PIONEER PEOPLE - We Follow The 'Great Pioneer' // One Church Podcast, 30th January 2023

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My name is James and we are glad you could be with us in Matthew

7. We read these amazing words from

Jesus. Anyone who listens to my

teaching and follows it is wise like a person who builds a house

on Solid Rock though. The rain comes in Torrance and

the flood waters rise. And the wind's beat against that

house it won't collapse because it is built on bedrock.

Okay, but anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't the bet is

foolish like a person who builds a house on son when the rains

and floods came and the wind's beat against that house, it will

collapse with a mighty crash, our prayer for you this week.

Is that everything you do and all decisions that you make will

have their foundation in Jesus? Here's the best place for us to

start every part of our lives and now, in the last of our

Pioneer message series, we have pasta, Susan, speaking to us

from the Site enjoy and be blessed.

Good morning everybody. It's so good.

That the band of lead us to lead us towards Jesus this morning

because I feel like that's my job today is to paint a picture

of Jesus, the great Pioneer and Perfecter of our faith who was

gone ahead of us. And we're going to paint a

picture of him this morning and Inspire us to follow Jesus.

The great Pioneer because that was what we are doing.

Do you know it's good, isn't it? It to be in the hands of someone

who knows what they're doing. It's good to follow someone who

knows where they're going. Now, I remember a few years ago

now, thinking I would do a bit of economizing.

I thought Dave was going to be so proud of me because I'll save

a bit of money. I'll get a Groupon deal to have

my hair cut, so I went, I got this voucher and I went to find

the place where I got this deal for, which I'd never heard

before, it sounded really Posh and the pictures, look really

lovely. And then it was turned out to be

a bit of a back street, little tiny place.

I remember going Into and feeling straight away, a bit of

a sinking feeling in my stomach thinking there's nobody here

there were no customers. There were also no hairdressers

in the place, just a lady looking really bored behind a

receptionist desk and I walked in and I said, I've got an

appointment and this lady looks slightly freaked out.

I saw her on the phone and there was a Hoover as well in the

middle of the room, which I thought was a bit weird.

I think, at that moment, why did I not just say?

This is not going to work. I don't think this is for me and

leave, but I didn't. Waited till this man arrived, he

was a very strange, man. I have to say who ran in,

explain to me why he was late and then began to sort of just

lift my hair up and down. He didn't even really start

cutting it and I thought he doesn't know what he's doing at

all. I don't know if you even trained

to be a hairdresser and suddenly felt very vulnerable.

Now, I don't know why I didn't just stop and say something and

leave but I ended up with a very strange haircut, it was very

uneven and I had to go to another hairdressers.

That day to have it done properly and that cost us twice

as much. So it really wasn't an economy

at all, but it's great to follow someone who knows what they're

doing. Now, we've looked at being a

Pioneer people. We've looked at stepping out at

seeing the possibilities, and we had some amazing inspiration

last week from Pastor David here, but you may say well, why?

Why do it? Why why bother to be a Pioneer?

Why step out of our cozy life? Why do I exert myself?

Why am I going to step into unknown territory?

Three. I'd rather not risk pain.

I'd rather not risk. Rejection or risk, my finances

or risk my future or discomfort or inconvenience or change.

Well, today, we're going to look at some great amazing news

because we have someone who is worth following.

We have someone who is worth saying yes to, and if we say yes

to following Jesus, we're not stepping really out into the

unknown because he's gone ahead of us already.

We're following the one who's gone ahead.

Prepare the way for us. The one who is our perfect

example, he's our comfort on. The journeys are constant

inspiration. He is our ultimate reward.

He's the reason that we risk it all he is the great Pioneer.

So today is all about the wonderful, amazing, multifaceted

Jesus. And we're going to look at him

for a few different angles mainly through, a passage in

Hebrews chapter 12. So, let's just read Hebrews. 12

Hebrews 12 · chapter mention Hebrews 12:1

verse 1, 2 3. Therefore, since we are

surrounded. And by such a great cloud of

witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the

sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with

perseverance, the race marked out for us.

Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfecter of faith

for the joy set. Before him, he endured the

cross. Scorning its shame and sat down

at the right hand of the Throne of God, consider him who endured

such opposition from Sinners, so that you will not grow weary and

lose heart. Well Lord, we thank you for your

word and we ask you to apply it right now into our lives with

power. Thank you, Jesus.

So the writer of Hebrews is here challenging the early believers

who are facing persecution facing possible death and is

also challenging. Us is saying, keep going enjoy,

don't lose heart. Fix your eyes on Jesus follow

him. The picture is a bit like a

relay race. I wonder if you have ever run in

a relay race. I remember a time back in

primary school at school, I have to say, Say well even into later

life, I was not a particularly good runner mainly because I

tended towards the chubby side as a child I remember our school

was split into four houses, what they called houses they were

different colors and I was in the yellow one which was called

killed as so, funny how you remember all these things from

your childhood isn't it? And on this particular sports

day that we had a relay race and because one team didn't have

enough Runners and I wasn't chosen for my houses team

surprise surprise I was asked to go and run for this other house.

So I did, I really run my little heart out.

I ran as fast as I possibly could.

I didn't bother that. It wasn't my tear.

I really ran hard, I thought I'd done really well.

But I remember that evening at the shopping center being

slammed against the advertising, hoardings by a big boy from The

Blue Team which is the one I'd run for saying you didn't try

just because it wasn't your team.

You did it try. It was good.

I did try. I tried my hardest but the

writer he is saying he say, Saying this is like a real a

ratio surrounded by the people who've gone before the ones

who've proven their faith. If you read in Hebrews 11 the

chapter before this you read about some of the heroes of the

faith. They've run their stretch of the

Christian race and they're passing the Baton to you and

it's your turn to run. It's our turn to run.

So every day we have a choice to make to say yes or no to step

out or to shrink back. And here, we're just given that

main motivation Our primary passion are real reason for

running this race. We're giving this reason to

muster courage in both hands, and to go for it because it's

all about Jesus. It's all about Jesus.

So, let's remind ourselves why follow him firstly, because of

who he is, let us run with perseverance, the race marked

out for us. Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the

Pioneer and Perfecter of Faith. Who is this?

Jesus At the end of last year, I did a little study in my own

devotions just because I was interested and I want something

sparked it. I just wanted to look at the

appearances of Jesus, All Through the Bible and there are

surprising number of them. The prophet Isaiah sees Jesus in

the temple, I saw the Lord, highly exalted, his robe filled

the temple. Now we know it's Jesus because

John and John eleven's says Isaiah said, this because he saw

Jesus glory and spoke about him. Daniel sees a vision of him.

Danielle's friends have him walk around with them in the fire

prophet in the Old Testament. The Fourth Man.

It says, looks like a son of the Gods, Unbound, and unharmed 1

Corinthians. 10 tells us that the people of Israel were

accompanied by Jesus through the desert.

It says, they drank from the spiritual rock, that accompanied

them and that rock was Christ. So many of those appearances,

they just really inspired me. But the one that really got to

me was in Revelation chapter 1, And here is Jesus in John's

Revelation 1 · chapter mention

Vision in Revelation, this to me feels like me trying to paint a

picture and I've got to use the words from the Bible because

it's a bit like me trying to take a photo of a wonderful

scene. I have you ever been on holiday

and seen something beautiful and then try to take a photo of it

to show your family back home or your friends.

How amazing is taking it on your phone and it looks nothing like

as great as it is in real life, especially when I take the photo

I have to say that's where we true but Is Jesus and John's

Vision, just just let the word sinking.

This is the Jesus we follow. From John Grace and peace to

you. I'm just going to read a few

excerpts from him who is and who was, and who is to come from?

