Transformation Church|Holy Habits | Royal Priests are a People of Unity | 9am Service

[Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] welcome to transformation church guys my name is winnie erb and i am with the one and only kyle campbell thank you thank you so much hi family so whether you are joining us here in the building or you're watching us online welcome we are so excited to be together today now we are starting this week or we are continuing our holy habits sermon series pastor durwin is going to be joined by his wife vicky today and they're going to be teaching us through how we can be a people of unity it is going to be incredible kyle yeah and speaking of incredible pastor derwin has a new resource it's called god god do you hear me there's going to be a prayer and worship night on friday but what it is is we're leaning into the lord's prayer so if you feel like your prayers aren't always making it all the way to heaven come and join us as we investigate the prayer that god always answers and beyond that today's a communion sunday so um for folks that are in the building you've already got what you need but if you're at home grab some pop-tarts some juice whatever you need we want you to join in with what god is doing in communion today so don't miss out and finally uh whether you're in a sweat suit at home or you're in a normal suit here in the building um one of the things that we like to do beyond just you know just listening to a sermon we want to worship god in spirit and truth through music so uh enough of the announcements let's get the party started music over to you awesome well good morning fabulous worship together this morning please join us to sing about the joy that our god gives us even in the middle of what we're facing amen [Music] there's beauty in my brokenness and i've got true love instead of [Music] together [Music] is [Music] [Music] you give me joy down deep in my soul down deep in my soul down deep in my soul so you give me joy down deep in my soul down deep in my soul down deep in my soul y'all believe that this morning there's a joy that our god gives us that goes beyond what's happening around us [Music] [Music] i've got joy [Music] [Music] come on [Music] [Music] [Music] i've never been [Music] i've never been more secure [Music] know joy [Music] everybody [Music] you give me [Music] is [Music] that the world couldn't [Music] everlasting joy [Music] everlasting joy [Music] unspeakable joy [Music] unspeakable joy a joy that only you can give lord [Music] a joy that we can only get in your presence cause in your presence there is fullness of joy in your presence there is fullness of joy in your prayers and stares fullness of joy [Music] in your presence terrorists fullness of joy you give me joy down deep in my soul down deep in my soul down deep in my soul you give me joy my soul my soul [Music] and good morning again family it's so great to see you amen we praise god i'm so excited sundays have become my favorite day because i get to see you all and we get to worship together there's something about being in the presence of god that just prepares us and propels us into the next week ahead so it's definitely an amazing amazing time it's our first time guess we're so excited to have you with us we know you could have gone anywhere else we're so glad that you're here and so we have a connect car that's in the front of the seat in front of the back of the seat in front of you and there's also a digital option so if you want to take out your camera you can scan it they cure our code there and for our family online thank you again as well for joining us there should be a qr code that's popping up on the screen for you as well please take some time to fill that out um that just allows us to get to know you see how we can walk with you through this live through this journey again we don't want to bombard you with emails and things like that but we really want to get to know you i mean support you in this life if you are in the building there's a next steps area in the lobby uh you can take that card out there and they have some amazing people out there that have some some gifts for you and they would love to talk to you and get to know you a lot more sounds good awesome let's continue worshiping together this morning by reading the scripture uh we'll be reading from matthew 6 25 through 26. and it says therefore i tell you don't worry about your life what you will eat or what you will drink or about your body what you will wear isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing consider the birds of the sky they don't sow or reap or gather into barns yet your heavenly father feeds them aren't you worth more than day that's an amazing reminder this morning for us to be reminded that our god is aware he is not he's not distant he's not far away he's right with you and he's wherever your needs is aware what you're dealing with he's aware of even the most difficult situation that you're facing and he's right there with you and he's in control so we can be reminded this morning of the fact that that that you that god sent his son to die for us is evidence enough that he cares so much more for us than we can even imagine we can be reminded that our god is our healer that he is our waymaker that he is the provider that he is our safety that we can run into him and be safe he's jehovah jireh he's so much more than enough so let's reflect on these words together this morning and hold to this truth i'll never be more loved than i am right now wasn't holding you up so there's nothing i can do to let you down it doesn't take a trophy to make you proud i'll never be more loved than i am right now going through a storm but i won't go down i hear your voice carry it in the rhythm of the window call me you would cross an ocean so i wouldn't drive you've never been closer than you are right now [Music] you are now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i don't wanna forget how i feel right now on the mountaintops i can see so clear what it's all about [Music] [Music] how i feel right now [Music] i [Music] [Music] is [Music] i'm already chosen i know who i am i know what you've spoken i'm already loved more than i could imagine [Applause] [Music] i know who i [Music] am can i do tonight [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you are [Music] how much more will [Music] how much more does he love you [Music] how much more will [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how [Music] is [Music] [Applause] gosh [Music] [Applause] [Music] for every circumstance [Music] you are [Music] more than enough [Music] [Music] you will be [Music] cause all your promises yes [Music] [Music] forever you will be [Music] [Music] call is promises [Music] will [Music] [Music] your be are yesterday amen cause all your promises are yesterday [Music] amen cause all your [Music] cause all your [Music] it's hard to one two three i'm on hello oh there we go sometimes sometimes we have to believe something in order to understand it but