I’m Still Chosen // The Word Of God: The Book Of Galatians (Part 1) // Charles Metcalf

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acting dramatic when it rains. We act like the city's

gonna flood. It's just hilarious. It never happens. But but

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Not know this, but every single Sunday we have more

than forty five thousand people that watch our service on Sunday,

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to be okay, like double that almost triple that. That's

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all around the world. And I said it, but I'm

glad that you are here. And my name is Charles.

Hello everybody. Technically Charles Henry Metcalf the third. It's not

a big deal, but I will update the slide next week.

I'm joking, but no, my mom it named me that

my mom and dad. I'm named after my grandfather, Charles

Henry Metcalf Junior.

And I remember my mom growing up. She'd be like

people would call me Chuck or Charlie.

I had one football coach that called me chucky and

I was like, I will hit you in your overweight face,

like I will come on. Every sixth grade football coach

is like, how did you become You're somebody's Dad, you're

not a real football coach. Anyways, I'm sorry I have

that joke offended you, But I remember and my mom

she was like, if I wanted you to be called

something else, I would have named you something else. Your

name is Charles, so I always I am good to clarify

that I'm Charles. And with my wife, we get to

serve here as the campus pastors of our Tulsa campus

and we're just honored and grateful that you're here and

think that it's very important that you would gather and

be with us today.

And I'm just.

So grateful for our church. I'm grateful for the diversity

of our church. I'm grateful for our worship. Can y'all

give it up for our worship team? Like it's just

getting ridiculous at this point?

Is that just to me?

It's like, oh, Wow, every Sunday, angels are gonna join

us in work.

Wow.

Okay, but I'm so glad you're here today. We're gonna

be starting a brand new series.

It's called the Word of God. Somebody say the Word

of God.

I'm excited for the next five weeks, we're gonna be

talking about the best selling book of all time.

That's a fact.

The most stolen book of all time, that's a fact.

It is the b I B L E. That's the

book for me. Hello, somebody, come on, don't play me.

But I'm before we jump into that, I'm excited. This

is actually the fourth summer. I didn't realize it till

my friend Kay he posted it. But for the last

four years, every summer I preach a series. The first

series I did was a series called the Paradox of Purpose.

So anybody see that series Paradox of Purpose?

We did that one Randomly, my daughter found a Paradox

of Purpose sticker.

She had it on her dress and I was like, oh, wow,

where did you find that? But we did that one.

Then there was one called Launch in Victory we did

when we were opening up.

And then last year, I think it was, I preached

a series called Holy Rebellion. And this year here is

the fourth one, The Word of God. I also realize

I always pick the same colors for my series. It's black, white, yellow,

and red, so if you go back and look, it's

like they're all the same. Yes, but I have to

stop and say thank you to our lead pastors.

And here's why, because There are.

A lot of people, a lot of people in ministry

that feel the call to preach, the call to speak,

but it takes a leader seeing it in them and

giving them the space to do it for them to

step in who God's called them to be. And I

am just personally and grateful for my friend and our pastors,

pastors Michael and Natalie Todd, for giving me the opportunity

to preach. So can you celebrate our pastors, our leaders.

I love you friends, Thank you. It's a big deal.

I don't take this responsibility lightly. I've been praying and

I'm grateful. I'm excited for the word I have today.

Before we do that, I'm gonna do this every single week.

I want to We're gonna be in the Word of

God reading the Bible.

We're gonna read a whole chapter of the Bible today.

So if you ain't this week, don't go hug go

thank goodness, because who knows what would have happened if

you went to read the Bible. But I want you,

I want to encourage everybody to bring your real Bible.

As a matter of fact, anybody got a real Bible

right now, like wave it in the air, Come on.

That's what I'm talking about.

Listen.

By the end of this series. By the end of

the series, the fifth week, come on, you can go

dollar Tree. You can go find a Bible anywhere. If

you happen to go to a hotel, you open up

that drawer, they.

Got one in there. God might understand. I'm not telling

you to steal it.

I'm just saying, if your heart's in the right place, ah,

you know, God would know anyways. But I want to

encourage you to bring your real Bible. I just think

there's something special about it. I am old school in

that way. My dad always preached out of his Bible

growing up, and I remember he gave me his Bible

and it was such a big deal. And then I

got this Bible about eight or nine years ago. It's

falling apart, but my life is in Hello, somebody hell,

But I would encourage you Bible and to get that going.

I'm actually gonna give away a Bible every single week.

We have these represent Bibles that are super awesome and

is this is this the one?

Yes? This is it?

Okay, So I wrote in this and dedicated this, and

every single week I just be If you ever see

me I'm just be walking around during worship.

I'm not trying to be weird. I'm just praying.

I'm praying for you, praying for your family, praying over

the church. And during prayer, the Holy Spirit highlighted somebody

to me and I was like, oh, that's who the

Bible is supposed to go get so, oh yeah, are

you back there in the back where you are?

Come up here?

Oh yeah, alry' come on, come on, come on, brother,

give it up, come on, come on.

He gotta make his way up here. Oh yay you

How old is your baby?

Girl?

You got a baby girl? Right boy? How old? Five months?

He just had it as your first baby? First baby?

Can you give it up? You gonna need this bible?

All right?

Every single week we're gonna be giving away a Bible.

So if you don't have a Bible, well maybe start

praying now.

Maybe God will make away. Now. Don't come up to

me awkwardly and be like, hey about the Bible.

But no, we're gonna are you all ready for the

message today?

All right, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Okay, we're gonna jump right in. I'm excited today. I'm

gonna have to set up the series and pace myself

because I have a lot of I've had all these

message literally the next five week messages. I've had them

since like five months ago, Like I literally had the titles.

The team was like, do you have any idea? And

I just text them all of it. I was like, yeah,

there's everything if you want it. So I gotta be

careful about to preach the other week's out of order.

But today we're gonna set a little foundation. Somebody say foundation.

We're gonna set a little foundation for why the Word

of God is important. And if you are new to faith,

maybe new to church, I think this is the perfect.

Time for you to be here.

There's no better time for you to figure out what

this is all about than coming in a series while

we're talking about why this book is one of the

most important things in your life.

As a matter of fact, if.

You're new to church, new to church experience, I know

everybody in here you've been saved since before you were

out of your mother's womb. But there are some people

in here that maybe you ain't been in church in

a while.

And I think sometimes we assume.

