How to Fix What’s Wrong in My Life | Sandals Church Service (Full Service)

hey i want to welcome you all to sandals church online if this is your first time i'm so glad that you are joining us my name is jeff y and i'm the online pastor here at sandals church a place where 23 years ago we began to champion a vision that we are still championing to this very day and that is to be real with ourselves real with god and real with each other if you see a little box or thread somewhere on your screen where it looks like people are texting and putting emojis everywhere that's where people are chatting and interacting with our online community feel free to say hello and let us know if this is your first time you can also let us know it's your first time ask for prayer get help or discover how to be in community by going to sandalchurch.com next you know for the for the last year there have been quite a few times when things were pretty tough for my wife and i and our family but what always got us out of those difficult times was trusting in jesus and knowing he is our true hope so many people need hope they they need someone they can trust they are looking for life and and that can only be found in jesus in fact in the book of john chapter 5 12 it actually reads whoever has the son who is jesus has life the only way to have life abundant life true life eternal life is with jesus well there is no other better time than to invite someone to an opportunity to celebrate the one who conquered death and offers people real life i hope that within the next couple of weeks you would invite someone to one of our our easter services right here online all the information can be found at sandalschurch.com easter you are not going to want to miss it now let's enter into time of singing and giving god our praise just one word you call the in just one word just one touch my eyes are open [Music] oh praise the name that makes away there's nothing that our god can do just one word you hear what's broken inside [Music] [Applause] [Music] just [Music] [Music] just one touch my eyes were open to see my [Music] [Music] [Music] i can't breathe [Music] there's nothing that our god can't do [Music] i will believe for greater things there's no power like the power of jesus let faith arise let all agree there's no power like the power of jesus i will believe for greater things there's no power like the power of jesus for greater things there's no power like the power of jesus there's [Music] god [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's a table that you prepared for [Music] in the me of my [Music] enemies there's a table that you've prepared for [Music] in the me of my enemies [Music] this is this is [Music] i know that you're with me and surely your goodness and your mercy follow me so my weapons are praising thanksgiving and this is [Music] i will [Music] this is [Music] [Music] this is this is how i fight on my knees i sing i praise it may look like i'm surrounded but i'm surrounded by you it may look like i'm surrounded but i'm surrounded by you it may look like i'm surrounded but i'm surrounded by you it may look like i'm surrounded but i'm surrounded by you i know it may look like i'm surrounded but i'm surrounded by you it may look like i'm surrounded [Music] it may look [Music] this is [Music] this is [Music] it may look like i'm surrounded [Music] this is how i fight my battles this this is how i fight my battles this is how i fight my battles this is how [Music] thanks so much for singing with the sandal church do you know that in the bible it lets us know in proverbs 22 6 for parents to train up their kids in the way that they should go well here at sandals church we take that very seriously and we want to help the parents of sandals church do just that so after watching this message we hope that you would take your kids and check out kids.sandalchurch.tv for a kid's online service and resources that will help you disciple your kids not only that we have a sandal church youtube page just for our team so they can find content and the messages that's just for them as well we are in a series called when in rome which means we are going through the book of romans as we learn how to follow jesus in a culture that doesn't now here with another powerful message here's our very own pastor matt brown [Music] [Music] hey guys welcome to sandals church so glad you're joining us whether from a campus or online i want to talk to you today about how to fix what's wrong with your life with my life here's one of the things that kovid has taught all of us whether you're watching from america a campus or around the world there's a lot of people that are very very dissatisfied with their life so overall people in the world whether you're an american or you live in another country people are saying there's something wrong something needs to change and we're upset and so for many of us right that's governmental change uh for some of us it's economic change but here's the thing that's so amazing the overwhelming majority of people think what needs to change is others it's someone else it's something else and for so many of us we just got to understand the internet has been great and the internet has been horrible like i have so many friends that are doctors and one of the things that they say is so frustrating is when people come in to identify what's wrong they already think they know they're a webmd expert is that you like you've got a symptom you've got a cramp you had a little diarrhea something happened and before you know it this is brain cancer and the doctor's like whoa wait a minute you know you had diarrhea that's not brain cancer but but you know we run through that we got all the symptoms and we self-diagnose i can't tell you how many of you guys i've met and you found out i had covid and you're like i had kova too i was like oh you you tested positive you're like no i had it you know last year before covet was a thing and i'm like i think maybe you had covert before you know people in wuhan had coveted um but you're so certain i've even had some of you said yeah i had got it covered like three times i'm like i don't know that that's scientifically true either but uh you know nice to meet you bill