Who Are You Becoming? | Becoming | Online Weekend Experience

[Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] well hey everyone welcome to valley creek we are one church that meets in multiple campuses and we carry the hope of jesus to thousands of locations and welcome to our online campus from wherever you are we are so glad you're joining with us today and hey if the online campus is your campus we want to know more about you and so there's a link popping up right now if you'll just fill that form out it's going to help us know a little bit more about you but again thanks for coming and being part of our online campus we love having you now this saturday is serve the city and last month we kicked off some unique things just for our online campus just for you and we have those available again and so our focus is going to be spring cleaning and we're going to be serving those that serve us by keeping our cities clean so we've got some opportunities for you if you just go to the website you can find out more about that and help us be a movement of hope as we serve our city together now we're about to worship and kick off a new series together so let me invite you to do this can you be aware that god is with you that god's presence is all around you and let's lean in together and worship him and encounter him [Music] today all right hey valley creek we are so excited that you're joining us today whether you're engaging online or you're here in the room we are expecting to experience the presence of jesus together so let's worship him [Music] the rain of darkness now has ended in a kingdom of life [Music] you're the king of my life [Music] there is [Music] [Music] give us [Music] oh jesus [Music] [Music] jesus you sent the darkness running out of an empty grave now seated alone in glory [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] darkness [Music] it is [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] the everlasting one is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] jesus [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] glory and my heart starts to save of your grace and your mercy [Music] [Music] i will declare who you are [Music] through the days and the seasons all creational praise [Music] say i will proclaim [Music] you crazy [Music] [Applause] [Music] i with all my heart [Music] for us sunset i will lift up [Music] i will lift up with every breath i worship your name with all my heart and all of my strength lift the lift i will lift up your name [Music] i choose to lift up my praise i choose to honor your name oh cause you are great [Music] you are great and greatly to be praised [Music] why don't you [Music] [Music] your affection your focus [Applause] [Applause] um afraid god [Applause] [Applause] i [Music] [Music] i choose to lift jesus you alone are worthy of our worship so we lift up your name holy and worthy is the name of jesus above every single name we love you jesus [Music] stories [Music] treasure for the trainer [Music] the image of the father [Music] until heaven came to live with me [Music] rescue like lord now we respond by saying that you are now you are jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] fell to the ground [Applause] you redefine my future thank you jesus [Applause] [Applause] is [Music] you are [Music] she [Applause] [Music] [Music] my blessing redeemer my answer my saving come on this is who he is to you right now you're my hope [Music] jesus holy jesus [Music] [Music] you are thank you [Music] you are [Music] so deserving of the praise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this [Applause] you are [Music] you are worthy of your name jesus come on he's worthy of his name he's deserving of every single name that he has you know right now on the screen up behind me we're gonna have a list of names for jesus what i want you to catch is this each one of these names perfectly depict who our god is regardless of life circumstance or even how we may be feeling this is always true jesus is always these things and all of his names are worthy to be praised and i want you to do this right now take a look at the screen and just pick five names five names for jesus that resonate with your heart today i want you to pick those names i'm gonna at least do it but let's declare out who jesus is and praise him by saying jesus you are my whatever your words are savior redeemer grace mighty god anchor of life all those things and we're going to lift up praise and tell him how worthy he is by telling him that he is those things for us so pick those five names and on the count of three we're gonna all begin to do it together here we go one two three jesus you are my friends you are my lord you are my creation [Music] [Music] [Applause] my healer my blessings [Music] jesus thank you you are [Music] jesus thank you you are worthy of your name you are worthy of all the honor and worship and praise and so today jesus we love you we lift you up thank you for being all that we need and so much more always and it's in your name that everybody said amen amen hey i'm so glad that you are here with us today go ahead and find your seat as we continue through our time together yeah all right hey everybody welcome to valley creek come on wherever you are today denton flower mound gainesville louisville the venue online let's just welcome each other together come on i'm so glad that you're here hope is here everyone is welcome jesus changes everything and what a great easter celebration we had now if you were here or you were online i think it was the best easter experience we have ever had uh it might have been one of our best weekend experiences we have ever had and so i just want to start by saying thank you thank you to every person that helped us tell the story thank you to every person that invited somebody to everyone that's served everyone who gives everyone who creates culture everyone who prayed and leaned in or used their gifts and their talents to make it happen see we were able to tell the greatest story ever in one of the most creative unique ways that we have ever done and god was moving there was so much emotion and we're hearing story after story of people being touched and set free and healed and delivered and saved in jesus name all by just telling the story and so