Everybody knows what we're doing, and I bring friends to

church that aren't in church. And one of the things

they say all the time, my friend actually said it

last week, is like.

How does everybody know all the songs?

Like I feel like y'all all are doing this like

karaoke thing for God, and everybody knows the words except

for me. And so if you're new to church, we

do worship every single week.

That's where we sing songs to God.

Then in the middle of that worship, there'll be somebody

who come up.

It was Will today.

They'll come up and tell you all the different ways

you can get involved in church. Then we'll do worship again,

just in case you weren't paying attention the first time.

Hello somebody, or you're late. I see you.

It's not a big deal. I'll be late too, So

we're all right. That's why we do that extra song

just for some of y'all who are like.

Oh my gosh, I overslept.

No, you didn't your plan, you stayed up late, you

made bad plans, you didn't pick out your outfit.

Hello, somebody and your kids went. It happens all the time.

And then we go into the word, and that's what

we're gonna open up this book and talk about the

importance of it in our lives. And then at the

very end, we actually do this. Every single week, we

invite people to follow Jesus and.

We pray for two groups of people.

One, we pray for people who want to apply the message.

So today, if this message hits you in a way

that you're like, man, I really need to do something

with that, I'm gonna pray over you. And then we

always pray for people who want to accept Jesus into life.

We pray a group prayer and that's beautiful. Happens every

single week. I believe some of you you're gonna give

your life to Jesus today. That's why you here. You

just don't know it yet. And then after prayer, it's

a beautiful thing. About forty six point three percent of

the room is gonna try to rush out and get

beat you out there for traffic.

It was a joke. Calm down, You're like, oh, shoot,

he sees me. I do no.

I say that because one of the most beautiful things

that happens at the end of service is a time of.

Prayer and worship.

And I'm saying this on purpose, and I know I

made that joke and somewhere are like, oh gosh, you

just got a little tight.

It's okay, take a deep breath. You're fine.

But I will say I think one of the most

powerful things that could happen in your week is not

rushing out when you could gain and fill up a

little more peace before you go back into your workplace,

before you go back into your house. And so as

we go throughout service today, I'm gonna be locked in.

I got my clock up there. It's green as if

it goes red, then y'all can start getting up and

walking out.

Okay, so just calm down.

But listen, it's gonna be a beautiful, beautiful service today,

and I'm grateful if it's your first time. All Right,

you all ready, Now we're really ready. Now you're ready.

All right, here's what we're gonna do. I'm just gonna

I'm just gonna fire off the top. I was gonna

read a scripture, but I'm gonna have you write this down. Keys,

Thank you very much. You got the spiritual tone. But

I'm about to scream and it'll be like an awkward

mix if I do that. So I mean, everybody, get

your notes out, Get your phones out.

Smartphones dumb phones.

As our pastor would say, I'm not gonna say which

brand is a dumb phone. You can determine that yourself.

But where I need you to write down in your notes.

The Word of God is the only foundation.

That has the peace, purpose and power to.

Sustain the human soul.

If you get up and walk out right now and

you live that out, I promise you your life would

be different. The Word of God is the only somebody say,

only foundation that has the peace, purpose and power to

sustain your soul. Now, I want to be clear, you

have options for other foundations. It's not the only foundation

you could choose, but it is the only one.

That could actually hold you up.

There are a lot of choices when it comes to

your foundation. A lot of people choose success, money, and

their career as a foundation. So you figure, if I

just get enough money, if I do my job, if

I get enough promotions, I will build a life that

is secure enough for me to stand on and it

will outlast me. The only problem is money cannot hold

you up. Let me take it a step further. Money

can't heal you when you're sick. Money cannot change the

dynamic of a situation that only God can intervene in.

Money will come and money will go, but the Word

of God stands forever. You can choose relationships a boyfriend,

a girlfriend, a husband or wife for that to be

your foundation. The only problem is people will always let

you down.

Always they're gonna let you down.

People you love, people that you've been close with, friends

and family members that you have.

They will always let you down. Some people choose.

Their gift to be their foundation, or what you do

to be your foundation. You're you're super talented, or you

have a certain gift to sing, or a gift to

play a sport, or a gift to organize and structure,

and you build your life on this gift is who

I am. Only problem is is at some point you

get older or at some point you're not using that

gift and now you don't know who you are.

Every foundation is going to cost you.

Something you're not willing to pay.

I'm gonna say that again.

Every foundation you choose, if it's not the word of God,

it'll cost you something that I promise you do not

want to pay. Let me let me just I have

to do this. I'm a little dramatic. Sometimes Okay, this

is ooh, okay, you wasn't doing that. You wuldn't say

that earlier when I was giving examples standing on this

is what it is to build your life on money.

You feel higher than other people, you feel better about yourself.

But the problem is you can't go anywhere and get this.

There's no space for anybody else on this foundation. There's

no space for your family. There's no space for your children.

So Dad's gotta go to work or Mommy's gotta go work,

and I'll miss your game. It'll be all right, but

I'll give you some money for your birthday. No, no, no, no,

can't nobody else fit up on this foundation.

I need something bigger than this my gift.

And you know, God just gave me the gift to sing,

and so I sing and that's all I do.

That's who I am. Awesome, that's amazing.

The only problem is what happens if your vocal core

is just start acting a little sideways, a little funny.

What happens when you don't get up on the stage.

What happens when your call didn't ever have.

To do with anything being on the stage.

There's no space on this foundation, and the Word of

God is the only foundation that has the peace.

I want to stop on this.

For a second because up here, the longer I stand

up here, the more anxious I get. And some of you,

the foundations you've chosen in your life. The longer you

stand on that thing, the more you realize you have

more to lose, the higher the fall is gonna be.

What happens if the money goes out? What happens if

the four to one K plan doesn't happen. What happens

if I don't get into that school? Only one that

has the purpose. Some foundations you can make money and

be successful.

You just don't know why you're on the earth.

You get the job, you get the promotion, and then

you got the corner office and you realize, oh.

Man, I don't have any friends.

Oh I cut everybody down getting up here, so now

there's no one to celebrate with me. When I get

the raise, you find no purpose. And the last one

is it doesn't have the power. No matter how much

money you get, no matter how much influence you have.

There is only one foundation that can sustain your soul,

and it is the Word of God. It's the only one.

There's no other foundation that will outlast. The Bible is clear.

It says, the grass withers and the flowers fade, but

the word of God stands forever.

It's what the Bible says.

