So glad you're here online, Family, we see you.
We're grateful you're with us. Everybody in this room, you put
your hands together. Let's welcome everybody that's
joining us this weekend. If we've we've never met, if
we've never had the opportunity to do so.
My name is Luis Quintero. I'm one of our pastors here on
staff. I get to serve with our lead
pastors, Pastors Matt and Pastor Sarah on our executive team.
I'm also a part of our teaching team and it's just such a great
honor to get to share God's work today.
I just want to let you know, Pastor Matt today is along with
Pastor Charles, another one of our our teaching pastors There
are in one of our network churches in Arizona.
They're ministering there and so be praying for Pastor Matt.
But we're just so grateful for our pastors, aren't we?
They't amazing. They love God, they love US, and
come on. Yeah, show some love to your
pastors. We're just so grateful for you
pastors. And we we get the honor, I get
the honor today to close out a series that we've been on for
the last several weeks. This is week #4 and we're
closing out a series that's called Don't Let Doubt.
Everybody say Don't let doubt take you out.
That's what we've been talking about over the last several
weeks. We've been looking at how doubt,
how the enemy uses things like fear and other tactics to make
us doubt God. And, and when that happens, then
that doubt takes us out of all of the promises of God, all of
the potential God has for our lives.
And, and today my assignment as we close this series, I get to
talk about one of those little tools the enemy uses often in
our lives to to keep us from trusting God from from believing
in in the promises of God and to take us out.
And this specific, this, this specific little tool that he
uses. It's one of those that often
sits right underneath doubt. It's kind of one of those that's
a little deeper. It's really quiet.
And for many of us, we've been carrying, we've been carrying
something like this for a long time.
And The thing is that we rarely talk about it.
Today I want us to see how the enemy often time uses shame to
make us doubt God. And when he when he makes his
dog out, he takes us out from all the potential, all the
promises of God. And so I just want to invite us
to open up our hearts. Every location right now, I want
to invite you to just bow your head, close your eyes.
I want to invite us to pray. I want to invite us to just
allow the Lord to do a work in our hearts today.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity to be
together in your house. God, I thank you for everybody
that is under the sound of my voice today.
Lord, we just come to you and we say, God, we open up our hearts
to your word, Lord. Well, if there's anything right
now that we would that that that would keep us from receiving the
good seat of your word, we lay it aside.
If there is worry if there is any any just distraction or we
put it down, we lay it down at your feet and and we just open
up our hearts to your word. We open up our hearts to your
spirit. Lord, speak to us today.
Heal us today, change us today. We pray, pray just allow me to
be a conduit of your spirit, Lord that I would just be in
tune with your spirit as your word just leads forward.
We pray all this in Jesus mighty name and everybody said Amen and
Amen. So I was preparing this week and
just praying about all right, Lord, I was trying to remember
the first time that I felt shame in my life and it was it didn't
take that long. I have a pretty pretty quick
core memory that came up. And if you've never heard some
of my story, I grew up in in Columbia.
I grew up in a Christian household.
My parents were amazing. They exposed us to the things of
God from very, very young. And so I was in church like 4
times a week. Monday nights I was in church.
I don't even remember what was Monday nights, but I was there.
I remember being there Wednesday nights.
It was Bible study. Every other Saturday was prayer
and fasting. Sunday morning, it was the
services. I was there all the time.
And I remember this specific memory.
I must have been like 8 or 9 years old.
It was a Wednesday night Bible study.
There was like 100 people at the church.
And I remember coming in, it was a long day of school and, you
know, I was tired. And I remember the pastor, I
think he was teaching on David and Goliath.
I'm like, I know this one. And so I was like, I'm going to
take his news. And so I just, I remember laying
down on my mom's lap and how many of you have ever like you
fall asleep and then you startle yourself up like you wake up
like all jolted up. Anybody else like so this, this
happened to me. The problem is how it happened.
I was sleep and the next thing I know, I jolted myself up by
ripping the loudest fart. I'm 18, like an 8 year old has
ever. I I believe this wholeheartedly
that it was and I just jolted up.
