DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES | NICK VUJICIC

Casa Alex thank you so much for your welcome you may be seated Wow awesome worship it is my privilege and honor to be here for the first time at this church to share with you about how my faith in God has really transformed my life and I don't know who you are and what you go through maybe from week to week or months a month I never compare our suffering maybe you have a physical pain maybe you have an emotional mental cycle of just ups and downs if you see my foot we all have ups and downs and ups and downs and many people see that I have no arms and legs and they say wow I can't imagine having no limbs and I tell them really quickly I believe it's worse being in a broken home than having no arms and legs and when you look at the existence of understanding how God created us of four elements we have our soul our spirit our mind and then our body and there are many times in life where God really doesn't make sense to me as a child especially when I heard that God was a loving God I'm like I don't understand then why did he allow this to happen number one number two why nurse and he changed my circumstance number three if I figure out in scriptures that actually pain came from Satan the serpent in the Garden of Eden and God knew that all that bad stuff was gonna happen if the serpent was in the Garden of Eden why did he let him in the first place and fourthly how can the people that I love who don't believe in Jesus not go to heaven and and those just his big big questions that I had and I didn't know where to begin except from today when I realized that yes I didn't know what I didn't know but I want to search for the truth if there is a truth because there had to be something more it can't just be existing and coexisting and I'm living for today and I'm just gonna do my best and that's it and then be remembered to be a good person you know there are so many people that have different philosophies of life and what I love about how God made us all is he gave us life hope and free choice and I'll never forget I've met some amazing people along the way who have different philosophies of life and I'll never forget when I was 12 years old this woman saw me for the first time and she said were you born this way I said yes she said well yeah do you know why I said no she said well I know why and I'm thinking really this stranger I'm 12 years old my doctors don't know why I was born this way my parents don't know where I was born they say lady gaga don't know why I was born this way and she says have you ever heard of reincarnation and I said no she said it's simple you're a perfect example in your previous life you were a very very very bad boy and now you're being punished and I'm thinking like what do you say today if you say oh thank you so much she's like but don't worry because in your next life you're gonna come back like a butterfly and I'm thinking I'm not gonna tell this woman how many butterflies I've killed in my wheelchair I think that sucks I don't want to be a butterfly and my parents always said don't worry God's gonna plan for you we love you God loves you you're special and I'm like I don't want to be special and you know kids will come up and they would be like what happened and I tell him cigarettes and when you don't know the future sometimes it's in very carefully sometimes we start adding limits to what God could actually do remember for what is impossible for man to do nothing is impossible for God to do amen that he can even take my broken pieces and do something beautiful the first verse if you want to write verses down Romans 8:28 all things come together for the good for those who love Him who've been called according to his purpose Jeremiah chapter 29 God has a whole plan and a future for me but where is it and where is God when he doesn't make sense you know when you only see a little bit of the picture or you see something you don't know for sure if it's real it's interesting we've done a couple pranks along the way so I've been able to go to 70 countries and preach the gospel 3,500 times and out of eight and a half million people we've seen 1.1 million decisions for Jesus Christ face to face and it's been really really incredible and sometimes we pull pranks off like there's about five years ago under if you see me on YouTube anyone see me on YouTube yeah put your hand up if you've never heard me speak face to face you've never heard me speak face to face awesome so on YouTube there's one of these videos that we actually my friend is the commercial airline pilot and I actually borrowed his uniform and jumped on his plane and I actually greeted the passages as they came on the plane I told them that we had some new technology and I'm so excited that were with us so I had a plow fully dressed up like a pilot and I'll tell you man some people gave their life to Jesus Christ right there it was awesome and talking about not seeing the full picture one day I'm in the front seat of the car and we're at the traffic lights and this car comes up next to us and this girls looking at me so I'm looking at her and all she sees is my head from the side so just imagine all you see is my head from the side I'm gonna freak you out so I just did this change the camera wrong view just straight on to the other one that you had good stick there here we go all she sees is my head I just did this and she thought my head did at 360 degrees spin and her face was like so good you know when I was a child I would get bullied at school and I and I started putting limits on myself I started coming up with listen to this fearful conclusions based on three factors what I felt what I knew what I saw what I felt what I knew what I saw thanks so much you feel based on what you know I'm based on what you see which is actually not by faith faith is not believing by sight or living in sight but by faith not by sight and when you look at