nye the science guy right you you've got all the information and so we live in this world where we diagnose ourselves you know psychologically like we we choose our our mental illness oh yeah i've got that uh we diagnose ourselves you know uh with just some kind of disease oftentimes we diagnose our marriage here's the problem like you've never even had a basic counseling class you're like husband here's your issue we diagnose our children you know we look at our kids oh there's something wrong here this is we need a pill quick you know asap and so we run to a diagnosis and here's the thing that i would say if you keep diagnosing yourself wrong when are you going to stop and maybe ask god say god what do you think the problem is because we all look around the world and we say there's something wrong here there's something wrong with the way that we treat people there's something wrong with the way you know money is is shared or earned and we can see that but so many of us we say i think the problem's out there and jesus is inviting you to listen to him and here's what he says he says why do you look at the log in somebody else's eye why why why do why do you see excuse me the spec that's in somebody's else's eye but you fail to see the log that's in your own eye and jesus invites us into this vision of being real and so we can see what's wrong with so many people but we fail to see what's wrong with ourselves and here's the thing that's wrong with our society is we we don't even listen to the experts anymore we don't call doctors doctors anymore they're health care professionals like we've we've lowered them you know because you've read webmd and you've done some research and you read you know you read some tweet and so now therefore you are equal to four years of medicine right in schooling and all this practice and all this schooling but you're you're equal to them it's really tragic and so we have a problem with doctors we have a problem with parents we have a problem with anybody in authority and unfortunately for us in our culture that means we have a problem with god because he's ultimately in authority and so here's what i would say to you if you're dissatisfied with your life would you at least give the jesus of the bible a chance some of you have written him off some of you have decided there's no way that's true all religion is wrong and you've come to all these conclusions based upon listen to me your limited experience your limited experience a couple years ago tim and i went to australia for the first time and we have a relative who went to australia and he didn't even go to australia he went to vietnam during the vietnam war and he met some australians and he said oh australians are terrible i was like well how many did you meet three three i was like well there's like there's like 30 million australians do you think there's a chance that maybe some of them are a little different than your experience and that's what some of you said well i went to church once or i met a christian once or one time i called to god once and you take that one experience and you build a whole narrative for your life and jesus is saying before you listen to your narrative why don't you listen to mine jesus is inviting you into a different story and here's the thing that's so sad right now you are making decisions about the rest of your life and your eternal life based upon the limited knowledge that you have and that's scary that is so scary and there's just such a healthy place in life to admit that maybe you don't know what you think you know and to invite god and say god man i don't even know if you're real but if you're real would you speak to me and so here's what i want to challenge if you really really really want to change your life if you are interested in being blessed and i don't know if that's you somebody like you know what i need to be more miserable i need to be sadder more depressed more anxious okay then maybe this message isn't for you but if you're like stressed out in your marriage or you're worried about your finances when you don't get people you're ready to give up and give in why not give god a shot here's what i want to challenge you to do today if you really want to change your life if you're serious about change and just so you know that's what christianity is all about if you want to stay where you are never change the way you think and keep feeling the way you feel then jesus is not for you but if you're interested it may be feeling a little bit different if you're interested in maybe thinking a little differently if you're interested in changing your life jesus is the one person you need to listen to so here's what the bible says if you are interested in in allowing you know your life to change number one write this down never forget it let god identify the real problem like what's the real problem i know the problem it's you it's him it's them let god help you identify the real problem jesus is called the great healer for a reason one of the names of god is jehovah rapha the god that heals in hebrew when you go to the doctor you call them rafi or rafa that's a male doctor or a female doctor it's the same name so in modern hebrew one of god's names is god the doctor let him diagnose you he's already ran the test you may not just not want the results and that's where so many of us we're not interested in change because we're afraid of the results you ever had to wait for a test okay i i've my skin cancer runs in my family it's killed one of my uncles my dad's had it my brother's had the terrible kind and now i'm at that age where you know just as a white person man our skin just falls apart right and i got all these moles and these things that that have to be taken care of and i've been waiting for a test for two weeks the results of something that i had to have cut off and and just because of covid and all the lab tests you know my potential cancer gets bumped to the end of the line right but there's part of me i get to be honest with you that doesn't really want to know there's part of me that wants to pretend i didn't have a test it's not real and it's why so many of us don't go to the doctor because we're afraid of the results of the test and this is why