Hillsong Church - The State of Origin

[Music] we praise and worship God let's do it [Music] front to back side to side hands up job [Music] right kids - the one the toughest are Stephen shine he is too [Music] bah-bah-bah [Music] dude [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] young and freeze in the house tonight all right I'm gonna list you into my team okay all right all right ELLs okay all right once you guys to turn it around and face the rest of that church you guys know what to do [Applause] [Music] [Music] again [Music] spies [Music] my PA no longer now Jesus the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] my [Music] so jeez [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] or brakes while I sing this horror [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now Jesus lives in [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] let's give Jesus praise in this place [Music] [Music] find me no way the grace once deep as you want to survive you pull me from save me you call me [Music] may my heart Hagen lift it up [Music] that I might stick with more reasons to say they're two-faced come on church we said you Paul [Music] Hey [Music] [Music] graceful you believe that [Music] ha is that [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] - from heaven you came there was worth seeing your to fulfill the lore and bronze to a virgin Kindle from a throne boy too [Music] [Music] to live come to redeem we [Music] No salvation Jesus for us come on as the charging of night [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Concord [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] come on he's mine [Music] Amen well a big welcome to Hillsong Church are you glad to be here Sunday p.m. services man is so good that you're here and man you guys are singing it like you believe it but also you have a certain glow on your face as well and it's not the lighting maybe you've been somewhere this week and the glow is still with you anyone have an incredible week and Hillsong conference what an amazing week it was huh hey my name is Peter togs I'm one of the pastor's here at Hillsong Church and it is so good to have you here particularly if you're new or visiting checking it out came with a friend family member hey you're in the right place at the right time and you just need to feel right at home because you're are you you're amongst friends and family can we please welcome anyone here for the first-time visitors we absolutely love visitors hey in my knee in my uh in my knee in my hands here in my hands I have prayer requests in every week many people believing for miracles and going through certain challenges and too many to name in fact they're behind me on the screen so many different needs from you know caught people needing these are grants salvation marriage restoration someone going into brain surgery this week wisdom and guidance come on church we're praying believe in church that believes God answers prayer why don't you stretch out your hands and come on let's really begin to pray father thank you so much Lord for who you are but you are a good god father you're able God to turn around situations Lord we thank you right now in the name of Jesus for answered prayer blood for healing for provision for deliverance father we thank you for what you're gonna do God we're believing for good reports you are the King of Kings and we commit every situation in Jesus name come on let's sing this together church in Jesus name [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] amen amen well we have certainly loved Sunday night church it's that atmosphere where anything can happen and it most probably will why don't you take a moment and say hello to someone as you grab your seats give them a kiss give them a cuddle single people this is your opportunity [Applause] [Music] we're a friendly Church aren't we I love the chitter-chatter friendly Church as pastor Brian said this morning we're a small church with lots of people small in that we're personal we've got connect groups age groups that happen during the week you can be a part of and it's pretty cool definitely if you're new or visiting we'd love to meet you after the service sound we usually have different things going on there's a cafe just over here which is called our Western foyer over here and you can go and hang out in the cafes straight after there's a young adults hangout over at the den which is a few hundred meters over that way towards the epicenter there's the banquette out the front which is just banquette food we're just it's just food just food galore we would love to see you there and it's all calorie free so like anything you have it's all calorie free so it's absolutely amazing are you good well that's good it's great that you're here you could have been but the bingo club playing bingo but you chose to be here at church you could have been playing lawn balls but you're here at church which is good you made it you made hey who wants to hear a good praise report hey this is really cool but there are a number of praise reports people thanking God for healing particularly from Hillsong conference where we prayed for healing and Hillsong conference and there are many many praise reports and that like this person here are praising God that a conference this particular person was healed from deafness in the right ear which is phenomenal and again someone else here thank you God for healing healing at conference healing at conference and it's absolutely amazing so many great things happening in church life which is really cool well we're about to continue in our worship right now and that's come around our giving and I'm gonna invite the great Robert Ferguson who's gonna come and encourage us around our giving thanks Josie are you doing church well I don't know about you but I've had the most phenomenal week who've who's had an amazing week at conference well we should be we should be overflowing with gratitude for what God has done and why didn't we overflow with generosity as we come around are giving right now lots of different ways to give on the screen and if you're online even if you weren't a conference why don't you give thanks in generosity for what God has done so let's get ready to give and it's something we love to do it's important when I became a Christian in their 70s I know it's a long time ago I was taught to dangerous prayer it went like this our Father who lives in heaven holy is your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven I didn't realize it was Jane dangerous but that phrase your kingdom come basically is asking God to be