TGP // Sunday Morning // August 22nd, 2021 10:45 AM

so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] you [Music] so [Music] so so [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well good morning tgp how you guys doing who is yelling in the back man hyped up amen brother we're about to have an incredible um sunday hey let's just do this let's just go ahead and posture our hearts let's never make sundays just routine amen the world wants to do something fresh in all of our lives today let's don't live on yesterday's bread god has fresh bread for us today amen so look we're going to get started with the scripture [Music] coming out of mark chapter 3. mark chapter 3 verse 13 is going to appear on the screen it says that he went up on the mountain and called to him those he himself wanted and it says and they came to him verse 14 says then he appointed 12 that they might be with him that he might send them out to preach and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons i really believe this is what god's doing today he actually called them and it says they actually came what i love about mark's version of this account because you can read this in luke 9 and matthew 10 but mark actually says that they actually came to be with him this is actually our life john 17 3 says this is eternal life knowing him god is calling us today to be with him to walk with him not just have a concept of him to actually walk in relationship with him then he says as you're actually hanging out with me being one with me living in your life in union with me he says i'm going to send you out into all the world i'm going to send you out with power and authority to heal all sicknesses like coven 19 and cancer and all these other things that we're like you know afraid about no god says you become the answer and the solution to all the things that you're seeing on the news right now amen and then he says i'm giving you power to set the captives free from drug addiction from bad marriages from bad relationships no you are the ones that actually have the answers and the solutions and god simply says will you come to me this morning will you come and uh lock your heart with me and as you do i'm gonna pour something into your life so that you can go pour yourself out to this world around us amen the church is the hope of the world period jesus christ on the inside of us it says in colossians the hope of glory on the inside of you is the answer and the solution to this world amen so let's go ahead and come forward for those that want to come forward and worship [Music] as you're coming forward let's just lift our hands to the lord in just a fresh posture just start thanking god for what he's done for you jesus we thank you for the blood you who are once far off have now been brought near by the blood of jesus we thank you for the broken body of jesus by your stripes we are healed so lord we thank you for the sacrifice it was sufficient it was sufficient when you said it was finished you've been exactly what you said you've accomplished it all now you're sending us out as your mouthpiece as ambassadors of heaven may you fill this room with the atmosphere of heaven may sicknesses actually be healed right now in the middle of worship may family members be mended in families being mended and brought back together right now in the name of jesus so holy spirit we ask god that you come and fill this place and commission us on this day to go be sent out onto new missions in jesus name amen [Music] we've seen what you can do oh god of wonders your power has no wind [Music] the things you've done before in greater measure that you will do again cause there's no prison wall you can't break through no mountain you can't move all things are possible there's no broken body you can't raise no soul that you can't save all things are possible the darkest night you can light it up you can light it up god every [Music] oh [Music] you rose in victory and now you're seated forever on the throne so why should my heart fear what are you defeated i will trust [Music] things are possible that you've already [Music] come on with one voice let's sing this let's declare it over our city over our state over our nation and over the world come on every voice [Music] you come awake in your people become awake in your city oh god of revival pour it out [Music] come on take it out come awaken your people come awake in your city oh god of revival pour it out pour it [Music] pour it out pour it out darkest night everybody [Music] you're the god of revival [Music] [Music] [Applause] pour it out [Music] every struggle will [Music] [Music] all my sins [Music] you are the treasure i find [Music] my reason [Music] worthy [Music] all praise to jesus christ high king of heaven my king forever [Music] oh you stormed the gates of my heart the veil in between was torn apart now you hold the keys to [Music] paul prays to the one who saved my life paul prays to jesus [Applause] [Music] [Music] forever [Music] my whole life [Music] my whole life now is four years [Applause] oh oh [Applause] [Music] jesus christ [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] before you [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all praise to the one who saved my [Music] [Music] all praise to the lord most high all praise to the one who saved my mind all praise to jesus christ king foreign [Music] so [Music] this is [Music] as the spirit was moving over the water spirit come move over come rest on us come rest on [Music] come on sing that again [Music] [Music] us [Music] [Music] when you feel [Music] [Music] me feel me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] will be [Music] oh [Music] hey before [Music] [Music] i wait for you [Music] holy spirit rest [Music] [Music] you're all we were [Music] [Music] can we make that the cry of our hearts this morning that we desire the closeness of the holy spirit that he would abide in ask can we sing that again [Music] [Applause] your only [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're [Music] is uh [Music] on us [Music] you're here [Music] [Music] come on church let's celebrate what god has done come on keep celebrating jesus lift them up lift them up lift them up thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus how many in the room this morning believe that god can still change the world yeah i'm fully convinced of that and in this song we we just went after is all about the experience the disciples had in the upper room where they were all together in one accord and they were praying and a mighty wind rushed in and tongues of fire came down and separated upon them and they had an incredible experience with jesus how many guys wish you could have an experience like that say me i think often times we come into a place like this on a sunday morning and i know this is true for myself where i've had a long week maybe not everything's