It's in our attention and our focus and going vertical. Everybody would go vertical now. So that when you go horizontal, you got something to go horizontal with. So thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Father, for this morning. Thank you, Lord. I was glad when they said to me, "Hey, let's go up to the house of the Lord." Fernan, and then we just declare also that the gates are open. Hey, angels ascend and descend at the will and the goodness of God. And come, come. Thank you, Jesus.

Just like to welcome you this morning to Flow River Church. I know a lot of you here visiting, and we just welcome you. And we just take your freedom. We have a, usually we have a little bit bigger space up here, but there's a space up here for a reason. It's for you just to express your love to Him and the way you want to. To have that liberty. With flags, there are flags somewhere there in the back. You're welcome to grab one. Just don't hit anybody. They had, there is room in the back also, as well. So take your liberty to worship Him and be blessed in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach, Yahweh Rafa, which is Jesus, The Anointed One, the Son of God, our healer.

And then, good morning, everybody. I just encourage you to stand up. You can do however you want, however you want to worship. It's great. Oh, Jesus, we just come into Your throne room right now. Jesus, we present ourselves to You. You're here for You. You're here for You. You're here for You. You're here for You. Jesus.

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Whoo. Ah. Well, Gaji had that coming. Whoa. Where's Robin? Robin, good morning, everyone. Wow. I got a lot of new faces. Welcome. We are so glad you're here. And so, we got a lot of announcements. So I'll try to go kind of quickly, but it's all in the activation card that you were given when you came in. So if you miss anything, you can go back and read it. So tonight, we have worship, prayer, and intercession back here at 7 o'clock. And then this Wednesday, we do our monthly Rosh Kadesh celebration. It's the month of Tim moves, to Moses, something like that. So if you want to find out what that's all about, come on Wednesday night. We do a potluck where we all bring a dish to share. This says it starts at 7:00, but it actually starts at 6:30. So try to be here by 6:30. So we'll start eating at 6:30. If you can't get here right at 6:30 for the meal, that's okay. Come anyway, because we will have worship, we'll have a teaching on what the month of Timo's is, and give our first fruits offering and receive a blessing. And we have a couple new things going on. Exciting for the young people. We, we're gonna have next Sunday after service at 3 o'clock. We're gonna have a youth slash young adult sports social. So that's for teenagers and young adults. And Josh, Josh is leading that up, correct? You? Yeah. Yes. Oh, no, Josh is not. That is Caitlin and Ben. Okay. That's Ben and Kahlan. But then, no, no, no, no. On Thursday, Josh and Miriam are leading the young adult Bible study, right? Josh? Yes. Okay. So next Sunday, July 9th, we're having the sports social. And then next Thursday, or Thursday the 13th at 8 o'clock, we'll have a young adult Bible study led by Josh and Miriam. And then we have a marriage class that's going to be starting, and it's six weeks. And thank you, Robert. So, um, can I get a show of hands if anyone who might be interested in that? Just so we can kind of get an idea of how many people would be interested in coming to the marriage class? Don't be shy. You have to be married. Yeah. Okay. So we're gonna actually send around a sign-up sheet. So if you're interested, it's open. Don't you have to be married? Okay. You don't have to come to our church, but you do have to be married. Okay. So we're gonna send out, set the, put the sign-up sheet. So it's gonna go, it's the marriage class. This is the sign up for the marriage class. Or about to get married. So if you, if you're thinking about it, like seriously, not, not just praying about it, but like, seriously. Yeah. Okay. And then Saturday, July 15th, we have our women's gathering. And that is going to be at 10 o'clock in the morning here. And again, we bring food and fellowship. And we'll have more information on that. July 22nd, we're doing our next outreach led by Donna. It's gonna be out at the beach. And so we'll also have more information coming about that in the next few weeks. But go ahead, mark your calendars. July 22nd. And then July 23rd and 30th for our Sunday evening services. Kathleen's gonna be doing a series. And I'm gonna let her come and talk to you about that. Miss. Oh, yeah. Okay. This is called Deliverance from Regions of Darkness. And you know, in Isaiah 40:42, he talks about how his people are plundered, trapped in caves and pits, and there's no one ever to say, "Give them back or restore." Well, that's what we're going to do. We're going to say, "Give God's people back, restore them out of these regions of darkness." You know, a God can deliver you, and you could be saved. But you know, there's pitfalls in life, so cold you in places, and you can't see. Sometimes we just feel like we're still captive. But I'm gonna tell you, the prison doors open. And this is gonna help you just walk out. It's already unlocked. There's gonna be no unlocking here. God, Jesus already did it. And we're just gonna lead you out to where He says you're supposed to be. What green pastures, flowing brooks, thrones in the heavenlies. That's where you're supposed to be. So if you ain't there, come here. We're gonna help you because a great Shepherd of your soul is leaving the ninety-nine, coming after you. All right. Okay. So that's what that is about. It's free, but please try to arrange it so you go to become at least to both of them. Okay. Good morning. Thank you, worship team. So awesome. Appreciate you guys. You're in my prayers regularly. They should be. Perfect. So we're gonna take up our morning tithes and offerings. And this will be the tithes for the church and the offerings for Dan. And so there's envelopes either in the seatbacks or under your seat. If you're way in the back on the other seats that don't have the backing, then if you want an envelope. So if you are writing one check for the church and want to split it, make sure you put "love." You know, so if you put a check in for Dan, make sure you write "love." If you use an envelope and cash, make sure you write "love," because everything that's smart for him goes to him. Okay. And so I want to tell you guys, I mean, normally, you know, I just move right into the tithes and offerings and we just, but I, I'll tell you, I was out there TCF Friday night and, and, you know, it was really good. I mean, Dan has said everything so, so much eloquence, and it was like everything I've been saying for 10, 15 years. And, you know, but he did it so much better than me. But anyway, no, it was really awesome. And it's so grounded in so much about relationship. And he who has an ear to hear, let him hear. If you can get ahold of this, if you can get ahold of what he has to say, if you get that in your spirit, your, there's no reason why your life isn't gonna change like that. And you're all the, all the mess in your life just go away. You know, all your hurts, your fears, your angers, ever, all that stuff. I mean, it really is, he lays it out very clear. And so I'm just telling you, you're sowing into a really good ground here. This is, um, this is a piece of, you know, the, it will just change your life. There really will. If you just get a hold of what he has to say today and get that in your spirit and start walking in in victory, in freedom, in relationship, and not in a place where you owe anybody anything. It's all between you and the Lord. And nobody owes you. And you're just free from that, you know, that bondage. So, Lord, I just thank You for this new acceleration point in our lives, this new jumping-off point, Lord, as You bring such relevance to Your people today. We just thank You, Lord. I thank You that You provide for us and that we can sow and we can give with generosity out of freedom, not out of any bondage, not, it's all out of relationship with You, God. It's all out of looking up to Abba and saying, "Thank You, Abba. Thank You, Abba. Thank You for what You do for me. I'm gonna share what You give me. I'm gonna give it all away." In Jesus' name, Amen. And the black box is our food pantry box, which, if, which we just augment our food pantry with that. So without further ado, if you're ready, damn ready. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Bless you. Good morning, guys. Amen. Movies, just a little closer if you don't mind. I like to be close. I prove that didn't that I was messing with that Mevo. What now? I'm so sorry. Oh my goodness. That's the last night thing, guys. Sorry. If you're just visiting and we're having a little flashback here. They used this little Mevo last night. It was new to me, and it just, it didn't even look like a camera, but it was watching me. And I was supposed to stay in the boundary lines of the Mevo. So I felt like I was in a batter's box and a cage. And, and apparently I kept good boundaries there. But I kept walking. I like to get close to people when I'm talking. So I'm doing this, and the Mevo's right here. And apparently she was ever trouble. Probably had my Adam's apple on the video or so. Was this a great time this morning or what? Already. Oh my goodness. What a beautiful name, huh? Thanks, guys. Worship team, you guys are incredible. You bless my heart this morning. