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Son, Shepherd & Savior | Pastor Matt Keller

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  1. I'm so pumped because we are launching a new series that

  2. honestly has been a year in the making that it was March of last

  3. year that God dropped this this series in my spirit.

  4. And so the name of our series, as you can see behind me is

  5. called Jesus. Everyone say Jesus, the one and

  6. only. Come on, say that with me, the

  7. one and only. And for the next 4 weeks, we're

  8. going to be exploring different aspects of who Jesus was, why he

  9. came, and what it means for our lives today.

  10. And our launch verse. I actually want us to look at

  11. this. And then we're going to, I want

  12. us to pray Matthew chapter 16. And we're actually going to

    Matthew 16 chapter mention

  13. break this down a little bit more, show some pictures next

  14. weekend. But Matthew chapter 16, Jesus

    Matthew 16 chapter mention

  15. gathers his 12 disciples to himself at a place called

  16. Caesarea Philippi and he asks them two questions.

  17. And I want us to see this as we're launching into this series

  18. called Jesus the One and only. Look what it at verse 13 says

  19. when Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his

  20. disciples, who do people say the Son of man talking about himself

  21. is? And they replied, well, some

  22. say, I want to say, some say some say you're John the

  23. Baptist. Some, some say Elijah, others

  24. still Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

  25. In other words, in Jesus day there was a lot of information

  26. floating around about who he was.

  27. We'll call that TikTok theology. I think we can relate, can't we?

  28. There's a lot floating around about who Jesus is and some were

  29. saying well he's a great prophet.

  30. Some were saying he's John the Baptist raised from the dead.

  31. Some were saying he's a good teacher.

  32. Some were saying he's the next radical influencer of the day.

  33. And see the same is true today that in our social media world

  34. today, in our day and age, there's a whole lot floating

  35. around about what people believe Jesus and who they believe Jesus

  36. to be. And some are think he's a social

  37. reformer. Somebody if you asked him, you

  38. know, what do you who do you think Jesus is?

  39. They said, well, he was, you know, a good person.

  40. He was an enlightened teacher. Oh, he was a Jewish moralist,

  41. right? He was.

  42. Some would say he's a fraud. Some would say, Oh well, he's

  43. it's a symbol of good, right? But that's why I wear a cross

  44. like people wear a gold chain, right?

  45. They Jesus just a symbol of me of good goodwill or good

  46. intentions. But for us, I love this next

  47. part Jesus verse 15 looks at his disciples and he says, what

  48. about you? Who do you say I am in church?

  49. This is the question right here. Who do you say that I am?

  50. Who do we say he is? And how you and I answer that

  51. question matters a whole lot. And that's why from now to

  52. Easter, we're going to do this series called Jesus the One and

  53. Only. So that's where I want to start

  54. today. Come on, one more time before we

  55. turn to God's Word. Let's pray.

  56. Father, I just thank you that your presence is here.

  57. Holy Spirit, thank you that you're moving at our altars.

  58. God, you're ministering to people through our prayer team.

  59. God, thank you that you're meeting with us during worship.

  60. And now Lord, as we look into your word, the Bible, I pray you

  61. would let scripture come alive in our heart.

  62. God, give us a new revelation today of who you are not

  63. according to the world, who you are according to the word.

  64. We ask this in Jesus name and everyone who agreed with that

  65. prayer said, hey man, hey, around here at Next Level

  66. Church, we like to say that we're note takers.

  67. And so there's a note card actually there in front of you

  68. and you can take notes on that. Maybe if you want to take notes

  69. on your phone, that's fine as long as you promise not to

  70. scroll. Come on, somebody pinky swear

  71. with right? We're not going to scroll.

  72. OK, Because I want to start this series by giving us 3 truths

  73. according to the Bible of who Jesus is, 3 truths about who

  74. Jesus is. And here's the first one.

  75. This is where I want to start. When we study the Bible, when we

  76. study the life and ministry of Jesus, it becomes very, very

  77. clear very quickly that number one, Jesus is the Son of God.

  78. Jesus is the Son of God. Now let me explain what that

  79. means. OK, so when when you study the

  80. Bible, the Bible makes it clear that Jesus was 100% God and 100%

  81. human. That his mother was married a

  82. human, but his father was God. OK now here's the thing.

  83. Most all of us have heard this before.

  84. If you've ever attended church on Christmas Eve, which I know

  85. most of you have, you've heard this.

