XO Series | Part 1 | Pastor Jeremy Foster

Jesus man it feels good to be back in the house in fact if it's your very first time here my name is Jeremy or if you've been here in the last six weeks you haven't seen me we've been out and I'm honored to be back and we're going on just welcoming in our Memorial campus but our cypress campus our Katy campus and everybody watching online let's give them a great big hand with you guys with us and I'm fired up about this EXO series for the next six weeks we're gonna be on a journey and here's what I believe about this series in fact not just what I believe but what I've been told I've had more people tell me I wish I would have known the information that you give during this series earlier in my life in fact I would encourage you to bring your kids for the next six weeks not your little babies take them to kids ministry god bless you hey bring your junior high your high school students in here here's the commitment I'll make you I'm not a shock-and-awe pastor I'm not gonna say weird things that you're like oh I really wish my kid wouldn't have heard that I promise you I'm not gonna do that that's not how I roll but I am gonna teach them a biblical view of love sex and marriage the way that God has designed it so that we don't keep making the mistakes that we've made you need this information and I believe that it's really gonna bless you in fact I struggled with this series I struggle with it every year because I give you a lot of the same information it's like a seminar and I want to come in here and just bring you all all kind of new information but I can't because you need the same information over and over and over again because it brings you strength it helps you and oftentimes it'll hit you in a different area in life all of us have dealt with with love right do you remember when you anybody remember the very first the very first person that you were like gaga over you fell in love with him I remember my first girlfriend her name was Charlotte I won't tell you her last name because streaming and social media and it could get weird because it was a very very serious ship I was five she was six I like two older women whatever you know it is what it is don't hate the player hate the game I didn't understand my emotions she did as a man I didn't know what to do know what I was five you know problem is there's your twenty five still don't know when to the I don't know what to do she understood her emotions she understood had to share her emotions I didn't understand how to share mine so she just grabbed me and she just said listen I like you and kissing me straight on the cheek I don't even know what to do so I straight punched her right in the face I am I like you too she broke up with me immediately but um it was it was hilarious that's a true story because as kids we start relationships even there's little kids in fact this week during my study time it took up a large amount of my study time I studied children's breakup letters kids are thugs if you don't know what they are like you and I will try to at least make it nice not these kids I brought you three letters here's here's what here's what's TV little girl Steve he said to Canaan dear Canaan I'm sorry we have to break up you always try to make me laugh but you're just making yourself look bad all caps no apostrophe we're over for real love cross that out from Stevie I mean somebody need to pray for Canaan dudes messed up then this is to Shawn from Rachael Shawn I'm breaking up with you you have heard spelling is phenomenal you have not talked to me since the day you asked me out that was three months ago Shawn's a man you know have a light hey girl you want to go out peace you know you need to get it together or you will never get married and that wold be sad you shall get married just not to me Rachel so right now the girls are winning but DeLand Doran's going to redeem the guys this is from 202 crystal I'm breaking up with you PS happy Anniversary though did he put one month no you know it's really hard to do this you know girl I'm sorry I'm sorry Greg I let you down I gotta let you down whoring you know oh it's so rude but that's what we used to do we used to write letters his kids nowadays they don't they don't write letters we used to write letters front and back we would fold them remember the folds remember the photo how many guys used to fold the letter used to fold that come on that's my real people right there y'all know what love is we would we would fold them we would follow them we would fold and we would fold him into a swan you know like just like this one little tab you open it seven pages front and back you know we had to have game back in the day they don't literally they don't even have game anymore like you know everything about a person before you ever even meet them but if you stalk them on social media for so long and then you don't even call them when you get their number you text them what is that if you get their number call them used to pout bye hello how are you my name is Jeremy Oh your name's Jennifer how you doing girl I talked to my wife you don't get a 10 like I got texting somebody you gotta have a little game I had game back in the day and I was raised in church so you had to have church girl game which is a totally different type of game you know I mean like hey girl been studying the Book of Joshua you know them walls of Jericho if I march around you seven times you fall for me hey a girl you must be made of water because Jesus turned you to find y'all not ready right now for the heat I'm bringing in this series something's back there aren't you must be water and [Applause] then you ever get your heart broke yeah I'm talking just broke in half back in the day we had the good heart break songs you know what I mean and I can't sing them and I shouldn't sing them this weekend not when Cristal's here Cristal's are you at Crystal y'all give Krystal a great big hand where's crystal at here she comes come on get out here girl now listen I don't know I don't know all I'm gonna do