honestly if you could be real with yourself why you don't read your bible because the bible reveals what's wrong this is why people love every religion except christianity because christianity diagnoses the real problem like buddhists say you know what you need to do you need to disconnect you need to check out you know why it's not real anyways that's what the buddhist says jesus says oh no no it's very real and there's a real problem and there's a real issue and if you want to change the bible gives us romans 3 23. now some of you have never heard of this first but i want you to know there's a thing out there and you can google it not now put your phone down you can google it it's called the roman road and we're going to talk about each of these verses as we go through the series and what this is the roman road is the path to the life you desperately want it's it's the path to the life that you were meant to have but you can never get on that path unless you take this first step this is this is christianity 101 you can never change your life now or forever unless you understand this verse and not just understand it but agree with it romans 3 23 for everyone has sinned that's you that's me right that's your grandma that's your grandma i know she's sweet i know she's innocent that's your grandma i remember a couple years ago at samuel's church when my grandma was still alive i don't know what it was every time she came to sandals i was preaching on sex i was so embarrassed i got my 90 year old grandma and i'm like oh my gosh grandma i promise you i preach on more than just sex you know what my grandma said to me she's 90 years old she said honey if i didn't know anything about sex you wouldn't be here preach grandma all right preach romans 3 23 for everyone is sinned you me your grandma everyone we've all sinned we all fall short of god's glorious standard look i don't live up to my own standards as a dad i fail every day like i i tell myself you know today i'm gonna be listen i'm gonna listen i'm gonna be compassionate i'm not going to give my opinion i'm going to be quiet you know how hard that is for me i mean it's like you guys don't know i'm a talker right my wife makes fun of me because i talk out loud to myself she's like you talking to yourself again i'm like you know how god made me but i fail as a husband i'm not the husband i want to be i'm not the dad i want to be i'm not the pastor i want to be much less the husband god's called me to be the dad god's called me to be the pastor god's called me to be the friend god's called me to be i don't meet god's standard and i don't meet my standard you know why that is i'm a sinner i'm a sinner now some of you because you didn't grow up in church or maybe you did grow up in church and either way you got a wacked version of what sin is so what is sin this is dictionary.com okay the source for all modern knowledge amen what is sin dictionary.com says this it's an immoral act considered to be wrong according to divine law now if you wikipedia wikipedia says exact same thing but it says and every culture disagrees on what's divine law right so if you grew up in india you got one set of laws if you grew up in china you got another set if you grew up in europe or america or if you grew up a christian or not a christian you see there's all this disagreement on what's divine law so what is sin biblically so we know what dictionary.com says we know what wikipedia says and here's the thing wikipedia right the danger is it can be self-edited by anybody that's what's terrifying about wikipedia so quit citing it high schoolers on your papers okay it's not a real source the bible's a real source because the bible says that it was divinely inspired by god the ten commandments were actually written by the finger of god think about that the finger of god it's a divine source and here's what you need to know about the divine source what it says about sin sin is the english translation of the greek word hermitia hermitia so that's where we get the english word sin and here's what harmony means in the original language it means primarily not always because it's a big word with lots of meanings but it usually means listen to this to miss the target to miss the target so in the ancient world if you have a spear like we live in the modern world and you got multiple rounds in your gun so if you miss once what do you do you shoot again what happens if you throw the spear and you miss you're in trouble you miss the target and so what the word hermitia actually means it's to throw at something and to miss and that's why the word fits so perfectly in romans 3 23 so here's the translation i memorized for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god and here's the thing is if you're not real with yourself you think you hit the target all the time i'm a pretty good dad well you might be but what's what who who makes the target who sets the goal you i was having lunch with a good friend of mine this week and you know what he told me he said matt i thought it was an amazing husband and i was leading a bible study and i was telling a bunch of people in my bible study how amazing our marriage was it's incredible and he said i looked to my wife for affirmation and as i looked to my wife i looked over and i could see in her eyes she wasn't buying what i was on and that led to a conversation where he said are you happy in our marriage and she said no you see the reason so many of us think that we're great is we create our own targets right and what we do is we throw the spear then we go make the target yep hit it again hit it again hit it again but here's the difference is perfection and goodness is a target that god has set and only god is perfectly good when we try we miss every time a couple years ago i did an event called the spartan and it's a fun event and and they can be 5k they can be 10k and you run this race and what's really cool is sometimes running gets boring they have all these obstacles that you have to go through sometimes you have to swim in cold water sometimes you have to navigate you know things that are very very difficult and you have to utilize balance you have to utilize climbing skills you have to do all these things and at the