Mission Vineyard Church Apr 7, 2024

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your lord May everything that we have

everything we brought with us today all

of our best attempts Lord be a sweet

sound in your

ear at this time in our service we get

to pause reflect and celebrate the

Lord's supper or communion if our

communion servers would come forward and

prepare your stations just a quick bit

of instructions for those who are new we

uh take communion here every week and we

come down these interior side aisles and

we dip the gluten-free cracker into the

grape juice um and you can take it back

to your seat or you may take the

prepackaged elements um that we have

available for

you this is the time we are invited to

Jesus's table we pause and reflect on

Jesus's life death and Resurrection we

welcome him into wherever we are coming

from from 1 Corinthians 11 the Apostle

Paul writes to followers of Jesus for I

pass unto you what I receive from the

Lord himself on the night when he was

betrayed the Lord Jesus took some bread

and gave thanks to God for it then he

broke it in pieces and said this is my

body which is given for you do this in

remembrance of

me in the same way he took the cup of

wine after supper saying this cup is a

New Covenant between God and his

people an agreement confirmed of my

blood do this in remembrance of me as

often as you drink it for every time you

eat this bread and drink this cup you

are announcing the Lord's death until he

comes

again Heavenly Father we thank you that

you welcome us to your table as we come

may we receive all that you have for us

we bless this time this cup representing

your blood and the broken bread your

broken body for us as you instructed we

do this in remembrance of you in your

name Jesus we pray amen come and receive

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as Jesus lived on this Earth with uh his

closest followers at one point he asked

are they asked him how they could pray

and he instructed them with this what we

now call The Lord's Prayer it's a simple

way to pray so if there's ever a time

where you don't know what to say or do

you can say the Lord's Prayer it

encapsulates um all of our need and

desire you can see it on the screen in

English or in Spanish but feel free to

say it when a language you're most

comfortable

with our father father who are in heaven

Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come

thy will be done on Earth as it is in

heaven give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our trespasses as we