  86. But it can slip right by us, what with all of the packages

  87. and trappings, right? We can miss it.

  88. So I actually want to come on, it's March.

  89. Let's do this. Let's look at the Christmas

  90. story, OK, which is found in two places, Matthew and Luke.

  91. OK, Luke chapter 1 is where I want us to look.

    Luke 1 chapter mention

  92. So, so this is the the beginning right here.

  93. It is OK, this is the Christmas story.

  94. But I want you to see the truth of God's Word as it comes out of

  95. the Christmas story. Luke chapter one, verse 28 says

  96. the Angel went to her Speaking of Mary this teenage girl and

  97. said, greetings, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with

  98. you. Verse 31 then the Angel

  99. continues and he says to Mary, this teenage girl, you will

  100. conceive and give birth to a son and you are to call him Jesus.

  101. He will be great and will be called, look what it says, the

  102. Son of the Most High, in other words, the Son of God and the

  103. Lord God will, will give him the throne of his father David, and

  104. he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever.

  105. His Kingdom will never end. Boom, that's our Jesus.

  106. But Mary, like some of us right now, needs a little more

  107. clarity. Look at verse 34.

  108. Mary looks back at the Angel and good for her and says hold on

  109. bro my translation how will this be?

  110. Mary asked the Angel since I'm a virgin in other words I've never

  111. known a man in that way so how can I become pregnant?

  112. The Angel answered her. The Holy Spirit God will come on

  113. you and the power of the Most High will over shadow you.

  114. So the Holy One to be born will be called, look right here.

  115. It is the Son of God and church family.

  116. Just so we're clear, let me say this, we believe this.

  117. We believe in the Immaculate Conception.

  118. We believe that Jesus was 100% human and 100% God.

  119. Jesus is the one and only Son of God, and because he's God's Son,

  120. he is all powerful. He is all knowing and he is all

  121. present. He is Jesus the one and only and

  122. and because Jesus is the Son of God, not just a good teacher,

  123. not just a moralist, not just a prophet, not just a movement

  124. leader, He gives us, everyone say us the ability to be sons

  125. and daughters of God as well. This is awesome.

  126. OK, The Bible makes it clear that because of Jesus you and I

  127. can be adopted into the family of God.

  128. John chapter one, verse 12. Look yet to all who did receive

  129. him, Speaking of Jesus to those who believed in his name.

  130. So if you have believed in the name of Jesus, look, he gave the

  131. right to become children of God because Jesus is the Son of God,

  132. you and I can become the children of God.

  133. And then the apostle Paul, I love this, actually breaks this

  134. down even further in the book of Romans, which right now we're

  135. actually reading and studying in our soap guide.

  136. And what we read just just this week, Romans chapter 8, the

    Romans 8 chapter mention

  137. apostle Paul speaks to this look at verses 14 to 15.

  138. He says for those who are led by the Spirit of God.

  139. In other words, when we receive Jesus, he puts the Holy Spirit

  140. inside of us. So those of us who are led by

  141. the Spirit of God are the children of God.

  142. Then he he even double clicks. He goes the spirit you received

  143. does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again.

  144. He's like no, no, no. This relationship between you

  145. and your heavenly Father is not a master slave relationship.

  146. It is a father, son, father, daughter relationship.

  147. The spirit you received brought about.

  148. I love this your adoption to sonship and is implied in the in

  149. the original language and daughtership you and I because

  150. Jesus is the son of God. You and I can be called sons and

  151. daughters of God as well. Church family.

  152. That's really, really, really good news.

  153. Come on, turn to somebody sitting next to you and tell

  154. them you and I we're in the family of God.

  155. Come on, tell them we're in the family of God.

  156. Somebody say Jesus is the son. Jesus is the son of God.

  157. Here's the second truth I want to give us according to the

  158. Bible about who Jesus is. First, he's the Son of God.

  159. But #2 the Bible makes it very clear that Jesus is a Good

  160. Shepherd. Everyone say Good Shepherd.

  161. So we see Jesus in, in, in John chapter 10, which I want us to

    John 10 chapter mention

  162. look at several verses here. John chapter 10, Jesus is in the

    John 10 chapter mention

  163. height of his ministry and he's teaching people and he's using

  164. the illustration of a of sheep and a shepherd.

  165. And in those days in that culture, the agricultural

  166. culture that Israel was in those days, they would have known as

  167. soon as he started talking about sheep and shepherds, all of them

  168. would have had a reference point for that.