Jesus Christ, who is the faithful, witness the firstborn

from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth to him,

who loved us and has freed us from our sins by his blood.

Look, he is coming with the clouds and every eye will see

him even those who pierced him and all the peoples of the earth

will mourn because of him. So shall it?

Be our men on the Lord's Day says John I was in the spirit

and I heard behind me. A loud voice like a trumpet.

I I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me

and when I turned, I saw seven, golden lampstands and among the

lampstands was someone like a son of man dressed in a robe

reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his

chest. His head and hair were white,

like wool as white as snow and his eyes were like blazing fire.

His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace and his

voice was like the sound of rushing waters in his right

hand. He held Seven Stars and out of

his mouth. Came a sharp double-edged sword.

His face was like the sun shining in all its Brilliance.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.

And then he placed his right hand on me and said, do not be

afraid. I am the first and the last I am

the living one. I was dead and behold.

I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and

Hades. Wonderful Jesus.

The amazing ultimate pioneer. He's the one who began all

things. He's the Pioneer.

If you like of all things, He's the perfect or he'll bring this

chapter of the world history to its close when he returns this

world to establish his new perfect Kingdom.

Amazing. And this is the same Jesus, we

read about here, who's the Jesus?

Who came to Earth? Who laughed?

Who cried, who washed people's feet?

And Jesus says to us, as he says, to his disciple, Peter in

Matthew 16, who do you say that I am?

And the question is, asking all of us today?

Who do you say? I am?

Because the way we view, Jesus will change everything else

about our life is the most important thing about our life

is to know what we believe, what we think, what we see about,

Jesus. He's like a multi faceted

Diamond. I was thinking of a jeweler

looking at an amazing diamond and looking at it from all

different angles and seeing Beauty in each one.

And as we look at him from different angles, we can always

see something new. And I was thinking even today,

there is something in Jesus that we all need to grasp may be

fresh for some of us here, we need to know a fresh as it says

In this passage that he's holy and he is awesome.

His head and hair were white, like wool as white as snow and

his eyes like Seeing fire. Can we look into his blazing

eyes today? Can we Face our sin?

Can we not take it lightly? Can we see his blazing eyes

looking into us? And then can we see his blazing

eyes are full of love for us and full of grace for us saying that

he's done everything for our forgiveness?

Some of us need to know today, he's Our Redeemer.

The price is paid will James has enjoyed 19?

I know my redeemer lives and I will see him.

Some of us need to see today. That he is our lover.

So what we're all longing for us and that someone who will love

us for who we are someone who will.

Look at us with eyes are completely full of love

compassion. That just say, I love you.

I adore you. He's our lover.

I'm my beloved says in Song of Songs and he is mine.

Some of us need to see. He is our friend, maybe in our

aloneness. We may be in a crowd but

sometimes feel alone. Jesus says to us.

He says, I no longer call you servants, but I call you my

friends. He's our friend, some of us need

a light and a guide, we need to know the way we need to know

where we're going and Jesus says, I am the light of the

world. If you follow me, you'll never

live in darkness but will have the light of life.

Some of us need a rock, he's the rock My Savior, A Healer Jesus

went through Galilee. It says, in Matthew teaching,

proclaiming healing every disease and illness.

Among the people, every disease and illness your provider.

He says, I am the bread of life and so much more Song of Songs,

says he is altogether. Lovely.

He's indescribable. I've been loving listening to a

song by Phil Wickham over this over this weekend.

Actually, I just played it again and again, it's called a

thousand names and here's a little bit of it says you are

the Rock of Ages. You are The Great.

I Am Your the king forever, the beginning and the end your the

Lord and servant, you're the son of man, you're the line of

Judah. Your the Risen lamb your the

second atom here to lead us home your yahweh's glory.

Now revealed him flesh and Bone. Your ocean parter you will make

away. You are death defeating you've

risen from the grave. You are full of See, you are

rich in love, you are Jesus Messiah, the one true God.

