God Chose Me (Charles Metcalf)

0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.320 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:11.040 this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.560 gives your perspective to see God is moving in your life. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:14.920 Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.720 If you're grateful for Jesus Old Pentecost Sunday, why don't 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.360 you take about five seconds and give Jesus, not me, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.480 not the worship leader. I'm talking about Jesus of Nazareth, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:34.800 the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Jehovah, Shirah, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.800 the provider. Come on, the one that saw you when 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.680 nobody else saw you, the one that pulls you up 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.320 when nobody else can. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.800 Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Jesus. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.600 Well, good morning, Hello, nice to meet you. My name 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.480 is Charles, and I'm just grateful this morning. I'm trying 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.000 to be honest with you. I'm trying not to act 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.600 the fool up here, Donna let the jacket fool you. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.920 I grew up Bowling Green, Kentucky. My dad was the 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.840 pastor ten people and somebody start playing see zeke. When 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.560 I grew up, they would start singing about the blood 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.319 of Jesus. Now I can't. I don't know where you at, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.200 but where when I grew up they start talking about 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.520 the blood of Jesus that Zeke, now can you This 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.240 might just be for me, But there was a song 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.120 that my dad used to play on the way to 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.200 church every single morning that would talk that the blood 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.199 of Jesus would never lose its power? 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:32.000 Does Zeke you know this? 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.119 It reads check now this is the part right here 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.920 to theish ches. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:52.160 Come on, somebody indeed, floosh to theh come on singing church. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:02:06.040 Oh yeah, come on God, blood that gives me? 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:17.360 Come on to God. Will Here's. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.919 All right, one last time, Come on, give Jesus a 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.040 shot of praise. You can grab your seat this morning, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.840 Grab a seat. I want to take a moment to 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.600 welcome everybody watching online, all the campuses around the world. Ephan, 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.360 we love you so much. I am grateful to be 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.520 here this morning. I said it earlier, but my name 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.400 is Charles Henry Metcalf the third, just so my mama 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.440 would be grateful that I share that with you. And 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.480 I'm from Tulsa, Oklahoma, part of an amazing church out 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.000 there called Transformation church with the one of the best 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.360 lead pastors in the world, my friend, Pastor Michael Todd, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.320 And I am grateful to be here. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:00.840 Oh yeah, you can give it up. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.560 He's an amazing I'm grateful to be here this morning. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.160 Before we jump into the world, I have to take 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.800 a moment just to say how grateful and honored I 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.840 am to be here. How grateful I am for your 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.040 pastor's Pastor Steven and Pastor Holly. Can we take a 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:20.040 moment and honor them? Thank you so much for this moment. 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.880 I'm very grateful. I don't take it lightly, and I 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:29.120 am excited to share this moment. I said that earlier. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.360 But I am a church kid. I grew up in 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.720 church my whole life. Every Sunday, every day the doors 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.040 were open, we was up in there shouting, yelling, and screaming. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.119 And by we, I mean my dad and the other 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.000 eight people who were related to us, and the two 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:48.400 first time guests we had every single week. But I 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.600 just I love the church. I don't think there's anywhere 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.200 else you should be on a Sunday morning, anything else 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.480 worth giving your life to, anything else worth raising your 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.280 family in. It's near and dear to my heart. Speaking 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.240 of family, I do have one of those greatest things 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.680 in my life. I got to start off with the 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.080 most amazing woman in the world. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:10.600 Oh, there go my babies. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:15.240 Yes, So I'll introduce you to my mixed family here. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.800 So I have Arlow Phoenix, my son sitting on the 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.400 ground there, and then the white girl picking. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.160 Her nose that is Luna Rose. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:26.960 And then we go back light skin again, so you 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.280 know what I'm saying. We went back and forth. We 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:33.200 got tan white, tan white. But so we me all 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.000 try to figure out. I'm Puerto Rican, I'm half black, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.279 half white. I can't speak Spanish. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.600 Okay, let's get that out the way. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.120 But Jade October and then blonde hair, blue eyes in 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.840 my wife's arm is Blue Sunday. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:46.680 We call her Sonny. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.839 And then the amazing queen in the middle is the 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.159 queen of our home, Abbey Rose. That's the love of 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.880 my life last ten years. So that's my amazing family. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.960 I love you, kiddos. If you're watching, listen. 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:58.560 To La la. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.040 Okay, we gotta hand out instructions. Okay, we're gonna jump 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.440 into the word today. I am grateful for this moment. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.960 If you got your bibles, go ahead and grab them, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.560 pull them out. We're gonna be in the Book of Galatians. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.800 In the Book of Galatians is where we're gonna be. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.599 Favorite book of the Bible I can't even lie to 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:22.600 you is Galatians. If you're looking to jump into reading scripture, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.600 a good place to start. I think this is amazing 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.400 and uh yeah, this is just a beautiful moment. I'm 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:35.080 gonna read five verses and then we're gonna share for 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:36.120 just a moment. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.160 If you got to say I got it. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.120 If you don't say hold up, okay, if you of 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.240 y'all little slow s, all right, shout out, who got 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.039 a real Bible? Put a punch your real Bibles in 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.560 the air wave. I'm like, you just don't care. That's 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.680 what I'm talking about. Come on, if you had to 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.880 charge your Bible, I'm not mad at you. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:54.320 You know what I'm saying. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.800 I just hope it don't die when you need it most. Okay, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.200 here we go. Gas chapter number one, starting in verse ten, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:10.320 says this, Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:15.880 of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:21.160 I would not be Christ's servants. I gotta stop right there, 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.960 but I gotta keep going. Okay, Okay, dear brothers and 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.000 sisters want to I want you to understand that the 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.480 gospel message I preach is not based on mere human reasoning. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.400 I received my message from no human source, and no 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.080 one taught me. 