Stay Humble | The Book of Philippians (Chapter Three)

amen today we are continuing in our series called stay humble this is a chapter by chapter study on the book of philippians and the book of philippians is really unique because the apostle paul is not writing a letter of correction he's not disciplining a church for their horrible doctrine or teaching it is a love letter it's a thank you letter that he's writing to the church at philippi i truly believe paul had a bond with this church that was special unlike any other and there is wisdom and humility laced through every chapter and every word of this book and so today we're going to be in chapter three and if you have your bible turn with me philippians chapter 3 beginning in verse 1. finally my brethren rejoice in the lord for me to write the same things to you is not tedious but for you it is safe beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of mutilation for we are the circumcision who worship god in spirit rejoice in christ jesus and have no confidence in the flesh though i also might have confidence in the flesh if anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh i more so circumcised on the eighth day the stock of israel the tribe of benjamin a hebrew of hebrews concerning the law of pharisee concerning zeal persecuting the church concerning the righteousness which is in the law blameless that's something i want to read to you today from philippians chapter three and i want us to look back today at verse number one when the apostle paul through the inspiration of the holy spirit writes these words finally my brothers rejoice in the lord look at your neighbor with some attitude and tell them rejoice in the lord rejoice in the lord so um have you ever been having a bad day and somebody just walks up to you and just says well you should just rejoice in the lord you should just take joy in the lord but you just want to just like i don't know do all kinds of things you shouldn't do but you know the truth is is that paul does not write philippians 3 from the lush beaches of the mediterranean sipping on sweet tea telling everybody else how they should rejoice in the lord no the apostle paul writes this from chains he is in prison in rome he's been taken off of the mission field historians believe that he is chained to a prison guard he can't eat he can't sleep he can't do anything without being chained to this man and paul could write anything he wants to write here he could complain about the misery he could write to the church at philippi and say hey send me more food send me different foods send me clothes get me out of here give me a lawyer he can say all that he wants to say but instead he writes these words he writes to those who are free in philippi he says rejoice in the lord your god you see it's easy to rejoice in jesus when things are going well it's easy to rejoice in jesus when you're on vacation or it's a long weekend or whatever like it's easy to rejoice when life is good but i wonder are you able to rejoice in the valley are you able are you able to rejoice and find joy and find peace and hope in the midst of your chaos i'm thankful that the apostle paul is telling us to rejoice even though he's in chains you know the truth is there are going to be days and moments in our lives where there is nothing to rejoice in but jesus anybody ever been there everything is going wrong everything that can go wrong is going wrong i can't rejoice in anything but i can always rejoice in jesus christ i want to ask you a question this morning what is the source of your joy you see our joy is always linked to something some of you your joy is linked to your circumstances if you're financially doing well if your relationships are going well if people are noticing you affirming you applauding you then you're doing well but the moment your circumstances change you go down with it i can be honest and say that sometimes i find a little too much joy in the west virginia mountaineer football team wvu any mounties in the house all right all right i love you guys you're in the right place okay so this is true um when west virginia beats a rival or texas or if they just win on any given saturday in the fall i'm in a better mood i'm happy like the roses are beautiful everything is pretty everything's great my life is really great but if we lose man i am just i am defeated i'm angry i'm upset and my circumstances rob me of my joy anybody can anybody bear witness to that maybe you're not a mountaineer fan that you're a panthers maybe maybe your joy is circumstantial and if so then your peace and your joy can look like a roller coaster you're happy you're thrilled one day and you're miserable and upset and complaining the next but i want you to know that the apostle paul writes to the church at philippi and he says i want you to rejoice in jesus christ meaning the source of your joy should not be your circumstances the source of your joy should be in christ jesus the lord because see if your joy is linked to the mountaineers if your joy is linked to your 401k if your joy is linked to your relationship then there's going to be ops and there's going to be downs but we are a people of the redeemed and we're called to be constant steadfast stable and have a peace that surpasses all understanding in every season of our life and the only way we can remain steady and stable is if our joy is rooted in jesus christ now can i