Zootown Church's Ragamuffin Party, with Brian Head Welch.

[Music] hey thanks a lot for being here guys uh we're so stoked for this event and just for uh you all and that brian would take the time to be with us tonight um and we're just excited so just i'm going to talk for just a few minutes just because i know we got people here who've never been to our church or ever been to a church or whatever uh and we just want to let you know you're welcome here like what we're about is when you walked through that door and you saw that sign in the lobby that's what we're about uh we're about god's love because the bible says god is love and so [Music] [Applause] we just want you to know from zootown church as a representative that we love you we accept you um and we have met a guy named jesus and all we're about is letting you meet him that's our whole goal it's just so you meet the risen lord um because we believed this and we felt it and we've known it in our own lives and so we just again want to just let you know that no matter where you're from or who you are like you're welcome here we're glad that you're here um we don't see people as uh like flesh we see people as spirit that you are made in the image of god i don't care what you've done i don't care where you've been we're all made in the image of god and so we just want to proclaim that truth to you tonight that that christ came to show us who god is but he came to show us who we are too and in christ you become that perfect man and that perfect woman and so we just want to again invite you to our church services 8 30 10 11 30 on sunday mornings um but even if you don't we love you and we're just glad you're here so we're just blessed to have brian head welch here tonight from the band corn and uh he too has met the risen lord he's he's met jesus and so he's gonna share his story a little bit uh and then he's gonna preach at you a little bit and then he's gonna hang out a little bit and you can talk to him after that so we're still gonna have some wings if you've had only one beer you get one more so you can get another one but again we love you we're for you and welcome brian head welch [Music] what's up everybody [Applause] thank you i'm stoked to be here i just woke up forgive my mascara running um let's get right into it um i've been thinking a lot about just suffering you right and uh been talking to my friend mario been talking to uh some people here from the church and everything and there's a lot that's happened in montana hasn't there been missoula heart goes out to you man i was thinking about the bible too the bible starts in perfection there's god there's a man and a woman and the man and the woman are learning intimacy they're running around naked and getting to know just what love is about right that's what i picture that's the beginning you go all the way to the end and then there's so the beginnings adam and eve the end is the second adam is jesus and the church which is the bride of christ a lot of men get hung up on the bride of christ i don't want to wear no dress and be no bride it's not about male and female it's about divinity marrying humanity and swallowing up all of our mess all of the problems that we have so those are the two bookends right perfect in the beginning perfect at the end in the middle there's all this war there's all this suffering there's a dichotomy of the the good and evil the the you know the angels the demons the the war and love you know and so i just was thinking about missoula montana and everything and you guys have been through a lot of war man you guys have seen a lot of suffering and again my heart goes out to you and i'm stoked to be here to talk to you and tell you my story you know i can't imagine the bombs of devastation you've seen in your community and what you've experienced personally and um you know we've all had these bombs drop into our life they come and they devastate us sometimes some are less severe but they are all meant to get us to run to a place of shelter and safety and god is that shelter and that safety and i already love this place man i love what this pastor got up and talked like he accepts everybody listen i'm gonna tell you guys religion is crushing down and the truth of god and his acceptance of all people with all of our junk is coming to the earth and you still got these religious people that are hanging on and trying to to belittle god's name and to and and to be hypocrites and all that stuff you still got that but more and more that stuff's gonna fade away year by year and all you people that are against god and don't haven't wanted god you're gonna be just transformed just like i was i wanted nothing to do with it but when you get the reality of who god is and he's not those hypocrites he's not those people that judge us and that are hateful and just judgmental when you get that revelation you just open up and you say i want all of you god and so it's so good once you get into it man but again you know i've had these bombs devastation drop into my life and they did get me to a place of safety and i barely made it out man i had my suicidal ideation i had my addiction all that stuff but the i remember the first major bomb that dropped in my life was i called the bomb of divorce me and my bank corn where we were on top of the world you know i had this dream to be a rock star when i was a kid all i wanted to do because i i put on uh back in black ac dc when i was 10 years old i get the sack and i was like i just stared at the album i was like i want to be that guy oh my gosh mom give me a guitar no an electric i don't want an acoustic she's like you learn something and then i'll get you an electric show me you're serious electric next thing you know i had an electric and i just freaking went for it man and uh i remember it was so good because it was like my but my guitar was my just it just soothed my soul and the metal music because i'm so glad i got it when i was 10 years old because come 12 13 i was in that place where i went