God of the Breakthrough - Louie Giglio

this message tonight is called god of the breakthrough god of the breakthrough and I don't know what you're hoping for in your journey right now but God is able that's the message tonight but here's the way God works God typically invites us into the process see we have a tendency to say God I need you to work now I'm gonna just sit back and pray and trust that your work and God says I would like to work but I wouldn't like to invite you into the process with me we're gonna end this message at the walls of Jericho a story that most people who've been around Church know we're seven times around the fortified city delivered Jericho into the hands of the nation of Israel one of the first victories as they enter into the Promised Land but here's what happens in Joshua chapter 6 God says to Joshua I'm gonna give you the city in fact I've given you the city I already promised that to your forefathers I promised that to Moses and I'm promising it to you I'm gonna give you the city but here's what I need you to do organize the people get the priests get to Ark of the Covenant and make one lap around the city on the first day another lap on the second day the third day the fourth day the fifth day the sixth day gonna do a little different plan on the seventh day so see what God did he said I'm gonna give you the city but now here's what I need you to do ok the amens just went down I said God is able we had like near broke out revival I said here's what I need you to do you could hear a pin drop no Lord we want you to do it you're the god of the breakthrough we need you to make the breakthrough we need you to make a way we need you to bring the walls down we need you to part to see we need you to do it he says ok I'm gonna do it now here's what I need you to do I need you to step in with me in the process God's working all around us all the time God's doing miracles in our lives that we see and don't see all the time who knows how many times angel stepped into our story today God's always at work all around us but God is also inviting us into the story so this series is called extravagant we called it extravagant because we have three anchors that passion city church the glory of God these are our theological pillars if you will this is what our whole house is tied to in a sense of mooring to these big anchors the glory of God radical grace and extravagant worship you can sum up everything we do at passion city church with the glory of God it's his story he's the star of the story he's the center of the story this church and our lives are all about him but this glorious God has extended radical grace to you and me not Grace to get us from Hell into heaven grace to get us through Thursday and grace to get us through the valley and grace to get us up the mountains Christ in me the hope of glory and in light of a glorious God whose extended radical grace we want to respond with extravagant worship we do not want to offer God less than what God has offered us however we get into earthly economy with God that goes like this I love the fact that God gave a hundred percent you sing a song about Jesus laying his life down for me climbing up a mountain for me tearing down a wall for me lighten up the darkness for me coming after me you sing a song about the one who paid it all broke my chains set me free gave His Son paid the price I'm gonna go yeah I praise you for giving a hundred percent for me now I'm gonna need a whole series on giving to give ten percent of what I've got to you you're like 10% what's 10% I'm gonna give what seems good what seems convenient when it all fits together when I'm in the mood when everybody else is on board when life is good and I can see what you're doing I will give some but it's very rare to find a moment if I can be honest where any of us like totally just say I'm a all-in hundred percent of me and it's not a big deal because I'm responding to a hundred percent of you and a hundred percent seems like it beckons a hundred percent that's extravagant worship that's a life of saying I want to honor you in every single way and I believe it's all tied up in the idea of sacrifice this series is built around sacrifice his in ours his 100% Christ's given for us ours our lives and everything we are in response to what he has done for us we saw this in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 15 and 16 now Hebrews if you don't know much about the book and it helps to know sort of what the books of the Bible are about so you can know what the verses in those books of the Bible are about in Hebrews is about a teaching that was coming into the early church wanting to pull people back to the old Jewish system pull people back to the law back to the temple back to the sacrifices but what the writer of Hebrews is saying is we're not going back Jesus has set us free Jesus is the final sacrifice Jesus is made a way we are not going back to a system we're not going back to religion and we're not going back to the old way of doing things we are staying with Jesus and so when you come to the last chapter in this book about not going back and come to these verses verse 15 and 16 you get the backdrop and you understand that what worship really looks like the verse opens this way through Jesus therefore can you read it with me through Jesus therefore let's write together through Jesus therefore so what we're talking about tonight is coming through the lens of the finished work of Jesus coming to church through the finished work of Jesus coming to worship through the finished work of Jesus coming into the house at the five o'clock through the finished work of Jesus coming into Monday through the finished work of Jesus coming to above and beyond Sunday through the finished work of Jesus coming to our decisions in life through the finished work