1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,680 Want to take a moment before we dive into the Word as well and 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,720 want to honor our lead pastors, Pastor Matt and Sarah Keller. 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,800 Pastors, we love you so much. Yeah, we're so thankful for the 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,920 way that you pastor and the way that you lead us, the way that 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,680 you pray, you fast, and you seek God for us. 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,880 Thank you for the way that you sacrifice and endure difficult 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,720 things for us. We love you and we honor you 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:24,280 today. Come on, Can you share some love 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:29,480 with our pastors as well? For those of us if we have not 10 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,159 had a chance to meet, my name is Dan Stauffer. 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,080 I served as one of our pastors on staff here on our executive 12 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,920 leadership team as well as a part of our teaching team. 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,920 And just honored to be able to share the Word today. 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,520 Excited to be in this series that we're in right now that 15 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,760 will lead us all the way up to Easter. 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,120 It's called Jesus the one and only. 17 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,840 He is the one and only. Last week, Pastor Matt opened us 18 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,600 up with this message talking about how Jesus is the Son, He 19 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,040 is the shepherd, and he is the Savior. 20 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,400 And today we're going to be learning and discovering how to 21 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,320 build our lives on Jesus the rock. 22 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,120 Come on, turn to the person next to you and say Jesus is the 23 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,200 rock. Turn to the other person that 24 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,960 you rode with, but you're still ignoring and ask him this 25 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:18,160 question. Can you smell what that? 26 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,200 Never mind. No, you can't. 27 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,120 I had to. I had to try. 28 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,880 Can you smell the rock? It's cooking. 29 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,440 Hey, Jesus is the rock and he's the rock that we are to build 30 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,840 our lives on. Now, I don't know if you've 31 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,440 built anything lately. If you've had to assemble 32 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,160 something that you ordered, you open up the box and there's all 33 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,680 the parts and all the pieces. And, and I actually used to work 34 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,640 at a Scandinavian furniture store as a general manager for 35 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,560 that wall. Our family, my wife is on the 36 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,080 front row. We planted a church in 2008. 37 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:48,640 We've been married for almost 31 years. 38 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,440 Everybody come on. Yeah. 39 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,720 And I, I remember, you know, working at the furniture store 40 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,080 and I'd help assemble things and, and learn so much that I 41 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,880 didn't need the directions, the instructions. 42 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,640 I figured out the systems and we would just assemble things 43 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,920 quickly. But recently, just actually a 44 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,039 couple years ago, we decided we were going to remodel our 45 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:11,600 primary bathroom. And I had this dream, this dream 46 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,280 of these cabinets that were a natural walnut, walnut finish on 47 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,080 the front, the drawer fronts, just beautiful. 48 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,160 And I ordered them from IKEA. And I know what you're thinking. 49 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,960 Dream bathroom IKEA I, I get it, I get it, I get it. 50 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,920 But they're, they're actually the drawer fronts are actually 51 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:29,560 made in Italy. And I was so excited to get them 52 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,200 and just to save a little bit of money, I decided I'm going to 53 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,200 assemble them myself. I know how to do this. 54 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,520 I did this for years, right? So I assembled the cabinets, but 55 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,040 I, I hired a professional cabinet installation team to 56 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,720 come in, put them along the wall, get them level, get them 57 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,920 all set so that I could have the countertop company come in and 58 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,040 place a countertop. So these guys are in there, 59 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,400 they're getting everything lined up and let to go, and they came 60 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,680 and found me in the garage. I was working on something else 61 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,360 and they asked me a question that kind of stopped me in my 62 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,520 tracks. They asked was your plan for the 63 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:07,760 drawer fronts to go under the countertop when they close or to 64 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,560 land flush with the top of the counter top. 65 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,760 And I'm like, well, under. And they're like, well, it won't 66 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,240 work. I know. 67 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,280 Hey, right now I'm getting a little bit frustrated and I'm a 68 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,920 little concerned. And so I decided they're from 69 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,160 IKEA. There is an instruction manual, 70 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,240 but I knew all of the parts, but maybe I should open it up. 71 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,880 And when I opened it up, there's there's no words. 72 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:31,800 If you, if you've ever said there's no words, there's no 73 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,440 written words. There's just a picture of a guy 74 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,240 and I have his picture. He's right here. 75 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,840 Like there's just this guy. I mean, I mean, he seems happy, 76 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,240 right? And I looked at the picture of 77 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,120 him and I and I remember what I looked like and I feel like I'm 78 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,800 way more competent than this guy right here, right? 