Todd White - The Joy of Knowing Him

he's all that and a billion things more how many adjectives and how many of them could you come up with about your king because i promise now is not the time to not know him now is not the time to know about him now is not the time to to be religious and not relational it is not the time right now to do anything but to know him more every day that every day is another opportunity that you might dive into his love for you more and more and more because psalm 91 i said it just a couple of weeks ago it says because because you and i have set our love upon him he will deliver us because we set our love upon him he delivers us not because he just set his love upon us you have to do something with this this is reciprocal this is absolutely it's relational it's intimacy he sees into me see and i see into him and we see each other we become one flesh one spirit we become totally relational we become talkative i talked to him he talks to me i don't complain to him i thank him i worship him i love him i do not complain to him and get angry about things and say why would you and why and why i say oh my oh my god there is something about believing there is something about then beholding and there is something about then becoming it's about believing that you are who god says you are that he is who he says he is in matthew 16 and 17 in that place where they say jesus says who do people say that i am [Music] and the disciples the ones that ran with him the ones that hung with them these guys are traveling with jesus eating sleeping breathing doing life with jesus he says who the people say i am and they say well a lot of people are saying a lot of things lord and they're still doing it today christians say a lot of things they say a lot of things well maybe he will maybe he won't sometimes he does sometimes he doesn't it depends upon his mood god is always in a good mood he is good yes he despises sin but he doesn't despise you he loves us oh how he loves us oh how he loves us oh how he loves us oh he is jealous for you his love's like a hurricane and you're a tree bending beneath the weight come on man when oh when all of a sudden i am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory i don't have time oh my gosh i don't have time to remain in regret i don't have time to think about the regret i don't have time to think about guilt to think about shame to think about condemnation i don't have time why because i am so consumed with the way that he loves me someone should write a song it's so powerful if this whole bible has to do with god's love for you the whole worship set had to do with god's love for us he's literally jealous for you we talked about money and people get up tight and it's because money rules us money money weighs so heavily on us it's a god but you're not supposed to put your faith in that god supposed to put your faith in god come on man this is a big deal i hope to wreck your hearts with the overwhelming love of god for the next 30 minutes i hope that you would be consumed with god's thoughts for you his love for you his mercy for you his tenderness towards you his eye that's constantly on you that never looks away his gaze man god has billions of people in this world and he looks at every one of them individually all day every day boom and he never looks away he direct hits every day and if you would just connect with that you would behold him and you would never be the same but it's believing that jesus is who he is the disciples said well some say john the baptist some say elijah some say jeremiah one of the prophets a lot of people are saying a lot of things and the church is still doing the same thing a lot of people say the same thing well he's this and he's that he's this and it's granted he is a lot of different things but none of them are bad oh my gosh do you know who jesus came to reveal the father he came to reveal the father he came to reveal the father to a people that weren't ready for him he came to reveal the father to the jews and the jews resisted oh they did do you know saul really resisted oh my gosh really resisted but when saul was knocked off of his high horse on his road to damascus when he was traveling there to persecute and to press and to squeeze this thing called the sect or the way it was called the way before christianity was called christianity it was called the way imagine that what if we referred to it as that like what do you believe i'm part of the way what yeah i'm a part of the way way to where the way to the father we've taught people jesus is the way the truth and the life no one comes to heaven except by him which is true but if you me if you don't meet the father when you get there you won't know him when you do eternal life isn't just praying some prayer incorporating jesus into your life for a better day so that you can pray to get more stuff that's when you know that money truly has you when you're praying for things when you're praying out of a place of lack and out of a place of of of desperation the only thing that you have the right to be desperate for is him he gives us holy spirit when we get saved when we get born again some people get troubled with that they're like that's a cult no it's the way it's not a cult it's the way nicodemus talking to jesus nicodemus comes at night he's a pharisee and he says that we know he didn't say i know he said we know which means there were other pharisees that knew that jesus was the real thing they knew it he said know what we know that you are a teacher come from god because no one can do these miracles do these things there is no way that they can do these things unless you do unless you're from god we