let me encourage you if you if you missed this or or even if you were here or participated you need to make sure you can tell the story yourself this is one of the easiest and simplest ways to just tell somebody about the gospel that in the beginning god made everything and it was good but we rebelled against him and yet in god's goodness he made a promise that one day a savior a messiah would come and so jesus the son of god became the son of man came to live the life that we couldn't then he died in our place was buried in a grave three days later rose again from that grave released to spirit birth the church and one day jesus is going to come back again and make all things new it's the story and so you need to be able to tell this story and i want to encourage and actually challenge every person that's a part of valley creek who is one person that you can send this experience to one person in your life that you could just send them the link and just be like hey this really encouraged me check this out i mean come on we send each other gifts we send each other funny videos sports clips news articles why would you not just send someone the story and say that this this just encouraged my heart in the season and some of you are thinking well it'll be kind of weird to send someone the easter service two weeks after easter guess what we never used the word easter one time now that i think about it you're right yeah there was a lot of intentionality that went into that because last week wasn't easter it was the story and we left the story with this really simple question what does this mean to you and what are you going to do about it you see if this is true then that means jesus is lord not just lord of eternity one day but lord of my life today and if this is true then the greatest thing i can do to respond to it is to become a disciple of jesus and so in response to the story we're going to start a new series today called becoming life as a disciple life in response to the story and who jesus is and what he has done and over the next few weeks we're going to ask ourselves this really simple question who am i becoming now i've been thinking about that question a lot lately because you see this week i turned 40. feels weird to even say it to be honest with you but this week i turned 40 which means i have been a part of this family on mission for 15 years and and i've been asking myself this question for the last few weeks who am i becoming which is an interesting question to ask because when you hit those big milestones in life that's not the question the world teaches you to ask the question the world teaches you to ask is what have i accomplished but what have i acquired what have i accrued where have i been what have i done what kind of significance do i have what kind of influence do i have it's all about what we have done but that's the wrong question because identity is far superior to behavior and so i've been asking myself this question who am i becoming and and what you might not know about me is that i am highly visionary just part of my role here at the church i'm a visionary i want to see what can be in the midst of what is i always want us to go to new places to take new ground to discover new things with god so i'm highly visionary but i'm also highly reflective which means a lot of times i stop and look back on where we've been and what we've done to try to understand what we have learned or what we have discovered because i want to take those learnings and apply them to our future so we can keep taking new ground in fact unapplied learnings is intentional foolishness in life if you can grab that unapplied learnings is intentional foolishness so i like to look back to reflect and so i've been reflecting who am i becoming and i've just been asking myself this question like am i growing am i maturing am i becoming healthier and freer am i growing in righteousness peace and joy am i growing in faith hope and love am i becoming quicker to repent quicker to apologize quicker to forgive am i am i getting healthier in my relationships am i becoming more humble am i becoming more kind and i just keep asking myself this question like who am i really becoming and i've been using jesus as the as the model to look at because jesus is the standard and the source he's the he's the the prototype and the power he's the mold and the momentum to actually become it and if jesus is the way the truth and the life then the more i become like jesus the more life i'm actually experiencing and the less i'm like jesus the less life i'm actually experiencing and so i've been asking myself this question am i growing in the character and in the power of jesus am i growing in the character like the fruits of the spirit love joy peace patience kindness goodness gentleness faithfulness and self-control like in turning 40 are those things growing in my life and then i've been asking myself this question am i growing in the power of jesus like he says we will do the things he was doing and we'll do even greater things than these okay i've left the greater things than these off and just been asking myself the question like am i just like doing the things that jesus did like serving people and giving to the poor and loving enemies and and making disciples and and and being being intentional and in tune with the father like who am i becoming and i've had this little thing scratched in my journal for a long time and it's just this sense of like this is who i want to be at 80 years old and i just wrote this thing down a while back and i just said i want to be a man of wisdom who thinks like the kingdom who loves like the father who lives free like the son and walks in the power of the holy spirit that's who i want to become and so i realized you might not have had a milestone birthday this week but i want to ask you the same question who are you becoming and when was the last time you actually asked yourself that question you see what's interesting if you look back on this last season we've all done a lot of reflection you look at the whole world everybody has been in this reflective mode and here's the things we've been asking ourselves like do i want to keep doing this job do i want to still live in the house that i'm living in do i do i want to start those activities back