1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:05,360 Crossing family. How good was that baptism video? 2 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:14,960 I just do not ever want us to take that for granted because we 3 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,560 don't deserve that kind of grace. 4 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,000 But man, he's giving it to us. If you are. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,600 Here for the first. Time or the first time in a 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:25,760 long? Time. 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,160 We are so incredibly glad that you are here. 8 00:00:29,820 --> 00:00:35,220 You are here on. Potentially a sermon on the best 9 00:00:35,220 --> 00:00:39,140 chapter in scripture. Yeah, I said this a couple weeks 10 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:40,700 ago. There's Romans 5, there's Second 11 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:42,620 Corinthians 5, and there's Romans 8. 12 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:47,700 And I'm just incredibly glad that you're here to hear it. 13 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:50,380 Hopefully somebody invited you. Somebody told you that our 14 00:00:50,380 --> 00:00:53,180 church loves you. And I hope that what you 15 00:00:53,180 --> 00:00:56,620 experienced today will change you to those of you who are part 16 00:00:56,620 --> 00:00:58,880 of the crossing nation. Gathering at all of our 17 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,040 different locations, those of you watching online, and to 18 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,959 those of you who are part of our inside family, God bless you. 19 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,600 We welcome you, and we're incredibly thankful that we get 20 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,440 to do ministry with you. I want to do a quick. 21 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,000 Recap of. Romans Chapter 7 and then we're 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,840 going to jump right into Romans chapter 8. 23 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:23,040 The big issue in Romans Chapter 7 is how do people who were 24 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,920 holding on to the law and those who were not holding on to the 25 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,420 law? Figure out a way to get along 26 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:32,740 and the Jews who received the law who received. 27 00:01:32,740 --> 00:01:36,340 The Old Testament, we're kind of proud of their position for 28 00:01:36,340 --> 00:01:38,300 having the. Instruction from God. 29 00:01:39,340 --> 00:01:43,740 But they weren't following it. They weren't really living by 30 00:01:43,740 --> 00:01:45,780 it. In fact, the law revealed. 31 00:01:45,780 --> 00:01:48,220 Just how sinful and messed up they really were. 32 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:52,020 All it did on the good side is reveal how good and righteous 33 00:01:52,140 --> 00:01:54,740 God. Is it would be kind of like. 34 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,960 Me telling my oldest. Son to not hit the my youngest 35 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,800 son and. Then him hitting him. 36 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:11,840 Anyway, any parents in the room? OK, so I've given him the law 37 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,440 and he's disobeyed it. But to. 38 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,120 Go a step further. The oldest son claims 39 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,750 superiority. Over the younger. 40 00:02:22,750 --> 00:02:25,590 Son because after. All dad is the one who gave. 41 00:02:25,590 --> 00:02:29,030 Me the instructions about not hitting people. 42 00:02:30,790 --> 00:02:32,710 That was what was. Happening in this church. 43 00:02:34,270 --> 00:02:38,030 So Paul has been moving these people inside of this division 44 00:02:38,030 --> 00:02:42,950 issue, trying to unify them, and then he gets to Romans chapter 45 00:02:42,950 --> 00:02:48,870 8. And he. 46 00:02:48,870 --> 00:02:51,790 Gives us a picture of God that you and I can't fathom. 47 00:02:53,630 --> 00:02:56,030 The scariest part of. Writing this sermon. 48 00:02:58,110 --> 00:03:00,310 Is that it's just such a good. Chapter. 49 00:03:01,390 --> 00:03:06,030 And yet it's so hard for us to own it, to walk in it. 50 00:03:07,750 --> 00:03:11,950 There's a story in scripture of the sower who goes out to sow 51 00:03:11,950 --> 00:03:14,030 seed, and some falls on the hard path. 52 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,760 And some falls up amongst the rocks, and some falls amongst 53 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,200 the thorns, and then some falls on the good soil. 54 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,080 And the. Crazy thing about Romans. 8. 55 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,520 Is it just is so hard for it to get all the way into us just how 56 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,920 good God is because. You and I, we. 57 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:35,240 Struggle in our relationship with God because we need a 58 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,560 better picture of Him. And if you can, allow Romans 8 59 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:44,380 into your heart. It would give you an unshakeable 60 00:03:44,380 --> 00:03:47,860 faith. So I preach this to you not as a 61 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:50,180 person who's arrived, but a person who's on the journey. 62 00:03:50,820 --> 00:03:57,420 Trying to take it all in Romans. Chapter 8, verse. 63 00:03:57,580 --> 00:04:06,140 One, therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are 64 00:04:06,180 --> 00:04:11,150 in Christ Jesus. Because through Christ Jesus the 65 00:04:11,150 --> 00:04:18,110 law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of 66 00:04:18,110 --> 00:04:23,790 sin and death for what the law was powerless to do because it 67 00:04:23,790 --> 00:04:27,790 was weakened by the flesh, So what the law couldn't do, God 68 00:04:27,790 --> 00:04:33,070 did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to 69 00:04:33,070 --> 00:04:37,720 be a sin offering. So Jesus wrapped himself in the 70 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,600 stuff that looks like you and me. 71 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:45,240 He identified with sinful man to become a sin offering for you 72 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,120 and me. And so he condemned sin in the 73 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,160 flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law 74 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:59,120 might be fully met in us who do not live according to the flesh, 75 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,880 but. According to the Spirit. 