above every other name he's defeated hell he's defeated death he's the name above every angel he's the name that is above every sickness every disease every infirmity there is a name that is above every other name and that is the name of Jesus Christ we've gathered here today not because we're a bunch of socially dysfunctional morons that had nothing else to do on a Sunday and we just sort of gathered together and we're just hanging on to the rapture no we are here to lift up the name of our mighty king Jesus Christ who is seated on the throne he still reigns supreme over the universe and Hebrews chapter 1 the writer to the Hebrews he's writing to a bunch of Jewish Christians who are being so persecuted for their faith and it's grabbing in the book of Hebrews all here because it reminds me very much it could have been written right now in 2019 for the world in which you and I live in it was a time when these Hebrew Christians were were being persecuted they were being marginalized they were being ostracized they had lost their property they had lost their rights many of them had been ostracized from their families and in fact there was the big fire of Rome and Nero was blaming the Christians they were running and hiding in the catacombs because it was dangerous to be a Christian it was likely to cost you your life it certainly cost you everything else and the days in which we are living in you know what it's not that cool to be a Christian you and I live in a very secular a very humanistic and oftentimes atheistic pluralistic culture you know they say that we are postmodern we a post-christian we are post it was so posted we've been posted into orbit you know we are post everything but we're living in a time where it's not cool to be Christian it's cool to be it can be anything else you want to be you can go to Nirvana in a Tehran and eating a piranha hugging a whale kissing a rock holding a tree I mean you're way to nothing it's wonderful as long as you do not follow a judeo-christian ethic how could you be so kind of you know Christine you know how could you follow that kind of God and how can you be so exclusive and how can it be just you know so bigoted and how can you be and it's almost like there's a real pushback in culture against being a Christian you can be anything else but just being a Christian seems to be just not as popular in 2019 as it used to be in 1980 or 1990 or even the year 2000 and a lot of us are feeling that we don't quite know how to put language around it but there's this kind of pressure where you're just thinking it's not like it was and church let me remind you we're not going back to Kansas it's not going to be like that if we read scripture time is moving forward and we know that things are just gonna heat up even more in the midst of that you and I are called to bear witness to the truth in the midst of that you and I are called to exhibit the fruits of the Spirit to be full of love to be full of joy to be full of peace to be full of kindness to be full of gentleness to be full of long-suffering to be full of goodness to be full of self-control somehow you and I are supposed to live in victory in the midst of a dark chaotic extremely divided culture and time in history and you go how do I do that well the writer to the Hebrews is helping these Hebrew Christians understand that he says let's just remind ourselves of the supremacy of Christ let's just remind ourselves of the sufficiency of Christ you were never meant to be cool enough it doesn't matter how skinny your jeans are and how many touches you've got you are not going to be cool enough to be able to cope with coming but in Christ you will be able to cope in Christ you will have victory in Christ you will have joy in Christ you will have peace in Christ you'll be able to do it so the writer to the Hebrews is starting off going let's just establish this our strength is in Christ our sufficiency is in Christ the supremacy is in Christ he says therefore then I just got to the first word of my whole sermon therefore we must pay much closer everyone say much closer your sounds so American much closer much closer it was very much closer now you'll suddenly like an ass train much closer okay so this is how the Queen speaks English we say awesome everyone say awesome you sound very dignified for chaste that's that awesome okay now sound like an American sailor much closer that word much closer in the Greek is very sought that us put also he and the reason I can say that is I'm Greek and so always laugh I go I know a little Greek because I'm little and I'm Greek and so my mother would always say to me if everything if I was gonna cross a street or I was gonna do something that she perceived to be dangerous she say whose dinner prepping a he's Betty salted across so here you've got to have much closer to pay a technologist pay attention but there's such an urgency if you could hear this in the Greek I can hear it in the text you've got to pay much closer attention and church we are in a season where we've got to pay much closer attention to the things that we have heard our historical Orthodox Christian faith lest we drinked that's what the scripture says that there are times when you don't just kind of zone out but you pay a lot of attention what is it that I've heard in terms of the Christian faith because I want to make sure that I am rooted and grounded firmly in Christ lest I drift and the implication here is that drifting is the default setting for all of us it really is you the only thing you have to do to drift in life in any area of life is simply just nothing that's all you have to do just nothing in my marriage I don't need to go and have an affair for our marriage to break up we can drift from each other if I just simply do nothing and pay no attention to my marriage my health and fitness can actually just basically be obliterated not because I'm necessarily going to eat a whole bunch of Krispy Kreme doughnuts but just I simply do nothing to look after my body or my health or my fitness in every area of life I always say you know Greek men Greek men grow beards so that they won't look like their mothers or so they will