gone my way and i'm looking to be recharged and i'm seeking after the lord i'm asking spiritful on me because i need personally a feeling of peace i need personally to be recharged i need something to happen with me internally but when we look at this scripture we realize that what happened in the upper room was the result of a prophecy that jesus gave in acts 1 8 when he says that you will receive power when the holy spirit comes on you so that you will be my witnesses so that you will be my witnesses and so what the holy spirit reminded me this morning is that the upper room wasn't the end goal it was the beginning the upper room was the birthplace of the church where the spirit descended and now we can change the world and god can change the world through us so what i want to do today i just want to readjust our hearts and posture our hearts for what we're doing and understanding that yes there are so many benefits when we submit ourself to jesus but if we call him lord we have to attach obedience to that if we call him lord there's a responsibility of knowing him so i want you guys to go ahead and close your eyes and just open up your hands i want to ask today for a specific feeling from holy spirit so that we can pour out so just begin to do that in your own words you can do it out loud you get it under your breath whatever it is the authentic cry of your heart just begin asking holy spirit to pour out on you right now holy spirit we just ask in the name of jesus christ for a fresh outpouring a fresh outpouring on our hearts god i pray for every single person in this room that there wouldn't be a single person in this room right now that wouldn't experience a fresh outpouring for ministry a fresh outpouring of power in the name of jesus christ we just open up our hands and we say lord we thank you that you have come upon us we thank you that you're meeting us here in this place we thank you that we have the opportunity to connect with the lord of all the earth we don't take that lightly you're the lord of all the earth and you're in this room with us and right now lord i pray that you would just pinpoint in our minds those you were calling us to be a witness to god we thank you for this encounter we thank you for this experience we commit lord to pouring out what you've given us freely we have received and freely we will give god we just raise our hands we sear we hear you calling who will go for me we raise our hands we say we will send us lord use us lord pull us back like an arrow and shoot us or we accept that we belong to you we belong to you jesus we honor you we thank you for this privilege to serve you god it's a privilege it's not a burden it's not another task in life it's the greatest privilege we could ever receive to serve you our lord we love you and we bless you in jesus name and everybody said amen come on celebrate the lord for what he's already doing this morning amen man i'm so excited to be with every single one of you and worship the lord with you this morning i know there's some new faces in the house this morning so church family helped me welcome those who are with us for the first time [Applause] [Music] we are truly honored that you guys chose to come and worship with us just on behalf of pastor matt our entire staff ministry team we're just really excited and we know you have multiple options we're so thankful you chose to worship with us in just a few minutes we're going to hear a message from our lead pastor pastor matt scott before we do that once you turned a few people around you greet them tell them you're happy to see him this morning [Music] [Music] [Music] all right praise the lord who's happy to be in church say me good me too open your bibles to first corinthians chapter nine we'll get there in just a moment i'm going to give you a few announcements before we get there got a lot to do today hang in there till the end we're going to have some baptisms who's excited about baptisms it's going to be a good day so we may go just a fuzz long i hate to ruin your your lunch plans but uh i think it'll be worth it if you'll hang with us we're gonna see new life today that's what it's all about grab those uh worship guides do you all remember what these things are do i remember these the first sunday back for worship guides and uh got a lot of good information in there got some resources for you to use a blank blank page for you take some notes if you want to do that an envelope if you want to put millions of dollars in it we'll take it up at the end of the service and uh also some evangelism cards those will make a little bit more sense here in a minute when we get into the message so get acquainted to that that connection card is highly important to us we want to know who you are our promise is to you that we will not abuse your information so if you give us information you may receive an email you can always opt out of that email if you like but that weekly email just gives you information like the church and also it's a means of taking next steps that connection card is and so fill it out if you don't want to fill out any information we completely understand that we get that but we would love regardless to have a prayer request at the bottom of that card just write your prayer request and we would love to engage with you in prayer this week we're in 21 days of prayer and we would love to have targets to aim our prayers at and those connection cards offer us that we've seen miracles we've seen breakthrough in many areas and we would love for your prayer to request to become an answered prayer amen everybody so give us that information drop those cards in the offering bucket uh at the end of the surface and we'll we'll receive those and put them on the altar this week um that six way segways into 21 days of prayer we're in our third week we begin our third week today we're having morning meetings at 6 a.m we would love for you to join us at 6 a.m with your coffee and uh unless you're fasting coffee then don't come with your water bottle and we would love just to be in corporate prayer with you the environment's always really rich and really primed when believers get together and pray that's biblical and we'd love for you to be a part of that if you can't we completely understand but if you can make it i think it'll be worth your time and and i always like to tell our congregation during 21 days of prayer let's finish stronger than what we started instead of it starting and waning off no no no let's let's have more people this last week than we've ever had before so come out and join us for a few mornings if not all of them and we'll close out the season of 21 days of prayer on saturday at nine o'clock so six a.m during the week saturday nine o'clock we've got an outreach event this weekend uh saturday at one o'clock if you want to be a part of that go online see our info booth and uh also we've got lots of things