we feel like we have to feel it to understand it and worship is declaring who god is because god is and so what i want us to do i don't know music stuff but that that cute diddy that you're doing there that's dope right and i want our prayer to be you are more than enough like right now in your situation you may be going god you don't feel like you're more than enough and some of you may be going i'm going through stuff and god you don't feel like you're more than enough and let's let this be our prayer because it's easy to pray and to thank god when the miracle happens but oftentimes throughout scripture you have to get in the jordan river before god shows up the water may have to get up to your nose and you bubbling snot but god is going i need a people that i can trust and i need to know that when times are tough when times are difficult that god you are more than enough that's going to be our prayer we need to know that he is more than enough do your thing not more than nothing [Applause] how much more will it go [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] you are [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] you are [Music] you are father we praise you because you are more than enough we're not going to be a people that praise you when the miracle happens when the breakthrough happens when deliverance happens we're going to praise you in advance we're going to celebrate your name before you are more than enough and we love you in jesus name amen amen [Music] can we give our worship team a round of applause [Applause] yeah well uh my name is pastor derwyn and i am vicki's husband and i do what she tells me to do that's why we've been together for 32 years married 29 years put that in your pocket young man don't forget that yes and amen uh how are you doing today are you doing good i'm doing good yeah glad to be here yeah were you worried about me when we were a little bit late coming in and the stage people were like it's time and i'm like he's not in here yeah i do that i've been doing that to them for years stresses them out they're on the mic like i got to keep them on their toes y'all hey let's just take a moment and let's welcome all of our guests that are tuning in from around the world around the corner online and those who are here personally thank you so much for being here and let's give it up for the mighty men and the beautiful women of our correctional facilities partnership in the state of south carolina and also to the tc family thank you so so much and um yeah um before we dive into the message i think it's important for us to call attention to people who serve here at transformation church teamwork really does make the dream work and i want to show you our central support team pictures of them and the things that they do here at transformation church and um yeah that's pastor tim he was around when noah was building his ark he was a stowaway no but seriously we're grateful for pastor tim and his stability kyle campbell he's he's he's been a breath of fresh air to our staff and let's let's show the other pictures of what amy with finances and tabitha and mama carol let's continue going uh i mean we got judy we got marie we got lorraine we got denise and and you know what's cool like oh man probably gosh man 13 years ago having a conversation with denise in a coffee shop about god and what he wanted to do in her life and and her and her family been faithful to serve here transformation church and and i bring these people up we we show them to you because no church is ever about one person other than jesus well i don't know if y'all catch that because american culture loves to make heroes but there's only one hero and his name is jesus and this is his church and we worship him um but there are so many people that do behind the scenes things and we're just grateful teamwork does make the dream work so if you see them around give them a a fist pound and and say thank you because a lot of times preaching and teaching and singing but that's that's just a small part of what happens in this ministry called transformation church all right so uh babe why don't you pray for us can i call you babe up here sure okay all right babe go for it god um thank you for this day thank you for this opportunity for us to um to gather freely together to worship you as a local church as your body lord and and we are grateful that we can remind ourselves of who you are and ultimately god we do want to glorify you in everything we do every word we sing um every word we speak lord i'm the posture of our hearts god we desire to honor you and so god we just pray um that um that you would just speak through us what needs to be um heard and um that you would first let it resonate in our own hearts in our own spirits lord that um we would walk faithfully um as you've called us to lead transformation church and so god thank you for every person that's in this building and that's watching online and um and we just pray that above all we would get to experience you today so we can bring you glory in jesus name amen amen amen okay so this is the last message in our series holy habits you know the scene of the crime is your mind and so we want to develop habits that flow from the very mind of christ because our habits flow out of our thoughts and we want to have thoughts after jesus after his kingdom so that our habits will create a future and a destiny where we're being the people that god has created us to be but also so that we can be a blessing to the world and so this holy habit that we're going to discuss is that royal priests are a people of unity every follower of jesus so if you're not a follower of jesus yet and you do become one you need to know your identity and your status changes your driver's license and in heaven has your name but it has a new status royal priest let's look at royalty first we are royalty because we belong to jesus and he is the king now the difference with our royalty is that we're servants instead of being served now for some of y'all y'all might have went well darwin that was good till you said that well you need to understand this being a follower of jesus is being servants not being superstars not being celebrities it is being servants for the son of man came not to be served but to be a servant and to give his life away as a ransom and so our royalty is we serve the world as jesus has served us and what does it mean to be a priest a priest simply means this you stand in the gap our lives are bridges that people walk across to meet jesus now i don't know about you but sometimes being walked across is not a good experience and jesus goes yeah i know what you're talking about people do that to me all the time there's an old song back in the day uh we all play the fool sometimes well i would rather be a fool loving than to hurt and not be a bridge we live in a culture that wants to blow up bridges and jesus is saying i want you to build bridges so people can come to know me and so we want to look at unity and what unity means but the forces