of Jesus man I want to be a part of a church I got to tell you where people don't just come through physical doors but they come through the doorway of the finished work of Jesus both in DC and Atlanta five o'clock amazing door holders beautiful people opened a physical door for us to come into this gathering but Jesus the ultimate door holder opened a spiritual door for us to come into this gathering he's gotten nail-scarred hands and he held open the veil of the temple so that we could come into the presence of a holy God he paid and paved the way so that we could come from wherever we are whoever we are into the very presence of God in this gathering so when you came through the physical doors that's great but if you hadn't come through the spiritual doors then you got to your seat looked around kind of decided what you felt about everything sized up the band when they came out looked at the words on the screen and maybe took them in it to go for it versus coming in the door I want to go to a church don't you want to go to this church I want to speak this over our church and our church is very much on the way to this I want to go to a church where people come through the doorway of Jesus they get to their seat and they say kind of under their breath I'm ready for this thing to start I am ready to worship the Living God I am ready to exalt Jesus when the band comes out I'm gonna rip their head off the first note going for it I'm not looking around I don't need a warmup I don't need a fast song I don't need a call to worship I came through the doorway of the finished work of Jesus that doesn't mean my life is great on the contrary life might be really hard but I came through the finished work of Jesus and I want to go to a church just to kind of put it out there I I did this this morning and then I felt like it it maybe was a little too pastoral so I decided not to do it tonight but then I changed my mind I want to go to a church where people don't leave til it's over [Music] can I speak that over passion City Church could that be our church could it be our church that people are like ready to drop I'm not a hundred percent because we're gonna have guests and we're gonna have somebody wandering off the street and we're gonna have somebody that just came from a you know another church and maybe their tradition was a little bit different so that's cool and that's always acceptable we got somebody but it doesn't even know Jesus yet people just checking things out all that's great so it doesn't have to be a hundred percent but like 90 percent I mean on from the drop and then nobody leaves because who knows that last song might not be the last song people say well you know we just start darted out during the last song I said what if during the last song God moved and revival broke out and in the history of the church your family's legacy would be we left during the last song [Applause] were you at passion city when we did all broke out nah we left her in the last zone we just figured it was over by then I want to go to a church I want to speak over our church I want to go to a church and I know we can't get there by next week cuz you know two thirds of our church isn't here this week but I want to I want to go to a church where people are ready to go with the drop and don't leave til it's over because they came through the finished work of Jesus it wasn't like showing up for a sporting event and oh we know well it ended and so it's time to bail or there we're ahead so let's duck out early it's not a an event of some kind it's a gathering of God's people and anything is possible and I didn't just come through a physical door I came through Jesus and when I come through Jesus this all makes sense let us continually can you say continually so worship isn't an appointment or scheduled event it's a it's an a lifestyle let us continually offer to God here comes our word a sacrifice of praise the fruit of lips he describes what a sacrifice of praise is that confess his name so in any place at any time in any circumstance when we say I believe in God I believe in Jesus I believe you're in charge I believe you're still working I believe you have a plan I believe you're good I believe you're sovereign I do believe you love me I believe you're the source I believe you can do miracles I believe you're the great I am whenever we confess who he is in any place at any time that is a sacrifice of praise and it's mostly a sacrifice when the times are difficult more than it is when everything is great fruit of lips that confess your name and a second thing do not forget to do good with for with such sacrifices God is pleased I got a whoa thank you and in some maybe kind of an Amen DC and I don't know what I got from DC something I hope but this phrase with words from our lips and the lifestyle that we live doing good and sharing with other people hello we can move the heart of the Almighty with these sacrifices God is pleased it's a miracle that he even knows that he even notices that he even sees that it's even on his radar a little-bitty finite me can say something or act a certain way and move the heart of the Almighty God do you ever think about that you have the power to move the heart of God and it's all wrapped up in that word sacrifice it's not an Old Testament concept it's not about law thought about regulations is not about it's not about should it's about grace because God didn't give Jesus because he ought to he gave Jesus because he wanted to the sacrifice of Jesus was 1000% grace therefore when we talk about sacrifice we are not talking about law or legalism or rules and regulations we're talking about I want to do something that is appropriate and commensurate and proportionate to what you have done for me I want to offer something that's costly in something that's precious to God so what would