going on as far as small group school of ministry and so if you're looking to go deeper this fall want to get engaged and go deeper in the faith have lots of ways for you to do that amen everybody all right let me ask you a question have you ever been in a group of people uh maybe in a meeting and you're doing a lot of conversing just a lot of talking with a larger group of people and you go to the bathroom only to find out that you got something hanging out your nose has anybody ever done that you're like well how how about that i got a little hitchhiker right there on nostril left nostril and uh i wonder how long it's been there you know and you begin to ask questions like why aren't these people my friends why would they not tell me um maybe maybe you've you know i you know there's lots of embarrassing things that i've lived through but probably one of the most embarrassing is we we just launched the church this was my third public sermon and i preached the entire sermon with my pants unzipped black pants very much like the outfit today black pants white shirt tucked in shirt so praise the lord uh my wife was on the front row and she had her bible in her lap and she kept pointing at her lap and i was like i'm getting to it i'm gonna get to the word i promise you know i'm just giving the introduction and she was trying to give me a signal and um it was unfortunate you know one of those living learners but i i went up i was why didn't you just walk up and tell me you know so that everybody could focus on the lord you know during that message or maybe you've um you know the embarrassing moments you know i'm sure we've had them or or maybe you've been in a season of life where you were pursuing a relationship that everybody knew was wrong except for you or maybe you were hanging out with folks that you shouldn't and everybody knew they were wrong except for you and you got to the end of that season and finally your eyes were open you're like oh my goodness i can't believe that i was in the middle of that and then you start to ask friends if that why didn't y'all say something why didn't you tell me and people were like well we didn't think you would listen or no you we told you before and you didn't listen you we make excuses as to why we don't tell people things that they really need to know the fact of the matter is this if you truly love people you'll have some difficult conversations the title of today's message is why didn't somebody say something why didn't somebody say something there's um there's a scene that jesus sets up for us it's in matthew chapter 7. i i to this day i think it's the most horrific passage of scripture in the bible and the scene that he paints is a scene of judgment day they're asking him about judgment day and this is what jesus says about judgment day one of the things that he says is he says there will be many if i say many there will be many on that day who say lord lord did we not did we not and here's the list did we not prophesy in your name did we not cast out demons in your name and did we not perform miracles in your name those are big things agreed that's more about i think it's a little bit more than church it's a little bit more than writing a check it's a little bit more than watching a sermon online it's a little bit more involved than teaching a sunday school class prophesying casting out demons doing miracles that seems to be a very engaged individual but this is what jesus said you can read it for yourself he says i'm sorry depart from me i never gonoscope knew we weren't in an intimate relationship with each other you did some stuff using my name and i honored not you but my name people ask all the time how do these preachers you know how do these preachers see so much fruit all while having a secret life of sin behind closed doors simple god always honors his word whenever his word goes out he honors not the individual he honors the word so when his name goes forth he honors the name of jesus god is honoring jesus his sacrifice his power so jesus let's go back to judgment day let's look at the scene large group of people say many large group of people gathered on judgment day all of us together and jesus is going to look at a large portion of this group and say i'm sorry you don't get to enter in you must live for eternity apart from me i feel within deep within my spirit that this is a large portion of the southeast american church large portion who have been taught in error that christianity is church the christianity is church things the christianity is saying a prayer and then doing some stuff it's not according to jesus christianity is a relationship with your savior and if you're in a relationship with your savior you will do church things but it's possible to do church things without a relationship and there's going to be a large group of people who are shocked to hear i don't get to get in and that should break our hearts i hope and pray that on that day that one of those individuals doesn't look at me someone who knows me someone who i knew i hope they don't look at me and say why didn't you say something why didn't you say something i have a feeling that all of us know someone that we need to say something to if we care about them hell is real heaven is real jesus said they're real places this is not figurative places this is not spiritual places these are physical places if heaven is real and hell is real and we truly love people we have a responsibility to say something now here's the question what do we say what do we say well this is a very talkative generation that we have now lots to say about lots of things and the more i talk about things that don't matter the less credibility i have when i do talk about something that does matter we're very chatty these days about political things and vaccines and viruses and all of the stuff that matters much to us and maybe it should matter to you but does it matter to him is he that concerned about the political well-being of america is that high on his priority list currently does he have a tally mark system upstairs marking off who got vaccinated and who didn't get vaccinated who's wearing a mask who's not wearing a mask good morning if he were here would he use his platforms in the way that we use our platforms we talk much about things are we talking much about the right things it seems that we're willing to open our mouth much about some of those things and again i'm not against that some of these things need to be exposed but are you equally or not more opening your mouth about the right things the number one reason that there are people in bondage right now listen to me because outside of the walls of this church even within the walls of this church there are people in bondage slaves slaves to depression slaves to fear slaves to sin slaves to pornography slaves to addiction slaves to abuse slaves to homes that they wish they could