What Are You Desperate For? | Derek Carr

hey welcome to church lv online thank you so much for inviting us into your home really believe that god has a word for you today really quick if it's your first time here go ahead and grab your phone text church fam to the number 94 000 wherever you are you can get connected with us here at church lv really believe that god has a word for you today we believe here at church lv our mission is to lead people to encounter new life in jesus and wherever you're at god can bless you today let's grab a notebook let's get ready lean in because we're excited for what god wants to do in your life today god bless i'm gonna share something with you i got about five points for you i'm gonna i'm gonna preach quick so you sunday only church people are gonna love this morning right yes i got to sit in my favorite seat and the pastor will preach quick i'm going to get to get to brunch on time today i'm going to be in matthew 4 i'm going to be in matthew 4. okay i'm going to bounce around a little bit but i'm going to matthew 4. i want to read this really quick and then i want to go back through it and touch on some things he's got about about five points for you is that all right you guys good with that seven hills you all good with that all right verse one matthew chapter four verse one i'm gonna read it then jesus was led by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil for 40 days and for 40 nights he fasted and became very hungry during that time the devil came to him and said to him if you are the son of god tell these stones to become loaves of bread but jesus told him no the scriptures say people do not live on bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of god then the devil took him to the holy city jerusalem to the highest point of the temple and said if you are the son of god jump off for the scriptures say he will order his angels to protect you and they will hold you up with their hands so you won't even hurt your foot on a stone verse 7 jesus responded the scriptures also say you must not test yahweh your god you ever see in your bible where the the name lord or the words lord are all capitalized well that that's that's there it's his name yahweh yahweh is his name he's a personal god i know him i know him you know so i'm gonna call him by name if y'all are okay with that i've had people say are you jewish now no i'm not you know i i just i'm gonna call god by his name okay verse eight next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory i will give it all to you he said if you will kneel down and worship me verse 10 says get out of here satan that's what jesus told him for the scriptures say you must worship yahweh your god and serve only him then the devil went away and the angels came and took care of jesus i pray right now jesus that you would speak through me because there is something you want to say to some people holy spirit would you come into this place would you touch on everything you want to touch on not everything i want to touch on thank you amen all right verse one i'm gonna go back to this i'm gonna i'm gonna say this real quick then jesus was led out into the wilderness by the holy spirit and that's something jesus was led by the holy spirit if it was important for him it's important for us come on jesus is perfect and he all perfect raise your hand no yes sir i'm with you that's funny i'll ask your wife later right jesus was perfect is perfect sorry is perfect he's alive he is perfect and he was still led by the holy spirit how much more do we need it how much more do we need him in our life how much more can we ask him to come every day we wake up pastor michael hit on it every day man just say the name of jesus man call out man let the holy get a word from the lord right man how much more do we need it if jesus was led by the holy spirit sometimes we're led sometimes when we're led by the holy spirit it doesn't it doesn't always end up in a perfect place you ever notice that when when when you were led to las vegas was it perfect at the beginning was it was it but did you all the sudden have a pop up on a stage like the commercials like and you got to make your hand there's thousands of people i doubt it started like that if you've been here you know their story it did not start like that they even went through loss many losses to get to the point that they're at today but they were led the whole time they were walking in the promise of god they were walking and what was divinely appointed for them but that didn't mean it was easy that didn't mean it got easier right just because you decide to be a christian doesn't automatically make life easy some of us give up well i thought i was but man i'm just gonna go back to lit man that's not the point the point is he's gonna work on you every single day and after year after year goes by you're gonna look back you're not gonna be able to recognize the person that you saw see holy spirit came into my life jesus touched me in fresno california i was laying on my face he used a beautiful woman okay but she wrote me a letter and it changed my life and the holy spirit grabbed hold of me that day and from that moment on i don't even recognize that person my wife says i don't even know who that was because the man that you are today that's that's the derek that i know just because i began to be led right just because i began to let it wasn't easy i didn't all of a sudden get everything handed to me is that all right jesus was led out into the wilderness by the holy spirit to be tempted there by the devil verse two for forty days and for forty nights he ate nothing and became very hungry can you all remember what you did forty nights ago i don't remember what i did yesterday maybe i need to get a new helmet but yeah i'm trying to remember what did i do yesterday maybe i'm just tired lord please right okay i don't remember that's a long time there's been a lot that's happened could you imagine being hungry that whole time could you imagine some of you are like man i can't imagine being hungry the next 30 minutes huh i'm right there with him i'm attack as soon as i eat something that thing cooks up like a fire and i'm hungry again right i need to eat every minute