i have good news for you
Santa is not real, sorry it's good to tell your kids now so you do
not have to break the lie later that felt good
it's amazing you know, my little sorry, kind of but not really because
so my mom and dad told me, i was mad, i defended them at school
i did, i said "don't you try to tell me, my mom wouldn't lie to me"
then she told me and i was heartbroken my little girl Zoe, you guys know my babies
Destiny is going to be 18 in a couple of days Zoe is 8, but at school, they have this little
elf thing and all this Christmas magic it's not magic at all
this is good i'm just a truth guy man
"you are spoiling the Christmas spirit" sorry, it's about the Holy Spirit not the
Christmas spirit oh man, some people came and are like, o my
gosh, i can't believe i came for this you just have to tell your kids the truth,
it will be alright it's awesome
so Zoe is at school and these kids are talking my little 8 year old, she is like, listen
you guys have got to understand something Santa is not real
What do you mean he is not real, everybody believes in Santa!
i don't she said What are you saying? Zoe is trying to reason with them
Zoe is pretty dominant so she is growing in her reasoning skills
she said, "look Jesus is real" "No, Santa is real, Jesus is not real"
Zoe goes, "i wouldn't be alive today if Jesus wasn't real"
"because my daddy was a drug addict for 22 years, and he was an angry, angry man
my momma and my daddy, they hated each other and then Jesus came and rescued my daddy in
a drug deal" You're telling an 8 year old kid this
"and he got shot at" "what? your daddy is a criminal!"
"no, my daddy is free" the teacher was trying to find out what's
going on over there Zoe is talking to her "listen, if you don't
believe in Jesus, you know that one day, if you don't believe in Him before you die,
you could go to hell?" we don't like to talk about hell, but Jesus
talked about it a lot and I don't preach hell, I preach heaven
because if you see what heaven is, the goodness of God leads someone to repentance
it's His goodness but His goodness is so good that His grace
isn't an entitlement to sin grace is the ability to live like Jesus
that's really powerful it's so good
he has enabled me to live free from sin people are like "whoa, what are you trying
to say? That is blasphemy!"
no it's not He said to be an imitator of God, and God
doesn't blaspheme listen, i preach the whole Gospel
Jesus is outrageous you know Jesus never tried to sin and get
away with it and He told me to follow him, that's what
grace is grace is the ability to live like Jesus
Grace and truth was upon Him the law came through Moses, but grace and
truth came through Jesus Jesus brought grace and truth
grace empowers me to walk out whatever truth calls me to
"yes but that is hard truth!" i understand, but that is why it takes real
grace to empower us to live out hard truth
hard truth is not really hard if you see who He is
because if you see who He is, you see people say, "that is too good to be
true" no, He is so godd, He IS true
and if you see that, your whole life will reflect that
you can be a vessel to carry the goodness of God everywhere you go
So Zoe is trying to explain to this child well the child went "she swore, she said 'hell'"
so the teacher called a parent teacher conference so my wife lets me handle those
because i like that , i do because you can't stop me from preaching the
Gospel in schools never, ever
you can't a teacher has to be quiet until a student
initiates it then they can bring it
but once they initiate it, and you can probe a student to make them initiate it
so the teacher called me in but first she talked to Zoe
"zoe listen, I am a Christian, i believe everything you are saying right now
I believe it too, i am a believer I am going to have to call your dad, i am
going to have to talk to him" She wasn't getting reprimanded by the teacher,
she's just not knowing how to deal with this, because she's a teacher, she is thinking she
is limited so i went and explained the rules to her
about what she is allowed to do and what she is allowed to bring
now we know teachers that lay hands on kids without even praying out loud
so you can be so prayed up in your heart that whe you lay hands on a student,
there is a transference of His goodness that touches the student
that's really awesome so she said "i really appreciate what you've
done here today" i said "this is amazing, but we are just getting
started" so we just kept going, the teacher got healed
she got overwhelmed the teachers aide got healed, the teachers
aide was an atheist you can't stop Jesus
you can't stop Him if you are an atheist, from coming through a believer towards you
you can't Gods love never ever fails
Never gives up and never runs out, it never does
you can seperate yourself from receiving it but you will never seperate from His ability
to give it because He is love, He doesn't have to try
to He doesn't have to learn how to
He doesn't have to tolerate you see we teach people that God loves you but
He doesn't like you that is the devil
i will say it again, God loves you but He doesn't like you
that is the devil in your mouth if God loves me but doesn't like me, that
means He tolerates me if He tolerates me, He doesn't really love
me He just puts up with me
and if He puts up with me, how can I be loved by that? I can't
What if i mess up? He doesn't like me but He has to love me - we
teach people that stuff you teach people, not you individually, but
we, as the body of Christ, we teach people, we give them reasons to not
love I don't get it! God so loved the world that He gave
He just gave God so loved the world that He gave His one
and only Son that whoever belived in Him wouldn't perish
that doesn't mean just go to hell that means live like hell here
when someone comes to Jesus, hell has to be removed from here
it gets removed here someone gets born again, it's essential, but
it's to unlock your potential when you come to Jesus - boom - He gives you
a brand new heart now your mind needs to be fixed because you
are still thinking like hell it has to be transformed so you can think
like heaven or you can be headed to heaven, thinking like
hell until you get there be limited in what you can do, what you can
say, how you can live and you are limited by your own affections
and it's imperative that we understand that our affection is supposed to be laid upon
Him because His affection has beeen poured out
upon us we need to understand who we are so that in
every situation, we carry Jesus that's really good
you know, i get to travel all over the world and I'm so excited about that
i get to go to Africa, do crusades it's crazy, never seen anything like it
i've never seen 750,000 people in one spot it's unreal, it's just beyond
but my heart is possessed by the thought that i am standing before Him every day
all day, before my Father so whether i am on a plane, or whether i am
in front of a million people it the same God
the numbers aren't the deal Him
I want to leave heaven full and hell empty i really do
you guys ok? you happy? i can't see you
because I'm in the light as He is in the light
so walk in the light, as He is in the light i fellowship with Him
i fellowship with you do you know if i walk in the light, if i walk
like Jesus walked, i have fellowship with you
if i don't, i don't have any fellowship, i have secrets
this is good, watch if we walk in the light, as He is in the light
we have "koinonia" we have fellowship with one another
but if i don't walk in the light, i can't fellowship with you
i have an agenda, i have boundries and i have hidden things
issues, things that i can't let you find out, if you do then i am exposed
Jesus said "the righteous are as bold as the lion and the wicked flee when noone persues
them" watch, noone persues you because you are walking
on eggshells waiting for you to be found out see it's a problem because you can do ministry
in that place and that's a dangerous place right there
there are no secrets in the Kingdom matter of fact, if there are, Jesus gave us
the ability to understand the myseries concerning the Kingdom
because it's Gods good pleasure to give us the Kingdom
but when you see that, you don't have hidden stuff
your sin will find you out, it's not a healthy place to be
this isn't about just trying to get a pulpit to preach
it's about living your life completely transparent, 100% clean
conscience unviolated the wholw way, unviolatable it's still the same message, it's just got
way more intense to he who has been given much, much is required
people are like "come on man, i am not called to do what you do"
are you? what if the reason that sometimes people say
that is they don't understand the life that they have
so they envy someone elses life, wish they had theirs because they are not satisfied
or thankful for the one they have if that's the problem, you'll never be satisfied
because even when you get up here, more is expected
it's amazing, it is if you would see who God has created you to
be, you'd be so overwhelmed with joy and so totally thankful for where you are
and who you are that you'd never envy someone elses life
and wish that you had theirs because you'd be so thankful for the one that God gave you
it's called identity it's the number one attack point of the enemy
he wants to attack your identity, he wants to crush this in here so you can never see
who you are created to be see, he can't come up into heaven and dethrone
God he can't, he already tried that
didn't happen he got put here
and God gets good pleasure out of watching His kids stomp him for a living
He does, God enjoys the ones that He created in His image,
filled with Him, not just knowing about Him, but knowing him on a daily basis
and being known by Him on a daily basis there's a difference - you can know about
God and you can be known by God that's where i want to be, i am known by my
Father that means there are no secrets and i am very
aware that He sees everything in my life His eyes are completely on me, they never
look away and He's always got great thoughts for me
and He sees me and He likes it i look in the mirror and i can see Him in
there that's awesome
i am worse than what i was last time i came i know him more
it's ridiculous i know Him more today than i did yesterday
and that's crazy every day i get to increase in my knowing
Him and Him knowing me i am in love
it's a good thing so i had a great time in the teachers office
it was good can i tell you what happened last night?