very end the last thing after you've run your 5k after you've run your 10k you're exhausted what you have to do is you have to throw a spear at a target and you know what i didn't practice at all you know why cause i'm a man look at me come on now i don't need to practice that i've been throwing stuff since i was six years old i know how to throw something so i didn't practice the spirit at all and i did that race and i was really good and i was so proud my wife was there and i grabbed that spear and you have never seen something more pathetic in your life like i threw the spear like look at my muscles through and i threw the spear it didn't even hit the hay not only did i miss the bullseye i didn't hit the target not only did i not hit the target i didn't hit the hay i could have killed someone it was so embarrassing and it's right at the end where all your family and friends are watching and they're like yeah oh oh your kid's like oh yeah well dad's not a real spartan and you know the thing is i think in our minds we think we throw the spirit better than we do but what if you asked your wife what if you asked a friend what if you asked jesus am i nailing this jesus for some of you you're not even aiming at the right target so sin hermitia means to miss the mark and here's the thing you may not be an evil person but you miss the mark every day of your life every day next sin means to disobey god so what that means is not only am i not throwing n am i not hitting perfection when i throw this spear i've decided not to even try i'm not going to throw it at the target that god said i'm going to do what i want you see this is the rebellious nature that's in every single human being and if you're a parent you'll find that your two-year-old like you teaching common sense things like don't put your finger in the socket don't run with a knife and your kid's like no i will do it i will destroy my life i mean that's just a part of human nature we rebel against common sense and all that is good that's what human beings do so god says don't we say i'm going to or god says you shouldn't we say why not god tells adam and eve there's one tree that you shouldn't eat from and guess where they find themselves staring at that one tree so sin is when we try and fail sin is when we ignore what's good and we just do what we want but then sin can be even worse so sometimes it's you know you tried you failed you're human sometimes it's you knew it was right you did what's wrong sometimes it's evil it's evil and you commit an act of evil like murdering someone or destroying someone like you might not murder somebody in a physical way but you'll do it in a relational way like in this canceled culture you'll destroy someone's character you'll destroy someone's reputation you'll wound them and maim them with your words and see a lot of you you don't think that's evil but it is and you know when someone said something terrible about you or done something to you you know what that feels like listen to me not all sin is the same and a lot of you who've grown up in church you've been taught some really just foolish reasoning listen to the words of jesus john 19 11 jesus answered pilate so jesus is about ready to be crucified he's standing before a judge pilate who has the ability as a roman governor to set him free and jesus says to him he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin let me give you the greek word in english or excuse me let me give you let me give you this this word uh greater in the greek it's mega you know exactly what it means it's mega sin it's a mega sin that's what jesus is saying this is incredible this is huge these people who are doing this and why is the sin of the jewish leader who's handing jesus over to pi why is it greater because they know better they know better they're supposed to represent god they're supposed to teach people about god and god sends his one and only son and the religious people kill him now did pilate sin of course he washes his hands he says this isn't my fault well it is he's just not as guilty as the people who conspired to capture jesus in the middle of the night and pay people to lie about him and pay a person to betray him one of his best friends listen to me not all sin is the same but all sin does the same thing like it's when you get cancer i was talking to my doctor this last week and i was asking hey when did the lab results come he said i wouldn't worry about it if it's cancer it's good cancer listen to me there's no good cancer there's less bad cancer and let me tell you what i mean by less bad it will kill you more slowly that's what it means you don't want cancer in your body you don't want it anywhere some forms of cancer are more aggressive and they kill you more quickly some cancers are slowly but if left untreated guess what all cancer does it kills you james the half brother of jesus says this and remember when you are being tempted some of you you say this he says but don't say this god is tempting god is never tempted to do wrong and he never tempts anyone else so what's happening inside you right now if you're being tempted to do evil if you're tempted to do wrong it says temptation comes from our own desires which entice us and i want you to listen to this sentence and i pray through the power of the holy spirit you never forget these words what does temptation do it comes from our own desires which entice us and drag us away sin is always moving you in one direction and that's away from god that's away from what's right that's away from what's good and that's away from what's true and can i just be honest with you right now some of you who don't believe in god it's not because god's not real it's because your sin is so real you've moved so far from god these desires they give birth to sinful actions and when sin is allowed to grow and that's what some of you have done it gives birth to death here's what you need to know about death we think of death as the end when somebody dies we think of as well it's over here's what you need to know death is never the end death is always biblically separation so when you die physically your soul is separated from you spiritually your soul is separate your soul is eternal god created your