Wanderlust: Drifting

Thankful for our musicians. They are amazing. Happy Fourth of July weekend.

Who's gonna blow stuff up this weekend? Well this week yeah, all illegally

in is Thomas County. Wait, you go, gotcha. It's great to

have freedom in America, and it's great to have freedom as a believer in

Jesus Christ. Amen. The Bible said it was for freedom that Christ set

us free. So we need to live in freedom. And this week we're

starting a new series called Wanderlust, and it's all about living this great adventure

with Jesus as our guide. That's exciting. Is it not a man?

Turning your bibles to Hebrews Chapter two? And if you don't have a Bible,

we'll have the words upon the screen from you. Let's read this together.

It says we must pay the most careful attention there for, and I

just want to draw your attention. Anytime you see the word therefore, you

need to ask yourself what is it therefore? So it's important. So this

is a response to something that happened earlier in the script, and we're going

to read that in a little bit. Let's start again. We must pay

the most a careful tension therefore to what we have heard, so that we

do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding in

every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how so we escape if we

ignore so great a salvation. This salvation, which was first announced by the

Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. God also testified

to it by signs, wonders, and various miracles, and by the gifts

of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. Why is it important that

we don't drift We're going to find that answer today, but I want to

give a little context to this letter. First. There are several letters in

the New Testament written by Paul the Apostle, and we've learned a lot about

him through the Acts series. Some of his letters are written to communities of

believers, like we look at the Book of Corinthians that was written to the

church in corinthough the Book of Romans that written to the church in Rome.

But there are other letters that are written to individuals like Timothy Titus fy Leman.

And we see these as books in the Bible, but they were actually

originally letters. So this letter is written to Hebrews. So who are the

Hebrews. And why does it matter. When we see the word Hebrew,

it's referring to the Jews. So throughout the Bible, when you see the

word Hebrews, the word Hebrew refers to the Jews. But Paul is not

speaking to all Jews. He's speaking specifically to Jews that heard his message and

believe that Jesus was the Promised Messiah and decided to follow Jesus and convert to

Christianity. You're with me, all right. So obviously Jews that are following

Old Testament are not away from God. They're in relationship with God. They're

just following the Old Testament law. But Paul's mission in life since his encounter

with Jesus was to reach Jews and convince them, or persuade them that Jesus

was the promised Messiah that they had been longing forever. And so imagine all

these people Pastor Morgan shared last week about Paul, who would stand in front

of these Jewish leaders in these Jewish communities and try to persuade them to faith.

And what does it say in the last chapter of Acts. Morgan mentioned

it last week. Some believed and some didn't. This letter is written to

them because they were in constant danger of relapsing into Old Testament Judaism, or

at least falling back into attaching too much importance to ceremonial observances or rituals of

Judaism. Not that those were bad, they're just following the law. But

the entire book of Hebrews is based on this premise that, hey, there's

a fulfillment of prophecy. Jesus is here, and there's a new relationship with

God that you can experience by following Christ. Amen. All right, So

why is paying attention so important? Therefore we're gonna go back to Hebrews one,

verses one through four, and it says this past God spoke to our

ancestors through the prophets, and in many times in various ways. Those various

ways were miracles and signs and encounters with heavenly beings. But in these last

days He has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed air of

all things, and through whom he also made the universe. I love this.

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his

being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification

for sins. He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven,

so he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has

inherited is superior to theirs. So Paul is reminding this group of new Christians

that their ancestors had seen God move in amazing ways. As we read through

the Old Testament, you see the ways that God led Israel by fire,

he led them by a cloud. He did all these amazing signs. But

even those people drifted in their relationship with God. So now God takes it

a step further when he provides Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God,

and Paul is reminding these people don't drift away, don't fall back into

those old habits. And then in addition to Jesus, we have the Holy

Spirit. When Jesus left, he promised the Holy Spirit, and we read

about that in the Act series where the Holy Spirit came on that group of

believers and they were filled with power and authority to walk in this relationship with

God. But even those believers are now being reminded not to drift and think

about this. These are people that were so much closer to Jesus and proximity

than we are today. They were around Paul the Apostle. All we have

is the words, but they were there and they were being warned not to

drift. How much more do we need the reminder today to be careful that

we don't drift in our walk with God. Our church, friends, is

full of Christians that are brand new in their faith, and we love you.

