The Danger with us

Welcome to the Legacy Churches Podcast. We are so glad that you get join

us today. We praise that God speaks to you through his message and through

his work. Now let's tune into the Message, Acts chapter twenty and you

can stay seated. Verse thirty one. Go there for me, Acts Chapter

twenty. That's right after John, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

And then the book of Acts written by Luke Acts first chapter twenty, Verse

thirty one. So be on your guard. Remember that for three years I've

never stopped warning each of you, not in day with tears. Now I

commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build

you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. I've

not coveted anyone's silver or gold or clothing. You yourself know that these hands

of mine has supplied my own needs and the needs of my opinions. And

everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work,

we must help the week. Remembering the words of the Lord Jesus himself.

It is more blessed to give than to what receive. Hown't even know what

God's called us to be givers. And our takers. Today, I'm only

talking about the danger within us, the danger within us. Last week I

talked about the danger among us, and I just want to challenge you to

go back and listen to how the enemy works. And I talked about how

the wolves attack. But it's easier for us to see the dangers around us

than sometimes the dangers within us. Just let me talk to you the other

day for some reason or another, and we got to get this fixed.

Uh, just parenthetically I'm speaking, but there have been some wasp showing up

in my office. How ma him know? That is an uninvited guest?

Does anybody like wasps? If you are a person that if you see a

bee or a wasp? Like the other day, I was watching as the

people were taking care of the of the We have a roundabout in our in

our subdivision, and they have a bunch of bushes and I was seeing all

these guys were working todd they were all going and there was this one guy.

He had his orange shirt and he was doing this and I knew what

he was doing. Did anybody know what he was doing? There had to

be something in the air that he was he was going crazy. Well,

I wasn't doing that in my office, but I saw it. I saw

it, and it was buzzing up against the window. And how many know

the only good wasp is a dead one. Man. Now, I have

me a little prayer, I said, Lord, help me to be accurate

with my swat. Anybody ever prayed that prayer? Lord, I know that

if you only get how many you'll get one chance to knock the devil out,

I mean the wasp out. And I got it there and I hit

him. Bam. I mean he went cold to the ground. I said,

think it Jesus. Literally the next day another wasp had came into my

office. Okay, this happened for about three or four days, until finally

on Sunday morning it got in. We bring donuts every week for our kids

because we know that donuts are from the Lord. Amen. How many no?

God said, he is the bread of heaven. Hello, there is

something spiritual about bread, and even more spiritual when it's glazed. Hallylujah,

Glory to God, HM Jesus. And what happened was that we so we

had these, we had these, the donuts, and and a wasp had

gotten in the donuts. I don't know if it was trying to get the

sugar. I mean, you know, so Cooper, my my youngest son,

my middle child, he closed it, he clammed it down and so

and he told me, he said, Dad, don't eat any of the

donuts. I said, why, what's the matter. He's like, Dad,

there's a wasp in there. I said, there's a wasp in there.

I said, I've been killing all these nasty wasp every day. What

is going on? What I discovered was was that there is a there was

wasp. There's a wasp right next to my office, and that the cableman

blessed the cableman. The cableman had put a cable box in my office,

and in his process he had lifted a tile from the ceiling and moved it,

but he didn't move it back. And what was happening that the thing

that was on the outside had worked this way on the inside and was now

working in my in my office. So that is what I told my son.

I said, Son, we gotta we gotta fix this problem, because

I'm not gonna go into my office every day praying that there are no wasp.

So we went in there and we closed the ceiling tie and can I

just tell you to God be the glory. For the last three days,

every time I have gone to my office, there has not been a wasp.

But here's the problem. There are dangers that are on the outside,

that are working on the inside. And Paul is recognizing these these these dangers

because that's exactly how the enemy works. The enemy is not just working on

the outside. He is also trying to work on the inside. And here's

the problem with us on the inside is we have we can eat identify the

problems on the outside, but sometimes it's very difficult for us to identify where

the problem is on the inside and how to fix it. So Paul is

writing to the Ephesian Church and he's telling them be on your guard. Remember

that for three years I have never stopped warning each of you day and night.

What is he doing? He is doing? What come on, somebody

shout warning? Warning. He has been teaching, he has been training,

he's been warning. He's been warning you day and night with tears because he

recognizes that when he leaves, the enemy is going to try to work his

way on the inside. So he wants us to be on our guard.