this was great you know yesterday was daddy daughter date
night, me and Destiny, good to hang
my wife had a bible study, it was really cool and like people were at my house till 1:30
in the morning it started at like 7:00, crazy
so Destiny and I went out to Chipotle one of Americas best restaurants ever created
so we just hung out, had a good time and then we went to the movies
i was going to go see Exodus with my daughter until, i thought about Noah
and i said "not a good idea" because Noah was not a goood idea
no, and i didn't see Exodus but boy, an i allowed to say that on stage?
we just didn't go to see that one so we went to see Big Hero 6
which was pretty cool so Destiny and me are hanging you know, it's
pretty awsesome we had another hour to go and we're waiting,
and we get in there, just daddy daughter time just hanging out loving my kid because she's
amazing she really is
all my kids are amazing, my wife is amazing it's outrageous
life is short man so we're coming home, it's about 25 after
12 when we get out of there, it's a late movie
we're driving home, we're coming down and I'm talking to Destiny about,
because she's still, she got her licence later so she's om that licence that you can't drive
after 12 and i told her that after 12 a lot of times
you know there's a lot of people drinking, they are
out there driving and she's like "dad, it can't be that bad"
well, we are coming down the raod and there's this truck
on the side of the road like this off the road over here, in a ditch against
a tree wheels spinning
and i stop, because that's what i do and Destiny is in the car with me
it's about 20 to 1 now and i said "hey buddy"
he goes "What!" and i said "man, are you ok?" "yeah"
he gets out of the car, walks across the road like this
"who are you?", screams i am like "I'm the man you need to see right
now" i am, i am
i really am i said to him "man, i have no way to get your
truck out, you are buried but if you don't get into my car with your
keys, and i don't take you home, the police are going to take you somewhere
else" you say, well why did you do that?
because that's what grace does and i looked at him and i said "man you're
in trouble right now" he said "i'm not in trouble, who do you think
you are?" i said "i am a Christian that loves Jesus
man, but i was a drug addict for 22 years
and i was an atheist my whole life" he goes "i am nothing like you"
i said "well, that doesn't matter. You want a ride? I am here for you man"
he says "who do you think you are?" i said "i am your friend"
because, that's who God is to us my daughter is a little concerned, because
he is a pretty angry fella he is a scrapper, you can tell he is
i used to be a srapper then Jesus set me free from me, and everything
changed but i am looking at him and telling him how
much God loves him he says "i don't want to hear that stuff,
why are you here?" i said "because you're off the road dude,
you need a ride, your wheels off the ground,
you're not going anywhere man" i said "look, it's only a matter of time bafore
the police come down this road and pick you up. do you want to go to jail? Or do you want me to take you home?"
he said "i've already been to jail. I don't care"
i said "alright. I am just going to sit here for a minute,
you decide" "can i take my dog?" he said
i said "sure dude" his dog is in the car
he is totally out of it man he doesn't even know what's going on right
now i said to him "man, can i help you?" i get out of the car, turn around
get in front of his truck, get in front of his vehicle
he looks at me and he goes "why are you doing this?"
i said "because i love you" he goes "What?!" i sadi "i do man"
he goes "what are you talking about? You're crazy!"
i said "i am You want to go home now?" my daughter is like, oh my goodness
because i am about to put him in my car and he's upset
he doesn't want to talk about God but he's in my vehicle
i don't have nothing else to talk about this is not just for this occasion
it's every day, everywhere i go i am a full time Christian
i am a full time Christian you guys, you know you do not have to be an
Evangelist all you have to do is be a believer, that
believes like one that really believes
do you believe? what would do? i kept thinking, what would the Good Samaritan,
what would he do? because cars passed him by, passed him by
off the road they know why he is off the road, it's right
up the hill from a bar man, i wish somebody had been therre for me
like that wish somebody wouldn't have been so scared
it's time we fear God i am not mad at anybody
but I'm in love with Jesus, man and He's in love with me
He likes to live here, He chose it that way He saw my junk and said, I am going to go
make my home in that well the world didn't say anything
the world walked away from me i was the worst, man
yet Jesus, He said, Yep he could have chose the mansion in the hill
but He chose to come down into the muck and He said, come on let's go
let's get out of here that's really what He did
people say "well you know what, I grew up in the church. i didn't go through all that stuff,
I didn't have a life like you had" can someone come and play keys for me, forever
because if I get on there, it's not anointed where is Chaser?
so what happens is, when we grow up in the church
we grew up, let's say, I was raised a Christian, I grew up in a Christian home
then you see a life like my life and how twisted and how whacked
22 years of atheism and anger and hatred and all that stuff
and you guys know my junk, where i came out of
but you see that life and all off a sudden you look at my life, and look at your life
and say "well, you grew up that way. the reason why you do what you do, the reason
why you love like you love is because of how much you've been forgiven"
and I know I've been here before and I've talked about it before
but the reality of it is, we measure ourselves amongst ourselves
instead of measuring ourselves to Gods holiness and it's different
see Gods holy standards are perfect and in his law, 613 laws and 10 commandments
if you miss one, in His law, you've missed them all
so whether i've transgressed 613 and 10 whether i was a murderer, whether i killed
people whether i used drugs my whole life
ripped off the world or you just lied
both of us are equally as twisted the problem is that we don't see things that
way because we measure ourselves amongst men
and we compare ourselves one to another and it's a dangerous thing
you need to compare your life to holiness and to see where you fell short
you fell 100% short because since God is holy and perfect
He said you have to obey everything even in the New Testament in James 2:10
it says if you transgress one, you've missed them all
so our whole life is a wash, man so people say "Todd, you love much, because
you've been forgiven much" but the truth is, you just don't realise how
much you've been forgiven or you would just love too
see, we say, the reason why you love so much, is because you have such a great testimony
we are like, I wish I was a drug addict that's twisted
why would you wish that you were a drug addict? you see, if you would see the truth about
this thing all of us have been equally forgiven
we just don't all believe that and if you don't believe that, you can't love
because you've still got regret, you've still got weird stuff
regret produce death, but godly sorrow leads to repentance
the goodnes of God you're looking into the mirror and seeing
the God likes to live in you He likes it, He does
so everywhere i go, and every time i am infront of somebody
i have that belief system inside of me i am not intimidated by the person infront
of me i told my daughter last night, after he got
out of the car (and I'll go through the testimony and share
it) she was really rattled because he was very
angry it doesn't matter, he is in my truck
you can't kill me because i am never going to die
see, we fear death because we don't see the cross
Paul said "I dare not boast in anything but this, Christ and Him crucified"
see, we talk about the cross, we celebrate the cross
but really do we get it? because if you do, you're not headed towards
it, you're supposed to carry it everywhere you go, you carry it
it's the love of God i could burst into tears because i feel like
this thing is so easy and we've complicated it
we've made it hard we've this and this, but really it's just
that simplicity
I'm still on that same scripture I shared, I think last time I was here
2 Corinthians 11:3 where it says that I fear just as satan deceived Eve by his craftiness,
so your minds might be corrupted, taken away from the simplicity that's in the
Christ the easy, the simple
like a little kid, get it like a little kid but if you don't get that simple
the simple cross, the simple Christ message then all of a sudden we've got to jump through
hoops in order to get it or we compare ourselves one to another
and say "well he loves better than i do" don't do that
God gave us all the equal opportunity to not just learn how to love
not just try to love, not just "I'm working on it"
but to become love it's not about learning how to, it's about
becoming it it's about seeing what you've become
it says that Jesus who knew no sin, became sin,
so that you might become the righteousness of God that's in Christ Jesus
so that you might become become is different
Old Testament is trying to attain it through works
the New Testament is who you've become because of Him
Jesus, Jesus gave us this life so that I could enter into Him, by grace through
faith having peace with God being justified
being justified by faith, I have peace with God
andsince i have peace with God, it's sometimes a problem to the world
but if I've got peace with God see Jesus said "I didn't come to bring you
peace" yet He says "peace. I give you peace that surpasses understanding"
peace that surpasses your brain your reality of knowledge
anything you can think of yet the peace that you have is a violation
to the world because He said "you know what, I didn't come
to bring peace, I came to bring the sword I came to divide"
that's crazy because He's all about unity the peace of God enables me to be strong in
any situation and enables me to not be rattled by the surroundings
i have around me whether it's my wife, whether it's my family
whether it's some guy that's screaming at me in my face
the peace with God that i have, enables me to not look at him in a different way
the peace with God that i have enables me to look in the mirror and like what i see
too yeh, but what about all the stuff I did? God doesn't remember it
what if the blood of Jesus doesn't just forgive it, but He removes it
and He forgets it what if He throws it into a sea called 'forgetfulness'?