I want to read you another scripture out of Matthew

about the Word of God. It says this, says, everyone

who hears the word of mine and does not uh

do and does them will be like the wise man

who built his house on the rock, and the rain fell,

and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat

upon the house, but it did not fall because.

It had been founded on the rock.

And everyone who hears these words of mine it does

not do them, is like the foolish man who built

his house on the sand, and the rain fell, and

the floods came, and the wind blew and beat against

the house, and it fell. And it says this, and

great was the fall. I'm telling you from own experience.

I'm not up here talking to you about something that

I am not living out. The word of God is

the only thing that can keep you. The word of God.

God is the only thing that matters in this life.

And it's important we start with this foundation, because we're

gonna go further in this series to talk about the

Book of Galatians and the implications on our life. But

if you don't value this book, it don't matter. If

you don't understand the power of this book. Now, let

me let me pause here, because I'm not just talking

about a book.

Let me be very clear.

I'm not just talking about a book that you go

by at a store. The Bible says that this book

is alive and active. The Bible says, this is the

very word of some of us. If this ceiling cracked

open right now and God came down with whatever skin

tone you think he had, even though we know where

he was from and he definitely didn't have blue eyes

and blonde hair. Anyways, that's a fake picture of Jesus

in the hospital.

But uh, if he came down and was like, I

have a word for you, you'll be oh gosh, let

me write it down. When in fact, this whole thing

is his.

Words to you, and it's not outdated, and it's not

not relevant and it doesn't happen. It's not one of

those things like ah, we need no, no, no no.

This is just as relevant as when it was written

as it is today. It is just as powerful as

when it was written as it is today. And I

want to encourage you to get a conviction around this

being your foundation. How do I know if it's my foundation?

When things start going sideways? What do you think you

go to this? This is how you can tell who

do you start asking questions to? Where do you go

for your source of truth when things start going crazy

and you're about to respond? Where do you get that

response from? Is it from how you feel? Is it

from how your family responds, is it how you grew up?

Or is it what does the Bible say? Your kid

comes to you, Hey, I have a question. What are

we supposed to do without the well son? This is

what the Bible says. Hey, what am I supposed to

do about getting this job? And should I just take

every promotion because more money means that God is definitely

with me.

I don't know what does the Bible say when we

asked that question.

It's building our life on a foundation. Now, I want

to take a moment and I actually did this in

the Bible Study.

Shout out.

Talk to my people who comes to the Bible Study

on Wednesday nights, shout out to all the people. We

have a loyal crew of people On Wednesday nights at

seven fifteen, we do a Bible study every single Wednesday,

and we've been talking about the Bible and the Word

of God, and so I want to share this with

you if you're in here and you're wondering, how can

we believe the Bible? Like, how do we know this

thing is true? How do we know it's real? Is

it just the book? You know, there's some eighteen year

old kid on TikTok that done talked to you out

of your theology just because you have a podcast microphone.

He was like, you know, the Bible actually isn't true.

It's like you actually can't buy alcohol.

So calm down, kid, what do you know? Like you

know what I'm saying, like us telling me. He's like,

I saw this video on Facebook. It's like, okay, calm down.

There's a lot of things on Facebook. All of our

grandmother's on Facebook. So let's just like realize what's going on.

Okay, I'm I'm Chloe. I didn't mean that as no offense.

I mean that is none. I love you. She said,

all right, Okay, here, I'm gonna give you three reasons

why you can believe the Bible real quick, and then

we're gonna get intigulations.

Write these three down, three reasons why you can believe

the Bible.

The first one is facts. Everybody say facts.

If somebody come up to you talking about like, how

can you even believe the Bible?

It was written so long ago, how do you even

know it's true? How do you even know blah blah

blah blah.

Well, first of all, it's sixty six different book written

over thousands of years that all point to the.

Exact same thing. Name me one of a book that

does that. But I'm gonna give.

You some real facts, like if you are like more

like detail on you, Like, I gotta know that, I

know that, I know. Can y'all put that up there

for me? This little slope that's gonna show these saints

some facts real quick.

Okay, look at this.

This is a chart that shows copies of the Bible

that we have access to at the bottom, but at

the top this is a list of other stuff that

is accepted all around the world that you learned in

your history book and you never questioned. So Homer's Iliad

was written in eight hundred BC. The earliest copies is

four hundred, so there's a four hundred year gap, so

it happened, and then a four hundred year gap, and

we have six hundred and forty three copies of that

original writing. Let's go a little bit further Herodius who

was a historian.

So the history you read in your history book.

You don't know how many copies we have of the

history you read and learned and got quizzed on and

failed the sat because you didn't know. We have eight copies,

eight and you ain't never looked that history book.

Be like, I don't know if they technically won that war.

I don't really eight copies Plato. Come on, you're like,

oh Plato was so smart.

Okay, there's thirteen hundred years is the closest copy we have,

and we have seven of them.

Let's go to the New Testament.

The biggest time gap is fifty years, so from when

it was written fifty years later. And look how many

copies we got five, three hundred and sixty six copies

of the New Testament.

This is facts.

So you can accept this book as an accurate depiction

of what happened, just because you don't understand all the

stories just because you've never seen miracles like that, and

you're like, how does someone shadow heal somebody?

And I don't know. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean.

That aren't actual facts to tell you all that history

in your history book. We have more proof about this book.

We reading right here. That is a fact. So when

someone come up to you and be like, how can

you believe the Bible, Well, the truth is, we just

got way more. And this is how people measure the

legitimacy of ancient writings. So anything that is accepted as

the people who wrote history, we got eight busted, crinkled

up pieces of paper. They're like, hey, yeah, this is

what happened for thousands of years, and we just accept

it and we.

Put it in our history books.

The Bible, we have so many everybody say facts. The

next one is fruit. Everybody write down the word fruit.

Everybody say fruit. The Bible the only book that is

consistent that when.

You live out the truth of its words, there.

Is proof in your life and fruit from that book.

The truth of the Bible, the truth of scripture is

so true.

That people who don't even believe in it realize that

the stuff that's in there has some power, and they

will live it out even.

If they don't subscribe to everything. It says.

It is more blessed to give than receive. The world

of the generous gets larger and larger, and the world

of the stingy gets smaller and smaller. Philanthropist is just

a fancy word for I'm a generous person. But people

realize there are some principles in this book that create

fruit when I live it out. The last one, while

we believe the Bible is somebody say faith two Timothy

three sixteen says this team, I think I added the scripture,

so I'm sorry if you don't have it. I'll be

playing our team sometimes and it's like, come on, through

the scripture, it's my fault. Calm down, tewod Timothy three sixteen.

