I Found My Anchor // Grace Like A Flood (Part 3)

let's get in to the word uh I want to expand your vocabulary today and I want to teach you a vocab word like we were in school and that word is immutability now they gonna have to put on the screen because I'm not even go spell it for you right now but immutability and I want to tell you what this is immutability is the inability to change so so this word is used in the Bible to describe God that God has the M is immutable he cannot change and this is a great thing for us because there is nothing in this world that doesn't change but what we get in God is the title of my message and anchor because God is the thing that in the midst of life does not change and see many of you immutable okay maybe you understand this word mutate or mutant if you were born in the 80s or 90s there was some some Ninja Turtles called the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles they were turtles that became ninja they changed into ninjas so so it's talking about change immutability is the opposite the ability to be able not to change and God is immutable okay now why is this important for us to know is because we need an anchor in this life like everything in the world is change your relationships are changing your body size is changing oh god help our society has changing our governmental system finances are changing the earth is changing y'all hear what's happened in Hawaii our earthquakes and and and volcanoes are everything is changing what do we have to incur on in this world that's always changing I got good news for you I found my anchor and I found your acre and it is the unchangeable God I want you to write that down today cuz that's the title of my message and I pray that everybody gets this that by the end of this message you'll be able to say I got it I found my anchor it's the unchangeable God when we talk about grace cycle flooding we use this analogy of the Seas and the water in oceans if you've ever seen an anchor an anchor is the thing that that that if you want to stay in the same place you drop it and and what happens cuz many of y'all can't swim so y'all never been on the sea but what happens what we got to do better y'all but what ends up happening is is that on the boat if they need to stay and and be in the same place they dropped something that is heavier and weight here and greater than the ship they dropped on it and they're able no matter what winds and waves and storms come in their life they're able to stand firm because they have an anchor the problem is many of our lives are tied to things that aren't able to hold us steady oh come on y'all many of us we're tied to our job my job is not my anchor uh-uh yeah I know you've been loyal for 56 years I'm about to get a pin after 56 years and a bracelet and listen if that job lets you go tomorrow you have an anchor and it is the unchangeableness of god I'm about to preach this thing today some of y'all need to understand that if you lose everything you still have an anchor that God is for you and he is good and somebody came in here discouraged today and somebody thought this was your last moment but you got to really understand that your husband and wife can't be your anchor oh I'm coming for you today see many times we get disappointed in somebody who never had the ability to meet those expectations in your life you mad at them but they can't heal your daddy wounds they can't make you feel secure about what you won't allow God to feel so you have to drop your anchor Oh God and what does God say to us that's why he sent grace and grace becomes the anchor that we can drop our faithful that no matter what good happens what bad happens we've been extended the grace of God and for everybody who hasn't taken down this definition I want you to write this down a grace is the unmerited undeserved unearned kindness and favor of God like like nothing you do made you deserve what God's done for you like I know you're cute now and I know you make more money than you ever have and I know you stopped cussing as much y'all know as much because you know the right situation mm-hmm but the grace of God is a free gift it's something that all we can do is everybody say receive okay and that's what we've been talking about in this whole series and when you understand that this makes it's so exciting to know that God is immutable or unchangeable because that means that grace is gonna be steady see we live our lives like God's not gonna keep being good because we're not so so many of you didn't even want to come here today because you did something this week that you know what saying or you know what's wrong and so you know I don't want to fake I don't I don't want to come in the presence of God and just be a hypocrite no no no no he still loves you now as much as he did before you did whatever you did he wants you to end the presence of God lift your hands and say daddy I need you and asked oh come on y'all and somebody needs to repent he's not holding you to the standard you hold others to oh oh I'm a Saiyan woman he's not holding you to the standards you hold others to and that's why church until we understand this message of grace we never truly give or receive what is freely available so so I want to go deeper so we can find our anchor today in the grace of God so God is immutable he can't change and there's tons of scriptures like numbers 23:19 it says God is not a man that he should lie nor the son of man that he should have to repent basically he's saying he ain't got a turn from anything cuz he right like the way he gonna do it is gonna be the right way he don't got a lie about it he does he does not change look at Malachi 3:6 it says for I am the Lord I do not change now y'all if it aint plant plainer than that I'm sorry I don't know what else to say to you so once we understand that we look at the the character's life we've been looking at in Abraham last week