And as precious as these people are to Paul, think about it,

he dedicated his life and his mission was to reach these people to convince them

of the Messiah, and he cared for them so much. They were so

precious to him when they decided to follow and hear his message and receive Christ.

And he was warning them not to drift. So many of us in

this room we've known Jesus for a really long time. Others it's new,

but all of us all the same. We need to be reminded that there

are things in this world that will cause us to drift. Paul tells the

church in Rome. In Rome, he says, if the spirit who raised

Christ Jesus lives, well, he's not asking a question, He's saying the

spirit who raised Christ Jesus from the dead lives in them. So Paul's reminding

them, and he's reminding us today how important it is that we don't drift.

We can't afford to drift. We can allow ourselves to grow cold in

our faith. Will you pray with me Jesus. I'm so thankful for your

word today. What a privilege it is to be together to celebrate freedom as

a country but also have freedom in our lives. Lord, as we dive

into your word deeper, will you just fill us with your love. You

open our hearts, open our minds. We give you permission to interrupt all

of our thoughts. We give you permission to interrupt our lives so that we

can be closer to you. In your name, we pray Amen. Amen.

Hey check out this photo. Man is that is a handsome couple right

there? That is twenty nine years ago. Who this month, July we

celebrate our twenty ninth wedding. Anniverse were just a couple of years behind Pastor

Brandon and I think you guys are at thirty one right. That is so

impressive. But this was on our honeymoon, standing in front of the most

magic place on the planet, which is The Magic Kingdom doesn't look like that

anymore, believe it or not. But we our honeymoon was epic. We

went to Disneyland, we went to Six Flags, Magic Mountain. We went

to Medieval Times. Anybody know what that is, Oh great restaurant, Medieval

Times. You see jousting and horseback riding. It's awesome. And we went

to the beach, specifically, we went to Huntington Beach. Anybody know Huntington

Beach. This is a massive beach. It's eight and a half miles long

down the coast. That's a long beach. Like if you go to ConA

you got small little beaches. This is a mammoth beach. And we thought,

you know, let's go to the beach one day. So we went

to the dollar store. Because we were poor, we were youth pastors.

We couldn't afford anything. So we went probably to the dollars store and bought

those cheap little floaties and we dropped our bags and we went out into the

surf and we're just chilling. I mean, can you just put yourself there

with me right now, We're just floating in the ocean. The sun's beating

down, float people watching, just having a good time, and out of

nowhere, our pieces disrupted, disrupted by the coastguard who shows up in this

big old boat with two two hundred and fifty horsepower motors and they say,

you're caught in a riptide. And they grabbed me by both arms. These

guys are strong. They ripped me straight out of the water into the boat.

They do the same with Rebecca and they rip us right to shore.

We're like, WHOA, that was abrupt. And so we go to where

we think our towels are and we can't find our towels anywhere. You know,

I'm blaming somebody they stole our towels. Well, we just started walking

up the beach and it felt like miles. We walked and walked and walked

until we finally found our towels, and we were miles away from where our

towels were. Have any of you ever drifted? I don't know why you're

laughing, it's not It's a very serious point here everywhere. Have you ever

drifted in your relationship with Jesus? You have where you know where your towels

were. You know those moments that you can look back on and say,

man, I was so on fire for Jesus. I remember that day I

was baptized and I came out of the water and I just felt God moving

in me. I remember those worship nights where I just man friends. I

love our worship nights. I love our revival nights. You will find me

down front every time because I love those moments. Can you look back on

your life and say, yeah, I'm not there, I'm not there.

Have you drifted in your relationship with Jesus? It happens to us. All

it happened to Israel. Think about it, all these miraculous signs that they

had seen, yet they drifted over and over again. So it's important for

us to ask ourselves today, am I drifting? We're starting a new series

today called Wanderlust, And to be honest, I may have seen the word

wander lust somewhere, maybe on a jeep somewhere, but I didn't really know

what. Man. I mean, I know what wandering is. I'm pretty

good at wandering. I know what lust is. End of conversation. I

know what those two words mean. So we're gonna mass him up. And

basically, for me, it feels like, okay, just this desire to

adventure, to experience something new. So I looked up the word wander lust,

and believe it or not, there is a death finition, But some

of the synonyms I found were pretty cool, restlessness, it's defeat, and

some of the guys are like nasty. I know that an urge to travel,

unsettledness. So I went a little bit deeper and I looked up some

of the psychology behind wanderlust, and it said this wanderlust may reflect an intense