up again when the cycle starts back do i do i want to do i want to do this do i want to go here do i want to sell do i want to buy do i want to move do i we want to do all these different we've been reflecting on all those things and they're all great and they're fine but the real question we have to reflect on is who are you becoming like are you growing are you maturing are you getting healthy and free his faith hope and love showing up in your life are you becoming quicker to repent and apologize and forgive are the fruits of the spirit love joy peace patience kindness goodness gentleness faithfulness and self-control showing up in your life are you starting to do the things that jesus did like be a servant and live on mission and make disciples and give to the poor like who are you becoming and the reason this question matters so much is because if jesus is life itself then the more i become like jesus the more life i experience the less like jesus i am the less of life i experience and i've been trying to tell you all year i believe that this is the most important year in your spiritual journey because the decisions you make this year will set the trajectory for the next 5 10 15 20 years of your life you see the moment we put our faith in jesus what he invites us to do is to become a disciple so let's talk about this for a little bit because i hope that we can understand this more by the end of this series a disciple it literally means a learner a follower one who becomes like the one that they're following a student an emulator you're in this process of becoming like the one that you look up to in fact jesus tells us a student is not above his teacher but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher jesus tells us that if we're his disciple he's the teacher we're the student and he is in the process of fully training us when was the last time you thought about jesus as a teacher and you as a student with the understanding that he's training you and what i think is so cool about the concept of disciple or discipleship is you get to pick who you want to be discipled by no one ever forces you to be their student no one ever forces you to have to be trained by them you get to pick who you're inspired by and aspire to be like and then you get to decide to sit at their feet and say i want to be like you i want to follow you and know you and live the life that you've got because you inspire me so mold me shape me train me help me become like you you don't have to do it you get to do it and so the concept of discipleship or or being a disciple it's the process of learning to live free as a beloved son or daughter it's the process of learning to live the superior kingdom realities in the midst of the inferior brokenness of the world that we're in discipleship is not about sin management behavior modification eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil right wrong should shouldn't getting religious no it's the process of becoming who you already are in jesus now see if you can catch this with me the moment that you put your faith in jesus you become a new creation he changes your identity radically and from that point on that's who you are now forever and always check some of these verses therefore if anyone that would include you is in christ he is a new creation the old is gone the new has come the moment we put our faith in jesus we become a new creation a metamorphosis if you will it's like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly the old is gone the new has come and he's completely restored our identity we now are no longer sinners we are beloved sons and daughters we're not sinners we're the righteousness of god in christ jesus because of what jesus has done not because of what we have done but because of what he has done we become a new creation now we need to learn to live the new lifestyle or how about this next verse that says for god's will god's desire his heart was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of jesus christ once for all time so god's heart was to send jesus to die for us so that we would be made holy set apart righteous loved free once for all time does that mean that you are it now yes does that mean you are it when you have your worst day yes you have been made holy once and for all by jesus that's who you are he's changed your identity one more and you also were included in christ when you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation the moment you get saved you get included in christ which means everything that's true of jesus is now true of you as he is so you are because jesus is righteous so am i because jesus is loved so am i because jesus is free so am i the moment i put my faith in jesus i am radically transformed everything about my identity has been changed once and for all so what's discipleship what's being a disciple all about it's the delta between who you already are and how you actually live your life that's all it is being a disciple is the delta or the difference between who you now are in jesus and how you actually think believe act talk move and it's bringing those things into alignment it's not changing your behavior so you can become holy it's i already am holy now i want to learn to live in alignment with who god says i already am in jesus come on like you know this is true like like think of the different things like in jesus you've been set free yes yes doesn't mean you always live free though does it in jesus you're loved yes yes doesn't mean you always live like you're loved though does it in jesus you've been empowered yes yes doesn't mean you always live like you're empowered though does it so discipleship is about bringing my beliefs thoughts behaviors into alignment with what god has said is already true that's all discipleship is sometimes we get so lost thinking discipleship is all these things we have to do for god and become this thing and change this and all this no no it's i'm already this in jesus now i want to learn to think like jesus and believe like jesus and act like jesus and walk like jesus and move like jesus why because he is life itself and so the more i align and submit and surrender to that the more life and freedom i actually experience are you with me on that in fact check out this next verse i like this this is