just talk to you for a minute because that sounds really good it is true and sometimes it sounds a little churchy like my joy is in jesus right but what in the world does that mean well i'm glad you asked and so i'm going to explain to you what paul means paul is literally saying to the church of philippi if you find yourself in chains if you find yourself or your circumstances are deteriorating around you if you have no reason to rejoice in the natural i want you to set your mind on the things of jesus christ i want you to think about his mercy that was extended to you when you didn't deserve it i want you to set your mind on his precious gospel and how he saved you from an eternal hell that you did not deserve i want you to set your mind on the grace and the goodness and the person of jesus and as you set your mind on jesus he becomes the source of your joy anybody thankful and joyous for what jesus has done for you right i mean god so loved the world he sent his only son to die on the cross for you if god never does another thing he's already done more than enough for us to rejoice in him all the days of our life and as a born-again believer no matter what comes your way you always have a reason to be thankful you always have a reason to rejoice by the way the bible says that the joy of the lord is my strength and if you're only joyous and happy when your circumstances are going well then you're no different from the world the world needs to see inside of you a peace that transcends understanding the world needs to see a people who walk in peace and joy when it doesn't make sense that's the joy and that's the piece we're called to rejoice in the lord psalm 1 excuse me psalm 16 11 says this your presence is the fullness of joy and at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore in his presence there is the fullness of joy you see paul understood this that even though i'm shackled in a jail cell if i'll just worship if i'll just praise you if i'll pray and intercede if i'll f if i'll go into your presence i'll find joy you remember david in the old testament from the ashes of ziklag he had lost everything his family his possessions his wife and children were kidnapped and taken ransomed by an evil invading army his own men that he commanded began to turn on him and said david if it weren't for you and your bad leadership we would have been here to defend our family and our village so now we're gonna stone you and from the ashes of ziklag when everything is going wrong in david's life he said there's one powerful verse the bible says that david encouraged himself in the lord oh my goodness what a word that would it would do you really well christian to learn to encourage yourself in the lord when there's nobody there to encourage you when there's no circumstances there that are very encouraging or joyous i will worship i will praise you even when i don't feel like it even when it doesn't look like there's anything going right in my life and as i worship you and as i praise you i come into your presence and there i find joy and there i find strength and there i find encouragement to keep on living and life is worth living just because he lives can i get a witness if anybody believes what i'm saying today psalm 118 24 says this is the day that the lord has made and in it we will rejoice and be glad i love that this is the day the lord has made and in it we will rejoice and be glad look at your neighbor and say i will rejoice sometimes rejoicing is a decision oh i'm trying to help you i really am to see some of you are governed by your emotions and your emotions lead you and your emotions dictate to you whether you're gonna have a good day or a good week or a bad day you're you're a victim and you're being led by your emotions well i'm trying to equip you with the word of god to say no no i'm not gonna be led by my feelings i'm not gonna be led by my emotions no i'm gonna lead my feelings i'm gonna take the direction of my life and as for me in my house we will serve the lord this is the day the lord has made and i will rejoice and be glad in it i'm gonna make up my mind to rejoice i'm gonna make up my mind to be thankful in spite of everything going on in my life that would do you real good to lean into that i'm gonna make up my mind verse two look at this verse two we're gonna keep moving paul says beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of mutilation for we are the circumcision who worship god in the spirit rejoice in christ jesus and have no confidence in the flesh look at your neighbor help me preach and tell them beware of the dogs anybody scared of dogs in the house today like two people admit it but you scared of dogs look look i'm gonna tell you something uh i lived in an apartment after we just got married christina and i just got married and no joke like this was this apartment complex above whole foods in uptown and literally like our first day there first week there somebody like was walking a bear through the through the apartment that day was not a dog that was a bear i was not scared of dogs until i saw that thing i could have ridden it i mean you put a saddle on that thing it's huge right the thing was like this anyway that's side note but but the bible says and the apostle paul says you should beware of the dogs now when we read that we're like what what are you talking about but it's important to look at the context of what's