know it nicodemus settled it in his heart we know it we not just me i'm the only one brave enough to come to you and i'm coming at night so no one else sees me that's why it happened that way we know jesus said he didn't say wow well how many of you are there he didn't even go there he didn't say well i'm really glad that you know that he said i tell you the truth unless you're born again you won't be able to see the kingdom you won't be able to even see you can't see unless you're born again nicodemus is like well come on i can't enter in my mom's womb again nicodemus was an older pharisee so his mom wasn't probably alive even didn't make any sense to him it doesn't make sense at all to the natural mind at all he said unless you're born again you won't be able to see this is crazy so simple you can't see and jesus says no that which is born of flesh is flesh but that was just born of spirit is spirit so then he tells him again same thing oh get it nick get it unless you're born again your mom gives birth to you once but i promise you that that's not good enough you know many people carry what they carry through life they carry the way their mom treated them the way their mom did or did not do for them the way that they were rejected the way that they were accepted then bring father into the picture and then you have the father your father was either there or he wasn't there he either left or he stayed he either beat you or he didn't and all kinds of terrible things come in the identity from the biological parents so he says you must be born again what does that even mean born again means that you must be born again means that you must be re-daddied i promise being born again means to be re-fathered have a brand new father one that you never knew but one that you get to know jesus said in john 17 3 this is eternal life he didn't say that they might go to heaven and spend the rest of eternity with you although that's part of it and honestly that's the bigger part of it but being born again is essential to unlock your potential because you can't step in to potential unless you do what's essential the essential piece to christianity is that you must be born again people are like and they man i gosh before i was a christian i would hear about this crazy cult i did the born-again cult psycho people like i wasn't are you with me i was an addict i was addicted to me i was addicted to everything you must be born again you must have a brand new dad you must be re-fathered be fathered meaning the first one could have been good could have been bad none of that matters when you meet the the one and only true god when eternal life jesus said is you knowing the one and only true god it's not knowing about it is knowing experiencing an active experience relationship daily with the god of glory the only one and true god the king of glory the one that we sing our god reigns what he wants to do when someone gets born again is he comes and he reigns from inside instead of outside and he sets up his government inside of us through agency of holy spirit it's god the father god the son god the holy spirit and the holy spirit sets up his home inside of us and all of a sudden holy spirit and my spirit become one and they never separate again and then this brain that was so jacked up my soul that was so whacked out my soul that was tripped up by life and regret and hurt and shame and guilt and condemnation and depression and suicidal thoughts and all that junk gets kicked out by the holy ghost he doesn't i start to fellowship with this thing that's alive i'll start to have real fellowship with the word of god and find out what god thinks about me so that when i hear what the world thinks about me it doesn't matter because now i know what the father says about me and i set up my home with him and he set up his home in me and i have peace that surpasses understanding and he guards my heart with a garrison like an umpire inside of my heart safe out home run bow ball and the peace of god that surpasses my ability to comprehend it it surpasses my brain's ability to understand it comes and sets up his home inside of me and becomes everything for me and then i start to enter into relationship with the father where i actually pray and know that he hears me we actually get to love him in the place where he responds with his love and his goodness and his mercy see when i was lost i knew i was lost there are many christians that don't know they're lost on man i'm talking about intimacy intimacy is where you get found religion is where you get bound if i'm only in the to-do list and i've got the rules and regulations that i must live by it's an impossibility for you to completely surrender to that because you're pinned down by it there's no possibility but when i fall in love with him and he sets up his home inside of me the bible no longer becomes theory but it becomes an internal reality that governs me from inside of my heart and this word is alive and hebrews 4 12 says it's living and active sharp and powerful it comes in and it divides my soul from my spirit so now my born again spirit man is one with god my spirit gets it when i read this word my spirit goes yum-yum my brain goes the mindset of man and the way that seems right to a man is in rebellion against god i don't care how much you think you've memorized inside of here it is not about the memorization it is about faith not coming by reading faith comes by hearing and as i read i hear and as i hear faith grows in me oh my gosh it's beautiful so many people have approached this book like any other book and they thought that if they read it enough they get book smart you can answer the questions man life has questions to