forgive those who trespass against us

and lead us not in temptation but

Deliver Us from Evil for thine is the

kingdom and the power and the glory

forever and ever

amen be

seated good morning

church uh this would usually be the time

that we would pass uh baskets for giving

uh there's lots of people that give

online and sometimes we just kind of say

and now we're going to pass the offering

baskets not knowing what an offering

basket is or if is that's actually what

we call offering basket and so this week

we got together with uh the team that

oversees a lot of teams here at the

church and I said what is actually our

discipleship around this like how how do

we share with the congregation what

we're actually doing here and especially

for those of you who are new maybe

coming to a church and you think well I

guess they're passing baskets but like

do they want me to put money in there do

you want do they want me to

put my gum like what is what what is is

this

for and so over the next weeks we're

going to be trying out some language

that gets around the Theology of our

discipleship what on Earth are we doing

here when it comes to money and so this

is one try and so I want to read this to

you because I think it gets a little bit

to what we believe here it's because God

loves a cheerful giver and there's so

many scripture verses around everything

that I'll say I'm not saying each

scripture verse but because God loves a

cheerful Giver at Mission Vineyard we

don't give financially because God needs

our money or because the church needs

our money we believe that God owns it

all and we can never outgive God giving

is a part of our worship so we take time

during our worship service to give

financially some give

online I remember just a couple weeks

ago somebody was offering me a basket

and I turned him away cuz we give online

and it felt weird and so I'm like oh

maybe I should bring something on Sunday

just like to be able to Worship in

person

but some given person but we want to

take a moment to reflect on our

discipleship in our finances as we

worship in giving we remember a few

things about our relationship with God

and money God is generous and God is

longing for us to grow as generous

disciples we thank the Lord for the gift

of our church Community as a place for

the giving of ministry time energy and

money

we pray for our church to use the

financial giving for God's kingdom work

and as a part of spiritual warfare to

combat the enemy Jesus called us all to

give sacrificially for those who are

here for the first time we urge you to

give generously and receive the joy of

the Lord for those who are Church

partners and leaders here remember that

our goal is to tithe that to give a

tenth of our income towards the work of

the church and to share generously above

and beyond the tithe towards AC of

kindness and missions through offering

this is also a reminder that we are all

on a journey towards generosity in our

lives and not judging one another let's

pray for our church finances as we

continue Lord Jesus thank you so much

that we get to participate in this way

God I remember the homeless folks those

folks that don't have homes that have

visited our church and they wanted to

give again God we think of those that

are very wealthy that are also just

joyful to give and and everyone in

between God uh help us teach us how to

be generous like you

are God help us to not help us to be

free of any guilt or shame around money

and I I pray in the name of Jesus that

you'd bless every dollar that's given

towards your kingdom work and Mission

through our church we pray in Jesus name

amen and so when we pass these baskets

they're not offering baskets they're

baskets to give if you want to give that

way but also we have a slide uh where

you could give online as well and uh

sometimes people want to do that here in

the service that's great but uh there's

no judgment either

way I'm G keep you up here John because

you are fun and I am often not I'm fun

yes that's great I like being fun my

name is arita and I'm John's wife so if

we see I'm your

husband I don't know if I said the right

thing no you did I'm reflecting I was

afraid for a second that I miss you're

great um my name's arita welcome to

Mission Vineyard if you are new here uh

visiting with us for the first time

we're so glad you chose to worship with

us um or if you're worshiping online

we're glad that you um we have that

capability to worship I'm so thankful

for our media team and our audio team

and our visual team our camera

team they have been working together so

hard over the last year to make

something work and Marcelo it works

right

fun correct

I just know how to hear I don't know

anything else so I'm very thankful for

everybody that puts in their skills and

talents towards making other people be

able to hear um anyway if you're new you

may have gotten one of our welcome bags

they're on the back table there are

white bags I they're they're gone so I

imagine they're out in the congregation

but inside we have some uh goodies for

you our main giveaway for our visitors