get out of but they just can't right now children stuck in homes that they wish they could get out of but they can't there are heartbreaking things anybody watching the news this week about afghanistan it's heartbreaking there's just as heartbreaking stuff happening a mile down the road a mile down the road and the reason that all of these conditions exist is not because the devil is good at what he does it's not because the devil is more powerful than god it's because christians are not good at we're what we're supposed to be good at it's not because the devil is good it's because we're not good it's because our mouse remains shut to the things of the kingdom all remind while remaining very open to the things of the world since covid there are lots of people that aren't here it's good to see a fuller room this morning but there's a lot of folks that used to call this place home that aren't here they're gone friends of yours you used to be close friends of yours serve alongside of you in your bible study they're gone and here's my question have you reached out do you care enough well i think they're going to heaven well think they may be going to heaven but i do know this christianity 101 is devotion to god they can very well have that but then it progresses christian this christianity 101 devotion to god fellowship with other believers ministry and mission with a community of faith worship in community hebrew says do not neglect the gathering as some are in the habit of doing why would it say that because it's a value our afghan brothers and sisters are putting on social media we will gather whether they kill us or not you're willing to go to church at the risk of being beheaded we will gather whether they kill us or not and yet a little virus strikes up in half of the american church is gone now i'm not saying the virus is not real and i'm not saying that we shouldn't take it real but since when has christianity been risk averse good morning so have we reached out have we talked to folks have we engaged them there's some people that you're close enough with that you can have a conversation that goes something like this hey what's up where have you all been well we got this going on we're just really busy okay praise god join the club we're kind of all in the same situation i got a job i got a hundred kids got stuff going on but listen listen look at me look at me i'm being i'm being funny but i'm not we value you enough to say we miss you and i value you enough and i love you enough to say this can be of value to you re-engage with us minister with us love with us be a part of the family so maybe some of us should have some conversations this week re-engage some folks that could possibly be on a down-heeled decline and you not even know it but there's also some folks that we don't know let's talk about them for the rest of our time we don't know them they're not what we would in the south say saved they haven't believed upon and in jesus christ they don't like church and they really don't like christians this is useless to them we have a responsibility to change their mind so let's talk about how to do that how do we do that first corinthians chapter 9 did you find it that was just the intro this is the apostle paul he's going to give us his strategy for evangelism this won't take long but i want you to write down these five things that we see i'm going to read to you out of the message so here's my statement the the translation it's not a translation at all this is a paraphrase that i'm about to read you read your translation whatever yours is niv nlt esv nasp whatever they are there's several translations you read your translation but i'm about to read you a paraphrase because i like this paraphrase i think it's got some language that's very conducive to our current culture and our current situation say okay so this is what it says in the message even though i am free this is the apostle paul talking about evangelism even though i am free of the demands and the expectations of everyone i have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people what kind of people religious non-religious meticulous moralist loose living immoralist the defeated the demoralized whoever i didn't take on their way of life i kept my bearings in christ but i entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view i've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those i meet into a god-saved life i did all of this because of the message i didn't just want to talk about it i wanted to be in on it i didn't want to just talk about it sing about it listen to my ipod about it i wanted to be in on it of the greatest evangelists to ever live gives us his strategy number one he says we must add value to people's lives lost people listen to me lost people will not care about what you believe until they believe you care about them your message is of zero value to people who don't think you care about them or people who think that you think they're a project and moms and dads i'm speaking to some of you right now even your own children feel like they're a project because every time you get around them you preach to them you have stepped out of the role of mom and dad and you have stepped into the role of a pastor or a preacher and they may be as lost as a goose in high weeds and i know your concern but the way to their heart is not through your preaching it's through your love the marketplace is filled with people who are all about gaining and advancing and growing they have dreams they have aspirations they want more they want better they'll do about anything in order to get there and the problem is the marketplace is also filled with christians who behave the same way they treat people as slaves and servants in order to accomplish their dreams and visions and the marketplace needs to be filled with more servants people who will go low paul says i am not a slave and they had slaves in those days that's what he's saying i'm not a slave i'm not one who has been hired and paid to serve but i act like one every day in order to lift people up i chose this position as a slave as a servant why because it often opens doors to jesus conversations there was a person i used to work with that was very difficult i was in the secular marketplace for 18 years nobody wanted to be around this individual and difficult just difficult i was in a service like this one sunday and the lord said i want you to love him and i want you to serve him it's like lord anybody but him anybody said serve him so i started eating lunch with him and just doing things just the small things here and there just to help him out hey you didn't ask me to do this but i wanted to do this for you you know i know you're busy i ran something out to your hospital today you know i did this i did them and he's like oh wow and then he started to use me he started calling me hey can you do this for me do