1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,040 Welcome to the Illuminate Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,640 We hope today's message is encouraging to you. 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,400 Well, last week we started this series called Abandoned, knowing 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,360 that the life that we dream of, which is the fullness, the 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,200 abundant life that Jesus promises us, is found when we 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,320 abandoned the life of the world. And the world comes with it. 7 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:25,800 It's deceit, it's brokenness, it's unsatisfying pursuits, all 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:27,840 of that that the devil's trying to give us in the world. 9 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,040 We leave it behind. And in so doing, this is the 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,080 teaching from last week. We are made well as we come and 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,360 worship King Jesus. We are whole. 12 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,960 We are set free from the power and the penalty of the sin and 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,240 walking in power, walking in peace, leaving. 14 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,160 This is the the vision of the year, ejecting our worldly 15 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,920 citizenship and embodying our heavenly citizenship. 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,280 Amen. The shirt says that you say, 17 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,200 Amen. So the idea of abandoned, like, 18 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,760 OK, I want to abandon my life. I don't know how to do that the 19 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,480 way that you do. That is what we're teaching in 20 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,320 this series. It looks like worship because it 21 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:10,600 is worship. When we worship, this is from 22 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,080 last week, we step off the throne of our lives and allow 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:18,160 Jesus his rightful place on the throne of our lives, seated at 24 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,120 the center of who we are. Amen. 25 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,320 That's the real result of real authentic worship, Jesus on the 26 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:28,960 throne of your life. Now they don't just ask you 27 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:33,160 this. Who do you want on the throne of 28 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,120 your life? Another way to say it is who do 29 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:40,120 you want as the king over every situation that you're going 30 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,440 through in your life? You have options. 31 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,400 Let's just talk about two. The first option is me. 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:50,760 Do you want? Not me, not Tim Inger, but you 33 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,760 as the throne seated 1 seated on the throne of your life. 34 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,200 Because if you're there on the throne of your life, if I'm on 35 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,680 the throne of my life, that means I have limited capacity, 36 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,800 limited ability, limited power, limited strength, limited 37 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,400 wisdom, limited foresight, limited, limited, limited 38 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:15,240 sporadically faithful, occasionally obediently. 39 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,280 Good. You hear these words, that's 40 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,400 what I get if I'm on the throne of my life. 41 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,120 But when I worship and Jesus is seated on the throne of my life, 42 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,440 Psalm 22, verse 3, He is enthroned. 43 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,000 He is seated on the throne of the praises of his people. 44 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,200 When I worship and Jesus comes up, what I get is that eternal 45 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,720 nature of God, the faithful through all generations, kind of 46 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:41,320 God, the all knowing, all powerful King of kings who 47 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,200 looked at him and he looked right down the gun of sin and 48 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,320 death, being forsaken by his Father. 49 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,440 And he went anyway and he defeated sin and death. 50 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,720 And if he's defeated sin and death and he sits on the throne 51 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,320 of your life, imagine what he could do in your life. 52 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,360 That same power. Amen. 53 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,080 Amen. So As for me and my house, and I 54 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,000 pray for you and your house. We choose Jesus to be king. 55 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,960 And the way that we do that is by worship, by worshiping. 56 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:15,720 So what is worship? Is it singing? 57 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,400 No. Well, yes, but not entirely. 58 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,240 You're going to hear that many times in the series. 59 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,440 But here's the concept that we introduced last week. 60 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:24,320 It's not the definition of worship. 61 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,040 It's just how worship works. Here it is. 62 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:32,520 Worship is when God acts and humanity responds. 63 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,520 It's a two-part process. God acts, humanity responds. 64 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,880 Today's message is about the first part of this two-part 65 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:41,760 process. God acts. 66 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,800 I say God. You say Acts, God, God, God, I 67 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:53,040 love you. My wife Christine and I, we 68 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,400 started dating knowing each other and the end of 1994, back 69 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:06,400 in the 1900s. And in 1995, we really began a 70 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,960 relationship. And near the beginning of our 71 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,200 relationship, I was the student director of the Wesley 72 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,840 Foundation, which is the United Methodist Expression at the 73 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,760 University of Florida. And I decided as the director, 74 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,720 we're going to go on a ski trip to West Virginia, Mountain Mama, 75 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,080 right? And we rented a bunch of cars. 76 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,200 We get into cars and we start going up to West Virginia. 