REAL Hope - with Nick Vujicic

avoid crowded public areas and gatherings do not translate to areas affected by the storms of life are inevitable [Music] trials and tribulations come when you don't expect my friend we're not promised a perfect journey the wind will blow the rain will fall and the waters will rise [Music] how will you withstand the storm what is your life built on tonight i i really want to share with you some scripture um that that has been a scripture that i grew up knowing quite well it went with a hymn so my church that i grew up in we actually sang a lot of hymnals and uh one of them was my hope is built on nothing less than jesus blood and righteousness um and the chorus goes on christ the solid rock i stand all of the ground is sinking sand all other ground is sinking sand um and i i want to first read the scripture if we can have that on the screen matthew 7 verse 24 through 27 anyone who listens to my teaching this is jesus anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise like a person who builds a house on solid rock though the rain comes in torrents and the flood waters rise and the winds beat against the house it won't collapse because it is built on bedrock but anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't obey it is foolish like a person who builds a house on sand when the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house it will collapse with a mighty crash let's all pray father god we come before you and we thank you so much we thank you for the word that comes straight from you we thank you for the bible we thank you lord that we can gather tonight and we thank you lord that you open up our hearts and our minds help us lord to hear your real voice and the real hope that you have for each and every one of us in the mighty name of jesus we all pray amen so uh real quick i was born in australia and um i was born this way and my question in life was why and it was really difficult to really believe that there was real hope for me um and i'm not going to share my story in much depth but for those of you who do not know my story i actually attempted suicide at age 10. i'm now a professional motivational speaker in school systems i'm actually a youth advisor to three national governments around the world i've addressed 10 different governments i've met 21 presidents and vice presidents and as i've traveled around the world i've done 74 countries 2 500 planes and our largest audience was 800 000 people in one gathering as we preach the gospel through the ministry of life without limbs as we've gone around the world and we've talked to many people i really wanted to know what was really going on in the youth of america and so about six or seven years ago i really started doing something that some teachers were like what what just happened like really that that that was real what i did was in front of thousands of students across 269 public and private schools of america i would take an anonymous survey and what i want to do as a speaker is tell you something real with me what you see is what you get i'm not going to give you any fluff i'm not going to just make you feel blah blah i want you to walk away here change i want you to walk away from here thinking i want you to walk away challenged in a good way because if you have found everything you ever needed and ever wanted and it was a guarantee that you will wake up tomorrow happy then you would never be in need the problem with our state as a human being arms and legs or not we are in a state of need and a state of desire no matter what's going on in the world it's interesting when you're a kid and you want a toy and you get the toy and then what do you want you want another toy you girls you get the shoe and what happens with the shoes you get another pair of shoes and you know all this stuff it's like okay well next next next it's like it's interesting it's like even some people they're changing girlfriends and boyfriends like every three weeks like you know it's it's like next next next relationship no it's not me it's them and we're in this like desperate need of of of of desire and and this thing that that is missing in our soul the way that we are made is a spirit and a soul and a mind and a body and so what i did is understanding then how my audience feels and why would they ever feel like giving up is it just me that i attempted suicide at age 10 because of bullying was what i was thinking i had a loving family half the people at my school didn't have a loving family a quarter of the people their parents were already divorced and the other quarter of the people wish that their parents divorced and it's worse being in a broken home than having no arms or no legs and you see it's the brokenness of our spirit and our heart and our soul that matters more than anything else and we try to get stuff and we try to look certain ways and we try to even affirm our own security by sometimes even bullying other people or thinking that we're a little bit more important than other people or thinking that at school we have to maintain some kind of reputation because you know we can't lose face and then feeling at times that i need a boyfriend to feel loved and then you realize how dangerous sex out of marriage is and the only reason why you're sleeping with them is because it makes you feel like someone wants you and that you're needed which is a subconscious and a conscious affirmation of your value and if you don't know the truth of your value you might be disabled with the lives of the world about what then valuable is then what love is sex ain't love you can sleep