Help I’m Hurting // Are You In Pain? // Help, I’m Hurting // Brie Davis

well good morning transformation church listen i am so excited to be here okay thank you i am so excited to be here um and sharing a word from god with you today and i truly have a word from god today i'm really excited about this sermon series you guys heard it's called help i'm hurting um we have went through a lot as a world over the past year and a half and we really do believe that going through this sermon series over this next month we're going to have some of our home team come and share the word this month that while we're doing this that there really is going to be hope and healing that people's lives are going to be changed and chains are going to be broken off of the lives of god's people and that is truly what it is that we desire and what we are standing in expectation for well if you don't know my name is bree and i serve as the chief of staff here at tc this is my my family's in the room right now and um i am i have the privilege and honor of working here at this church and have been since 2012. and and with this basically my job is to help run the organization but really i have a whole lot of fun and get to do it with a whole bunch of people that i really really love and so it is such a joy and an honor to be a part of this team i am married to the love of my life mr aaron davis [Music] y'all might have saw him up here jumping around just a minute ago do we have a picture of aaron and i that we can show the saints [Music] okay with you um i recently have been calling him baby doll and he doesn't like that but it's my thing now um we've been married for the past six years um and we have the honor and the privilege of not only sharing our life together but sharing it with this church and this organization as you know our lead pastors pastors mike and natalie are out right now for the they're on a sabbatical time so they're in a time of resting and rejuvenation and just as a church i want to encourage you to continue to pray for our lead pastors the task that god has given them the job that he has placed in their hand is not one that is light or easy and so as a as a body of christ let's continue to surround our leadership with prayer and encouragement i have the privilege today to share and i'm going to be sharing a word um that might rock your socks okay rocket science is a term that i've made up on my own this may rock your socks today today we're going to be talking about pain yeah i know pain is one of those topics that we really don't like to discuss right like as a culture but especially as a church culture oftentimes we stray away from this this topic of pain but today we're going to dig into it and we are going to dig to the bottom of it okay so if you got to get your tissues out if you whatever you need to do today go ahead and prepare your soul because we're going to be talking about pain and the first thing i want to say to everybody just to kind of burst the bubble i have no like surprise ending at the end of this or anything like that just to kind of burst a bubble clear goals for today today what i want to be able to share with you today is that everybody is hurting and that's okay everybody's hurting and that's okay let's pray lord we thank you so much for who you are in our lives god we thank you that you are healer that you are a redeemer that god you are a restorer of lives of broken hearts god and broken dreams and god we're not going to pretend like we don't have any pain or any hurt we're bringing all of that to you today and we believe that in us bringing it and surrendering it to you that you have the power the wisdom and the authority to heal that's what we see you as today god our healer many different names you have but today we're leaning in to the fact that you are our healer we thank you for your healing power speak through me into me today god open up ears open up hearts let him that have an ear to hear let him hear today it's in the name of jesus we pray amen amen amen okay so today we're talking about uh pain and let me kind of give you a story just to start off here not too long ago i went to the dentist and i got some work done on my teeth and if you know me at all you know i have a slight addiction okay the addiction is with sugar we have a very loving relationship i tend to eat sugar often and candy is my thing and gummy candy that gets stuck in between my teeth is my favorite i don't know why so needless to say i'm always at the dentist like all the time every time i have to call pastor mike and say hey i need a day out because i got to go get this root canal he always says you gotta stop eating that sugar every single time but anyways i was at the dentist not too long ago and uh the dentist came in and she numbed uh my gums with some some gel and then she numbed it with some some shots some numbing medicine and she said to me she said while i'm laying in the chair vulnerable and at her disposal she says to me if ever during this whole operation you feel any pain raise your hand and let me know and i'll give you some more numbing medicine well number one i don't want to know that there is a possibility that i can feel this pain okay so when she said that i immediately got nervous and all i could think is i need some more numbing medicine i don't care what you how much you put in here i need more well what i did when i laid there i promise you this one prayer came to my mind and all i can say is god please don't let me feel this pain and is that