77 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,160 There's like 10 cars, like 30-40 people. 78 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,960 I don't really remember. And up we go. 79 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,080 Christine and I are on the trip, obviously, and we stopped in 80 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,320 Atlanta to spend the first night because we don't want to make 81 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,000 the trek. And one long trek. 82 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:42,000 And we stayed at a church on the floor. 83 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:45,040 And then the next morning we got up and did some ministry with 84 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,520 kids into church. It's kind of the exchange. 85 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:48,640 We're going to stay in your place. 86 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,640 We'll do some ministry, then we'll be on our way that 87 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,480 morning. Well, the ministry with the kids 88 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,280 is like on the basketball court and we're running around with 89 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:00,320 the kids and we're playing with the kids and I'm just being who 90 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,280 God created me to be. I'm having so much fun with 91 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,760 these kids, trying to show them the love of Jesus, helping to 92 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,520 make baskets and including them. And this guy's left out and 93 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,720 they'll come over here. You're with us and be a part. 94 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,360 I'm just doing that, doing what I do. 95 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:18,680 We end and I walk over and Christine's over here. 96 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,120 She's like, can we, can we go talk somewhere? 97 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,480 I'm like you. So we go outside the church. 98 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:31,320 I still can visualize it, white roof of this porch and this 99 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,560 concrete steps that go down. And we're standing on the porch 100 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:39,280 of the sanctuary. And she says, hey, I was just 101 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:41,200 watching you. Like we barely been started 102 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,880 dating. I was just watching you and the 103 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,080 way that you treated and all this stuff. 104 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,840 She said a bunch of nice stuff and then she said something we 105 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:55,200 had not said yet. She said, I just want you to 106 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:03,160 know I love you, OK? Now the men get to do awe 107 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:14,040 because all of her was women. For the rest of our 108 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,760 relationship, it's on the record. 109 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:24,240 She said it first and it was so life giving to me. 110 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:31,920 Like, yeah, woo made it. It filled me with something, 111 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:37,720 like she saw something in me and she said she loves me first. 112 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:43,440 What I hope that you leave here knowing today is that God's been 113 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:49,440 over here. He's been watching you and he 114 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,520 just wants to pull you aside. Say, can I talk to you a second? 115 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:00,320 Say, hey, I've been watching you and I want you to know I love 116 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:08,360 you. Every bit of our existence with 117 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,760 Almighty God, anything that has flowed down from the throne to 118 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,080 us, that is precious and powerful, our salvation, our 119 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,040 endurance in the cross, our future promises. 120 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:28,160 All of the glory of this begins first with God saying to you, I 121 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,920 love you. I love you. 122 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:35,240 We talked about the scripture last week. 123 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,120 We might talk about it every every day, every Sunday. 124 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,920 First John chapter 419 says that we love and it doesn't even say 125 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,800 we love God just as we love. So I love you, I hope you love 126 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,440 me. We love our family members, we 127 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:57,320 love our friends, we love God. All love proceeds from this one 128 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:02,880 first initiating act because he first loves us. 129 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,360 He first love you. And he doesn't just say I love 130 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:12,240 you, he shows I love you. Big difference, right? 131 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:18,920 Yep, prove it. Romans chapter 5 verse 8 132 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,480 scripture that'll make you stand and worship and fall in your 133 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,120 face and worship. Romans chapter 5 verse 8. 134 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,240 You won't see it on the screen, so just hear it in your heart. 135 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,640 It says God demonstrated his love to us. 136 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,559 Didn't just say his love, He demonstrates his love to us in 137 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:43,799 this while we were yet sinners, enemies of the cross running 138 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,960 from him, while we were yet sinners. 