And this is the most important thing I need to tell you as a church,

God has called us to be a vigilant church, that we have to

be day in and day out. How many Christianity is a twenty four to

seven walk. It is a day in continually minding ourselves so that we don't

become a careless church. Careless because here's the word careless. Can I just

break down what careless or or comfortable or complacent is showing smug or uncritical satisfaction

with oneself or one's achievement. How many know we can get to a place

where we feel like we've arrived, We feel like we've gone to a place.

Just like I said, is anybody believing for miracles? And I got

whoo? How many? No? Everybody in this room. If you're not

believing for a miracle for your life, you should be believing God for a

miracle for somebody else's life. That there should be a sense of urgency in

this world. That we cannot be on our laws, we cannot be just

hanging out. But we need to recognize that God has called us to not

be a careless church, but to be a vigilant church in our acts and

our thoughts, in our training, and our doctrine because God wants us to

understand there is a danger of comfort. How many know today that God has

called us out of the comfort. God has called us not to be comfortable.

And I say this all the time. This church is not for you.

This church is for Christ. Okay. The first thing that you learn

about being a follower of Jesus is you got to deny your self. Preach,

pastor, you are preaching the word. I know I am hallelujah.

I got a amen myself. John chapter six. I want you to see

this, okay, John chapter six, John chapter Jesus. Jesus, and

Jesus is declaring that he is the Bread of heaven. Jesus has just fed

the multitude with two fish and five globs, and he's fed them, and

he is declaring that I am the Bread of heaven. And how many know

when you bring out food, everybody's gonna show up. Hello, you know

how to pack a church. Just give them something free. Come on,

give him some free bread, Ali lujah. And Jesus declared, Now listen,

after he's got this whole crowd, this whole congregation of people, all

everybody's coming. They just eating or they picking their teeth with the bones.

You know what I'm talking about. You know, it's like a church potluck,

and they got they Jesus said, I am the bread of life.

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness verse forty nine. Yet they died.

But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may

eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven.

Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh,

which I will give for the life of the world. Now, Jesus just

said something that just threw everybody off in the room because people shaking their head,

like did he just say that eat my flesh? Jesus asking me to

be a cannibal. Now, and here's the thing. To a Jewish person,

this would probably the most offensive statement. And the verse sixty six is

from this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

Jesus turned to his twelve and says, you don't want to leave. You

want to leave me too, Jesus as the twelve. He's recognizing that Jesus

the Gospel when Jesus came in, when he made statements, whether it be

the Sermon of them Mount or this statement the gospel is not to make you

comfortable, but it's to provoke you and confront you with the truth of the

gospel and how people know today that we as a people, we love comfort.

Hello, we love comfort, We love we have we have comfort foods.

Come on, talk to me now, Hello, we got comfort foods.

We got we got foods that give that soothe us. Hello. You

know what I'm talking about? Like it could be a sonic drink Jesus name.

I'm not gonna look at nobody. Hey man, it could be it

could be mac and cheese. Can I get a witness? Come on,

come on, it can think. If you're here today, you need to

understand that we live in a world that we have comfort. We have comfort

friends, we have people that we go to that tell us what we want

to hear. Come on, you know that you are in an argument and

you're in a fight, and you're gonna call somebody not to get in a

to get in a get counsel. You want somebody to give you comfort.

You wouldn't believe what he said to me, girl, talk to me,

talk to me. Hello, Hello, You wouldn't believe what the boss did

come on, talk to me, talk to me. We got comfort food,

we got comfort people, We even got comfort places. We got places

that we go. We got places that we go. We may not visit

them actually physically, but we visit them mentally. And here's the thing.

When Jesus comes as as and I want you to see that the Gospel is

not made to make you comfortable today. I want you to know that that

God's word is going to challenge you today to get outside of your comfort because

God calls you out of comfort, and he calls you into his purpose,

into his plan, into his fulfillment. And he wants you to know today

that in this house set, if you are feeling uncomfortable, good, that

is the responsibility of the preacher. The preacher is called to challenge you with

your situation, to challenge you with what's going on in your life and let

you know that there is not only a way, but a better way that

God has for your life. And the Gospel confronts us with our sin and

with the cycle of brokenness and the cycle of of of yolks that have been

on our lives today because God wants you to know there is a better way

and it's not done through self help or self meditation, but it's drown through

the cross of the Lord Jesus. And it's through our surrender that God becomes

alive inside of us. If I just tell you what I want you to

hear, I am not a preacher. I am a puppet. God has

not called me to be a puppet. God has called me to challenge you

with the word of God. And this is what Paul is saying. Listen,

I'm warning you today because we want something to soothe us. But I

need you to know the Gospel is called to shape us. It's called to

confront us with our sin and with our brokenness, and with our shame and

with our enabling and called us to be a chosen generation. God is saying,

I'm calling you out of darkness into my marvelous life. I'm calling you

to be a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a peculiar people. You

should not act like the world, You should not live like the world.