soul to exist forever either with god or apart from god and so when you die your soul is separated from your body your body goes in the ground your soul goes to await judgment before god when you die you are separated from the people that you love it's tragic it's terrible it's awful many of you this year have been separated from your loved ones because they've died right sin always separates but not only does sin separate you in death from your soul not only does sin separate you in death from the people that you love sin can separate you from god sin always separates sin separates me from god now right now that's why some of you can't hear him that's why some of you don't feel him that's why the bible says that we grope we're looking for god and the bible says god is closer than you think you see what sin does is sin turns the lights off jesus turns the lights on and he says here's god this is isaiah 59 2. isaiah was looking at the people of israel some of you have grown up in church you've been religious your whole life and the people of israel stopped believing in god stopped following god they started following anything and everything else and here's what isaiah says in isaiah 59 2 it's your sins that have cut you off from god because of your sins he has turned away and you will not listen anymore i can't tell you how many times i've met somebody that says well i demanded god to answer me and in their sin they screamed at god and then they were convinced because of the silence he was not real here's what the bible says that god is closer to you than you think if you turn from your sins and wash your your hands god will be right there with you but if you stay in your sin and that you demand god to join you where you are he will not listen you will not feel him and you will not experience him it's why the roman road begins with these words for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god we can't experience the life that god has for us until we accept the sin that's within us so sin right now right now as you're listening some of you you don't believe there's a god some of you you're not sure if there's a god let me tell you why i know there's a god because i confessed my sin and i met him i met him sin separates me from god not only now but listen to me if you're not careful forever second thessalonians 1 19 says this they will be punished with eternal destruction forever separated do you see that word separated from the lord and from his glorious power man think about how depressed you are now right now think about how sad you are right now think about how messed up life is right now you want to live that forever and some of you i know you're so discouraged some of you are so depressed you're thinking about ending this life and let me just tell you you think well it can't get any worse the bible says it can because if you're alive right now if you're breathing right now if you're listening to me right now there's still hope there's still hope when you step into eternity whatever decision you made you made don't don't just screw up you know this life but don't screw up eternity it's real but here's the thing you need to know about sin some of you are not convinced you're like well i'm not sure if there's a god listen to me here's what the bible says sin doesn't just affect your relationship with god sin separates me from the people i love from the people i love guess what sin does some of you are in your marriage you're like isn't it amazing i can't tell you how many couples i've married oh i love you i love you i can't imagine ever loving you more and then six months later like we're getting a divorce i don't know who this person is i can't stand them i remember years ago i did a wedding and tammy and i were struggling in our marriage we were poor we were struggling and we did this wedding it was just this couple that was like droopy in love you know they couldn't stop touching it's like oh my gosh you know married people like get away you know you know we don't we don't we're gonna want you around you know and i mean they were just you know they were just disgusting in love it was annoying and so i did their wedding rehearsal and we went to dinner with him afterwards and the husband was like i know we said we weren't going to get each other's gifts but i just i couldn't help myself and so i broke a promise to you and i bought this for you and she's like oh my goose she's like i too broke our promise and we drove home and my wife was like we're never gonna love each other like that it was just it was just so discouraging six months later i kid you not that bride was in my office weeping you know what she said she said i think i married the wrong person i was like good god if you guys are wrong there's no hope for any of us here's what she realized you see when you're in love you're just dumb you're just dumb then you get married and you get real whoa same person every day for the rest of my life right yes here's what you realize you know why you have marriage conflicts it's not because you married the wrong person it's because you're beginning to become aware that you married a sinful person and sin separates i don't care how powerful your love is for each other i don't care if you're romeo and juliet right sin can separate you that's what sin does sin destroys love it kills it it's why jesus christ had to die so he could restore your love and god's love together so adam and eve right they they sin they eat the forbidden fruit in genesis chapter three i want you to look at this if you're married the moment the moment they sinned now think about it adam and eve are in love you think you have a great relationship they have the best relationship they love each other they're made for each other it's incredible i mean literally eve is made from adam right you know you're made for me no no evil was made for adam you two just found each other you know on on facebook right it's a different level these two these two like were made they were in love the moment they sinned they suddenly felt shame at their what at their nakedness and so they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves listen to me married couples they were already naked they'd already been intimate