through a lot of things that you know kids when they grow up they go through how many of you know that uh middle school is like hell on earth it was the worst years of my life all my friends grew up before me they i got bullied i couldn't fight i was ugly every girl i tried to talk to was like ew get away it was like hell but my guitar was like my everything and so imagine that and then me i met i made uh met the guys in corn growing up in those you know high school junior high even elementary i met our singer and uh then uh fast forward 1999 i'm i'm in the band and we have made it we're flipping rock stars we're on mtv every day and we're on tour in 99 with metallica and we're on the sun summer sanitarium tour and we're playing 50 000 people plus a night just stadiums all over all over america and it was crazy man system of a down was on it corn kid rock metallica and i i remember like i would i jammed with metallica i got to play hatfield's guitar and it was like i was on top of the world got to fly in their jet and everything but that's when the bomb of devastation of divorce dropped into my life i got a phone call from my friend billy and billy owned a pawn shop in uh actually he didn't own it he he worked at a pawn shop and he was like the manager and he called me he said bro there's some skinheads in my pawn shop trying to hawk this some awards that that he saw that i had hung up in my house and i'm like what are you talking about i call home my wife answers and you know we just start arguing i'm like who's at our house is somebody break in and and she just she was like i don't know what you're talking about i'm just here with our baby and we had a little child janae her name was her name is she's 21 years old now and uh and so we start arguing back and forth and then next to you know she's like she's like i'm leaving you and i'm taking half your money and i'm sick of you being gone i have a boyfriend i've had these guys living in our house and while you've been gone you leave me here all alone i'm scared i don't know what to do when you're gone and i'm like we live in a freaking multi-million dollar houses so like what's scary uh the next door neighbor's white horse you know what i'm saying it's and so but you know i shatter i'm just like man my life is crumbling okay okay quick back up honey let me just fly home we have a child i know it's hard with me being gone let's just talk about this i'm going to come home she's like i don't want to see you i don't want to talk to you and i fly home and she bails out with this guy and his friends that are living in my flipping house and i grabbed my daughter i'm like because i i you know i hear these guys are just like really like rough dudes you know the nazi low riders they're they're affiliated with them some of them are in the skinhead gang and i'm just like oh my gosh what is happening this is a flipping nightmare and so i grabbed my child i'm like no skinhead's gonna raise my kid i take her on the road i try to do the best i can she's uh i bring her on the road and like i hire a nanny from the enemies camp britney spears they were off tour for a while i my tour manager was dating a dancer from britney spears so i hired her and it was crazy man it was like man i'm like a rock star partying every day now i'm like i'm i'm protecting this child from my own wife right and so i stopped doing drugs i just kind of went down to like a six pack of beer at night and uh tried to uh just kind of function and and you know my heart's breaking for me but mainly for my child because her mom just spun out and next thing you know uh you know we're on tour the bodyguard got these big old bodyguards are pushing the stroller with my daughter it's just like trying to make the best of it you know we get home and i'm like okay what's my life gonna be like and after everything she did i'm still thinking because my parents are still together to this day like 53 years married right that's a miracle that's a miracle and uh so i was still like in the mindset like look if we can work this out like i've done her a lot of wrong my wife and so maybe we can work this out and you know let's let's do this and i get home and nothing she's done she's done with it and i remember my daughter turned three when i got home off the tour finally got just time to breathe to just soak all this new change in and her third birthday party comes and my wife at the time we're not divorced yet she comes rolling into the party with her boyfriend the guy that was sleeping in my bed with my wife and i noticed something it looks like my wife had a little operation or a couple little operations i don't know how you say it but she had some uh new breast implants that uh were a big change let's just say this guy is freaking walking in with shades and he's walking behind her like smirking like just emanating like she's mine now you know and i'm just tell me who wouldn't commit murder there's worse have you watched 48 48 there's worse man people have committed murder for less and i'm just my blood's boiling i'm like oh my gosh this guy think he is and he tries to shake my hand and i'm just like i freaking want it and so we had these these our bodyguards were affiliated with one of them was affiliated with the crips early on crips i mean he's an og and i would get so drunk and just be like bro what would it take how much would it cost to get this guy and i'm thinking like really i just want to hurt him so bad or kill him or whatever and he just looked at him he said hey my nickname's head he said head you crossed that line you can never go back and so i just i was like you're right i gotta i gotta i don't want a target on my back i'm just going to forget about this so um the divorce court comes you know we got to go to trial i go into the court and my wife just doesn't show up and so i get full custody of the kid and uh and i'm trying to make the best out of this right i'm a single dad now so i get home and you know i have the pain and all that and i'm trying to like