we talked about Abraham how God came to him in Genesis 12 and Abraham was out there he was a heathen he was messed up jacked up and God came to him in Genesis 12 and said Abraham I know you've heard a lot of bad things about me a lot of people say that I'm mad at you and frustrated he said I don't know you've done some crazy stuff but um I want to bless you and and I want to I want to multiply you and I want to make your name great in the earth and he like why would you even choose me to do this he said cuz I'm a God of grace and so I actually want to do more for you than you think you deserve but all you have to do is everybody say believe but like he said all you have to do believe and then we talked about it like last week like like God we believe takes sin out of our account and he puts righteousness there like like he takes sin completely and he puts righteousness and so when he sees us he doesn't see our sin anymore he sees his son see when you believe in Jesus then we because the Bible tells us all of sin and you steals in it and you go sin like like it's it's inevitable and sin means missing the mark how many of us this week missed the mark put your hands up if you don't you're a liar like you missed the mark and and that's the funny thing we come into church and we act like somehow by admitting that we missed the mark God's going to mark us and tell us where he was there when you did there's no text message you can hide from him beer me there there's no but we have not become free enough to say daddy I did that my daughter right now Isabella she's four years old and one of the most amazing things is we have taught her to bring her false to us so she doesn't hide when she drops milk on my computer when she writes on the wall she will come get me say daddy ideas and I didn't say anything to her but she knows even after she sins it's better to have daddy involved then I'll come on then to run away and try to act like it didn't happen and many of the church we are hiding our sin that don't come in this room don't come in here don't do that and daddy says I'm the only one that can fix it why wouldn't why wouldn't you allow me to come in because we haven't understood the message of grace and so God saying I'm unchangeable and this is where he turns to Abraham in Hebrews six and and and he says I want to bless you and all you have to do is believe let's look at Hebrews 6:13 it says for when God made a promise to Abraham because he could swear by no one greater he swore by himself saying surely blessing I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you I'm gonna prophesy to somebody at the end of this I want you to say your name okay because I believe God wants to multiply and bless some people in this room okay it says surely blessing I will bless with you say your name come on you guys say it with your chest come on giver she better say let's try it again surely blessing I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you I'm telling you this is the season where God's coming to you and he's saying I'm not trying to keep stuff from you I'm not trying to take stuff out of you I'm gonna bless you and I want to multiply you can somebody give God praise right there oh they don't believe it over here but I saw this side knows it now watch this and it says and so after he had patiently endured uh I could preach this this ain't even part of my message but somebody need this the promise the blessing and the multiplication is coming if you patiently endure it took you 20 years to create this situation and you prayed for two weeks and now you're ready to quit and give up no no that be if you patiently endure somebody needed that was free that ain't even a part of it said he obtained after listen after he patiently in he obtained the promise your waiting is not in vain it will always produce the promise but you have to wait on okay let's keep going it says and so after you patiently do it he obtained the promise from men on earth they indeed swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is for them and an end to all dispute thus God determining to show Abraham more abundantly or more abundantly to the heirs of the promise and I'm going to show you that we are the heirs of the promise the immutability or the unchangeableness of God he said the immutability or the unchangeableness of his counsel confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable or unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope that is set before us this is my favorite Scripture it says this hope we have as an anchor to our souls both sure and steadfast and which enters the presence behind the bail I have found my anchor and this is the beautiful thing that I want you to understand that God is saying when you get the message of grace and you drop on that and know that God can't change and he can't lie and no matter if you're doing good or if you're doing bad he's for you he's with you he's standing it drops an anchor on your soul and your soul is your mind your will and I'm oh that's where every battle happens it's in your feelings and your thoughts like like you know do you dealing with so much stuff right now and nobody externally knows is here and here and so what God says is is when you understand my grace it drops an anchor so that when people leave and situations change and you're broke and then you're rich and the storms of life happen you got an anchor I'm still in this I will not capsize I will not turn over I will not be overwhelmed and drowned oh come on somebody how do I have an anchor for my soul and when you understand that you stopped going to other things as temporary fulfillments see that's what we're all search four is an anchor something to keep us steady so you go to the alcohol thinking that's going to keep you steady and you go to that illicit relationship to that thinking that and those are moving those are buoys y'all know they're not