not how we live our lives often that we know there's an operation that's going to be painful but at the end is going to produce some type of healing and yet and still we go god please don't let me feel this pain and so what we do in our lives is we numb we do everything we can to pad ourselves with numbing medicine sex drugs alcohol religion self-righteousness and control we do everything we can to numb ourselves from the pain that we know is present but we don't want to feel it and today we are making a bold decision to no longer numb the pain but actually experience the pain in a way that god can be present with us in the midst of that pain now here's the thing i want to say and i don't there's no condemnation here we all hate pain why because it's painful nobody wants to be in pain but even more than that if you look back in genesis at the garden of eden we were never supposed to experience pain god's original intent his original design was for us to live in this utopia-like experience where we never had any pain any sorrow any weeping but the fall of man happened and when that happened what it did is it brought pain and sorrow and suffering into the earth and we are not the only people that don't want to experience pain jesus himself in the garden of gethsemane went and said god if there's anything else that you can do i mean please if you got a plan b please let's work the plan b we're not the only people that don't like pain jesus himself didn't want it revelation 21 tells us that when we get to this new heaven that god is going to wipe every tear from our eyes that there will be no pain no sorrow no weeping no sickness and that's what we have to look forward to but in the meantime we're in the in between and what do we do in the in between when pain is present what are we supposed to do today we're going to talk about that now what i know is i have a couple different people that are listening to me right now okay i i have some characters that i'm going to just lay out for you we have two types of people that are probably listening to me and maybe you're in between these two or you are one or the other okay we have i know joe and we have no pain jane okay so here's some pictures of our people right here i know joe y'all remember uh pursuit of happiness one of the most frustrating movies ever honestly let's be real he listen he was in a lot of pain he liked it but anyways i know joe and then we have no pain jane over here wonder woman these two individuals are listening to me right now and when i say the title of the sermon is help i'm hurting in their minds they have two different thoughts i know joe is thinking yes i am hurting and i need god to help me no pain jane is thinking oh this may be good for such and such this sermon she she got a lot of pain going on this would be real good for her i know joe is aware of his pain okay no pain jane she's not aware of it matter of fact she feels like she's living in a very blissful life no pain that she has to that she's dealing with at all no hurt matter of fact she wants the sermon to be for somebody else because this is not for no pain jane but both individuals have pain both individuals are hurting and how do we identify whether or not we are hurting maybe you are i know joe simple question where are you hurting just as simple as that you know exactly you know x marks the spot you know the pain points you can point it out for no pain jane i have a different question for you to identify your pain in what ways are you not like christ this is a question right there because the bible says be holy as i am holy right first peter he's not just talking about externally our behavior and the way that we act he is talking about something deeper than that see the root word of holy is whole in other words in order for me to behave in a holy way there has to be wholeness on the inside of me so the more that i allow god to heal me change me and make me whole the more my behaviors and my actions are going to look holier so in other words we all have pain why because ain't none of us perfect everybody in this room everybody watching online there's something in you that doesn't look like christ maybe it's your lack of patience maybe it's the lack of love that you have jesus said to love your enemies oh no that's not your thing maybe it's the control the need for control you're white knuckling yourself all through life because to give to give space to god to control somewhere in all of us there is pain and brokenness and all we have to do is ask ourselves in what way am i not like christ and x marks the spot just because we don't look like jesus that means that there is some pain stricken brokenness on the inside of all of us so when i say everyone is hurting i mean everyone is hurting i mean that there's something in all of us that jesus wants to transform to change to heal and redeem but we have to be aware that we're in that number too that we need healing too because pain is a meeting place with god now listen if we don't address pain and if we aren't aware of pain how many meeting places with god are we missing out on how many times is god wanting to whisper some sweet truths in our ear just commune with us be with us change us and transform us but we have gotten so used to numbing the pain we won't even allow him into that space we think we've got it all together we're no pain jane we got it buttoned up and armored we're suited and ready to go and god is saying but i want to meet you here you know that father wound that you