76 00:05:04,170 --> 00:05:06,290 Now when he says but now, so right. 77 00:05:06,290 --> 00:05:07,050 Here where? He says. 78 00:05:07,050 --> 00:05:10,730 There is now. He is pointing back for those of 79 00:05:10,730 --> 00:05:12,690 you who've been on this. Sermon series The whole. 80 00:05:12,690 --> 00:05:16,530 Time He's pointing back to two. Verses that are critical to 81 00:05:16,530 --> 00:05:20,730 understanding Romans chapter. 8 He's pointing back to Romans 321 82 00:05:21,130 --> 00:05:27,730 and Romans 7 verse six. But now, apart from the law, the 83 00:05:27,730 --> 00:05:31,050 righteousness of God has been made known to which the Law and 84 00:05:31,050 --> 00:05:34,680 the prophets testify. The answer to this question Who 85 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,920 does? Who is this righteousness apart 86 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:40,000 from the law that the law and the prophets testify? 87 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,720 Who has been made known? This is literally. 88 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,040 The Sunday School answer. Jesus, when you read the Old 89 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:48,920 Testament saying hey. That guy right here. 90 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:54,200 Then the second thing Romans 76 But now, by dying to what once 91 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,040 bound us, the law, we have been released from the law, so that 92 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,000 we serve in a new way of the Spirit. 93 00:06:01,410 --> 00:06:03,730 Not in the old way of the written code. 94 00:06:04,370 --> 00:06:04,970 So I'm. Going to take. 95 00:06:04,970 --> 00:06:06,770 You all the way. Back to right here. 96 00:06:08,050 --> 00:06:15,890 But now there is no condemnation, no condemnation. 97 00:06:17,730 --> 00:06:20,970 If you are in a relationship with Jesus Christ, there is no 98 00:06:20,970 --> 00:06:24,810 condemnation over your life. This takes place both vertically 99 00:06:25,050 --> 00:06:29,090 and horizontally. In other words, vertically in 100 00:06:29,090 --> 00:06:33,600 the heavenly court. On judgment Day, those in Christ 101 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:37,280 Jesus will receive a favorable sentence. 102 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,320 This includes both the sentencing and the execution of 103 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,160 judgment. And if the vertical is solved, 104 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,600 then the horizontal is served as well. 105 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,280 Because if God will not condemn us, what right does anybody on 106 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:51,600 earth have to? Condemn us. 107 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,600 You may not know this about me, but I have been to. 108 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:03,880 Court yuppers. And I've had to plead my case on 109 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,160 a couple of. Issues one time. 110 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:13,000 Was for a speeding ticket. A couple times I didn't have to 111 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,880 show up to court because I had an attorney who got me out of a 112 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,080 speeding ticket. God bless him. 113 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,200 But one time I did a bad thing and I had to show up. 114 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,440 And here's the tough part. I was waiting for a sentence 115 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:36,750 knowing I was guilty. I was hoping for him to say I 116 00:07:36,750 --> 00:07:40,510 was. Innocent knowing I was. 117 00:07:40,510 --> 00:07:44,950 Guilty apart? From Jesus Christ. 118 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:50,870 When you and I. Die when you and I face the 119 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:54,750 judgment. We arrived there knowing. 120 00:07:54,910 --> 00:07:59,460 We are guilty. No one is good. 121 00:07:59,460 --> 00:08:05,300 Except him. But because of Jesus's work on 122 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:11,100 the cross and us receiving that work by faith, we show up to the 123 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:15,220 court knowing that he has made it right. 124 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:19,940 He has paid the sentence, He has served the time. 125 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:23,500 He has made us right vertically with God. 126 00:08:24,270 --> 00:08:27,230 And if God is not going to condemn us, and He's the one who 127 00:08:27,230 --> 00:08:30,670 has the right to condemn us, what right does somebody here on 128 00:08:30,670 --> 00:08:31,750 earth have to? Condemn you. 129 00:08:33,190 --> 00:08:36,909 Now let me keep going. Who is this for? 130 00:08:37,950 --> 00:08:42,150 Who gets to experience this? No condemnation reality. 131 00:08:43,429 --> 00:08:44,790 What do you got to do to get that? 132 00:08:45,470 --> 00:08:48,950 That sounds pretty fantastic. You ever heard of somebody going 133 00:08:48,950 --> 00:08:52,430 on a nice vacation or getting cool tickets to go somewhere? 134 00:08:53,090 --> 00:08:54,290 Be like well, how do you? Get that? 135 00:08:54,290 --> 00:08:58,090 Well, you got to know somebody. Well, who's the somebody? 136 00:08:58,210 --> 00:09:02,410 I don't know if I'm at liberty to tell you who they are, but 137 00:09:02,410 --> 00:09:04,650 they know me, and that matters. So I get to go. 138 00:09:04,650 --> 00:09:10,050 But you you don't. You see these people? 139 00:09:10,050 --> 00:09:12,690 Getting this. No condemnation treatment. 140 00:09:14,170 --> 00:09:17,730 Who gets that? How do I get that? 141 00:09:19,090 --> 00:09:22,420 We got to know somebody. The difference is. 142 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:25,980 The person you get to know is doing everything in its power. 143 00:09:26,100 --> 00:09:31,500 To be made known this. No condemnation, life is. 144 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:38,220 For you, I got good news. For you. 145 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:42,660 If you're rich. If you're poor, if you're 146 00:09:42,660 --> 00:09:46,340 pretty, if you're ugly, if you're skinny, if you're fat. 147 00:09:46,340 --> 00:09:48,220 Let me pause on fat for a second. 148 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,080 I make. Jokes in my sermons and it. 149 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,480 Seems like the only thing about my sermon you remember. 