and it's not there any more if you see that, the goodness of God comes
and enters into your life makes it's home inside of you
you become one that is trained and trained up in righteousness
trained in righteousness that's what training is, that's what Christian
training is and when i see and i've been trained in righteousness,
all of a sudden i'm able to discern between both good and
evil, because i have my senses trained to understand what is good and what is evil
but it's not because i can smell it it's because the Holy Spirit lives in me
and my heart trembles when it's around me but it's not a heart trembling because i partake
in it my heart's trembling because it's around me
Holy Spirit is letting me know "not ok to step into that"
these are all things that have helped me to guard my heart
to protect me from ever stepping outside of what real grace is
is this making any sense? because i am not trying to come up with this
it just is, it is listen, you have a short time period here
on this earth every opportunity that we have, don't miss
it dont' miss it
don't miss the opportunity that you have right now
don't miss it, don't miss it stop failing to see who you are, who God sees
you are God sees you, He knows you, He loves you
He wants you to know how good He is this Christmas can be outrageous and amazing
you need to unwrap this gift of righteousness you're supposed to reign as a king in this
world you are supposed to reign as a king
through the free gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace
you are royalty, a royal preisthood a holy generation, set apart to do the works
of the King you are royalty
heaven, look, i love this Jesus fasted heeaven for 33 and a half years
to get you back it's amazing
heaven went bankrupt because you were worth the price
and if you see it, your life will be completely different
i love going to speak and going places and sharing
but my heart is to put a defibrilator on the body of Christ
so she can see who she is so we could just be normal, man
my life is just normal, not up here i love Jesus, i am so in love with God
i get on planes, i'm in love with God i get in elevators, I'm in love with God
i go into hospitals, i'm in love with God i go into the dentists office, i'm in love
with God i go in the grocery store, i'm in love with
God i go to the pharamcy, i'm in love with God
i go to the school, i'm in love with God i'm on a bus, i'm in love with God
i'm in my car, I'm in love with God there is no difference
every place that i go there is no seperation between the sacred
and the secular in my life, there is no God then family then
ministry then this then that
there is none of that it's God, then God, then God, then God, then
God, then God there is no seperation
God didn't come up with that list why would i want to compartmentalise God when
He's amazing? when He is omnipresent, He's amazing, He's
everything He wants you to know that he is with you
He'll never leave you He wants you to carry Him into every situation
no matter how bad, no matter how ugly it is He wants you to know who you are in every
trial so that when the devil touches you, he takes
a risk every time boom, let's see how he reacts to that
then, boom, Jesus is there i say it all the time, squeeze an orange - orange
juice squeeze an apple - apple juice
squeeze an orange into a cup and it's apple juice, you think it's wierd
it should be equally as strange that when a Christian gets squeezed everything but Jesus
comes out the devil should get Jesus all over him every
time he touches us he should be freaked out when he touches a
Christian i am so thankful that i get to comes upon
accidents, and i get to come upon that stuff i want to be there, because i know what I'm
going to bring when I get there because i am seeking Him in the secreat place
before i got there i live in a place, a secret place worship
with my Father He loves me, every day
a daisy - He loves me, He loves me, He loves me, He loves me, He loves me, He loves me,
He loves me it's never been up for sale
it's never been a question i've only been a Christian, this is ten years
October was ten years and i'm so excited, man
i feel like i am still a little kid i don't want to grow up
if growing up makes me bored with God, that's not growing up
that's growing away that's not growing up
we're supposed to grow up into Him in all things
Christian maturity is not desensitizing yourself i am not even talking about living by feelings
it's not about that it's about living with a sanitised conscience
at all times in love with God, with a pure heart and clean
hands on a constant basis
where i ahve relationship with my Father i'm not walking on eggshells
i'm walking on the rock that i've been founded on
there's no eggshells invloved here listen guys, if the shoe fits, the stuff i'm
talking about if the shoe fits, just kick it off
it's not your shoe it's not what you're supposed to wear
you're supposed to be clothed with Christ you put on Christ
you're never supposed to take Him off not supposed to take a break
not supposed to take a vacation from Jesus sometimes, people set up retreats because
peole burning out will need a retreat we can't just shut Jesus down
when i go on vacation with my family, i don't shut Him down
when do we bring it? every day, everywhere
my kids, man, if you shut Him down when you're with your family,
your family will never know what it's like to manifest Him
so what if you manifest Him all the time, and all your kids saw was that? your kids would grow up in that and they would
manifest everywhere they go they glorify God
because all creation is groaning for the sons of God to be made manifest
it's time, it's time guess when the day of salvation is
it's not even today it's now, right now
yeah, but what about then? No, now
then too, but now yeah, but it might not be their time - NOW
is the time! yeah, but their time might be . . . no no
no, now yeah, but it might be off here, no no, now
so this fellow comes over to my truck he gave me his dog and his car because i got
out of my truck i walk back there
i said "dude, it's time to go. We've got to get out of here right now man. It's only a matter of time, listen"
he said "why are you doing this?" i said "grace, man"
"what?" i sadi "grace"
he gave me his dog, i went over to my car i put it in the truck
i went back to his truck. i said "come on man, let's get out of here"
"what are we doing?" i said "i am taking you home man"
he's just out, he's out there, totally drunk out of his mind, drunk out of his mind
it's a great lesson for my daughter, it was, it was awesome
so he gets into my truck, slams the door he goes "who are you?" i said "i am your friend"
"why?" "because Jesus loves you"
he goes "don't you tell me god loves me . . . Jesus this . . . blankety blank
he is cussing and swearing and freaking out i looked at Destiny before he got in the truck
and said "listen to me, i love you with all my heart
do you hear me?" because i got out of the truck, because you
never know you never know
i mean, if someone puts a bullet in my head, i'm really not going to die
i'm just going to put off this tent and go be with Him
to live is Christ and to die is gain that's real
watch this, that means that every second that i am living is Christ, period
there's no time off it's every day, all day long to live as Christ
to die is gain - why? because I'm going to gain being in the presence
of my Father forever but right now, i get to bring His presence
here everywhere i go because to live IS Christ
so while i am here whether it's better to be here or there
man, obviously, it's eternally better to be there
but eternity started the second i said "yes" to God
here, now, the kingdom is now it's now
the Kingdom is at hand Jesus said Repent for the Kingdom is at hand
repent, change the way you think i brought my world with me
it's in the kingdom but if you don't change the way that you see
things you'll think that what you see in the natural
is superior to the world that i brought with me in the supernatural
it's the kingdom and it's within your reach but you've got to change the way that you
think you've got to change the way that you see
things its, now
and it's Gods good pleasure don't fear little flock, it is the Fathers
good pleasure to give you the kingdom well then why am i going through what i am
going through? my question is this - when you're going through
what you're going through, are you manifesting Him or are you manifesting
you? if you think that what you're going through
right now is your wilderness which one is it?
