Holy Fire - Derek Carr - Brave Church

Samuel caught me off guard with that earlier I didn't cry this time can't get me twice yeah I love how we just talked about sliding into the DMS of brave church youth also it's awesome some of you some of you young kids will get that one but man god bless you guys I love you thank you oh wow a lot of people in this one not used to playing in front of this many people so pray for me okay first service was awesome my goodness we had just amazing move of God which was really cool which is what I'm all about you know you know for so long when I was little I heard all these things about what God did right you can read the Bible in here about what God did right are you read revelation here what about what God is going to do right but we got to watch what God was doing in people's lives this morning and I always say this I've never I've never convinced anyone into being a Christian right it'll never happen you'll never do it you can't convince someone in that oh man I'm just gonna convince you that he's real it just doesn't work that way you know the way God intended to do it was through love and through his heart and through his his his caring his compassion for you and we saw that on full display this morning man it was it was a beautiful thing we saw our church I think come together and start praying for people you know in a real way and I hope that that stays because this was meant to do together coming from someone who you know I don't like people to touch me and I don't like to be around some people sometimes but God intended us to do this thing together so we're gonna do it together amen I want to tell you some stories you guys like stories right and none of them are about football today I'm sorry if you wanted to hear football stories you can leave now or if you're a 49er fan you can leave okay I'm just kidding I'm just kidding yeah some of you actually thought about it I want to tell you some stories about what God is doing see the Bible will tell you what God has done and what he's going to do and this I say this where the spirit of religion will tell you what God has done is going to I am NOT a religious person say it all the time messes with some people sometimes I said I just have a faith that there is a God and He loves me that's that's how I lived my life I don't put myself under any you know any any kind of title or anything like that man I just know that there's a God for what he's done in what I've seen him do and I want to tell you about what he's doing now because the spirit religion can't tell you what God is doing today how he's impacting people's lives even in these moments and so the other day my wife was actually last week I think I was going to Starbucks and she went at which shocker right she went to Starbucks uh-huh it's a lot of our bills you gotta keep playing some extra years because she wants Starbucks so yeah thanks babe and so she's going through Starbucks okay and all 18 of my kids are in the back of the car okay and she's we're almost to a minivan which is exciting we're talking about that too it'll be a tricked-out minivan yeah so we she pulls up okay I was not there and my five-year-old Dallas he's our oldest okay says mommy I need to tell the the Starbucks lady something okay five years old and she's okay so my wife tells the lady and she rolls the window down and my son begins to tell what are they called barista that excuse me miss jesus loves you so much and he cares about you so much and he begins him and my three-year-old Decker begin to tell this their preaching the gospel to this lady in Starbucks come and and she tells them back like yes I know and Jesus loves you too I said what a blessing for my kids to not only hear from just their parents that Jesus wasn't but a complete stranger that they would reach out just and just say hey you know they've had I mean they're hidden there they're batting a thousand percent right now right I've gotten told F you you know I tell people you all right and I said man just hopefully that keeps up for them but you know just what a blessing for some complete stranger to tell them back not just their dad or their mom or someone at church but some other grandparents but someone that you know I told that the person that Jesus loved him and they told me back wow like other people know it too you know and that is if I don't do anything else right in my life if I can get that right for my boys then I will consider that a victory right you know that was that was one story and then I just went to Pebble Beach okay and let me tell you it was right after the USO he has no Pell beaches Golf Course yeah like three of you good okay and I went to I took my my dad he's from Santa Cruz so he's a hippie okay he loves the Lord now he stopped doing some things right okay he's still very tan and loves to surf though that's 68 years old whatever he is okay he still surfs unbelievable this man okay don't say aw but like he had a heart attack and then the next day he went out surfing didn't tell anybody okay it's how crazy this guy is but he's fine don't he's fine okay but he grew up around Pebble Beach and he wanted to go play golf there okay and so I was like man I'm taking my dad I'm gonna take my brothers would be great time and so we go and you know I'm playing absolutely terrible okay and it's a great time because how do you go to Pebble Beach and look at that ocean and say I'm having a bad day right and we're out there and it's it's a lot of fun and then we go there's this place called the tap room it's like a restaurant right off a whole number eighteen famous hole and like first of all like I'm like awestruck you could imagine like being a pub it's like this is where Tiger Woods like peed like I'm gonna go pee there too you know like that's pretty cool maybe some of his greatness nevermind maybe he washed his hands here like that's kind of cool anyways there's trophies there and like you can get caught up in a lot of different