a sacrifice appraised look like a few little snapshots number one a a sacrifice of praise would look like someone sacrificing what they wanted so that someone that they don't know could have an eternity with Jesus David Platts message last week rocked our house I'm gonna sacrifice what I could have so that someone I don't even know on the other side of the of the block or on the other side of the planet can have an eternity with Jesus you're like well why would I do that because I came to see what God sacrificed so that I could have an eternity with Jesus therefore it seems right to me to sacrifice something I could get a new pair of kicks or a trip with my friend that I'm gonna sacrifice what I could get what I want so that someone I don't even know could have an eternity with Jesus a sacrifice could look like singing when the darkness closes in Paul and Silas act sixteen middle of the prison midnight what are they doing singing hymns of praise to God totally counterintuitive to the seeing world but makes perfect sense to the believing world because when you are down in the bottom and everything has gone opposite of what you had hoped or planned what else is there to do but to cry out and call out to the God of heaven and the god of earth and as they sing the hymns of praise all the prisoners were listening but the prisoners weren't the only ones listening heaven was listening apparently because the walls started to shake and the chains started to break and the prison door swung open and that night that jailer and his family got saved and got baptized not because of extraordinary boldness but because of extravagant worship and what was the extravagant worship it was a song in the night a song in the day is good I wouldn't belittle the song in the day if you get blessed give God praise if you get a miracle give God praise if God does something that you have been hoping for and praying for give God praise but when the darkness closes in when it doesn't all add up when you can't see past your face when you cannot make sense of the circumstance in the situation but you still believe in God you still believe in Jesus you still believe in the one gave a hundred percent so that you could be alive you praise him you bless him you honor him and proclaim him in the middle you garner the attention of heaven and you move the heart of God and you move the heart of the people around you because the world expects Christians to praise God when they get bonuses but the world is perplexed by Christians who praise God in the dark another glimpse of what a sacrifice of praise would look like is giving when you don't have enough see the seeing world says you give once you've received but the believing world says you give in order to receive you give because God is worthy you give not out of fear that wow this is my last little bit if I give this I won't have any more you give going this is my last little bit thank God I'm giving it to the one who owns everything I'm gonna have enough if I give this to him that's the story that we see in Luke in Luke chapter 21 I love these four verses because Jesus is paying attention people and that is a mind-boggling thought to me God has a lot on his plate but somehow he notices things it says as Jesus looked up he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple Treasury he also saw a poor Widow put into very small not just small copper coins think about it got rich people coming in popping in big gifts got Widow coming in with two little copper coins think about this woman she's a widow so a she's already at a disadvantage in this culture be her coins are very small see her coins are copper not the bling of the gold in the silver of the day but Jesus said I saw they weren't too small for me to miss him I noticed him two of them I saw what they were made out of copper and I saw the precious woman who brought him this Widow who I have my eye on Jesus sees it all and it moves his heart he gives a little commentary and I love it he said I tell you the truth this poor widow has put in more than all the others think about that I don't know what these others were putting in but we know that in the economy of God's kingdom what we invest into the hands of God is forever into our future in heaven don't lay up for yourself treasures on earth where moth and rust can corrupt and thief can break in and steal but lay up treasures for yourself in heaven where there is no corruption and there is no thief to steal whatever you lay up in heaven you've got for eternity so if these rich people made it to heaven and this poor Widow made it to heaven she would be loaded and they would be frustrated may we put in a lot not as much as her and here's why here's why he could say that the next verse says that all these people gave their gifts out of their wealth but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on what we talked about when we were talking about Mount Carmel a few weeks ago was the sacrifice that was on the altar that day that brought down the fire of heaven was faith it really wasn't about the wood it wasn't about the stones it wasn't about the bull and it wasn't about the water in the trenches it was really about Elijah's faith that God was going to come through faith the Hebrews writer says is the one necessary ingredient to please God the Hebrews writer writes it without faith it is impossible to please God so so what would you bring god I mean that's the question I've been wrestling with and we talk about it in our world like what do you get the person who has everything you know that person right will you get the person who has everything frustrating gift card to Chili's and then when we get there we say I don't know what to get you because you already have everything well if that's true in human terms how much more truth is that on spiritual terms what do you