are you complaining, are you murmering, are you gossipping?
are you criticising God and wondering where He is?
because that's the one that the Israelites were in
and we're not supposed to be in that one Jesus went into a different wilderness, yet
they were the same they went in selfish, He went in selfless
He came out with Holy Ghost and power they died there
don't live there don't live there
he paid a price for you to be free from that other wilderness
complaint and calling it prayer gossip and calling it prayer
that's not healthy, it is deadly you cause people to stumble
and you cause people to look at people through the wrong lens
you be careful about how you say things about people
be very careful you talk about someone behind their back
all of a sudden you give that person a differnt lens
i say it all the time because your words are powerful
i love you we need to rise up and be the church, man
stop playing church you guys are my family dude
i come here, this is my family something so powerful, and so significant
happened here in this church in my life that i changed me forever
now i was born again, i was saved and loving Jesus
but i came into a situation that i had no idea what to do
no idea and my first meeting with Pastor Chuck was
a crazy meeting it was. it wasn't a bad meeting
i just came here for a totally different purpose and i got drafted in to something God wanted
to do and that's the way that God likes it
he likes us to understand that in our weakness, he is strong
he wants us to see His strength because your weakness is a magnet for the
strength of God it's a magnet for his strength
well, i'm not worth it no, you better get over that one
because heaven paid a high price to get you back
your value is determined by the price that'spaid for you
if you see how much he paid for you if you see the cross, the finished work
Christ and him crucified the reality of heavens price that they paid
for you i mean, imagine never being seperated from
God for ever and then saying, you know what, i'm going
to be seperated from you are you going to want to fast heaven? dude
once you get there, you are not going to be like "yeah, i'm going to go back and get them"
oh my gosh, what a high price God thought you were worth it, he said "yeah,
I want that one" my heart is trembling right now
he loves us my whole life is geared towards just,
everywhere i go, training up the body of Christ just to be who God says she is
God loves us, Jesus is the head we are the fullness, we are the fullness of
him the body of Christ is the fullness of him
that fills all in all he is the head, we are the body
we are supposed to grow up into him in all things
we are all supposed to come to the unity of faith
but we better start with the strength of the foundation of not being unworthy
the devil is unworthy, he is worthless he is hopeless, he wants your hope to be deferred
he wants you to think "maybe another day, maybe another season"
that you need someone to pray for you so that you can finally be free
that's wrong what if Jesus paid the price for you to be
free, but we don't believe that what he did was enough
and we think there's something else what if he is the answer? what if Jesus is heavens answer? what if God saw the problem and said, "i'm
going to send my Son, this will be enough" to the point where Jesus said "it is finished"
what was finished? the price that heaven paid
Jesus came and walked it all out the cross, Christ and him crucified
fixed it so i could be right with God i just open my bible and say "yes Lord"
i read the word, "oh my gosh, yes" "yes"
"Todd, i love you" i don't say "yeah, but God why?" don't say that
"yeah but God, why?" because we measure our life here, and what
we've done here to deserve it it's grace, it's not something that's deserved
so, i kept telling this guy last night in the truck "it's grace, man"
he's screaming at me! my daughter is looking at the GPS, we're trying
to get him home you know he is like freaking out
i said, "listen man, God loves you" "i don't want to hear it"
"it's tough, you're in my truck sir" you think, that's crazy, that's dangerous
it could be, if you feared for your own life if you're afraid
i'm just not afraid man, if we could just get to a place of not
being afraid if we would just be free from ourself
i've got my girl in the car she's seen so many people get touched by Jesus
this is different we are in a closed space
now, if i was by myself, i'd pick him up and sit him in the front seat
but my daughter's sitting there, he is sitting in the back
he is freaking out "i don't want to hear no more of this stuff"
"well, sorry sir. I was a drug addict for a long time
I didn't want anybody tell me about Jesus. Matter of fact, I'd just as soon punch them
in the mouth" you'd say "oh my gosh, you're baiting him"
"now you're giving him ideas" no i'm not, that's who i was
it's a testimony that's about to bear fruit in his life
this is just last night, at 1 o'clock in the morning
before i come here so we get down the road, we're driving
he goes "man, you got wings?" "you got wings, girl?"
he thinks it's my girlfriend, because Destiny is 18, very beautiful
i say "this is my daughter, man" "oh, man. you'll have to excuse me for my blankety blank
foul language" i said "man you're okay. i love you"
"man ,stop saying that, man" "i can't help it man, it's true"
see, and i shared my testimony with him on the way home
"wow. did you get shot at? I'd have hit you"
because the guy was ten feet away he's not hearing me, so you think that it's
useless, it's pointless why share all that stuff with him, he's not
even hearing you people even come up with scriptures like "well
don't throw your pearls to swine" we take that scripture right there and say
"well don't sow into people, don't talk to people. they just don't want to hear it, they are
just going to trample on it" man, come on!
where's the one that believes that the word that we share can become both Spirit and life
where's the one that believes the word is going to reproduce after it's own kind
and God reproduced Himself in me so if i'm going to share that word with him,
it's going to reproduce in him and he's like "i don't know what wrong with
you, man" "i'm possessed"
"by what?" "by Jesus"
"stop saying that" "i can't help it man. God loves you and i love you"
"cut it out!" "i can't man, i can't. i am eternally done. i'm lost for all that other junk, man. i've been found by my Father. I was a pearl of great price. i was the coin. i was the sheep. and God came and rescued
me. and He didn't break my leg and take me home,
(people have shared that too)" so we are in the truck, we pull up to his
house he goes "man, i need to know why you did this. i need to pay you back"
i said "that's enough. i've heard enough now
"what?" he thinks i'm challenging him
we get out of the truck "what?" i said "you don't owe me nothing, man
come on. all i did was take you to your house, so that
you didn't go to jail. maybe you've just never had a break before"
he said "if God loved me then why would i live here? why this? why that? why that?" i said "man, what if none of this has anything
to do with God loving you? but everything to do with you not loving Him?"