is dial in i'ma dial in right now to the quiet storm the all requests and dedications hotline come on Brown share your feelings hotter at your homies and I'm gonna request my song will you sing my song for me bring it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] giving me some beer barrel there at one time come on y'all remember Stahl remember here we go here we go come on give crystal a great big hand that was the jam we had good music good songs to make you cry you know what I mean now we're just stuck with Kiki do you love me I divide it come on man come on I came to do that dance in these boots my boots are like no I'm sorry baby I know you're watching online I apologize for embarrassing our family um the problem is we keep making the same mistakes that we were making when we were kids here's why because we're immature when it comes to relationships we think we're bigger than what we are we think we know more than what we know I know a little bit about this you boy got five kids I deal with children they think they can do anything in fact my son Gunnar is here right now which I like to see Gunnar Jesse can you bring Gunnar out right now y'all give Jesse and Gunnar a great big king bring my boy out here hey bubs hey how you doing he looked like you've been crying you can come see Dad just mean-mugging people and stuff you got you want same thing that's what you were doing it like two o'clock this morning - let's change the song do you want you want to get on your show the people if you can walk you and Selma okay where are you going bro hey you just go okay no we can't no let's let's stand up let's show them we can walk like she was showing okay Stan okay it's okay it's okay you know what he's saying he's saying son where's my shirt we came from Arkansas no I'm playing I'm kidding if you're from Arkansas put a shirt on okay it's okay give him a great big hand y'all give me such a baby you know what I mean like there are times on my son why do you act like such a baby cuz he's baby like I wanted him to perform out here for y'all he wouldn't do it you know why cuz for some reason it's all about him whenever he's hungry cries or degree whenever he wants his way it cries wherever you set him down he thinks he can get on the stairs he can't he thinks he can go down to anything so we have to have pressure activated baby gates you know what I'm talking about if you're a parent you don't want to have those all over your house but you have to why because you love your child and you want to protect them because they will climb down any set of stairs that they think they're big enough to climb down and fall all the way to the bottom of them they'll try to climb stuff that they're not supposed to climb so you have to have some boundaries in place here's the problem some of us have never matured in relationships and we're falling down the same set of stairs has been living a long time and just think because we got older we got wiser no you just got older you're living the same year over and over again thinking you got experience and you're looking for all the wrong things why because we're processing information from the wrong places it'll shock you how much you get your thoughts about love sex and marriage from movies a lot in fact I would venture to say that about 80% of what you think comes from popular culture about love sex image is true think about it you go watch the movie and it affects how you feel right it affects how you feel about your spouse like you're watching the movie and she's like oh my God look at you and you're trying to muster a tear right fellas right I know like you're watching it you know and they see each other they find each other but she's unavailable but they love each other she's like I can't do this and he's like okay and she leaves and he writes the letters any writes the letters any write still endures any writes the letters and he sends the letters but she doesn't get the letters and then she sees him later and she's like why didn't you call me he says I wrote you letters 365 days out of here I wrote you letters she said I never got the letters no my god mom just gave me the letters by she says fine did the other guy think it together he reads the letters and they love each other she gets sick she forgets he reads the letters he reads the letters he reads the letters she dies he dies same time seeing the notebook is not real Nicholas Sparks is a fiction writer but still my wife looks at me goes with me can I say yes that's crazy it's it's beautiful in amo base but we begin to get this idea that that's what love is this whole idea that it's my heart with there was enough room on the raft for both of y'all why you do Jack like that Leo DiCaprio with his frozen hair going get this room as ridiculous as all of that is that's where we get our disks from for love so this weekend I'm gonna challenge everything you've ever learned from Beauty and the Beast and The Princess Bride and the godforsaken notebook because you're looking for the wrong things you're looking for three of the wrong things we'll talk about them this weekend the first thing that you're looking for is I'm just looking for the right person if I can just find the right person here's what we think then everything will be all right they'll love me for me they'll accept me for me I'll never have to change we'll finish each other's oh my god you guys are all the one I won't have to tell them how I feel I'll just no how's that working out for you married people we've been together long enough you should know what I'm dealing with I have no idea because I have a brain you have a brain and they're not connected you know they just communicate lady did I say that's the fella he's kidding we get this idea that if I if I can just find the right person they'll get me right ultimately here's what you're thinking if I can find the right person they'll fix me it'll be a whole new world a dazzling place I never knew but it's not it's the same place that you knew you just went on a week vacation called a honeymoon you still came