79 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,920 He doesn't seem frustrated at all until I turn to the next 80 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:55,560 page and there's another picture of him and it's definitely 81 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:56,840 revealed me. This is me. 82 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,120 Like that's me. I need some help. 83 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,040 The, the one of the professional, again, quote 84 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,880 professional cabinet installers actually suggested one of their 85 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,920 suggestions was to cut the top inch off of the tror front so 86 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,480 that it would land underneath. And I put a time out. 87 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,600 I said, I don't think that's what we're supposed to do. 88 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,440 Let's dig a little bit deeper into these instructions. 89 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,320 But I, I discovered something that day that I think actually 90 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,440 aligns with God's word in this message for us. 91 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:28,280 We can build our lives on our own experiences, our own 92 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:34,360 expertise of what we know, or we can make a decision that we're 93 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:39,080 going to actually build our lives on the rock, on Jesus 94 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,080 Christ and his word. And I know that's what God's 95 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,200 heart is for us. So our key verse, our key text 96 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,240 is from Matthew chapter 16. This is the the key verse for 97 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,080 our series that says when Jesus came into the region of Caesarea 98 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:55,160 Philippi, he asked his disciples saying, what are people saying 99 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,880 about me? Who do they say that I, the Son 100 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:00,480 of man AM? So they said, some say John the 101 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:05,360 Baptist, others are saying that Elijah or, or or Jeremiah or one 102 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,320 of the prophets. And then Jesus said to them, but 103 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,880 who do you say that I am? So Simon Peter answered and 104 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:18,000 said, you are the Christ, which means the Messiah, which means 105 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,040 the anointed one in his anointing. 106 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,520 You are the one that all of these other guys that the people 107 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,640 are saying that you might be, You're the one that they 108 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,840 actually were speaking about, that prophesied about. 109 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,720 You're the Christ, the Son of the living God, Peter said. 110 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:38,120 And Jesus answered and said to him, You're blessed, Simon, son 111 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,920 of Jonah, for flesh and blood is not revealed this to you, but my 112 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:47,240 Father who's in heaven, and I say to you that you are Peter, 113 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,720 and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades 114 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:58,280 shall not prevail against it. You see, our Heavenly Father has 115 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:03,600 a powerful revelation for us that if we would build our lives 116 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:09,400 on him that we will not be moved by the storms, by the pressures, 117 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,920 or by the trials of life. So for the next few moments 118 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,680 we're going to talk about how to build our lives on the rock. 119 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,040 Would you pray together with me? Heavenly Father, in Jesus name, 120 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,240 we invite you into this moment. God, that you would speak to us 121 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:25,520 and that you would have your way. 122 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,920 God, may we have spiritual eyes to see today, spiritual ears to 123 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:31,760 hear. God, may our hearts be open to 124 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:35,640 what you have for us and they everyone of us, whether we're in 125 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,880 this room or at any of our locations or online. 126 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,840 God, may we be open up and changed for eternity because of 127 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,640 you. In Jesus name, we pray. 128 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,600 If you agree with that, would you say Amen? 129 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:51,560 Amen. See Jesus, he is the rock that 130 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,440 we are to build our lives on. I want to go back to that that 131 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,600 statement that he made when he looked at Simon Peter, Simon, 132 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,320 son of Jonah, he said flesh and blood hasn't revealed this to 133 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,120 you, but my father who is in heaven. 134 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,240 And then he looks at him right? And he says, but you are Peter. 135 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,400 Now when I, when I went and looked that up, I actually 136 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,640 discovered that when Jesus looked at him and said, you are 137 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,240 Peter, he changed his name because his name was Simon, some 138 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,360 son of Jonah, right? He said, but you are Peter now 139 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,680 in the original language, when he was when this was translated, 140 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,800 it was the actual word Petros. It's a Greek word and it means a 141 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:32,280 piece of the rock that you are Petros. 142 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:37,480 You're a piece of the rock. You're a part of me, so you are 143 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,840 a piece of the rock. And on this rock I will build my 144 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:43,480 church. So the next rock, so you are 145 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,440 Petros. But on this rock, when I look 146 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,200 that up, it's actually the Greek word Petra, and it actually 147 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:56,880 means a massive living rock. So really what this what when 148 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,800 Jesus looked at him, it wasn't saying that on Peter the church 149 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,040 would be built, but he was saying you are a piece of the 150 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,680 rock. You have a part of me, but in 151 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,880 parentheses in the original language if we were to do a 152 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,520 literal translation. And I also say to you that you 153 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,520 are Peter Petros. But on this one rock, this one 154 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,680 Petra, this massive living rock, the revelation that you just 155 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,640 shared that I'm the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of the living 156 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,120 God. I will build my church on that 157 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,280 revelation and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against 158 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,159 it. So Jesus wasn't saying that 159 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:37,280 Peter was the rock that the church was to be built on, but 160 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,400 that the church is to be built on the rock of Revelation. 