is something here called a Mana bag um

we do have extras on the table of these

Mana bags if you want to take just one

of these but um this is our gift to you

for you to give away

um often times uh we're driving about

the city um and we encounter someone who

is in need of food or money and we often

don't carry cash with us and we still

want to extend God's love to people and

so we put together these little bags

they have some food for a day's worth

and some socks hand sanitizer Band-Aids

just some basic necessities that our

friends um might be able to utilize um

as they're looking for more food and

help and so it's our way to extend God's

love to our neighbors so feel free to

give that away keep it in your car or as

you just see people about this the

city um in our welcome bag as well or on

our back table we have something called

a connect card and that is our way to

get to know you

more uh so you can share whatever

information you're comfortable sharing

if you are added if you put your email

address you'll be added to our Weekly

Newsletter if you want to send give us

your mail snail mail your stuff that

actually comes in the regular mail uh

Pastor John here will send you a thank

you card with a Starbucks gift card just

as a note of appreciation for worshiping

with us today

um in that Weekly Newsletter we share

all the different things that are

happening in the life of the church

including things like the women's brunch

which will be this

Saturday or um on your sheets you all

see the cute little Flyers um if you've

ever seen the show Bluey that was there

was a mockup of this going around with

Bluey the cartoon character from Disney

plus um on it and it was said for real

life um but we can't do that because

we're not copyrighted but on the back

are all the information of things that

are happening for real life um in our

Ser in our church in the next month or

two including baptisms next Sunday we're

going to have uh six or seven baptisms

at least if not more out in the patio

next Sunday it's going to be a really

great time um but there's more

information on the back of these things

that's why we gave them out to you guys

but anyway there's lots going on in the

life of the church uh we have people

living all over the city so we have

small groups all over the city and we

want ways to welcome Jesus into all of

life um here in our community so we can

continue following him um in our daily

lives so I'm going to pray for you

thanks I I left you out you're fun

mostly cuz your shirt's fun that's why I

wanted you here um thanks and I didn't

need your help at all

actually that's a that's a normal story

but it was like a secur it was like a

security blanket for me so I appreciate

that so heavenly father I thank you so

much for my husband and his uh Grace

towards me as I

uh yeah do this and so Lord I pray that

you would be with him this morning as he

shares your word with us and that you

would fill them with your Holy Spirit

and that everything you have for us even

if it's not something that comes out of

his mouth but you would translate it

into what you want us to hear Lord in

Jesus name amen amen thanks for

Lita taking my stuff it's all

right good morning

church I'm really glad to hear to uh

here to be with you wow language

backwards

sometimes

it's a cloudy day so you should be in

bed but you're not and I'm really glad

you're not uh because I have some big

expectations for what God might do with

us this

morning I'm very very thankful for the

opportunity to get into the scriptures

with you and maybe see what kind of

freedom God wants to give us we're in a

new series called doing life well how to

welcome Jesus into all the things and so

you might think that we're going to talk

about all the things what could all the

things be

all of them you

know but actually what we're going to be

talking about are some of the barriers

that allow us that keep us from

welcoming Jesus into all the things so

all the things could be relationships

could be finances could

be say some other things sex sex that

was really loud

and how to welcome Jesus into sex that's

work raising kids raising kids marage

marriage your hobbies

Hobbies schol

School unemployment

unemployment fear

fear medical issues retirement

retirement sports

sports politics you guys don't want to

welcome Jesus into your politics do

you oh Jesus

come every time hilberto leads us Come

Holy Spirit I go in Jesus name into our

politics so we're going to be learning

about how to welcome Jesus into all the

things but often times it's going to be

not directly at the things it's going to

be at the ways that keep us from the

things um I know I know that I'm

distracted by some feedback I don't know

if you're distracted by some feedback I

just have a weird ear but uh if there's

some way to turn down my gain or

something and I can just yell that is

just

fine uh today we're going to be engaging

in how to welcome Jesus into our

past and oftentimes when we deal with

our past we deal with our

shame but today we're going to be able