back to her 410 credit score because she ain't never balance a checkbook ever same problems get the same problems and then what happens you call a marriage problems now we have marriage probably don't have marriage problems no such thing as marriage problem II tell you what marriage problems are marriage problems are why why does she squeeze the toothpaste from the middle why I don't understand that why when it obviously can roll very easily why don't we just squid just messy so you know what you know how me and my wife solved that marriage problem she has toothpaste your boy has toothpaste I have a little thing on mine that we roll it up that's married people problems it's which side of the bed are we gonna sleep on you driving her my driving this is the this the biggest marriage problem that married people have is where we gonna go eat I don't care wherever you want to go lawyer you know what I mean like you do care I mentioned 38 places you don't want to go to none of them doesn't matter to me it does that's married people problems do you know what the problem is we're defining married people problems when really it's single people problems it's to single people with the problems that got married hoping that the right person would fix it all here's the problem with that whole mentality the right person was thinking the same thing if I can find the right person they'll fix me and now you're both expecting the other person to fix you and it's impossible okay so maybe I'm not looking for the right person I'm just looking for chemistry and passion okay I'm just looking for chemistry passion now here's what you got to understand there are people in this room and in all of our campuses right now who were married here me who are still looking for the right person because somehow I just we lost chemistry and passion all of us want chemistry and passion come on out ladies all of us want chemistry and passion right all of us all of the great songs are about chemistry and passion and some of us just want to feel this come on y'all better sing here's the problem here's the problem it's all about a feeling I want to feel so weak in the knees I can hardly speak I lose all control when something takes off oh man it's not our face it is a face it's a face come on let's be honest it's six weeks to 18 months according to all psychologists okay it's a phase but we define it as what we're looking for and when we lose it you must not be the one why because we don't have the chemistry we used to have you can't sustain that it's not real but I bet I bet I want chemistry I'm just looking for that chemistry that feeling let me define chemistry for you okay let me give you a scenario he walks into a Mexican restaurant because I like tacos and his Houston he walks into a Mexican restaurant with his buddies he sits down they begin to eat chips they don't pray for the chips before they eat the chips they're gonna pray for the entrees because you could just eat the chips for free I just solved a problem many people have had god bless you that's not Bible it's an opinion they're just eating chips they're eating chips and then all of a sudden he sees the door open and when the door opens the sunlight shines from behind her and it's a silhouette of a beautiful girl the wind blows through her hair he hears this soundtrack I want to know what love is it's like this moment and he stares at the most beautiful woman he's ever seen she walks in she scans the room and as she scans the room her eyes towards just a little bit on him and she comes back and when she comes back he looks at her he goes and she ever so slightly goes and she keeps walking and she keeps looking back he goes he's done he's done it's all walk Amole and salsa right now just trying to get the courage up to go talk to this girl that could be the love of his life why there's chemistry I saw my future I can see my unborn children in your eyes it's a Bryan Adams moment right there like he's having a moment he's like okay so on this is it we're gonna grow old together he gets the courage up to go talk to her he walks over to the table he looks at her he says hey my name is Randy she looks at him says knowing glaze we had so much chemistry and it's over before it's you can have chemistry with anybody it's a feeling this is the problem we define love as chemistry and so we take it physical and now it's not covered by God because it's already under the covers and we fast-forwarded the whole relationship and now we wonder why every relationship fails because we follow this failed formula okay so I'm not just looking for chemistry and passion okay whatever bro I get it I'm looking for love I'm looking for now I'm just looking for love and you're the problem we've missed defined love as a feeling I'm looking for that you know we used to be in love it lasts six weeks to 18 months that feeling it's science the heart palpitation the rush of adrenaline the drop in serotonin so that you can stay up late and obsess over a person and talk on the phone for hours and they have nothing to say you ever been on the phone for some with somebody for like longer than two hours raise your hand longer than two hours hold them up holding longer than three hours keep them up longer than four hours longer than five hours keep them up let's say at the Lord get a life yes what do you want to talk about for five hours nothing you know I mean it's like you still awake you homes do the way used to doing yeah are you less than to deliver everything to the all requests and dedications hard line and I just requested a song for you but I said it was for my homies cuz I'm embarrassed but it's for you what song did you what song did you request it's so beautiful that's the hope city choir in case you guys it knows all campuses god bless you it's a feeling and here's what here's what's happening you're high on drugs not those kind of drugs you're high on natural drugs your brain is pumping so much dopamine into your body you can't help but feel good literally you're neurologically addicted to this person that fades