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Jesus, The Redeemer | Pastor Matt Keller

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  1. Welcome. We love you and we're so

  2. thankful that you are with us today.

  3. And here's what I believe. I believe today is the day of

  4. miracles. I believe that.

  5. I believe that we're not just singing words on a screen with a

  6. catchy tune. Everybody.

  7. I believe God wants to meet us at the point of our faith.

  8. Amen. Do you believe God still does

  9. miracles? Amen.

  10. I do too. And so we're believing for

  11. miracles today. And as you just heard all of our

  12. pastors mentioned, be sure to take these invitation cards with

  13. you. Let's be on the lookout this

  14. week for who we can invite to Easter next weekend.

  15. God wants to impact so many people.

  16. He's put a word on on my heart specifically for Easter weekend

  17. next week. And then our creative team at

  18. all of our locations has some incredible things planned as

  19. well. So be in the house and then

  20. don't come alone. Everybody say don't come alone.

  21. Amen. Hey, let me give you a quick

  22. update in terms of Kingdom Builders.

  23. And for those of you who are part of Next Level Church, which

  24. is the vast majority of us, you know what Kingdom Builders is.

  25. That's our above and beyond generosity where we get to fuel

  26. forward the vision of and mission of Next Level Church, a

  27. locally, national and internationally.

  28. And so coming into this year, if you've been hanging out at next

  29. Level church since January or so, you know that our Kingdom

  30. builders goal this year for 2026 is $4 million.

  31. And, and we're just standing that's above and beyond our

  32. normal tithe that we return to the Lord.

  33. The tithe keeps the church alive.

  34. And then our, our generosity, our Kingdom builders giving

  35. above and beyond that fuels forward in four areas.

  36. You can see them behind me there that we're, we have initiatives

  37. and partners where we are reaching the loss, where we, I'm

  38. going to look at him here. We're he, we're bringing healing

  39. to the hurting. We're empowering the next

  40. generation. And throughout the, the, the

  41. months of our calendar year, we talk about, we highlight

  42. different ministries in each of those 4 categories, including

  43. then equipping the church, which includes our next level

  44. relational network as well as other things.

  45. And so as most of you know, our next step here in Southwest

  46. Florida in terms of equipping the church, that category, that

  47. initiative so to speak, that pillar for Kingdom Builders is

  48. that we are purchasing, we're under contract to purchase a

  49. 31,000 square foot building on Metro Parkway come off somebody

  50. that is completely adjacent to this, our Fort Myers location.

  51. And so we own 20 acres here and then that Metro Parkway, we own

  52. that piece of, that's the church right there, that's our Fort

  53. Myers location. And then we own all of this.

  54. And then that's the Metro Parkway property that you can

  55. see we're under contract for. And so God, we feel like God's

  56. given us a word that this is our next phase.

  57. This is our next step locally for us as a church to see the,

  58. the whole Fort Myers location build out over the next several

  59. years. And so purchasing this gives us

  60. a drive line to Metro Parkway, as well as so many other things

  61. that I'm not even going to rehearse right now.

  62. You can go back and watch Vision Sunday a few weeks ago where

  63. Pastor Sarah and I laid all of that out.

  64. But here's here's what I want to draw our attention to.

  65. We feel like God's given us a word and it comes from

  66. Deuteronomy chapter one, verse 8IN Deuteronomy chapter one,

  67. verse 8, God is speaking about the promised land and he says,

  68. see everyone say, see, I've set the land before you go in.

  69. And then right here, this is kind of the key of what what

  70. we're clinging to take possession of the land.

  71. Somebody say take possession, take possession of the land that

  72. the Lord swore to your father's. Look at this.

  73. It's generational to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.

  74. And then look what it says to give them and to their offspring

  75. after them and church family. That's what we're believing.

  76. We're believing that that this Metro Parkway building, which

  77. we're coming up with a better name.

  78. Stay tuned. Terrible name.

  79. Yes, we agree. We're working on it.

  80. We believe God's given us some inkling on that, but we believe

  81. that this next stage for us to take possession of this

  82. building. And so all of you know or most

  83. all of you know that we are under contract and we're

  84. supposed to close on Tuesday, March 31st here in a couple of

  85. days. But yeah, hang on.

  86. But due to an issue and not ours, the seller's issue that

  87. closing has gotten delayed. Everything's fine, but it's

  88. gotten delayed here by a a month or so.