king of our lives King of our finances king of our mind king of our past king of our future and if you're gonna pray prayers like that he holds you to account one day in the 70s God spoke to me and said give a hundred pounds in the offering now doesn't seem much but I was earning fifteen pounds a week I still remember the pain and the panic as I signed the check but what we are doing now is not only a demonstration of the kingdom it's a declaration that God is king of our lives and it's a very very significant thing to do if you're going to pray prayers like that let's back it up and can I say this put Jesus Christ as king it can never go wrong amen let's take that gift in our hand and let's pray father God thank you for these wonderful people thank you for the amazing things you've done in our lives this week and we are immensely grateful I may this offering express that gratitude in Jesus name and everybody said amen amen oh man well we're gonna receive that offering can I just say this I know we've just finished a conference but there's another one coming up next year we've got to be ready for it check this out Ohia firstly so glad you're in church and your being here makes a big big difference and that's kind of what I want to talk to you about we thank God for the people who attend our services and people come expectant and I want to encourage people to understand that coming too early coming on time taking time to have our kids in the program and being in that place early really makes a huge difference to the services in the atmosphere and also staying to the end if you can stay you make a massive difference so we're trying to build the kind of culture in our church where anything could happen now I encourage you to just stay right through to the last prayer and then you're welcome to head out straight away it makes a big difference and I know you can help us to take the church forward [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] see revival comes to those creative shadows the breads have got the wind of God [Music] you say I don't it doesn't mean it's just out there somewhere that means it's here now that this is Saints the gun wanted to do something good beside this is a time [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes how beautiful right now we are linked to our church right across Australia and into Bali so everyone everywhere why don't we say hello to everyone come on let's really welcome everyone joining in right now it's great to see everyone there just in case you don't know who I am my name's Peter Todd's one of the pastor's here and it's so great that you happen to be joining with us Hillsong conference was amazing this week did you have a great time man what a phenomenal week it was so many great praise reports in fact I was just reading out here at the hills campus some of the praise reports coming in of people being healed at Hillsong conference and if anyone remembers pastor Bill Johnson where we really prayed for healing and even had just the healing service and then in that mega prayer morning great miracles happening in people's lives so what a phenomenal weekers was I reckon we should also thank all our volunteers that served from what I'm told close to 5,000 volunteers come on we can do better than that solutely amazing generous church many people gave up their working week to be there and I know as youth pastor young and free conference was phenomenal and parents I just want to thank you so much for sending your children along believing that it's gonna change their life and change your household that they're going to come home and do the dishes make their bed that's a miracle right there anyone believe that yeah it's really cool but hey Hillsong conference 2020 now is the most affordable time the least expensive and what I love is there's great family packages that you you can really start to purchase right now I know for young and free itself now is the most affordable time so Bishop TD jakes coming to be with us next year pastor Michael taught Mike Todd and this guy is phenomenal a phenomenal communicator and in the last year his world has just exploded you're going to absolutely love this guy and I know Pastor Brian had conference talked about check it out on YouTube his relational relationship talk that absolutely went viral millions upon millions of views and this guy is gonna be phenomenal all the way from Oklahoma and I know with young and free we've got Robert Madhu coming to be with us it's going to be amazing so listen do whatever you can Hillsong conference 2020 breathe again what a way to welcome you in the next decade to be a conference it's gonna be absolutely amazing are you good hey let's stand together this is what we're gonna do across the link this week we just released in fact Hillsong worship has just released King of Kings the single and I was listening it to it on Spotify today absolutely beautiful and jad and tailoring the team they're gonna really lead us tonight come on God's really doing something in all our rooms all our locations right now if you're joined in we're gonna really worship right now seek God prepare our hearts for the word so come on church let's worship together [Music] to the stones [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] amen amen well louie giglio ISM Binet has been an amazing blessing to us this week I know Louis many people many people that were impacted by your messages this week and we just want to say thank you for being here you and Shelly and investing into us he's an absolutely incredible person incredible communicator and come on one more last time let's really welcome bluie giggler as it comes to preach the word [Music] yeah Wow you know they said we have to go home tomorrow Shelly myself but we really would love to stay we love this place and man what a blessing just want to say to Brian and Bobbi thank you for including us I know just pretending like Brian's there but thank you for including us in this week what a privilege and I don't know if you know it or not but we just absolutely love you and we love this nation and we love you and we love the privilege of being linked in and a part of what God is doing and just to think that our great God would do all that he did this week and then would invite us to gather again today that he could do something else in our lives this is a great and awesome and mighty and endless and generous and so Lord we love you we do just give you praise and honor all the glory that is yours thank you for loving us and choosing us and inviting us and including us we love you and we trust you so this isn't just a