who do i want to be now you know i want to be a dad but like you know what what's going to happen and how do i live my life and so i'm still partying i'm still drinking and got the boys coming over doing barbecues while i'm at home kids are running around in the pool and everything and then that's when the next bomb the bomb of guilt came dropping into my life and uh you know we just partied one night and you know after the barbecue when the guys were playing pool till like 1am next thing you know uh they they end up splitting i'm pretty lit drank all day and i pass out on the couch around 2 a.m i wake up around 4 30 just go check on my daughter janea just me and her in the house i go into her room and she's gone and i'm like janae like going every room where is she where is she and i'm thinking somebody maybe my wife came in and grabbed her or somebody kidnapped her or like i go everywhere ransacked the house jania where are you and then i look at the back door and i see that it's open a little bit and i go to the door and i open it and i see the safety gate to the pool it's open i forgot to close it and janae is right on a lounge chair right next to the pool with her thumb in her mouth like that her legs are on the ground and she's just passed out because i used to smoke in that chair and i'm telling you she was just two feet from the pool and she couldn't swim and i'm just like i felt like the biggest piece of crap in the world i felt like the biggest loser i was it was a weird feeling because i was like i felt so irresponsible but i felt also so relieved and i just grabbed her and i just carried her to her bed and stared at her for like an hour just thinking god i don't even know i was thinking god because i was i was pretty much an atheist or whatever i was just thankful that she was alive so right then i'm like i gotta get sober man i gotta change things look how good i am for this kid i almost gotta drown just for being negligent and so next thing you know um i quit drinking i quit drinking i start going to the gym i'm like mr freaking uh you know super dad you know just doing everything you know i'm eating vegetables grilled chicken see a little bump right there i'm like mr single guy now you know and then that stupid osama bin laden comes and he sends the planes to the towers and everyone's in like shock and and the whole country is just tripping world war three is gonna happen and all this and me and my friends that we live at that time we lived in like uh an hour north of la in orange county and we just started like soul searching and we were like man if this this world's getting crazy you know maybe we should move back home like where everything started where corn started where where i grew up my parents were still there they're still there to this day and uh i decided to move back home and uh but i started drinking again and i started doing drugs again and i don't know i just something clicked i was like i tried my everything to get sober because it's like over the years i would get sober and get clean i would then i would go back to drugs i'd go back to drinking and i'd try to be a functioning addict right and uh and so it was just i just kind of gave up man at that point i was like screw it you know there's no world war three it's just you know life goes on so i'm gonna be i'm gonna just be the rock star the motley crew rock star you know like let's get as many girls as we can let's just party and when i get home i'll be a dad and try to be to play that role and that was just meaningless totally meaningless it brought on depression and i just and i didn't understand like these girls i'd wake up the next day or whatever and i'd feel so empty and all and i envied my friends that could just like throw girls out of the bus when they're done with you know doing whatever and so and i was like i want to be a rock star but i feel guilty i have all these and why can't i just be a like a pig you know i just want to enjoy this freaking you know what i'm saying and it was because i was i was but at the same time i'm looking at my daughter and i'm like i don't want no one to treat her like that when she grows up so it was this tug of war of who am i who do i want to be in this life you know what i'm saying and so that went on for a while and and when it didn't make sense it just brought on this depression started having thoughts of suicide and i remember i got a root canal and they're like they're like here here's some pain meds and i'm like and that's i got introduced to vicodin and being in in corn and being in the music industry back then especially you can get anything you wanted man there wasn't like all these restrictions and doctors weren't all scared i would get like i was like i like vicodin so doc i need vicodin because i like how it makes me feel so i would i got up to like 14 20 a day or something pills just taking them all day long and it was a it was just another i was jumping to one thing to another right trying to find pleasure in life trying to find satisfaction in life but nothing ever satisfied and so by the time i moved back to bakersfield california that was when the third bomb the biggest bomb of devastation came and that's the bomb of addiction and it just hit me hard it was [Music] everything that i tried i was addicted to and i swore i wasn't going to do crystal meth ever again because i saw what it did to the skin ads i saw what i did to my wife i saw you know how how can this drug make your your wife leave your own child right and give your child away to a rock star you know it's like she was a good mom and i watched a drug tear to pieces and i swore i was going to do that drug ever again because me and her used to do it you know we we had a lot of experience with that drug and so one night i was in bakersfield with you know back with the parents they're helping me raise the kid and everything and and uh hanging out with this dude drinking and we were talking this dude actually he had an oil business and he had all these employees