  89. And so as all of you know, we have someone came forward in

  90. February and said, hey, we want to offer $1,000,000 match that

  91. every dollar that's given from February 21st till then would be

  92. matched in terms of a down payment on this $5.5 million

  93. purchase price for this Metro Parkway building.

  94. And so here's the cool part, Between what you've given over

  95. 600,000 since the first of the year for to Kingdom Builders,

  96. but then even just since February 21st, you're giving the

  97. match as well as what we carried over from 2025, we already have

  98. over $1,000,000 for the down payment.

  99. Yeah, come on, can we celebrate that?

  100. That's awesome. So awesome.

  101. But we asked the the couple that that came forward with the match

  102. this week if they would extend it another month and they said

  103. absolutely. So let's go.

  104. Come on. How big of a bite can we take

  105. out of that purchase price? Let's just let's just let's just

  106. believe God for that. Amen.

  107. Hey, come on every location, right?

  108. Let's just pray God is leading us.

  109. What would God want us to? I know Sarah and I this week,

  110. we, we had to move money around for what God spoke to us in

  111. terms of giving to be a part of what we're doing here.

  112. And so you can just go to nextlevelsearch.com/give, you

  113. know that and click on Kingdom Builders.

  114. It's intuitive from there. But Father, right now we just

  115. come to you, Lord, your sons and daughters and say, God, you're

  116. up to something big in this house.

  117. And we're fired up about that. And so, Lord, we know our steps

  118. are ordered of you. And so God, we thank you that

  119. this delay, you're actually going to work it for our good.

  120. And so God, you're going to fuel forward.

  121. And so, Lord, give it right now. I just believe you're speaking

  122. to people, God, you're speaking to people.

  123. We can move stuff around. We can move.

  124. And God, we're just going to wait.

  125. Here's the deal. Our responsibility as pastors is

  126. to make the need known. And then each one of us, our

  127. responsibility is to go to the Heavenly Father and say, God is

  128. for me in my house. What do you want us to do?

  129. So God, thank you that you are positioning our church for

  130. generations to come, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and to the other

  131. officer, we believe that for us too, God, this is a generational

  132. move for our church. And so God, we just thank you

  133. that you're going to supply everything we have need of in

  134. Jesus name. And everyone who agreed with

  135. that said, hey man, come on, can we celebrate cost provision?

  136. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Thank you my friend.

  137. Hey, today we are finishing up our series called Jesus the one

  138. and only. Somebody say Jesus the one and

  139. only. And today I want to talk

  140. specifically about Jesus as our Redeemer.

  141. Jesus is the Redeemer. Say the Redeemer.

  142. Because see, there's, there's a lot of beliefs out there.

  143. As we've been saying over the last few weeks of this series,

  144. there's a lot of beliefs about who Jesus is today.

  145. And contrary to popular opinion, Jesus wasn't just a great

  146. teacher. He wasn't just a moralist.

  147. He wasn't just a philosopher. Jesus came to be the Redeemer,

  148. to redeem us fallen, broken mankind.

  149. And that's what Jesus did. He came to the cross.

  150. He came to this earth, died and lived for 33 years, lived a

  151. perfect, sinless life, and then gave his life on the cross.

  152. Why? So that you and I could be

  153. redeemed. Somebody say redeemed.

  154. Hey, is it OK if I preach a little bit today?

  155. Come on, we're talking about Jesus.

  156. And so today, traditionally in the Christian calendar, so to

  157. speak, today is is officially called Palm Sunday.

  158. Anybody grow up like in a church where there was.

  159. Yeah, come on. Show of hands.

  160. Every location. Yeah, you are.

  161. Wow. Lots of us here at Fort Myers.

  162. Yeah. Any other location downtown or

  163. anybody else? I did, man.

  164. We grew up. And when you went to church as a

  165. kid on Palm Sunday, they they pinned a little palm leaf.

  166. Anybody else? And all day long I had to wear

  167. this palm leaf. I'm in Indiana Everybody you

  168. ship those in because we did not have palm trees so as as as we

  169. are just again, it's so So what is Palm Sunday?

  170. Palm Sunday was the day of Jesus triumphal entry.

  171. And if you're new to Bible study, let me explain that.

  172. So Jesus for three years, we know it and we we it's recorded

  173. in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the four gospels in the Bible.

  174. And then Jesus came into Jerusalem.

  175. He kept telling his disciples for quite a while leading up to

  176. it. I got to go to Jerusalem.