thing this isn't just another box to check this is us telling you that we love you and we believe in you and we trust you Holy Spirit well you make the word come alive again in Jesus name Amen amen you can be seated praise God you know there was a story in the Bible about Jesus passing by on his way on the journey and there was a blind man on the road you know this story and the blind man heard that Jesus was coming and so he cried out to Jesus son of David have mercy on me do you know this story and the disciples being so amazing and so helpful they shoved the guy out of the way and told him to pipe down he wouldn't have it he piped up and he yelled even louder while they were grabbing him and wrestling him and pulling him back from Jesus he's like son of David have mercy on me and Jesus of course does a miracle this blind man sees and it just underscores again I believe what is possible tonight that man's story his whole life could have been you're not gonna believe this but I was right on the road when Jesus went by that could have been his story his whole life uh-oh are we doing good is is there a step anyway was I telling you about the time that I was right there like I mean like I I was on the curb it and I mean you could I could I could like almost hear his footsteps I it was unreal how close I was when Jesus went by he would have loved Jesus celebrated him told his kids kids paid grandkids one day grandpa was out there right on the road when Jesus went by his options were I could have been there when Jesus passed by and very much believed in Jesus passing by or he could have actually been changed forever and I'm praying right now that this is gonna be that journey for someone in this service that you're not against Jesus in fact you're gonna aim in everything I say tonight in this message but the difference is going to be instead of Jesus passing by tonight he's actually gonna touch something in your life and change it and transform it and it's gonna be different because of this night and and it's not gonna be because you don't believe the truth that God's gonna share tonight it's because you haven't believed that that truth actually doesn't just get you to pass by what you've lived through it actually can heal what you've been through and I believe that's gonna happen tonight a big theme that came through the conference if you were part of the conference was that the Old Testament reveals the law the law basically is is like a tutorial for you and me to let us know that we'll never be good enough for a holy God so if you thought you would or think you will or still we're in the process of trying to be good enough well there's a whole Old Testament story over centuries and generations of people to kind of give us a mirror to look at to go we're not gonna make it even if you just boil it down to ten things where gonna come through but there's always a promise in the whole story and that is that there's messiah on the horizon hope is on the horizon help is on the horizon so the revelation of the Old Testament is the law and the law basically leads us to death but there's there's this footnote of help on the horizon the revelation of Jesus is that there is a father who wants you to know him as a loved son or a loved daughter so we go from old to new you're like at worry where do you see this well it's actually right here on the last page of the Old Testament which is pretty great anybody have an actual Bible thank you so much sir for bringing a real Bible that's just and you're close by but you're also an older distinguished gentleman like myself so of course she would bring a real Bible okay oh no we got another generation we just jumped generations and he whipped one out from somewhere miraculously it wasn't there a minute ago that he's still an older ladies Bible from the second row no I'm just kidding so we got some real Bibles if this doesn't work good on your phone but if you have a real Bible you can turn to the end of the Old Testament of this whole thing of we're not gonna make it but there's hope on the horizon we're not good enough but there's hope on the horizon that's this and then when you turn the page we're into the the New Testament it actually says it right there can you see that no you can't but you can believe me right it says the New Testament so you go from the Old Testament we're not good enough but there's hope on the horizon to the New Testament Jesus has come to reveal God as a father and you as a loved daughter or a loved son of Almighty God and in between we all know there's not just a page right so that took one second older dude not gonna make it hey Jesus is here you can't do it on your own but look God's put hope on the horizon but we all know in the church and if you're new or a guest or just dropped in on us tonight in between here is four centuries of silence from God no recorded message no messenger that aware of from heaven to earth 400 years they call it of silence in that one page right there the last words on the page now the last words on my page our passion 20 19 that's not in the Bible I wrote that in myself because I believed that the last words on the page were God's word for the conference we did seven months ago that I was going to stand on a stage and open this conference to 42,000 18 to 25 year olds and I believe that God was going to do that it says in the last word on the last page of the Old Testament heading into the promise of God the help on the horizon that God is going to turn the heart of the fathers to the children in the heart of the children to the father's the end not talking for 400 years and after 400 years the silence was broken and do you know how the silence was broken after 400 years it was broken by a baby crying in a manger in Bethlehem a son sent by a father to revealed to people who could not make it on their own that the hope that was on the horizon was that they could know the Almighty God of the Old Testament as an Abba Father in reality and for eternity so when Jesus comes yes the goal is salvation but what is salvation when Jesus comes the goal is not simply to get us to heaven the goal is to get us into the arms of our Heavenly Father oh man is that just like super old news I'm so sorry I should have stepped up and done something greater they're more profound possibly but there is nothing more profound than that so if you're thinking good start Louis you're going strong I can't wait to see where this is going that's where it's going maybe you went to different Bible College than me I got nothing better than Jesus Christ came on to Planet Earth not to get me to a place but to a