something like oh boy here we go so i got started to get taken advantage of because i was being nice and that's a lot of our fear we don't be nice because we think we'll get taken advantage of what's wrong with getting it taken advantage of if it ultimately leads to somebody getting saved so i did get taken advantage of and used and i was getting tired of it and then one night this was christmas eve night it was actually christmas day because it was 1 a.m 1 am christmas morning i get a phone call he's had a issue let's just say that he had an issue with the law and he needed help and this is what he said i knew that you would be the only one to help me he had tons of friends that were closer he had tons of family that he could have called upon but he asked me to come help him i left my house santa's about to come i got three kids 1am i roll over and look at stevie i said i need to go she goes i know so go pull this guy of a ditch bandage him up take him to the hospital drop him off a week later because i need i need to talk to you then all the questions come why are you the way that you are why do you have so much joy i've been using you for a year why are you not upset what's your agenda i have no agenda if i tell you what i do have and i witnessed him and he accepted christ two years two years of being abused used taken advantage of just served just served and then opened the door paul said i i choose this position because this position is so much better than that one when it comes to leading people to jesus number two paul says i include everyone i include everyone everybody say everybody look at your neighbor and say god loves me tell the same person god loves you look at them and say god loves people like us now look at them and say god likes people that are not like us jesus died for all listen to me alabama jesus died for democrats jesus died for people that voted for biden and people that voted for trump he died for biden he died for trump he died for isis he died for taliban paul the apostle paul was isis he was a terrorist on his way to kill christians when god knocked him off his horse god died for the mast in the unmasked the vaccinated and the unvaccinated uh oh he even died for alabama fans go figure it doesn't get worse he died for black he died for white he died for asian he died for hispanic he died for people who work their tails off and people who take advantage of systems and don't work at all [Applause] all of this division is simply the tactic of the devil to do two things divide the church so that we can be least effective and to alienate the church from the rest of the world and right now satan is laughing his tail off if he really has a doubt you know why because most christians have bit they took the bait look at them look at their conversations look at their face-to-face conversations look at their conversations behind closed doors about people behind their back look at them look at them look at them don't think that the conversations behind closed doors don't matter according to jesus they matter more than the ones in public you can't curse the president in your living room and then pray for him at 6am in front of this altar do you not think god watches that all this division say it's like keep talking keep using those mouths keep talking there's opportunities everywhere right now so many people scared so many people frightened so many people listen to me deep down inside they're searching for god but god people are using the opportunities to to voice their agendas to prove their opinions to be correct are you okay with being challenged this morning listen i don't care if you post something politically that's fine again some of this stuff needs to be exposed but i hope you're posting more jesus things than you are republican things or democrat things or vaccine things or unvaccinated things you hear what i'm saying you are in christ you have a responsibility to him first and foremost you are a witness for jesus here's the question would you be found guilty of being a witness what are you witnessing to when you stand before jesus is he gonna say yep you were a witness all right a good witness for the republican party a good witness for pfizer for moderna you were a great witness for that vaccine but people didn't have a clue you were a christian so all these opportunities are presented themselves and so we we find ourselves face to face often with people who differ from us in opinions well go figure this has been happening for thousands of years you don't agree with some of the things i'm saying this morning praise god go read your bible and ask him what he means but we find ourselves in these conversations whether they be in person or virtual and political bob comes at me and he believes in the vaccine very strongly and i don't and so we begin in this dialogue and instead of instead of listening to what bob is really saying i am so hell-bent on converting bob to get the vaccine out of his body and to change his mind to change his political stance because he needs to hear that i'm right and he's wrong so we begin in this dialogue that goes absolutely nowhere we both walk away from the conversation or from the post feeling more strongly about our position than we did before the conversation it's nuts instead of listening to bob to see if there might be an open door for me to walk to in order to witness to him when bob starts and i'm just so concerned right now this is just i can't believe these unvaccinated people they're spreading this virus to everybody instead of listening he's scared and maybe rightfully so because with some questions i just found out that his wife passed away his daughter passed away and his mom passed away from covent and he's scared and in his mind the vaccine is the solution so for me to discredit what he's feeling because i feel strongly about a jab i'm not being christ-like so instead of saying well actually bob here's all the data and the data shows that actually the unvaccinated shield bob who just lost three family members what would it look like if we say bob you're right we should be concerned this virus is taking advantage of people i feel compel listen to me i feel compelled right now bob to pray will you pray with me well i don't know let's pray real quick don't give him a choice i'm going to pray bob you can stand here or awkwardly back away but i'm about to pray the pain off these walls in the name of jesus grab him by the shoulder in the name of jesus i ask holy spirit that you come right now and bring peace to my brother bob that you bring healing to his family that you protect both of our families for the from this weapon of the devil will you help me and bob see that this weapon has been formed against us help us come together help us to see what's really going on help us to be in unity give us peace in jesus name so different sitting there man if christians can figure this out