of evil are on a mission to destroy god's children through division so please understand this you you may be a modern scientific person but there are dark maniacal evil powers in the world how do you explain so much evil in the world from sex trafficking to all types of heinous things that are happening at every level and some of us have experienced personally but one of the ways that dark powers want to destroy god's people is through distraction and division uh babe can you read ephesians 6 11 and 12. yes um so this is uh the apostle paul's um penned these words to the church at ephesus and to us and he says put on all of god's armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all the strategies of the devil so he's smart like he's watching us he knows our areas of weakness for we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world against mighty powers in this dark world and against evil spirits in heavenly places so we're not fighting against flesh and blood that's a great thing for us to remind ourselves we have to fight the spiritual with the spiritual right and so what the apostle paul is talking about here is the power of prayer the power of unity as we stay unified and focused on jesus that is going to empower us to overcome the forces of evil yeah and and so i think what i need to do right here is i need to scare you a little bit okay because oh yeah whatever the devil yeah yeah think about but about this y'all satan was an incredibly beautiful angel created to worship and to give god praise he is so good that in eternity pass he had a plan that he said hey other angels i got a plan right check this out i'm gonna be better than god the one who created us and i want you guys to follow me and one third of the angels is like i'm in so if one third of the angels got betrayed what chances do you and i have if we're not walking in the power of god so let me scare you just a little bit that when you're messing with that pornography he's trying to get in there when you're messing with that greed at work he's trying to get in there and unhealthy relationships and not dealing with our insecurities he's trying to get in there so if satan could get one third of the angels to fall for it what can he do to us if we're not walking in the power of god that's why we got to have holy habits i need to turn up the temperature because your family is on notice god wants to divide your marriage he wants to destroy your marriage teenagers he wants you to think no one loves you you're not worth living just kill yourself this is serious business very serious i deal with it every single day so understand okay now that i got you scared [Laughter] the devil didn't been beat up already he's lost we're more than conquerors in him yeah who loves us so please understand that but we have to turn up the temperature because this is serious that's why we have to develop holy habits yeah yeah so how do we live in unity as families as a local church as husbands and wives people in relationships how do we do that yeah so um i'm going to give you an example of what not to do i think we have a picture we're going to throw up on the screen here uh this is from um our college days so we met and got married in college uh he was uh 21 i was you just turned 21 and i was 19 here and so were you yeah that's 1990 we're playing washington state oh yeah and we came back and won and people stormed i broke my wrist but i still played yes yes so that was the byu so we got married in college i was on the track team and he was on the football team and so one of the things that's funny about us now just so you know we were totally and completely lost there we had no idea who jesus was and we didn't really care to be honest because he was busy pursuing his god of football and i was busy pursuing my god of like performance and achievement and a multitude of other things and so um so we get married in college and we lived in married student housing at byu our apartment was 485 square feet it was amazing it's super easy to clean can i just say that and so um one day we were watching um the nba finals and my previous roommate and his previous roommate were dating so they were watching it with us at our apartment sitting on our eight dollar a month couch and so um it was uh the chicago bulls were playing the portland trail blazers he was a big bulls fan at that time this is scottie pippen mm-hmm and i was actually a big um portland fan at that time because i spent my summers in portland oregon with my dad and so um i'm pretty sure it was the last game i don't even remember that but um but the bulls won and he was gloating and he was like just a little bit oh i mean and so you got to know we were both so competitive when we tried to learn to golf together we'd end up basically cussing each other out because it'd be like why are you telling me what to do look what you just shanked the ball over there and so and my our brother-in-law would just look at us like oh my gosh these two so so anyways think about ultra competitive right and so um so the game hap went you know the the bulls win and he's like and so i go over and i like press the button on the tv this we didn't have a remote control so i go over and i push the button on the tv and turn it off and then he comes over and he pushes it on and i push it off and he pushes and honestly i don't really know what happened next other than i grabbed him and wrestled him to the ground so we're on the ground wrestling and our roommates they're like really short nothing wrong with being short he she was like 4 10 he was like 5'2 and they're just looking at us and we're on the ground just rolling roll around on the floor like what are y'all doing and i was like oh i just oh got me in a headlock i did and so i mean it's kind of embarrassing and i know you all are like wait we're following these two at this church okay um but it was a long time ago it was bc or you know before christ and so um but that is a perfect example of what unity is not yeah and and she bench pressed 180 back then y'all so like i mean it wasn't an easy match i mean it was like i i mean what i was thinking i mean she just what a room and i was on the ground before i knew it i was only like 190 then too so it was not um abuse though yeah it was not abuse we were i mean we were athletes we we would play physical and basketball and stuff but here's the point though we were married but we were not unified yeah listen to this we were competitors not completers yeah you see in marriage relationships in a church if you're on the same team and one person wins the argument you both lose yeah so it's important for us number one the holy habit of unity is understand that jesus is our source of unity through the holy spirit's power now this is real important unity does not mean uniformity so i wish you could see what i see i see blonde hair i see dark hair i see people with magnificent tans and some people who need to get tans i see people that are old i see people that are young i see all kinds of people it looks