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:42.839 Instead, I received it by direct revelation of Jesus Christ. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.520 You know what I was like when I followed the 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.239 Jewish religion, how violently I persecuted God's Church. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.120 I did my best to destroy it. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.680 I was far ahead of my fellow Jews in my 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:02.560 zeal for the tradition of my ends, Verse number fifteen, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:08.280 the most dangerous piece of literature you will hear today. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:18.240 But even before I was born, God chose me, and 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.400 he called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.440 him to reveal his son to me, so I would 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:29.120 proclaim the good news about Jesus to the gentiles. You're 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.000 taking notes. Write down the title of my sermon at 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.680 the top. You definitely should take notes. It's like a 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.200 fast pass. When you get to Heaven, you show them 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.440 your notes. They put you in the short line. Can 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.480 wave everybody as you go by top of your notes, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:51.520 title of my sermon three words. God chose me. God 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.720 chose me. Let's pray together. Dear Lord, we thank you 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.040 for choosing us. You didn't have to. As a matter 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.560 of fact, you had reasons to look over us. But 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.240 in your grace and your kindness and in your mercy, Lord, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.600 you chose us. And so I pray this morning, and 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.680 we will be reminded of that truth. It's in the 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:17.560 beautiful name of Jesus we pray. And everybody said, a men, you. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.560 Got to see the picture. I have four beautiful children. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.960 And you know, there's a lot of things people don't 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.640 warn you about when you have kids. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.040 You know, they they just they see you doing it, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.240 and it's just they just let you do it. You 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.680 know what I'm saying. Some of y'all you be seeing 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.800 young people. They're like, we're gonna have some kids. You're like, oh, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.360 that's so sweet, go ahead do it. You don't give 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.560 them any prep, no warning. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.559 There's a lot of stuff you got to just figure 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:42.400 out as you go. 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.200 And all our kids are close together. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.319 We have a six year old, a four year old, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.319 a three year old, and a two year old, so we. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.160 Had to waste no time. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:56.160 So but a beautiful thing about raising children is one 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.520 of the responsibilities I felt is as their dad, there 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.440 was some things about them that I wanted them to 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.400 know that are true about the Metcalf family before they 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.560 went out into the world trying to discover some things 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.920 about who they were, or who they should be, or 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.680 who they should be trying to please or impress. I, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.240 as their father, wanted to decide some things for them 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.080 so they wouldn't have to wait to discover them. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:23.000 So what we did as a. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:27.720 Family is we created our Metcalf Confessions. We say these 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.720 every single morning, and my son Arlo, who loves to 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.000 tell his sisters what to do, particularly likes to take. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:35.720 Charge in the morning. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.120 But the Metcalfs, every single day we wake up and 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:44.160 say this. Metcalfs carry peace and purpose, kindness and compassion, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.840 boldness and bravery and loving lights. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:49.400 We added at the end of it. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.120 My kids would all scream because God chose me at 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:53.480 the end. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:54.840 But we'll get to that later. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.920 But what I did with these confessions is I realized 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.920 that there was something they need to hear every single 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.960 day to not be informed by their situation, but so 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.240 they could inform their situation who they were. I didn't 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.320 want to raise kids who are going out into the 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.560 world looking for the world to tell them who they 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.800 were looking for, their friends, to tell them who they 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.920 were looking for the situation. I wanted them to show 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.160 up into a chaotic situation and say, I carry peace. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.120 So in the name of Jesus, I don't. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:27.880 Know what's going on in here, but Metcals carry peace. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.360 That's who we are, it's what we do. I am 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.400 not subject to the atmosphere. The atmosphere is subject to 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.679 the God on the inside of me. So when we 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.000 walk up in the room, purpose is in the room, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:45.280 because Jesus is in the room. I decided it for them. Now, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.040 it's easy to acknowledge the importance of a confession to 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.360 a six' five four and two year, old and the 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.400 importance of those. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.000 Things BUT i want to. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.599 Submit to you this morning that whether you recognize it or, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.320 not there are some confessions that you believe and you 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.440 confess every single. Day and here's the tension with a. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.560 Confession whether or not it is, true, right or the 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.959 most powerful, thing you will always reap the effects of your. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.760 Confession this is you. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.520 Ever seen those documentaries On netflix where the police be 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.520 pressuring people and they didn't even do, nothing and they 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.280 just lock them in the room for ten days and they're, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.880 like you, Know sammy's over there talking and they're, Like, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.079 sammy what you? 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.040 SAY i don't, know, man you got anything you need 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:26.320 to tell? 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.559 Me and they won't confess to something they know they didn't. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.880 Do just because the pressure of the. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.160 Situation the confession seems like it'll get them out of the. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.120 Moment and what, happens they reap. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.040 The effects of that, confession whether or. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.719 Not it is. True the same is true in your. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:48.200 Life there are confessions that we, say that we believe 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.640 that we, say maybe not out loud to, everybody but 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:57.240 really the most powerful confessions happen up. Here psychologists will 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.280 tell you that the voice in your, head you know that, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.079 VOICE i know you don't some of y'all may talk to. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:03.960 Yourself you look, Crazy it's all, Right we glad you. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.640 Here also call at the end for everybody who talks to. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:13.160 Themselves but psychologists will tell us that the voice in your, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.880 head no matter positive or, negative it originates either from your, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.640 father your, mother or the lack. Thereof so there's confessions 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.840 that start in your, mind that voice that tells you 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.080 you're not good. Enough you heard that, somewhere you saw that, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.120 Somewhere you had an experience somewhere that told you that 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.439 that was, true and so at first you didn't know 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.360 what to do with. It but then life situation started 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.280 to inform that, belief and you started to believe it 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.760 so much that now every time you go to try something, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:46.160 new there's only one confession that comes. Up you're not good. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.800 Enough nobody cares about. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.720 YOU a life experience happened when you were a child 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.360 where you felt overlooked or. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.200 Undervalued and so now anytime you. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.840 Go to risk the take the risk of, relationship every 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.080 time you go to step, out there's a belief in 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.240 your heart and there's a confession that comes out that 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.240 nobody cares about, you nobody sees. You you have to 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.760 work to be. Seen you're only as valuable as what 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.480 you can. Do all things you may not articulate out, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.800 loud but we know it's true by the way we live. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.880 Now the power of confession is not Something i'm making up. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.480 Today in, fact The bible would tell you In romans chapter, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.120 ten verse nine that the most insane, miracle the most 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.960 powerful transformative moment In the life of a believer happens 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.840 because of a belief and a. Confession The bible says 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.719 In romans ten to, nine if you believe in your 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.520 heart and confess with your Mouth Jesus's, lord. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:44.880 You shall be. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:49.400 Saved so if a belief and confession is sealing your, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.719 eternity what are you think is. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:52.680 Doing to you every single? 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.880 Day what do you think those thoughts that live in 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.640 your mind unchecked are doing to your? 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.880 Confidence what do you think though thoughts. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.320 That just Ravage you've tried, before and now time and time, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.199 again you failed so much that you believe it's better. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.320 To not try than to try and. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:13.160 Fail when you slowly start to believe stuff about, yourself 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.679 and maybe it didn't or originate with a family, member 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.320 maybe it wasn't a parent or a. Coach you, see 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.400 there's a moment in all of our lives where we 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.040 can't remember who the voice, is but now it sounds 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.480 like our own and it's all you, know it's all you, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.480 think it's all you, see it's how you. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.560 Operate and no matter how old you, are we all have. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.960 Some beliefs about ourselves that keep us from being Who 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.400 god wanted us to. Be what do you believe about? 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.400 YOURSELF a better, question how do you talk to? You 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.920 IF i was to put your daily dialogue up on 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.440 this screen and the thoughts that you, say would it 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.800 be something you would want somebody saying to your? Kids 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.560 would it be something that you wanted to? Replicate for 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.360 many of, us the truth is it's not the, case 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.360 because we're hard on ourselves and we don't give ourselves, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.560 grace and we feel, like, dangy you should be further by, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.560 now or you should know better by, now or you 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.920 should have more money by, now or, see you're not like, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.680 them and see you're never going to be, That and, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.360 slowly but, surely we talk ourselves out of the same 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.640 power that Raised christ from the, dead that lives on 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.240 the inside of, us and we slowly shrink, back and 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.040 we slowly, settle and we settle for a version of 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.480 our self that is accepted by other, people but they 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.160 don't know What god put on the inside of. You 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.000 so you can pretend like everything is, Fine you can 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.720 settle for a level that everybody else applause, for but 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.320 you are the only one who knows what you had 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:44.560 to give up to be that version of. Yourself and 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.520 there's things That god wants you to. Do there's things 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.640 that you know you're supposed to. Do there's differences you're 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.960 supposed to make in your. Family there's things that you 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.640 Know he's put on the inside of, you but somewhere deep, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:54.360 down you don't. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.360 Believe you don't know if you can do. IT i. 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.160 Relate there's a moment in scripture THAT i. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.720 Love there's this father and he comes To jesus and 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.440 he's Asking jesus to heal his. Daughter and he says 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.440 the most powerfully honest. Thing he, says you, Know, god 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.440 can you please help? Me And jesus, says anything is 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.480 possible if you, believe and he responds in tears and. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.120 Agony he, SAYS i do, believe but help me with my. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.800 Unbelief many of, you there's a part of you that 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.040 Believes god could use. You there's a part of you 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:25.920 that believes that you're. Important there's a part of you 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.160 that believes That god shows. You there's a part of 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:29.360 you that believes you're the. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:29.920 Parent for those. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.880 Kids but at the exact same, time there's another part 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.360 of you that doesn't know if you have what it 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.880 takes to be the Father you didn't. Have there's a 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.040 part of you that doesn't know if you can continue 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.560 with the pressure of raising those. Kids there's a part 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.680 of you that doesn't know if you deserve the. Promotion 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.920 there's a part of you that doesn't know because you know. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.480 YOU i was standing back there on the side as 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.400 they sang that SONG i can't. ZEEK i was, Like, 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.480 yo the tag at the, end you gotta sing that 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.720 last little. Tag i've come a long, way because that's 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:57.680 the whole, song, man. 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.320 If you don't say that. Part and SO i was 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.800 going back and. Forth he was, like, yes let's do. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:01.560 It So i'm standing. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.240 THERE i was about to walk, out AND i went 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.800 to take one step and it Said i've come a long, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.439 way AND i broke down into tears BECAUSE i know. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.040 Me you may not know, me BUT i know. 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.600 Me and the worst thing we could do as believers 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.560 is get spiritual amnesia on where he brought you. FROM 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.200 i know we's sitting up in here On Pentecost, sunday 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.560 and you got your good makeup, on and you got 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.480 some nice clothes. On but do not get twisted where 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.600 he had to go to find. YOU i don't need 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.720 everybody but my Friend shaye. Nowhere he had to come 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.320 to find. Me he came and found me WHEN i 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.200 was broken and. Depressed and IF i forget, That i'll 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.639 stop believing some stuff about. Myself some of y'all you 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.840 don't struggle with belief in this. Way some of y'all, Think, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.679 MAN i pulled myself up by my. BOOTSTRAPS i got me. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.879 Here it was hard work and commitment and. Dedication, okay, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.720 okay yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:59.680 Yeah you. Good but you ain't that. GOOD i hate 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:00.280 to break it to. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.159 YOU i know your mama told you you could do, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:03.919 anything And. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.760 God has has done something for. YOU i want to. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.719 Give you today a belief and a confession THAT i 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:18.440 know for a fact has the power to radically transform 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.960 your everyday. Life it comes from this Scripture glatians one point. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:29.280 FIFTEEN i love this scripture Because, paul he's talking very 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:30.840 disrespectfully in the. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.120 Scripture to be honest with. You he starts off in verse, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.040 Ten he's, like, uh, OBVIOUSLY i don't care what you. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.160 Think it kind of starts off as like a disc, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:41.560 track you, Know LIKE i, say he's getting on the 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:42.280 beef Of kendrick And. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:43.960 Drake he's Like, hey, YO i want some of. This. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.040 Hey, now the context why he comes in so strong 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.520 is Because paul's kind of. Random he's kind of off the, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.000 scene like they already had their, crew they agreed upon 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.720 people who was, there we Saw jesus were doing the. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.800 Thing then this guy who used to Kill christians comes. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:18:59.920 In it's, like, HEY i got something. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.040 Saying they're like hey, brother uh real, quick somebody pat him. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.720 Down, hey bartholow me where you at? Go just? Check come, 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.840 on you, guys Sacrifice. Bartholomew if it's all gonna do, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.720 Something you're, Like, bartholome you get in, there, man you got. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.159 It he's, like, WELL i don't even. Know paul's, like, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:14.520 yeah go. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:20.159 Ahead but the truth is there suspect about the origins 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.639 of his. Message their suspect if he's qualified. Enough and 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.960 at the, time the way you acknowledge someone's authority and 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.240 power is you asked who taught them what they. Know 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.919 so if you were connected to a disciple who walked With, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.920 jesus then you were, Affirmed then you were, approved then 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.119 you were allowed to do and be a part of the. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.920 Way paul comes in on some different energy and he's, like, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.600 hey just so you, know ain't nobody give me, this 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.040 didn't no human come and teach. Me didn't nobody walk 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.040 me through their classes and their master. Class didn't nobody 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.119 come check on. Me god found me in the middle 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.879 of the. Road And i'm not worried about what you 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:06.040 think about, me And i'm not trying to impress. You he. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.959 Says this message isn't of human. ORIGIN i got it 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:16.600 directly From jesus. HIMSELF i can just imagine the. Reader they're, like, dang, okay, 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:21.560 Okay i'm SAYING i ain't mad at, You. Paul most 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:23.879 powerful words he says at the end is he, says 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:25.960 BEFORE i was, Born. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:31.960 God chose. Me now this confession is. DANGEROUS i have 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:32.360 to warn. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.280 You if you want your life to say the, same 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.240 and you want to just stay and live a very, 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.680 comfortable safe, life do not mess. 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:39.000 With these three. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:42.840 Words but if you want to find yourself connected to 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.480 the origins of this, movement the movement that they tried 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.399 to stop when the boy was two years, old but 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.440 they couldn't stop the. Movement they tried to stop when 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.320 they tried to kill him at thirty, three but they 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.000 couldn't stop the. Movement they tried to stop when they 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:57.359 tried to kill all his, friends. 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:58.320 And they couldn't stop the. 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.159 Movement they tried to stop when they hung on as 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.639 friends upside, down and they couldn't stop the. Movement they 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.240 tried to stop when they start Feeding christians to, lions 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.399 and they couldn't. Stop if you want to be part 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:10.360 of the origin of your, faith that, says even if 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.440 you throw us in the, fire we will not bow. 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:15.720 Down if you want to find yourself walking like the 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.000 early origins of The christian, faith you can start to 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.800 believe in your heart and confess with your. Mouth god chose. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.600 Me didn't nobody else put me in this. Moment didn't 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.800 nobody else get me? Here it was the grace and 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.119 mercy Of Jesus. Christ god put me in this. Moment 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.240 didn't nobody else give me these? Kids wasn't nobody else 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.000 gonna be able to let me get that? Job god 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.680 put me here for a. Reason some of you need 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.760 to find a source of confidence that is not rooted 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.840 in what you can, do how much money you, have 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.960 what you can't. Achieve i'm not mad at you at 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:51.960 being confident in those. 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.120 Things as a matter of, fact you need some of those. 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:55.880 Things as a, kid you get some of your confidence 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.040 from your. Family you get it from your. Parents All 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.879 i'm saying, is at some point they run. Out at some, 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.680 point somebody got more money than. You at some point 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.439 there's a human that lets you. Down but if you 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.119 can find your confidence in the fact That god shows, 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:13.600 you That god puts you, there that he used, everybody 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:18.200 but ultimately he's getting the, glory there's something that happens 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.280 in your. Spirit there's a confidence that starts to rise. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:23.080 Up there's a boldness that starts to rise. 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:24.159 Up there is an. 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.280 Answer to every single question you find yourself. In how 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:29.200 AM i gonna make? IT i don't, know But god chose. 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:30.960 Me how AM i gonna raise these? KIDS i don't, 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:32.760 know But god shose. Me How i'm gonna start this? 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.080 BUSINESS i don't. Know god chose. Me How i'm gonna 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:36.720 be who he called me to, be even THOUGH i 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:37.280 didn't have an. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:38.360 EXAMPLE i don't. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.240 Know But he placed me, here So he might have 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:41.679 put something on the inside of. 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:46.000 Me everybody, Say god chose. Me look at your. 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:49.080 Neighbor say, NEIGHBOR i don't know about. 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:53.360 You But god chose. Me look at your other. 