  169. And so here in John Shepherd 10, the verse we're about to look at

  170. Jesus, it is describing like a sheep pen.

  171. And So what shepherds would do in those days is they would

  172. gather wood and sticks and and bushes and they would they would

  173. basically build like a wall around where they would put

  174. their sheep at night. So in the daytime, the sheep

  175. would graze and then the shepherd would call them in at

  176. night and then he would put them inside the sheep pen.

  177. But they'd leave a small little opening and the shepherd would

  178. literally lay across the opening so that during the night, no

  179. wolves or thieves or anyone else or predators could come in and

  180. attack or steal the sheep. So the shepherd would lay across

  181. that opening and protect the sheep.

  182. In other words, the shepherd was the door.

  183. So watch now Jesus starts to describe himself in John chapter

    John 10 chapter mention

  184. 10, verse seven. He says now so Jesus again said

  185. to them, truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep

  186. speaking about us, those of us who have put our faith in Him,

  187. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the

  188. sheep did not listen to them. Verse 9, I am the door.

  189. He repeats it again, if anyone think of the illustration, if

  190. anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and

  191. find pasture. In other words, the sheep that

  192. come in and out through Jesus, they are fed, they are, they are

  193. they are mature, they are taken care of.

  194. The thief comes and this is a famous verse verse 10.

  195. We all if you've been around Bible said you know this one.

  196. The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy.

  197. But perhaps you didn't know the context.

  198. I Jesus said came that they may have life and have it

  199. abundantly. So then verse 11 here look,

  200. Jesus makes it so he says I'm the door to the sheep pen.

  201. But then he says this verse 11, I am the Good Shepherd.

  202. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, he who is a

  203. hired hand, and not a shepherd who does not own the sheep.

  204. He sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and

  205. the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

  206. Verse 13. He flees because he's a hired

  207. hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

  208. Then Jesus repeats it again. Look, he says, I am the Good

  209. Shepherd. I know my own and my own know

  210. me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father.

  211. There's the Father child relationship again.

  212. Then look what he says. And I lay down my life for the

  213. sheep Church family. I want you to know something.

  214. This, this needs to, we need to take comfort to our souls.

  215. Jesus is the Good Shepherd. He is the shepherd, He is the

  216. door. He is the gatekeeper to your

  217. heart and your soul. And I love this imagery of, of

  218. of a shepherd. And here's why.

  219. Because by definition, shepherds do two things and it's implied

  220. in what Jesus was teaching there in John chapter 10.

    John 10 chapter mention

  221. Shepherds first of all, lead the sheep to places of good

  222. nourishment. Jesus said that they go in and

  223. out and find pastor he he said one of the primary

  224. responsibilities of a shepherd is to to lead sheep to places of

  225. good nourishment. The second by definition thing

  226. that shepherds do is they care for and protect the sheep from

  227. harm. And again in Jesus teaching in

  228. John 10, he's making it clear part of his role as a shepherd

  229. in the life of the sheep is to protect them and care for them

  230. and keep them from harm. Jesus came to do those two

  231. things. Now I want to slow down for a

  232. minute and talk to us as a church family about our role as

  233. pastors and shepherds in all of your lives.

  234. Because see, Jesus is the senior shepherd, but he has made us as

  235. pastors under shepherds. I actually want to I want to

  236. show you that. So let me kind of take a little

  237. tangent here for a couple minutes.

  238. So in Ephesians chapter 4, the apostle Paul is writing again in

    Ephesians 4 chapter mention

  239. the New Testament and he says that Jesus gave 5 gifts, only 5

  240. gifts to the Church of Jesus Christ.

  241. So to his bride, the Church of Jesus, Jesus gave 5 gifts.

  242. And I want us to see that because Paul lays out for us

  243. Jesus is the senior shepherd, but then he gives under

  244. shepherds. Let me show you.

  245. Ephesians 4 Chapter 11 says this.

  246. So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the

  247. evangelist, the pastors, which the Greek word for pastor there

  248. literally is the same word as shepherd and the teachers.