well i'm right well you may be as right as right can be but when you stand before the lord empty-handed not bringing anyone to jesus you're not going to be judged by how right you were in your opinions you will be judged by how many people you brought with you and i know that's hard to hear but i love you enough to say something that was worth the price of admission right there we'll continue though number three we must not compromise truth okay so in the midst of this if i have somebody that i'm trying to reach that obviously has immoral an immoral world view position it doesn't mean that i just agree with everything that they say listen i can be grace-filled in loving all while speaking truth at the same time jesus woman caught in the act of adultery prostitution brought before him what did he do ye who are without sin cast the first stone grace she deserved to be stoned according to the law what did he say all right fine that is what it says in the law so the person without sin you throw the first stone boom pump pump pump they drop their stones it's grace he picks her up he wipes her off probably embraces her and it says my daughter go and sin no more truth both equally loving so to love someone is not to drop the word of god hyper grace is when i completely ignore the word of god in order to let someone know that they are loved but if i ignore the word of god i'm not truly loving them so yes your sexually immoral position i get okay whatever but i i will love you even in this position of homosexuality or this this relationship that is sex outside of marriage or whatever it is the addiction of porn whatever it is i will love you in this place but i will not lead you to believe that it's okay to stay there i love you enough to bring you out of this bondage and into life where there is truth there's freedom i don't want you to be a loved person in a jail cell i want you to be a loved person who is free [Applause] we have to stop compromising the truths of scripture all while not using the truths of scripture to bash people over the head these ridiculous condemning messages on church signs turn burn it's not working they just think we're all crazy and a large portion of us are okay i'm gonna baptize some people number four we must enter into their world right so we got to get into these places where listen church where our hands might get dirty we love we love the one day serve events let's go mow some yards and build some decks toss some turkeys over a fence because i don't want to go beyond the fence because that stuff may get on me so we love all these one-day serve events all while yet being very unwilling to get into life with these individuals and all the one-day serve against i mean i'm all for them because i think they open doors it's not the solution all they do is make us feel better about ourself i got a turquoise t-shirt anybody wearing it today i got a t-shirt and i took a picture on instagram of me serving people so now everybody thinks i'm a better person because of that we made a video at church about us serving our community praise the lord good for you where were you the other 51 days of weekends of the year well it's at the lake or the beach or the ball field you can go to those places that's fine but if you're in those places more than you're in the community maybe we should ask questions what are my priorities does the community actually matter to me shouldn't have gone there i guess so quiet hey listen if it's not convicting you let it roll off your back you may be right in good standing with the lord but if you feel something a little bit in here you might want to pay attention to it so we do these one day events we do these one day things we'll have a bible study here we'll come to church and you know maybe a couple hours a week we invest in the lord and the community that's it paul said no i got i got into life with these people i got to know them i went to their house i sat across their coffee table from them i cried with them i went and picked their kids up from school i kept their kids so that they could go apply for a job i helped them with their ged so that they could get out of this are y'all hear what i'm saying like i did life with these people i don't know and i'm talking to myself i'm preaching to myself by the way i don't know if i'm going to be able to stand in front of jesus and say i wrote a check and that be acceptable i don't know we'll take your check every week but don't don't don't confuse writing a check for actually doing ministry don't confuse the two and then the last thing he said we have to make people hungry we've got to make people hungry he's i stirred him up a little bit i live every day believing that all people want to know god i want you to hear that i believe all people deep down inside i don't care how evil they may be i think all people do want to know god they really do scripture tells us that god deposited that longing in everybody people try to fill it with different things obviously but i think that all people are hungry and and but i think that it's our responsibility to entice their hunger have you ever not been hungry but then you stepped into a place where you started to smell food and then all of a sudden you got hungry man if we started blowing some cinnamon roll stuff in here right now i mean i'd lose all of you you'd all be gone you remember the gallery of that place in the gallery the cinnamon what was that what's that place i had to eat one every time cinnamon roll as big as your head you had to eat it you know you know that they literally had fans that blew it out into the mall genius you walk in just you you just eat a rib eye and a baked potato you come in you're like oh i'm starving i have a little seminar listen listen chris look at me listen christians should act as those fans that blow the aroma of heaven into the places that we go and people are like what is that smelling so hungry right now i don't even know what i'm hungry for oh you want jesus that's what you want sweet smelling aroma so how do we do that john maxwell has a message on this actually he's a great leader but he said he said i'll just i'll just i'll just throw little nuggets out so somebody says for example man i'm just so stressed right now he'll say something like oh i wish i could give you the peace that i have i wish i could give you the strength that i found so question i mean that that demands what are you talking about what piece oh you wouldn't be interested but i do wish i could give it to you like no tell me more well i once like you lived pretty stressed out pretty full of anxiety pretty full of fear but i found peace in a person there was this guy that he was a gym owner i used to this has been 10 15 years ago but he came up to me one time he says i just i need to i know you're entrepreneurial i know you you like to business is kind of your thing i need some help i want to grow my gym