161 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,560 That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. 162 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:49,080 That Jesus is the Savior of the world, That God so loved the 163 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,520 world that he sent his one and only Son, that whoever would 164 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:57,600 believe in him would not perish, but would have everlasting life. 165 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,000 He is Jesus is the rock. Let me let me show you that 166 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,560 Jesus is the rock in another verse. 167 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,360 It's First Corinthians chapter 10, verses 3 and four. 168 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,120 So the apostle Paul here is writing to the church in Corinth 169 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,520 and he's explaining to them kind of helping them to see when the 170 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,280 children of Israel came out of Egypt, as they were going 171 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,680 through, God was providing for them. 172 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,840 Look what he says. They all ate the same spiritual 173 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:25,280 food and drank the same spiritual drink for they drank 174 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:29,360 from the spiritual rock that accompanied them. 175 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:35,760 And say this with me, that rock was that rock was Jesus is the 176 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:37,920 rock. He's the rock that we are to 177 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,920 build our lives on. And Hades or hell, the enemy and 178 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,240 his darkness have no power over us. 179 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,120 When we build our lives on Jesus the rock. 180 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,280 That doesn't mean that storms won't come. 181 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:55,280 It just means when the storms do come, you are so founded and 182 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,200 established on the rock of who Jesus is, the revelation that he 183 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,840 is the Christ, the Son of the living God, that though there's 184 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,520 wind, though there's rain, though there's trouble, you 185 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,240 shall not be moved in Jesus name. 186 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,440 So this this begs the question then how do, how do we build our 187 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,160 lives on the rock? How do we do that? 188 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,400 Well, I want to take a look at another passage of Scripture. 189 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:25,320 This is in Luke chapter 6 and Jesus is engaging with another 190 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,240 group of people, very similar interaction where he's talking 191 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,040 to them about how people are, what they're calling him, what 192 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,920 how people are saying who he is. And so in Luke chapter 6 verse 193 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,480 46, it says this. He says, why don't you call me 194 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:44,920 Lord, Lord? Why don't you call me Lord and 195 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:52,320 do not do what I say. To call Jesus Lord means that 196 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,840 you are over my life. You are the Lord of my life, 197 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,040 which means whatever your directive is, I am to follow 198 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,760 that directive. I am to obey. 199 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,880 He says you're calling me Lord, Lord, but you're not doing what 200 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:09,320 I say. As for everyone who comes to me, 201 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,080 hears my words and puts them into practice, I'm going to show 202 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,760 you what that person is like. So he says three things there 203 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,480 comes to me, here's my words, puts them into practice. 204 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,680 And when we do that, something happens in our lives. 205 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:28,120 Look what he says. They are like the ones that do 206 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,440 that. They are like a man building a 207 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:38,400 house who dug down deep, laid the foundation on the rock, and 208 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:43,440 when a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not 209 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,400 shake it because it was well built. 210 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,240 I don't know about you, but when people look at my life as a 211 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,520 follower of Jesus, I want them to describe my spiritual life as 212 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,120 one that is well built on the rock. 213 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,480 Jesus Christ that have built my life. 214 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,400 I've built my family's life. I've built all that we pursue 215 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,840 what we do, how we think, how, what our lives that it would 216 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,240 just say, well built, well done. Thou good and faithful servant. 217 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,520 You have followed after Jesus. You've built your life on the 218 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,360 rock. So for the next few moments, I 219 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,960 want to share 3 directives from Jesus of how to build our lives 220 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,560 on the rock. So, and I'd love for you to take 221 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:25,760 notes. There's no cards in the seat in 222 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,400 front of you. Whatever location that you're 223 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:28,840 at, you could take notes with us. 224 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:33,280 But the first directive is this is that number one, to build our 225 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:37,160 lives on Jesus the rock #1 come to Jesus. 226 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:42,760 Now I know that that seems simple, but to truly build our 227 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,320 lives on Jesus, it's not about just coming to church and we're 228 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,160 grateful you're here. We're grateful you're at one of 229 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,240 our locations. If you're online right now, 230 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,360 we're so grateful you are. But it's more our, our lives 231 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,640 will still be shaken just because we come to church, just 232 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,280 because we go through a, a religious motion or action. 