139 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:54,600 Christ died for us. We all take your hand. 140 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,360 Just take it out like this. Put it right here. 141 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:07,840 Repeat after me. Christ died for me. 142 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:15,640 He loves me. It could be 999 people in the 143 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,280 room that aren't feeling this, but somebody in here today. 144 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,160 Maybe it's all of us. You need to know this and feel 145 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,360 this, and I pray that you do by the time you leave here. 146 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,760 Amen. Now, when we receive this love 147 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,480 of God, God acts, humanity responds. 148 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,320 How do we respond? Really? 149 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,920 This is next week's message, but I just want to pop in a little 150 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:46,080 bit here because it's germane to our conversation. 151 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,320 How should we respond? Do we know how to respond? 152 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,600 And I'm going to say I think we do. 153 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,840 I know we do. Let me prove it to you. 154 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,880 And maybe I'm overstating it a little bit, so just follow along 155 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,040 nicely. I don't know if you've ever had 156 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:07,000 kids or been around somebody who's had kids, but there's a 157 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,360 moment when a teeny little baby begins to crawl. 158 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,480 Then they begin to do that thing where they're holding on to 159 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,160 everything but but standing. And then eventually they do 160 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:24,120 this, right? And then they do this and 161 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:29,920 everybody in the room does this. Isn't it crazy? 162 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,240 Like a baby takes its first steps. 163 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:39,840 You're like, you can walk. We recently unearthed video and 164 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,960 found somebody loaned us a VCRI still have it anyway. 165 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,640 And we put in the video and Owens taking his first steps and 166 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:50,720 we're in the room. We're going nuts. 167 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,600 Like, yeah, he can walk. He's alive. 168 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,720 I don't know if you've ever been to a wedding. 169 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,480 I've been to a few, and there's that moment at the end of the 170 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,520 wedding where I'm standing there, got the best seat in the 171 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:16,640 house, and I say, dude, husband, you may now kiss your wife, your 172 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,640 bride. And I step over here so I'm not 173 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,920 in the pictures and ruin it. And then they go smoochy, 174 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,360 smoochy, smoochy. And everybody at the wedding 175 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,320 goes like this. Yeah, when you win the lottery, 176 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:38,720 you go like this. Are y'all playing the Lotto? 177 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:41,720 He walked right into that one. OK. 178 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,120 The point is, nobody in any of the situations had to say, I 179 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,760 think you should respond because something great has happened. 180 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,960 You already saw something great happened, and so you just 181 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,040 responded. It comes out of you naturally. 182 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,560 Amen. Can I keep overstating this? 183 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:07,280 My son Owen is down here. Pastors, kids, they always get 184 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,720 talked about. I apologize, but this is so 185 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:17,160 profoundly beautiful to me. When he was 18, he was 186 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,040 graduating high school. It was 2020. 187 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,400 Does anyone remember anything that was going on? 188 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:30,840 And so the circumstances of the world stole so much from that 189 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,240 generation. We went to his high school 190 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,000 graduation. You remember yours. 191 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,520 Thousands of people, tons of people, all in the robes and 192 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,320 whatever his graduation was at Celebration High School 193 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:48,920 auditorium, 648 seats, 0 people in them, four of us, family 194 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,680 members down front, Christine, me, Eli, Audrey. 195 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,920 On the platform was the president, the principal 196 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,640 standing here. It's a table full of diplomas 197 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,840 with nothing in them, and you're supposed to walk up and take an 198 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,160 empty one. And then he stood over here, 199 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:16,360 principals over there. Happy graduation, this milestone 200 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,600 moment for every kid. And that's what they got. 201 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,320 And then we walked out and it was over. 202 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:28,080 It was maybe 30 seconds for you that have been to graduations 203 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:38,760 like that sounds good. 17 hours later, their senior prom happens 204 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,360 at Epcot. That's a pretty special place to 205 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,920 have a senior prom cancelled. Another big milestone moment. 206 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:49,200 You're like, this is going to be great. 207 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,640 And everyone's always talking about their senior prom and 208 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,280 their senior graduation. Gone, gone, gone. 209 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,280 Right in the middle of both of these is his 18th birthday. 