All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to

teach us. Listen to this what is true so you

can live your truth. But let's be clear, there is

a truth. Come on, I'm just living my truth.

Coo coo coo coo. Cool.

But there is a truth that is not consult on

how you feel or the times, or what the government's

doing or what anybody else say.

It says.

This Bible is how we learn what is true, it says,

and it makes us realize.

What is wrong in our lives.

So if you read the Bible and all of it

agrees with you, you may want to make sure it's

a Bible you're reading and not just like a short story.

Come on, if the Bible doesn't cut you when you

read it, be careful.

It says.

It corrects us when we're wrong, and it teaches us

what to do and what is right. God uses it.

So this is the Bible. This is what the Bible says.

God uses it to prepare and equip his people to

do every good work. So there is an element of this.

And I was talking to somebody and they were talking

about a different religion, and I said, let's just acknowledge

some facts here. No matter how much you argue at

the bottom of the barrel, is a faith step to

believe this book. I don't want to get a scoot

around because some people will argue the facts and how

do we know this?

We got to at some point you got to put

your faith that this is the word of God, that

it is true, that I can build my life on it.

So the reason we believe the Bible is those three reasons.

We have facts that prove that it's way more legitimate

than any ancient writing ever. We have the fruit that

when we live it out, we see what happens in

our life, and we have the faith step that we take.

These say, you know.

What, I've built my life on this book. So now

i wanna jump into Galatians. Everybody say Galatians. Now we're

gonna do something old school. We're gonna stand for the

reading of God's word and.

I'm gonna change my voice. Now I'm joking. I'm joking.

I'm not gonna do that. I can't do that, metcalf Man.

We were not giving that deep, raspy voice.

When we get loud, our voice gets higher pitched. So

it's kind of we kind of got played in that regard.

Galatians chapter one.

If you have your Bible, you're gonna open to We're

gonna read the whole thing. I'm not gonna stop all

the way through. I'm it's gonna be on the sky

Bible up here.

So we like to call that.

So if you didn't bring your Bible, you can just

read it off there.

But This is what Galatians chapter one says.

It's Paul talking, and I'll read this letter is from Paul,

an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of

people or by any human authority, but by Jesus Christ

himself and the God, the Father who raised Jesus from

the dead. All the brothers and sisters here join me

in sending this letter to the churches. May God, the Father,

our Lord, Jesus Christ, give you grace and peace. Somebody

say grace and peace. Jesus gave his life for our sins,

just as God planned it, in order to rescue us

from the evil word.

All the glory to God forever.

Now Paul goes into verse six and he's talking to

people because there were some people who were sharing some

fake news pretty much, and this is what he says.

I'm so shocked. You're turning away so.

Soon from God who called you and his loving mercy.

You are following a different way that pretends to.

Be good news, but it's not good news at all.

You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the

truth concerning Christ. Let God's curse hold up, watch out

now fall on anyone, including even an angel from heaven

who preaches a different kind of good news than the

one I already preached to you.

I say again what we said before.

If anyone preaches the good news is that you welcome,

let that person be cursed.

Now look what he says. He's cursing people.

And then verse ten, he's like, obviously, I'm not trying

to win the approval of people, but God it pleases.

If pleasing people were my.

Goal, I would not be Christ's servant.

Watch out, people, pleasers. Hold up, dear brothers and sisters.

I want you to understand. The gospel message I preach

is not based on mere human reasoning. I received this

message from no human source, and no one taught it

to me. Come on, he got rejected from school, but

he said, Jesus taught me himself instead.

I received it directly from Jesus.

You know what I was like before I followed the

Jewish religion.

He's talking about his history.

He says, how violently I persecuted God's Church. I did

my best to destroy it. I was far ahead of

my fellow Jews in my zeal for tradition.

Now this is my favorite verse, maybe of all time.

But even before I was born.

Even before I was born, God chose me, and he

called me by his marvelous grace. Then it pleased him

to reveal his son to me, so I would proclaim

the good news about Jesus to the gentiles. When this happened,

I didn't rush to consult with any human being, nor

did I go to Jerusalem.

To console with those apostles.

Instead, I went away into Arabia.

And then later to Damascus.

Then three years later I went to Jerusalem to get

to know Peter. So he been rocking for three years,

and he's like, all right, I guess i'll go check

in with who you said I got.

To check in with.

I stayed with him for fifteen days. Then the only

other apostle I met was James, the Lord's brother. I

declared before God, what I was writing to you.

Is no lie. We're about to be done right here.

After I visit, I went north into Syria and Sicily,

and then to all the churches that Christ and Judea.

They didn't know me personally. All they knew is what

the people were saying. The one who used to persecute

us is now preaching the very faith he tried to

destroy it and they praise God.

Because of me.

Can somebody clap your hands for the word? Oh God,

you may be seated.

Friends.

I have a message today in my twenty seven minutes

in three seconds.

Oh, I know, I got it.

I'm I'm locked in, baby. And I preached the message

before called God Chose Me, and.

I wanted to preach that one again. But I've got

version two for you today. Okay? Is that all right?

This message is for people who maybe the idea that

God chose you has drifted because of the time between

what he said and what you've seen. This message today

is for people who feel like life has beat you

down so much that somehow your trauma has warped God's

ability to put his hand on your life. This message

is for the single mother who feels like if God

was with me, why would I be here. This message

is for the person who you didn't get into the

school and you feel like I've got declined so many times,

I've got hit so many times?

Is there anybody that still sees me?

And I've got another three words for you this morning.

This is gonna be a confession in your heart. You're

gonna believe it in your soul. You're gonna say it

until you cannot forget it. On days when you wake

up and everything's going good, you're gonna say this.

On days when you wake up and everything's going bad.

You're gonna say this when things are going your way

when they're not. You can say these three words because

they are the most true words that have ever been spoken.

It is this. I'm still chosen. I'm still chosen.

Yeah, it's been some time and things haven't worked out,

but don't you forget I'm.

Still chosen by God.

Yes, I know things have not gone how I thought

they were, and I'm still a little rusty in my

gift because God hasn't used it yet.

But do not get it twisted. I'm still chosen. Yeah.