233 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,880 Maybe you're, you're listening to messages, maybe you're even 234 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,840 reading your Bible, but you're, you're not truly building your 235 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,560 life on Jesus, the rock. You've not truly come to him 236 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:10,720 first. You're just doing activity, 237 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,240 spiritual activity. Then your life is not actually 238 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,600 on the foundation of the rock of Jesus. 239 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:21,880 We have to come to Jesus like Peter did, to have a revelation 240 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,320 from God the Father that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the 241 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:30,200 living God, that every one of us wherever, wherever you are right 242 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,920 now, that if Jesus was to ask you, who do you say that I am? 243 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,920 What would you, what would your answer be? 244 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,160 Would your answer be? I'm not sure. 245 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,080 Let me go. Let me find out what people are 246 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,560 saying about you. Would your, would your answer be 247 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,680 that? Well, I, I, I, I think you're, 248 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:51,200 you're God, I, I, but I'm not sure. 249 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:57,240 Who do you say that Jesus is? Is he just a good teacher? 250 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,520 Is he just a historical figure? Your determination of who Jesus 251 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,160 is determines whether or not you can come to him. 252 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,720 Coming to him as Savior, as like Peter did. 253 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,920 You are the Christ, you are the Messiah, you are the Son of the 254 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,600 living God. You are the Savior of the world. 255 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:23,280 Coming to Jesus means that I recognize that I am sin 256 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,840 separates me from you and I no longer want to be separated. 257 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,120 Coming to Jesus means that I recognize that all have sinned 258 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,040 and come short of the glory of God. 259 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:34,680 It says in Romans. It also says that the wages of 260 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:38,720 the payment for our sin, the wages of sin is death, which is 261 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,520 he's talking about a spiritual death. 262 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,080 Spiritual death is separation from God. 263 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:48,880 Our sin separates us from God. So to come to Jesus means I'm 264 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,360 recognizing that I'm a Sinner. I have sinned and my sin 265 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,680 separates me from God, but I no longer want to be separated 266 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,440 because of what Jesus did for me on the cross. 267 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:03,240 Because Jesus didn't just carry our sin on the cross, He was 268 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:09,800 made our sin on the cross. In a moment, He became our sin. 269 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,360 Everything that you and I have ever done, every human being 270 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,440 that's ever lived on this planet or will come after us, have 271 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,040 sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 272 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:25,080 Jesus became our sin on the cross, and when He became our 273 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,360 sin, the payment for sin is separation from God. 274 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,640 That's why on the cross, when he was nailed on the cross, he 275 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,760 said, my God, my God, he said, Eloi, Eloi llama Shabaksan, I, 276 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,760 my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 277 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:44,080 It's the very reason that when Jesus was in the Garden of 278 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,080 Gethsemane, the night in which He was betrayed, before He went 279 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,000 on trial, before He was tortured, before He was 280 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,600 crucified, He was praying and sweating drops of blood, not so 281 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,840 much out of the fear and the expectation of the physical 282 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,920 torment, but He knew what would happen even when He became our 283 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,480 sin. He would be separated from His 284 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:07,600 loving Heavenly Father. And can I tell you today, church 285 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,680 family, He did that for you and He did it for me. 286 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:15,840 He was made our sin. He became our sin. 2nd 287 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:21,240 Corinthians 517 says He who knew no sin became our sin so that 288 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,680 you and I could be made His righteousness. 289 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,440 It was a substitutionary act on the cross. 290 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,320 And when we build our lives on the rock Jesus, it means that 291 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:34,880 I'm taking a step toward him. I'm coming to Jesus as the 292 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:39,080 Savior of the world, the Son of the living God whose life was 293 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,040 sacrificed for my sin. And if you have never prayed a 294 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,080 prayer or said yes to a relationship with Jesus, I want 295 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:50,440 you to know the Bible says that today is the day of salvation 296 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:55,320 and Jesus is waiting for you to come to Him so that He can save 297 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,680 you from your sin, wash you clean, make you new, and you 298 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:02,040 will never be the same again. Come on, those of you that have 299 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:07,520 experienced that you know. But if you have surrendered your 300 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,160 life to Jesus, Jesus still wants you to come to him. 301 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,319 Not necessarily just as Savior, but He wants us to come to Him 302 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:18,640 as Lord, Savior and Lord. You see, you can have Jesus as 303 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,359 the Savior, Sir. You've received him as as the 304 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,160 Savior, washed you clean of all of your sin, but he wants to be 305 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,640 the Lord of your life. That's why Jesus, when he's 306 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,360 talking to them, he said, you're saying Lord, Lord, but you don't 307 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:32,320 do what I say. You're not following after me. 308 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,880 Is it possible for those of us that have surrendered our lives 309 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:40,200 to Jesus Christ that there are areas of our life right now that 310 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,040 Jesus is still not the Lord of our life? 311 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,960 And I think as a follower of Jesus, our church exists. 