And the worst part is I, I jolted up and then I just saw
everybody's face turn. Everybody's laughing.
I felt the blood rush to my face.
I smiled, but I wanted the earth to swallow me.
Who does that? I just pretended like I was
still asleep and went back down to sleep.
And I remember laying on my mom's lap and thinking, who does
that? Like what is wrong with me?
That's the first time that I actually felt that there was
something wrong with me. Somebody that makes mistakes in
their sleep, well, how do you do that?
And then as I started kind of going through my years in
school, I remember not too far after that, probably a year
later, I was in class and I was a very active kid.
And so I was probably messing up somebody's day or joking around.
And I remember teaching correcting me.
And she corrected me in front of everybody.
And at the end she said, shame on you.
And I remember thinking, what, what does that even mean?
Later on, I remember being in a in recess.
We were just playing soccer with a buddy and we got into it.
You know, things happen. You want to win.
We start kicking each other, punching each other.
We're fighting. Teacher comes over and separates
us, goes what's what is going on here?
Hey, shame on you guys. And I remember thinking, what is
the shame thing? Why is it, why is it like a
thing that they just throw on me like a jacket?
What is what does that even mean?
And why does it feel like every time I hear that, it's not that
I made a mistake, but it feels like something's wrong with you.
You are the mistake. And you see that's exactly how
shame works. Shame takes a negative
experience and then he personalizes it.
So instead of it being I made a mistake, shame says the enemy
uses shame and says you are the mistake.
It sticks to our identity. Shame sticks and attacks our
identity, and that's what the enemy does.
The enemy takes these moments in life where maybe we've made a
mistake, where where we're sinful, or something happened,
or maybe something was done to us.
Maybe there was a simple thing that was done to us, something
wrong that was done to us. And the enemy takes those
things, attaches shame to them, and then with those things, it
then distorts our identity because we start believing
things about ourselves that are not true.
Here's the problem. The problem is this.
If shame can distort our identity, then it can actually
distort our destiny. It can distort our future.
Because if I'm believing things about myself that are not true,
I'm not going to be able to believe God about the things
that He's believing for me, that he calls on Scripture for me.
You see where I'm going with this?
You see on healed shame can keep us from living in the freedom
that Jesus came to give us when he died on the cross.
Jesus said this in John 10/10. He said the thief comes only to
steal kill and destroy specifically for this message
your identity kill, steal and destroy your identity and Jesus
says I have come that they may have life and have it to the
full. Now that that word full means a
lot right. If if Jesus meant full life for
us, it doesn't mean that we're going to have perfect lives
without problems. It means that we can have a full
life with abundant overflow of God, with wholeness, with
freedom, with true identity in him, so that no matter what
comes our way, we can live in his will.
You see, I believe that there are many of us here today under
the sound of my voice, every location.
Who? Maybe you're missing out on that
full life that Jesus came to give us because shame keeps
whispering. Yeah, yeah.
That's not for you, though. Yeah.
That that that's that's for other people.
You, you're broken. You are broken.
And many of us maybe believe that I am broken.
Pastor Lewis, you don't understand.
Though I have a broken sexual past.
Pastor Lewis, you don't understand.
There are things that that I've done here in the last few years
and in my present that I am broken.
I can't fix this. I can't.
It's the same thing over and over.
Some of us walk around feeling like we're unwanted.
Pastor Lewis, you don't understand.
I'm in my second, third divorce. You don't understand, Pastor
Lewis. I live on the streets.
I'm. I'm homeless.
The shelters won't even take me. I am actually unwanted.
I grew up in the foster system from home to home to home to
home. Nobody wanted me.
I am actually unwanted. And many of us walk around and,
and, and we believe this, this thing that attached to our, our
identity, Many of us deal with addiction and, and we deal with,
with lying maybe, or, or anger. And we believe that we are
damaged. Something was done to us.
Maybe something happened earlier in our lives.
And then there's no way God can fix this.
I, I feel dumb. I am disqualified.
You don't understand the mistakes that make at school,
the mistakes that make them work.