stuff there right I'm on vacation it's like the two days out of the year I'm not with coach Gruden right like I finally I'm going to relax a little bit I don't have to work today okay I don't have to think about cover to or anything like that some of you were like what don't you know what that is okay then don't tweet me when I throw a bad throw okay [Applause] all right god bless you so we're sitting there at the tap room and our waitress walks by and I had been interacting with so many people on this trip right and we're waiting to tee off and we're kind of just hanging out and we have our whole meal and then all of a sudden I just feel in my heart like man I got I got to tell Patti our waitress about Jesus like just felt it in my inners I like to say right no no I'm not very good with words so that's what I call it okay and I tell Patti I said Patti can I tell you something she's like yeah what's up we haven't even talked to her like the whole time I'm just saying thank you you know and I said Patti I said I have to tell you that Jesus loves you so much and I said I don't I said I'm not trying to bother you I'm not trying to take your time and as soon as I said that her she just begins to cry and I was like and she's like mind you she tells me like you have to stop because she's crying and I don't know if she just was embarrassed or didn't want cry at work right and when she said you have to stop I'm like well I'm just gonna keep going now right I'm an evangelist tears are like gasoline on a fire right here I cut here we go right and uh and she's crying and I said honestly Patti I'm not trying to bug you or ruin your day I just want you to know that there take it from someone who lived a completely different life there is a God in heaven that loves you so much you're special to him you have a purpose he wants a relationship to you I said do you want that she said sometimes a man how many of you have been there see I get a lot of Raider fans around me sometimes like oh yeah I want that then they completely forget about it when they leave right or I get some people like I said to say up yours man I don't want anything to do with that but what honesty that she had to say sometimes right isn't that true for all of us like in our deepest darkest it's in the hardest places right my rookie or when you're Owen tend to start out your career that's a fun record to start out with uh-huh it gets hard right and it feels hard enough it's to start out oh and ten you're like man I'm knockin this is gonna be the last year I ever play football and you know that's when we call on God the most right like oh we need a Savior we need someone to show up but when it's going really well we can kind of go a couple days and say no my family's good my works could I don't need God today I'm here to tell you that there's always more of God no matter what you think he'll continue to blow your mind if you'll just let him right if you just continue to press in every single day which all he wants you to do is choose him daily you continue to press n he'll continue to blow your mind as much as you'll let him all right but Patti that day we ended up the conversation ended great I didn't pray for her anything like that but I just knew in that moment she needed to know the truth and what I've experienced in my life and we had a good like five-minute conversation where she was crying and it I was like okay I I can't do this to her she's trying to work and like like go to other tables with wiping her tears and stuff but I just said eh if I came here for any reasons last thing I said I said if I came here for any reason Patti and my brother said it wasn't to get birdies and then we all laughed and they made fun of me right yeah I said it it was to make sure that this vacation was centered around you knowing Jesus I said if that's all that I accomplished here then I did my job and then we walked out so I don't know just pray for Patti if you think about it ever but again I've had stories where I'm praying with people in Chipotle they're accepting Christ that wasn't one of these stories but God is still moving today despite what other people will tell you you know what I mean like he's still working and he still wants to do some things in your in your life I'm asked his question how many y'all want to be used by God like really like how many you really want to be used by him it's a lot of hands okay and we're gonna get to that and you know me I'm gonna make it awkward for you we'll see how many of you really want to be used by God all right let me pray dear Heavenly Father we thank you so much for such a time as this Jesus you're good and you're faithful thank you for continuing to just prove that to us every day Jesus even when I just wake up and I see my family thank you I see your goodness even when I wake up and I still have breath in my lungs I thank you dear God bless this time speak through me let it be your words not mine get me out of the way Holy Spirit help we thank you in Jesus name everybody said a man I'm gonna be an exodus three so I'm gonna kill some time if you have your Bible you can open it if you have your phone which all of you do google it okay Google X to this three you ever heard the story about Moses in the burning bush three four four four people went to kids church when they were little anybody hear that story before okay good okay I like to interact with you how many come down there and grab you if I have to start shaking you right but I'm gonna read there I'm being Exodus three I'm giving you guys a second okay starts here verse one one day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro the priest of Midian and he went deep into the wilderness near Sinai the mountain of God who I just got blessed with something right now what Samuel can't add and say this in the beginning and that crazy at the some of the craziest moments we find God is deep in the wilderness of what our life is going through I don't know about you