There should be distinction on your life, not because you're better than them,

but because God has made himself better in you, and you've discovered the power

of the Gospel. It has transformed your life because freedom and comfort cannot walk

together. God wants you to walk in the fullness of His freedom. How

many Christ has come to set you free, and it's a challenge to not

get comfortable. That's why I'm saying today into our small groups, and I'm

just gonna challenge you today as we get ready to launch small groups, we

need people that will help us in leading small groups. We need a few

more women small groups, a few more marriage small groups. And I'm challenging

you today to get outside of your comfort and get into your calling of training

and discipling people. Because freedom is not a service. Freedom is a step.

It's a step by step situation. And that's why we do small groups

because we recognize that freedom is a journey that's lipped out through the life of

God's people. And the church is not just the Sunday service. The church

is the Ecclesia. It is the called out ones where we are called out

of darkness into His marvelous life, that we can live out this gospel,

so that we can understand that God has called us to be free. You

find that, and here it is Paul is challenging them not to be vigilant,

not to be not to be comfortable, but be vigilant, but to

be but to be strengthened, strengthened by what the Bible says in verse thirty

two. Now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace,

which can build you up and give you an inheritance. Among all those

who are sanctified, Paul is not committing them, even to the elders of

the church. He's committing to the Word of God and to the word of

his grace. He's committing him to God and the word. Listen, can

I tell you today Paul is declaring that that to this word of grace,

that that that this grace, this gospel is full of grace and truth.

We live in a world today that's sometimes we're on two different spectrums. We

got people today who preach grace grace, grace without truth. Grace without truth

is meaningless. Let me just say that again, Grace without truth is meaningless.

Yes, Jesus loves you the way you are, but he loves you

so much that he's not gonna keep you the way you are. Hello,

he is gonna confront your sin. He's gonna confront the brokenness in your life.

He is not wanting you to walk in unforgiveness. He's not gonna just

be satisfied with you just saying this is the way you are. He is

speaking to your condition. Yes, Jesus is a comforter, but he comforts

you in your in your situation, not in your condition. He deals with

your condition by repositioning you in Christ and causing you to begin to live into

the position that Christ has called you to be free, to be holy,

to be sanctified, to be righteous before God. Well, I'm preaching goodness.

Hello. Grace without truth is meaningless, and truth without grace is means.

The truth of the matter is is that when we understand the standard we

recognize as a people that we can never hit the standard. It is the

grace of God. It is the grace of God's words speaks to get us

understanding of the condition that we are in. But now we are now justified

by faith and through his grace we are being made righteous today. And it's

there that God doesn't beat us down. Hello. God is not trying to

beat us down. God is trying to build us up. Okay. And

the Gospel declares the wages of sin is death. Yes, that is the

truth. But he always comes back with grace. But the gift of God

is eternal life. How many know there is grace and truth today. Yes,

the cross leads us to salvation, but God doesn't just leave us with

the cross. Said, He said that the same spirit that raised me from

the dead shall also quicken your mortal body. He wants you to know he's

the same resurrecting power that has worked in him is working on the inside of

you to transform you. This is not self help, This is not religion.

This is a personal relationship with the risen Savior who brings us into the

newness of life. That understands that is the grace of God that does not

overlook sin, but overcome sin. That lets us know that through His power

we can stand in victory. It doesn't matter what our parents were. It

doesn't matter what our grandparents were. It doesn't matter what people say we were.

Can I tell you they Behold you are a new creation in Christ Jesus.

Behold all things are passed away, and behold all things become new.