I am, I am dumb and this is what shame does.
It attacks our identity and here's what the enemy would
love. The enemy would love to keep you
with that distorted identity because it'll keep you from the
promises of God that are yes and Amen for those who have placed
their lives in Christ Jesus. He hears the thing.
Shame can be hoped away, can be wished away.
Shame can only be healed that the cross.
Shame can only be healed by Jesus and the work that he did
on the cross recovery for us. Here's what you need to know
today. I believe Jesus wants to change
some names today. I believe Jesus wants to heal
some hearts today. I believe Jesus is saying this
not shame on you, shame off you son, shame off you daughter.
I pay for it in Calvary already. And I believe today you can
receive healing in the mighty name of Jesus.
I've titled my message today, shame off you.
Look at your neighbor and say shame off you.
Come on, shame off you. Jesus came and he said shame off
you. Now, now here's the deal.
When we're struggling and dealing with shame, there are
certain things that will manifest in our lives, certain
things that will come up in our lives.
And so I want us to look at a scripture today.
This was the the very first account where we see shame
coming into the world. This is the moment where Adam
and Eve, just for context, we're going to go to Genesis, Genesis
chapter 3. Adam and Eve sinned.
They went against the will of God.
They disobeyed God. If you know the story, they live
perfectly in in the Garden of Eden with God.
There was nothing wrong. There was closeness intimacy
that were naked. It was, it was free, it was
amazing. And God gave him dominion over
everything, over the food, over the animals.
But God told him, hey, there's only one thing I don't want you
to do. And he's to eat from this one
tree. And then here comes Satan, the
serpent comes in and he convinces Eve to eat from that
tree. Eve goes ahead and does it.
And then Adam then follows along.
And what happens here we're going to start reading is the
moment that they realized, Oh my goodness, there's some shame
coming in. So verse 7 says this, This is
both Adam and Eve. Then the eyes of both of them
were open and they realized they were naked.
There it is. That's where shame came into the
world. So they sewed fig leaves
together and made coverings for themselves.
Now they're covering from each other.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he
was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid
from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
But the Lord God call to the man, and he said, Where are you?
And Adam answered, I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked, so I hid. And then God said, Who told you
you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree
that I commanded you not to eat from?
And Adam said, the woman you put here with me, she gave me some
fruit from the tree and I ate it.
Come on Adam, come on brother. Then the Lord God said to the
woman, what is it that you have done?
The woman said, the serpent deceived me and I hated you.
See, everything changed after this moment.
Sin entered the world, and so did shame.
And so I want us to look at four ways in which shame manifests
itself in our lives. These are these are probably
things that if you're dealing with shame, you're going to
recognize in your own life because this is exactly what has
plagued humanity ever since that moment.
Here's the first thing. The first way in which shame
manifests in our lives is this shame makes us hide from God.
Shame makes us hide from God. In verse 8, we see that they hid
from the Lord among the trees of the garden.
You see, what happens is we often hide from God because we
believe that because of what we've done, because of what has
happened to us, that he hates us.
That he doesn't want to do anything with such a messed up
person. That my addiction, my anger, the
thing that was done to me in my past, makes me unworthy of God's
love, makes me unworthy of God's care for me.
And So what we do is we hide from God, we hide from his
presence. We don't spend time with God.
We hide from his word. We don't pick up the truth of
God's word to cover our lives. And then we hide from God's
house, the people of God. We hide, we stay away from the
things of God. And my friends, I'm here to tell
you today, nothing good happens when we're away from God.
Nothing good happens. Our flesh kicks in our our
desires kick in. And we often wonder, why do we
act and respond and think the way we do is because oftentimes
there's shame attached to it. Now, I want you to notice
something very powerful about this story.
In this story, notice that God did not leave Adam and Eve.
Adam and Eve hid from God. The very next thing we see is
what we see. God coming and looking for Adam
and Eve. You see, God was, God was
looking for both of them. But shame whispers, God is
disappointed in you. God doesn't want to do anything
with you. God cannot use you.