our disabilities of our heart and disabilities of our lives when you look at the word disabled eisa be led and you hear the voice of God and you are obedient and you answer the call and say go and sin no more go I will be with you says God don't worry I'll carry you when you cannot walk nothing will ever change my love for you I will even and I can even make you and cause you to be a miracle for someone else even before I give you your miracle that is the God where you put a Gio in front of the word disabled and it spells God is able to do what to do exceedingly abundantly more than you can ever ask imagine or attain and never in my wildest dreams nor in my parents dreams that they ever think that their limbless child would go around the world never in my mind when I was at school did I ever think I'd get married do you see this timeline here if I was eight years old looking and looking at my future I had no idea that God's gonna do so many things I actually was listening to the lies based on what you see what you feel what you know when you ask God and based on your expectations in the framework of your environment how you feel and what you think about him doesn't change who he is and so when I was actually looking for truth before I found the truth I was chained with lies you're ugly just give up you're the only one with no arms no legs in the world there is no hope for you there is no plane there is no purpose there is no God you ask for arms and legs where is he you're not gonna get a job you're not gonna get married even if you got married you can't even hold your wife's hand even if you had kids you can't even hold your children when they're crying I want to show you a family photo this is my family my wife Connie she's half Japanese half Mexican we call that seekin it was love at first sight I looked at her she looked at me I couldn't feel my legs we been married now for seven years we have four children Kyoshi he's six and a half day on his four and these twin identical girls Olivia and Ali who are 20 months old exceedingly abundantly more than you can ever ask imagine or even handle I want you to see this photo this is a crowd shot now this is the 17th of September 2017 in Kiev Ukraine 800,000 people were there 400,000 gave their life to Jesus and fifty three million people heard the gospel of Jesus on television 253 million people and this next photo I was able to talk to the Ukrainian government about the honoring of God as a nation in your law men and women of integrity if you notice and look closely they're not sitting in their seats they're on their knees and during national television 20 million Ukrainians were watching a limbless man evangelize to them and talk to them about God and the Bible and honoring the Lord and then after an hour and a half of everyone discussing after my 20-minute presentation I said would you please get on your knees and let's ask God to bless Ukraine so we prayed in the name of Jesus that God would forgive the sins in Ukraine and to heal their land and that's the tenth government we've been able to get into by the grace of God and we are indeed praying for America it's on be Li it's miraculous when I was begging for God to give me arms and legs little did I know that at 24 years old I would be speaking in front of a Californian church and seeing a little boy with no arms and no legs being held up by the crowd no arms no legs little 19 month old Daniel Martinez with a little foot like me and I'm like wow I want to wrestle him later on and I brought him up on stage and he's looking up at me and I'm looking down at him and I can't give him a high-five so I put my little foot in his foot and he's smiled and then everyone cried his mom came up she cried and she said thank you for being our miracle I'm like dude I can't take any credit why I ain't the author of my faith I don't hold the pen I say thank you God that you even said no when I asked for arms and legs there will be many people to say that as long as you have faith and as long as you stand righteous with God as long as you're obedient as long as you have faith as long as you go to church as long as you Papa Papa but then God will give you everything you need I actually see many other scriptures on the contrary and I want you to understand this one beautiful thing about our relationship with Jesus Christ here on earth it's the relationship of us as children with our Heavenly Father and the pinnacle of our relationship is not when he blesses you with everything you want he delights in giving us good gifts correct yes but how beautiful it is to understand that if I have cancer do you understand this if I have cancer and God heals me of cancer one day I'll be in a car accident one day I'm gonna take my last breath one day something's gonna happen and eventually guess what guys Nick's gonna die and if God always answers my prayer then his divine purpose of me being a citizen of heaven passing through and going home will not be satisfied I can pray for arms and legs and in fact ladies and gentlemen I have a pair of shoes in my closet just in case he gives me arms and legs and I have seen 13 miracles blind people seeing deaf people hearing lame people walking crooked backs come straight I am NOT an atheist because I've seen angels I'm not an atheist because I've seen demons and not just in Africa but in California and when you see demons you ain't atheist after that baby what I'm trying to say is Philippians 4 verse 6 and 7 says present your requests our God and let the peace of God that surpasses all understanding guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus it's the pinnacle of God's joy when his child says daddy can I please have this and he says no okay I trust you proverbs 3 verse 5 and 6 trust in the Lord with all your heart lean not upon your own understanding acknowledge him in all your ways and he will direct your paths what is better than for God to give a limbless man limbs it is that