happening right here with the church at philippi and here it is remember paul starts in verse 1 and he says rejoice in the lord always then he follows it up with a warning now rejoice but also beware of the dogs the evil-doers who he was talking about were false teachers and false prophets who had slithered their way behind him and they were preaching a different gospel to the church at philippi the church at galatia they were preaching a different gospel he calls them dogs he says you're like a dog um now here's what they were teaching that made them a false teacher so their deception was very subtle they didn't come to the church at philippi or the church at galatia and go well now okay i know paul preached to you jesus but just forget about jesus he and let's talk about this no no they didn't hate on jesus the false teachers slithered their way in and they said oh yeah we're saved through jesus christ but also our circumcision and also our obedience to the law of moses so what they did is they came in and they just added to the work of salvation they said oh yeah you need jesus to be saved but you also better be circumcised and you better obey the law so they're adding to the work of the cross okay they're perverting the message of the gospel and paul says these people are like dogs that's that's who they are real fast side note um the holy spirit like we we read that about them calling them dogs and we're like man paul that was savage like you had to really call them dogs but i want to remind you i'm going to double down here the holy spirit wrote these words through the pen through the hand of the apostle paul the holy spirit called these false teachers dogs i'm going to tell you something the holy spirit is always loving but he's not always nice you'll catch that in a minute jesus was always loving but he was not always nice our picture of jesus is this you know soft fluffy meek and meager gentle jesus and like there certainly were those qualities to his character but this is the same jesus who showed up in the temple and started flipping some tables and driving people out with a whip that was jesus too jesus also looked at the pharisees and called them a generation of vipers he looked peter in the face and called him satan said get behind me satan and then the holy spirit riding through the church at philippi calls these false teachers dogs it's powerful now watch what is why does why does he call them dogs this is powerful right here do you realize that these judaizers these false teachers who are trying to bring the new testament church back into judaism they were trying to they were trying to deceive them into going back to the old ways these jewish people called the gentiles dogs that was the exact name that they used for the people at philippi the gentiles have you ever read the bible like the woman at the at the well she's like jesus that you would even talk to me like i'm don't you know i'm a sumerian you're a jew jews don't have anything to do with us we're not even worthy to eat the crumbs that the dogs eat these jewish false teachers who were coming in behind paul they were famous for calling the jews or the gentiles dogs they were but paul uses their terminology back on them paul says no you you're calling the gentiles dogs but no no you're the dog here's why now church this is powerful powerful stuff he wasn't just like name-calling right like you're ugly and bad you know he there's a purpose because at this time in ancient israel and palestine they had a problem with wild dogs that would go up barking and biting people at random but more importantly these dogs had no owner they had no master and so when the holy spirit calls these false teachers dogs he's saying to them you false teachers you're accusing harassing complicating and confusing the disciples you're barking at you're barking at them but more importantly you have no master you have no owner you have no lord you claim to work and preach on behalf of god but you have no god you have no master you're like the wild dogs of israel that's what he's saying this is powerful stuff church very powerful now there's an important takeaway for you to see couple things really quickly that you should beware of the dogs all right now watch this number one the dogs the false teachers they always follow the true working of the spirit of god the enemy always follows the working of the power of god you see where is that in the bible well glad you asked here we go matthew chapter 3 jesus was baptized by john the baptist in the jordan river there was an open heaven the father said this is my son in whom i'm well pleased he immediately gets up out of the waters of baptism and goes into the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights and who follows him into the wilderness satan the deceiver the tempter follows jesus into the wilderness do you remember every time jesus would be preaching in a town or in a village the the pharisees would always slither their way in wherever god was working wherever god was moving the enemy was always right there behind them you remember the parable of the good and the evil farmer the good farmer went out and sowed good seed but while he slept in the cover of darkness the evil farmer came in behind him and sowed tear among the wheat scriptures showing you a principle that wherever you hear the true message of god whenever you hear or take a stand for god whenever you are