unfortunately it fades and here's why you would fry your brain if you stayed like that all the time and also you would accomplish nothing why at some point you don't you can't you can't live like that all the time but we define that as love and when that goes away listen married people you know this it goes away goes away and God replaces it with something so much more beautiful and you can have beautiful moments of waves of that but you have to have something else you got to look for something else every time that I talk to somebody who's getting ready to get married I asked him this question why are you guys getting married and you know what they always tell me because we're in love and I say terrible answer every person who's ever been divorced always married for love like we're all we had loved each other and then boom it's divorced so what did they do wrong no no you got to look for something else everybody in here is like okay tell us when you're looking for the wrong thing here's what will happen you will follow a failed formula that will never bring you true love here's the formula the formula is simply this find the right person find the right person fall in love with the right person fix all of my hopes and dreams on that person and then if that fails repeat steps 1 through 3 and this ladies and gentlemen is why second marriages fail at a faster rate than first marriages because we somehow learned nothing in the first relationship so we went to the next one doing the same thing looking for the right person who would somehow fix me so what should we be looking for smarty pants I'm glad you asked proverbs chapter 24 gives us the answer here's what it says by wisdom everybody say wisdom by wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established and through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures so what should I be looking for should I be looking for the right person should I be looking for chemistry and passion right should I be looking for that feeling of love no you should be looking for knowledge for understanding and for wisdom what does that mean knowledge is information I need information I need to know you better I need to know more I need to know more about relationships it's why we sell books during this series all the proceeds go to missions but you need to invest in your relationships by the books if you don't buy I'm here buy them somewhere reap you realize here's the problem right here's the problem people aren't getting information anymore more than 50% of people never buy another book or read another book after their heist after they graduated high school did you know that that's the problem we're walking in trying to ace a test that we're not even prepared for because we don't have knowledge so what do we do we ask Jesus for a miracle God give me a miracle Holy Spirit help me let me tell you what the job of the Holy Spirit is here's what the Holy Spirit is Jesus said the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth and he will bring all things to your remembrance do you know what you have to do in order to remember something you got to know it first you got to study it you got to learn it some of y'all the Holy Spirit's just kicking around in your brain being like they ain't nothing here I literally have nothing to work with you know to me I didn't mean to say that out loud it just it happened some of you are like listen I don't need knowledge we have a song no you need a book you need information what does that mean you need to look critically at your life you need to look critically at who you are and how you operate and not just look for a feeling listen because when you're in when you're in love with somebody and you like somebody they lie to you you need to look at how they treat their parents look at how they treat the people around them but they treat me different I know for six weeks to 18 months they will and then they'll normalize you just like they have everybody else you better start looking for information I need to have some knowledge here's what understanding is it's comprehension of the information I don't want to just know stuff I want to actually understand it and then wisdom is the application of the information that I understand then know listen I can't apply something I don't understand because I haven't learned it so when I don't follow this model I'm doomed to repeat what I've done my whole life I'm looking for somebody else to fix me when really I need knowledge I need understanding and I need wisdom okay that's awesome thanks man I'm still I still think I'm looking for love and I get it I understand you're you're helping us I need to read a book okay that's what I got out of that awesome read a book Jesus defines love for us I'm getting ready to give you the key to love somebody other thinking okay man bring it strong I got her here she needs to learn some stuff bro come on proverbs are John chapter 13 verse 34 jesus said this so now I'm giving you a new come on all campuses commandment love each other just as I have loved you you should love each other there it is some of y'all like you you should have studied more but if you look a little closer he just defined love for us love's not an emotion love's not a feeling what is it it's a commandment love is the commandment well how is it commandment because it can't be an emotion if it's a commandment why because you can't you can't command an emotion right I can't come in be sad right now that's right guys laughing because you can't command an emotion your parents used to try it all the time like that look off your face Brits are crying you know like she couldn't change the way you felt this is how you felt in the moments and emotion of sososo love is not an emotion it's a command so what does that mean somebody said it over here it becomes a choice based on information that I understand and apply not a feeling because when I think it's a feeling and the feeling changes all the sudden our marriage is in trouble why because you don't make me feel happy anymore you don't make me