God loves other people more than you.
But the gospel of Jesus Christ says that even though we have
messed up, even though wrong things have happened to us, God
so loved the word that he said, Jesus, there is grace for you.
He loves you. He's calling some names today.
He's saying, hey, Bob, I'm looking for you.
Hey, Amy, I'm looking for you. Hey Natalie, me, I'm looking for
you. God is looking and searching for
His children. This is grace and He wants to
heal you today. He wants to change your name
today #2 What a shame. How does shame manifest in our
lives? First, it makes us hide from
God, but second, shame makes us cover from one another.
Shame makes us cover from others.
Verse 7, it's when they realized that they had sinned and shame
came in Adam and Eve. They sewed fig leaves together
and they made covering for themselves.
In other words, now all of a sudden they were very aware of
their shortcomings. They were very aware of their of
their humanness, right? And they started covering, they
started kind of pretending and kind of, you know, hiding from
one another. You see, we may not be using
good old fig leaves like they did, but there's some modern day
fig leaves that we hide behind and we cover from others.
Some of us, we believe we're so damaged and we believe we're so
dumb that that we hide behind our success.
That if you only see how successful my business is, how
successful my family is, if you can only see how that's it
proves that I am not that damaged.
I'm not that dumb. But we go home and we still deal
with that. Some of us, we hide behind
perfection. If everything is just pristine,
if everything looks good on social media and everybody
believes that I am perfect, maybe I proved that.
Maybe I'm not that unwanted. And some of us, we love humor,
but we hide behind our humor. We feel so unwanted.
But because we're funny, we keep joking.
We keep doing all of this because it's the only way that
we can feel some love from people.
But in reality, we go home and we feel this.
We deal with this sense of unwantedness.
This, this, this belief of being unworthy, disbelief of being
unlovable. Some of us, I believe you are.
You're a people pleaser because you, you, you, you believe that
if you just say yes to everything, if you burn yourself
out, if you just yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, maybe that'll prove
that I'm lovable and they'll love me and they'll stay and
they'll care for me. But we're not dealing with the
root, 'cause you see, shame teaches us to manage our image.
But Jesus says, let me heal your heart.
You don't have to worry about that image.
You don't have to worry about that thing you're pretending to
be. As a matter of fact, I believe
that there's many of us today. James 5 says this, that if we
confess to one another and we pray with one another, there is
healing that happens. But Jesus can't heal you because
you keep pretending to be somebody you're not.
And Jesus wants to heal the real you today.
Here's the third way. The third way that we can see
shame manifest in our lives is this #3 shame makes us act in
fear. Shame makes us act in fear.
Verse 10 says this. I heard you in the garden, Adam
said, And I was afraid. There's the fear because I was
naked. So here's his action.
He hid. Fear cost him to hide.
You see, shame brings fear and when the fear starts to drive
and lead our decision making, making it, it makes us do things
that are not godly. It makes us, you know, act in
certain ways that are completely against God's will for our
lives. There's many a times where that
fear will tell you, hey, you can't trust God.
You can't trust people because if they only knew they're real
you who can accept you? Hide, be angry, bite back and we
start acting based out of that fear.
For many of us, God has called you to lead, but fear kicks in
from that shame and and you hear, don't lead.
Don't lead in your business, don't lead in your home.
Don't do that. You're not smart enough for
that. You're not qualified for that.
And that came from a place where you picked up some shame.
Shame will tell you to not hope or try because man, you've tried
and it never works. You're never going to change.
Why are you hoping for? Fear starts driving our decision
making when we don't allow Jesus to heal the shame to give us a
new name. Let me just say this, if you
missed Pastor Matt's message last week, he spoke all about
this. He spoke on fear and how fear is
used by the enemy to to keep us from doubting God and to keep us
from all the the amazing things that God has for us.
Here's the fourth thing that shame does, the way it manifests
in our lives when when we are dealing with shame, when our
shame is done, heel #4 shame makes us blame others.
He makes us blame others. See, God comes looking for them
on in the garden. Adam, where are you?