little boy little Daniel no arms and no legs and that if he sees another limbless man where God had a plan and his parents saw my parents to see that God had a plan and when we go to heaven I hear my name hey Dad and I'm gonna look be Daniel Martinez running to me with his new legs hugging me with his new arms and saying thank you brother for help me believe that this place called heaven was real you see your history is his story I don't know how it is to be sexually abused maybe you do maybe you had an alcoholic father maybe you've never had a father I had a good home but I had no arms and legs God can use me to help other limbless people but God can use you just as powerful because your history is his story you know how it feels to be in your shoes and then God will not waste your pain it's not in vain that he can even cause the worst parts of your life to become part of his plan and purpose but you got to know the truth don't die with the lie be free from the truth I was this into those lies that took me closer and closer and closer and that age 10 I actually attempted suicide I tried to drown myself in my bathtub and I had a quick vision in my mind of seeing my mom and my dad crying at my grave and I didn't want them to have that pain so by the grace of God everyone say by the grace of God by the grace of God I stayed and and and I was able to realize that age 15 the difference between truth and laws and it came from the one yearning that I had God give me a plane have you have asked God for a plane and then he doesn't answer you so you suggest a plan B and a couple other options and variations and he still doesn't come back to you I want you to know that if he gave me the plane then why would I need to trust him the pinning of your relationship with God is when he doesn't give me the plan and you say but I trust you that is it thank God that he doesn't always give me what I want when I want how I want it because I would get so comfortable how less do you pray how much less do you pray when everything is going good and how much more do you pray when things are going bad Oh God teach me more patience then get ready to be put in a place to wait sudden injection are you with me you got to know the truth of three things the truth of your value the truth of your purpose and the truth of the full potential plane that God has for you some of you teenagers you're all trapped in you know I gotta look tough and I gonna be cool and say the F word to be cool at school I don't say the F word am I still cool yeah I've never done drugs never will do drugs that don't get drunk never needed to get drunk didn't go partying with my friends I did not give my virginity until I met the mother of my children why because I knew that sex ain't love you can sleep with anyone you want as many times you want still want to do they love me sex is for marriage sex out of marriage is a counterfeit for how God designed marriage are you with me woman our God if you want to marry a man of God you better be ready to be the woman of God you don't need a boyfriend to feel loved you need to know your identities knowing that your daughter the king of kings and Lord of lords your royalty angels are with you you shouldn't be looking for a boyfriend you should be looking for a husband if your husband can't honor God and keep his hands off of you before you get married how do you expect him to actually honor God after you get married some of you teenagers think it's cool to actually go to church on Friday think that you're actually saved and then you tease and gossip people at school on Monday you don't know the love of God it's okay to say the f-word actually if you read and study the Word of God first of all if you look at Peter as one example he denied Jesus three times on the third time to convince everyone that he was absolutely not a follower of Jesus he used the f-word read it you don't need big biceps my biceps are so big they fell off you understand me you don't need to have the best job or a job to find your place in the kingdom do you know who God used to actually inspire me for the first time to be a speaker he looked at me and said you're gonna be a speaker the janitor at my high school 61 year old Indian man Arnold he said you're gonna be a speaker said you're a crazy old man if God can use a man without arms and legs to be his hands and feet than God can use any willing heart amen I wanted arms and legs though I wanted arms and legs today I can tell you I don't need hands to hold my wife's hand I didn't care about holding your hand I need to hold her heart my kids when they cry I can't put my arms around them but they put their arms around me when they're cry I wanted arms and legs woody what do you want what do you want you talked to eight 19 year olds you say hey guys can I ask you a question like and said if you guys ever ever ever in your life being stressed and they're like oh I said what's stressing you out homework is son and my parent said he'd give me everything I want and my siblings and I me every single day I'm so stressed I want to be 13 you talk to 13 year-olds any 13 year-olds in the house give me well now you know what stress is everything around me is changing I thought it could trust my friends and then they backstab me they invite me to the party then they uninvite me to the party I put a Do Not Disturb sign on my droid in my privacy I am so stressed out right now I need a boyfriend I wanna be 17 if I get 17 years 17 are you getting so stressed out cuz you gotta get to college if I can just get into college and everything's gonna be okay you get to college and is everything okay no what do you now need my although Jesus Christ of Nazareth may I please please have a job because if I have a job then everything's gonna be okay you finally get your job and after two days you look at your bus in the face and you look at God do you say really you give me him I hate him he stresses me out and then all the