but sin suddenly showed them there's something wrong with me there's something wrong with you and sin separated the first couple the first marriage the most intimate bond between a man and a woman is the bond of marriage and sin broke it in an instant in an instant i just want to challenge some of you that are married you are taking everything personally maybe because you don't see anything spiritually well my spouse is a sinner is a sinner and that's why romans 3 23 so important because it's not just your spouse as a sinner who else is you you and this is why the gospel is so helpful you see you can give grace to sinners because you've received grace from jesus but if you haven't you don't know how and this is why our world is such a canceled culture because they haven't met christ but not only does it separate husband and wife it can separate mother and daughter father and son brother and brother sister and sister best friends you know this week i had i got to meet together for coffee with a friend and let me just tell you something there was a time in my life where i loved this guy as much as i loved anyone i thought he was one of the most important relationships in my life i never thought we would do life without each other it was truly a wonderful glorious incredible god-blessed relationship but sin destroyed our friendship completely destroyed it he and i will never agree on who was the bigger sinner but let me tell you what i think we'll both agree on sin killed our friendship and it was so sad because it's been seven years isn't that incredible and for some of you men time is just going by because you've given sin the victory acts 15 39 paul and barnabas and listen to me barnabas had discipled paul no nobody would give paul a chance barnabas welcome paul i discipled this young leader i i cared for this young leader right i mean this is why this verse is so personal to me i thought there's nothing that could break us up look paul and barnabas were the dynamic duo for jesus but it says their disagreement was so sharp that they separated do you see the word they separated and it breaks my hearts when i see christians who get so angry and so upset and they leave because of what someone else has done let me tell you something stop blaming the person and start blaming the culprit it's sin it's sin and it's in them and it's in me and it's in you it's in us and we need to start looking at things spiritually so that we can start living better physically emotionally listen to me we got better doctors we have better emotional understanding than any time in human history and we're all miserable we're all miserable we have clinical doctors who do nothing but study to help you deal with your feelings how we doing and here's here's the reason it's not all physical it's not all emotional some of it's spiritual so barnabas took john mark with him and he sailed for cyprus and paul went the other way here's the thing that's so sad not only does sin separate you from god not only does sin separate you from the people that you love sin separates me and you from my purpose in life some of you are so dissatisfied man you've made more money than you thought you would make you've accomplished things more things than you thought you would accomplish i mean you've done some incredible things in your life and you're miserable you're miserable you're not happy you said what's going on romans 3 323 is going to help you identify what's going on you see some of you are convinced if i just move to my dream location my life will be better if i just get my dream job my life will get better one of my favorite quotes from jim carrey he was my favorite comedian in the 90s he said everyone should get everything they ever want so that they can see it will never satisfy you see those of us who are poor and not famous we still live under the ignorance that fame and fortune will make us happy people who are famous and rich they already know it doesn't some of you don't know this but the apostle peter was a very successful businessman he did very very well how do we know that the bible says that he owned property how do we know that jesus healed peter's mother-in-law at his house his house was big enough to accommodate multiple families we know that he was wealthy because jesus borrowed his boat he owned a boat and in the ancient world if you owned a boat it's like nowadays amen do you want a boat i don't own a boat somewhere like i wish i didn't own a boat well that's you it's on you my friend who owns a boat says the best day of your life is when you buy a boat and when you sell it i don't know if that's true cause i'm on a boat but peter owns a boat perhaps boats a lot of people work for him jesus uses his boat to preach and then after he preaches and everybody hears jesus says peter let's go back out into the deep water and i want you to catch some fish and peter right the expert the expert at fishing jesus you're from nazareth you know how much water is around nazareth zero there's no water right there's no water there's no lake i mean nazareth is in the middle of nowhere and peter says lord i'm a fisherman man i've been by the water my whole life we fished all night and caught nothing but peter says but if you say so if you say so you're the lord we'll go out again and peter presses out into the deep water and the bible says he caught so many fish it almost sank his boat it almost sank his boat so what did peter do celebrate oh my gosh that's amazing i've been blessed i'm incredible listen to what peter says luke 5 8 and never forget it because sin is still the lord of his life it's not jesus yet but when simon peter saw the great catch he fell down at jesus feet saying depart from me for i'm a sinful man man that's what sin does you know what sin is going to tell you right now you don't need jesus go your own way you see not only does sin say that there's something wrong with other people sin says there's something wrong with me adam didn't tell eve hey you know what naked lady you need to cover yourself eve didn't just say hey you know what adam you need to cover yourself you're like way too hairy you're way too gross cover yourself you know what they both did they covered themselves here's what sin says