  177. I'm about to lay down my life. And they didn't understand, but

  178. Jesus understood that he was going to go into Jerusalem and

  179. then on Sunday, which we know as Palm Sunday, the triumphal and

  180. for entry, which we're going to read the story here in a second,

  181. OK. And then So he's going to go

  182. into Jerusalem. And then by Friday, what we know

  183. as Good Friday, traditionally, historically is known as Black

  184. Friday because the world went black when Jesus died.

  185. Jesus gave his life on the cross that he was buried in a tomb and

  186. on that first Sunday morning, we know it is Easter.

  187. Traditionally it's called Resurrection Sunday.

  188. Welcome back next week. Look, I'm on somebody, so I I

  189. want us to look at the triumphal entry of Jesus and it's found.

  190. This is one of the few stories actually that's found in all

  191. four of the gospels and each one has different camera angles, so

  192. to speak, perspectives on the day.

  193. The one I want to look at is Matthew chapter 21.

    Matthew 21 chapter mention

  194. Let's begin reading there in verse one as Jesus and his

  195. disciples are come about to come into Jerusalem.

  196. It says now when they drew near Jerusalem and came to Beth Faj,

  197. which is a, a little city outside of Jerusalem to the

  198. east. Look what it says to the Mount

  199. of Olives, which actually I've been there.

  200. We, we were there a few years ago when we toured Israel, group

  201. of 20 of us from the church. And so from the Mount of Olives,

  202. you literally can see the old city of Jerusalem with the wall.

  203. What Jesus would have seen in this moment was the temple was

  204. there the wall. And so before he gets to

  205. Jerusalem, he's got to do something.

  206. Look, when he came to Beth Paj to the Mount of Olives, then

  207. Jesus sent two of his disciples saying to them, go into the

  208. village in front of you and immediately you'll find a donkey

  209. tied in a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.

  210. Verse three, if anyone says anything to you, you shall say

  211. the Lord needs them and he will send them at once.

  212. So Jesus is like people are going to confront you about

  213. like, hey, why are you taking my donkeys?

  214. You just tell them the Lord needs them and they're going to

  215. let you go. Don't you appreciate Jesus kind

  216. of positions them for a little confrontational moment?

  217. He's like, here's what you say and they're like, oh, perfect,

  218. thanks. Appreciate that.

  219. Look at this next part. This took place to fulfill what

  220. was spoken by the prophet saying say to the daughter of Zion,

  221. behold, your king is coming to you humble and mounted on a

  222. donkey on a colt, the fowl of a beast of burden.

  223. Don't you love the ESV little beast of burden verse 6?

  224. The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.

  225. OK, let me give us three thoughts that I think are so, so

  226. practical and important for us that we can relate to the

  227. disciples in this story and to what's happening here on that,

  228. on that first Palm Sunday. Three thoughts.

  229. Maybe we want to write these down.

  230. Here's the first one. Number one, Jesus uses our

  231. mundane for his mission. Jesus uses our mundane for his

  232. mission. Think about being these two

  233. disciples like this could have felt like a bum deal, right?

  234. Like they got this short into the state like so wait Jesus the

  235. other 10 get a stay here and hang out with you.

  236. Which hanging out with Jesus meant you never knew what was

  237. about to happen, right? Like something good.

  238. He could multiply food, he could start healing people.

  239. But not these two. These two disciples they got

  240. sent on. Some would call it a donkey

  241. mission. Available everywhere, books are

  242. sold or in the lobby. Like picture being these two

  243. guys, they're like, wait, wait, you need us to do what we got to

  244. go to like the next town over. We got to talk to some dude.

  245. It's going to get awkward. It's going to look like we're

  246. stealing his animal. We're going to tell him the Lord

  247. needs it. He's going to let us go like

  248. this. Talk about a mundane mission,

  249. right? But Matthew tells us why this

  250. mundane mission mattered. Because in order for Jesus to be

  251. the Messiah, he had to fulfill over 300 Old Testament

  252. prophecies about the Messiah. If Jesus walks into Jerusalem on

  253. Palm Sunday, he's not the Messiah.

  254. Because Zechariah. Look, let me show you it in the

  255. Old Testament. This is the direct quote

  256. Zechariah 99 rejoice greatly daughter Zion shout daughter

  257. Jerusalem. See your king comes to you

  258. righteous and victorious lowly and riding on a donkey on a colt

  259. the fowl of a donkey or beast of burden.