150 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,840 Is when I make fat jokes, so when I. 151 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,120 Was hanging out with a guy. This week he goes, You know what 152 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,560 my wife's favorite part of the sermon is when you said which 153 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:07,960 ones went in? Scat or Fat Clayton or Skinny 154 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,760 Clayton? She reached over and. 155 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:14,480 Touched my belly in service. She reached over people to touch 156 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,280 my belly in service. So listen. 157 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,040 If you don't, learn other things in the sermon. 158 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,440 I'll stop being funny, OK? I'll make this old school 159 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:28,520 church. All right, now who's this for? 160 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,440 It's for rich people and poor people. 161 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,520 Pretty people and ugly people. Skinny people and fat people. 162 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,080 Those of you who grew up with the right family. 163 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,120 Those of you who grew up in the wrong family. 164 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,040 Those of you who have the right upbringing. 165 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,720 Those of you who have the wrong upbringing. 166 00:10:43,010 --> 00:10:45,330 Those of you who have it together, those of you who are 167 00:10:45,330 --> 00:10:48,170 trying to fake it like you have it together, Those of you who 168 00:10:48,170 --> 00:10:51,530 are messed up, those of you who see yourself as big sinners and 169 00:10:51,530 --> 00:10:57,250 those of you who see yourself as little sinners, this is for you. 170 00:10:58,370 --> 00:11:03,450 Turn your neighbors, say this is for you I'm talking about. 171 00:11:03,450 --> 00:11:09,610 You this, no condemnation status with God is for you. 172 00:11:10,910 --> 00:11:14,870 Whether this is your first time or the first time in a long 173 00:11:14,870 --> 00:11:19,230 time, this no condemnation that you can have with God. 174 00:11:19,390 --> 00:11:24,190 This right relationship that you can have with him is for you. 175 00:11:25,190 --> 00:11:27,310 Well, how did God make that happen? 176 00:11:28,230 --> 00:11:30,750 How did he turn that into a reality? 177 00:11:31,070 --> 00:11:35,470 Here's what happened. God gathered up all of the sin 178 00:11:35,910 --> 00:11:40,510 in all of human history. And he gathered it into one 179 00:11:40,510 --> 00:11:45,550 place, and he laid it on Jesus and Jesus. 180 00:11:46,750 --> 00:11:51,510 Took it all so that you could have no condemnation when it 181 00:11:51,510 --> 00:11:53,590 comes to your relationship with God. 182 00:11:54,630 --> 00:11:57,510 It's like. You pull the confetti cannon in 183 00:11:57,510 --> 00:12:00,710 your basement and confetti's everywhere. 184 00:12:01,230 --> 00:12:03,550 Or maybe it's glitter everywhere. 185 00:12:04,510 --> 00:12:07,230 Or you know, if you're a person who's had water in your basement 186 00:12:07,230 --> 00:12:09,340 and you have water. Everywhere. 187 00:12:10,940 --> 00:12:14,020 What do you do? You get the broom out and you 188 00:12:14,780 --> 00:12:19,860 you go around the edges and then you start pushing it to the 189 00:12:19,860 --> 00:12:25,100 middle in sections and then you push it from the other side. 190 00:12:26,300 --> 00:12:29,780 And then you start to walk around it until you've created 191 00:12:29,780 --> 00:12:33,300 into one mound. And then you either you sweep it 192 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:35,980 up if it's confetti or you suck it up if it's water. 193 00:12:35,980 --> 00:12:38,340 You you gather it into one place. 194 00:12:42,820 --> 00:12:44,100 That's what he did with. Your sin. 195 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:50,580 He took all the sin of human history before the cross, and he 196 00:12:50,860 --> 00:12:52,700 and He gathered it into one place. 197 00:12:55,380 --> 00:13:00,180 He took all of your sin, the sin that you, you were doing, that 198 00:13:00,180 --> 00:13:01,620 you didn't even know. Was a sin. 199 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:03,540 And he just went around the edges. 200 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:10,560 And he pushed it in. On the sins you you knew were 201 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:15,200 wrong, he went around the edges, and he and he gathered it into 202 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,800 one place. He He took the sins you feel. 203 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,360 Bad about and he. Swept it to the. 204 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:24,480 Middle and. And then he he took all the sins 205 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:27,440 that you don't. Feel bad about? 206 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,240 That's one of the things about Jesus I don't. 207 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:34,680 Get is he died for the parts of me that I know that are wrong, 208 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,200 but I don't feel bad about feeling them. 209 00:13:38,070 --> 00:13:41,670 And he gathered it in the. Middle there's another thing I 210 00:13:41,670 --> 00:13:42,910 don't get. About Jesus he. 211 00:13:43,830 --> 00:13:46,350 He gathered the sins I. Haven't even done yet. 212 00:13:49,190 --> 00:13:50,790 Here's another thing I don't get about Jesus. 213 00:13:50,790 --> 00:13:58,550 He He gathers the sins that I committed after I gave my life 214 00:13:58,550 --> 00:14:03,550 to him. After I knew better, after I 215 00:14:03,550 --> 00:14:07,890 believed better, He. He gathered those two He 216 00:14:07,890 --> 00:14:11,570 gathered your tomorrow sins in your in your next week sins. 217 00:14:11,570 --> 00:14:13,930 He He gathered your next month sins. 218 00:14:13,930 --> 00:14:18,450 He He gathered your next year. Since he gathered every sin for 219 00:14:18,450 --> 00:14:22,890 all of human history from now until the time he comes back, He 220 00:14:22,890 --> 00:14:26,570 gathered it into one place, and he put it all on the one person 221 00:14:26,690 --> 00:14:35,240 who didn't deserve it. He's that good. 222 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:41,880 Our God is just that good. Satan tries to steal, but God 223 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:46,000 comes to bring freedom. Jesus sucks out the venom of 224 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,120 sin. He draws out the venom into his 225 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,520 veins. He's like a bomb squad that 226 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,440 takes all the sin of human history into the middle of 227 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,240 nowhere and then detonates it on himself so that nobody else is 228 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,720 scathed. Well, how did he do this? 229 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,240 Well, it's because he became inverse. 