my wife every time we go on vacation she's like lord please just let there be a gym and please let there be food available at every turn because literally i'll be on the beach and look at my client i'm saying all right kids get up i know you're having the time of your life but daddy needs a snack let's go i gotta wait to maintain all right come on all right this when you're hungry them days probably felt longer right could you imagine he was probably desperate jesus was fully man and fully god fully man fully god so he experienced the emotions he experienced the feelings that we feel as as human beings he experienced the pains the sorrows the joys he experienced those things that we experienced here today but he was also fully man so he experienced that too right completely natural completely supernatural in one you ever heard of the burning bush completely natural completely supernatural oh that's a foreshadow into something y'all could take a look at that completely natural completely coexisting did you know the natural and the supernatural were meant to coexist and it wouldn't burn you up and say instead it would fill you up instead it would be glorious oh come on that's a different i i got to stay on task i got to stay on this i i almost went to exodus no here we go he was hungry he was desperate then the devil came and he said if you are the son of god change these stones into loaves of bread but jesus told him no the scriptures say people do not need bread uh people need more than bread for their life they need they must feed on every word of god first point i want to ask you is what are you desperate for what are you desperate for think about it think about it take yourself for a second really really engage today what are you desperate for are you desperate for attention are you desperate are you desperate for success are you desperate for that job are you coveting something else what what what are you coveting what are you desperate for that's my question to you today jesus was desperate for food he was hungry i say it this way think about your own life right now really close your eyes and think about it and see what am i really desperate for in my life if you really ask yourself that question the answer should be jesus but i guarantee the answer for a lot of us isn't okay how many of y'all know i'm desperate for a super bowl ring oh buddy i'm desperate i'm going on eight years i ain't got one yet huh i'm still waiting on that ring i even got my ring finger tattooed now i'm not saying get tattoos kids but i even got my ring finger tattooed because these hands are for one ring only no i'm just kidding i'm just kidding i'm desperate for that but i don't seek that i'm desperate for that thing but that's not what i go after i'm desperate for that thing but that's not what's going to feed me up see i feed on every word of god i feed on the life that god brings to me can i submit that to you can i submit something to you what if we were so desperate for jesus see there's a there's a story in the bible a syrian phoenician woman she wanted uh healing for her daughter and it's a long story short she jesus basically calls her a dog right it's crazy i don't know why but it's nuts right and in this story she even says well even the dogs get to eat the scraps for the fall off the table if healing is a scrap then what is the feast that sits on the table see if healing is a scrap then what's the feast jesus is that feast you guys want some healing you guys want some uh some some some unity in your family you guys want that kid to come back you you want you want to find someone to marry you want to you want you want you want some decisions to be made you want that job opportunity then seek jesus enjoy the feast and all of those things will just begin to happen you see what i'm saying what happened in the beginning adam was walking in a line with god he was walking with god and then god said that he needs a help mate what was he doing he was he was aligned with god serving god walking in unity with god then the woman showed up that's a word for somebody you you're looking in the wrong places for your wife you don't have to see you don't have to search you don't have to tender swipe i don't know which way is the good way but i don't know i don't know i don't know what those things are i never had to do it all right you don't have to do that walk in y'all walk in line with god come to men's prayer at 6 30 a.m and see what god is trying to do with you serve pastor benny serve the church set up chairs go serve what god is doing be desperate for god and watch everything else realign in your life is that all right verse 5 then the devil took him to jerusalem to the highest point of the temple and he said if again if you are the son of god jump off for the scriptures say he's about to he's about to quote scripture okay he says he order he orders his angels to protect you and they will hold you up with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone i don't know how many are here the last time i spoke was anybody here the last time i spoke okay okay y'all remember i said something about you could say the right thing in the wrong spirit what what the the devil is using the word of god right he's using the word of god in this but he's saying it in the wrong spirit he wants he's trying to hurt jesus he's trying to he's trying to make make jesus go go go out of what god has called him into right he's trying to yeah well of course he's gonna it's not your time yeah you know he'll protect you right here come on just cut you see what i'm saying i i i've had dreams in my heart and i had a teammate one day tell me i had something stirring in my heart and it was from god and i'll never forget it he says well that's okay if it doesn't happen that's just not the will of god in your life don't worry about it what he said was like he was trying to be good friend he was actually trying to help but what he didn't know is he didn't know that i was walking with god and i knew exactly what god said and that wasn't it i knew that that promise was mine and let me say this to you whatever promise god has put in your heart no man can take that from you it doesn't matter what they say to you it doesn't matter what