but that just struck me in a way like sometimes we have to go through a certain amount of stuff right sometimes we keep going we keep grinding through it we just can't find it but somewhere deep in the wilderness I promise you he's still right behind you he's still right there he's still just one more step away I don't know who that's for but just to keep pressing in in the first service I prayed with some one man and he just he said sometimes I want to follow him it's just getting hard I said please don't stop I've been there I'm there now it's hard sometimes right it's really hard it's not easy to really do it the right way but keep pressing in sometimes it's in the in the worst moments where we really see him okay verse 3 verse 2 says suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared to him as a blazing fire in a bush Moses was amazed because the bush was engulfed in flames but it didn't burn up amazing Moses said to himself why isn't that bush burning up I must go over to see this when you always saw that he had caught Moses attention God called him from the Moses Moses Here I am Moses replied stop right there first thing I want you to sit if you want to write this down is this if you want to talk to God you want to hear from God go to where you see him moving if you want to talk to him or you want to hear from him go to where you see him moving my wife and I tried out a whole bunch of churches before we finally found this one my rookie year we actually got kicked out of a sanctuary because we brought our two year old son who was not crying into the sanctuary said yeah I'm probably not gonna come back to this church he wasn't even causing a problem you see and I just kept we just kept looking and one day we just actually typed it in on Google Maps Church and this one popped up and we came here and I began to watch people I began to watch people God move into people's lives each and every week I begin to feel the love of God just by greeting someone at the door I began to feel his presence I began I said you know what this is where I need to go because if I want to hear from God I need to go where I see him moving and I see him moving here let me tell you last night I was here with Pastor Samuel and Josh Pastor Darrin wasn't here but he's included in this we are blessed to have leadership that does it the right way there are so many churches so many pastors Lord forgive me that do not do it the right way because I've met with them I've talked to them I've heard what they're doing they're buying sermons online did you know the Word of God is alive you don't need to buy a sermon online just spend time with them I promise you he'll give you a word and it kind of angers me because I'm kind of sick of it because people look from the outside any Christians at Coward Christians and people that don't really do it the right way and they say well he says he's a Christian but he does that why would I want to do that why do i why do I want to go follow that but we have leadership here that prayed they put they laid hands on me last night we were here last night at like 9:30 they laid hands on me and they began to pray over me they said man we just want to encourage you we just want which one bless you man and they laid hands me they began to pray for me and they began to pray some things that only I've told God about my life told anybody else but God I said that right there I said and I told same--you I said it's so nice to know for the next 80 years this church is going to be taught the truth I said that blesses me to know that even my kids kids or whoever comes through here will be told the truth everything in that something to wear celebrate though it could just take it from me I've gotten to meet a lot of people and we're in a church and in a place we continue to come here because the truth is taught and we continue to see God moving all right and I continue to hear from him so there might be something to what the Bible is trying to teach us here right second thing acknowledge God walk towards him and then he speaks I was sitting on her at our at our breakfast at our breakfast table where we breakfast every morning and my wife we I read this to my wife I read I read the scripture to my wife and she said in it crazy and it cool that yes Moses saw the burning bush but God didn't speak to him till he went and spent time with him so many times we see God moving and say man I see God moving on his life man I want that but you won't take five ten fifteen thirty minutes out of your day to go spend time with him there's something about going from where you're at that comfortable complacent place and saying dear God there's more and I need it where do I need to go is it on my face in my bedroom is it in the altar of the church in front of all these people who cares if you need to hear from God whatever he's trying to get you to do go hear from God God will speak to you once you come find the Bible says if you seek Him you will find him here's a perfect example this is what my wife told me she said how amazing is that that yes he saw it from a distance how many of us has seen God moved from a distance I have just wheat I watched the Patriots won the Super Bowl every year right like man that'd be that'd be tight yeah it'd be kind of fun sweet you know it'd be cool for the city and myself you know maybe sweet but like I've watched God moved from a distance like in other people's lives for so long even when I first became a Christian like I still felt like something was missing like I rose my hand I walked forward I accepted Christ and then I kept reading the Bible and I tried to live by these rules and regulations right I said man I still feel like something's missing like this can't be it until I realize what I'm about to teach us today that we can come into the presence of God and he wants to have a relationship with you it's not like I've ever heard an audible voice but he can speak to my heart and if it glorifies him I'm