ask you that you don't need to answer [Music] oh life has questions to ask you that are irrelevant to eternal life that are irrelevant to who god's created you to be and we will spend time searching this thing to answer questions that we don't need to i am not to read this word to study to preach myself approved i am to study to display to show myself approved i am to get god's truth inside of my heart and inside of my soul in such a strength to where every stronghold that the enemy placed theirs through growing up through selfishness through self-righteousness through depression through regret through guilt through shame that every stronghold that was built there gets completely torn out because a stronger one comes in and strips the armor of all that junk and trash and then all of a sudden i know the truth i study to show myself approved and i study to know the truth concerning the doctrine and i'm studying this word and asking the lord to cut me deep and and shift and shift through my heart lord look upon me look upon me gaze within me god let your internal searching gaze cut me deep and trim away any hurtful path that i might be walking on get it out god put your word deep inside of my heart so that i do not sin against you oh my gosh it's a different world a whole new world and all of a sudden your life is completely different it's all about its truth don't ever think that you can be so spiritual that you don't have to be in this book may not spend my life in here god is faithful he wants to take this word make it alive inside of you so that every lie gets torn out because there's no mountain he won't climb up there's no wall he won't kick down there's no lie he won't tear down coming after you that's the story of a good good father that doesn't want you to be bound to anything but love he wants you to be an instrument of righteousness a weapon of the lord he wants you to be a sword in the master's hand that you can cut up any devil that would come your way then any lie that would come at you there's no possibility why that lie comes to your ears and all of a sudden it tries to set up home inside of you but you are totally in love with god which means that you now saying that you love god have taken psalms 138 verse 2 god you o god have magnified your word above your own name now since you said that you love god you have to magnify his word above what you say you love him he's saying that you love me if you love me i'm saying i magnified my word above my name so if you love me you have to put my word above that come on so now his word becomes the very thing that you love if you love god then you love love the word come on you don't just need some pastor to feed you you don't just need some prophet to prophesy over you you don't need some teacher to teacher you you don't need a pastor to pastor you when it comes to fellowship with the word you need your own relationship your own intimacy your own hunger and thirsting for righteousness so that you can be filled and overflowing so that you could say that's my king that's my king your king sacrificed his life to come and live inside of you so that you could be full of the kingdom the kingdom the kingdom of god is not meat or drink but it's righteousness peace and joy in the holy ghost and where does the holy ghost reside boom that means the kingdom is in you is around you is in the midst of you but if we don't know that's my king what do we really know we know hurt we know offense we know gossip we know anger we know they did this to me and they did that to me and look another one and this and that and all of a sudden we allow the things that matter least to matter most and we've walked away from the very truth that can set us free you have been called into a greater life than that you've been called into a greater life than waking up in the morning getting a cup of coffee and watching the news buddy you've been called to a greater life than finding out how the world's doing you've been called to a greater life than sitting on facebook and watching what everybody's doing getting sucked in again man four hours sucked in again wow man i can't believe i just got into reading everybody else's stories god has a story about you you are part of his story and if you see who you're created to be and who god's created you to be and who he is in you all of a sudden you will make history you will make history you will live a life as one that leaves a legacy as one that's burning for him as one that can't be put out because there's no shadow he won't light up there's no mountain he won't climb up there's no wall he won't kick down come after you no lie he'll leave there we have to know the truth concerning who our god is who is your king who do you say jesus is because he asked the disciples that question and said who do men say that i am and it was a set up for the next one he said okay i get what they say but what do you say oh they're walking with jesus all these other opinions of who the lord is there's so many opinions of who jesus is i hear him today all the time be on a plane sit with somebody hey who is jesus to you well oh my gosh i hear the craziest of stuff crazy stuff comes from not knowing what the word says i promise there is so much stuff out there well i believe i mean you know they say that god is love they say that god is love not i say they say that god is love so i believe that since god is love that he understands my feelings and he knows that this means something to me i hear it all i hear the homosexual life i hear the lesbian life i hear the i hear that all i heard it all everybody's got different opinions of who god is do you know that your opinion doesn't change the word do you know