like revelation chapter five verse nine every nation tribes wouldn't it be strange is everybody looked the same no god is a god of diversity look at creation yeah so unity does not mean uniformity unity means i need your difference to become better yes yes we literally need each other yeah but jesus is the source of our unity look at philippians chapter two one through two you're gonna read that oh okay yeah because is that my color your it's your oh my bad no that's my color okay i'm sorry okay she keeps me organized if then there is any encouragement in christ if you've been around transformation church for five minutes you know i'ma lose my mind whenever i see in christ those two little words in christ literally means this through faith in jesus all that's true of jesus is true of you and i let that sink in please let that sink in because if you don't let that sink in you're going to put other things to fill your soul and those other things are out to destroy your soul jesus is our more than enough that we're in christ we're not only forgiven we're not only made new but our lives are inextricably woven to jesus so much so to god the father when he sees us he sees jesus why because we're in him that's so not fair but that's why it's called grace so our source of unity is christ if any consolation of love if any fellowship with the spirit so we see the holy spirit's power if any affection and mercy make my joy complete by thinking the same way having the same love united in spirit intent in one purpose we live in a culture where politicians want to pull us to part where uh apple and samsung want to pull us apart everything is pulling us apart and jesus said no i want to bring you together look at ephesians 2 16. together as one body if you're new to following jesus literally on the cross is where our sin goes to die but when jesus raises again literally his body is where we go to live and so just as you have different body parts in your own body in jesus's body we are the different body parts and so listen every winter my left wrist starts to hurt you know why because i have a fractured navicular blood doesn't go there in my wrist and it's been hurt since 1990. i can tell when it's going to get cold before it gets cold because it hurts even though it's a little it hurts well guess what when one of us hurt we all hurt yeah and the difficulty with thinking like that is that as western people we're taught to think about three people me myself and i we're taught to pull us up by our put yourself up by your bootstraps so i got a question whose land used to own it where the cows are and who killed the cow to get the leather who made the boot so he can put it on there's no self-made people everybody need somebody jesus together as one body listen to this christ reconciled both groups that's jews and everybody else to god watch this by means of his death on the cross and our hostility toward each other was put to death so what does that mean as a married couple what does that mean for us as a church what does that mean in your family it means that we start from a positive posture of we're already together so let's live from our togetherness so listen you may not understand this but vicky and i there are things that we don't we don't agree upon when we were younger we would argue to win now we discuss to understand yeah i mean she's very brilliant and i can have a couple of good moments every now and then and so we need to have each other it's not about winning yeah and um i was reminded as you were saying that um i had a friend who was in a bible study right after i became a christian and she came in and she drew this picture on the on the whiteboard and she said you know um when my husband and i fight um what happens is he's here and i'm here and the devil's in between us trying to cause this division and she said what we really need to look at is he's here i'm here and the devil's over here and it's us against him yeah yeah right and i was like whoa that's so powerful because it's so easy remember the scripture our battles not with flesh and blood it's so easy when you're frustrated with your spouse or your friend or a child or a parent or a co-worker to really think that person is your enemy but that person is not our enemy no matter who it is we do have an enemy and it is not that person and so if i can instead of seeing him as my enemy because he's made me mad or hurt my feelings or whatever the case is but recognize ah the enemy's trying to destroy us not today satan ain't gonna happen and so that allows me to submit my um pride that's like you know like i'll literally literally want to wrestle you on the floor um but i can go wait a second let's have a discussion and talk about this yeah and and and so understand god is more patient with us than we are ourselves i remember uh i think presley was probably six maybe and jeremiah was probably two somewhere off in there and don't ever have arguments when you're tired please yeah we've learned like if we tire like listen we'll catch up tomorrow because this is not going to go well so please no matter how much your pride rises up no matter how much wait until you are rested well one time we didn't this is years ago i don't know we're arguing about but the next thing i know in the kitchen presley's holding jeremiah and both of the kids are crying and here we are arguing about whatever it was it was both of our pride right so in order to have unity number two no more selfish ambition no more selfish ambition yeah um philippians 2 3 says do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves and so how do we live this type of life right well it goes back to the scripture we we read earlier about in christ so it's drawn from a deep love and a desire to honor god which will cause me to not act selfishly i can't sit and think okay i'm not going to be selfish i'm not going to be selfish instead it comes from a deep trust in knowing god will provide for my needs that song we just sang jira that comes from the word jehovah jireh meaning god will provide and it came from when abraham was getting ready to sacrifice isaac and god provided a ram in the thicket at the last minute and he said now i know jehovah jireh god will provide and so ultimately it comes down to my relationship with jesus do i trust him to provide or do i think i have to scratch and claw and do everything that i can to get my needs met [Music] so so what if you are operating that way um and some of you are like oh wow i just did that at work the other day or oh i'm doing that in my marriage or oh well listen here's the great news tell him vicky we go to god and we repent we just say man you're right i have been operating that way and it's causing division and i'm sorry i don't want to operate that anymore and will you help me not to do it the holy spirit is our helper and when we ask him for help he will help us i'm gonna sit in that just for a minute i don't know about y'all but i need led to marinate that's good that's really good so so so think about it what if we woke