to hopefully through the scriptures

exchange our shame for God's

grace before we even do that though you

might be wondering what I mean by shame

and what I mean by Grace because

everybody may have their own definitions

Lucas there's a slide that describes

shame and

Grace I hope Lucas you're so good thank

you so

much shame and if we look in the

scriptures this is how it typically

would describe shame to be under a

curse you ever think of Shame like that

to be under a curse

the word entropy you know our word

entropy some Physics people here know we

got some someone's learning physics in

school to have all of your energy lost

the word entropy actually comes from the

the word shame and entropy are

intertwined in the Bible have all of its

energy lost and to be locked in

disappointment

shame that doesn't feel good

and you might think like as I'm trying

to do all the things and welcome Jesus

into all the things if I feel like I'm

under a curse all of my energy is lost

and I'm locked in disappointment how am

I going to welcome Jesus into all the

things I generally feel like I'm

spending all of my energy just fighting

the disappointment and fighting the

curse that I feel like is on my

life in

exchange God wants to offer us his

grace to be under God's favor imagine

the king of the earth that has created

all things going it's all

yours I love you so much here you go

that's God's

favor a big hug and like all the

inheritance of the world it's all

yours to be empowered by God we're going

to look at how Jesus empowers his

disciples this morning but to be

empowered by God meaning God gives you

everything you need to do all the

things to be given a gift is somehow

sometimes how the scripture defines

Grace where God is giving us all that he

has and that we're living an

expectation positive expectation that

God's on the move like at any moment God

could show up and do amazing

things so I I think I really believe

that there are some people here that

will be delivered from shame

today from the curse of

Shame some of us are living under a

curse of Shame and God wants to Deliver

Us from that shame and bless us with his

grace so Lord Jesus I pray that as we

engage your scriptures that you would

begin by the power of your Holy Spirit

to deliver us

amen amen all right let's look at the

Book of John this is chapter 20

Isaiah 20 · chapter mention

last week where we left the disciples

was that Jesus had risen from the dead

now

what now what is really really fun it's

actually if if God gives me any

spiritual gifts I want it to be the one

that Jesus displays in this

situation John 20: 19 that Sunday

evening the disciples were meeting

behind locked doors because they were

afraid of Jewish leaders can we enter

into the story for just a second have

you ever locked your door afraid of what

was going on on the other

side right are you feeling what the

disciples might be feeling

here they're not just hanging

out they are

afraid lives at

risk suddenly this is my most favorite

spiritual gift that Jesus does here

Jesus was standing there among them you

ever watched Star Trek

beam me up Scotty this is like be me

down Jesus without the Sci-Fi this is

just he's just there I love our world so

much like I God has created it so

beautifully I just want to be able to

appear in different places wouldn't that

be fun to just like see the Eiffel Tower

to just like be able to see family for

dinner and then go home

hundreds and thousands of miles away

Jesus can do this so our redeemed bodies

in the future I'm holding on guarantee

that we'll be able to go all around the

earth wherever we want all the time I'm

excited about this but I

digress suddenly Jesus was standing

there among them peace be with you he

said so they're locked behind closed

doors afraid of what's on the other side

side Jesus arrives in the middle of them

he doesn't go through the door he's just

there in the midst of their locked door

feelings he says repeat with me

peace with you

peace peace so I don't know where you

guys are at right now I don't know what

kind of lock doors you have going on in

your heart I know that was a big analogy

to pull in it's a really powerful One

For Me Jesus this morning is first first

saying

peace as he spoke he showed them the

wounds in his hands and his

side so you just picture Jesus doing

that with you he says peace but then he

shows you his own

wounds they were filled with joy when

they saw the Lord Lord so now their

feelings are

changed and again he said peace be with

you as the father has sent me and he's

just shown them his

wounds as the father has sent

me so I'm sending

you take that for just a moment so many

times we forget that Jesus says in this

world you will have trouble

I wonder if he's doing that a little bit

right now peace and by the way look

where I was

crucified and watch what he does and

this is weird like don't do this

especially postco we don't do this at

all this is really weird but he breathed

on them and said receive the Holy

Spirit

if you have experienced this is you know

some some people have not experienced a