urge for self development by experiencing the unknown, confronting unforeseen challenges, getting to

know unfamiliar cultures, ways of life, and behaviors, and those all sound

pretty good. Good for someone who likes adventure and change or now listen to

this, it might be driven by the desire to escape or leave behind depressive

feelings or guilt. Simply put, some people love adventure and change. Other

people use adventure as a way to escape the realities of their life. I

tend to like change. How many people like change and like variety? Not

very many hands. How many of you people like things stable? I am

just shocked by this today. I love adventure. I love variety. If

you find if you will ever find me around a box of Variety donuts,

and you see a knife inside that box, you will know that Sean King

has been present because he does not want a donut. He wants a bite

of every donut, and then I choose the one that I want and then

I eat it. So but at the end of it, I will have

the equivalent of many crumble cookies. Has been the death of me, friends.

I mean, every Monday that come out with a whole new slew of

cookies, and guess who wants to try every one of them? This guy?

I love variety. My wife not so much. She loves the same

thing. She knows what she likes. She's not gonna bear far from the

left or right. So like Cheesecake Factory the worst menu on the planet,

Am I wrong? Like that? There must be a hundred different choices of

things that you can get, and being Sean King, I want to try

them all. Rebecca, She'll get the Anne's Classic or whatever it is,

a Renee's Special, that's what it is. It's a half sandwich, I

think Keaton, you may have turned me on to this. A half sandwich,

a salad and a soup for like fourteen bucks and it's really good.

So she will get that, and I'll try some crazy thing like a meat

loaf and coleslaw sandwich or something, and I will inevitably, inevitably be be

disappointed in my choice and drooling over her sandwich, because she knows what she

wants and she's consistent with that. You know, our faith journey is very

similar. Like I love the highs in my relationship with Jesus. I mentioned

the worship nights. I love you will find me right down here just pressing

in it. I love crying and pouring out my heart to God. And

it's not that Rebecca doesn't like those things. Of course, She's got a

very dear relationship with Jesus. But she's not like distracted by shiny objects,

you know, like she's just right down the middle distance, steadfast. And

those of you that know her know that about her. You may not know

about Rebecca. She is a nineteen year cancer survivor. Yep, yep,

so thankful, so thankful. She's healthy. And I remember I was blessed

to be able to go to every doctor's visit, every chemotherapy, every surgery,

and one surgery in particular it was a big one, and so they

had her totally put out. And when she's coming to us right there,

and I was like, hey, good morning, welcome back. And the

first words out of her mouth were thank you Jesus. And I was like,

oh, I married, I married Mother Teresa, like she is a

beautiful soul, like the truth of her heart was coming out in this moment.

Well, I recently had a precedure that I was thankful to be put

out for, very thankful to be put out for that. And when I

was coming out of as anesthesia, the first words out of my mouth were

not grumble cookies, good guests, though not far from it. I said,

if I'm good, can I have another granola bar? I kid,

you know, I mean, I don't know. My wife says, I

was very funny coming out of that procedure. We're not all the same,

right, we have different desires, but one thing we should have in common

is we all want to know what God's plan is for our life. And

so for some of us we have wanderlust. We have this desire to explore.

But I'll tell you that the desire to explore can get us in trouble.

We're looking for adventure. We're born to be wild, but sometimes that

can be dangerous as we tend to treat our experiences experiences with Jesus as just

another high in our search for other highs in our life. For others,

you're content to live down the middle. You're not driven far to the left

or far to the right. You avoid highs on the lows. But that

can also be dangerous as it can be an obstacle in keeping you from seeking

fulfillment or adventure in your life with Jesus. So it's amazing to have wanderlust

in our walk with Jesus. We should always want more, We should always

be seeking God's direction in our life. Amen. But Paul is reminding us

here today that we have to be careful in the seeking of our life experiences

and the seeking of self pleasure that we don't drift away from our faith.

Let me say that again. Paul is reminding us all that we have to

be careful in our seeking of life experiences and self fulfillment that we don't drift

away from our faith. So we're going to kick off this series Wanderlust with

two points. Somebody say, two points easy to remember how we can stay

on course living within God's ideals for our life but also living an adventurous life.

Somebody looked to each other and say, this is going to be good,

all right. Point number one. If we want to avoid drifting,

we cannot be a neutral. We have to be engaged. There are so

many words that Paul could have used. Instead of saying, be careful that

you don't drift, he could have just said, hey, be careful that

you don't fall into those old practices, be careful that you don't go back

into those old ways of life, be careful that you don't grow cold.

