Grace Through Faith

Hey, something, something's in the water. Yeah, because I've been growing

my beard this week to get in the cool crowd, and I noticed two

of the cool men in the church shaved. There's off the surgery is,

I guess just about the moment. I'm trying to fit in and like be

accepted. I want to be more like Roman and Surgery. I want to

fit in like rawn. Look at that all right, some men and their

hair. It's like a woman in hers. How are we doing? Here's

the Lord? You're in church? Look at you? Wow, that's mom

upside down. Wow. Um, I got a couple. You know,

we have a thousand announcements. I don't know what's it means that we have

an amazing church, right, So one thing to announce is we are starting

the Kingdom School of Transformation this fall and so the website is actually up and

running. So we'd love for you to be a student in the Kingdom School

of Transformation. This is a one year's school that will probably morph into two,

but it's a one year Bible school and really Kingdom engagement school, so

Ecclesia, Cultural Transformation, etc. Go to the website, take a look

at it. You'll see what's going on. You'll see some information about the

classes and we're partnering with Faith International University so you can earn credits as you're

coming through the school. So that's something that you'll hear more about. But

just a quick prompt because believe it or not, September is upon us,

so that's coming up. Also, City Quake. How many of you A

bunch of you were a part of City Quake. I know we had about

twenty two people involved in City Quakes. So just to remind all of you

that we've moved into our eight week after shock period and so this is where

we're going to have continual intentional evangelism opportunities. So that's going to be going

on. Pastor Dennis's leading some, Fills leading some, and Tony's leading some.

So we're gonna have these opportunities going on. The first one is next

Sunday night. There'll be people joining us from the ten other churches or the

nine other churches that were a part of City Quake for these as well.

So it's going to be a lot of fun, a lot of excitement.

So this summer is really there's we just finished City Quake yesterday was awakened the

planet. And now there's a thing going on in South Pierce or South Tacoma

with Joan Piers. I believe that's going to be like a tent meeting revival.

If you can get to any of this stuff, I applaud you.

Just you know, we can't advertise all that's happening. There's so much going

on, but we want you to know we are for all of it.

We want the Kingdom to grow. We want every house to grow, we

want every church to grow. We we just we know that God's up to

something really good in our region. And it's not all New Horizon, but

it's all Kingdom. So don't feel like, yeah, don't feel like that

your loyalty here keeps you from going to something else and then you can't invite

somebody that something else or talk about it because you've got a loyalty here and

vice versa. Don't feel like that. We have canceled all territorialism. We've

canceled all jealousy, canceled all fear. We we don't operate in any of

those spears here. We want the Kingdom to grow, we want churches to

grow, we want everything to grow. We want evangelism everywhere. We want

every believer sharing their faith with the power and the love of the Gospel of

Jesus Christ. Amen. So know that and believe that that's the way we

roll around here. And so you just you know, you don't have to

fear any of that stuff. Amen, phrase the Lord. Um. Yeah,

we had. We saw some really cool stuff happen, you know,

through city quake, and it's really just an opportunity to to get activated a

little bit in supernatural soul winning. So you might have heard you might have

heard Tom's share last Sunday that it's not really soul winning is not about a

sales pitch, as it is just about showing the love of God and just

just sharing with people. Ron. I wanted to talk about Ron's opportunity because

the fruit that comes out of these opportunities is really good. Ron Cater came

the city quake, and then you know he's meditating on runs over here with

a hand. So I asked him if I could share this on his behalf.

He's meditating a little bit on everything that's happening and the activations and and

and you know, observing some of this and going out on some of the

teams and then what were you doing in your front yard? Were you mowing

your lawn? Were you gonna? Huh? You were weeding. So he's

out weeding in his front front yard up here in Federal Way last weekend and

he hears a boom box coming down the street. He's probably looking for a

low rider or something. But what he notices is that it's actually around the

neck of a young man. And so the boom box is coming at him.

And so he's like, oh, you know, all pads, I'll

take a little bit of time here, and and so he strikes up a

conversation with this young man. Eventually asked him what he could pray with him

about, and he said he had pain in his stomach. Didn't he had

pain in his stomach or something? And so Ron's like, okay, I

can pray about that. But he discovers that he is a young man that

was shot three times or five three times up at the Commons mall and huh

fred Meyer shot at fred Meyer in feder Way, So be careful where you

shop. I'm thinking all of us should switch to Safe Way because it's safe.