230 00:15:04,690 --> 00:15:06,290 What am I at now? Verse 3? 231 00:15:06,370 --> 00:15:11,770 He became a sin offering. The sin offering happened in the 232 00:15:11,770 --> 00:15:13,650 Old Testament. This is why the Old Testament 233 00:15:13,650 --> 00:15:16,010 matters. The sin offering is where they 234 00:15:16,010 --> 00:15:19,770 would place the sins of humanity on an animal. 235 00:15:21,170 --> 00:15:23,770 It was a way for them to transfer the guilt, transfer the 236 00:15:23,770 --> 00:15:26,610 weight, transfer the betrayal, transfer the pain. 237 00:15:26,970 --> 00:15:28,330 And they would put it on an animal. 238 00:15:28,330 --> 00:15:32,570 They would call an animal the sin offering and it included. 239 00:15:32,970 --> 00:15:36,450 Both their intentional sins and their unintentional sins. 240 00:15:36,650 --> 00:15:39,010 But it also included their sense of ignorance. 241 00:15:39,650 --> 00:15:42,970 I didn't mean to do it. I knew I shouldn't have done it, 242 00:15:43,450 --> 00:15:46,690 and I didn't know it was. Wrong and they? 243 00:15:46,690 --> 00:15:53,930 Put it on this animal and then as the animal went away, the 244 00:15:53,930 --> 00:15:57,250 people experienced 2 things. As the animal left their 245 00:15:57,250 --> 00:16:00,770 presence, they experienced forgiveness. 246 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,920 For both the Commission of the sins they committed and the 247 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,120 omission of the things that they were supposed to do, it is 248 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,600 possible to sin by not doing the thing that God calls you to do, 249 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,680 because when God calls you to it, you are supposed to do it, 250 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,400 and that means he died for. Those things too. 251 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,200 So they experienced A forgiveness, but they also 252 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,640 experienced a purification, in other words. 253 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:31,160 Through the sin offering, the people became worthy to 254 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:35,240 experience full participation in life with God. 255 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:42,360 He made us worthy to be around the one we harmed. 256 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:49,160 He made us so right with God that we can be in the presence 257 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,440 of the one we offended, of the one we let down. 258 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,120 There's some of you. You've messed up so much in your 259 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,400 life. You are under the impression 260 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,440 that you could never be made right with God because of what 261 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,160 you've done. But you are not made right with 262 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,640 God based on everything that you have done. 263 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:10,920 You are made right with God because of everything that. 264 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:11,880 He has. Done. 265 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:18,000 That's how good our God is. Romans 8. 266 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,900 This is where we're at verse 14. For those who are led by the 267 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:26,060 Spirit of God are the children of God. 268 00:17:26,579 --> 00:17:30,980 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live 269 00:17:30,980 --> 00:17:36,540 in fear again. Rather, the Spirit you received 270 00:17:36,540 --> 00:17:42,820 brought about your adoption to sonship, and by him we cry. 271 00:17:43,060 --> 00:17:47,780 ABBA. Father, hear me, God does not 272 00:17:47,780 --> 00:17:53,310 make you a second class citizen. That's what we would expect. 273 00:17:53,710 --> 00:17:56,670 Okay, I get it. There's no condemnation. 274 00:17:56,750 --> 00:17:59,550 You've made me right. I'll just be a second class 275 00:17:59,550 --> 00:18:03,750 citizen in the Kingdom of heaven forever because of everything 276 00:18:03,750 --> 00:18:06,030 I've done. He'll let me into the house, but 277 00:18:06,030 --> 00:18:11,990 he'll never make me his. He says the spirit he puts 278 00:18:11,990 --> 00:18:15,550 inside of you makes you a a son or a daughter. 279 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,360 And by this spirit we get to cry ABBA father. 280 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,040 We get to say this is what it's getting at. 281 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:26,320 We get to say Daddy, there was an old preacher of a successful 282 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:27,640 church. Who was a suit and tie? 283 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:28,480 Kind of. Guy. 284 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:30,680 And every time he showed up to preach, he was. 285 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,760 Wearing a suit and tie, he. Hired a young buck preacher to 286 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,720 come in. And start preaching alongside of 287 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,840 him, and he was. More of a blue jeans and button. 288 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,110 Downs kind of guy. And the old preacher kind of got 289 00:18:42,110 --> 00:18:44,390 frustrated, the young preacher at the church, and he said, 290 00:18:44,550 --> 00:18:47,350 don't you think you should be bringing your best to God on 291 00:18:47,350 --> 00:18:49,550 Sunday? What would you do if you got 292 00:18:49,550 --> 00:18:51,910 invited to go meet the president of the United States? 293 00:18:51,910 --> 00:18:53,310 Wouldn't you dress up to meet him? 294 00:18:53,750 --> 00:18:56,070 And the young preacher looked at the old preacher and said I 295 00:18:56,070 --> 00:18:57,470 wouldn't if. He was my dad. 296 00:18:59,870 --> 00:19:02,190 There's an attorney in. Our church, who I love dearly 297 00:19:02,630 --> 00:19:03,990 and every. Time I go visit. 