made killer money and and he was telling me how all his employee like a lot of his employees did meth and he's like i don't care they work faster and get the job done quicker and everything i don't touch that stuff though i don't mean either man that's for losers bro you can't even do that you know after like six beers later i'm like yeah man but if i did do it it'd be just like one night you know another six beers i'm like let's just do it once you know and so he called his employee and uh got him on got him on the phone and he came and delivered us uh like a eight ball crystal meth i ended up doing it that night it was just i i was so addicted to that rush back in the day so i was just like whoa i remember this okay i gotta stop but i couldn't stop and that was the first time that i became so addicted that i took the meth on tour i had a tour with lincoln park um project revolution it was snoop dogg lincoln park corn few other bands and and i was in my tour bus instead of hanging out and watching all the bands and just having a good time doing barbecues you know all summer long i was on my tour bus just all spun sprung out of meth and uh i was like okay after this tour i gotta stop i'm gonna stop i promise and i get off the tour and uh i can't stop and about a year into it 365 days straight of doing math i go and i'm i'm just gonna just go and sleep for two weeks and just stop it right about three days into it i have the biggest panic attack and i start thinking kill yourself kill yourself your you know your daughter's better off without you you're a loser what are you going to teach her honey go for your dreams you know go just go after everything ever you ever wanted and when you achieve them you're going to be the happiest person ever and you'll be a good that's a lie i choose everything that i ever wanted i'm living i'm a rock star i'm miserable so i'm like i just want to end it all you know and so i ran back to the dealer and just kept doing it because when i stopped i wanted i got this just overwhelming feeling to kill myself and then and uh so when i did the drugs it took that feeling away so i kept doing it for another year we got the ozfest tour that next year second year of doing meth every day did the oz fest ozzy was my dude man i used to listen to him all month throughout my childhood he was so awesome man and we've toured with him back in the day in 94 we went our first gold record with ozzy you know and him and sharon he came in our room congratulations on the other on the rock and sharon's like interpreting for him aussie says congratulations and she told us she was like you guys are gonna go very far in this industry and she like prophesied it and here i was all these years later stuck in my back lounge not even watching crazy train one night because i'm a freaking speed freak and i'm i'm going back and forth and i'm hoping that the xanax mixed with the speed might stop my heart because i didn't want to live anymore man i didn't i just didn't want i wanted to not never wake up and so but at the end of that two years i was like i just i gotta make a good decision for my kid i can't make a decision while i'm on drugs i have to somehow get off the drug so i'm thinking i'm gonna go to a rehab place and just check in but i was so paranoid because i was in i was on mtv every day i was like i don't want to go to some rehab place everyone's going to be star struck or whatever and as soon as i find out and so i went to an outpatient place and and the doctor came to me and he told me because i don't have a whole lot of um luck with heroin or meth abusers so and i'm just like man there goes the hope for that but i'm telling you during that time i was the biggest mess and i'm explaining it to you but i was the most functioning tweaker you've ever heard i was doing real estate deals i was playing shows every night so i wore this mask right and so these real estate deals i was doing in bakersfield this guy was uh he he built like hot rods and monster trucks and everything like he'd take hummers and lift them 15 inches and they look like these big old monster trucks and he was just this dude hey man what's going on let's do some real estate let's build some neighborhoods and i'm like yeah let's do it and so this guy was like a christian i found out later and not even i would never have guessed it because back then it was like ned flanders christian cool car guy no he can't be a christian this guy was a christian and he was just like he invited me to come to church one when one day and uh you know i was i remember i was up all i was up all night just doing meth because i was addicted i was just doing it every day and i remember i got an email from me and that dude's broker his name is eric and he sent me a scripture and it says he goes brian this is eric i just wanted to tell you that i don't do this often i don't mean to be weird but the scripture came to my mind this morning while i was doing these devotions and it's jesus and he says come to me all her weary and burdened and i will give you rest and i just i read that and i was it's like instant shot of peace came to me and i was like man i'm so tired so wary of my addiction of my uh identity crisis am i a rock star am i am i a dad am i do i do i degrade women or do i is it women empower me i have my own daughter now you know what who do i want to be and i just felt this rest come on me but immediately i was just i wrote him back and i was just like eric i'm a lost soul i don't know who i am and and i remember hearing about jesus when i was a kid and i invited him into my life but i never walked with him could this be what's wrong with me and and so i opened that door i ended up going to church with him and uh when i got to church this pastor was just he was this normal guy man he was just in jeans and i thought he had to wear a robe and like to be a preacher and to be all this holier than now stuff and and it was the first time i seen just real people i remember going there and there's there was some