I had a season where I walked away from God

and I made some decisions I regret. But I'm back

here and I need to let you know I am

still chosen. Somebody say, I'm still chosen, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I came to remind you what has happened to you

does not define who you are. I know the world's

trying to discourage you. I know your family feels like

they're discouraging you. I know you open up your chase

account and feel discouraged, shall o somebody? But you are

still chosen by God, the creator of the universe, the

one who hung the stars in the sky, the one

that forgives sins, that cancels debt, that raises dead bodies,

that split seas open.

It is that God that has chosen you.

And Paul opens up the Book of Galatian throwing hands.

That's exactly what he did.

Because everybody suspect of Paul, they're like, okay, we know

you had a little encounter. Apparently that no one was

there to witness.

Come on, that's the tough part.

Sometimes, ain't nobody there to witness what God did.

In your heart in private?

And you come out trying to act different, and everybody's like, okay,

who were you?

Come on? You?

You? Maybe you you were off at school and you

come home and God changes some stuff in your heart

and you about to go back to school and you're

gonna try to be different.

They'll be like, okay, nobody.

Saw what you did while you acting brand new now.

But Paul, knowing what they're thinking about him, here's the context.

So the Book of Galatians is written to a group

of churches and the people there.

It's a very.

Racially mixed group of people and ethnically mixed group of people,

and there are people there who are trying to sell

the truth that yeah, yeah, Jesus died, but you still

got to follow all these rules, and you got to

keep following these rules, even though Jesus said he paid

for all that, you still And what they're doing is

they're talking about Paul. They say, don't even believe Paul.

Come on, we don't even know what really happened to him.

Come on, he said he was on the road and

then God met him.

You really think God met Paul. Come on, he used

to kill us, you remember what he used to do.

So they're talking about Paul.

So Paul cracks open the book and it's like, hey,

how y'all doing?

And now this is hilarious.

So imagine we're in church, Paul sends us this letter

and everybody's like, oh my gosh, guys, we got a

letter from Paul. They're like, come on, everybody, get around,

get around. Everybody quiets down, and he's like, hey, it's Paul, and.

They're like, oh my gosh, Hey it's Paul. Hey, Paul,

how you doing.

And he's like, I'm shocked you've turned so quickly.

They're like, what is he? What is he talking about?

He's like from those losers who are trying to sell

you a fake gospel.

And then the room gets quiet. They're like, oh uh.

And then maybe some of those questions start coming up,

like why are.

He talking so strong and who do he think he is?

And Paul is very clear. He says, hey, real quick,

before I finish the rest of this book, let me

be clear who chose me. At this time, Jesus has died,

so there's a lot of momentum in the church, and

so people are raising up disciples of disciples, so there

were people who walk with Jesus and so they're training people,

and so people were very connected to who did you

learn your gospel from? And who did you get your

Jesus from? And Paul says, let me be clear with you.

Didn't no human give me this, didn't no person approve me,

didn't no person.

Come say oh now you can do.

God himself came to me and said, Paul, it's time

to turn, and I got something for you. Paul says,

I didn't get this from no human source. And when

I got it, I didn't go check in with nobody.

I got it and I got to work. And for

so long we have needed the approval of other people

to do what God told us to do, and we

spend half of the time we were supposed to spend

snatching people out of hell just checking in with all

these people making sure did God tell me to do this?

And is it okay to help people who are poor?

And I think I should really help people who are

stuck in human trafficking? And is then okay to feed

the hungry? Stop checking in with the committee. God gave

it to you. It is time to go. I feel

that thing. If God gave it to you, it is

time to go. I'm tired of Christians sitting around in

our little Christian Kumbaya waiting to do all week. Got

more schematics and plans to change the world that are

dusty and old, and we ain't done nothing with them yet.

I'm tired of that. If God gave it to me,

it's time to go. Why Because I'm still chosen. God

gave me this idea. God gave you that gift. God

put that dream on the inside of you. God gave

you that thing. God gave you those children. God gave

you that job. And if God gave it to you,

he has put everything on the inside of.

You to walk it out. I'm still chosen.

I know I'm a little weary, I know look a

little beat up, but I'm still chosen.

I know my heart is heavy.

I know I've lost some people along the way, but

I'm still chosen.

I know I've made my mistakes.

I know by right now, by looking at my Instagram feed,

you couldn't tell.

But I'm still chosen.

I know if you were to go look down at

the history of my life and you were going to

go back into the lineage of my family, it wouldn't

speak to somebody who's chosen. But don't get it twisted.

You can read the history books, but I'm writing the future.

I'm still chosen. Don't make up for me because what's

happened in my past. Don't look at my parents struggle

and try to decide about me. Don't look at my

cousins and think you know who I am. I'm still chosen.

God put his hand on me, and I'm not going nowhere.

I'm still chosen. I need you to get something on

the inside of you that is a holy get these

two words, a holy confidence and a holy contentment. You

can't do nothing with somebody who's confident and content. I

know it for myself else I didn't used to always

be this way. But I know why I am a

problem for Hell and why my name comes up a

lot down there, is because I'm confident enough to do

exactly what God told me to do, and I'm content

enough to sit at home with my wife and my babies.

I'm confident and I'm content. I'm confident enough to get

up on this stage and preach what God told me

to preach, and I'm content enough. If he said, Charles,

you ain't never gonna preach again. You just gonna sit

down here and do whatever past might tell you do.

I would be cool. Why because no human source put

this gift on the inside of me. God chose me.

I know where it came from, so I know.

Who gets to tell me what to do with it.

Ain't no human put this on the inside of me.

But before I was even born, somebody say God chose me. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

there's something happening on the inside of you. You're realizing

that even though there are people in your life that

try to take credit from your gift. They weren't there

when it was birthed. Nobody was in Bowling Green, Kentucky

checking from me. Nobody was there when me and my

wife were sitting in our room crying and deciding if

we were gonna leave the place we were at. It

didn't have no job, didn't have no money. But I

had a lot of friends that were close to me

but were far from God. And so I thought, if

they ain't gonna come to church, I'm gonna take the

church to them.

Me and my wife we literally were like, all right,

we started a church. What does that mean? I don't know.

Google it all right, how do you start a five?

Oh one? C? Three? Done? Did it? All right?

Let's let we do our first little gathering. We call

them gatherings because I was like, you know, some of

my friends just the word church they would flinch, like

they just had so many bad experiences and so on.