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:55.879 Neighbor find your second, choice that other neighbor that you 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.200 didn't choose for some. Reason we don't got to talk about, 0:22:58.200 --> 0:22:59.720 it but, say, Neighbor. 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:01.480 I'm SORRY i didn't pick you. 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:07.119 FIRST i was just Reminded god chose. 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.760 Me, hey, friend listen more. 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:12.720 On some of y'all starting to feel that thing because 0:23:12.720 --> 0:23:16.760 you have lived your life questioning who you, were wondering 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:18.960 if you had the permission to be Who god called 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:21.720 you to, be waiting on someone in your family to 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:24.080 let you be who you know you're supposed to. Be 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.200 it's time to stop waiting on everybody. Else no one 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.280 else is. Coming you are here right, now And god 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:32.879 puts something on the inside of you that the world. 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:38.200 Needs everybody, Say god chose. Me i'm telling, you. Friend 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.159 people are waiting on you to remember. This they're waiting 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:43.280 on you to believe. This they're waiting on you to show. 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:45.720 Up how you would show up if you truly believed 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:52.400 every single thing in your. Life he placed you there 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:57.720 for a. Reason your family is not an. Accident god 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:01.040 shows you to be in that. Family you didn't just 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:05.280 happen to end up In. Charlotte some of you are, like, 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.800 NO i did actually happen TO i don't even live. 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:17.120 Here All i'm submitting this morning is what if. 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:20.880 You adjusted how you look at all the stuff you're 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:26.320 praying to get out, of all the stuff you spent time, 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:29.080 singing and you were thinking, Of, yeah he's not, done 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:34.560 because he's gonna get me out like. That MAYBE i 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:36.879 hope he does that for. You you don't be doing that 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:37.800 for me and my wife on the. 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:43.000 Regular but what he often. Does here's What i've. 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:46.520 Discovered if you don't allow him to be with you 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:50.000 and keep you in, it you never find out what's 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:54.359 truly on the inside of. You some of you don't 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:58.280 know how brave you are, yet because every time you 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:00.439 are faced with a situation that did not go your 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:03.160 way and you feel overwhelmed by you start praying to get, 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:05.040 out or you just leave or move around or quit 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:08.720 on the. Relationship but there's something you could find out 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:11.280 on the inside of you if you decided to stay and. 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:13.280 BELIEVE i know this is, HARD i know this is. 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:15.320 Difficult this is not at all HOW i would have 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.560 planned it to. Go But god chose me to be, 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:19.800 here SO i Believe he's gonna make me in. It 0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:21.840 he's gonna strengthen. Me he's gonna show me SOMETHING i 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:26.760 didn't know about. Myself you have no, idea some of 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:28.360 you have no idea how faithful you can. 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:33.240 Be you've made, mistakes you've, fallen. 0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:39.600 You've, cheated and you think that one moment sums up 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:41.320 the entirety of Who god made you to. 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:44.400 Be but what if. 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:48.560 The fact that you've made a mistake does not disqualify 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:51.840 the fact That he did choose. You the enemy will 0:25:51.880 --> 0:25:54.080 work so hard for you to Fin this is all he's. 0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:56.679 After you, know this right for you to feel like 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:59.200 you were. OVERLOOKED i, mean what's the most awkward moment 0:25:59.240 --> 0:25:59.960 in a sixth grader. 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:02.600 Life let's let's talk about. It where your true trauma? 0:26:02.640 --> 0:26:10.000 Started Heart ever by, lineup we're playing kickball Billion, sam 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:11.400 y'all are, captains. 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:11.600 And what do you? 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:13.399 Start you, Say Dear, god if you do anything in my, 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:14.720 life do not let me get picked. 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:15.200 Last. 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:18.200 LORD i will kick this. KID i, WILL i, WILL 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:20.840 i will serve for on a. Team i'll go into 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:22.520 your old. Room, God i'll do whatever. 0:26:22.240 --> 0:26:22.720 You need me to. 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:31.680 Do Why because the idea that you weren't, chosen the 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:35.919 idea of being overlooked in front of. Everybody it's just 0:26:36.000 --> 0:26:39.920 too it's too. Much and this is why you you 0:26:40.440 --> 0:26:42.520 may relate to, me this is why you start creating 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:43.359 different versions of. 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:47.040 Yourself, oh come, on let's talk about. It you got to. 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:49.800 Work you how y'all? 0:26:49.800 --> 0:26:50.119 Doing? Hey? 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:54.080 Yeah? Yeah how you? Doing? Bill you got a weird 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:58.119 laugh and. Everything it's, like it's, like what was? 0:26:58.200 --> 0:26:58.400 That? 0:26:58.520 --> 0:27:03.480 Bro that? Was it's. Crazy you got to. 0:27:03.520 --> 0:27:08.280 Work you got when you're out with your, Friends you 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:10.919 got the person that you are when you're with your. 0:27:10.920 --> 0:27:14.439 Spouse now some of y'all be, like oh, No i'm 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:17.760 all myself with the. Spouse are you really? Though because 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:22.840 there's still some. Thoughts you're worried if you told them 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:25.800 what you were really, thinking if you told them how 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:30.480 you really. Felt here's your, question would anyone choose all of? 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:34.520 Me it's not you don't believe someone would choose some of. 0:27:34.520 --> 0:27:37.040 You you got friends that know parts of, You you 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:38.440 got business partners. 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:38.760 That chose part of. 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:43.360 You but you're worried IF i show you all of, 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:46.480 me IF i ADMIT i don't really know What i'm 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:49.439 doing And i've been in this field for twenty, years 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:53.399 if i Admit i'm not really. Competent if you admit 0:27:53.440 --> 0:27:55.800 to your teenager you don't really know what you're. Doing 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:00.680 some of y'all got a whole. Testimony your kids don't. 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:05.440 Know now you're up in church saying you're, LIKE i, 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:12.199 know but for about forty, years you're just lucky we 0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:15.000 didn't Have instagram and TikTok back. Then that's a something 0:28:15.040 --> 0:28:16.560 you are, like the world's so. Bad no you we 0:28:16.760 --> 0:28:18.600 just see what they. Doing we couldn't see you out 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:21.320 there on them. Streets but do not get it. Twisted 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:24.600 you was out. There, okay the music was a little, 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:26.840 different but you was still you know What i'm. 0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:29.920 Saying so, anyways but we're gonna have to talk about. 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:35.720 It i'm gonna give you three quick things that. Happened 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:39.840 if you would dare to believe That god chose, YOU. 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:45.080 I say dare to, believe because in order to believe, 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:46.880 this you're gonna have to wage war and some other. 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:52.440 Beliefs you're gonna have to actively fight against the version 0:28:52.440 --> 0:28:57.960 of you that shrinks. Back the people, Pleasing, oh come, 0:28:57.960 --> 0:29:01.560 on some of. Us the people pleasing is. Hereditary you were, raised, 0:29:01.960 --> 0:29:02.520 well don't do. 