I know you buy a thousand names and you deserve every single

one. You've given me a million ways

to be amazed at what you've done and I'm lost in.

Wonder all you do I know you by 1000 names and I'll sing them

back to you and you know that's what we do when we worship.

We sing back to Jesus who he is and you know the more we do that

the more we want to do that. If you want to want to praise

more, then begin to praise and you will want to praise me.

More, and You Begin to worship and you'll want to worship more.

We follow Jesus because of who he is, but we also follow Jesus

because of what he has done for the joy set before him.

It says he endured the cross, scorning its shame and sat down

at the right hand of the Throne of God.

Jesus Is God who comes down. Something I noticed when I

looked at all the appearances of Jesus, Through the Bible's all

this common theme of Jesus coming down of God, rescuing his

people and speaking to them and saving them.

Do you know Jesus has already done everything and he won't ask

us to do more in our lives than he's already done and done more.

So if we feel a call to sacrifice in some way, he's

sacrificed more, he did it to the uttermost.

If we called to love, then which we all are, then he did it to

the end and he says, he loved us to the end.

If we call to travel well, he did, he travel from Heaven to

Earth to save us if we call to overcome Temptation?

Well, he did, and he never failed.

He never sinned if we called to endure opposition.

Well, he did and he stayed true. The passage says he endured the

cross, he scorned it shame, he endured up position, he defeated

death, he's the only one who could, and he sat down at the

right hand of the Throne of God. So here's a question for

everyone of us. Will we follow him?

Will we follow him? Yeah.

Well, we follow him into the next adventure of our life.

Maybe some of us here today. Well, we follow him for the

first time. Well, we step today into a

relationship with Jesus and say I'm going to follow you with my

life. The passage here.

Also gives us some clues about how we will follow him how we

can First it says, throw off, hindrances.

Throw off everything that hinders nowadays.

I focus more on rowing on a rowing machine in our garage.

I love that. It's just been reconditioned and

it's going like like a bomb. It's just great.

It's quite hard work and I love walking but I used to do some

jogging. Tom will remember when I was did

a bit of training to do the half marathon in Notting and that was

the peak of my achievements as a jogger.

I would took a long, long time. But I And I didn't stop, that's

good. But when I used to jog, I would

carry my phone and a little bit of money or whatever.

I needed in a little pouch around my waist, or I'd carry it

in the pocket of a running jacket.

And I would wear trainers, it would have been ridiculous,

wouldn't it? If I had a decided to go out

running wearing a heavy duffle coat and Wellington Boots

because it would have really hold me back.

And this is the sort of picture that the writer of Hebrews is

saying here. He's saying travel light, It's

speaking of weight carrying, excessive weight in our lives,

holds us back, it hinders us, weighs us down, he's not

necessarily here, talking about Sin.

He's talking about things that would hold us back, maybe fear.

Maybe some of us have specific fears in our life that hold us

back from following Jesus to the next level.

If you like in our life or maybe we just see ourselves as a

generally, fearful person. And we would love to be rid of

that sense of fear because we want to follow him.

Can I just say though as well? That some of the most amazing

things in the world have been done by people who did it

scared? Who did it actually?

While they were afraid and just stepped out and found out what

Jesus could do? Saying really, I think, will you

trust me? Will you throw it off unbelief

that can hold us back? Mary is sideburns not here

today. She's at her little

granddaughters. First birthday weekend, she was

so glowing this week. Having come back from a trip to

Rwanda with mission 24 in what she described as a, quite a good

mission. I'd say Mary's definition of

quite a good Mission. I thought was amazing because

she said there was about a thousand.

People got saved every day in their Crusades.

There's 15 of them went, they had some, they saw many

instantaneous healings and she shared with us as a staff this

week. Some of the incident healings

that she saw personally, and we were talking about, well, what's

the difference between there and here?