music playing and there's people in the front and they're you know talking to each other's ears and they had some of them had tattoos on their heads and there they just and i was like who are those dudes it looks more sketchier at that church than a corn concert and uh they're like oh that's an ex-gang member man they was in the vadio colonial bakers you know and he went to jail got saved came out he's i'm like so they really believe this stuff and i was just going there to hang out with some sober people you know christians don't do meth i thought it would be good for me and this guy's talking about god how he'll come into your soul and jesus is you know basically like the humanity perfected and he's made he's restoring all things in christ and i'm just like what how do you know this okay when's he gonna ask for the we can pass the plate around for the money you know because you got my dad instilled that in me churches just want your money you know and it's a it's corruption and and there's there's truth to that but i just i heard it and my soul couldn't ignore it man i was being drawn and uh the guy just said look you bring your all your junk to god and you give him everything and if you do three things you start to learn your identity through the bible you you you keep coming to church and you keep growing with friends in this faith you will change and everything in your life that's hurting you will never be able to stay and i was just i looked at him i believed him for i was like i didn't believe in believing but i was like i'm gonna believe him and try it and if it doesn't work then i'm going to call bs on this dude right and so i received it i said jesus you know come into my heart i prayed with everybody and i went home and i went into my closet my master closet big old master closet and i had this this wood it was like you know it's so sick it was like a soccer soccer plaque with kids and i forget what team or whatever but on the other side it was so smooth and i put my meth on it and i grabbed my my meth plate and i got it down and i just looked at it and i was just like i'm such a loser my daughter's in another room and i just i rolled up a bill and i just said lord that guy said that you can hear us talk to you i don't know how this works but i'm gonna die from these drugs so i'm gonna off myself i'm i just poured out my heart because that pastor said pour out your heart to god just be real with him don't give no religious prayers and i just i gave it to him and after that prayer you know i'll get i'll i'll wrap it up but i had these things start to happen where that scripture matthew 11 28 come to me all who are worried and burdened and i will give you rest i started having signs and like this little lady came and gave me a uh like what do you call those the hallmark cards and you know and i opened it and it said matthew 11 28 then i went to church two weeks later and i'm like and the pastor puts up matthew 11 28 and and i realized that i start to wonder jesus is he giving me this or are they all punking me are they are they all talking hey put this uh send grandma over to him and you know your mind starts going but i couldn't deny the love that i started to feel in my heart you know and and so i was just i was hopeful that it was all real and i wanted god to to receive me but you know i was a wreck man i was such a wreck but i remember what changed it all was i was searching god the scripture says god's eyes roam throughout the earth and looks for a heart that's completely his all he's looking at her heart she's not looking at her outward come to churchy be goody goody you know say amen brother all that crap he's looking at who you are are you curious are you seeking him to know if he's real that's what he's looking for in the hearts and so he knew that i was so after a few weeks i was going back and forth man how do i know though i don't want to get brainwashed i don't want to be no like empty-headed weak person looking for something you know that's not real just because i'm having a bad season or whatever and i remember thumbing through the bible these guys got me a bible as a gift and i was just i was like how do i know it's real and that's when it happened i just felt it was like i had my awakening moment i felt like it was like christ came into the room and embraced me in the spiritual realm and just was holding me and all i felt was like it's hard to put into human words it's just like it was like everything changes in this moment um i was like his love was transferred into me enabled for me to love myself and to fight my addiction and i just looked up to see if like someone was in the room it was so real and uh and i just looked up and said father and i felt like i was home for the first time in my life and i've been running around the world in corn and doing this and that tried everything and my last resort was god and he was sitting there embracing me saying and it was like i was cursed with positive thoughts you know i was like everything's gonna everything's gonna change i'm gonna be a good father this you know i'm not going to be an addict anymore and the next day i threw away the drugs and and i stopped drinking right away and i was filled with there's a scripture in peter it says you love him even though you've never seen jesus though you do not see him now you trust him and you rejoice with a glorious ex inexpressible joy and that's what i was starting to feel man it's it's just crazy it's like i i was having these encounters and then i would learn about what was happening to me later or i'd read in the bible after i'd experience it so it's a real thing that happens if you open your heart and you come to him and this is this is the meaning of life you guys this is the meaning of life it's union with god i tried to change myself year after year i was in an addict for 10 15 years and i tried to get off the drugs i tried to quit drinking but as soon as i had that encounter where christ's divine life came and blended into my life