keep acting like it's not there and you're one of the few that's all fine and dandy even though your dad neglected you as a child that wound i want to heal that you know that people-pleasing thing where you just think you love everybody really really well but actually you're doing that because you need acceptance and approval from people that i want to heal that god is saying today god is probing us he's saying i'm coming to you and there are some things that are out of alignment and i want to heal them but first you've got to open up and let me in when we talk about a meeting place jesus in the bible had meeting places all the time jesus would meet people at wells he would meet people in cities at their homes jesus met people all the time and often times when jesus met someone there was healing that took place there was some type of change some type of transformation that took place so for somebody today maybe you're i know joe you're all the way already aware of the pain jesus is coming to you and he's saying what do you want me to do if you look at the story of blind bartimaeus in the bible he was blind he couldn't see he was shaking down trying to get jesus attention and jesus finally sees him brings him over and he says to blind bartimaeus what do you want me to do now clearly we know what blind bartimaeus wanted from jesus he was blind but jesus wanted him to identify what pains you my son my daughter and what do you want me to do about it for somebody else jesus may come a little more stealth-like and this meeting place looks more like the rich young ruler where he came to jesus he said how do i inherit the kingdom of god and jesus says to him he says you have to follow all the commandments he says well great i've done all of that he said well there's one more thing you haven't done i need you to give all your possessions away to the poor and the rich young ruler was like okay i'm sorry i can't do that jesus and left for somebody today jesus is probing you and he's saying here's where i want to heal and if you feel yourself clench up that's exactly where he wants to go that place in you where you don't want anybody to talk to you about it it's sensitive it's wounded and so you don't want anybody really discussing it that place in you you think about but you don't say out loud in your mouth like that place that's where jesus wants to come in and heal the rich young ruler had an opportunity to be healed by god to be healed and transformed by jesus but as soon as jesus probed an area where he didn't want to be touched he left the scene for somebody today there is a conviction or a convincing of the holy spirit right now you feel him you know what it is that he wants to do he wants to confront something in you but it's going to take healing for that confrontation to come about we have to be open to whatever god wants to do in us so whether you are i know joe or no pain jame we all have a clear understanding that there's something in all of us that still needs to be healed there's something in all of us that is still hurting and so i want to go to a scripture here a story in the bible we're going to go to luke 23. now this is a story um about jesus's crucifixion okay so after jesus was crucified this is what we're going to pick up in scripture jesus has been crucified on the cross now in verse 50 it says now there was a good and righteous man named joseph he was a member of the jewish high council and he had not agreed with the decision and the actions of the other religious leaders he was from the town of arimathea in judea and he was waiting for the kingdom of god to come he went to pilate and asked for jesus body joseph goes to pilate as for jesus body he took the body down from the cross and wrapped it in a long sheet of linen cloth and he took it down from the cross wrapped it in a long sheet of linen cloth and laid it in a new tomb that had been carved out a rock this was done late on friday afternoon the day of preparation as the sabbath was about to begin as his body was taken away the women from galilee followed and saw the tomb where the body was placed then he went home and prepared spices and ointments to anoint his body by the time they were finished the sabbath had begun so they rested as required by the law so this story is telling us that this is right after jesus died on the cross joseph a good man he goes gets jesus from pilate wraps him up in cloth puts him in a tomb and then mary and mary mary mary they followed him they saw where they he laid jesus they went to go get some ointments and some spices so they could properly prepare jesus's body for burial at this time uh in history you would go and get spices and ointments and you would anoint the dead corpse in hopes that it would cover the smell of a rotting or a decaying body okay so they went to go get these items but before they could come back the sun set and sabbath began now here's what i need us to think about what happened on friday we tell this story all the time easter every single year about the resurrection of cries oftentimes we stay on sunday but friday and saturday did happen okay for to get to sunday friday and saturday had to happen but what happened on friday i need us to think about this people that have been healed from jesus whose lives have been changed because of jesus stood on the grounds watching him being crucified that's painful i need you to think about the woman at the well who after years of being mistreated and going from man to man and probably abuse to abuse from