298 00:19:03,990 --> 00:19:07,550 Him. I dress up because I. 299 00:19:07,550 --> 00:19:08,990 Just want to be. Respectful to him. 300 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,720 But his kids don't have to dress up to see him. 301 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,960 Because his kids get to call him dad. 302 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,840 When you come into a right relationship with God through 303 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,120 Jesus, you get to start calling him dad. 304 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,560 You get to sit on his lap, have that kind of loving 305 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:31,240 relationship. Well, now that I'm in this. 306 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,320 Relationship with God and. He's my dad. 307 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,400 How do I talk to God when I don't know what to say? 308 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,480 How many of you have ever been in a spot? 309 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:40,720 Where you don't know how to pray. 310 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:45,400 You've ever found yourself in a spot and you don't know what to 311 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,920 pray. You've ever found yourself in a 312 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,240 spot, and you don't even know what words to use for the pain 313 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,280 you're navigating, The frustration you're feeling, the 314 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,240 hurts you're feeling, and you're going. 315 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,840 I know I'm supposed to call you dead, but I don't even know how 316 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,800 to put what I'm feeling into words to talk to God. 317 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,040 What do you do when you don't know what to say? 318 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:08,760 What do you do when you don't know what to pray? 319 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:11,680 This is. How good our God? 320 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:19,600 Is in the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness. 321 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:26,200 We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself 322 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,240 intercedes for us with wordless groans. 323 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:34,200 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, 324 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,120 because the Spirit intercedes for God's people. 325 00:20:37,610 --> 00:20:39,730 In accordance with the will of God. 326 00:20:41,290 --> 00:20:42,970 I'm going to teach you something here for a second. 327 00:20:45,970 --> 00:20:51,330 Imagine this is a table. Okay, you can tell I didn't do 328 00:20:51,330 --> 00:20:54,930 well in art school. And I want you to call this. 329 00:20:54,930 --> 00:21:01,090 Table your prayer. There is this word inside of 330 00:21:01,090 --> 00:21:01,650 this. Passage. 331 00:21:01,650 --> 00:21:06,120 I just read the word is help. In the same way, the spirit. 332 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:11,880 Helps us in our weakness. The word helps is the Greek 333 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,240 word. Tsunanti lombonomi. 334 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,600 Tsunanti lombonomi you don't have. 335 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,320 To remember, but you might as well say it. 336 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:25,680 Tsunanti Lombonomi. It means something specific. 337 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:31,120 Pay attention. It means together on the other 338 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:35,440 side, to take hold. So here's you and your prayer 339 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,120 life. I don't know what to say. 340 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,760 I don't know how to say it. I don't got the words to put it 341 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,080 together. You can't lift up the prayer by 342 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,240 yourself. If I stand here, I'm a strong 343 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,880 guy. I can't get this thing off the 344 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,200 ground. But soonatti lombotomi, the 345 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,960 Spirit helps us now. Remember what it says. 346 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:03,480 Together on the other side, the Holy Spirit comes together with 347 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:10,210 you. On the other side of you and he 348 00:22:10,210 --> 00:22:14,130 lifts the prayer to God with you. 349 00:22:15,370 --> 00:22:17,970 He says what you can't. Say he. 350 00:22:17,970 --> 00:22:20,170 Mutters the words you can't put together. 351 00:22:20,810 --> 00:22:25,370 He prays on your behalf to help you navigate the pain you are 352 00:22:25,370 --> 00:22:29,090 experiencing, and he intercedes with perfection because he knows 353 00:22:29,290 --> 00:22:32,130 and understands the will of God. What do you say when you don't 354 00:22:32,130 --> 00:22:33,690 want this? Don't know what to say? 355 00:22:33,940 --> 00:22:38,380 You say nothing at all, knowing that the Spirit He has placed 356 00:22:38,420 --> 00:22:43,100 inside of you is. Praying on behalf of you, that's 357 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:46,500 how. Good our God is do you wish 358 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:47,620 your? Prayer life was better. 359 00:22:48,220 --> 00:22:51,100 Do you find yourself at a loss for words when you don't know 360 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:53,900 what to say? When you find yourself wordless 361 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:56,780 and empty and inadequate? When you feel overwhelmed by the 362 00:22:56,780 --> 00:22:59,780 weight of what you're facing? When you find yourself ill 363 00:22:59,780 --> 00:23:02,620 equipped to speak to a holy and perfect God? 364 00:23:03,090 --> 00:23:05,410 The Spirit. Helps he comes. 365 00:23:05,410 --> 00:23:10,170 Alongside of you together, on the opposite side, And he takes 366 00:23:10,170 --> 00:23:12,850 hold of you, and he takes hold of your prayer. 367 00:23:14,410 --> 00:23:19,130 Romans 828 And we know that in all things God works for the 368 00:23:19,130 --> 00:23:23,410 good of those who love him, who have been called according to 369 00:23:23,410 --> 00:23:27,530 his purpose. We used to have a guy in our 370 00:23:27,530 --> 00:23:28,810 house. Named Ryan Garrity. 