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I, I've been singing that song, a little motion over, probably every day for two weeks. It's just a beautiful song because He's a beautiful name. When you understand what Jesus really did, and you really understand the gospel, it changes everything, guys. Like this thing is in here just to bless you, to serve you, to make sure your day goes good, to take you to heaven. I think sometimes we teach so many messages that are self-serving, that that benefit us, that we miss the power of the gospel a lot of times. So we look for the blessing and have the same old attitudes, the detrimental mindsets, the same old limited motives. And all of a sudden, He's so great, and we're not doing all that great. And I'm like, "What's up with that? Like, something's got to give here. Like, there's must be something we're missing." I just said to a man in the back, I said, "You know, wouldn't it be amazing? You go to church for 50 years and never miss a Sunday, get thrown into crisis, and respond like the man that never went to church?" Ah, something's missing. We're to become new creations. All things become new. You put off the old man and his deeds. You put on the new man who's created right according to God, in agreement with who He is. I think we get so tricked relating so much to who we've been, and how it is that we, we actually think it's normal. We think this is the way we are, and this is the way we're always going to be. Because I want to encourage you, there's new life through Jesus Christ. Yeah. You're renewed in the spirit of your mind. If He can change my eye, and change my perspective, He's already changing my life. Look, if I wake up to find my encouragement through you, my identity through you, my self through life, I'm only as good as life's treating me. And you're seeing me. But if I let Him become my identity, in Him become my truth, I think I read somewhere, He's not true. Guys, I'm just telling you, I pastored for a while, and been a Christian for a little while, and I've been very involved with people, and I've learned a lot of us are discouraged, and we're letting life speak way louder than truth. And, and, and we're afraid to, really talk true freedom. Because I think we're in denial. And you got to get real. And everybody's gonna have their moments. I'm like, "Maybe that's why you're having yours, 'cause you believe that." Maybe your perspective could just be a little adjusted. Maybe you're not evil. Maybe you're not lacking anything. Maybe you're not riddled with unbelief. Maybe you're not a hypocrite at all. Maybe we're destroyed for the lack of understanding. So for the lack of knowledge. So in getting knowledge to stop destruction. Proverbs 4 says, "In all you're getting." It doesn't say "in some of you're getting." It's an all-in system. It says, "In all, forget." Doesn't say "blessing." Doesn't say "fuller vats and barns and glassier cease." And keep them treating you the way you hope. Says, "In all you're getting, get understanding." You grew up here, and "what you don't know won't hurt you." In animation, the Bible says, "What you don't know is destroying you." You grew up with a self-preserving phrase that people meant well. They said, "You know, y'all submit." That would happen. You know, the Bible says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for." That hope is the anchor of your soul, passing through the veil into His presence. The Bible saying, "Get your hope up." And in a self-preserving way, we've been taught, "Don't get your hopes up." Come on. You heard this down here in this area, in Clearwater. "What you see is what you..." You could go anywhere, anywhere, start that, and people finish it. Why? It's universal language. You've been taught it. You've been taught it, and you know it. You know the ending. There's 50 more we can do. The Bible says, "Don't ever live by what you see." What you see is subject to change. The things unseen are eternal. And yet, you grew up hearing, "What you see is what you..." Isn't it amazing the language we grew up believing? The way that seemeth right is the total opposite of the Word of God. It's not an accident. When Adam sinned, he didn't just sin, folks. He took on the nature of God's enemy. And everything that he was created to be got perverted and became something 180 degrees off of it. Opposite. Instead of being love and laying down his life, he became in need of love and lived at the expense of the expense of God, the will of God, the expense of Eve. We've grown up living at the expense of one another. We should, "Well, I don't do bad things." Come on. Some of our attitudes are unproductive. Sometimes we get moody in our homes. Get real with me. You have a family of four, and you throw a fit. Whatever. Go to your room. Don't want to talk. Silent treatment. And you, holy geez, you're so good. And then you got out, and you fight, and you're fighting over where you're gonna eat. And there's food on every corner. No, no. I'm getting real with you this morning. No, I'm getting real with you this morning. I don't want you to teach yourself religion and just live for some blessing that isn't even real, the way we're talking. Come on. The Bible says of you, "If you can't love your brother, you're in darkness still." Right now, listen, I'm not getting legalistic. I'm not getting you to doubt your salvation. Listen, in America, we make the word "salvation" mean "go to heaven." The word "salvation" is a word that has more to do with life now, and it means total restoration. Total restoration. We preach the self-serving message that benefits me instead of transforms me, that gets me out of darkness into the light so I can walk in the light as He's in the light. I can't afford to hold on to the same attitudes, the same opinions, the same mindset, the same scrub of the shoulder, the, whatever, the nonchalant, "Well, who cares?" Jesus cares. He gave His life for this thing. He shed His blood to restore you and me back to what we were intended to be. And we've turned it into a thing that blesses me and serves me. We, if we're not careful, this is your faith. And all of a sudden, you use promises for blessing. My Bible said, "Promises to assure that we partake of His divine nature, having escaped the corruption all around us through self-centered seeking." Second Peter chapter 1. It's there. You can find it. Oh, it's there. I read the book. In fact, the book's in me. I promise you. You ought to know it. If you don't know the truth, you'll never discern a lie. You'll get lulled to sleep by life instead of wake up in Christ. Wake up. Come on. Closer than with than ever. Wake up, you who sleep. Right. Redeem the time. J. Survival. Let's get moving. Right. Let's understand why we're alive. Let's understand why He's inside of us. Let's understand who we've become now that He came. Let's just not see it as a suffering Savior. Are you kidding me? He became what I was so the price could be paid for me to become what He is. A son. We, we don't understand. He came as a man. We just see Him as God. We see Him as Jesus, the Lord. He humbled Himself and made Himself of no reputation. Got filled with the Spirit of God. If He came as God, He wouldn't be filled with the Spirit of God. If He came as God, He wouldn't be tempted. You can't tempt God. If He came as God, He wouldn't have slept in the boat, because God doesn't slumber. He came as a man, and He showed us and modeled us a life that we're created for. He didn't say, "Sing to me and pray to me when you're overwhelmed." He said, "Follow me." He invited me into His life because His life's in me. First John says, "You live through Him." Christ. We talk about glory all the time in the terms of glory manifestation. We think it's some wind flows through the window. The glory of God is any manifest attribute of God, any made seen known realized revelation of the person of God is the glory of God. Watch this. The Christ in me, it's the hope of making God seen and known. Yeah, that works for me. He, He wants to live in me, to love through me, and shine through me. My days of attitudes are over. My duties. If I can't believe they said that to me, will that really hurt? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? This is not some self-centered world that I'm incorporating Jesus into. I'm not mean. I'm smiling. It's just my sword's sharp because there's a lot of little foxes to keep stealing the precious fruit of the vine. And I want to encourage you not to come and just keep doing real good church and miss becoming her. Make sure you become her as you're doing good church. Because you guys do good church. Thanks. You guys rock. Really. You guys bless me this morning. Yeah. They're really awesome. I mean, it just wasn't many folks up there, and they were interrogating. Ah, when they were right, when he conquered death, before they ramped up to that forest, I was like, they were working it. Just could not hook leave it. We were just there, man. I was like, "You guys better sing it soon. Sing it soon." Like, "Sure, she's ready, man." You feel that? We're never doing a virgin's like, "You didn't know what to do." You're like, "You know, you're in trouble." White man can't dance. You like, "I don't know what I'm doing right now. I'm messing up. I'm really messing up." You know why we're laughing so hard? So you don't feel any pain in this surgery. You don't even know it. God's setting you up. You're taking anesthesia right now, 'cause my sword is really sharp. Oh, it's sharp. He's gonna cut out your heart. You just gonna swim away flat. And when I'm done, you're only gonna have two options. I'm gonna have this option. Wow. Or you're gonna say, "I hear." I promise you, you're not gonna say. He's gonna be too clear. They'll be no way out. He's gonna define your heart. It's gonna decide where you're at right now. Is in the end of promise. You not people who prayed the prayer and Jensen and watch this, your life live the life that reveals what she believed. You know them by their fruits. Baba says, "You judge for your work." The life you live reveals the pushing inside. Say what you want. Life unit. So why do we talk like this? So a good heart doesn't have weight. So a person that having the truth would not have. Yeah, tragic. If somebody having heard is unwell, but haven't heard, like, "Gave me the money. I'm just you to confirm and treat for about 40 minutes. Go crazy. Fill your heart." Stop. Amen. Come on. Life's a gift. Life's a gift. It's not a dread. It's not a grind. It's a gift. You got this one window called life