Good News - Derek Carr - Brave Church

I'm Derek and this is also Derek but before he comes up here and speaks I'd like to open with a word of Prayer dear Heavenly Father we give you thanks for this glorious day for this perfect weather for everyone here then we be able to worship together and glorify you Lord we pray that the Holy Spirit may enter here that when we feel your presence that no heart will leave here unchanged that no life will leave here untouched father we surrender to you may you break the bondage of sin that we have in our lives that we are made alive in Christ that we feel your presence made strengthen us encouraged us that we may live lives glorifying and honoring to you father left over this time together in your word and all the Lord's people said amen Oh y'all can be seated I'm not gonna sing for you in this also man for like three of you it's really cool right I don't know about you but this is awesome to be able to come out here to be outside but not really some of us don't like the Sun as much as others but to be outside and just be praising God for all the surrounding neighborhoods the air is pretty sweet to me I have a word for you that I can't wait to get to but before that I just want to say something's on my heart during the worship is is some of us I don't know maybe I'm the only one but maybe you got some things in your life where you need the walls to come down am I the only one so you can respond with me it's okay you know I don't like to do things and normally I don't like business as usual I'm gonna make things weird I'm gonna make you talk to me is that Alright some of you want to talk to me anyway so we'll do it that way some of you and raise your hand if you need some walls to come down in your life look at that around look around the room look at that and let me tell you I've searched everything I've searched every drug I've searched everything that you could possibly think of I searched wild parties I've searched all those things I've searched even my own success I've searched success in my job and fame and fortune and all those things and none of them filled me up none of those things brought those walls down but let me tell you this the only thing in the one and only thing that brought those things down was my relationship with Christ and that's it you see I believe I believe with everything in me if you would just open up your hearts just the posture of your heart don't close it off just do just just give me that just a little bit of respect just don't close your heart off just listen to what I have to say to you for the next three hours and I'm just kidding half who knows we know we never know right pastor Darren's over there like please don't do that we got like parking and stuff like the kids might break something I don't know but if you would just open up your hearts I promise you that there will be opportunity for you and you'll feel it I don't need to convince you you'll feel it in your own heart where Jesus wants to change some things in your life and you'll have the opportunity to do so is that Alright you see I believe in a God that one moment and his presence can change everything in your life you see because every other religion they worship these idols they worship these things that are all dead but see the one thing that separates Christianity is that our God is alive and seated at the right hand of the Father in the book of Joshua I'm not even gonna preach on that but I'll tell you something in the book of Joshua I want to say it's chapter 6 is a story of the fall of Jericho does anybody know about Jericho and the big walls around the city of Jericho I mean we learned to this kids some of you if you don't know it don't worry about I'm about to tell you all right basically there was these big huge walls then the Bible says that no one could come in and no one could go out the the walls where a four day was a fortified city you couldn't get in there but you see God told Joshua that he was gonna take that land you see uh there's some things that have happened in my life where God was telling me that something was going to happen through prayer and through other people just encouraging me through his word encouraging me and I said there's no way by my strength that that can happen right has anybody ever had a moment like that where you like you know that that job is yours but you're not qualified enough to get it or you know that you're supposed to be with that woman take it in my instance I know I was supposed to be with this beautiful woman but I'm not pretty enough to be with her God you're gonna have to do something in her heart to make me look better to her see there's there's things like this that he took a little kid out of Fresno California and said as early as I could remember you're gonna be a professional quarterback and you're gonna be one of the best to do it you see I had that dream in my heart since I was a little kid and it wasn't to go play football in to win games and well say that's just a pre record those those things are gonna happen those are those a byproduct of just working hard right and God's hand being on my life see that wasn't the purpose the purpose was so that other people could show up people would show up to see number four from the Raiders but they would leave with Jesus as they leave the place right and so there's some God size dreams that he's put in your heart there's some God size dreams that he's put in my