"who do you think you are?" "I am your friend. noone else has talked to you like this, i
will, because you can't kill me. because i am never going to die"
"what's wrong with you?" i said "by the way man, can i give you a hug?" he's holding his dog, he goes "okay"
he hugs me and he holds me i said "the Lord's telling me right now that
you have two disks in your back that are messed up, and a third one that's going too"
he pulled away from me. he goes "what's wrong with you?" i said "Jesus lives in me"
"how do you know this stuff?" i said, "because he lives in me man"
i said "you're going to let me pray for you" "no i ain't"
"well you told me that you owe me, right?" this just happened last night
whom shall i fear? if God be for me, who cares who's against me? where's the Christians that would say, "that's
the truth" in their life lived, not just with their "amen"? i'm not being mean. i'm just challenging you, church
to just be the church. to just be who God called you to be
stop being so concerned about what other people think about you and realise this
now is the time. now. right now
now is the time i love the privilege of being able to go share
my heart everywhere but i love when stuff like this last night
happens happenend on the plane today
can't avoid it i'm around people
happened in the hospital here in your city, just a couple of hours ago
why? because i was there listen
this man looks at me and i go "come on, let me pray for you"
"no" "come on, what are you afraid of?" he's up for the challenge
i said "come on, give me another hug" he goes "alright" gives me a big hug
"Father, i thank you in the name of Jesus" God touched him. made him whole
he looks at me and goes "can you come back here tomorrow?" i said "i can't. i fly on an aeroplane tomorrow"
"where are you going?" "to preach the Gospel, man, again. just like now"
he goes "i ain't never met noone like you" i said "that's a shame because the world is
full of Christians" i'm not being mean
i'm not special guys i'm a son
i am a son conviction is in this
conviction we should be convicted all the time
and we should obey our convictions so that it doesn't turn to condemnation
there is no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according
to the flesh but according to the Spirit
there is no condemnation the flesh is the way that seems right to a
man the flesh is what makes me feel good
the flesh is being afraid of what i know i should step into
you never going to know if God's going to be there for you if you don't step, he is
it's amazing, what an opportunity but every one of us has the same opportunity
the sphere of influence that you're in, should be overwhelmed with the Christ that's in you
overwhelmed with the Christ that's in you they should never be able to get away from
the truth that's inside of you they should never be able to gang up on you
and think that you're just 'little this' and i'm not saying because of your big meaness
towards them because they gang up on you i'm talking about the truth that's in you,
that is causes you to get down on your knees and cry in front of grown men and worship
Jesus doesn't matter who is looking
where you wouldn't be afraid, and they get convicted by the truth that's in you
they burn Christians and kill Christians and crucify them
and they wouldn't deny Jesus and they would love Jesus to the death
and they'd be so convicted about their life lived
and maybe 100 Christians they would kill but man, how many? how many? i know stories of two girls from China that
got taken in by 128 soldiers repeatedly raped
for two weeks straight in the house, repeatedly raped! in the compound
they were in and they kept praying over their aggressors,
every one. every one that was raping them
and the whole platoon bowed their knee to Jesus, at the end of two weeks
where is the Christian that will be sold out? i'm not saying you have to go through that
but we're afraid of upsetting somebody so we don't share our faith
listen, i told my daughter last night "pray for that man"
he went, i gave him a note to tell him exactly where his car was because
he didn't even know where he came from and i said "I'll be back"
when i get back from this trip, I'm going to go to his house
he has a wife and three kids i told my daughter, i said "honey, everybody
that you're in front of, they are either going to heaven or hell
period. every one of them. there is no in between"
i don't care what you think every Hare Krishna, every Muslim, every Buddhist,
every Wiccan no matter what every one of them, every Christian, every
person every non-believer, everyone in this world
no matter who you look at, if it's a person they are either going to heaven, or hell
there is no in between there is no other name under heaven, except
the name of Jesus and which people can be saved
there is none this isn't a coexist
it can be coexist here, but there will be no entry here
it's a coexist here, and we can exist we can all be in, we can all, we can all be
nice to each other but when it comes to the truth, why would
i compromise the truth to satisfy your unbelief? i won't compromise it, ever
i will not walk in a lack of belief to satisfy your unbelief
unbelief has to do everything it can to get you out of the room to feel good about itself
and i refuse to compromise my faith, because someones life, someones eternity is on the
line we have a privilege right now of representing
Him of liveing our lives for Jesus, full bore
every day, all day long and never compromising that
one day we'll just stand before the Father there's going to be two lines
a goat line and a sheep line one day
and i'd hate to have 150, this is sober i'd hate to have one person, that i lived
my life not for Jesus in front of compromise my faith for the sake of feeling
important here, and looking good here and see them in the line going "what? why didn't you tell me?"
it's not going to happen, man i told my daughter, i said "it will never
happen" i'll never stand before my Father and answer
for anybodies life i'm going to live my life, full-bore, out
loud in front of the world it doesn't matter
i'm not going to compromise my faith for anybody, anywhere at any time
i don't care how dark it is the darker it is, the brighter we shine
i'm not afraid of the darkness light is not afraid of darkness
just turn it on, man flip the switch
take the basket off your head be a 'Christ-'ian
a little Christ-like one so i'm driving home with Destiny
i said "honey" she goes "Dad, i don't like it, we could have
just been killed" i said "honey, the fear of death in my life
is gone" she goes "yeah but, Dad you don't understand. I don't want to lose you as a Dad"
i said "honey. You've gained God as a Father"
she just didn't understand because it was a hostile environment in my little truck
but Jesus is with me but for my girl, i have to explain
i said "that man had seeds sown" "he's not going to remember anything. listen to how you're saying Dad"
because in the natural, it looked like he couldn't remember anything
and it was a pretty intense, you had to be there
people say "wow, good job" but if you'd have been in the car, it was
a very uncomfortable place how many of you would have done that? don't show your hands
listen, here's what i am saying it was a very uncomfortable environment
because we are used to not relying on the Comforter
the Comforter was there he was there, making it real to him
and that man will come to jesus, i promise you
he will, because i know his address i'm going to go to his house and pour into
him and talk to his wife and talk to his kids he will come to Jesus, regardless, he will
he will, because grace was there, mercy was there
his last words to me were this because he walked away, his back is healed
he walked away and he goes "dude, i just want to thank you man"
i said "i love you man" he goes "thanks" and he walks into his house
i get in the truck and Destiny was like "that was intense"
and i'm talking to her the whole way home we got to the house, everything was cool
it was only like a four minute ride home from there
she goes "Daddy? that was awesome" i said "it was"
what would it be like to be able to represent God everywhere you go?
everywhere you go what would it be like?
to live your life completely sold out completely in love with the King
no holds barred, man what would it be like for you to push all
your chips to the centre of the table? and just go like this "i surrender all, i
surrender all" i'll read a scripture, and we can start (just
kidding) oh my gosh, the book is full of them
this is so good let me just read this
well it's a therefore so i've got to read the whole chapter before
but theres's another therefore, i've got to read two
take it up with him okay, let's go to Ephesians 4
i love the word, i love it so much for those of you that know
i couldn't read before i got born again i couldn't read a book, i never read a book
before i couldn't remember anything
so why would i read? it was just confusing, i'd just forget everything
anyway so what's the point? that's the way i went through my life
and then, when i was in Teen Challenge the scripture "for those of you who lack wisdom,
ask God" hit me and i said "oh my God. That's it. I am wisdomless. Thank you"
and it opened, started to open to me since then, i dove in, every day, love it
i work out, listen to it on my ipod it's just awesome, every second of every day
i listen to the hard stuff too it's so good
i listen to the beattitudes a whole lot because it's my attitude of being
it's who i be okay, Ephesians 4:29
it says 'let no unwholesome word proceed from your
mouth but only that word which is good for edification,
according to the need of the moment so that it will give grace to those that hear
you' i'm just going to read through here
gosh, there is so much in there i think i have shared it here before
but a couple of years ago, God gave me this truth of the words that we speak
they are life and death you can speak life because you are partnering
with God, you can produce life in peoples lives
you can speak death and partner with the wrong god
there is power in the words that we say you are a steward of grace, of Gods grace,
of His goodness and being a steward of grace means that you
can actually have the grace that's upon your life
and you cansteward it and put it upon someone elses life
and God will allow you to write the cheque in His name
and he will know because of the words you speak towards somebody
words of edification and encouragement mark a person for gain
saying "God i have favour with you, i have grace from you. I am asking you to steward this grace
this favour to this person right here, and you will know because of the encouraging
words that i speak over their life and i mark them for gain"
it's powerful 'let no unwholesome words come out of your
mouth but that which is good for edification according
to the need of the moment that it will give grace to those that hear
it and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God
by which you were sealed for the day of redemption let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger,
and clamour and slander be put away from you along with malice
and be kind to one another, tenderhearted forgiving each other
just as God in Christ also forgave you Therefore'
this is so powerful ' be imitators of God, as beloved children
and walk in love just as Christ also loved you
and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma'
what does it mean to be an imitator of God? that is some serious sandals
God said "be an imitator" be an imitator of God
and it says 'and walk in love just as Christ loved you, and gave himself for us an offering
and sacrifice as a fragrant aroma but imorality, and any impurity or greed must
not even be named among you as is proper aming saints'
it's awesome, God takes us from sinner to saint
when you have been born again get translated from darkness to light
it's amazing i was a sinner, i got saved by grace
but the grace that saved me, enables me to set into another place called 'saint'
and when God sees me he sees a saint, he sees a son
it's powerful gosh, have so many testimonies rolling through
i have just got a Christmas tree the other day
and some young man, they bring this Christmas tree
we got an eleven-footer that thing is thirty-five foot at the base,
man in my house, that's a big tree
and they came to help me get it in the house boy comes in, another guy comes in
and I'm talking to them about Jesus and I'm helping them carrying the tree
setting it up there's a reason why, the saint triggered
this thing sorry
because this kid is catholic and he starts talking to me about this guy at his church
that knows another fellow that he is doing all these good deeds
and when he dies, he is going to be a saint and i am like "man, i've just got to help
here" and i know he doesn't understand
but i need to make it easy for him to understand so i figured "alright"
God speaks to me about the other young man says that he has got a bad back, his back
is totally whacked he goes "yes it's whacked"
i said "for three and a half years or so" he goes "yeah, what's the deal?" i said "Jesus lives inside of me, man"
he goes "I'm a Christian, that's awesome" the other kid goes "i'm a catholic"
i said "i understand. that's awesome, man. i am so glad
you know Mary didn't save you, Jesus did" he goes "well"
i said "no,no. Here is what i mean. Mary gave birth to the saviour
but Jesus is the only one that died for your sins
Mary didn't, she can't save you" he is like "alright" he is kind of thinking
i said "wait, here, before we talk about this. let's fix your back, man"
so we prayed the kid's leg was an inch and a half short
he goes "yeah, yeah, yeah. they can't fix it"
i go "no way dude" "I was born that way"
"O, I've got good news for you" but his back has been totally whacked out
for three and a half years i brought the catholic kid over to look at
his leg i said "do you see it?"