person not to just get me eventually to some destination called heaven but to get me into the arms you young man with a Bible when you come up here okay so and he brought his Bible I love that this is I know I I know we all love Jesus we're all been Christians we're all walking with God I know we're all super mature and very advanced in our spiritual development understanding but can you imagine that the god of Mount Sinai had in mind all along this [Applause] so you ought to you might have grown up in that church where it was more like this or no no no no fist fist bump bro what I was thinking you might just you know take hold of the hand yes there you go that's more like it yes that's what I'm talking about and and you know yes we bow yes we stand in awe yes we can't believe it yes we are stymied and speechless and astounded and amazed we're all of that yes we shake in our boots and tremble before him and as we do the almighty says here's the plan this is what we've been hoping for on the horizon my son has come to make it possible for the Almighty God of gods to come and put his arms around you thank you so much the goal hasn't been to get you to heaven well it is to get you to heaven I mean technically but jesus said in and this is eternal life John 17:3 this is eternal life okay so what is the eternal life we're gonna now define eternal life that they may know you that the one true God and know Jesus Christ who you said God's not sinning Jesus down here so you can walk on streets of gold there's an app for that he sent his son into the world so that you could get into the arms of Almighty God and call him among all mighty sovereign Lord eternal unchanging holy right just perfect infinite and God wants to get this through to you he's desperately wanting to get this through to you I can't tell you the whole story I'm preaching a message out of a book that I released recently called not forsaken it's been stirring in my heart it's been all that I've been thinking about for about two years now it's been my life and my breast and my blood and in the end of it is an epilogue it's a half chapter so I didn't want to call it a chapter and I didn't know how to call it a half a chapter so I called it an epilogue but if you get the book please read it because I tell of a miraculous thing that happened to me about seven months ago sitting at my desk on the last day before passion 20-19 started when God had put it in my heart to preach and believe that God was going to turn the heart of the father's to the children and harlot children to the father because this suicide ridden generation this anxiety riddled generation this depression trapped generation not all of it but a fair amount of it can be traced back to relationships with earthly fathers and a gap that has been created in the lives and the hearts and the minds and the souls of young men and young women little boys and little girls who didn't somehow earn the blessing of a father that they so longed for and needed in their life I'm not blaming anything and everything on father's I'm just saying a lot of the can be traced right back to that moment and revival is gonna happen for somebody when you realize you are not forsaken you are not abandoned you're not walked out on you are not divorced you are not abuse you are a son or a daughter loved by a perfect Heavenly Father and yes abandoned did happen that is in my story but it is not defining Who I am in the moment that becomes real in your life revivals gonna start in your heart because right now you're living at about 45 percent of you and the enemy's convinced you that that's a good you because there you were 28% of you remember that and now we we sort of worked up to forty five and he's kind of convinced you you're gonna cap out right there and just that's just the way it's gonna be you just gonna have to deal and God is saying no no no no that's not the way it's gonna be Solon came out of this house and I preached a message about it at our church a few weeks ago and I said I believe the seven most powerful words in any life I know you know it was nine words and now at seven and which is it these seven Trump the nine from the other day because the nine from the other day really get fulfilled in these seven if you don't know what all that's about you should have been at Hillsong conference but the seven words that change everything not singing them but owning them are these words I am who you say I am so how does the Almighty become ABBA I'm just want to back up to some basics and come forward to a hope to maybe a powerful moment of ministry for somebody in this service how does the Almighty become Abba for us simply because the nature of the gospel is new birth I know I know everyone knows that but I like saying it and I'm gonna say it again the nature of the gospel is new birth so if you didn't know what this is all about in this service and what all these songs are about and what all the enthusiasm is about I want to tell you what it's all about it's not about joining something it's not about attending something it's not even really about intellectually believing something it's about being born all over again spiritually through a relationship with Jesus Christ the nature of the gospel is not that bad people become good the nature of the gospel is not self-improvement or modification or [Music] anything of the sort the nature of the gospel is that spiritually dead people get born all over again to become spiritually alive people who are now the sons and daughters of Almighty God we have something in America this big deal right now and it's called your ancestry thing and you you get a kit you buy it and you spit in a thing and mail it off to some people did you do that would you maybe anybody do that no one did that in Australia is that even happened in Australia it has happened here I don't know this is a long way away from where I live sometimes I don't know it so that's happening you know what I'm talking about and so you spit in a thing and you send it off to some people and then they send you an email a few weeks later and in the email it breaks down your ancestry to percentages like 3% of you came from northern Africa you're like I'm as white as white not 3% of use not and it just pings you like all over the world where you came from and one of the big ones in America is called 23andme I don't know exactly how they came to that but at the end of the day lots of people are interested in knowing where did I come from and who are my people like legitimately like what is my origin and so I thought it'd be great if the Lord just came in and answered that for us