stepping out in faith and growing the enemy will come right behind you to steal kill and destroy listen every person that gets baptized at vision church you know what i warn them i warn them that trouble and temptation is coming because you have declared war on the enemy you have taken a stand for righteousness and the enemy always follows after the genuine moving of the spirit of god this is important for you to know that so don't be deceived and don't be surprised when it happens but here's the more important takeaway i believe there are still dogs preaching in the world today there are still false teachers preaching a false gospel in the world today and i'm gonna go a step further there are still false preachers preaching in charlotte north carolina today and so when paul says to the church at philippi you need to be careful you need to watch out for the dogs it transcends time and it's speaking to us right now you need to be careful just because somebody has a broadcast just because somebody has a microphone just because somebody has a church and just because somebody calls themselves a pastor doesn't mean that they're truly speaking on the authority of god and it doesn't mean that they're truly sent from god and i'm gonna do you one better just because they have a following doesn't mean that they're valid or legitimate scripture tells us that false prophets will have a great crowd that follows them okay so but just because they have a crowd doesn't mean that they're a false prophet but i'm just warning you that there are dogs people who are annoying barking at the people and have no master still roaming the world today i'm gonna help you see a few false gospels that are still being preached in the world today and more specifically right here in charlotte north carolina number one this would do you really good to write this down or jot it down in your notes section do something with this but number one false gospel is preached today by many denominations is works based salvation that you must perform in order to be called righteous you must do a certain list of things in order to be made right with god works based salvation they say yes you need jesus but you also must do this you must do that you must be perfect you must adhere to all of these regulations in order to be saved that is not the gospel we now hear me we should do good works but we don't do good works so that we can be saved we do good works because we are saved big difference it's not about my performance it's about my position in jesus christ all right so a works-based theology is a false gospel and that's exactly what these dogs what these judaizers were doing that's what paul was warning they were literally saying jesus is good but you better get circumcised and you better adhere to the law of moses or else you see what they were adding to the message of the cross another false gospel is people will say there are prerequisites to your salvation in other words some denominations teach that you are saved through baptism that if you're not baptized you're not saved and that baptism is the catalyst or the means by which we are saved some denominations teach that through communion is how you're saved jesus plus baptism jesus plus communion and some evangelical circles say if you're not filled with the holy spirit and speaking in tongues you're not saved these are all false gospels you say well pastor are you telling me i shouldn't be baptized of course you should be baptized it's the first commandment to every believer but it is not what saves you should you take communion absolutely but it's not what saves you now here's another dangerous one that's being preached all over the world is the prosperity gospel you should be healthy you should be wealthy you should be blessed if you are god's child you will be healthy you will not be poor and you'll be blessed okay that is heresy and but in all seriousness this has brought major confusion to the body of christ people that have gone through illness people that have gone through financial ruin they've questioned their salvation am i really a child of god am i really an heir of christ jesus let me tell you something that has nothing to do with your standing with god at all absolutely nothing and then here's the most dangerous one the gospel of you the gospel of you where we make christianity all about you preachers make the bible all about you it's all about how you feel that god exists for you no no no you don't exist no no no god doesn't exist for you you and i exist for him this is if you haven't noticed this is not about us it's about him he is the one who is worthy he is the lamb who was slain he is the one who deserves glory and honor it is him not us [Applause] two things mark the gospel of you number one consumerism the people who sit under it become consumers oh it's all about me it's all about me it's all about no it's not about you in fact that i just don't even get me started but the other mark is they preach a gospel without repentance the you gospel never uses the r word repent look at your neighbor tell them repent you're that's good preaching that's good preaching visit church so listen one of the first words jesus preached that was recorded in the bible was repent for the kingdom is at hand the reason repentance doesn't jive with the you gospel is because it's convicting it confronts our sin it makes us uncomfortable but i want to tell you something