312 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,000 We exist to lead people to become fully engaged followers 313 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,480 of Jesus. When we say fully engaged, we're 314 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:58,440 talking that Jesus is the Lord of every area of your life. 315 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,400 Jesus, you're Lord of my time. You're Lord of my talents and my 316 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,200 gifts. You're Lord of my eyes of what I 317 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,880 watch. You're Lord of my ears of what I 318 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,880 hear. You're Lord of my finances, of 319 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,480 what I do with money. God, you're the Lord of how how 320 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,000 my attitudes, of my heart. You're the Lord of the words 321 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,080 that come out of my mouth. You're the Lord of the way that 322 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:16,680 I drive. Dear Lord, help now that's the 323 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,280 one for me. God help me be the Lord of the 324 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,800 way I drive. Please help me Jesus name. 325 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,440 But we have to come to Jesus if He's going to be the rock of our 326 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:28,680 life. Number one, you got to come to 327 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,040 Jesus #2 write this down, a second directive from Jesus the 328 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,640 rock as you have to hear His words. 329 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:41,560 We have to hear His words and not just physically hear His 330 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,160 words. We have to get His word in our 331 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:50,680 heart, deep down in our heart. I love how David, King David, he 332 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,960 would write these Psalms and we have a whole book of Psalms in 333 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,760 Psalm 119. He's going on and on about God's 334 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,320 Word. He uses different phrases. 335 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,640 If one talks about God's law, talks about God's commandments, 336 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,920 God talks about God's precepts, talks about God's statutes, 337 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,000 talks about God's Word, and he continues to talk about how 338 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,280 powerful your word is. Every single verse in that 339 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,240 chapter, and it's one of the longer chapters, he talks about 340 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,880 the word and the statutes and the precepts and the principles 341 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:21,800 and and that I'm to build my life on. 342 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,600 And then in verse 105 of Psalm 1/19, he says your word, God is 343 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,520 a lamp to my feet and it is a light to my path. 344 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:36,880 God, your word is a lamp to my feet and it is a light to my 345 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,520 path. Now David is not saying God, I'm 346 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,080 walking my own path. I'm going the direction that I 347 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,040 want to go and that your word helps to give it light so I can 348 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,440 see that's not what he's saying. He's saying God, your word 349 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,280 lights up where my feet are right now and makes it clear the 350 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,320 direction that you want my feet to go. 351 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,120 And because your word is so true, your word is so pure, your 352 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:00,840 word is so holy. Your word is gives me strength. 353 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,840 Your word is wisdom and understanding. 354 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,280 It's counseling might, it's knowledge and the fear of the. 355 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,280 That's what your word is, God. So I'm asking for your word to 356 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,840 light my feet and light my path, and I'll step wherever the light 357 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,040 directs me to step. That's what His word will do. 358 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:21,320 We have to hear His words, and again, not, not just physically, 359 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,640 we have to hear His words speaking to our own heart, 360 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:29,160 bringing correction wherever He wants to correct, bringing 361 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,040 direction however He wants to guide us. 362 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,920 We're making the decision God, your word is what I want to 363 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:42,120 light my life and as a follower of Jesus, when we allow God's 364 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:46,400 word to to truly just penetrate our heart, it becomes the rock 365 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,080 of our life. That's why one of the things 366 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,920 that we do here is is we we provide a soap guide so that as 367 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,240 a church, we're able to read a chapter together as a church 368 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,680 family, every one of us reading the same chapter. 369 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,000 Right now we're in the book of Jonah in the Old Testament. 370 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:02,640 If you have never read your Bible, this is a great time to 371 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,480 read it. This story is crazy, what God 372 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,720 does with Jonah. But we, we read a chapter a day 373 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,360 and we listed out exactly where it's out. 374 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:13,320 We've got QR codes on here so you can scan it and it'll take 375 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,400 you to the Bible project and give you a little bit more 376 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,280 understanding of actually the book itself and the author so 377 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,320 that you can grow even more in it. 378 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,240 But we find that one verse within that chapter and we write 379 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,880 that verse out. We, it's soap because it stands 380 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,320 for Scripture. So I'm writing the verse out, 381 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,040 the one verse that stands out to me. 382 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,320 The O is, is what I'm observing in the story in that one verse, 383 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,400 the A is application. I'm I'm literally in my journal. 