an anchor that moving to and so we we were disappointed when stuff changes because we're not tied to the thing that doesn't change they can take everything away from me but I have an anchor from my mind my will and my emotions and that's where God is saying that's why we have to understand tattoo on our heart get a full revelation of the grace of God because then that thing keeps you tied down when the storms of life are raging do you hear what I'm saying and that's what we have to get so God isn't unchangeable God and I love this scripture because it says that God swore on himself see cuz Abraham wouldn't believe in it because he came to Abraham and he was like yo like I don't know like this God really telling the truth he said for him I want to bless you but God do you know what I did like you you know that I did say I wasn't he's like that's why I'm here I know they're saying this and Abraham was like yeah I don't know like many of us from God's ships his gracefulness we like why why would you do that for me and I says this ain't got nothing to do with you this is to do with me like like we think we real important like like it don't matter how much the gift calls if you didn't have to pay for it oh you have to do is receive it well I never had no Rolex do you want like and and then when somebody gives us something expensive or valuable we uh I don't know know why I don't come on and then after we take it because most of us is gonna take it if they keep going then what do we do we try to repay them we try to earn it but we try to make no you let me know if you ever need anything like do you let me know and we we put ourselves in debt for something that was given freely y'all I need y'all to hear me when Jesus went to the cross it became a gift that was given to us freely when we put our faith in Jesus we received the gift of Christ and it he did not put our salvation all that way so when I go to church I'm putting a little payment on my salvation and when I when I serve in the mission field that was a little pay he paid for it in full look at you people don't even know however I don't I don't even are you sure that's right that's why we're doing it for six week because I know this is going to get your religion I know this is breaking down your judgmental Pharisee ik better than everybody know yeah the walls of your theology are shaking right but they're coming down because until you understand this you will never ever be his hands and feet on the earth because you're judging the people you're supposed to be helping what if every time somebody came in the hospital is like him they're bleeding out but we like I don't like his hair that's what we do every time somebody walks into this church smelling like a bottle of whatever do you smell that yes we all smell it but you can come sit on the front row next matter of fact I'll come pick you up next week like why because if we don't and we don't see people as children of God we somehow allow ourselves to be put on this perch or this plateau of God's chosen the prodigal son wasn't his name was never stripped from him even though he was out squandering and living wildly what God is saying is that you're all my children and I died for the entire well see see we get so caught up in this thing but this whole thing is not about rules and religions and fear this whole thing is about love it summed up in John 3:16 for God so loved who not the church I know I know I know I know I know I know it sucks because then you can't be better than them I know but that's how he designed this whole thing that I love the language they use it whosoever and what's the key believe so so this is what I'm trying to help everybody understand you got one work belief does it whosoever that includes everybody included you a crackhead uncle Jerry and y'all don't even invite him to nothin no more but somehow he always find out when the barbecue is that was a good nap everybody got that uncle okay nobody ever invites him he's there on time drunk but but this is what I'm saying to you but he still qualifies and whoever and then he has one qualification everybody say believe and that's what happened when gee when God came to Abraham in Genesis 12 read the whole thing he said he believed and at the moment he believed Abraham still was gonna make my safe abraham was still gonna say abraham was gonna commit adultery with the housekeeper i know we always talk about these stories like they were the holy and sanctified back then he his wife they was so perverted in their thinking that they were trying to make what God had for them come to pass prematurely and he slept and created birth the problem what are you saying that there are consequences for your sin like you can't you can't think that that you can do anything and nothing's going to happen but God is still with you and what everybody tries to make you feel is like just cuz a church leaves you does not mean God leaves you just because friends and family leaves you does not mean God leaves you and that is what we can drop our anchor on that no matter what comes and who goes that god is my anchor can somebody give God some praise in this building so God he swears on himself and this tripped me out because cuz I Abraham didn't think he was telling the truth so he says amber him I swear to you o myself and I don't know what high school you went to but at my high school we used to do this thing when we felt like somebody was lying or wasn't telling the truth and we we did this thing and we would call it put that on something some of y'all know and so like so so so for guy who came up to us was in our friends would be like bro Sarah says she going to the prom with me hey can't a the most beautiful girl in the school and everybody looking like Sarah is going to farm with you because he is um facially challenged hashtag ugly and and so it don't make no sense to us and so if we didn't believe him we say put that