paul talking to the galatians he says my dear children for who i am again in the pains of childbirth until christ is formed in you i like this verse he basically says that discipleship is as uncomfortable as childbirth he says let's just be real clear about this it's a little awkward it's a little uncomfortable it's a little weighty there's going to be some pain involved and all the mothers said yeah there's going to be some laboring here until what until christ is formed in you not until you're included in christ because that's already happened until christ's thinking believing living is formed in you and that word formed is not an external confirmation it's an internal conforming it's a transformation from the inside out that changes the thinking and the beliefs of who we are and eventually that will change how we act and how we behave in fact i remember being in high school and i always remember there was always these kids um that would buy these old really junky cars and and the car itself was terrible and they only had a little bit of money and they'd spend all the money on getting a sweet paint job do you remember this have you ever experienced this maybe this is you if so that's okay we still love you and i remember they would have this sweet paint job and on the outside it would look so good but the engine was junk and the frame was bent and the transmission was like missing gears the interior was destroyed smelled like cats had lived in it i mean the car was nasty but on the outside ooh sometimes they didn't put racing stripes down and you're like man we're going all out here okay can i tell you that's how i think a lot of us do our journey with jesus we're only really interested in the external veneer we want to show up at church or or be around some people and we want them to think like oh yeah like we've got it all together and god's not really all that interested in what the outside looks like he cares a whole lot about what's going on inside he doesn't care about the paint job he wants to give you a new frame and a new motor and a new transmission and a new interior and eventually the paint job will come the problem is is we want to throw some racing stripes down our life by putting a bible verse or a you know a cross on our social media handle kind of thing but in here and here is really where god is inviting us to be formed into jesus in fact god gives us this incredible analogy of what this becoming journey this life as a disciple looks like and it's in the old testament in the book of jeremiah and he tells jeremiah the prophet he says hey jeremiah go down to the potter's house because i want to show you something and so jeremiah goes into this potter's house and he sees this potter working on some clay working his wheel and look what god says to him he says watch this potter in the same way that this potter works his clay i work on you watch this potter think about a potter working hard he's pumping his foot moving that wheel he's got a lump of clay and he knows exactly what he wants to create and he's intense and he's focused and he's gentle and he's kind and he's patient and he has a mold of exactly or a model of exactly what he's trying to create and he is moving it and he is shaping it and he can get rid of any deformity and any defect through the process of time and pressure and that's what god's saying he does with us that he's a potter and we're the clay and that he's working on us with kindness and gentleness and patience and he can get rid of any deformity or defect our job as the clay is to just simply allow the potter to do what he wants to do he's looking at jesus as the prototype and he is shaping you into that image and that likeness and there are really four ways i think that god primarily shapes us the clay as him as the potter and us as the clay in our life four really simple things that he uses the word of god the spirit of god the people of god and the circumstances of life if you want to become who god has created you to be this is the process are you still with me on this see we liked being clay on the potter's wheel until we realized this is what the pressure feels like and all of a sudden some of you those labor pains just kicked in that's funny okay look at this word of god first one is this all scripture is god breathed and is useful for teaching rebuking correcting and training in righteousness so that the man of god may be thoroughly equipped for every good work there it is god's word is designed to teach us rebuke us correct us and train us to shape us mold us form us into the image and likeness of god in righteousness remember in jesus you have already been made righteous you've been made right with god by jesus once and for all you've been made holy once for all time we've already looked at it now we are learning how to live a righteous life we're learning how to live a holy life we're learning how to think like jesus and believe like jesus and act like jesus so he uses his word to teach rebuke correct and train see god's word is living and active and we don't work on it it works on us and when we put it inside of us it begins to shape us and mold us and transform us correct us rebuke us and one of the things that we have to understand is that god uses his word to heal us or to wound us so he can heal us he uses his word to expose us so he can cover us he has to bring things to the surface and challenge and shape and mold and god is totally okay if you're offended by his word we gotta we gotta get to this place that like god is not worried about your interpretation of his alt eternal word he's okay if you're offended by it he's okay if you leave with more questions than you had coming to it he's okay leaving you in the mystery of it why because he knows it will cause you to seek him more and to lean in and our job is to just let the potter do what the potter does this is why jesus prays at the end of his life father sanctify them by your word your word is truth he says father shape mold them by your word because your word is truth and your truth will set them free and if jesus is the word of god then the more i allow the word of god to shape and mold my life the more i'm actually becoming like jesus you're with me on that the word is not meant to bend to our life the word is meant to bend us into the