single people oh wow oh and I finally find the one good to stop me Romeo if I can just find the one then everything's gonna be okay no go talk to them marry people that's a girl Heidi if you ain't happy single you ain't gonna be happy Mary can you hear it amen there's the married people saying Amen well Nick you know I just want to pay off my debts and you know pay off our cars and get a house that's paid off and maybe get a couple rental properties one day and then what well I just want to be good and then no look listen very carefully money drugs sex alcohol pornography fame and fortune if you put your happiness in temporary things your happiness will be temporary it's not that difficult and get a little money I want some more I want this and I want some more you start with this drug and you want some more you do this you do that and you want some more it's just there's this never-ending hunger because there is a god-shaped hole in our soul and we continue to look on the outside when we actually forget to look first at our soul and that age 15 is when I gave my life to Jesus Christ I read John chapter 9 changed my life because Here I am waiting for a plane waiting for a plane give me a plane give me a plane I hated God for eight years then at age 15 John chapter 9 says that Jesus comes across a man who was born blind and they asked him why was he born that way was it because his parents sinned as a punishment was it because he sent it doesn't sound like reincarnation to you yeah it's not it's not a new thing okay just understand that Jesus said no it was done so that the works of God would be revealed through him or displayed through him Jesus spits in the dirt gets muddled clay puts it on that man's face after they wash it off his face guess what he sees what's interesting to me is not that another miracle happen what's awesome that changed my life is that was if I was blind and I'm hearing this conversation and then all of a sudden it goes silent and I hear a boom and someone's approaching me and they start putting mud on my face I'd be like hey whoa timeout who you what do you want I didn't want to face y'all JC Jesus Christ he didn't see it as I hear my name is JC I'm the healer and I'm gonna blah blah blah blah blah and then you're gonna see okay he didn't rather by him he didn't ask for his permission the blind man could have stepped back the blind man could have walked away the blind man could have stopped him but he was still any allowed God to do his his miracle I want you to know that I am so thankful that I realized that he doesn't need to give me the plan I just need to believe that he has one and if I can be understanding it's not just the faith for miracles it's the faith that's the awareness it's connected to the awareness of the authority of God news flash God may have a better plan my dad died of cancer guess why because he's not in a place of pain suffering he's gone home I'm going home my treasures aren't here I am asking God for millions of dollars I know that he will always give me what I need and I can ask him for what I want regardless I will worship Him because what else can God have given me then his only begotten Son who died for me who rose again and when you believe in Jesus then you know who you are not not not because of who you are who are we I actually don't I actually don't love all the songs that have been written these days who are we to think that we can crown God he is crap we are small yes we crown him and exalt him as king of kings as his children yes but God is so far above us he doesn't owe me a thing and he's given me everything I need do I look disabled to you No hallelujah you have cancer we will pray for that cancer to be gone in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus but do you know when the devil wins is when he's taken away your joy and God sent you today a man without arms and legs to let you know you can still have joy even when your circumstance don't change can I have someone placed some keys up here that we always awesome Austin if you can come play keys I'll be I played keys but I'm not warmed up yet let me tell you a couple stories if I may so 15 I gave my life to Jesus Christ the janitor started my first speaking engagement he arranged it in front of six people my palms are sweating my knees were shaking I had no idea what I was going to say to get that woman and then at age 19 2002 was the year that I started ministry for real and I went to the doctor because I had like this pinching nerve I couldn't feel my left arm so I went to the MRI got a MRI and the orthopedic surgeon came out with the results and he said we have some terrible news I said what's that he said you were born with the very rare disease and I said yeah I know he said no in your spine there's a disease called a syrinx you only get this disease if you were born with it you were born with it you can't reverse it can't cure it can't slow it down I'm sorry to tell you that by age 35 to 45 you will have no spinal cord it's turning into nothing turning into fluid here are the three holes here and here and here ten years later I got another MRI compared to 2 2012 Oh two three holes 2012 two holes and the doctor said I do concur with the Australian doctor this is California that you do have a syrinx and this is absolutely impossible that it's reversed and I'm thinking not with God fast forward to November 2014 my third MRI fourth MRI scan I have no holes in my spine here's a fact ready whether you like it or not you're not gonna wake up tomorrow and say wow I can't believe God healed Nick's back but tomorrow morning you're gonna wake up and say God I want what he has I want that joy I want that peace I want that purpose you know don't become a Christian just because the Christians cuz you won't be a Christian for a long time you know that bumper sticker dear Jesus save me from thy followers I've seen that one people may fail you churches may fail you but Jesus