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:05.800 That we don't want to make them feel. Weird we 0:29:05.840 --> 0:29:07.200 don't want them to feel. 0:29:06.880 --> 0:29:12.560 Like AND i understand the sentiment and how you feel 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:18.400 about What god gave me is not my. Issue i'm 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:19.959 not gonna go there. Yet some of y'all don't even 0:29:20.000 --> 0:29:23.280 know what to do with. That, Okay three things you 0:29:23.320 --> 0:29:25.240 Believe god shows. You the first thing if you Believe 0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:26.320 god shows you is. 0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:30.960 It keeps you. Ready keeps you ready when. 0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:35.480 You find yourself in a space where you Know god chose. 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:39.840 ME i am ready for anything at any. TIME a 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:41.800 funny story me and my wife in our first year of. 0:29:41.840 --> 0:29:45.360 Marriage i've been obsessed with clothes SINCE i was a 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:47.080 little kid, like AND i mean in a way THAT 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:50.240 i would pick my outfits out every single day the night, 0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:53.800 before starting at like seven or eight years, old And 0:29:53.800 --> 0:29:55.440 i've been doing this for a whole. Life it's wild 0:29:55.480 --> 0:29:58.040 to See, jade the third little, girl the little light skinned, 0:29:58.040 --> 0:30:00.720 girl she do that to this, day four years, old 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:01.280 and she wake. 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:02.480 Up she's, like all, right let me see. 0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:05.240 What she only wears her brother's baggy pants and her 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:06.400 younger sister's crop. 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:08.680 Top i'm like crop top at four con, man just 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:09.520 give me some. 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:14.360 Time there was a moment with my wife where one 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:16.360 time we were getting, ready AND i already had my 0:30:16.400 --> 0:30:17.920 fit picked, out so it was, like, bo when we gotta. 0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:19.680 GO i got, Ready i'm sitting on the. Couch then 0:30:19.680 --> 0:30:21.520 my wife's gonna take an extra, hour. 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:23.800 You, know just doing our. 0:30:23.840 --> 0:30:27.040 Thing then she gonna come out and say This ready 0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:34.440 when you? Are, hey, YO i don't know who you 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:39.920 are talking. To ready WHEN I i, ooh, okay some 0:30:40.000 --> 0:30:41.320 of y'a ain't never been that mad where you just 0:30:41.360 --> 0:30:45.320 start LIKE i have Who, okay let me. 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:50.240 Let me real quick before YOU i have been. Ready 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:50.920 you're not. 0:30:51.080 --> 0:30:55.560 Ready Now i'm ready when you, are CAUSE i have Been, 0:30:55.720 --> 0:31:00.720 okay we can go. Now the truth is many of 0:31:00.800 --> 0:31:04.200 us in our life we pray prayers that If god 0:31:04.240 --> 0:31:07.920 came right now and, said all, right let's, Go, god 0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:09.400 if you could just use, me if you could make a, 0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:11.040 difference for all, right pack up you, stuff quit that. 0:31:11.120 --> 0:31:11.480 Job let's. 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:13.720 Go we're gonna move across the. Country i've been planning something. 0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:16.200 There your whole life has led to this, moment and you're. 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:16.600 Gonna start that. 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:18.560 Nonprofit come, on but you gotta. Go you got five 0:31:18.600 --> 0:31:20.080 months to get, ready SO i need you to work 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:24.160 it all. Out let's. Go you'd be, like, uh, well 0:31:25.760 --> 0:31:28.880 the way my bank account is set, UP i need three. 0:31:28.960 --> 0:31:34.520 Days are you ready for the prayer you're praying right? 0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:39.120 Now are you ready for him To, actually there's, prayers 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:41.720 there's habits you, have there's things you've been doing that 0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:44.560 you've been Begging. God, god if you could please do 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:46.240 this and, me if you could help me break that, 0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:48.720 addiction if you could mend this, relationship if. 0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:50.800 You could help me. Forgive Then god come to. 0:31:50.760 --> 0:31:52.600 You and you're at the family event And god's, like go. 0:31:52.640 --> 0:31:55.240 Forgiven right, Now you're, like, hey, yo that's not exactly the. 0:31:55.320 --> 0:32:02.440 Timing but when you Know god chose, you when you 0:32:02.480 --> 0:32:05.040 know the grace he's extended to, you when he Knows 0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:07.920 he's empowers you for every single, moment you can stand 0:32:08.040 --> 0:32:10.920 in any, situations things you saw and you didn't see, 0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:12.640 coming and you can, say you know, WHAT i didn't 0:32:12.640 --> 0:32:15.120 see this, coming But god chose. Me So i'm. Ready 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:17.000 i'm ready for where he wants to take. Me i'm 0:32:17.040 --> 0:32:19.040 ready for him where he wants me to. Go Because 0:32:19.080 --> 0:32:23.480 god chose me for this. Moment life isn't just happening at. 0:32:23.520 --> 0:32:25.600 Me this isn't some random thing THAT i just have 0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:28.360 to suffer and survive. Through what If god wants you 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:32.400 to thrive through that? Moment what if you're. READY i 0:32:32.400 --> 0:32:34.280 know you don't feel, ready but what if you. Are 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:38.239 what if it builds something on the inside of you 0:32:38.280 --> 0:32:38.760 haven't seen. 0:32:38.840 --> 0:32:42.040 Yet what if you're stronger than you think you. Are what, if. 0:32:43.880 --> 0:32:46.160 As joseph, says he, says you, know my, brothers they 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:47.920 had a plan and they meant it for, Evil But 0:32:48.040 --> 0:32:52.840 god he meant it for my. Goods he's working something in. Me, 0:32:52.880 --> 0:32:54.720 FRIEND i want to tell. YOU i know you didn't 0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:57.080 have your family, there But god chose. YOU i know 0:32:57.280 --> 0:32:59.320 you feel like you're trying to do something you've never seen, 0:32:59.360 --> 0:33:01.600 before But god shows. YOU i know like you feel 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:03.280 like this is your home and you don't know where 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:03.720 you're gonna. 0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:05.120 Go BUT i promise you. 0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:07.360 Come. 0:33:07.400 --> 0:33:08.280 On that made me feel at. 0:33:08.320 --> 0:33:12.000 HOME i don't know who that was that, Y'ah, god 0:33:12.200 --> 0:33:12.800 thank you for. 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:15.400 THAT i don't know who that. Was i've out hit 0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:20.920 a my leg went. Up, okay give me the. Organ. 0:33:21.960 --> 0:33:27.080 Okay keeps you, ready. 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:33.080 A ready, spirit ready to step into What god Has 0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:36.640 because here's the, Thing because what keeps us honestly from 0:33:36.720 --> 0:33:38.920 being ready to go Where god wants to take us 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:41.600 is thinking that we've worked too hard to get. Here 0:33:44.280 --> 0:33:46.600 you've put in too much, Effort you've done so. MUCH 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:49.240 i Got but when you start to Realize god put me. 0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:52.680 HERE i worked, HARD i did my, THING i was. 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:57.320 Faithful but the truth Is he put me. Here and 0:33:57.440 --> 0:33:59.720 my trust is not in how HARD i can. Work 0:33:59.840 --> 0:34:02.440 it's not in my good, plan it's Not my trust 0:34:02.480 --> 0:34:04.800 is in the king who can move. Mountains my trust 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:06.560 is in the one who can make a way through the. 0:34:06.600 --> 0:34:09.000 Sea so if he's telling me it's time to, GO 0:34:09.239 --> 0:34:12.080 i don't know everything, else BUT i KNOW i cannot stay. 0:34:12.080 --> 0:34:14.080 Here i'm. 0:34:14.120 --> 0:34:17.080 Ready the next thing that happens when you Believe god 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:21.480 shows you is it keeps you. Ridiculous now let me 0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:24.200 just so before you before you, GO i know some 0:34:24.280 --> 0:34:27.280 of us are a little more inclined to being. RIDICULOUS 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:32.839 i would follow in that. Category she said me. Too 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:37.719 you can always tell us to. Hour we just have 0:34:37.800 --> 0:34:39.279 more trauma the. People so we be showing up a 0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:41.440 little bit loud or just like y'all didn't see me 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:43.680 as a, kid but you gonna see me. Now it's, Like, 0:34:43.800 --> 0:34:47.200 okay that's why we're, loud don't worry about, it. 0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:49.600 But it keeps you. 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:52.719 Ridiculous here's here's here's WHAT i want to submit to, 0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:55.680 you the origins of our, faith the faith that we 0:34:55.920 --> 0:35:00.000 follow as somehow made this transition from its original. Message 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:03.080 and here's WHAT i mean by, that the origins. 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:05.799 Of why we are in this. Room the person. 