all tonight and that's why I titled this message tonight this state of origin [Applause] the nature of the gospel is new birth in other words if you don't know for sure that you've had a new birth then you don't know for sure oh but my grandfather was a Methodist pastor a paintless awesome name was he good I mean before we clap I guess we should ask was he good yeah he was right Oh congratulations what does that have to do with anything so my state of origin is that my grandfather was a Methodist preacher Donna my aunt she's she's mighty woman of God well god bless your aunt that is good for your aunt who's that your state of origin my my aunt Oh what she could do some praying yeah because of you I just said that Eddie getting mad that was just it's been a long conference week the nature of the gospel is spiritual birth what you see this in Romans chapter 8 it talks about how when we come to know Jesus the Holy Spirit comes into our life and something incredible happens in that moment that's described in Romans 8 it says in verse 15 for you to not can you say did not for you can you say that for you oh come on this is a did not it's got a attitude for you did not that was almost there let's try this one more time for you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear all this anxiety all this off-balance all of this I don't know if I'm good enough I don't know if I am enough I don't know if I can make it I don't know if I can do it I don't know if I'm gonna be able to blank all of this fear this did not come from the spirit that came into you when you put your faith in Christ this spirit does not lead us to be slaves again to fear this spirit does something else and look what this spirit does but you received not a spirit that makes you a slave akin to fear but but the spirit capital s so weird this is talking about the Holy Spirit you receive the spirit of sonship that the word there is adoption it's a better word to use it's actually the word means the spirit of adoption so this is for the ladies and for the gentlemen this is for the boys and for the girls this is where everybody in the house tonight when that spirit came into your heart that wasn't a spirit that leads you to fear that was a spirit of adoption and here's what the spirit of adoption operates like and by him so now we know the spirit is a him and not an it so that's good news by him we cry Abba Father now if you're new to church and I just like preaching thinking about people who are new to church so forgive all of us who've been to church too long if you're new to church we love you we are so glad you're here and you're not you don't know a lot of it inside lingo and suffering you're like what is this Abba thing going on here that was the language of Jesus day a little boy in Jesus time when his dad got off work we'd have seen him coming through the door and said Abba Abba Abba Abba it's not exactly daddy but it's very close its intimate so the Spirit of God comes into my spirit and now that spirit in my spirit cries Abba Father the Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit say it with me that we are God's children now if we're children then were heirs heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory the Spirit testifies with my spirit that I am God's child people say how do how do how do you know when you're saved do you feel saved I was like I know that's probably not a good way to know how do you know because there was I wrote it down on November 10th and at the u s-- retreat i prayed the prayer said how i know no you know that you're saved when the spirit inside of you says father that Almighty God is my father I am NOT an orphan I am not abandoned I am NOT alone I am NOT labeled divorce I am NOT abuse I am not neglect I am not performance-based I am a son of father I am daughter a father that's how I know that I'm safe because the Holy Spirit now is testifying it with my spirit that I am a child of God so why is this important that this is how the gospel works because intrinsically woven into all of us from birth it's a longing for a father's blessing hello anyone anybody remember I don't know your context I don't know globally all contexts are different and there's so many different nations represented in this service but do you ever remember when you were even this big and you were I don't know maybe at the pool at the summer time or on the on the football field or the rugby pitch or at your piano recital or whatever and mom was there but mom was always there mom we're not knocking you you are the reason why we live and breathe but dad showed up see my remember when dad showed up what happened everyone lost their mind does anybody know what I'm talking about I mean I'm just looking for an Amen or not or I know I was there something thank you so let's just say you were at the pool and dad happened to show up what did you do you you just day daddy daddy daddy I learned that a running jump dad I learned how to do a running jump okay I want to do a running jump dad watch that dad watch me watch me I'm gonna do it no no no don't talk to mom right now watch me watch me no no no no no daddy watch me watch me daddy watch me are you watching me are you watching me I won't do my running jump okay but I want you to watch me okay are you watching okay are you watching are you watching are you watching are you watching and then you run and do your two-step jump into the three-foot pool you come up out of the water all you care about is one thing what did you see it so you asked did you see it and if you get back across the pool where he go baby girl good job ace while that was way cooler than last time you're like yeah and you're just like strutting around the pool like a boss not only can I do a running jump but my dad saw me do a running jump and not only did my dad see me do a running jump my dad liked my running jump I'm flipping running in universe right now why because I've somehow gotten a cocoon of security and love wrapped around me in a little tiny moment that basically all it had to do with a 47 pound person going into three feet of water but woven into us from birth is a massive longing for our our father's blessing his belief his approval his affection somebody got the dad and he said you know I don't have to tell you I love you cuz you you know I love you and you carried that all the way to this service tonight you know my dad he's not one of those guys he's a good ol Aussie bloke no bloke like an Aussie bloke toughest dudes on earth be we all knew he loved us but good gracious didn't you was she just say it one time we want a blessing her dad's approval