What what is it? And she said, actually, we just

preach Jesus. We just talked about Jesus and

we didn't worry what I felt like we just said you know, Let Jesus

do what Jesus does and we spoke with authority and I'm not sure

you know, sometimes we say well the atmosphere is different over

there and maybe it's cause there's not so much health care

and all those sort of things. So people want to believe more

for healing. Well what whatever reasons?

Let's just keep preaching Jesus because we want to see him do

amazing things. And we know he can, we know he

will, but let's throw off unbelief.

Let's throw off restrictions and tentativeness and be more bold.

This is something I'm praying for My own life at the moment.

What about the past, the things from our pasta in, may need to

get rid of bags that we are. Carrying that hold us back, that

awaits, that hold us down in the passion version of this passage.

There's the idea there of an arrowhead left inside.

There's a footnote that says something about the word could

mean that youíve been pierced with arrows, but something of

that. Arrow is stuck inside and it's

holding us back. Well there, any remnants still

in you that are causing damage that holding you back?

It could be a pain of abuse in the past, or rejection, or some

Trauma from your childhood, even It's time to throw it off.

There was a great example of our at the Mina and it is wedding

yesterday. Many of you heard his story when

he shared in a together service last year about his relationship

with his dad, and how they had to be much forgiveness and

healing from that. And yesterday, there was a part

of the service where they were sharing cake with people, and it

was like, we literally feeding into their mouth, where you see?

I'm a dick and Amina. Go straight up to a dicks,

father. And it's Dad and feed him cake

and honor him. That was amazing.

So, let's bring to the Cross. Any hindrances any baggage and

break its power right. Now, I'm going to even right

now. Do you want to do that?

If you, if you feel, you're carrying any weight, any of

those things I've mentioned or other things.

Let's just, let's just pray right now.

And maybe just say Lord, I bring this thing to the cross, I bring

it to the Cross right now. I'll bring it to the cross.

And you can say yourself, you can say I break its power over

me. In Jesus name, I break its power

over me. In Jesus name, I declare myself

free in Jesus name. Amen.

My man, you know, Jesus is handing out the prison keys

today. He's handing out the keys for us

to be set free, but we have to actually use them.

Throw off entanglements as well. It says here, another key to

following Jesus and the sin that so easily.

Entangles. Our this is talking about Sin.

My lovely eldest granddaughter Annabelle's just had quite a bit

of her hair cut off. So it's a bit quite a bit

shorter. Have to say, for me, that's a

little bit of a relief because once a week most weeks, we have

them to stay overnight and they and we take them to school in

the morning and that has involved often doing their hair

and I have got a reputation with our granddaughters where they

will say, To me. But me my your you only had boys

and so you're not very good at doing girls hair.

So I've got a bit of a reputation.

So I have to say, I've been very sad.

I've been actually watching some YouTube videos on how to do

hair. You wouldn't believe how many

people just sit in their bedroom in front of their mirror and put

it onto the into that. Like here you'd it has how you

do curling and how you do this on the other?

It's a whole other world, but hopefully Annabelle's hair won't

get. So knotted and won't have

tangles in it because it's a bit shorter or bit easier to do.

Do. And this is a little bit of a

picture of the tangling side of sin, because sin is Insidious

sometimes. Yes, Temptation comes to us

head-on, but it's easier to recognize that it's easier to

resist. But so often it creeps up and

before we know where we are, we're entangled.

Maybe we're hooked on a habit, that draws us into much more

than we signed up. For, maybe we're addicted to a

TV series. That is actually spoiling the

purity of our thoughts, maybe were drawn to read stuff.

That's are eroding. Our sense of what's right or

wrong. Maybe were believing lies that

are spoken by people around us. Maybe we're being slowly drawn

towards a relationship that we know is not, right?