and um i just heard one of these messages i was talking about and the lord said make him hungry and uh i said okay okay and so i said i'll tell you what i'll tell you what there's there's four ways that you can almost automatically grow a business four ways but i'm only gonna give you three of them because i don't think you'll be that interested in the fourth so i gave them the three okay that's good but what's the fourth ah i don't think you'd be interested you know i know you i think i know a lot about i i just don't think that that would be your cup of tea no tell me the fourth well no i just don't think i mean it works it's probably the best of all four but i just don't think you'll be that interested why do you say that how do you know i just kind of know you and i just don't think you'll be that interested tell me the fourth well okay but i've just warned you the fourth is jesus without jesus you can't truly value people you may can be flattering you can make it be polite but you can't truly value them the way that they were created to be valued so you got to value jesus oh i see told you you wouldn't be that interested after about five more conversations so he was interested and he chose jesus we got to talk more about the things that jesus does in our life start talking about a healing that took place that's like blowing cinnamon roll smell out in the what somebody got healed in your church we've never seen nobody healed in our church yeah start talking about deliverance start talking about baptism start talking about hey listen let's be a witness let's be a witness once you bow your heads father i pray right now in jesus name this is what i'm going to ask just open your minds you have something to write with if you want to participate grab grab something to write with a grab your phone because i think the holy spirit's about to give you four names father i pray that right now you give each individual the names of two people that were once very engaged with you and with church that are currently not two people that are close enough to us that we can call this week and i pray that you give us the names of two or the faces of two that are very far from you and we know it and they know it give us four names four names and help us to be obedient this week with saying something saying something we thank you holy spirit i pray that you give us courage and boldness and we pray now that you move in this moment of new life celebrating baptisms god it's my prayer that in two months we have 40 of these we and we have 40 of these because the church decided to open their mouth thank you god for life it's in jesus name we pray and everybody said a good amen all right baptism folks let's come on forward as they're coming won't you give them a warm warm gathering place welcome [Applause] all right come on up guys y'all line up up here let's line up right here if you're being baptized in this order closest to the baptistry we'll go john c shell curtis is casey here okay there we go awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome all right guys go ahead johnson you jump in i'm going to ask you a few questions where's that microphone brett you got that microphone go up there and put it in front of john c when we ask questions hey before we start talking um galatians says that when we're baptized that we are baptized into christ this is a sacrament meaning it is symbolic of many things we are using water the reason we use water is because water is sacred in almost every culture in all culture all cultures value water the spirit of god we just think about today the spirit of god hovered over the water in the beginning so water is sacred and so that's why we choose to use water so that is that is the element that we use the the conduit that we use is the ministry teams the pastor whoever is facilitating but the person that is getting baptized is not getting baptized into water they're getting baptized into christ the word that's used is a thrusting forth into the water it's not passive by any means it's very violent actually you're being thrust into the person of jesus you're being thrust out of the life that you once had and thrusted into jesus so galatians says we're baptized into jesus when jesus got baptized he gives us a picture and a model of what happens we are we are buried with him raised in his likeness and then his spirit descends upon us there's actually a baptism of the spirit that happens at salvation at baptism now there are subsequent baptisms of the spirit that can happen for the rest of your life everybody say more you can get more as much as you want of the spirit but there is going to be a spirit baptism that takes place here today because the word of god tells us that and there's also another thing that happens and this is kind of violent as well but death happens whenever a person is baptized into christ they die of self and so a lot of things are going to happen today in the spirit realm and in the natural and you're going to play a great part of that all right so johnsy are you ready to be baptized if so tell us why do you want to be baptized today i'm completely ready to be baptized i'm 100 sold out to jesus christ come on [Music] amen i sold out 10 months ago 100 and before that i played a game i wore a mask i wasn't real and i stayed in bondage and but since i sold out jesus has been delivering me i want more deliverance right now when i go under the water i want everything to break off every curse stronghold come on [Music] and to clarify by mask he doesn't mean this he means okay all right just making sure all right all right praise god all right do you accept jesus christ and profess him as your lord and savior do you denounce the devil and all of his works in your life and are you ready to make this public profession and to receive anything that god may have for you today in this pool if so let us be baptized hold your nose guys help me out jonzy be baptized in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit and all god's people said [Applause] [Music] john z i pray that the holy spirit come upon you right now and that you receive a fresh baptism of fire exchange your hands right now holy spirit fall upon john z and equip him for the work that you have given him which is not just to be a lukewarm christian who warms the seat he is now a warrior of jesus christ deploy him into the marketplace deploy him into the community deploy him into his family to be a witness to bear witness to the living christ miracles signs and wonders in jesus name fill him with your spirit in order to be a sign in a wonder to an own-looking world who is looking for jesus it's in his name that we pray and everybody said it good amen amen amen [Music] [Applause] all right yeah yay michelle are you ready to be baptized all right tell us why you were in the tank today why you want to be baptized because i'm tired of living my my life for