Eve, where are you? What's the first thing that Adam
does? Hold up, God, I know I'm a
little undone here and naked and shameful.
It wasn't me. You made her out of me.
It was her fault. Then God comes to even.
What does Eve do? You created the serpent.
It was the serpent. Here's here's what's.
Here's what's crazy about shame. Shame keeps us from looking at
ourselves. Shame keeps us from allowing God
to come in and heal. And he makes us blame others.
And I believe that right now, maybe sitting next to you is the
person who's been taking the brunt of your shame, but your
spouse is the one that gets blamed for some of the things
that you're unwilling to deal with.
Your kids are dealing with the shame that you're undealing.
You're not dealing with maybe your coworkers, your friends.
Because shame makes us blame others.
Shame makes us cover from others.
Shame makes us hide from God. Shame makes us act out of fear.
Pastor Lewis, what do we do? How do how do we, how do we
allow God to heal our shame? It is very simple.
But it's a step of courage that requires us to have some faith
to believe this. But here's what we need to do.
We need to take our eyes of that mistake.
We need to take our eyes of what you've done, of the mess up that
you've made, of the sin that you've committed.
We got to take our eyes of the sin that was committed to us.
In other words, we got to take our eyes of the shame and we
have to put our eyes on Jesus. We got to come to Jesus.
Hebrews 12/2 says this, looking unto Jesus, the author and the
finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him,
he endured the cross, despising the shame, and he sits now at
the right hand of the throne of God.
You see, Jesus already on the cross of Calvary paid for our
sin, but he also took on our shame.
You see, the cross was a shameful act, the the cross.
The cross meant that you would be stripped and mocked and
exposed and rejected publicly. And Jesus said, I'll do that for
my son and for my daughter. See, Shane came into the garden
with Adam and Eve, but Shane was healed and Shane was defeated at
the cross with Jesus. I'm so grateful for that.
I know I've experienced that many a times because Jesus, when
he heals you, when he gives you a new name, that shame no longer
defines you. And there's no greater way to
walk in life to fulfill the call as parents, to fulfill the call
as students, as as employees, our bosses, as as people in this
world. As a matter of fact, the most
important call we have as Christians is this.
There's no greater joy that to live in that freedom to tell
others about Jesus. We are disciples of Christ and
we are. If we're not filled with that
shame, we're going to be able to declare where our shame was
healed and help others. And so today, if we allow him, I
believe Jesus wants to take those distorted identities,
takes those place of shame and, and he wants to bring new names.
He wants to heal what you've carried for many years.
Some of us have been carrying some of his labels for many,
many years, maybe 30-40, fifty years.
And today can be the day where Jesus heals you.
I believe some of us have walked around for many years believing
that you're broken, Pastor Lewis, I am broken and you don't
understand. I, I endured abuse in my life.
You don't understand what I've had to deal with as a child.
You don't understand what I've had to deal as an employee.
There's been betrayal in my life and abandonment in my life and
failure in my life. There's been things that have
been spoken over me tell me that I am broken by my friends today.
I want to encourage you, if you have the faith to come to the
cross, and if you have the faith to say Jesus, I give you my
shame, then he says this. You are a new creation.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation.
The old is gone and the newest here.
You no longer have to carry that identity.
I believe some of us have been walking around feeling like
we're unwanted, believing that we're unwanted.
You don't understand the divorces.
You don't understand Pastor Lewis.
I have gone from shelter to shelter.
I've never experienced a parent in my life.
I am actually unwanted. But today, if you have the
courage to come to Jesus, and if you say Jesus, take my shame, I
will pick up a new name. He'll say to you, no, no, no,
no, no, no. You are not unwanted.
You are welcome because Ephesians says that comes
consequently. You're no longer a stranger.
You're no longer somebody that God doesn't know, but you are a
fellow citizen. You are welcome into the
household that he's created. You are not unwanted.
Your identity is of a son and a daughter.
That's welcome to Pastor Lewis. You don't understand.
I'm so dirty. The things I've done in my life,
how I've cheated, how I've, I've, I've manipulated.