up every day going others are better than me not like ontologically that's a big word not like in our essence of being made in the image of god we're all equal but with a servant's mentality of whose life can i make better today let's let's just say that the the 15th or 20 000 people that are watching right now let's just say we woke up tomorrow overwhelmed by god's love in christ and we go who can i serve today what if you had 20 000 people doing that into the world imagine how beautiful not only our lives would be but the world would be now here's the hard thing some of you are like me you grew up as a survivor like like i remember cooking and scrambling eggs in fourth grade cause i was home alone i could ride the bus at nine years old across san antonio i mean you you just you just grew up surviving and so you take that scarcity mentality into the world and you try to be a survivor and you manipulate and you deceive but here's the good news god has got you whatever you get by manipulation and deception will never satisfy you but what god has for you will always satisfy you that's in your marriage that's in your jobs that's in your relationships yeah hey um i want to show you something really cool and it deals with unity and and if you're new to transformation church it's important to know the story that god is writing here take a look at this i don't think we could have planned for the things to happen that we saw happen everything from the early growth in attendance uh to just the miracles that we've seen and things happening from the beginning like the parking lot being donated when we didn't have any money there's many ways to define success but to define success from god's perspective is not about numbers and values and dollar amounts and that kind of thing it's more about relationships and how you've affected people's lives or how you allowed christ to affect people's lives through what we do and who we are to say you're successful and weren't successful dismisses what god is planning to do through that that you may not see for years beyond it's not about the moment of success or non-success because god's always using it for his good regardless of how we define it unity is about investing in your brothers and sisters some of you don't realize this but some of you are sitting in seats that were bought on ebay because we couldn't afford to get them made y'all up there you don't even know it some of you have no idea the sacrifices financially the sacrifices spiritually that have been made to have this beautiful building that looks like battlestar galactica unity is about investing in your brothers and sisters not taking not consuming but investing look at philippians 2 4 invest in your marriage invest in your friendships invest in your local church everyone should look not to his own interests let me let that pause there what messages do you hear throughout the week can i encourage you with this and i'm not trying to tell you well dude i just want to give you a suggestion if all you think about is politics and how bad the world is i want to suggest that you turn that off for a week and watch how much happier you get whether if it's left leaning or on the right i i spend more time in the word of god but everyone should look not to his own interests but rather to the interest of others that's a picture of jesus that jesus did not come to earth to redeem us because he was like i'm lacking something i'm feeling lonely no he saw your need he he saw my need and he made an investment when i think about the early days of transformation church and it's important because we have hundreds and thousands of new people right one of the things that vicky and i decided from day one is if we want a transformation church to bleed financial gym or generosity towards god and his people and his mission we had to hemorrhage it and so we were like we're going to put our money where our mouth is if we believe god's calling us to plant this church then we're going to clean out mutual funds we're we're going to sacrifice the most is isn't it interesting people like to lead but don't have like the responsibility to lead people always want to tell the high school coach what to do but they don't want to be the ones that deal with the disciplinary problems and all the other stuff that go in to to to it a part of leading is you lead the way in every single area and when we were in nfl i worked at an investment firm called axia because i didn't want to be a guy that you retire from nfl and you ain't got nothing so we learned how to do investments and we had plans for that money but god had other plans and guess what the plan was you look at the person right next to to you and on the count of three say you one two three you you were the plan that wasn't our plan our plan was a cabin in the mountains of montana i can't grow a beard but i was gonna buy a fake one i was gonna hunt rams and stuff but god was like no no no no no i got plans when you invest in others will you allow god to change your plans [Music] yeah so one of the things we want to highlight today is our hope dealers market and there's many of you that already serve with the hope dealers market either physically or you do the amazon shopping list and buy supplies and what that is is twice a month um we feed 85 families that come through and they pick up enough food for two weeks okay yeah because um that's awesome and that's because of y'all's generosity and servant hearts that like we say not on our watch we don't want people to go hungry in our community so lord what can we do to help them and one of the neat things that our team came up with i didn't even know until they announced it and i'm like i love when they come up with amazing ideas is um they're started a merch store so like i don't know if we have a picture of that but like tc shirts and all that kind of stuff that you can buy and for every shirt you buy it by seven meals that's awesome yeah and so we just want to make you guys aware of that because it's a great way for us to get back to the community and and we're planning to jump all in on that that's right and so not only do you get some nice swag for those of you over 50 swag means nice clothes not only do you look drippy that means to look good right so not only do you look good you can feed people and while you're feeding people people are gonna go tell me about your shirt and you get to say well let me tell you our church has a free grocery store it is hard times people are hurting but we know a jesus who feeds hurting and hungry people and so we're just joining and what jesus is doing so our teams came up with a creative way to be able to do that so let's get behind that let's support that unity means we invest in brothers and sisters and then the t in the acronym unity is we train in the spirit's power to become a servant we train in the spirit's power to become a servant what i want to do now is i want to take you back 2 000 years and i want to take you to what's called one of the early hymns of the early church