  260. This is the NIV What what was happening.

  261. What was happening was Jesus was using something mundane to

  262. fulfill a greater mission. And oh, church family, this

  263. week, I felt like to, to, to tell some of you where you feel

  264. like your, your life right now just looks ordinary.

  265. It just looks just, it looks mundane.

  266. I felt God wanted me to tell you to take your mundane and start

  267. to see it differently because God wants to use your mundane

  268. for his mission. Some of you right now you're in

  269. a season of being a stay at home a parent, a stay at home mom or

  270. stay at home dad. And you think it, it's just

  271. mundane. You think you're just changing

  272. diapers. You think you're just a shuttle

  273. service driving your kids around.

  274. You think you're just helping with homework.

  275. Can I tell you something? You're discipling the next

  276. generation. Some of you, you work in an

  277. office all day long, nine to five, eight to six, whatever you

  278. and you think to yourself, what do I do?

  279. I just push papers around. I just, I just move files

  280. around. I just send emails.

  281. Can I tell you God's in it? You matter where you are.

  282. Some of you, you're, you work in the school system, you're a

  283. school teacher or you're a you're a bus driver.

  284. Can I tell you my first bus driver in small town little

  285. Indiana was a pastor's wife and she was mean.

  286. You know what she didn't know? Little 7 year old Matt Keller

  287. would grow up one day to be a 50 year old pastor of thousands of

  288. people and tell this story. I'm not mad, she just didn't

  289. understand her influence. And some of you, you work in the

  290. school system and you think what you're doing all day doesn't

  291. matter. Can I tell you it matters?

  292. If you drive a school bus, you matter.

  293. If you're a janitor in the schools, you matter.

  294. If you work with our kids all day, you matter.

  295. You might be the only Jesus they ever see.

  296. Thank God that mean bus driver pastor's wife wasn't the only

  297. Jesus I got to see. If we matter.

  298. If you work in a grocery store, your smile matters.

  299. If you're a healthcare worker, you matter.

  300. If you're retired, seasonal residence or snowbirds,

  301. whichever you prefer, hey, listen, your wisdom matters.

  302. Your presence matters. How you carry yourself among

  303. your neighbors in your neighborhood, it matters.

  304. Construction workers, you matter.

  305. Business leaders, you matter. God uses our mundane and puts us

  306. on mission. I think, yes, I think about this

  307. next phase of next level, the way I was just talking about.

  308. Listen, you matter, you matter. Some of you think your nine to

  309. five job is just ordinary, that it's unspiritual, that it's

  310. insignificant. Can I tell you when you work and

  311. then you come and you return your tithe the 1st 10%, you make

  312. it possible for us to do this 52 Sundays a year, 52 Wednesday

  313. nights a year. You make it possible for us to

  314. reach hundreds of teenagers. That's what your mundane is

  315. doing. And then when we give above and

  316. beyond, we impact hundreds of thousands of lives when we when

  317. we talk about giving, can I just tell you we're making a

  318. difference? So a couple months ago, I got a

  319. letter, Sarah and I got a letter in the mail from a, a, a

  320. pastor's kid who's a friend of ours in a whole nother state in

  321. another part of the country. And in seasons past, we have

  322. been closer friends with her parents than we are in this

  323. season. It's just stuff is happening.

  324. You know how it is. You just drift apart whatever

  325. seasons go. So I don't even really know this

  326. girl. She's I think she's 19 or 20.

  327. She's a college student and the letter was a support letter.

  328. And so this summer she's actually taking two missions

  329. trips to Africa. She's going to Zanzibar and

  330. she's going to Tanzania. Well that your giving letter has

  331. sat on my desk for like 2 months.

  332. And also, I was going through the mail last week and I walked

  333. over. And so you do, if maybe you do

  334. with your mail what I do with my mail, which is junk, tear it up,

  335. throw it in junk, tear it up. Throw it in, junk, tear it up,

  336. throw it in. Oh, there's something I need to

  337. know. Actually open it, set it aside,

  338. right To put on Sarah's desk. That's what that's the system,

  339. man. And it works.

  340. It's our system. It's our system.

  341. So I had grabbed her support letter and as I'm standing there

  342. going through the mail, I literally thought, yeah, I'm not

  343. really close to her parents and I don't even know her.

  344. And I went to throw it in the trash.

  345. And the Holy Spirit said, so Matt, you don't want credit in

  346. heaven for all of the souls she's going to impact this

  347. summer. And no lie, I stopped and I felt

  348. the conviction of Holy Spirit. Go like you can, Matt.