he goes "that's messed up, man. i can't believe it's like that, man"
i said "well it's about to change, man. because Jesus lives inside of me"
"how?" "through the Holy Spirit. That which is born of flesh is flesh
but that which is born of Spirit is Spirit" he looks at me and he goes "okay"
it's awesome, it's like the lights came on, in my house
so i said to him "come on man, you want to help me pray?" "i don't know how to do that"
"well just hang out with me. Ready, it's real easy, in the name of Jesus,
leg grow NOW, in Jesus name" he goes "huh"
the other kid goes "i felt that" these are people that just came to my house
the other day and delivered a tree happens that way when mormons try to come
to my house happens that way when Jehovah witnesses come
to my house the mormons don't come any more, they won't
come i am not being mean, i just speak the truth
you better know exactly what you believe when you come to my house
i love you, but i don't compromise the truth for nobody
i've watched Jehovah witnesses run away from my house
not that i am chasing them or being mean to them
but they don't like words of knowledge and all that stuff
so the kid is looking at me i said "man, you want to be a police officer? there is something about you, that there is
police on your life you carry an authority with you, man"
he goes "well actually, i was doing this" and it had to do with authority and enforcement
i said "you are going to be a great one buddy" he goes "wow"
i said "can i pray for you?" he goes "yeah. i feel light-headed right now, man" this cathholic
kid i said "that's His presence. He loves you"
"what's that?" "let me tell you. Mary gave birth to Jesus. If anybody knew that Jesus was the Christ,
was the Messiah, wouldn't it be the one that got pregnant by
God?" he goes "yeah that would be wierd"
i said "sure would. Imagine, the only children that come into
this world, are only coming into this world because a
man and a woman come together has to happen that way"
he goes "yeah" i said "well Mary wasn't with a man"
"yeah" i said "Jesus was placed into her belly, because
God is holy he wanted to get his kids back
the only way he could get his kids back is the first covenant that he established
would have to be fulfilled did you ever hear the old testament? the old
covenant?" "yeah"
"well here's what it is" and i broke it down for him
i explained how Mary gave birth to Jesus, but Jesus grew up as a man
and fulfilled the law as a man, not as God God had his end and Jeus fulfilled mans end
so when Jesus fulfilled his end, righteousness was given to Jesus
the cross enabled us to come into right-standing with God
i shared that and he goes "that makes sense, man"
i said "you must be born again, that which is born of flesh is flesh"
"my mum gave me that" "that's right. but that which is born of Spirit is Spirit.
you need Jesus" "okay, what do i do?" that's pretty easy. It's not complicated, it's the kingdom
so the kid geets born again, overwhelmed by God
these two boys are in my house "this is the most amazing house we've been
in!" "it's amazing"
i said "Jesus loves you guys" so then we bless them, we tipped them, just
blessed them "god loves you"
he goes "sir, i hope i get to talk to you again someday"
thay walk out my house, totally freaked out, saved, healed, delivered, set free, made whole
it's not because i am somebody special unless 'sonship' is somebody special
because i am a son who knows who my Father is
okay, sorry 'but immorality, or impurity or greed, let
it not be named among you as is fitting, is proper for saints
there must be no filthiness, no silly talk, no course jesting, which are not fitting
but rather the giving of thanks for this you know with certainty
no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater
has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God'
that's pretty intense i'm going to read that agian
it says 'impurity, immorlaity, greed, filthiness, silly talk
course jesting, but rather give thanks for this you know with certainty
no immoral, impure, covetous man, who is an idolater
has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God
let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things
the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience therefore, do not be partakers with them'
check this out, this is amazing so it's telling yo this list
it's not a heavy, it's an amazing it's not an "oh my gosh, what am i going to
do? all that stuff is in my life" just give up! just repent!
it's easy "God, i can't believe this. oh, that's right. thank you"
it's really that easy it's crazy "oh my gosh, this is crazy, this
is ridiculous" is it that simple? 'let no one decive you with empty words, for
because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience
therefore don't be partakers with them for you were'
listen to this 'you were formally darkness'
didn't even say you were kind of dark didn't even say you were in darkness
didn't say it was a little dark it says, you were darkness, you were darkness
you were darkness it says ' the eye is the lamp of the body'
Matthew 6:22 'the eye is the lamp of the body. if your eye is single, your whole body is
full of light but if the light that is in you is darkness
how great is that darkness' it says that your darkness, when you are not
saved but when you get saved, you get translated
from darkness and you get put into light but it's very important that you understand
that you are children of light, you are sons of
light you are sons and daughters of your Father
who is in heaven and He likes to live in you
and when you see the reality of this all of a sudden the tendancy to step into
darkness gets less and less and less because you walk in the light as he is in
the light you have fellowship with one another
and it's amazing to have koinonia it's amazing to have fellowship with people,
it's amazing i live my life, and all of a sudden, i am
walking pure and i am living pure am i allowed to be down here? you alright? you cool? alright, cool
because i'm feeling like i am really excited right now
i am, because he is in love with me so i have fellowship
so if i am walking in the light, and this man is walking in the light
all of a sudden, we have fellowship with one another
we can walk and we can be in union with one another
but if i've got secrets and junk in my closet then all of a sudden, i can only allow him
to get so close to me because i might be exposed
he might find out my secret sin but if you see how much your Father loves
you you understand that you were in darknes
and God translated you out of darkness and puts you into light
all of a sudden, the tendancy to want to even go back into darkness is just far away
it's totally lost why would i want that now that i have this?
why would i want to have that? because i need this
i need fellowship, i need communion, i need koinonia
i need the body of Christ we need each other
we're supposed to grow up into him the fullness of Him that fills all in all
we are the body of Christ guys and it's imperative that we see what we've
been called to all of us have been called to the same thing
we've all been called, we've all been justified
we've all been justified we've all been glorified
God had called all of you "no, i am not called to do what you do"
i get it but if you said yes to God, you were called
God had to come after you before you went into Him
no one comes to God unless God first comes to them
no one comes to Christ unless the Father draws them
so God called you He called you out of darkness and into light
out of darkness and into light and if your eye sees this and you are single
your whole life will change your Christmas will change
you won't be ashamed to share Jesus on your job
you won't be ashamed to share Jesus everywhere you go
you won't compromise the Gospel for the sake of looking cool
it's not okay one day we are going to stand before God and
find out you're going to have all kinds of reasons
here in this world, that make sense to the carnal mind
because it's at war against God the carnal mind is at war against God
the Spirit of God oh my gosh
the Spirit of God is wooing your spirit the deep of God calls out to the deep of you
and nobody knows the deep of God except from the Spirit of God
but He wants to reveal all things to you it's God's good pleasure to reveal all things
and all he is asking you to do is just believe but it all starts with the finished work
it all starts with you being forgiven you knowing you are forgiven
you knowing that Jesus paid the price to set you free
but the price he paid was to set you free from YOU!