to live in Him for purpose. And faith says that's true. Faith says that's true. See, the just live by faith. Oh, you live by feelings all you want. That's your choice. But it's grave deception. Many people in God's house living by feelings. In fact, we spent countless hours ministering to people based on feelings instead of truth. Most things that we minister to aren't even prayer issues. They're just strong truth issues. We just need to change the way we think and see and believe. As you believe wrong things, you feel wrong things. If you wake up and think for yourself, you're a mess. Your day can't be okay because you're self-conscious. You're in fear of man. You're people-conscious. Your schemes always in trouble. You always think about who said what, who looked what, how you look, what they think. It is hell. Why? Because you were never made to live for. Read your Bible. You're made for His image. The reason man's on the planet is to be found in the image of God. He didn't just make man. He made man with intention. And the problem is, we were born into Adam. We were born into separation from God. We were born into the loss of the image and the loss of identity. When Adam ate the tree, everything he was created to be died and was lost. But it wasn't lost in the heart of God. God never changed His mind about man. So He had a lamb slain before the foundation of the world to restore all things. And the biggest lie is that the way we grew up is the way we are. You know, maybe what God gave us emotions, not the ones you grew up with. Don't you give Him credit for that? Self-centered foundation. Gave you how to be angry before you could speak a language. You were willful before you could talk. Mine. You were needy. Not just you, an infant and baby. From the time you can remember, you needed love. You needed affection. You needed to feel important. You needed to be valued. You needed to find out who you were because you didn't know. And unfortunately, life starts teaching you that stuff. The peer pressure, magazines, movie lines. And all of a sudden, the way that seemeth right, which leads to death, always is our instructor. Now you're trapped in a rat race in the world you weren't created. You come out. Every man born into Adam, every man born into an empty, lost, lonely place, every man needing something. Yes, but defining, come on, at a very young age. The person you are isn't even you. Get real with me. The person you are is just however you responded to whatever went down. The thing that went down is instructing you. It's, it's the paintbrush. It's the etching tool. That's why so many people are fixed on their story because they find themself through their story. Just that's where you find yourself. You can't be a Christian outside what you don't know. What it was like, brother, when I was growing up. You're not growing up. You're in Christ. In Christ. You're 45. You're not growing up. At some point, you got to call that dead and put it down. At some point, you got to go the water baptisms and say, "You know what? It'd have been great if I'd had a better parent. If them greater funcle, so-and-so didn't touch me wrong. It would have been amazing if we had more money. If them, they amazing if my dad didn't slap me around, tell me I'd never be nothing." But he was wrong. And I'm done trying to get a drink out of a dry cup when One came that's filling my thirst. Just one drink. Just one drink. Just one drink, and I'll never thirst again. Do you know how many people go to church and they're still thirsty? Because they're finding themselves through life, not Him. And they're using Him to try to answer their heart cry, misunderstanding. He is the answer. They want some supernatural touch. They want some supernatural feeling. They want some supernatural emotion. Not gonna be mean here. You shut me down if you want. I'm not being negative. It's never gonna happen that way. It doesn't work that way. Come on. It's like a Christian addict. You just wanna live on the high of something. Come on. Look, you don't have to do drugs to be an addict. You mean attention addict? An accolade addict? You can do things to be noticed, and it's twisted. It's because you're insecure. And you like the accolade. You like the praise. You like when people say, "You're so awesome." And you heard, I mean, you act like you didn't. What you say? "Excuse me, so awesome."

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That's messed up. That's messed up. I'll tell you how I know I'm right on this thing because so many people get tore up when things aren't said right. When people don't say things right, people can't get over it. They let what one man said trump what one said. They let what one man did trump what one did. And they let this become Lord and govern their life. And then they try to bring Jesus into that mess and make them feel better instead of stop believing lies and living insecure. I promise you, Jesus isn't on the earth to make you feel better. He's here to make you like Him. Yeah. That's not heresy, people. He's here to make you like Him. If He made man for His image, He wants to restore the image. You know how many image scriptures are in the Bible? It's Corinthians 4 says, "You're beholding is in the mirror the glory of the Lord." Six. No, you can look in a mirror, go, "Whoa, I see you in there, right?" Yeah. Oh, Jesus. It's not vanity. It's not vanity. It is smooth and the Lord. It's not vanity. You understand that your life's on purpose. Your life is the will of God. There's a time to be born. You're not here by happenstance. You're not here because a man and a woman came together. You're here because God saw your day. He's the author and giver of life. Before the foundation of the world, you were predestined to be adopted in as His child. Don't think your happenstance. Life isn't just happenstance. You're on purpose and you're calculated. And He saw your names. That doesn't mean He numbered them. That when your clocks punch, you can lengthen your days, you can shorten your days. The only reason they're numbered is because He's all-knowing. He saw them from beginning to the end. But don't think you have a time waiting where you have to die. That's understood with your time cards. Lunch. You're out of here. There is no time card. You be the time. It's just children. First commandment with a promise. Honor your mother, father, who'll be well with you in life. See, you can like some games. Psalms 91. You set your love upon Him because you love me. Salvation. Life. See, I'm not in a hurry to go anywhere. Life's not overwhelming. Life's a gift. I'm having so much fun. We think it's pretty. You don't know. You can't. I'm gonna be around for long. I told my granddaughter, "When you're 50, you look over your shoulder, grandpa."

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And I'm talking about living. No, 150 years. I'm just talking. I'm going with a long time and be okay with it. Keeping pardoning minister. Might just sit in the chair and lay my hands on young. But I'm ready to go nowhere quick. I'm having fun. Life is not so tough. Are you kidding me? Everybody has circumstances. Don't think it's strange. Peter said, "All your brothers, sisters, all over the world are going through the same things you're going through." Don't make it all about you. And you don't know what I'm going through. And it's been a hard week. All you're doing is revealing you don't understand solely why He's in you. See, because when you're in adversity, you're called to shine, not cry. Called to shine, not complain. Called to shine, not drawback. When you're treated unjust, you're called to shine, not get hurt. Shine, not get offended. Shine, not drawback. Come on. Somehow we think we got this special dip on God, and He's supposed to make everybody treat us right. People don't even appreciate God. Why would they appreciate you? Come on. He wants to make you like Him. Colossians 3. Put off the old man and his deeds. Put on the new man. Who's He plus? It's 3:10. Renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created them. Second Peter. We have exceedingly great and precious promises by which through them we partake of His divine nature, escaping the corruption that's in the world through lust. He's not wrong about pornography and sexuality. How about self-centered, unsatisfiable? Is I guess when I got delivered from out of darkness into light, I got out of self. India. What do you say? "If any man, if any man," that means everybody's invited. "If any man come after me, let him first..." What? What's first? You know what we made first? Pray the prayer so you can go to heaven. He never said that. We make the push beneficial. Preach it that way. Yeah, of course people have prayed your prayer because if you're right, they want to go to heaven. They certainly tell real. They don't want to go there. I'll play your prayer. It's not about going to heaven. It's about transformation and conversion. Heaven comes into you. Life starts when you get born again. Because before you were born again, you were dead. You were walking, yet death. Living, yet death. There was no life in your spirit. You were a tear, not weak. You get it? So Jesus said, "If you come after me, there's this one thing you have to do." It's the most vital thing of all. You have to deny yourself. And that's not some rigid lip fight, legalistic thing. It's meaning, "Wow, I was never made for me. This thing ain't all about me. It's about Him in thee." There's this great relationship and covenant with Christ in me. So does He value me? Yes. He values what He created me to be. He loves the potential, the purpose, the destiny. And He loves what I look like when He's in the, and I'm surrendered. And He believes that's worth paying for. Yeah. Come on. You think with me, how easy it is to have a detrimental attitude? How easy it is to just be moody? How easy it is just get so fixed on yourself and be miserable there and know it and stay there and draw superficial attention? Be real with me. We've all lived that way at some level. Some way more extreme