betrayal to issues and all kinds i mean she met jesus at the well and he loved on her so much that she became an evangelist she saw no evil in this man standing there watching jesus die i need us to think about the man at the pool of bethesda who had been lame for so many years and jesus walked past everyone else that was sitting at that pool to go straight to this man to have a one-on-one encounter with him and he said do you want to be healed and that man that day picked up his mat and walked standing at the grounds watching jesus be crucified i need us to think about the woman with the issue of blood 12 years bleeding going from doctor to doctor to doctor and no one could heal her and all she had to do was touch the bottom of jesus's robe and she was healed 12 years of suffering gone like that watching jesus die every disciple watching jesus died having years of walking with jesus and talked with jesus and seeing jesus only only only do good and yet he's on the cross dying mary an angel came to her had a virgin birth it wasn't just her savior on that cross it was her son she knew was blameless and full of integrity she saw him from the day he was born to the day that he died and saw that he was only good for god's people knew he was the son of god that by a miracle she was impregnated and had him she knew it and yet she had to watch him die the pain of friday is something we don't get to skip over the pain of friday is something we don't get to avoid on this earth what's your friday what's your friday is it is it the marriage that you had put all your hopes and dreams in only to divorce is it the business that you you have built from the ground up only to have someone betray you and it all come toppling down is it the fact that your body which you telling such a good job of taking care of has failed you and taking a baby full turn what is your friday we don't get to skip past friday what is yours i know my friday i know eight months in to being married and sitting on my living room floor my laptop having to google the hardest thing i've ever googled how do i get divorced i know that pain that i thought you said yes to this god jesus on the cross think about this you sent him why would you send him for him to die i don't understand the pain and the confusion of friday i get it you get it we all get it friday happened and as these women were preparing to come back and properly bury their savior through tears through sweat through pain probably even feeling physically sick from what happened jesus was on that cross and he was beaten so badly that you couldn't even recognize him anymore they just wanted to bury their savior properly that's it and yet the son said before they could ever come back and that was the start of sabbath here's the thing i want to say to somebody today darkness isn't always the devil in isaiah 45 the scripture tells us god says i have hidden treasures in darkness those places in us that we don't even like to remember those memories that that we try to act like one of the things those things that we have created so many nothing medicine around that we act like wasn't a thing but it actually still torments us god says in those dark places i have hidden treasures friday happens the sun sets and saturday is silent if you knew and you loved jesus you sat confused on saturday because we had we know the end of the story we know that sunday was going to come but they had no idea and here's the thing about saturday especially in this culture what was just saturday to us was sabbath to god think about this this this this mess me up think about this god knew that they were going to go through the hardest pain that they had ever experienced that their savior was going to go on a cross and he allowed the sun to set now this is the creator of the universe he could stop the sun if he wants to he's done it before he could stop the sun but he allowed the sun to go down and sabbath to start what is sabbath sabbath was a day of rest it was a required jewish uh law that god had put in effect all the way back in genesis he worked six days and then on the seventh day he rested it was sabbath it was in the ten commandments that this is a holy day that you're not to work on this day but you are to rest in other words god asked them to rest in their pain in other words when they wanted to go and cover up the smell of a decaying body god said stop in other words when they probably would have used the next day to busy themselves to act like yesterday didn't happen god said stop god said i want you to stop right here and i want you to rest now this doesn't make sense to us because of our culture we have been taught that busy is at the edge of a hunter that the busier you are the more significant you are the more important you are the more successful you are but god put this rhythm in place sabbath as a day of rest on purpose there is something that god was saying now why would god make them rest in their pain when he knows all we want to do is get past pain he knows that he knows that naturally what we want to do is hurry up and get past the pain that we've experienced in our life and god yet god says i want you to pause right here have you stopped in your pain are you still engine running trying to hurry up and go speed ahead get to sunday and not realize that saturday was in the order of what god had ordained a loving gracious good god put saturday smack dab in the middle of pain and resurrection for somebody today you've experienced your friday you know what your