palpable move of God but if you have

experienced the power of God on you I

want youd imagine right now in the story

maybe you haven't but youd imagine what

it feels like to receive God's presence

and his power and his personhood his

identity in

you in the the midst of whatever you're

going through right now could you

imagine as Jesus says and he breathes on

you and he says receive the Holy

Spirit and his whole being comes upon

you envelops you fills you could you

imagine what that might feel

like he's not just saying calm yourself

he's not just saying calm

down he's saying

peace

and he doesn't just say it he becomes

it receive the holy spirit for some of

you today I want you to begin to see the

sentence for yourself receive the Holy

Spirit receive the Holy

Spirit

peace receive the Holy Spirit

and then we're going to come back to

this but he changes Lanes I

think we're all in the same story he's

doing the same thing but why he would

immediately say hey if you forgive

anybody's sins they're forgiven and if

you don't forgive them they're not

forgiven if I'm a disciple that moment

I'm going whoa Jesus and he's going

peace and I go woohoo and he's like

peace receive the Holy

Spirit like

whoa and he goes if you forgive

anybody's sins they're forgiven if you

don't they're not

forgiven

okay it's like all of the sudden the the

definition

or the impact or or or the the future of

what it means to be filled with the holy

spirit means that something gets to be

changed about the way that we experience

sin so that we can receive the authority

of

God to say that which holds you down

that curses you that keeps you back that

takes all of your energy that which has

been done to you and that which you have

done right now is as far away from you

in the east as the

West has gone to the Grave with Jesus

and is not allowed to come out ever

again and the only thing that we get

back from that in the name of Jesus

which is what Jesus is empowering them

to do when he fills them with the Holy

Spirit they get his authority to do this

in the name of Jes Jesus all of those

things are forgiven and in exchange for

all those things that you've experienced

and all those things you've done that

forgiveness is what we call

Grace the old is

gone the new has come and that's the way

life is supposed to

be but it doesn't feel that way does it

why because we're reminded about all the

things aren't aren we and all the things

that go

wrong your political party isn't doing

so well whatever that is your political

leader isn't doing so well all the ways

that you hop that you'd be able to raise

your kids is fantastic or not you have

health issues that are not going the way

you thought and so in our tension of the

way that we view

things in the way that we experience

things we don't experience Grace all the

time and instead sometimes we experience

some different things for instance if

you've ever felt this how do you know

there's an author his name is Lewis

smees it's a

funny funny name Lewis SME shame and

Grace is a book He's a author out a full

Fuller University he's passed away now

but he has this description of sometimes

how do we know that we're carrying

shame and so see if any of these ReSound

with you sometimes I feel as if I'm

fake I feel that if people who admire me

really knew

me they might have contempt for

me I feel inadequate I seldom feel as if

I'm up to what's expected of me when I

look inside of myself I seldom feel Joy

at all at who I am or what I am I feel

inferior to the really good people that

I

know I feel as if God must be disgusted

at

me

in this world of uh Instagram fame we're

constantly comparing ourselves and in

that comparison sometimes uh we see

friends and actually this is one of my

biggest stumbling blocks when other

people are successful I feel like a

failure anybody else feel like that

Instagram is the worst of this but as a

pastor I've battled this the whole time

I've been a pastor when I hear of other

churches doing things that I wish that

we could do or people experiencing

things that I wish our people would

experience I go oh

instead of going woohoo the father's at

work in the world yay I

go anybody ever feel like that when you

you see other people's

successes in your discouragement

sometimes do you feel like you're not up

to the job or in shame you feel like

you're not that kind of person that can

do those

things maybe some of us has told a lie

do we feel guilt about telling that lie

like we've done done a bad behavior or

do we feel shamed that we're not the

sort that we are the sort of person that

lies what Jesus is trying to do I think

In this passage and I'm going to

continue as he as he has some tension

with some of the disciples he's trying

to remove all of that identity that

comes from sin because as we're born

into the world and we operate in the

world every time we're disappointed we

face this reality that the world is not

the way it's supposed to to be but also

we are not up to what we were supposed

to

do God has called us and he's created us

to be his partner in creation but