myself and by myself so amen tired of living for self and tired of living by yourself amen that's a good reason to be baptized i want you to know the lord's going to meet you in this pool today this is going to be a day that you never forget that you never forget he's going to free you and he's going to make a deposit in your life that you will never forget you'll never forget so do you publicly profess him as your lord and savior today do you denounce the devil all of his power and all of his works in your life do you resist him in every way and now do you wish to be baptized both in the water and of the spirit amen hold your nose michelle be baptized in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit open your [Applause] hands in the name of jesus i ask you holy spirit that you come upon michelle right now and you baptize her with fire come fire of the spirit refining fire burn through her erase everything that is not of you we claim right now in the name of jesus she is brand new all past things are gone all past things are dead and behold you have come this is a day of redemption this is a day that you shall be glorified jesus christ so come holy spirit and fill her to capacity filler to overflowing gifts gift of evangelism gift of evangelism fall upon her we're going to baptize many of her friends because she will not let them go fight for them fight for them we will baptize many of your friends in this pool many of your friends will be baptized in this pool she's going to say something god so when she opens her mouth may it not be her words may it be your words that cut that divide bone and marrow spirit and soul may they cut to the very heart of an individual so they may experience you your love your passion may they see the eyes of jesus as she looks into their eyes fill her up god fill her up may she never forget the day that you met her in the water in jesus name amen [Applause] come on curtis [Music] curtis won't you tell us why are you getting baptized today i rededicated my life to christ in april of 2020 and before then i was on that pendulum hot warm hot cold and since then he has walked with me and done things for me that i didn't even know was expected so i want to show my love and appreciation to him for everything he's done for me and everything he will continue to do in my life amen thank you jesus this is a good way to show it all right curtis do you publicly profess jesus christ as your lord and savior do you also publicly denounce satan and all of his activity and all of his works in your life and do you wish now to be baptized into the faith but also into this faith community if so say yes yes all right hold your nose curtis be baptized in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit [Applause] holy spirit come baptize your son with a fresh anointing and with fire fall upon him and grace him with great gifts with an anointing that he will use for your kingdom i pray for a corporate baptism to fall upon him right now that will be used for public ministry god use his mouth use his compassion use his heart to lead people unto you touch him god when he looks at the picture of this day i pray that he not remember the superficial things but the deep things that you did within him on this moment confirm this moment with radical life transformation and confirm the gospel that he will preach with miracle signs and wonders hands to heal hands to heal hands to heal jesus name amen amen all right casey [Music] [Applause] casey tell us why you want to be baptized today as a non-believer i fell in the grips of addiction on several levels and i've gotten my demons on their heels and i want to finish them off all right here we go [Applause] let's do it [Applause] amen casey do you publicly profess jesus christ as your lord and savior i do do you denounce all the works of the devil all of his power and all of his influence in your life i do the word of god says resist him and he shall flee from you so today we resist and we stand firm do you wish to be baptized into this faith community more than anything true healing comes in faith community brothers to lean upon all right open your hands hold your nose case to be baptized in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit [Applause] come holy spirit we pray for a complete work not a partial work but a complete work right now in the name of jesus complete deliverance complete healing of the soul the mind and the body full deliverance a house swept clean and now we ask holy spirit that you fill the house with your presence so pray for us fresh anointing in a fresh feeling of your spirit thank you lord god i pray that you impart onto my brother the ministry of reconciliation send him into the deepest darkest places of addiction to free those that were once captive like him [Music] he go back to the places that sold him and rescue all of those that are in bondage god equip him to be a special ops agent in your kingdom one with special intelligence one who knows the ways and who now will bring in the light into the darkest places he too will bring many into this baptistery out of addiction and into faith bless him give him what he needs surround him with warrior angels jesus name amen [Applause] amen stand up [Music] aren't you glad you stayed praise god praise god asher's come forward ministry team come forward you have any needs in the house today god's here he'd love to meet those needs so if you need prayer over your own life your own body your family maybe a loved one who's not here and you just want somebody to agree with you that soon they will be here amen and we'd love to pray with you and for you we're going to collect those connection cards go ahead and grab those if you have an offering today we'll receive that as well we thank you for your your blessed obedience and your faithfulness to give it's because of your giving we can do stuff like this so thank you thank you so much thank you so much open your hands just want to pray a blessing over you we'll sing one last chorus together then you're dismissed father we thank you so much for your word we thank you so much for your guidance and your leading in this time god i thank you for choosing these individuals with their hands open god you have chosen them for such a time as this to be a witness to be a witness to expose darkness yes to expose injustice yes but also to expose the works of the devil and to lead people into light give them strategy this week god divine strategy as how to be a witness in the words that they are to say these four names that you've given this god our promise is that we will open our mouth so lead us from this place to be your hands and feet empower us in jesus name and everybody said amen we'll see you [Music] [Applause] you're soon [Music] [Music] oh [Music] i know [Music] [Music] have an incredibly blessed day church we'll

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