there's something terrible in me and it could never be made right but that's not what jesus says that's not what jesus says jesus says that there's something very special planned for you jesus says to peter it's not just fish that i'm going to teach you to catch i'm going to make you a fisher of men you're going to change the lives of people listen to me if peter listens to sin you and i never hear of him he's just some random jewish guy in palestine two thousand years ago whose life didn't mean a hill of beans the only thing he would be known for is smelling like fish but he listened to jesus he put down his nets he left his boat and he listened to the words of jesus who said come and follow me ephesians 2 10 says this for we are god's masterpiece he has created us anew in christ jesus listen to these words so we can do things he planned for us long ago let me ask you this question what if right now jesus is calling and you're missing out on this incredible life that he has planned for you one of my favorite moments during covid during 2020 was i met with a couple in our church three years ago they were getting divorced they had decided to give up on their marriage they were bankrupt and they were going to walk away from their business and they came to san jose church and they decided instead of giving up on their business and instead of giving up on their marriage they decided to give up their life to jesus and right there together as a couple they said god if you can do a miracle in our marriage if you can do a miracle in our business it's our goal they couldn't pay the bills they couldn't write a check they said we want to write a check to samuel's church for a hundred thousand dollars and right at christmas time 2020 i got to meet with him on a zoom meeting remember it's covid we couldn't meet face to face zoom meeting and they gave the church a check for a hundred thousand dollars they went from bankrupt and broken in their marriage to loving one another and can you imagine writing a hundred thousand dollar check i've never done it i want to do it i want to do it and they did it and they said we just want you to know that god used sandals church to change our lives and we're so grateful and they were like we know it's not a big check i'm like get that big jack and god has blessed them immensely because they surrendered to jesus what blessings are you robbing yourself from because you are still a slave to sin so i got to let god identify my problem and number two i got to let god show me how to make it right man you know when i got kova i mean thank you for everybody that sent me information i did everything i mean vitamins man my urine looked like a rainbow man i mean it was just it was incredible right i did everything my poor kids every day my son would come home from school i'd be laying out in the backyard butt naked why because vitamin d you got to get vitamin d in my poor my poor sounds like we can't invite can invite people over dad's got covered and he went crazy you know i'm in the backyard naked and my friends like really you think your underwear that 10 is gonna deny you the amount of i'm like i need all the vitamin d i can get i mean i was desperate i was desperate right if i would have had a doctor that said smoke crack i've been okay maybe right i was scared to death and here's the scary thing it wasn't just you guys sending me all your crazy emails i was working with three doctors who all said different things isn't that amazing three doctors who all went to medical school medical school prescribing different things and that's the world that we live in right you got all these voices telling you how to treat what's wrong with you why not listen to jesus why not listen to god he knows what's wrong and he knows how to make it right romans 3 23 and 26 says this for everyone has sinned right we've talked about that we all fall short of god's glorious standard but here's the good news yet god in his grace freely makes us right in his sight how does he do this he did it through christ one of the best christmas gifts i got this christmas is my daughter my daughter bought me a certificate we found out we're irish you know we thought we were italian took took the 23andme test zero italian zero right 67 irish so my daughter bought me land in ireland and in ireland when you own land it's just one square foot of land it makes you a lord so you can refer to me now as lord matthew i'm i'm a lord of kerry the county carrie in ireland and i got a certificate that proves it right isn't that funny it was one of the greatest gifts i got no one in my family will call me lord even though they gave me the gift but what it does is listen to me there's a transaction that takes place and it changes who i am that's what happened when jesus christ died on the cross you're a sinner you deserve death jesus died for you so that you could have his life he took your place on the cross you see sin always separates sin ultimately leads to death so somebody had to die forever for you and jesus did he did this through christ jesus whom he freed us from the penalty of our sins isn't that crazy for the lord died so we could be lords with him the apostle paul says don't you know that one day you will judge angels think about that you have no idea who you are you have no idea who god's made you to be you get a picture of it when you look at jesus that's what you can be through him and the power of his spirit for god presented jesus as the sacrifice for our sin for he for god did this to demonstrate his righteousness for he himself is fair and just and he makes us right in his sight when we believe in jesus look you can't save yourself only jesus can he's done all the work all you have to do is admit that you're a sinner romans 3 23 it's where we start for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god lord i'm a sinner and i need to be saved please save me luke 5 32 jesus says i have come not to call those who think they are righteous if you don't think anything's wrong with your life spiritually then you are not ready for jesus but those who know they are sinners and need to repent look i know some of you i know some of you've been hurt by religious people i just want you to know that it was