on some and so there were levels to it so you found what you would what you would put it on and then he would say something like this I put that on everything that's real general and so as they say we put that on everything nobody had real faith on it but if they wanted to take it up a level like if they wanted to take it up a level they say something like this I put that on my mom yes so y'all know we do the same I school okay and you know we ain't just footing unknown our mama you know I'm sayin especially your mother's that and if we still thought they was lying we take it up one more notch and I me and my friends we say put I put that on me on me I don't know what what happened like if if it didn't happen but I mean I'm not putting nothing on me that dad and that's what God said he said Abraham I want to make you a promise I'm gonna bless you I want to multiply and on the way over here I couldn't think of anybody greater than me so I put that on me like how y'all gonna hear me like this is what God is saying to you I'm gonna bless you I wanna multiply you I'm gonna do it and I can't think of nobody better so I'll put it when we receive that truth you won't different you live different you talk different you give different because you know that I'm anchored to something that is better and this is wrong English but gooder than me do you hear what I'm saying and that's what the grace of God does for us look at Hebrews 6:17 it says in the same way God did with Abraham God desiring even more like he did this for Abraham but he wanted to show even more to show the heirs of the promise and that is us the unchangeableness of his purpose the question is who are the heirs of the promise I'm glad you asked romans 4:13 it says for the promise that he would be the heir of the world this is talking about Abraham was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law so it wasn't for Abraham or Isaac but look who it was for but through to the righteousness of faith that's us people who put their faith in Jesus this is who the heirs of the promise are for it is those who are of the law are for if those who are of the law are heirs faith is made void and the promise made of no effect what God is saying to all of us is you got to get this message of grace cuz I can't change I can't lie and you are the heir of this promise if you put your faith on me you get the inheritance of the kingdom of God if you do one thing not clean up all your mad nasty acts not not change all your habits we believe that if God did your heart he can change your habits but we're trying to make people change habits that don't that I have closed off hearts and church that's why we are a hospital for Humanity we are not a club for the Christians we are some place that people can come in broken you can be long before you believe here because until all y'all got to hear me be until you understand let me just prove it to you how much did you love God before you accepted him you have to love him first and we've been getting everybody to change first and what we got to understand is a grace of God is saying I'll take you as you are come on yeah you stink like come on yeah you keep messing up come on and I just wanted to make the call for every person in this room God's not mad at you he's madly in love with you and that first song will be saying his grace he's chasing you down like y'all have been y'all been running and you turn around it's like oh it's me again because he wants to show you not religion he wants to give you relationship but until you receive the grace of God you'll never be able to enter your soul that I may mess up and things may change but I'm not moving not because I don't want to it's cuz I'm kind to something greater than me yeah you know my feelings one more I want to slap people sometimes you know I'm saying I want to do the wrong thing but my soul is anchored you got me and so I want everybody to see this so so let me let me give you two points to just drop your anchor on and then we out of here the first thing I want you to drop your anchor on is jesus is our high priest forever now and I know for some of you that doesn't make sense but that's why I'm here to explain it to you jesus is our high priest to get forever I'm human 6:20 says we're the forerunner has entered for us even Jesus having become high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek Hebrews 7 17 for he testifies you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek Hebrew 7 23 it says also there were many priests because they were prevented by death from continuing but he Jesus because he continues forever has an unchangeable priesthood let me explain this to you back in the day in the Old Testament if you were talk to God or to be in relationship with God you had to have a high priest or a priest that would go in and talk for you because you were unclean you had sin you you could not go in so there would be a high priest you would bring goats donkeys bulls sacrifice them give them to the high priests and he says I will take your offering to God and then they would go behind this thing called the veil which was the presence of God and they would offer the sacrifice to God so you as a person did not have a direct connection with God you had to have a priest go in for you and this is saying that there were so many priests that died because they wasn't right with God they kept dying and literally they died so much that they tied a rope to them because they know I don't think Jimmy's gonna make it out of this one because if there was a holy like be it like they says they just front and they would literally drag them out and so they get together and be like man we lost John this year we lost Bob Bob Bob was a good brother they went in and so they said we basically had to keep finding new priests because nobody was perfect and they were going to the presence of God so that we could communicate and they