gonna do that rather than doing the other things that doesn't glorify him right you see there's something about going and seeing him to let him speak to you another thing on that first point go where you see him moving and we'll speak to some of y'all right now there's some things there's some internet pages that you shouldn't go on because God isn't really moving there you want to hear from God yet you keep going to those places you want to hear from God yet you keep going to that same bar you shouldn't probably be going to it that same house you probably shouldn't be going to you're still in that same relationship you show price and being you don't see God moving in that relationship so why are you in it that friend is not encouraging you to walk closer to God why are you they still your friend you can love them you can encourage them but you don't need to spend all your time with them there's certain pages on your Instagram that I don't go to because I don't see God moving there and if I don't see God moving there yet I want to hear from him why would I continue to go there that would be called a hypocrite as the Bible describes it you see for me in my house we will serve the Lord we will continually run after the things where we see him moving we will continually run after the things where we see God moving so that we can hear from him there's some things in your life you need to get out of your life before you start hearing from God and guess what the funny thing is he's the one telling you to get those things out of your life third point you need to know about this before I continue third and last point before I move on is the bush I'm gonna talk about the bush all right the bush is a foreshadowing of Jesus hold on like heat that's what he looks like no like all right it's completely natural and completely supernatural coexisting all right and this is important for you understand because one moment Moses spends one moment in the presence of God and his life has changed forever he gets to end he ends up leading a nation of people out of Egypt he went from tending his father in lost clock which it's a selfless job that's cool too getting a platform to where we're still talking about in 2000 plus years later one moment in God's present you don't need twelve steps okay what I'll say it this way the the purpose that God had designed for us from the beginning was not that we would come in here with our problems get taught how to cope with our problems anybody with me on that the purpose was that you'd be so consumed with his fire that you would be natural filled with something completely supernatural that when you leave this place something is different about you when other people look at you it's not that you would continue to cope with certain issues it's not so that someone can stand up here and give you point a B and C to help you try and do better in your life it's so that we could prepare a place that you can come into the presence of God and leave completely different every time you come into a church and if anyone doesn't do it that way I'm sorry I will apologize because it's not about the person that stands here it's about the person that I'm talking about I will forever get out of the way and show you the real truth and the real Jesus to get myself out of the way so that you could come and know him a man the bush is a representation of Jesus in that and that he spent one moment in his presence and his life was changed forever verse five says do not come any closer God told him take off your sandals for your standing on holy ground kind of weird why do I got to take my sandals off right I got hairy feet not like not like Hobbit feet right but like here if he I'd be like a little insecure about taking my sandals off in front of God like I mean he gave them to me but it's still like kind of weird you know what I mean if people around they're gonna put a towel on them you know at the beach bury them in the sand right that's a little weird why does God tell him to take his sandals off the reason is this if you want to go on this new journey how many want to go in that new journey where a guy you're used by God okay whew you there's gonna be new methods to which you have to go you can't continue to doing your old same stuff and just say oh now I'm going on this new journey new journey equals new methods maybe weird at first it may seem countercultural at first right especially in the Bay Area God masks you do some things are a little bit awkward but are you willing to just say yes to him that really is all it comes down to if you want to go on that new journey there's new methods that you have to go on and I used this story my mentor has a friend that he didn't understand tithing his money he just didn't understand he'd say I worked for that I know God like help me like yeah he actually did it all but uh-huh is I just don't understand why do I have to give my money to a church like that's all churches are about they only ask for money and what there's realization that I've come to is if you think God is moving somewhere what an opportunity is for you to give to something God is doing are you kidding me like that's a blessing that I've really I I see God moving and that yeah I'ma give to that right he's but he didn't understand that God get he said son he said God told him he said so like son he said if if you want to go on this new journey with me you there's some foundational things that you got to get right first I can't put you on that platform I can't put you on that pedestal that I want to put you on if you don't have that right because that will fall any weak foundation at any builders know that that's not going to stand you have to have all these foundational things solid and set before you can go on that new journey and start building that beautiful house right there's some things in your life there's some decisions you need to make that even God's putting on your heart right now I don't need to call them out