look like their mothers actually so that's the whole point and the reason I say that is the only thing I have to do to really look hairy in my face is like nothing I'm sorry man that this is too much information at 11:00 a.m. but if I don't go and regularly wax oh no that's too much information for some of you but if I don't a poor Nick if he wakes up in the morning to this face but all you have to do is for you what for in terms of your personal grooming to just go out of control is just nothing nothing see sometimes we think even as Christians if we've been walking with the Lord for a while we just think well you know I'm not going back and doing anything really bad I'm not sort of like going back to excessive drinking or you know going night clubbing or committing immorality or whatever and yet we can wake up at the end of the year and think where have I landed with the Lord and it's not that I did anything bad I just didn't do anything and before I know what I've drifted when we were growing up you know we'd go to the beach of this particular beach we would go to had a really bad undertow and so my dad would always put a a really bright beach umbrella and really bright house at different points on the beach and he'd say to us kids before you go out I want you to check regularly check your Marcus because if you don't check your markers without realising you're just gonna be having a whole bunch of fun and then you're going to look up and realize that you are nowhere near where you're supposed to be and you drift it and this is a time in the church when we need to be checking our markers we need to be looking up and going you know what how am i doing how am i doing with the Lord am i firmly anchored and I know what it's like my husband loves boating and I love sunbaking so we get it you know we get a good thing happening and so often we'll go out boating and Nick will go Chris drop the anchor which to me means like throw it over and lie down and sun-baked again and you know I've realized now it's a little bit more than that because once we like literally we're in the Anchorage and I thought I you know threw the anchor overboard but I didn't check that it actually anchored and so you know a little while later suddenly we hit this other boat my husband was not pleased said a lot of things to me that are not in the Bible but anyway so I just but the point is is like Chris you got to check that the anchor actually takes actually makes contact and some of us we just said well I got a church I read the Bible occasionally I I do this I do that and yet then a storm comes then a trial comes then the winds change the currents change and we're in the midst of that culturally right now and before we know it without anything no we have not made any conscious decision we've ended up drifting and so this would be a time Church where it's really important to check our anchor I would truly anchored in Christ are we anchored in the goodness of God in the love of God in the grace of God in the mercy of God are we anchored in becoming christ-like are we anchored because if we are not anchored and we can look at the writer to the Hebrews and look at the issues he was addressing and they are very pertinent to us in 2019 and the importance is that we have to check our markers and I believe the Lord's brought me to church this morning to remind us all to check our markers look up and go somewhere have we just been caught up in the undertow of the current of this culture or are we still rooted and anchored in Christ because if we're not we're not gonna make it if we're not we will drift and so what are signs of drifting what are some signs that you and I may not be firmly anchored and this morning I'm believing that the Holy Spirit's gonna do a bit of a divine adjustment and a divine realignment and that anchor is gonna drop again and we're gonna go well okay I'm tethered back to Christ and in some areas where I didn't think it was a big deal I I realized that I've drifted and I want to be tethered strongly in Christ and one of the first things I think that is a sign that we have drifted is when you and I when we stop resting and we start driving we stopped resting and we start striving I love Hebrews chapter 4 verse 11 says let us therefore strive to enter that rest I there is only one sort of striving we should do as Christians and that's striving and the NIV says we labor to enter into that place of rest we strive to enter into that place of rest the real labor that should be being done as Christians is the labor to enter into the rest of God now the rest of God is not that we fall asleep and do nothing the rest of God is that place that we enter where we trust the goodness of God we trust the faithfulness of God no matter what is going on now you and I are living in a society with unprecedented anxiety unprecedented stress unprecedented depression unbelievable cases of suicide and pain and heartache and it is serious and it is tragic but as Christians unless we find that place of rest in Christ we will be no different to the world a lot of that stress and anxiety about the future comes out of the fact that many of us have forgotten what we do know about God and we're freaking out about what we don't know about the future now the world has shifted looking at the world with any kind of just common sense you're like whoa I don't know where this world is going there have been so many shifts morally economically politically socially raising children in today's culture we were all doing this together Church none of us are exempt from it it would be easy to be overwhelmed by the darkness and the chaos in the world today Nick and I help to rescue the victims of human trafficking I could never even post the kind of stories that I hear every day about the kind of depravity and evil on the planet what people do to children what happens around the world I as a mother would be entirely overwhelmed by the enormity of the evil and the depravity on the planet if I did not find my rest in Christ I don't have the capacity to cope with that I don't have the capacity to understand that but I do have the capacity to trust God and if I trust that my God