than others. No, it's just, it's just deficit. It's just you trying to get falsities. Die already and get free. I'm serious. I'm serious. You saw me one person in this place, and you'll be honest. We'd be one person when you were moody, when you had a gripe, when you had an unresolved conflict. Tell me one person's place. Tell me that you were truly blessed and produced anything good. But we've spent years there. Some of us. Some of us think it's our calling. I'm sorry. I'm just saying. But you can't covet life. It covered Him. He's the giver of life. Our children. Don't covet your children. The children are a blessing. He's supposed to manifest the image of God for your children and train them up in. Don't make your children an idol. That's what messes your life. All of a sudden, you're only as good as your kids are doing. And you call it luck. No, it's not. Are you finding your identity? Parents are kids down now. The parents are up there. You say, "Who lives in condemnation?" I've seen countless mothers lose their productivity when their children walking. And they cry and wail, afraid. Don't cry. Their house is leaving. You see devastated. And they wear that thing and they call it love. And say their energy. It's not good. Anything that steals your influential productivity and the light machine. You can't. There's a place to be in faith and live in faith and speak over your child in the bedroom and make some declarations and walk out of there, shine in and go to work and be the woman or man of God. Yeah. Come on. That's nothing now. You're not stuffed in feelings. You're living by faith. You have a higher view than the moment. I went through this stuff, man. My wife wasn't doing good. My son was doing drugs. My son was out there doing drugs. And I'm preaching all over the country. How are you, kid? Yes, that question also. How's your family? I didn't go into details. I didn't exploit them. But when you look at me, you couldn't tell my son was on drugs. You couldn't tell my wife wouldn't come to church. She was in identity crisis and was comparing herself to me and believing everybody was to her rhetorical and just saying hi 'cause she's my wife. That's a good way to get crushed on. You start believing that stuff. That's a good way to lose your value real quick. You just think that every phone call is because you're messed up, not because they care. Just to think that everybody that says hi to you is just saying hi because they should, 'cause you're alone, that they're being courteous. Just sort of believe it. That'll wreck you in a moment. Their heartbeat. So there I am, preaching all over the country on identity. And my wife, I couldn't even talk. I look at her and tell her all the things that the word says. And she looked me right in the eyes, stare me right. It wasn't a demon. It was a stronghold of wrong belief. And the only answer is truth. The weapon of your warfare. It's not, she didn't need oil in her devil review. She's believing a lie. And the only antidote for a lie is truth. And if she won't hear truth, why don't you be true? So if she don't hear truth, be true. She responded, "Well, I got all this way to ministry and all these appointments and all this calling in my life, and she ain't running with me. It's hard to run and not have a spouse that wants to be my hope and support and stand under me. She don't change soon, I don't know how long I can keep going like this." I don't even want you to understand that line. You can't find it in Jesus' life. He never taught you that. Where'd you learn it? He's the truth. Don't let anyone be your teacher. You one teacher. He's the Christ. So if Jesus didn't teach you, where did you learn? Oh, I'm on it right now. Scalpel. He just hands me everything I need. I got you. I got your chest open wide. Round. I can see it in your eyes. You're like, "Cut me. Just cut me. Take it out. I'm in faith." I got piles of flesh over here. We'll know why I'm having so much fun in your church. You, I'm really messing up. So she doesn't want to hear it. You be it. So why am I traveling all over the country teaching identity? Because it's the reality of my life. I'm not gonna let where my wife isn't decide where I am. I'm not gonna let her become Lord. I'm not gonna get so needy that I'm in this marriage and it's 50/50 and a lot of work and she needs to do her part. Cut me a break and throw that out the window. Jesus did not teach you that self-centered excuse to stay in the flesh. Yay. That's how I passed her. If you get him the pastor meeting, and you close the door with me, I'm gonna talk to you plainly because I care about you. And you start whining and complaining. And he said, "And she said," I might even ask you if you're born again. Oh, I've asked married couples that with the door closed. I wouldn't do it in public, but I'll ask you when I'm in person because I don't want you to live by religion and be lulled to sleep and do everything that looks like Jesus and be nothing like Him. Seeing all these are made you rise. The songs they sang this morning, if we'd backtrack and look at the lyrics, there's powerful stuff coming out in it. These new songs. You look at what you're singing and you, you look and say, "Is that the reality of my life? Can I really say that, or am I just singing songs?" You'll be careful you don't just come to church because this is the time and day you meet. You come to rub elbows, encourage somebody, look a little more like Him when you leave. You come to get sharpened, identified, and stay in the race. And let's talk about a shot in the arm. I'm talking about understanding, training, empowerment. I'm not talking about coming in all broken because the week was long and then you get, and then you say, "Pastor, can we do a midweek service? I'd like another tone." 'Cause it's a long haul. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. By Wednesday night, I'll be glad if I can, they give me a little more. Sunday's a longer haul. That is not Christianity. Come on. You white-haired folks, you folks have been around for a while. They came up with Sunday, Wednesday service because it's a long haul from Sunday to Sunday and life burns you out and you got to get a drink through the week. That's where Wednesday service came from. Midweek service was birthed out of that mentality that life sucks it out of you that you better come and get refueled. What alive from hell you through? Listen, I'm in a dangerous place for darkness right now. You throw me in darkness and leave me there for three months and give me no fellowship with a Christian for three months. Yeah, some place is gonna get lit up. See, darkness is the absence of light. And we complain about the darkness. We ought to be convicted where it's the light because it's in us. You see where this world is coming to? What's this world coming through? This place is getting so dark. We need a move of God. And God says, "Move. Let's get together and pray for revival." Why are you dead when I'm alive? I'm not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. I'm messing with you. You're having fun. You like this. I like you too. I do. I like what I see in your heart. When I look in your eyes, you have hearing ears. You have a heart that's ready to believe. No, I see there's how much I embarrass you. No, I'm serious. You notice how many times I looked at you this morning and how I slid over and looked you right in the eyes? Did you notice that? Because every time I do, I see something. You have a good gesture right in front. God's going to use you for influence. Keep your heart garbage. Not to compare yourselves among yourselves and try to be with the world since you should be. I just feel like God's gonna preserve you. Unprotected unison. Seeing you, He's gonna shine through you. I see in smells coming up. Yeah. Jay, you guys okay? Okay. Sorry. I got distracted. What distraction? Just think this is backup. And no, we laughed a lot and preached a lot of things. Serious stuff. But it's God doesn't want you heaven. That's why we laugh. He helps me. I was, I am zero. If I'd try to be funny, I'd be so dropped. And yet I preach and people say, "You're hilarious." And I'm thinking, "Really? Like, that has to be God." People say, "You remind me of a Christian Jim Carrey." And I'm like, "I've been told that like a thousand." Huh. Haven't called Billy Graham. I've been called Gary Busey. I didn't even know that was a compliment. See, that was probably not a good one there. So forget. I don't know Gary Busey. Apparently, he's an actor. Somebody said, "You don't want to be compared to him." I don't know what. See, that's the thing. We don't read books by the cover. Once you're in Christ, you see every man for potential and destiny. That's supposed to read men. Facedown. Vava says, "Never judge any man according to the flesh." Never look at a man and decide what he is by what he appears. Because now you see what he is through the cross and what he can be by grace. Come on. It's easy to fall. Fine. Anybody can look for what's wrong in a person. But who can look past what's wrong and see value? Doesn't take a man of God to knit. That makes a man, a woman of God, to see past the trouble. Nobody ever mined for precious minerals and didn't have to work and get dirt. There's something on the inside of every man called created value that Jesus paid the restorer. On your darkest day, He never lost sight of me. On your most willful venture, He never changed His mind about what He created you to be. Some of us grew up not understanding His love. That was me. I just always heard I was a sinner and He died to forgive me and take me to heaven. I was like, so perplexed by the whole idea. There's no, everybody ever, nobody ever put definition. They just left me a forgiving sinner. A forgiving sinner. But He died for him once in heaven forever, which I can't even relate to forever. I remember when I was 15. I don't know why people think 21 with. When I was 15, I remember thinking, "But seriously, did you ever do that when you were a kid?" I liked 15. It seemed like I've been alive 15 years.