get the God who has everything well we're gonna sing you another song tonight oh that's fantastic thank you I have 10,000 times 10,000 angels and I got these serifs and they just holy holy holy me all day long and I've got people on every continent in every city in every language right now singing me worship songs that happens pretty much 24/7 365 days a year I got serious over here I got spotify channels playing non-stop I got a little Bible studies meeting I got people running on the trail I got people in their cars I got churches hitter meeting I got I got songs coming well we're gonna sing you another one how great is God he's like all cool that's awesome and I'm getting that from what are we getting it from right now forty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty seven locations come on join in and he's just gonna like I feel more like God all of a sudden what do you get to God who has everything attendance at a gathering a couple bucks and a bucket I'll tell you what he wants and I'll tell you what will move his heart your face your trust you putting your faith on the altar insane if you don't come through I'm hosed but I believe you're gonna come through I'm putting my two copper coins in it's the last thing I've got to live on but I'm putting them into the hands of a great and mighty God and I believe you're gonna come through for me I can't wait to get to heaven and hear the end of this precious widows worried because I promise you there is a phenomenal ending to her story see where there is no sacrifice there is no worship in sacrifice is faith so in faith and trust on the altar I promise you the fire of heaven will fall and when the fire of heaven Falls revival will start in your heart yes we want it in our church yes we want it in our city yes we wanted in our generation and yes we want it across the earth but it has to start somewhere and the somewhere is in you and in me and the way revival starts in my heart is when my faith and trust are on the altar of Almighty God and I say I have no king but you I have no hope but you I got no backup plan but you we put all the fire and all the wood I mean all the wood and all the stones and all the water on the ball and if you don't come through we're out in heaven sees faith in fire falls and without fire falling you've just got form with no power the church of our generation but don't you want the power and not just the form and what would you bring a God who has everything well a is two things really one is your affection because there's one thing nobody and these two gatherings can give God but you and that's your affection I can't tell God you love him and your trust and when you put trust on the altar I promise fire it's gonna fall from heaven a fourth way that we see a little glimpse into what sacrifice of praise looks like is when we respond simply because we're overwhelmed by grace this woman that we read about in Luke chapter 7 she came to that dinner where Jesus was reclining at the party that the Pharisee had thrown and this woman of the night slips in and at the end of the sofa where Jesus is reclining she kneels down pours it says an alabaster jar on his feet of perfume and then sheds tears on his feet and wipes him with her hair she she didn't add it all up she didn't on the way over there go okay I wonder how much this jar is worth so we've got to put 10% that's acceptable from the Old Testament I heard some of the teachers of the law safety to tithe that's good and so I could just give 10% and come back next week and give 10 more percent no she just said I had no shot I had no grace I had no mercy but this man gave me grace and this man gave me mercy and she didn't even think about it before she just took what was precious to her and poured it on his feet just moved by grace and move by mercy as we come to above and beyond this is what I believe we could show a thousand videos about how God has changed lives that passion City Church we could preach all the sermons in the world about how generosity is the way that leads to freedom in our lives we're gonna have the best-looking letter coming your email we can put great graphics in and put great stories in motion but until you and I are moved by mercy and captured by the grace of Almighty God we're never gonna really fully pour out a sacrifice of praise that moves heaven and moves earth but when we see grace you don't need a preacher you don't need a story you don't need above and beyond you don't need anything you're just overwhelmed by grace and all of a sudden the whole alabaster jar just goes on to the feet or the head of Jesus another little glimpse of a sacrifice and I love this when coming back to where we started is when we worship until the walls come down your breakthrough and whatever you're praying and believing for in your life is most likely contingent to you not giving up on the belief that your worship can break down walls see I can only imagine how foolish it look to the natural world to see the Israelites walking around this fortified city with the priests and the preachers out in front and the Ark of the Covenant the glory and presence of God and they marched around a lap and go back to the camp come back tomorrow a lap in back to the camp by the third day I'm sure they're getting heckled royally from the walls of the city and here come the Israelites on day three yes the priests again are in the lead look the Ark of the Covenant surrounding the North corner just now how's it going down there people fourth day fifth day six day looks crazy you got to know people were at the tent saying I'm not going today I'm not going today I don't know what we're doing I don't know what this is about doesn't seem to be doing anything the walls just look bigger and bigger to me every day we go around them but there was a promise on the seventh day on the