210 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:07,240 I'm like 3 major celebrations in a person's life. 211 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:12,320 And now he's handling it like a trooper. 212 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Like he's just, it's all right. I mean, it stinks, but inside of 213 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,800 the dad you wrecked for your son. 214 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,040 And so it was his 18 birthdays coming around. 215 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,800 I said I'm doing something, and I called up Rob Allen, who's 216 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,760 over here in the fedora, Yo. I said, hey, you seen these 217 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,320 birthday parades that are going around? 218 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,120 I want to do one for Owen. Can we organize something? 219 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,240 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so it's his birthday. 220 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,840 We're inside. And all of a sudden, you hear 221 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,440 this, all this music starting to happen. 222 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:51,920 And like, I wonder what's going on outside. 223 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,320 So we go outside and stood on our street and there's like a 224 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,320 bend in the road so you can't see anything. 225 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,640 And all of a sudden, the first car comes around, it's the white 226 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:09,240 Jeep. And there's lights and music and 227 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,600 people hanging off the Jeep. And they come passing by. 228 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,480 And for the next 20 or 30 minutes, cars kept coming. 229 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:24,120 People kept coming. And they were throwing things at 230 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:29,440 Owen. Lots of things. 231 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:41,520 Candy, money, water balloons, eggs, flour. 232 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:50,720 Group of his high school buddies brought baked beans in those 233 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,720 giant cans like this big and dumped it on them. 234 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,920 It went on and on. Our Rd. was destroyed. 235 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:01,480 The Murphy's our next door neighbors. 236 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:08,600 You helped clean up that mess. I remember I stood there that 237 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,880 whole time. Really not the whole time. 238 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,560 At first you like this is amazing, but like halfway 239 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:19,640 through you just as a dad. I'm looking at my son thinking I 240 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:25,240 hope he's receiving into his spirit how much love these 241 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,280 people have for him because of who he is. 242 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,760 They are here and I didn't tell him what to do. 243 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:38,200 They're responding naturally because of who he is. 244 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:43,320 And car after car singing sign shouting happy birthday. 245 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:45,440 I heard happy birthday like 6,000,000 times, right? 246 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,560 All of this stuff lavished upon him and I'm just hoping he's 247 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:54,480 receiving the love because of who he is. 248 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,200 And again, we'd have to tell anybody what to do. 249 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,960 It just happened naturally. Am I overstating this point? 250 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:11,200 You can say yes. So from all that, let me ask 251 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:16,119 this question. In general in the American 252 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:22,359 church, are we less responsive as people to God because we 253 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:27,200 don't know how to respond? And I would tell you the answer 254 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:33,480 is no hogwash in every situation I've just shown you, and we 255 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,920 could do thousands more. We know how to respond to 256 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,840 something that is happening that is great. 257 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,320 And we know how to respond to somebody who we know that we 258 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,080 love. So we already know how to 259 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,960 respond. So why aren't we more responsive 260 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:53,200 to the Lord? I'll tell you this, write it 261 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,920 down. Responding properly is rooted in 262 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:02,960 remembering properly the person and the acts and the love, the 263 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:07,560 magnitude and the majesty and the glory of God. 264 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,000 Simply put, we have not responded well because we have 265 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,000 not done well to remember the acts of God. 266 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,720 God acts. Humanity responds. 267 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,280 We don't respond properly because we've forgotten how God 268 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,600 has acted. Are you with me? 269 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,520 We've deluded the distinct depth of His love. 270 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,000 For if we together could fathom, if we could just experience the 271 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,320 fullness of His love, we would just naturally respond. 272 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:42,440 We do that everywhere else. So what should our response be? 273 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,960 That's next week. Please come back. 274 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:55,320 But for this week, I simply want to remind you how God acts, how 275 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,600 perfect His love is. Because I think we've forgotten. 276 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,560 At least I have forgotten from time to time. 277 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,600 To show you how God acts. What we're going to do here 278 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,400 today is not something we do all the time, but there's a teaching 279 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,320 that I have seen that wrecked me in all the right ways. 280 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,640 And instead of giving it to you myself, I'd rather the person 281 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,720 who gave it so perfectly well to give it to you. 282 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,160 And so some of you have met this guy before via video. 