371 00:23:30,090 --> 00:23:33,380 And Ryan Garrity. He's not good at a lot of 372 00:23:33,380 --> 00:23:35,700 things. But. 373 00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:43,140 Boy, can he cook. That's a profile shot. 374 00:23:44,820 --> 00:23:47,180 I'm living proof. Of what the? 375 00:23:47,180 --> 00:23:48,780 Cooking of Ryan Garrett. Can do. 376 00:23:48,820 --> 00:23:54,700 You may not believe me now, OK. He's such a good. 377 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:58,860 Cook that he's. One of those guys that can go 378 00:23:58,860 --> 00:24:01,180 into a. Kitchen or a pantry and go. 379 00:24:01,620 --> 00:24:05,060 What do we have? How many of you guys? 380 00:24:05,140 --> 00:24:06,980 Your wife has said what do we have? 381 00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:11,420 And it's been a good. Meal, you know. 382 00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:14,740 I mean, I I can whip something. Together, Ryan. 383 00:24:14,740 --> 00:24:18,660 Garrity can whip something. Together, Ryan Garrity can send 384 00:24:18,660 --> 00:24:23,780 you to the store to get things, and you can forget things and 385 00:24:23,780 --> 00:24:28,340 bring some of the wrong things. And he can still put on a 386 00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:31,680 spread. You guys may have heard me talk 387 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:32,600 about this. Did you know that? 388 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,080 There's mayonnaise in Portillo's. 389 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:39,440 Cake I think that was, I think. It was made by a descendant of 390 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,280 Ryan Garrity. I know we're going to make a 391 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,160 cake. What do we got? 392 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,880 Mayonnaise. Put it in, put it in. 393 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:47,880 We got a We got a guy in our church. 394 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,520 He invited me over to his house. We had Philly cheese steaks and 395 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:54,920 he put Philadelphia cream cheese on the on the bun. 396 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,040 Yeah, you're looking at me right now like I'm stupid, but I weigh 397 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,640 more than you. So I don't. 398 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,600 Know if that worked first. My point is the right Maybe 399 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,120 you're smarter for not being as fat. 400 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:10,360 As I am. But I'm just telling you, I know 401 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,520 good food. You wouldn't guess that putting 402 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,600 some Philadelphia cream cheese on some bread before you have a 403 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,400 Philly cheese steak would be the right idea. 404 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,280 You wouldn't think putting mayonnaise in your chocolate 405 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,480 cake would be a good move, but when? 406 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:27,280 God. Goes into the kitchen of life. 407 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:30,780 He can take even your worst moments. 408 00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:34,580 And whip up something good. That's how good our God. 409 00:25:34,580 --> 00:25:39,300 Is There is nothing that our God can't redeem. 410 00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:43,940 There is nothing that our God can't repurpose for his glory 411 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:48,100 and for our good. I've seen God take broken 412 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:51,860 marriages and use it to help other people put their. 413 00:25:51,860 --> 00:25:55,220 Marriages back together. God can redeem things. 414 00:25:55,820 --> 00:26:00,840 He is working for their good. Behind the scenes, I've seen 415 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:07,680 addicts turned into Ministry leaders and mentors at Regent. 416 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,760 I've seen them take infertile people and make them wonderful 417 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,880 Foster and adoptive parents. I've seen God take the very 418 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,600 worst of us and turn it into the best part of us. 419 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,960 And who can do? That only God can. 420 00:26:25,370 --> 00:26:29,330 God promises that your pain will not be without purpose when you 421 00:26:29,330 --> 00:26:32,450 place it in His hands. Now I know you'd like a life. 422 00:26:32,450 --> 00:26:36,210 Without pain, so would. I but that. 423 00:26:36,210 --> 00:26:38,930 Place is called heaven, and we're not there yet. 424 00:26:40,770 --> 00:26:42,490 But what God does? Promise is that he will. 425 00:26:42,490 --> 00:26:43,890 Come to you in the middle of your. 426 00:26:43,890 --> 00:26:45,250 Pain. And if you will give him your 427 00:26:45,250 --> 00:26:47,930 pain. And you will give him your sin. 428 00:26:48,130 --> 00:26:50,810 He can redeem it. For his glory and for your good, 429 00:26:52,370 --> 00:26:55,200 and nobody else can do that. So, Paul. 430 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,160 Gets to the end of Romans chapter 8. 431 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,360 And he goes what? Shall that's never what? 432 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:05,600 Shall we say then, in response to these things? 433 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:12,680 If God is for us, who can be? Against us. 434 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,160 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, 435 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:23,080 how will he not also, along with Jesus, graciously give us all 436 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,010 things? Who will bring any charge 437 00:27:27,010 --> 00:27:28,690 against those whom God has chosen? 438 00:27:29,250 --> 00:27:32,850 It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who 439 00:27:32,850 --> 00:27:34,730 condemns? No one. 440 00:27:35,370 --> 00:27:38,370 Christ Jesus, who died more than that who was raised? 441 00:27:38,370 --> 00:27:43,890 The life is at the right hand of God is also interceding for us. 442 00:27:44,370 --> 00:27:48,890 So right now the Holy Spirit is inside of you interceding on 443 00:27:48,890 --> 00:27:52,070 behalf of you. And Jesus is sitting next to the 444 00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:54,990 Father, interceding on behalf of you. 445 00:27:55,190 --> 00:27:57,750 If God's for you, what can't he do? 446 00:27:57,990 --> 00:28:01,590 Who can be against you? He's just that good. 447 00:28:02,590 --> 00:28:05,830 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 448 00:28:07,830 --> 00:28:12,310 Shall trouble or hardship, or persecution, or famine, or 449 00:28:12,310 --> 00:28:17,340 nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written, for your sake, 450 00:28:17,340 --> 00:28:20,140 we face death all day long, we are considered as sheep to be. 451 00:28:20,140 --> 00:28:22,620 Slaughtered. No, in all these things we are 452 00:28:22,620 --> 00:28:26,140 more than conquerors through him who loved us. 453 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:31,140 For I'm convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels 454 00:28:31,140 --> 00:28:34,820 nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 455 00:28:34,820 --> 00:28:38,100 neither height nor depth or anything else in all creation, 456 00:28:38,740 --> 00:28:42,500 will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in 457 00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:47,890 Christ Jesus our Lord. This does not mean that in this 458 00:28:47,890 --> 00:28:52,450 life we will not have trouble. It does not mean that we will 459 00:28:52,450 --> 00:28:55,530 not experience hardships and heartache. 