you cannot preach the gospel without repentance it is the catalyst it's the beginning of the born-again transformation you first must recognize that you are sinful and in desperate need of a savior repentance is absolutely critical here's the thing the danger of all these false gospels is this they're implying that jesus christ is not enough the judaizers the dogs in philippi were saying jesus great but you better get circumcised and you better adhere to the law what they're really saying is the cross of calvary was not enough to wash your sins away the people who add prerequisites to your salvation you have to do this you have to speak in tongues you have to be baptized you have to do all these things what they're doing is they're saying the cross was not enough and that is not the gospel of jesus christ as he hung on that rugged tree suspended between heaven and earth life slipping from his body he cried out it is finished it is finished he paid the price in full for your salvation [Applause] a different gospel is no gospel at all and our confidence is not in what we have done but in what jesus has done his work is finished his work is perfect and we cannot add anything to it ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 through 9. i want you to see this in scripture not just take my word for it for by grace you have been saved through faith that not of yourselves it is the gift of god not works lest anyone should boast acts 16 30 what must i do to be saved so they said believe on the lord jesus christ and you will be saved you and your household anybody thankful that the gospel is not about us it's about him and his finished work powerful stuff church powerful stuff if you have your bible skip down with me to verse verse three again we're gonna look at verse three one more time here paul says we are the circumcision who worship god in spirit rejoice in christ jesus i want to talk to you about these these words right here we are the circumcision now that sounds super weird and you might be like okay what is this about um but it's very very important that we understand what paul's saying right here because this is like this is life changing okay what he's saying is the dogs the judaizers the false teachers they came in and they said if you're going to be saved you got to get circumcised in fact they used to run around and call themselves the circumcised or the people of the circumcision that's what they called themselves kind of a weird title you know could have thought of a few more but that that's what they came up with and what they were really saying is what they were really saying is is we're the ones who are saved because of our religious ritual and you're not if we're the circumcised then you're not they were going around saying they were trusting in their religious ritual their religious right they were trusting in that to save them so paul again flips it on them and uses their words against them and he says no no no dogs false teachers no no no you're preaching circumcision but we are the circumcised in other words the new testament church the church of philippi we are the circumcised here's what he means you judaizers you're talking about physical mutilation i'm talking about spiritual mutilation you're talking about a religious event that happens to the body and i'm talking about a transformative event that has happened inside of my soul the reason that paul called the church at philippi the people of the circumcision is because they have crucified their flesh on the cross alongside jesus christ they have been transformed spiritually and that is what it's all about not about the religious event and church i know you might feel super disconnected from that and you're like okay well nobody says that today oh yes they do they may not say we're the people of circumcision but here's what they say they say religious people well i got baptized in 1987 and so i know i'm going to heaven there's nothing wrong with getting baptized you should get baptized but if you're trusting in the baptismal ritual to get you to heaven and your life has not been transformed something is wrong and there are many people who sit in churches all across the world who rest on the laurels of their religious rituals i've been baptized i'm on my way to heaven i took communion when i was 13. i'm on my way to heaven meanwhile your life looks like a dumpster fire nothing like jesus at all that was funny and you know it was a pity laugh will do but you know there are people who are religious who they don't live like jesus at all but they're trusting in a religious experience or a religious ritual that they went through in their past that's what saved me and that is the mindset that paul is coming up against here's why there's people that say well i got baptized so i'm saved i took communion so i'm saved i dedicated my baby therefore my baby's gonna be saved i go to church therefore i'm saved homie listen you can be baptized and nothing change on your inside you can take communion and your heart never truly been born again you can dedicate your child but if you fail to teach your child and train them and raise them up in the ways of the lord they'll go off and live just like a heathen and just because you're sitting in the church doesn't mean you're on your way to heaven because you can be sitting here unrepented living in sin doing your own thing rejecting jesus with your heart you see