heart I'm actually in the middle of some of them right but the only thing that can make those things come to fruition for some of you kids that means to completion okay you should read a book it's all right I didn't read many that's why I'm telling you to do it to be better than me you see if you want those things that come to fruition you want them to finish then you have to seek God about it you have to because there's some things that some of you are carrying away from imagine if Joshua at that moment was like this can't happen I'm just gonna walk the other way someone else can have that land right but see this is what happened God gave Joshua instruction all right long story short Joshua and the people obeyed that instruction God has been doing something on your heart East he's starting to change some things bring some walls down in your life he's giving you some instruction Joshua we can learn from him because he obeyed that instruction they walked around the wall and let me tell you this it wasn't their might it wasn't their strength that brought those walls down God told them to walk around on that last day seven times and on the last time there'd be a horn blast there'd be a shout in the walls were gonna come down it wasn't the sound of the echo of their shout that brought those walls down okay it was nothing by their strength or their might that brought those walls down all that brought those walls down was their obedience to what God had to say see God is telling you that he wants to change some things in your life he wants to mend some relationships he wants to fix that job you have he wants to he wants to fix your relationship with your own parents he wants to fix you and your spouse's relationship because you just got in the biggest fight like literally last night he wants to mend that see I'm not the only one sometimes me and my wife we've driven to church and we argue about something we go to church oh praise God everything's great then we get back in the car were arguing about the same thing and all it ends up being is I messed up right you smart husbands we'll figure that one out you see but Joshua they ran around but it was their obedience to God's instruction that brought those walls down and they were able to take the land that God had promised them does that make sense some of you you're gonna get it some of you were gonna start to get it so all I'm asking you to do is open that part of your heart to God's instruction for your life today and then just obey whatever he's telling you to do don't do what I tell you to do do what God tells you to do is that Alright all right praise God I love absolutely love telling people what God is doing because I don't know about you when I grew up in church so many times I don't know if there's in kids church or youth whatever I would hear stories about what God did I just told you one right God brought the walls of Jericho down right and he used some pretty sometimes unimpressive people to do it right he's used a pretty unimpressive person in my eyes and been able to do a lot of crazy things and so I like to hear stories of what God is doing you know we all know that if you believe in the Bible that God he's going to come back someday right we all know that there's stories in the Bible how God used to heal people and he used to set people free and all these kind of things but I love to tell you stories about God is doing now you see the spirit of religion will tell you what God has done and it is going to do but it doesn't tell you what he's doing right now and I want to tell you what he's doing right now literally anybody know where Fresno is uh-huh god bless you it's hot like all the time so I was I've been preaching down there non-stop we got something going down down there so I've been back and forth preaching preaching there for four weeks now like literally the whole month some of you were like man I haven't seen you at church in like a month is everything okay yes everything is okay have been preaching in Lathrop anyone know where Lathrop is I thought it was Lathrop dead serious not trying to make you laugh I really did but I went to Lathrop and preached though heard where we saw hundreds of people saved throughout this last month a month and a half really we've seen hundreds maybe even thousands come to know Christ we've seen yeah absolutely praise God we've seen we've seen literally I'll just tell you this literally last Sun Wednesday this last Wednesday so what's today Sunday right Wow football literally on Wednesday I was in Fresno and we saw 20 or 30 people physically healed right in front of our eyes see some of y'all are like no you didn't yes I did yeah because I used to be the person be like man it's just some pastor guy throwing out numbers I'm not about numbers it feels one person I tell you what I want you to know is that God is really moving and he's wanting to do something in our land is that all right is that okay with you because it's okay with me let's see if it's gonna be okay with you you got to invite him in you got to allow him to come in see you as I was sitting there I saw I literally prayed this and I got nervous because as someone who stands on stage and preaches and loves the Word of God and goes after God with everything smoking me out thank you dear God his presence is here you see as someone that loves to wear God as I stand on stage and it's not that I heard an audible voice where God was like you know I've told I said this so many times it wasn't like a burning bush like Derek pray for healing or it wasn't like a sound coming from heaven and if it was man praise God you know I'd be like all in but it wasn't that I just felt this feeling in my heart as I was teaching and as I was preaching to pray for healing in that room I don't do it every time but I just do it when God says it's all right and as I'm standing there you see my reputation is on the line now as I stand there if I go after healing and nothing happens people are gonna look at me and think I'm crazy right there's gonna think oh man that used to happen it doesn't happen anymore right and let me tell you this even if that was the case my jobs to be obedient I'm not here to impress you I'm not here to entertain you I'm not here to you know just give you some kind of thought or anything like that I am here for one reason and as to point you directly to Christ that is it that is why I came today but as I was as we were as we were going and as I was standing there preaching and all sudden I feel it's so strong on my heart I was like oh my goodness all right this is gonna be really awkward or really awesome right there's about a thousand people in this church and I said okay I want you to stand up if you need healing if someone needs to be healed of something I want you to stand up right now and what amazing faith those people had to think that man whatever this guy just said man maybe there is a God in heaven that would actually do that for me right that's awkward right it's hard to stand up in a room full of people that some of you don't even know right that's weird like I don't know about you but that's just weird to me I'm not trying to stand up and say yeah man I need healing sometimes also our heart gets in the way like I don't want other people to know that something's wrong with me I don't know about you but a lot of us put on a front sometimes to say no everything is fine everything is okay and then we don't desperately come to church knowing that the only answer is Christ and we leave never fully seeking him out so as I said I said I want you to stand up and I prayed over them that in Jesus name by His stripes you would be healed and I said it's not some fancy prayer I said I think I just said I really think God wants to do this in your life and then I said this craziest statement I've ever said while preaching I said I said if you have been healed I want you to stay standing if you haven't you can sit down right like that is crazy and there was honestly about eight people that sat back down there I saw him testing it out and stuff and they sat back down but there was still 20 to 30 people standing up all over the place and I said this I said look the evidence is all around you that God can still do it today I didn't come and do sign and wave a wand in front of you I didn't throw my Bible and hit you in the head like God is alive and can do things like this today and there's a man standing right in front crying his eyes out because he had just been physically healed there was like a 70 or 80 year old man standing up with his arms like this because he had just been healed you see there was people all over the place let me say this the people that sat back down doesn't mean that God doesn't want to heal you it just means your story isn't done yet you see he touched their heart and said they said man there's something in here that is making me want to stand up and be touched by God today they stood up nothing happened for them I've prayed for my grandpa something you know the story he had brain cancer here's a pastor his whole life they dedicated his in life to the Ministry of Jesus Christ and now he has brain cancer shortly I can think of some other people that could have it besides him right some gets jacked up I'm just kidding you see this man he was the most Amman of integrity and all that the same God that I was praying for that day when he passed away is the same God I was praying to when those people were healed in that moment I don't have the answer why some things happen I I prayed over my son Dallas my oldest he'll be six in August I prayed over him before he was even a thought that he would be healed and covered and and nothing would be wrong in all of these things and then he's born and now he has to have three surgeries now doctors tell me he might not make it okay that's the same God I was praying to then but is setting people free everywhere I've been going does that make sense I don't know why he does certain things but sometimes he just wants your heart to think that he can do that does that make sense sometimes he wants to know that you think he's big enough sometimes he wants to say he wants you to know in your heart that man that's really awkward but I'm gonna stand up because I think that that that Jesus could heal me right now sometimes he just wants your heart see I prayed from one of my teammates a couple years ago he had a knee problem I laid hands on him about eight of us we're praying for him and nothing physically happened to his body but he said but anybody said you guys don't understand me just step it out and faith like that you don't understand what that did to my heart he said it I see the tears in his eyes he said changed my life forever you see I don't know what God is trying to do in your life but I know that he's trying to do something you let me say this all of you have a purpose that you are here today all of