Saying come to church with me was like hit them

in the mouth, like it.

Was just like they didn't like it. So I was like,

all right, why don't you just come to this little

gathering thing. We're just gonna eat some food. I'm gonna

talk a little bit. They're like, oh yeah, okay, cool

free food. You're just gonna talk. Yeah, that's all it is.

They come in. We're in this little dingy club downtown.

It's dark. They walk in. All of a sudden, I'm

cracking over this book. Here's the truth of God's word.

Like I was just going. But it was in those moments.

It was in that place. It was in those meetings

with my friends who had moved from around the country

to help us start a church. It was then when

I bought this Bible. Let me read this to you.

I forgot this was in here, Thank you Holy Spirit.

The front of my Bible.

This is very funny. I'll get emotional reading this. So

it's the presented to Bible. So just in Oya's Bible,

I wrote, presented from Pastor Charles to O yay on

this date on the occasion of So it's like a

whole thing in the front of your Bible.

And at the time I didn't have nobody in my

life like that.

So my Bible says, presented you Charles Henry metcalf third

by is blank.

Did nobody present this Bible to me.

I presented it to myself and it says on the

occasion of following Jesus February twenty eighth, twenty sixteen.

So in that moment when I started cracking open this

book and figuring.

Out what it meant for my life, it was there

God started doing something. It was there that that gift

that He put on the inside of me started stirring

in a different way.

It was earlier than that. See, this is why you

gotta be careful.

What you label people at a young age, because if

you go back and look at all my report cards,

it says the same thing. Good student but talks too much,

Good student but a little distracting.

Okay, yes, in sixth grade.

But miss Williams said, it all makes sense now, don't

I See.

I'm telling you I want to encourage you.

God has placed something unique on the inside of you,

something of infinite.

Value, and when he chooses you.

There is no amount of time, there is no trauma,

There is nothing that can take away the fact that

He chose you.

John fifteen sixteen says this, You didn't choose me.

Remember, See, some of us get cocky enough to think

you chose God. You didn't choose God before you were

even alive. He climbed up on that cross, before you

were ever looking in his direction.

He says, you didn't choose me.

Remember I chose you. And today I want to encourage

you that maybe the idea that God chose you has faded.

Maybe the life you have lived.

Does it look like you're chosen and called out. But

want to encourage you with the confession that you can say,

I'm still chosen. There's been some time, there's been some pain,

but I'm still chosen. I've made mistakes I'm not proud of,

but I'm still chosen. I let other people define my gift.

I let other people talk me into things I would

never do, but I'm still chosen.

I've ran from it for a long time.

I've acted like I didn't want to do it, when

the truth is I just knew it would require so

much of me that I would have to give up

everything I've ever loved to do it. And I know

I'm working through that, but I'm still chosen. I've got

some questions about some things in that book, and I

don't understand it all, but I'm still here and I'm

still going to church because I'm still chosen. I prayed

for my kids and they're not acting right now how

I thought.

I raised them, And now they're going through stuff.

That I thought I dealt with, but I realized I

didn't deal with it.

I just yelled and shouted.

I didn't ever talk about what I went through, and

so it's passed on and now I see that, and

now I'm a little broken because I can't go back

and fix it. But don't get it twisted. God still

chose me to be their parents, and as long as

they're still alive, I'm gonna do the best I can.

Somebody say I'm still chosen, You're still chosen.

I want to give you four things.

It's the exact same four things when I preach God

chose me. But I think for the person who needs

to be reminded today, you need to be reminded you're

still chosen. And here's what needs to happen because you're chosen.

The first thing I need you to do is I

need you to start getting ready.

I know there's been some time.

I know you wrote those plans and you're gonna have

to go back and dust those things off.

But I need you to start getting ready.

Come on, look at your neighbor and say you need

to start getting ready.

Now.

Depending on your personality type, some of y'all need to

start sooner than others.

Come on, now, come on.

Me and my wife were getting ready to go somewhere,

and it'd be one of those things.

Now.

Very honestly, this isn't a great example because given the day.

If flip flops, who's really behind. It's either I'm.

Ready and I'll me with this first year marriage, I

get ready and abby, or going somewhere I get ready

boom and not because I'm fast the getting ready.

I actually take super long to pick out my clothes.

I've been picking out my clothes the day before every

single day since sixth grade.

Some of you are like, Charles, that's a problem. Do

you see how great I look? Though? So is it?

Come on, it's not an accident anyways.

Sixth grade, sixth grade, I've been doing this, like would

lay my clothes out like next to me. Come on,

anybody ever do that like you're laying in the bed.

I went to a private school too. I was wearing like.

The same shirt and tan pants, and I'd be like,

is that gonna go with the Okay, yeah, we're good.

So if I take a long time to get ready,

it's because I didn't get to pick out my clothes

the night before. But first year marriage, I pre prep

my clothes and I get ready and I'm sitting on

the couch. Abby takes like forty five extra minutes and

then walks out and says some of the most cutting

words that almost sent our.

Marriage into the tailspin.

She walks out, she says, this ready when you are ready?

When I am, I have okay, let me just that,

And then I was I literally had a moment, and

then a little bit she did it again. I was like,

you have got Literally one time, I was like, you

gotta stop saying that.

You have to stop.

She's like, what, I'm just saying, I'm ready when you

I was like, the problem is I've been ready. You're

the one who wasn't ready, and you're gonna try to

flip it like I wasn't ready.

I've been sitting here watching The Office. I'm through season eight.

Because you didn't think about your outfit the night before,

you should have listen to me.

Anyways, I'm still chosen though, even though my first year

of marriage was a little rough.

Sometimes you gotta start getting ready a little earlier than

you think.

You gotta start getting some plans together.

Some of you need to start living how you want

to live when you will be married. Don't wait to

get married and then try to change your whole schedule.

Live how you.

Want to live now, Live how when you're debt free?

Now live how when you own your own house. Now

you gotta start getting ready. There's some stuff we save

for other seasons, thinking, oh, yeah, I'll just be able

to flip that switch when I get there.

Nobody, that's not how it works. You gotta decide before. Yeah,

I'm wilding right now. But when I get married, you know,

I'm gonna shure up. I'm gonna really just lock in.

I'm gonna stop dming all these ladies.

You know, I'll just just magically, I won't look at

poor no more, and I won't even be tempted. Women

will become ugly to me when I get married. That's dumb.

That's dumb, and it's not biblical.