You don't understand the drugs I've taken, you don't understand
the the alcohol abuse that I've had all my life.
I am so dirty. I'm too far gone.
There is no way God can clean me up, but today you come to the
cross and you say, Jesus, I give you this label.
I'm telling you today Jesus is going to remind you that he
washes you clean, that you are pure.
In John 19 He says if you confess your sin, he is faithful
and just to forgive you and forgive you of your sins and
purify you. You're no longer dirty.
You are washed clean. The Bible says that as far as E
is from the West, he won't remember your sin.
The Bible says that that he will wash you as white as snow, and
that dirt that you feel, that shame that you feel, if you
bring it to the cross, He will heal it.
Some of us feel completely unlovable.
You walk around every day feeling this way and trying to
prove to everybody that you are worth loving.
And it's exhausting. And you go home and you cry
yourself to sleep. Some of you have been rejected
so much in your life. You are walking around believing
this every day. But if you bring this to Jesus,
if you let Him have that label, he'll say this about you.
You are beloved of mine. He says that I, I actually will,
I will give you a new name, sees what great love the Father has
lavished on us, that we are called sons and daughter,
children of God. So that pain that you feel can
be healed at the cross today if you allow Jesus to give you a
new name. That sounds great.
I'm just just unworthy. Some of us, I believe When I was
writing this, I felt like there's many of us under the
sound of my voice, where you feel like you deserve
punishment. I don't deserve anything.
The pain I've caused and the pain that has been caused to me
tells me that I am not worth anything.
I deserve some punishment, if any.
If maybe I'm punished enough, then I'll feel worthy.
Have good news for you today. If you bring this to Jesus and
you lay it at the cross. He says you're a son, you're a
daughter. For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only son. You are worth the Son of God.
He loved you so much. He said whosoever believes in
him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
It is in the, it is at the cross.
It is at the work of Christ. It is that healing that he
brings to our lives. And today I just want to
encourage us with this. Shane may have given you a label
and an identity, but today Jesus wants to give you a new name, a
new identity. If you would just allow him
today to do so. If you come to him, if you come
to the cross and allow him to do that, I believe he will.
Here's what I want to do with the few moments that we have
left. I want to pray over us.
If you're here today and you are tired of living with the labels
of shame, that distorted identity that shame has brought
to your life, and you're ready to come to Jesus, you're ready
to receive a true and new identity as I invite you to
close your eyes and bow your head in a moment, I, I want you.
That's you today. Here's what I want you to do.
They're in your seat. I want you to just put your
hands like this. And here's what this means,
Jesus, here's my shame. Jesus, here's my unworthiness.
Here's my belief that I'm dumb. Here's you're going to lay it at
him and he's going to pick it up and you're going to leave your
hands out and Jesus is going to give you a brand new name.
I believe that. Hearted So with every eye closed
and every head bowed, if that's you today, this is a holy
moment. This is a moment between you and
God. The Spirit of the Lord is in
every one of our rooms and everybody that's watching.
If that's you today, if you're tired, I love living with that
shame. I just want you to strange your
arms like I showed you a minute ago.
Here's what I want you to do. I want to lead you through a
prayer, but I want you right now for the next few seconds, I want
you to tell Jesus what that shame is.
I want you to tell Jesus, here's here's my shame, Lord.
Here's my my belief that I'm unlovable.
Come on, every location right now, give it to Jesus.
Lord, I believe I'm dumb all my life.
Come on, give it to Jesus. Father, I feel so dirty.
I've been, I've been carrying this label of being dirty all my
life, feeling like I don't deserve anything better.
But but the worst, give it to Jesus right now.
Come on every location, bring it to Jesus.
Bring it to Jesus. I'm broken, I'm damaged.
God can't use me too far gone, whatever that is right now.
Come on, just give it to Jesus. that you died on the cross for
me and that you took my shame on the cross.
I give you my shame today and I receive a new identity.
I receive a new name. And so Father, right now I pray
you speak to your children. You are a new creation in Christ
Jesus. Some of you, you need to know
that you are pure because of the work of Christ.