there's something that we feel in

ourselves that something's not right but

Jesus wants to change that and and all

of our sins to be forgiven so that we

can receive his grace instead of that

feeling of Shame the truth is that

without him we're not made for this

moment on the Earth but with him we we

are empowered to partner with him in all

the things on the earth do you hear what

I'm saying on our own things aren't the

way that they're supposed to be and

we're always striving we're always

battling that that identity that says

something's not right with me but in His

Grace by the power of His holy spirit

we're empowered to partner with him and

so we can mess up we can have bad

behavior but we're we're actually made

for when we're filled with the Holy

Spirit is to join with

God and we're made brand new the old is

gone the new has come and so Thomas he

gets this tension this is John 20: 24

one of the 12 disciples Thomas nicknamed

the twin we don't know why I have to

look into that was not with the others

when Jesus came so he's late to the

party note to self don't be light to the

party they told him we've seen the Lord

because Jesus wasn't there yet Thomas

comes in they've had this amazing

experience they've received peace

they've received the Holy Spirit and

they go we've seen the Lord but he

replied I don't believe you

you this is where we get the term

doubting Thomas

from and I won't believe it until I see

the nail wounds in his hands and put my

finger in them and place my hand in the

wound it his side yall have some gross

friends and they say things that are

left of normal sometimes or right of

normal they're just not normal this is

Thomas and he's like you can hear the

bitterness and the anger in them can't

you like things aren't right and things

are broken and I'm disappointed like if

you've seen the Lord I don't believe you

and I'm not going to believe you until I

can actually feel the flesh his broken

flesh that I saw crucified on that cross

oh but we do understand don't we because

every time something goes wrong there's

some trigger in us that goes

The Whole World's broken I'm broken

you're

broken and there's a Grace that's

missing but something happens here and

this is what Jesus

does eight days later Thomas has to wait

a week more than a week the disciples

were together again and this time Thomas

was with them wasn't late to the party

this time the doors were locked again

but suddenly as before Jesus was

standing among them and said peace be

with you in the midst of all the things

peace be with you has the world changed

in eight days nope maybe worse maybe the

anxiet is

higher then he said to

Thomas put your finger

here look at my

hands put your hand in the wound of my

side

don't be faithless any

longer

believe

believe what could Jesus be asking you

to

believe I hope it's all that mess of

feeling

inadequate seldom feeling Joy feeling

inferior feeling like you're broken when

you just messed up

I wonder if some of what Jesus is asking

us to believe

is life can be brand new if you'd

received me you don't have to fight like

that anymore if you receive me you

receive a new

identity Grace can be exchanged for your

shame I know I might be stretching now

but you know the response from Thomas is

so loud and big my Lord and my God he's

not taking the lord's name in

pain my

God cuz he's right there he he feels him

he sees him he knows him something's

different life can be different then

Jesus told him you believe because

you've seen me but blessed are those who

believe without seeing

me that trap that we fall into it and

I'm projecting it on Thomas and maybe it

might be too much but I want to tell you

you shame keeps all of our activities

trapped by our own Brokenness and we go

about the world going well I'll see it

when I believe

it I'm broken the world's

broken but Grace puts all of our

activities in the unlimited potential of

God's hands Jesus wants to show us

himself and say I know you think you're

broken I know you think you're

inadequate but I'm

alive and if I'm alive I can breathe on

you I can speak life into you I can say

peace to you and I can fill you with my

holy spirit so that it's not about you

anymore it's about me in you in the

world 2 Corinthians says it like this

this is Paul he's a church planter

speaking to a church he says so we

stopped evaluating others from a human

point of view we don't think about the

limitations of our own Brokenness at one

time we thought of Christ merely from a

human point of view how differently we

know him now he's talking about that

exchange that happened with Thomas do

you hear this means that anyone who

belongs to Christ has become a new

person the old life is gone the new life

has

begun friends take your hand and test

Jesus put your hand in his wounds touch

him Jesus if you're real show

me because he wants to make you brand

new if you believe in him it makes you

brand new he will make you brand

new Paul says this to another church is

Isaiah 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2 verse in in Ephesians he says