Stop acting a fool. Get it together now.

It's not just for the fellows neither, because some of

you'll ladies be wiling.

We see your your close friends.

Got a lot of non close friends on there that

you're trying to holler at. Let's be oh see that

the ladies got quiet, Like, okay, move on.

It's not funny. It's so funny. How quick I become

not funny when it hits.

It's like like this guy's okay, be quiet.

Number two. Everybody say number two.

When you believe God chose me, you gotta live ridiculous.

If you want to live safe, Jesus may not be

for you. Oh yeah, I don't know how this happened.

Think about this. The marker of this belief system is

a man who was murdered, and then all his friends

were murdered, and then somehow in twenty twenty four we

sell people, Yeah, follow this man, and you're life gets

easy and you can live safe and he'll protect you

and everything will be fine if you follow Jesus. That

doesn't match up with the book he said in this

life you will have trials. Here's why Jesus is so

gangster and why you can live ridiculous because Jesus defeated

the thing that we are most afraid of. Paul goes

on to write in another book, He's like, you know,

I don't really know if I should die or if

I should be here, and it's kind of like, whoa, Paul,

that's a little morbid.

No.

He was so connected to going to be with Jesus.

One day and he realized that when we leave here,

it's actually us returning.

Home, not leaving.

Home, because the Bible says I'm not even from here.

He was so connected to that idea. He's writing his

friends like, you know, if I stay, it's kind of

better for you, but if I go, it be way

better for me. And I kind of want to die

to go see Jesus, but then you'd probably be freaked

out and you'd believing all those crazy people.

So I think I'll stay. The only way you live.

In a ridiculous manner is if you realize who chose you,

that who chose you is not from this planet.

He's not from this system. He's not from the world.

So when he asked you to do stuff, it's gonna

seem ridiculous if you're in this system.

I was talking to my little.

Boy and we were talking about one of our friends

who had passed, and I said, Bro, isn't this the

coolest thing? Somebody actually our friend Katie, she wrote this

poem and it was the most gang it was even

a poem. It was like a battle rap and she

crushed the devil. It was like so gangster. But she said,

she said this line. She was like first streets, stepping

on streets of gold. And the idea was, I said, Buddy,

isn't it insane that they're going to get to walk

in heaven the streets are gold?

And he was like no. I was like yes. I

was like, see Daddy's necklace.

This little it's fourteen Carrit played it, but you know

it like it's kind of like this. But I told

I was like, in heaven the streets are gold.

So how you ride your bike just out and you

be drawing on it? You know, that's what gold is

in heaven.

And just that one idea tells me, oh, when God

asked me to do something, he's walking on streets of gold.

So the paradigm with which he thinks is very different.

Because the thing that's most valuable to you is like

the roads in heaven.

So if you look to make.

Sense of it in earth, think about the last time.

You were on the road, Like, wow, what a street.

This is amazing? I cannot.

But you don't think about it at all.

You don't look at it, you don't value it, you.

Don't think nothing of it because it's just the road.

It's just a means to get me from here to

where I'm going. And can I tell you, in heaven,

that's all worldly stuff is they got the most precious

things laid on the street, because there's more where that

comes from. Because when you get to heaven, you ain't

gonna be worried about your fate go necklace. You're gonna

be singing, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord, God Allmighty.

And if I know God chose me, I'm gonna start

living like it. I'm gonna start praying like it.

I'm gonna start witnessing to my friends like I'm chosen.

You gotta get ready you live ridiculous.

The next one is, is it you live reverent?

Because the idea that God chose you is a very

humbling idea.

Heard somebody say it's not about what you know, it's

about who you know.

But I think what's even.

More powerful that is, it's not about who you know,

but about who knows you.

Come on, you know, Beyonce, But Beyonce do not know you.

Not only do I know God, but God knows me.

I'll read about him, but he knows me. He knows

my thoughts, he knows my pain. The scripture says, we

do not have a high priest that cannot relate to us,

for he was tempted in every way, yet without sin.

He knows what it feels like to be stuck between

a decision. He knows what it is to be anxious,

and so anxious that a biological system in his body

responds and he physically starts to sweat blood.

YEA, yeah, Jesus knows how you feel. He knows what

you're going through.

And when you start to consider the fact that you

are chosen not by just anybody, but by the creator

of the universe. You aren't chosen by some random committee,

but you are chosen by the one that said, let

there be light, and there was light.

There's a reverence that understands this. He could have chosen anybody.

I know you're frustrated with what you're going through, and

I know you wish it was different. But he could

have put somebody else in your spot. He could have

gave those kids to somebody else, could have put that

friend in somebody else's circle, but he put them in

your circle.

Because we all.

Frustrate with people until they're not here. We're all mad

at people until you don't get.

A chance to say I'm sorry.

So before you curse where God puts you, why don't

you realize maybe he had an idea in mind. Maybe

he's greater and his thoughts are higher. You gotta get ready,

you gotta live ridiculous, you gotta be reverent.

And the last one is you gotta be resilient.

When you realize God chose you, when you realize he's

the one who picked you, when you realized what is

on the inside of you. The Bible says, the same

spirit that raised Christ from the dead is on the

inside of you. There is no situation you go through

that you cannot get back up from. And I want

to encourage somebody who feels like you've fallen a lot

of times. You're falling on your face in front of everybody.

You said you were going to pray and believe God

and it was going to work out, and you feel

like it didn't work out, and now you're embarrassed, or

you worked really hard and you didn't get into the school,

or you're trying to get over that addiction and you

just still keep.

Falling, and you're in another rehab and you're in another

situation that you said you'd never be in.

I want to remind you you are still chosen. You

are still called. The gift that God gave you is

still on the inside of you. It's covered up by

some pain, it's covered up by some life. But I

promise you there is not a place that God cannot

get to.

You are still chosen.

As long as there is breath in your body, you

can say I'm still chosen. Life is not perfect, but

I'm still chosen. I'm limping a little bit, but I'm

still chosen. I'm a little pain, and the people who

I thought were there are not here anymore. But I'm

still chosen. We're talking about the Word of God. I'm

going to ask a team to begin to play. We're

going to close out service. The series is the Word

of God. To close out, I want to remind you.

Not what the Word of God is, but who the

Word of God is.

We're not talking about a book, but the Bible says

in the beginning the Word already existed and the Word

was with God, and the Word was God.

He existed in the beginning with him, and God created

everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.