you are here for a divine reason and that is so Jesus can speak directly into your heart have a living relationship with you so that when you leave this place there's nowhere you go on accident there are people in your lives that don't even like the Raiders and would not listen to a thing that I have to say a lot of them are Niner fans that's what we call them all right they don't care what I have to say but they love you they have a relationship with you and they desperately and deeply care what you have to say so if God puts someone you hard if he's putting someone else on your heart as they stand before God what a shame and tragedy it would be if they don't get to enter them the gates but they see you and say well I wish they would have told me what a tragedy that would be because let me promise you something we are going to stand before God every knee will bow every tongue will confess that he is Lord I tried for so long to run from that truth I tried for so long to run from that truth I said well now man that doesn't seem pleasing to me I want to do a B and C but God said I don't want you to do that I want you to do these things over here and trust me it's way cooler than that over there you see one moment just sitting on the couch with my wife one moment just holding her in my arms is way cooler than anything else that I ever did before that one moment just playing with my kids the love that just went selfishly I want to take a nap okay but one moment of me just given my energy to the hymn one moment of doing that and then my kids just telling me daddy I love you so much just randomly as we're playing I start tearing up of that all right we're done we got to go those moments are way better and that is what God had planned for me way better than anything I was doing that I thought I wanted right way better than anything I thought my flesh wanted and so I just want you guys to know that God is doing things literally I'll tell you another story really quick I was in Fresno I supposed to preach on Sunday morning Saturday night I'm going to my hotel I drink a lot of shakes okay fruits smoothies protein shakes all these kind of things so I need some milk okay and I'm they're closed the the hotel thing is closed I went to the front desk her name was destiny eyes like destiny I'm so sorry can I please get some milk I got to make a shake she's like why do you need some milk right now you're a weirdo right 10 o'clock at night need some milk we go over there and me and my buddy Maddy were standing there and he feels on his heart to start talking to her about Jesus and I got to sit there and watch destiny accept Jesus with tears in her eyes saying no no I believe with everything in me now see Maddie was there two weeks ago just telling her about Jesus and she's like yeah no it's not for me or anything like that and literally he says how's your last couple weeks been he said she said ever since you talked to me things have been happening in my life something's been heavy that's God's other name is something something's been happening something's been happening in my life where I believe 100% that he's real and she accepted Christ with tears in her eyes we got to pray for her right then in there what I just was asking for some milk and she left again with eternity yeah that's what Jesus is doing today [Applause] you see I tell you I tell you these things to just boost your faith a little bit that's all just to let you know that there are there are things happening today there are God is still moving today even though when we turn the news on it doesn't look like it right and I guess I'm the only one when I turn that thing on I'm like man okay first of all they're trying to get him out of our government they're trying to get him out of our schools they're trying to get him out maybe we should try it the other way right maybe we should try and start putting him in it I ain't started yet I'm sorry I just love you guys so much I just really love like I could feel God's heart for you I can feel his love for you how desperately he just wants you to cling on to him you see because I hey you could take if you could take it from me I was someone that was all in the wildness of life I was someone completely seeking out professional football because it was professional football it gives me money it give me fame I could my wife would have enough I say it all the time enough money to go to Target and get what we needed right see in college we couldn't get everything that we wanted now we can go to Target and get what we want you know praise God right thank you lord the turkey there is not cheap tell you okay see God is trying to do something and I believe it with everything in me that he wants to do something in your life today is that all right is it okay that I feel that way yeah some of y'all are feeling it no right I'm gonna be in Matthew 20 five if you have your Bibles if you have your phone there's apps that you can literally on Google type in Matthew 25 and it's gonna pop up all right so you have no excuse just stay with me I'm gonna let you take your time to get there it's in the New Testament but a little bit more than halfway to your right we good half y'all awake all right we're good all right let me say this before I get started I firmly believe that Jesus is going to start moving on your heart as I begin to read this and as I begin to share with you what he wants you to know is that all right see he's gonna