And in this reality you become the righteousness of God today. And it doesn't

matter what you were today. God aligns you with what he says you are

and it's your jaba. It's your responsibility to begin to live out this truth

by grace and true today. Hello, it trains us in righteousness, and

I need you to know today. It strengthens us. It gives us the

strength to live out the life that God has called us. I visualize it

many times that the gospel, Gospel empowers us the word of God, it

convicts us, and then it brings life into us. You know, when

I started working out, I had the joy of having a trainer. And

how maneyople think God for trainers. If you don't have a trainer, you're

probably just gonna do. You're gonna do the best you can with what you

know. Hello, right, you're gonna get in there. Like my son

comes into gym and I'll tell them's just go work out, and he's like,

Dad, I don't know what to do. You know, have you

ever seen the people at the gym? Have you ever gon to the gym

and people don't know what they're doing. They're just kind of playing on the

stuff. You know. But what a trainer does, it's a trainer.

It comes beside you. It never lifts the load, but it shows you

how to lift the load, and it's always there to help you if the

load is too heavy. What happens is is that that that happens is is

that when you get a good trainer, they will take you through a regiment

and they're going to challenge you, and they're going to confront you, and

they're gonna call you when you don't show up at the gym. A good

trainer is going to He's going to give you no excuse. Have you ever

had a good excuse not to do something? Come on now, y'all broke

in the hands today. Anybody ever had a bad ay, had a good

excuse not to do something? Come on now, come on, we're gonna

pray for all the broken arms today. You know what I'm saying here.

Every many had a good excuse, you know, a good excuse, man,

I'm tired or I'm been busy. But you know, but what happens

is when you are strengthened, when you're strengthened by the world of God,

God removes the excuse. This word isn't for somebody else. This word is

for me. And what the Holy Spirit does. He is the trainer in

your spiritual walk, and what he does is. He shows you what you

need to do. He models that, he goes before he guides you into

all truth. He shows you in Scripture how to live, how to be

at peace with all men, how to forgive one another, just as Christ

for you to be angry and sin. Not it's okay to be angry.

It's not okay to allow your anger to cause you to sin. It's okay

for you to be frustrated. But you got to redirect your frustration. And

God shows you how, and he gives you the pattern that is not like

this world, is a pattern that comes from the renewing of your mind.

And He shows you. And there are times. There have been times when

I've been doing an exercise and I couldn't carry the load, and what would

happened was to be She usually was b Wade was the bench press. You

know what I'm saying, because if you know anything about the bench press,

Daniel, you know what I'm saying. Get you gotta get somebody out there

now. You always have to have somebody who's stronger than you. Hello,

I don't want anybody trying to help me who can't help me. Hello,

I don't need you spotting me. If when you spot me, you're gonna

kill me. And this is what I need you to know. This is

why you need to know the Holy Spirit. It's the It is not just

the Dounamus, it is not just the excusiast. But he is the person.

He has the chronicles, he is the strength. How many no,

God is able to help you in whatever situation and whatever the exercise, whatever

you're facing, whatever struggle you're going, can I take it? He has

to strength to spot you. You may say I can't carry this. God

says I got you. But I you press, I'm gonna put my hand,

my little finger is gonna be able to help lift this. And what

they do is say they spot me in it now, and they'll go,

hey, you know, I'm can. I just be honest. The training

always gonna push you one more rep, one more rep because he's trying to

perfect the progress. Did you hear me? He's trying to perfect the progress.

And so he'll I'll go down and I'll mean I can, I can't

get it, and he'll say, come on, you got this. I'm

gonna put my strength underneath your strength. I'm gonna put my power underneath your

will so that it no longer becomes your will power, but it becomes God's

power. And I'm gonna raise you out today so that you are trained in

righteousness. How many God is calling us to be trained in righteousness? The

Gospel is gonna challenge it. It's gonna strengthen us. It's gonna confront us

so that we can become more and more like Christ. It's gonna allow his

lordship to reign over areas where we were weak. It's gonna allow his grace

to be coupled with truth. It's gonna give us the understanding that we have

to pick up our cross and follow after him. It's gonna cause us to

know God, not just to know about God, but to know God in

the power of his resurrection, in the fellowship of his suffering, and learning

how to walk with God. Have you ever said I don't know if I

could go through something, But when you started walking through it, it seemed

as though His grace, his power, his goodness. You said, I

don't know how I can forgive, but God showed you how to forgive it,

and because of that you were able to forgive those who hurt you,

and you would be able to say what you meant for evil. God turned

it around for my good. Because I've been trained in righteousness, I learned

how to bless my enemies. I learned how to be patient and let God

be God in situations. Have allowed God to strengthen me by the word of

His grace. Can I challenge you today to get the Word of God in

you. Don't just read through the Bible. Let the Bible read through you.