283 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,760 I've met him in person, but it's just briefly. 284 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,120 It's not like we're buddies or anything. 285 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:31,800 And this message is profoundly speaking to us how much God 286 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,520 loves us. This is the way that God acts. 287 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,360 He loved us first. What does that look like? 288 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,280 And you need to be reminded today of how much he's 289 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,160 absolutely in love with you. Pastor Preston is from 290 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,360 Scottsdale, AZ's got a church there called The Pillar. 291 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,120 This is about 10 or 12 minutes long. 292 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:52,720 And I pray that you would open your hearts to receive the love 293 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,360 of the Lord from this video. Would you please welcome as if 294 00:19:55,360 --> 00:20:02,880 you were here, Pastor Preston? God's favorite place to be is 295 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:07,320 wherever you are. God's favorite place to be is 296 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,720 wherever you are. Now, there's several ways that 297 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,840 we can know this in Scripture, so there are 4 sub points to 298 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,960 point #1 make sure you write these down. 299 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,240 Here's the first. God made it abundantly clear in 300 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:24,360 the garden. God made it clear that His 301 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:27,760 favorite place to be. Think about this, the God of the 302 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,320 universe has a favorite place to be. 303 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:33,320 That favorite place to be is wherever you are. 304 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,480 He proved that in the garden. I'm not going to read you 305 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,520 Genesis chapter 3, but think about this. 306 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,520 What was the first question God asks man? 307 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,760 We act as though the first question God asks man is what 308 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:52,040 did you do? That's actually question number 309 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,920 four. The first question God asks man 310 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:01,720 after the fall, after sin. God says, where are you? 311 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:08,880 Think about this for a minute. The God who is everywhere and 312 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,960 knows everything asks A locational question. 313 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,640 There's no way. Think about it. 314 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:22,040 God knew where they were because he knows everything, and he was 315 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,920 where they were because he's everywhere. 316 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,960 This wasn't a locational question, it was a relational 317 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,680 question. Think about the implication 318 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,440 here. God saying, where are you? 319 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:37,560 I just want to be with you right now. 320 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,560 We live our lives as though the question God always asks us is 321 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,480 what have you done? Preston? 322 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,520 That was question 4. Question one was where are you? 323 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,000 And think about this. Think about how important God's 324 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,000 presence and your presence to him is. 325 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,520 He says, hey, if they eat from the other tree in this garden, 326 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,400 they'll be separated from me forever. 327 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:08,880 I cannot have that. I cannot stand for that. 328 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,960 God banished them from the garden simply so he could bring 329 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,080 them back. In the grand scheme of things, 330 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,200 one of the things we talk about when we talk about leading 331 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,040 people to Christ, who sometimes if we're not careful, it's 332 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:28,360 salvation. It's all about, hey, we don't 333 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,240 want you to go to hell. Salvation becomes a get out of 334 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,840 hell, not free card, but nearly. I want you to remember this. 335 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,640 Jesus didn't die to get you out of hell. 336 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:45,280 Jesus died so you could hold his Father's hand for eternity. 337 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,080 This was the why. Listen, it, what scares me about 338 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:56,840 hell is not the heat of hell. It's the ice cold absence of 339 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:02,480 God's presence forever. Here's the second thing that 340 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,160 that really helps us understand how serious God is about being 341 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,800 in our presence. Some point #2 He obsessively 342 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,000 chases you everywhere you go. This is really good news. 343 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,240 The God of the universe chases you wherever you go. 344 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,680 I'm going to say it another way. There's never been a room that 345 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,920 you've walked into where God wasn't already waiting for your 346 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,800 arrival. I'm going to show it to you in 347 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,840 Scripture, Psalm 139. You can turn there, but what I'd 348 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,640 really like, I'm going to read you 12 verses of Psalm 139. 