460 00:28:56,930 --> 00:29:01,290 Some of us will live lives where things do not go up and to the 461 00:29:01,290 --> 00:29:03,650 right. Some of us will live lives where 462 00:29:03,650 --> 00:29:07,890 we experience hardships due to our belief in Jesus. 463 00:29:08,130 --> 00:29:12,810 However, the things that happen on this earth cannot separate 464 00:29:12,810 --> 00:29:16,820 you from the love of God. Nothing can interfere with what 465 00:29:16,820 --> 00:29:20,140 he has done on your behalf in advance. 466 00:29:20,580 --> 00:29:25,220 Here's what I'm saying. If God's for you, who can be 467 00:29:25,220 --> 00:29:27,580 against you now? Hear me? 468 00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:30,420 I'm not saying God's for your business. 469 00:29:31,580 --> 00:29:33,980 I'm not saying God's trying to help you buy a boat. 470 00:29:35,020 --> 00:29:38,060 I don't want you going home tattooing this and saying, you 471 00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:40,180 know, I've been trying to get a girlfriend because my wife's not 472 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:41,900 enough. He's not for that either. 473 00:29:43,930 --> 00:29:50,290 Here is what God is for. He is working nonstop, never 474 00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:54,090 sleeping. He is working for your good and 475 00:29:54,090 --> 00:29:58,010 for His glory. He never takes a day off trying 476 00:29:58,010 --> 00:30:02,010 to repurpose your pain. He never takes a day off of 477 00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:05,690 loving you, caring for you, providing for you, putting 478 00:30:05,690 --> 00:30:08,970 breath in your lungs that you and I don't deserve if God is 479 00:30:08,970 --> 00:30:12,470 for your salvation. If he's for your justification, 480 00:30:12,630 --> 00:30:15,590 if he's for your eternity, who can stop him? 481 00:30:16,110 --> 00:30:18,870 No one. No one. 482 00:30:20,790 --> 00:30:23,390 If God is pursuing a relationship with you, who can 483 00:30:23,390 --> 00:30:25,790 get in the way? If he was willing to send his 484 00:30:25,790 --> 00:30:30,110 son to die on the cross for you, what won't he do on your behalf? 485 00:30:30,990 --> 00:30:33,350 He's already. Given you his very best. 486 00:30:34,190 --> 00:30:37,390 And there might be some of you right now at this point in time 487 00:30:37,390 --> 00:30:39,330 in the message. Who are going well? 488 00:30:39,330 --> 00:30:44,090 This message. Is good for somebody, but you're 489 00:30:44,090 --> 00:30:48,770 not quite sure it's good for. You because you're like me. 490 00:30:49,490 --> 00:30:53,570 You got a past and the hardest part of my. 491 00:30:53,570 --> 00:30:57,570 Relationship with Jesus is getting over my sin. 492 00:30:59,250 --> 00:31:01,650 Because I'm. Fully aware of how jacked up and 493 00:31:01,650 --> 00:31:06,450 messed up I am and you might be thinking, well that's great news 494 00:31:06,450 --> 00:31:08,920 for all the. All the one O 1 centers. 495 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,800 But you got a doctorate and stupid. 496 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,320 I got multiple doctors and I got an honorary one too at the 497 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,520 county jail in Lee County, Iowa, you might be thinking. 498 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,760 But man, Satan. Satan. 499 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,520 Never seems to take a day off either. 500 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,600 Maybe Satan can stop me from experiencing this, so I'm going 501 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,800 to read to you. Romans 837. 502 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,790 Through 39 again. Know in all. 503 00:31:37,790 --> 00:31:41,230 These things. We are more than. 504 00:31:41,230 --> 00:31:47,150 Conquers through him Who? Loved us for I'm. 505 00:31:47,150 --> 00:31:49,750 Convinced that neither death nor life pause. 506 00:31:51,390 --> 00:31:53,790 God never stops loving you even when you're dead. 507 00:31:57,510 --> 00:31:59,630 All the people who are in hell. All the people. 508 00:31:59,630 --> 00:32:03,030 Who died outside of a relationship with Jesus Christ 509 00:32:03,270 --> 00:32:07,830 he never stopped loving. How good is the heart of God 510 00:32:09,310 --> 00:32:13,670 that he never stops loving you? So whether you're dead or 511 00:32:13,670 --> 00:32:17,550 breathing, he doesn't stop neither angels or demons. 512 00:32:18,390 --> 00:32:20,350 You might be going, man, I got demons in my life. 513 00:32:20,350 --> 00:32:22,630 I got demons trying to stop me. You might be thinking, man, 514 00:32:22,630 --> 00:32:25,550 you're super intune to the spiritual world and you think 515 00:32:25,550 --> 00:32:27,510 that there's demonic activity in your home. 516 00:32:27,710 --> 00:32:30,070 And because there's so much demonic activity in my home, 517 00:32:30,270 --> 00:32:32,430 God's love can't get through. Not true. 518 00:32:33,630 --> 00:32:35,470 Because even angels and. Demons don't have the. 519 00:32:35,470 --> 00:32:38,160 Power. To stop God from loving you. 520 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,320 Neither the present nor the future. 521 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,680 Well, God, because of what I'm going through right now, I've 522 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:52,640 probably given you reason to stop loving me, and some of you 523 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,160 are going, but I got. I'm doing it right now, but I 524 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:56,440 have a track record of doing it. Right. 525 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,200 And then doing it wrong and doing it right and then doing it 526 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,520 wrong and I don't know where I'm going to be at in the future. 527 00:33:02,860 --> 00:33:05,220 And it's the story of the people who call the crossing home 528 00:33:05,220 --> 00:33:06,420 they'll be. People have a great. 529 00:33:06,420 --> 00:33:10,180 Run following Jesus and then they fall off the Cliff. 530 00:33:13,020 --> 00:33:16,060 And while they are on their way to rock bottom or hitting rock 531 00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:20,340 bottom, Satan introduces this lion to their spirit. 