would die and so this scripture tells us when Jesus comes onto the scene God said y'all stop all that because they we just gonna kill everybody because none of y'all none of y'all is going through this I'm gonna send the only person who can live a blameless life and I'm going to take sin and I'm gonna put it on him all your sin and every sin that you have committed you are committing and everyone you will commit and I'm gonna put that on him he's gonna live a perfect life and I'm gonna make one sacrifice for everybody wants him for all and if you believe everybody say believe if you believe you will have eternal life what does this mean we got a high priest forever we didn't get one for a month or two till somebody messes up that's why I need to tell you I'm not your high priest if I mess up you still have direct access to God y'all miss it see we put the men of God or the women of God in this position well they hear from God for me no boo boo you hear forgot for yourself the veil was torn when Jesus went to the cross the Bible says that the veil between us and God was not reaped from the bottom to the top it was ripped from the top to the bottom y'all better hear me that means somebody that is greater that is holy that is mighty he ripped it so that we could have direct access y'all better give God some praise right there come on you got a priest that goes in and you can talk to him so what are you saying Pastor Mike when you're struggling you don't need nobody else you got direct access to God because through Jesus you get access granted God I'm struggling in this sin father I need you right in half God I need you to come stand in this situation I'm trying to tell y'all if we get this that we don't need a whole bunch of people to get direct access to God that is our inheritance did y'all hear it like that's that's what we get as people who believe in Jesus and so many of us are living beneath our access fool that's crazy well what happens in it see this is what I'm trying to do let me paint this picture Thank You Holy Spirit I'm literally it's like somebody coming up to me and saying hey I need some money and I say here's a card I put two million dollars in an account for you I want you to go and use it as you need to and you say really wow that's too good to be true I don't believe that and you carry this card around hungry homeless SiC deprived and literally in your possession you have something that would give you and so you say okay I'm gonna use it maybe this is true maybe I'll believe in what was done for me and the only thing that you need is an access code because you can stand at the machine with the card with the knowledge of what it has on it and not being able to get nothing out of it cuz cuz you have you got all this that could change your entire life but you've never found the code today I'm giving you the code to life that once you put your belief in Jesus he becomes your access code to God and healing you can go to the Father for that deliverance you can go to the Father for that you need a breakthrough in your mind you've been torment you can go to and you don't need a high priest a pastor a prophet an apostle you need none of them you have direct access to God Hebrews 10 11 these are probably two of the greatest verses I've ever read in the Bible listen and I'm gonna ask you some questions in it so I want you to talk back to me okay and it says and every priest how many priests stands do they stand or sit ministering daily how often do they minister and offering repeatedly how often they they offer a sacrifice the same sacrifice is it the same or different which can never never always take away sins now now watch I'm gonna read it again and every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifice which can never take away sins but now Marie verse 12 and I wanted to Donald but this man Jesus after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down at the right hand of God I want you to know the only reason he could sit down because it is finished somebody needs to rejoice because your grace is sufficient and it is finished you got to drop your anchor you got to drop it on this come on take five seconds and give God praise that is our high priest forever thank you lord I feel the presence of garden because somebody's about to get free hear what I'm saying to you cuz this is what we got to understand the question is it's got our high priest on a good day okay so it is the high priest on a bad day see see because we think he's a high priest on a good day you know a good day when we read our word we prayed we played that playlist that brings no glory y'all know we didn't cuss too much and we didn't smoke like like like that's a good day he's our high priest that day the question is is he a high priest on a bad day see see see again this whole thing is not about performance about position like it's not about what I do it's about what he did and there are consequences for every sin like I want you to realize this but that does not change how God thinks looks and let me be very practical because how can you know this cuz I walk through it you're your pastor the man of God yes me about seven eight years ago um I made a mistake like like I sinned I missed the mark not no money me pastors won't get up and tell you where they missed the mark cuz somehow this makes you invincible the lies so long story short I didn't have car insurance and got in a car accident and my natural nature is to be manipulative a liar conniving I'll get all that you know I'm saying and so what ended up happening was I got in the car accident 15 minutes later I remembered all the progressive and Geico commercials that I mean they all came back to little echo the Gecko and everybody you can have car insurance in 15 minutes or less so I went and got car insurance and I had it all planned in my house played him I hit when they called me they were gonna say sir did you