you know what they are that you need to change right now in your life if you want to continue to be used by God if you want to go in that new journey where god I used to be the person sitting way in the back almost falling asleep sometimes during church like man how did you get to the platform it only and all started at his feet I said man dear God I don't I'm not the smartest I'm not a theologian but I know this that if I stay at your feet and I continue to seek you I'm gonna learn more and more batching I can just share that that's how it started for me I just preached a conference where at least the whole place was filled with 12 15 thousand people tell them about what I've experienced watching people physically be healed right in front of my eyes nobody can change that because I saw it everyone that was on that stage everyone was in that place so it happened and I continue to see it happen verse 6 says then he said I am the God of your ancestors the God Jake Abraham the god of Isaac and the God of Jacob when Moses heard this he hid his face in his hands because he was afraid to look at God the only reason I point that out is that God is a God of family he literally tells him that this is this is what God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob like he's a God of family he's a God of your descendants right he's a God of community okay it was not intended for that's why some people like why do I have to go to church man I could study on my own where's the community in that we're here to build and lift up one another I know some people in my life that are great Christian people but they just don't go to church because it has you know it's not for me because the church has screwed it up somewhere along the way but my goal in my hope for our churches that we build one in such a way that it is so encouraging that anyone with any kind of issues that any kind of problems feels free to walk in this place I don't care what what's sin they're dealing with we don't judge people you're not the judge God didn't got it and give you that job God's job for you was to love your neighbor that people would freely be able to walk into a church no matter what they believe I don't care if you believe in God or not I mean I do but I don't care if you come in here and you don't I'm gonna love you the same way honestly I don't care what your political beliefs are I really don't care I love people I want to hug you I want to get to know you I want to encourage you how can I help your life be better that's all I care about how do we create a place that is so family-oriented if that's how God described himself we better start taking it serious where we as Christians begin to be people that are free and loving just come in we love you we'll love you I may not agree with you on everything but first I'm gonna love you first and foremost I'm gonna make sure you feel welcomed when can we create a community like that I think that we are a man I think that that's here but my goodness imagine if that was all across the nation how much more peace there'd be because so many times if I are asked non-believers they look at Chris and say they're judgmental people right because we're quick to tell everybody else's problem instead of looking at the log in our own eye that's a whole nother story I'm not gonna preach that today all right verse seven says then Yahweh told him you can be sure I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt I have heard their cries for deliverance and from from their harsh slave drivers yes I am aware of their suffering so I have come to rescue them I want you to I want you to know this Pastor Samuel blessed me with something last night it was awesome when he was praying for me it has a lot to do with this he has seen your struggles and he has heard your cries and I want you to know that there's a God in heaven that says I am coming to rescue you it may not be in the timing that you want it right if it were up to me I would have done a lot of different things by now right in my life but it's not God's timing for my life throughout that process I just continue to seek after him seek after him so now I know in the hardest moments of my life when my son is getting cut open they're trying to fix his intestines because there's no blood flow in his body and he might die I know that in that moment I was strong enough to trust God no matter what whether it was good or bad I had to say if I'm gonna be someone that believes that this word is true I have to know even in that situation dear God that you're still good to me imagine for a second how hard that was for me to say especially as a first-time father now every morning I get to look at my son with that scar on his belly and I get to see God's glory in that because it's a reminder to me on the scars that I have from all my injuries they took away my first MVP and Super Bowl trophy man my ankle broke my ankle man what the heck right but I saw God's love every time I look down at that I just I'm thankful that I could still walk I still have two feet and I still have things to do for his kingdom see the scars that we build up show us and they're just reminders that no no he's not done yet he got me through that man I can get through the next thing [Applause] God is coming he says he will rescue you verse 10 says now this is God talking to Moses now go for I am sending you to Pharaoh you will lead my people the Israelites out of Egypt okay that's what God says to Moses this is Moses's reply but who am I to appear before Pharaoh how can you expect me to lead the Israelites out of Egypt Moses asked God fair question right Moses had a problem get into that another time but Moses was sitting there and he was saying like we all would in a situation like why me I'm not equipped for that how do how do you take one person and lead a whole group of Israelites out of the Egyptian slavery how does that even make sense how are you gonna use me to do that fair questions right am