feel like I'm the one you don't make me feel okay okay so you're putting all of your happiness on on me it's mom it's mom it's my job to make you feel happy I can't do that why because I can't command your emotions I mean I but I can't do that all the time you know I mean especially especially when the Bible is very clear about you taking care of you and having the fruit of the Spirit in your own life some of us are looking to a spouse or another person to provide what only God can provide I wish you would give me strength I wish you would give me joy the Bible clearly says the joy of the Lord is my strength not the joy of my spouse is my strength the joy of the world this is good teaching okay good it's important for us to get this let me let me tell you something I love my children look deeply deeply love my children I got five of them I love them my wife right now is in Phoenix Arizona your brother's tired right now okay y'all just give me a minute my little dude Jack rolled up in my bedroom today at like 227 and more like hey dad I was like I rebuke this fear right now go back to bed when my first kid was born I became a great actor like like dad's you know exactly what I'm talking about like when the baby waked up what woke up at like 3 o'clock in the morning then all of a sudden I acted like I was asleep and I couldn't hear it the baby's like my wife's like honey I'm like yes Lord speak to me in the dream continue continue to tell me the process for our future success yes I didn't want to get up I didn't feel drawn oh my god I can't wait to go see the baby oh it's a duty ya know I didn't want to get up I had no desire no Drive no excitement I didn't get all dressed up to go in there to change the baby's diaper at 3:00 in the morning but I did it even though I didn't feel like it because love is a choice love is a verb love is action and so I love my children even when I don't feel like it even when I don't feel like oh yeah you're a smart-mouthed that daddy loves that no I love them so I'm not gonna reject them I'm not gonna push him to the curb I love them here's the problem some of y'all love your kids more than you love your spouse why can't you commit to your spouse as much as you're committed to your children it's because we think it's an emotion and it's not it's a verb it's a choice Jesus would be a terrible marriage counselor like you'd go into Jesus and be like geez you don't understand we just we've we've lost that love and feel and come on God whoa that love and feel and Lord we've lost that lovin feeling now it's gone gone gone beautiful can't even say no no no no I'm talking I'm gonna at the verb like the action you haven't lost the loving feeling you've stopped acting in loving ways that's what happens to us you at some point you got to take responsibility for your actions everybody say actions and you realize I listen you see the same thing in your children they're there they're a replica of you and if they're disrespectful little jerks I'm just saying they learned that somewhere why because actions repeated are reciprocated emotion follows motion I don't have to feel like going on a date with my wife I might be tired but if I said hey we're gonna go on a date Tuesday night then I'm gonna dress up she's gonna dress up we're gonna go out and guess what happens all of a sudden we have the we had the best time why emotions follow motion I don't have to feel like it to do it you think Jesus felt like going to the cross I don't because he went to the garden and he prayed to the Father and said if there be any way let this cup pass from me nevertheless not my will but your will be done and he trudged up gothis rugged hill and he stretched out his arms and he suffered bled and died and showed us what love is love each other like Christ loved you well if they go first husbands let me address you for just a moment it is mandated in the Bible for you to love your wife as Christ loved the church what does that mean he went first so men it's our responsibility no matter what popular culture says it's our responsibility to lead in this area and to go first to apologize first to go to counseling first to help our marriage let's go first you want to love about our church when you look around at all of our campuses we are not and I don't want to say this I've never said this before so I want to say in the right way I haven't even thought about how I'm going to say this we are not predominantly women there are a lot of churches that are predominantly women and men are relatively absent I love that hope city is not hope city has a lot of strong husbands and fathers that are leading their family every week to all of our campuses that's awesome give them a great big hand you're doing good guys emotion follows motion so what do I keep like how do i I still need to find the right person no you don't Andy Stanley did a study you did a focus group and he had a young girl in her 20s in the focus group she told the story she said I used to live for God whenever I was whenever I was in high school I loved Jesus and and I really tried but when I went to college I hung out with the wrong people and I got really messed up into alcohol and I was drinking and drunk almost every night I was in a sorority we were partying like crazy for a full year we partied and then one night I got invited to a dinner party at a friend's house and she said right after that dinner party I drove all the way home two hours I sat down and talked half the night with my mom and told her tonight I met the man of my dreams I met the one she said I begin to tell my mother they set me right beside this guy he was so kind he was sweet he was a gentleman he asked me what he could do to help me would you like something to drink he was he was he talked about Jesus he talked about a mission strip that he had gone on he talked about what God was doing in his life and then he spoke life to me and he told me the things that he believed God could do in my life she said mom he reminded me of dad this is the guy this is the guy I'm looking for and her mom