And I doubled it and thought, "30, dude, that is way out there. I don't know if I'll ever make it to 30." Now I so blew that away, out 55. I don't even know what happened to triple that. I'm quadrupling that right now. I'm on my way to 15 times forward. And doesn't it seem like yesterday? Time is floating, baby. Time is just floating, and you can't get it back. The only thing you got is the president. Things to come. Don't spend your time like Lot's wife. Spend your time like his wife. Yeah, come on. This time just float. Ain't nothing back but something.

Jesus was gone, chose to become a man. Went way farther than that. He didn't just manifest in the desert someday, 30 years old, equipped and ready for ministry. Wow, where did he come from? Yeah, Holy Spirit put him in the womb of a woman. And there's a reason you have to understand this. Man was given this thing in the beginning. Also, doing the earth, he was given the image of God. He was given destiny. He was given life. There was no death in the picture. Or he wouldn't have said, "The day you eat the trees, the day you surely die." What he's saying is, there's no death in the future. That's why we have everlasting life because God made man to never die. So Jesus restored everything that was lost.

We've made the mistake of making everlasting life the goal instead of getting transformed back to the beginning of original value. So we tend to stay the same and claim heaven. We try to do a little better, but expect whatever. But at least we go into heaven. We've made the goal heaven instead of to be like you. He said, "The things I do, you'll do." We just think power and miracles. So we're trying to get him out of the wheelchair. Still, it's tough, and there's a place for that, but we make that the emphasis. "As the Father sent me, so I send you." We think power, thunder, lightning. What if he's talking about the heart to God? "For God so loved the world." "As the Father sent me, I send you." "If you forgive people their sins, their sins will be forgiven." What's he saying? If you go ahead and love them like I've just loved you, in the midst of all your errors and wings, and haven't changed my mind about you one bit. Come on.

When he raised from the dead, his own men were still huddled in a room, afraid, in fear. The Jews, they weren't interceding, they were fearing. When he rose from the dead, he said, "On the third day, I'll rise." And they were all filled with sorrow. Why? Because death had dominion over all of them. All they could hear was, "He's gonna die, he's gonna die." They couldn't hear, "On the third day, I'll rise." It's the most strangest scripture you ever read. "On the third day, I will rise." It says, and they were all filled with sorrow. Not one of them said, "Wait a minute, you're gonna rise? Wait, I just heard you said you're gonna die. That's freaking me out, but you're the best thing that ever happened to me." You can't go anywhere. You can't die. Remember Peter tried to pull that. "Ain't nothing gonna happen to you." "The ain't gonna none of this happened to you." "It's a get thee behind me." Wow. Few verses ago, he said, "Blessed are you, Peter." But flesh and blood doesn't really reveal this to you. God revealed this to you. And upon this rock, the revelation that I'm the Christ, not Peter, upon this rock, I'm gonna build my church. And the gates of hell, that means you're supposed to go into hell. Gates don't chase you to beat you down. The gates of Hell won't prevail. Oh, the devil's been lying to me. All the devil's been to pray for me. I've been filled in the devil's. You're supposed to go into hell. Many people's lost lives and destroy hell, the works of the devil. The gates of Hell won't prevail against the revelation that he's the Lord. As you go, not as you run. Gates aren't chasing you. Oh, I just need a new job. It's just so dark in my job. That's why you're there. I need a new job. I get so rundown by the end of the day. I've been hearing that F-bomb for eight hours a day, five days a week. If I hear one more F-bomb, I'm just gonna die. And you're telling the devil to poke their little puller. I am fr Matt Baume at ba see. If we make it all about us, I need a new job. I want a Christian atmosphere. Stop. You're the Christian atmosphere. What we do it. You know, I'm telling the truth. I'm not nitpicking with church shop. We go in and see if we're welcome. We go look for a place that's loving, then we leave and see one who buddy even said hi to me. Oh, no. I said over, I said over in that far corner. I ain't going back to that judge. What was the church name? And then, then their soul smart. And then they believe your testimony. And then they hear that name a year later. I think, oh, that's it. But then you find your church. And I'm telling you, we do it, man. We know how to do. I've got people in my life telling me, "I went to that church, it wasn't a loving place." I said, "What should have been? You were there. Why wasn't it? Why didn't you love some?" But why are you waiting to be loved? That's the fall of man. Let me explain this to you. Before our clothing, here's the fall of man. God made man in his. And God is so in his own likeness, he made both male. And he made you to love. So why'd you wake up one day with awareness at AIDS, whatever, in this desperate need of life? Because Adam got separated from the source of love. And what he was created to be got perverted into separation and needing love. So through sin, Adam went from being love to needing love. And we were all born into Adam. And you must be born. And we turned that into a prayer that benefits me and takes me to heaven instead of restores me back to life. You get bested back into the vine, and you're the branch. You guess where the fruit hangs, honey. So you're a tree, a righteous tree. The planning. Yeah, that he might be. Yeah. Come on. This thing's not hard to understand. So we all grew up needing love. You're called to become love. I'm gonna be strong. I'm going strong in your houses. Small. We can do all this stuff. We do in the church. All this stuff that we did. Time. Thanks for loving on me this morning. She come up, stood and just lifted me out front. Us snatcher. Yeah, kids. When you look at him, see, you just tell. Why Jesus said, better be like zero self-consciousness, zero steam issues. He's comfortable with her own little innocent shops. Come right up. Don't think nothing about nothing. He's not unaware. Just as free as she gonna get. He said, let's become like a little child. Cuz it's not long in where they start losing innocence, start gaining self-consciousness. All because Adam's fall. You were born into act. So we were made to love him. Gonna be strong. You'd save us. If we miss becoming love, I don't care how much you go to church. Go ahead. Keep feeding the hungry. Keep reaching out. Doing all stuff we do. I'm telling you this. We missed becoming a leveler. Napoli's. Here's what I found out. If you don't have love, you have nothing. You can give all your goods to the poor. You give your body to be burned. And here's what happens. If you don't have love, you'll find your identity for what you do for him. What you do for others. It'll make you proud. And you'll make your own name. That's why you'll have nothing. Because you're making it all about you. And you're finding your identity through what you do instead of what you become. Because all you're doing should flow through your healthy feet. If you find your identity through passion, if you find your identity through worship meeting, did you find your identity through whatever falsehood of minister you feel called to? It's a trap. And you're only going to run as well as it's going. And you're gonna get insecure. And you're gonna worry about how people receiving you. Get I preach good? You're gonna watch yourself. Listen to your sermon. Debrief yourself. Have yourself in condemnation, consternation. You're gonna be a mess. Yeah. Was it? Was it? Who were we having fun with? It was you. Named Josh. I shouldn't remember. We heard it a lot because they did. Josh's doing this. Josh is doing that. And then you said, "I am." And they said, "Because it was a mistake." And I like what he did. He said, "Cool." But he was like, "That's news to me." And the first thing I thought was, "In season, out of season, they're just ready." Now, here's the deal. If what you do is just ministerial, and you have to prepare and train and prepare and there's no sense of reality, revelation, and see, you minister out of your life. You minister out of who you are. Yeah. So, so, so that's the only way to be in season. Now, the season. And you realize there's no such thing as out of the season. Now's the time. It's always time. The lights always scream. It's always. Yeah. Right. So, so when do you walk down the street, meet somebody and feel moved and say, "Oh, I'm not prepared. Can you pass by this corner tomorrow at this time? I need to go home and read and pray." That would be weird. That would be lame. You don't minister out of your evangelistic strategies. You don't get the blueprint together and go, "Okay, you build robot." People will be like, "Man, you're just doing some church stay." But I'll tell you what, you talk to somebody in also, and you can't stop crying. And you don't even know. And all sudden, you know it's Jesus. Because he, you see Mrs. Olson, you're crying. They're like freaked out that you're crying because they know you don't know him. They start realizing you're seeing something, you're believing something. There's something about you that's different. I've seen countless will cry just when you minister to him before they even get healed, before you even pray, before you even pray for their family. People cry because they're carrying weights and pains. There's a lot of reasons people cry. But most of the time, they'll cry before you even get that far, just because they