his affection his participation and if you get it as a foundation stone and if you don't it's a gap I'll never forget the day at 18 when God called me to preach I didn't see it coming my dad certainly didn't see it coming my dad and I didn't have common ground around Jesus and I was gonna tell the church that Sunday night that God had called me to preach and I should have invited my dad on Monday but I couldn't get at the nerve and my dad was a good dad he had no relationship with his dad I learned later in life and he felt unwanted and unloved his entire life my dad dead lived with his grandmother lived with an aunt and uncle never lived in a home with his mom and dad growing up and just felt abandoned until the day died given all that he was a really good dad to my sister and me and but we had that we didn't have this common ground around the Lord's called me to preach he was a lapsed Catholic my mom was a real like devout Baptist and I was gonna go down on the Sunday night aisle and tell the church I was surrendering to the ministry anybody grow up in that moment and I should have invited him a Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday but I waited till 3:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon to invite him to come and I walked into the kitchen my dad was standing over the kitchen stove eating leftovers out of a pot and I said dad I got something I need to share with you and he goes what is it ace and I said I feel like the Lord's calling me to preach it's not my dad's fault that was all on me people but oh my word there was just like and I could see all the wheels turning you know my dad's gonna be at the poker game next Friday night with his buddies all their kids are doing all kinds of cool stuff taking over the family business when I was gonna go to college university to play football when I was gonna blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and Luke what's your kid doing again mmm preacher do me in and he finally got out their words well that's great ace but he didn't make it that night and honestly we didn't talk about it for years after that moment I graduated University went on a path to go to grad school started preparing for the ministry and we never talked about it and I know for some of you are like oh I feel so sorry for you Louie that's a tough life to have lived through with your dad's disappointment my dad would have knocked me across the room and through the wall and God understands the breath of how this lands in our lives today but that gap here's what I really want us to be honest about that gap cannot be dismissed in writing this book I found a study in Psychology Today of a woman who had studied 75 high achieving women at the prime of their lives the careers were skyrocketing their families were crushing their dreams were coming true and she said I was surprised that every one of them still viewed their success through the lens of what their father thought so you can't just close the door and say Louie that was back then and now I own my own business that was back then and now I've moved on from all that that was back then and I don't need my dad I don't ever talk to my dad I don't really care about my dad and couldn't give a rip what my dad thinks about me I'm not interested in that and I've had friends all around me say listen I don't need my dad's approval I don't care what my dad thinks I don't need to know what my dad feels about what I'm doing and I just thought gently say why are you telling me all this the nature of the gospel spiritual birth and I'll tell you why that matters is because we intrinsically are hardwired for a father's blessing the enemy knows it so we don't need to take 30 seconds in this service to unpack how the enemy once he understood the plan you can't measure up to a holy God but there's hope on the horizon the hope on the horizon his name's Jesus and what he's gonna do is open a way for us to be in the arms of an Almighty God as Abba Father okay that's the plan great here's what I'm gonna get it busy doing then I'm gonna try my best to destroy fatherhood because if I can destroy fatherhood I can create all kind of obstacles between the people that God is trying to get into the arms of a perfect father and God I just want you to know tonight that a miracle has happened through Jesus and things can change graves can be overturned and stories can turn around and every curse can be reversed your skin so that you don't have to come into this service line ago I do believe God is a is a perfect heavenly father and I do believe everything you're saying but somehow you still haven't been healed of the hurt and the wound and the pain and the frustration and the bitterness and the anger and the loss and the lack and God doesn't want to just pass by this place he wants to stop and touch your life and he wants to restore and he wants to heal it may not happen in two seconds but it can happen and it will happen at the same God who gave His life for you and was raised from the dead for you can turn the story of your earthly father around and it begins with this this number one concept that God is not just a bigger version of your dad and that's kind of the axiom of this whole message that God isn't a reflection of your earthly father he's the perfection of your earthly father he's everything you wanted your father to be and more and he can turn stories around your family tree may be so jacked up you know we didn't get to our main text tonight Luke chapter 3 I'll just summarize it in a phrase or two Jesus came to be baptized in the heavens open we heard this at conference right and a voice came down the Holy Spirit came down and the voice said this is my son in whom I love and in him I am well pleased and that's a good word you know what that's called that's called a father's blessing and even Jesus needed one [Music] and he walked on water nope had you healed anyone no you're right good no had he broken the bread and fed 5,000 had he touched the blind man had he turned the water into wine had he gone to the cross was he put a tomb was he raised from the dead and why was God so happy with him had done a thing made some furniture this is my son I love him he's awesome you see our table right there why was he so pleased with him because he was his son so think about it and this isn't amazing you'd have to look at it when you get home in your real Bible he sent Jesus out with the blessing he didn't send him out and say man if you do good I'm gonna tell everybody how much I love you he said I want you to know moving out that you got blessing all over your life and he wants you to