said Oh sweetie he wasn't trying to date you he was trying to convert you he might be who you're looking for but you are definitely not who he's looking for when you spend your life looking for the right one you you you might recognize them when they show up but they won't recognize you so don't waste your time looking for the right one spend your time becoming the right one awesome how do I do that well if you open this book and you try to find like I need to find the secrets of how to find the right one you know if I'm watching here but if you open this book you start looking how to become the right one this book will come alive to you whether you're single or whether you're married especially if you're married in here and you're still somewhere in the back of your head thinking maybe I didn't marry the right one open this book start studying this is your homework start studying the fruit of the Spirit and stop asking God to change them start asking God to change you Lord I want love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and gentleness and faithfulness and self-control to show up in my life start becoming the right one stop making all those lists and start trying to live up to the list that you've made start becoming the right one go through growth track get on the dream team go on a missions trip give us a year give us this is a challenge I've I've given since the beginning of our church give us one year do the things that I encourage you to do for one year and watch what happens in your life at the end of that year it may not be a perfect year but you will get to the end of that year and say God has done so much in my life let God work on you and stop being so focused on that other person gotta blow your mind emotion follows motion a woman went to see marriage marriage counselor she went to a marriage counselor and dr. crane and she said I'm so sick of my husband I'm done he has become the most rude lethargic distant silent emotionally unavailable man this is not who I married I'll talk to him and he won't even respond it's brutal to me he won't he doesn't even recognize that I'm alive I want a divorce but not only do I want a divorce I want to hurt him the counselor said don't hurt him he said I've only seen this a few times and he said you're in desperate pain right now and you may not get you'll get you may get a divorce but but you'll carry this unless you get healed through it and he said now you're my client he's not so I would not give this therapy if he were my client as well but I can give it to you it's dangerous and it will be hurtful to him but it's called revenge therapy and here's what you're gonna do you're gonna leave my office and today for the next two months they're gonna act as if you are crazy about him like nuts like you were right before the marriage or right after the marriage he's just gonna crazy in love and at the end of two months you're gonna serve him with divorce papers right when he thinks that this is unbelievable drop the hammer it will be something he never recovers from and he'll never be able to trust anybody again she said so she went home and she promptly began to fix dinner for him to serve him to act as if somehow she was crazy about him for two months she did this at the end of two months dr. crane called her and said are you ready to go forward with the next step in the plan weirdly she said no the craziest thing has happened it's a miracle he's nuts about me out nuts about him we've fallen in love all over again and we're going on a second honeymoon next week dr. crane laughed and said revenge therapy worked it was his plan all along because as a counselor he knew emotion follows motion I don't have to feel it if I act on it the feelings will follow love is not an emotion it's a choice inside of every marriage it's out of every love all emotions exist right like you've had that happy euphoric oh my god I can't wait to talk to you with your spouse and then you've had to stand their ground you know I mean not me sweetheart admission watching online never meet but it's a choice every day stop looking for the right person start becoming the right person come through the next six weeks and I believe it'll change your life let me pray for you all campuses lord I thank you for each and every person under the sound of my voice I pray right now that you would do an irreversible work in our lives and our relationships and our hopes our dreams in our futures help us God to believe what we've heard and to apply it and to get knowledge and understanding and wisdom so that we can walk this life out the way that you've called us to walk it out and Lord right now I pray for those that are far from you in fact all campuses if you know that you're far from him I want you to hear this here's the gospel the gospel is you are a sinner you are far from Christ but when you make a decision to follow him immediately he forgives you you can't earn his love but you can receive it and when you receive his love there's action involved and it begins to change you know judgment if you know whether you've never given your life to Christ or maybe you've just been far from Christ if you know that's that's me I got to make my life right the Bible says if you'll acknowledge him he will acknowledge you so I'm just gonna ask you to be bold and put your hand up and say that's me I got to make my life right with Christ hands hands just put them up hands hands hands hands hands hands and hands come on let's give these folks a great big hand thank you guys food I want to all pray this prayer together every campus Jesus you're my only hope you're the only one who can save me thank you for dying on the cross from me I believe in you thank you for forgiving me of my sins I receive your love right now I receive your grace and mercy I receive your forgiveness and I'm asking you to change me from the inside out I'm giving my life to you in Jesus name Amen come on let's give him an ovation of worship Jesus you deal

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Published: Sun Jul 22 2018