349 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,920 And I'd actually prefer that as I read these verses, you close 350 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:45,520 your eyes and you just let the word of God wash over you. 351 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:51,480 And I want you to hear how your God feels about being in your 352 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,400 presence. Psalm 139, starting in verse 353 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,160 one. And if you want to just close 354 00:23:56,160 --> 00:24:01,600 your eyes and just let Scripture wash over you, David says, oh 355 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:08,960 Lord, you've examined my heart and you know everything about 356 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,640 me. You know when I sit down, you 357 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,880 know when I stand up, you know my thoughts even when I'm far 358 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,760 away. You see me when I travel, you 359 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:30,200 see me when I rest at home. God, you know everything I do. 360 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,920 Question, does God know everything you do? 361 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,720 Because he knows everything about everything. 362 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:42,760 I don't think that's his why God knows everything you do because 363 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:50,520 He never stops watching you, no matter what you're doing. 1st 4 364 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,400 God, you know what I'm going to say even before I say it. 365 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,800 You go before me and you follow me. 366 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,000 You place your hand of blessing upon my head. 367 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,640 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to even 368 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:12,240 try and comprehend. I can never escape from your 369 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,840 spirit. I can never get away from your 370 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,840 presence. If I go up to heaven, you are 371 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,800 there. If I go down to the grave, you 372 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,760 are there. If I ride the wings of the 373 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:26,800 morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your 374 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,120 hand will guide me and your strength will support me. 375 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,560 Watch this next part. It's so romantic. 376 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:39,680 I could even ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me 377 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:46,040 to become nine the God. Even in darkness, I cannot hide 378 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,480 from you. OK. 379 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,320 I want you to open your eyes. I want you to hear this. 380 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,440 Months ago, I was sitting in a meeting here in Dallas. 381 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,560 I live in Scottsdale, but I was in an important meeting here in 382 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,840 Dallas. And while I was sitting in the 383 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,200 meeting, my son was playing in a baseball game, one of his 384 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,960 favorite things to do. And I have this app that lets me 385 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:15,880 follow the game pitch by pitch. And so here I am sitting in this 386 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,400 important meeting, trying to act like I'm paying attention. 387 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,520 But the whole time I'm watching pitch by pitch of my son's game, 388 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,480 and everyone else is talking, and I'm not really talking. 389 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:32,160 And I just felt the word say something really sweet, felt him 390 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:38,600 say, Preston, you've never asked me a question about my 391 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,640 omnipresence. So what? 392 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,160 What question do you want me to ask you? 393 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:52,920 He said, You've never asked me my why, why I'm omnipresent. 394 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,400 I said, OK, why are you everywhere? 395 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,160 He said. What's that feeling in the 396 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:06,560 bottom of your chest as you sit in this room, in this meeting, 397 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:13,880 absent from your son's skin? And I said I'm bombed, 398 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:20,520 disappointed, not miserable, but it's a miserable feeling, he 399 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,640 said, pressing. Let me explain my why. 400 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:33,400 Here's why I'm everywhere because I'm a daddy and I'm not 401 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,720 going to miss one pitch of any of my Children's Games. 402 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,280 I am everywhere because I refuse to miss your warmups. 403 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,560 I get to the gym before anybody else comes to watch the game 404 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,040 because I just want to see how you walk into the room. 405 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,920 I was trying not to lose it in the middle of the meeting, but 406 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:03,360 it was so sweet. Did you know God isn't just 407 00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:05,240 everywhere because He's everywhere? 408 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:12,120 He's everywhere because of you. He obsessively chases you 409 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,880 everywhere you go. Here's the third thing that we 410 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:22,680 see in Scripture that helps us to know God is serious about 411 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:28,640 being in our presence #3 God takes the graveyard shift while 412 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,520 you sleep. God takes the graveyard shift 413 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,560 while you sleep years ago. We have three children. 414 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,080 Our oldest is our only daughter, Riley, and she's 17. 