with anyone you want as many times you want and still wonder do they love you and so i knew when someone would come up to me and they start teasing me and i'm like why are you teasing me for i'm actually quite a cool guy i mean i'm short for my age but big deal like man i could like headbutt this guy in the face it's like look at his freckles look at his hair look at his shoes i'm like seriously man you're picking on me like but why would i pick on him is that going to change anything no maybe he has a world that is out of control in his home where he's never felt love where he hasn't got a truth of a value and that all he has seen is his world out of his control and so maybe it's his way of coping through his life to then control me which doesn't justify evil does it so i wondered how many other teenagers in america that are in middle schools and high schools would actually say to me and answer but how would we do it how would i get the answers right there and then and get honest answers i'd only get honest answers as people trust me number one and number two that no one else knows their answer so the way that i did it is in front of thousands of students we did it 269 times the heads would be bowed the eyes would be closed the hands go up their hand is open and i asked them simply with no one looking around put your hand in a fist if you've actually thought of committing suicide six to 12 of all teenagers pre-2020 from a stat of 269 schools all around america six to 12 of all teenagers in america has at least thought of committing suicide then i said put your hand in the fist if you've actually attempted three to six percent tried but they were still here then i said put your hand in a fist if you actually feel like you have no hope in your life because of a brokenness in your home 40 percent and then i said put your hand to fish if you feel like there is no hope in your life and you actually tried to commit suicide because of bullying in your school 40 percent of teenage attempted suicide is because of bullying at school that's what we're able to actually bring from the conclusion of that and that's when i leaned over and i said i love you you're not a mistake you're here for a reason and you don't have to walk through this walk alone and i want you to know that at schools i can't say jesus because they'd handcuff me but i want did you get that but i want you to know i want you to know that there is nothing like knowing jesus and i want you to know today that i've gone through a lot and it's not just the fact that i had no arms and no legs it was the fear of rejection was the fear of being alone it was the anxiety as a kid how am i gonna hold my wife's hand even if i had a wife i can't even hold her hand how am i gonna hold my kids is it that i can just hope that i hope that i hope one day that i get married is that real hope well i hope that i'm a good enough person that i hope that i can be then in some other nicer place than earth that i hope exists and that i hope i get in does that sound pretty hopeful to you that ain't real it's like well i hope it's like going to a cash register what's real hope who goes to a grocery store picks an item you see the price tag 399. baby 399. you go to the cash register what do you get you get how much 399. you don't get 299 and say i hope that's enough they'll look at you like huh and what are they going to say it's not enough if you get 399 and you pass over 399 and you say here's 3.99 it cost 399. i hope that's enough they'll be looking at you like what is wrong with you [Music] it costed 3.99 you gave me 399. it is done when you are purchased purchased by the blood of jesus christ what does that mean you see when we are born we're born with need i have no arms and no legs but we all have other disabilities like fear failure shame guilt here's the biggest disabilities of all sin and death and we try to fill up our life with stuff with things even an ideology oh when i get married then everything's gonna be okay no go talk to the married people it's like what is it that would make everything okay now don't get upset with me for my little doctrinal little illustration here but if i went to a store to buy eternal hope what does that even look like what is eternity well that's when you hear about jesus and i'm thinking man i don't like this jesus man i don't understand what about my friends who don't believe in jesus how how can i stomach the fact that there are some people that i love who are actually a little bit even more better behaved than my christian friends at church to say that they can't go to heaven because they don't believe in jesus and then i know some christian friends who already anyway sleeping around and they come to church and they worship the lord but it's okay to you know and it's okay to you know try this and try that you see we're faced with so many choices money drugs sex alcohol pornography fame and fortune covert is not the number one killer of america abortion is and half of them are from christians whoa so what we're gonna understand are the choices are real that money drugs sex alcohol pornography fame and fortune if you put your happiness in temporary things your happiness will be temporary that's why money can't satisfy you that's why not enough likes and followers on facebook and instagram and snapchat and what's the other one whatever tick tock button couldn't care less i just want you to know that you don't need the world to tell you what's really gonna make you happy when you really know the person who designed you for happiness who better to tell you your purpose than the one who created