  249. And here's why Jesus gave these to the church to equip his

  250. people for works of service so that everyone say so that in

  251. other words, here's the reason why so that the body of Christ

  252. may be built up. So watch, when it comes to our

  253. church, Next Level Church here in Southwest Florida, Sarah and

  254. I, my wife and I pastor. Sarah and I are the lead pastors

  255. or the lead shepherds, but we also have dozens of other

  256. pastors in place to equip all of you and build you up like Jesus

  257. said. But see, the climate of our

  258. world has changed in the last 20 years with the advent of social

  259. media, right? Like some of us who are older

  260. and I'm 50 now, so I can say that I got the silver hair to

  261. prove it. Remember like 25 years ago how

  262. we got information like literally 25 years ago, before

  263. the advent of social media, you and the Internet you like there

  264. was a newspaper that got thrown on your driveway every night or

  265. morning, right? And you would you'd have to wait

  266. to read the newspaper about what happened in the world that day.

  267. And then there were, there were weekly periodicals called

  268. magazines, and they came out once a week.

  269. And once a week you got Time or Newsweek, right?

  270. And that you would read the articles in a magazine and you'd

  271. be like, wow, that's what's going on in the world.

  272. And then there were only three television stations, ABCNBC and

  273. CBS, and literally you got 30 minutes of news every night

  274. called the Evening News. And if you missed it, you missed

  275. it. That was it.

  276. That was. And that's how we got our

  277. information about what was going on in the world.

  278. No, now watch. Fast forward now to our present

  279. day. Our present day, there's

  280. literally thousands, 10s of the, there are literally millions of

  281. voices and opinions and perspectives that are bombarding

  282. us. OK, so, so I've been thinking

  283. about this for a while. And, and honestly, I've been

  284. talking a lot with our other pastors and with the pastors and

  285. our, our relational network of churches and with our pastoral

  286. oversight team and others who do this.

  287. And, and see, it's easy to think in our world today that our

  288. voice as pastors in your life is equal to or the same as the

  289. social media influencers or news personalities we listen to.

  290. But as but as we just saw Jesus said in John 10 that shepherds

  291. are different than hired hands. And we just saw in Ephesians 4

  292. that the office of pastor is literally appointed by Jesus.

  293. And it's not the same as a social media influencer or

  294. personality in church. We as pastors of the church

  295. where you're planted are not called to build a platform.

  296. We're called to build you. We're shepherds of your souls,

  297. not hired hand social media influencers.

  298. Now listen, please don't hear what I'm not saying.

  299. I'm not criticizing anyone who's called to do that.

  300. I'm simply pointing out that there's a difference.

  301. Ephesians 4 let's I want to keep going because because Paul

  302. continues the thought. He says Jesus gave apostles,

  303. prophets of ancient pastors, teachers to to equip the Saints

  304. for the work of the ministry and to build up.

  305. Look at verse 12 to equip his people for works of service so

  306. that the body of Christ may be built up.

  307. So why are there apostles, prophets and vantage pastors and

  308. teachers. They are put in the in the

  309. church that so that the body of Christ may be built up.

  310. Look until we all reach unity. So our responsibility is unity,

  311. not division in the faith and to build you up in the knowledge of

  312. the Son of God. In other words, teach you the

  313. whole council of Scripture and look so that you become mature.

  314. Our goal is not headlines, it's maturity, attaining to the whole

  315. measure of the fullness of Christ.

  316. In other words, there is an understanding of the way Jesus

  317. Christ approached the world that it's our responsibility to make

  318. sure you have, but see church. There's this pressure that we as

  319. pastors can feel and that that's the because because we have a

  320. similar presence on social media or because we're on a YouTube

  321. channel, somehow it could be seen as the same as those

  322. personalities. But we're not.

  323. Their whole goal is to gain followers, create sound bites,

  324. and drive clicks and views. Our goal as pastors is to

  325. shepherd and care for your souls by knowing, loving, and

  326. challenging you toward Christ likeness.

  327. Do you see it? And Jesus was the ultimate

  328. shepherd. And I don't have time to show

  329. you today, but literally he felt the same pressure.

  330. There's a moment where his brothers actually come to him

  331. and they're like Jesus, you need to go show yourself like you

  332. need to go exert your influence on the world.

  333. And Jesus says to them, my time has not yet come.

  334. That that when you study the ministry of Jesus, he didn't

  335. speak to every issue in headline.