man, if we get free from us, we are free from everybody
then you'll never have some drunk guy in the back of your car, screaming at you
or you might not even put him in the car, because if you are afraid, you'll go by someone
like that and you'll lock the doors man man i am glad God didn't lock the door on
me come on
you are an ambassador of hope the grace of God is on your life to be an
ambassador of hope stop using your life as a circumstance for
not being able to live for God well maybe if this happens, well maybe if
this happens well if my wife would finally believe
if my kids would be this they are not your problem - you are
Man, you don't understand you stand before God
"God, if my wife was this and my kids were that"
you are going stand before him one day and realise that it was just you
that you were the issue i'm not mad at you
i won't change this Gospel people come and hear me
it don't even know why they still come it's the same, it just gets more intense
why would i water it down to draw a big crowd? forget that, man
i am going to stand before my Father He is the biggest crowd ever
every day i am going to live my life worthy of the call
worthy of the call to this you were called
to this you were called to live your life worthy of the call
worthy of the call everywhere we walk we represent the King and
his Kingdom and we are not compromising this to make people
feel good "well they don't want to hear it"
well, they are going to stand before God sheep line or goat line?
one of those two lines everybody's going to be in one
everyboby because one day every knee,
every knee will bow it will be forced to bow later
or it will willingly bow now and you have the reality of God living in
you and your God-reality is challenging to the
world it's challenging, it's not appealing
it's not apealling to a group of people but when you get one on one with people
they are very intimidated they won't really share their heart with you
like they did with everybody else in other words, if you are in your workplace
people will make fun of you when they are in group, trying to impress one another
when it's one on one, oh boy it changes
i promise because you are not really that tough
and God is real and if you dare to surrender,completely to
the King He gives you everything you need
for everything you are at hand with everything
and He is well able to overwhelm you with his goodness
and overwhelm everyone around you with his goodness
and shake hell everywhere you go He will have hell tremble everywhere you walk
do you think the devils were afraid of Jesus? i guarantee you they cried out
"what have we to do with you? have you come to torment us before our time?" why would we be afaid of devils? why would i be afraid of witches? why would i be afraid of that stuff? why would i be afraid of ISIS? why?
because i fear death because i don't know the cross
because i don't understand the finished work that's the only reason i would be afraid of
anything if he crushed hell, death and the grave
if he crushed that, then why am i afraid of it?
if he crushed it then why am i afraid of it? whom shall i fear, if God is for you? Jesus said "behold, i will never leave you. I will be with you to the ends of the age"
what did you give yourself to? are you an imitator of God?
or are you an imitator of society? Jesus said "you can't love God and love the
world" if you want to look good in front of people,
you can't love God because the cross is offensive
i would rather live my life offensive here not deffensive
i would rather i lived my life here and be persecuted
that's my question to people 2 Timothy 3:12 says this
'For all those who desire to live Godly will suffer persecution'
so here's my question church when's the last time you were persecuted for
your faith? I'm not being mean
"well it doesn't make me feel good. I don't like to ruffle peoples feathers"
well they are not chickens i'm calling you up church
you are God's girl what are you afraid of? God is for you
He is for you Jesus, Jesus
you are for us Lord God you are, you are
Holy Lord you live in me
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus you like to live
you like to live in me Jesus, you're the great I AM
you're the great I AM Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
you're the great I AM God, you're the great I AM
you're the great I AM one more, oh God, Jesus
sorry, it just came in my heart 2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14
'thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph, in Christ'
thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph no matter where we are, no matter what we
are going through actually, some translations say 'he leads
us in a triumphant victory parade' always, always leads us in triumph, in Christ
and He manifests through us listen to this
He manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him
in every place 'for we are a fragrance of Christ to God
among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing
to one, it's the aroma death to death the other it's the aroma of life to life
and who is adequate for these things? for we are not like many, peddling the Word
of God but as from sincerity, but as from God, we
speak, in Christ in the sight of God' I am going to read this again
He always leads us in triumph, in Christ and manifests through us the aroma of the
knowledge of Him you know what that means to me?
that means that you and I, depending on what we know,
you are an air freshner so when situations are stinky and you show
up, with the right knowledge, you diffuse the fragrance of your Father
everywhere you go and you are an air freshner for the world
if something stinks, that's because we don't know who we are when we are there
and i'm not being mean because all of us have equal opportunity to diffuse the knowledge
of Him the fragrance of him
the knowledge of Him and the fragrance of him
Jesus was a sweet-smelling aroma because He diffused the knowledge of the Father
everywhere He went and we as Christians, He leads us in a triumphant
victory parade everywhere we go diffusing the knowledge of
Him, the fragrance of Him, in every situation
if we just dare to believe, that we are who God says we are
and when you go into a room and it stinky, it smells better once you get there
that means, at Christmas time when a bunch of relatives are hanging out
i LOVE Christmas time where there is unbelieving relatives
there's hardly any unbelieving relatives in my household anymore
not my personal house, but extended family my wife's family too
hardly any they can't get away
oh, i promise, I have so many situations intense stuff, intense stuff
Jesus is Lord and I'll never allow people's sin against
me to produce sin in me because the fragrance of God is in me
He chose to give Himself for me so that everywhere I go I can diffuse the
knowledge of Him everywhere i go
please don't compare your situation to what I am saying right here
because that's what happens people go "well you don't know what I've been
through. You don't know what I'm going through
You don't know what my family is like" it's not them, it's you
"well you don't know what they did to me" it's you
"no, you don't know how they treated me" it's you
if you have a problem with three people, it's you
"but you don't understand" i do, Jesus wants to give you peace that surpasses
understanding so that you stop holding grudges, and holding
attitudes toward people that hurt you and you start to see the one that died for
them just the same as He died for you
so you can hurt for them and not be hurt by them
and you can diffuse the fragrance of your Father everywhere you go
come on man it is good
it's amazing God is good
people are like "I used to think! I thought. I don't know what I think right now!"