384 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,560 I'm writing out how am I going to apply this verse to my life 385 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,600 today? And then P stands for prayer. 386 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:45,960 These are online. You can go to 387 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,120 nextlevelchurch.com. You can find it in the next 388 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:51,120 steps section on the website, a digital soap guide as well. 389 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,240 But you have we have to hear his word. 390 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:57,960 If our lives are going to be built on the rock Jesus, then we 391 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,720 need to know what Jesus is saying about our lives. 392 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,440 And so this is a powerful thing. He, David, goes on. 393 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,720 He also said this in verse 11. That same chapter, Psalm 1/19. 394 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,560 He said, I've hidden your word in my heart. 395 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,000 And because I've hid your word in my heart, I might not sin 396 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,280 against you, God, because Your word is in my heart when I'm 397 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,080 tempted, when there's opportunities to get off course, 398 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,080 when there's tempted, A temptation to look a different 399 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,440 direction than where Your light is guiding me. 400 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:29,040 Your Word's so hidden in my heart, it will help protect me 401 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,000 from the temptations of life and the sin that would be at the 402 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,400 door trying to stop me and prevent me from doing what 403 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,480 You've called me to do. So if we're going to build our 404 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,440 lives on the rock of Jesus, we have to come to Him, surrender 405 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,560 our lives to Him as our Savior and our Lord. 406 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,720 We have to hear His word. Let His word become the 407 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,360 foundation for our lives. And then #3 #3 you got to do 408 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,800 what He says. It's one thing to come to Jesus 409 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,000 and recognize that my sin separates me from God and I no 410 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,800 longer want to be separated. Some of us, you know, it's, it's 411 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:07,120 been described as fire insurance, that if hell is real, 412 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,840 you don't want to. And hell is a lake of fire. 413 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,400 It's a it is a literal place that we see in Scripture and, 414 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,080 and if that's real, I don't want to go there. 415 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,680 So I'm, I'm going to make Jesus my savior just in case that hell 416 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,560 thing is real. I don't want to go there, right? 417 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:23,280 Fire insurance. It's like, I don't want to go 418 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,600 there. And that's where we stop. 419 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,360 But we have to build our lives on the rock. 420 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,840 He's the Savior of my life, but he's also the Lord of my life. 421 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,160 I'm coming to Jesus. I'm hearing this word, not just 422 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,160 physically, but I'm allowing his word to get deep in my heart. 423 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,120 And the way that we do that is, is through, you know, observing 424 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,880 what's in it, of figuring out, praying out how to apply it to 425 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,360 our lives. And then #3 was we do what it 426 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:53,200 says. So Jesus here back in Luke 427 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,160 chapter 6, he's having this conversation with these guys and 428 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,120 saying, you're saying Lord, Lord, but you're, you're not 429 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:03,800 doing what I say. Verse 49, he says, but the one 430 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,240 who hears my words, because he told the story, right? 431 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:11,120 He talked about the, the guy who built his house, dug deep, laid 432 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,400 the foundation, and that house was well built. 433 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:18,240 It was able to deal and and endure outlast the storms of 434 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,600 life. But he says, but the one who 435 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:25,360 hears my words but does not put them into practice is like a man 436 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,240 who built his house on the ground. 437 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,200 Matthew, when he was recording this, wrote it out that Jesus 438 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,320 said sand, build his house on the sand. 439 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,960 I actually think that Jesus was standing in a place where he was 440 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,040 actually able to point to two different houses. 441 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,160 Just the way that it's written, the way that he talked about it, 442 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,360 it's as if he's pointing to a house, this house right here. 443 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:52,040 When they built this house, they took a little bit more time. 444 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,120 They got down to the rock, dug through the ground, got to the 445 00:24:56,120 --> 00:24:58,840 rock, laid the foundation. We have to do that here in Fort 446 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,080 Myers because everything is sand everywhere we go. 447 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,520 So if we just build our houses just on the ground, this looks 448 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:06,960 like a good piece of ground. This looks good. 449 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,040 That house looks good there. Or why don't we just put our 450 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,040 house here? We do you know what they did to 451 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,560 make sure that that house stood the test of time and storms of 452 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,080 life? They dug deep. 453 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:22,200 So Jesus saying you can, you can build a house, but if you're 454 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:27,240 just putting it on the ground without a foundation, the moment 455 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,040 the torrent, because look how he says the moment the torrent 456 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,520 struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete 457 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,360 again. See, can you picture Jesus 458 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,480 pointing at one house that was well built, pointing out another 459 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,200 house that's destroyed and just laying on the side on the beach 460 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,360 or on the ground. He's saying this house they dug 461 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:46,680 deep, this house, they just, they didn't do that. 462 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,440 And here's what he says. He says they, they heard it, but 463 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,200 not doing it. Whoever, I'm sorry I got lost 464 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,080 here in my notes. The moment the torrent struck 465 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:00,240 that house it collapsed and it's destruction was complete. 