they bring up to you no man can take what god has promised you unless you let them you see in this right here i i challenge you don't fall victim to that don't fall victim to people saying the right thing in the wrong spirit to you don't fall victim to it please please please please understand that who are you listening to that's my second point who are you listening to see jesus in this moment he responds he says the scriptures also say do not test the lord your god right that's what jesus responds jesus is in tune with god can we agree with that jesus is god right three in one he's in tune if we would just be in tune with god it doesn't matter what voices come we know what god is saying to us it doesn't matter who comes to me and says you should raise your kids like this i'm going to say thank you so much god bless you but i know how i'm supposed to raise my kid because i talked to god this morning about it i you need to do this for your wife no i know what i need to do for my wife and she should feel like the biggest queen in the whole world because god has already shown me how to love my wife some of y'all need to start treating your wives like god's daughter that is god's daughter and y'all said y'all need to start treating her like it it's not your possession it's not just yours yes is she your wife or yes but y'all are one if y'all want to go forward you have to go together the only way i go forward in life is this she comes with me right the only way she goes forward is if i go with her so we got to be on the same page what or as coach gruden would say on the same what and we all say page right he does that he's never finishes his sentences we do it for him right it's a beautiful thing who are you listening to if we would just be in line with god if we would just be in tune with him if we would just know what he is saying it doesn't matter who comes to us and says anything else does that make sense is that okay let me say this to you next verse 8. next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him the nations of the world and all their glory i will give it to you i will give it all to you as if it wasn't already jesus's right come on he said if you will only kneel down and worship me see his his scheme from the beginning wasn't for him to worship him he's he's trying to wear on him right he even used scripture even use he even use what are you listening to right what are you desperate for and then if that didn't work okay now just worship me and i'll give you everything right now if i that didn't work man just worship me i'll give it to you i'll give you the keys to the world right jesus says get out of here satan that's what jesus told him for the scriptures say you must worship the lord your god and serve only him instantly the devil went away and the angels came and cared for jesus third point i want to say to you is what do you worship do you worship at all that's a question for some of y'all look i don't know how many y'all how many of y'all have had a moment with god like a real moment that you can say you have if you haven't it's okay it's okay don't feel like shame or anything like that don't just keep your hands up i mean i had a moment with god okay this isn't for everybody but it's for some of y'all then why don't you worship like it why don't we worship like he's real it's because we're worried about everybody else it's because we have too much pride we're too selfish about what other people might think about us why in the world if someone is a guest today would they come in here and say if we were all just standing there just kind of going through our thing thank the lord we are not like that here at churchill v if we were all just standing there going through it they would be like why do i need god if they're just not if it doesn't do anything for them why do i need god right man i have something to celebrate i don't know about y'all but i used to smoke weed i used to sleep there and party this and do that i used to do all those things and my soul my life trajectory was on the way to hell okay my family is a family of pastors and i was on the way to hell i'm okay to say that some people can't even say hell anymore like oh my gosh like it's not politically correct well guess what it's real so deal with it all right but just as real as hell is so is heaven okay and jesus came in my room in fresno california and he touched me that day and i've never been the same and i'm gonna worship like him so i'm sorry if i offend you with my worship i don't care what you think about me i know my heart is right before god and i'm gonna give him everything that i have because he is worthy he is good he is faithful to endure until the end some of y'all have had a moment with god but none of y'all act like it how do you exp man how do you how can you go out and tell man if i if i didn't throw a ball right if i didn't practice at it i'd look trash at it so how can i have camps and teach kids how to do it if i couldn't do it well how can i invite someone in and say man you need this and they come to church and you stand there like this because you're nervous because they're there why do i need that i already got that i can go celebrate and be at the club and get excited i can go do that that's more exciting than watching you do this that's way more exciting than watching you sing songs about jesus like i can go get excited somewhere else man we get excited at the raider games i hear y'all sometimes i gotta tell you all to be quiet like man we're on offense shut up get excited after we score i got audibles to make i gotta talk to hunter he needs to hear me all right but some of y'all n y'all have had moments with god man you need you man you got something to praise man don't we don't we don't who agrees with me on that oh wow hey okay then because i believe this i'm going to say this pastor because i believe it with everything in me that church lv it is but i i feel like it's going to be even another wave of it that that that churches all around i don't even think it's just in las vegas maybe but all around are going to look to this place they're going to look to this place and say that's how it's supposed to be done they're going to look to this place and say wow that's