that's when i was able to change and you can't deny that it's his divine spirit blending with our human spirit our human souls and it's just what the pastor said i was talking about that you meet jesus and when you meet him everything changes and it's not religion and that's what needs to die religion needs to die there's many religions out there but there's there's you don't hear dramatic changes in miraculous stories like mine you know in other religions it's because what jesus is who jesus is that's our new humanity that's our future right there if we deny him we're denying ourselves because he says that we're one with him and he's just saying come to me let me show you who you really are but religion has messed everything up and scared us all away from him but i just want to just read a few more things here um i mean if you just think about jesus christ is our broken and distorted and chaotic human experience made whole again you know what i'm saying it's every single thing put back together made perfect in him this is all about what union union with god is about human i'll say it again human and divine life coming and blending in you become a brand new person a new creation the bible calls it so i'm just going to rapid fire some scriptures before i go this is a bright light man damn about this this is about identity it's not this isn't i'm not trying to sound religious to you people that don't know about this i'm just telling you this is who you are okay this is jesus just just a few scriptures john 1 it says the word who is christ was in the beginning the word was with god the word was god he was with god in the beginning he made all things nothing was made without him making it and i mean just if you think about the skin on your bones the the chairs you're sitting on the iphones in your pocket jesus is so big i mean we think of this guy in a robe 2000 years ago but he created everything all the substance and the ingredients to make all these things that we encounter everyday life he made those for us to enjoy and he was the one that put all this together life began with christ his life was the light of humanity and john 14 it says that when the day comes what day when that day comes like i had i had that day of awakening where christ's life divine life blended into mine i woke up and i've been living my life as a new creation for 15 years ever since then when that day comes you will know that i am in my father jesus says you will know that you are in me jesus says you will know that i am in you and no in the in the biblical sense is is a know by experience by intimacy by by no preacher or ugly rock star can tell you this but christ himself god himself um gives you that revelation and that no word is like even even um they talk about like like sexual intimacy it's a no it's such a deep intimacy but it's soul to soul with god anyway he says jesus says the one who loves me is the one who has my teaching and obeys it my father will love whoever loves me and i will love them and show myself to them or prove that this is real prove what i'm telling you god will prove it to you personally if you seek him and uh romans five talks about that um it that god pours his love into your heart by the holy spirit it's the best drink ever i have drinking everything on this earth i'm telling you i've tried every drug to get the spirit poured into you to make you a new creation is the best drink and the best high and the best substance ever it's a real tangible thing 15 years if it wasn't real i would be not never talking about this and i would be mocking it it's 15 years and counting and it's still going okay i'm gonna wrap up here but jesus's last prayer he prayed this to god and i just want to say why the cross this is his last prayer before he went to the cross why the cross why god send this your son to the earth to die on a cross do you want a god that doesn't understand your suffering do you want a god that doesn't understand the pain that you're feeling when you want to end it all or your addictions or your your marriage failure or your your you're wounding people you just keep hurting people over and over do you want someone that doesn't understand it says that jesus was made faithful by becoming like us and going through his suffering so that he can look at us with compassion and he says come to me i understand i get it i was i was crucified on the cross you know he was made like us so he understands that's one of the main reasons you know to learn through suffering anyway he says jesus says i gave them who is us the honor you gave me father that they may be won as we are one so just as jesus and god are one jesus is walking on water jesus walking through walls he's healing people he's doing this he's raised from the dead just like that being one he's making us one with him and god he's promising it and the scriptures say that it's impossible for god to lie this stuff is true i don't care what thoughts are going in your brains thinking how do you know this is real because he'll prove it to you this is the only religion or or spiritual life that comes with a guarantee that it says the guarantee is the holy spirit that he gives and puts inside of you i am in them and you are in me father so that they may be won and be made perfect now romans in the book of romans it says that god calls things that are not as if they are so even though we look all jacked up still he jesus is saying you're perfect we're perfect even though we don't look like it and we're going to be one day and we're going to look like it one day then the world may know that you sent me father and that you love them even as you love me it's a free gift this perfection he gives us everything jesus everything jesus is everything jesus has he gives to humanity it's a free gift it's a lottery do you want it do you want to win this lottery all you got to do is just receive it and start to learn about it or don't i'll take your i'll take your portion whatever choose choose yourself okay i'm almost done and