that even after we're gone this will still be here come on you can make a god in your image but when i read the bible he made us in his and the enemy had us forfeit our image and we lost our identity in the garden but jesus came to restore that which was lost what was lost our identity sons and daughters of a king of a father that loves us you know what i when i look in the bible i look at luke 15. i talked about it during the easter production it wipes me out it totally just it's just amazing to me you've got you've got the first one where you have first can i read it to you real quick just real quick it really has to do with his love this is the amplified classic so it's the loud version it's really loud it's lots of adjectives and adverbs describing everything says this in luke 15. it says as the tax collectors the notoriously and especially wicked sinners [Music] watch let me read it again sorry because the tax collectors and the and notoriously especially wicked sinners were all coming to him to hear jesus to listen to him do you hear that the liars the prostitutes the thinner the sinners the especially wicked they were like let's go hear jesus why why would they go hear jesus why would they want to go hear him i mean come on this is god in the flesh this is god in the flesh why didn't the pharisees and all the religious want to be there to hear him isn't that weird i mean jesus knew the torah he wrote the bible jealousy anger comparison envy do you know that jealousy and envy self-seeking do you know the bible says that every evil thing is in there it's the wisdom of the world the pharisees walked in the wisdom of the world and the tax lessors the liars the thieves the sinners the prostitutes the desperately wicked had no idea about wisdom so when wisdom was actually speaking to them wisdom from above which is pure lovely gentle meek without hypocrisy without partiality the wisdom of god was speaking through jesus so these tax collectors and historic and notoriously wicked sinners they were all coming all there weren't some coming all of them were coming every every broken contract twisted up ben up messed up person was coming to hear jesus isn't that kind of weird well we gotta beg people to come to church christians come on guys what are you doing come on come on i got stuff to do football baseball okay sorry i'm being serious they were all trying to get to see him [Music] and who was angry god wasn't angry god was like this is how it's supposed to be and the pharisees and scribes kept muttering indignantly complaining saying this man accepts and receives and welcomes the preeminently wicked sinners and he eats with them the pharisees the religious people the ones that thought that they knew it all but didn't know god they thought they knew it all they knew everything about god but didn't know god because god was standing right in front of them because jesus was god in the flesh are you with me so he told them a parable he goes which one of you if he has a hundred sheep if he loses one doesn't leave the 99 in the wilderness in the desert to go after the one that is lost until he finds it and when he finds it he lays it on his own shoulders rejoicing and when he gets home he summons together his friends his neighbors saying to them rejoice with me because i have found my sheep which was lost thus i tell you now keep in mind jesus is telling this in front of all these wicked desperately wicked sinners he's not just saying this to the pharisees they're in the room or in the probably not a room they're in the wherever all of them came so that's and all of them came as a very big place thus i tell you there'll be more joy in heaven when one especially wicked person who repents changes his mind abhoring his his errors his misdeeds and determines to enter upon a better course of life than the 99 righteous persons who have no need of repentance my question is this who was he referring to he was referring to these sinners that were there listening to him they didn't walk away when he said that no they knew they were desperately in need are you with me they knew how desperate they were in their hearts because when jesus spoke life came they didn't know what it was they couldn't understand it because he spoke in parables he spoke outside even his own disciples when they got with him were like um lord like what exactly do you mean his own dies the pharisees wanted nothing to do with it because he was a challenge for them because he was taking their gaze away from them ah promise there wasn't really a gate it was a thought of gays because the pharisees had no gays from tax collectors prostitutes and sinners they didn't want to be anywhere near them but in their perspective we are the ones of honor we are the ones that know this we're the ones with tassels we're the ones with all the bells and whistles we're the ones that look good on the outside but jesus said inside you were full of nasty this is powerful to me and he says over the 99 righteous persons who have no need of repentance my question is this these pharisees didn't have god's righteousness they had self-righteousness and they had massive need of repentance are you with me am i making sense or no this is too hard she talked he talks about the woman having ten silver drop months each one equal to a day's wages if she loses one does she not light a lamp and sweep the house and look carefully and diligently until she finds it when she finds it she summons her friends and neighbors rejoicing saying i have found the silver coin which i had lost even so i tell you there is more joy and in the presence of the angels of god over one especially wicked person a sinner who repents changes his mind for