begin to do something in your heart he's gonna begin to change some things in your heart even even if you even if you are a believer even if you have loved God your whole life even if you've been consistently coming to church I believe that there's some things that he wants to do in your life and I believe that he's gonna do that today's you see you're gonna have the opportunity I believe with everything in me and I don't just believe it I know it that Jesus is gonna be here today waiting for you to respond is that okay is that okay if I say that because I really believe that if you believe that this word is true how many I always ask this how many believe that this word is true if you don't it's okay trust me good good that's awesome we're gonna find out that it's gonna get awkward I love it like oh man we're doing the tenth thing Derek is here oh man some of you that go to church here no I'm gonna make it awkward I'm gonna press your buttons a little bit if you don't believe that this is true that's okay I believe that he's gonna start working on your heart too it's gonna be awesome you guys there Matthew 25 let's get it all right so I'm gonna start at verse 1 okay it's the story of the ten bridesmaids starts like this the kingdom of heaven can be illustrated by the story of ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom five of them were foolish and five were wise the five who were foolish took no oil for their lamps or their there's a bridegroom okay he's off in the distance somewhere okay he's somewhere out and about and now there's ten bridesmaids five it says the Bible says we're foolish because they didn't bring enough oil in their lamps and then five four wives because they brought extra oil just in case he didn't show up right away okay so verse five says when the bridegroom was delayed they all laid down to sleep so so now all all ten are laying down to sleep at his doorsteps that makes sense they're all laying there taking a nap hmm some of us are gonna need one after today at midnight they were roused by the shout look the bridegroom is coming come out and welcome him all the bridesmaids got up and prepared their lamps then the five foolish ones asked the others please give us some of your oil because our lamps are going out but the others replied we don't have enough for all of us go to a shop and buy some for yourself but while they were gone to buy oil the bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast and the door was locked verse 11 says later when the other five bridesmaids returned they stood outside calling sir open the door for us but he called back I don't know you so stay awake this is verse thirteen stay here with me verse 13 says so stay awake and be prepared because you do not know the day or hour of my return you see I wanted to read all of that and then I'm gonna summarize some stuff for you for a long time I thought and maybe some of you thought today how many of you as believers okay have ever felt that you don't have enough passion inside I have sometimes I don't have like really a real life passion in my flesh okay in my flesh I don't have a passion to go lay hands on people in the middle of Starbucks and pray for them I don't have a passion to wake up that morning and put my hands on somebody and pray that they would accept Christ sometimes I don't have passion did you know it's okay to ask God for more passion did you know that it's okay to say God like whatever reason something's not right all I want to know all I'm doing is I'm here I'm here come meet me I need more passion for the things that you want to give me you see so long I thought when I read this that oh well their passion ran out their passion is what disqualified them from entering in with the bridegroom you see their their lamp ran see I have a wife she's right over there she's beautiful and I love her dearly she's my best friend the fact that she had enough oil in her lamp or not did not make me say yeah I'll marry you you can still walk down the aisle she didn't even have a lamp okay don't think I'm trying to get weird on you you don't have to have a lamp it's all right you can still get married okay it wasn't that it wasn't that at all it was just the fact that she was there it was just the fact that she showed up okay and I'm gonna show something to you it isn't the other girls the foolish ones they probably looked at the ones that were called wise and said I don't look like that I'm not good enough I need to go prepare myself go get whatever I need to get so that I look like them so that the bridegroom would accept me does that make sense I don't know maybe I'll say it this way my as a as a as a as an evangelist as someone who preaches the Word of God it's sometimes a fear of mine that I sit there and say well my ministry doesn't look like his I need my ministry to look more like his he's more holy or he's more he's got more good words than I do he's more intellectual than I am he knows more about the Bible than I do I don't know about you but I compare myself to other people sometimes even in my profession wow he made that throw I'm gonna sit there for the next three hours trying to make that throw until I can do it because I got to make that throw because surely I'll be playing the same team with the same receivers and I'll have to make that throw it's not gonna happen right I don't know about you but also in just my life I've looked down the street and said his marriage is