philippians chapter 2 verses 5 through 11 is one of the songs the early church would sing and i want to let you enter into this story by the spirit's power listen to this adopt the same attitude as that of christ jesus so we're talking about the king of glory who existing in the form of god did not consider equality with god as something to be exploited instead on account of three saying instead one two three instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant okay i'm just gonna preach a little bit cause i ain't got a little time but i gotta say something here you ready if god in human flesh could take upon the form of a servant how can we not say god i'm not entitled to anything entitlement is a sickness of the soul we're not even entitled to the next breath we take yeah when you and i become a form when you and i become servants we actually experience freedom because ultimate freedom means i'm detached from the opinions of people i'm detached from the things of this world and i'm attached to jesus where i don't have to manipulate you i don't have to deceive you i can simply love you friends that's what you've been created for the hunger in your heart the hunger in my heart it goes on taking on the likeness of humanity this is called the incarnation and when he had come as a man he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death let me tell you something if you are a ceo if you are a leader if you are a pastor no no we whoever has the most responsibility is the greatest servant so please understand this here at transformation church listen jesus is the only celebrity here jesus is the only superstar here please understand that we are here for jesus and if you want to lead that means you lead by serving that means if toilets need to be clean you clean toilets listen if you can't clean toilets you can't be on this stage to preach man humility in this day and age is like a rainbow after a violent storm it goes on he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even to death on a cross this is a song they sang for this reason god highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name so that the name of jesus every knee will bow in heaven on earth and under the earth and every tongue will confess that jesus is lord to the glory of the father unity happens as we serve each other and the last letter is why you become a unifier so let's listen to um what jesus told the disciples before he was crucified he said i am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message that's you and i i pray that they will all be one just as you and i are one as you are in me father and i am in you and may they be in us so so that the world will believe you sent me i have given them the glory you gave me so they may be one as we are one i am in them and you are in me may they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me and so transformation church that is our heartbeat is we want to be unified and what a great testimony to a hurting and divided world when you have people of all ethnicities all ages all political persuasions all socioeconomic statuses living in unity together worshiping one god the king and the creator of the universe and we overcome our differences because we're united by his blood bottom line and so that is our hope and our dream because it's first and foremost jesus dream yeah and in order to actually believe that and feel that you have to enter into that i will confess that political parties and cable tv has out preached the church you know one of the things that you're taught in seminary particularly i was working on my masters is like hey listen you don't want to offend anybody so don't talk about the heart issues and so we've got a generation of pastors who don't talk about the heart issues and their churches are being discipled by late night cable and so i've met so many pastors where thousands of people will leave their church after they talk about george floyd and they're like turbo why is this happening i'm going well because you haven't talked about racism in 20 years and so what you catch them with is what you keep them with and so if you ever wonder like why does he talk about those things because if i don't somebody else is going to and they're going to lie to you yep so understand this in the book of revelation the united states of america is not mentioned neither is russia neither is china so understand this jesus and his kingdom lasted way before america and will be way after america man i love my country shoes when i go overseas and i come back to america i'd be like i'm home they'd be like welcome to america i'm like man i'm lee greenwood i'm proud to be an american at least i know i'm free you know what i mean like i love being an american but my first citizenship is in the kingdom of god philippians 3 20. that's all up in the bible our first citizenship so listen one of the coolest moments ever was years ago when there was a man in the front row he he had on a a a a trump shirt make america great again a beautiful young african-american lady with a big ol afro had on a black lives matter they were literally right next to each other raising their hands in their print now understand this understand this you can have diversity of political persuasion and still have unity in christ yes if you think either one of those parties is 100 jesus and okay you ready all right you you ready so i have friends in europe who love jesus a lot and their government is socialist and they can't understand why we don't have free health care they go how in the world do you american christians not want free health care they're like we just don't understand it as christians how would you not want that so please don't take your little bitty uh and don't send me a uh email well derwent let me give you 57 no that's not the point the point is this here's the point jesus is not an american he's not a chinese he's not of this world he's the king of glory his kingdom is bigger his kingdom is greater and he wants us to seek him and to be unified in that yes okay you you ready for me am i done yeah you're done okay i'm done mama say i'm done okay come on out worship team so worship team is going to come and sing build my life she's telling me i'm done i'm done i'm gone um they're going to come out and they're going to sing build my life and let's let that be our prayer and then i'm coming back out and we're going to have some prayer time we're also going to receive the lord's supper together [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] worthy of every song we could ever see worthy of all the praise we could ever bring worthy of every breath we could ever [Music] jesus the name above every other name [Music] jesus the only one who could ever say worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you all there [Music] my is and wonder and show me who you are [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] there is no one like [Music] up [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] upon is [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Applause] [Applause] [Music] there is none beside show me who you are [Music] and i will not be shaken no matter what's going on in my life [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] there is [Music] show me who you are [Music] [Music] father thank you so much that you don't ask us to do the building you've already done the building you just ask us to surrender ourselves your kingdom is an unshakable kingdom your kingdom is an unending kingdom and you invite us to experience this manner of love [Music] right now i sense that there are many whether watching online or physically hear present who who have never said jesus i want to build my life on you maybe you believe something about him maybe you even consider yourself religious but you've never said jesus i surrender my life to you not only am i ready to have my sin forgiven but i'm ready to enter your kingdom to become a servant and to let you have your will and your way in my life today is your day in this moment right here right now jesus is calling your name if that's you in the silence of your heart i want you to say this right wherever you are at home physically just just say this to him jesus today i am ready to build my life in you i confess with my heart and i believe i confess with my mouth and i believe in my heart and you died and rose again to not only forgive my sin but to give me a new life a new power a new hope a new family a new purpose today lord jesus i say yes to you amen amen and amen can we give god a round of applause you may be seated uh family our soul tattoo is this uh unity matters to jesus therefore unity should matter to us unity matters of jesus therefore unity must matter to us that in your marriages in your relationships for us as a local church with the greater body of christians and unity once again is not uniformity unity is not of enabling dysfunction and toxic behavior and sin unity is that jesus is our commonality jesus is our lord and our soul tattoo is we're going to receive the lord's supper for those of you that are teenagers and for those of you that are new to following jesus there are many things that the world can provide but there's one thing that the church can provide that's the good news and in these common elements of bread and wine is an uncommon story of hope we're going to receive the elements together let me give you just a little tutorial and for those of you at home right so the wafer up front you flip that over and then the juice is beneath it now if you do it real fast you're going to spill the juice on you okay i've done it multiple times so you can do that really really slow um but i want us to understand the sacredness of what we are doing the 2000 years ago jesus was having a passover mill with his jewish disciples everything was going according to plan but then he looked at his disciples and he said this he took bread and broken and said this is my body broken for you and then he took wine and said this is my blood shed for the forgiveness of sins so jesus is jewish and jesus fulfills the story of israel he's the climax of what the story of israel was to be and so what jesus is doing with the bread and wine is he's taking us back to the greatest events in israel's history passover is when the jewish people were in slavery in egypt and god through moses did ten plagues which destroyed the ten false gods of egypt and the last one was the killing of the firstborn male the pharaohs believed they were sons of god thus their children were sons of god so god was like listen i got a plan to save the world pharaoh you are dividing my people you're enslaving them and if you don't let them go i'm gonna go to a drastic means god tells moses to tell the children of israel to get blood of unblemished lamb and put it over your door and the angel of death passed over so the blood brings freedom from slavery the children of israel went through the red sea which is a form of a baptism into the wilderness then years go by and god has a tabernacle and then he has a temple and in the temple one time a year on yom kippur which means day of atonement the high priest would go into the temple and he'd have a rope tied to his leg because if he did something unholy he would die we have to have a reverential awe of who god is he's not our homeboy he is the king of kings the lord of lords glory and greatness is all that he could be he is holy so the high priest goes in with the blood of an unblemished lamb and there's this beautiful thing called the ark of the covenant above it is this smoke called the shekinah glory that represents god's presence and in the ark of the covenant is the mercy seat where the ten commandments are and the high priest would just sprinkle blood over the ten commandments that's called atonement that means to smear out and so when the shekinah glory looked down teenagers it meant that god didn't see the people breaking sin it's seen the blood covering their sin and so jesus is now the new passover lamb and jesus is now the eternal day of atonement so jesus's blood and body not only frees us from the power of sin but it cleanses us and purifies us when we say yes to jesus we're as pure and as clean that we will ever be why because of the blood now before we receive the elements we want to take it in a worthy manner um who are some people you just mad at and there may be reason to be mad at them who are some people you holding grudges against we believe that when the lord's supper takes place and we do it with hearts that that god can heal marriages that god can bring wayward children home that god can give you strength in a mental health battle we we believe god breaks the power of sin we believe god restores our image i haven't said this in years around here but it's important we don't need self-esteem because self-esteem is built on what you do we need god esteem because it's built on what jesus has done the blood of jesus will allow you to see yourself differently so i want you to think about if you've got some unconfessed sin if you've got some anger there's some things in your life that you know god is not pleased with we're going to take a moment and i want you to give those to him because the bible says that if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of all of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness [Music] [Music] do [Music] just in the midst of just praying and confessing i just i sense that there are going to be several teenagers that take the next step in their faith as a result of this on the night that our lord was betrayed he he took bread and he broke it and he said this is my body broken for you let us receive the broken body of our lord [Music] thank you father [Music] next jesus took wine and he said this is my blood shed for the forgiveness of sins and then one other gospel says this is my blood shed for the new covenant so i want you to think about this this is how powerful the blood of jesus is not only does it forgive our sins purify us and make us clean man that's beautiful