  349. You can't even give her 20 bucks to get an eternal reward on your

  350. account of every life she's going to impact the summer.

  351. So we gave. Why?

  352. Because I want to be a part of that.

  353. Because what seems mundane is actually connect to something so

  354. much more missional. Amen.

  355. Aren't you thankful we serve a God who takes our mundane and

  356. uses it for his mission? Come on, can we just thank Him

  357. every location? Come on.

  358. Verse 7. They brought the donkey in the

  359. colt. They put him on the put, put on

  360. their cloaks on him and and Jesus sat on them.

  361. Look what it says. Verse 8.

  362. Most of the crowds spread their cloaks on the road and others

  363. cut branches. Here's where we get the phrase

  364. Palm Sunday from from the trees and spread them on the road and

  365. as the in the crowds that went before him and that followed him

  366. were shouting Hosanna to the son of David blessed his you comes

  367. in the name of the Lord Hosanna, which means God saves in the

  368. highest. OK, I want you to see something

  369. though in verse eight. OK, so Jesus is coming into

  370. Jerusalem riding on this donkey. People are throwing their coats

  371. in front of him in worship. They're waving palm branches in

  372. worship to Jesus, shouting hosanna, God saves.

  373. Like this is amazing. But look at verse 8 again.

  374. Look what it says. Most of the crowd, I've never

  375. seen this before. This is not how I learned it in

  376. Sunday school. In Sunday school, they taught us

  377. everybody was praising them. This is most of the crowd spread

  378. their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the

  379. trees. Here's the second thought I want

  380. to give you #2 not everyone experienced him that first Palm

  381. Sunday. Not everyone experienced him.

  382. When Jesus came into Jerusalem as the Savior of the world, the

  383. Redeemer, not everybody worshipped him.

  384. Not everybody experienced Him. It says that most, not all did,

  385. to which some of us here's where our mind is going right now.

  386. No way. If Jesus was in front of me,

  387. there's no way I would miss out on that.

  388. Can I show you another scripture?

  389. This is Jesus talking in Matthew 18 verse 20.

    Matthew 18:20

  390. And he says this for where two or three gather in my name,

  391. there am I with them. Hey church, every Sunday Jesus

  392. is in our midst, and yet some of us miss him.

  393. Two or three. 123 we good, He's here.

  394. We are worshiping our God, our team.

  395. Our worship teams are leading us into the presence of God and we

  396. just stand there. We don't lift our hands, some of

  397. us, we don't clap. We are distracted.

  398. We are on our phones. We have our prayer teams who all

  399. week long have been praying for us, for God to move, and some of

  400. us are so concerned about what people will think in our row if

  401. we get out and go down to the front to pray that we miss him.

  402. Are we missing him because he's here?

  403. He's here. Two people can be sitting in the

  404. exact same service and worshipping Jesus within the

  405. presence of Jesus. One of them gets a touch by God

  406. and leaves change. The other goes and listen.

  407. Please don't hear what I'm not saying.

  408. Please don't hear condemnation, but please hear holy conviction

  409. because Jesus was in their midst and they missed it.

  410. Some of them missed it and some of us, we've had such a long

  411. week and we can't even come and we're up late watching UFC or

  412. NCAA or Netflix. I was just so tired, man.

  413. I just had such a long week. Jesus is here.

  414. So Jesus is coming into Jerusalem riding on the donkey.

  415. Most everybody is waving and praising him.

  416. Verse 10, when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was

  417. stirred up. And look, they're asking a

  418. question, who is this? And the crowd said this is the

  419. prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee.

  420. Hey, listen, church, I'll mention just Easter one more

  421. time. Ready next weekend is Easter.

  422. There are so many people in your school, so many people in your

  423. workplace, in your neighborhood who are asking the question

  424. whether they ever say it out loud or not.

  425. So what's the thing with the deal and the Jesus and the thing

  426. and the Bunny and the deal and the eggs and the cross and the

  427. what? Bring them.

  428. Move on. Verse 12.

  429. And Jesus entered the temple. Look at the very next thing that

  430. happens though, right here. Jesus entered the temple and he

  431. drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he

  432. overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of

  433. those who sold pigeons. In other words, there were

  434. people. What's happening here?