But he used the word drifting, I think intentionally because Paul is an authority

on drifting. Do you remember a few weeks ago Pastor Brandon talked about the

storm that Paul got caught in. They're in this ship. They don't have

two two hundred and fifty horse motors. They are just driven by the winds

and the currents and the waves. And what happened. Their boat was completely

destroyed by those things. And then three months later, on their way to

Rome, Pastor Morgan told us last week that the southern winds got in their

sails and it drove them to the shores of Rome in record time. Paul

knew the power of drifting. So we are deceiving ourselves. Listen to me,

now, we are deceiving ourselves if we can live an impactful Christian life

and not drift away without movement. If we live in neutral, we are

going to drift. So what does living a Christian life in neutral look like?

For some, it might look like someone who's not engaged in Christian community.

It is so important for you and I to come to church. It's

awesome to see all of you here today. This is a good sign that

you're not necessarily living your life in neutral because being around other people that inspire

us. Hearing our pastors inspire us, being around other believers that can hold

us accountable and push us towards Jesus. That's really important. So having community

is really huge. The second thing that might might be a sign of living

in neutral is someone who's a spectator during worship. It's up to you to

be engaged, even if you don't like the song. Somebody said out,

I have been to so many I love the local church. I have been

to so many churches, small, tiny country churches, big massive churches,

and all kinds of different experiences. And I'll tell you what the heart of

a worshiper just finds a way to worship Jesus. So if you're living in

neutral and you find yourself as a spectator during worship rather than an active participant,

that could be a sign that your faith is not engaged. A third

sign that you might be a neutral is someone who does not read and apply

God's Word to their life daily. My notes say on a regular basis.

But I'm telling you, if I wasn't in God's Word daily, I find

myself drifting. Second, Peter says that his divine power has given us everything

we need for life and godliness. That sounds good to me. But you're

not going to be able to live a godly life if you're not firmly rooted

in God's Word. You might say, pastor Shawn, and that's just your

opinion. I can drift along for a little bit. I can just stay

in neutrol. I'm not hurting anybody. I'm not making any big decisions right

now. But I promise you this, If you stay in neutrol, you

are making a decision. You're making a decision that can and often will lead

to drifting. My kids grew up boating anybody any voters in this room.

Okay, a few more, just just a handful. We live in the

Fuget Sound. We're surrounded by water. Boating is a big deal. We

had a fourteen foot open bow Bayliner. You guys remember these. There was

like a million of them made. Bayliner was big here, and we had

this little fourteen foot and our kids were so cute. We had these little

inner twos. One was safe like a hydroplane, and they would sit inside

of it, and they had this little fish tail that flew up. It

was awesome. It looked like they were in a higher planet. And then

we upgraded that fourteen foot to a sixteen foot nope and eighteen foot ce ray

red with a white stripe and a big ski tower. So the kids started

water skiing and wakeboarding because you needed that tower to help lift you out of

the water. And then finally we upgraded to a twenty one foot ski Centurion

bright red with a shiny silver splash down the side that said a hurricane.

And this thing was beautiful. Actually, my sea ray burned up and insurance

paid for it, so there are you. It was even better, and

you know, our kids were then surfing behind the boat. I'm not even

sure you knew that you could do that. But we loved boating, and

you know, boating can have frustrations. You may not know this, but

there's always frustrations with boating. When Pastor Brandon got his boat, I was

the first person to help him launch that thing. And I won't tell you

the story, but there were frustrations when we when we launched that boat.

You'll have to ask him. I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna spill the

beans. It was funny, but launching the boat there's always frustrations, especially

if you're Sean king, because like once a year, you forget to put

the plug in and so you take your boat, you launch it, you

take the boat back or the truck back to the parking lot, and you

come back and your boat's halfway submerged. That's frustrating. And then loading the

boat at the end of the day, it's always frustrating. Boating can just

be frustrating. But we always had a way to press through and just continue

to boat because it was so much fun. But one day there was the

straw that broke the camel's back, and at the end of that day,

I said, our boating career is done, and we sold the boat.