what it's like to be free wow that's what it's like to encounter god wow that's what it's like to experience healing well that's what it's like they're going to look to this church and say wow that is a people that really believes in the one and only true living god i'm tired of going to churches where i'm like do y'all even believe that he's alive man these dry bones need to become flesh i'm telling you he sent me to the valley right he sent me to the valley why to proclaim his name he sent me to the bay area why to proclaim his name and show people what it's like to worship i never forget when i went to church i went to church i went to a certain church there i never forget something happened and i i was about to stand up and walk out because i was righteously correct right and my wife like grabbed my leg you know she saved me right and as i was sitting there i was so upset because i was like godly why you know why'd that happen and i'll never forget this as the lord say you're here to show people how to worship don't worry about what anybody else says [Applause] i got so convicted oh i got so convicted so so many times we get offended by what happens up here or we get offended about what happened in somebody else's life we get offended by the smoke or the lights we get offended by someone shouting we get offended by a word we go we get offended too easily grow up all right grow up it's not all about you it's not all about you what it's about is jesus being glorified so if you trust the leadership if you trust what's going on if you trust their heart if it doesn't have anything to do with you just praise god that it's having to do with someone else all right but we got to be people that worship man when when you went man i i i've been to church friday night i i ain't like past meeting i didn't speak all week but friday night saturday night sunday morning morning as i call it this morning i got another one after this right and and i right now i'm so i can't get enough when you said i hope we have monday too man i'll be here you know what i'm saying like it'd be me it'd be me and you you know singing the worship team might be a little tired but we'll turn the phones on man i'll be here i can't get enough right now because i'm i'm watching what god is doing in other people's lives and i just can't get enough and that's something to work that's something to praise anybody got something to praise anything worth praising some of y'all are in a valley right now guess what the only way out i know this from life experience is to worship him tell him how good he is tell him how good he is i went through years of heartache people destroying my name or let me say people trying to destroy my name people trying to come against me people trying to to squash me down and at times as in my flesh i felt down i felt crushed man i felt like giving in i was desperate i was listening to the wrong things i wasn't worshiping like i should i was fighting battles god said i already won why are you fighting those battles and i was wasting my time and god kept telling me you just worshiped me so i would turn music on in my house my wife came in the other day and my kids are literally jumping on me as i have worship musical i'm on my knees and they're jumping on me because they think i'm playing like a tree house right and they jump and she has to like grab him like all right boys let's let's let dad do this for a second right if you're in a valley the only way out is worship the only way out is him the only way out is to tell him how good he is begin to shout his name begin to praise his name i promise you it may not happen today it may not happen next week it may not happen next month it may not happen next year it may take 10 years right but i promise you as you begin to do it he's going to do something in your heart and once you go through that there's nothing you can't go through when my when my son dallas my oldest boy was laying on a hospital bed and i had a doctor tell me i don't know if he's gonna make it i don't know if he's gonna make it i almost didn't get to celebrate father's day i don't know if he's gonna make it man what did i do i turned worship music on in the car and i worshiped god crying my eyes out for the life of my son and i prayed and i cried out i said dear god please don't take him from me please dear god that was a low moment but i worship my way through it and now he's seven years old in the kid's class right now come on but listen i'll i'll never understand i'll never understand why sometimes things do happen and some things don't the same time i watch families not get to take their kids home i got to take mine home same hospital that's why we still support valley children's hospital still support them because i know what families go through okay i've lost my grandpa he's the greatest man i've ever known greatest grace preacher greatest communicator he's the best to everything right greatest man i've ever met a man of integrity at his funeral i thought he only knew like 30 people and there were thousands of people there was no room to sit because of his outreach right and and i prayed very hard for him and he didn't make it but he told me he said don't worry about all that you always go after god you always go after him and don't worry about if it doesn't happen because sometimes it does and you never know what god's trying to do in your heart okay real quick point number four i got for you so there's titles you ever read in your bible some of you all be like ah no um okay if you get if you get a bible okay an actual one like with pages not one you scroll through with your finger get a bible see my son starred this for y'all he wanted us to talk about this the other all right if you ever look there's little like there's little headlines at the beginning this one before this was the temptation of jesus okay the one that happens directly after this you know what you know you know what it says directly after all this temptation happens the ministry of jesus begins imagine if he gave in imagine if it was too much for him come on man that right there is something we're celebrating thank you god you didn't give up thank you jesus you with you endure thank you father 2 000 somewhat