Father, I pray right now speak to your children.
You are called in your anointing.
You are the head and not the tail.
You are loved. You are cared for.
If a good father gives good things to his children, how much
more our Heavenly Father will care for his children.
So God, I pray right now for those that have felt unworthy
that you would cover them right now.
Those who have been feeling for a long time like they, they
don't belong. God, I pray right now that they
would, They would feel your arms around them, they would feel
your love, they would feel your care.
Father, they would see you on the cross, receiving all that
was for them, that you bore for them.
God I pray, speak, speak life. Lord, speak those identities.
God, I pray right now in Jesus name, new beginnings.
God, I pray for dreams right now in Jesus name.
God, I pray for healing. There are many of us right now
that the Lord is reminding you of when that moment took place.
The moment where you pick that shame, you remember the words
that were spoken, you remember the act that happened.
I pray healing in Jesus name, God, heal that wound, Father.
I pray heal that wound. Cover that wound with your oil,
with your anointed God, healing in Jesus name for you.
That that goes, that doesn't longer identify you.
That's no longer what you believe about yourself.
Jesus is bringing healing. Thank you, Father.
Right now move in every room. Receive that name, beloved,
called anointed. Receive that name.
You are you are a son and a daughter of God.
Stay in this atmosphere of worship.
Every head bow, every eye close. If you are here today and you
right now, you're experiencing Jesus.
This is who he is. This is what he does.
He loves you, He cares for you. You are not too far gone.
Maybe you are here today and you have never trusted your life to
Jesus. You've never prayed the prayer
of salvation. I want to encourage you today.
I want to invite you today. If that's you, I want to give
you an opportunity to, to change the label in your life from
Sinner, from from being apart from God to being a son and a
daughter. In the way the Bible tells us
that that happens is by accepting the sacrifice of Jesus
on the cross, by confessing with our mouth and believing with our
heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, that he died and he rose again
and because of that we are saved today.
If that's you, you, you recognize you've, you've walked
away from God, you, you, you've sinned against God, you've gone
against his will and you want to come home and become a part of
the family of God. I want to give you that
opportunity with every head bowed and every eye close.
If that's you, you've never prayed the prayer of salvation.
I want to, I want to lead you in that.
And I just want to know who I'm praying for.
So with every head bowed, every eye close, if that's you at the
count of three, would you just raise your hand?
123 Pastor Lewis, that's me. I would love to pray the prayer
of salvation. I would love to, to pray that I
see your hands, a couple of hands.
I believe there's some hands going up in every room.
If that's you today, here's what I want you to do.
Pray this. Jesus, I thank you for dying on
the cross for me. I come to you broken.
I come to you sinful. I confess that I am a Sinner.
But today I believe in my heart and confess with my mouth that
you are Lord, that you died, but you were risen from the dead to
pay for the penalty of my sin. I receive the grace.
I receive the gift of salvation. And today, Jesus, I give you my
life. I come to you as I am and I
thank you that because of your grace, because of your love for
me, you will change me to who you want me to become.
I give you my life today in Jesus name, Amen.
And when we're praying, we're going to close this moment.
So grateful for many hands that that were raised in our pastors,
our location pastors are going to come up and they're going to
give us some instruction. But I just want to pray for all
of us as the church, as we close this moment, believing in faith,
sealing the work that got us done in every one of our
locations. Heavenly Father, we thank you.
I thank you Lord, for the many of us that are going to walk out
of this place today with a new identity in you.
God, I thank you. That shame is off of us.
You said of Jesus shame off you Father, because you took on the
shame that was due to us today. We get to walk out in freedom
today. We get to walk out in faith to
get, We get to walk out with joy, Father, and we thank you
for that. We praise you for that.
Thank you Lord for the good work that you are doing and that you
have done. Today we seal it in Jesus name.
That what the what the God of heaven did this morning and
today the enemy will not be able to steal it in Jesus mighty
name. If you believe that, come on
church, can we give Jesus some praise for that?
Amen.