It's safe. Isn't that what safe way means? It's safe? There's

no safe way. He's the only safe way. Oh my word. So

he was shot at fred Meyer three times, and so Ron got to pray

for him. Here's the good thing. It opened up a conversation. Ron

followed up with more ministry and taking food to his house and meeting his family.

Then Wednesday night they brought him to church. So we came to the

midweek service, and so his life was touched. He ended up on the

phone talking to his family. He's going to bring all of them to church

next Sunday. So just you know, cool stuff. And it just all

came out of just you know, paying attention, uh, and just you

know, letting the love of the lords shine through us. All of us

have the love of the Lord, but sometimes we let other stuff get in

the way, right, h And what if Ron just would like, Okay,

that's kind of noisy, all right, I think I'll just kind of

keep picking my weeds and just let that walk on by, right. I

Mean, it's just it's just taking time, uh, and loving somebody and

breaking up our schedule a little bit, and then all at once, a

family, a life has changed. Now a family is going to be changed.

People get transformed, just from us elevating people sometimes, you know,

and I'm preaching to me right now, but we just it's so powerful when

we elevate people above our stuff, our world, our schedule, our money,

our to do list, when we elevate people above that. And you

know, the biblical the biblical way. I just looked at the clock.

I'm out of time. The biblical way, Dwayne, you're out of time.

Thank you, all right. The Biblical way is that that we let

love push its way into other people's lives. And when it's love that's pushed

into other people's lives, and it's not a hardship, it's welcomed, Amen

the Father. We just say yes to a bunch of that this week for

all of us, Holy Spirit, we know that you are going to open

the eyes of our understanding. We're going to see needs around us. We're

going to see somebody with a limp. We're going to see somebody with pain.

We're gonna come to know of a situation. We're going to inquire of,

and we're going to press in and prayer. You're going to work signed

and wonders through us, and the love of the Lord will open the door

for more of heaven in their lives, the hope of heaven in their lives.

We thank you for it. We thank you for the boldness that is

of the spirit to walk as Jesus in his name. We believe it in

Jesus name. And everybody said, I want to talk a little bit about

I want to talk a little bit about the grace that we can enter into

and the grace that it's ordained that we enter into as the New Creation.

The New Creation life is a life filled with grace, filled with grace,

and we can enter into a greater portion of it as we as we lead

our lives with faith and not necessarily lead our lives with goosebumps. Goosebumps follow

faith. I'm want to dive into this a little bit. And my proposition.

So I've got this weird world where my brother and I were always involved

in auto repair and like autobody stuff, and so we would use this calm

pound called bondo. Anybody in the building ever heard of bondo? Okay,

it's not like a bondage thing. This is not spiritual bondo. You can

buy it add auto repair stores, and I discovered you can buy it affordably

at Walmart and I've used it for you know, ten or fifteen different things,

and it's this interesting, gray gooey compound. Valley ever seen it?

Have you ever seen bondo? Let me see those hands again, the Bondo

hands. So it's this gray, gooey compound that will do you no good

whatsoever. It will stick to everything and literally make a mess of everything until

you add a catalyst to it, and a bunch of this stuff. Once

a catalyst is added to it, then it becomes like super powerful, super

useful, and you can do all sorts of stuff with it. So I've

fixed rotten wood with it, I have fixed cars with it. I have

fixed I've fixed you know, on the last house, I did all of

the repair of the molding and the trim, like finished carpentry with Bondo.

So you take a glob of it and you just take this it's a it's

a red hardener. It's a catalyst. You take a red hardener and you

just put a little bit of this catalyst into it, and all at once,

this glob of stuff becomes super powerful and super worthless worthful. This worthless

stuff becomes super worth while. And I want, I want you to see

Grace that way. I want you to see grace that way. Grace.

Grace is this supernatural power of God. Grace is this this amazing thing that

is ladent with potential. Grace is access into heaven, and grace is heaven

to you. And I've got a few little notes, but but there's a

couple of categories of what grace is. By the way that grace is like

all over the New Testament, one hundred and twenty four times in the New

Testament grace has mentioned. Grace is God's power. Grace is supernatural or God's

spiritual power revealed. Grace is his power made known. Grace is also we

know it to be unmerited favor, right, so un unearned favor, unmerited

favor, undeserved favor. So all at once, this you know, like

this, this access us a power is made known to you beyond what you

earned or you deserved, unmerited fabor. Grace is Grace is all of that.