415 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:47,200 And probably sometime when she was around 3, I used to go into 416 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,560 a room in the mornings before I went to the office and I would 417 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,040 just stare at her. I know it sounds a little bit 418 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,160 weird, but that this is what I would do. 419 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,040 And one morning I remember going into a room before I was going 420 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,880 to work and I was just undone. And I remember saying to the 421 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:11,840 Lord God, out of all the daddies in the history of the world, I 422 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,880 can't believe that you let me be hers. 423 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,880 I just started going on and on to the Lord about everything I 424 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,280 love about my daughter. I'll never forget that morning I 425 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:30,440 felt the Lord say, Son, do you know this is what I do over your 426 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,400 bed every single morning of your life? 427 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,880 And I'm lost. And he sends me to Psalm 139 and 428 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,480 he backs it up with his word like only he can do. 429 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:51,480 Psalm 139, verse 17, David says, how precious are your thoughts 430 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,080 about me? Oh God, they can't even be 431 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,360 numbered. I can't even count all the 432 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,680 thoughts you have about me. They outnumber the grains of 433 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,200 sand. Watch this next part, David 434 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:09,520 says. And when I wake up, there you 435 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:14,160 are, still with me, standing over me. 436 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,960 This is one of my favorite one liners of our time together. 437 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:27,960 Man gazes at God's sunsets. Have you ever wondered what God 438 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:33,240 gazes at? God gazes at man's face. 439 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,840 Can you even wrap your mind around the fact that your God 440 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,040 sits next to your bed every night? 441 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:54,120 He just looks at you like this. Look at her, she looks just like 442 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:59,280 me. Look at him all night. 443 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:06,440 The God of the universe stares at you while you peacefully 444 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,560 sleep. Here's the fourth thing that we 445 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:15,080 see in scripture that really lets us know got a serious about 446 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:19,200 being in our presence. He takes his alone time with you 447 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,680 very seriously. God takes his alone time with 448 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,680 you seriously. Now I know that as followers of 449 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:33,240 Jesus Christ, we are supposed to be very serious about our alone 450 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:38,080 time with God, but I don't think we understand just how serious 451 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:46,240 He is about being alone with us. Years ago I was going into my 452 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,040 office 1 morning at the house. That's where I have my long time 453 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,560 with the Lord, and I went to sit in my chair. 454 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,000 Or I always pray and I want to turn on my worship music the way 455 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,040 I typically do. And as I'm starting to have my 456 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:02,520 time with the Lord, I just felt the Lord say, Preston, what is 457 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:08,120 the last thing you hear your wife say for the two of you? 458 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,880 Go into experience the most intimate physical act I've given 459 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,520 the two of you to experience on the earth. 460 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,680 I'm going to test some of your maturity with this illustration. 461 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,200 I get it, But hang with me because what I'm talking about 462 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,960 and what we're talking about is not a physical thing. 463 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,840 It's an intimate thing. So the word say, what's the last 464 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,240 thing you hear Holly say before the two of you go to experience 465 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,280 the most intimate physical act I've given you to experience? 466 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:37,720 And I was kind of being an honoree. 467 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,680 Sometimes I'm like that in my time with the Lord. 468 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,400 And I said, well, if you're being literal, typically the 469 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:49,720 last thing she says is, hey, babe, can you shut the door and 470 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,160 lock it? Because back then, I mean, we 471 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,640 had young kids. And those of you who are 472 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:58,000 parents, you know that when you have kids, especially when 473 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,440 they're young, they think every square inch of your house is 474 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:08,320 theirs, including your bedroom. So we were, you know, accustomed 475 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,920 to shutting the door and locking in. 476 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,880 And while I was sitting there in my office in my chair, starting 477 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,960 my quiet time with the Lord, I felt like he said, grab your 478 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,920 Bible and go to Matthew chapter 6. 479 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,360 I want to show you something. So go to Matthew 6. 480 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,920 I want to read to you what Jesus says as he's teaching us on 481 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:34,880 prayer. Jesus says, but you when you 482 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:45,240 pray, go into your room and when you've shut the door, some 483 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:52,600 translations say, and shut the door and pray to your Father who 484 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:58,000 was in the secret place. As I was sitting there in the 485 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,000 chair, felt the Lord say, Preston, I want you to know 486 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,440 something I've never told you before. 