Anybody heard of sun Lakes. Sun Lakes is over by Coolie City, eastern

Washington. Beautiful place to camp, beautiful place to hang out. And we

went over with a group of college kids to boat. And so we're tubing

all day long. And I didn't know this, but every afternoon the winds

come up and all the boats said we're out, and they went to the

dock and tied up, and I'm like, these guys are losers. They're

like, the lake is mine. So I'm out there boating, and sure

enough, the winds got so bad it just wasn't fun anymore. So we

dropped all the students off. Rebecca and I were left with the boat,

and we could not dock the boat. The wind was so strong we were

getting driven into other boats. It was ridiculous. And we had these inner

tubes that we needed to get back in the boat, but they were completely

waterlogged. They were hundreds, I mean maybe thousands, maybe they were thousands

of pounds of water, and we're trying to move these inner tubes into the

boat and we just could not get them in. And while we're working on

these inner tubes. The wind had driven our boat until we were crashed up

against the rocks on the shore, and I'm like, oh, this beautiful

boat. My dad always said, don't buy new things because they will always

get a scratch, and he was right. And finally Rebecca disconnected one of

the tubes and she pulled it over to the shore. And I'm not exaggerating

when she said when I say she worked for forty five minutes just trying to

get this inner tube onto the shore. It was so heavy a quarter inch

of a time, and I was on the boat determined to get this other

inner tube back in the boat. This is so funny. I literally said

these words, God, give me strength like Samson one more time, that

I can pull this tube into the boat. And I heaved and my feet

slipped out and I fell straight into the water. I was so frustrated.

The only thing I could do to save our boat was to turn the boat

into the wind, put it in gear, and move against the wind.

There's an application, there isn't there. How many of you know that there

are currents in our society that want to take you away from Jesus. There

are undertoes that we may not be able to see or riptides that want to

pull us away from Jesus and pull us away from the foundation. There are

undertoes that are after your children. There are undertows that are after your grandchildren.

They're there, and there are winds that want to take us far off

course in our relationship with Jesus. When your friends start talking in a way

that's inappropriate, if you're a neutral and your faith is not engaged, you

might go along with that conversation. But if your faith is engaged, you

might apply First Corinthians thirteen eleven that says, when I was a child,

I talk like a child. I thought like a child, I reasoned like

a child. But when I became a man, I put childish ways behind

me. Is that how you treat the currents of society when the winds of

sexual temptation come. If you're a neutral your faith, you might be tempted

to fall to those temptations. But if your faith is engaged, you might

apply Second Corinthians ten five that says I take every thought captive and I make

it obedient to Christ. Is that how you deal with the winds of temptation?

Do the undertowes of anxiety? Or fear tend to pull you down.

If your faith is engaged, you can apply Isaiah twenty six to your life

that says he will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he

trusts in you. Is that how you deal with the undertowes of anxiety or

fear? How can we fight against the currents, the winds and the undertoes

unless our faith is engaged and moving forward. There is no neutral, friends,

we might think there is, there's no neutral. There can be no

passivity in our walk with Jesus because this world wants to do everything it can

to pull you off track, to pull you under and take you far away

from Jesus. So the first thing we have to do is we have to

keep our faith engaged. A man, we cannot live in neutral. You

know, sometimes we see in the news or we hear these tragic stories of

ministers, people that we've put up on a pedestal, and out of nowhere,

we're like, oh, they had an affair. All they're addicted to

gambling, or they're addicted the pornography, and we're like, wow, how

did that happen? That's kind of out of nowhere. The truth is as

no one wakes up an addict. The truth is as no one wakes up

one day and says, I think today's the day I'm going to bail on

my family for a new relationship. There's a song from two thousand and seven

by Casting Crowns called slow Fade, and the words of this chorus are so

powerful. It says, it's a slow fade when you give yourself away.

It's a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray. Thoughts invade,

choices are made, A price will be paid when you give yourself away.

People never crumble in a day. It's a slow fade. Were deceiving

ourselves if we can live, if we think, we can live an impactful

Christian life and not drift away if our faith is not engaged. So point

one, if we want to avoid drifting, we cannot be a neutral.

We have to be engaged. Is that good? Point number two? If

we want to avoid drifting, we need to position ourselves to encounter and experience

God's presence at every opportunity. Who here would say you would love to hear

God's voice? Who here would would say I want to receive whatever God has

for me. Yeah, there's not enough hands. Who would say that,

yeah, thank you. Who here would say you want to make yourself available

to God for God to work through you and in you? Amen? You

know we say these things for many of us. We say, God,

I want to receive from you. But when we show up to church,

we show up with barriers on our hearts. We show up with maybe the

arms of our heart closed, saying God, I can't be moved today.