I want I want to read a couple of verses to you. And

we we know grace also to be what is considered a gift, and we

would we would consider a grace a gift. Let's get to Romans three twenty

four. We are justified by His grace as a gift that's powerful. Justified

means that when grace is imputed to us, when grace is granted or given

to us, then God sees us as if we never sinned, and it's

a gift through the redemption that is in Christ. Jesus want to read another

powerful passage to you, a familiar one, Ephesians to eight through ten.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. It is because

it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not

from yourselves, it is a gift from God. So again it's talking about

a gift. The word, the Greek word for it, or the etymology

of the word is chariss and from that we get charismatic, like we are

charismatic Christians, and it means that we believe that all of the gifts of

the spirit are available and given poured out upon every Christian. So all of

us have access to all of the gifts of the spirit. The supernatural gifts

of the spirit are accessible to us as the grace of God poured out,

made available by the grace of God, and so they're part of our salvation.

Experience. And when we think about salvation, I know we have the

born again experience where you gave your life to the Word, you entrusted him

with your life, you opened up your life. That's the born again experience.

But when and so a lot of us read Ephesians two eight through ten

or six through ten, we read it in that context. But the context

of it is really bigger than the born again experience. It's actually saved is

the word sozo, and it inside of that seed of the Word is the

full expression of everything that you enter into in salvation. So it's not just

that you were born again. When you were born again sown within you with

the seed of eternal life and the seed of heaven and the seed of God's

very dna, and so coming to Him in salvation, getting born again,

actually you entered into the fullness of sozo, though it isn't fully worked out

within your life, yet that's what you entered into. It's like the seed

of God has been planted with in you, and so Soza means being delivered

out of darkness and being delivered into your promise. It pictures both deliverance and

the new creation and the fullness of salvation for you, and so Ephesians two

eight through ten. For it is by grace you have been saved through faith.

Everybody say through faith, and this not yourselves. It is the gift

of God, not by work, so that no one can boast, for

we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus, were created in Christ Jesus.

We're not creating now. Christ Jesus is the last atom. We are no

longer living in the first atom. We're created in the last atom. Christ

Jesus is the last atom. He is the restored man. Christ Jesus is

the one who came to set everything right. Christ Jesus is the one who

came to restore everything, and he's the fountainhead of a new creation. That's

Christ Jesus. We're created. You were created in the first atom. Now

you're created in the last atom. You're created in Christ Jesus as a new

creature, a new creation. All of this operates through the power of His

grace. But I want you to see the activator of it is your faith.

Grace is this giant thing, like this giant god thing that we participate

in that has deliberables, Like there's deliberables to your life. Like blessings and

kindness and an abundance and provision, and I mean, there's just so much

that is wrapped up in the grace of God. But the activator is through

faith. For it is by grace. You have been saved through faith.

So I want you to see, the grace isn't poured out on you first.

The grace is poured out upon you as a response to you activating the

grace with your faith. And that's the way it always is. The Kingdom

and everything about the Kingdom, and everything about the New Creation, and everything

about living the New Creation life is activated by your faith. The grace doesn't

proceed, the grace follows your faith. You hear of the Christ, you

access him by your faith. You hear of his promises, You access it

by faith, you hear of his commandments, you access the power of it

by your faith. Anything you hear about in the Kingdom, anything you come

to know about Him in the Kingdom, anything, because he is not only

perfect theology, but he is the mature picture of who you've come into and

who you now are. Anything you learn about, anything that's in the Word

about him, anything anything that God requires of you, everything about the New

creation, the grace for it or the power for it. You access that

by faith if you're waiting, if you're waiting for it to come up on

you, and then you'll activate your faith. You're backwards, Okay, I'll

try to explain it more as we go. Second Corinthians nine eight talks about

grace as the power of God for living a supernatural life. It talks about

the power of God, not just some merited favor, but the power of

God that shows up causing you to abound because you exercise your faith. Second

Corinthians nine, verse eight. And the context here is the context. Here's

money. And I won't get into the context. And this is not a

sermon on money, but the context is money. And it's Paul talking about

that if you so much, you will reap much. If you sew little,

you'll reap little. And he's talking about and he's exhorting them, but

I want you to sew much because God is able to make you abound.

He's able to flood your life with a grace. But he says, I

want you to sew according to your faith. So this is it's an interesting

thing. And Second Corinthians nine eight says God is able to make all grace.