466 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,200 And then James writes it this way. 467 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,200 James chapter one verse 22. James is the half brother of 468 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,080 Jesus and he says this. Do not merely listen to the 469 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,480 word. When we just hear it in our 470 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,800 physical ear and we don't do what it says, we actually our 471 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,640 self deceived. We deceive ourselves. 472 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,040 No one's deceiving us. We're deceiving ourselves. 473 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,880 I'm hearing God's word, but I'm not acting on it. 474 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:29,960 I'm, I'm hearing what my pastors are saying, but I'm as they're 475 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,600 sharing God's word, but I'm not acting on it. 476 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,920 I'm, I'm reading the soap and I'm, I'm, I'm finding the one 477 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,200 verse and I'm, I'm writing out how I'm to apply it to my life. 478 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,040 But then I just close my Bible and I close my journal and I go 479 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,880 on with my day and I'm actually not applying it. 480 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,760 Then this is what happens. I'm self deceived. 481 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,440 So then James says this. He says do what it says, do what 482 00:26:53,440 --> 00:27:00,200 it says, Whoever looks intently into the perfect law, God's word 483 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:08,560 that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what they 484 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:15,160 heard, but doing it. James uses the same phrase next 485 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,480 that Jesus used with Peter. What did he say to Peter? 486 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,400 When Peter said you're the Christ, the Son of the living 487 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,920 God, and build my life on you? He said, blessed are you, Simon, 488 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,640 son of Jonah. James says the same thing that 489 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,040 happens for us when we build our lives on God's word and we're 490 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,080 not forgetting what he says, but we do it. 491 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:45,080 They will be blessed in what they do. 492 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,520 Can you put that verse back up one more time, that James verse? 493 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:55,960 They will be blessed. There's a blessing for us when 494 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,040 we build our lives on the rock, when Jesus is our Savior, when 495 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,640 he's our Lord, we come to him. We hear His word, we let it get 496 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,320 deep in our heart. We let it guide our lives. 497 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,240 Whatever your word says, God that I will. 498 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:18,880 In other words, Jesus, you are the rock that I'm building my 499 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,920 life on. You're the rock. 500 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:26,320 That day in my garage when the cabinet installers gave me that 501 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,800 suggestion of cutting the top lip of my cabinets off, I could 502 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,240 have done that. I could have done that. 503 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:39,040 I've I'm an experienced builder, the furniture, I know and I 504 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,040 could have done that. I'm experienced in life. 505 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,120 I've done it this way before. I can figure things out. 506 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,360 We'll we'll make it work. But something said, double click 507 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,520 on that, open up. There's not words in IKEA 508 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,160 instruction books, but there is a phone number. 509 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:56,520 Thank God there's a phone number. 510 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,080 Thank God they answer. When I called them, they walked 511 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,920 me through. They said, well, where are you 512 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:03,920 in the instructions? I'm like, well, I'm just, I'm at 513 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,720 the cabinet, the drawer furnace relations. 514 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,120 They said, Sir, there's three different ways that you can 515 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,200 install the the drawer fronts. I'm like three-way to make it 516 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,680 easy. Thank you three ways. 517 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,880 So they said, So what you're wanting to do is you're wanting 518 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,960 to go to this page here and you're going to just shift 519 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,400 everything down just this like all of the holes are there and 520 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,760 that like they were right. If we build our lives on our own 521 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,040 ideas on our own experience, on our own expertise, we will 522 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,400 always find ourselves shortcutting and find things 523 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,720 will not be established. They won't be strong, but when 524 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,320 we build our lives on Jesus the rock, everything is established, 525 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:45,480 firmly founded so that when the storms of life come, we will not 526 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,280 be moved. I want to pray for us today and 527 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,480 I want to give us an opportunity. 528 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,720 Wherever you are, whether in this room here at our Fort Myers 529 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,560 location or you're at one of our locations, Cape Coral, downtown 530 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,720 or East, or you're online, I want to pray for us. 531 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,880 And I would love just in the sanctity of this moment for you 532 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,920 to just bow your head, close your eyes so that you're not 533 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,800 distracted looking around, just between you and Jesus right now. 534 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,480 If you have never said yes to a personal relationship with 535 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,200 Jesus, I want to lead you in a prayer. 