the better heartily amends his ways and abhorrence of his past sin oh do you know he's going value here so that you look at the first one and you've got all these twisted sinners and all these all these whacked out people i that's the class that that i lived in right there desperately wicked i have no idea and no pharisee ever approached me and told me about jesus ever and he want nothing to do with them i was that guy but i know that if someone like jesus were to walk i would say hey can we talk why because he wouldn't have despised me he wouldn't have looked down at me he wouldn't have said you need a lot of help and walked away and not gave me any all of us are called to walk like jesus all of us are called to walk in love all of us are called to not walk with judgment all of us are called to not walk with criticisms criticisms with to not walk hypercritical over people all of us are called to walk that way and i believe that your home will change your jobs will change your area will change your street will change your neighborhood will change the city will change the states will change the nation will change if we can all get back to normal so he's bringing the value up and here this is like this one right here against me gets me so so big there were two a certain man who had two sons the younger of them said to his father father give me the part of the property that falls to me and he divided the state between them not many days after that the younger son gathered up all that he had and journeyed to a distant country where he wasted his fortune in reckless and loose from restraint living and when he had spent all that he had a mighty famine came upon that country and he fell behind and to be into want he began to fall behind and be in want in other words he was broke he had nothing his notoriously all this reckless stuff that he did his all his sin and all his stuff that he spent his whole inheritance on he spent everything that he was to get not yet he got it early he spent it all he had nothing and he said so he went and forced he actually glued himself upon one of the citizens of that country he attached himself to them who sent him out to the field to work with the hogs and he was gladly fed on and filled his belly with the carob pods that the hogs were eating but they could not satisfy his hunger why because his hunger can't be satisfied with reckless living his hunger can't be satisfied with pods his hungry his hunger can't be satisfied with tv facebook his hunger can't be satisfied with marriage his hunger can't be satisfied with relationships his hunger can't be satisfied with instagram his hunger can't be satisfied with football his hunger can't be satisfied with all those things that we think satisfies us it doesn't satisfy us it pacifies us those things don't satisfy they pacify and they completely pacify the heart and they cause us to put a pacifier in our mouth and not drink milk [Music] and when you put a pacifier in your mouth in your mouth for long enough you're thinking you're hungry but eating the wrong stuff you don't grow spiritually you grow carnally and all of a sudden your life is totally jacked up and you wonder how it happened it's because what you're feeding you become and if we beat the wrong thing here we won't even know what real food is nobody gave him anything it says when he came to himself here it is we have to come to ourselves not to yourself that you created in your image but to yourself that god created in his image we have to come to that self it's not soul searching it's born again spirit-filled where your soul gets free from bondage and jesus comes in and becomes not just your savior but he becomes your lord and when he becomes your lord he's your leader and your master and he navigates you through life you don't navigate him he's not your bellahop he's your father oh he came to himself saying how many hired servants of my father have at least enough food and even food to spare but i am perishing and i am dying here of hunger he's thinking that if he goes home he's going to get a good meal he's not looking to get a good meal see when he came to himself his old self thinks i just got to get food who knows you can live without food for a while some of you don't because fasting's really hard but i promise you can i can live longer than most i got i got a lot stored sorry he said i am perishing and dying here of hunger i will get up go to my father i will say to him father i've sinned against heaven and in your sight that's an awesome place that's him coming to himself him coming to himself saying oh my god i've sinned against god i've sinned against heaven i've sinned against you that's where ben starts right there i'm no longer worthy that's not where repentance stays see repentance i really jacked up i really messed up i hurt everybody and what happens is when someone's convicted of that they go oh my god the first thought of the carnal mind is i'm not worthy but that's not what the father says oh so good i'm no worthy to be called your son see when someone's in sin [Music] and they come to themself when they come to themself the orphan mindset is right there and the orphan mindset says you're not worthy why because you don't know the father [Music] but what changes the orphan mindset of an orphan when they get adopted because once they get adopted they get a dad they get a mom and all of a sudden that orphan thing is gone why because now you're a son now you belong to a family that's amazing that's god i will go to my father i will say to him father i've sinned against you in heaven against heaven and in your sight i'm no longer worthy of you called your son just make me one of your servants he got