God is able to make all grace abound to you. God is able

to make all grace abound to you. And he's usually when he's talking this

way, like in the Galatians six, seven and eight, he talks the

same way. It's usually because we're going to be challenged. We're going to

be challenged, and the old life, the atom life, is going to

want to pop up and dictate what we do. It's going to want to

argue, yeah, but if you do that, or if you give that,

or if you walk that out, you're gonna and it's going to want

to challenge. There's a voice, and there's reasoning, and there's imagination that

wants to come up out of the old atom, and it wants to challenge

the word of God and the conviction of God and the Holy Spirit and the

leading of the Holy Spirit and say, now, I don't think you should

do that. And like in this context, since it was about giving money,

oh yeah, you know, the enemy's going to show up and challenge

that one. Right, So he says, yeah, but yeah, but

listen, God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that

having all sufficiency in all things at all times. You may abound in every

good work. Now when would that grace show up? If you look at

the context, the grace isn't going to show up before they're offering. This

is this is the Corinthian Church being exhorted to give an offering. The grace

isn't going to show up before. And it doesn't work that way for any

of us either. It's not like, yeah, I would give something today

if I had extra what's that coming through the air? An envelope full of

what is it? Let me catch it? Open that the eight hundred dollars.

Thank you Lord, I'll give some of this back to you. Now,

it doesn't work that way. It's not like it's not like the grace

comes first and then we act in faith. No, we act in faith

first. We act in faith first. This is the way it always works.

You act in faith first, and then it opens up the grace.

And you would have never known the grace if you wouldn't have acted in faith.

But because you acted in faith, it opened up the grace and the

faith became the catalyst or the activator to enter you into the grace life.

This is the way the Kingdom works. That makes sense, and this is

the way it was going to work for them as well, He telling the

church at Corinth, I guarantee, if you will sew your seed according to

your faith, then God will open up all grace, all you will abound

in it will It will take you into the realm of charisma. It will

take you into the realm of His blessing, and you will end up abounding

at all times for every good work. Isn't that crazy? So I'm trying

to I'm trying to help you see. The life recalled to in the New

Creation is a life. It's a faith life. And the grace to enter

into everything that is part of the New Creation, the grace, the enablement

and the power to enter into it. It starts with your faith first.

It doesn't start with the grace first. So that's why we do things when

we don't feel like it, because we do things by faith. That's why

we love people when it's hard or challenging, because we do it by faith.

That's why we give when it doesn't even seem like we should give,

because we do it by faith. That's why we're kind when it's challenging to

be kind, because we're kind by faith. Because we've put the first atom

to death, and we have declared that the first atom is crucified, that

our lineage, our association, our obligation, our agreement, and our subjugation

to first atom has been cut off by Jesus and the Cross, and that

we no longer live according to the desires of that person, but we now

live according to the desires of Christ within us. Let me read you some

verses real quick, Galatians to twenty. I have been crucified with Christ.

Yeah, but I look like I'm still here, which I what do you

mean? I have been crucified. I have been crucified with Christ, and

I no longer live. Okay, so the guy that's crucified with Christ no

longer lives, but Christ lives in me and the life I now live in

the body I live by faith in the Son of God. Oh. So

faith allowed me to enter into a new person who's living. And the new

person who's living is now animating my body and in control of my body.

So the old person is dead, but there's a new person alive, and

the new person can only live and access the power for living by faith in

the Son. It's by faith in the Son I live by the faith in

the Son who loved me and gave himself for me Roman six ones or seven?

What shall we say? Shall we go on sinning so that grace will

increase? No, says Paul, who mentions grace eighty six times in the

New Testament. That's not how grace increases. Grace doesn't increase by sin.

Grace increases by faith. Now we have this thing in Christianity where we think

that we're covered by grace, and so we think that we can sin because

we're covered by grace. We use grace as an excuse to sin. Hello,

we use grace as an excuse to sin because we misunderstand grace. And

see, what we're missing is that when I sin, I'm actually not walking

by faith. And if I don't walk by faith, that means I've cut

grace off. Did you hear that I'm actually in trouble spiritually. I can't

sin and think that grace is going to cover me, because to sin is

to fall short of faith. It's actually to distrust God and to partner with

fear. And when I partner with fear, I'm partnering secondly with rebellion and

disobedience and pride, and I'm partnering with fear because I'm afraid that if I

follow God then i won't get what I really want. And so actually I'm

not being covered by grace. I'm actually abusing the grace. That's why Hebrews

ten says, when we continue this way, we're trampling on his grace.