I wonder. If you've ever walked through

rough undergrowth, I sometimes go for it when I go for dog

walks, I end up taking. King like, oh, that's a nice

shortcut and end up sometimes. Getting entangled in Briars and

bushes and hedges. And so on, that means that

things get onto your clothes that they and they get hold of

you and sometimes I have to pull it away and your coat might get

torn or something gets damaged and it's a bit like a picture

Sin Sin, entangles us. It trips us up the answer being

given to us here is stay on the path and if we have wandered

From the Path, if we know that we need to get back to it, I

would just encourage Encourage us.

Jesus is here is not let go of you but come back on to the path

today. This morning stay on the path

marked out for us as the writer here.

Stay in the word. Stay close to a friend as we had

last week. Stay on the path.

And keep running run with perseverance.

We've talked about that already. Just keep going.

Sometimes that's all he's saying is keep going.

Nowhere boundaries the race marked out for you.

Says the writer here, this is a personal race.

There's a place for you, find your place in life and your

place in the body of Christ, find your place in church and

don't get worked up about it. Go with the portion of the race

that, you know, Jesus is marked out for you now.

Think about what do you love to do?

Where do you feel alive and use that to bless others.

Use that in the kingdom of God. Can I just say, you know, as we

go forward. Thank you to those who serve and

we're going to need more people involved in serving even here in

central as we go to two services and thank you.

For those who already are signing up to say, we're going

to play our part be fully focused on Jesus.

We've covered that already fixing our eyes on Jesus,

consider him who endured such opposition from Sinners and stay

strong. Wrong.

So that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

How do we do it by fixing our eyes on Jesus?

I want this to be the thing. We take away more than anything.

Today, we're fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Pioneer, the

Perfecter the beginning, the end, the alpha, the Omega, he's

the one who was there. At the start, is the one who

will be there at the end, and he's like that in our lives as

well. Be confident in following him.

I wonder, will you follow this Jesus because of who he is

because of what? He's done.

Confident that he's our great Pioneer.

He goes ahead. He's done it all where we just

say yes to whatever. He's asking of us, we had a

verse when we did our vision, had our vision offering a few

months ago. And we did talk about the verse,

where Mary says to the people at the wedding in Cana, she says do

whatever he tells you And this is really all Jesus is asking of

us is do whatever he tells you, but it involves saying yes.

And I wonder where you say, yes to what he's asking of you, and

if you want to know your call, if you say, well what's my

destiny? This is how we know.

We just do it. We just know it by a thousand

small yeses in our lives. It's the yes.

I'll call that person. Yes, I will Jesus.

Yes, I'll obey that command. That's in your word that I read

today. Yes, I'll Revitalize.

My Potion times with you. Yes, I'll keep going.

Yes, I'll stop doing that. Yes, I'll start doing that.

I will whatever he says to you do it and, you know, gradually

our neural Pathways will get realigned gradually, our

character will get refined. Gradual, our destiny will get

defined and it won't be led by Massive markers.

Massive moments. So much, as by many, many little

ones where we say yes to Jesus. And what about can I challenge

us to do something? Even more daring than that?

To say, yes. Before we know what?

He's asking us to do, this is an unconditional.

Yes, where we just say to Jesus? My answer is yes.

Now, what's the question? What might happen?

If, every Christian in the world said an unconditional?

Yes to Jesus, there are billions of us.

If we stepped into the unknown and became true Pioneers, maybe

they'll be an unexplained shift in the world's economy.

Suddenly it will be readjusted and redistributed there.

Be an outbreak of reconciliation and restoration of

relationships. Maybe Amazon profits would go

down. Because Christians may stop

buying what we don't need. Maybe there'd be more happiness

because we were working more closely with Jesus who has the

oil of joy. Millions would turn to Jesus,

because we'd start sharing our faith boldly and Jesus will be

recognized as Lord, in our schools, and our streets in our

cities. Can I challenge us?

Let's start living as Christians.