532 00:33:22,180 --> 00:33:25,140 After all the good things you've done, how could you have done 533 00:33:25,140 --> 00:33:29,900 what you did? And there's no way that God 534 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:35,020 loves you now. But he says. 535 00:33:36,020 --> 00:33:38,820 Even what you do in the future can't stop me from loving you, 536 00:33:41,020 --> 00:33:42,620 whether you were on the mountaintop. 537 00:33:42,900 --> 00:33:45,060 Or in the. Valley or you have hit rock. 538 00:33:45,060 --> 00:33:52,620 Bottom God predecided. To love you, that's how good. 539 00:33:52,620 --> 00:33:59,340 He is or anything else in all. Creation, that means anything. 540 00:34:01,170 --> 00:34:04,650 Will be able to separate you from the love of God that is in 541 00:34:04,650 --> 00:34:08,449 Christ Jesus our. Lord, what is being conquered? 542 00:34:09,409 --> 00:34:12,929 How are we more than conquerors? And what are we conquerors over? 543 00:34:13,250 --> 00:34:15,690 We are more than conquerors because of Him. 544 00:34:15,850 --> 00:34:20,570 And what are we conquerors of our sin, our past? 545 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:26,500 Our failures, our condemnation, our hell have been conquered by 546 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:30,300 King Jesus because God sent him on my behalf. 547 00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:35,340 Nothing can stop God from loving you, which means God can be 548 00:34:35,340 --> 00:34:37,699 trusted because he did what nobody else can. 549 00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:43,139 Do God can be trusted because he's never given up on you. 550 00:34:44,179 --> 00:34:47,780 God can be trusted because he has forgiven you, purified you. 551 00:34:48,330 --> 00:34:50,850 And nothing will stop him from loving you. 552 00:34:53,130 --> 00:34:56,969 That is how good God is. Room to a time. 553 00:34:56,969 --> 00:35:11,520 Decision. I mean, I was chasing a booger 554 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:16,080 the whole. Sermon, it's just all I wanted 555 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,240 to do is. Like God bless. 556 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,040 Me with someone who? Cares about Kleenex? 557 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,760 Be honest. You go home with a booger, your 558 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,560 word's coming down and try and preach a 30 minute sermon. 559 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,240 Probably should have held the moment there. 560 00:35:36,950 --> 00:35:42,750 That's just how good he is. So hear me this. 561 00:35:42,750 --> 00:35:45,790 Invitation time is not about whether or not God loves you. 562 00:35:48,270 --> 00:35:50,710 This invitation time is whether or not you love him. 563 00:35:54,630 --> 00:35:57,070 Our life. Is supposed to. 564 00:35:57,070 --> 00:36:10,320 Be a response to him. I want to say I don't know how. 565 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:15,840 You could go home and live the same, but I I know how because 566 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,960 I've done it. I don't know how you could hear 567 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,280 about God being that. Good on your behalf and. 568 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,800 And go back to being stupid. But I I I've done it. 569 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:35,440 But we need moments. Like this to shut. 570 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,140 Down and quiet. The whispers of our soul and the 571 00:36:39,140 --> 00:36:40,620 whispers of. Satan and. 572 00:36:42,180 --> 00:36:45,420 Allow God's piercing. Truth all the way into your 573 00:36:45,420 --> 00:37:02,720 heart. So those of you who are. 574 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:14,040 Christians, we must live. A life in response to this kind. 575 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,020 Of work. To this kind of love on our 576 00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:21,940 behalf, and if you're willing to humble yourself just a little 577 00:37:21,940 --> 00:37:24,940 bit and go, God, I I got to get some things ironed out. 578 00:37:24,940 --> 00:37:27,180 I got to get some things squared away. 579 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:33,260 Because your life communicates whether or not you have received 580 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:37,540 and whether or not you actually do love God, it sends a clear 581 00:37:37,540 --> 00:37:47,390 message. Hell is full of. 582 00:37:47,390 --> 00:37:52,470 People that God loves. It's just also full of people 583 00:37:52,470 --> 00:37:59,190 who chose to not love God back. They never wanted to receive 584 00:37:59,190 --> 00:38:03,070 what he did on their behalf. They never wanted to receive 585 00:38:03,070 --> 00:38:09,910 what he did to make them right and as Christians. 586 00:38:12,170 --> 00:38:15,730 We must do everything in our power to respond to that message 587 00:38:16,330 --> 00:38:19,170 and to champion that message everywhere we go. 588 00:38:20,090 --> 00:38:25,770 That's why the gospel is called good news, because have you ever 589 00:38:25,770 --> 00:38:32,530 heard better news than that? So just a few moments, I'm 590 00:38:32,530 --> 00:38:34,850 encouraged if you're a Christian and you, you got some stuff 591 00:38:34,850 --> 00:38:37,090 going on, or maybe you got some stuff you need to. 592 00:38:37,090 --> 00:38:40,010 Sort out. Would you come up here and just 593 00:38:40,010 --> 00:38:42,250 get down on your knees? Do everything in your power to 594 00:38:42,250 --> 00:38:45,330 get right with Him. And to those of you who are in 595 00:38:45,330 --> 00:38:48,810 this room and those of you who are watching online who have 596 00:38:48,810 --> 00:38:52,050 never started an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus 597 00:38:52,050 --> 00:39:02,170 Christ, don't put it off. He did all of that on your 598 00:39:02,170 --> 00:39:05,290 behalf, but you have to receive it. 599 00:39:06,770 --> 00:39:10,450 The good news is, he is ready to receive you. 600 00:39:10,970 --> 00:39:16,650 Right now, would you stand with me, God, I'm asking that you 601 00:39:16,650 --> 00:39:20,490 would do something that only you can do in a way that only you 602 00:39:20,490 --> 00:39:24,130 can do it to bring about a change to make the kind of 603 00:39:24,130 --> 00:39:26,330 difference in our lives that only you can make. 604 00:39:27,490 --> 00:39:31,170 And God, I pray that you would do a work in our church, right? 605 00:39:31,170 --> 00:39:35,650 Now. A work that doesn't just change 606 00:39:35,650 --> 00:39:38,120 us. But a work that changes our 607 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,520 families, a work that doesn't just change our families, A work 608 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,840 that changes our community got do a. 609 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,080 Work. In each of us in your name I 610 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,560 pray. Amen.