have insurance at the time of the accident and my response was gonna be yes I had insurance on the day of the accident y'all see that at the time at on the day and I mean she could ask me again sir did you have yes yes I had insurance on the day of the accident and I was gonna be like some longer hurt like the scene I hear like I was gonna make her feel dumb but I knew I was lying situation passes three years later like after the situation I come in to bishops office he said Mike um do you know there's a warrant out for your arrest now I'm pastoring the youth at this time like I'm on this platform every Sunday like like and I made a mistake I lied I thought he wouldn't find me out I thought the consequences were gone this produced a a felony charge with a possible two year in prison sentence yo pastor you see the ends up clean now I only got my hair cut right before it I wore a suit in that mug I turned myself in Here I am why are you telling us this Pastor Mike because God was still my high priest and was an advocate for me when I was in a the most embarrassing situation in my life I got up on this platform see cuz at that moment I had a choice whether to take it and run and hide or to come to daddy and come to my peers until I stood on this stage with my parents and Bishop and Helen's Stubblefield and I said church I made a mistake but I want you to let you know that I'm progressing that's not who I am that's who I was and I'm moving forward some of y'all was here when it happened and and I said tonight I'm preaching a message that so fly call locked up they won't let me out and I'm guess I did I see cuz we gotta start spinning what the enemy means for evil God wants to take get and turn it around for our good but until we know that we have a high priest and our position has not changed with him then we start acting out of what people would think so all I'm saying is God's with you if you make your bed inhale that's what the Bible said he'll help you make it see what people want you to do is they want you to be punished what God wants is for you to change oh that's so good like people want you to be punished for your sin God want you to change or the word they use in the Bible is repent and all that word means to turn so like if you're hitting the wall you're hitting the wall you're hitting the wall like do something different stop sleeping with every girl stop lying all your texture and that's where we have to get because God's grace it's what he wants us to experience and yes he disciplines those he loves but hear the word he doesn't punish he disciplines punishes with emotion get home stop embarrassing me y'all see parents that punish their kids that's because they feel something and they don't want their kids so it bad on them God claims you and it's proud of you even when you're messin over yourself he wants to discipline you discipline is for correction of action it is not for eternal punishment what I'm trying to tell you is when we suffer because of our own sins what God says is let me help you with that and let's discipline you let's become more structure let's change let's repent so that then you can get it right cuz his goal for you is not for you to die and be and and be in this eternal place of just being jacked up he wants you to change so that's why he said Jesus as our eternal like like he's a high priest okay so drop the anchor on this last point we gonna get out of here because this is too much for some of y'all to handle some lady faces like you can't take it I know it's a lot do them say it's a lot okay so drop your anchor on this that Jesus is our mediator of the new covenant forever now I know some people say new covenant I don't even know about the Old Covenant what covenants what are you talking about okay let me help you understand this and I know for some of y'all y'all coming to church and you don't want to think but if we're gonna be equipped for this next wave of ministry we gotta understand stuff not just believe it yeah I got it what I'm saying and so I'm gonna show you something right here there are three covenants that were made okay and and this is probably gonna help somebody so so so much it's helped me there was the Mosaic government covenant and and when I think of covenant just think of the word agreement like when two people make an agreement together okay so this was a contract or an agreement how many people have a contract with their cell phone company okay this is where all the people would cricket be like and you ain't got no service though okay okay so this hello hello okay so so there the first one was the Mosaic Covenant okay and if any of this is felt wrong up here fix it on your paper okay so and then there was the Abrahamic covenant I'm for Abraham cuff and then there is what was called the New Covenant or I call it the new-new okay okay so so all all this is is a covenant between the Mosaic Covenant was an agreement between God and Moses and the Abrahamic covenant what we're reading about is a covenant between God and old Abe and this new New Covenant or the new covenant is a covenant between God and everybody say me okay and this is the thing the Old Covenant the way it worked was by your works what you did what you sacrificed what you made this Abrahamic covenant is the example so what what God said you know what they can't even do this one so I'm a prototype on Abraham what I want for the rest of the world and the way the New Covenant works is by grace all right so let's read a scripture with this in the backdrop Hebrews 8:6 it said but now he this is Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry in as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant with is established on better promises everybody's a better covenant better promises better covenant better promises so this is the old covenant okay this okay I don't know everybody to understand that God is showing us that this is where it started