can tell you care. And something's real. Countless people on airplanes, sitting beside me, they make the mistake. They say, "How are you doing?" That's what they asked me. "How are you doing?" And guess what I don't say? "Well, hanging in there, man. I'm just hoping my flight's on time. We're getting off." That's probably not coming out of my mouth. Huh? Not today or tomorrow. They asked me how I'm doing. I just tell them, "I'm like a human pool court ball. How are you doing? I just got a message in me. It's so awesome." You'd be amazed. Countless well, countless people sit beside me. We get talking, they start crying right away because here's what they, the first thing they say is, "Well, yeah, I mean, I don't go to church anymore. I mean, I believe me." And it's always because of her. It's always because of offense. It's always because somebody laughed them down, broke their heart. So I immediately switch them into this new life mentality of, "Wouldn't it be amazing? Wouldn't it be unbreakable and unheard of all night? And it be something if you let the gospel put in perspective?" Let me tell you, they cry on the plane all the time. All the time. People listen. I've been asked to pray for people going out of the jet with personal record is four times. I have four people stalking me in the jet way, kind of like church folks do when you're the guest speaker. They just kind of hang. You see them, you know they're there. You talk in, and you're like, "Aren't you okay?" "I got six more people to talk together." You see? Yeah. I'm just telling you. Can I just say that you did up four people in a jet way, traveling as you come up? Excuse me, sir. The airport on the jet way, three times. Plenty. Four times. Once. That's amazing. I'm just heading. I'm just traveling as you go. Yeah. I'm just loving on one little lady. Three other people. Four other people get an impacting. You don't even know it because you just love it on one little E. And then there she is on the jet way off the timid. And you look up and you see somebody else. And up there. And you see somebody at the mouth of the jet lag. And you think, "I think she's so precious." [Music] Fire. I'm kidding. I'm just kidding. When you look up and your other people are going. I was in Charlotte Airport. House. It's all airport. I saw God heal people in Charlotte. But we ever in Charlotte? Busy, busy, big, busy. So healed in the center of the corridor where there's all that traffic. They made a scene into a crowd. And I'm just standing there going, "Ain't this mine?" I'm just loving one man. Just loving one man. And the reality would happen, manifests, and people draw. I was out on the tarmac down south. A lady got new knees. Sitting beside me, she came down the stairs crying. Jesus. She fell on me crying. We got a whole congregation because they're waiting for the gate check back. So we got a whole church right there. She's laying on me. Bo. And they're like, "What's going on?" And I'm crying. And I said, "Jesus gave her new knees." She was afraid. Twenty years. Hasn't done steps for 20 years. She said, "It would have took her forever to get down those steps." A lot of help on all the time. You saw down. Jesus on one fight. One prayer. Gave her new knees. That all the sudden, people, people, "Can you pray for me? Would you pray for me? Could you pray for me?" Yeah. Just as you go. It's called Christianity. It's not radical. It's not radical. It's knowing him. Not caught up with people. Not thin-skinned. Not bothered. Did somebody pushed in front of me so they could get their bag in? And maybe I couldn't. That's not bothering. But what bothers me is not loving them. Now that he's left me. What would bother me is not forgiving. It now that I'm forgiving. What will bother me has just been trappings, wicked old flashing Mehmet. When I'm called and created to live by that would probably bother. Yeah. I was on a flight. The flight attendant lady was crying so hard. She came. She looked Mimi. She came in. She said, "Ma'am." I was on the aisle. She was in the middle. So we had a track. This guy over here was to sit down. The guy in front of me is reading a book. He's on the same page for about 12 minutes. I reach up and tap a soda. See, dude, you blowing your cover. Turn the page. Just turn the page. What was he doing? He had his dear ears on. That he's just sitting there. He stopped reading this book. He's so listening. He's trying to listen. He's not reading. But he's not even acting like he three mister. There was hilarious. This lady's crying so hard. I sit down beside her on the plane. I said, "Hey, honey." She said, "Hey." We got talked in. She said something to me. I said something back to her. And then I mentioned Jesus. And she got flush and funny, opened her book and kind of shut down. Um, I'm full. We're not tougher on you. Ain't really doing that right. You're not doing that right. It's like, what? Well, as I mentioned Jesus. Well, I tap her arm again. I was hoping you tell me he loved. Well, I mean, I have my beliefs. I said, "I said, honey, that's the track. That's like tragic." She said, "Excuse me?" I said, "Honey, that's strategy. The belief system that's so impersonal. There's nothing intimate about that." That tells me what's happening. You've been hurt by people, hurt by church. You bowed out, and it's cost you your relationship with Jesus. Now you're limping along with conviction. Gavin, don't. She said, "You got all of that out of what I said?" I said, "It's true." Ballin' like crying loud. Flight attendant. She come right down. She was businessman. She said, "Ma'am." She said, she looked right at him. Classic. She's all sweet. Go, puts on her stinky face. She's like, "Hey." I'm like, "I'm like, I didn't say a word." Because I'm not going to defend myself. She's going to defend me. If anything, or God certainly will. But I ain't defending myself. I mean, you're not gonna make me a cat in the corner. I died 22 years ago. I ain't bringing him back. I'm calling you. You can't pull me into a fight. You can't break my heart. You can't hurt me. You can't offend me. I didn't wake up for you to love me. I woke up to be like him. Yeah. That makes it powerful. When you live, and it makes you powerless against what's in me. You can't break my heart. I don't have any expectations on you. I woke up a long time ago in the Holy Ghost and decided this was true. And he said, "Yes." And I've been this way for long. I woke up and decided this a long time ago. Nobody. Oh. And I owe no man any. Guess where that really works as well? I'm not. I need. And love doesn't see something. Love takes no account of the wrong. Time. Be careful you're not so needs-driven. You're using the word love instead. "I love you." "You love me." What you're saying is, "I love you for me. You make my world work. Don't you ever bow out, break my heart, jump ship. I won't know what to do." "I love you." No, you're driven by me. It's very insecure. Yawn. And I'm ready to get trashed if it doesn't. Now, how many times have we seen that scenario? She, she says, "I want to move your seat." She said, "No, Superman. No, no. I'm okay." She gives me another little pop glance. The lady I call fester hurt. She has no idea. Flight attendant doesn't understand. That she will in a minute. So, so I'm sitting there. And it wasn't my fault. I'm sitting there. And the Lord, we haven't talked to our glee. She's just crying. BAM. Just call her on something. Shared some things. Got some discernment. Simple, wonderful, loving gift. Right. All to rescue her. Jesus going after his girl. You gotta love it. That sure beats sitting there being frustrated and mad at your kids. Mad. You gotta travel wishing you weren't in this seat. There's a million things we get bothered by. And this why you're here. And somehow think it's all about you. Even what we sing, it's all about him. I looked at her. I said, she just pulled her. So it didn't seem fair. But the Lord knows what he's doing. But it didn't seem fair. She just pulled herself together. She's a woman. She just got herself together. And I went, "No way. This is not gonna be good." It's after she says, "You." I said, "Honey, I need to tell you one more." She's like, bracing herself. Seriously. And here's what came out of my heart. Watch. I didn't know anything about her walk. You could say this to a thousand people. When they look at you, I looked at her and I said, "Crohn's disease is no matter for the blood of Jesus Christ." And she lost because she's suffering greatly from Crohn's disease. Well, the flight attendant comes flying down there. I'm talking lost at an airplane. I'm talking lost at hyperventilating, crying, lost. Wow. Why? Because Jesus come into her rescue. And she can't handle it. He's overwhelming. What a beautiful name. Right? She come. That's it. Ma'am, I'm moving you up to this seat. I have a seat up here. The lady arm hooks me. Presses her head into me like she's my sister or my wife. I got hair coveting with. But then turning into one with my hair. She's nestling in. She snuggles in. And she got me arm hook. That she presses in tight. Now I'm laughing. She says, "No way am I moving this man is so hoping me." And I look to play into it. And she's like, "Really?" So I explained briefly to the flight attendant what was happening. And I got that word. Look like a little mochi sayin. She didn't move for a long time. And that fun. So they used take her hand. And if God shows you something like that, you have full confidence that he's what restoring her. I sat on the plane and the lady was going. Three kids. They were so concerned because she had a growth on her wrist, size about English walnut. If you break it in half and stuff the show under your skin. That's she said. We were talking. And I got a word of knowledge about fibromyalgia in her body. And I knew she was on prescription for it. I said, "It's chronic." And she was freaked