I'm not ready for that. Or we come to church with regrets, shame,

guilt for things that we've done this past week. And so we show

up to church and we wait until the very end of service till the pastor

gives the altar call, and then we confess our sins, and then we

leave before we even have the chance to really encounter God any further. Can

I just give you some sage advice today, the way that you could make

your experience adventure or wherever your faith takes you. If you show up for

the what time did the service start? Ten o'clock, ten o'clock. If

you show up at ten o'clock for the ten o'clock service, and then you

drop your kids off, and then you grab a coffee, and then pastor

Sean grabs you because he always wants to give you a little fifth bump or

whatever. And you get in here a third of the way through service,

you have short changed yourself a good five minutes. If we don't want to

drift, friends, we need to take every opportunity we can. Guys,

we have sixty minutes in the services, so we got to get after it.

I would encourage you with this, and I shared this just a couple

of weeks ago. If if you show up in the first during the first

song, and you take that opportunity to just ask Jesus to forgive you from

all that crap from this week, to release those barriers that you have on

your heart, to lay those things down during the first song, You've got

the whole rest of the worship set to encounter him, and then you get

to listen to the whole message and be engaged and edified in your spirit.

Let's not short change ourselves. A person that's not a neutral takes every opportunity.

You don't want to miss a beat. We only have sixty of them,

so let's be here. Let's take advantage of it. We say,

God, I want to be near to you, but we don't take the

opportunities to come to events like prayer nights or worship nights or revival nights.

Do we really want to be near him if we're not taking advantage those opportunities.

We say, God, I want to hear from you, but we

don't position ourselves to hear. We're constantly distracted by life. Maybe you sit

down to do your devotions, but your emails distract you. I'm guilty of

that. So easy your phone beings and kings or rings, whatever it does,

and and there goes my closeness with God. I wanted to hear from

him, but I didn't position myself to hear from him. You know,

the Bible is full of expressions of worship, and if you've been a part

of venture for any length of time, you've seen these things. Some people

they raise their hands during worship. Tim Hawkins, a comedian, has a

really funny parody on have you seen this thing about worshiping? It's like this

is the field goal worship, you know, this is the cats the ball.

You know, there's all kinds of things joking aside. When I worship,

I literally my hands are out and I am thrown my praise on God

for who he is. And there are times when my hands are in and

I'm just like God, I want more of you, I want to receive.

I'm positioning myself literally, I'm literally positioning myself to receive. Some people

kneel during worship because they just want to set themselves apart. They're showing reverence

to God. Some people clap. We did that this morning. I love

sports ball teams when they're calling the play and everybody's hands are in there and

they say break. Everybody, is that it break? I'm telling you what.

When we clap our hands friends, chains can break, walls can fall,

God can move. Because we are stirring ourselves up. We are cheering

ourselves on and we're cheering on God, saying, God, come on,

do something new in my life. Bring it, break it. So we

lift our hands, we close our eyes, we shout, we sing because

we don't want any experience to go untapped. Will you stand with me,

bow your heads and close your eyes. Jesus, you are calling us home.

You are reminding us that we have drifted, and you're warning us to

keep our attention. We cannot allow the winds and the currents and the ripped

tides of society pull us away from the past and that we're supposed to have

with you. Friends. If that is you today and you say, Sean,

I want to come back, I'm coming back. Raise your hand right

now. Thank you, Thank you all over this room. Father. I've

drifted. I've drifted, and I want to come back to you this morning.

Friends, We're gonna worship in a minute, and I'm going to give

you an opportunity to do all those things that we just talked about, encountering

Jesus taking advantage of that. But before we do, I'm just gonna ask

one more question, and that is maybe you're here today and you're like,

Sean, i am not in relationship with God right now, I've fallen away.

Or maybe this is your first time in church and you're like, I

want to experience this relationship with Jesus. I want to have this life of

adventure in a relationship with God, but I'm not there today. If that's

you and you would like us to pray together to remedy that, will you

just lift your hand today you want to receive Jesus or you want to come

back. Yeah, thank you, Thank you everybody. Will you just say

this for with me. Dear Jesus, I'm running to you. Forgive me

of my sins. You're all that I need. Fill me with passion,

give me desire to worship you with all of my heart. I surrender it

all to you in Jesus name,