religious people who killed jesus don't reject what you have in jesus because of someone who comes in the name of jesus don't miss out on that he came for you don't worry about them worry about you i remember years and years ago when i gave my life to christ i grew up in a baptist church and we used to sing these old hymns i remember the first time i heard this hymn when i was ready to come back to jesus the song is softly and tenderly jesus is calling listen to these words softly and tenderly jesus is calling calling for you and calling for me patiently jesus is waiting and watching watching for you and watching for me and then i remember these words i was lost and i ran from god come home come home ye who are weary come home earnestly tenderly jesus is calling calling listening's words oh sinner come home come home why should we tarry when jesus is pleading pleading for you and pleading for me why should we linger and heed not his mercies his mercies for you and his mercies from me time is now fleeting the moments are passing passing from you and passing from me shadows are gathering and deathbeds are coming coming for you coming from me right after i'm done with this message do you know where i'm going i'm going to go to the bedside of somebody who's dying of cancer death has called their time is up it's come for them and it will come for me i don't know if he's ready i don't know if you're ready are you ready ready for what oh for the wonderful love he has promised promised for you and promised for me though we have sinned he has mercy and pardon pardon for you and pardon for me that's why i'm a christian that's why i love jesus jesus is the hope of the world and he's the hope for your soul is jesus calling can you hear his voice your sin blocking you from hearing god feeling god and sensing god just call out to god right now and say if you're real i confess that i'm a sinner and tear down that wall of separation and say jesus speak to me i want to hear your voice i want to answer your call and i know jesus will speak to you why do i know that because he died to save you and if you confess your sins he will reveal himself to you because he's done all this to bring you home i just want you to bow your heads and close your eyes right now if you need to repent of your sin for the first time just do it say god i'm a sinner maybe it's for the second time shoot maybe it's for the thousandth time like in my life just say god i'm a sinner my sin has messed up my marriage it's messed up my life it's messed up my relationship with you i confess that and i place my faith and trust in jesus christ god i'm ready to come home holy spirit i pray that you would just enter the heart of every person and god you would just move beyond my words and they would begin to hear your words and that they would come home we pray this in jesus name [Music] amen and tenderly jesus is calling calling for you and [Music] he's waiting and watching he's watching for you and for me [Music] come home come home come home you who are weary come [Music] jesus is calling he's calling jesus is calling calling you come home i know that god was speaking to you here is my question and challenge to you are you interested in allowing change in your life if you are then let god the healing doctor help you call out to jesus today go to santalchurch.com jesus or let one of our chat hosts know right now we want to walk alongside you as you start this journey with jesus and allow him to heal you and start you toward a new life many of us who are living this life with jesus love giving back to the church with our finances we do this through our offerings or what the bible calls ties which means trustingly and obediently giving 10 of our income i say obediently because god said it's what i should do my wife and i have been giving a tie to the church our entire marriage and and we have been so blessed because we give but more than that is seeing how others are blessed i want to let you know one of the impacts that you are making when you give eight months ago we launched sandals church anywhere at saint louis church which is an opportunity for people all over the world to bring a sales church experience and the vision of being real right to their community right to their home and i want to highlight some of those anywhere locations this is the shields who who who hosted santal church anywhere in south carolina they told us we were searching for something real god gave us sandal search anywhere i have never experienced community in this way or felt this level of real connection the rogers also let us know we dove wholeheartedly into our sandals church and your location we're overwhelmed by the encouragement and support we've received from 2194 miles away wow praise god that's why we are so excited for these two recent saints church anywhere launches the foxes in bedford texas and the nickels in maple alabama i bet they got some good serve there we are super excited to hear their stories in the future as well and get this now this weekend merson and his family the jurors launched samuel church anywhere in south yorkshire in the uk they are a bilingual family and they've already invited friends to their community to watch the services with them get this not everyone speaks english so mercen has to pause every now and then and actually translate in polish so everyone can be a part of what's going on and they can be part of the connection this is what your giving does it helps our message and the hope of jesus get around the world to people who need to hear it you can be a part of what god is doing and start giving today you can do this by going to the app or by going to give.sc sandals church online family thank you so much for being here i hope today that you are encouraged inspired and learn how to live real with yourselves god and others hopefully you took the leap to follow jesus so that you can live like jesus in a culture that doesn't and if that was you i'd love to know email me so that myself or someone on my team can celebrate with you just email me at pastor jeff sandlerchurch.com have a great day because it is a great day and we'll see you right back here next week you

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