487 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:11,199 The last thing you will hear me say every time you come into 488 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:17,280 this room to be alone with me, say, can you shut the door real 489 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,040 quick? He said, why does Holly ask you 490 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,920 to shut the door before I get an answer? 491 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,719 He kind of romantically answered the question. 492 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,080 He said, Preston, what she's communicating to you is what's 493 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:35,120 about to happen on that side of the door is so special and so 494 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,000 intimate and so raw that not even your own flesh and blood 495 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:44,280 can get in on this. I want you to know how seriously 496 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,520 I take our time together. I ask you to shut the door 497 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,719 because what's about to happen on this side of the door is so 498 00:34:54,719 --> 00:35:00,760 special and so intimate and so vulnerable and so raw that I 499 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,000 don't even want your flesh and blood getting in on this moment 500 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:11,760 that I have with you. You could boil this entire 501 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:19,840 message down to this one line. We need to be as serious about 502 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:25,920 being in God's presence as He is about being in our presence. 503 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,320 But I think one of the reasons we're not as serious about being 504 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:34,080 in His presence is we just don't understand how serious He is 505 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:51,680 about being in our presence. So this morning, let's shut the 506 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:58,280 door right here, right now. Before we go anywhere else and 507 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:05,120 run on to what's next, we need to shut the door to some fears 508 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,480 and worries. Shut the door on some diagnosis, 509 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,200 shut the door on a relational issue, shut the door and what's 510 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,480 happening at work, Shut the door and what I got to get ready for 511 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,040 this kids to go back to school tomorrow. 512 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,480 Everything that could race around in your soul and your 513 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,560 spirit and say I'm not giving you my attention. 514 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:29,840 I'm going to shut the door and be present with the God who's 515 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:36,800 every moment is desiring to be present with you for you to walk 516 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:45,000 in the room. Shut the door, say hey Dad, and 517 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,360 to hear your father say I love you. 518 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:52,880 And maybe you don't hear that enough here on in humans, flesh 519 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,240 and blood bodies, but certainly you can hear it from your 520 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:02,560 heavenly Father here. And now today I'm going to pray, 521 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:08,600 and as I do, same as last week, same as next week, I'm going to 522 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,080 ask you to get yourself in a position, a posture where you 523 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,320 feel like the door is shut and it's just you and the Lord. 524 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,000 I know you're here with other people. 525 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:23,960 It's not rude right now to just be here by yourself and just 526 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,360 focus on your heavenly Father. If you need to come to the 527 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:33,000 altar, be on your knees, be on your face, stand, sit, whatever 528 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:39,120 it is that you want to do. Eyes open, eyes closed to be in 529 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,080 His presence. Then as I pray, as soon as I 530 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,920 start praying, you start moving. Amen. 531 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,840 Let's pray. Father, this is your space, your 532 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,360 house. And as we come in your house, 533 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,640 you say, hey, will you close the door behind you? 534 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,720 I have something I want to tell you. 535 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,680 I've been watching you and I love you. 536 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,680 I've always loved you, never stop loving you. 537 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,720 I never stopped thinking about you and Lord, we receive. 538 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,480 We receive your love despite our failures, our flaws, our 539 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:25,360 filters, even we close the door on it all and allow your love to 540 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,840 wash over saturate us. We're not getting drops today, 541 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:38,560 we're getting flood. So pour out, pour out your love 542 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:43,200 here in this place as part of Confession Church. 543 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,080 Would you just in your own way confess that you've forgotten 544 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:56,480 how much that God has loved you? That you've forgotten how much 545 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:02,080 the lengths that He went to to show you this love? 546 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:11,120 Would you open your heart to receive and to give your Father 547 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:17,440 love in Jesus name? Thanks for joining us today. 548 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,480 We hope God is speaking to your heart through this message. 549 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,480 If you'd like to connect with us, you can text connect to 550 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:30,000 407-588-0115 or visit Illuminate dot church. 551 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:31,680 Have a great week.