will never fail you follow Jesus do your research why can good people not go to heaven very simple let's start off with the serpent of Garden of Eden if God didn't allow the serpent in the Garden of Eden then I could intellectually win the argument that God never gave Adam and Eve choice do you understand if all they heard was God's voice then they had no choice no free choice so God gave them life hope and free choice are you with me so I have a choice to believe in the power of this table if I want but I don't think this tables gonna do much for me when I'm dead are you with me when you're dead there's only one power that can raise you from the grave it's called resurrection there was only one resurrection there was only one person who said that I am gonna resurrect as the son of God I'm gonna die for the sins of the world who is holy I am God and whoever believes in Me shall not perish but have everlasting life no one will go to the Father but through me Jesus do you want to know why Jesus is the only one for me because I've done my research and I want you to just understand here are the quick quick religions in the world first of all you people who say well all you need is positivity it's not enough right positivity should not be your coping mechanism coping your coping mechanism should be actually finding hope find hope find hope and you got home if it's real and when you find hope if it's real you're then positive are you with me when you look at the major religions out there there's one religion where you have to actually keep about 616 Commandments I'm struggling with 10 I are you with me there is another religion where there were 330 million gods that you need to please and then if you're born into a poor family or you're born as a slave or you're born as disabled there is no hope for you there's another religion where there's many many many Commandments and rules that if you do it and you do it really really really well and you're a hundred percent there's still not a hundred percent guarantee that you're gonna go to heaven there's only one way in that religion that you can be a hundred percent guarantee that you're going to heaven you want to know how killing another person of a certain religion do your research why do I say this because one day I was found on a stage talking to 650 sex slaves 17 years old sold into slavery at age 10 some of them sold by their own mother what do you tell them reincarnation better luck next time be good do good Goods gonna happen none of that do 616 Commandments better luck next no I told them Jesus loves you and God has heaven for you and no matter what shame or guilt or pain or addiction or affliction or oppression or depression you have there is not one chain that Jesus cannot break come to him all who are weary and heavy-laden and he we'll give you rest not only will he give you rest but he can even use the worst part of your life before the good according to his purposes that's pretty bold to tell somebody but when you found something to die for you found something to live for and you know it's true not just in your life and other testimonies and I want you to know that these girls many of them came to Jesus many of them went through a rehab process they found Jesus they then found a job they saved up money not for a car not for a house that went back to the brothels where they were once a slave in their gate they took a bucket of water with the white towel they knocked on the door of the house that there were once a slave in the pimp a madam opens the door says who are you I used to be your slave what do you want I've come here today to tell you about Jesus he forgave me and there is no condemnation now for me I am free and you have power and you have money but your soul is dark you do not have rest he forgave me of everything that I've ever done wrong and I didn't deserve that and you don't deserve my forgiveness but he forgave me so Who am I not to forgive you and I've come here to wash your feet and their weeping and their weeping and their weeping and they say here's money give me a slave I'm taking her and thereby out another slave and they say hey honey I'm now your older sister and that's never gonna happen to you again jesus loves you and they bring another slave to Jesus they get rehab and then they go back and rescue another one if that's not redemption I don't know what is Church amen so what do you think I want arms and legs for 90 years is going to give me an throw I just later on anyway or that one moment in heaven that lasts forever are you coming I don't know about you I'm not waiting for my bank to be bigger I'm not waiting for this or that I'm not waiting for relationship seasons to change before I'm happy I'm not waiting for I'm free are you free some of you 48 year old women are still disabled by the things that your father told you when you are 9 years old some things you can pray away some things you cannot some things you need counseling for and I want you to know though that there's no greater counsel than the Holy Spirit as you read and reflect and hold on to the promises of God when the enemy says you can't do this no I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me you're nobody no I'm a forgiving redeemed child of God of the king of kings and Lord of lords and I'm a general in his army standing in front of the gates of hell redirecting traffic [Music] so daily when you turn away from these lines saying these lines you're ugly and all that you just tell those lives stop talking to me you talk to the foot cuz the ears ain't listening and you turn around say God teach me show me how to live show me how to pray I know I'm never gonna be perfect but father I believe that Jesus is your son he died for me you know when you go to a grocery store and you pick up an item and you go to the cashier five bucks you give him five bucks you get the product and you're out yes how weird would it be five bucks again five bucks and