  336. He didn't give sound bites. He didn't make statements.

  337. He certainly didn't make statements to appease an

  338. audience. When you study the ministry of

  339. Jesus as the Good Shepherd, he helped his followers do three

  340. things. He helped his followers know him

  341. and the Father's love. He helped his followers know his

  342. ways and his filters, and he helped his followers be

  343. witnesses for him. That's what Jesus, the Good

  344. Shepherd did. So I just wanted to take a

  345. couple of minutes this morning and tell you that we as your

  346. pastors, dozens of us, have made a commitment to continue to

  347. shepherd you. And we're not going to be

  348. consumed then with every news story or opinion because that

  349. would mean we wouldn't have time to be in the Word and shepherd

  350. your soul. Because our responsibility is

  351. the same as Jesus. We want you to know Him and the

  352. Father's love, and we want you to know His ways and His

  353. filters. Because when things come up in

  354. our world, and they will come up in our world, we need you to

  355. know how to respond, how Jesus would respond.

  356. That's our responsibility so that we all can be witnesses for

  357. him. Do you see it?

  358. Jesus said, Jesus said, Jesus said He's the door, that he's

  359. the way to abundant life. So church, as a pastor in your

  360. life, can I caution you to be careful with how much you're

  361. getting from hired hands? Let's be sure we're following

  362. the Good Shepherd. Amen.

  363. Amen. Amen.

  364. Yeah, Amen. So Jesus is the sun.

  365. Everyone say the sun. Jesus is the Good Shepherd.

  366. Everyone say Good Shepherd. And 3rd truth I want to give you

  367. today as we're launching this series about Jesus, the one and

  368. only #3 is that Jesus is the Savior.

  369. Everyone say savior, man, I love it.

  370. I love it. We're four weeks, we're less

  371. than a month. We're less than a month away

  372. from Easter, everybody. Which when they made that

  373. announcement a few minutes ago, I'm like, oh, I got work to do.

  374. How about that church? When you study who Jesus was in

  375. the Bible, it doesn't take long to discover that Jesus was and

  376. is the Savior. He made it clear during His time

  377. here on earth that He came for one purpose and that was to seek

  378. and to save the lost. Luke 19 verse 10.

    Luke 19:10

  379. He literally said for the Son of Man, referring to Himself came

  380. for this purpose to seek and to save the lost.

  381. Like think about there were literally thousands of things

  382. Jesus could have given Himself to during His time here on

  383. earth, but there was only one thing He knew that could change

  384. everything for mankind and that was Him paying the price for the

  385. sin of the world. I love what we read it, but I

  386. want to read it again. John 10 verse 11 I am the Good

    John 10:11

  387. Shepherd, he says, and the Good Shepherd lays down his life for

  388. the sheep. Jesus laid down his life for us,

  389. his sheep. He willingly gave his life so

  390. you and I could have access to not just the sheep pen, you and

  391. I could have access to the Father.

  392. One more verse, John 14, verse 6, Jesus answered and said, I am

    John 14:6

  393. the way and the truth and the life.

  394. And then he makes this statement.

  395. No one comes to the Father except through me.

  396. In other words, there's only one way to get in.

  397. It's not by being a good person, it's not by having a lot of

  398. knowledge. It's not hope and work,

  399. whatever. No, no, no.

  400. There's only one way to know the Father, and that's through the

  401. door, that's through the Good Shepherd, that's through Jesus.

  402. Jesus is the one and only. He's the Son, He's the Shepherd,

  403. He's the Savior. So we've intentionally left a

  404. few minutes here at the end of all of our services today.

  405. And the reason why is because we don't want to just hear

  406. information, we want you to receive an impartation.

  407. So as I want to invite our worship teams to come back and

  408. join us at all of our locations. And so let me ask you this, this

  409. first question. Let's let's take Savior first.

  410. Do you know Jesus as Savior? Have you ever had a moment where

  411. you cross that line of faith in your life?

  412. Maybe you've always thought that Jesus was just a good person, or

  413. Jesus was just a famous teacher or some historical figure or

  414. some, you know, moralist or or whatever, you know, influence

  415. whatever. Like Jesus was the Son of God

  416. who laid down his life for you and I.

  417. You can know Jesus today as your Savior and Lord.

  418. It can happen right now. I want to give you a chance to

  419. do that. You know what, At every

  420. location, can we just bow our heads, maybe even close our eyes

  421. just for the personalness of this moment, just for the

  422. privacy of this moment. Maybe that's you.

  423. You've come into one of our locations today.

  424. Maybe, maybe you're online and you've never, you've never said

  425. yes, never embrace Jesus as Savior and Lord of your life.