0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:08.439 We, follow the king that we, serve is a man 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:11.400 who was murdered at thirty three years old for the 0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:16.320 words he. Said he was not just a good, teacher 0:35:16.400 --> 0:35:19.480 he was not just a kind. Man he was murdered 0:35:19.600 --> 0:35:23.880 as a. Radical he was murdered as someone came attacking 0:35:24.040 --> 0:35:27.960 the current belief system and. Structure and then his friends 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:32.040 believed him so much that they, SAID i will not 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:34.600 deny who he is in my. LIFE i saw him 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:36.600 go in that grave AND i saw him come. Out 0:35:38.320 --> 0:35:40.440 there was a, boldness there was a, Courage there was 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:41.680 a faith THAT i am. 0:35:41.719 --> 0:35:44.040 Afraid somehow along the, way. 0:35:43.960 --> 0:35:47.240 In BETWEEN covid and being, canceled we have somehow gotten 0:35:47.280 --> 0:35:50.200 afraid of the message That god put on the inside of. 0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:52.719 Us but, FRIEND i need to tell you. Something this 0:35:52.840 --> 0:35:56.799 message only works if you commit all the. Way there 0:35:56.800 --> 0:35:58.560 are a lot of believers who are just worried about you, 0:35:58.600 --> 0:36:00.200 KNOW i just need to Just god just to help 0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:02.120 me make it. Through and IF i could just, survive 0:36:02.320 --> 0:36:04.440 and if the kids just cond of meet someone, nice 0:36:04.520 --> 0:36:06.400 and if they just AND i don't know about, you 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:09.040 But i'm not here to settle with my. Savior i'm 0:36:09.040 --> 0:36:10.879 not here to barter with the. World IF i can 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:14.120 make it, through If god Raised christ from the, dead 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:17.359 and that power lives on the inside of, me how 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:21.160 come you don't show up like it at? Work how 0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:23.319 what is it in you that keeps you from stepping? Out, 0:36:23.320 --> 0:36:24.759 WELL i don't want to look. Weird let me tell, you, 0:36:24.760 --> 0:36:27.920 baby you already look. Weird so we passed that. Point 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:31.040 you ain't gotta we pass. THAT i mean we're talking 0:36:31.040 --> 0:36:32.359 about somebody you ain't never seen. 0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:34.839 Before you, say here lifting your. 0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:36.880 Hands so just we just in a, room singing up 0:36:36.880 --> 0:36:37.160 into the. 0:36:37.200 --> 0:36:41.520 Sky we passed. WEIRD i, mean if. 0:36:41.400 --> 0:36:43.160 You want to go down that, Argument i'll go with. 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:46.320 You but we passed that. Point there reaches a point 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:49.840 in your life where you've got to decide Either jesus 0:36:49.920 --> 0:36:53.040 was real or he. Wasn't either he came about that 0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:55.759 grave or he. Didn't AND i don't know about, you 0:36:55.840 --> 0:36:58.320 But i'm up in this room today BECAUSE i Believe 0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:01.520 jesus Of. Nazareth he is a real. Man he was 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:02.160 not just a. 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:03.040 Man he Is. 0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:05.920 God and one, day, friend he's coming back. 0:37:05.760 --> 0:37:08.680 From me and you some don't live Like god chose. 0:37:08.800 --> 0:37:13.600 Me i'm raising kids that aren't here to settle with. 0:37:13.680 --> 0:37:16.160 Culture i'm raising kids that are gonna be a terror 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:18.759 on the. Enemy i'm raising kids that's gonna know who they. 0:37:18.800 --> 0:37:22.239 Are i'm not playing. Games i'm not backing up from. 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:26.960 Nothing why Because god brought me. Here some of us 0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:33.480 has settled so, much and then we blame the, church commit, 0:37:33.600 --> 0:37:36.200 halfway walk in a, gym look at the, weights and 0:37:36.200 --> 0:37:36.719 then talk about. 0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:38.400 It that's WHY i don't do, gyms because they just. 0:37:38.440 --> 0:37:47.120 DON'T i had one trainer and they REALLY i feel, you, Okay. 0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:53.279 But this belief overthrew the Entire roman government without one 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:53.799 class or. 0:37:53.840 --> 0:37:58.280 Course it was a group of people who really Believed 0:37:59.200 --> 0:38:02.000 jesus was a real. MAN i saw him with my own, 0:38:02.000 --> 0:38:04.319 eyes AND i can't start denying what he did in my. 0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:08.920 Life one of my favorite scripts of all. Time it's 0:38:08.960 --> 0:38:14.960 In acts chapter. Five the believers are being persecuted and 0:38:15.000 --> 0:38:16.759 there's this committee of, people and they're, like what are 0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:17.400 we gonna do with? 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:18.640 Them because we're trying to. 0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:20.400 Kill, them but we know the people are kind of 0:38:20.480 --> 0:38:21.840 with their, message and what are we going to? Do 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:25.960 and there's this man who stands, up respected by all 0:38:26.000 --> 0:38:30.560 in the, room and he, says, hey, listen, guys if 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:35.400 the message they carry is of human, origin it'll. 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:36.400 Fizzle out like every single. 0:38:36.400 --> 0:38:41.759 One we've seen this happen. Before but then he says these, 0:38:41.800 --> 0:38:44.960 words but if it is From, god. 0:38:46.480 --> 0:38:49.839 You will not be able to stop these. 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:57.480 Men in, fact you might find yourself fighting Against god. 0:38:58.040 --> 0:39:05.640 Himself let me tell you. Something you don't have to 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:09.920 be afraid of the. World you don't have to be 0:39:09.920 --> 0:39:13.000 afraid of the. Situation there's something in you that's greater than. 0:39:13.040 --> 0:39:16.640 That you have a source of. Strength everybody else don't. 0:39:16.680 --> 0:39:19.719 Have you have a source of peace everybody else don't. 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:23.680 Have god chose, You he brought you. Here you didn't 0:39:23.719 --> 0:39:26.120 get yourself. Here come, on hoo wee, Kid. 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:27.719 And let's be. Honest we Didn't we didn't do. This 0:39:28.520 --> 0:39:30.520 you didn't work this. Out you couldn't Have you couldn't 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:32.919 have found you couldn't have wrote it any. Better god did. 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:36.080 This and if it's, True let's live like it's. 0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:39.759 True if it's, real let's take it outside of this. 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:43.080 Room if it's gonna do, something let's actually share it 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:43.400 with our. 0:39:43.440 --> 0:39:44.719 FRIENDS i, mean why do we do? 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:51.279 It when you Believe god shows, You it keeps you, 0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:52.160 Ready it keeps you. 0:39:52.239 --> 0:39:54.960 Ridiculous the last one is it keeps You REVEREND. 0:39:58.719 --> 0:40:04.000 I i was talking to my dad on the way, here. 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:06.640 And he told me something. 0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:09.640 About two or three months ago THAT i didn't, know 0:40:10.320 --> 0:40:18.480 and it was that five generations, back The metcalf men 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:26.600 have been. Preachers AND i was standing up here AND 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:30.600 i was about to walk, out AND i was thinking 0:40:30.600 --> 0:40:34.680 of a man Named Jack. Alonzo you don't Know Jack 0:40:34.680 --> 0:40:41.920 alonzo Because Jack alonzo was born in like eighteen, forty 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:47.200 but he was a. Preacher and THEN i was thinking 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:51.600 of a man Named Luther. Alonzo you don't Know, luther 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:56.680 But luther was a. Preacher AND i was thinking, that you, 0:40:56.680 --> 0:41:03.000 know it's not just me standing up. Here there was Some, 0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:07.000 metcalfs AND i got to just say, it to be 0:41:07.040 --> 0:41:09.040 honest with, you that we're out in a field somewhere 0:41:11.080 --> 0:41:14.520 as life did not look good and did not look, 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:19.000 hopeful and they stood there, Saying, HEY i know it 0:41:19.040 --> 0:41:22.319 looks hard right. NOW i know it doesn't look like 0:41:22.360 --> 0:41:26.000 things can turn, around BUT i promise you we have 0:41:26.080 --> 0:41:27.920 a greater hope than what we see in front of us. 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:35.480 Friends and you know this message Of god chose, me 0:41:35.920 --> 0:41:39.239 there's part of it that is super just confident and, 0:41:39.320 --> 0:41:41.799 bold and you Know god chose. You so you show 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:44.160 up in the room and you're ready to kick the door, down. 0:41:44.120 --> 0:41:45.440 And you're ready to just be, like let's. 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:50.520 Go and at the same, time there's a part of 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:58.600 me that stands right here and it's Just reverend BECAUSE 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:00.960 i Know he didn't have to put me up, here 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:04.840 Right And i'm not talking about up, Here i'm just 0:42:04.880 --> 0:42:06.880 talking about WHAT i woke up this morning AND i, 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:19.000 went he didn't have to do, that or, like owing 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:22.880 to me and my wife's, marriage we WOULD i say this, 0:42:23.000 --> 0:42:25.520 JOKE i, said for our, marriage we've only had one. 0:42:25.640 --> 0:42:28.680 Argument and WHAT i mean by that is we've had 0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:33.960 the same argument a thousand, times of, course but at 0:42:34.000 --> 0:42:35.960 some point early on in our. Marriage we've worked through this, 0:42:36.040 --> 0:42:38.040 now but at some point earlier in our, marriage we 0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:39.479 would beat your point AND i would just be, like, okay. 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:46.160 Sorry she'd be like, WELL i don't believe. You i'm, like, okay, Sorry. 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:52.359 And at some point she would, Say, charles that's not 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:53.480 what you're, saying. 