life of jesus so the word of god and then there's the spirit of god well the next one and i will put my spirit in you nope john the next one when when see how many verses are in here you never know what's coming neither do i jesus talking here he says when he the counselor so the holy spirit is a counselor he gives us wisdom in a word world world full of foolishness he is a guide he leads us in the midst of darkness he's a comforter he gives us comfort in the midst of the chaos and the brokenness of this world he's always pointing us to jesus and he is always reminding us of everything that jesus has said so when he the counselor comes he will convict the world of guilt and regard to sin and righteousness and judgment the holy spirit has come to convict us shape mold pressure form us into the image and likeness of jesus and he's come to convict the world of sin this is why people who don't believe in god want nothing to do with god still have a sense of guilt and shame in their life if i don't believe in god and i want nothing to do with him and i don't think he exists then why would i ever have guilt or shame in my life but the reason the world does is because the holy spirit is outside moving around them pushing trying to trying to lead them in that direction to say there's a better way you're you need a savior and one has come and his name is jesus so he's always trying to bring people to the end of themselves so they'll look to god but as us as followers of jesus he's convicting us of righteousness he's convicting us the holy spirit when you mess up doesn't show up in your life to say you're a sinner why because that would be a lie and he's the spirit of truth so he can only speak truth when we mess up he shows up in our life he's already in our life he's moving from the inside out and he's saying hey you're living so far below who you are and jesus come on you don't need to miss the mark here you don't want to do that that that's death that's darkness that's brokenness that's bondage and jesus has set you free remember in him you've been made right so you don't even have to be afraid of the father right now even though you've messed up let's go right to the father because of what jesus has done then we're going to be encouraged and comforted and we can live in freedom so he's shaping and molding our job is to just let him do what he does and what you have to start understanding is that the spirit within you longs to obey god more than your flesh longs to disobey god this is really important if you can catch this in jesus you are now hard wired to obey god when you're a sinner you're hardwired to sin but if identity determines your behavior then when i'm a new creation in christ i'm now hardwired to live righteously i'm now a butterfly and butterflies don't crawl around in the dirt anymore come on we've got to believe that the holy spirit has more power in us than the sin that's working against us we we've got to have more belief in the victory of jesus than the failure of adam we've got to give more uh have more faith in the power of the spirit that's working for us than the flesh that's working against us if you can repent and catch that the spirit within you actually longs to obey more than your flesh longs to disobey all the sudden you start moving in the right direction because you actually have to make a conscious effort to go in the wrong direction now why because the holy spirit's always leading you in the right direction in fact that's why that next verse says and i will put my spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations who is it that obeys the spirit working in you helps you follow and obey make sense so we've got the word of god we've got the spirit of god then we've got the people of god next verse instead speaking the truth and love we will in all things grow up into him if we want to grow up into him become everything that god has created us to be the fullness of maturity and jesus we need people to speak the truth and love in our lives and the labor pains just kicked in twice as much because we want nothing to do with this we don't want people to speak the truth and love we just want people to tell us that what we're doing is awesome we just want people to tell us we're amazing and that our dysfunctional choices are so good and we should double down and do them even more that's that's really what we want if we're honest and then the labor pains kick in because someone comes along and speaks the truth and love and now the question is is how are we going to respond to that see if you don't need the people of god in your life do you understand that's literally like one of the most arrogant statements you could ever make because you're literally saying i've got it all figured out you're literally saying i don't have any blind spots in my life you're literally saying you have grown up into the fullness of jesus i have not so if you have please come speak some truth and with love into my life because i'm in the process of becoming and i need people and so do you and so we're in a shift in an era right now in the world where a lot of people especially in the church right now followers of jesus are all making this declaration i can just follow jesus by myself if you start with the word of god as your source of truth you will discover that that's actually a lie so by the time you get to this one you realize that's actually not true i can't do that because i need people to speak the truth in my life so i can grow up into him with me on that and then the last thing is circumstances of life consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything when was the last time you had joy about your trials we hate our trials we want our trials to get over as fast as we can so all we do is really like ask god to finish them to get us out of them to move on from them but here's the deal if we want to become mature and complete we actually need them we need the pressure forming us why because it's in that pressure we actually call out to god and we start saying things like god what are you trying to teach me what are you trying to show me what are you trying to shape in me listen to me vision gives pain a purpose if you don't have a vision for who you're becoming your pain is purposeless but when you have a vision to become who