then he loves us it says then the world may know that you sent me father jesus says and that you love them even as you love me so you love me the same as you love jesus god loves me the same as he loves jesus do you know what i've done do you know the damage i've done to people do you know do you know the the perversion i was involved in do you know i mean are you serious you love me the same that's what the cross has done he loves us the same as he loves jesus but you know there might be someone out there you don't even know what i've done brian you don't know the guilt that i carry around yeah you have this story but i've done way worse than you and i would say to you the guy that wrote three quarters in the new testament was helping to kill christians and god used him to write three quarters of the of the of the bible the new testament in the bible so i don't think you've been helping to kill christians so i think you're good you know what i'm saying so with the magnitude and enormity of who jesus is what does that mean for us what does that mean for you what does that mean for me it's the one then sorry the oneness and the union with god that's what it means it's who who are we who are we jesus calls his people his own self that's how one we are with him it's a new humanity it says that jesus there's it says there's no male or female we're talking about the next world jesus also said that angels are not like given in a marriage and everything because everything's perfect and you're in this pleasure you think you get high on drugs in the next life we're going to be filled with so much love and peace and pleasure you're going to not want anything because you're gonna have everything and you're just gonna be at total contentment and so but it says that there's one new man in union with god our mess with his perfection so here's another scripture two more and then i'm done um there's in the book of acts i love there's here's another scripture about oneness it says jesus said there's this guy saul that was helping to kill the christians right that i was telling you about before so saul got an encounter with jesus and he goes up to him and he's like he's like saul why are you persecuting me and saul's like knocked on the ground he sees a bright light and he's like who are you lord in other words i'm not persecuting you i'm persecuting these annoying christians and he's like i am jesus the one you are persecuting saul wasn't persecuting but jesus identified with the oneness of the christians he called them his own body his own self and that's the oneness that he gives us it's really it really is the lottery of the universe i'm telling you um again it's uh first corinthians paul that that guy saw is transferred he um he he encounters jesus and then saul is given a new name and that's paul and this dot this guy's helping to kill christians is now building churches and saying jesus accepts the christians right i should not have killed him you know what i'm saying and he's like he's he's dealing with his church and these this the bible's real man and this church these people were sleeping with prostitutes and he's trying to tell them look don't you realize that your bodies are actually parts of christ it's not like jesus is in heaven holier than now and we're here and we're scumbags jesus calls us one with him he says don't you realize that your bodies are actually parts of christ should a man then take his body which is a part of christ and join it to a prostitute never he's like don't do that he doesn't condemn them though he's he gives them their identity don't you know who you are you're a part of christ don't stop be sleepy sleepy around no more okay last scripture then i'll end it up this is this sums it all up you guys this sums it all up this is the mystery colossians it says there is a divine mystery a secret surprise that has been concealed from the world for generations but now is being revealed unfolded and manifested for every believer to experience living within you is the christ who floods you with the expectation of glory the mystery of christ embedded within us becomes a heavenly treasure chest of hope filled with the riches of glory for his people and god wants everyone to know it that's what it all comes down to you guys and after hearing me say all this i'm even telling you my story you know trying to convince you that just to come to jesus just to just that he would you would just give him a chance give him a few months of your life and you just say still no no i don't want that you know i've done my part i've done all i can do and it bums me out but you know i don't want any more suicides in this state i don't want addiction i don't want i don't want this stuff to mess up montana missoula anymore i'm sick of it i'm sick if i hear it everywhere i go and it doesn't need to happen man it doesn't need to happen i love this quote right here says this is not about our blood lineage or whether we are wanted or an unwanted child all that life is about is that we are god's dream come true we are not the invention of our parents we are the greatest idea that god has ever had and that's how much he loves us you guys that's how much he loves us it's crazy you just got we just got to wake up to our identity man and you guys you look i'm up here looking like a freak i know there's some corn fans but some of you are going what is this guy i can't figure him out he looks all crazy but he's talking about jesus and you all are staring at me you're staring at me why are you staring at me look at yourself christ lives in you christ lives in all of us you're that special you're that freaking meaningful you're that precious that he would call you one with him and he wants you he's already living in you he just wants you to wake up to the fact and i trust this church big time i've been watching online ever since i heard about this place they accept everybody and uh i would just encourage you to come and learn about who you are by coming to this place man and you know