out. And then God gave me within two years the timeframe that she was struggling with it. I just was genuine. Said, "Twenty years." She said, "What? Didn't you?" It's amazing. How can you know that? I said, "Honey, I don't know any of that. I said, Jesus knows you from the beginning, sweetheart. He knows you through and through. He lives in me. He just wants to love on you and reach you. And the excellent way is love. And he's just changed my heart." I tell people this all the time. I used to think Christianity was going to church. Now I realize it's loving people. Yeah. BAM. She said, "That's fascinating because right now I have all this tension." All just like, "Sorry." I said, "Well, that's just spray." She said, "And I got this thing going on too. I don't even know about this. But she said, my kids are so worried about it. She said, it's starting to cause tingling in my nerves. It must be touching the nerve. And my fingers. They say it's such a nerve. So I'm here. And they got an appointment set up for me to get it checked and a biopsy. And I was just kind of ignoring it. I probably was just afraid of what it was. And they, my kids are, they're all. They got me get this checked out. When I get in town, and they're gonna meet me at the airport. I'm like, okay. And this was just my connection. I was gonna stop there and go somewhere else. So I said, "Well, that's awesome. Let me just pray for this thing that I heard." I usually would pray for that too, right? I've never thought about it. I prayed for the fibromyalgia. Just followed the word of knowledge. Break. She starts crying. She does these side things when I'm praying. She's. But I'm thinking, "I think you're probably touching her." And she knows it because, like, sometimes he's very tangible, right? Oh. And it's just funny to watch you like Jesus is ottoman. He's messing her up in the airplane. And she starts shaking and crying. And she puts her hands to her face like this. And she's sobbing. And I knew the pain left. Well, when I looked down, I go, "Oh, that thing's completely gone." She doesn't know it. She's sobbing. I was down here in Florida with two passengers. And a man was walking through the rest Rock. And I got up and I said, "Hey, buddy, you okay?" We are run hard and played hard. Don't hard. Down paying a price. I said, "Listen, I wanna hold you up." He said, "Son, you're an offense to me. He said, "You leave me alone." I said, "What do you need?" You see, I'm just telling you, your offense to me. I pray you believe me. A lot. And I said, "Sir, I don't understand." I said, "I just want to agree with you." I just, "What I believe." But he said, "Now you're really starting to bother me. You said, I need you to leave me alone. You're assuming to know something I don't know and see something I don't see." And I'm twice. And I'm thinking, "It might be a time you see something somebody don't see. There might be a time you know something somebody I didn't fight him because I could tell he was mad. Man, I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm really not following your your spoke pattern on that. But I learned how owner what you're saying. You know, back off unless she, man, I wanted to cry. I sat in the chair and wanted to cry. The pastor's right. Damn. What was that all about? That was man. And there are totally new. It just spontaneously loving people and talking to people. They were. They. We were hanging out talking about it. And I said, like this guy here. We do pray for him out. But pray for it. He wouldn't let me. Sad. What's that about? That was so why we stand there trying to talk and explain. I have tears in my eyes. I sense this person standing there. And I look. Here's this lady. Trump. She's trim. I said, "Hey, man, are you okay?" She said, "Would you pray for me?" I said, "Why? Are you just walking up asking me to placement like what made you even think to do that?" Did you do what I asked a fella? She said, "He was last. I was standing right behind you listening." I cried. I said, "Would it brew something?" "That's him." I thought she said, "You were the sincerest man I can tell you that." I was still moving without car. I lied to my husband and said, "I got to go back to the bath." Now. I said, "Really?" She said, "Yeah. I don't know what's happening to him. He's been so angry lately, so moody, so mean." She said, "I got pains all in my body." And she said, "We don't know what this is." And she had this thing problem. It was really easy to see. And I said, "You came back in for me to fire you. I can tell you're sincere." Took her little hands, pray. I open minds. The passengers are doing the passionate thing. They make that. I look up. I go, "She's busy going." "Oh my goodness, I feel totally different." Yeah. I said, "Honey, you might want to slide your finger up your neck." She stood there, cried and cried. The waitress has gathered people who wonder what's wrong. Started explaining. Waitress for real. Mike just went away. Yeah. I mean, you could pray for the whole restaurant at that point. You see what I'm saying? With this lady on the plane, she's crying hard. Fiber Malchus symptoms were going. And I just know this. I don't. I can't tell you the last time I told all these healing testimonies in the church. I've stayed away from it for over a year or two. I don't tell these testimonies anywhere. You know why? There's mean. You tell them everybody in the room that's sick comes to for plan. That's what they do. And the whole point is, we're believers. It's not about one man. It's about Jesus. The one man. What in us? And it got so out of control like we in the church think he's gifted. He's anointed. He has a healing ministry. Jesus is a healing ministry. The believers are a healing ministry. As you go, you lay. If you believe. It doesn't say these signs shall follow the gifted, the anointed, the guest speaker. I'm not doing any of this as a pastor. I did this before a pastor. They asked me to pastor. I said, "No." Three times. I said, "I've just didn't love with Jesus. Just because you see him moving through my life doesn't mean I'm a pastor. I'm a believer. I'm a Christian." So here's what we do. We, we say, "Oh, he's anointed. Put him on a platform to minister to a thousand of us." Instead of train, equip, and empower. Come on. You can do this. You can stop somebody hurting. And you see people hurting all the time. You gotta be a Christian Nike commercial. Just do it. Just do it. Yeah. You girls can get away with this. You ladies can pull this off. You just so sure going through the rack and the clothes. You talk to people you don't know like you know him forever. You talk in the ladies' room. I found that out. That's freedom right there. We need you to lay hands on us, man. The men don't talk into men's room. Oh, taboo, baby. We got these little cylinders on the wall. Everybody's afraid somebody's beacon. Everybody's looking at their cinder block. I'm serious. It's messed up in the bathroom. You ladies talking through the doors. Potpourri. Your kids are in the wrong stall, crawling up the wrong legs. Oops, wrong mom. You ladies are free. Here's us, man. Me and Sixto going to the bathroom. Hailey. As soon as you hit the door. Am I telling the truth? I love messing that thing up, man. I get up there. I'm like, "Hey, guys, let me push it closer." Everybody thinks you're peeking. Let your press right in. You ladies are free. You're free. You can pull this off. You can. You be shopping. And you can just see the wind on her face. You can see her pick up the juice and put it in her cart. And you can just see her shake their hand and wince just a little bit. I'm telling you, slide right over. Thanks. Leaving with you. That that leaves. That goes away. At least don't say no. I'm telling to Jesus. Jesus' name. You can do that. The worst they can do is say no. But the worst you can do is not say anything. So if love never fails, why fail to love? Oh, I'm freaking so good at your church. This lady on the plane, I look down and she's going like this, crying. And this thing's going. Now watch them. Watch the repercussions. I said, "Honey, that's awesome, ain't it? You'll feel it." "No, not at all." I said, "Honey, I need you to pull together. Stay calm. I know we're on a plane. It's gonna be hard. I need you to look at your wrist." It's okay. First thing she said, "What are my chances?" She's flying there. Cos they're concerned. And they want mom to get a little support or ago. They know she don't come there. And they don't walk her through it. She's gone reneging. Ain't gonna do it because they don't live in the same town. So she flies to see your kids. But the kids go, "Is get this thing straightened out? Got it taken care of." Now she, without much knowledge, has to explain to them this guy that won't quit smiling. It she felt loved throughout that. Mentioned Jesus. Alive. Prayed for her in her seat beside her. And the thing left. And they're gonna try to, "Mom, come on. You're telling me it just went?" And they all have to deal. The kingdom of God. As this is if a man scatters. See, your life should just your life should just look like that. You're like, "What's gonna grow if you don't?" So we always want change. Why don't you sow into your community? Sow into the hearts of people. Sow into your co-workers. Instead of praying for your boss to change, you shine. Instead of praying for a new job, be like Christ on your job. Still looking for way to get out of your marriage, man. God never tried to look for a way to get out of you. And here's the mistake we make. Well, yeah, but that's God. No, that's love. People say, "Well, that was Jesus." No, that was love. Yeah. Whoever saw Jesus drop the cross? Get analytical and run through all the offenses. You know, God, I've done nothing but good. Why? I've been on the earth. I mean nothing but good. You name one thing I haven't done that you sent me for. These people, man. I've fed their hunger. I raised their dead. I healed their sick. I speak truth every day. They gossip about me. I hear their thoughts. I know what they're thinking. They're not for me. They're again. They're all. They praise me with their lips. Their hearts are far from me. And now they're beating me. They released Barabbas. He kills a man. I raised the dead. They let him go and crucify me. Some ain't happening here. That's right. You tell me what I've done wrong. Look at these people. Didn't change by now. I don't know when they'll ever change. And I don't know what we see in them anymore. Whoever remembers Jesus doing that? So where'd we learn the language? Because he didn't teach it. If you can't find it in him, you shouldn't find it in you. Because you're made for his image. And as he is, so are we. I don't want anything in my life. I guess as it isn't. What people say, "Well, Jesus couldn't have done that because he's Jesus." And we missed the point. It's pretty slow. We make him a special man instead of live. So we're making something we can't attain to. But he said, "Follow me." So now we have a problem. Because if I can't follow, any wouldn't invite me? Well, you think he's just messing with our heads? Do you think him and the Father, uh, pair hysterically? What he's actually trying. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I didn't wanna go this long. But you didn't mind it. Good. So I didn't go overboard. You guys are laughing. There's. I want to tell you, Sunday mornings, Tony's a real teaching time. Party guys to tell you who you are. With your life is worth living. And if what you're thinking, what you're believing, isn't producing life insurance. If it's not encouraging your heart. Listen. He died for everyone. And the first thing you got to do if you come to everything you think, just deny yourself. And not just make it about you. Your data. And what you need to change around you for you to be okay. We spend countless hours of study promises, promise, both scriptures on the fridge, quoting stuff to benefit our day instead of transform my life. I'm always looking for favor and blessing and benefit. Be careful. God does those things in his nature. Is our God? Or it's gonna bless us. Psalm 67. Our own God will bless us. You don't have to work for blessing. Do I appear blessed to you? At least in the surface. I've never thought about blessing. I'm blessed because I'm not carrying the care of living for me. It makes you free. You, in fact, don't even understand the word freedom till you understand denying yourself. Until it's not about you, you won't even know free. Deny yourself. Pick up your. What's that mean? That means don't let sin against you produce sin in you. Don't repay evil for evil. Overcome evil with good. Don't be I for I. Overcome evil. You don't let what's going on against you decide who you are. You let what's inside of your sin that carry your crops. So unless you deny yourself, you'll never carry it across. You'll get hurt, mad, or feel sorry for yourself through life. You won't carry on. And if you don't carry your cross, you're never following him. You just do. Doesn't the Bible say to put all these things away? Doesn't say to put off anger, malice, wrath, anger, frustration? Well, it doesn't say to put it all away. Why do we think it's normal and don't address it? We talk about anger management. Cut me a break. That's hypocrisy. That means I'm angry at you. I just ain't gonna shove it. Whoopie. That's real discipline. Are you guys okay? This is why you're on the planet, people. It's for everybody. I'll say these things over and over everywhere I go. You're squeezing orange. You expect orange juice. If apple juice came out, it would be really weird. You guys in Florida shouldn't know that. Big old Sunkist orange. You get that pampered chef thing with those ridges around it. You lose. I like when you open the door, let the pulp. That's just me. You might like to trap it and just get the juice. I like. But if you just, if you just got up this morning, went, and you know it's a big old fat orange. All whispers. And it was apple juice right in the cup. As soon as you tasted it, you'd be like, "What?" Yeah. Benjamin would go to Katie. "I just squeezed orange and drank it. It was apple juice. What were you drinking? Did you take extra communion this one?" Why? Why? Because that would be weird, wouldn't it be weird? Just squeeze an orange, you get apple juice. Why isn't it weird when you squeeze a Christian and get everything but crying? Man, that should be weird. If Christ in us, it's the hope of glory. And we live through him. This should be pretty weird to squeeze me and get something other than Christ. Do you put metal in a microwave? What made for that was if you read the manufacturer's handbook. I know guys, we never do that. But if we'd read the manufacturer's handbook, it tells you because of some way that thing works, it's just not made. Metal does not do well. Did you ever do it by accident? Jeff early foil on some or a spoon on a plate. And you hit the Go button. Sparks start flying. And flames start shooting. And the thing makes a crazy noise. And it don't sound like worship. And you shut it off quick because it startles you, right? If you kept doing that, what would you do? The microwave? You burned it up. You'd blow it up. You'd break. Why? The microwave wasn't made. Put metal in. You read the manufacturer's handbook for humanity. Man was never made or intended to live for himself. And isn't it amazing? We preach a gospel that's self-serving at large. The gospel we preach is self-serving. It's all about me getting something from him instead of me becoming like you. Isn't it amazing how selfishness even trickled into our messages? A manufacturer's handbook says you were made for yourself. If you keep living for yourself, you're gonna ruin a product. So if you come after me, deny yourself, pick up. It's the level Christ that compels me. I judge something. If one died, all died. If we live because he died, then those who live but I no longer live for themselves but him that died. James 3:13. It's a scripture I do. When I used to do weddings, I treats the wedding. "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them prove but a good concrete for their life that the works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter and the seeking in your heart, don't boast and lie and still true. For this wisdom does not come from about its earthly, sensual, and demonic. And where selfishness exists, every evil worm is present." Do you know you could pray for your spouse just because you're hurt? You can pray for your spouse because you knew if God would ever change him, your date go better. You're inviting every evil world. That's why your souls not prospering in that process. And that's why all we can think about is what he's not, what she's not, and are they ever going to change? Why? Because you're coming fraying against something that you're participating in through your motive. Where selfishness exists, every the workers present. It's a landing strip for evil. Where you get selfishness out of your life, the rule though this world cometh then has nothing in that you get it. Why did Jesus say that? Completely selfless. The enemy has nowhere to land. Yeah. The devil only works with what you give. Paul say, "Giving no place." Y'all good? Be honest. Is there anything I preached this morning that you can't live apart from any other fact or a person in your life? Is there anything I preach that faith won't let you live? If you decide you want to become the same? I'll close with this three-minute little thing. The only way you're gonna become this message is personal relationship with Jesus. If something tells you you can't be with him, it's a lie. He paid the price for you. Don't let your former conduct. Don't let this morning. Don't let a little outburst keep you from his presence. You need to be that. You get there. Take responsibility for these things. Go to him and thank him that he wants to be one with you and put his heart in you and live his life for you. Yield him. Tell him you're ready to be loved and be everything that he is. And he's beautiful. And you want him to continue to shine for you. So people see the beauty of who he is. You talk to him in this language. You yield yourself and make yourself one with him in your prayers. Don't come with a problem conscious prayer. Come with an answer driven mentality that takes you into the truth. Yeah. So you don't wake up and try not to sin. You wake up and be his. That's what will stop sin. Yeah. Yeah. You're not trying harder. You're B. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna pray something over you guys. Thanks for letting me come. Thank you. Just let me come. Father, I pray this house will be so encouraged, visitors and everybody alike, that this whole region would be touched by the truth of this message. I'm just gonna step out and believe this. God, not in a height way. You know my heart. In all things, Lord, I just pray that you found a people this morning that would really hear this word and become this word. But this word hasn't fallen on fallow ground or hard ground, but truly it's fallen on good ground. And I thank you that you stir forever conviction in their lives to walk out this truth. And if we find ourselves in any other avenue or any other way, you will bring us back to the way. And Oregon. I just thank you for fathering us in until Christ be formed in us. I bless this house. I ask for wisdom. Ask for wisdom in this leadership. And a true spirit of encouragement to rest here. That you would always give them vision and wisdom. And that this house would lack no good thing. In Jesus name. Amen. Love you guys. Thank you.

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Dan Mohler 7/2/2017

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