Ransom 2025

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Family?

I want to say, happy Resurrection. That weekend.

This is the weekend we celebrate the greatest love story,

but championship. Ever like, if you like sports, if you

like the underdogs winning, if you like all this, you

have to love what resurrection stands for.

It's the lords are God.

Named Jesus, defeating death, Hell and the grave for the

penalty of the sins that we should have deserved.

But God, come on, somebody say, but God. And today

we did a presentation called Ransom and it was full

of arts and dance.

And drama and it's one of the greatest things that

I've ever seen. And because we have big plans in

crazy faith for this production, we are not actually putting

it out for rebroadcast and public consumption. We are actually

going to be.

Praying that some.

Things that I can't speak about right now happens so

we can get this message out to a broader audience,

to the world for people who aren't even looking for God.

Because you know, the vision here is representing God to

the lost and the found for one reason, transformation in Christ.

So I thought, what could we do to allow the

people who normally watch this stream every week faithfully. Number one,

I want to just say thank you. There are hundreds

of thousands of you every week that participates in being

a part of Transformation Nation all.

Around the world.

And because of what God has done through you, in you,

with you, Transformation Church is what it is today.

And so I just want to say thank you. The

other part is.

I said, well, we could give them a worship song

that we've never ever released yet and allow them to

experience what God does through worship. So we did a

worship experience of the Key is Alive that is going

to be available at the end of this video, and

you can find the link in the description. And this

song was recorded last Easter and now is out right now,

and we want you to worship with this worship with

it as you're cleaning the house, as you're on your run.

At your office. I want you to remember all.

Year long that Jesus is alive, that we serve a

risen Savior.

So that's the first thing.

The second thing is in the middle of our presentation

called Ransom, I always take a moment to very plainly

connect the dots of what this story actually means and

share the gospel message.

And it's about twelve to fifteen minutes.

But I thought that it would be beautiful for you

to just see and hear this one poor of the

message of Jesus Christ, so that you would never ever

get it twisted about how much God loves you, how

he would go to the ends of the earth to

have relationship with you, how you would leave the ninety

nine and come back for the one.

And I thank God for this because I was that one.

And you may be in a place right now where

you feel very far from God, like there's walls between

you and God.

And today I just want to let you know, through

this very short gospel message that God loves you, and

so do we. This is about to be a great

expression of God's love for you and towards you.

Enjoy this moment.

For those of you who may not understand, the Princess

of the People represent all of us, the parts of

us that all the way back in the garden had

a perfect relationship with God, a relationship that had nothing

to do with provision. Everything was already provided, had nothing

to do with being secure, because everything was set up

for our safety. It was the perfect relationship. But somehow,

because God decided to keep one thing away from them.

Their flesh had to know what it was like to

have the one thing.

That God said they couldn't have.

Now, I don't know about you, but if we're going

to be real in this place, has anybody ever stepped

over the line and actually did the one thing God

told you shouldn't have done?

Some of y'all said one, two, three, four, five.

The truth of the matter is, the princess of the

people is us, the.

One who God loves, the one.

Who God desires to be in relationship, the one that

God provides for.

But what ended up happening with her.

Is the same thing that happens with us. That wall

that that was being built, the walls in our life that.

Are being built. The walls are built by our sin.

By the things that we don't instagram and the things

we don't Facebook, and the things that we don't introduce

ourselves with, but the things that we think and have

deep in our heart. And if we be honest in

this place, all of us have built a wall between

us and God.

And today what God.

Wants you to see is that that wall is never

actually the thing that he wants to keep you away

from him.

He wants that wall to be torn.

Down so that there is nothing between you and him.

But many of us love our walls. We love those.

Things that we've gone to find comfort and to find

hope and to find relief and to numb ourselves. And

I don't know what those sin issues are for you,

But if we were to be real in this place,

all of us have something that we've gone to.

Instead of God.

Okay, all of us have something that we've gone to,

that we've drank, that we've laid down with, that we've

talked to, that we have put in a position other

than God because we felt like we couldn't get to Him,

so might as well get to this. And God says

that's a counterfeit. And because of God's great love for

all of us, he said, I gotta do something to

tear down this wall.