  435. There were people who had basically set up shop to extort

  436. God's people when they would go to church.

  437. So when they would come to the temple, which was God's house,

  438. the church, these people that set up shop because you had to

  439. bring a sacrifice. And so they were gouging people.

  440. They were charging people to basically buy their animals so

  441. that they, they would have something to go offer in their

  442. worship. So they had, look, Jesus tells

  443. us what it is. So he said to them, so he comes

  444. in, he starts flipping tables, man.

  445. And he said to them, it is written, my house will be called

  446. a House of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers.

  447. But then look at the very next thing that happens.

  448. So Jesus cleans house, then look.

  449. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, in the

  450. church, and he healed them. Last thought I want to give you,

  451. I'm going to invite our worship teams to come and join me

  452. because we're going to pray for healing #3 Jesus cleansed, then

  453. he healed. On that first Palm Sunday.

  454. Jesus cleansed, then he healed. Jesus the Redeemer of the world

  455. came into Jerusalem and the 1st place he went was to the temple

  456. of God. Can I show you something?

  457. Paul writes in First Corinthians chapter 6 in the New Testament.

    1 Corinthians 6 chapter mention

  458. Do you not know that your bodies are the temple of the Holy

  459. Spirit? Who's in you, whom you've

  460. received from God? What's watch?

  461. The Bible says that if you and I are in relationship with Jesus,

  462. we become the temple of the Holy Spirit.

  463. We become the temple of God. God lives in us.

  464. So here's my question. God got anything in the temple

  465. that needs cleaned out? Man, I felt so strong this week

  466. that there would be many of us that have contaminated the

  467. temple. Is it possible that the healing

  468. we so desire in some area of our life is correlated somehow to

  469. the cleansing of the temple because it was on that first

  470. Palm Sunday? So, worship team, you can come

  471. and come and help me here. Here's what I want to do.

  472. We, we, we got time. We've intentionally built in

  473. some space right here. I intentionally wanted to preach

  474. short today because I want to give the Holy Spirit room to

  475. move. So whatever your room, you're in

  476. Cape Coral or Yeast or downtown, if you're here, well, online,

  477. we're going to create a little space for Jesus to speak, speak,

  478. and I believe God's going to. I'm going to pray in two

  479. directions. The 1st is I'm going to pray

  480. that the Holy Spirit would reveal to us in the areas of our

  481. heart. Maybe it's an attitude, maybe

  482. it's an appetite, maybe it's an addiction, maybe it's a sin,

  483. maybe it's a a wrong motive. That the Holy Spirit would turn

  484. his Searchlight on our hearts in these next few moments and he

  485. would reveal to us any area in the temple that he wants to

  486. cleanse that we need to repent of.

  487. And I want to lead us in corporate repentance today.

  488. And then after that, we're going to pray for healing.

  489. And I've been believing all week long that Jesus the Redeemer is

  490. going to heal in the room. But First things first.

  491. Can we take the next 60 seconds? Nobody moving around?

  492. You're good. Just stay right where you are

  493. and just Jesus, that first Palm Sunday,

  494. you went straight to the church and you cleansed the temple.

  495. And so, Lord, we acknowledge that our lives, our bodies are

  496. the temple of the Holy Spirit. And Lord, you see where so many

  497. of us, God, perhaps thousands of us, all of us in these last few

  498. days or weeks or months of this last season where we have not

  499. pleased you, where we have not lived how you've wanted us to

  500. live. And so right now, we repent, we

  501. acknowledge that that is sin, God, that we've missed the mark.

  502. We acknowledge, Lord, that the way you want us to live, your

  503. standard, your perfect standard, we have not measured up.

  504. And we ask you to forgive us. God, would you forgive us?

  505. God, forgive us for taking your grace for granted.

  506. Forgive us for that attitude. Forgive us, God, for that habit

  507. that we've let sink in as a slip in.

  508. God, forgive us for seeing and watching things, for being

  509. distracted. God, instead of pursuing you

  510. like we know you've been wooing us and calling us to do, God

  511. forgive us. Lord, where we've been harsh

  512. with people, where we have lied to people, where we have

  513. deceived people, God forgive us. God forgive us.

  514. Where we've not been the parent that you've called us to be, the

  515. husband or the wife wash us clean by the power of Your

  516. Spirit today, God? And we thank you right now that

  517. Your word says in first John 19 that if we confess our sin, You

  518. are faithful and You are just to forgive us our sin and cleanse

  519. us from all unrighteousness. So I pray a cleansing would come

  520. across every single one of your sons and daughters today.