seventh lap when God gave the command the trumpet would blow the people would raise a shout and when they raised the shout God would move see here's the beauty in the power that is yours in worship not that we see God move and then we worship Him but we believe that when we worship Him God moves so many times we're waiting okay let's see how it plays out and then I'm gonna worship and kind of say no no no no don't stop worshiping because as you're worshiping that's how it's gonna play out and so quickly we turn to why and what happened and where are you and what's going on and I thought you were gonna do this and then I saw you do that and I don't understand if you forgotten us and what's the plan and why are we out here and how long is this gonna take and we thought you would have worked by now and you say just hang in there in belief just hang in there in confidence just hang in there in faith and don't stop proclaiming my name into the storm into the circumstance into the situation up against whatever the walls are don't stop proclaiming that you believe in a great God I don't know I'm not offering a formula I'm not saying to you praise God every day in the face of whatever it is it's closing in on you and by this time next week you're going to your breakthrough I'm just saying there's something powerful about living out the reality that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose that if God is for me two verses down who can be against me that if God coming down the paragraph did not spare his own son will he not freely give us all things coming down in the paragraph to who can separate us from the love of God a believing that I don't have to see God and understand the way he works to believe God and to know that he is working if you want to live a revolutionary life if you want to exceed the norms and experience the supernatural then let God shift your thinking and renew your mind to this one concept that no matter what I see in the natural God is working his plan no matter what I can understand about the circumstance God is doing something amazing he is always doing something he's always doing something good and he's always doing something amazing he is never not doing anything and he's never doing something bad and he's never doing something ordinary God is always at work always doing something amazing and always doing something for our good now I say that with this hashtag on my hand and a thousand other hashtags that any one of us could name in this moment I say that journey through a barren land all glitz and glam to the natural world but a broken-down dream to the spiritual mind is this world in which we live and on that journey God has proven at Calvary that he is above it all and he said in this world you will have trouble but don't ever forget do not ever discount do not ever count me out because I have overcome the world heaven gets more and more real the darker the night the deeper the pain the tougher the sorrow the greater the loss heaven stops being a theory and it starts being a reality it stops being some kind of by-and-by pie in the sky and it starts being something that's drawing us like a magnet forward and great hope in faith of knowing that our loved ones are there our sacrifices are there our Savior is there our investments are there our 401k is there our healing in full is there our restoration is there this is the promised land that we are headed to and on the way I believe God has a plan on the way I believe he's working and I don't know how he's working I don't understand all his ways they're higher than my ways his thoughts are greater than my thoughts that's why I praise them even if that's I why I praise Him even win that's why I praised him no matter what that's why I don't stop making laughs in faith and I just would encourage you don't stop circling your kids with a shout of praise the walls will come down don't stop circling your parents with a shout of praise don't stop circling around yourself with faith and praise don't stop partnering with God who already told you he's gonna do it believing that he is at work and believing that your shout can destroy a fortress a worship that's for the creatives I love it all the musically inclined the skinny jeans crowd for sure that's those few minutes right before the preacher comes that's a spotify track or a new song i've heard oh come on worship is a song thank God for every one of them that exalts Jesus Christ and inspires us to be who we are in him but worship is way more than some tangent for creatives worship is a force worship is a weapon worship is a tidal wave it is a tsunami it is the power of God and it is in your mouth God is saying if you want to see the breakthrough bring a sacrifice of praise [Music] so how's the spirit stirring is it the two little coins or as a song percolating up even in the darkest night is it trading out something I could have gotten for me for something I can do for somebody else is all of a sudden an overflow and you're like man something just hit my heart and I just want to give I don't need a plan I just want to give in this moment or is it saying I'm not gonna stop I'm not stopping man I was I was so close to stopping in fact I stopped for a while but I feel wind in my soul God's given me the city but he invited me to come and Circle it in faith and I'm not gonna stop or maybe it's just a shift of mind II see those of us here at 5:15 maybe it's a shift of mine I was struggling with 10% in response to a God who gave everything I need a renewed mind I need a turnaround in my thinking I needed awakening - how beautiful sacrifices and I want to offer faith and Trust to a holy God because I need fire to fall on my mountain

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Length: 37min 19sec (2239 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 24 2019