but if iPhone can get 10 upgrades why can't God say you know what that one didn't work the way I wanted to I'm gonna try this one out I'm a beta test this so I found it and now I'm gonna give them a new this is the better so like right now you can go out and get an iPhone one there'll be features that will be missing you will be frustrated because there are people and things you're supposed to connect with that you can't because this does not have what you need to be able to do but God's saying would you please let me upgrade you from doing everything based on your works and would you allow me to give you the upgrade so that you can do everything I have a better covenant with better promise see what you have to see is the example this was symbolic or a shadow of what was to come and so this is where you have to understand it let me give you another scripture as we look at this because because you got to understand that when we say we have better promises and better covenant God saying these two it's not what I want for you I want this and so when you work out a Grace when you work out it works and not grace he said you're settling for less than what I've caused you to do and read it one more time with the understanding of this one more time it says but now he has attained a more excellent ministry in as much as he is the mediator of a better covenant which is established on better promises see the thing that makes this promise better is it doesn't just cover your sins it cleanses your sins see here they had to sacrifice bulls and gos every single day and it was just to hold them over to the next time they sin and that's how we do I'm going to church today because I don't miss them see this is the thing I don't think about everything I messed up on that mistake I just told you about because God doesn't bring that up to me every time I go to talk to him see we bring it up God is me again and our messed up you know I messed up he said I choose I throw your sins as far as the East is from the way to remember them anymore he wants to cleanse our consciousness and have us stop serving him out of dead works and most of us are serving amount of dead works what are you talking about dead work let me define it for you it's a work not initiated by God let me give you another definition any work trying to earn the favor of God and many of you many of us try to do things to earn the favor of God and he's saying you know what believe me and if you put your faith in me then I'll start transforming you have you ever heard that song take my heart and mold it and take my mind then do what conform it and then take my will and transform it to yours too that's what happens after we believe the rest of your Christian life is not a perfection it's a transformation like so you're still gonna mess up but you keep coming back to God and say Here I am you're the Potter I'm the clay mold me make me change me take it off my attitude is yeah take that off what is it and until we receive this message we don't have an anchor okay I heard somebody say this somebody said that the church is not sin conscious enough and I understood what they were saying they were basically saying they need to know we live in a broken world in a fallen world and there's crazy stuff happening all the way all the time and we all agree with that but I made suggest to you that the church is not grace conscious enough let me help you understand this why are you saying this passion why because we're always holding ourselves and other to what they did not what God has done and when you don't when you don't start viewing people through what God has done in them we judge them for where they're at and not for who God's called them to be and so we won't give people chances because they haven't proven to us that they are worthy of it and they can't prove it to you you can't prove it to them and that's what God says I torn the veil so you know that I am your high priest forever and I have established a better covenant with better promises and it's for you and all you have to do is put your faith in Jesus I heard this story and it really was funny there was this guy who wanted to do an example on Grayson works and so what he did was he called his children together and they had a huge birthday party and he said kids I'm so excited that you're here today we have a pool for you inflatable toys we got bounce houses everything y'all we're gonna have a great time at this birthday party cake ice cream everything it was like but listen everybody look at me I have one rule I do not want any of you to spit in this flower baby now we plan for you we have someone you can do everything I want you to have the best time but look at me I am so serious nobody spit in this little flower bed alright y'all go have fun and he went behind the curtain of his house where he could see them but they couldn't see him and he said not only did every kid spit in the flower bed some of them spat twice and even his own kids who were in on it they spat in the flower bed and I started to look at that and God said see they're focusing on the wrong thing instead of focusing on all the amazing things that were provided for them they became sin conscious they became conscious of what they were not supposed to do and what you think about you inevitably begin to do and so many of us have been just thinking of not sinning not sinning not sinning that all we do is sin like everything that we're doing and God says let's stop focusing on your failures and start focusing on my victories let's stop for all y'all better hear me can we stop focusing on your mess-ups and start focusing on my grace and if we come become more intentional and focusing on what he has done it drops an anchor so today what are you telling us Pastor Mike that this grace message is the undeserved unmerited unearned favor and kindness of God you

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