  426. You've never surrendered your life to Him.

  427. It's as simple as acknowledging that you're a Sinner.

  428. See, sin is what separates us from God.

  429. That God is a loving, perfect Father and we are fallen, sinful

  430. humans. That's why Jesus came to build a

  431. bridge. He lived a perfect, sinless life

  432. for 33 years on this earth and then went to the cross, died on

  433. the cross, a bloody, gruesome death as payment not for his sin

  434. because he was perfect, but for the sin of you and I Jesus came

  435. to build be that bridge between a perfect heavenly Father and us

  436. fallen, sinful, broken humanity. If you've never let the reality

  437. of that sink in, if you've never surrendered your life to Jesus

  438. and said yes to Him, it's a free gift.

  439. You don't have to earn it by grace.

  440. We have been saved through faith and this not of ourselves.

  441. The Bible says if you're ready to put your faith in Jesus to

  442. call on Him. Make him Lord of your life in

  443. just a moment. I'm going to count the three

  444. when I hit 3. Would you throw your hand up

  445. whatever room you're in right now, young and old?

  446. Maybe you've been attending church your whole life.

  447. Maybe you've heard this 1000 times, but something today, it's

  448. becoming real. You've never fully surrendered

  449. to the Savior, to the Son of God.

  450. You want to do that? 123?

  451. Throw your hand up right now. Awesome.

  452. Yeah, that's it. Keep it up, just for a second.

  453. Yep. Every location.

  454. Awesome. Thank you.

  455. Thank you. Hands are going up in the room

  456. I'm in right now. Yeah, that's it.

  457. Pastor Matt. That's me.

  458. I want to surrender my life to the Savior, to the Son of God,

  459. whose name is Jesus. I want to.

  460. I want to go God's way. Pastor Matt, that's me.

  461. Yeah. Awesome.

  462. Thank you. Yep.

  463. Yep. Anybody else?

  464. Yeah. Thank you.

  465. Awesome. Hands are going up in this room.

  466. E location, Cape Coral, downtown location, online family.

  467. You can mention that in the chat.

  468. One of our team will reach out to you.

  469. You can put your hands down. Man, what an awesome thing.

  470. Hey, listen, I want to, I want to put words to what you're

  471. feeling in your heart. So if you just lifted your hand,

  472. a matter of fact, I want all of us to repeat this prayer after

  473. me. But if you just lifted your

  474. hand, I want you to pray this prayer in your heart.

  475. And the God of the universe, who, who loves you more than you

  476. can fathom or understand, is going to hear your prayer.

  477. He's going to forgive you of your sin, that which separates

  478. you from God, and through Jesus, He's going to begin a

  479. relationship with you right now. Come on every location.

  480. Let's pray this good and loud. For those of those who lifted

  481. their hand, let's pray it say, dear Jesus, thank you for

  482. bringing me here today so I could hear this message.

  483. I recognize in this moment that I'm a Sinner and my sin

  484. separates me from you right now. I confess that sin and I ask you

  485. to forgive me, wash me clean of everything that separates me

  486. from you. I receive you now, Jesus as my

  487. Lord and my Savior. I surrender my life.

  488. Help me from this moment on to go your way, to follow your

  489. ways, because it's the best way for my whole life.

  490. In Jesus name I pray and have access.

  491. Amen. Wow.

  492. Wow. Yeah, wow.

  493. My goodness. OK, OK, OK.

  494. Listen, if you just said yes in just a couple minutes before we

  495. dismiss all of our location, passwords are going to come

  496. back. We have a free gift we want to

  497. put in your hands. It's a Bible, and it has AQR

  498. code and some videos. We don't leave your location

  499. today without getting that Bible because we want to make sure

  500. that we can follow up with you and help you take next steps in

  501. this new relationship that you just began with your heavenly

  502. Father through Jesus. Amen.

  503. Wow, that's awesome. Yeah.

  504. Come on, let's celebrate that one more time.

  505. Yeah, that's awesome. Hey, you know what?

  506. You've been sitting for quite a while.

  507. Every location, let's stand to our feet.

  508. We're not done. We're not done.

  509. We're done. Don't leave.

  510. Don't leave. Don't leave.

  511. Don't leave. Don't leave.

  512. God's not done. God's not done.

  513. I just have a sense we're in Jesus, the one and only.

  514. We're in the series. And I just have this sense that

  515. God wants to touch some of us today.

  516. So we talked about Savior. Some of you.

  517. It's the son and daughter ship. God wants to bring a revelation

  518. of who you are in him because he is the Son of God.