friday is today i want to encourage you before you try to race towards sunday stop it saturday because pain is a meeting place there's something in us that deepens in the midst of pain god had the power to raise jesus 15 minutes after he was buried wow he could have done it but he said no i want to stop right here here's what i want to say to somebody rest in your pain now i know that is counter-cultural i know that feels like oh that sounds like i'm just wallowing in my pain no no in isaiah 30 and 15 it says this is what the sovereign lord the holy one of israel says only in returning in me and resting in me will you be saved here's what i want to say to somebody today when we experience pain and we don't take the time to actually deeply think what god is doing and saying to us in the middle of that pain we are asking ourselves to be manipulated it's a quick fix right so we think that we're healed but actually what we've done is we've altered our life for that bruise to not be hit anymore so in other words it's like i get let's say i just i cut my leg one day so instead of actually allowing my leg to heal properly i just roll my pant legs up and tell everybody that's the new fashion like this is just what i do now no no the reason you have it rolled up is because your leg is hurt so for somebody you're not really healed you just ain't talked to that person in a long time [Music] for somebody else you're not really healed like you think you are until your dad calls you on the phone that's when you know whether or not you're actually really healed from the situation or not you're not really healed you just don't work there no more that don't mean you healed you just altered your life to have bowling bumpers all around you so that you never have to go in the gutter but the truth is you're not actually good at bowling you just put up parameters so that your ball always goes in early you're not actually good at it you're not actually healed you've just altered your life to make you feel like you're healed we have to stop in the pain and acknowledge it stop acting like you're not hurt we don't get a badge of honor or be or we're not holier than other people because we're not hurt jesus the son of god expressed pain he told god this is painful i don't want to do this and yet for some reason especially in the church we think the less pain the better i am the less pain the closer i am to god the less pain the holier i am the less pain the more mature i am that's not true paul said i boast in my weaknesses i boast in my weaknesses i'm not trying to show you how strong and great and successful and important i am i'm trying to let you know i'm just a human being to say yes to god i'm trying to show you this is my score this is my wound why why do we run past pain somebody today god is saying stop you have put on a show long enough and you fooled everybody but me i can't heal what you won't reveal and somebody's thinking breathe but if i actually spend time acknowledging the pain that i am and it's going to make me feel like i'm i'm out of control well that's great because you never had it in the first place somebody else is thinking but if if i actually acknowledge my pain then what if i lose my faith incredible because of faith that can't go through suffering isn't a faith you want it at all somebody is thinking well but breathe what if i drown in these sorrows i'ma tell you what they tell every drowning victim to do wreck rest and look up relax relax because when you're in a drowning situation the more you move the quicker you go down somebody today you need to unclutter your schedule somebody today you have filled up every single day with some type of numbing medicine you got a party here and the kids thing here and you got this here god is saying stop stop stop you're running with a broken leg stop i'll never forget not too long ago i i went to run at a park and what i would typically do when i did this run i would i would run a mile then i'd walk them out then i'd run another mount and i get there i run the mile and i'm starting my walk and i feel this really tightness in my chest and i was like i felt the holy spirit say do not run again until that is gone that pain is gone well i'm like okay cool i got a mouth i can do this i'll just walk for a mound then i'll run again so i start walking and i'm getting closer to the end of that mouth and i realized this pain is not going away like i'm not going to be able to finish my typical routine of my exercise that i do and and i've still felt the holy spirit say like do not and i have all these racing thoughts in my head i'll be 100 with y'all all i'm thinking is i mean all these people running past me there's no way that if i was running i'd be besting all them up right now i'm thinking of all these different things but i knew that i needed to recover i knew i needed to rest before i ran again somebody is running without recovering maybe even doing the work of the ministry without recovering maybe parenting your kids without recovering trying to be the best employee at your job without recovering trying to help everybody else but you yourself haven't recovered resting is to recover is to say god here is where i'm broken and i need you right here and it creates a meeting place jesus said come to me everybody that has heavy burdens and i will give you rest true maturity in god is to be able to rest in the midst of your pain to not try to work it out fix it pull your bootstraps up and keep on moving god ain't asking us to do that we