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:58.600 Is how you're saying. It and there's a part of 0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:02.160 you that sometimes you need to wake up and Scream 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:08.400 god chose. You but there's other times where you're just, 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:19.239 LIKE i know Everything i've been, THROUGH i know a 0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:20.839 lot of people have been praying for this. 0:43:20.920 --> 0:43:25.120 MOMENT i know HE'S i didn't always have the ANSWERS i, 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:28.359 remember But god chose. Me and So, GOD i thank 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:31.000 you for this. MOMENT i thank you that you're gonna 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:33.239 help me raise these. KIDS i thank you that you're 0:43:33.280 --> 0:43:35.000 gonna guide me to WHERE i need to. Go, GOD 0:43:35.000 --> 0:43:49.560 i thank you that you're gonna be with me this guy. 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:47.120 And. FRIEND i DON'T. 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:52.560 I don't want to sell you on some idea that 0:43:53.400 --> 0:43:56.160 if you just start walking around your house Yelling. 0:43:55.880 --> 0:43:57.399 God chose, you that everything's gonna. 0:43:57.480 --> 0:44:04.800 Change BUT i can promise you you start to find 0:44:04.840 --> 0:44:08.879 yourself relating To there's a scripture where it lists all 0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:13.960 the heroes of our faith and it says they looked. 0:44:13.600 --> 0:44:18.719 Onward to a heavenly. Homeland you Believe god chose. 0:44:18.760 --> 0:44:20.920 You it produces something inside of you that is not 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:24.120 so connected to this. Moment but you find yourself finding 0:44:24.160 --> 0:44:27.759 a courage and a bravery to live a life that's, 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:33.200 ready that's a little, ridiculous, ridiculous and one that's reverent 0:44:34.520 --> 0:44:35.360 almost everybody in the. 0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:37.400 Room the balrier has enclosed your. EYES i want to pray. 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:42.120 For you if you're in this, room and maybe there 0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:48.000 are some, beliefs some, thoughts some, questions some, insecurities and 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:49.120 you've been fighting for a long. 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:50.920 Time maybe you don't say them out. Loud maybe you know, 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:51.520 them maybe you're. 0:44:51.520 --> 0:44:53.719 Not maybe there's just something in you you know you 0:44:53.760 --> 0:44:55.400 haven't stepped in fully. YET i want to take a 0:44:55.440 --> 0:45:00.279 moment AND i want to pray for. You i'm not 0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:02.880 just gonna pray for, you, Though i'm gonna ask something of. 0:45:02.920 --> 0:45:05.200 You i'm gonna ask you to. 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:08.319 Be bold enough to not let those thoughts run up 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:12.319 in your house. Unchecked if someone walked up to your 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:14.960 house right now and just walked in without asking, you 0:45:14.960 --> 0:45:16.839 you would have a problem with. It the same is 0:45:16.880 --> 0:45:19.319 true for your. Mind do not let anything run up in. 0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:22.040 There it is too, valuable it is too. Important you 0:45:22.160 --> 0:45:25.600 stand guard at The bible says guard your heart above all, 0:45:25.800 --> 0:45:29.440 Else i'm gonna ask you to. Fight you're gonna need some. 0:45:29.880 --> 0:45:31.400 Compy you don't need some friends to help you do. 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:33.200 This you're gonna need. Something but if you want to 0:45:33.239 --> 0:45:36.560 step into a life today believing That god chose you 0:45:36.640 --> 0:45:39.360 for this, day chose you for this, hour chose you 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:42.279 for them, kids chose you for that, business chose you 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:44.240 to be a, husband chose you to be a, wife 0:45:44.400 --> 0:45:46.680 chose you to be single in this, season chose you 0:45:46.840 --> 0:45:48.560 to move to this a whatever it. Is if you 0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:51.880 need the, courage the, strength and the bravery to believe that, 0:45:51.960 --> 0:45:56.240 Today i'm gonna pray for, you Your god right, now every single, 0:45:56.280 --> 0:46:01.000 person we are all here asking you to do something 0:46:01.080 --> 0:46:03.560 deep in our soul that is greater than just a, 0:46:03.600 --> 0:46:06.440 Moment Lord. Jesus but we need you to transform some. 0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:09.560 Things there's some beliefs and insecurities that we've believed about. 0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:12.600 Ourselves there's some ideas that were passed down to us 0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:17.040 that we are divorcing. Today, LORD i speak against, Insecurity Lord, 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:19.719 god and comparison and doubt and. 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:22.200 Fear right, now in the name Of, JESUS. 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.520 I pray by the power of Your Holy spirit that 0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:27.440 same spirit that met them on the day Of. Pentecost 0:46:27.480 --> 0:46:30.640 i'm believing right now is happening in this room and 0:46:30.640 --> 0:46:33.600 in every room that is under the sound of my. Voice, 0:46:33.640 --> 0:46:36.680 GOD i pray right now that your spirit would intervene 0:46:36.800 --> 0:46:39.719 and there would be a holy confidence that ris us 0:46:39.800 --> 0:46:42.359 up on the inside of every believer that knows That 0:46:42.440 --> 0:46:45.680 god has placed something inside of, them regardless of what 0:46:45.680 --> 0:46:49.120 they've been, through regardless of what they look, like regardless 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:49.759 of where they come. 0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:52.840 From But, god there is a boldness you are stirring 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:53.520 up on the. 0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:57.040 Inside of your, Church Lord, jesus and we decide we 0:46:57.120 --> 0:47:00.520 are here to rage war against every life of the, 0:47:00.640 --> 0:47:03.960 enemy against every doubt that's held us, back against every 0:47:04.000 --> 0:47:04.600 fear that. 0:47:04.520 --> 0:47:05.160 Has kept us. 0:47:05.200 --> 0:47:10.719 Down and today we decide we will believe that you 0:47:10.760 --> 0:47:15.160 have chosen, us every hip, bow every eye. Closed there 0:47:15.200 --> 0:47:18.879 are some of you in the room that you need 0:47:18.920 --> 0:47:23.000 to surrender to this. Choice the beautiful thing about the 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:25.440 grace of Our god is he has chosen, you but 0:47:25.560 --> 0:47:27.560 you still have a moment where you surrender to. That 0:47:29.800 --> 0:47:32.120 he loves you so much that he, SAYS i choose, 0:47:32.120 --> 0:47:33.759 you but you just you just gotta let. 0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:35.919 Me you gotta let. Me god your. Life you gotta 0:47:35.960 --> 0:47:36.200 let me. 0:47:36.239 --> 0:47:39.080 Surrender and if you were honest with yourself this, morning everyone, 0:47:39.120 --> 0:47:41.920 watching you've tried doing it your own. Way you tried 0:47:42.000 --> 0:47:44.360 going your own. Path and the truth is you're standing 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:46.520 in the fruit of that. Moment and if you don't like, 0:47:46.600 --> 0:47:49.000 that if you can't stand the, anxiety if you can't 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:51.560 stand the, peace if you can't stand not having, PURPOSE 0:47:51.719 --> 0:47:53.400 i want to invite you into a. 0:47:53.480 --> 0:47:54.520 Life it's not a safe. 0:47:54.560 --> 0:47:56.880 Life it's not a life where everything goes, away but 0:47:56.960 --> 0:47:59.840 it's a life that you could only. Live surrender to 0:47:59.840 --> 0:48:01.880 The king of kings And lord of. Lords if you 0:48:01.920 --> 0:48:03.920 want to Accept Jesus christ as Your lord and. 0:48:03.960 --> 0:48:05.040 Savior here's What i'm gonna. 0:48:05.040 --> 0:48:06.960 Do i'm gonna count to, three and on the count of, 0:48:07.000 --> 0:48:10.400 three you're gonna raise your hand. Boldly you're not. Ashamed 0:48:10.400 --> 0:48:12.920 this isn't between anybody. Else but this is the moment 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:16.279 where you give up control of your. Life it's exhausted. 0:48:16.320 --> 0:48:19.200 You let's be, honest don't play. Nobody it's exhausted. You 0:48:19.280 --> 0:48:22.240 it's taking your, peace it's taking your. Heart it's changed 0:48:22.280 --> 0:48:24.560 parts of you that you don't like. Anymore but in this, 0:48:24.680 --> 0:48:27.120 moment you're gonna surrender your life To, jesus and it's 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:30.080 gonna be a brand new. Start and when your hand 0:48:30.120 --> 0:48:32.600 goes up in the, air this whole room and around the, 0:48:32.640 --> 0:48:34.800 world we're gonna start cheering for you because this is 0:48:34.840 --> 0:48:36.479 the greatest choice you could ever. 0:48:36.520 --> 0:48:37.960 Make. One he loves. 0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:38.080 You. 0:48:38.360 --> 0:48:39.719 Two today is that. 0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:40.040 Day. 0:48:40.120 --> 0:48:41.360 Three raise your hand. 0:48:41.160 --> 0:48:44.120 Right, now all over this room and, online every single, 0:48:44.200 --> 0:48:46.799 room raise that. Hand, oh come on, CHURCH a whole 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:49.200 row right, HERE a couple right. HERE i see, you 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:51.960 so keep your hand. HOT i see, you, brother so 0:48:52.080 --> 0:48:54.640 proud of. You, oh come, on. Church can we celebrate 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:56.400 people giving their life To? 0:48:56.600 --> 0:49:01.440 Jesus real? 0:49:01.480 --> 0:49:03.560 Quick everybody's standing all over this. ROOM i want to 0:49:03.600 --> 0:49:06.600 pray this prayer to. Everybody repeat out loud after. Me 0:49:06.800 --> 0:49:10.879 everybody Say Dear, god thank you for loving. Me Dear, 0:49:11.000 --> 0:49:16.279 JESUS i give you, Everything change, me transform. 0:49:16.360 --> 0:49:19.480 Me i'm yours In jesus. 0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:25.600 NAME i Pray. Amen can we celebrate that? Decision, oh come, On, Church. 0:49:29.960 --> 0:49:30.840 Thank you for joining. 0:49:30.920 --> 0:49:33.680 Us special thanks to those of you who give generously 0:49:33.760 --> 0:49:36.800 to this. 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