better than mine right now I don't believe that I think mine's the best yeah but maybe some of you have said Wow their marriage is better their kids obey God better than mine you see their job is better than mine their car is way cooler than mine their house oh my goodness have you seen their house Oh have you seen so-and-so's house it's so cool oh my god V what they have instead of realizing no no God placed you in a place and divinely appointed you and made you look exactly how you look because all he wanted was your very best not what someone else had to offer you you see it's not you looking like someone else that qualifies you to walk in with Jesus it is not your life being a mirror image of someone that you look up to it is not that that qualifies you the thing that qualifies you is this see I'm going to tell you this I'll say it this way that the thing where the foolish girls messed up is that they left his doorstep the only thing if you get anything from me today the only thing you need to do that qualifies you to walk in relationship with Jesus is just to be there when he shows up and let me tell you this what an opportunity tonight today where he is gonna show up in such a way if you would just not leave his doorstep see I began I believe he's already working on your heart some of you know that you need to be better husbands some of you know you need to be better wives you've been comparing and saying well well this guy's standing on stage but he said is well his marriage is the best might maybe mine's not scratch all that some of you feel it in your heart that maybe your kids don't act the way that you think they should hacked and you think somewhere along the way man I screwed up or I did this right at man just erase all of that for just a moment and just say man Jesus I don't have more fire I don't have more oil in my lamp but let me tell you what I do have I'm not gonna leave your doorstep because I'll give you all of me and hopefully that'll be enough see I believe if those women would have just stayed there and said I may not look like those other girls I may not have the oil burning in my lamp but I will give you all of me Jesus if you would just let me come in with you Here I am I am all of yours every area of my life is yours not just this not just my job not just my marriage not just you teaching me more knowledge not everything that I am as a being is yours Jesus see I may be the only one that has experienced some stuff in life where I started to compare myself to other people saying like Derrick you're telling me that Jesus will show up for me but there's so many more people that have been Christians wait longer than I have you see there's so many more people that got their life together way better than I got mine together there's so many other people thats kids are so obedient like I don't know how they do it like they look they're like a little drill sergeants they're just so perfect mine are wild and jump on things you mean that God will show up for me when I haven't even believed in him when I haven't even loved him let me tell you this while you were at your worst he died for you so my answer is yes that there is a God in heaven there is a God in heaven that at your very worst moment died for you and said that your life was worth it but he died and said that I'm gonna die for you because you are worth it I don't know about you but I take that pretty seriously I'm not trying to compare my life anymore I'm not trying to look down the street to my left or to my right and say well I don't look like them all I'm trying to tell you to do is that if you would just sit at the doorstep of God so that you wouldn't miss when he's trying to enter into your life because let me tell you this there is nothing like God's presence I stood on stage last week as I was preaching the Word of God and I saw a dad in the middle of while I was preaching stand up with tears running down his face bows hands raised and his daughter about eight years old holding on to his waist and when I saw that I begin to break down and cry because that person finally met the Jesus that I know that person right there finally met the Jesus that I know and it took one person being bold when he stood up 20 others stood up and they all ran to their face because they finally saw that nothing else that this life has to offer was good enough you can search it all take it take it from me I say it all the time but you can take it from me like I said I can go get stuff at Target people know my name here and in other countries I got a lot of followers on Twitter and Instagram cool right all of those things all of those things are awesome I throw touchdowns for living in people cheer and oh my goodness it's awesome let me tell you that there is nothing like the presence of God there is nothing like it when I first felt him touched me when I was a little boy I felt him grabbed my heart and I stood there and I was like five or six years old I'm bawling my eyes out and I was like looking around like why am i crying I don't understand this I don't understand why I'm crying you see him that I was raised in a Christian home but I got away from it like I told you until I laid back down on my face when I was probably 18 19 20 years old in that range I laid on my face I said Jesus all of my life is yours I've been chasing all these things see I didn't know it I was I thought I was living my best life I thought I was doing all these crazy