you for purpose sex out of marriage is never better than in marriage because that's how it was designed yes so wait for god's best and he will do the rest what's hard is waiting for him i hated him oh i hated god i swore at him i didn't talk to him i said god you owe me an explanation you say that you have a hope plan and future where is it you have asked that don't worry everything's gonna be okay he don't okay today so where is he well just ask god to give you whatever your heart desires and what if he says no oh god can't say no to my prayer really you can't yeah he he can't say no to you well i don't i think he can if he says no to my desire is it that he's mean so what did i want well today i can tell you i wanted arms and legs duh i would love to have arms and legs and jump around i love to do so i mean i've done a lot of things with my little foot like i can swim and type 53 words a minute on a normal computer and i can give people like a peace sign piece i love having no arms in our legs i'm so good at playing hide and seek with my kids because i fit in clothing drawers i'm already the shortest in my family we got four kids i love my four kids man when they cry i could put my arms around them but they can put their arms around me i've got a beautiful wife we nearly been married now for nine years i can't hold her hand but i can hold her heart don't need arms and legs for that and i ain't here or not just to exist and just to enjoy and just to co-exist i am here to let people know that no matter what the world can give you all other ground is sinking sin because it just ain't enough your intellect ain't enough your intellect will fail you the intellect of the smartest people on earth just check them out on the tv your wisdom your self-discipline you change who are you nine months ago did you change you change did people fail you did you fail people yeah why because the h-u-m-a-n human and that is the disability that the peace that the world can give you ain't real the joy that the world can give you ain't real and i'm thinking okay then where's my joy where's my hope god you allowed this to happen i asked you for arms and legs do you know i still have a pair of shoes in my closet just in case he says yes why because how many things are possible with god i'm not joking i've seen blind people seeing deaf people hearing laying people walking crooked backs come straight i've had a an incurable disease cured in my own back three mris proved that 2002 an incurable medical disease with the doctor's report saying we've never seen it before it's medically impossible that your degenerative disease in your spine called the syrinx actually closed back up i'm absolutely wrong against the medical textbook and i said um why because how many things are possible with god excuse me how many things are possible with god can i hear an amen so what we must understand is that when i ask for arms and legs would it be cool to have arms and legs yes it would be cool would it maybe give me arthritis later on when i'm old perhaps but i'll tell you man the joy if everyone ended up in heaven then we would not need a temporary life to choose if everyone went to heaven then we might as well be there now or just be robots or god is a very cruel god which is not because it's very logical if you know your bible and the reason why i'm not another religion is not because my parents were christian don't you dare be a christian just because someone else is a christian go and search the truth for yourself if you think that jesus is just a remedy if you think your weekly church gathering is just a filling up of your gas tanks spiritually if you think of jesus as whatever else some kind of antidote or an app that you can text him on a bad day if jesus ain't your cure if jesus ain't your rock if jesus ain't the lord of your life you're on this end and when your life is built on nothing less but jesus blood and righteousness i pray for more than two minutes a day i don't wait to go to church to read my bible i pray for people i text people what can i pray for you for i actually read the bible when my sister or my cousin or my friend is going through distress i don't just pray for people guys i fast for people and not the american fluffy fast i fast with no food because the bible says that when there's bad stuff going on it ain't just people it's against powers and spirituality powers of darkness that some of these things and some of your addictions and some of the afflictions and oppressions of your mom and some of the addictions of your dad and the afflictions of his dad was actually quite spiritual and we get the power to pray in the name of jesus as we stand on the rock when we pray in the name of jesus angels come from heaven i ain't praying for a disease to just go through the earth and then everything's gonna be better i ain't praying that the churches would hurry up and fill back up and we go back to normal i am praying for i'm praying that you and i know him because guess what guys 2020 sucks i don't know if you heard the news it's pretty sucky but do you really believe that this is the last crisis that we're going to face as a human kind so take a deep breath in and out do you believe that any of this is a surprise to the lord do you believe that jesus come back when is he coming man he's coming back that's all i know he's coming back i'm 38 years old just had my birthday today is my dad's would have been his 66th birthday he died at 63 years old of cancer we buried him in peace why because his life was built on nothing less than jesus's blood and righteousness did we pray that cancer