is good that my God does good that my God will even work all of the bad things together for my good and for his glory then I can trust what I do know about God above what I do not know about the future so when you are spent in three of you want to clap the rest of you can as well you're like trying to work all this out but here is the deal if you and I are trying to work out and the Hebrew Christians they were freaking out they were being killed and thrown to the Lions and martyred for the cause of Christ if they were trying to work out the next day that they just would not be able to you'd be so overwhelmed so it's like you know what I'm gonna trust what I know about God and church I'm asking us in the world in which we live to say you know what there is so much I do not understand but I trust God and I'm gonna put my trust in God faith is predicated on trust not understanding and the fact of the matter is in this whole passage of Scripture in Hebrews chapter 4 it talks about the children of Israel who essentially died because of unbelief in the wilderness let's not be a people of God that our unbelief causes us to prematurely forfeit fulfilling the purpose of God on the earth our world actually needs us to have courage in this day our world needs us to have strength in this day our world needs us to have hope in this day and here's the good news because we're in Christ we don't find that in ourselves we find it in him God has created us to live in this time you and I are not a product of time we're a product of eternity God has plucked us out of eternity he has positioned us in time and he's given us gifts and talents for the purpose of serving our generation believe it on up we were plan a for God for this time in history I mean when you look at it go God can I actually do yes I plucked you out of eternity I put you right here in Charleston South Carolina whichever one of our campuses you're watching this from today I put you in that city in that town and for a time such as this I've given you gifts and talents for the purpose of serving your generation in me you can handle it in me you were created for these days in him you were created for this hour you don't need to freak out about what's going to happen in the future you just need to dig deeper into Christ stay anchored in Christ and He will give you the strength and the grace to be able to move forward into what is going on in the future so you know you've drifted when man you start striving and trying to make it happen and controlling rather than trusting and going I'm gonna rest in you God I'm gonna rest in the finished work of Jesus you you can't finish a finished work you can't complete a completed work he's done it all trusting trusting that's what sets us apart as Christians in this out the other thing that you can know that you suddenly have started drifting is when you start watching and you stopped and you when you start watching and you stop participating when you start spectating at a Christian event and you're no longer participating in the Christian journey when you just basically sit in the grandstands of life and you vicariously live your Christian life through everyone else's Instagram feed it is amazing how social media has turned us into voyeurs of Christianity we look in at someone else's Christian life and we think if we like their life we're living our own but we're not we need to stop scrolling through everyone else's life and start living our own we need to get out of the Christian grandstands and get on the playing field and we need to run our race and finish our course I wonder today whether you are on your playing field whether you are in your lane whether you are running your race whether you're finishing your course or if you just become comfortable spectating at a Christian event you can walk with Jesus and you can have started off with great passion and then end up in the bleachers with your popcorn watching the Christian game listening to Christian music downloading a Christian podcast going to a Christian Church but never actually getting on the field and running your race and finishing your course and Paul says that we are to run our race and finish our course I need to tell you there is no grandstand this side of eternity Hebrews 12 says therefore then since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses there is only a grandstand in heaven the great heroes of the faith are leading leaning over the grandstand this morning and then looking down at us right here and they're saying oh to have been a Christian in 2019 to have had your resources to have had the Holy Ghost to have had what you have got and they're cheering us on this morning and they go and come on church but the only grandstand is on here in heaven there is no grandstand on earth here on earth where is our Lane and it's got your name on it and you've got the baton of faith right now for your generation and God saying tag you are it get in your lane run your race and finish your course don't watch but run don't watch but run and so you know that you've drifted when you're no longer engaged and you're just watching you know that you've drifted when you're no longer pressing on to lay a hold of all of that for which Christ Jesus has laid a hold of you but you're coasting you're riding on the momentum of what you learned at VBS 20 years ago you still know your little felt board and your Christian if you know what you're just coasting you stop pressing been a long time since you're pressed through and you're giving press through and you're serving press through and even your spiritual disciplines press through in desiring holiness and sanctification and becoming more like Christ it's just like you know what I've just kind of gone with the Christian culture when was the last time not out of striving but out of pressing is a difference that word pressing in the Greek in the book of Philippians is to exert a steady force against when was the last time you exerted a steady force against just going with the flow just giving what you always give serving as you always serve saying what you always say but saying you know what I'm gonna dig deeper I want to become