536 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,320 I'm not going to embarrass you. I'm not going to have you stand 537 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,320 up. Are the location pastors at your 538 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:19,440 location? They're not going to have you 539 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,480 come forward, but simply right where you are in this moment. 540 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,000 If you would say, Pastor Dan, I recognize that I'm a Sinner and 541 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,280 that my sin is separating me from God, but I no longer want 542 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,600 to be separated. And you would say that you want 543 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:35,640 to receive Jesus's sacrifice for your life so that your sins can 544 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,880 be washed away, removed as far as the east is from the West 545 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,240 that you want to make Jesus your Savior and your Lord today I 546 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,440 want to pray for you. And on the count of three, if 547 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,520 you would say include me in that prayer, I want you to just slip 548 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,440 your hand up. Whatever location you're at, you 549 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,480 slip your hand up. If you're online, you can let 550 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,480 them know in that chat. I'm saying yes to Jesus. 551 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,240 I want to pray that prayer. Include me in that. 552 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,800 On the count of three, wherever you are, I want you to raise 553 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,520 your hand. And all you're saying is pray 554 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,160 for me. I want to receive Jesus as my 555 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,240 Lord and Savior On the count of 3123, slip your hand up. 556 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,080 Slip your hand up. Thank you, yes, today's my day. 557 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,400 Today is the day of salvation. Jesus, be the Lord of my life. 558 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,720 Everybody, wherever room you're in, I would love for you to join 559 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,600 with all of us, those that raised their hand and pray this 560 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,160 prayer together. Would you say it out loud with 561 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,560 me? Would you say, Heavenly Father, 562 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,560 thank you for loving me. Thank you for sending your Son 563 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,880 Jesus to die in the cross for me. 564 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:36,560 Jesus, I believe that you are the Son of God, that you pay the 565 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:43,120 price for my sin, that you died for me and you rose again for 566 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,160 me. I ask you to come into my heart, 567 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,200 wash me clean of all my sin and make me new today. 568 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,280 Now say this boldly. I commit from this day forward 569 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,280 that I will follow after you all the days of my life. 570 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,920 Thank you for loving me and thank you for saving me in Jesus 571 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,840 name, Amen. Just a moment, our location 572 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,040 pastors are going to come out at all of our locations. 573 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,040 They're going to give you very clear next step. 574 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,040 We've got a Bible that we want to get in your hands. 575 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,520 I really encourage you make sure you do what the location pastors 576 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,640 are directing you to do so you can get that Bible. 577 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,920 We can walk with you on this journey of Jesus becoming not 578 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:28,120 just your Savior, but your Lord. And for the rest of us right now 579 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,800 that have prayed that prayer before, maybe you've it's been a 580 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,640 long time since you've been in church. 581 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,760 Maybe you've used to follow God and he was the rock of your 582 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:44,000 life. But at some point you stepped 583 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,920 off the rock, stepped off the foundation of Jesus. 584 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,840 I want to pray for us in this room today that wherever you are 585 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,560 on your spiritual journey, whether you have been faithfully 586 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,680 following Jesus all your life or there's been ups and downs. 587 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,760 Maybe you're in the midst of a struggle right now on a storm 588 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,640 and you're you're struggling to keep your feet surely 589 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,240 established on Jesus the rock. I want to pray for us and I want 590 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,640 to pray that you would make a shift, that each of us would 591 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,080 make a shift even just slightly in our heart to say, Jesus, 592 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,320 you've been my savior and I've allowed you to be Lord of some 593 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,440 of these areas, but I've not allowed you to be Lord of all of 594 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,120 these areas. I think in this moment, right 595 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:30,000 now, Jesus wants to become Lord of every area of our lives. 596 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,400 Can I pray for us right now? Father, in Jesus name, You know 597 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,120 where each of us are at. You know the areas of our life 598 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,720 where you are not truly Lord God, we ask that you would just 599 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,680 knock on that area of our heart. Would you lead us to that place? 600 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,640 God, I pray that you would guide us to a place of repentance, of 601 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:53,200 confessing of our sin, of true surrender to You as not just 602 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,280 Savior, but Lord, Lord of our bodies, Lord of our thought 603 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:02,160 life, Lord of our finances, Lord of our time, Lord of our 604 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:07,800 talents, God, we call you, Lord of all God, thank you for saving 605 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:08,960 us. Thank you for the freedom that 606 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,760 we have in you. We surrender our lives to you 607 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,159 afresh. In Jesus name we pray. 608 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,080 If you agree with that prayer, would you say Amen? 609 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,360 Come on, can you celebrate God together with me?