I say I hope that's enough would that be weird if you cost five bucks you pay five bucks it's done what would be interesting it'd be 5 bucks he's 3 bucks is that enough and what's she gonna say no what well that's just the way it is Adam and Eve didn't have to die until they had sinned death is the penalty for sin the price paid for eternal life is death forgive me of my doctrine but illustratively speaking you pick up the product of eternal life beep death Jesus comes and says I did that for you come with me and if you believe that he did that for you and you believe that he rose again that's when you become unstoppable that's when circumstances don't dictate anything that's when people's opinions don't affect your future because it's God help me God help me God help me God Oh Nick no I can't give my life to Jesus Christ yet why not let me tell you one last story there was a woman who was on the floor in a house half the size of this stage sitting on the floor hunched over like this after we spoke to 650 slaves and she's hunched over like if you told me she was 140 years old I believe you and I started to talk to her about Jesus she says nothing she's listening her sister though comes in really angry she comes in crosses her arms like this she says who are you and I said I'm here to talk about Jesus I'm sick of you people coming in here from the West telling me about your Jesus and you can't even show me his power she said get out of my house or make her walk now excuse me she said if your Jesus is real make her walk now she hasn't walked for four and a half years look at her skin and bone she's dying we have to carry her to the restroom she's done so I said to God quickly in my heart I said God just in case you're not aware of what's going on I'm about to pray for a woman who has some war for four and a half years do you mind please showing up I knew I had to pray and we prayed at that time I've already seen 12 miracles blind people seeing deaf people hearing lame people walking crooked backs comes true I've seen 12 miracles at that time I had that faith and I said God she's putting you on the spot you're not putting me on the spot you know my faith we pray once she can't walk we prayed twice and she goes from this and she said it was as if an electricity job went through her her back went immediately straight her eyes opened up she took it like this and she said electricity electricity electricity her back was straight the tremors gone she got up and you know it's real when that person who just got a miracle cries for joy for for shouting and punching in the air and jumping up and down on the floor weeping for 20 minutes that's when you know it's real the reason why I tell you about this miracle is because the person who took me there said I can't believe what happened I said what do you mean he said that woman that God just healed I said yeah that was awesome he said that's probably the most evil woman you'll ever meet in your life I said what did she do he said Nick that red light district where you have 250 houses trafficking children six in each plus an underground cage level she started human trafficking Mumbai 1960s that piece of land I showed you was nothing but land and she put her flag there and said this is my land and we're gonna make a lot of money try humans forty thousand slaves later without her saying sorry without her praying without her nothing God healed her my human mind says how unfair is that at times we think well how can God heal someone like that and he doesn't heal my cousin God is God God is God I can't tell you what happens with the people who never hear about Jesus Christ who died without hearing about Jesus God is a judge I don't know that I can't explicitly explain that in the scriptures but I can tell you this that when you hear the voice of God do not harden your heart letting me in and there is one day when the devil will be no more and that is when all of eight billion people have heard that Jesus is real and they have a choice and they make a choice and that's when we go home and I don't know about you but I want to go home and it's fascinating and just phenomenal that verse where it says no sin can separate you from the love of God if my son walks and falls am I gonna beat him up no I'll pick him up if my son curses at me spits in my face I'm still gonna love him because he is my son he is mine you are yes there is nothing nothing they can separate you from the love of God well I need to stop having a pornographic addiction yeah you do but let's see it from this point of view ready if your house is broken and there's a carpenter willing to help you fix what you can't fix how do you expect him to fix your broken home until you let him in don't let Jesus Christ into your life as a guest in your house because when the devil comes knocking the guest never opens a door the owner does the Bible says this very clearly ready this is it last thing ready if you hold on to your life you will lose your life if you give up your life you all have your life saved Jesus here's the key this is much bigger than me come into my life I want your plan not my plan I want your strength not my strength it's time and in a moment I want to give you an opportunity to respond and come forward to do what to say your prayer to say God forgive me of my sins come into my life heal me I want you I want to live for you well why kind of do it from my seat sure you can pray from your seat but let me just say this if you can't stand up for a faith decision in a church building here how to expect to stand up for a faith decision out there well I wanna I want to hold on to that decision well let's say this indecision is your decision and indecision means a no now and now is now ready now is now and now is now and now is now and tomorrow is tomorrow and tomorrow is tomorrow is tomorrow and yesterday you can't get back that's why it's now now make your choice you don't have to be worried I'm not