I wrong and thinking those are fair questions and God doesn't give him 12 steps God doesn't say here do this do this this right in this instance he says this then God told him this is his response I will be with you he doesn't even acknowledge what Moses said he doesn't even acknowledge his downfalls his deficiencies he doesn't even acknowledge that he just says I am with you what that shows me is stop looking at your own problems and look at the God that you serve stop looking at your own self and saying how can I do a B and C how can I get that promotion how can I bring that family member back in here how can I do that god I know that you're putting that on my heart but how can I do that out of all the people tell Derek to do it he hears you mm-hmm right why how can I do that and all God is trying to tell you he says I'm with you what else do you need if I don't say anything else what else do you need to walk away with to know that there is a God in heaven that says I really don't care about your deficiencies I created you I know that they're there I know you're imperfect I know that you don't have it all together but guess what here's the great news I have a job I need done I chose you and I'm with you in that also I mean that we're celebrate I don't know about you but that's worth celebrating to me that's something I'm that's what--that's man that's worthy of praise that God is with me wherever I go how exciting is that to know that you don't go anywhere alone even in your loneliness even in your depression you're not alone God is just saying I'm right here with you don't worry about it there's a God in heaven where there family members have done you wrong a relationship has done you wrong just know God is saying I'm with you and I love you no matter what people have said no matter what people have screwed it up for you I love you after that he still doesn't answer his questions and he says this he says after you do all that stuff basically said after you do all this okay after you you Moses do all this you're gonna come back to this mountain and you're gonna worship me at this very place see he gives them the outcome before he even tells them how to do it in that crazy like I've had God like showed me some things like man that'd be cool like how does that happen how do I reach that person and I see it like when I'm praying man I can see it happening I can see it come into fruition that means completion for some of you people who haven't taken the SAT yet I can see it but I don't know how it's gonna get done and all God is saying I'm with you and by the way after it happens just worship me because I'm worth it in that awesome I finish imma finish here with this being Exodus 20 verses 18 19 maybe 20 you see for so long so you have painted this picture for you right I've painted this picture of of Moses a person standing there saying something awesome happening right walking towards it hearing God having this debate with him right and then got saying yeah whatever I'm with you worship me like Moses did that right and we're not we don't even remember about the Israelites right because that's a lot more people than just one so after all that Moses gets them out of there we go all the way to Exodus 20 and and this is where the Ten Commandments were put into the stone tablets which is crazy it freaked me out too huh verse 18 says this when the people heard the Thunder put yourself there for a second on your own Mountain when the people heard the thunder and the loud blast of the horn and when they saw the lightning and the smoke billowing from the mountain they stood at a distance trembling with fear verse 19 and they said to Moses you tell us what God says and we will listen but don't let God speak directly to us if he does we will die see before this there was a so-called line in the sand at the at the base of the mountain where God said if the Israelites passed through there you have to shoot them with arrows yes don't you got to kill them weird no ask me I'm not smart enough to understand yet okay but what I think this verse is saying to us is this is it this is the church today if if I'm just going to be honest people saying they come into church all across Sunday every Sunday all across the nation right now all across the world they're coming into churches and it's looking at the man standing with the microphone saying you tell me what God is like you tell me and the invitation has always been there for you to come find out for yourself I don't need to convince you I can give you my stories I can share my life with you but you don't need my convincing you need to see it for yourself you see the thing that's different from this time and the time we live in now is we want to act like these people like sit in the chair like no you just tell me because it's more convenient for me on a Sunday to relax and just receive a message and leave and try and live morally correct right that's convenient but this is what it is Jesus came and toured the veil down Jesus came and lived a perfect life a sinless blameless life and took that line and wiped it away so that you and I could walk into the presence of God for ourselves yet we don't do it yet every day we cut every Sunday we come to church we just check a box and we leave yet every time we just come in here you some people ask why are you different first I don't know from what I know I'm a little weird but I don't know different from what why man I just spend time with God I go people asked me all the time man you hear from God no so God talks to you yeah he wants to talk to you too I've never heard an audible voice through a speaker in a man I just know when he's trying to share something with me the Bible says we were born into a sinful nature okay so any good thought that I ever have that would glorify God can't be from me you tell me where it's from that's what the Bible says any we were born into a sinful nature so any good thought you tell me we're okay if it glorifies