years later we're still seeing the work of jesus in our lives because he didn't give up there's a picture of my brother's old my brother darren always sends me it's a two guys one here one here and they're in like this big cave and they're chopping at this rock right and he sends it to me after really hard losses when he knows man i know you've been i know how hard you work i know you're not getting the results you want you know how hard it is for me to tell you i have more losses than wins as an nfl quarterback you know how hard that is to admit i'm not a loser i'll tell you that right now i am not a loser so just saying that is like ugh right like that's disgusting right every every every place i've been i've won championships all-american this and player of the year the hat and mvp of this and pro bowls and all that uh top of my game right but when but when it comes down to the most important stat it just hasn't happened yet right and there's been some heavy losses where i just man not again you know like what else lord i'll do it i promise just tell me what else you want me to do and my brother sends me this picture and it's one guy who's literally one hit away from this big old big old cave of diamonds one hit away and he turns around he walks away dragging his he leaves the pickaxe and he's just walking away he had enough it was too hard for him he couldn't endure anymore there's another guy right under him you could tell he's sweating and he's just gritting it out right let me say this about the guy on top even if he finishes that if he does it without god all those diamonds are worthless all of those things have no value they're here today and gone tomorrow they'll rust and they'll be gone but if but if you would do it with god i guarantee he wouldn't have gave up if he would do it with god i guarantee he wouldn't give up gave it up he wouldn't have took him the easy way he wouldn't went into someone else's thing and said you do the work and then i'll finish it right no no see there's been some work there's been some foundations laid here with the raiders and i plan on finishing it you see what i'm saying and i don't say that to get excited about a super bowl i say that for you to get excited about your life there has been work that you have laid there have been prayers in your closet there have been places where you've laid on your face where you've cried out to god and i'm telling you if there's breath in your lungs your story isn't over your story isn't over it's a picture that he sends me to tell me don't give up he doesn't say any words with it he just sends it to me and i'm like gosh dang it you're right but i don't want you to be right man i want to give up it's easy to give up we give up all the time nowadays it's easy to give in right it's easy to say i'm done praise god jesus didn't give up praise god that he saw it through because right after that man his ministry begins last point i want to share if the worship team will join me last point i want to share with you is this this what i read to you was chapter 4 of math of matthew right i want to go back to the last verse in chapter 3 so this is the last verse and then chapter 4 happens the last verse in matthew 3 is verse 17 it says in a voice from heaven again this is right after jesus is baptized and he comes out of the water and a voice from heaven said this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased what is what does the enemy try to attack him with he says if you are the son of god if you are the son of god turn these stones into loaves of bread if you are the son of god jump off for he for the scriptures say right if you are the son of god the enemy scheme from all throughout time has never changed from the beginning till now and it's this it's not at the beginning he just wants you to get to worship me worship me right right that was the last thing he tried to get finally he gave up all right worship me and i'll give you everything right but before all that he says if you are the son of god if you are the son of god i say this to you can i can i try can i give this to you from my last point that his scheme is this all he's trying to do is get you to question who god says you are what does god say about his son he said this is my beloved son this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased all throughout this the enemy was just sneaking in this little this little quiet voice if you are the son of god ah you're an alcoholic uh you maybe maybe maybe you're addicted to pornography maybe he's whispering that to your mind maybe like well are there generational blessings and cursings absolutely there's some things we got to break free of there's some things that we can push on and keep on but but just because your dad did it doesn't mean you have to do it just because well that's just what my family does we get divorced just what happens right that's just what happens i'm not talking about what's happened before i'm talking about today that there could be healing in jesus name i'm here to remind you god sent a little boy from fresno california who had a dream in his heart to be an nfl quarterback and preach the word of god he sent me to las vegas to remind you that you are sons and you are daughters of the living god [Applause] you are sons and you are daughters of the living god hey thank you so much for joining us for church today i want to give you a couple of ways to stay connected here at church lv first one is if you need prayer go ahead and visit us at the prayer link at churchlv.com prayer a member of our team is waiting and ready to pray with and for you second way is to join a small group if you're not in a group already get connected into community go ahead and visit churchlv.com groups last way to stay connected is to follow us on instagram on instagram is where we're going to be posting all upcoming events and everything you need to stay connected with us here at churchlv on our way out today i want to declare some truths over you god you are in control we cast our anxieties on you because you care for us may the lord bless you may the lord keep you and may he make his face shine upon you god bless

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Published: Mon Jun 21 2021