Let it begin become like a like a two edged sword, like Hebrews

declare, and they begin to speak into you your heart and challenge you with

your attitudes and the intentions of your heart, so that your life can be

trained in righteousness. God wants to shape you with the Gospel, and it

shows us and out of this pausing, are you being strengthened Church, God

wants to strengthen us. Listen, I'm challenging you, and we're getting ready

to launch small groups and small groups. We're gonna be having small groups all

across the area, and we can challenge you to take a step into a

small group and let that community strengthen you. Not with opinions, not with

what you think is she said, but strengthen you with the word of God.

Let it become part of who you are, so that you're not biblically

illiterate, so that you're not lost in the situations that you find yourself in,

that you don't make poor decisions because you're ignorant. That you're now wise,

and you receive the fullness that God has. How many no God's word

is there for your life. It's a road map and strengthening you and out

of this reality we see that the church. Paul says to them, Now

listen, I've modeled to you. What did he model? He says to

them. He says, in everything I did, I showed you about this

kind of hard work. We must help the weak, he said. I've

not coveted in anyone's silver or gold or clothing. You know that these hands

of mind have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions, he

says, And I've showed hard work helping remembering the word of the Lord.

Jesus himself said, it is more blessed to give than to receive. Now,

let me just show you something. As God challenges to be a vigilant

church, a church that's continually being shaped by the Gospel and strengthened by the

Word of God. What happens is the church becomes a generous church. Let

me tell you something. We live in an American culture where we have bought

a lie and we have a consumer Christianity. Don't kill me with all them

shouting downs. I recognize there's things that we do to serve people. Can

I tell you today the coffee is not gonna save you. Let me tell

you church, listen, the moment that you surrender your life to Christ,

you no longer become a consumer. You become a conduit. Oh, I'm

just telling you. I know I'm preaching good because everybody gets quiet. See,

a carnal church creates consumption culture. Gimme, gimme and gimme. My

name is Jimmy. Hello. And it's and it's not just in finance,

it's in everything I said. Tell us it's it's it's you didn't shake my

hand, you didn't put a mint on the pew, You didn't you didn't

do this, you didn't do that. Listen. Can I tell you,

church, listen to me. If you come in here define the perfect church,

you probably need to keep on searching. There is nobody perfect in this

church. We all have are saved by grace through faith. Can There's no

there's no perfect worship leader. There's nothing. What we are trying to become

is trying to be strengthened into a place that we are a generous people.

Come on, give the Lord a hand clap of praise, and let me

tell you what happens generous people. Let me see first starts. He says,

we are not covetous. There there is contentment in what God has given

us. I'm not comparing my shoes to your shoes. I'm not comparing my

outfit to your outfit. I'm not comparing my car to your car. I'm

not looking into into the into the parking lot and seeing what kind of vehicles

line up and listen, I am not in that. That is so so

far out of our mentality? Are we are content? How many we've been

blessed with everything and concerning life and Godness, there is contentment in our lives.

We are not covetous, but we are content there. There generosity comes

out of a place of contentment. I'm blessed no matter if God gives me

another blessing, if he does anything else in my life, if he does

anything more from my family, can I tell you, He's already been too

good to me for me ask for anything else. I am satisfied with whatever

the Lord has blessed me with. Can I get an amen? It starts

with continuent, because if you are always discontinued, you will always seek for

something to satisfy you, which is only found in Christ. Hello, he

satisfies me. At the end of the day, when I lay my head,

it wasn't the core, the clothes that I wore, It wasn't the

people that I had around me, It wasn't how many followers. I can

lay my bed and my head in the bed and know that I am satisfied

because He is the lover of my soul. I'm continuing and then He shows,

and so it moves you from being from being self centered to God centered.

He says, I'm hard working, I'm demonstrating sacrifice and servanthood. How

many know Listen, if giving is not just about what you put in the

plate, it's also about how you live your lives. It's about how you

use your gifts for the glory of God. See, your gift is what

God gives you. You're what you give, what you do with it is

your gift back to him. What are you doing with the gift? I

said, what are you doing with the gift? You know there are opportunities

all across this but all across this campus for you to use your gift.

And when you stand before God, your excuse, well I was busy,

is not going to satisfy the Lord what he called you to do? Hello,

how many of you are going to take an account of everything he had

called you to do? Not the things that you thought you should do,

but the thing he called you do. He said, you were supposed to

be the hand. You were supposed to reach out, You were supposed to

touch people's lives. You were supposed to do this, but you decided to

hold your hand and do something else. And because of that, these people

missed seeing the glory of God. Hello, God is calling you to use

you are what He's in your hand? What is in your hand this morning?