you already are in jesus then all of a sudden storms have significance because i know they're shaping and molding me into the image and likeness of god does that make sense so these are the four things the word of god the spirit of god the people of god and the circumstances of life and here's the problem for a lot of us is when we don't allow the word the spirit or the people to shape us circumstances crush us there's an order here if i never let the word the spirit or the people shape me into the image and likeness of god the potter and the clay then when circumstances of life show up they literally crush me and this is why so many of us can't make it through the trials and the storms and the tribulations of our life because we've not been shaped enough by the word the spirit and the people in fact look at this verse it talk this is jeremiah and the potter of the clay but the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over can i tell you i think last year for so many followers of jesus that identified with jesus but maybe weren't following jesus there was a crushing and it's in the potter's goodness and grace and patience to press it down to start over again shaping it into the potential and the purpose for which it was created see i think we're in a season where god is inviting us back to discipleship to being a disciple a learner a follower a becomer one who longs to be like the one that they're following and i think god is inviting us as a church to move into this new dimension of creating a discipleship culture a discipleship culture that values the word of god that honors the spirit of god that is devoted to the people of god and that leans in to the circumstances of life not casual christianity not consumerism not religion not church not cheap grace not a bible verse racing stripe on your social media but an actual internal transformation in your heart bringing you into alignment with who god says you already are in him you see you are being discipled the question is whom are you being discipled by make no mistake about this right now you are learning following becoming like someone or something is it the right thing are you being discipled by the word of the world the spirit of darkness the people of this world and the brokenness of circumstances and becoming bitter or are you being discipled by the word of god the spirit of god the people of god and allowing the circumstances of life to make you better and there's no in between you're moving in one of two directions who are you being discipled by and is that who you want to become don't have more of a vision in your life to do something than you do for who you're actually becoming i said for my birthday my kids wrote me a bunch of different things words of how they see me and who i am and it just reminded me that at the end of our lives no one really cares how much money you have how many trophies you have how many social media followers you have what you've accrued what you've accomplished what you've bought where you've been they care who you are and jesus cares who we are so he laid down his life released his spirit gave us grace and said now this is who you are now let's go on a journey of becoming who you already are in me that's discipleship hear me discipleship is not try harder behave better do more get religious get your act together discipleship is let's become who you already are in jesus through the word the spirit the people and the circumstances and as the clay choose to just trust the potter and say make me in to the prototype the son of god who became the son of man to show me what being alive or being human what life is all about come on if i trust god to create me and save me why would i not trust him to disciple me lean in to the potter's hands and you'll be amazed at who you'll become so close your eyes with me maybe maybe let me just ask you this what what do you feel like god's saying to you right now in this moment in this space what's the spirit of the living god saying to you see i think god is stirring some things up in our church stirring up some new faith some new hope some new sense of catching the gravity of of who we are and what jesus has done i think he's stirring up some new invitations some new hunger a sense of of value for his word and honor for his spirit and devotion to his people in a sense of purpose to the pain that we may be feeling i just see a picture even right now of of some of us even just just stopping and looking to the potter and saying i'm sorry i keep trying to bend in the direction that i want to go would you mold and shape me in the direction that you want me to go in fact what if even right now in your own way you just gave jesus permission what if you just said god i'm your clay and you're my potter make me into a masterpiece come on that's a prayer i can't pray for you only you can pray that for yourself god i'm your clay you're my potter make me into a masterpiece i don't wanna i don't wanna be i don't wanna be on the wheel of this world i don't wanna be molded and shaped by the potter of this world i wanna be molded and shaped by the good father who sent his son who released his spirit to transform me from the inside out so jesus thank you that we start where you finished we now are beloved sons and daughters in whom you are well pleased by our faith in you we've become righteous and may we learn to walk that journey out and become who we already are in you may we be disciples in jesus name we pray amen so the journey of following jesus is all about becoming a disciple being shaped more and more into the image of jesus i'm so glad that you joined in with us today if you'd like to give just go to valleycreek.org you can give any time that you like and remember serve the city is coming up this saturday just jump onto the website you can sign up to come be a part of the movement of hope with us as we serve our cities and remember if this is your campus we'd love to know more about you so go ahead and fill that form out and remember god is good jesus has forgiven you you are loved and everything is possible so everywhere you go this week go as a hope carrier in jesus name i love you have a great week [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] do [Music] you

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