gonna lay hands on your anything but we've seen 1.1 million people give their life to Jesus Christ and Christians this is not the time to kind of shift and grab your things and think about leaving anytime soon just because his preacher preached a little longer than normal maybe this is when you'll silently praying for the people in front of you behind you and beside you silently if you know who Jesus is awesome if you don't know who Jesus is ready you go to sleep you don't wake up where you gonna be I know where I'm gonna be I'm going home I'm gonna see my dad I'm gonna see my first created that hat yeah are you gonna be there and so right now from the front to the back and even on the balcony I preached three times this morning to a total of 800 people about 81 people gave their life to Jesus so this is evening this evening i'm i'm really i'm actually really expecting at least a hundred right here right now to say you know what enough is enough i want to give my life to Jesus I'm gonna need any volunteers or any other OSHA's coming forward or anything like that right now but right now if you're if you're looking at me and you know your hearts beating and your feet are heavy God's knocking on that door let him in don't try to fix yourself up before you you you become more presentable know when you look from the plane all buildings look flat imagine from God's point of view no matter how tall that building is your righteousness is nothing compared to his holiness it's a surrender to say God please he's the driver's seat take over he's the key it's your house not mine amen so right now from the front to the back do not come up here for a rededication do not come up here for a recommitment this isyou don't know if you're saved and if you don't know that you're saved and you want to know that you know that you know that when you put your head on that pillow tonight you have rest in your soul it starts with a prayer that I want to lead you in here at the front and when you come up the front listen to me bring your belongings so you're not worried about your belongings and when you come up to the floor do not come up on this stage but stay on the floor but face me so your backs to the crowd now we're no further adue from the youngest of the oldest if you know they do you need to give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ do not wait for the first person be the first person if that's you right now stand and come on down if you see someone coming on down then clap them on down right there is good there's one come on church you know that you need to give your life to Jesus you can remain standing don't worry my knees hood after a while it's gonna be a while Church I want you to get a little bit excited we got one two three four five [Music] just remain standing you don't need to kneel if you don't want to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 guys heaven is rejoicing while people are coming so why don't you join heaven just for a little bit teenagers there is no offense either you're living for God God's Way or you living for you your way young couples older couples grab each other's hands and say I need to go up there I need to make my life right with Jesus single by the single father's foster kids adopted children whoever you are come on forward I'm waiting for a hundred people tonight and I will count them that's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 7 8 9 20 21 22 every single soul counts hallelujah 23 from the balcony moon come on down he will take away your depression he will take away your change he will set you free you will give her the truth that you're looking for 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 keep on coming they're coming down 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 [Music] 49 in the name of Jesus Church let's stop for a second let's hold the applause for a second keep coming keep coming listen this is the last of final call this is how we're gonna do it ready there are so many more teenagers you need to make your life right with God there are children eight nine ten years old you need to make your life right with Jesus this is the night don't delay tomorrow's no promised but this is the way we're gonna do a last and final call ready you're thinking of thinking have come and stop thinking about it and you're thinking but I want to go up there but I don't I don't want to go alone okay fair enough fair enough okay this is the trick ready in fact do me a favor you have theater seats everyone stand to your feet we're gonna make all excuses disappear shuffle up against that seat so then people can just walk by you we've made it as simple as possible now listen to me very carefully already keep the house lights on please do not change the lights listen to me very carefully this is the last and final call if you know that you know you need to make your life right with Jesus and you don't even want to come alone simply turn to the person next to you and say I really want to go up there I just don't want to go alone will you please come with me and guess what they're gonna say yes with friends I'm waiting for another 70 people with friends from now go last time now five six seven eight nine ten moved from the top eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen Twenty twenty one thirty two twenty seven twenty eight come on church move move move move move come on church is not done move come on down come on down come on down 31 32 33 34 it's 34 35 36 37 38 more 39 40 41 42 more I'm waiting I'm waiting for 28 more people before we finish do you understand it's a good guess we're gonna wait from the last call from the top 28 come on down last call final call can't be here all night here we go gonna count down 28 28 27 26 25 hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] 24:23 come on down thank you Jesus [Applause] we're at 97 at least people up the front hallelujah no more are we said are we done good