this was the great sin of the pharisees the pharisees looked religious and holy on the outside but on the inside they were full of death and decay and dead men's bones that's what jesus said you are like a dish that looks beautiful on the outside but the inside is full of decay and wickedness you're filthy don't just look the part be the part paul says we are the people of the circumcision he's saying because we were transformed spiritually the moment that we placed our faith in jesus christ we were transformed by his beautiful gospel and that is what it's all about the spiritual right means nothing physically if it has not transformed you spiritually that's the point i'm gonna move on here philippians chapter three still in verse three here we go i'm not gonna preach forever don't get nervous for we are the circumcision who worship god in spirit rejoice in christ jesus watch this right here and have no confidence in the flesh paul says i have no confidence in the flesh if you're taking notes here's the point don't trust yourself don't trust yourself i'm gonna explain this really really quickly if you keep reading paul says i have no confidence in the flesh but if anybody should have confidence in the flesh it should be me after all i'm a hebrew of hebrews i'm from the tribe of benjamin i was circumcised at eight days old he had nothing to do with that by the way he's bragging about what his parents did it's like calm down paul you didn't do that right um he and he's saying according to the law i was a pharisee a.k.a i know the bible better than you do that's what he's saying now let me help you feel this for a minute let me ask you a question what would happen if you went out and stood at trade and try on here in uptown charlotte and you asked a hundred people are you going to heaven what do you think they would say like 99 of those jokers would say yeah i'm going to heaven of course i'm a good guy and then you ask them well why why are you going how do you know you're going to heaven their answer would be because i'm a good person and after all good people go to heaven is this not the truth this is what your co-workers think this is what your classmates think this is why people live because here's the danger the danger of trusting in yourself is that you can always point to somebody who's worse off than you you can always point to somebody who sins worse than you do and it gives you a false sense of security paul said i have no confidence in my flesh and if anybody should boast in their good deeds and being a good person it would be me he said but when i see christ i count it all as loss all as nothing here's the point and and before i give you the the bottom line let me show you one more thing jesus in the sermon of the mount matthew chapter 5 he said these words unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the pharisees you shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven have you ever read that and been like oh geez well then i'm in trouble anybody i used to read that and be like man i'm not more righteous than the pharisees i mean jeez but that's the point the point is that your good deeds will never be good enough because the metric by which our life is judged is the person of jesus christ that's why romans says all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god what's the glory of god jesus is the glory of god you think you're good but at the day of judgment your good deeds will be measured according to christ and compared to jesus we're all wicked heathen sinners can i get a witness you think you're righteous compared to the person in the next cubicle but when you compare your life to christ you know you've got a long ways to go the point here is that your good deeds will never be good enough to save you that is why the gospel is called the good news because god has done for you what you could not do for yourself and while we were dead in our sin lost in our trespasses god was rich in mercy towards us and he gave his only son to die on the cross that his blood would wash away our every sin and there is power in the blood of jesus this morning to wash away every mistake [Music] every evil thought every sin you've committed is washed away somebody needs to hear me today you're sitting in this church and you feel like god could never forgive you for what you've done he could never forgive you for what you've said i want you to understand there is more power in one drop of the blood of jesus than a lifetime of your guilt and shame he can wash every sin away and the bible says that the moment you repent and you trust in christ by faith you stand blameless before the father blameless before the angels in heaven and when they look at you all they can see is christ we have put on christ and now we stand holy blameless righteous forgiven in the eyes of an almighty god that's why paul says i have no confidence in the flesh because it'll never be good enough all of you who are trusting in your own goodness to make it to heaven you have a rude awakening coming i beg of you today to humble yourself acknowledge your dependence and your need for god and trust in him to save you and he will in closing i want to show you just another thought really really fast philippians chapter 3 verse 7. but what things were gained to me these i have counted lost for christ yet indeed i also count all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of christ jesus my lord this is a continuation of what i was just talking to you about he said i was a pharisee i knew the bible better than everybody i was well esteemed i was well respected but on that road to damascus when i was knocked off my high horse and i had a vision of christ jesus that day that moment changed everything about me and everything that i used to revel in everything i used to be proud of everything i used to spend my days striving to achieve they're all like nothing and i count all of my accolades in all of my accomplishments and everything i used to live for i counted all as loss the moment that i met jesus face to face church there's something powerful here when you encounter jesus it should change the reason you live when you encounter jesus it should change the metrics by which you measure success when you encounter jesus the things you used to live for success pride six figures the applause of men all the things you used to live for should now be counted as loss as though they're nothing because now what matters is knowing jesus and making him known i wonder have you been born again has your heart changed has your perspective changed or do you call yourself a christian still living for the same things you used to live he wants to change you in christ former things pass away and all things are made new philippians 3 10 says this that i may know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering paul said that i oh that i may know him that is my new standard that's my new goal that i may know him in the power of his resurrection when church people hear this they get happy and they're like oh yeah i want to know him in the power of the resurrection the same spirit that raised christ from the dead is alive in me but did you read the last part of that that i may know him in the power of his resurrection comma and the fellowship of himself the only way you're going to live in a resurrection in resurrection power the abundant life the full life is by first experiencing suffering through death to self you see you can't have resurrection sunday without the cross and good friday you can't experience resurrection power in your life until you first died to who you used to be there has to be a death to my selfish ambition there has to be a death to my old life my old goals my old way of thinking has to die and then and only then i can walk in the power of his resurrection in order for me to be resurrected the old me had to die [Music] i want to invite you this morning if you're in this church and you're not sure if you're right with god maybe you're watching online and you've been trusting in your own good deeds your own good works to make it to heaven you thought that you got to heaven because you were a pretty good person and after all you're better than the people you work with so surely god's going to let you in that's not how it works we are saved there is one precious gospel through the precious shed blood of jesus christ we repent of our sin and trust in him for our salvation why don't you pray with me now because you can leave this room you can end this broadcast today knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that you are forgiven and your sins are washed away pray with me now father we repent and we ask you for forgiveness we confess to you the wickedness of our heart i confess that i've ignored you i've abandoned you and i've been living for myself god have mercy forgive me for believing in other gospels that it's it's about my performance and my work forgive me god for trusting in a religious event or a religious experience that happened long ago and trusting in that instead of being born again and being in a living relationship with you now a father as i repent i trust in the finished work of jesus christ that he who knew no sin became my sin on the cross that i could be called the righteousness of god through him today i receive jesus by faith fill me with your holy spirit change my hearts and my desires help me to serve you to please you and to live for you all the days of my life and i'll go from this place as your servant doing good works not to be saved but because i am saved it's in jesus mighty name we pray and everybody said hey man if you prayed that prayer today i want you to raise your hand just as high as you can raise it if you read it i see you brothers can we give god praise for that i see both of you hallelujah if you keep your hand up with me is there anybody else today keep your hands up guys i love you i'm so proud of you and your faith is contagious it's contagious it's powerful is there anybody else today then maybe he's saying i'm i'm recommitting my life i'm i'm recommitting my life to jesus if you're watching online i want to encourage you to type it in the comment section somebody will pray with you and agree with you there a member of our prayer team is going to give you guys a decision card please take a moment to fill that out and get back with us because we love you and we want to do life beside you we don't want you to just make a decision for jesus today and then we never see you again we want to be a part of your life and walk beside you and by the way church why don't you stand to your feet and let's rejoice and praise the living god for what we've seen in this place today [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 47min 54sec (2874 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 20 2021