but you know what else it does it means that our unity is not based on the color of our skin but based on the color of his blood wait i don't know if y'all heard her brother listen you might be from china you might be from india you might be from compton you might be from lancaster i know it's not lancaster lancaster you might be from valentine you might be white black asian latino black and white at the same time it don't matter because the red blood of jesus says that we are brothers and sisters the blood of jesus not only forgives sins but gives us brothers and sisters of different colored skins and that is our unity our unity took place on a cross we are the unified people of god god will give you the strength to be who god has created us to be let us receive the body and blood of our lord father we thank you for the blood we thank you for the sin forgiving blood the soul healing blood we thank you for the blood that unifies we thank you for the blood that strengthens us we pray this in the name of jesus and all of god's people said amen and amen let's throw a party for god can we throw a party with our claps can we throw a party for our clap can we let him know that he's good yes indeed yeah all right uh before our campus hosts come back out um i want you to if you're watching by tv to grab your smartphone open up the camera app point it at the qr code also here at tc there's a qr code on the back of your seat or you may have a physical copy as well if you prayed with me to receive jesus this is for all of us if you pray with me to receive christ i want you to check i pray to receive christ or i renewed my faith in christ why is that important number one we want to celebrate with you number two we want to baptize you we're going to have baptisms in october november and every sunday in december we're gonna set that baptism font on fire all right so we need to know this information if you're watching from out of town we want you to fly into town to be baptized i mean if you're coming from australia come on if you're coming from um come on i don't know if that's a real country but we need to know okay so take time to do that connect with us teenagers we need you to do that as well hey love you guys can you welcome our campus host back up [Applause] hey tc family everyone in the room everyone online um please please please take heed to what pastor derwin said if you gave your life to christ or if you prayed with us please let us know it's not just because we need the numbers but it's it's because we know we know the truth that you may not know yet we know that you are likely coming to the realization that if you had to purchase space in the presence of god with your goodness and with your righteousness you couldn't afford your next breath we know that when he knows that i know that i couldn't afford my next breath and so our hope can't be in your own goodness and your own righteousness you need help you need someone to walk with you you need people to be praying for you so please let us know because you cannot do it by yourself amen all right family who was excited about the new tc merch that was coming out that's right i hear you in the building online family are you excited too we are thrilled to be able to be launching these epic shirts and hoodies each one providing seven meals for our local community for families right here so make sure you're checking out all of tc socials make sure you're checking out our website our app you can access the store now i've already put my order in so make sure you are putting your order in as well plus it's cute y'all it's like super cute really really okay and cool not just cute i guess all right so guys we have had an incredible time of worship together today here at tc we say that all of life is worship because god gives us an opportunity to worship through music through connecting and hanging out together through learning more about being a people of unity we also get to worship through living generous lives so if you're new around the tc family i want to make sure that you know that everything that you give towards the local church here at tc also benefits our community as a group we as a family we stand together to give 15 away right off the top guys that is exhibiting a generous life and so as individuals we get to worship and be discipled in that same vein so as a family we can give generously we can live that reflection we have a god that went first and gave so generously to us and now we get to be a reflection of that what an incredible way to worship together as family now here at tc you can do it in multiple ways whether you're texting to give you're hopping on the app or the website or you set up or recurring like me because girl gonna forget and uh so i really encourage you to look at all the different ways you can live a generous life here at tc would you join me in prayer as we pray over the hope dealers market but also over being a reflection of god's generosity gracious god we we love you we thank you we're in awe of you in awe of the fact that you went first you gave generously you sacrificed all so that we could be your children thank you for calling us son thank you for calling us daughter and then thank you for giving us a family to live and grow and exist and learn with god we're so grateful for all that you continue to do not just in us but in and through transformation church we don't take that for granted we know that that's an act and a move of your hand so we thank you god continue to give us the courage to be the people that you've called us to be and please continue to extend your hand to give us opportunity to love our community well we love you so much in jesus name amen amen so be it so uh before we send you out to practice some holy habits uh over the next week we want to speak a blessing over you it's numbers chapter 6 24-26 you say it along with us may the lord bless you and protect you may the lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you may the lord look with favor on you and give you peace so uh before we forget uh i don't want to forget um october 1st that is this friday yep this friday gosh this year has gone so quickly um god do you hear me we're having a prayer worship night to launch pastor durban's new book if you're frustrated with your prayers if you're not sure if you're praying the right one we're gonna lean into the prayer that god always answers the lord prayer the lord's prayer so come and celebrate with us and so if you all stand with me um [Music] transformation church is a multi-ethnic multi-generational mission-shaped community of believers who seeks to love god completely ourselves correctly and our neighbors compassionately and the way that we evidence this every time we in the service is we do upward sorry n word outward i point at you you point at me and we say transformers roll out okay so on three one two three upwards inward transformers roll out have a great week family [Music] do [Music] yeah yeah hey [Music]

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