What has God gifted you with that you're hoarding, that you're holding that

God is calling you now to be a generous people. And when God convicts

us, it convicts us to the place that he's saying, when you use

your gift from my glory, I will add all these things back into your

life. And the third thing is that he demonstrates generosity. He says,

it's bested to give than to receive. God's calling us to be generous.

The mark of the believer is generosity. Worship team, Come stay with me

church. The danger within us is that sometimes we don't even know what we've

allowed to come in. We don't know that slowly the works on our soul

and we just slowly find ourselves falling away from the purpose of God and the

passion of God. Remember, this is the Church of Ephesus. The Church

of Ephesus is the same Church and revelation who Jesus says to John, write

these things. He says, telling this one thing, one thing, this

one thing, he said, I hold this one thing against you. You've

forgotten your first love. You see, this is the thing. That's what

I found out. That's what I found out is that it's a convicting work

of the Holy Spirit that challenges us to let us know that there's some dangers

within us. I have been around family members. So the doctors looked at

them eyeball to eyeball and said, sir, if you don't stop eating these

things, you're diabetic. If you don't stop eating all this ice cream and

all these sugary things, you're going to die. Do you know what has

happened? I have seen them walk right out of the doctor's office and go

and get a tub of bluebell because it wasn't it came. It came in

with information, but it didn't challenge the heart for transformation. What we need

is not information. In fact, all of us know there are areas in

our lives. There's areas in our lives that we need God to bring transformation.

We don't even have to tell God. We know it, but God

needs to do it here. So today, see that's me, Pastor.

Every head bout, every I close, no one looking around say God on

any transformation. And maybe people in this room that are believers that they say

Pastor. Today, I've just got comfortable with my walk with Christ. I've

just become complacent. And today as you were preaching, the Holy Spirit was

convicting me. This is a good thing. All I want you to do

is just want you to raise your hand and just say, yes, that's

me, Pastor. Come on, just raise your hand, Come on,

come on, people all across this room. I've become complacent. I've become

critical. That's the first place that when you become complacent, become you compare

your lives with others. If you're comparing your Christianity not according to what God's

called you do, but what you think others should be doing. Oh,

God, shape our hearts with the gospel. You say, pastor today.

If coming to this church today, maybe for the very first time, maybe

you've been coming for a while, and you know about religion, and I

don't want you to know about religion. I want you to know about the

gospel that Jesus came to save you. He died on the cross to save

you, to save you out of the pit of hell, but to save

you into His purpose and plan. Today you say, I want to surrender

my life to God. With every head about, everybody closed, the one

looking around and said that's me. Come on, just raise your hand,

come on, come on, thank you Jesus, Thank you, Thank you

Lord. I surrender. I don't need information, I need transformation. I

need a personal relationship with Jesus. I want to know God. That's the

whole purpose by which we have this service for people to know God. Come

on, Thank you, Lord. I want you to pray this prayer with

me. If you raise your hand for salvation or rededication as you pray this

prayer, I want all the saints of God to pray with us. Say

Jesus today, I surrender my life today. I believe you have the power

to transform me. Jesus, I confess my sins you right now to forgive

me of all unrighteousness, everything I've done wrong. I ask you to forgive

me. I turn away from sin, and I turn to you, and

I confess you, Jesus, as my savior. And today I make you

my lord. From this day forward, I choose to follow you. I

give you my life, and I ask you right now to come into my

heart and fill me with your presence. I give you thanks, I give

you praise in Jesus' name. And all godspeople said, come on, can

you give the Lord of praise right now? Come on, hey. I'm

praying that the word of God has been richly deposited in your life today,

and I praying that you'll not only hear the word of God, but do

me a great favor. Take this word and replay it in your spirit.

Go to your Bible, take the notes and allow it to begin to be

journaled in a place where you'll never forget it, because I promise you the

Word of God will not return void and it'll accomplish what it was called to

do it's purpose. And so listen. I want to say thank you for

watching. Listen. Do me a great favor. If you've enjoyed this message,

share it. And I want to say thank you to all of our

partners, all of our legacy family online in the greater Houston area that's making

this message being able to be broadcasted around the world. So please join us

again and don't forget what God is going to do and in through your life

as you read, study and grow through His word.