up and came to his father this is my favorite this is so special and when he came when he was still way off his father psalm was moved with pity and tenderness moved with mercy and compassion so so many times people think they've backslid they've spent their inheritance they jacked it up man they jacked it up three times i mean why would god say yes again no because we think that he thinks like us and he doesn't think like us if god tells us to forgive how many times 70 times seven well what do you think his forgiveness is like if he tells a human brain and a human heart to forgive one person 490 times how big do you think his capacity for forgiveness is oh my gosh dude don't be limited by this god is amazing see this is a picture of god he's coming across the field and his father when he's a long way off he saw him he was moved with compassion oh my god is that him oh i've been waiting and he runs son son doesn't even hear him he's just head down i guarantee when the father took him he first thing he did was hey what did he catch when he lifted his chin what did he catch the gates the gaze of eyes that aren't i can't believe you did this no eyes that say welcome home we don't think that way but we need to because that's the bible see we think according to the way that seems right to a man you get what you deserve and you reap what you sow but what if god sowed his son like a seed into this earth and that you and i could reap what he said what if that is a new equation that we don't know because we don't really understand grace man because grace is well you know hey grace is the sloppy grace so if you think that sloppy grace is god forgiving you every time of everything you've got it wrong see god doesn't just forgive you because he wants you to remain the same [Music] god forgives you so that you'll never be the same oh come on think of me god doesn't forgive you so that you remain the same god forgives you so you never remain the same because his love the goodness and kindness and mercy of god lead the heart's repentance because when you see how good he is imagine the son he's going to be a servant going to be a slave whatever i i'll be eating food i'll get my belly so his brain his brain his heart comes to himself but his carnal thinking is still thinking i'm worthless i need to be a servant i need to be a slave he's already a slave to sin he's already a servant to the wrong master so when he comes home god lifts his chin looks in his eyes says welcome home son and he takes off his dirty garment his yuck and he puts on a robe that is called a robe of righteousness and he clothed him with himself oh that's powerful man and he puts a ring on his finger covenant covenant he puts a covenant ring on his son's finger and he puts sandals on his feet and he says you were lost and now you're found you were dead and now you're alive you were blind look at me son and now you see [Music] son's still thinking i'm not worthy i'm just not worthy inside he's thinking that because that's the old mindset that needs to be renewed if you weren't worth it then why did heaven pay such a high price for you to redeem your soul why did heaven send his one and only son to redeem you why did heaven pay such a high price for each individual if you didn't have value in the father's eyes it's impossible no your value is determined by the price that was paid for you and god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever would believeth in him wouldn't perish but would have eternal life that's your value so the father says come on let's go kill the fatted calf let's let's go have a party my son is home he doesn't just like keep it hush hush now listen just blend in for a little bit son be all right no no you hide in your room and i'll come visit you we'll work this out we'll work this out like you your brother's gonna be upset so you just go and hang in your room and i'll handle this no father's like come on take the stage boy let's do this brings them into all the other servants it's like hey guys look some of them are like oh you can't what kidding like give them all the privileges again are you kidding but his son his other son comes in oh my gosh he's like mr tude why because the son is bound in religion and the son doesn't know what he has because all he's done is work for what he has he comes in he sees this other son in there he's like he didn't see him at first he just heard the calamity what is going on right now your your brother he was dead he's alive what do you mean alive what you got to be kidding me do you know that it's the same thing with david's older brothers and david do you know that it's the same things with joseph's older brothers and joseph do you know it's the same thing it's the same thing throughout history and it's the same thing in the church it's not the same thing from heaven's perspective i promise you there's no way that i would be out preaching the gospel after three years after 22 years of addiction and atheism and anger and hatred and hurting and killing stealing manipulating threatening and three years god's like oh boy do it when they grow dreads people like oh my god what is going on i'm gonna wear five finger shoes oh jesus guy but my father but my father but my father but my father but my father oh i'm so serious there are so many older brothers that were so mad at me still to this day some of them hold protesting signs and and bullhorns and think that that is their way of warning the people if you can't hear the gospel and what i'm preaching something's wrong with your listener this is the bible man i love this i live here this is my life the word is my life man i live i get up with jesus i eat sleep breathe jesus i exhale