  521. God cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  522. We ask Hey, can we stand in every room?

  523. I just feel faith is building in the room.

  524. Listen, some of you let me speak to you.

  525. Look at me, the Bible says in Romans chapter 8 verse one,

    Romans 8 chapter mention

  526. there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in

  527. Christ Jesus. That means you're not condemned

  528. if you're feeling conviction. That's what God wants.

  529. He wants us healed.

  530. And I want to pray healing. I want to pray healing, I want

  531. to pray healing. If you need healing in some area

  532. of your life, maybe in your marriage, maybe in a

  533. relationship, if you need healing in your finances, if you

  534. need healing in in your soul in some level, If you need healing

  535. in your your mental health, your thought life, If you need

  536. physical healing in your body, wherever you're at right now,

  537. would you lift your hands up, come on across every room right

  538. now, lift them up high and strong.

  539. Why? Because the healer is in the

  540. room. Jesus is in the room.

  541. And so right now in the name of Jesus, Lord, I don't have the

  542. power to heal anybody. I don't have the power to do

  543. anything except just preach your word by the function of your

  544. spirit. And so God, right now I healing

  545. over every room. I pray healing every over each

  546. one of these your sons and daughters.

  547. In the name of Jesus, I speak healing from the top of your

  548. head to the soles of your feet. God, I speak healing over

  549. people's mental health right now in the name of Jesus, I declare

  550. that depression is broken off in Jesus name.

  551. God, that stronghold of depression is being broken right

  552. now in Jesus name someone God's healing your leg like your foot

  553. or your ankle like something in your lower leg.

  554. God, I speak healing over that right now in the name of Jesus,

  555. one of you. I felt this during house wide

  556. prayer early today that that some of you, you have your

  557. throat issues and right now the Lord is healing your throat in

  558. Jesus name. He's healing your throat in

  559. Jesus name. Someone has a pulled muscle and

  560. the Lord is healing you right now just to prove to you that He

  561. is the God of healing. Someone has an elbow issue?

  562. Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray that you would heal elbows

  563. right now. Come and heal, come and heal,

  564. come and heal, come and heal, come and heal, come and heal.

  565. Father, I speak healing over relationships.

  566. God, would you give us courage to humble ourselves in some

  567. relationship that's been broken? God, would you heal?

  568. Would you let this week, Easter week, Passion week, be a week of

  569. healing in Jesus name, in Jesus name.

  570. And everyone who agreed with that prayer said Amen, Amen.

  571. Hey, listen, if if you feel, if you sense somewhere in your body

  572. that physical healing, will you grab one of our team, somebody

  573. with a lanyard on today at your location, Grab them on your way

  574. out and just tell them we want to hear testimony.

  575. Why? Because the Bible says we

  576. overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our

  577. testimony, Amen. And so you report that because

  578. we want to tell the story of how God's healing in the room.

  579. Jesus is the Redeemer, Amen. He's our healer and he is here.

  580. Now, listen, let me say this before I release it back to our

  581. location. Pastors, we conclude our time.

  582. If you've never said yes to a relationship with Jesus, don't

  583. leave the building without doing that.

  584. So our team is going to call the prayer team back down front as

  585. soon as everybody else is going to go that way.

  586. You just wait where you are and then come this way and come down

  587. to the front of your location. And our prayer team, they're

  588. coming. Just come right now.

  589. Prayer team, go ahead, they're coming.

  590. OK, if, if you don't know Jesus, today can be the day of

  591. salvation for you. Can I tell you something, 35

  592. years ago today, March 29th, I received Jesus 15 year old

  593. teenager. Today's my day.

  594. So if you get saved today, we have the same spiritual

  595. birthday. That's awesome.

  596. So, so don't leave without doing that, OK?

  597. And then they're going to pray with you, lead you to Jesus.

  598. And then we want to put a Bible in your hands.

  599. Amen. Hey, listen, he cleansed, he

  600. healed, and now that we're cleansed, we're healed.

  601. We get to go and be the light of Jesus to the world around us and

  602. bring him in on Easter Sunday. Sound good?

  603. So Father, in Jesus name, we seal the work of your spirit

  604. that you are doing in US and in this house and we praise you.

  605. May we live God conscious this week as we head toward the cross

  606. and the celebration of resurrection one week from today

  607. in Jesus name. And everyone who agreed said

  608. Amen. Come on, let's give Jesus here

  609. man, come on.