Am I making sense? Am I making any sense at all? And so

what shall we say? Shall we go on sinning so the grace will increase?

No, that's not how grace increases. By no means. We are

those who have died to sin. How can we live in it any longer?

Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus

were baptized into his death. We were therefore buried with him through baptism in

death. That just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of

the Father, we two may live a new life. Were called to live

a new life, and it's a new life of faith, it's a new

life of believing. For if we've been united with Him and death like this,

we will certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like this. So

we are called to live a resurrected life. I'm presenting all of this crud

to the Lord in faith, believing that to follow him and to follow his

word is much better, and it results in a resurrected life. And a

resurrected life is a life filled with grace, a life where grace is showing

up all the time, power, revelation, and undeserved favor. Can I

make any sense Ephesians four seventeen or twenty one. So I tell you this,

and I insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer

live as the gentiles do in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened

in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that's

in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity,

they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of

impurity, and they're full of greed. But that's not the way of life

that you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him according to

the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught that, in regard to

your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is

being corrupted by deceitful desires, and to be made new in the attitude or

the spirit of your mind, and to put on the new self created to

be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Now that takes a pile of

faith. It takes a pile of faith to set aside jealousy, to set

aside pouting, to set aside self pity, to set aside negativity, to

set that self aside, and to know that to choose the way of the

Lord will be better, higher, and have a greater reward, and it

will release a faith over you. And if you until until you do that,

you don't know the grace that will be released. And it's possible for

all of us to walk around as Christians and to have fragments of grace and

portions of grace and partial grace because we have a grace that has given us

according to the truth that we yield to and walk in. But the truth

that we refuse to yield to and walk in, then we fail to taste

of that grace. But instead we're empowering the unclean, realm over us.

Well how do we do that? Well, here's what I think. I

think that all of these Kingdom. Principles work in the reverse as much as

they work in the forward. In other words, they work in darkness exactly

like they work in the kingdom of light. If faith, if faith in

God, if faith in God accesses the grace of God, then faith in

the enemy or doubt and fear. By the way, did you know that

doubt and fear and distrust? Did you know that it's actually it's actually not

doubt, fear and distrust. Did you know that it's not like some ambiguous

thing that like, oh, yeah I was just afraid, or yeah,

well that was just fear, or yeah I've had these fears and it's just

you know, it's just it's not something that is without power. What I

want to say jest to you, is that fear is actually faith. In

darkness, fear is actually faith. Satan's kingdom works exactly like God's does the

kingdom of darkness. This is why the Bible says when we get to the

end of time, we're going to seize Satan. All of us are going

to get a glimpse of Satan at the end of all of this, and

we're going to shake our heads and we're going to say, what in the

world. That's the one who made the nation's shake. It's because we're not

going to be impressed with his stature. We're not going to be impressed with

his size. We're not going to be impressed with his majesty. We're not

going to be impressed with his strength. We're not going to be impressed with

anything about Satan. Why because we're the ones that give him power. He

has no power but the power we get him. It's the power of our

faith. If you believe the enemy can steal, he will steal. If

you believe that the enemy's way is the best way, then he will have

you with a bondage. Whatever you believe, whatever you believe, it's you

and I that gives strength to the enemy. It's you and I that give

him the food that he needs to be strong, or to have dominion,

or to have power or influence over us in our lives. It's you and

I. So even as your faith activates the grace of God, your faith

in the things of darkness activate the grace. If I could say it this

way, please forgive me. I don't want to offend you. Obviously,

I'm just using this terminology so we understand it because there's nothing gracious about darkness.

But if we understand grace as the supernatural power of God's realm, then

your faith or your doubt, fear, and unbelief gives you access to the

grace of darkness, to the grace of His realm, meeting supernatural power,

the power of darkness, the bondage of darkness, the influence of darkness,

releasing the power of the curse over you, making the curse more effective.

Why does it seem like this is so powerful? Why does it seem like

I can't get a breakthrough? Why does it seem like this is like I

can't get over the top of this. Why does it seem like this is

Well, it is powerful because your faith. See, your faith is much

more than just if you've seen the catalyst for bondo. It's just a little

bit of red tube. It's like yeast to bread. It's just a little

bitty ingredient. And you're thinking, that's just a little bitty fear, that

fear, that's no big deal. I don't you know, it's just a

little bit. Don't judge me for my fear. It's just a little bitty

fear. Yeah, Well, it's just a it only takes a little catalyst.