God saved you by his grace when you

believed you can't take credit from this

this is a gift from God this isn't about

us getting better this is about us

receiving Jesus who's the

best our life won't be transformed if we

just keep on trying trying to get better

and better better we need his life we

need his

power salvation's not a reward for the

good things you've done doesn't depend

on your Instagram feed so none of us can

boast about it we are in Jesus God's

Masterpiece he created us a new in

Christ Jesus so that we can do the good

things for us he planned long

ago he wants to set us free free he

wants to give us his

grace we do this by keeping our eyes on

Jesus this is Hebrews 122 the champion

who initiates and perfects our faith he

comes in the room we welcome Jesus into

all the things not by focusing on the

things but by focusing on Jesus he's

here right

now and we say I welcome you

Jesus I welcome you to speak peace to

me and then he takes care of all the

things because he makes us brand new

because of the joy awaiting him he

endured the cross disregarding its shame

its disgrace its

curse its

entropy now he's seated at the place of

honor beside God's Throne think of all

the hostility he endured think of the

wounds from sinful people then you won't

become weary and give up after all you

have not yet given your lives and your

struggle against sin you see he's

calling us to be wounded like him but to

be empowered like

him the bad things are not going to

stop I wish I wish I could say with

Jesus life gets easier no more car

accidents no more insecurity about work

or friendships no more worrying about

your

kids it's not that way instead Jesus

welcomes us to be wounded with him but

also to be empowered by him to welcome

him into the room to receive his peace

and to be filled with his holy

spirit there's a word that's pretty

popular these days it's narcissism you

ever heard that word

narcissism and it's that moment where

somebody has stopped being able to

receive God's

grace they feel the shame because we all

feel shame don't we and instead of

exchanging that shame for Grace they

can't receive the shame anymore and so

it just turns into a rebuttal it just

turns into a a vacuum or a mirror that

pushes out shame everywhere else and the

curse instead of being received but

transformed it just gets pressed out and

shame just goes

everywhere I I want to make more room

for God's grace in my life but it means

confessing those places where I curse

myself where I feel broken and saying

God I don't want to live like that

anymore I want to live in your grace I

want to be transformed by

you

so come Holy

Spirit Jesus said come to me all who are

weary at Laden and I will give you

rest

so for some I want you to hear these

words from our prayer team this morning

and prayer teams if you would ready

yourselves to receive folks we have

prayer teams that are going to be in

this corner for you to receive anybody

with emotional physical or spiritual

needs but especially these folks if God

is calling you to come for prayer Don't

Be

Afraid someone who's discouraged in

sharing the gospel someone who has pain

in the left

shoulder someone who needs to be able to

receive to take your place in the

kingdom of God Jesus will make you

adequate someone who's having trouble

with braces on their teeth I love how

God just he he cares about the little

things not that braces on your teeth is

a little thing but it's worth naming you

hear if I was in your seat right now and

I made a call to say for anybody who

wants shame removed from their lives if

it's a heavy burden or if it feels like

a curse would you stand I would stand

with you because I battle shame all the

time but if there are those of you would

you stand I'm standing right now I need

this this morning I need God's grace in

exchange for

shame that I battle in my life would you

stand with me if that's you this morning

there's a

couple

yeah Cal Holy Spirit thank you Lord

thank you

Lord thank you

Lord thank you Lord there's a couple of

people

around um would you just would you come

around these people and would you not

say a word but if if you're willing just

put a hand on their shoulder those who

are

standing God there's a sh name the

sickness and the evil of this world is

too much for our Humanity to

bear so I pray right now in the name of

Jesus you cleanse these friends of the

shame in the name of Jesus we command

shame to go be free peace be filled with

the Holy

Spirit in Jesus

name

I I want to ask for some more courage in

the room because there are some of you

that have not received Jesus

yet

and he's saying enough's enough let me

set you free please let me set you

free you were made for me you were not

made for anything else you were made for

my peace you were made for my freedom so

receive it if you're willing to receive

him for the first time or it's been a

long time would you stand right now

encourag just stand receive him you are

made to receive his Gra Grace you are

not made for

shame you are not made to be alone you

are not made to be broken you are made

to be

healed you are made to be set free would

you stand and receive him this morning

please let this be the

day in Jesus name receive the Lord he

loves you so much he wants to set you

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free the worship team's already started

I'm going to ask them to continue would

you stand with me all of you and let's

receive the grace of the Lord through

this worship and come all of you who are

needing prayer this morning if God's

calling you to come for prayer Don't Be

Afraid someone who's discouraged in

sharing the gospel come for prayer pain

in the left shoulder come for prayer

someone who Jesus will make you adequate

take your place in the kingdom of God

come for prayer someone who's having

trouble with braces on their teeth come

for prayer this is that time and once

these guys are done with this song I

will come back and bless us to

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go the spirit of the Lord

is there is

freedom where the spirit of the Lord

is there is

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freedom lift your rise the

Heaven There is

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freedom LIF your rise the

Heaven There is

freedom freedom rigns in this

place

of mercy and

gra there's falling on every

face there's

Freedom if you're tiing you are

thirsty there is freedom

if it's not in you I

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[Laughter]

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thiry so give your all to

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Jesus there

freedom

Lord we give it all to

you so give your all to

Jesus there

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Freedom

freedoms in

this show and mercy

and falling on every

face there is

freedom Jesus Reigns in this

place Jesus Reigns in this

place the mercy

falling on

everything there is

freedom and so would you go out with

this freedom in the name of the father

and the Son and the Holy Spirit instead

of shame instead of a curse on your life

would you go out with the grace and the

freedom and the blessing in of the Holy

Spirit as he says be filled with the

Holy Spirit he breathes on you and he

says peace instead of antagonism instead

of curses would you go out blessing the

world partnering with the Holy Spirit

and saying peace in Jesus name go in

peace amen amen continue to receive

prayer I know there are teams available

for you and uh continue to worship for

those who are just wanting to receive