jesus i inhale jesus i i love him and he loves me and we exchange that love and it's powerful the older brother has such atude what is going on why would you do this for him he took his inheritance and spent it i still have mine i didn't spend anything i've stayed here i've worked for you you've never done this for me and you know what god says i mean the father says i mean god says all that i have has always been yours what does religion not know what they have religion doesn't understand that god didn't want you to just serve him god's not like us that's why we need to be like him we must be born again we must be filled with the spirit we must let go of the sin and stuff that so easily ensnares us we can't afford to live another day without him that older brother always had everything that he needed at all times because he was with the father and he really didn't even know his father he knew what his father wanted his father wanted work done god doesn't want you to just get work done he wants you to know him and he wants you to experience him and he wants to love you there are people that are out there and they you might be here today and you're gone you're just out there running dude run home stop running away run home there are people that have been wrapped up in religion that don't have any relationship and you've been jealous of other people that come in and be like whoa they got more than they should have they shouldn't have got all that i mean come on dude i've been a member of the church for 25 years and this person comes in and all of a sudden they've got a microphone and we jealous and rage and anger and sin it's sin and judgment and people are guilty and need to repent there's no place to live it's not god you are not god's cop you are god's son you're not god's justice keeper he's pretty good at keeping himself but he really wants to teach us how to love man you need to become like him because as he is the bible says god is love and it talks about it in john 1 john 3 whole way through then it says that as he is in first john 4 so are we in this world what's he saying as god is love so he's called us to be you and i in this world he has called us to be love and we have walked away from the very thing he's called us to be and we've tried to do many things for god and we've become a bunch of martha's and we really need to sit at his feet and be a merry cause mary's get way more work done but it's all about being in love with him could you please stand your feet gosh that was good oh he loves us man [Applause] look if you're here and you know you're either the older son or the younger and you know that you need a deep relationship with jesus and you know that you're bankrupt and you want that please run up here right now come on i want to pray let's do this don't wait get up here just come and hang come on let's pray don't play come on come home come home come home [Applause] come home don't be bankrupt anymore buy from him gold right now come on jesus come on come on whether you're the older son that was at home or you're the one that went and spent all this stuff either way you belong here come come on please just gauge your heart right now and ask the lord if you're supposed to be up here because he is all-powerful he is almighty i want you to be able to say that's my king that's my king that's my king the president isn't king jesus is i promise you god has a different government you know the government is upon his shoulders oh so big that'll preach for a long time till we go and be with him then we'll just say holy for billions of years it's going to be amazing come on if you need to be up here i challenge you to get up here now please don't wait please just run don't wait who cares who's looking people like well i don't like i don't want to be embarrassed you're already found out come on dude be a real man be a real woman and say i'm done living this way i want to run after god i'm tired of being hurt by people i am tired of being hurt by people i challenge you to get free today i challenge you be free today i challenge you be free today turn your back on pride and repent and come to the father turn your back on pride and come to the father he's not going to go stop he's going to go oh [Music] i really feel in my heart there are people that are really bound by fear like i don't want to do this i already did this before it didn't work i challenge you take the dare i challenge you i dare you to give him your yes today i dare you to give him your yes today give him your yes today i dare you to give him your yes today i challenge you i challenge you to give him your yesterday i challenge you i want you to tap the person on your left and right and ask them if they need to be down here i don't care if they're a pastor tap them doesn't matter if they say yes come down here with them come on let's do this come on i love when you ask the person that's really really saved really in love with jesus beside you and they're like come on you know you're like what are you saying let's just both go down let's get this thing on with jesus if you're in a place where you've been devastated and you've been hurt by church and you've just don't want to get hurt again i challenge you i dare you get past yourself right now get past yourself right now give up that trash and get this thing on with jesus come on come on come on come on i'll wait here till tomorrow why because your tomorrow will be amazing [Music] is there anybody else we need come on come on take the talent take the jesus challenge the jesus challenge the jesus challenge [Applause] pastor hershey you come up here

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Published: Sun Apr 11 2021