things but all it led to me was depression I was depressed sitting there in my high in my college house I was depressed I laid on my face I said this is so empty if this is all I'm chasing if being a Division one quarterback and doing this and doing that hanging out with those people people knew their names and only if that's what I'm chasing if this is all that it is this life is terrible like this is so empty this is so broken that I want nothing to do with it I laid on my face I said Jesus you can have all of me at all moments and I will always obey you I will always follow you and if I don't correct me because I'm always trying to get what you have for me what Jesus has for you is better than anything you've ever dreamed of for yourself what Jesus has for you is better thing that ain't better than anything you've ever planned for of yourself see the route that I was going led my friend at the time to say I want nothing to do with you that friend is now my wife and we have three beautiful boys you see Jesus is best for me was a wife that I should have never Jesus is best for me was three little boys that I get to love dearly and cherish every single day I wake up and I get to see their face the joy that I have in my heart it is a reminder from God every single day that he loves me that he would give me them that he would give me the worst center of them all I didn't care about not one person except pleasing my flesh that he would give me those three little boys and that wife to look at every single day it's a reminder every day of how much God loves me some of you have things in your life where you're like man he must really love me Wow God must really love me if he gave me a B and C let me tell you this some of us don't have the best backgrounds either but if you would just stay at the feet of Jesus and be there when he shows up I promise it would change your life forever I promise you right now I'm asking the worship team to come up here and just start playing just a little bit tickle the ivories a little bit I'm not gonna sing I told you that at the beginning yeah praise God amen hey man Mikey I feel you let's learn from these people is that Alright can we learn from can we learn from these foolish girls you see maybe you're coming here today and you're empty inside maybe you have nothing to offer maybe you literally have nothing left in the tank I don't know about you but I need a touch right now in my life from God more than you would know I can stand up here and be strong and all of those things man I need God to show up to do something that only he can do things that I've worked on in my own strength in my own might and guess where it led me back to his feet saying god I try you got to do it you see recently I bet I was going through something and and I was fighting these battles I kept fighting these battles and fighting and fighting and fighting and trying to do it myself because it wasn't the truth man I I'm all about the truth the truth has to be told the truth has to be what everyone knows how many all know that the world doesn't care about the truth you see I fight I would fight and then God told me in prayer one day he said why are you fighting battles that I have already won there are battles in your life that God has already won your children are already on their way home you just don't see it yet the walls are still up all you've got to do is obey there are things happening in your heart right now that God needs to show up he's already here and he's already showing up and he wants to fix that for you but all you got to do is obey just like these girls man the biggest mistake that they made was leaving the feet of Jesus let me tell you this I am not by any means trying to scare you I'm just trying to make sure that you know how serious this is is that Alright see there was a my buddy was a musician and he was playing and this kid came up to him after his show and the kid came up to him he said hey sir you know great show all that and then my buddy felt in his heart that this kid needs to know Jesus he so he told him I told him the gospel and I prayed with him and and the guy said I mean that's not for me my own god you see maybe you don't take it to that extreme and think you're your own God but are you serving yourself are you serving your creator you see that kid that day on his way home died in a car accident the seriousness that he is going to stand before God I really hope in his car he just started crying and accepted Christ I really do but the seriousness is that the fact is that he stood before God literally ten minutes after he heard the gospel I'm not trying to scare you at all I know that's a that's a weird story and that's tough but I'm just trying to tell you how serious this life is I'm just trying to create I'm just trying to paint a picture for you that now is the time stop leaving the feet of Jesus stop leaving his feet because it's laughed at ridiculed and mocked by the outside looking in stop leaving his feet and just stay planted there you may not have nothing to give him maybe you have nothing to offer except for yourself and let me tell you that is all that he needs he took a little kid out of Fresno California of all places with allergies and stuff the deaths there is terrible he took a little kid out of Fresno California made him a professional athlete but most importantly said I'm gonna make this one and he's gonna obey me now I get to stand on stages and not