God where did it come from if I was born into that sin and then we can have a conversation when you can answer that for me we're not just good people we need a loving Savior I'm perfect proof of that I'm imperfect all of my mistakes are nationally-televised right you guys get to see the best of me and the worst of me on a national scale imagine if we put a TV on your life what would people say right and God is telling you right now he said I Jesus I've sent my son like God is looking at you right now and saying I sent my son for you why won't you come spend time with me what do I have to do who else do I have to send I sent the Raiders quarterback of all people the Raiders I sent that dude little kid out of Fresno California I sent him to be the Raiders quarterback so that maybe people would listen to him who else do I have to send to tell you the truth you see on my end here with this [Music] like that Bush it was completely natural right we're all completely natural but when you are filled with something completely supernatural people from all over the place will look around and say what is that that's amazing I must go see it the purpose of coming to church the purpose of being a Christian a true real crea we don't need any more cowardly Christians thumps gonna be honest with you that's how I always am we don't need any more people on the fence we don't need any more of those we've had enough of those that have screwed it up for the other people trying to figure it out right we've had enough pastors tell lies and abuse their power and things like that we've had enough of that we need some real true ones that'll just stay stay at the feet of Jesus and just live for him if you would be so filled with the supernatural that is God and he's alive if you would just be so filled with that you wouldn't need a 12-step program to figure out your problems you would be so consumed with him that then you would have a distaste for those addictions it wouldn't even sit right with you anymore to make those decisions you won't even feel right for you to get on that computer and go to that certain screen that wouldn't even feel right to you wouldn't be a struggle if you would just go get so filled up with God those things would become easy and that is what it was intended to be that you would be so filled with God and so filled and consumed with his presence that other people that don't believe would look at you and be like man you're different I've met other Christians I've seen it but man what is it about you it is I'm not that cool trust me ask my wife really not but I know that Jesus is right I know that he is and just like Moses one moment and his presence can change everything forever I have done my job I have prepared a place for you to come here this Sunday and not just check a box and say you know what something you're saying is a little different to me today something you're about is just a little bit different to me today I want that if you don't mind closing your eyes just out of the respect around the people around you if you say Derrick I don't know what the heck you just said I don't even understand it fully but something you said touch my heart man I need this Jesus that you're talking about even if it's not cool even if it's against what you kind of believe but you say Derek how I need to know more about this I want that would you just raise your hand just so I can see it okay I assume you can put them down thank you you guys open your eyes if our prior team wouldn't mind coming up here please i love.i this is my favorite part about what my life's assignment is I just saw hands all over the room to accept Jesus as their Savior even if they don't fully understand what's going on yet they said something happened in my heart I didn't need to convince you I just laid the message out the truth I don't need to convince you of it hands went up all over the room if you raised your hand I'm gonna make it really awkward on you I want you to come now I will come grab you I saw all of your hands come on the first one come on they'd always have come on [Music] there's more I saw like four of them over here come on thank you come on thank you you come right here come right here come on there's more of you there you go thank you thank you [Music] before y'all start praying I want you to know something the Bible says that all the heaven right now they're celebrating your decision that throwing a party for you that feeling that you felt there's a lot of people in this room that have felt that feeling before it is awkward and it's scary like I don't I don't know half these people I really don't want to get up here and do this but y'all are the brave ones y'all are the ones that said I really don't care what anybody thinks you said something that struck a chord with me and that feeling that you felt is just the Living God it's not me I went to Fresno State and I'm not a communication major all right I want to pray with you real quick if church you'll stretch your hands at them real quick make this prayer your own dear God I repent of my sins I don't even understand everything yet fully and that's okay all I know is that I want you to be the Lord and the savior of my life Jesus come into my heart and live there dwell in that place make me right with you be the Lord and Savior of my life and confess with my mouth dear God that God raised you from the dead and the you are alive and seated at the right hand of the Father and that you are my lord I believe it in my heart as well friends if you prayed that we believe that you've been born again and that you are a Christian that you live for him now and as we're celebrating

Channel: Brave Church

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Keywords: Brave, Church, Brave Church, Derek Carr, Raiders, Spirituality, Jesus, Talk, Bay Area, San Ramon

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Length: 42min 47sec (2567 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 07 2019