know moving out of this place tonight that you've got blessing all over your life because you are a daughter because you are a son now listen to this passage because this is the crazy part we heard this week and I loved this that the next chapter the enemy starts tempting Jesus in the wilderness and every temptation is right back at his identity if you are the son of God then turn the stones into bread if you are the son of God jump off the the temple if you are the son of God you you you if you are the son of God if you are the son of God right at his identity just like he's doing at yours if you really do matter to God then why is this happening if God does really love you so much then why didn't this work out if you really are a daughter of God then why do you feel this way he's coming right at your identity but check it out in Luke chapter 3 as soon as it says my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased it says now we're going back to narrative and it says and Jesus was about 30 years old at this time and some believed he was the son of Joseph because now there's a controversy are you son of God his voice coming out of heaven or you the son of Joseph the carpenter from Nazareth and so there's a genealogy don't you love him maybe memorized him oh he says in Joseph's father was and you just I know we all know this stuff is but Joseph's father was you know Jesus is granddaddy was isn't that awesome everybody's like I should probably know that was he'll and his father was we won't even bother with that one and it goes through 75 fathers and I promise you there was some jacked-up in there but the last one in the list [Music] and his father just to back up a couple with Seth and his father was Adam and his father was god this son oh he's got earthly fathers and I guarantee you there's some brokenness in there I guarantee you there's some pain in there I guarantee you there's some imperfection in there I guarantee you there's some disappointment in there I guarantee you there's a couple of stories in there but his State of Origin God [Music] [Applause] and that's what he's speaking over you tonight I don't think that 23andme thing must not be going on in Australia maybe you got ancestry.com or some other ones that you do but at one of the big ones in America is 23andme and I loved it because a bunch of people have done it that I know they because you do the 23andme one you get your where you came from but you also get these traits about you and all this other cool stuff and it man it just came to me one day I said I don't need 23andme my I know what my family tree looks like yeah I know my earthly family tree my dad and his dad never gave him a blessing and I saw how that played out I know that I never heard my dad talk about his grandfather not one time in my lifetime I know how all that played out I know about the family tree but listen I got another family tree people through faith in Jesus Christ I've been putting another family tree through faith in Jesus Christ and listen to this it's not 23andme it's just three and me oh come on Hillsong Church it's father it's Sun and it's Holy Spirit and then there's me so there may be pain and we're not trying to sweep that under the rug tonight there may be loss there may be disappointment there may be failure there may be abuse there may be abandon there may be divorce and all that's real but your state of origin almighty almighty that's where you think that's at the top when you work your way up the list through all the brokenness and the generations I am a child of God and that revelation not that information but that revelation has the power to break the curse and to turn the story around and to awaken us to awaken you to this reality I am a loved daughter of a perfect Heavenly Father I am a loved son perfect Heavenly Father I am who you say that I am who they say that I am I am NOT who my dad said that I am I'm not who my friends said that I am I'm not even who I say that I am I am who you say that child that's but come on let's see babe [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I just want to bite you just if you would just close your eyes and just trying to give you measure privacy with God and I just want to have a moment where people all across this gathering can put their faith in Jesus so how do I get in this new family tree how do I get in this new store you get in this news story by being born again well how do I get to be born again by putting your faith in Jesus that he died for your sins I was raised from the dead to give you life and if you ask him he'll forgive you he will save you he will send His Spirit into your heart and your spirit will come to life brand-new son daughter of the Living God maybe this moment that's your step I want to put my faith in Jesus Christ and be born again to brand-new life so I'm just gonna ask that every a heavy battery I be closed I just want to give people that sense right now in this moment that this is this begins between you and God it will trickle out to your friends to your family to the person who brought you but it begins with you and if that's you in any of these gatherings I just want to invite you right now just to lift your hand as high as you can and say Lois that's me tonight tonight is my night to take a step of faith with Jesus to put my faith in Jesus to be born again forgiven as a son or a daughter of God could you just lift your hand anywhere top bottom front doesn't matter this is my night and just hold your hand up as high and as bold as you can I see people all on the right side over here with their hands lifted high that's beautiful just looking around anybody top doesn't matter where you are back here on the floor amazing anybody else tonight my step is I want to come to life through Jesus Christ way back in the back I can see on the floor way back in the almost to the end back here on the left so beautiful lots of hands around we're gonna pray for you in just a moment you can put your hand down and I just want to ask as well if there's anyone in this place it says tonight somehow God is illuminating this truth in me it's not Jesus passing by it's Jesus stopping and touching what has been broken and wounded in my heart and I feel god touching and changing and restoring and releasing my heart to know that I'm a loved son a loved daughter of Almighty God and if that's you we want to pray for you I'm just gonna ask you if that's you if you just lift your hand as high as you can all over this place just lifted as high and as bold as you can God is releasing this truth into my life somehow sonship daughter ship like it never