The Word gave life to everything that was created, and

his life brought light to everyone.

And that light shines.

In the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it

verse fourteen. So the Word became human and made his

home among us. And he was full of unfailing love

and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory and the

glory of the Father's one.

And only son. The Word of God is not just

a book. It is a person. And his name is Jesus.

And what if I told you every time you interact

with this book, you are not interacting with pages, but

you're interacting with a person, that Jesus, who is closer

to you than your very own breath, that is close

to the broken hearted, that is near to those who

are contrary in spirit. If you crack open this book

and you begin to read this story, you're questioning, am

I still chosen?

Or am I still called? Or am I still important?

When you begin to open up this story, Jesus himself

is their ministrying to you. Jesus himself is saying, Hey,

I've still got a plan for you. Hey, it's not

over until I say it's over. Hey, there's no thing

I cannot turn around.

You are still chosen. Must everybody to stand up in

this room if you would.

Pray for two groups of people, and then I'm gonna

ask the worship team to lead us in some worship.

Two groups of people.

First group of people is maybe you're struggling to believe

the idea that you're still chosen.

I don't know why.

I don't know the reason, but maybe you are here

today and the idea that you are still chosen.

Is far from you.

I'ma ask everybody, if it's not an emergency, I you

you'd stay still for just two more minutes. I'm gonna

ask everybody, boy your heads and close your eyes. If

you need some sort of encouragement that's bigger than human

source that comes from a place that I cannot give you,

but comes directly from God.

If you need the reminder and.

The confidence to live as if God chose you, I'm

gonna ask you to do something bold, because I believe

He's put this on the inside of you.

Would you raise your hand right now all over the room.

If you say I need the reminder I'm still chosen,

I feel like I've forgotten it.

I feel a little beat up, i feel a little down.

But I'm gonna start living as if I'm chosen.

Holy Spirit.

Right now, every person you see them with their hand raised, God,

I thank you first of all, Lord, that even the

courage to raise their hand hand is the honesty to

admit where they really are. God, I thank you you

are doing something right now that they would be reminded

that it was no person, It was no human that

put that on the inside of them. But it was you,

God that put that gift on the inside of them.

It was you who called them. It is you who

sees them. And I speak against any lie right.

Now that your past is too much for your future,

that your mistakes have decided about you.

Your story is not over. There is so much more

to what God is writing.

And God, I thank you that what happens from today

forward will be the best of them.

Lord God, that the gifting is.

More on this side of the story, that the grace

is more on this side of the story, that the

confidence is more, that the contentment is more.

Thank you Jesus, Every hand down. If you're in this room,

if you've.

Never accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, this

is the gospel.

The gospel is summed up.

God chose you before you were living, right, before you

were doing right, before you were doing anything. The gospel

is Jesus came to this earth, he lived a perfect life.

He died for you and for me. Why did he

do that?

Because our sin, when we mess up, when we make

a mistake, it separates us from God. And regardless of

if you would call it sin or not, you've all

felt the feeling of being separated. It feels cold, it

feels isolating, it feels hopeless. That is what sin does

to us. But the good news, friend, is that Jesus

came and he took your place so that you didn't

have to feel that way, so you didn't have to

walk through life alone, so you didn't have to come up.

With answers that you don't have.

But Jesus himself stands ready to be your help.

All you gotta do is surrender. All you got to

do is say I give up. All you got to

do is say, Jesus, you are my savior. So here's

all gonna do.

Everybody, bow your heads, close your eyes, just out of

a moment to refocus on where you are with God.

If you're in this room, I'm gonna count to three.

If you're watching online, I'm gonna count the three and

on the count of three, if you want to accept

Jesus as your Lord and savior, you are saying he

is in control of my life.

I give it to him.

I'm done running and I'm done doing it by myself.

On the count of three, I want you to raise

your hand boldly. Don't be ashamed, don't worry about it.

You're gonna raise your hand.

High because this is the best decision you have ever made.

One.

He loves you too, He's proud of you. Three, lift

your hand right now. If you want to accept Jesus,

come on, boldly, lift it up. Come on, lift it up,

Lift it up, Lift it up.

Oh, come on, lift it up. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

come on. I'm so proud of you. Hey, listen, here's

what I want you to do.

If you've got your hand up right now, we have

a gift for you. The word of God is so important.

I told the team everybody who give their life to

Jesus is getting a Bible. So if you raise your hand,

raise your hand right now, and our team is.

Bringing you a Bible right now. Come on, keep your

hand up.

If you see somebody around, make sure they get that bible.

Come on, we got bibles for days. We're gonna make

sure everybody gets one.

If you still ain't got your Bible, be like, hey,

don't play me, give me my bible. He said, I

could have one that's a fourteen ninety nine value.

I want my Bible.

All right, here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna pray

for all of us. I'm gonna invite the worship team

to go ahead and come up. And if you need

prayer for anything, if you need prayer for anything, anything

at all, some of our prayer team is gonna be

in the front. Also, a lot of our team is

gonna be in the back. They're gonna put a big

sign up there that says prayer. If you just need

to worship, maybe you just need to focus in. Maybe

God spoke to you something and it's stirring in your heart.

And you're like, oh my gosh, what does it mean

to be chosen? And God, I can't believe this. But

team's gonna worship, We're gonna pray. I believe something powerful

is gonna happen. If you just gave your life.

To Jesus, we would love to know about it. If

somebody in your role, I'm gonna ask you.

We gave you the Bible. If somebody in your role

raise their hands, I want you to give them a hug.

You don't have to do it right now if it

makes sense, but you know, don't be weird about it.

But we love you. I'm proud of you. It's a

big deal. That's a decision you could ever make. And

then if you want to let us know, we would

love to know about it. If you text the word

saved to the number on the screen, the team will

connect with you.

But I'm gonna ask everybody to lift your hands.

Role, we're gonna lead and worship God. I pray a

blessing over this room.

I thank you that this room is still chosen, chosen

by you for great things, chosen by You Lord, to

do things that their eye has not seen. And I

thank you, Lord Jesus that even though people may have

a past, Lord God, it's not more powerful than you are.

So God right now.

I thank you though, that they would feel the confidence

Lord Jesus to know who they are. That I am,

I'm chosen by God. It's in the beautiful name of Jesus.

We pray and everybody said, come on, everybody said, thank

you for joining us today.

If you said that prayer and accept it Jesus into

your heart, it's the best decision you could ever make.

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