Let's start living as those who are little Christ's who follow

Jesus and take him as an example to follow the great pioneer. and

he is a great comfort because Jesus says my sheep, Listen to

my voice. I know them and they follow me.

Can I say we follow someone who was a Shepherd who's gone ahead

of us, and he knows us, he knows you.

He knows me, he knows how he made us, he knows our name, our

thoughts, our feelings, our strengths, our weaknesses, our

dreams our fears, and he loves us.

It's amazing. Is it to sit like and stand here

and say he loves me and you can say, whatever the sacrifice.

We can feel secure and confident when we follow Jesus into what

might seem to us the unknown. Wonderful.

Jesus. I just want to speak to anyone

in the room today. I know there's someone here and

your healing hearing Jesus, calling you saying, like I said

to the early disciples, follow me, follow me, you're going to

hear some stories in a bit of people who made that choice to

follow Jesus. When he called to them.

Why not make that decision right now in your seat before we hear

those stories? So you can go out of here.

A new person, a New Creation With Jesus, who will be with you

every step of your life and take you into.

Eternity, you'll never face the Judgment that you deserve to

face because we've all sinned. We've all fallen short of the

glory of God and yet God sent Jesus to be that ultimate

sacrifice so that we could be forgiven.

And that is wonderful news. That's why it's called good

news. So I'm going to pray a little

prayer. I wonder if all of us, even if

we know Jesus already. Let's pray it together.

And if you don't yet know him, I'd like you to really make sure

you pray this even out loud in your seat and Jesus will hear

you. So why did he pray after me?

Lord Jesus. I hear your call to follow you.

But I am a sinner. And I need a savior.

I ask you to forgive me. I asked you to cleanse me and I

give my life to you. I want to follow you and I thank

you that you love me. Come into my life. there's

anybody here who prayed that prayer for the first time, I'm

just asking you to if that's you to raise your hand where you

are, was somebody will see that and then I'll come and see you

at the end just to make sure that you know, A little bit of

what's been happening in your life.

Great. Thank you.

You see that hand over there. That's wonderful.

So you make sure you make yourself known to somebody at

the end and we will sit with you and just give you something to

help you in your journey going forward.

Wonderful brilliant. Let's start with welcome my

sister into the kingdom of God. That's brilliant.

So since we are surrounded by such a great, cloud of

witnesses, let us throw off, you deciding today to throw off

anything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles,

us. Somebody here needs to know

you're forgiven today. You've been doing something, you

know, is wrong but just as you've come back to him today

and said, sorry, he's completely forgiven.

You, you don't need to say sorry.

Again, you just need to do live differently, turn away from it.

And let us run with perseverance, the race marked

out for us. Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the

Pioneer and Perfecter of faith for the joy set, before him, he

endured the cross, scorning, its shame sat down at the right hand

of the Throne of God, consider him who endured such opposition

from Sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

whatever he says to you when I say yes, Thank you, Pastor

season for that wonderful message.

And if you've decided that you want to follow Jesus today, we

would love to pray with you and help you on your journey.

So, get in touch with us here at one church and now it's time for

your family news for coming up. Next week, we have one church

together. All of our sites are meeting at

9:15 or 11:30 at the one Center in frog Island.

We would love Of to see you there, especially as it's our

last morning together before, renovation Works begin at number

10. Second of all, if you can't join

us on that morning, then why not join us at 11:30 on the One

Church, YouTube channel will be live, streaming the service so

we can all join in together. On the 17th of February.

We have United, why a join with other young adults, from around

the city for an evening of worship, as well as getting to

know each other, it's at the to Funky Music Cafe to pound on.

On the door and you are invited and finally, get excited because

this February half-term School's Out holiday.

Clubs are back. More information will follow

next week, including how you can get involved and how you can

invite children to come along too.

But for now save the dates, the 21st of the 23rd of February and

that has been your family News 4.

The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord.

Make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.

The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.

The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord.

Make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.

The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.