what i'm saying your bodies are one with christ your soul is one with jesus you're you're given the blood of jesus you're given the mind of jesus you you're filled with jesus and jesus is that perfect perfection of new humanity man it's he's the answer he's the meaning of life he's the solution for the problems here christ in you there's no separation he is hiding in plain sight you guys now i just want to say the bible says there's nothing that is impossible with god i think there's one thing that is impossible with god it's impossible for you to be unloved by him and be alone because he's everywhere and he's always calling you come to me come to the shelter come to the come to the place that i have for you and it doesn't mean like like i told you and peter like you you have this inexpressible joy and you have these encounters but you do walk through hard times and it's not like all joy every day but it's a good balance you know i call it like 50 percent trials and tribulations 50 it's just glorious like a real you get pieces of heaven on earth you know and so that's that's my story i'm sticking to it and i hope you enjoyed the wings [Applause] i hope you enjoyed the wings i love your i love your i love your town man and uh i just want to pray for you guys please if i could um and not to be sound religious but if you could just close your eyes so that everybody has privacy here um lord you know our battle is not against flesh and blood it's against the spiritual world and the principalities and the demons and all this stuff there's angels and demons fighting there's all this stuff going on lord i know there's been a lot of suicides here lord and your heart is for this place lord and i was just thinking about it lord you know suicide is taking your own life the definition is lord but from your point of view there is demons attacking people lord so i just wonder from your side lord that it's gonna not gonna be suicide it's gonna be you there's there's a there's a force taking these people's lives lord and you look at it as as like a murder type of thing and not the suicide lord i just pray that you would heal every heart of every person that's been affected by suicide here lord that you have compassion you have this worked out you have this life in the palm of your hand and we don't understand things lord we don't understand why this happens why this person will do this why would they leave us why lord you just have it all in your hands and you're gonna make it okay and you bring beauty out of pain so i pray that you take all of this pain that everybody here has endured and that you would turn it around with and make it power power for a a a destiny filled life that they would take the pain and do good for this place or i just feel like you're going to take many people from missoula and send them all around the world and just do some crazy cool things lord and i ask you that you would just heal hearts and bring purpose out of the suffering lord we speak to the demons that are affecting this area and we just in the name of jesus just say lord we break their power and we tell them to go and we tell them you're not going to have the last word that god is real and he's going to flood this place with a wave of just just awakening lord awaken these people in missoula lord awaken the people thank you that you're not a mean old man religious guy in the sky that you are accepting of all people there's no sin that you're scared of or don't want to deal with lord lord you've seen it all for thousands of years now please just give everybody the boldness and the power to come to you for shelter and not give up and not to give up in their pain for losing someone possibly or not give up in their own life because they're going to be another person that just ends it lord so i just pray for miracles to happen in this place missoula lord let this let 2020 be the shift that happens in missoula where pain is turned into purpose lord let 2020 be it thank you thank you thank you amen [Applause] uh i want to pray for you man i'm gonna pray for you like you're this you're in the trenches like you're in the world you're doing it and you're a prophetic voice you're a prophetic voice to people who need this message and so can i pray with you all right lord i just bless my brother in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit i pray that you continue to reveal yourself to him the love of god his identity in christ and that you're going to use this man for even greater things than you have already used him in and so lord i just thank you for our brother i thank you for his story because it's your story and we just bless him we bless him and we send him out with the holy spirit and just make his lips your lips and bring many many people to know the love of god through brian welch and we believe this in jesus name amen so brian's going to hang out for a little bit we still got some wings again if you've had one beer you can have another one and that's it and uh the reason we call this a rag muffin party too is as a church this is who we are it really is and uh we know who we are and we know what we're about and we are about giving the love of god that's what we're about we're jesus said you can break the whole old testament down to two things love god love people and that's what we're about and so there's a book called the ragamuffin gospel that our church just read together so i recommend that book to you is uh written by brennan manny and it's just about how jesus hung out in the fringes jesus hung out with people and uh he ate with people he would preach in the temple and then he'd go to the woods because he wanted to get people out of that religious system and have that that relationship with him and so uh again even if you don't come to church that's not what this is about we just want you to know you are loved you are accepted and that christ is in you in the name of jesus i bless you father son and holy spirit amen you

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