more like Jesus certainly no legalism but I'm gonna go through a season it may be fasting and praying like I haven't for a long time I'm gonna dig deeper into the word like I haven't for a long time because I want to go deeper with Jesus I I want to become more like him I want to press on but we live in a culture that has a retirement mentality which is like who you just deserve to coast down till you die and we brought that into a Christian faith oh well I've reached a certain age now so I could just coast but Kaylin at 85 said it excuse me Joshua I'm not cashing in my 401k Moses promise me heaven I'm as strong now as I was then now give me this mountain that's my inheritance I'm not slowing down I kept my faith in the wilderness with all those whinging whining complaining people that were with me in the church I just that they don't drop dead thank God then we came into the Promised Land and I started I helped everyone take their promised land it's awesome I helped everyone I built everything but you know what I'm not gonna golf my way into heaven Joshua no no no there is a Hebron and Moses said Hebron and while there's still breath in my lungs while my heart is still beating while blood is still pumping through my arteries and veins God's got a plan God's got a purpose gods are not done with me yet if you woke up this morning and there was not a white chalk mark around your body honey it means that you're alive it means heaven is not ready for you yet God's still got a plan God still got a purpose God still got a destiny and so we press on we press on I'm 53 I want to be supergranny for Jesus I am more fruitful in my 50s that I ever was in my 20s a more fruitful in my fifties that I ever was in my 30s and I love young people I am so committed to the next generation but I'm also committed to not dying before I'm dead seriously most of us are dead before we die and the thing that kills us is all of this unused life and unused purpose and unused destiny that we're carrying around and it's time for some of us that have been walking with the Lord for a whole lot a long time to just stop coasting and start pressing it's a lot of good oil that come out of pressing a lot of good oil you know that you basically have drifted when you stop gathering and you started isolating no I don't want to go to church this week we still live in a nation where you've got an option go and ask our Syrian brothers and sisters whether they have the option this week of going to church or our Chinese brothers and sisters who had three weeks ago 20,000 house churches shut down don't ask them if they even get the option well I go well why not weather's nice might go out in the boat this week it's amazing to me that the writer to the Hebrews one of the main things he said in Hebrews chapter 10 let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promised is faithful and let us consider how to stir one another up to love and good works not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some are we're living in a time in the church where just seems cool not to go to church anymore she's me and Jesus it's just sweet it's just me and Jesus Jesus the Jesus that I've formed in my own image just lets me do whatever I want to do and think whatever I want to think and just be me but you know the weirdest saying in 2019 they're gonna have a time capsule in about a hundred years they're gonna dig it up and say weed sayings in 2019 the weirdest one is gonna be you do you boo well what on earth is that the whole point of my Christian life is that I won't do me boo that I'm gonna do a bit more Jesus boo that I'm gonna become a little bit more like Jesus and do what he wants me to do let me go on this is not a time the enemy if he can scatter the Sheep and keep you isolated and keep you disconnected from church he wants to take you out because he hates your guts do you want a scripture for that John 10:10 says the enemy has only got one goal to steal kill and destroy and we're living in a bit of a world that guess oh there is no devil are there is no hell honey they are not involved in fighting human trafficking let me tell you there is a devil he is after your soul he hates your guts but there is one greater than the devil his name is Jesus here's the feet of the devil he is defeated hell he is defeated death the enemy is after your purpose and your destiny is after your purpose in your destiny so don't stop gathering let me just end with one that is very big in our day right now it's when you know you've drifted when you stop injury and you just start yielding there's a little bit of flow in the Christian Church right now just do what you want to do Jesus loves you it's all under the blood if we conveniently take out hell and the devil consequences for anything honey just do you so we no longer enjoy we no longer enjoy the minute something gets tough we're out of it minute I don't like my marriage which is not compatible who's compatible I don't know I don't know who is compatible the minute I don't like my church I'm out of here the minute I don't like my boss I'm out of here the minute I don't like my friends I'm just lucky I just oh no injury you offended me you hurt me I'm gonna write a blog about you and put it on Twitter today's no insurance the minute the temptation feels our I've been single and celibate for one week so hard I went in a singles group for two weeks in a row and I said to God if you don't bring me a spouse I'm gonna go to the nightclub and find my own and gods like I'm so nervous just can't in jhula the temptation the minute it gets a bit much we're just like it's just too hard the minute someone offends us I'm outtie the minute someone betrays us we blame the whole church the minute someone does so we just broke I'm out of here we just leave we just walk out we just go and that word insurance is the ability to bear up under pressure and honey we're not even in what's coming [Music] so if we cannot bear up now I don't know what's gonna happen we gotta get stronger in our spirits and the way you get stronger in your spirit is by going deeper and being anchored more deeply in Christ it's the only way because he's the only