what if all of us have the same privilege i've a million testimonies rolling through
my head and my heart right now i'm going to land here
here's why i know there's people here that haven't yet
given up to God i need, whoever you are, to get up here
come on, don't be a chicken do it
seems like an unorthodox way to do it, but it's time
just come hang out, come on proud of you man
come on all of you
come on yes
proud of you man love you too
come on, who else? it's time, let's do it
let's get this thing on with Jesus champion man, oh, champion man
there isn't any guilt in this place right here
this is a place of complete, it's on it's on
it's time it's time to stop letting life speak louder
to us than the Gospel if you are out there and you need to be up
here, it's time don't miss out
it's time to unwrap this gift it's amazing
come up here right now if you are in this i need you to come up
gosh, don't be a chicken you've been bold for the devil
now come on, let's do it let's be done
let's crush hell for a living together let's stop being stomped by it, and let's
be free from it proud of you
there's nothing to fear nothing to be afraid of man
come on it's awesome
so proud of you guys yeah, Jesus
come on yeah
come on I'm looking at God's best
yeah who else? come on, let's do it
stop being tough just get up here, come on
it's time to give the devil a bad day look at this! Father I ask you, in the name of Jesus, God
for the hearts of people who aren't up here that they would come
they would stop being afraid listen, i fell like there's husbands out there
that you just came to satisfy your wife you need to get up here man
that's silly pride will keep you in your seat
i'm not mad, i'm just being honest here's my next belief
i believe that selfishness, because of what i shared tonight
i believe that hearts were convicted of where selfishness was
and if you want to be free from that thing, i want you up here too
come on it would be silly to hang on to you anymore
right now this is great
your Christmas will be the best Christmas ever
ever this is the free gift of righteousness
this thing is amazing man God loves you so much
let's get rid of selfishness let's get rid of that pride thing, man
let's be done let's just get this thing on with God
i fell like there's people even that have walked out
you can still hear my voice there is still time
right now people are like "I don't want to hear this"
well, may God shake you in your car, in Jesus' name
so sick and tired of the devil getting away with what he gets away with
it's time we just make him understand that he really messed up big time
it's time that we, as the body of Christ stand together
listen, there's people here that have back slid
they've gone away from God they've just wandered off
you've even came and wondered, if just God's for real
Holy Spirit's for real and He convicted your heart
don't ignore it obey your conviction
let God change your life your wife is not the issue
i keep saying that, i mean it your wife is not your issue
wife, if you are here, with your husband, you should come up here
with him, both of you i feel like there's people here whose marriages,
they are just trying to hold on for the sake of something else
instead of for the reason why they got married God is knocking at your door
don't you walk away Jesus, I thank you for complete freedom in
this place Jesus, it's awesome, man
love it, you the man God's going to overwhelm your heart man
satan is going to wish he never touched you you hear me? i promise dude
you're going to give the devil a run yeah, oh, oh my gosh
Holy Spirit, do what you do You are so awesome
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus you are the one
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus you are the one
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Father I thank you
I thank you for your kids God Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus you reign in me, you reign, you reign
oh Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
freedom, freedom, freedom freedom, freedom, freedom
freedom, freedom, freedom freedom reigns in Him
freedom, freedom, freedom Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus I'm so proud of all you
God's going to change it all restore family bro
like you never thought possible your whole family's going to get wiped out
with the Gospel, man you think that it's over
it's not over it's just beginning man
i promise, man, i promise God loves you
satan hates losing you guys he's done
hey, give me a hug, come on man it's just beginning
you are going to raise up people you'll destroy hell for a living
it's going to be awesome oh, Jesus you are awesome
He is so good at this Father, I thank you in the name of Jesus,
God in Jesus name
He's going to wipe out your past as if you'd never had one
that's what He does Jesus
Father I thank you in the name of Jesus, God He's going to wipe it out
Jesus thank you freedom God
freedom God Jesus, freedom
love you man champion, yeah you are
champion man gosh
are you ready to pray with me? going to pray with me
come on, this is easy it's just saying "you know what? Jesus you did it all
I can't add to it all i can do is give my life to it
i can't add to it i can't take away from it
you did it all you did it all"
Jesus hung on that tree, a guilty man yet was innocent
everything, all the handwriting of requirement everything you wish you'd never done
was nailed to Him on that tree Bang! nailed to Him on that tree
if the powers and principalities would have know what they were doing
thet would have never did it but they did, but they did
see, satan can't come up and dethrone God but he wants to dethrone God from the soul
of man he wants you to go through life
and never realise that Jesus paid such a high price
and that you are that valuable today, the game is up
and Jesus is going to set you free your mind is going to be clear
you'll look in the mirror and like what you see
come on, like what you see just say this with me guys
"Lord God" listen, i feel like i need to say this
there are some of you that have prayed this before
but nothing happened this is different
this is different see, His mercy is new every day
every day every day
see, i have a revelation of righteousness i have a revelation of what forgiveness means
i have a revelation of true forgiveness tha whole way through
and i have never lived with one day of guilt, shame or condemnation
my whole life, 10 years free from guilt, shame and condemnation
and right now, God is going to do the same thing
and knock that thing out of the park so you can look in the mirror and like what
you see amen?
say this "Jesus, i believe
that you died for me you hung on that tree
guilty, yet you were innocent you who knew no sin
became sin, so i might become the righteousness of God
that's in Christ Jesus i was a sinner
today, you set me free from sin and you made me alive unto righteousness
i am forgiven i am forgiven
i am free Holy Spirit, set up residence right here in
me, your child i am yours
and you are mine and i'm not looking back
i am in your army you're my commander
you're the captain of my salvation today, today, today
now, now, now is the time now is the time
today i have entered in now is the time
salvation has come to me today, in Jesus' mighty name
Amen" feel that?
you can feel that something's left, for real
your eyes just changed, man for real, they just changed completely
when i hugged you, you eyes just changed right now
they are completely different that's freedom, that's freedom man
that's not just a momentary freedom that's a life
I'm not just talking specifics it's the same dude
it's all over the place it's awesome, awesome
okay are you ready? sickness is from hell
disease is from hell none of that stuff is allowed in the Kingdom
all of it has to leave okay
hepatitis C, got to go livers, must be healed, must be made while
right now bloodstreams, must be healed right now
first word i heard, blood, in Jesus name right now
oh dude it's awesome you know why?
because redemption is so amazing, so amazing redemption means that, since I've been forgiven
since my sin has been forgiven then the stain that came from the sin, that
i've been forgiven of has to be removed
see it's having believed unto righteousness - by His stripes I am healed
we believe, we get right with God then the stain that's in the body because
of a life you wish you'd never lived has to be removed, it has to go
because sin was borne in the body of Jesus Christ
so that the effect of this thing could be crushed, in Jesus name
we are watching more people being healed of Hepatitis C
and HIV and Aids and all kinds listen, sexually transmitted diseases
people have in a lifestyle they wish they never did
God removes the stain of sin, because it's something you wish you'd never done
so God in His mercy, He removes it God doesn't want you to keep it, to keep you
humble that's just wierd
which is more humbling? God removing something?
or letting it stay there? this is awesome
this is why we baptised them girls in that tub
and their scars disappeared! Why? because that's redemption, man
redemption see God sees you as if you had never sinned
He sees you as if you had never missed it that means that when you did miss it, God
forgave He forgot, He wants to remove it
so right now, blood disorders, in the name of Jesus
Hepatits C, in Jesus name sexually transmitted diseases
I command them to go now, in Jesus mighty name
right now, in Jesus name i want you to put your hand on somebody, to
the left and to the right we are going to pray
the body of Christ is going to pray you don't even need to come to me
this is about Christ in us, the hope of Glory understand, Christ in us
we are the body of Christ, the fullness of Him that fills all in all
it's about you praying it's about you thanking God for who you are
in everything, give thanks to the Lord so in the name of Jesus
listen, body of Christ, I want you to say this
"in Jesus name every disorder
be healed now, in Jesus name
every sickness in Jesus name
be healed now
in Jesus name" say this with me
"every neck every shoulder
every disc backs
hips knees
wrists ankles
joints hearts
lungs brains
ears eyes
right now be healed, in Jesus name
Jesus name i want everybody in this place
to check wherever you were hurting anywhere, it does'nt matter
your shoulder, your back, your neck just check right now
just check, if there's anything physical that you had at all that you can check
right now if it's gone, wave your hands over your head
wave both hands over your head if it's gone right now
put your hands on the person to your left and right again
come on, this is really simple we, as the body of Christ, pray
Jesus said to pray for the sick, and the sick shall recover
in the name of Jesus, when we pray in Jesus name, we command this to go, in Jesus
name it's simple
this is what we pray you ready?
"in Jesus name, bodies be healed right now, 100%
wholeness, healing in Jesus name"
i want everybody to check once again if it was your knees, if it was your ankles
it seems like it would be harder than this it's really not
everybody check whatever part of you
you can check right now if it was your knee, if it was your ankle
if it was your back, if it was your neck whatever
if you can feel something change right now all over the place
i want everybody if something changes from the beginning of
starting to pray to now everybody, if there is breakthrough in your
body i want you to wave your hands both of them over your head
everywhere that's what I'm talking about
look around wave your hands, both of them again
look around everybody one more time, are you ready? come on
this is exciting this is like, you guys have this thing
what if you realised that you had it everywhere you went?
where would people go? how would they hide? they couldn't
you've got the Kingdom and you've got to give it Hey guys
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