put that on ourselves god has never asked us to do that so sabbath this idea sabbath and what jesus what god required the people of god to do after jesus crucifixion was first he asked them to rest in the midst of their pain the second thing sabbath is for is for returning not only did he ask them to rest in the midst of their pain he asked them return to me i think um what i love about sabbath and i practice sabbath on a weekly basis but this idea and this principle of sabbath is something that that i'm trying to explain today what i love about it is it's a day that's focused on god you don't get to use your titles or your significance out in the real world or whatever like on this day all we are is a son and a daughter of god and he is who he is on sabbath this idea of sabbath what god was saying is i want you to rest and i want you to return to me oftentimes if you watch a child when they go to play with some friends they'll go out they'll play with their friends and then they come back to their parent every now and then and this is this is a part of psychology 101 it just helps you the child to know that they are still in a safe environment even though they're going go out to play with everybody else they come back they just return to their parents if you're a parent you've seen this just to make sure that they're still safe and taken care of this is what god is asking us to do in the midst of pain return to me god when pain happens we run everywhere we run to all kinds of people we run to all kinds of false healing we run to all kinds of ways of being in all kinds of addictions and god is saying i just want you to return to me you return to your own identity as being a son and a daughter of god but you also return to god because here's what we know if healing if we were able to heal ourselves we would have done it already healing and transformation is totally outside of our jurisdiction it's not our lane that is only what god can do so when we run to other things and other people and even ourselves to get healed we're wasting our time the only thing the only person that can actually heal us is god so what he's saying is return to me not because he's some egomaniac deity he's saying i'm the only thing that could heal you i'm the only thing that's going to set you free i'm the only thing that has the ability to do anything about what you're going through so return to me we're reminding ourselves when we return to god that he is our healer that he is our redeemer that our god is our deliverer and somebody today as you are becoming or are already aware of your pain and your hurt god is asking you stop and come here like a child that went out to play with his friends come back to remind yourself that you're taken care of that i'm already here that i already have a plan to heal you come back to me if god thought that if he put us into an enchanted sleep and allowed us to sleep past all the pain of the world or or to go past forget all the pain that has happened if he thought that was good for us he would have done it but he allows us to experience pain because he knows that there's something in it for us for somebody today you have been really really brave very brave you've had your armor suited up you you've you've shown everybody how resilient you are that's one of those words that we hold on to i'm resilient today god is saying i want you to take one more step of bravery and i want you to come to me and surrender the pain surrendering of the pain returning to god it's deciding that you can't do anything about it that takes confidence that takes bravery that takes tenacity to know that as much as i want to do something about this i know i actually can't so all i'm going to do is give it over to you all i'm going to do is give it over to you this is one of the reasons why when people go through like aaa or or some type of recovery program that it can be so successful is because you get to a point of dependence sabbath is a day of dependence what god did in the midst of the hurting and the brokenness of jesus dying on the cross he asked his people don't try to outwork this don't try to fix this depend on me now what they probably wanted to do was either go and anoint jesus's body maybe they wanted to go everybody surround the tomb and walk around it like jericho and we're going to pray them out of here and we're going to raise jesus back from the dead god says stop rest right there and give it to me somebody today god you have done everything that you can do to fix the situation god is saying stop and bring it to me i want to do something about it you know why god didn't allow the women to make it all the way back to the tomb he allowed the sun to set and sabbath started so they had to rest do you know why because what they were coming to do was prepare the tomb prepared jesus's body in case of decay and writing that they were coming to make sure that they covered up the smell of a rotten body but god knew from the jump when jesus went to the cross that he wasn't going right there he knew from the time that jesus went to the garden of gethsemane and was praying for him he knew from the junk that he was going to resurrect jesus from the dead and what i want to say to somebody is you can rest here why because you are not going to right here that we know our god is a resurrector that he is a healer so you can go ahead and take the weight off of yourself baby you don't have to fix it no more go ahead and stop right here and surrender this to god and allow him the space