let's bow our heads in prayer dear God we come before you today and we thank you so much for your love we give you all the praise and all the glory we acknowledge you as the king of kings and Lord of lords who are we that you'd be mindful of us Lord Jesus we thank you that we are nothing yet we are everything to you so much so that you would die for us thank you Lord that you have a plan for everyone Lord we pray for depression to go we pray for sickness to go we pray for principalities and powers of darkness to be gone in the name of Jesus we thank you for physical miracles and what we thank you that above everything the greatest miracle of all is knowing you to restore our soul to fill us with your Holy Spirit into your new our mind we become a new creation thank you lord thank you for these people up the front and bless them in the name of Jesus if you're up the front please repeat after me say dear God I come to you today and I thank you for loving me thank you Jesus for dying on the cross for all of my sins I believe you are the son of God you died for me you rose again and today I make a conscious decision to ask you into my life as my savior as my king and as my friend thank you God that you love me and always will change my heart forgive me change my mind I give you my pain my depression my anxiety my worries help me Lord to know that you're with me and you'll never leave me fill me with your Holy Spirit teach me to live how to pray how to read my Bible to know you more each and every day in Jesus name I pray amen [Music] hallelujah if you're at your seats have a sit so you can see how many if you're in a chair sit down everyone at look at the front look at me when we become adopted children of God we become brothers and sisters do you look at my body right now look at my body I am your half brother do you understand me that's about a hundred and ten of you up here and I want to tell you that we love you this church loves you if you do not have a home church welcome home welcome to your family we want to come alongside you we want to pray with you we will always love you there is nothing that you will ever tell us about you and what you think that's going to change our love for you this is pasta Alex and we want you to know what this church that everyone is welcome that there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus there is no shame there is no guilt and your past is left behind not only does God forgive you of all of your sins but he says in the word he has for guts and Damned so from this day on when you hear hate you you remember bla bla bla that's the freakin devil and you say get behind me I am NOT forsaken I am a new creation what's past is past and what God helps me to move forward sorry I said freaking you move forward into all that God has for you amen God has come to give you new life a new life more abundant we want you to know that we love you and I want a couple sentences from positive Tim to egg pasta Alex how much he loves you I I'm in awe what God has done in your life think in one moment a miracle is taking place and your destiny is beyond limits and we are a family we're not an institution and this is a place where we love every person to become all that God has called them to be so we support you love you and applaud you for your commitment tonight to follow Jesus amen tomorrow morning you're gonna wake up and say okay what do I do now we're gonna give you a Bible and say here's a Bible good luck okay here's the secret the Bible skip three quarters of it go straight to John if you don't have a Bible each and every one of you are gonna be given a Bible tonight each and every one of you are also going to be given a congratulatory letter from me someone wants to call you and say hey how can we pray for you how can we pray for your family let's have our faith join with your faith for whatever addiction whatever affliction may be you're like man you have no idea some of my friends are really poisonous around me I don't even know what to do we want you know now we don't want you to pick up a Bible and smash people over the head with it either everyone experiences their first days with Jesus differently amen but what you've done today is this you've turned around and you're on that path we want to come around you pray for you help you as a newborn baby babies don't eat steak filet mignons they start with breast milk formula they're mushy food then chicken then blah blah blah we want to help you in the spirit to start now learning okay what is this new life in Jesus mean and to do that we're gonna take three more minutes of your time everyone say three minutes a military-style I asked you to bring your belongings up here did you do that good because if I see you go back to your seats I will drag you back up do you understand me this is a thing everyone that gets something is actually going to be given to its gonna be given to you through those doors over there someone's waving over there can you wave a little bit bigger like you just don't care with two hands since God gave you two hands as well and then do you see those people over there they're gonna take you through those doors for three minutes I'm gonna say three minutes it's just as important as you come up here that you go over there if you need to grab your belongings but I see you got back to your seats and you sit down I will drag you back up lastly if you're sitting on your seats but you didn't come up here and you said that prayer just like these people did you need exactly what these people are getting tonight do you understand it's not too late to join them if your child is less than 12 years old and you'd like to accompany them please feel free to do that everyone up the front look at me military-style face this way and move let's give God glory you [Applause] you

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Length: 61min 41sec (3701 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2020