would go yes do christians die of cancer yes car crash yes i've had three death threats myself i've had a grenade at my home we had a car bomb in ukraine we had a threaten of the bomb in a stadium in bolivia i have had death threats i've been on planes 2 500 planes around the world get that 3 million miles i've been up in the air i've been around the world 120 times i can see the runway out the side of the window our plane also got struck by lightning no joke i've seen some crazy stuff man but my dad knew that he ain't going home one day early one day later than his perfect plan do i like the fact that god's plan was that my dad died of cancer no i i hate it i hate it i hated seeing him suffer but if he didn't die of cancer he'd die somewhere something else because this world is not my home i'm just passing through i'm a citizen of heaven baby passing through i mean not just a kid with no arms no legs i'm an ambassador of the king of kings and lord of lords i don't need arms and legs i don't need the world to tell me how valuable i am and in all humility and respect i love everyone there is not anyone more important than you or less than important than you from jesus from god's perspective when you're 30 000 37 000 feet in the air and you're looking down the earth it looks pretty flat i don't care what city here it looks pretty flat compared to god it'll be higher than 37 righteousness who are we so i had a conversation with god to finish this part i had a conversation with the lord said god i want to believe in heaven i want to believe jesus that you died on the cross for me because it made sense to me in the context that jesus was the only one who said i am god jesus was the only one who actually rose other people from the grave before he rose himself from the grave jesus was the only one who didn't say come follow me i will show you the way he said i am the way do this this and this and this and then i'll see you on the other side no believe in me that i will die for the sins of the world and if you believe that i paid for that eternal life with my blood you receive eternal life i can't go to heaven on my own merit because heaven is perfect and i'm not perfect and i wanted to believe that jesus died for me i wanted to believe that i could in that illustration of doctrine that i could go to a grocery store take out eternity and go to the checkout and then they say well death death is going to get you in but i'm only one person so if i die then i'm dead that doesn't make sense but jesus says i'll pay for that i'll die for that i'll die for nick i got that nick if you believe in me if you believe i paid for it then just come follow me i wanted to believe that so i said god why why did you make me this way maybe you're thinking god why did you allow me to be sexually abused why did you allow me to be a person i never met my dad what if you're going through what you're going through not just to survive but to actually find the real hope you're really looking for which is in jesus that now ten years from now you look back and god puts someone else in your life who's actually going through what you're going through in some way shape or form who feels like they need real hope and you can tell him yeah i tried to fill that gap with this or that but i knew it never satisfied me there is a quote that someone said don't tell god how big your problems are tell your problems how big your god is and i just want you to be reminded that there is jesus who asks you will you trust me will you trust me that i am capable of changing anything but i'm more interested in changing your heart in your life i'm not going to promise you that storms are not going to come but if you trust in me you will never sink as some christians depressed are some christians anxious are some christians scared sometimes yeah guess who why because we're human we all feel but what i want you to know is that jesus is with you jesus can heal you now i'd rather have a life without limbs than a life without jesus i'd rather have a life without a wife than a life without jesus i'd rather have a life without children than a life without jesus yes because there is no one like jesus and he loves you and i want to ask you are your feet on the rock or on the sand today make your choice are you quite done yet trying to figure this all out trying to struggle from year to year and just when you think things were getting good how long will we depend on our own strength just surrender god i can't even break my own yoke of pornographic addiction god i can't stop looking at myself and thinking ugly god i can't on my own feel better than i am please help me as i pray as i read the word as i talk to fellow christians as i go to bible study as i search for you help me to see you more than anything else feed your soul don't wait and others to feed you feed look for the truth yourself and you become mature and then in general in the army of god knowing that his angels surround you that no weapon formed against you shall prosper and that even if this is my last day i will be found faultless before the throne why because in christ the solid rock i stand all other ground is sinking sand

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Keywords: Real Hope, Life Without Limbs Nick Vujicic Ministries, Nickv, Nick Vujicic, Storms in Life, Gateway Church, Robert Morris, Evangelism, Matthew 7:24-27, house built on rock, obey out of the love of God, God loves you, Jesus loves you, Youth, Pastor

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Length: 32min 13sec (1933 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 05 2021