to heal because our god knows he knew there was no spices and no ointment that was necessary jesus wasn't going to be there long and for somebody today our god is saying to you you can rest right here because i promise you i'm not going to leave you here for those of us that maybe have struggled with the idea of pain i just want to nudge you in one direction today rest and return but breathe it feels so hard it's so difficult rest and return but brie i think if i do this and this and this i could probably fix this rest and return but it feels like i'm doing nothing it feels like i'm not i'm not worth anything if i'm not doing anything about it rest and return that's all god is asking healing and resurrection is on its way but before we get there we have to stop a saturday this day wasn't just a normal day of the week it was a holy day could it be that some of the most holiest moments that we share with god is in the midst of our pain resurrection was going to come we were going to shout and sing because jesus was coming back from the dead but but before we get there god wants to meet you on saturday he wants to meet you right here right here where you can't control the tears they just come right here where it makes you sick to your stomach even thinking about what happened to you he wants to meet you right there right there that thing that you haven't told anybody not even your wife or your husband he wants to meet you right there you know how good our god is he's so good that even in the bad times he is all that we need he's so good that he doesn't say i just want to be a part of the happy moments of your life like some of our friends may be no no god says i want to be right here with you for somebody today rest and return hear me you have done enough you have done enough you have tried you have you have worked your fingers to the bone you have white-knuckled yourself through life god is saying stop you don't have to perform for me you don't got to fix yourself and everybody else that's connected to you stop right there and rest in me and return to me and resting and returning we shall be saved the saturday sabbath after jesus is dead was significant prior to jesus dying on the cross there was a yearly event called the day of atonement and on the tenth day of the seventh month of every year on this day no one could work and the priests would sacrifice animals to reconcile the people to god it was an act of resting and returning they rested in god by acknowledging their pain and their sin and they returned to god in repentance and in worship the nickname for this day of atonement was the sabbath of sabbaths then jesus died and my god it changed everything jesus's death signified the final atonement meaning because of his death jesus reconciled us to god forever the priests were no longer needed to speak to god on our behalf jesus was the bridge to god the blood of animals were no longer needed jesus blood was a final sacrifice essentially the saturday following jesus death was the ultimate sabbath of sabbaths because of jesus's death all we had to do was return to god what he always wanted ourselves today return your pain return your hurt return your sorrow because it's in our returning that we will find [Music] restoration are you hurting and broken within overwhelmed by the weight of sin jesus is calling [Music] jesus [Music] is [Music] forgiveness was [Music] the father's arms are open [Music] the precious blood of [Music] jesus [Music] the pressure [Music] [Music] [Music] today in the midst of our pain we're resting and returning god every person under the sound of my voice every person god that has heard your word today lord god we're tired we're tired of trying to make it work on our own we're tired of ignoring the pain god today we acknowledge our pain we acknowledge where we're hurting god and we return to you we surrender it over to you lord jesus because we know that only you can heal it you're the only one you're the only one that can heal our pain god so help we are hurting and we know that in the midst of that that's right where you want to meet us maybe today you have listened to this sermon and you know that you want an intimate relationship with jesus maybe today you want to receive the gift of salvation one that has completely changed all of our lives today if that's you i want you to say this prayer with me i want you to the bible tells us that all we have to do is confess with our mouths and believe in our hearts and so we're going to confess this through a prayer so pray this prayer with me lord today i freely receive the gift of salvation [Music] i believe that jesus died on the cross and resurrected on the third day forgive me cleanse me transform me it's in the name of jesus amen amen amen hey if you receive that gift of salvation today we want you to text the number to the text save to the number that's on the screen what we know is that god wants to meet you right where you are and we are rejoicing with you but today before we go i know this is a tough message this is one that that you're not going to shout a man from the rooftops the whole time i get it but what i do know is right where you are god wants to meet you here's my encouragement to you don't rush past this moment don't hurry up and move on to the rest of what your day is stop right there it's in resting and returning that we shall be saved we love you guys so much go out and live a transformed life you

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Published: Sun Aug 08 2021