  519. You and I are called sons and daughters of God.

  520. Some of us, it's conviction, you're feeling conviction that

  521. maybe you've allowed some of those those voices of influence

  522. in our world today, news or social or whatever Youtubers

  523. that you've allowed them to, to take a larger voice than than

  524. Jesus, your shepherd. And so I'm going to invite our

  525. worship team to sing that new song that we're learning.

  526. Don't you love that song? Just give me Jesus.

  527. We're going to be singing that from for the next lot because I

  528. like that song a lot. So get ready.

  529. Hey, come on, as we sing in worship, why don't you just ask

  530. the Holy Spirit, what do you want to do in me?

  531. God, how do you want to move in my heart?

  532. Come on, let's sing. Let's worship every location

  533. together. Now I want to pray.

  534. Things in the world, the world, let God just give me, Jesus give

  535. me just. Even it times, even it's life.

  536. When I can see trust in the headlines for.

  537. Me there's. Only there's only one thing that

  538. I mean. Come on, every location, let's

  539. sing it. Now you know it good and loud.

  540. Let's sing it out. Even it.

  541. Just give me Jesus. Yeah, yeah, yeah, even at times.

  542. Even at times when I can see just in the head, I told thee

  543. there's only one thing that I need.

  544. Just give me Jesus. Give me.

  545. Lord, that's a cry of our heart. Jesus, you are the one and only.

  546. Jesus, that's who you are. You're the one and only.

  547. And Father, I just believe that right now across all of our

  548. rooms, Lord, that many of our sons and daughters are are

  549. recognize it God, I believe that your Holy Spirit, God, you've

  550. turned the Searchlight on today as we've looked in your word, as

  551. we've examined who you are. Holy Spirit, you're speaking to

  552. some of us right now. You're revealing to us got areas

  553. of our life where it's not Jesus the one and only, it's other

  554. voices, it's other influences. It's others that that have we've

  555. allowed to get louder than the word.

  556. We've allowed to get louder than the truth of God's word.

  557. We've allowed to get louder in our life than the voice of the

  558. Good Shepherd. And so Father, today we just

  559. repent of that. Maybe that's you right now we're

  560. standing right where you are. Just say, God, I've repent to

  561. repent means to do a 180 to turn, I gotta turn away.

  562. Gotta I just acknowledge Lord, I've let other voices, some of

  563. us, we've we've sought the voice of popularity.

  564. We've sought the voice of likes. We've sought the voice of the

  565. crowd. Some of us and and we just, we,

  566. we just in a, in a, in a desire to fit in.

  567. We've, we've, we've walked away from Jesus a little bit.

  568. We're not as close as we used to be because we we, we're drifting

  569. toward the crowd. But today, right now, in this

  570. moment, God, we come back, we come back to you, we humble

  571. ourselves and we we come back to you, Jesus.

  572. God, we re up. Lord, we want you Jesus to be

  573. our one and only. So Lord, we repent, we turn away

  574. from that and we turn back to you.

  575. You're the Son of God, You're the Savior of the world.

  576. You're our Good Shepherd. Jesus, Thank you.

  577. I want us to sing that again, Even if, even if everything.

  578. Come on, Sing these words from your heart.

  579. Some of you, you need to cling. You need to cling to the one who

  580. won't let go. Just give me.

  581. To God that we sing it as a prayer, we sing it as a prayer,

  582. we sing it as a prayer even. At times when I can't see I'm.

  583. Trusting the head. Just in the head and I told.

  584. You. Yes, there's only one.

  585. There's only one that I just give me Jesus.

  586. Give me Jesus here is everything I know is taken away.

  587. I want things in the world Go, let go dress Give me Jesus give

  588. me come on see you one more time.

  589. Give it at times when I can see I'm dressed in the head that

  590. hold me be there's only love me that I.

  591. So Heavenly Father, right now, in the name of Jesus, I come

  592. before you and I pray for each of us that this week we would

  593. live with a new revelation. We would live with a greater

  594. understanding of who you, Jesus, the one and only are in our

  595. lives. And may we hear and follow the

  596. voice of the Good Shepherd eyes in Jesus name God, I've blessed

  597. each of these today and everyone who agreed to that prayer said

  598. Amen. Come on, every location Let's.