On this Saturday.

This is all God wants you to know, is I

don't want the wall between me and you anymore.

You thought the wall was for protection. No, that wall

is not protecting you. God, I'm the one protecting you.

And today there are people under the sound of my

voice that are sick and feeling like God is the

big man out there. The big man upstairs. My Bible

tells me that God wants to be and is concerned

about the details of your life, knows the number of

hairs on your head, bottles every one of your tears.

And today, with all the passion that I have in

my heart, I want to let you know that God's

plan through this weekend and through Easter was to tear

the walls down in your life. And that's why you're

about to see in a moment a depicture of the

King's only son, the Prince.

We would call him Jesus.

The one who could actually become man and actually take

on sin so that we could actually be back in

relationship with God. Now, I don't know about you, but

I'm one of four. I'm one of five brothers, and

I ain't never taking.

A whooping for my brothers.

I don't know about you, but ain't not one time

it was them.

But think about.

God's saying, Jesus, I need you to go be the

sacrifice so that all my other.

Children can have a relationship with me, most of us.

If it would have been up to us, it would

have been like I think me and you was cool. God,

it can just be us but Jesus had to pay

for what our sin.

Ran up the bill.

And see, that's why you got to understand that in

this moment, when we do things, when we walk away

from God, we think it's cheap. But the Bible tells

us the wages of our sin, or the payment for

our sin, is death. And that's why Jesus had to

go to the cross. And that's why first people, Peter

one eighteen says.

For you know that God paid.

A ransom to save you from the empty life that

you've been living. How many people know that there is

a place in your life that has been empty, And

today I'm speaking to the parts of you that you

don't want anybody to know about. But God sees every

day you wake up with the area of your life empty.

And that's where we go in our human attempt to

try to fulfill it.

And that's why I want to expose the lie on sin.

All sin is is an illegitimate attempt to fulfill a

legitimate need. You need love legitimately, but then you go

try to find it in their bed.

It's just the wrong attempt for the right thing. And

today I want to give.

You the opportunity to stop settling for the counterfeit, to

not have a knockoff relationship with God, to actually be

authenticated with the real thing. And that's why God said,

this ransom that needs to be paid was not paid

with mirror, gold and silver, but it was paid with

something way more valuable. It was paid with the precious

blood of Jesus Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb. So every

time I went to those weddingsites and I was thinking

about myself and pleasing myself, I didn't realize there was

a wage of sin that went along with those images.

That I was seeing.

And God said, I know Michael can't pay that. I

know he doesn't have enough to do it in himself.

So I'm gonna send my only son who knew no sin.

He didn't just take care of sin, he became it.

He said, I'm gonna step into every mistake Michael would make,

and I'm gonna step into every misstep that he would do,

and I'm gonna step into every lie that he would tell,

and I'm gonna step on it and his record will

be clean if he just receives me today, I'm coming

to ask you to receive the one who's paid it

all to receive the one who didn't do anything wrong

but now has gotten all the punishment that I deserve.

It should have been me on la cross.

So today I need you to see the rest of

this program is not a story that we're just telling.

It's your story. It's your life. It's God God's love

for you, It's God's love for me. And that's why Matthew.

Twenty twenty eight tells us how good God is. He said,

for even the son of Man did not come to

be served.

He didn't come for us.

Just bow down, and he said, I came to serve y'all,

and to give my life as a ransom for many.

This is my prayer.

That every time you see that Princess of the people,

you see yourself.

You see your.

Mistakes, You see the thoughts that you don't tell anybody.

You see the things you scroll late at night when

your husband or your wife is sleep. You see what

you feel about money, and the extra thing I want

you to see you. I'm not talking about the fake

you you put on to come to church. I'm talking

about the real youth. See, because God doesn't bless who

you pretend to be, He blesses who you really are.

Today.

I want you to take the mask off and put

His grace on, but you can't do that until you surrender.

So the rest of this story, it's about you and

you and you and all y'all and you and you

and me.

And what our God, our good God, our faithful God,

our God that makes a way out of no way, Our.