care what anybody has to say and tell them the truth about life because I've lived the other way and I live every single day with complete joy in my heart even the hard times even when as soon as I turn the news on O'Dare cars getting traded leap ahead bud clearly you don't know what I know but am I like hey hey what's going on you see my whole life is on TV and all those kinda my biggest fault my missteps my biggest successes but let me say this as I stand there all you're gonna get is Jesus I may not be perfect every time I mean I may not be perfect every time a matter of fact I'm not perfect every time I know that but I serve a perfect God who is perfect and has never failed me through the successes and the downfalls that my job has to offer through family stuff how many y'all got some family stuff going on we all do we all got someone who's crazy and if you didn't raise your hand you're the crazy one so get right you see right now we're gonna have the opportunity as the prayer team joins us on the sides there's gonna be prayer on the sides of the stages but I want to say this to you if y'all would just bow your heads with me for a second some of y'all say man G man Derek I heard you talk about Jesus today and he was doing something in my heart he started he started doing things he started talking to me on the inside I've never felt that before it's kind of weird you see I'm gonna tell you this Jesus was a real person even people that are atheists know that he was actually a real person he was real the thing that separates Christians is that he's our Savior that we believe that he is one part of the Trinity God the Father the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit Jesus lived a perfect blameless life on this earth sinless perfect took a beating the you and I deserve for our sins with the mistakes that we made he took that beating for us and thought that we were worth it as he hung on the cross and as he died he did that for you and me and three days later he rose again and is alive and is seated at the right hand of the Father he is alive now we serve a living God who wants to talk to you every single day he wants to walk with you every single day it is a simple decision to make but it is not easy to follow Jesus especially in this area if you heard that for the first time or maybe you heard it for the millionth time but you want to rededicate your life or you want to dedicate your life to Jesus would you just raise your hand I just want you to raise your hand that's all I want just please raise your hand he's working on your heart you don't have to take I see your hands you can put them down you guys can open your eyes and put your hands down I am gonna ask you to be incredibly bold now because the Bible says if you will be ashamed of me before man then I will be ashamed of you before my father in heaven the Bible also says that if you are lukewarm I will spit you out of my mouth if you are not fully in this thing don't do it get your thing right as my coaches will tell me when I screw up if you raised your hand and you want to accept Christ now minds you I got eyes all around this place we saw your hands I will come drag you down this grass and stain your clothing I'm on a new workout plan I got it like that I'll just give if you raised your hand in all seriousness and you say I don't ever want to leave the footstep of Jesus I don't want to miss when he shows up in my life do not miss this moment I want you to come forward now I saw your hands the first one it only takes one in the rest will come please be brave come now come now [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you I think brave church we can be better than that man come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is what I live for you see I've been there I have been there I have stood in your shoes my grandpa was the pastor at our church the pastors kids are always supposed to be the best ones and I laid standing there crying in the middle of the church no one else standing but I've stood in the middle because I needed that Jesus he's talking about the tears in your eyes to feel that the feeling that you have in your heart don't ever let that leave you don't ever let that leave you this is Jesus's touch in your life that's how you know he's real that's how you know he's real [Music] I'm gonna ask you guys now we have prayer teams on each side I'm gonna pray with you two but we got parents if we can make some rooms now I'm gonna get the believers is that all right if we can make some room if y'all can make your way to the side of the stage I'm gonna I still want to play with you y'all just go ahead make your way that way or that way either way it's good either way is good we got a prayer team over there as you guys begin to move that way I want y'all to know something y'all are the brave ones it is brave to follow Jesus [Music] [Applause] especially especially in the world that we live in today I want you guys to know to the y'all ixnay all that accepted Christ that you're making your way to the side that all of heaven is celebrating your decision right now [Music]

Channel: Brave Church

Views: 2,311

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: brave, church, brave church, jesus, Bible, God, Spirituality, Church, Christian, Bay Area, Raiders, Oakland Raiders, Derek Carr, Faith, Good News

Id: 2GaSUwsffWM

Length: 44min 20sec (2660 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 24 2019