has before is landing in my life right here in right now this hold it up as high as you can it's it's in a way it's your defiance to the past and you're stepping into the future I believe God has got a future for me and I believe there's blessing on my life right now and I receive it I am who you say that I am I am a child of God father I pray for every one of these with their hands lifted high I thank you that you've opened heaven and spoken your heart into their lives today I thank you that whatever happened in the generation before or the generations before that somehow they seen out their state of origin it is Almighty God their identity is loved daughter loved son that is who they are in the name of Jesus and the authority of Jesus under the blood of Jesus Christ I thank you that you are turning stories around turning graves upside down that you are bringing truth and bringing life and bringing freedom and bringing healing and bringing restoration and wholeness in the powerful name of Jesus if you're one of those people who said I want to take that step of faith and I don't want to lead you in a prayer and it has to be your prayer has to be your faith I can't pray that prayer for you no one can pray that prayer for you and someone who leads you and I just invite you just in your heart just to tell him even now say dear Jesus I want to ask you to save my life thank you for giving your life for me I ask you to forgive me for all my sin I'm asking you to wash all the guilt and all the shame away and I'm asking you to give me a brand new heart I'm asking you to bring me to life I want to be born again as a son as a daughter of the Living God send your spirit into my spirit and make me alive your child forevermore and just thank him say thank you Jesus for saving me right here come on let's give in some phrase let's give him some phrase in this place tonight [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] [Music] yes you are [Music] because their entire church every location can we thank louie giglio for such a [Applause] state of origin who are you who are you you're a child of God that's who you am so powerful so beautiful he's such a Vivienne you paper you paint such a vivid picture fantastic so anyway what a week I've had and I guess it's almost coming to an end this week and then we get on to the rest of the year which a Hillsong Church is going to be full of salvations victory right testimonies stories have you raised your hand right now to make that choice for Jesus which Louis so clearly portrayed we'd love to give you a Bible it's a gift from Hillsong Church and they'll be in every look every FOIA everywhere where we meet every location every FOIA with people they're holding up Bibles and please if you raise your hand take a Bible to make this your day make this your time when surely you pass from death to life into something new and you understand the power of sonship or daughter ship and you understand just exactly who we are in Christ so fantastic give them another great big hand the same God but let me sit in one of those people we all be seated for a minute you see [Music] that's who I am it'll be awesome if we just received an offering then we can have put into the gig Leos and thank them for being here with us and all have been put it into us during the week can be a blessing to them and their ministry yeah whatever it is God's called them to do into their churches while still give you a real quick moment to get ready for that you'll see on the screen behind me you can give the ways that we kind of normally do give here at Hillsong Church I think they're still envelopes on the seats and so on so we'll give you one world about a quick moment to do that hopefully we can do it super quickly before we leave here we're gonna praise God together we're gonna do some real dense and praise in Holy Spirit I love the way with you walk past us tire so you're certainly always sit there and I love the way you always walk past us when you think that your ability it makes me smile it reaches that every single time Tukey Paulo put your shoulders back and got your eye and your hand like that it especially comes up with a platform look past the Louie you can't believe the way I talk to my congregation but you know the crazy thing Louie is they actually love me [Applause] all right that was just time to get ready for the giving so let's receive the giving now thanks I'm just gonna talk to Taylor [Music] this receive the giving a you and bindle well yes we're going he's actually in church tonight shock and horror that's amazing and he treats you well he's yeah he's a perfect gentleman he's he's kinda than me and he's nicer than me loves she's a small so I'm learning does he walk up straight very straight yes and one last question any sign of a couple years away guys maybe seven maybe less who knows it's only been 14 months guys fourteen months when I witness gone only took nine [Music] [Music] what other trouble could I cause here tonight let's start on Jan absolutely nothing about you that I could pick on you're a man of God a great dad your great father you loved the All Blacks and your permit is well pretty awesome they've been winning or losing if you haven't watched the game yet I can't tell you I'll tell you okay do you want to know I wouldn't know I've been a house of God and we received the offering come let's stand let's get back to what we're in church for of my nonsense we here to praise God thanks for a big week everyone thanks again you know let's get ready to dance the price to glorify God let's get ready for all that's ahead next Sunday night Chris does sir is in the house come on everybody [Music] it sounds it beginning as distant hearts begin believing through little bit louder retention speeds on repenting you love girls what your love goes on pretty no to do [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the time is up the change the shadow of the battery here you gave [Music] there we go when the world [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] come on shout United sure let's get [Music] [Applause] sing it out judge Taylor do like this [Music] [Applause] [Music] pardhu break it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] together [Music] get up I close my eyes down the slide let's go hide me from your grace I can't deny you're a PI and it sorry [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] hi [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh Stimpy [Music] [Music] [Music] research and we'll see you next Sunday be blessed [Applause] [Music]

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