A little catalyst mixed in causes everything to be transformed. A little catalyst.

Go ahead. I like it. It's good even more, it's it's

it's wonderful. It makes me sound better. It's like a little catalyst.

Any thought, reason, emotion, or imagination, statement or confession that falls

short of the New creation is born of fear, and it is secured,

helped, strengthened with rebellion, pride, or accusation. Born of fear.

Yeah, I'm not really one to share my faith. That could be a

statement or an imagination. But do we realize that is the person that died.

Whenever I allow the old creation to speak for me and I miss out

on the grace of the new creation. I'm not one that gives generously.

Well, I thought that guy died. I'm not quick to forgive well that

one died. I don't let things. I don't let go of things easily.

Well, that one died. I tend to get irritated. Well,

that one died on my own worst credit. That one should have died.

I'm untrusting of others. That one should be dead. I have to see

it to believe it. Well, that one should be dead. It takes

me a long time to forgive that one should be dead. I believe in

God, but I always like to have a backup plan. You know,

we could list about fifty or one hundred other things that we believe or hold

to, or say, or allow or agree with as Christians that totally fall

short of the new creation life and the maturity we're called to in Christ Jesus.

But we allow these things because they're just small little things. But we

don't realize that small little thing is like the catalyst that ignites the kingdom of

darkness against us, and it's sabotaging us and hindering us and harming us,

and it's keeping us from accessing the grace of God because it's not the catalyst

of faith, and the catalyst of faith, which is not the catalysts of

your feelings. It's not the catalyst of circumstances. It's not the catalyst of

what you see. The catalyst of faith is the catalysts of agreement with God's

word and what he says about you and why he made you to be,

and what he's called you to be and what He's commanded you to do,

and everything about God, the catalysts of faith in that would have ignited something

great on your behalf. It would have ignited grace, It would have released

supernatural power over you. But you'll never know it in that category because you

are not exercising your faith. Instead, you're turning this catalyst loose, this

little daub of fear. I know we're late. I know, I know,

I know, I know. I know the kids need attention to the

barbecues burning. Stand with me. Colossians three twelve says, Therefore, as

God's chosen children, holy and dearly love, clothe yourselves, Clothe yourselves with

compassion, with kindness, with humility, with gentleness, with patience, bear

with one another and forgive one another. And it's all about Christ. Let

Christ's rule in your heart. He goes on to say, let Christ's rule

in your heart. Clothe yourselves with Christ. Put him on, and let

Christ's rule in your heart. But you know what we do. You know

what we do. We fear that compassion will be taken advantage of, so

we hesitate. We fear that kindness won't be reciprocated. We fear that gentleness

will make the message too soft. We fear that patience will horses more time,

and so we argue with what we're called to. We argue with the

new creation, and we fear and we doubt that it will produce what God

would bless us with. And we even look around and see it's not working

all that great for other believers either. Well, maybe others aren't clothing themselves

with Christ studs. Well, Oh, Holy Spirit, we just want your

We want sure your race and the pathway toward it to become so powerfully clear

to us today, Holy Spirit, we want to be done of every fear.

We want to rid our hearts, our lives of every fear. Holy

Spirit, Come on, we just lift up your heart, your voice,

your hands of mine, join me as we just together, say Father,

and lead us into wisdom. Lead us into the wisdom room above. Lead

us into the life of faith, the life of faith. Let us tolerate

no fear, no doubt, no distrust, no unbelief, no rebellion,

no pride. Everything you've said about us, we agree it's true. Everything

you've called us to, we agree it's true. Every promise you've declared over

us, we believe it's true. Holy Spirit. We rise up to higher

heights, not walking by emotion, not walking by circumstance, not walking at

a protection of the old person, not walking giving resurrection to that one once

lived, walking in and under the new atom, walking in and under the

Christ life, walking in and by the Christ, the faith of the Son

who's given himself to us. Turn our hearts to you, and we see

that grace doesn't lead the way. Faith leads the way. And we choose

the life of faith today. We choose a heart of faith today. We

choose a mouth of faith today, a confession of faith today. And we

bless you for it. In Jesus name. Everybody said, God, bless

your church. Let's worship as we go today,