God who is the champion of love, Our God who's

the undefeated champion. This is about what somebody say, my God,

it's what my God.

Did just for me.

Thank you Lord for sending Jesus to pay for what

I couldn't. It makes it reminds me of this story

I'm told a couple of times. But I went out

to eat with somebody that that had a little money,

and they took me to a boogie restaurant. And the

reason you know it's a boogie restaurant because there's no

prices on the menu. See some of y'a ain't never

been to a restaurant like that. But then they'd be like,

it's got the name and no no numbers, so it's

gonna be a lot. And I was just gonna have

an appetizer. Oh y'all gonna play me. It was the eighth.

I had to get to the fifteenth. I was like,

just give me some chips and.

K south.

And the person said, order whatever you want. Hold on now,

don't say that if you don't mean it. Order whatever

you want. And in that moment, I already knew that

he was good for it. I just needed to receive

what he was giving me. And for some reason, there

was still hesitation even though he said I got it.

And I was like, man, she said, what would you like?

I said, I'm gonna just take your chips and case

on and I'll just, you know, I'll just get a

little burger or something.

He said, that's what you want. All you want is

a burger. I was like, well, I really want a steak.

He said, get a mistake. I was like a state.

He's like, yeah, you want the burger too. I said,

hold on now kind of.

He said, get him the burger, get him the steak.

You want anything, and you want dessert, I said, desert.

You order your dessert with your meal.

Where are we at?

And this man, it took me a second to realize

that I was sitting with somebody who was going to

pay for it, and so my concern should not have

been my concern. I should have just received because I

was in proximity with somebody who had it. This weekend

at church, I want you to know that you're in

proximity with somebody.

Who has it.

She has everything you need, and he's already paid it all.

So today, in this second act, I want you to

see how amazing God sent his only son, the Prince

to pay for our ransom. This is how much God

loves you that he would send Jesus to pay your ransom.

And if you watch that and you want to receive

Jesus right now, I want to give you an opportunity.

It's very simple.

It's not a bunch of rules and religion. And confess

everything that you've done first. No, we serve a god

that if you give him your heart, he will change

your habits. And today, if you want to make Jesus

Christ your personal Lord and savior, as you're watching wherever

you're at right now, I want you to make this

the day of salvation.

On account of three. I just want you to raise

your hand, even if you don't.

Do it out loud in front of everybody, like you're

making this decision one two three. This is the moment,

and today I want you to pray this prayer. We say, God,

thank you for sending Jesus just for me. I thank

you for putting me in a position of grace. Here's

my life. I repent and I turned to you. Change me,

Renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever in Jesus' name.

Amen.

If you just prayed that prayer right now, all of

Heaven is turning up. The Bible says that if one

person gives their life to Christ, that all of Heaven

throws a party in Today at Transformation Church, as a

pastor that has seen thousands of people.

Make this decision, I am celebrating you.

Hey, listen, if you want more information of how you

make this journey a progression not perfection, I want you

to text saves to eight two eight two eight two

right now. And I don't know where you're seeing this

and where God's finding you right now, but you may

be in a very dark place, but I'm telling you

hope is coming to your life. This will be your

best year yet if it is your best year spiritually,

and I believe that God is about to do work

in your life.

I feel God right now that.

Is going to be transformative to everybody around you.

I think that God has.

A special plan for you, and I know that this

is the beginning of it coming to pass. Today, I

just want to say I love you. Hey, Listen that

worship song, The King is Alive. Play that all week long,

Play that all year long. And we have probably thirty

more songs that you can worship with from every style

in genre that you can change your atmosphere and your

playlist in life so that you can turn to God

in a brand new way. And next week I'm starting

a brand new series called Mustard. We are doing a

series talking about the size of the seed that changes everything.

And the Bible tells us that all we.

Need is a Mustard scene size faith and we can

move mountains. And I want to teach you how God

will take a little and turn it into a lot,

so you don't want to miss next week.

I love you, I'm praying for you. I believe in you.

And I know that the best for your life is

yet to come. Go out and lived a transform life.