one that overcame every temptation that overcame betrayal and there's nothing you and I have been through or are going to go through that Jesus Christ did not himself go through this is the point of the gospel church God fully God became fully man [Music] and went through everything you and I would go through to say I'm with you I get it I get the hurt I get the offense I get the pain I get the suffering I get the betrayal I get it because I bore it for you if you're gonna try to cope with it yourself you're not gonna make it so anchor yourself in me Jesus Christ is this anchor we have for our soul both firm and secure unless we're anchored in Christ in this day we will drift into a fence we will drift into victimhood we will drift into just deconstruction we will drift away from the things of God unless we get reinterred in the only one that can keep us anchored people will hurt you people will betray [Music] life hurts there is death and there is suffering and there is loss and there is pain and there is heartache we live in a fallen world the hope of the gospel is that our anchor is in Christ who has overcome the world not us him and we unite together in my plan City Church and we gathered together because that gives us the strength and the confidence and the fortitude to move forward to remember Christ and this morning we're remembering that he in Jordan there is nothing that you or I are currently or in the past or in the future going to go through that he has not injured it because his in Jordan he's given us the strength and the power through his Holy Spirit to be able to enjoy whatever is going on doesn't end here it's an eternal future for each of us therefore we can in do a temporal discomfort because of eternity you know when Jesus began his ministry he was tempted by the devil for 40 days do you remember that some of us were tempted we can't withstand temptation for 40 seconds there's nothing that Jesus didn't go through he enjoyed them why because he saw you and he saw me the Bible says for the joy set before him he endured all of this he was God when his own family didn't understand it so many of us have got families that think we're great great and the minute our family shows some resistance to our Christian faith bang we just walk away but Jesus in June no matter what they thought of him when his followers began to fall away one by one and they do it in dilute his doctrine he didn't change in fact to john 6:66 the bible says his disciples thought that his teachings were hard and many that day turned away jesus had no problem with being unfollowed we have such a problem with being unfollowed that we will change our theology and dilute our doctrine and read change the Word of God so the people still like us I'm trying when the pharisees lied about him you ever been lied about you want to defend yourself mate you want to go on Twitter and defend yourself Jesus enjoy when the SATA seas tried to trap him he and Jordan when Judas betrayed him heavily betray 2017 I went through one of the biggest betrayals of my life I thought it was gonna kill me and I had to lean so heavily on the fact that for 30 lousy pieces of silver one of Jesus's closest confidants betrayed him and Jesus still enjoy Christine you can enjoy Christine this is not a reason to throw in the towel Jesus knows what's going through when he pled with his father and gets salmon he ever never wanted to do something that gods asked you to do so many people walk away because I didn't want to Jesus was in Gethsemane dripping sweat of blood going I don't want to do this who would want to go to the cross who would want to be separated from your phone I don't want to do this if there's any of the way God is there a plan B is there a plan C is there any other way could you take this cup from me how many of us have ever done that nevertheless not my will but thine the most missing words in the 21st century Christian Church nevertheless not my will Chris I really wanted to do it Chris it was just so Chris I really I know you wanted to nevertheless not my walk but dine he's still injured don't we what was gonna come the next day can you understand as we go through when the temple guard arrested him in the garden he injured men when his eleven disciples scattered and left him he's still injured he went through six illegal trials and he's still enjoy Pilate handed him over to the crowd and he still injured Peter denied him and he's still injured we've walked away for a lot less than this church when the crowds cried crucify him he's still injured the soldiers mocked and ridiculed him he's still injured when they whipped him beyond recognition he's still injured when they thrust a crown of thorns on his head he's still injured as they hammered him to that cross he's still in June and as all the forces of hell came against him on that cross he's still injured and when he absorbed the sin of all of humanity he's still injured and as he Crider it is finished he's still injured and because he continued to in June when he was buried for three days he then rose again and Church here is the point of all of that endurance he rose again from the dead he defeated hell he defeated death he holds the keys to hell and death at church this is the fight my Bible says the same that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you and lives on the inside of basic guess what church we can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us we can eat chew we can eat chew up we can eat you therefore with endurance the race that God has set before us because they enjoy [Music] [Applause] the point of it all church therefore in 2019 as we go into 2020 brand-new decade in a very different America we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard lest we drift from so great a salvation I pray this morning you remember what a great salvation this is he is worthy about fidelity he is worthy of our faithfulness he is worthy he is worthy he is worthy he is worthy he is worthy he is worthy he is worthy our God is worthy in G

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Length: 44min 28sec (2668 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 28 2019